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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 1582273, member: 127"]
JB put the ball  in the hands of our 2 best free throw shooters- Cooney and Lydon, and you think that's a unique and flawed strategy when the opponent knows that a basket could lose the game? What team wouldn't rather force a player to earn it at the line?  Cooney was at least getting fouled during the game while driving to the basket earning 8 free throws.  Style points don't count on the scoreboard. The play worked darn well with 2 Wisky players stopping Cooney's drive, leaving Lydon alone.  It just wasn't executed.

Mike G had 2 free throws in regulation, missing both and 2 more in OT making just 1. Who do you think Wisconsin would rather foul if he came anywhere near the basket and why? Coaches go with odds.  I doubt Mike G was held back from driving when given the ball in OT yet didn't have one successful drive but yet you thought it was a no brainer at the end of regulation?  I have no problem with the play nor either player. All  the players had the chance to insure the game didn't go into OT and again to win in OT. They just didn't.
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