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Message: [QUOTE="Yawin4Heisman, post: 5249824, member: 2872"] I love this pouring over the Cooper Flagg box out call for several reasons: 1) people acting like it’s the only (potentially) bad call all game when everyone is ignoring at least 2 OOB calls in the 2nd half that were wrong and both went against Houston (one was also a kicked ball by Duke that then went out of bounds… Duke ball!)… I love how clear cut extra possessions granted to Duke not a big deal but an iffy (and I thought probably bad call) call down the stretch is a crime and cost them the game… but even if it’s a bad call it’s not as gamechanging in and of itself because… 2) people are so utterly clueless when it comes to analytics it drives me mad… the foul put a 62% FT shooter at the line in a 1 and 1 situation down 1 pt and also likely deprived Houston of the last shot (barring an offensive board on a FT miss)… no one with even a rudimentary understanding of expected points per trip for both Houston and then Duke under these specific circumstances would make this call out to be “the game”… fun fact if I’m not mistaken - Todd Golden intentionally has his guys foul in that exact same situation that Flagg fouled in at the end of first halves if other team in 1 and 1 (and fouling a 62% shooter is a plus) because of analytics around expected points for both teams in that spot… he wants the last shot (and yes I undertstand it’s not the exact same thing for various reasons). [/QUOTE]

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