Basketball Play of the Year

If you didn’t catch the last CatchItKansas Show of the year last Saturday the last segment of the show was a clip of the top plays of the year that the KWCH Sports and CatchItKansas.com cameras caught in the 2009-2010 basketball season.

The list of plays and video can be found by clicking here.

Which was your favorite?

My top five have to be:

1. Kaylee Hoffman of Thomas More Prep’s half court shot. The shot itself is amazing, but the context behind it made it even more amazing. Hoffman did it in the state tournament and she did it throwing off of a badly injured knee no less.

2. Sunrise’s Leon Cooper’s 360-degree dunk. Cooper is on the reel twice, but his final dunk and the final dunk of the reel is something else. He clearly decided that just dunking was not interesting enough, there were some acrobatics that needed to be employed.

3. Briston White of Wichita North throws down a one-handed jam. Just watch it and be impressed. Briston gets up high and throws down a one-handed jam for the ages. Briston and Brison were a constant source of high-flying, acrobatic plays on the basketball court in their time at Wichita North. They were a lot of fun to watch for sure.

4. Wichita East’s Chaquil Reed blocks Mesfin Smalls. In this play Reed uses his big body to make sure Mesfin Smalls of Kapaun can’t get to the rim and score. Great defensive plays like this are a totally underrated part of high school basketball.

5. Andover Central’s Marshall Miller’s put-back dunk. This is another one with a little context behind it. Miller threw this jam down against West off of a miss and did it on his way to a 35-point night. Miller was at his best in the first round of sub-state against West as he displayed every facet of his game.

So which play was your favorite?