The Celtics won the latest dramatic chapter in their storied rivalry with the Lakers, despite blowing a 20-point, third-quarter lead Tuesday night.
in overtime in a game Boston appeared to have no business losing -- then no business winning after a wild comeback by L.A."That game just says a lot about our experience and mental toughness," said, who added five of his 25 points in overtime. "That's a tough and perfect way to close out our road trip."
The Lakers trailed the Celtics by as many as 20 points in the third quarter but used an 18-0 run through the end of the third to the beginning of the fourth to take control, going ahead by as many as 13 with 4:25 remaining in regulation.at the line with 28 seconds left and up by two points, but Davis -- who was 11-for-13 on free throws on the night at the time -- missed them both.
"Everybody can talk about free throws, this and that, but the thing we can't do is spot teams 15-, 17-, 20-point leads, give up 30-plus points per quarter in the first half," Lakers coach Darvin Ham said. "We have to do a better job of coming out from the tipoff and pressing our will on our opponent."
The misses set up a game-tying pull-up jumper by Tatum with 17.1 seconds remaining. L.A. then worked the clock down to getMuch like in the Lakers' loss at thelast week, when L.A. surmounted a furious comeback to force overtime only to fall apart in the extra session, the Celtics broke the game open to close things out.
"Games aren't won or lost in the fourth quarter or overtime," Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. "We have to be elite at managing the end of the third, beginning of the fourth quarter. That is where NBA games are won and lost, and we didn't do a good job managing that part of the game. So we'll take the positives of how we worked to get back in the game and then managed a run to end it, but we'll also focus on that stretch.
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