Terry Jabs Knicks as Celtics Stay Alive

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/04/29/sports/basketball/29knicks1-img/29knicks1-img-articleLarge-v2.jpg" /><br /><br /><div class="articleSpanImage" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 600px;"><span itemid="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/04/29/sports/basketball/29knicks1-img/29knicks1-img-articleLarge-v2.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><div class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="color: #909090; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.223em; margin-bottom: 3px; text-align: right;">Richard Perry/The New York Times</div><div class="caption" itemprop="description" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2727em;">The Celtics' Jason Terry scored half of his 18 points in overtime. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/04/28/sports/basketball/KNICKS-CELTICS-GAME-4.html" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;">More Photos »</a></div></span></div><nyt_byline style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><h6 class="byline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 2px 0px;">By <span itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/howard_beck/index.html" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/howard_beck/index.html" rel="author" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by HOWARD BECK">HOWARD BECK</a></span></h6></nyt_byline><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span><h6 class="dateline" style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px;">Published: April 28, 2013</h6><h6 class="dateline" style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px;"><div class="articleBody" style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-top: 1.5em;"><nyt_text><div class="emReady" data-key="BJTIaa" data-num="0" data-sentences="3" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;"><span class="emHighlight" data-num="1" style="background-color: #fff0b3;">BOSTON — Jason Terry was upright again Sunday afternoon, his chin and his jump shot in working order, his conviction strong and his missions clear: Save the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/probasketball/nationalbasketballassociation/bostonceltics/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #666699;" title="Recent news and scores about the Boston Celtics.">Boston Celtics</a>’ season.</span> <span data-num="2">Extend an era.</span> <span data-num="3">If at all possible, irritate the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/probasketball/nationalbasketballassociation/newyorkknicks/index.html?inline=nyt-org" style="color: #666699;" title="Recent news and scores about the New York Knicks.">Knicks</a> just a little bit more</span>.</div></nyt_text></div><div class="articleInline runaroundLeft" style="clear: left; 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font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">When he was finished, Terry, whose nickname is Jet, smiled and extended his arms into wings for a brief, celebratory flight.</div><div data-key="AlaAla" data-num="4" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“As long as there’s time on the clock, as long as there is another game, it’s an opportunity for me to do something special,” Terry said.</div><div data-key="FBtWSs" data-num="5" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">For Boston, this was poetic justice — repayment for the Knicks’ J. R. Smith’s elbowing Terry in the face in Game 3. While Smith served a one-game suspension Sunday, the Knicks ultimately buckled and Terry soared.</div><div data-key="TKepap" data-num="6" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The Knicks erased a 20-point deficit in the second half and a 5-point deficit in the final minutes of regulation, but there was little else to like after an afternoon in which they shot 34.4 percent and produced just 10 assists.</div><div data-key="CAcBhc" data-num="7" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/carmelo_anthony/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: #666699;" title="More articles about Carmelo Anthony.">Carmelo Anthony</a> commandeered the offense, shooting 35 times, as if he intended to single-handedly replace Smith’s offense. But he converted just 10 of those shots and had 7 turnovers.</div><div data-key="IwtIwh" data-num="8" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“I was trying to win the basketball game,” said Anthony, who finished with 36 points and was trying to complete the first playoff sweep of his career. “It would have been a great feeling to close it out here in Boston, so I was trying to do whatever I could to win the basketball game.”</div><div data-key="AgaAga" data-num="9" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">As great a clutch shooter as Anthony has been in his career, this was a day the Knicks could have used Smith’s uncanny touch.</div><div data-key="AmtHam" data-num="10" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Anthony missed three of four shots in overtime, including a rushed 3-pointer with 20 seconds left and the Knicks trailing, 93-90. He missed his last five shots in regulation, including two attempts on the Knicks’ last possession, with the score tied, 84-84. He also missed two free throws with 1 minute 50 seconds left in the fourth quarter and walked away shaking his head.