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Paul Pierce Jersey IS GETTING PRETTY SICK OF GIVING SPEECHES
Celtics captain Paul Pierce Jerseyis not about to stand up on a table in the locker room and yell at his teammates to stop being lazy and bored. He said after Friday’s collapse and shocking home-court loss to the lowly Bobcats that every player needs to recommit themselves to the team or the losing will continue.
“It has to come from all of us,” Paul Pierce Jersey said. “One player can come out here and say it and “hoo-rah” around the locker room, but it has to come from everybody. We’re all veterans, we’ve all been here before, and we all know what it takes. It’s got to come from each individual to take a look in the mirror, and look inside and decide if that’s what they want to do. We can talk about it everyday, but until we look at ourselves in the mirror, that’s what it’s going to be.”
Last year, Kendrick Perkins, during a late-season slump, said the Celtics were bored and were just trying to get to the playoffs. Are Celtics playing bored during their latest uninspired stretch?
“I can’t speak for everybody. I’m not bored, if you’re asking me,” Paul Pierce Jersey said.
Rivers called the team out for being selfish after the ugly loss. Paul Pierce Jersey said that comes from a lack of ball movement in the offense.
“From time to time, that’s the reason why we don’t shoot a high percentage, or score 100 points, because the ball is sticking when we usually make extra passes that’s when the offense is flowing, and we’re able to get out there on a break and get easy opportunities,” Paul Pierce Jersey said. “You haven’t been seeing that, and that’s why we’re shooting a low percentage and that’s why we’re not scoring.”
Did Celtics defense get uptight as the Bobcats went on a run in the fourth?
“I wouldn’t say that,” Paul Pierce Jersey said. “It’s just our defense really broke down in the 4th quarter. We played good defense for three quarters, solid for the most part. Then we give up 30 points in the 4th quarter. Regardless of how our offense if going, which we’ve been struggling as of late; we still should be able to pull together a defensive run and hold this team off, especially when we’re up by 10 point in the 4th.”
Paul Pierce Jersey’s comments came just 48 hours after he called the team out for not having ‘a sense of urgency’ with the regular season winding to a close. Friday’s loss dropped the Celtics two games behind the first-place Bulls in the Eastern Conference. And with Miami coming from behind to beat Philadelphia, the Heat stand just a half-game behind the Celtics for second place. |
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