It’s that time of year again, when basketball fans who still haven’t quite gotten their fill after three months of games and four days of SunDome clamor and craziness must to turn for respite to The Academy of Motion Offense, Hearts and Sidelines.

For the best, worst and weirdest video moments of the Class 1A state tournament, we present the 2008 Dribblies.

The envelopes, please.

“RUNAWAY TRAIN”: To LYNDEN CHRISTIAN, whose girls must have seemed like that to everybody not wearing a Colfax uniform.

“TOP GUN”: To GERALD HILL, the transfer from Curtis who turned an otherwise decent CHARLES WRIGHT team into a championship machine and was the clear choice as MVP.

“A BEAUTIFUL MIND”: To CURT DE HAAN, who has now coached the Lyncs to seven girls titles and been an assistant on two other championship teams.

“MISSION IMPOSSIBLE”: To the WHITE SWAN boys, who looked like ballboys alongside Vashon’s 6-9 and 6-7 starters and the Pirates’ two 6-5 reserves. Well, Tom Cruise is only 5-7, and he seems to get it done. So did the Cougars.

“MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II”: Also to WHITE SWAN, when the mission became hitting critical free throws against River View, and except for TRAVIS VAN PELT, that mission was indeed impossible.

“WALK THE LINE”: To the BREWSTER boys, who shot a sizzling 18-for-21 at the foul line to beat Vashon in a loser-out game Friday to reach trophy day.

“GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS”: To the Southwest District, whose six teams lasted barely longer than that; five went two-and-out and the sixth, Toledo, lasted only until Friday.

“HOME ALONE”: To the communities of Granger and Connell, which were probably virtual ghost towns Thursday evening, when both had girls and boys teams playing in the quarterfinals.

“FALLING DOWN”: To GERALD HILL, the bulky, 6-foot-4 star of CHARLES WRIGHT, for his stuntman act in eliciting a foul whistle when he missed a 3-pointer as a Granger defender rushed by. Hill tumbled backward and rolled completely over as if he’d been slammed into by Charles Barkley ... instead of not being hit at all, which was actually the case. He got the call, too.

“HULK”: To MIKE LEDGERWOOD of RIVER VIEW. Eric Bana’s special-effects muscleman ain’t got nothin’ on the honest-to-goodness body on this WSU-bound linebacker. On court with the Panthers, he’s a power forward. Now that is honesty in advertising.

“LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE”: To SHANNON BRANDSMA of LYNDEN CHRISTIAN, whose ready smile and sportsmanship made her a joy to watch. Honorable mention to LAKESIDE freshman LEXIE ZAPPONE, a precocious talent 1A fans will be watching for three more years.

“FLY AWAY HOME”: To the CEDAR PARK CHRISTIAN fans, who during their arm-flapping cheer for their Eagles look like they may just take wing.

“BIG”: To the WINLOCK boys, whose front line stood 6-8, 6-6, 6-5 ... but who were also seemingly as young as the Tom Hanks character and were gone after two days.

“NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN”: To the GRANGER boys, who have only one senior and also boast the best freshman in the tourney, MITCHELL ZAPIEN.

“LITTLE WOMEN”: To the GRANGER girls, the smallest team in the girls tournament with nobody in the lineup taller than 5-7. There were six teams whose shortest starter was as tall or taller than that.

“BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE”: To BRIAN BARANOWSKI of BELLEVUE CHRISTIAN, who saved the Vikings’ bacon in the quarterfinals by swishing a 24-footer at the buzzer for the game-winning points against Connell.

“GONE WITH THE WIND”: To the COLFAX girls, whose dreams of a fifth straight title are precisely that. But give the ladies their due — they had a run like nobody else in state basketball history, and it took an undefeated team to end it.

“REAR WINDOW”: To LAKE ROOSEVELT coach BRAD WILSON, who didn’t let a gaping rip up the back of his slacks keep him from coaching the Raiders to victory in their Thursday loser-out game.

“MISS CONGENIALITY”: To COLFAX senior MEGAN TEADE, whose shorts got tugged down around her knees during some grappling for the ball in Wednesday’s game against Zillah. She quickly had them pulled back up, but for the next few minutes her bright red face clashed with the Bulldogs’ royal blue.

“THE BAD SEED”: To the tournament draw, which gave yet another argument for a seeded tournament with the two best girls teams meeting in the quarterfinals, not on Saturday night.

“AS GOOD AS IT GETS”: To the entire boys tournament, which didn’t have the dominating teams of many other years but was wonderfully close and competitive.

“HAPPY FEET”: To GRANGER girls coach ANDY AFFHOLTER, who ensured that his players happy feet and joyful hearts coming into the tournament by letting his reserves start and play most of the way in a meaningless district loss to Zillah for third and fourth places — meaningless because both teams would come into the tourney as two-seeds anyway. (The bracket selections are based on one- and two-seeds only.)

While some people don’t seem to get it — and have treated Affholter as “Unforgiven” — his players loved it. It rewarded hard-working bench players with starting introductions and significant court time in a tournament format, and it brought the team closer together, as evidenced by their third-place tourney run. Well done.