I'm kind of tired of hearing about 'tired legs', too many minutes etc etc. Let's assume the Celtics are male paid athletes in superb shape and compare em to (mostly) unpaid amateurs of BOTH sexes. I'll use the Boston Marathon as my example. 26.22 miles in length with some BAD hill climbing as well as straightaways. To QUALIFY for it, men must run it in 3:15 or better if in the 35-39 group (KG, PP, SO, RA?). The Men's record is 2:06. The WOMEN's record is 2:21! So the men are running about ten MPH FOR TWO HOURS. Watching the C's running, I doubt it averages 7 MPH considering walkups etc. Also in the Marathon, there is no half time 15 min break. There is no ?3? Min break at the end of the first and third quarters and there is no MANY two many commercial breaks plus 20 sec timeouts, referee timeouts, etc etc.

So , my point is, 35 mins play time at 7MPH, spread over a 2:30 min time period is really nada. I do make injury exceptions of course. But don't tell me 35 mins every OTHER night for a superbly trained athlete is debilitating.