Frank We talked about this last week. In-bounds plays are not the ONLY thing, but they are A thing. When you have one in bound play to run to get a shot for the tie or the win, I'd like to see something better than an aspirational toss toward the rim. It was horrific. It was inexcusable. It was poorly drawn (a crude stick figure of a Bill Self play), clearly not practiced much, and poorly executed. Terrible all around. Now go read your effort rant to yourself and put in some work on new in-bounds plays that don't embarass the entire institution.
Why are you so sure that's what he wanted? First of all he didn't draw that up. There were no time outs left for either team before that play. I just watched the play and we've ran it before and I've never seen the lob thrown and looking at the play it didn't appear that Frank called for it from the bench. Here's the set up:
1-4 low with ar-t taking the ball out (Frank says Will was supposed to inbound the ball, not sure why he didn't yell at them to switch) Tay far left near the bench, will on the left block, JO on the right block, Rod right corner. The first motion on that play is for Will to set a pick to JO for a potential lob. If the lob isn't there option two is to pass the ball to Will in the right corner after he rolls off of the screen. Tay and Rod have already flared up top as safety valves and the last options. Everyone, KU included, runs this play. When Withey gets those dunks on the inbound it is off of this same play.
Now back to Will taking it out, if you watch before ar-t takes the ball out, Will tells him to do it, Angel questioned it but Will reaffirmed that he wanted Angel to throw it in. The primary reason that Will normally needs to take that ball out is because he is the best decision maker. The secondary reason is that after the ball goes in either to the rolling guard in the short corner or one of the safety valves on top the guard passing the ball in then goes on to fill the vacated spot in the far corner. The coach or a smart big has the option of picking for that guy and he can be open in the opposite corner for a skip pass or quickly swinging the ball around to him. One of our guards have either scored or got a look from that opposite corner from that play several times this season. Obviously with 3.whatever seconds left this final option was unavailable. So I am going to assume that Will told Angel to throw the ball in because he knew that the only chance he had to get the shot was from the short corner on option 2 instead of option 5 in the far corner. If they were set on throwing the lob Will would have taken it out because Angel would have set the better pick and Will would have delivered the better pass.
