How do the Celtics adjust to teams running pick-and-roll against Shaq?
Rivers is already sick of hearing about this one, but it’s the first thing his coaching brethren bring up. “We’ve thought about it every day,” he admitted. “It’s not like that goes away. I was just with all the NBA head coaches [last Monday] in Chicago. We had our little thing and every coach said, ‘Hey, you’re going to see a lot of pick-and-rolls this year.’ So we will, and that’s fine. We knew that when we [signed Shaq] and we’re going to try to be the team that solves it.” The key might simply be to put the best defenders around O’Neal and hope that helps mask his deficiencies. Surrounding him with NBA All-Defense players like Garnett and Rondo will make any center better. But the larger question might be: How do the Celtics replace Perkins’ defensive intensity? “Listen, they’re not going to be able to do some of the things that Perk does, and some of the things that they do, I don’t know if Perk can do,” said Rivers. “So it’s never a perfect substitution. Perk, verbally, we’re not
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