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Here’s what Boozer sees:

There’s two UConn players coming to trap him. Up ahead he sees a wide open teammate - if the ball gets there, the game is 100% over.

At the end of the game against full court press, when you’re trapped, you need to pass the ball. What makes you think nothing will happen, they won’t try and pry the ball loose, and just award you a foul? A whole lot can go wrong in that situation as well.

In contrary, he sees a wide open teammate and if he hits him the game is over.

If we’re gonna play “you shouldn’t pass the ball,” then why did Sarr pass it to Boozer to begin with?
Everyone messed up.

Boozer messed up with that pass. He just did. Yes, if he makes the pass you win the game. But the odds of making that pass are almost certainly less than the odds of winning a game up 2 with the ball and with 10 seconds left on the clock. Which means that pass is a net negative. Better off not doing it. If you feel you need to pass to avoid the trap, turn around and see if there's an easier pass in the backcourt (and there was - his brother is an easier pass in that situation).

Sarr messed up too. He never should have passed either. I think he got nervous because he's not a strong a FT shooter and didn't want to be on the line in that high pressure situation. But he didn't help things by throwing a live grenade to his teammate.

On that note, other Boozer probably shouldn't have passed it to Sarr. He's the team's leader, and an excellent FT shooter. There's a reason he's the guy they want the ball to go to on the inbounds. Just hold it and take the foul.

Scheyer probably owns most of the blame. Bad job prepping his players, terrible decision pocketing that timeout instead of calling it when things started to go south.
 
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Everyone messed up.

Boozer messed up with that pass. He just did. Yes, if he makes the pass you win the game. But the odds of making that pass are almost certainly less than the odds of winning a game up 2 with the ball and with 10 seconds left on the clock. Which means that pass is a net negative. Better off not doing it. If you feel you need to pass to avoid the trap, turn around and see if there's an easier pass in the backcourt (and there was - his brother is an easier pass in that situation).

Sarr messed up too. He never should have passed either. I think he got nervous because he's not a strong a FT shooter and didn't want to be on the line in that high pressure situation. But he didn't help things by throwing a live grenade to his teammate.

On that note, other Boozer probably shouldn't have passed it to Sarr. He's the team's leader, and an excellent FT shooter. There's a reason he's the guy they want the ball to go to on the inbounds. Just hold it and take the foul.

Scheyer probably owns most of the blame. Bad job prepping his players, terrible decision pocketing that timeout instead of calling it when things started to go south.
That's probably too much 20/20 hindsight, the whole goal there is to run out the clock - if you are letting them foul you right away, you are just extending the game and giving them potentially two more possessions with 10 seconds left. I don't think anyone did anything wrong strategy wise other than Cayden's pass - you need to dribble it out or only pass to guys with no defender in between you, you didn't need to get it past half court in that scenario.

I agree Scheyer deserves blame not for running through that scenario before the free throws or even calling time out to run through it with the team after the free throws, but I'm sure he wanted to save it in case you can't get the ball in bounds, so I'm not even sure I blame him for that. Just a bad pass by a freshman in a tense situation and if not for a miracle shot, nobody would even be talking about it.
 
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Why so much blood over boozer’s jersey?

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For your amusement and to save you the trouble, a sampling of verbiage seen during my rubbernecking visit to The Devil's Den (Duke 247 site).

- It does seem the new frontier in the Duke-UNC rivalry is who can choke the hardest in the NCAA tourny.

- Gonna be fun to watch that Mullins shot every year paired with the Laettner shot.

- Scheyer built the team, so that's on him. He seems to be turning into Calipari: overseer of a one-and-done factory that doesn't win championships.

- Scheyer gets the best talent with the best support system in the game, yet his teams repeatedly fail to execute the most basic tasks when the tournament is on the line. ... How many more times do we have to watch a historic, humiliating collapse before it's okay to question the coaching?

- I am really ******** sick and tired of all this ********* from the refs. How many championships have we lost to the opposite of DGAC now? *************.

- It would be unbelievable if it wasn't so ******** typical of how refs have done us for years now.

- sure zona/mich should beat uconn's **** off, but as we saw tonight anything can happen in 1 game.

- I don't think they [UConn] can beat Arizona or Michigan.

- Just let Illinois win it all
Amaze me the last Duke fan agrees with all of us here. He is a smart one. 🤣🤣😂
 
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