This game was frustrating for a myriad of reasons.
There was the lazy first half, there was all the missed free throws, there was all the silly fouls. The entire thing was a calamitous ‘two steps forward, one step back’ affair that resembled two young college teams scrapping it out instead of, you know, a bunch of trained professionals. The Spurs played sloppy, mistake-prone basketball for about 34 of the 48 minutes they were out there tonight and yet, in spite of all this, they had a beautiful opportunity to send this thing to overtime on their final possession of the game (technically it was their 2nd to last possession, but I’m willing to forget about Bryn Forbes getting stuffed with .