Former Western Kentucky Hilltopper star Courtney Lee has scored close to 800 points (regular season and playoffs) in his NBA career. At Western he averaged 17.6 points and scored more than 2200 in his career. But it's the two points he didn't make on Sunday night that may haunt him forever.

With the scored tied at 88 and 0.6 seconds left on the clock Lee had a chance to even up the Orlando Magic series with the Lakers. But instead of being a hero Lee turned out to be the goat. He missed an alley-oop lay-up to win the game and the Lakers went on to win in overtime and take control of the series. For a guy who has scored so many points on the hardwood to miss that critical of a shot is kind of unbelievable. Lee has to make that shot. I don't care if he is a rookie. I don't care if the timing was off on the pass. He had a look to win the game and blew it.

Those in Lee's corner will say he was partially under the backboard when he caught it. They'll say the pass was off a little bit. They'll even try to make the argument Pau Gasol should have been called for goaltending for getting his fingers caught in the net and rim. I say cry me a river. Lee is a professional. He's one of the best players in the world. He's hit big shots before. He's supposed to make that one.

It was a perfectly drawn up play by magic coach Stan Van Gundy and Lee blew it. As Van Gundy said after the game, "We executed well. Hedo made a great pass and we missed it. I don't really know. I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt. I just don't know what else to say about it. It was a great pass. He was right there and he missed it." That's about it all right. Lee missed it but in all honesty if the Magic are to win the series he had to make that shot.