Coach Doc Rivers answers questions on Practice Day, Thursday May 29 2008, after the Boston Celtics’ win against the Detroit Pistons in Game 5 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. I just wanted to ask you first of all about Tony Allen. How is he doing today? Doc Rivers: He’s doing good. I haven’t [...]
Coach Flip Saunders of the Detroit Pistons, after the Pistons’ loss to the Boston Celtics in Game 5 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Flip, rebounding has been an issue throughout this series, but it really, really crushed you guys tonight. Talk about that. Flip Saunders: We got beat off some penetration on the [...]
Coach Doc Rivers of the Boston Celtics, after the Celtics’ win over the Detroit Pistons in Game 5 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Just want to talk about the rebounding tonight. That seemed to be the biggest factor in this game tonight. Doc Rivers: Yeah, we talked about it before the game. They [...]
Point Guard Chauncey Billups of the Detroit Pistons, after the Pistons’ loss to the Boston Celtics in Game 5 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Just talk about where you guys are at right now, the task ahead. You’ve obviously been in this situation where you’ve had to win a six and a seven [...]
Forwards Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics, after the Celtics’ win over the Detroit Pistons in Game 5 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Can both of you guys talk about the significance of getting Game 5 once again? Paul Pierce: It’s a huge game. I mean, we don’t get this [...]
Center Kendrick Perkins and Shooting Guard Ray Allen of the Boston Celtics, after the Celtics’ win over the Detroit Pistons in Game 5 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Ray, Doc talked a little bit about how even when you were having some offensive struggles in the series, you tried to make up with [...]
Coach Doc Rivers of the Boston Celtics, before Game 5 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Is Tony Allen dressing tonight? And if not, who’s replacing him on the active roster? Doc Rivers: These deep, penetrating questions. No, he’s not dressing tonight. He got injured, I guess, in the one-on-one games yesterday. So Scalabrine.
Coach Flip Saunders of the Detroit Pistons, before Game 5 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Is there anything in this series that in your judgment and experience you haven’t seen before in terms of teams playing well, then playing inexplicably bad, things going the way you planned, things not going the way you [...]
Center Kendrick Perkins answers questions on Practice Day, Tuesday May 27 2008, after the Boston Celtics’ win against the Detroit Pistons in Game 3 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Perk, can you just talk about Paul was saying when you guys broke the huddle, he reminded everybody of the opportunity you guys have [...]
Forward Paul Pierce answers questions on Practice Day, Tuesday May 27 2008, after the Boston Celtics’ win against the Detroit Pistons in Game 3 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Paul Pierce: We’re the type of team, like I said all year, we don’t get too up on wins, we don’t get too down on [...]
Forward James Posey answers questions on Practice Day, Tuesday May 27 2008, after the Boston Celtics’ win against the Detroit Pistons in Game 3 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Just describe, I guess, the situation you guys are in. James Posey: Worry about our next game, which is tomorrow, and that’s all the [...]
Coach Doc Rivers answers questions on Practice Day, Tuesday May 27 2008, after the Boston Celtics’ win against the Detroit Pistons in Game 3 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Doc Rivers: We didn’t get off to a fast start yesterday, but we had plenty of chances to win the game. We were down five, [...]