Owens....because coaches are idiotic and stubborn. ALWAYS foul up 3. It's idiotic not to.
Memphis would have won an NCAA Title over KU 10 years ago. I don't watch the NBA, but everybody tells me that San Ant would have won another title over Lebron's Heat had he fouled in Game 6.
They asked Pop after the game, and he said something like "We don't do that here. That's a European thing to do."
II once asked the Yale coach a few years ago if he would foul up 3 before a game started. He said. "Absolutely."
Two hours later, Yale is up 3. He DOESN'T foul. Shot rims out. Yale wins by 3. I ask him "Coach, I thought you agreed with me that you should foul. What happened?"
Do you know what he said to me? "I didn't want to win that way. It would be a cheap way to win. I didn't have the heart to do that to the other team."
Every night in youth leagues and travel leagues and high schools and college and NBA gyms across the country,
kids/guys lose games because their coach tells them "Don't foul. Just play good defense." LOLOL.
I have seen it backfire exactly TWICE out of thousands and thousand and thousands of times. (And one of those was a blatant no-call lane violation by UK vs. Miss St in the SEC Championship game.
But, as I said, nothing infuriates me more than a team even allowing a 3-point attempt to tie and send it to OT in the closing seconds.
I am a high school Athletic Director, and when I am interviewing a potential head coach for boys or girls, freshman, JV, and varsity, that's the first question I ask them: "You're up three, the other team has the ball, and less than 10 seconds left. What do you do?" When the candidate says "We hunker down and play good defense" I say "Thank you for your time. We will look elsewhere."
