The Boston Celtics battled back from a 3-0 deficit in the Eastern Conference finals to force a Game 7 in Boston. But unfortunately for the Celtics, Game 7 ended in a blowout loss as the team fell 103-84, ending their season. And after the game, Celtics players had some brutally honest things to say about the way things played ot.
“We got punked,” Celtics forward Grant Williams told ESPN after the game. “We didn’t play our game from start to finish. Defensively, we just lost it all, and then offensively we were scrambled and trying to do everything ourselves and just didn’t go our way.
“You hate to have that be the end of your season, especially with the fight that we’ve shown. But shots didn’t fall either, so that didn’t help … it’s just tough.”
Marcus Smart echoed those thoughts, explaining that the whole loss came down to simply missing shots.
“[We were] missing shots, and then they’re coming down and hitting shots,” Smart said. “It puts a lot of pressure on our defense to get stops. And they were hitting some shots and they got in a rhythm and we weren’t making ours.”
As for the disappointment of the game, Jayson Tatum made it clear that the team is just going to have to move on.
“You can’t go through life talking about what you could have, you should have done,” Tatum said. “[Stuff] happens and the past is the past.
“We fought like [heck] to give ourselves a chance today. Just not the outcome that we anticipated.”
[ESPN]
