Opportunities like this are enough to make anyone yearn to be President, just so you can meet people like that whenever they appear.

Yes indeed. But which one is more autistic?

I couldn't get the video to play when this was posted previously. That YouTube stuff is fickle for me. Can someone describe it more than just "scored 20 points very quickly"?

I see BDS has evolved (there I said it!) into a new and even more virulent and demented strain. Thanks Houston for bringing it to our attention.

Houston:

All men.

RC:

I believe he came in with about 5 minutes to go in the game. He threw up a couple of quick airballs and then went lights out after that. The shots were going in from everywhere on the court. A truly great shooting performance by any standard but incredible in this situation.

Back in the day we called this the Doug Collins theory of shooting. If you're hot, you keep shooting. If you're not hot, shoot until you get hot and then keep shooting.

Actually, J-Mac (as he is being called these days) is normally a team manager. He was suited up and placed in the game fairly late, as Rick T has stated, but under a tacit agreement by both coaches (the other team was badly outclassed - at least, athletically - and had no chance of pulling out the win). I don't think J-Mac was subjected to much in the way of defense. It was unexpected that he would suddenly start sinking baskets like he was born for it, but it wasn't quite the startling athletic achievement some outlets are painting it as. It is, rather, a feel-good story on all counts, with everyone acting the way you'd hope they would, with generosity and class. Sort of a "Make-a-Wish" moment without the foundation.

M:

Can you make those threes?

In the video members of both teams scored as J-Mac shot the baskets. Nice description M. I wasn't aware of the background as you described it, which enhanced the whole event to me.

And I don't know about you M., but my answer to OJ is: No, I couldn't ... no way ... that kid was something else.

P.S. Houston, go back to New Orleans.

"Can you make those threes?"

Good point. The "feel-good" moment was transformed into something greater, for those who were there, by a once-in-a-million string of sweet shots - and the rest of the us get to see it thanks to the kid who brought her camcorder to the game.

I absolutely shudder, though, to think of what will happen to this story when it's turned into a movie.

I couldn't get the video to play when this was posted previously. Can someone describe it more than just "scored 20 points very quickly"?

He threw up a couple of quick airballs and then went lights out after that. The shots were going in from everywhere on the court.

Besides the great shooting, the coolest part of the video is seeing the reaction of his teammates and the students in the stands - their cheering gets wilder after each basket. After Jason sinks the final shot, they storm the court and hoist him up on their shoulders. Definitely heartwarming.

I too noticed that the opposing team wasn't pressuring him, which perhaps slightly diminishes the feat but doesn't change the fact that he made seven straight three-pointers (okay, six -- his foot was on the line one time).

In all my years of shooting around a basketball -- and here I'm talking about those times I've simply attempted shots without anybody facing me down -- I've made seven straight threes maybe once or twice. That an autistic kid did it during the one and only chance he had to play in a game is just unreal.