VIDEO: Paul Pierce misses wide-open, game-tying 3-point attempt

He must not have called game.

That, or the Atlanta Hawks actually left Paul Pierce a little too open late in Game 4 on Monday.

Trailing by as many as 14 points overall and as many as 10 in the fourth quarter, the Washington Wizards cut the Hawks' lead to three points with 36 seconds to play. The Wizards got a huge stop when Bradley Beal blocked Dennis Schroder, giving the Wizards possession coming out of a timeout with nine seconds to play.

Wizards head coach Randy Wittman has been masterful in drawing up offensive plays out of timeouts in the playoffs, and this one was no different, with a series of hard screens freeing Pierce for a wide-open look.

That was ... unexpected.

Coming off a huge buzzer-beater to win Game 3 on Saturday, just about everybody thought Pierce's clean look would drop. After all, as Pierce would tell you, he's been doing this for a minute. Clutch is what The Truth does and it's why he's here.

Maybe that's been the strategy to employ all along: leave Pierce so open that he overthinks it. Or clutch shooting is random, and it's just a single, poorly timed miss. He'll get another chance if the game's on the line in Game 5, 6 or 7.