I guess that's why they brought him there.

After taking Game 1 in Atlanta, Washington was cruising its way to a win and a 2-1 series lead in Game 3, until the Hawks came soaring back in the fourth quarter. The Wizards entered the frame with a commanding 85-66 lead over the top-seeded Hawks, but Atlanta's bench rallied behind some unlikely heroes in

It was a 27-foot three-pointer by Muscala with 14 seconds left that finally dragged the Hawks back to a 50% chance of winning the game (having not sniffed those kinds of odds since pulling to within three, down 14-17 with about four minutes left in the first frame).

That crazy shot is now all but forgotten and we won't remember this as the "Mike Muscala game," simply because The Truth did as The Truth does.

Our algorithms have stayed high on the Atlanta Hawks throughout their pedestrian playoff run, but Pierce's shot caused one of the biggest swings you can imagine (especially since the odds you are about to see assume called "game" and swung the series odds by a whopping 35.74% in doing so.