Playoff basketball raises the intensity and a sense of desperation fills in the air in a win-or-go-home contest.
That was evident from start to finish on Saturday afternoon. Here's what you first need to know: Bob Nash's Toyama Grouses topped Reggie Geary's Yokohama B-Corsairs 88-67 in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals at Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium before a rowdy crowd of 2,014 supporters.
That forced the teams back on the floor for a decisive 10-minute mini-tiebreaker — dubbed Game 3 — to determine which team would advance to the Final Four next Saturday at Ariake Colosseum to take on the Niigata Albirex BB-Akita Northern Happinets winner.