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You need to be very careful when you're up 3 and have a foul to give, especially when the ball handler is outside the 3-point line. Anyone with the ball is coached - and should know - that if a defender is coming at you to use that 6th foul, you need to be prepared to chuck the ball toward the basket in order to get 3 FTs and a chance to tie the game...or win if you're only down 2.
Back in my coaching days I did this against Lebanon. We were down 1 with 5 sec to go...I had the inbound pass go to midcourt and told my player they would foul him and to go right at the defender who was told to use the foul...and as soon as he reached to foul, I told the kid to shoot (25 footer) the ball. I told the ref exactly what I was doing and that I expected him to call it a shooting foul. The ball went to my player at midcourt, he took 2 dribbles, drew the defender and foul, and chucked the ball at the hoop...WHISTLE...3 FTs...only made 1, and we went to OT and won.
So it's not as easy as some of you think or are making it out to be...A well coached defense will use that foul...and well coached offense knows it's coming and is ready...so the well coached defense has to know when, where and how to foul. Because if you just foul for the sake of using a 6th foul, it may come back to make you look stupid.
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I shaved my balls for this?
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