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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 5215471, member: 37"] I wrote the following: [I]He went for the blocked shot and left his man wide open because he didn’t calculate the ball would be tipped to his player. Typically he would have run recklessly towards the shooter and fouled. The alternative was to avoid this.[/I] Where do I say allowing your player to make an uncontested three is a good play. The statement I made is that he didn't compound his decision to go after the ball by fouling the shooter once he realized what was happening. We can debate Ross choice of going after the ball. Was it the correct play. Retrospectively it's obvious it wasn't. However if that ball wasn't tipped to Ross player (a very heads up offensive play) and Seton Hall somehow recovered the ball and scored that would have made the choice to stay with his player the wrong choice. We have the luxury of watching the birds eye view of the game in progress and picking apart the plays that have negative impacts. Mahaney's pass to Ross that went out of bounds was a bang bang play where Ross chose to cut towards Mahaney instead of staying put. It was the correct choice given the angle Ross was at relative to where Mahaney was trapped. There is no way Mahaney could have anticipated that move given it happened a millisecond prior to his decision to throw to the corner. The same with Stewart's pass to Alex, although the reaction time was slightly slower - perhaps 3 milliseconds after Alex made his move. Personally I had wished Ross stayed glued to his man. Not because it's the right choice. But because the group think in this forum is to be hypercritical of him and overweigh his mistakes and ignore or not comment about things he does well. Most of us can take a lesson from how auror discusses plays. He avoids the emotional entanglement most of us fall victim to in evaluating games, plays, players and coaches. The overwhelming majority of posters here and in other forums can't help but want to put down individuals. Critiquing is one thing. But we more often than not want to give payback and hurt someone with our writing. We blame, deride, and write off our own players far too frequently. It's a weakness far greater than any players inability to act correctly. They have to react immediately. We have the choice to get control of our emotions before spewing so much derision and hate. [/QUOTE]

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