After reading my play by play this morning I noticed something unusual in a late game situation and just curious what you guys think about it. If you look at the 2nd half play by play I was winning by 5 points and got a defensive rebound at 1:02, this automatically switched me to spread offense/hold ball but just 4 seconds later my player took a jump shot (luckily making it). I was running a Triangle offense normal tempo and rarely shoot 4 seconds into shot clock let alone during hold ball. Just curious why this happened and hope to avoid this in future since a missed shot there could have completely altered the game.
9/6/2013 11:48 AM
Kids do boneheaded things sometimes no matter what you coach them to do. What always bugs me is how in these conditions you can get a shot taken in four seconds but late in a game in quick shot anything under five seconds is automatically a half court shot at est.
9/6/2013 1:07 PM
Exactly! Always leaves me scratching my head
9/6/2013 8:23 PM

Engine error imo.  Happens all the time.  My guess is that that the pbp notation occured after you gained possesion (just checked and confirmed).  I'm guessing it's a logic issue.  Since you weren't in the spread when the rebound occured and possession starts, the sim continues in the former set (non-spread set) until possession is complete and you will go into the spread once you get the ball again.  I've noticed that for years.  Going to spread occurs earlier irl.  Perhaps they could give us the choice like they do on 3-point frequency and tempo late in games...

Good points red on the 4 second minimum to get a shot.  Magically at five you can shoot lay-ups.

Another logic error is the fact that clock runs in first half under a minute.  So any basket made under 5 secs usually runs out the clock at the end of the half or at the very least maybe an inbound pass.

9/9/2013 10:21 AM (edited)

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