First and foremost, let me just say there is no way a game should even have the potential to be decided by a stuffed animal falling damn near a day late and a half-dozen feet short of impacting the outcome of a free throw that had already begun rimming out. Fans throwing crap on the court is quite obviously inexcusable, but issuing a technical in the instance of an inanimate cuddle buddy tumbling harmlessly to the hardwood with under a second left in a tie game is both figuratively and literally too soft for my liking. Fuck the rulebook. Student-athletes have enough of an exhausting workload without being held responsible for the shit-faced shenanigans of their peers, especially when said shenanigans end up being entirely inconsequential to the hard fought athletic competition they targeted. Now, with that out of the way, it's time to address how terribly miscalculated and inaccurate they teddy bear toss was. Honestly, that was such a pathetic crack at distracting an opposing player that penalizing it almost seems like giving it too much credit. That kid doesn't even deserve the 15 seconds of infamy that come along with potentially costing his school an in-conference game. Wasting his ammo on the first two free throws? Short-arming it with the precision on a kinked garden hose? Displaying the type of timing fitting of an 100 pound freshman stumbling to the plate during the 9th inning of dizzy bat? Like a woman silently walking away from a nauseatingly corny pick-up line, that attempt at interruption/intimidation was so embarrassing that it shouldn't even have been granted the time of day, much less what was conceivably a game-deciding technical. It's bullshit that we'll never know whether Quinndary Weatherspoon would have punctuated his career night by knocking down the game-winning free throw he was already due if not for the sense of security provided by the plushy gift of a third free throw that he went on to miss. However, it's an absolute injustice that some drunk dumbass more than likely got escorted from the building thinking his weak ass arm was powerful enough to impact the outcome, be it positively or negatively, of a college basketball game.
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