Here is one of the harsh truths about sports:
Nothing is ever as easy as we want it to be.
Last week, for instance, an entire platoon of pained Mets fans watched Edwin Diaz surrender a game-losing home run to Kurt Suzuki on a 100 mph fastball and exclaimed, as one: “Why wouldn’t he use the slider?!” Two days later, taken deep by J.T. Realmuto on a slider to tie another game in the ninth, the same brigade exclaimed in exasperation: “WHY NOT THROW THE HEATER!?!?”
Our basketball teams always run the wrong plays.