Sam Amick
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that it might be swinging the other way.
So I don't have clarity there.
We'll have to figure it out.
You know, it's funny to ask or to field that question today because I spent the first half of my day dealing with, you know, this kind of crazy, silly investigation from the league on whether or not Doug Christie was tanking on Tuesday night against the Warriors.
you know, the short, short version of that story that relates to this conversation is that it was like, you know, good news, bad news for the Kings.
You're cleared of all wrongdoing.
You weren't tanking bad news.
Your coach had a pretty significant blunder and, and that was what happened.
If anybody missed it, Doug, and listen, mistakes happen when guys coach.
But Doug had three timeouts, 315 left in the game.
If the clock, as you know, gets under three minutes, he loses that timeout because every team has two at maximum in the last three minutes.
So he doesn't want to lose that timeout.
tells Doug McDermott to foul Seth Curry, thinking that he has a foul to give.
Turns out the mistake he makes is that he doesn't have a foul to give.
He's in the bonus.
And everybody goes crazy because the appearance is that you intentionally fouled a 90% free throw shooter.
You must be tanking.