Boston at New York
Dramtic loss for the Celtics at the Madison Square Garden.
Everything seemed to work for the Celtics in the first half. Antoine Walker scored the first 8 points of the game, showing that he really feels home at Boston. " Yes I´m happy to be back. this is a young team and i want to lead it with Paul to the Play Offs, and i dont mean only the first round" he saif right before the game.
The Celtics played showtime basketball at its best in the first half, including several ally oops by Stromile Swift and Ricky Davis. They held New York at at 34% field goal percentage and only 12 rebounds while the Celtics grapped 25. So it was no big deal that teh Celtics led 50-36 at half.
But everything changed during the scecond half starting with Antoine Walker getting in foul trouble half way through the third. at this point al jefferson was able to step it up. he scored 7 of his 13 pt. but the knicks started to come nearer. at the end they were 11 pt behind.
but in the 4th quarter was the quarte of jamal crawford starting the quarter with 2 3 pointers in the row reducing boston lead to 5 pts. At this point Boston started to get nervous making bad decisions in the offense. at came what had to come the Knicks tied the game with 3 minute left and got in front with 3 40 seconds left. now Antoine wanted to show that he is the go to guy creating a quite good midranger but missed with 28 sec left. boston decided to not foul Ney york, bit tried to play good defence. this strategy worked quite good so that Tim Thomas was forced into a hard shoot and missed. but the player of the First halt Antoine Walker failed to grap the rebound so that Kurt Thomas hat easy layer. Ney York in front with 5 .....4 sec to play....good bye Boston. One game ...two different halfs and a hart hit for the Celtics.