Three Phoenix Mistakes

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Credit the Spurs with a marvelous against-all-odds come-from-behind double overtime win against Phoenix. There is a ton to say about this amazing game, but through it all, three times I found myself looking at something Mike D'Antoni was doing and wondering: "Is that smart?" Let me say here, that I recognize Coach D'Antoni knows a ton more about basketball than I do. There are probably ... [link]

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A Set Play For A Timmy Three?
Published 4/20/2008 by SebP at Half Court Heave
... As for the game (that shot sent it into double OT, wasn’t over yet), Suns should have won it and made a ton of mistakes as the game ended.  Henry Abbott over at TrueHoop covers the three major mistakes they made, and I totally agree with all of them, I just have one more to add.  Now I am 100% against fouling when up by three, but maybe the Suns should have in this situation.  Maybe noticing that Shaq is in la la land, Nash grabs Ginobili as he is making the pass?  I don’t know though, thats looking back on it, if I was involved in the play, I ...

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