i didn't even mention that many times it also allows the losing team, if the ft was made, to roll the ball all the way to half court before someone touches it and starts the clock. free advanced of the ball. jsut plain dumb. again, let's the losing team have all the power and control over the up coming situation where they dictate the action. point is, control the action, don't let the other team do it.
and here's the final proof that i am 100% correct and it's just plain idiotic and stupid to coach this way... i, and every single one of you, has never seen a single coach in the history of me watching basketball on any single level, pull their players from the free throw line at any other point during any other game that's ever been played. if it was such a smarter strategy, why not do it on every single free throw attempt during the game? if it meant you could drop your guys back into a set defense that is supposedly much better than the defense you've played for the first 39 minutes and 40 seconds, then why wouldn't you play that exact same defense the entire game?
and the answer is, well, we can get the rebound and possibly score again. btu when your up three points with 20 seconds to go, all of a sudden, coaches say, well, for the first 39 minutes and 40 seconds, this way of playing has worked perfectly and we are in the lead about to win so let's change the way we've played the entire game and mostly the entire season and approach this last play completely different from how you've been taught your entire life to approach the game of basketball.
on offense you're supposed to be patient and on defense you run around like mad. but in the final 20 seconds, with the lead, let's switch to a stationary defense that allows the other team to set up exactly what they want to do.
so let's play the game hard and smart for just over 39 minutes which put us in the lead and has us winning the game, and now let's change up everything we've done to get here, like fighting for the rebound on every single free throw that was taken in every game we've played before this, now let's do something completely different.
and i still haven't brought up how it's a mind fu%k for the shooter to all of a sudden have all his team mates run away. think about this, if they have two free throws and make the first, every player on every team on every level always comes up and dabs the shooter congrats and they reset. but when there's no teammates in the lane, his routine is completely different, his mind is looking at a lane without his teammates which is rare, his entire routine is different from the previous 39+ minutes of play, no one comes up to dab him, and thus you put your shooter in a spot he's not use to thus increasing the pressure on him and thus leading to more missed free throws. you are changing the situation and how you play the game for 20 seconds and the remaining 2340 seconds you play another way. just like prevent defense in football. and you know what, the prevent defense prevents you from winning.
i guarantee you now this topic will reach the radio and eventually national conversation because i've explained it so well. there's absolutely no reason to think that pulling your guys back on free throw attempts at any point in the game increases your chances of winning or successfully defending the last play. it takes your team out of the mode that they've been playing in their entire lives and forces them into something more conservative and unnatural. So please CPK, i pray you're smart enough never to do this. it absolutely makes no sense if you want to win the game. why not do it the entire game if this type of defense works so well? explain one single benefit, you cannot. it's just pure copy cat, lazy coaching.
and not a single one of you reading this will ever watch a free throw attempt the same again and every one of you will have this same conversation now with your friends any time you see it come up and it will over and over and over again. so be sure to give me my props as no one else has even brought this up to my knowledge. you've now been Costanza'd!!!
