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It looks like the Boston Celtics already started to feel the heat.
But the Celtics tried to play down the shouting match heard from Boston’s locker room after the team blew another double-digit lead against the Miami Heat, 106-101, and fell 0-2 in the NBA Eastern Conference finals on Thursday, September 17 (Friday, September 18, Philippine time).
“Guys were emotional after a hard game, hard loss,” said Celtics coach Brad Stevens.
Reporters covering the game in the Orlando bubble said Celtics guard Marcus Smart was overheard loudly shouting profanities in the team locker room.
Boston star Kemba Walker, though, wouldn’t be drawn on reports that Smart let fly before storming out.
“It was nothing,” Walker insisted, adding when pressed, “We’ll be fine.”
Jayson Tatum said what happens in the locker room among teammates should stay there, and the Celtics will focus on finding a way to win Game 3.
“Two times now we’ve had double-digit leads and let go of the ropes,” Tatum said. “We’ve got to figure out why that keeps happening and just be prepared to win the next one.”
The Celtics lost Game 1 in overtime after blowing a double-digit lead. And it turned out much of the same in Game 2 where they led by as many as 17 points only to collapse in the endgame.
“They outplayed us,” Walker said of the Heat’s third-quarter surge. “It’s really unacceptable on our behalf. We didn’t continue to do the things that we did to get us that lead. I think we got kind of comfortable and those guys took advantage of it.
“They played hard – a lot harder than us. We fought our way back, but just too many mistakes.” – Rappler.com
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