I know that during the play, tom dore, red kerr, and king were saying that hinrich was trying to be unselfish, and that noah should have been there. However, in the postgame comments it seemed like norm, and kendall were calling it a bad move on kirk.

I discussed this with a friend of mine who is pretty neutral and he came to the conclusion that it was hinrichs fault because hinrich had more responsibility on that play...let me explain:

Hinrich was leading the break, now noah should have run all the way with hinrich, that is a basic thing to do on a fast break, and noah should have ran all the way to the rim, just as a precaution. So noah is at fault for not running all the way. However, hinrich had alot more options than noah, hinrich could have scored, thus have been responsible for himself, or b) he could have passed and thus was responsible for the ball and the pass. Hinrich therefore had more responsibility on that play, and thus gets more blam than noah. He should have just did the layup, but if he wanted to pass it he should have looked to see where noah was, and then fed a pass that would make it to noah...if you watch the replay noah just misses the pass.

My take on the play is this, two points are two points for the team. I dont think hinrich scoring those two points would be selfish at all, sure rewarding the rookie would be nice, and having noah dunk that ball would have lit up the U.C., but in the end that play would have given us 2 points that at the time were needed. In that sense i think hinrich is at fault for overthinking in that situation.

I imagine in the locker room skiles probably gave a lecture about running fast breaks, and then looked straight at hinrich and gave a lecture about taking layups when they are completely uncontested.

I think hinrich's intentions were wrong, but aside from that he made too many mistakes, he has always lacked a certain ammount of skills that stars have but has always showed a ton of determination, court savvy, and a complete understanding of the fundamentals and doing the little things. Thats his reputation, that makes him great. He seems to have lost those "abilities", and isnt playing with that huge b-ball iq he has. As a hinrich fan, its quite a sad ordeal. I would rather see him on the court doing those little things, rather than have a great stat line (although doing the little things would probably give him a nice stat line anyway)

PTI guys both put it on Noah and felt Hinrich did the right thing in trying to reward Noah's efforts on the other end.

Don't remember which show, or if it was somewhere else, but someone also said they not only like Hinrich being unselfish on the break, but also thought he showed nice leadership in taking the blame for it not working.

I suppose it's like any play - they're only "good" when they work.