Craig Carton
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which gave them the opportunity that if it had gone overtime, I think they would have also won in overtime because I think they would have, if Reed didn't foul out, they were going to win in overtime.
But he certainly could have fouled out, and that would have changed the game.
No, he was going to.
If you catch the film,
He's saying to them before the foul shot now, foul, saw, and foul, the what do you call kid, whatever his name, the big kid.
He said, foul either one of them.
Now, saw takes it out of bounds, throws it to the corner, so they go trap.
But Boozer being such a big guy gets it right back to saw.
Saw could have kept it and taken some time off the clock, but he's not a good foul shooter.
So it's a hot potato.
He's getting rid of it.
Problem then is now the poor kid who's a young guard, he catches it and he doesn't know, you know, just maybe dribble it sideways away from the two of them or just get down in a crouch.
And, you know, things happen in games that split second.
He had never been in that situation.
at a game this big, and that one possession will haunt him.
But they made a million mistakes in the second half.
We made a million mistakes in the first half, and it comes down to, like, you know, one of those shots that looks like it came out of a movie.
Yeah, and he's also saving that time.
He wanted to save the timeout in case, like if he's playing against St.
John's, you have a hard time getting the ball in bounds.