To be honest, I'd be a hypocrite to bemoan the occasional use of a white lie. Nothing J.R. Smith said was going to undo what was undoubtedly one of stupidest plays in the history of sports, so tip-toeing past the obvious truth while trying to explain the inexplicable in a way that makes him look slightly better (more accurately, less worse) was pretty damn harmless. Unfortunately, the white lie in question was about as doomed an endeavor as taking the ball and sprinting in the complete opposite direction of the goal with the game on the line. A player flat out forgetting the score in such a foolish and fatal fashion is damn near unprecedented. Therefore, crafting your excuse around a hypothetical in which two players, from opposing teams, both forget the score at the exact same time probably isn't the most forgiving of escape route. I'm going to try to put it as simply as one possibly can while attempting to navigate the complicatedly uncomplicated mind of 'Swish'. If what we saw was his instinctual reaction to grabbing a rebound three feet from the basket while the time ticked down in an NBA Finals game that he knew to be tied then I'd be more concerned about his ability to read a play than I already was about his ability to read a scoreboard. I think it's fairly obvious that what we saw in that interview was a damned fool fabricating on the fly, but - as evidenced by the entire viewing audience reacting in consensus with someone as hated as Draymond Green - lying about something so stupid only stands to make you look dumber. Therefore, he was probably just better off piping down. Assuming, of course, that putting the pipe down was off the table.
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