“We turned into the Celtics again,” Rivers said. “We started playing defense. We were getting stops. Paul knows, because we talked about it before the game. Multiple stops equal multiple scores.
“We did it for stretches during the series, but never a full game except for Game 3. And when we got the stops, we could run. The one thing we thought we could do was that we could run, and that’s what we talked about. Getting easy baskets. We really felt that if we could get stops and rebounds that we could be a transition team tonight. And I thought we were.”