Defensive coordinators and captains tend to think they should save the timeouts for the offense, but forming your hands into the letter T is the smart move when the other team lines up for something you're not ready for. Cincinnati might have won its Super Bowl against the Niners in 1989 ...
“Nick’s a great coach. I think each person has to do it their own. If I think something is worth challenging, I’ll challenge it. Obviously that was a big play and the risk of that is if it doesn’t work out you lose one of those two timeouts you ...
The NBA began to study the the number of timeouts that are allowed in the final two minutes last year, and will continue to do so next summer. PerESPN: “It’s something that I know all of sports are looking at right now, and that is the format of the game and the length of time...
Michael Beasley is well known in NBA circles for being a bit of an odd duck. On multiple occasions, he'sbroken both NBA rules and the laws of the United States. That's why very few people were shocked on Jan. 17, 2019. While playing for the Los Angeles Lakers in a game against th...
“It was asked of me tonight to play the whole game, and I just tried to figure out how I could get through it,” James said. “Throughout timeouts, I was able to catch my breath. At halftime, I didn’t come out and warm up. That was my time to recalibrate and catch my wind...
(Blake) Griffin aggravated a left quadriceps injury that had kept him out three months during the season. He won’t be back in the postseason. […] “We were exhausted,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said. “I had to call two timeouts (in the third). That’s not conditioning, that was...
It was a variation on “The Hammer” one of Popovich’s pet plays out of timeouts, usually with Manu Ginobili making the pass into the corner. […] With (Kawhi) Leonard as the passer, perhaps it should be called “The Claw Hammer.” ...