You would think that, over the years, opposing teams would learn to prevent the...

[UNT Eagles 2016]

... backdoor cut play from Tim-to-Tony or Tim-to-Manu, when the game is on the line and you need a stop, but the Spurs still manage to get at least one of those buckets in the last couple minutes of almost every single close game. Tonight against the Celtics we got two, one of each.


What figures? I don't get it... it should be a pretty easy play to stop if you're prepared for it. I've seen a few teams stop it, but the majority still fall for it, even though the Spurs have been running that play at least once at the end of every single close game since like 2004.

[DAF86]

Bulls stopped it this season and won them the game.