Celtics.com
CLEVELAND – Twenty-point comebacks are always inspiring, but they’re only birthed by devastating deficits.
Unfortunately for the Celtics, their comeback fell short Thursday night in Cleveland, and Brad Stevens isn’t impressed by anything resembling a fourth-quarter moral victory given how poorly his team played during the previous three stanzas.
Asked how much stock he put in the fact that his team rallied to make it a game, Stevens cut off the question before it could even be completed by stating a resolute, “None.”
It was the kind of comeback Doc Rivers used to call “fool’s gold” due to the fact that at the end of the day, the Celtics still lost, and even if they had managed to win, it wouldn’t have been because they deserved a victory.