Not top play: Jimmer misses a spinning three-pointer at the buzzer

Published: Saturday, Jan. 5 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

With five seconds left in the Kings-Pistons game on Jan 1, Sacramento was down by six points. Jimmer Fredette got the ball with a chance to take a foul and go to the free thrown line. Inexplicably however, Jimmer took the ball and did a 360 spin to avoid the lunging Piston defender and took an off balance shot from beyond the arc which missed, sealing the Kings loss.

Fredette hit a three on a similar play against Wyoming during his last home game with BYU.

No word on whether or not the style points would have been enough to give the Kings the win had the shot acually gone in.

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DSB

Cedar Hills, UT

Down 6 points with 5 seconds left would require an incredibly rare set of circumstances to tie, but the best always play for that incredibly rare event. This showed a rather low basketball IQ for Jimmer, I'm sad to say. Sorry Basketballogy, More..

3:39 p.m. Jan. 6, 2013
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Basketballogy

Orem, UT

Actually, given that he had a wide open teammate to his left, and plenty of time to pass it so his teammate could take a better quality shot... this isn't a very flattering "highlight" for Jimmer.

5:28 p.m. Jan. 5, 2013
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Ernest T. Bass

Bountiful, UT

Totally fouled. No way he misses that unless he was absolutely mugged. He was fouled by all five guys on the other team at the same time.

9:35 p.m. Jan. 5, 2013
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