I concur with my friend, Matty Downtown Brown, who feels head coach Mitch Johnson is the biggest weakness of the San Antonia Spurs. Some others, but only a few have made the same point. I don’t agree with some of DeAaron Fox’s decision making but give some leeway for these super-young talented guys on the Spurs roster. I think they have been doing great, but just don’t have the experience to compete in crunch time like the Knicks can, with their years of experience and lessons from previous playoff failures. E.g. this video questions Fox’s decision-making in the next to last Spurs possession of Game 4 but I put the bulk of the blame on the head coach who allowed the meltdown and choke to happen across 1.5 quarters of basketball.
Not enough has been raised about Mitch Johnson’s role (e.g. not calling time outs when his players were in tough spots, not resting Wemby with a 29-point lead, poor clock management), but I guess it’s only natural for people to focus on the last layup attempt by Fox:
https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=De%27Aaron+Fox+Explains+Game+4+Layup
Related things:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Substack:
https://kareem.substack.com/p/a-miracle-on-33rd-street-and-the
NBA.com high-end video piece on Game 4, showing clearly how Karl Anthony-Towns tipped what otherwise would have been a successful game-winning alley oop by 19-year old half-Pilipino rookie sensation Dylan Harper to Stephon Castle who was going to beat Josh Hart to the rim as Hart stumbled going around Wemby:
https://www.nba.com/watch/video/chasing-history-an-msg-miracle-for-the-ages
This video showed it in lower video resolution (you can’t see the change in the ball’s rotation as clearly, but shows the role of Knick’s fans in restricting Harper’s ability to avoid Kat’s block of the in-bounds lob pass:
https://youtube.com/shorts/h97qs4C6Tdw