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The Day After. . .
The Day After. . .
In the interest of full disclosure, I had a draft for this ready with a little over a minute left in the game congratulating Memphis for winning the game and making their FTs when it mattered since they had made their last 4 when Chris Douglas-Roberts stepped to the line. . . After 2 blowouts in the semifinals, we finally got a close game. After a first half that lacked any real flow to it ...
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THREE PARTING THOUGHTS ON ONE SHINING MOMENT 2008
Thirtyfive Seconds — ... war, but last night’s game provided a perfect example of how it is often a blogger who gets the story right. Every where we looked this morning, writers zoomed in on Memphis’ notoriously terrible free throw shooting as their raison de la mort. Gary Parrish at Sportsline? Free throws. Andy Katz at ESPN? Free throws. Weintraub and Feinstein? Inter alia, free throws. Even usually top level blogs, like Deadspin and Rush the Court, fell for the party line. We aren’t saying that Memphis didn’t ...

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