re: Why not intentionally miss the FT with 0.6 left on the clock?

Will Wade post game:

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He was supposed to miss the second one, but once Tennessee was going to call timeout we figured we might as well have him make it.

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Dude LSU is not fouling in that situation there will be nobody on the line your point is invalid.

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That was addressed in the text that you quoted.

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either make the FT or miss but don’t try for the rebound.

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I was in the stands.
Right before the second attempt, I yelled, “Miss it!!” Everyone looked at me like I was crazy.

I still think he should have.
But you’re not coached to not score points. It’s second nature even from a coaching stand point.

.6 second left, we miss; how much time runs off clock before Tenn secures the ball and calls a TO?

That's the key here.

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And that's enough time to get off a shot, right?

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That’s enough for a catch and a shot.

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The number of posters still questioning Wade is incredible

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I'm not necessarily questioning him - just curious what the strategy was. From what i can tell it's a bit of a coin flip as to which way you go with pretty great odds of being successful no matter what you do. scoring with .6 seconds left from full court is highly unlikely in either scenario.

I would personally rather an intentional miss with no one under the basket to remove the possibility of a foul. make them secure a rebound and call timeout. if that process takes .3 seconds or more then game over. if not then worst case you're in the exact same situation as before with 0.6 seconds on the clock and they still have to do a full court pass/catch n shoot. Pretty low risk IMO.

Great win and

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They would have taken timeout as soon as he rebounded and then you have to trust those refs to know how much time to take off the clock

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I thought the rule for inbounds was, if it's 0.3 or less you have to tip, there's no time for catch and shoot. To me, that implies that 0.3 comes off with a catch; thus a rebound.

That then leaves another 0.3 on the inbound play, with the guy unable to run the baseline.

On the one hand, you can say- put a rebounder on the line and try to kill the clock with a tip. But then you run the real risk of a foul (in a 1 pt game). Safest play is what happened, that pass was incredibly good. Probably about as unlikely as a 3 quarter court shot.

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WW explains why in the post game press conference. The plan was to miss the second one but he saw Rick Barns was going to call time out so he told Javonte to make it

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Yea im not buying his strategy they going to call a timeout wether LSU makes or misses the FT. My point is if they miss time will come off the clock and the chance for a catch and shoot greatly decreases if you miss the 2nd FT. I will take my chances with 0.4 left on clock and they cant run the baseline than 0.6 on clock and they can run baseline.

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Sometimes overthinking and getting cute can cause more problems than playing the odds.

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See Payton, Sean.