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Old Fri Jun 01, 2007, 07:24am
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
Team B now missed the FTs on purpose(!) and when Team A got the rebound their coach instructed them to toss the ball into the opponents basket, which they did with less than five seconds remaining and proceeded to let the clock run out. This sent the game into overtime and gave them four more minutes to get the necessary points. I don't know how it came out.

In my opinion, it was a travesty of the game.
I call it smart coaching (or is that an oxymoron?).

If B's coach were smarter, he'd have one of his players foul A1 on the non-shot into B's basket.
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