Game Blog: Spurs @ Blazers - March 25

Portland Trailblazers 98, San Antonio Spurs 96: A perfect storm of errors
by Jesse Blanchard
48 Minutes of Hell

You know how Kobe Bryant can take so many bad shots at the end of games, but the ones he hits are so spectacular people tend to forget the many more he misses, while the heroics are forever etched in their minds? Well this was the complete opposite of that.

There was quite a bit of positive to take from this Spurs game, especially in the fourth quarter, that no one will remember because the San Antonio Spurs botched things so spectacularly bad down the stretch.

Call it the anti-Kobe clutch theory. Sean Elliott called it a perfect storm of errors. That’s what it took for the Spurs string of misery to continue in Portland even after outshooting the Blazers, almost drawing even on the boards, and holding LaMarcus Aldridge to 14 points.

Three turnovers in the last minute, all leading to points quick points for the Blazers. The final one with less than a second left on a botched inbounds pass that setup a brilliant alley-oop pass from Andre Miller to Nicolas Batum that, again, displayed terrible execution from the Spurs.

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This should've been a Spurs win, but a series of turnovers in the last seconds just ruined the game.

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Loss in Portland was a bait and switch
Jeff McDonald

...“We said we were going to switch everything, but there was not really a pick,” Parker said. “You can say ‘if’ until the end of the world. It was just a great play for Portland.”

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http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursna...it-and-switch/

“We just have to move on,” Parker said.

As a fan im struggling to let it go. Awful way to lose. Saw glimpses of this in the Dallas game. Teams leaders in Manu and Tony thought they already had it sewn up and got complacent. For an exprienced team and the coach, you can only hope it's a wake-up call.

Pop's lack of faith in Splitter for second halfs of games after playing great first halfs is getting ridiculous. Finishing off with Novak on the in-bounds play is over-coaching.

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Originally Posted by Mugen

man up, SpurFan.

we're only going to lose by 2.

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crofl what a shitty prediction.