You have to give it to Willie’s Boys. They play hard. They work harder than, on most nights, their opponents. And, lately, they lose close games in a situation where their stated goal is slipping away, and they can’t afford to lose too many more.
They came in needing to keep pace, and to avoid “needing to go on a run”. They now probably need to go on a run, as sportsstats.com was quoted on the broadcast as giving them a 5.4 % chance of getting there from here.
- You know that you are going to have to start early, and you know coming in that the other team does this every year to Western Conference teams in the name of “tradition”.