[Bill Simmons Pod] Bill: “Single biggest choke job I’ve ever witnessed in an NBA game … I kept thinking Falcons 28, Patriots 3” House: “They had 8 field goals total in the second half”
8 field goals in a half is genuinely diabolical
Laughs in 4 for 37 with 23 missed shots in a row
*in the second half
That is bad but I thought you were talking that rockets team…
Same lol
They made 2 pointers at least
Unfortunately there isn’t as catchy of a phrase as “0-27” to accompany it, because I feel like that Spurs meltdown is leagues above what the Rockets did, but I don’t think it will persist the same way.
Yeah that’s much worse, can’t help but think, if they just gave Bane the ball and let him take some bullshit shots every possesion, he probably scores more. But I guess its a little worse when it costs a team maybe the entire championship, making it 1-3 instead of 2-2 going back home, than an 8 seed losing to the 1 seed in the first round without the 2nd best player
In fairness I went to see the magic vs the raptors in the regular season and witnessed one of the largest runs in NBA history so at least the magic are consistent between regular season and post season
oh dear, yes that game was foreshadowing for our Playoffs
That was honestly the most wtf did I witness game ive seen in person. I went to the bathroom got concessions, walked around and tried on some gear came back and they still hadn’t scored
it was THE largest run in nba history, tyvm
My bad my bad, I was hoping to downplay I wasted actual cad currency to see that awful stretch of basketball
lol that game was so weird. Crucial game for both teams, heavy seeding implications, playoff atmosphere: the Magic come out like they just did a bunch of ketamine and get absolutely fuckin’ obliterated.
Raptors fans were legit worried about that game before the tip.
As a non fan it was hilarious because I have been on a basketball tour to see arenas and have seen some truly awful games and we were so excited to see two teams fighting for a playoff spot finally. An it was absolutely awful 😂. To make it worse the next game we did was the raptors Detroit game where Detroit smacked the raptors.
rocktes 🤝magic 🤝spurs atleast you guys are not in the finals 😂🤮 .
AHEM
10.8% FG. All-time NBA record.
It’s wild because the other games I watched they made tons of shots and missed and the Knicks made less shots but got most of them. Then that game the first half they were hitting like every basket for the first time (that I’d seen) in the series, and then second half it just switched lmao.
yeah obviously this one is the finals but still I doubt I’m ever gonna see a worse choke job than that in my lifetime
Everyone forgets that the Knicks had just as bad of a half, we just collapsed at the worst possible time.
We have this thing where we use so much energy getting a lead early in the game and then we get winded. It’s sort of become our thing. We have to remember it’s a marathon tonight.
Eventually the 3 ball was going to turn against the Spurs. 14 3s before the half is insane
Yea. And Mitch just letting yall take that much momentum without a timeout killed me inside.
I messaged my buddy when there was like 10 minutes left and we were still up by like 19 that we were going to lose.
I think Zach Lowe explained it well. The number of threes the Spurs were launching in the 2nd half was crazy. When you have a huge lead, if you can just come away from possessions with 1 or 2 points, you basically can’t lose. So the value of making a three is far outweighed by the harm of missing.
They were early shot clock contested threes too. Mitch needed to call a timeout and say “Stop launching. Just run the offense.” It’s rarely that simple, but it felt that simple in the game.
Just once I want to see a coach decide “No way the three ball stays this hot, only twos for the rest of the game.” Obviously a bad idea if the other team sniffs it out and adjusts their defense, but there has to be a middle ground
yeah, there was a point at which they completely stopped running any plays and went into ISO/turnover ball. I didn’t even watch the 4th quarter because I was quietly rooting for the Spurs and it felt like a huge choke job was on the cards.
Something they lack and that’s it’s hugely important it’s an offensive talent that can just score even if it’s just not efficient.
Even some like Cam Thomas can be helpful. Someone that jus can’t be totally push of his spots
Dylan Harper is that guy but he gets pulled for making rookie mistakes so the vet can dribble off his foot and throw the ball directly out of bounds.
I feel like we didn’t even have a terrible half, you guys just made every single three possible, you literally set the record for three’s made.
