Yeah but if you miss the shot and have the good fortune to get an offensive rebound, you're still back to square one. And if you MAKE the shot, the best shooting team in NBA history has time on the clock? I don't know. I'm not a coach, but the downsides seems to greatly outweigh the upsides on throwing up an off-the-dribble three with less than 24 seconds on the clock but more than enough for the opponent to get a pretty good shot of their own off.
You're playing the best team in the NBA (and possibly ever) with the best shooter of all-time, you don't give them a chance to take the last shot, PERIOD. Either you win or lose with the final shot of the game. I still have nightmares of Michael Jordan...don't you?
I agree that ideally you want the last shot. But what we're talking about is a choice between an alley-oop to Burks or Hood's shot. IMO you don't ignore the easy 2, you take what they give you and then play defense. And no, I don't have nightmares about Jordan's shot. I tend to move on.
That's fine and makes sense but why even inbound to hood? Inbound to Burks and have him look for Hayward, then if Hayward can't get open, Burks (who was hot in the 4th and has been all year) has the ball to take the final shot.
Why were the only options an ally oop to Burks or a hood three?
I like this strategy too.
I still like the strategy. And I still think that rudy and derrick are better rebounders than whatever the warriors trot out there.
Yep. Either of those are better options.
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They weren't. I had posted this picture and asked why we didn't look at the alley-oop to Burks. Someone said we didn't want to do that because it would've left too much time on the clock. I was saying I would rather do that than end up with the Hood shot. There were other options. Hood could have given the ball to Hayward who had left his guy way behind and had a pretty clear route to the basket around Gobert and Favors. Or my personal favorite, waited for Burks to come up on the other side and let him go against Curry.
