Al Horford, Boston Celtics center, emphasized what his team need to fix so they can win in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.
The Celtics had no answers for the Dallas Mavericks, who ran away with a lopsided 122:84 win at American Airlines Center to make it a 3-1 series. It was the third-largest loss in Finals history.
Al Horford is no stranger to play-off series and he understood that not adapting from game-to-game certainly goes against the grain.
I’ve been in a lot of these, and usually by the second game, you’re making adjustments. Third game, you’re making another adjustment, and that’s kind of how it is. And for us, we’ve had the first three games, we didn’t really make any adjustments. So today, they did something. We have to see how we can be better and prepare for it. That’s kind of where we’re at right now.
He expect his team to respond in a good fashion on Monday:
“We have to take some things that we can be better at and try to fix them … and make sure that we come out and we play Celtics basketball. I think ultimately that’s what it comes down to for us, and there’s a lot of things that we can control and that I expect us to be much better on Monday.”