{"id":780,"date":"2008-04-05T21:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T03:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=780"},"modified":"2008-04-05T21:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T03:00:32","slug":"does-anyone-know-how-to-play-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Does anyone know how to play basketball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s appalling how bad the quality of play in the Final Four can be.  Kansas almost blew a 28-point lead tonight.  The reason?  They started rushing their shots, not using up the clock and taking wild low-percentage three-point shots.  NC closed the gap but then blew their chance.  Why?  Because after a long period of sterling play, they got sloppy, started taking three pointers they didn&#8217;t need, started rushing their plays.  Down 28 points, they kept their cool.  Down five, they panicked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s appalling how bad the quality of play in the Final Four can be. Kansas almost blew a 28-point lead tonight. The reason? They started rushing their shots, not using up the clock and taking wild low-percentage three-point shots. NC closed the gap but then blew their chance. Why? Because after a long period of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does anyone know how to play basketball?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-cA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}