5 minute games

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

How many games have we lost because we couldn't close in the last 5
minutes?  The NBA is known as the 5 minute game. The last 5 minutes usually
tells the tale of most of the games, especially ours. We made it look close
but in reality we lost it in the last 5 minutes, tired, injured or or not,
the Knicks shut us down. A real center and a backup point could change all
that.

>The Celts got what they needed out of the tough back-to-back (a win
>against Cleveland) so I don't fault Pitino for giving 40+ minutes to his
>starters on the front end of the two games, even if they inevitably
>seemed to wilt in the 4Q and also probably came out a little tight in
>the 1Q at MSG. Tough loss but at least they hung in despite the poor
>shooting of our forwards (11-37 from Walker, Griffin, Battie and
>Williams) and a career game from Allan "Houston, we have a problem".
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