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[quote author=MustardtheBallCarrier link=topic=13797.msg144448#msg144448 date=1448783282]
Shaw's decision to go into the turtle shell on the last two drives before the game-winner was maddening, but predictable. 

Trying to sit on a lead makes a certain amount of sense when the strength of your team is defense, but that is hardly the case this year.
However, it's in Shaw's DNA, so we might as well get used to it (as if we weren't already).
Hard to complain too much when you won the game, also.
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Those two late possessions were opportunities to stretch a 6-point lead. I was thinking back to the S,C, game when Stanford did stretch a 7-point lead back to a 10-point lead... Can anybody recall if there was a different approach by Shaw and Bloomgren, or merely a different result?

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[quote author=MustardtheBallCarrier link=topic=13797.msg144448#msg144448 date=1448783282]
Shaw's decision to go into the turtle shell on the last two drives before the game-winner was maddening, but predictable. 

Trying to sit on a lead makes a certain amount of sense when the strength of your team is defense, but that is hardly the case this year.
However, it's in Shaw's DNA, so we might as well get used to it (as if we weren't already).
Hard to complain too much when you won the game, also.
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Those two late possessions were opportunities to stretch a 6-point lead. I was thinking back to the S,C, game when Stanford did stretch a 7-point lead back to a 10-point lead... Can anybody recall if there was a different approach by Shaw and Bloomgren, or merely a different result?