As the less talented team, the Rangers needed to be successful on the power play to keep things close, but they went only one for 20 with the man advantage in the series.
Their female counterparts, Jess Varnish and Becky James, went only one better, which meant they would not be competing here, having been given fewer chances to race and accrue the necessary qualification points.
Tony Parker, who finished with 30 points for the Spurs, forced overtime, beating the buzzer with a 27-footer but San Antonio went only one of 10 from the floor in overtime, and Manu Ginobili missed a potential tying three-pointer just before the buzzer.
In the wake of Charlene's death, the transfer of knowledge about the nature of anorexia (including how and why it was manifested and who was at risk) went only one way: from West to East.
Neither the clockwork visible to the left side of the machine nor the drawer that housed the chess set extended fully to the rear of the cabinet; they instead went only one third of the way.
For most of last year, the traffic went only one way, as fighting scattered tens of thousands.
