I kinda get what he was trying to do, which was show he could play. As things unwound he kept thinking, "When I drill this it will all be okay."
Once, coaching a pretty bad highschool team, I almost ended this UCLA like winning streak of this great team, when their coach concerned about running up the score played his bench the whole 2nd half. They maintained a comfortable 20+ lead until the very end when we made a few of those new-fangled 3pointer things in a row, then a terrible call against them , followed by a terrible technical foul call, we had a shot at the buzzer to win, but didn't.