Sam Vincent, the worst NBA coach ever, told Matt Carroll to deliberately miss a FT where his team was up (by small margin 2 or 3 points). The "reason" was to cut off a second or so from the time the opponent would have for his last attack. Of course it was utter nonsense. But even things like this happen. So all of you don't complain so hard if strange play in crunch time happen, just think to yourself you've got Sam coaching.