<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Tim Duncan, a patient man, gave in to an impulse in the final seconds of the Spurs' 90-85 loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday at AT&T Center. Trailing, 88-85, and knowing a quick two-point basket with 15 seconds left would have put the Spurs in position to complete a comeback from a 13-point deficit in the final 4:50, Duncan opted to kick the ball outside to 3-point shooter Brent Barry, hoping for an instantly tied score. It was one of Duncan's few miscues on a night he scored a season-high 37 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, but he regretted it nonetheless. "I was thinking three at that point," Duncan said. "Honestly, that was a mistake on my part. We should have been attacking, seen if we could get a quick two and then fouled and set a play on the side if they made one and missed one, or whatever would have happened. It was just a missed communication on my part. I just didn't understand what we were trying to do." Barry said he thought briefly about attempting the 3-point shot. Instead, he kicked the ball right back to Duncan, still open. When Duncan missed a 5-foot bank shot from the left side and Houston's Rafer Alston grabbed the rebound, only 9.5 seconds remained. The Spurs had to foul Alston, and when he made both free throws, the Spurs' eighth home-court loss of the season was sealed. "I thought we were going to look for a quick two there, but I probably should have pulled the trigger on that shot," Barry said. "In my mind, I thought we still had enough time for a quick two, and I was more or less reading a play for Tim, because when he first caught it, he had a shot. But he threw it to me, and I threw it right back because there was still nobody there. "In hindsight, I probably should have tried to look at that (3-point) shot, but it was a bang-bang play and something we just have to learn from."</div> Source
