Durant bricked 2 3's in OT possibly still affected by coughing up the ball at the end of the game.
He didn't seem so sure of himself, his shooting lacked a certain conviction.
No need to overanalyze it.
Durant played practically the entire game and was clearly gassed by the 4th. Westbrook felt he needed to take over.
Mind you, this doesn't absolve Westbrook of his ty shot selection nor Brooks of his ty coaching (rest your guys, you ing moron), but there's no need to read more into why Durant was clearly off at the end.
To be fair, Spurs only scored on Duncan post-ups and a transition basket by Ginobili (not including the Boris FT's after the intentional fouls).
Was just watching the game highlight- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JShkI0fmxtY
And was thinking exactly the same. I mean, there were some great moments in this game and generally a huge game,
But Kawhi's block on WB was just THE move of the game and probably the most important play of the season.
Russ drove to the basket to bring the win to OKC,
Kawhi just wouldn't let him. Had Russ got that easy shot we would've lost it all. Kawhi's a hero.
Yeah, that was a really close one. Remember, Tony was out for the game and would not be 100% for the next game.
OKC definitely was a tougher match up than the Heat. I always worry about them. That Sam Presti keeps drafting gems.
Fisher flopped like on that play.
Fisher flopping is pretty much in accord with the sun rising daily. Aside from his fluky shots he used to somehow continually torture us with he would be a nobody.
Yea I watched the clip, and noticed that Duncan must of had a feel for him, because when he turns you can see Duncan aware of his presence, the momentary recognition and, instant action in the moment.
...and thats why this chip is so much sweeter than everything else that came before it. we revenged OKC and the Heat all in one year, and won it all.
Funny how before the series started the media was like, Spurs have not won a game in OKC for 2 straight years (or something like that), and that 1 win, we close em out in OKC lol
Amen. But for the sake of drama, we can pretend the spurs had no shot in game 7...ya know, keep things interesting hehe
7 was not certain, Tony wouldve been out and all it wouldve taken is a Westbrook free throw parade or a hot game from Durant and we couldve been in big trouble.
Parker would have played in Game Seven. He didn't finish Game Six because it was not an elimination game.
My fault there, I know he would have played, I meant to say he would have been ineffective and run the risk of getting a much more serious injury or being very limited in the Miami series should we have won game 7. So I do think game 6 was vital, and he didnt finish game 6 because he was playing like and Pop pulled him and used his injury as an excuse.
It really amazed me watching heat spurs finals in 2013 how evenly called the series was. Officiating didn't matter much this year because of how easily we won, but even in 2013 I don't ever remember Lebron getting ridiculous superstar calls like durant/Westbrook. It made the series a lot better since it was so physical and balanced. Maybe I'm only saying this because the team redeemed themselves this year, but the 2013 series was incredibly entertaining
I really enjoyed the 2013 Finals, tbh, even before the redemption. The series was a lot more evenly matched and went down to the wire until the last minute of Game 7. It was great seeing the Spurs compete and even scare this monster Heat team in 2013. While it ended ugly, I thought it was a fun series.
I agree. For whatever reason the refs seem to side more with OKC verses they do when it comes to whatever team LBJ is on. Case in point, that block that Splitter destroyed Wade with, that same block against WB probably gets called a foul. They probably wanted to call a foul on Leonard when he stripped/blocked WB, but it was so clean they would had looked really su ious had they called that a foul.
i probably would have destroyed my tv if they called a foul on leonard for that strip
There was a part of me that wanted to see Manu or even Diaw win the Finals MVP, but remembering the Kawhi strip of Westbrook in the WCF made me recognize that that particular play was the entire season. The kid deserved it for just that one play.
Diaw, Duncan, Manu and Kwahi came up big in Gm 6. Danny Green also hit 2 big 3 pointers.
Especially right after the no goaltend call
On the and 1 by Green that put us up 10, that is when I knew we were going to win that game no matter what
Agree.
nbatv had it in 2nd place in game of year behind portland's win over houston in game 6
That was the game of the year vs OKC, and game 1 and 2 vs Miami were also great games because of the stakes and the freak AC and LeBron cramping thing
had a "universe is smiling on us" moment right around there too, felt invincible getting that call in OKC after 2012 WCF
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