Knicks had a lot of good looks that just didn’t fall plus too many turnovers and Spurs shot out of their minds. Never seen anything like it.
You guys made. Ton of mistakes too, but you’re right that our shooting made it look worse than it was
The Knicks actually weren’t just as bad in any half. The spurs were just transcendent in one half and then ass in the other. Knicks had 49 in the first half and 58 in the second. That’s pretty on par for an NBA team
I also didn’t feel like the Knicks played “great” at any point in the game. There wasn’t really a crazy run or anything. We just just kept playing our game while the Spurs got out of character. It was more about effort and consistency than anything else. San Antonio hasn’t played a full game in the series.
Defensively, the Knicks stepped up, but tbh, the Spurs seemed way too comfortable just launching threes because it worked in the first half.
There was like a 20-4 run in the 3rd, but that was only the run to cut it to a reasonable deficit.
We have this tendency to put so much effort early that we get tired before the game is over. Mitch needs to address that shit for sure.
Both teams were benny hill show music bad
Knicks were great in the second half. We were great in the first half.
They did not have just as bad of a half. The spurs had the worst half in the entire series. By far. They scored 30 points.
We have this thing where we use so much energy getting a lead early in the game and then we get winded
Spurs were up 27 at the half and 29 at one point in the 3rd. The fact they don’t have any sort of game plan for “hey our strategy worked now let’s slow it down” is coaching malpractice.
I agree. Mitch continually makes comments about not changing anything because we know what got us here.
Well sometimes you have to go a little deeper than that
I think it’s logical that a young team that has a starting lineup of essentially 4 guards and the biggest cheat code in NBA history would want to take advantage and get off to a hot start. And hey, if you get off to a hot start, maybe you can give your important players some early rest to ensure that they can be at close to full energy when they need it the most down the stretch. Problem is that the Spurs bench has been turbo ass this series (except Harper), so Mitch can’t trust them to hold a lead longer than like 3-4 minutes, which means you lose one of the advantages to the “burst out of the gates and go up big quick” strat, which leads to Wemby playing 40+ minutes and, as we saw in game 4, getting winded as the Knicks take advantage.
I’m not a huge basketball fan in general, but I caught the end of games 1 and 2. I came away thinking “Damn, they were rolling all night and then right at the end a small stupid mistake cost them the entire game”.
Game 3 I came away thinking, “OK they’re mentally locked in and ready to close/finish a game”.
Before halftime of Game 4, I thought “OK yea they’re definitely dialed in and have the Knicks figured out”. Had it up on another screen half paying attention. Going into the last five minutes I saw the score and thought “OK NY is at least gonna go down punching”. And they pulled out the win.
The last 4 minutes of game 3 & 4 of this series has been epic to fucking watch as a casual fan. Game 4 could have easily been SA up 3 nil, looking to finish.
Mitch is gonna out coach Brown. Spurs fans are delusional. Jim Boyland could have coached better.
We didn’t outperform all expectations through bad coaching
Everyone forgets that the Knicks had just as bad of a half,
not really, they still scored 49 points in 1H.
Insane !! U they deserve to lose
Like watching my elementary school kids basketball game on a good day
And shot a bazillion 3s. The risk of an empty possession is so much worse than potentially scoring 3. Gotta get 1 or 2 and mathematically there shouldn’t be enough possessions to lose the game
they scored more in the 2nd quarter than in the 2nd half
Remember when everyone said the WCF was the “real finals”? lol
They said it last year too and then Indiana pushed OKC to game 7 and could’ve won with Haliburton. The East gets disrespected every year and I don’t understand why.
The crazy thing is that the West was awful this playoffs. Who tf did OKC/Spurs face? The Blazers without Dame, the Hospital TWolves, the fucking Phoenix Suns, and the Lakers of 41 year old LeBron & friends?
I mean let’s be clear - the Blazers with out fame is an absolute goal post of a comment to say since he actually has played a game for them in 3 years.
The lakers had more wins than anyone the Knicks played.
The suns had as many wins as the 76ers and Embiid wasn’t healthy.
The Hawks only had one more win than the suns and 76ers.
The lakers and wolves are better than anyone the Knicks played in the east.
