Coach Matta was obsessed with getting us to play as hard and as well as we possibly could for four minutes at a time, and he approached every game with the mind-set that we were actually playing 10 four-minute games, or “four-minute wars,” as he liked to call them. (It always bugged me that he didn’t call them “four-minute battles,” since the analogy would work much better if you treated the entire game as a war and each of the 10 segments as battles, but whatever.)
