What we learned from the Spurs win over the Bucks

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports For roughly eighty days the Spurs were the equivalent of a Bonnie Tyler song.

For the first time in decades the Silver and Black found themselves without a definitive closing offensive force. Not since before the arrival of David Robinson had a Spurs team carried the question of who to hand the ball to in the final minutes of a tight game.

Even as the torch was passed over the course of twenty-five years, from Robinson to Duncan, from Duncan to Ginobili and Parker, from the Big Three to an anointed Leonard, that hallmark of certainty was always present. Even with Leonard’s less-than-dignified exit, there were still known quantities to be depended on in the clutch…