After some confusing officiating late in the Clippers-Grizzlies game, the fate of a one point game would be determined by the result of a jump ball at mid-court with 5.7 seconds left.  Usually during jump ball, players are jockeying for position, trying to create pockets for the big to tap the basketball to (we have looked at this situation in the past).

However, with a one point lead, Vinny Del Negro made sure that there was going to be no jockeying on this jump ball.  Instead of having his players occupy the standard positions on the jump ball, Del Negro put the remaining four players behind Chris Kaman, as if he wanted to protect the rim:

This is an interesting decision to say the least.  I understand the logic (Del Negro wanted to prevent a fast break/set play off of the tip), but I am not sure this was actually necessary.  Maybe it would be if the Grizzlies had no timeouts and needed to get a quick basket, but they had one, and they would probably be using it right after the tip.  So what Del Negro is basically doing is giving Marc Gasol a wide open player to tap the basketball to.  Unfortunately for the Grizzlies, Gasol whiffed on the tap and the Clippers were able to gain possession.  Here is the play in real time:

The Clippers win the tip, but one of the things Del Negro was hoping to avoid (a foul) almost happens because of the way the Clippers are lined up.  Griffin gets away with a pretty blatant shove on Zach Randolph as the ball gets tapped back towards him.

However, you can only analyze this so much, because in the end it did work.  A curious/interesting decision though.