hawksfanatic, on 02 November 2009 - 09:23 AM, said:
I really question whether or not you ever watch NBA basketball. Teams foul at the end of the game all the time, its not a college exclusive event.
When the Lakers are throwing out Lamar Odom (.701 career), Artest (.721 career), and Bynum (.676 career) at the end of the game and you have a chance to foul them you do it. You also want to instill an attitude that you can win games and are going to try. At least TRY, if you don't you are putting out a piss poor effort and creating a loser mentality. "Oh the lead is too big, lets just get it over with. No need to embarrass ourselves by trying"
And by the way, Lamar Odom was handling the ball with 40 seconds left, not Derek Fisher as you imply in this post. It helps to actually watch the games when you want to comment on the game.
I never implied that Fisher wasn't doing anything. I watched the game just like you did. What I said that USUALLY in those situations, you're usually going to have an 80%+ FT shooter ( typically a guard ) handling the ball.
And we were down 10 points ( 3 possessions ) at that point. You may see an NBA team foul if they are within 7 points, but not when they're down by 10 with under a minute to go. Come on fanatic. I've seen your posts in the past. You're much smarter than this. We can play this game all day long. So let's follow your scenario.
The Hawks had been down double digits since midway in the 3rd.
We were down 12 with a minute to go in that game, until Crawford gets a layup to cut it to 10 with around 50 seconds to go.
So by your assertion, the Hawks should've fouled to extend the game, and especially fouled when Odom had the ball? OK.
The likelihood of Odom missing 2 FTs is unlikely. He may not makes 2 FTs either. So he probably misses one and makes one.
We're now down 11 with around 40 seconds to go.
Eleven.
But you want us to keep playing hard, under the "anything can happen" scenario? OK
So the Hawks race down, hits a 3, and cuts the lead to 8 with about 30 seconds to go.
Who will the Lakers get the ball to at this point? Odom? Doubt it. It'll probably be Kobe or Fisher, 2 excellent FT shooters.
So we foul them, they make 2 FTs, and the lead is back up to 10 with 30 seconds to go.
Fanatic, the next time you watch an NBA game, and you see a team excessively fouling to extend the game . . . with them being 10 points down with under a minute to go . . you post the game link here.
That game was over the minute the Lakers stopped our mini run around the 3 minute mark.
But if you want to blame Woody for not telling the guys to excessively foul at the end of a game, in which they were down double digits, knock yourself out. It'll just continue the cycle of blaming Woody for everything, and excusing the players for messing up to begin with.
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