Comments on: Other People: Rockets Aftermath http://www.48minutesofhell.com/2009/03/23/other-people-rockets-aftermath/ A San Antonio Spurs Blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:11:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: VI_Massive http://www.48minutesofhell.com/2009/03/23/other-people-rockets-aftermath/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 VI_Massive Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:16:34 +0000 http://www.48minutesofhell.com/?p=1576#comment-1767 That Yao-Scola play at the end of the game wasn't Timmy's fault. Parker and Thomas went to double Brooks and he passed to Yao but no one rotated over to Yao and Timmy was left on an island between his man (Scola) and a wide open Yao. He thought Yao would shoot and made a move to contest the shot, leaving Scola open for the lay-in. It was probably Thomas' error, but after the game TD took the blame, though looking at his face you could tell he knew it wasn't his fault. Just one more example of why TD is what Bill Simmons called "the greatest teammate ever". There wasn't even a moment where he thought about blaming anyone else, even though he would have been correct. Until the OKC game, it seemed like the Spurs of the past few years have always made the right plays at the end of tight games. If we were tied near the end of a close game, I was always confident we would pull it out and my confidence was almost always validated. I guess you have to think these things even out eventually and its certainly better to have crunch time brain farts in semi-important regular season games than crucial postseason ones, but it sucks to see this happen at the end of three close games in a row. That Yao-Scola play at the end of the game wasn’t Timmy’s fault. Parker and Thomas went to double Brooks and he passed to Yao but no one rotated over to Yao and Timmy was left on an island between his man (Scola) and a wide open Yao. He thought Yao would shoot and made a move to contest the shot, leaving Scola open for the lay-in. It was probably Thomas’ error, but after the game TD took the blame, though looking at his face you could tell he knew it wasn’t his fault. Just one more example of why TD is what Bill Simmons called “the greatest teammate ever”. There wasn’t even a moment where he thought about blaming anyone else, even though he would have been correct.

Until the OKC game, it seemed like the Spurs of the past few years have always made the right plays at the end of tight games. If we were tied near the end of a close game, I was always confident we would pull it out and my confidence was almost always validated. I guess you have to think these things even out eventually and its certainly better to have crunch time brain farts in semi-important regular season games than crucial postseason ones, but it sucks to see this happen at the end of three close games in a row.

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