Peacedog
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That's ok, brutha, I'm not looking for help. The casual fan looks at a critical play at a critical juncture and thinks, "damn, I wish we had our challenge!" But every play is critical and alters how critical future plays become. It is FAR more important to WIN challenges than it is to have that challenge available at the "critical" point in the game. Last night, JBB made the right call at the right time because his challenge took a basket AND a likely free throw off the board for Milwaukee. Imagine how tight the game would have been the rest of the game of you add 3 points to Milwaukee's score? That Connaughton three that pulled the Bucks within 5 with 2:21 to play? Now, it's a 2 point game, and maybe things transpire differently from there. Coming away from this game with a take that the coaching staff screwed up by taking 3 points off Milwaukee's score in the 2nd quarter strikes me as a bizarre take, sorry.@Peacedog if you think a challenge is simply about the math, then I can't really help you . However I'll explain my point. When you are up 22 early in the game, challenging and winning has little to no impact on the out come.
When the game is in the 4th and the team is on a run, and a play comes up that you can challenge and win, it not only changes the score, it can be a momentum killer. Or it's just the type of reverseal that can get the team going . There is a lot more nuance to it them simply math.
I get that mine is not the standard take. That's fine. But if I have to choose between taking my challenge in the 2nd quarter when it looks like we've got a 95% chance of it being overturned or late in the game, when it's 50:50, or less? I'm going with the 95% option.
My bigger concern is we seem to have one player (KLove) who seems to put the most pressure on the staff to challenge calls. They need to "filter" his requests some. But last night, he was right.