re: Another Look at the Game Winning Shot (In Pictures)

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Everyone notices Patterson's reaction. The reason is that the play was clearly set up for him. Gray should have never taken so long to make his move. It threw the timing off. The play was for him to get into the lane (as he had all game) and either A. get to the basket or B. suck Harris in for a kick to a wide open Patterson who was 6-8 from deep at that point. Gray got caught up in traffic on a poor play by him (waiting to long to initiate) and Hornsby's savvy bailed him out

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The play wasn't set up for Patterson. The play was set to have multiple options.

TQ's motion around the top was would force Arkansas to switch or go through the fake handoff and also creates space for your 2 best shooters in the short corners.

Now our coaches/players might have thought Gray would easily penetrate and weak side help would leave Patterson open, but Arkansas triple teamed Gray and he made the right play to get it to the open shooter.

The play didn't take too long to initiate, you want to have the last shot in a tie game.