Imagine a tournament game where your best shooter is cold as ice. The player of the year plays limited minutes and eventually fouls out. Your team shoots an anemic 10% on 20 attempts from the outside. And over the course of 40 minutes, you trail in 37 of those minutes. It does not take a lot of imagination to realize that this game is not going to be a good one for you.
However, with the same imagination – what if you were still in the game with a shot, in spite of the fact that you played that poorly?