Eric15
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I just have to get my head around the risk/reward of this strategy, and understand what Boeheim is possibly thinking. (Full disclosure, he has 1000 more wins than me).
If it's a 2 point game at the end of regulation and your opponent has the ball with 20 seconds left and you have fouls to give, obviously giving fouls is smart because the entire game is hanging in the balance and you want to maximize their chances of taking a bad shot with little time left.
But how is doing this at the end of the first half possibly a good idea? You get 5 fouls in college basketball. For each foul you give, that increases the chances of fouling out by 20%. For a team that has virtually no bench like we do, isn't having Howard and Battle (our only two good offensive players) intentionally racking up unnecessary fouls just utterly and completely insane?
Either put someone like Bayer in to intentionally foul, or just play good defense at the end of the half.
If it's a 2 point game at the end of regulation and your opponent has the ball with 20 seconds left and you have fouls to give, obviously giving fouls is smart because the entire game is hanging in the balance and you want to maximize their chances of taking a bad shot with little time left.
But how is doing this at the end of the first half possibly a good idea? You get 5 fouls in college basketball. For each foul you give, that increases the chances of fouling out by 20%. For a team that has virtually no bench like we do, isn't having Howard and Battle (our only two good offensive players) intentionally racking up unnecessary fouls just utterly and completely insane?
Either put someone like Bayer in to intentionally foul, or just play good defense at the end of the half.
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