San Antonio’s second-half shooting statistics are all...

San Antonio’s second-half shooting statistics are all you need to figure out why the Spurs are down 2-0 to the Lakers.

Seven field goals made and 23 missed. Not the type of numbers expected from the Spurs, who claimed after their loss in Game 1 that they were not going to defeat themselves again Monday night.

“You dream about having the shots I had in the fourth quarter,” said San Antonio point guard Terry Porter, who finished with five points, missing five of six shots in the second half. “They just didn’t go down for me tonight. It is disappointing especially in a big game like this. . . . They were good looks and they just didn’t go down.”

After making 20 of 41 shots over the first two quarters, San Antonio continued to do the same thing offensively in the second half as it did in the first. But with the Lakers double-teaming Tim Duncan more when he caught the ball instead of waiting for him to make a move to the basket, the Spurs failed to make shots once their leading scorer passed out to the perimeter.

“A lot of the shots we usually make just did not go down,” said veteran Avery Johnson, who missed all four of his field-goal attempts, including an open layup in the first half. “You have to have a good combination of inside play and a perimeter play. That’s how we won a championship [in 1999]. You just can’t have Timmy out there doing everything and, besides Antonio [Daniels], not have anyone else getting it done offensively.”

Other than Duncan, the Spurs made 12 of 45 shots. While Duncan and Daniels combined for 64 points, no other San Antonio player scored more than seven and the Spurs’ bench added only two points on one-for-seven shooting.

After having the league’s best regular-season record, the Spurs are two losses from elimination. But with so many veterans on their roster, they are not about to wave the white flag.

“[Friday’s] Game 3 [at Staples Center] is going to really be our season,” Johnson said. “It’s possible to go to L.A. and win, but we have to play much better. Their pick-and-rolls are giving us problems because they are not running as much triangle as they did in the previous series. We have to counter some of things they have been doing.

Added Daniels: “As easy as it was for them to come here and beat us two games, we can go to L.A. and do the same thing because we believe in each other.”