Veteran Championship defense at end of game

[Fabbs]

Duncan puts back the Bowen missed trey for 94-93 Utah by 1.

17.4 seconds left clock stopped.
Inbounds play.
We're gonna foul, right?
AK-47 inbounds ball to Harping.
Bruce has him shadowed like BrokerBack Mtn.
Bruce makes some attempt to steal ball, makes zero attempt to foul.
Harping passes back to AK-47.

Horry is right on AK-47.
Not only does Horry not immediately foul, AK even takes one dribble and picks ball back up after Horry makes no attempt.
Passes to Okur.

Okur runs into the Spurs court and is finally ran down by GNob and fouled.
12.1 seconds.

Were Bowen and Horry playing for the steal? Obviously they were.
Is this veteran championship play?
Seems like a very wasted 5 seconds to me. You?
Pop was popping a vein on the sidelines.

I might add i thought of all the Jazz to foul, (and all those three are around 70-79%), Okurs confidence was the highest after the greasy bailout when Tony touched his stomach on his three-brick. 3 straight FTs, another trey.
I thought fouling Harping or AK was the better bet anyways in addition to time wasted.

[timvp]

Bowen or Horry should have fouled. No question.

[rednecksbasketball]

Pop was popping a vein on the sidelines.

I thought he was going to kill somebody, he was not happy at all.

[Mr. Body]

Not too worried. We need a higher draft pick in this year's draft, anyway.