Blayne Sucks

I didn’t see all of this year’s Finals game 5, but the parts of it that I saw made me glad that I didn’t watch the rest. It seemed like both teams were trying to lose. Tim Duncan in particular seemed lost. I’m not sure there’s been an uglier offensive performance by both teams in the NBA Finals. Robert Horry was basically the only one who could come away from that game with any pride left since he actually played really well. Rasheed Wallace made the blunder of a lifetime by not guarding the inbounds pass and then found a way to make it worse by continuing to leave Horry wide open so that he could hit the game winning three.

Though, I would lay some of the blame for this blunder on Coach Brown, who should have told him to stay in Horry’s face on the inbounds pass. I have never bought into the philosophy that the best way to deny the inbounds pass, particularly from the side, is to guard their four with your five. If you have a guy in the face of the passer, you are not only pressuring the people trying to get open, but you’re cutting down on the passer’s vision. All in all it was a bad move.