During Game 5, he played 38 minutes and scored 22 points while grabbing 15 rebounds and adding 4 assists.
Kawhi Leonard has vowed to be ready for game six of the Western Conference semi-finals, after being struck down by injury against the Houston Rockets. Leonard finished with 22 points in what seemed like a hard night for him. Mills then took a deep three- pointer with a hand in his face and made the shot, but the buzzer had sounded and Mills didn't make it in time.
Houston's Eric Gordon missed a 3-point attempt with 17.7 seconds left, and Green was quickly fouled. He had a chance at a potential tying 3-pointer in the final seconds of OT, but was blocked from behind by Manu Ginobili.
San Antonio point guard Patty Mills has repaid the faith of coach Gregg Popovich after starring in the Spurs' crucial game five victory against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday. However, he committed a game-high nine turnovers.
Green made a go-ahead 3-pointer and converted a three-point play to make it 109-107 Spurs with 30.1 seconds left.
"He didn't want to come out obviously, we let him a play on a little bit just to see how it went".
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Kawhi Leonard updated his status after the Spurs Game 5 overtime win against the Rockets Tuesday night at the ATT Center. Simmons and Ginobili tallied 12 apiece for the Spurs.
Manu Ginobili's turn-back-the-clock performance in Tuesday's Spurs-Rockets playoff game didn't just excite his teammates or the frenzied crowd at San Antonio's AT&T Center. "They're a great offensive team", Leonard said. Twenty-four seconds later, San Antonio led by two.
Sure, Harden looked exhausted, and he took a (mostly uncalled) beating in this game, but the fact remains that the Rockets had the Spurs on the ropes, and instead of coming through with timely clutch plays within the system, The Beard wilted under the heat in a Westbrookian display of "why"? Green then electrified the capacity crowd with a ringing 3-pointer with 0.9 seconds to play in the quarter to push the Spurs back on top 86-85, setting the stage for a furious finish.
He became Indiana's head coach in 1984 after three seasons as an assistant with the team.
The play ignited what had been a rather listless San Antonio, leading to a 10-2 run bridging the third and fourth quarters for a 92-87 lead. And yet there are nights like Tuesday's Game 5: the throwback dunk, the driving-hanging-drifting-finger-roll, the umpteen thousandth clutch three.
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