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Originally Posted by adubroff
My one issue is that he didn't try to gain an advantage given that he's gonna commit a foul. He could have had the kid set hack for a steal or set a hard moving screen. Maybe they wouldn't have called it. Most likely they would but you risk nothing really.
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He could also go for a steal, miss, and leave his team defending 4-on-5 for a moment. Once the lineup mistake is made, the objective is to get that kid off the floor as soon as humanly possible. The way they ended up doing it, absolutely nothing could go wrong for Kentucky. No chance for mistakes, no chance for injury, no chance for any time to run off the clock with the wrong guy on the floor... nothing.
Now, if it's a kid who's played in 10 or 15 games, or if it's your team's 8th or 9th man, maybe you give him more freedom to make a play, but it's someone who's pretty much never played. Without any significant game experience, the safest move is to just commit a quick, obvious foul and get off the floor.