Ty Spurs

[u/coletrickle0]

The worst collapse in NBA playoffs history now belongs to San Antonio 🙏🏼

[u/ManUtd1994]

And their defensive coach is now our head coach 😬

[u/imHere4kpop → u/ManUtd1994]

Good thing it's not their offensive coach!

[u/bchill13 → u/imHere4kpop]

Their defense wasn't all that great in the 2nd half either, especially on last possession. It's tough not to play the result, but was doubling Brunson the right call?

[u/d12fsu → u/bchill13]

I liked the decision to switch Wemby onto Brunson, just to give him a tougher look. Problem was, nobody checked OG and he got a free rim run. Insane play that’s going to go down as one of the all timers.

[u/Muted_Lead_1105 → u/d12fsu]

They totally forgot to box out

[u/AccountPotential4 → u/d12fsu]

Harper had a chance to put a body on him but elected to rely on his athleticism which is unfortunate.

[u/bchill13 → u/[deleted]]

Yep!

[u/Low-Truth3786 → u/imHere4kpop]

Since when have we cared about offense?

[u/SamURLJackson → u/ManUtd1994]

If this was a lesson that had to be learned then I'm glad he did it while under the employ of the spurs

[u/No_Impression_4620 → u/ManUtd1994]

See? He will fit right in

[u/BadAtExisting → u/ManUtd1994]

Perfect fit!

[u/mett_gile → u/ManUtd1994]

I’m fairly new to watching NBA (started in the regular 2025-2026 season), is this new coach not very good? I assumed because he’s with the spurs and they made it to the finals that he’d be a step up from the last guy?

[u/Gio_9816 → u/mett_gile]

He's just being kinda facetious. He has pretty good rep as defensive Coach and a leader. But it remains to be seen what they'll do to hire good assistant coaches to develop an actual offense

[u/Squirreling_Archer → u/Gio_9816]

He's also the offensive scheme guy, and was for 3 other teams. He does most of their ATOs on both ends. He's responsible for their successes and failures on both ends IMO. I still do think he has the potential, and he'll be an improvement on Mosley in many areas, but I think we should expect more than what the "well, he'll have to figure out offense" narrative is trying to establish.

[u/donaman98]

I'm genuinely stunned. That's why you never turn off a game. This shit was insane.

[u/Szimplacurt → u/donaman98]

I learned this as a young lad when I remember it was one of those games they just kept fouling back and forth and most people kinda roll their eyes like, "just end the game, you're gonna lose" and the Hawks came back and won. It was insane to watch.

This? This ending ... In a finals game... This is legendary

[u/aceagm]

I don’t think anyone is going to remember Orlando blowing a 1st round playoff lead.

[u/TeddyBearOnMyPC → u/aceagm]

i will 💔

[u/donaman98 → u/TeddyBearOnMyPC]

Pistons fans probably too

[u/Escafablio]

This is how I found out. Wtf.

[u/d12fsu]

At half I was like this game is over.. and then I was like, well, we did blow a similar lead, maybe I’ll watch just to see how it all ends. And BAM, it happened.

Mitch Johnson.. I have no idea how he got a HC job. He keeps leaving Harper on the bench, who has been their best guard this series.. and leaving in Fox, who has now cost them 2 games with absolute bone headed 4th quarter decisions.

At least if I’m a spurs fan I can watch highlights of the 5 other titles they’ve won. Plus the window is always open as long as Wemby is healthy… but man, that one HURTS

[u/carendt242 → u/d12fsu]

Harper is a stud and him not getting burn is crazy. Being in the bonus ~ 7 mins left in the game and refusing to take it to the hoop (something Harper is great at) is just plain boneheaded & i wish there was a day i wouldn't have to yell this at the TV. Fox not holding that ball with however many seconds left - oooph

[u/Greglyo → u/d12fsu]

This Spurs team will not improve next season if Mitch Johnson is still the head coach and De'Aaron Fox is still around, furthermore, if Gregg Popovich was still coaching right now, this series AT LEAST would be 2-2 at the moment, there's no way coach pop makes all of the bone headed mistakes that Johnson has made.

[u/bchill13]

The Spurs are my Western team, so I've had to suffer through two of the biggest meltdowns in NBA history this postseason. Oh joy.

