There was no foul on the last shot, the Drake bench never even reacted. Much more contact on Coffey on the steal than anything on that 3 (looked like no contact at all).
This was just a horrific game and I am going to direct my criticism towards Pitino first since the effort and body language of the players has been discussed thoroughly. I have no idea what type of "offense" this team is running. Drake was able to get a number of open looks from the 3 out of their offense, and the play by play guy on BTN was correctly pointing out that they were running good stuff. You know what he pointed out exactly once? Minnesota running something nice. The vast majority of the game consisted of few passes on the offensive end and even fewer good looks despite the competition. Look back at the second half and the number of tough shots Amir Coffey made. There was no "offense" there, It was just Amir going one on one and usually ending up with a difficult look. A lot of Murphy's buckets were the same way, and we already know the moves where Jordan takes more than a dribble are WAY less effective against high major teams than they are against the mid and low majors. How about some simple stuff that should be the focus of practice? Dupree (and to a lesser extent Nate Mason and Amir Coffey) dribble inside the 3 point line to take long two point shots. These are the worst shots in basketball, yet we have multiple guys seeking them out. In the first half we had at least two possessions end with one pass or less (in the front court at least) with a guy taking a long two. This was a weakness of Dupree and Nate in the past, and it hasn't been corrected at all this season. These long twos are almost always missed and it's a pretty simple thing to limit in your offense. What about the bigs? Reggie Lynch continues to bring the ball down to his waist (or seemingly lower) every time he has the ball in the paint. This resulted in numerous strips, at least one block, and a lot of empty possessions. It's not a new thing with Reggie either...keep the ball high. Can we see something resembling a half court offense that involves MORE movement both movement of players and movement of the ball?
Defensively, so much of it is effort and Dupree (though he had a terrible first half offensively) was one of the few really getting after it on that end of the court. Isaiah might have the worst body language on the team, but to me it starts with the Seniors Nate Mason and Reggie Lynch. Nate's not been playing well on the defensive end of the court for much of the season and was noticeably frustrated and didn't hustle back after he missed a 3 tonight. Reggie reaction is to smile and laugh when he gets called for one of his unnecessary fouls. He was on the bench SMILING when got his 3rd foul to open the second half against Arkansas. When he had the terrible unnecessary 4th foul against MTSU in the NCAA and Pitino was irate, the on court audio caught Reggie telling coach to "calm down" like he didn't just make a horrific decision in the most important game of the year. I won't ask Reggie to walk around with the demeanor of an Anthony Mason or Charles Oakley, because that's clearly not his nature but his body language as a Senior should be better than this. We can't ask Isaiah to act in a manner that are Seniors don't, and right now that bad body language is coming from all areas of the team.
This would have been a loss without some spectacular individual offensive plays from Coffey and Murphy late, especially Murphy's O-board and put back and 1 in a one possession game. That came off a good look from Dupree in the corner and I am sure I wasn't the only one who was breathing a huge sigh of relief when Murphy corralled that miss and got a bucket.
Hopefully the long break without a game will allow this team to get back on track. There's major issues on both ends of the court and a ton of work to do.