Paul Pierce - I Have To Play Better - For Us To Win - Pierce

Following a efficiency through which he manufactured just simply 5-of-19 shots and also done using 12 points, Paul Pierce acknowledged his poor performance cost the particular Celtics around an 83-74 loss for the Hawks around Game one particular Sunday night time throughout Atlanta.

"I considered I acquired great appearance tonight," Pierce said. "For us all to win I have to be an improved player. That's only just what this is. I have to knock down shots, I have got to end up being extreme on this offensive end. I should shield Joe Johnson. I think I was by far the most large culprit of the tonight. Shots I became tonight, I'll receive every one of them. I missed a huge amount of them. I actually skipped some sort of layup spacious towards the end belonging to the game. That has been only a sign from the night I had."

Pierce said his blister large toe had no impact on his subpar night. He gifted credit score to the Atlanta defense.

"We type of eased in to the game," Pierce said. "It's very difficult for you to tell. We identify our-self defensively early, and most of us surely did not accomplish that. They acquired every loose ball, each 3-pointer, they became everything many people needed . It's such as inside a boxing match, a person sit there, you will have a person's guard way up then you definately take ones safeguard down and they impact you and you know you are within a fight. We must recognise we've been in the combat with the jump. That's most of there's to it.

"Very physical game, the two groups scrapping as well as using real hard. We simply just dropped our composure slightly bit, but which is how a playoffs are. You aren't able to count on everything to visit ones way. You please have to in your head battle as a result of it."

Pierce can be wanting similar to his guru plus teammates in which Rajon Rondo will not suspended with regard to Game only two Tuesday following your point guard's run-in together with recognized Marc Davis.

"We hope so," Pierce said as soon as enquired in the event that he has sure Rondo might be on the market Tuesday. "It's beyond my control. It's outside his or her control right now, consequently most people just have to help see."

Added Pierce: "It's unsatisfying losing. I considered after the very first fraction all of us truly identified it up. But you will need to understand, that is the lengthy series. You have got to acquire four games. We have to read from each of our mistakes, study coming from your first quarter, learn from cures did far better while in the following along with next quarters and learn how to hold some of our composure.

"We only can't panic. It's just one game. It's certainly not the stop connected with this world. We'll find another ability with Game 2 to steal home court docket previous to most people proceed home."

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