Anyway - I’m ranting. But the blazers without dame like legit made me roll my eyes so far in the back of my head I think they made it to my asshole
Luka was out for the lakers and reaves just returned, pointing out their record seems disingenuous
They were also the 8 seed… so like while i agree he didnt need to add “without dame” but just alone wouldve been enough
Cause the WCF was the real finals a good number of years. Not anymore tho. But OKC would have kicked anyone else in the east’s ass for sure. Knicks are that good and I feel terrible saying that
Pistons need a #2 scoring threat to help Cade to get out of the east and I don’t know who the hell it could even be.
The problem is I don’t think you guys have the assets to move to grab anyone good enough without losing someone key to the team like Ausar. Someone like Jdub (if he could stay healthy) would be literally perfect for the Pistons.
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The East gets disrepected for good reason when you look at results over the past 25 years…
Much like the AFC/NFC debate from the late 80’s through early 2000s
East is bad on average, but the top teams improved a lot in the last 5 years.
Also said it the year before that when Dallas came out of the west but I forgot who came out of the east that won it.
I was saying it, turns out I dont know shit lol
eh I thought the west would be better than what they’ve shown, but I remember watching the knicks beat the breaks off the cavs saying people are reaaally undervaluing this knicks team, it is definitely not going to be an easy series for either okc or spurs
The West got decimated by injuries tbf
Yeah and then the Knicks didn’t lost for 43 days and the tune changed. We were supposed to see that coming at 2-1 down against the Hawks?
They actually scored more in both the first and second quarters individually than the entire second half!
It was similar to Falcons Pats in that the Pats/Knicks needed to play exceptionally well but also needed the other team to shoot themselves in the foot. Matt Ryan sacks, repeatedly snapping the ball with 10 seconds on the clock, etc
we didn’t shoot ourselves in the foot, we blew the fucker right off. it was embarrassing game management tbh.
sure credit to your knicks for the fight but it was 80% on boneheaded us
I understand that it pains everyone to give the Knicks credit, but they’ve done it time and time again. The Celtics series last year, the Cavs series this year. They’re a great come from behind team.
This is my point lol. Knicks have been scrappy all playoffs long. People fail to realize the Knicks have not played good in the first half all series. If the Knicks play good from start to finish the spurs get blown out.
Also despite playing badly enough to let the other team back in it, both the Falcons and the Spurs were still in position to win it with an easy, conventional endgame tactic that they for some reason didn’t do:
-The Falcons passing instead of running when they were in field goal range, which led to a sack and a holding penalty knocking them out of field goal range (making a field goal would’ve made it a two possession game with a few minutes left)
-Fox going for the layup instead of trying to dribble it out and get fouled
He gets a lot of flak for the layup, but to him it probably seemed like a 98% probability shot with the floor wide open. Had he dribbled it around and then missed 1 or both of the FT shots and they ended up losing on the next possession or in OT, then everyone would’ve criticized him for not just jamming it in. I’m a Knicks fan, so happy to crap on Fox and the Spurs, but it just doesn’t seem completely irrational to me to go for the easy layup there
it probably seemed like a 98% probability shot
But it definitely wasn’t even close to that and it wouldn’t have made it a two possession game anyways so it was a boneheaded play.
Yeah, but that’s only because you know the outcome.
I’m talking about the expected outcomes. Fox is ~55% likely to hit both FTs and make it a 3 point game anyways while bleeding a little more time. Even if he only hits one or none, you at least get to set your defense coming out of a FT. The upside of taking that shot is getting the and-1, but I think you’re pretty unlikely to get that call in that situation. It has to be an obvious foul, in which case you’re probably not hitting the shot.
Either way, the shot he took sure wasn’t 98% so if the best case is he badly misread the odds, that doesn’t exactly get him off the hook.
Like I said, I’m a Knicks fan, so I don’t really care to justify it that much, but I honestly do think from his perspective he thought it was an easy 2 pts with seconds to go. Sure, maybe shaving 4-5 secs off the clock and taking the risk with FTs was objectively smarter, but I don’t think trying for the easy layup was completely irrational in that context.
