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USC Trojans coach Eric Musselman discusses the last minute in the game against Oregon. Musselman talks about how they turned the ball over, but he also mentions that there were some fouls not called. He emphasized that it was not meant to be for them to win.
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00:00Coach, obviously a tough loss.
00:01Can you walk us through that last minute?
00:03You had three timeouts left, and it just seemed like I don't know what to say.
00:08Yeah, well, I mean, the only timeout I would have called would have been, you know,
00:13when Elijah brought the ball up the floor.
00:15With Chad being out of the game and Ezra being out of the game,
00:18I thought playing out of the flow would be much better than a play designed.
00:24Obviously, we want to get a shot on goal, and we want to try to get a free throw attempt,
00:27and we turned the ball over.
00:30And so Oregon, give them credit, they swarmed him at half court
00:34or two steps beyond half court, and we didn't get a good look.
00:38But I have gone back and looked at film.
00:43Biddle two-hand shoves Ryan Cornish.
00:46Should have definitely been two free throws with around 50 seconds.
00:51Ezra on the foul where there was a dribble drive, Ezra actually puts his hands.
00:57I don't know why he did it, but he puts his hands behind his back, and it was an and
01:02-one call.
01:03So, look, give Oregon credit.
01:05We can't, you know, play at home with everything that's at stake
01:10and go back and look at, you know, two fouls inside of, you know,
01:16that were in crunch time the last minute, minute and a half of the game.
01:18But, I mean, there's two clear calls that didn't go our way.
01:22And then you add in, you know, the three to four buzzer-beating shot clock shots.
01:29And it wasn't meant to be for us tonight.
01:33When teams hit those shots at the end of, you know,
01:37you play for a full shot clock defensively,
01:40and then, you know, the ball's literally leaving a player's hands,
01:43and they get shots up.
01:45So,
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