Ryan Potocnik Scores Game-Winning Basket For Wrong Team In High School Basketball Game (VIDEO)

How does this even happen?

With his team leading by one point in the closing moments of a high school basketball tournament in Norcross, Ga., Ryan Potocnik took an inbounds pass and inexplicably scored on the basket that his team was defending.

It would be unfair to call this a Bill Buckner-like mistake as Buckner never picked up the ball and threw it over the Green Monster.

Potocnik, at first unaware of his error, lifted his arms in triumph after scoring before realizing he had just made amongst the most boneheaded plays we've ever seen resulting in his team ultimately losing the game 60-57

Interestingly, Potocnik is no bench player, but rather was an experienced senior averaging 11 points and eight rebounds per game as the team's main post presence.

There's probably a lesson to had from this... but we're not sure what exactly.

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Comments

[thisisntme]

11:09 PM on 02/03/2012

I've seen that happen a few times.

[media4meisback]

06:07 PM on 02/03/2012

Good thing it wasn't a brotha' that scored that.

[detroitblkmale30]

03:01 PM on 02/03/2012

In all my basketball watching I have NEVER seen that. You actually never see it(until now) so you forget it's actually possible. Basketball's version of an "own goal"

[johnQa]

01:51 AM on 02/03/2012

Go join the bowling team!!! It's only "ONE" direction the ball has to go!

[johnQa]

01:48 AM on 02/03/2012

No sympathy! Pay attention. He need go back to being waterboy! It could of been the championship game for peat sakes!!

[kushman513]

12:14 PM on 02/02/2012

sucks to be him

[Professer Alexander]

12:17 AM on 02/02/2012

Once again The Huffington Post has taken a miserable ordeal, and blew it outta proportion. The stories are getting completely one sided and less important.

[Chuck Bluestein]

12:08 AM on 02/02/2012

I heard that when John McEnroe saw this video he said, "You cannot be serious!"

[Mike250]

12:07 AM on 02/02/2012

He's a high school kid, not a pro. Sometimes mistakes are made in the heat of a hard-fought game. Just move on and do better the rest of the season, as I'm sure he will.

[YanksWS96]

11:22 PM on 02/01/2012

The truly noble acknowledge their mistakes, rise above them, and move on.

[linhatfield]

11:04 PM on 02/01/2012

I know for a fact, I could not do what these young men do.....Yes you are right, but I am sure him and his true bud's are laughing about it,goin you dip stick, my son and his buddies would do that! Noraml foul up, he isn't alone! LOL

[linhatfield]

11:02 PM on 02/01/2012

OOP's LOL

[magneson]

10:53 PM on 02/01/2012

Pull this story, you obnoxious jerks. This is a High School kid you are making fun of. Huffington Post is fast becoming the National Enquirer of the internet. Slime.

[happyone6470]

11:08 PM on 02/01/2012

I agree. This kid probably feels bad enough as it is .

[chapython]

11:18 PM on 02/01/2012

For the most part, Huff post already has become the National Enquirer

[emdinkc]

11:35 PM on 02/01/2012

At least the National Enquirer occassionally gets a story right- occassionally!

[paclady]

10:51 PM on 02/01/2012

We all make mistakes including you the writer, did you mean to say
"There's probably a lesson to had from this... but we're not sure what exactly. " or
There's probably a lesson to be had from this... but we're not sure what exactly.
You make it sound like it's a life threarening mistake, it's a kids basketball game.
You have to give the kid credit for his effort. Make sure you are perfect before you
criticize someone else.

[destin023]

10:44 PM on 02/01/2012

Basketball is a transition game, up & down, up & down the court. Timeout here, T/O there. Frenzied fans screaming & yelling over what your coach is trying to relay to you during that moment of strategy. It's obvious during this time the kid's brain didn't catch up with the action/excitement on the court & he thought he'd caught a break with a wide open bucket. I won't say it's not something he shouldn't be embarrassed over but a temporary lapse on a basketball court is probably the most excused in sports. It's not like you've got ten other guys lining up on the line of scrimmage beside you pointing the way..