at this point you're just denying the existance of choking as manu airballs a three no I'm not. it's just not automatically a choke if you lose. if you want to say ginobli's turnover fest choking, go for it. it was definitely more choke-ish than game 6. 2 missed free throws in the last 30 seconds by good free throw shooters, failure to grab either rebound against a poor rebounding team (even though one of them was right at leonard), blowing a 5 point lead with 28 seconds left, commiting horrible turnovers one after another, missing bunnies. i'm not sure what else there needs to be for something to be consider chokish. it's a collapse, at the very least. you can argue semantics about what "choke" means, but the bottom line is that they blew it badly when they were almost certain to win giving up an offensive rebound is not choking you crazy person.