Within the late defensive strategy of Kansas Basketball against UCF which did not work, but also

Lawrence – Kansas basketball I had options Tuesday, late in his home game against the UCF.

The Jayhawks had just seen the front KJ Adams connect to a pair of free throws with a little more than four seconds to play, to put them 89-86. The UCF, ready to potentially go the duration of the court for a 3 -point pointer, found itself in a desperate situation. While Ku left the waiting period he called, after the second franc launch of Adams, he could defend himself without a cramped or be for lack and send UCF on the line of free throws while eliminating the threat of A bucket of score on this possession.

What happened was a game of links that saw a UCF player catch a medium length pass and continue its movement around half a terrain. This player continued to move, crossed the half-terrain and to a key line with the 3-point line not far. And shortly after, the Kansas Rylan Griffen goalkeeper contacted him and committed a fault – a fault – which was not judged of a firing failure.

The sequence worked in favor of the Jayhawks, while the UCF divided these two free throws that followed and later on the Ku goalkeeper, Zeke Mayo, struck some of the people to win a 91-87 victory for Kansas n ° 11. The UCF has never had the chance to link the scoring and forced overtime. But just because the Jayhawks won the game, the plan with which they came out of the time time that takes place as planned.

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“The strategy was to sneak before arriving at the half-habit,” said Kansas coach Bill Self. “I said,” Don’t be mistaken after their court has arrived at half “. So, we did not execute what we wanted to do. … This is what we talked about and we went to the fault in half a haul-it gave him the opportunity, perhaps, to embark on a request in shooting. But, in the rear tribunal, this would not have been the case. And so, we didn’t do a good job with that. And this is the reason why I am very rarely rude, because there are a lot of bad things that can happen when you do it and it was close to being a bad thing tonight. “”

Look again the replay, and it is clear that there are a number of people on the UCF bench, indicating that the dirty player was in a shooting movement. The player himself, who was at fault, also seemed to plead for this call. This night, the call went to Kansas.

This meant that the Jayhawks (15-5, 6-3 in Big 12) won a very necessary victory during the game of the Big 12 conference against a difficult UCF team. Self and company got back from a disappointing loss at home last weekend. There is again a momentum, before a match on the road this Saturday in Baylor.

Of course, as self -comments after the match on Tuesday, it is not clear if goalkeeper Dajuan Harris Jr. will return for this next match after missing the UCF match due to an injury. The presence of Harris was missed during the victory via the nails. Anyway, the Kansas can review the coarse sequence or not suddenly that it faced late against the UCF and be better prepared the next time that this moment will occur.

Jordan Guskey covers the University of Kansas Athletics at Topeka Capital-Journal. He is the sports editor of the Year of the National Sports Media Association for the State of Kansas for 2022. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @jordanguskey.

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