Smart Foul with 12 seconds left/5 seconds on shot clock

[BudweiserCeltic]

Udoka's words were: "when coming out of the huddle I let the guys know, no fouls". That's after saying there was no strategy to foul and there wasn't supposed to be a foul.

That's not, some guys came up to me after the huddle was over and I let them know not to foul

That's not I let some guys know and others not after the huddle was over

That's when coming out of the huddle, like just before they were breaking up, that he let the guys know, all the guys.

He then went on to take blame and take the heat off Smart for not doing what he told the guys.

This is the quote on the OP:

"Feel the guys asked me coming out of timeout, I let them know. Just a mistake there."

So he "feels" guys asked him coming out of the timeout, that to me tells me outside the huddle, players on the floor potentially... they, whomever these guys are, asked him and he answered.

[ozgod]

Personally, I think it was just a brain fade by Smartacus. No different from the others he's had, where he's taken an impulse 3 with 20 sec to go in the game, or chucked the ball up to try to get a foul, or tried to steal the ball from the inbounds. He makes impulse decisions and sometimes they come off, sometimes they don't. In this case he decided in the moment he was going to foul him, probably because his gut was telling him to at the time. I don't think there's really anything more to it that than. That's just the way he plays. Take the good with the bad. 

[BudweiserCeltic]

Personally, I think it was just a brain fade by Smartacus. No different from the others he's had, where he's taken an impulse 3 with 20 sec to go in the game, or chucked the ball up to try to get a foul, or tried to steal the ball from the inbounds. He makes impulse decisions and sometimes they come off, sometimes they don't. In this case he decided in the moment he was going to foul him, probably because his gut was telling him to at the time. I don't think there's really anything more to it that than. That's just the way he plays. Take the good with the bad. 

The coach's lack of communication and Smart's brain fart aren't mutually exclusive, I think is the point many are making.