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Third Quarter Dooms C’s in Milwaukee

By Peter Stringer | @Celtics
Celtics.com
February 10, 2016

MILWAUKEE – The play-by-play sheet says that Tuesday’s game in Milwaukee was lost during the last second of regulation. But the Celtics know it was lost during the third quarter.

The last thing most fans will remember about Tuesday’s 112-111 loss will be that Avery Bradley reached in and put the Khris Middleton on the free throw line with 0.6 seconds to go in a tied game. But without an epic fourth-quarter comeback, or without the brutal third quarter from Boston that preceded it, there’s never a discussion about the mistakes made by both teams during the final second.