Originally Posted by
greybeard
The last plays:
1. Did Love walk? He pivoted on his right foot, planted his left foot father from the basket, lifted his right foot, leaned back and shot. Is that a walk, or is this the same move Green did in UNC last year that Feldspar said was a good play?
2. Was there a moving pick by Love on UCLA's final basket?
3. Did the ms kid get hit on the back of the wrist on the shot to tie?
If two of those three calls go the other way, and imo, no question but that 1 and 3 could have and 3 definitely should have, would Duke or UCLA have had the more successful season?
I can only answer 3 (and by MS, I assume you mean Texas A&M) - there was a great picture on the cover of the sports page of the LA Times this morning of Sloan's driving attempt at the end with Josh Shipp's hand wrapped firmly around Sloan's wrist. So short answer, yes - he got hacked.
That said, I was at the game yesterday, and could not have been more impressed with Kevin Love. During the last 10 minutes of the game, he was unstoppable on both offense and defense. A&M's forwards (who are pretty good scorers down low) kept going at him in the post, and he kept sending them away. Plus, as soon as he gets a finger on a loose ball, he doesn't let it go - a whole lot of scrums ended up with the ball wrapped up in Love's hands. And the shot he hit to take the lead (I think item #1 in greybeard's post) was just a huge, huge shot, walk or no walk. Those people in Love's camp for NPOY can cite yesterday's game as an example - he was an absolute force on both ends of the court.
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