</div><div data-key="WtgTww" data-num="11" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“When the game is on the line, you’re going to give the ball to No. 7,” Raymond Felton said, referring to Anthony. “That’s what we’ve been doing all year; there’s no need to change it now.”</div><div data-key="PPlJGa" data-num="12" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 29 points, his best game of the series by far, and Kevin Garnett added 13 points and 17 rebounds in what might have been their final home game together. Jeff Green added 26 points.</div><div data-key="TCwTCw" data-num="13" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The Celtics were perhaps seconds away from elimination and an off-season of radical change, but Pierce said he never had any doubts.</div><div data-key="IacIac" data-num="14" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“I already called my friends in New York yesterday, telling them I’d be there for dinner,” he said.</div><div data-key="TwwHfw" data-num="15" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Terry, who was signed to replace Ray Allen last summer, had been a bust in the series until Sunday. He finished with 18 points, perhaps inspired by Smith’s elbow.</div><div data-key="HwdDJT" data-num="16" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“He was definitely vocal,” Coach Doc Rivers said. “Someone said it yesterday — maybe that elbow, who knows — said it changed the events for all of us. Definitely, Jason Terry was angry that it happened.”</div><div data-key="StKTwt" data-num="17" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">So the Knicks left Boston still in search of their first playoff series victory in 13 years. They will try again Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.</div><div data-key="TsfFag" data-num="18" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The sour finish overshadowed a thrilling second-half comeback, spearheaded by Anthony and Felton, who scored 16 of his 27 points in a blistering third-quarter rally. Felton also gave the Knicks their first — and only — lead of the afternoon, 84-82, with an 18-footer with 1:18 left in the fourth.</div><div data-key="TKtHwb" data-num="19" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The Knicks trailed by 19 points at halftime — their biggest deficit of the series, by far — having converted just 11 of 38 shots (28.9 percent), with Anthony going 3 for 15. He was beyond erratic, shooting air balls, picking up offensive fouls, committing five turnovers and negating a Felton free throw with a lane violation.</div><div data-key="TptAha" data-num="20" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Terry put the Celtics ahead for good on a pull-up 3-pointer, for a 91-88 lead. Anthony hit a jumper, but Terry answered with a 13-foot fadeaway, then put the game away with two free throws.</div><div data-key="ShbUSh" data-num="21" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Smith has been as indispensable as any Knicks star this season, providing points, clutch shots, defense and fire. Until Sunday, he had played in every meaningful game — sitting out only the last two regular-season games.</div><div data-key="TscTsc" data-num="22" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The suspension could not have come as a shock — there was ample precedent — but the ruling rankled the Knicks all the same.</div><div data-key="IneNaa" data-num="23" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“I’m not even going to comment on that,” Coach Mike Woodson said before the game. “Not at all.”</div><div data-key="UlrHTf" data-num="24" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Under league rules, Smith was not permitted to attend the game. His Twitter feed has been silent since the suspension was announced.</div><div data-key="HalHal" data-num="25" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“He’s a little down, but he’ll rebound from it,” Woodson said.</div><div data-key="WSWTKb" data-num="26" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Without Smith, Woodson used Jason Kidd as his first guard off the bench, then filled the open minutes with Steve Novak and Quentin Richardson, none of whom could remotely replicate Smith’s firepower. Woodson effectively tightened the rotation to seven players for the second half. The Knicks’ bench produced just 7 points.</div><div data-key="WomWsh" data-num="27" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“We obviously missed J. R. tonight,” said Tyson Chandler, who had 11 rebounds and kept the Knicks in the game with a series of tap-outs. “We still had our shots, though.”</div><div data-key="TCjTCj" data-num="28" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The Celtics jumped ahead in the opening minutes and took their first double-digit lead of the series in the second quarter while the Knicks unraveled behind a series of turnovers and clanked jumpers.</div><div data-key="PhpPhp" data-num="29" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Pierce had 17 points by halftime, matching his Game 3 scoring total, every swish eliciting a powerful roar, as if any one of those shots might be his last here.</div><div class="emReady emActive" data-key="WhtHaW" data-num="30" data-sentences="2" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span data-num="1" style="background-color: #f2f4f5;">“We have to be confident going back home,” Anthony said.</span> <span class="emHighlight" data-num="2" style="background-color: #fff0b3;">He added, “We look forward to Wednesday, I can tell you that.”</span></div></div></h6></div>

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