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The first day of the NBA playoffs breathed new life into an age-old question of basketball philosophy: When is the wrong time to call a timeout?
Every coach would take a scenario in which his team has the ball at the end of a close game with enough time on the clock to get one shot to win. But first the coach has to decide whether he should ask for a timeout. It’s a critical mental calculus, and it happens so often in the playoffs…