That triple that did not enter "
  by Manu/13-06-03




NEW YORK. - It seems uglier, cloudier New York. It is incredible how misfired ca
n change the humor of the group in a one hundred percent. All we are a little I
warm up. But thus they are the things. It is not left other than to recover and
to think about the next party. Equal, I say to them that by one hour and average
 I could not fall asleep last night - sometimes I take more when we lose, but wa
s very tired yesterday -; thinking one and thousand times about that triple that
 did not enter. Each as much it came a sigh to me, it made force to sleep to me
and again it appeared the same play.
To make matters worse, it is the first time in the season that Popovich technici
an gives the responsibility me to take the decisive shot on the end. It was thus
 because he was the unique one that came putting triple and because it was not S
tephen Jackson in the field then. I had other shots in the closings, but that ha
d not been drawn for me and that way I took them lacking 40 or 50 seconds. I do
not feel to have defrauded to the technician by the confidence that deposited in
 my '; they are things that happen, is possible to be put or to be mistaken. My
companions gave breath later me. Nobody said nothing to me in individual; all so
metimes failed a shot thus. We did not lose by that triple. That knows everybody
 to it. We lost by all the previous one. Although I say to them that what more q
uarrel gave me was not to have assured that bounce to 9 seconds the end, when we
 lost by a point. We jumped of backs with Duncan, we did not see ourselves, and
it ended up removing the ball to me from the hands. With that ball we could have
 defined the party. That is bad pure luck. There is no another one.

Returning to that triple, I do not create to have made the things badly. I fulfi
lled the diagramado thing: I promised to be, I took advantage of the time and al
though I had to give much parabola to him to the ball because Kenyon came to me
above Martin, was the awaited shot. It did not enter, nothing else and nothing l
ess. Some will have thought that it was going it to throw Steve Kerr, that finis
hed entering, but Popovich put it like decoy, to make think that it was going to
 be he who was going to throw. If I had embocado it, surely Popovich would retur
n to give other similar occasions me, that are what I more like to do. That also
 left me bad.

I do not believe that it has been our worse party of the season. We lost some by
 20 points and in San Antonio. Those were true papelones. What happens is that t
his one was much more important. Of which yes I am safe is that he was the one t
hat worse we played of all playoffs. Something agreed that six or seven players
had a bad night, that is not habitual. I believe that the only one that it playe
d well was Speedy Claxton. The percentage of effectiveness was frightful: we put
 a 28 percent and thus and everything we lost by a point. Some asked why we did
not make more defense in zone, but I believe that the problem was not there. The
 problem was in the attack: we did not have one night guessed right, we missed a
 pile. I do not believe that we pruned to return to have one night like this one
. I do not think either that this time we have needed to intensity or aggressive
ness, as to us usually she happens in some parties. We must gain the next one. W
e are mentalizando us for that, thus we have two possibilities of defining the s
eries in San Antonio. I hope that they do not feel bad by the one of last night.
 Basquetbol is thus and if you were bad, I remained still angered more. Hopefull
y in the next contact the things have changed.