For a change of pace, I'd like to thank Phil Pressey.

He played a great game. Well, all but the last 3 minutes. I'd like to thank him though because he has given me the opportunity to teach my son a lot about the game of basketball. Such things as:

1. Don't try to do it all yourself in the final 3:20 of a game. Involve your team mates because when you try to do it all yourself, it's bound to fail.

2. Try to go straight up with your shot. Falling toward the baseline usually doesn't lead to success.

3. Don't take crazy, fade away jumpers from beyond the elbow when you have 2:47 left in OT and 20 seconds left on the shot clock and the game tied. Odds are you can run some offense and find a better shot. Taking a stupid shot like that tends to give momentum to the other team.

4. When the game is tied in OT and there is 50 seconds left in the game and 23 seconds on the shot clock, don't start to take a stupid 3 point shot, realize how stupid you are while you're in mid-air and throw the ball away because your dumb arse had no other options, having been caught in mid-air. Usually, doing so leads to the other team getting a fast break and taking the lead.

5. Even when you do make a floater with 43 seconds left, again, you might need to involve your team mates to be successful.

6. When you do find yourself behind in a game, it's smart to keep your head. Don't just fire up a shot just to fire up a shot when you have 37.3 seconds left. Work with a sense of urgency but yet smart.

7. Basically, when your in the last few minutes of a game, with the game on the line, that's the time to be a leader, to be smart, to play with your head on your shoulders. It's not the time to play with a 2nd grader mentality and try to be a one man show, taking one ill advised shot after another, refusing to involve your team mates.

I truly would like to thank Phil for giving me the opportunity to teach my son about how the game should be played. We have already watched and re-watched the OT of this game countless times, seeing how things shouldn't be done. How not to react to pressure.

Now, if I could make a request of Phil. Please stop giving me game tape to use to teach my son how NOT to finish a game. We have plenty of it this year. You have done your job as a teacher. Now you can play like the leader you are supposed to be and go out and win some games instead of being a one man wrecking crew at the end of tight games.