i absolutely agree with you. pop made an uncharacteristic amount of questionable calls at the end of the 4th quarter and at the end of overtime, first by pulling duncan on the final defensive possessions of regulation when securing defensive rebounds was absolutely necessary, leading to three-pointers for miami off offensive rebounds on not one, but two separate occasions...
then he failed to call timeout after the spurs secured a rebound with 10 or so seconds left in OT, while tony parker was stashed on the bench. if he was going to sub parker for offensive and/or defensive matchups in the final minutes, then he and/or his team should have been prepared to call the remaining timeout they had left, especially when the resulting play was an out-of-control and awful-all-game-long manu ginobili barreling into the paint, desperately searching for a foul. if you were planning on attempting to beat the heat in transition in the waning seconds of the game, then parker's the guy who needed to be running the break, but he was stuck to the bench!!
then pop made one last boneheaded call by putting splitter on the court in the final 1.9 of OT when a three-pointer was absolutely necessary. it made sense to have duncan in for the inbounds to pass over the top of the defense, but the other four spurs should have been shooters. there was no time for an offensive rebound if the three was missed, and having splitter out there only made the heat's defensive assignment easier on that last possession. it's so unusual for such a great coach like popovich to outsmart himself, but he did, and he may very well have handed the heat a repeat title in the process...