Oh, Phil
Even in gut-wrenching defeat, Phil Jackson can crack a joke.
When asked how surprised he was by the final score of tonight’s game, Jackson lit up the press room by responding, “I don’t know what the final score is. Let me look at it here for you (laughter).”
He should have looked a little sooner.
“The last two minutes of the second period buried the team emotionally,” said Jackson. “And we went into the locker room at halftime and tried to get our guys back on bearing and really came out in the third quarter and really couldn’t turn the momentum around.”
Jackson said Boston’s defense, as well as its physicality, were the deciding factors in the series.
“They took us out of what we like to do, and I think a lot of that was off the dribble, and they were able to establish and squelch pretty much our dribble penetration,” he said. “Some of those things we had to change, and we had trouble doing it tonight. [Rajon] Rondo picked us apart because of it. He got the ball off the dribble and steals, and that was kind of indicative of how it went.”
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