What We Learned from the Spurs loss to the Lakers
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I will go to my grave believing that the Spurs lost this game at the 5:40 mark of the 1st quarter when Jakob Poeltl got his 2nd foul. I will be bouncing my little granddaughter, Ophelia, on my knee and telling her, “O, if Jak doesn’t get that second foul early then I think we really had those boys in a corner that night.” In her youthful ignorance, she’ll probably say something like “GrandPaPa, don’t you think the fact the LaMarcus Aldridge was out that night had a bigger impact on the game? Plus weren’t the Lakers the best team in the league that year? Didn’t they have LeBron