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Message: [QUOTE="connie, post: 2598271, member: 7882"] Ok. Now I'll try. The missed FT was purposeful and intended to have a predictable outcome. As far as I am concerned, under the circumstances it was within the spirit of the game, sporting, honorable, and [I]far [/I]more important than merely breaking a record. That moment made everyone who witnessed it better, even if only in some small, incomplete way. As for "artistic" . . . what you describe as individual talent combined into a team concept (like a jazz band) becomes a less effective metaphor and conceptual framework when taking given isolated moments during the game. It is difficult to imagine anything particularly "artistic" in [I]this [/I]sense in standing at the line shooting a FT (this is [I]not [/I]to say that the manner in which a player may [I]shoot [/I]a FT is not aesthetically pleasing to watch; but that is not what I take the description to mean). As for the "competitive way the game of basketball is intended to be played" . . . I don't accept that characterization if it is intended to foreclose upon moments like the one at issue, or for that matter other moments. I mean, UConn almost always dribbles out the final seconds of a game firmly in hand (opting to [I]not [/I]"try and make every shot"). Those final 10 seconds plainly cannot satisfy the "competitiveness" standard proposed. So, either the team regularly violates the "purity of the way the game is played", or (more likely) there is something incomplete with the definition. [/QUOTE]

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