Thats a cool story. Thanks yo
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Awewome story. I must have seen or played against your kid at some point. I feel like I played CAVE spring at some point during my HS career or saw them at a tournament.
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kinda surprised Tony hasn’t coached this:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497091251539099649
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Checkin the ball back to the ref one of the oldest savvyest tricks in the book
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when I officiated - the 2nd time they did that I would avoid catching it and start my count. 
Needless to say they didn’t do it again
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yep. ref taken aback first time. doesnt work for long.
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The situation he really should use it is if the other team scores with 30 to 40 seconds left in the first half. We could easily take away their two for one opportunity, but we don’t.
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I think this is more of a player thing personally, although I know we have seen cases of coaches coaching it
Simply throw the ball in softly and your teammate doesn’t touch it… 5 second count ends and the 10 second count doesn’t start.
Opponent could hit a shot with 42 seconds left thinking they got a 2 for 1 like Duke did against us and we touch the inbounds pass with 29 seconds left - it really isn’t hard.
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When the clock’s stopped, teams sometimes roll the ball down the court and the PG doesn’t pick it up for a few seconds. This would be the same technique, but for the opposite reason. Is that right, the shot clock starts on the first touch? Never really thought about it.
There is a video somewhere of Isaiah Thomas when he was on the Kings doing this exact thing.
I’ve seen video of Ty Lawson doing it in the NBA. Something like 20 seconds went off the clock before he picked it up.
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i linked a tweet to this strategy awhile back, i think from Jordan Sperber. Matt Painter has Purdue doing this - it’s funny if you watch their bench when the other team scores with ~35-42 seconds in the half, they all are VERY animated in ensuring it’s not inbounded too early.
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Whoops, yep it was Ty Lawson. My bad!
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Thats the one, thank you
You want Tony to use even more ways to slow down the pace??? 
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Didn’t say I wanted it … lol … just surprised with all the ways they take the air out of the ball they haven’t added this one.
I do think that throwing it in in the back court and not having the PG touch it for 2-3 seconds if there is no pressure - would actually help our offense as it would allow us to get closer to the division line with a full 30 seconds to run offense.
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Assuming Kihei’s is coming later today