The rest of the series will provide the answers regarding the impact of this Game 1 in Boston, but the disappointment was enormous on the Indiana side after this setback. Tyrese Haliburton and his teammates had the match in hand, before multiplying fatal errors, thus giving Jaylen Brown a chance to equalize.
Rick Carlisle quickly took responsibility for this defeat, explaining that it was “entirely for me”for not having taken a time-out in the last seconds.
He is now joined, the day after the match in Massachusetts, by his playmaker. “It’s one of the first playoff matches where I really have this feeling: I screwed everything up. It's my fault “, he assures the Indy Star.
“See things as they are and don’t darken the picture”
But the reality of one match is not that of the next, so before Game 2, it is mainly about forgetting this defeat, swallowing the disappointment and hoping to take this second round.
“There is the video session. And we must not get carried away, in one direction or another. This is the most important for me. In a series, we have good and bad matches. In these playoffs, I had some very good matches and some of the worst of my season,” he concedes. “You have to understand it: victory or defeat, good or bad match, there is always a lesson to be learned. These are my first playoffs and I'm learning a lot. Tuesday, yes, it was boring to live through. But it's okay, it's a good lesson. »
Especially since we can also see the glass half full. The Pacers were on the verge of winning against the Celtics. Certainly there were mistakes, but Indiana had the game in hand. “We observed our problems. Many of the adjustments that need to be made are not complicated. It's simply spacing, reading the game. And the things we've done well, we have to continue to do them correctly.”analyzes Rick Carlisle.
“There are ups and downs in the playoffs when you get to the conference final,” continues the coach. “We have to regulate all this. We must see things as they are and not make the picture darker. We need to do some things better. That's all. »
