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Easily #6
IMO #1 and it's not even close or are there worst collapses in history? I can't think of any worse when the stakes were as high?
Remember 28 seconds to go. Pop even takes out Duncan, Spurs players were celebrating the le on the bench giving Duncan high 5s. And even Blair stood up and hughed Timmy, he says somethign like "we did it Timmy!". Timmy had the look, "my 5th championship. We won!"
the time has come to start dealing with this
Easily #6
It's up there with the Bill Buckner ground ball through his legs, and Nelson Cruz underplaying a a fly ball that would of won the world series for the Rangers. It is what is is though. Move on, one day(hopefully soon) we will it again.
#1 in basketball history
It's number one in sports bar none, not only the NBA.
Two top ten players, 4 fmvp, best game of the series watched by millions of people (the one time everyone watched the Spurs basically), LeBron on the brink of 1-3 finals record with two losses to Tim would have prevented him to pass him all time... 1 chance out of 100 to lose and Pop made it happen by benching the guy who gave him everything he has... Nothing comes close... The historical impact is unmatched by the other epic choke jobs...
Buckner gets too much crap for that. It was Calvin Schiraldi who blew Boston's World Series. Game was already tied when the ball went through Buckner's legs.
It's the worst loss that I have ever experienced as a sports fan. The collapse to OKC the year before in the WCF was hard for me to take as I had scheduled the week off to go to San Antonio for games 1 and 2 of the finals.
Most def number 1
Had a poll on this in the club
Tbh, I didn't feel safe with the lead because the Heat are good at making comebacks so I wasn't celebrating anything at the time. I was just hoping the Spurs wouldn't blow the lead again which led to another meltdowm.
I was more pissed they blew the doublr digit lead to start the 4th.
Give me a break. Game 6 was exactly the same as the rangers collapse in 2011. Rangers were like 1 pitch away from winning it all and freese just like ray Allen hit the ball. Rangers didn't win in game 7. Exactly like the spurs. Spurs loss is one of the worse but nothing beats the yanks meltdown in 04. The guys have a supers ion on their side and still lost up a confortable 3-0 lead
The surprising thing in game 6 was our comeback after giving up the lead. It wasn't like Miami didn't have a lot of momentum. That being said it's by far the most disappointing loss in my life. Ray Allen traveled and stepped out of bounds on the previous play. Volume wise it wasn't quite as bad officiating as game 6 with OKC, but the impact of the missed calls had a much worse impact. Revenge!!
wow we actually led by 5 with 28 secs left. not 6. my bad.
this is how it played out tbh:
1) Parker makes a stepback 3 to tie the game with 1:27 left
2) Parker makes an incredible turnaround shot to put spurs up 2 with 58 secs left
3) Lebron turns it over, Kawhi steals and Manu is fouled
4) Manu makes both his FTs to put Spurs up 4
5) Lebron turns it over and Manu is fouled
Here is where the choke happenened:
4) Manu misses 1 of his FTsSpurs lead by 5 with 28 secs left
5) Duncan is subs uted by Diaw
6) Lebron misses a 3pt but Spurs fail to rebound
7) Duncan comes back
8) Duncan is AGAIN subs uted by Diaw
9) Lebron misses another 3pt BUT SPURS AGAIN FAIL TO REBOUND
10) Spurs have 5 seconds to score and miss all the plays force Parker to shoot a fadeaway jumper
THE RECIPE FOR AN EPIC COLLAPSE
This....
#1 and it's not even disputable. THE YELLOW TAPE AND SECURITY GUARDS WERE THERE, THE TROPHY WAS AT THE TUNNEL.
can someone please explain to me why you take out your best defensive BIG AND WHO IS 14 TIME ALL NBA DEFESE in the 2 biggest defensive plays in FRANCHISE HISTORY??????
I smell a rat tbh
14 TIME ALL NBA DEFENSE!!! and he was on the bench! not once, but 2 times!
Last edited by hater; 11-21-2013 at 05:33 PM.
Just depends how you are looking at it. Obviously it's #1 because it happened on such a huge stage (nba finals)
There's other instances that are actually much bigger collapses (13 pts in 35 sec) but it was a meaningless game.
more than 13,000 rebounds, out of those 10,000 DEFENSIVE BOARDS!
and he was on the bench!
he is about to pass Hakeem for #12 in most rebounds in history and mother er was on the bench!
even little league coaches say when leading the game with seconds left "REBOUND, most important thing.... REBOUND THE BALL"
so what does Pop do? "GUYS most important thing REBOUND, REBOUND THE BALL. whatever you do REBOUND THE BALL. btw, Duncan, you are sitting this one out,"
r u kidding me?
When the spurs swept Memphis to get to the finals, I was so excited. I flew to Miami for game 2 and to San Antonio for game 5 of the finals. I felt it would be my last chance to see the Duncan era spurs in the finals.
Can they get back to the finals one more time before Tim retires??
Thanks for the breakdown. I never realized he was subbed out the first time when Bron got the second chance three. I know the method of subbing Tim normally works but Pop should have kept him in the second time if it didn't work the first time. My jimmies are rustled.wow we actually led by 5 with 28 secs left. not 6. my bad.
this is how it played out tbh:
1) Parker makes a stepback 3 to tie the game with 1:27 left
2) Parker makes an incredible turnaround shot to put spurs up 2 with 58 secs left
3) Lebron turns it over, Kawhi steals and Manu is fouled
4) Manu makes both his FTs to put Spurs up 4
5) Lebron turns it over and Manu is fouled
Here is where the choke happenened:
4) Manu misses 1 of his FTs
5) Duncan is subs uted by Diaw
6) Lebron misses a 3pt but Spurs fail to rebound
7) Duncan comes back
8) Duncan is AGAIN subs uted by Diaw
9) Lebron misses another 3pt BUT SPURS AGAIN FAIL TO REBOUND
10) Spurs have 5 seconds to score and miss all the plays force Parker to shoot a fadeaway jumper
THE RECIPE FOR AN EPIC COLLAPSE
Pops goal wasn't the rebound though, it was to run the Heat off of the three. Nobody stuck to their man and Ray got open. I don't know who was guarding Ray but he's an idiot.
It was Parker I think but I disagree. you can't seriously fault the defender when the rebound was missed by your fontline. remember it was not a long rebound, it was a short rebound and all our frontline had to do is BOX OUT. they failed miserably and if the ball is passed outside, it's very hard for the defender to then run to the shooter in a controlled manner as not to foul.
Get over it.
Exactly. So in essence, going small did work. They contested the three ball but failed miserably getting the rebound. It was like in baseball when three people go for a ball and in the end, no one gets it.
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