My thinking is to get the pass over my biggest guy accurately will have to be done pretty close to the end line. I then guard the ball immediately and make them pick up their dribble and make a pass to half court to hopefully someone coming back for the ball. If they make that, then I lose. A shot within 30 feet is unacceptable.

 

You must practice this as has been stated. I take my chances this way. 4 seconds is a lot of time when you are guarding and hardly any with possession. That is the mindset the players have. I used to make my kids with the ball under 5 seconds count it down. They almost always though it was less time than it really was. Practice, practice, practice. The closer you get to the tournament the more time you spend practicing end of the game scenarios. And there are many of them.

 

Makes sense. Many different ways to defend at the end of the game. Good point about the timing at the end. Typically players will rush it and shoot too soon. The Villanova winning shot against UNC was with 4.7 seconds. PG got the ball around the FT line extended, dribbled 5 or 6 times, kicked in back to Jenkins (who was the inbounder) and he still got the shot off with time to spare.

Really? If a man is on the ball, you realize the inbounder can go back a step or two? He would not be up on the baseline. With a ball fake to the left side of the court that gets the defend to jump or move a little bit that side, he couldn't then make a pass to the far right side of the court? Never?

Unless the ballfake was so great that the guy falls down he isn’t making that pass.

I guard In bounds but if they can run baseline the defense has to be careful for a screen as soon as the Inbounder moves as that play can really be effective if the person guarding the Inbounder isn't paying attention.

Ball fake. Pass went from left side of the basket to the far right side of the court. Not that hard to imagine. I'm probably putting someone on the ball in that exact situation too but it's not a guarantee that the same pass cannot be made.

 

To the bigger point, it's hard to say "always" or "never" to anything when the situation can vary in so many different ways.

 

I don’t think a ballfake is enough to open a passing lane for him to make that pass.

 

I wish I could remember the other game that this same situation happened in. Regardless, what Man of Troy describes is what happened in the other game I mentioned in the OP. There was 1.9 seconds on the clock. With the inbounder being guarded, the team on offense caught the inbounds pass about 2/3 of the way to mid court on the run headed towards the other basket. The dribbler made a crossover dribble to get past the one man guarding him and was three steps across mid-court when he shot a wide-open 3-pointer. It was a more open shot than Poole got, completed in less time than Michigan had and that was with the inbounder being guarded.

I wish I could remember the other game that this same situation happened in. Regardless, what Man of Troy describes is what happened in the other game I mentioned in the OP. There was 1.9 seconds on the clock. With the inbounder being guarded, the team on offense caught the inbounds pass about 2/3 of the way to mid court on the run headed towards the other basket. The dribbler made a crossover dribble to get past the one man guarding him and was three steps across mid-court when he shot a wide-open 3-pointer. It was a more open shot than Poole got, completed in less time than Michigan had and that was with the inbounder being guarded.

 

Butler vs. Purdue. Spot throw-in. Man on the ball. Same spot as Michigan. Pass was on the exact same line and was caught past the top of the key and on the run as you said, even with Purdue's big boy on the ball. Ball fakes are your friend.