What’s the reason(s) San Antonio was able to rebound last night and win Game 3 against the Lakers, at home, trailing 0-2?

Reason One

According to last night’s TNT broadcast this is the quotation which hangs on the wall in the San Antonio locker room, inscribed in each language spoken by a member of their team:

“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much a a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all tha had gone before.” – Jacob Riis (American newspaper reporter and photographer, 1849-1914)

This is all you need to know about Air Force One.

Reason Two

If you’ve followed what I’ve had to say about this Spurs team, this season … on my blog and elsewhere (i.e. different Live Blogging Events and other sites run by other bloggers), you already know it was suggested earlier in this series that two of the things which HAD TO HAPPEN, if the Spurs were going to be able to get themselves back in it was: (i) Gregg Popovich was going to have to solve a certain riddle, pertaining to one Lamar Odom and the “normal rotation” of the Spurs and that, if Coach Pop finally does “figure it out”, (ii) the proper players for him to use more this series are (A) Robert Horry and (B) Brent Barry, in place of Ime Udoka.

Well … as the old saying goes,

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” – Anonymous

Check out the stats from Game 3 for Horry, Barry and Udoka and you will see that this is exactly what happened yesterday.

Reason Three

GINOBILI!

Nuff said.

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It is going to take a special team to knock the reigning champs out of this year’s NBA title chase; a very special team.