I mean Fox is a vet. You know there’s a guy coming you have to be 100% sure he’s not getting that ball. If there’s any doubt pull it out.
The Knicks would still be within 3 with like 10 sec, so it’s not like OT would be out of the question. And with as big of an opening he had, he probably should have been able to run off like half the time on the clock at least.
It felt like such a destined play because the ball got tapped out to mid court and the momentum of the ball + Fox running down the court just felt like maybe he got caught up in the moment and didn’t think to stop and hold the ball. Just insanity
Julio Jones’s sideline catch deserved to go down in sports history, it’s too bad the Falcons self-destructed immediately after that
The only way something like that happens is with the perfect combination of clutch play, insanely bad play, luck, and devil magic
In basketball it’s a bit more likely imo cause sometimes the ball just doesn’t go in no matter what you do
But in the nfl…in like a quarter and a half…I mean we will literally never witness something like that ever again
I would like to point you to the Colts - Vikings game, in which the Colts were up 33 - 0 at the half.
Would you like to guess who won that game?
Sure but it’s a regular season game. Not saying it doesn’t count but the stakes just weren’t the same
Also the colts went up 33 in the first half, falcons were up 25 with 2 mins left in the third in the super bowl
The owner was dancing on the sidelines lmao it’s not close
I mean that Super Bowl was wild. Snapping the ball with time on the clock. The play-action to get out of FG range on the sack.
Like they just couldn’t help themselves.
You know, having done this in Madden, I can tell you the philosophy: “They’ll never see this coming because it is so stupid!“
Luck is such a huge factor in sports that no one talks about because they like to think it’s just skill and mental. There’s so many what if scenarios in sports BECAUSE things go a certain way. If one shot bounces a different way for either team the game ends differently just like that 3 ball that bounced, then rolled around on the rim for NY.
These two games will always be classic examples why sometimes some sort of prevent defense is needed. The keep playing your game and keep your foot on the gas can absolutely hurt you. In reality like most things, gotta have a combination of both.
What a delightful game that was. Always brings a smile to my face
When Wemby looked shook and missed those two free throws, I knew this shit was over.
When we cut it to 15, I know it’s doable. When we cut it to 4, I knew Knicks will win on experience alone.
I was saying his to a friend when we were down bad, like we just need to get within 15 and I believe we can do it
as a cavs fan i was having déjà vu. I kept saying, “Spurs just need a 6-0 run to ice this game when the lead went down to 20, then again when the lead went to 14, and again went it went to 8 then i knew knicks were gonna win lol
Think about how this statement would be different 10 years ago.
Honestly when Hart missed the layup I thought the Knicks had blown it. In every failed/almost comeback, there’s a moment like that when a team blows a chance to tie/take the lead, and then never actually completes it.
It felt like I was reliving the trama of 95
Trauma** but Trama sounds more New Yorker
I can’t remember exactly but was the layup miss off of Fox’s wild jump pass at half court ? I know Hart missed but that’s another crazy play by Fox. Your vet PG can’t be doing a JUMP PASS at mid court off a regular screen
I was shook like spike lee was with my hands on my head when he missed that lmao. Was thinking the same thing, but there were so many moments that also could have stopped the comeback.
I’m mostly neutral but was rooting for the Spurs so we could get more games..
But when Hart missed the layup I was like “alright the Knicks have to win this one for his sake or he’s never gonna be able to sleep tight again”
When KAT tipped the inbounds and the clock hit zero, I knew this shit was over.
He missed the free throws because Mitchell Robinson was in his head.
Bro 2 minutes into the 3rd qtr I knew it was doable. Spurs were walking and just jogging out there
https://i.imgur.com/bYXNsHt.jpeg In my hea-ead!
8 FGs in a half good fucking god. The spurs are out celtics-ing the Celtics lol
C’s would do something like 29 3pts shoots attempts and 7⁄29 lol
2018 rockets shit
They also have a 7’5 guy who moves like a wing and they didn’t have him on the inbounder or at the rim on the final sequence. They had him chasing ball handler 40 feet away from the hoop.
