I don't think that is an accurate assessment of what happened. If you watch the video closely, you can see that Iowa ran a double screen for Clark, but neither of the screens was particularly good (or Clark did not go close enough to the screeners.) As a result, the defender arrived only shortly after the inbound pass. Now if Clark did not suffer the injury, she would have been able to take a dribble or two closer to the top of the key (away from the defender) and then get off a 3-pt shot (well within her range.) So if the injury had not occurred the game outcome could very well have been different. Iowa obviously didn't practice Clark getting injured on the inbound play, but to say that they don't practice inbounding plays is misguided.
Hindsight is 20/20, but it looks like a bad inbound play targeting Clark with a pass that was tipped.
They could have used a bloop pass to an open part of the floor.
If there were a plan, the pass could be made before the player even gets to the open part of the floor..
Just lead the player by a few feet.
The players are protected from fouls during the inbound, it's only a matter of creatively getting the ball to where a player can receive a pass to make a shot.
Iowa didn't even get off a shot before the buzzer.
Iowa is too reliant on Clark to make every play, that's about the size of it.
The inbounder has options, there should be a plan A, B & C.
There's direct pass, bounce pass, bloop pass.
It didn't seem like the inbounder had an alternate plan other than to pass it to Clark who was in a weak court position.
Czinano seemed to be a better & closer position to the basket, or the 2nd Iowa player who touched the ball should have shot it.
Instead she bounced it and passed it as time ran out.
Imagine Geno's reaction if that were UConn, he'd pull his hair out and shout, "Why didn't you shoot it?"
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