How do the Spurs recover from this?

[BigDofBA]

1 more free throw, 1 more rebound, 1 more missed shot by the Heat, etc.

When that game went to overtime, you knew Miami was going to win.

Great game. So glad that wasn't my team that blew a 5 point lead with 20 seconds left to win a title.

[RichieRacks]

I don't think they can. They got their hearts ripped out tonight. I'm thinking they'll get blown out by 15 on Thursday.

Unreal.

[Mikail]

They're done! Spurs made sure they lost tonight. It's that simple.

[Gonz312]

Don't think they do either...if spurs were going to win it, it was tonight. I've already burned my 10-1 ticket from beginning of playoffs

[Speedy88]

Spurs are a veteran group, if there is a team who can bounceback from something like this, it is them. However, the short rest won't help them at all.

Duncan 44 mins
Ginobili 35 mins
Parker 43 mins

[RichieRacks]

Unless there's so much outrage over the missed calls tonight and the refs make it up in the next game. I don't know...

This is one of the most demoralizing losses a team can suffer (in a championship game no less) that I don't even think that a veteran team like the Spurs can bounce back from.

[Sport_Fish]

I agree, gonna be hard to recover from this.

Would've been 10x easier to recover if this was a 20 pt blowout because they never would've tasted the trophy. But all we can hope is we have another thriller like this for a game 7, what a fkn game.

[Speedy88]

Heat figured some things out in this game. Put length on Parker. Don't leave Green and Neal. Play birdman. Use the Miller/Allen combo with LBJ.

[Ratzz]

wow. what an ending.. very difficult to imagine Heat not winning this.. what a 4th Qtr effort by Lebron

[BigDofBA]

The Heat got lucky. They have to win now.

The minutes are what will kill the Spurs. Parker was exhausted in overtime. They should have closed the deal tonight.

[Git Lo]

They don't. Duncan gave his all try to close it out like a true vet should, put up big numbers and came up short. Game 7 is going to be a serious coaching job but I think heat smash Lebron is about to go home and shit a brick.

[LowRollin]

I have a couple hundred on the spurs series but I think they're done. my dick still hurts after the end of that game.

[aireent777]

After this game I think they're done. They gave it all tonight. Heat was just lucky in that last minute of regulation. Heat win game 7. ML time.

[Speedy88]

Bill Simmons just called it the worst choke job in 25 years.

Wowzers

[LRKontroll]

Spurs is dead

[Sport_Fish]

"Heat were lucky"....gotta love Miami haters.

Anytime Heat lose, other team is better.
Anytime Heat win, "refs" but since that excuse couldn't be used tonight (if anything, refs were fkn on Spurs), there's a new one to the list..."Lucky"

In other words, the Miami Heat are just not good enough to beat anyone in this league

Gotta love the haters - they get more desperate and stupid as this team gets better.

[sportfan]

manu was

[BigDofBA]

"Heat were lucky"....gotta love Miami haters.

The Heat were down 5 with like 20 seconds left. The Spurs missed two free throws and the Heat made two desperation threes off of offensive rebounds just to send the game to overtime. There were about 7 things that had to go their way in that situation and they all did.

You look foolish to argue that it wasn't but that would just be par for this board so I wouldn't be surprised.

[Sport_Fish]

The Heat were down 5 with like 20 seconds left. The Spurs missed two free throws and the Heat made two desperation threes off of offensive rebounds just to send the game to overtime. There were about 7 things that had to go their way in that situation and they all did.

You look foolish to argue that it wasn't but that would just be par for this board so I wouldn't be surprised.

Ok so you point 7 things that have to go their way. I can point out atleast 23 things that went SPURS' way in the 4th Qtr...many of which include baskets that were ridiculous (i.e. Tony parker step-back 3 pointer ) and also some of the most ridiculous calls we have ever seen called, esp. against a home team.

And if u wanna factor the whole game, I could def. find 50 things that had to go Spurs' way. The fact is, Miami wasn't making any ridiculous shots all game, almost all clean looks or drives to the basket. And every little thing like that for Spurs even put them in a position to be up in 4th and not get blown out.

My point is, you're the fool if u look at just the minor things that went 'right' for Heat and call it 'lucky' when its MILES AND MILES more lucky to do the entire set of things that Spurs did throughout the course of the game.

[BigDofBA]

Ok so you point 7 things that have to go their way. I can point out atleast 23 things that went SPURS' way in the 4th Qtr...many of which include baskets that were ridiculous (i.e. Tony parker step-back 3 pointer ) and also some of the most ridiculous calls we have ever seen called, esp. against a home team.

And if u wanna factor the whole game, I could def. find 50 things that had to go Spurs' way. The fact is, Miami wasn't making any ridiculous shots all game, almost all clean looks or drives to the basket. And every little thing like that for Spurs even put them in a position to be up in 4th and not get blown out.

My point is, you're the fool if u look at just the minor things that went 'right' for Heat and call it 'lucky' when its MILES AND MILES more lucky to do the entire set of things that Spurs did throughout the course of the game.

So you don't think Miami was lucky to win that game after trailing the majority of the game and being down 5 points with about 20 seconds to go in regulation?

Thanks for proving my point.

[Sport_Fish]

So you don't think Miami was lucky to win that game after trailing the majority of the game and being down 5 points with about 20 seconds to go in regulation?

Thanks for proving my point.

