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[QUOTE="Full_Rebar, post: 1353399, member: 3530"]
ND was moving the ball and making Kentucky chase all night. The last few minutes they went to isolation, and I doubt that Grant decided on his own to do that against the coach's wishes. Here are a couple of things I think ND could have done better:

1) don't use Connaughton to screen for Grant as that allowed Cauley-Stein to switch and his length allowed him to get that shot deflection, that's not a bad play by Grant as no other college player can get a hand on that ball with the gap Grant had. Connaughton should have been in the corner where UK had to shade towards him

2) not going 2 for 1 in the final minute, there is no excuse for that, give your team two chances to score

3) calling that last time-out on defense prevented him from setting up  a final play. No one on ND ran a screen for Grant. With Cauley-Stein hounding him, there wasn't a good chance for him to look to pass, so he had to settle for what he could and Harrison's close out made him double clutch as well. No reason that Auguste couldn't have set a baseline screen on Cauley-Stein to give Grant a bit of a head start, or come to mid-court to screen, but without a stoppage in play, it's understandable that ND didn't execute.

Shame because they played hard, and I never thought they could hang with UK without lighting it up from 3.
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