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George Karl Has An All-Star Game Flashback

February 19th, 2010 Sebastian Pruiti 5 comments

Remember that play at the end of the All-Star game where Stan Van Gundy tried to get LeBron James an open jumper at the top of the key?  Of course you do.  Well, as last night’s game went to it’s final possession, I was really interested to see how George Karl was going to defend it, since he was the coach of the Western Conference All-Star team, and last night was actually Karl’s second straight game where he had to defend LeBron late:

As the Cavs lined up, the play looked really familiar.  As a matter of fact, the play started the same was as the one from this past Sunday.

I don’t like tooting my horn (that’s a lie), but when I said the Cavs like to run this play late, little did I know that they were going to run it during their next game…against the same coach.  So back to last night:

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