The 40 – 19 Boston Celtics have registered more “conversions” than the other guys in only 35 of their ballgames heading into this season’s All-Star Sabbatical – Holy Acronym, Batman. One of those “advantage” games was their streak-breaking loss at Miami on Thanksgiving Eve. (Brad’s boys did emerge victorious in the other 34.)
The C’s have been “out-converted” 23 times, stealing away with a win in five of these contests. Phoenix matched Boston’s 52 successful possessions in an early December Garden loss to the men in Green.
Interesting that, for all the frenzy generated by three-point shooting in today’s NBA, nearly 90% of the Celtics’ “basketball battles” (as a dude named Most used to call them) this season have been won by the team that controlled the back-and-forth “Flow” of the game, huh?