What number of occasions does a workforce must study the identical lesson earlier than it’s legitimately recitified?
The San Antonio Spurs blew one other double-digit lead on Tuesday evening in a 111-106 loss to the Houston Rockets. This time, it was a 16-point lead that disappeared midway by the fourth quarter after an enormous run from the Rockets. There have been no late-game heroics that might save them this time. Houston steamrolled the Spurs for the whole lot of the fourth.
The indicators are at all times the identical. The offense slows to a halt whereas the Spurs bleed transition buckets on the opposite finish. Too usually, the Spurs exhibit complacency after they maintain an enormous lead. Their ball motion stalls, they get free with the ball, they usually make defensive errors in transition and the half-court. The Spurs went scoreless for the primary 4 and a half minutes of the fourth whereas Houston lower the result in 1. Throughout that stretch, San Antonio didn’t try a two-point shot. They completed the ultimate body, solely scoring 14 factors. They regarded utterly shaken whereas the Rockets ratcheted up the defensive stress and general depth.
The humorous half is that Tuesday’s collapse wasn’t even their worst of the season. They’ve blown larger results in worse groups in additional embarrassing vogue. However this one was towards a rival, so it could sting the workforce somewhat bit extra. Perhaps it’ll be the wake-up name they should cease blowing leads.
We’ve discovered that no lead is protected within the trendy NBA. That’s very true within the playoffs when groups don’t have any motive to take their foot off the fuel. This downside isn’t going away and not using a mindset shift from the gamers or a tactical change from the teaching employees. If San Antonio desires to contend within the postseason, they need to nip this behavior within the bud.
