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Originally Posted by guccilvr
Fuck.
That was one of the best games I've seen in a LONG time. Feel free to use dukesucks as your password from now on dj. 
Now I just have to hope that Coach K is smart enough to say no to the NJ Nets at the price of $12-$15m/season |
All praise to Duke. They deserved to win the game as much as Butler did. That said, I will now go light myself on fire.
But seriously, I think if Butler doesn't spend most of the last eight minutes focusing almost solely on fouling-out Zoubek, that games looks a lot different.
Didn't help that the biggest call of the whole game was blown: the charge Zoubek took that was an obvious block, keeping him from fouling out and taking two points off the board (and a shot at the and-one) in a game that ended up a two-point difference. But this isn't a blame-the-refs situation; they were even through the game and both sides had questionable calls go both ways as well as plenty of chances to change the outcome.
I wish that shot had fallen, but Hollywood doesn't extend to the real world often enough, and Butler getting to the point of needing that shot to drop used up more of the movie magic than most would ever get to use.