that was an awesome shot regardless of what happened afterward.
, while we're on the subject of the Blazers
I can't see how the MDM shot ranks higher than Horry's 3 ball against the Pistons.
Had Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_ not hit the MDM shot, the series would've been tied 1-1 at that point. The Spurs went on to sweep the Blazers, so I think even if they dropped game 2 that year, they woulda won in 6 or so.
Had Horry missed his 3 ball against the Pistons in game, the Spurs would have one ring less than they do today. No question about it.
Glad I read through this thread little bit before I clicked on any links. I know the Duncan shot was on of the greatest ever, but 0.4 and its surrounding events is something I don't care to voluntarily re-live.
I remember game 5 vividly. LA had control most of the way and let SA back in. I couldn't believe it when Duncan made his shot, but when Fisher shot his, I knew it was going in when it left his hands. You watch enough basketball shots, you can tell.
A couple of notes....A non-call on Ginobili for yanking down either Fisher or Payton when Duncan's shot went in. Also, clock should have read 0.6, not 0.4. Fisher made it legally in 0.4 but doubt and denial still persist. 0.6 would have settled that.
Eventually, we will see something that will equal or top this. Hopefully, the team we root for is the one that benefits!
I actually didn't see 0.4 when it happened..Duncan made the shot, I flipped out, and I had to go upstairs to check on something, thinking the game would be over..I came back and I see replays of Fisher's shot, thinking "WTF?!"..
I hate the Lakers as much as any pro sports team, but I have a lot of respect for them..they've given us good battles..we got them in '99 and '03, and they got us in the other years..I always enjoy playing them, since it's the best test..unlike the Suns, who are just an embarrassment of a franchise..
wtf? did you really have to post that?
after that shot i had a moment where i hugged everyone around me a screamed like a girl... one of those times where it's allowable.
about 15 minutes later i was strewing together run on sentences consisting of nothing but profanity.
the blazers were crazy as all . with the amount of emotional players they had on that team, that shot was a slap they never recovered from. if we had won that game in another fashion, they might have gone back to portland energized and not in state of depression.
looks like amused doesn't know how to spell Elliott's name right
true. i went from giddy to furious in that game (esp. since fish and co. just left like nothing happened), and i still think that shaq and malone got away with murder for the series... but despite all that, the spurs played horrible, they got forced out of the paint and could only shoot 3s, they just didnt compete hard enough.
thats why it was karmic beauty when malone got hurt for the finals and detroit wiped the floor with them. many forget the pistons were very close to a sweep. the 4 hofers has to be one of the biggest failed experiments ever considering how the team exploded immediately.
Portland was the vastly superior team in talent to the Spurs that year, and they probably should have won game 1. Had they gone back to Portland with a 1-1 tie, heavy odds were they would have taken the series. Instead, the MDM completely obliterated them emotionally, and they went through the motions the rest of the way.
You'll never convince me, or a lot of other people, that Horry's shot was bigger than Sean's. The MDM is the shot that won four les for the Spurs, each of those years going through at least one team that had better talent. If the Spurs hadn't won that game, they are probably still looking for their first ring.
My favorite game 5. I was 19 at the time. Oh to be young again...
They got to the finals and possibly stopped a Spurs 3 peat.
my night would have been better had I never discovered this thread.
How dare you resurrect that monstrosity.
I'll never forget that 1 minute of life. It was like having a heart attack and then getting kicked in the bawls.
agreed 10 fold
Quick!!! Someone neuralize me!!! I don't want to remember that game.
I just can't separate that amazing shot from the gut wrenching play that came next. Still feels like a punch in the gut. Thanks for posting that Shoogar. What the happened to "First do no harm?"
Every time you think you can forget ...
The comes Shoog with that!
I think that was the biggest shot in TD's career
I was checking boxscores and I was "live" with the game in a meaning that I was checking the numbers changing.
Wtf was going on there? Kobe hit a shot I got upset as . ... Then when Timmay hit the shot I was WOW Timmay with the clutch, and then ... wtf going on there zeros on the clock and LA timeout? wtf? Are there 0.3 left or something?
Then they changed the score, so I could go and preapare to go to school in one of the darkest days I've ever experienced.
Right in that fat 's grill.
I was having a great day, well thanks.
Thinking back, people were hailing that as the real Finals, but Detroit came in and whopped the Lakers. Even if the Spurs did beat LA, there were still no guarantees that they would beat the Pistons (I am pretty sure they could beat the Wolves). The Spurs had a huge weakness (outside shooting), and I am sure Larry Brown will exploit that. He almost did until Horry came in and saved the day a year after.
Yeah, I'm not saying that the Spurs would have beaten the Pistons (The Twolves? No question.) But that shot should have been THE highlight of Duncan's career. The one they would play right before his HoF induction.
'Course, the Three wasn't bad, either.
I'm keeping a compilation tape for the occasion.
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