The scoreboard shows 110 to 109.
The timer, when the Lakers called a timeout, still had 6.8 seconds left.
On TNT TV, Barkley, who had been criticizing Mike Malone for not calling a timeout two possessions ago, quickly changed his tune: "Now it seems that the timeout Coach Mike Malone saved could very well change the outcome of this game."
It's well known that in the NBA, regardless of how many timeouts a team has left, the last two minutes turn into one long and one short timeout. (If they're out of timeouts, then they don't have any left.)
So, two possessions ago, Malone didn't call a timeout, and after requesting a long timeout on the last possession, the Warriors still have one short timeout opportunity left.
What does this short timeout mean?
