After looking at the stats...

[TDfan2007]

...this game becomes even tougher to swallow. Take a look:

Spurs shoot 44%, Mavs shoot 38%

Spurs have 11 TOs, Mavs have 14

Tony Parker scores 43 and Tim has 25 10 and 7, whereas Dirk and JT combine for 22 points on 7-26 shooting.

All this and the Spurs lose. Why? Well these are a few things that stand out:

Spurs shoot a frigid 26% from Downtown, Mavs shoot 40%. Mavs make 10 FTs to our 6 giving them a 12 point advantage from downtown.

Spurs go 22-34 from the FT line (Tim goes 11-18, Tony 5-8 including two huge misses in the 4th)! Mavs go 33-39, an 11 point advantage.

Mason, Bonner, and Finley combine to go 2-14 for 7 points, including a number of RE ED offensive decisions by Bonner and Finley in the final two minutes.


I wish I drank...

[loveforthegame]

Sad thing about those 3s at the end by Finley and Bonner were clearly drawn up by Pop.

[kace]

You forgot the most important one: REBOUNDING.

+14 for the mavs, and above all + 8 offensive rebounds.

if we shot our FT at 80 %, which would have been good for the spurs, that's 5 more points.

The outrebounding probably costed us a 12 or 13 points differential.

[TDfan2007]

You forgot the most important one: REBOUNDING.

+14 for the mavs, and above all + 8 offensive rebounds.

if we shot our FT at 80 %, which would have been good for the spurs, that's 5 more points.

The outrebounding probably costed us a 12 or 13 points differential.

Good point. Completely forgot that. Tim had NO help on the boards. Way too much pressure on him to get every rebound.

[orantom]

we have only two stable score points, td and tony
without manu...