That end 'sequence of events' was very unlikely to happen so yes, you can say it was lucky. But my point was, why is only that sequence examined? Were Spurs not part of a huge set of 'lucky even'ts themselves ALL GAME? If I had a dollar for every contested 3-pointer or circus lay-ups the Spurs have made this series, I'd be rolling in thousands. Oh and ref calls go without saying.

If I may use poker analogy to better explain my point...Miami and Spurs got dealt AKs 100 times. 50/50 hand, but Spurs won the hand the first 70 times out of 100 and Miami wins the next 30 hands. Yes Miami was lucky at the end but why do we ignore how lucky Spurs were prior to that?

[Git Lo]

Ok so you point 7 things that have to go their way. I can point out atleast 23 things that went SPURS' way in the 4th Qtr...many of which include baskets that were ridiculous (i.e. Tony parker step-back 3 pointer ) and also some of the most ridiculous calls we have ever seen called, esp. against a home team.

And if u wanna factor the whole game, I could def. find 50 things that had to go Spurs' way. The fact is, Miami wasn't making any ridiculous shots all game, almost all clean looks or drives to the basket. And every little thing like that for Spurs even put them in a position to be up in 4th and not get blown out.

My point is, you're the fool if u look at just the minor things that went 'right' for Heat and call it 'lucky' when its MILES AND MILES more lucky to do the entire set of things that Spurs did throughout the course of the game.

exactly. Miami was executing offense and getting good looks pretty much the whole game just not knocking down their shots. If they shot higher percent it would of been a double digit win same could be said for game 5 Miami took 16 more shot attempts 16 just not knocking them down, probably fatigue from the streak.

[Mr Handicapable]

[QUOTE=Sport_Fish;18950670]"Heat were lucky"....gotta love Miami haters.

Guess you didnt watch the game because no other way to describe the last 20 sec

[BigDofBA]

I also fail to see how I'm a Heat hater when I picked them to win this series after being down 3-2 and have consistently said they would win it all this entire playoffs.

I don't hate the Heat for whatever it's worth to the people that get so defensive.

And to the other guy, yes you are correct. Teams usually do win when they shoot higher percentages and make more shots.

[BigDofBA]

[QUOTE=Mr Handicapable;18950972]

"Heat were lucky"....gotta love Miami haters.

Guess you didnt watch the game because no other way to describe the last 20 sec

Pretty much and you just look stupid arguing the other way but whatever.

Luck happens in sports all the time. It's not like its a bad thing. I'm not sure why people can't call it for what it is.

[Mr Handicapable]

Tony Parker has made big shots his entire career....2 rings or 3? Not sure but it sure as hell isnt luck when he pulls one off. He's looking to score unlike LeBaby....who will pass to someone for a worse shot than he can get

[Git Lo]

Fish is just saying that last sequence would not have happened if Miami made the shots they got which were very good looks unlike the high difficulty shots the Spurs looking like the have to take because the Heat D is insane.

[Mr Handicapable]

[QUOTE=BigDofBA;18950990]

Pretty much and you just look stupid arguing the other way but whatever.

Luck happens in sports all the time. It's not like its a bad thing. I'm not sure why people can't call it for what it is.

I get luck...when Joe Flacco throws a 70 yd bomb w/30 sec left to beat denver...thats luck but he also made it happen. The heat didnt do $hit....in fact lebaby choked 3-4 times in the last minute or so. SA just gave it away....Pop could've just fouled up 3 with 8 sec left or whatever...game over. I don't like gifts when I have a nice +175 winner

[play4win]

spurs blew it in the fourth quarter! they had plenty chances to finish this!!! what a waste!

[Mr Handicapable]

Pop shouldn't have had Leonard (21 yrs old...63% fts) even in the game for his free throws. Are you telling me they couldnt run something on the inbounds to get the ball to Parker or Green or someone?

[Jago2008]

The Spurs don't recover from this, Miami will win game 7, this is where the Spurs needed to make a stand, did and lost, by what amounts to an amazing win from Miami.

As far as I'm concerned we should be speaking of the San Antonio Spurs as the NBA finals champs, but Ray Allen's years of exp. and clutch 3's pretty much kept that Miami Heat heart beating...

[Gonz312]

Pop shouldn't have had Leonard (21 yrs old...63% fts) even in the game for his free throws. Are you telling me they couldnt run something on the inbounds to get the ball to Parker or Green or someone?

Why point to Leonard when talking about who shouldn't of been in there when Manu was in there. Leonard played the game of his life, no shame in anything he did tonight. One of the only dependable guys in the 4th and OT. He was 80%+ reg season too...Manu hasn't been hitting ft's all year despite being money in years past.

[Mr Handicapable]

Hell inbound it to duncan....he was money all night and 4 rings says he can handle pressure. How do you keep them from inbounding to a 6'11" guy....anyone but Leonard or Ginobili

[TwoWays]

Fck Manu! +/- -21, 8 turnovers. Geez, guy just had to be average and they win this.

[Mr Handicapable]

Why point to Leonard when talking about who shouldn't of been in there when Manu was in there. Leonard played the game of his life, no shame in anything he did tonight. One of the only dependable guys in the 4th and OT. He was 80%+ reg season too...Manu hasn't been hitting ft's all year despite being money in years past.

No he's a great player...just talking about the fts at the end. I was on the phone w/my buddy who is stationed in SA...told him the pressure would be too much for a 21 yr old. ONly 63% in the playoffs...just think they had better options. Thats only 1 of the chokes though...Pop shouldve just fouled b4 Ray allen got the 3 to tie