Kansas coach Bill Self has a rule for throwing alley-oop lobs: aim for the bottom corner of the backboard.
So yes, Devonté Graham admits his second-half pass to Lagerald Vick was way off.
“I’ve been throwing pretty bad alley-oops lately in a couple games, throwing it too far back,” Graham said. “When I threw it to him, I thought he wasn’t going to catch it.”
There was good reason. A television replay from the opposite baseline shows Graham, who was accurate enough shooting-wise to tie a career-high with 35 points in KU’s 76-60 victory over Syracuse on Saturday, missed his mark by at least 2 feet to the right.