Hypothetical questions intrigue me. They’re the ones that start with “What if …”, like “What if there was no such thing as a hypothetical question?”
The hypothetical question rolling around in my brain today concerns the Pittsburgh at Louisville basketball game on February 27. Watch the video and then I’ll tell you what I’m thinking.
By rule, when a non-player steps onto the court and flings the ball in the air, the referee can call a technical foul. Pittsburgh’s Aston Gibbs made the resulting two free throws and the game ended in a 62-59 Louisville victory in overtime.
I checked the Las Vegas betting odds (for entertainment purposes only!) and Pitt was getting 1.5 points. Here’s the “What if.”
If the score was 60-59 (instead of 60-57) when the Pitt player missed that easy shot and the Louisville player made the dunk shot, then the score would have been 62-59 – a three-point spread – and the pro-Louisville bettors would be winning with only three-tenths of a second to play. BUT, when the cheerleader flings the ball in the air and Gibbs makes his two free throws, then the final score would have been 62-61, and those pro-Louisville bettors would have gone from sudden winners to sudden losers.
A person who enjoys living should not do certain things, like wear a suit made of meat in a lion’s cage, sleep on railroad tracks, or make Vegas bettors sudden losers.
The moral of this story is: If you do nothing for three-tenths of a second, that nothing could save your life.
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