CLEVELAND — Brad Stevens knows about big-stage moments. Big flashes of light accompany such times when a player like Kyrie Irving hits his fifth straight 3-pointer.
No wonder the Celtics coach was talking about the significance of these kinds of plays yesterday.
“Those guys can go off at any time, so we have to be cognizant of that, as we saw with Kyrie on a couple of occasions,” Stevens said about Sunday’s 113-100 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of this NBA first-round playoff series. “Even LeBron (James) had a moment where we guarded him as well as we could, and he still made a play.