Deadspin investigates the Tom Crean huddle incident with a lip-reader

Good times

February 27, 2013 at 9:45PM

We briefly touched on the Tom Crean huddle mystery this morning -- did the Indiana coach instruct his players to flop at the faintest hint of an elbow late in Tuesday's Gophers game? -- but Deadspin, as the site is wont to do, has taken it a step further: they enlisted the help of a lip-reader since there is no audio to go with the video (below).

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Here is what Deadspin's lip-reader caught:

Try to get a foul coming off—(obscured)
That's his arm. (obscured) It all (hooks?) up on this. (obscured)
Five, (stand?), grab, foul!

Again, inconclusive -- like trying to watch scrambled, ah, channels back in the day. But still interesting -- particularly in light of the Cody Zeller incident a few weeks back. And, well, this obvious video that shows Andre Hollins didn't come close to touching Will Sheehey despite his best acting efforts shortly after Crean's sideline lesson.

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Michael Rand is the Minnesota Star Tribune's Digital Sports Senior Writer and host/creator of the Daily Delivery podcast. In 25 years covering Minnesota sports at the Minnesota Star Tribune, he has seen just about everything (except, of course, a Vikings Super Bowl).

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