Cheers for the depression.
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Juwan Howard, from midcourt, facing backwards.
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You donāt just go saying it though! But we all know thatās how itāll happen.
If we actually get in a situation like that? I figure our lineup would be Hunter, Franz, Chaundee, Eli, and Mike. You can have Hunter inbound or you can have him set up at half-court, where he can post up and direct a pass to the most open shooter.
I love what Hunter can do out there if thereās time for a pass and we are down by 2.
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Ohā¦ ORU finished 0.12% behind the ā84 Harvard Crimson for the best free throw percentage in NCAA history. If I calculated this correctly, they were leading up until their last free throws of the game, where they went 1/2. If theyād made both, or hadnāt gotten to the line, theyād have made history.
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The issue with getting Chaundee the last shot is itād have to be a catch and shoot open jumper, which would have to be a total defensive breakdown to give that up. Every other player is much more likely to make a decision with the ball than Chaundee. Against every team besides FSU Iād say mike. Otherwise I guess Iād say Franz
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Brooks was the guy we drew up the three point plays for last year against Iowa and OSU.
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An arm-chair, anecdotal comment on the last play: Why not put a defender on the guy throwing the ball inbounds? Abmas got the ball in stride heading straight up the court anyhow even with the fifth defender guarding the ORU players on the floor. Maybe make it a little more difficult to get a head of steam. (Shakes his head at Turner hitting the last-second shot in the BTT against us in a similar situation.)
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Because Eric Musselman is the Arkansas coach.
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The answer is that Arkansas barely knows how to play basic defense let alone defend a play in an end of game situation
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Iām not cheering for Baylor exactly but when they beat Arkansas by 500 points I will give a sensible chuckle
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This question gets asked every time there is this kind of play. The trope-namer of this issue is the Laettner shot, of course. Can anyone point to a play where the in-bounder wasnāt covered and the extra defender made a difference?
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Right, thatās the less-snarky response. But considering the guy that everybody knew would take the shot got off a pretty reasonable look, Iād have to say that the extra defender did not make a difference in this particular situation. 
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An Arkansas defender went to do that and Musselman pulled him off the baseline.
Heās an awful coach.
Hey, a slow start offensively in the Cuse-Houston game, what a surprise.
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Was gonna say, maybe in this case the 5th defender couldāve doubled Abmas to deny him the ball, but that clearly didnāt happen.
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I wanted Girard as a recruit but so glad we didnāt go hard after him. Heās got one of the more punchable faces in recent memory.
I think the argument is that the inbounder could roam the baseline (since it came off a made basket) making the defender less useful. I donāt know if totally agree with that reasoning but it makes some sense.
In an inbounds where the passer must stay planted, I think itās a no-brainer to defend him.
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Make him roam it. Takes attention away from seeing how the play is unfolding downcourt, and he has to worry about hitting the backboard if he runs through the middle of the court. IMO anyway.
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And it has to be more difficult to throw an accurate pass when youāre moving laterally.
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