02-13-2018, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by SLUFLYER
In theory, most would agree. And logic suggests that this is obvious. Add in some fancy fluff about it being exciting basketball but not winning basketball, and it sounds very astute.
But how do you explain that at the 6:38 mark, down 17, when we should be running on empty, that we made our most disparate run of the game? Oh, wait, I see your explanation upon a second read - it was luck.
This game wasn't lost by a coach's decision/strategy, certainly not singularly. The reasons for losing this game are widespread - we have limited senior leadership, our senior had 7 TO's, VCU's all conference senior went for 37 points. We are young, playing on the road. We have a limited bench and do not defend very well. This list can go on.
You can argue the strategy worked against us, that's a plausible position. But it would be just as plausible to suggest that whatever the strategy was, that it worked and worked well. We went on the road to VCU as a pretty big underdog, and had a legitimate opportunity to win the game - which is to say we had the ball on the final possession of regulation with an opportunity to win the game. This after matching them back and forth for the first 30 minutes of the game. We forced OT and fell a little short.
To speak in such an absolute - that a coach's decision lost us that game - is an ignorant statement, with all due respect.
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Agree with everything you said but I think we were a 3.5 pt underdog. Did not cover but it was real close. Makes me think those Vegas guys have some idea of what they are doing when they set a line.
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