weekly grab-bag from the TEBA beat. Plus: why every coach is suddenly running double-drag at the elbow.
BANGKOK — In a game that swung on a single quarter, the storyline writes itself: a star guard catching fire, a defence with no answers, and a building that knew it before the box score did.
The numbers will sit in the database tomorrow, but the moments were already there: the pull-up at the elbow that drew the third foul, the cross-court skip pass that broke the zone, the timeout that came too late.
What it means
It is a long season and a short bench. The teams that survive March do so because they had answers for these exact possessions in November. Tonight, one of them did.
“We talked all week about being on a string defensively. Tonight we weren’t.”
— Head coach, postgame