You have a case with him on the inbound but then If they inbound the ball successfully you have no rim protector. The second point makes no sense, the Knicks have every body at the 3pt line on the final play. If wemby is at the rim someone’s getting a wide open shot
Watch it again. He doesn’t have to just stand 3 feet away from the basket to protect the rim too. Just has to be in a spot to rotate down to disrupt drive/shot FT line down and REBOUND.
They are doubling the ball coming out of the timeout so having no one at the rim is even more stupid. If Brunson makes one pass they have an open shot or drive and no one in the lane (which is how they did lose when the shot went up).
If you’re playing for one shot he needs to be on the inbounder, otherwise he should be within 15-18 feet of the hoop on the ball in.
Their whole defensive setup after the timeout was confused and they didn’t know what they were doing, which ended with Wemby on Mikal (I think?) and then being forced to switch onto JB. Coupled with Fox leaving OG and doubling, it just looked like they were completely unprepared for what was coming. Which is probably a mix Spurs coaching not being prepared, Knicks coaching throwing out a new look that the Spurs haven’t seen, and the inexperience of the players to adjust on the fly
Which is why the simplest and likely most effective tactic is to force the inbounder to trigger it in around the 7’5 guy. The pass that forces alone probably kills a second.
Sorry I’m a bit of a dunce so I don’t see what you are saying. Can you ELI5?
Wemby stands in front of the guy inbounding. Wemby big, wemby long, wemby flail around like wacky tube man.
inbounder no can see.
He make bad pass trying to get it around wacky wavy inflatable tube man.
pass go to safest man instead of planned man.
Knicks have to work the ball to Brunson after. Time go down.
Ah yes, that makes sense, thank you. Similar to KAT on Harper at the other end so he could save the day tipping the ball. But doesn’t that also take Wemby out of the key, still opening up the tip in?
In this scenario there may not be time for a rebound anymore. Also, he would be guarding OG because he was the inbounder. Meaning he would have directly been responsible for boxing him out instead of fox.
Where is a spot he can rotate down ? All of the knicks are behind the three pt line and in motion. Wemby is at the top of the key and switches off to the man in motion instead of following the player closes to him who goes to the corner. Defensively wemby is in the best location to rotate at the rim where he starts the possession.
I don’t know if they are defined to doubling here. We don’t know if fox was instructed to double. There’s 4secs left, I find it hard to believe mitch was ok with leaving red hot og wide open for a 3 or lay up. Which is the case if JB passes the ball.
Except the Knicks were only down 1 point. Any shot wins the game, and you should much rather give up a 3 in that situation as that is the lowest percentage shot (FG% not EFG%)
They have a bunch of centers on the bench. Knicks did that with KAT and Mitch
Do you think if the spurs had a center capable of doing what Mitch does they would be playing luke fucking kornet 😭😭😭. Yes the Knicks can do that because Mitch isint a cone on defense
There was a video that showed the final play before the inbounds. The Spurs players were looking around and confused who they were guarding. That was criminal on the coaching, just all around confusion.
I saw that. Not a single spurs player understood who their assignment was.
I thought they were talking about the football game when they said 8 field goals 😭
ok good it’s not just me
You can say cause the stakes are higher it’s worse but the magic shot 4 for 37 in a second half against the pistons
It is but like you said, the stakes are 100x higher, that 2nd half probably swung their championship odds from like 60% to 10%. Going home 2-2 with the home court, after blowing them out, they would like their chances, now they get a devastating loss and down 3-1. Whereas for Magic, the odds of them winning was gonna be like 0.01% and it went to like 0.005% imo. No way Orlando was gonna win 4 straight rounds
The magic one felt weird because it felt like something the away team would do with no momentum in a game 6. Extremely odd from a team at home in a closeout game
People are saying we’re too hard on Mitch Johnson but really, it’s all on coaching. You have a 7’4” freak of nature who barely shot in the paint. A 29 point comeback takes two to tango; trailing team must play good and leading team must shit the bed. Spurs are too young to feel these games out. Coaches need to direct these kids.
Johnson is also young too though. Mike Brown has been through this before. Experience matters on the coaching side too.
Mike Brown coached a team in the finals NINETEEN years ago. Mitch Johnson was 20 at the time.
