"Totally unnatural closeout that the league has outlawed years ago, and pays great attention to it", Gregg Popovich told reporters on Monday.
"I understand the Warriors are a very talented team, so we're going to have to be really sharp tomorrow", forward Pau Gasol said. Maybe a move like this costing a team a playoff game is enough to get people discussing different ways to enforce inappropriate plays. San Antonio led 78-55 with 7:53 left in the third quarter when Leonard exited the game for good. "We don't know where he is at today [physically]". Like that. And you wanna know if our chances are less? In fact, the Warriors outscored the Spurs by 66-35 after Leonard left the game which is bad news for the Spurs in Game 2. He didn't have intent.' Who gives a damn about what his intent was?
Popovich wasn't asked what he thought about the play.
Leonard had been dealing with an ankle injury before the series began.
"This particular individual has a history with that kind of action", Popovich said.
Popovich didn't definitively say at first whether Leonard would miss Game 2, but the club's history points to San Antonio sitting him.
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Popovich pointed to a history of borderline plays by Pachulia during his time with Dallas against the Spurs, including a flagrant foul against Patty Mills, a play where he locked arms with Mills in a way that "could have broken his arm", according to Popovich, and run-ins with David West.
San Antonio was merely capable of capitalizing on a razor-thin window of opportunity, one that would require near-perfection: winning the Leonard-Durant matchup, the interior matchup, the second-unit matchup, taking care of the basketball, and praying that Curry and Klay Thompson wouldn't go on one too many unconscious shooting sprees.
One day later, Popovich was still fuming over the foul committed by Pachulia. No other player on the roster had more than four points at halftime, and Zaza Pachulia (11) was the only other Warrior to reach double-digits in the game.
Leonard didn't return to the game, and the Spurs let go of what was a 23-point lead at the time of his injury to fall 113-111.
While intent can be hard to decipher, I feel fairly confident in saying Zaza Pachulia, knew exactly what he was doing.
The Warriors and Spurs play again Tuesday night at 9 p.m.in Oakland.
To Popovich, Pachulia's history adds context to his slide underneath Leonard, further erasing the argument that the foul should be viewed exclusively as an unfortunate accident. "We'll go out and try to protect our home court".
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