To make a basketball analogy, it's a bit like when your tin-armed, non-jump-shooting center gets the ball near the three-point line: You know he won't shoot or thread the ball into the post, so you have a moment's respite while he looks for a guard to bail him out.
"We'd come out for the jumpball, and walking toward center court everybody is standing up and stomping their feet like 10, 000 kettle drums, " said Roosevelt Bouie, the team's leading scorer that season and with Louis Orr the cornerstone of Boeheim's first seasons as head coach.
Garnett got a technical in the second quarter and tangled up Kris Humphries for a jumpball that had the Celtics star rolling over the Nets' center midway into the fourth.