Princeton play was within their offense, they don't have kids than can drive or initiate contact, offense is a backdoor layup or a 3. Again though if the passer saves that last dribble and gets it to his teammate quicker the defense can't recover to contest and the kid would've stepped into it more and likely made it.
Everyone wants to be Steph Curry. Curry nails that shot a majority of the time...these two kids...not so much. However, in the Princeton game, that was a good look, and they had nothing better down low.
Dogdeacon,
You do have a point that the passer could have gotten the ball back to the shooter and given him the extra second he needed to step a little more into the shot. But my point stands. When you are trailing by 1 point, a 28-foot 3 point shot with a hand in your face is not, and probably never will be, the best shot at the end of a college game (Travelman, I agree that if it is Steph Curry, it is a much higher percentage shot). And by the way Dogdeacon, the Princeton player had time to give a shot fake, have the Notre Dame player go flying by, dribble in a couple of steps and get off a significantly higher percentage shot. But he wanted to hit the 28 to 30 footer, Steph Curry style. Too much TV
And my point is... how many times do you see this at the end of games now? It happens a lot more often than the drive Jalen Adams made at the end of the Temple game. Oh, and how did that end? With a 3-foot lay up. Contested? Yes. But a much higher percentage shot than either of those two guys took today? Absolutely. Add to that if Jalen had missed his shot, the chance of a rebound and a put back is much better (ok, in the case of our front court this year marginally higher) in that case than on a long 3-pointer where the ball is going to bounce higher, harder and longer, as of course it did in both cases today.
It is a dumb, selfish, very-low percentage play to shoot that long range 3-point shot at the end of a 1 point game. The results time and time again prove that to be true, as it did both times today. And I believe that it is never a called play by a coach (at this level, anyway) but selfishness from the player who does it because he wants to see his face on SportsCenter instead of giving his team a better chance to win.
