Amin Elhassan

It was like the betrayal of Joe Dumars doing something dirty was way worse than the actual getting your wind knocked out.

I got in an argument with Dan Levitard earlier this week about this.

I told him, like, hey.

Oh, you did?

Yeah, it's a shocker, right?

He never does that.

I said, UConn, part of this is the experience.

That's a roster of mostly sophomores, juniors and seniors versus juniors.

Duke, which had, I think, only 20% of its minutes played from a season ago, returning to this roster.

Some of these guys had been around for the championship and certainly for the Final Fours.

So when you put that into perspective, that's a veteran move, even though the kid who hit it was a freshman.

The guy who made the pass was an upperclassman, and he made the smart, heady play.

Because at the end of the day, Dave, what we're watching on TV during March Madness is mostly a bunch of children.

playing high-stakes basketball for the first time in their life.

Carlos Boozer's son, Caden Boozer.

the one who won't be a top five pick in the draft, had a really bad turnover that led to that made three.

And the guys on the show were talking about, oh, he's never seen a full court press before.

I said, no, he's just never done it in front of 20,000 people going crazy knowing that this is for a trip to the Final Four.

Sorry, Columbus High School probably didn't provide that kind of pressure-staked environment for him.

And so this is all kind of...