Because they were playing the long pass first. You don't want them chucking a ball the length of the court for a close shot. How pissed would you have been if doubling Love in the back court led to a wide open 3 point shot in the corner from a long pass? You've only got 5 players to cover the whole court in that situation. They are more or less conceding the 3/4 court shot because it is very unlikely to go in even if completely unguarded.
You have 5 players to cover 4, Arizona had two in the back court, so they only had two players in the front court. The odds are not good that you can make a full court pass, and catch it outside the 3 point line and shoot and make the shot in 2.2 seconds. I would rather chance that, then letting one of their guards shoot the ball.
To be fair that wasn't a "shot" that was a launch and by percentages it was probably the second lowest percent chance look outside of us making him change directions and make him shoot a little tougher shot. Their inbounds play there was for them to throw the ball down the court but we covered it. They actually conceded the play and took the shot they really didn't want to but it went in. It happens.
yep i literally just said when Jefferson missed that first I might be inclined to tell him to hard miss that second one because they didn't have timeouts.
Not sure there is a best 3 point shooter from 60 feet.
Disagree. The fact is whatever they did was incredibly unlikely to lead to a basket in that situation. It's pointless to spend a lot of time on a player making a once in a lifetime shot against them. There was nothing wrong with the way it was defended and it's silly to criticize the team for that play.
They get the ball underneath. Same scenario but they're down 2 instead of 3. It can be risky if you don't have someone at the line who's done that before because it's actually hard to miss hard.
Yeah, I’ve seen some bad intentional misses free throws as well so doing things you don’t normally practice much can lead to problems also.
That and guarding 3/4 court shots. TJ needs to spend time on the situations that really matter!
No, the easiest play is the guards catching the ball, dribbling once or twice, getting his momentum moving towards the hoop and launching a shot, which is what happened. A person in the corner is going to have to catch the ball, dribble and turn at basically the same time and shoot the shot. We see shots being made by guards like this all the time, without a doubt its a shot and a prayer, but we see it a lot more often than a full length pass from out of bounce to a guy catching it and then shooting it moving away from the hoop.
