Marilyn Dubinski: This was an issue last season as well, so does this come down to young players just not coming out of the locker room with the same energy, maybe complacent when they build those double-digit leads at home before inevitably blowing them, or not ready to adjust to other teams’ adjustments, or do you go straight to the coach and start wondering if whatever Pop is saying in the locker room at halftime isn’t working? We know Pop isn’t as hard on this team as he was on his championship ones (understandably so), but the third quarter is usually when those teams came out, laid down the hammer, and turned games into blowout wins.
The reasons for the Spurs’ third-quarter collapses
