That last game was particularly interesting because it involved one of the greatest coaches of this generation making an incredibly uncharacteristic mistake at the worst possible time. With the game tied at the end of the extra period, Erik Spoelstra called a timeout … even though the Heat didn’t have any.

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra admitted that his own “horrendous mistake” cost the team in its 123-121 defeat to the Detroit Pistons in the NBA Cup on Tuesday.

The sample size is very small, but Erik Spoelstra might have made the biggest coaching blunder in NBA Cup history on Tuesday. The Heat inexplicably allowed four points in the final 1.8 seconds of overtime on the Pistons' bright blue court,