Gregg Popovich called a timeout down three with eight seconds to go to draw a play to get Bryn Forbes open. Bryn got the ball, pulled up in a hurry and airballed the would-be tying bucket. In that exact moment, dozens of articles about the Spurs turning the corner were deleted.
This is a bad loss. There’s no other way to put it. The cellar-dwelling, mutiny-attempting, leadership committee-forming Bulls managed to come back from a 21-point deficit to beat the Spurs 98-93 in San Antonio. That’s bad enough on its own, but the way it went down was so uncomfortably familiar: One of the stars was bad, Pop’s rotations were questionable, the guard play was a disaster, the perimeter defense was permeable.