4 point lead...
Defense: we get blown by so someone steps in under the layup to try and take a charge. Nope. Only turned a layup into an and 1. Now a 1 point lead.
Offense: miss the shot
Defense: switch on a high ball screen your big man onto their PG. Goes exactly how ya might deduce, foul. Makes both FTs. Now down 1 point.
Offense: 3 guys stand around doing nothing while Small and Garrison do-si-do around with defenders trying to get free off a screen for 23 seconds. Then everyone panics and scatters around, all we get off is a step back contested 3 that...surprise...misses. And at that moment the game was over.
So much absolute idiocy down the stretch. You think I'd be numb to it by now, but it still angers me, albeit much less than before. Like someone else said it's total apathy. I only turn the game on for background noise. I know we won't make the tourney and sadly I don't care, because we've been so long without any success in it that the tourney as a whole is dead to me now. I hope we can find an answer in enough time for my kids to experience even just a shred of the excitement that was Cowboy basketball when I was growing up, but I'm sure not expecting it.
