Syracuse v Virginia RA play - Higgins

[BigCat]

Originally Posted by Jay R

Higgins missed that one badly. He would have been better not pointing to the RA because the defender was probably two feet outside. I replayed it to confirm.

How about posting...can u do that? Or at least give the time of play...thx

[JRutledge]

I cannot guess out of thin air which you are discussing. Need at least the minute in which the play happened to see the play. I can get this rather easily, but I did not see the entire game all the way through.

Peace

[Jay R]

Originally Posted by BigCat

How about posting...can u do that? Or at least give the time of play...thx

I can't. All is I remember is 1st half. Probably half way through. Sorry.

[Ktr]

Occurs at approximately the 10:46 mark.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Ktr

Occurs at approximately the 10:46 mark.

Gotcha, thanks.



Peace

[bballref3966]

Player control.

Yes, even John Higgins misses some calls. Doesn't mean we are any better than him by sitting here talking about how "badly" he missed it.

[Ktr]

There are many things to discuss on this play.

(1) at the point of contact Higgins is behind #51 unable to get a proper view. Based on his point to the RA -had to be a guess based on where the defender ended up.
(2) the c has a whistle and foul while starting to walk the other way before we lose him in camera view. Did he ever signal? Very close to a blarge.
(3) this should not be discussed as an ra play as there is only the primary defender involved.

[johnny d]

Originally Posted by Ktr

There are many things to discuss on this play.

(1) at the point of contact Higgins is behind #51 unable to get a proper view. Based on his point to the RA -had to be a guess based on where the defender ended up.
(2) the c has a whistle and foul while starting to walk the other way before we lose him in camera view. Did he ever signal? Very close to a blarge.
(3) this should not be discussed as an ra play as there is only the primary defender involved.

2 since C had a whistle, he had an opportunity to pick up location of the defender and can provide that information to Higgins. The call can easily be changed, because by pointing to the RA, Higgins is indicating he would have had a pc foul, but he thought the defender was in the RA.

3 this is an RA play because it is an outnumbered, 2 on 1 break. Under those conditions, all defenders are considered secondary defenders.

[bballref3966]

Originally Posted by Ktr

(3) this should not be discussed as an ra play as there is only the primary defender involved.

Not correct. This is a 3-on-2 fastbreak situation which means all defenders are secondary.