"I can assure all Boston fans that this will never happen!!"

Paul Pierce said in his post-match press conference: "No matter when Kentrick returns, we're going to make it to the second round with ease. ”

Doug Rivers also emphasized: "We have a couple of very different systems on our coaching staff, and we still have three All-Stars in the team. We are by no means as vulnerable as others think. ”

The commander of the Green Army, who swallowed the first defeat, shouted confidence to the camera.

However, the vast majority are on the fence and are no longer as certain as they were before the first game, believing that Boston will easily advance to the second round. Because everyone knows that the playoffs are about defense and about the penalty area. And yet now...... The Celtics have not only lost Garnett, the big axis of defense, but also Perkins, the iron gate in the restricted area.

Although their opponents do not have the ability to play on the outside, they are extremely strong in the penalty area. From Zach Randolph, who can play all the backs, to Milicic who defensively, to David Lee, who is a mid-range rebounder, and finally Snoopy. In fact, if you count Eddie Curry...... The Knicks simply have too many box options.

In a sense, the series between the two teams has evolved into a duel between two cripples, a battle between the penalty area and the outside!

When the Celtics' coach left, Stephen Marbury and Herb Williams arrived at the post-game press conference.

Herb Williams is all smiles, and he was confirmed by Snoopy five minutes ago that he will officially be the head coach of the Knicks, at least in this series.

This made him jump with excitement.

He was thrilled.

Coaching a playoff team was something he'd always dreamed of, and now ...... It's dawn.

"You have to thank Snoopy." Stephen Marbury reminded him that the fact that he drank water and did not forget to dig the well was something that Marbury had been emphasizing. From the end of the game, he had been in the dressing room to warn the players that without the Duke, there would be no victory tonight.

Now that he had become Snoopy's right-hand man, he began to arm the team ideologically, as if he wanted to turn the Knicks into the Duke's personal army.

Herb Williams hurriedly thanked Dugg.

Dugg didn't have a 'benefactor' mentality, and he smiled: "Mr. Coach, everything we do is for the sake of winning. We're going to have to work hard and we're going to win this series. ”

Herb Williams nodded in agreement. He knows better than anyone that losing this series and winning this series will be two very different concepts for his future. Although he currently has the support of the Duke, he is still only a temporary worker, and if it were not for D'Antoni and Isaiah Thomas to make the conflict public and affect the normal operation of the game, he would not have been able to coach at all.

However, if he leads the team to complete the second Black Eight Miracle in the team's history. So... The hope of turning positive will be incomparably great.

But... The premise is to have a very good relationship with Snoopy.

He has tied his future to the lap of the young rookie.

So, when he showed up at the post-match press conference.

Three sentences will not leave Snoopy, and occasionally a sentence will pop out of the Duke.

“…… Actually, a lot of our tactics were adjusted by Snoopy on the pitch and he was our coach on the pitch. Without him, my first playoff experience would never have been successful. ”

“… The best player to play tonight was of course Duke Snoopy, he was everywhere, he filled every vacancy and I couldn't ask him more to do more. In fact, you'll never see a more mature and intelligent rookie than him, who took less than 10 seconds to adjust to the rhythm of the playoffs. ”

"We're going to stick to Snoopy's style of play and I'm confident that he can lead the team through the first round and into the second round."

Herb Williams is full of accolades, and these accolades are not even like a head coach's compliment to his players, but more like a flattery from his subordinates to his superiors.

When asked by reporters why Coach D'Antoni did not attend the post-match press conference tonight, Herb Williams gave an official reply: "Mr. McD'Antoni has returned to New York for treatment due to the flu virus. ”

This explanation obviously did not convince reporters, after all, D'Antoni was still alive and loud on the sidelines in the first half, and he did not look like he had the flu at all.

However, now that Herb Williams gave this answer, the reporters could no longer continue to ask questions, and could only dig into the inside story from other sources.

Marbury then answered a few questions in a very official manner, and the post-game press conference ended.

And after the press conference, the Boston Celtics released Kentrick Perkins' recent injury report: Perkins has torn ligaments in his ankle and will undergo minimally invasive surgery, and he will miss at least four weeks of play, which means that... If you want to see him this season, Boston will have to at least make it to the Finals.

The news of this confirmed diagnosis is undoubtedly a bombshell blow to Bostonians.

"The balance of the game slowly shifted from being completely tilted in favor of the Celtics, and now the Knicks and Celtics are roughly evenly matched, with huge advantages on the inside and outside, respectively. If you don't take into account the Knicks' confusing head coaching situation, there is a 50 percent chance that both sides will advance. ”

ESPN's basketball pundits were quick to express their opinions after receiving the news that Perkins would be reimbursed for the season, and immediately revised their previous predictions for the series: many pundits had previously said that the Celtics would have won easily, and most of them gave five or even four settlement games. And now, the number of games has become six, or even seven. The Knicks are also starting to get some buy-in, but... The number of people who think the defending champions will get through it still has the advantage.

After all... The Knicks are a young team relative to the playoffs, and they don't look harmonious on the inside.

When Douge returned to his hotel room, he didn't pay attention to the comments of basketball experts on the website, nor did he pay attention to the sports media's praise for him, and he didn't pay attention to the gossip about Selena Gomez and Miley Sellers in front of each other at Hollywood Boulevard this evening.

He just took the time to talk to Isaiah Thomas and D'Antoni for a while.

The two managers will fly back to New York on the same flight early tomorrow morning before embarking on their long vacation.

Their conversation was not tense and, of course, not very pleasant.

The conversation was done in a very polite manner.

Isaiah Thomas has been known as a smiling assassin since his playing days, and he doesn't show much emotion in his conversations.

D'Antoni, on the other hand, was so angry about the deprivation of his command that he couldn't accept it, but he didn't use the word 'betrayal'.

Because he still hopes to continue to improve the Running Bomb 2.0 system with Snoopy next season.

"I have no grudge against you, I just hate Isaiah Thomas (D'Antoni) and Herb Williams, one of them is the most stupid idiot, the most insidious of mirrors."

They said almost exactly the same thing at the end of the conversation.

This left Dugg unable to answer.

……