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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 1642610, member: 127"]
I'll probably be killed for saying this but I was silently fuming during the last 16 seconds -  when Cooney had the ball with about 20 seconds left and SU up 57-55, he  passed it to Richardson to kill some clock and play monkey in the middle with GT's Smith. GT's Adam Smith had come up to do the expected - commit a foul and Richardson purposely held the ball after the Cooney pass to get fouled with 16 seconds left. Richardson was 1 for 4 till then from the free throw line and a statistically lower option than Cooney. MR should have passed it back to Cooney , he may have gotten the ball back again but at the least, more time would have run off the clock.

Since MR did this we lost the opportunity to kill the bigger enemy, the clock, and also put a riskier free throw shooter at the line. MR made just 1 of 2 making it 58-55 but gave GT the ball with 16 seconds on the clock prompting JB to tell Cooney to foul GT with 10 seconds left which again put us up only 2 when the crazy Gbinije "foul" with 6 seconds left made it only a one point game.

Thankfully GT only made 2 free throws from the fiasco and MR did work his butt off to make up for what I worried could have been a loss because of his decision. We didn't play smart those last few seconds and play the much better odds. Ok - I know I'll be blasted for this. So happy we pulled the win out though!
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