  urlLink Howard Beck , Staff Writer for the L.A. Daily News (l.a.'s other white meat) follows up on my Saturday post: [puleeze! -ed. ] Still, there were anxious moments down the stretch. Horry had three chances to hit momentum-changing 3-pointers the kind that defined his career on this very court but he missed all three. And 18,997 former Horry fans sighed with relief each time. Hack-a-Shaq defense made its series debut with 3:39 left in the game when Horry wrapped up O'Neal in the lane. After the final buzzer, as the teams met on the court to exchange congratulations, Robert Horry walked straight to the tunnel the only member of this rivalry to lose this series two consecutive years. 
