Like a team with a really huge center could run that action a few times a year... might even help get his guards open for threes in the corner because its really difficult to guard both the screener and roller there? Teams with big centers that dunk a lot might look at this option a little closer.
I'm completely okay with this loss landing squarely in the shoulders of Pushoff-P. Let them lose the series by a game and have this eat at him forever and a day.Jackson and Van Gundy said it was considered a “live ball” since it was inbounded, not a regular pass or shot, and therefore couldn’t even be considered a goal tend. So they made it sound like you could goal tend offensively if it was an inbounds pass.
I’ll be honest, I hadn’t thought about this before so I could just be misunderstanding them completely. Anyone else feel free to jump in!
On twitter there were analysts who noticed 3 things:
1. Cousins Didnt position himself properly to take away the lob. It seemed like he was head on crowder which actually made the lob pass easy. I know you might find this hard to believe, since I know how much you love cousins
2. Batum took a wrong step.
3. Zoo just wasn’t physical/quick enough to take it away.
All of which makes sense. I think where the Clippers really blew it was the free throws. Even if George splits them, that unreal lob only sends the game into overtime. If he makes both? Then the lob isn’t even an option.
I hope that if the jazz are ever down 1 or 2 with .2 seconds left that they bring in favors and udoka along with rudy and put them all right by the rim. Then have donovan be the inbounder but have him shoot at the basket with the intention of making the basket. Like a 30 foot three pointer that he makes all the time. Then when the ball is about to go in have all our 7 footers jump up and try to dunk/tip it in.
He could go up through the hoop and hit and with no call against him? Wow. But if ayton touched it first he couldn't go up through the hoop correct?
That was amazing! What a play call and what execution!
Honestly teams should be allowed to shoot from out of bounds on inbounds plays. It would make for great fun.
Since the out-of-bounds play has no chance of counting as a shot, whereas it's hard to determine "intent" when the ball is in play I suppose they could determine anything is intent to shoot if it happens on a play where the ball would count.
If it hits the rim (which it almost did) or the backboard, before a player touches the ball, it’s a violation
I've been thinking about this recently and can't think of a good reason why just shooting the ball shouldn't be legal.
Shot clock? If you manage the clock on the other end up leave 0.1 on the clock, the other team gets another shot. And if they make it, no time is off the clock, so the possession goes back to the other side and you have a shootout.
I mean... cool? Is that worse or less entertaining than a free-throw shooting contest?
