Rookie Jordan Bell was already giddy. It was his first NBA playoff experience as a player. But when the game started, he couldn't contain himself. He was standing up practically the entire first quarter. First half. Bouncing up and down and screaming, celebrating. His teammates had to tell him to sit down.



He couldn't. It was too late. He instead stood at the end of the bench on the baseline. Sitting down wasn't an option. He was already too lit. Because he got to see it. Live. Right in front of him, and it was a thing of beauty.



He saw the flip of the switch.



“Definitely we flipped it,” said Bell, who didn't check in until the game was in hand midway through the fourth quarter. “A lot of the things we were doing throughout the season, we just completely threw it out the window. Everybody was focused pretty much the entire game. The crowd was into it. You could tell everybody was engaged, everybody was motivated. We had a lot of energy. It...