Anatomy of a Basket

[Russ]

With 20.1 seconds left in the OT, the Spurs took a one point lead against the Lakers with this critical basket by Duncan. It happened at my end so I thought I'd post this sequence I took with my little Sony digital.




Finley inbounds the ball to Duncan . . .








Duncan surveys . . .








Duncan hands off to Parker . . .








TP makes his move . . .








TP quick dish back to Finley . . .








Finley back to Duncan . . .








Duncan surveys . . .








Duncan on the prowl . . .








Tim to the rack . . .








The cameras love it . . .








Bynum takes the ball out the rack . . .








Time out Lakers . . .








A wee bit later . . . How sweet it is!

[johnpaulwall21]

Good pics man, u taught me a lot about the game of basketball.........

[boutons_]

I was surprised that Tim dribbled all the way to the basket basically unimpeded, unfouled, unstripped. Big defensive lapse by Lakers. Would have been much better to put the bricklayer on the FT line.

[SAtown]

Good pics and great seats.

[Russ]

With the caveat that I had zoomed the camera in all the way (therefore, the picture is jerky) and that I really don't watch through the camera viewfinder (I'm there to see the game not look at 1" LCD screen), here are two mpeg videos.

The first is of the Spurs' shot to take the lead at 20.1 seconds (same as the still photo sequence above).

http://rapidshare.com/files/14035823/MOV00026.MPG.html

The second is of the winning shot. (As I said, the zoom was all the way in so Finley was out of frame when he took the 3 -- but you can get an idea of the atmosphere). Check out the "De-Fense" chant before Fin hit the shot.

http://rapidshare.com/files/14036408/MOV00030.MPG.html

What a game!