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Celtics notebook: Facing elimination, Jae Crowder hopes for help from crowd to make Garden a real homecourt advantage for Game 5

CLEVELAND — Heading home to the Garden should be a comfort, though the Celtics haven’t always played that way this postseason.

But now that elimination is one game away following a 112-99 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers last night in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals, home is all they have left. Tomorrow night’s Game 5 will find them trying to improve on a rather middling 5-4 playoff record at the Garden.

“We’re humble enough to know we haven’t played well at home, and we want to give our home crowd a better outing than we did the past two games,” Jae Crowder said.