""I think the fourth-quarter execution and a lot of the things we did well throughout the game, we didn't do it in the fourth," head coach Jordi Fernández said. "A lot of times, it's just hard in this league to have that level of intensity and focus. So, I believe we can keep doing those things and obviously playing against a team like [the Celtics] that has players who have been there with experience, with that talent level, all that is very good for us.""
""We play so hard to put ourselves in a position where we can win games, but we don't quite know how to finish games," Noah Clowney said. "And you'll see against a lot of older teams that come together, they kind of know what they want to get to late in games, whereas we're kind of just like almost timid, we don't know what we want to do.""
Brooklyn matched Boston's intensity for most of the game but unraveled in the fourth quarter, shooting 26.7% with seven turnovers and being outscored by 10. Season-wide late-game issues include being outscored by nearly a point per game in the final period, ranking 23rd in fourth-quarter margin, and shooting 40.7% overall and 32.5% from three in those minutes. The team has surrendered decisive closing runs in multiple games. Third-quarter production has also lagged, averaging 26.9 points (28th in the league), being outscored by 2.4 points, and shooting 42.8% and 33.8% from deep.
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