Pace maker
Rajon Rondo set the tone for the game by scoring three of Boston’s first four baskets. The Celtics have been making it a point of emphasis to get Rondo to push the ball and look for his shot when he has it before the defense is set up.
“The thing I try to get through to Rajon every night is, why give up your best talent?” Celtics coach Doc Rivers said after the game. “Why walk the ball up the floor? And now you’ve given up what you do well. Push the pace, every single time, if there’s a guy falling back, attack him. And just know that no one’s going to help off Ray and Paul. And you can get to the basket… And I know that he’s trying to – we get on him on execution – so for him being a young guard, it’s a fine line for him. But I tell him if I had a guy telling me every day to just push it, push it, push it, I’d be the happiest guy on earth.”
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