Following his Game 4 rout of the Spurs, Mike D’Antoni sat in front of the press and addressed whether or not he’d considered abandoning a small-ball lineup during a stretch in the third quarter when his team seemed overmatched in the paint by San Antonio bigs.
The Rockets coach held out both hands, cast his distinctly toothy grin, and illustrated the simple inequity between three points and two.
Even on Friday night, after losing his second game in a row and falling behind 2-1 in the series, D’Antoni seemed to take things in stride. His opponent, he said, hadn’t done all that much differently, and the loss had come down to his team’s singular inability to create and hit open three-point shots.