Choke Artists

[ALVAREZ6]

Why did Brown have to screw up so bad on that last inbound,

why did Duncan pussy foul Mcgrady..foul him harder so he doesnt make it( or he could have just rejected that )

why couldnt the spurs have just controlled mcgrady and get a hand in his face.

the spurs screwed up in so many ways that it was almost impossible losing the game,
but they did.

This game shouldn't have been that close to begin with. it was the reakin rockets...

[ALVAREZ6]

Smeagol, you are full of it. Not 97%, more like 99.999999999999%

what a difference.

[Gummi]

First of all, Fisher's shot was UNBELIEVABLE. No player in the history of the NBA would've made that shot without luck. But it was a bad idea for Horry to double team Kobe at mid court and not put more presure on the inbounder. But that's done.

Again we witnessed an UNBELIEVABLE performance against the Rockets. What McGrady did was one of the best performance in the history of the NBA. 13 points in 35 secs. That's UNBELIEVABLE.

Why should we foul McGrady and stop the clock? McGrady shoots free throw pretty well, around 75% for his career. I'm sure no one thought that 13 points in 35 secs was possible.

We can't put our players down by saying we choked the game away and forget that McGrady put on a fantasic performance. Sure our players made some mistakes, Duncan's fouling, Duncan not stepping out and contest McGrady's 3, and finally the main blow when Devin started to dribble instead of holding in to that ball.

[GrandeDavid]

^Amen! Damn good point. Hindsight is 20/20 and most fans are aspiring NBA coaches, talent scouts and armchair quarterbacks, anyway. I think that credit needs to go to McGrady and people need to realize that freakish things happen. Now, if LeBron does something similar tonight, then I'll start to really get su ious of the team's chemistry, drive and conditioning late in games!

[Jimcs50]

Why did Brown have to screw up so bad on that last inbound,

why did Duncan pussy foul Mcgrady..foul him harder so he doesnt make it( or he could have just rejected that )

why couldnt the spurs have just controlled mcgrady and get a hand in his face.

the spurs screwed up in so many ways that it was almost impossible losing the game,
but they did.

This game shouldn't have been that close to begin with. it was the reakin rockets...

Enough already!!!

, it is over...stop your whining for God's sake.

[pjjrfan]

True dat.

But tell me a part of you didn't feel like you were watching a train wreck after McGrady's first 3 down the stretch.

I kept waiting for the other foot to drop.

And where was your stopper Bowen?

I can't remember the last time he held a good shooter in check.

I felt like I was watching a train wreck when Tony threw away the ball to Padgett, for an easy lay-up, which after the made basket by Houston, cut a 10 pt lead to an 6 pt lead with 47 secs. left. That play was big, it changed the whole picture, and made possible all the other miraculous things that happend to lead to a Rocket's win.

But until they go into a series as the no. 1 seed and lose to a no. 8 seed, then I'll think of them as chokers, but not after a regular season game.

[Ghost Writer]

Thanks, Aggie.

So now we know that Bowen never holds his man to under his season average.

Nice chat, timvp.

[Duff McCartney]

I know that's not the answer to everything, but I play to win games.

You play for the Spurs?

[FromWayDowntown]

25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 are between 25-35 PPG.

Bowen's +/- scoring differential is lower that most every other starter at his position.

Well, for what it's worth, Bowen's +/- figure for this season is +193, which is 4th on the Spurs behind Duncan (+266), Ginobili (+226), and Parker (+197).

. . . . and, by the way, Duncan and Ginobili are now #1 and #2 in the NBA in pure plus/minus terms (that is, plus/minus not reduced to a ratio).

[Spurminator]

Box scores are as useful a tool of player evaluation as his Yahoo Fantasy rating. Why people continue to rely on total points scored as the primary indicator of how well an opponent guarded him baffles me... well, except in the case of certain Drama Queens who need material.