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Tuesday, June 18 Two missed foul shots and two missed defensive rebounds in final 28.2 seconds cost Spurs a title in regulation.
Easily a 3-pointer. We have a tie game. Spurs will get last bat with 5.2 seconds to go. Hold on to your freaking hat.
Allen makes that shot with 5.2 seconds left. Surreal? Ironic? Words are failing me right now.
So surreal. Duncan standing on rope to keep fans off the court as he attempts to inbound the ball.
Step 1: Get ball inbounds. Step 2: Hold on to it until you are fouled. Step 3: Make ensuing free throws.
LeBron with the 3, after missing one. Spurs lead down to 94-92. They can win with free throws, but have to make them. 20.1 seconds to go.
Don't know how the players handle this. Sweating through my jacket, and I have zero investment in the outcome.
Can't expect Danny Green to make everything. But he had a couple wide-open looks in 4Q that could have changed things. That's hoops.
If the Spurs lose, the story is LeBron's fourth-quarter awakening plus two-thirds of Spurs' Big Three no-showing.
I think if you had offered the Spurs "trail by 2 heading into final 6 minutes" they would have taken it. But not like this.
In the next 12 minutes, I expect the Heat to come out throwing haymakers. Of course, they should have been doing that the whole time.
I could read Ray Allen's lips from up here in the mezzanine. Jesus Shuttlesworth said a bad word at Joey Crawford.
Heat still have that gear in their back pocket. But it's hard for them to reach it when Spurs aren't helping them out with turnovers.
Getting Flo Rida's manager kicked out is turning out to be yet another master stroke by Pop. #puppetmaster
Tim Duncan with 30 points and 12 rebounds in the third quarter of a closeout game of the NBA Finals and it is 2013.
Again the Heat climbed within one, and again the Spurs are smacking them back. Just like Game 5.
Spo's in the same boat with Wade that Pop has occasionally been in with Manu. Wade clearly killing Heat, but no better options.
LeBron only has five dunks in this series, and I'm almost positive none of them have come in the halfcourt. Pretty fantastic D.
Getting waaaaaaaaaaaay too far ahead of ourselves: But if this kind of thing holds up, Duncan's the Finals MVP now, right?
Like Leonard's aggressiveness on that drive, but he had The Great Danny Green wide open for 3 before he started dribbling. Rare misstep.
Since Game 1 ... the team that has won the third quarter has won the game. Handily. So, maybe worth watching.
The Spurs maybe had a chance to put their foot on the throat here. Instead, Miami's gonna shoot a ton of free throws.
It's almost like the Spurs are trying to kill a power play here. (I just started watching hockey yesterday)
Halftime. Spurs lead 50-44 and this whole crowd feels like it needs a laxative. Tight, tight, tight.
Getting to watch Tim up close has been the most enjoyable part of my first year on this job, by far. Tonight's game is Exhibit A.
Timmy's season high is 34. Will almost feel like a letdown if he doesn't get 40. This freaking guy...
And this has to be eternally frustrating for the Heat. Lock down the 3-point line, Duncan goes off. Like plugging fingers into a dike.
Generally hate hyperbole, but it's kind of amazing how the next hour might define what people say about LeBron for, like, ever.
Spurs close first half on 11-0 run. Heat go into locker room in clang of jumpers, no FGs in final 5:04.
Boris Diaw is pretty spry for a tubby fella, but it seems like the best player in the world should beat him one-on-one.
I've sort of been waiting for a "let's feature Duncan" game from the Spurs. Heat defensive plan lends itself to that.
Just for fun: Tim Duncan's high for points in a Finals close-out game is 31, set in 1999 against the Knicks.
Spurs seem to be responding to Heat covering 3-point line with Duncan wrecking people one-on-one.
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