He looked the same 19 years ago lol
Mitch can’t solve Wemby’s conditioning. He gets tired so early, that’s why he’s living on the perimeter.
Fox had multiple turnovers in game 4 because he thought Wemby would roll hard and he was just standing around because he’s tired.
Nothing comes close to the falcons chokejob. Their choke was so bad that they could kneel the ball for the rest of the game up 28-3 and still win lol
Kneel, not spike.
🤣 Brain not braining. Thanks lol
It was absolutely fucking unreal to watch that. Core memory for life for me.
I can’t even believe it happened to this day bro pats were down 25 with *2mins left in the third” and won. Like…how. we will never ever witness something like that again in our lives
I was watching with my dad (we’re both OG Brady haters) and in the middle of that comeback we looked at each other and said “Of course he’s gonna fucking do it, goddammit.”
Falcons’ choke job has now officially been moved down to the 2nd worst.
Rest now brother. We have the watch. I’ll see you in Valhalla
You just created a million De’aaron Fox’s
Nah 28-3 is iconic.
The fact that football is single elimination makes it worse imo. If this collapse was in game 7 or an elimination game I think it would be different lol
Yeah, the Falcons went from a 99% chance of winning a championship to 0%.
The Spurs went from a 2-2 series with home court to 3-1 down. So maybe a 60% chance to 5%. The Spurs have had stretches of great play and could legitimately still win if they get really lucky and stop choking (they won’t)
Eh maybe if this was a game 7. Neither team won or lost the series yet based on this choke.
I think 28-3 is still the undisputed king. NFL games have the benefit of always being a G7. The Patriots only had 0.2% chance of winning, while the Knicks had a 0.4% chance.
Really? We were down 22 against the Cavs and had 0.1% chance of winning. I guess the time is a factor.
The Spurs absolutely just lost the series based on this choke.
That’s poor reasoning. A game 7 win in the NBA finals is not worth any more points than a game 4 win. This loss totally changed the trajectory in the series.
Any choke in an elimination game will almost always be worse than any choke in a non elimination game.
Nah it’s not an elimination game. What if the spurs win? 3-1 isn’t impossible it’s happened many times, and it happened to the warriors in the finals.
Hell that warriors choke was worse than this one, in terms of overall stakes and impact.
Nothing will ever touch the falcons choke, it’s truly absurd what happened we will never, ever see it again. Go watch the highlights again, pats were down 25 with 2 mins left in the third
It’s still blowing my mind how we won that game tbh
A game 7 win is absolutely worth more than a game 4 win wtf???? You’d rather win this game 4 but lose to the spurs in game 7 if it gets there??? Ok
Eh idk about that. I feel like this is slightly more likely to happen in basketball cause sometimes the shot variance will just fuck you
But to come back 25 with 2 mins left in the 3rd quarterer is like truly fucking absurd. I still can’t believe I actually witnessed that, it will never happen in our lifetime again, on such a massive stage.
Also the spurs can still win it, 3-1 is not insurmountable by any means
That falcons game was singular in history
Unless the Spurs come back and win
My girlfriend is from Texas, and last night while we were lying in bed I turned to her and whispered “Blow me like a 29-point lead”
And she just started sneezing for 25 minutes.
While waving her hands off the edge of the bed
LMAOOOOO is she from Galveston?
Come on this is Reddit I don’t have a girlfriend
And then you woke up.
I’d still say the Falcons was worse because it was 1 and done. The Spurs collapsed, but it didn’t quite end the series, they’re still in it, but it depends on what they’re made of.
Yeah, coming back from 20 points is common in basketball, but in the NFL, the 28-3 run will always be historic.
It’s unbelievable. Dude they were down 25 with 2 mins left in the third
I just can’t even comprehend how that happened, to this day
I’ve been watching basketball for 20 years, so a comeback wouldn’t surprise me lol. There are a lot of possessions in basketball that can be played quickly.
Exactly, and also the shot variance can facilitate comebacks like this
In football it’s just absurd. I mean Brady had to be fucking perfect dude he threw 60+ times for 450+ yards
Coming back from 20 is common, but only 11 other teams in NBA history (both regular season and playoffs) have comeback from a deficit down 29 points or higher.
