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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1684723, member: 40"]
It's amazing how dense you're being about this.  I'm saying that the breakdown occurred on the inbounds play, not in what came afterwards.
 
I'm saying that time was running out, and it wasn't clear to the player how much time he had left due to the shot clock not being on.  I'm also saying that Artis wasn't beaten the way some of you are claiming, and there was only a sliver of a lane to drive.  Mike and to a lesser extent Mal can exploit a defender being out of position slightly and take it to the hole, Cooney not so much.  You and others are exaggerating all of the other things that Cooney could have done with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.
 
On that note, we just had a multi-page thread in recent weeks flipping out about Cooney's inability to drive.  Now, some of you are whining because he didn't drive.
 
Lastly, just to be clear, I'm not saying as you suggest that "there was no other play to make."  But the circumstances listed above caused him to shoot the ball when he got some daylight.  He's not a driver, the lane wasn't nearly as open to drive as you want to pretend, and he had nobody open to pass to.  What were his options in that situation other than shoot an open shot?
 
Not shoot?  Pass the ball backwards to a trailer he couldn't see with time expiring?  C'mon.
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