BOSTON — Every player and coach has what-ifs after getting so close.
And on Tuesday, on the second day of his Young Game Changers basketball clinic in Westford, Marcus Smart had a few of his own.
“For me, I wish Rob (Williams) didn’t tear his meniscus. I wish I didn’t mess my ankle up to where I’m struggling to play and had to put an ankle brace on. I wish we didn’t run out of gas,” he said, adding that he won’t need surgery, just rest. “Obviously those series we went through to get to the Finals were so brutal, but I wouldn’t change a thing about it. You hate to find your lessons in defeat, but sometimes you have to see rain before a rainbow. But think things I lay in bed thinking about are our execution. We had so many damn turnovers, man, it was ridiculous. Unfortunately that’s what we’d been doing the last couple of series. We flirted with it and it finally backfired and it bit us in our butts.
