There is something so incredibly all-or-nothing about a loss. The binary end result of a basketball game is so often a misnomer to the convoluted process that unfolded over the course of 48 minutes of play.
In the first few games of this series, it’s been all about how the Celtics have run off to big leads and the Heat have fought their way back. But on Wednesday in Game 4, with both sides looking lethargic in the first half, an actual wire-to-wire competition was at hand. Though Boston awoke from its slumber, it never seemed close to competing at Miami’s level, even when recapturing the lead for literally one brief moment in the fourth quarter.
“It was really the difference,” Jaylen Brown said when asked about Miami earning numerous second chances while Boston failed to box out or rotate. “We had some matchup breakdowns, et cetera, and we just didn’t have enough tonight.”
It seems misleading for the Celtics to have…
