Nick Wright

get whittled because they were up 15 going into the fourth and then added five points.

So the Spurs were up 20 with nine and a half minutes left, watched a 20 point lead get whittled to a four point lead.

And on during that section of the game, only used one timeout and just seemed to be stunned at what was happening and did nothing.

I don't know the analogy for it, but I feel like I can describe a feeling a lot of people can relate to, which is when something disastrous is happening, but the actual, you're just trending towards a disastrous outcome, but you might be able to avoid it.

That sense of, well, maybe the faster we go,

the better it'll be.

It felt to me like he didn't want to acknowledge, watching it, it felt like he thought, if I call timeout, I'm validating that this is happening.

And if I don't, then I can just, it'll pretend that I feel like everything's gonna be fine and it will correct itself.

And it never corrected itself.

So he was a supporting actor in the collapse.

De'Aaron Fox, who is getting torched today for taking that layup, is a supporting actor in the collapse.

Now, you cannot, after you get the loose ball with 15 seconds left, shoot that layup unless you're certain you're going to make it.

That is a grievous error, okay?

With that said, the idea...

That he was... If he hadn't done that, he could have dribbled out the clock or something is utter nonsense.

He shot the layup with 12 seconds left.

The Knicks got the loose ball with 10 seconds left.

I... It was...

He could have burnt a little more clock and then he would have had to hit some free throws.

Obviously that was a bad, bad play by him.