After three quarters in Game 4, the Boston Celtics were down by seven points and as much as 11 to the Milwaukee Bucks.
But then they flipped a switch.
Boston went on to outscore the Bucks 43-28 in the fourth quarter, taking down the Bucks 116-108 and tying up the series at two games apiece. Their offense exploded in the final quarter, and they looked like a completely different team than the one that hobbled its way through the first three periods.
After the game, head coach Ime Udoka explained the team’s thought process heading into the final frame, saying that they just wanted to ‘have one solid quarter’:
We said, ‘let’s have one solid quarter.