The Boston Celtics were taken down by an unlikely Heat team, with Caleb Martin serving the most improbable role as Miami’s best player during the series. Celtics legend Paul Pierce doesn’t believe Martin should’ve been able to do what he did, imploring that Boston should’ve put Martin on his derrière.
“They should have put Martin on his ass a few times,” Pierce said on the latest episode of Showtime’s “Ticket & Truth” podcast. “He just kept going to the rack. He hit 3s. I would have been like, ‘He goes to the ground. Imma send him to the baseline and put him on his ass.