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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

The whole should have fouled him thing is redboarding. If they foul him in the act and he hits 3 FT's they are idiots. If they foul him hard and the ref calls intentional foul 2 shots and the ball then they are idiots. If they foul and he hits the 3 and gets a FT on top of it, they are idiots. If you want to say foul in the backcourt, fine but then but you are leaving time on the clock, they make 2 to go down 1 and foul you again with some time still on the clock. You can overanalyze this to death but the reason they lost was they choked from the line. Period. If they shoot 50% from the line in the second half all that other stuff doesnt matter. All the crap about fouls, timeouts, etc are just hindsight. If one of their 2 best players doesnt choke from the line they win. That is a fact, all the other stuff is hypothetical. Neither Calapari or Self distinguished themselves from an x's and o's standpoint but in the end they did not execute. That is on the players.

Well said.