In-bounds play by McCaffery

[JDavis11]

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?

Yep actually a few years back the hawks got a dead ball on their baseline. Alford calls up a similar play and so it's a turnover.

Irritating.

 

[tweeterhawk]

Doesn't Duke run this play quite a bit? I've seen it several times before this season but it sure doesn't seem to get used quite as often as it could be.

 

[Tmoney12]

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.

It was a great call because I think thats the only way we get Gatens the ball. I was shocked Purdue didn't see it coming. As a player thou its ran so little that it catches the d off guard

 

[storminspank]

Purdue was supposed to trap but couldn't get there. And as Matt said, it was like the parting of the Red Sea. And he just took off trying to run out the clock until he saw a path to the bucket.

 

[tweeterhawk]

Purdue was supposed to trap but couldn't get there. And as Matt said, it was like the parting of the Red Sea. And he just took off trying to run out the clock until he saw a path to the bucket.

I thought his better play instead of going to the basket was to break off the drive, dribble towards the corner but then take it back out in an attempt to take more seconds off the clock. High likelihood he's going to get the foul, anyway, just with less time for them to attempt anything; why take the chance on a blocked shot, rebound, Purdue driving the length of the floor for at that point what would have been a tying or winning basket? It was a great play by the team and I'm not trying to rag on Matt.