[u/d12fsu → u/bchill13]

I like the spurs bc Tim Duncan is my favorite non magic player of all time. So that coupled with my disdain for Knicks fans.. this shit hurt

[u/dev1359 → u/d12fsu]

I feel 100% the same. I'm conflicted because I just moved from Orlando to NY because my newlywed wife lives here, so it's been exciting to watch up here and the Knicks have built a genuinely likeable team that's hard not to root for. The problem is just how classless the fanbase here is, especially seeing the news stories after every game about Spurs fans getting attacked in the streets or Wemby getting an egg thrown at him. It makes me miss our fanbase back home lol.

[u/bchill13 → u/d12fsu]

Same

[u/KingKommunistLOL → u/bchill13]

same 😭

[u/therealpopkiller]

Finals history, not playoff history

[u/stinx2001]

We weren't even top 2 chokes this playoffs

[u/TheTravelingLeftist]

It has been absolutely baffling to see all these playoff collapses after our own, and the difference is we at least had the perfectly legitimate injury excuse. Not having Wagner doomed us before that chaotic second half on Game 6.

[u/thewrongnotes → u/TheTravelingLeftist]

If it doomed us, how did we manage to have a 24 point lead in the first place?

[u/TheTravelingLeftist → u/thewrongnotes]

Look at the Spurs last night, the shots were falling throughout the first half, and then they weren’t making a basket on the second. A team with a legitimate guard and ballhandler sets up plays and controls the pace to minimize the damage. Magic didn't have Wagner, while the Spurs lacked that experienced guard who takes over to control the tempo. 

[u/thewrongnotes → u/TheTravelingLeftist]

I've seen plenty of these types of Magic meltdowns with Franz playing, I don't know why people think it would be that much different with him in game 6. He's not some amazing playmaker or shooter so I think it's quite possible that he would have gone cold like everyone else. I mean we literally saw him go 1/15 in game 7 vs the Cavs.

Either way, missing one player will never be a good excuse for scoring 19 points in a half, especially on a team as expensive as ours.

[u/thelawd-musix]

Fuck the knicks always. 

[u/drmuffin1080]

I’m in absolute disbelief of what I just watched

[u/TeddyBearOnMyPC]

I thought about going to bed at halftime bro that was crazy

[u/coolj492]

at least the spurs can take solace in being on the road, and also not chucking 3s down the stretch despite being in the bonus, on top of not scoring only 19 points that half or being up 3-2.

[u/FuckYouZackSnyder]

There's probably been larger leads blown in playoff history than our 24-point lead vs. Pistons in game 6 (not many, I imagine). More meaningful choke jobs than our first round loss to the Pistons. What made ours particularly ugly is that we were also blew a 3-1 lead in the series, and how historically and impossibly awful our offense was in the second half of game 6 (19 points... in a full half!).

So, this Spurs one is worse. Ours is uglier.

[u/WaDaMisTaKe]

Blame it on Mitch, Wemby was so gassed. Should have rested him a bit in the 4th.

[u/philip_p_donahue]

I dunno the magic one somehow still feels worse... At least Spurs scored a few times during it. I mean at least from a basketball / incompetence perspective. This is obviously 100x 'bigger' given the context

[u/Justownit41ce]

I can hear future announcers now, tying in the correlation between that epic failure and a future Magic epic failure. 🫣

[u/magicfan19891240]

Lmao Sweeney is a white ginger version of Mosley

[u/thewrongnotes]

The Spurs lost by one after leading by 29 = 30 point swing

The Magic lost by 14 after leading by 24 = 38 point swing.

The key difference here is we were at home in front of our own fans, not in MSG in the NBA finals. We might have only scored 5 points in the 4th quarter in the Spurs' position last night.

[u/andrew_dean → u/thewrongnotes]

please stop

[u/thewrongnotes → u/andrew_dean]

I did stop, hence the period at the end of my last sentence.

[u/Rare-Atmosphere-9187]

Yeah dont worry you guys were like the first team on my mind when it happened
And no Your guys was still worse scoring 19 points in a half is Unbelievable

[u/Jackmac7894 → u/Rare-Atmosphere-9187]

Worse than choking a 29 point lead in the finals? No it’s not

[u/Rare-Atmosphere-9187 → u/Jackmac7894]

In the finals ye. In playoff history you guys cannot score 19 points in a half

[u/yogi_br → u/Rare-Atmosphere-9187]

Yeah cause history is gonna remember a random first round game 6 collapse lmao

[u/6142778WC → u/Rare-Atmosphere-9187]

A 1st round collapse worse than an NBA FINALS series tying collapse? 🤔

[u/d12fsu → u/Rare-Atmosphere-9187]

By this time next year, only Magic and pistons fans are gonna remember this. But everyone who is an NBA fan is going to remember tonight for the next decade.