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Smith said Fox should have been San Antonio’s “calm beneath the storm” as a 29-point lead disappeared in Game 4. “You are the point guard,” Smith said, arguing Fox needed to slow the offense, tell Victor Wembanyama to post up, and demand no shots before “eight to six seconds” left. “You guide them,” Smith added.

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