In that situation, you want to hold onto the ball and get fouled. Not throw a high risk pass up to the worst FT shooter on the team :-)

Tremendous poor IQ play, but it worked out as well as it possibly could have.
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Why wouldn't he? Paul had 0 chance to stopping that dunk and compounds it with a senseless foul.
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Late game turnovers are just killing the Suns. So disheartening.
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Series. Over.
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That was not terribly smart either, but at least I get why he was trying to do. He was just too small and too late to do anything about it.
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Not if Giannis tests positive for Covid tomorrow.
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Series is over and I fully expect a blowout in Game 6
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He also might be the worst FT shooter period since Shaq (although his form is way better, so it's puzzling)
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True, but he cost them a game and was horrible at the line in the 97 finals
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:-) So does Ben Simmons just not exist or...
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It was a gimme 2 points...easy. you act like it was a oop to a 6 2 white boy :-)
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Will be great seeing a vaccinated, asymptomatic Giannis sitting out the last two games of the Finals for reasons that remain unclear.
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Lol true
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Yeah, and it happens within a second of desperation. I agree the dumber play was getting the turnover and throwing it over the top to Giannis like that.... that's much more of a "know the situation" play than having to turn and determine if you have any chance at preventing that shot/dunk from going in.
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If you think alley oops passes are gimmes, I don’t know what to tell you. Even NBA players fuck them up all the time. It was a completely needless risk to take up 1 with 10 seconds left but he executed it and it worked out. Good for him.
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