“When I was coaching in college, I ordered a pizza after the game one night, and the delivery guy was generous enough to offer me a lob play on the back of the Domino’s box,” Snyder said. “It was a good play.”
Snyder, sadly, didn’t save the play. He wishes he still had it now, but said that because his Missouri team that year didn’t have a lob threat — Keyon Dooling had left for the NBA — he threw the pizza box away.
But the story goes to show the dedication of Snyder, and other NBA coaches, in adding to their playbook with the next concept that will earn them the most valuable of NBA commodities: a bucket.