The Jump Pass is getting some attention

Nice to see Payne confirmed my belief that the jump pass is something developed over time out of necessity but I am pretty sure my old high school coach would still make me run laps or stairs if he ever caught me using it even at the Y...lol

I just hope we see another repeat performance where the entire team did a solid job of taking care of the ball and limiting the unforced turnovers.
 
Like Lick, I have grown used to Cullys jump-passes and can see that he is effective with them usually. I like how sharp he passes the ball...no lazy passes usually.
 
I hate the jump pass...he has many downfalls in his young career but I can live with most of them but not his stupid jump pass. The jump pass is the worst kind of pass anybody can do. When it happens you are commited to either possibly committing a bad pass or getting called on it when he is forced to land. Is there any reason he does this that I am not noticing? I figured it was becasue he is too short or something but the guy does it when he is open and has a clear pass sometimes too. Why?
 
I think it prevents the ball getting tipped as much. If a short guy in anchored on the ground, a defender can have the edge in reach, but if a shorter guy jumps up before releasing the pass, the defender loses some of that edge. Cully has his share of turnovers but few seem to come on jump passes.
 
I use Cully's passes as an example of what NOT to do with my daughter. I've seen many, many TO's from him off these passes and I rarely even watch. We'll watch for 10 minutes and I'll say "count how many jump passes he makes". Invariably one results in a turnover. I understand why he's developed it but I personally hate it. For all I know he'd have more turnovers without it but I still hate it.
 
If it was such a great thing to do. You would see a lot more people doing it. It has its place as an every once in a while thing, but not like he uses it. It is like a running back that carries the football with his inside hand. It may work most of the time but over time you will have more fumbles/turnovers than someone who is fundamentally sound.
 
How many of our jump passes have been assists? I'm guessing few. Inherently that is not going to be a typcially accurate pass that can hit the receiving player in position to do something with it. Those passes typically seem to be from one side of the court to the other out WAY behind the 3pt line and the player catches it facing sideways and then he passes it again and someone passes again and then we heave up a 3
 
In the Big 10 I believe teams will begin to recognize what Payne does and they will lay in wait for him to drive the baseline and make that jump pass and when he does they will begin stepping in the pass lane and intecepting the pass. He will then be left in the air making bad passes and turning ball over but the habit will be so ingrained...
 
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