Ah, BrookJersey maybe but what about the Judge?Logen - sorry that I missed this when you posted it originally. I could not agree more. Great summary. And probably not too many words for BrookJersey
I was fine with the no timeout. I would not have wanted Creighton to organize their defense and thought Luis's initial shot was a good look and one he often makes. Once he got the ball back again on the tap out he had an opportunity to put up a shot, instead of driving into traffic but chose to penetrate and try and draw a foul. Unfortunately, the Refs swallowed the whistle and we wound up with Deja Vu all over again at Creighton!
Against Creighton- down 1
Zuby set the screen outside the arc right? And RJs shot, contested as it was, was a mid range pull up by the first guy on your list.
Didn't get to see the second half, so speaking without firsthand look, but I'd prefer RJ taking that shot to both Kadary & Smith.
Ya- I didn’t get to see the game Live- just the highlight of the last possession.
And that’s exactly why a time out was necessary. Pitino needed to remind his team that refs will traditionally swallow their whistles in such a situation and a good midrange shot is what would win in.
However, if Pitino called a time out and reminded his players that drawing a foul on a drive might be almost impossible, RJ may have just taken another midrange jumper and not try to induce a foul which again, was not called.
Just to clarify, during the post-game Pitino said ( in the prior timeout ) if they were down two he wanted the play for Zuby to take a three .
Yea but the drive was off an offensive rebound scramble situation with the clock ticking down, whatever the coach did or was gonna draw up is out the window at that point.
Well, he actually got a very good mid-range shot. I would argue that with a time-out you give Creighton a chance to organize their defense and Luis might not have gotten that first shot look. Once he got the tap out after his miss Luis went into the bull in the china shop mode. He does this because he is an emotional guy who feeds off his emotional energy. I am not really sure that a time-out would have altered his go to emotional response after getting the tap out with the clock running out.
Well to me it seems the entire ending was a shit show. In the press conference Pitino stated he wanted Zuby to take the shot and was upset he didn’t, which absolutely makes no sense at all. If there was a strategy at games end, Pitino should have had a contingency plan for when Ashworth missed the foul shot, which he did. There’s something really screwy here.
There was no missed foul shot Ashworth was stripped and turned it over .
Correct, I meant to say if he missed or whoever else would miss the foul shot as surely they intended to foul someone had they not turned it over.
