@lincase
Yes, I agree that 15 might have gotten the job done. And my heart is with the free the three movement.
But when we were in the lead +10, almost won at the buzzer, and lost by only 1, though we three-phisti might wish most for a trey being a solution, almost anything might have avoided our loss in Morgantown.
Two more made FTs.
One more offensive rebound with a stick back sometime earlier in the game.
One more made 3pta of the number we actually shot would have done the trick.
One stinking strip and runout would have done it.
Just two more foul calls on our inside treys and two more made FTs on those would have won the game.
One more miss by WVU.
One more turnover by WVU followed by a two point bucket.
When a coach gets you that close, whether or not we prefer he do it with the trey, Coach Self has to have been doing something right with a young team, without a dominant inside game, to and on the road against a coach that will probably be in the BHOF,
And this is why I am both able to explore a different way, but simultaneously say Coach Self’s approach makes sense, too, even though it sometimes takes me awhile to figure it out later.