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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 2135639, member: 1220"] People/Players/coaches, etc are not robots. They do not operate on the same level of efficiency every day. In fact seems to resemble a sliding scale. You have your top end and low end and variables in between. While some people tend to be less consistent than others the generally applies to everyone. This is especially more noticeable in basketball than other sports. Even the best and most consistent players in the history of the game can have off shooting nights. Since teams are comprised of people it applies to teams as well. Any good team can be beaten by a sightly lesser team under the right circumstances. There are just to many variables involved in the game of basketball to expect consistent outcomes. It all depends on where on the sliding scale team A is operating compared to the sliding scale of team B on any given night. The factors that dictate where on " the sliding scale " a team operates on any given night is dictated by different variables. Being a sum of it's parts it is influenced by the certain variable factors of it's individual pieces. Players can not be feeling 100% either physically, emotionally or mentally on any given night. You can't, or never should, evaluate a player based on a limited amount of games. Playing twice a week for a limited amount of time does not give a true evaluation. To many factors and variables involved. Depth is the best mitigating factor in respect to player variables. The off games by key players can be mitigated by other players who can take up the slack. Lack of depth is an important factor that increases the on of the negative influences of timing ( key players having an off game ). Of course players on the opposing team having A games is also a factor. Fans tend to view sports emotionally and ignore reason and objectivity. How many fans ever remember playing in a game when it just wasn't there. Days when shots are just not dropping or days when you are feeling physically or emotionally off? All these things are variables that contribute to outcomes. Then you can also add external variables like officiating. The bottom line is that MS had a team that matched up well with UConn and all they needed was certain other factors to fall into place. They were a good enough team and playing well enough that not that many pieces were required to fall into place. I always say that basketball , more than any other sport is a game where outcomes are decided by Match ups and Timing. MS had the Match up factor covered and so all the needed was the Timing variables to fall into place. It was obvious that enough did. [/QUOTE]

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