Boston’s constant switching and denying Kevin Durant the ball led to far too many Brooklyn miscues, gaffes that cost the visitors Sunday’s first-round Game 1.
BOSTON — The Nets shot a scalding 53.8 percent against the Celtics’ league-leading defense, and a solid 11 of 24 from behind the arc. But Boston’s constant switching and denying Kevin Durant the ball led to far too many Brooklyn miscues, gaffes that“We have too many turnovers. Definitely the first half I think we had 13. In the second half we did much better job, only four,” Goran Dragic said. “We need to stop fouling. We’re in bonus too quick and it’s tough to play defense like that.
“First of all when we just made silly mistakes. We had ball under our basket and nobody was there to … those are easy mistakes. Those are like my kids when they’re playing. We just have to take care of the easy ones. But then we had our chances. We just have to bite down and get a stop and unfortunately we didn’t.”Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post
“[Irving] did his job, but we have to help him,” Dragic said. “It’s not individual sport, we have to play as a group. Especially defensively, help each other and offense we have two of the best players in the world who can score.
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