03-18-2008, 03:43 AM
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Yeilding in the fourth quarter is the Bucks problem - amother obvious story from JS
Great sub-heading: Team tends to fade when leading late
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St. Francis - The Milwaukee Bucks and Miami Heat might want to think twice about taking a lead into the fourth quarter of their National Basketball Association game tonight at the Bradley Center.
Because it just might not last.
The Bucks and Heat are two of the three worst teams in the Eastern Conference, partly because they both have had difficulty closing out games in the fourth quarter.
The Bucks have lost 17 games after leading in the final quarter, the second-highest total in the league.
"That's ridiculous," said forward Desmond Mason.
The only team that has lost more such games is none other than Miami, which, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, has lost 19 times after leading in the fourth quarter.
The Bucks' fourth-quarter futility has been one of their more frustrating themes of the season.
"I bet a lot of those (fourth-quarter) leads are double-digit leads, too," third-year center Andrew Bogut said. "We don't play the same way in the third and the fourth. The ball is moving in the second and the third, and in the fourth . . . every team in the league, if you ask their scouts, they know what we're running in the fourth quarter.
"The thing that's bit us in the (butt) is that, my rookie year, we won every game that was within a point or two. Now it's come back to get us. Because we had some games we had no business winning (two seasons ago). It'll come back to get you."
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Yeilding in the fourth quarter is the Bucks problem - amother obvious story from JS
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