Coach Anderson- If you are in the game long enough, you could very well be faced with the following situation. You’re down 3 and your opponent just fouled you with only 3-4 seconds left, and you are shooting 2 free throws.
If it’s me, I want the first shot made hopefully and I am looking to miss the second shot and in a way that we have a good shot at the offensive rebound.
I was at a basketball clinic that the master of situations, Hubie Brown was putting on the clinic. He showed a great way to miss a free throw. If your shooter can hit the white box on the backboard in the upper corner as the ball is coming down. The ball will then come down the side of the rim and rebound to the volleyball line in the lane.
If you don’t believe me, go do it for yourself and you will find out it works. I see all kind of ways to try to miss, but as far as I know, this is the best.
As soon as the shooter lets go of his shot, he should go to behind the 3 at the top of the key and get ready for a quick catch and shoot 3. And you will have two other shooters floating to the wings.
A lot of things have to go right, but if you watch free throw rebounding, it can be an absolute nightmare.
Coach Massey
When I was in college, I had a teammate who as soon as the ref handed him the ball for a free throw, he took the ball with two and flexed the ball back over his head- kind of like you would if you were going to throw an overhead pass. He would then bring the ball down, dribble it several times, and then shoot the ball.
I thought it was an unusual free shooting technique but he was very good. I asked him why he developed that routine. He explained,”If I ever have to miss a free throw on purpose, I will do it off of the initial stretch.”
He actually would then actually practice doing it. He was basically catching it, and immediately throwing an overhead pass at the front of the rim. He was uncanny that he could hit the front of the rim 90% of the time. When I tried it, about 90% of the time my ball flew through the net and never drew iron. The good part of his routine was that ball came hard right back to him.
We once played Monmouth and were were down three. (This is pre-three point shot). There were about 8 seconds left. Sure enough, our player made the first then did his overhead throw. He got it right back, and drilled a nice 15 footer for 2 points. Unfortunately, Monmouth took the ball out quickly and a player drilled a 3/4 court shot.
I agree with Coach Anderson’s approach. I think you can be “off a little” with the shot to the corner of the box and still succeed.
Coach Anderson’s topic made me think of another situation. When you are down three and have the ball. If you have 10-12 seconds left, take a three, miss and get an offensive rebound, what will your rebounder do.
In this situation I had a player get the offensive rebound on a long rebound. They got the ball at about 15 feet and didn’t hesitate, they passed the ball inside. The player inside caught it and put it into the basket right at the buzzer for two points and a one point loss. I think that was a case where two players didn’t recognize the situation.
In a Sectional Championship game when we were down three, we missed a three with 6-7 seconds left. Our player got the offensive rebound and was wide open at the basket. She didn’t hesitate, she pivoted and passed out to a three point shooter who drilled the shot at the buzzer to send the game into overtime.
What is so great about Coach Anderson’s post is that he has thought out ahead time about what he wants to do in situations. Can you imagine how much more poised his players were in these situations because Coach Anderson was poised.
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