Craig Smith/Utah State

[newAD]

Congrats and clutch!

 

[yunginsNU2]

Love college basketballs ncaa tourny time!! So many great stories..fun games

 

[Dean Pope]

Congrats and clutch!

Glad for the kid that it went in, but what horrible shot selection for an end of the game situation. I guarantee that the coach didn't game plan for tie score, one free throw will win it and to have a guard dribble around out front and chose himself to chuck up a contested 28 foot glory ball jump shot. Oh well, we see that kind of thing a lot these days.

 

[Jnood]

Glad for the kid that it went in, but what horrible shot selection for an end of the game situation. I guarantee that the coach didn't game plan for tie score, one free throw will win it and to have a guard dribble around out front and chose himself to chuck up a contested 28 foot glory ball jump shot. Oh well, we see that kind of thing a lot these days.

He hits that shot all the time.

 

[Dean Pope]

He hits that shot all the time.

Well, Steph Curry cannot hit a contested long range shot any more than 40% of the time so this kid must be much better than Curry.

 

[schuele]

Glad for the kid that it went in, but what horrible shot selection for an end of the game situation. I guarantee that the coach didn't game plan for tie score, one free throw will win it and to have a guard dribble around out front and chose himself to chuck up a contested 28 foot glory ball jump shot. Oh well, we see that kind of thing a lot these days.

Maybe college coaches are not drawing up these late-game, dribble-the-clock-down-to-nothing possessions. But if that's the case, there sure are a lot of disobedient players. These stagnant possessions don't make sense to me either, but you see them over and over and over again.

 

[newAD]

Glad for the kid that it went in, but what horrible shot selection for an end of the game situation. I guarantee that the coach didn't game plan for tie score, one free throw will win it and to have a guard dribble around out front and chose himself to chuck up a contested 28 foot glory ball jump shot. Oh well, we see that kind of thing a lot these days.

Well lets see. He's hitting 41% for the year on 3s. The other 4 players were all basically along the baseline and were not exactly moving to try to get open or to get the defenders to move further out of the paint. So I'd guarantee you are wrong and that the coach decided to let his best player take a shot to end it, or go into overtime.

 

[newAD]

He hits that shot all the time.

He's a great player. I've watched them play about 6 times on TV, and he's fun to watch.

 

[chicolby]

Analytics say in that case, if there is still a decent amount of time left that you should actually foul. Seems counter-intuitive to give a guy a shot at free points, but they say that there's a high enough volume of these isolation shots that go in, that you're better off fouling and getting yourself the last shot.

 

[Dean Pope]

Well lets see. He's hitting 41% for the year on 3s. The other 4 players were all basically along the baseline and were not exactly moving to try to get open or to get the defenders to move further out of the paint. So I'd guarantee you are wrong and that the coach decided to let his best player take a shot to end it, or go into overtime.

Wow.

To be brief, I commented on shot selection. The shot the kid took. 1-4 low. Best player has ball others play off him. A long range shot, contested is not what coaches want. Maybe Smith says it’s “OK” to take that, but that’s only if he has little confidence in something better being created off this classic play. Dribble the clock down and cast it is not a priority option.