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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3435245, member: 1220"] Actually your are simplifying the plays in order to support your simplistic scenario. In other words, Arizona St screwed up rather than my scenario which was that they made bad choices. The bad choice they made that allowed Tudor to get open was putting a forward to face guard her to stop her from getting off a three. If you watch the play Tudor didn't even need that screen that Pivek set. She had already beaten her defender and had a clear cut to the basket. All the Pivek screen did was increase her lead by a couple feet on what she already had. The mistake they made was choosing to be concerned about Tudor getting off a three by face guarding her with a forward and thus sacrificing the much quicker Tudors advantage at a cut to the basket. Tudor had not been shooting that well, the better choice might have been to lay off her and just let her get off a shot. The odds are she would have missed. They never expected a cut play from Washington to Tudor. They expected the ball to go to either Slocum or Pivek. As I said it was a matter of choice. The forward defender had no shot at defending both a quick release shot and the cut option. That is what analysis is supposed to do. Go into detail as opposed to making a rash statement without involving thought and reason. Arizona expect Oregon St.'s shooters to try and get off a game-winning 3pr attempt and that was their priority in defense. Scott just did what was not expected. Your perspective about should off could of is just Monday morning QB'ing. If they tried and hit a three then the criticism would have been that they didn't faceguard for the shot. [/QUOTE]

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