<div align="center">Heart or Poise?</div> I?ve always said that heart is one of the most important ingredients to a winning basketball team, but after witnessing my Celtics repeatedly blow big leads in the 4th quarter, I?m starting to question this. Another component comes into the equation: composure. Do you remember the guy on your high school basketball team that always played 100% no matter what was happening? The guy that wore himself out in the first few minutes? The guy who showed absolutely no poise or assuage whatsoever? Well, that pretty much sums up half of the Boston Celtics players. By having a desire to win, the team is almost always in the game with a chance to win. But that desire can come back to bite them. When it comes to the final period in basketball, the team that makes the fewest mistake wins. It doesn?t matter if you dive for a loose ball if you throw it away the next posession. When players show composure, they can execute better on offense and defense, they?re more patient with the ball, and in turn they play better. That?s why you see the Celtics losing so many close games. Their heart gets them into the game until the final few minutes, when everything is slowed down. Then they take quick shots, turn the ball over, get beat on a back door cut. Players need to learn to harness this desire and stay under control as the game winds down. This poise will of course come over time with experience, but if the Celtics want to win now or in the near future, they will have to learn this. This is not only true to the Celtics; it?s a problem with almost any young team around the league. Atlanta, Orlando Portland, and others have the same problem. Those last few minutes in the game decide everything. Once these young teams can figure that out, they can finally start winning games.
yeah. it was really short.I just didn't feel like repeating myself a hundred times to get the point across.
