Green89 wrote: You can afford to do that when tied, but NEVER should that happen when you're down. That's a mistake you shouldn't even see in high school basketball.
Honestly, I think it's defensible, it's like a college football team going for a 2 point conversion in OT when an extra point would ensure another overtime period. It's high stakes and from an objective standpoint it can make sense.
But high stakes require that you treat the situation accordingly. You need to have a play prepared for that specific situation. Your players ideally need to be prepared to execute something they have practiced over and over for several weeks. If you are not prepared, then you should be playing it safe.
Maybe I'm being unfair cause it wasn't an elimination game, and cause we were several tenths of a second away from a win, but we didn't get a shot off before the red light. And it was Marcus taking the shot.
He has big balls and was shooting 4-9 from 3, so I'm ok with that, but down one I'm pretty certain we could have done even better.
editing to add - on a little bit of reflection, I think the ideal play here is to try and get off a GREAT shot early in the shot clock (game clock), and if it's not there, then you call a timeout and regroup.
