Juan,

I do not deny that you might want to try to steal the ball, but they did not even put a lot of pressure in whoever had the ball, and I think you should not run almost all the clock waiting for the steal, and although Manu is money in clutch shots, there are always chances anyone can miss, in fact Manu missed 3 yesterday (I think, only one in clutch time thou)

Of course, it is easier to say it now with the outcome already known <g>. Who knows, a turnover in the last second of that possesion by the Spurs player and we are waiting for game 5 right now <g>

>Hola Hugo,
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>>>>>>>I am very happy the Spurs won yet another championship, but I disagree with Cleveland playing good those last two minutes, they let the Spurs run a full 24 seconds in the second to last posession, I think they shoul've fouled there, they were like 5 or 6 points behind with just 44 or so seconds on the clock.
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>Well, with only 45 seconds left, 6 points down and the Spurs not missing almost a chance from the free throw line, by only fouling it would've been just extending the agony, you are most likely to loose anyways. So, instead of waiting for the opponent to fail in so little time, you gotta take a chance and try to steal the ball, and I think that's what the cavs tried.
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>Notice that I said tactically, meaning the way the decided they were going to play those final minutes, the execution of that plan is a different thing and you will find that your opponent may play better or mistakes like after Lebron's last three with over 4 secs left, whoever was to take Ginobili forgot about him for a second so he was free to receive the ball and make it to the middle of the court before being fouled leaving the game with 2 secs left, but of course it was Ginobili.
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>IOW, sometimes things don't result as planned, but as least you did everything technically possible.