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sports.yahoo.com - 4/8/2008
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Before
even discussing free throws, there are two things I'd like to get out of the
way.
1) It's way too easy to poke fun at Coach Calipari for
comments he made earlier in the season regarding his lack of concern about
Memphis's poor free-throw shooting . I'm not going to add any additional salt
to the wound, even though I once said I would. To quote myself: "Reality
is coming, ...
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THREE PARTING THOUGHTS ON ONE SHINING MOMENT 2008
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... We aren’t saying that Memphis didn’t lose the game because of missed free throws - they did, at least in part - but it wasn’t due to their normal bad free throw shooting. In fact, their strategy seemed sound - the entire final two minutes, the ball stayed in the hands of their two GOOD free throw shooters, CDR and Derrick Rose. They just hit a streak of bad luck at the wrong time. MJD gets a tip of the cap, or theoretical dollars, or whatever it is we give out on the internet as prizes these days, for getting the nuance of this story right. ...
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