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So in case you're scoring at home, in the last five minutes, he scored 12 points on 4-4 shooting plus 3-3 from the line, and assisted two other baskets. And the team as a whole scored 19 points in 10 possessions, which is extraordinarily good. Maybe he did try to win it himself, but he did an awfully good job of doing so, don't you think?[/QUOTE]
No. I don't think that a guy who occupies the ball to the exclusion of his teammates does a pretty good job of anything except feeding his ego. You say that Greivas took and missed a number of improvident shots earlier in the game but scored the ball down the stretch well. What I heard him say in a replay of an after the game comment was that he had gotten carried away in trying to win it by himself and blew it. He apologized to his teammates for it.
Making ego-driven poor choices in big games because your coach "trusts" you is a betrayal of your teammates. I don't care how often you might let them do their thing at other times. You covet the moment to the detriment of making the play that reason dictates you are a loose cannon, not to be celebrated with an award such as this, in my view. MJ passed the damn thing to Kerr and Paxton to win two different championships. Gave each the last shot. One of them had been off the entire game (I think it was Paxton). Greivas never does that.
Greivas is celebrated for his performance against Duke that lead to the victory. The winning shot was a terrible one that happened to go in. Stars should be made of better stuff. That's just my view. I understand yours. That's what makes ball games.
Finally, while Greivas is an incredibly winsome personality and an extraordinary showman, I do not think that there is a single coach who had a team that went deep into the tournament who would chose him for their team. Not one. Gary did not go deep. He lived by the sword and died by it.
Oh, one other thing, I forget for a second, who won the three point contest last night. Oh, Greivas's backcourt mate the last four years. Tell me that the guy wasn't open down the stretch. I dare you.