After they had experienced rollicking highs and then demoralizing lows, after they had gone from one extreme to the other, then back and forth a few more times, the Nets were going on fumes.

They were on the verge of a most precarious spot - a 3-1 deficit that no Finals team ever has overcome.

Everything - blood, sweat and guts - had to stay on the floor. And if one play on the night symbolized what the Nets went through, it came in the final 80 ticks of game clock.

Kenyon Martin went up. He got blocked. He rebounded. He went up again. He got blocked again by Tim Duncan. A third time he went up and drew a foul.

"Kenyon wasn't going to let himself get stuck on a highlight film for life like Charles Smith," Lucious Harris said, referring to the famed sequence that doomed the Knicks in 1993.

"I just tried to get a call and I got it," said Martin.