BOSTON -- Before his Boston Celtics took on the Golden State Warriors here Saturday night, Brad Stevens was asked about the task of taking on the two-time defending champions.
"They have a lot of highly skilled, highly intelligent basketball players that, if you take your foot off the gas for one second, you're dead," Stevens said. "They make you play possession-to-possession, they make you have that kind of focus, and that's really good to see where you're at at a given time.
"So that's what I'm looking forward to tonight: seeing where we are at.