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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 4256615, member: 1673"] Sigh, fans will always result to ”what if,” when in reality there always are multiple “what ifs,” plus the change in one would create changes in how the game proceeds. “What is” the bigs hit their normal percentage of lay-ups. For Juhasz alone that’s about six points. It’s possible the team was too hyped up from the reception the students gave them … Auriemma had that opinion. In which case your explanation for the “what if” in free throws is more than negated by the “what ifs” in lay-ups. But in reality how the game is played changes if a “what if” situation changes. After an atrocious first quarter Uconn adjusted to their opponent. After UCF got down by double digits UCF had to change their style of play in order to increase possessions. UConn did not respond well to that change. If the game remained tighter due to free throws then UCF does not change to a style that catches UConn off guard until later. That could have changed the outcome or not. ”What ifs” in terms of abnormal play is mostly meaningful for what happens in the last seconds, not for the broad arc of a game. [/QUOTE]