In-bounds play by McCaffery

[JDavis11]

I hadn't seen this mentioned yet but I loved the play with about 12 seconds left. Gatens throws the ball to Cartwright runs in-bounds and is able to run the clock down to 6.5 and make two ft's

Great, great call

So glad for the Hawks and Jarryd

 

[ISUhawk]

Yeah I saw someone else do it this week...I think it was against ISU but I couldn't believe we ran it too! Love the call

 

[SixerHawk]

Fran's the man. Plain and simple

 

[hawks263344]

Yah, two of us mentioned this in another thread. I thought that was the coaching move of the game. Matt needed the ball there. That was a brilliant move!

 

[hawkeye12345]

Can you remember the last time that any Iowa coach has ran that play? I think we would have to go back to the Mr. Davis era. Brilliant call.

 

[HawkPhreek]

Amazing Call and I like how Matt just took the ball to the rim.

 

[uofihawkInation]

That was honestly the first time my buddy and I had seen that play. We both looked at each other like WTF just happened?

 

[Mac50702]

Didnt someone run that play against us?

 

[ibahawkeye]

Just when I was ready to curse Fran for having our best free throw shooter throwing out the ball he goes and does this and totally redeems himself!!

 

[HawkPhreek]

Just when I was ready to curse Fran for having our best free throw shooter throwing out the ball he goes and does this and totally redeems himself!!

Yeah it was a little telegraphed.....especially when don't really have another great free throw shooter.

 

[PhotoHawk]

That was nearly the exact inbounds play that McCabe got caught on against Michigan I believe and Fran even talked about it in his post-game and commented how they had the same thing in their playbook so glad to see he wasn't afraid to call it.

 

[EddyP]

I heard Fran talking earlier in the week about how they have worked on a lot of end of game situations in practice lately and this was obviously one of them. It is risky because if you screw it up you could easily get a turnover. But with us having only one sure thing from the line it is worth the risk. The other thing is I don't think Purdue had any timeouts left or Painter probably would have used one when he realized the way we were set up. Good call executed well.

 

[HawkPhreek]

I heard Fran talking earlier in the week about how they have worked on a lot of end of game situations in practice lately and this was obviously one of them. It is risky because if you screw it up you could easily get a turnover. But with us having only one sure thing from the line it is worth the risk. The other thing is I don't think Purdue had any timeouts left or Painter probably would have used one when he realized the way we were set up. Good call executed well.

Great point with no timeouts left they couldn't stop it. Other nice thing is that we had to practice end of game scenarios because we are getting to those situations.

 

[tm3308]

I didn't actually see the inbound play (I was waiting in the crowd of students and could only see bits and pieces). Was it the play that Michigan ran like 5 times, where they basically switch inbounders as part of the play?

 

[PhotoHawk]

tm3308 - yes it was essentially the same only we had Gatens start with the ball out of bounds and Johnson face-guarding home before BC I think it was peeled off a screen and took the pass from Gatens while out of bounds and then tossed right back to Matt who raced up the floor before Purdue could realize what happened.

 

[1hawkeye1]

We used to run that when i coached in high school not too many years ago. We always told the refs to expect it before the game so they would not be caught off guard and blow the whistle.
Opposing crowd always went nuts. You don't see it very often and people are unsure whether it's legal or not. It is.

 

[tm3308]

We used to run that when i coached in high school not too many years ago. We always told the refs to expect it before the game so they would not be caught off guard and blow the whistle.
Opposing crowd always went nuts. You don't see it very often and people are unsure whether it's legal or not. It is.

I'd never seen it before Michigan ran it a bunch, and that was my first thought as well.

 

[hawkeye12345]

I'd never seen it before Michigan ran it a bunch, and that was my first thought as well.

I've seen it several times but the TV commentators were making it sound as if it could only be run after a made basket / timeout but not after a deadball.

Is that true?

Does it fall in-line with the traveling / running the baseline while inbounding the ball rule?

 

[HawkPhreek]

I've seen it several times but the TV commentators were making it sound as if it could only be run after a made basket / timeout but not after a deadball.

Is that true?

Does it fall in-line with the traveling / running the baseline while inbounding the ball rule?

Yes. Can't do it if you don't have the ability to run the baseline.

 

[tweeterhawk]

Just when I was ready to curse Fran for having our best free throw shooter throwing out the ball he goes and does this and totally redeems himself!!

Yeah it was a little telegraphed.....especially when don't really have another great free throw shooter.

As soon as I saw Matt was setting up as the in-bounder I knew what was coming; no way was Fran not going to have Matt on the floor to get the ball and draw the foul.