Rivers aware of critics
The Celtics read the papers. They watch TV. They know they’re underdogs.
“[The players] do care,” said Celtics coach Doc Rivers. “You can use it, but at the end of the day you’ve got to play basketball. Whether they pick you or don’t, you still have to play basketball. But you can actually use it. Guys take it personal, they do. They understand that eight out of ten, nine out of ten people have picked the Lakers. Whatever.
Like I told them at the start of the year, the questions will never stop. They’ll never stop about Rondo, they’ve never stop about me, they’ll never stop about Kevin, they’ll never stop about Paul, they’ll never stop about our team, and you can’t take it personally. It’s part of it. Just go out and just keep playing, and that’s all you can do. You can control it with your play, and that’s what I tell our guys.”
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