Coming back down 20 is not common lol
was the most frustrating shit i’ve ever seen.
I almost couldn’t watch bro I was pacing around my apartment starting halfway through the 3rd
It’s worth watching or listening to Hoop Time with Jason Timf(?). It’s a lot more analytical than other shows.
The Spurs just played completely brain dead in the second half, completely moving away from playing any effective offence.
To some extent the Fox mistake wasn’t what killed them. It was the death by thousand cuts of stupidly.
ty for the rec!
This is the worst version of the Spurs we are gonna get. Harper, Castle and Wemby are only gonna get better. We’d better laugh at this while we can, because theyre gonna be a problem for thr next decade.
Wasn’t it like 28-3 with a couple minutes left in the third? Atlanta didn’t score at all during the second half including OT. I don’t think anything is touching that level of choke. Literally all they had to do was score a field goal once and it’s over.
They got a td in the second half
8 minutes left in the 3rd
Ot doesn’t count, we didn’t touch the ball in ot. An 28⁄3 only happened after our td and then they scored the very next possession
They got a td on their first drive of the second half. Yeah it was 2 mins left in the third up 25 and they lost that game
Truly the most unbelievable sports thing I’ve witnessed ever, maybe very close to red Sox 0-3 comeback
But this happened in 17 mins bro like wtf
Their shot selection should’ve changed in the second half. However, they couldn’t miss in the first half. The second was just reverting to the mean. Hard not to call it a choke job but if they actually missed a few shots in the first they wouldn’t have been up so much to begin with.
This isint really accurate, if the spurs reverted to shooting even league avg in the second half they win by a large margin. The Knicks who were down by 30 lowest scoring quarter was 22 pts. The spurs were under 20 in two straight quarters.
There’s nothing that can touch the 28-3 comback I mean literally in basketball we have seen teams go on crazy runs to win a game but in the nfl to do all that in the second half?????? Bro I am a nba fan at heart but watching that Super Bowl game live was something I could never everrrrrr forget
Humiliating. Completely shook.
“Not to bring a Boston team into this…”
So glad I gave up on Simmons years ago.
Was waiting to hear a Boston and/or gambling reference and got both within like 5-10 min
Then I put on zach lowe and thinking basketball instead
It’s the coaches fault for not correcting the idea that you should chuck 3’s while up by 20+
8 field goals versus 9 turnovers. Insane
nfl bigger choke because it’s one game, this is a series.
There’s this mental thing where some teams totally take their foot off the gas once they think they’ve won the game, no matter the context. The problem is that once you do that, for whatever reason it becomes almost impossible to lock back in. I just watched it happen to the Cavs a few weeks ago in the same building.
at first I thought he was talking about football
Showing this to my therapist
Basketball this is the biggest choke since Rockets Warriors I think.
Losing the super bowl 28-3 because the falcons coaches wouldn’t run the block out is just about the only equivalent to the spurs coaches letting their players shoot 3s 7 seconds into the shot clock up 29. Just an unfathomable lack of awareness
But the super bowl is still the biggest choke. There was no game 5. That was it. Falcons blew the game and the season . The spurs are still alive, even if they’re pretty much dead
This one is even more unlikely than 28-3 was. This is more like Texas A&M blowing a 44-10 lead to UCLA, although the stakes of that game were less.
Portland Sea Dogs/Florida Marlins throwback… Nice. 👍🏽
After watching Orlando collapse I thought surely that’s the biggest collapse we’ll ever see, and then in the same playoffs spurs just fall apart. Hope so you have a 7’5 center and you can’t get anything in the paint. Like, fuck…
When I read “8 field goals total in the second half” I thought they were still talking about football. Absolutely wild that happened in an NBA finals game.
Portland Sea Dogs hat is awesome
Pretty surprised he’d pick anything over the 24 point comeback in Staples by the Celtics in the dead ball era of 08.
The spurs coach is to blame. Horrible offense. Didn’t call timeouts during multiple 13-0 runs by Knicks.
He did the same thing on game 2 with not calling a time out after they got the rebound before Wemby turned it over.
He sucks and is just as if not more inexperienced than the players.