Grizzlies @ Suns game thread 12-26-17

[Mainstreet]

That's a part of it. It also couldn't be interference because the player throwing the ball in can't shoot it.

Really smart play design and execution

Here is more about Triano's secret weapon.

“I’ve had that (play) for about 15 years,” Suns interim coach Jay Triano said. “I put it in probably two or three days after I took over the job here.

“It’s a rule that a lot of people don’t know. You cannot goaltend the ball, that isn’t going to count. So I tell our guys shoot the ball in the basket and all Tyson has to do is touch it on the way down or grab the rim and have it hit your knuckle and go in.”

http://arizonasports.com/story/1359196/suns-pull-off-buzzer-beating-alley-oop/

Booker was like (laughing) leave it to Triano come up with something like this. Apparently they had talked about in practice.

 

[Mainstreet]

Have to repeat the comment from Triano from the link above.

... "You cannot goaltend the ball, that isn’t going to count."

Deep thought.

This is certainly a new one on me and a lot of people.

 

[BillsCarnage]

Have to repeat the comment from Triano from the link above.



Deep thought.

This is certainly a new one on me and a lot of people.

Eddie Johnson knew it was coming. Why? Because Barkley did the same thing in Portland in 92 or 93. I don't remember who the inbounder was, maybe Ainge. I think it was a tip-in rather than a dunk.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Eddie Johnson knew it was coming. Why? Because Barkley did the same thing in Portland in 92 or 93. I don't remember who the inbounder was, maybe Ainge. I think it was a tip-in rather than a dunk.

Oliver Miller was the inbounder. That one was different than this in that it was designed to bounce the pass off of the backboard first, then be tipped.

This play was designed to basically be a shot, just touched before it goes in. The execution on the inbound was the real skill on this play.

It was quite amazing when you understand that it was executed by a player with very little basketball skill who does not know when to jump. (Sarcasm alert)

 

[Mainstreet]

Eddie Johnson knew it was coming. Why? Because Barkley did the same thing in Portland in 92 or 93. I don't remember who the inbounder was, maybe Ainge. I think it was a tip-in rather than a dunk.

Here is the video replay. The pass was thrown off the backboard by Oliver Miller which Barkley put in the basket.

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[Mainstreet]

Also Barkley narrates the same play in detail.

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[Chaplin]

Yet another reason he should never be compared to Kukoc... either as finished product or in his youth.

Isn’t really coordinated with his body. He’s not 13-15 years old. By his age, a guy should at the very least be coordinated. Doesn’t mean he’s got to be jumping out of the gym, but... man.

You certainly have a heightened sense of what a 20-year-old body that is that size should be able to do.

 

[elindholm]

Definitive statement on the legality of Chandler's tip-in:

https://amp.businessinsider.com/tyson-chandler-suns-alley-oop-legal-nba-rule-2017-12?ref=yfp

 

[Cheesebeef]

You certainly have a heightened sense of what a 20-year-old body that is that size should be able to do.

Crazy right? I’ve watched a basketball game before.

 

[Chaplin]

Crazy right? I’ve watched a basketball game before.

Nice to see SOMEONE has.

:slinslin: