Slayer, pure speculation on my part, but I’m thinking the inbounding 5 seconds is tied to when the ball leaves the inbounder’s hand and not when someone who is inbounds actually touches it.
That supports what we were seeing with the *game* clock not starting until someone in bounds touches it. Could not do that roll unless the 5 second clock is solely for the inbounder to release the ball.
sasnak, I was asking myself the same question, and I think the answer is the nearest KU player (in most cases I believe it was Dajuan) did not want to abandon his defensive posture in order to gamble on stealing the ball.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
