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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2714787, member: 488"] How old are Boston's players? I was more inclined to give them a cookie for handling a marginal Heat team before I saw this meltdown. In the series you are referring to they won their four games by an average of 19 points. They had the second best point differential in the East (and that was without 19 games of Embiid) yet finished three games behind the same Boston team that just beat them in five as heavy underdogs. Clutch gene might not be the right term. Weaknesses that are exacerbated in high leverage situations? Yes. Describes the last four UConn teams to a tee. LeBron averaged 31, 8, and 6 in his first postseason at a younger age than Simmons. He made the right basketball play from day one. Philly in that series? Not so much. We can call the series what it is without losing sight of the fact that long-term things still look good: a failure. There was no reason for them to lose to Boston minus Heyward and Irving. [/QUOTE]