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Feb3
Game No. 49 — Spurs 115, Warriors 110: Complain about Manu Ginobili’s bailout call if you want, but that’s not why Golden State lost
Filed under: News; Tagged as: Anthony Morrow, Bruce Bowen, C.J. Watson, Corey Maggette, Dick Bavetta, Don Nelson, Jamal Crawford, Kurt Thomas, Manu Ginobili, Marco Belinelli, Ronny Turiaf, Sean Wright, Stephen Jackson, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker15 CommentsBy Geoff Lepper
48minutes.netIt’s too bad that Spurs guard Manu Ginobili was afforded the courtesy whistle given to all visiting dignitaries in San Antonio’s 110-105 win over the Warriors on Monday.
Not too bad because it cost the Warriors a win. Too bad because it obscured the real reason why they lost.
“I have to be careful what I say because I don’t want to get fined,” Golden State coach Don Nelson said. “I thought we had the game won in regulation, but the late whistle (on Turiaf) cost us the game, really.”
All the grousing about Sean Wright’s personal Argentinean bailout plan is not without merit. (Fun fact: if you watch the play again on slo-mo, you can see that, at the disputed moment of impact between Ginobili and Ronny Turiaf, Wright’s line of sight from 30 feet out is completely blocked by the bodies of both Tim Duncan and Corey Maggette. That’s quite some vision Sean’s got there.)
But what cost Nelson and the Warriors the game wasn’t Wright’s call. It wasn’t even Stephen Jackson not getting a call when his last shot was defended tightly by Bruce Bowen.
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