<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nba dogmatist @ Nov 18 2006, 02:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I would consider indiana to be a solid team. losing streak or not, they're a talented team and we terrorized them. and the Celtics this year have NEVER been losing by more than 7 within 5 minutes of the end of the game. That's a sign that this team can hang with alot of teams in the league.</div> Yeah, we can HANG WITH anybody, we just can't close them out. If we learned how to close out games, we would be a pretty solid team. But there are two things keeping us from closing out games - youth and Doc. I say Doc because of the amount of minutes he plays the starters in the second half. He plays them usuall about 10:30 straight in the 3rd, and almost the entire fourth as well. OF COURSE they get sloppy and slow down at the end of games - they are dog tired! That's why we always go on incredible 3rd quarter runs and die down in the 4th.
