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'Awful' Celtics Have Rivers 'Really Frustrated'

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The coaching staff cooled down with an extended postgame meeting out in the hallway — clearly preferable to where they watched the actual calamity last night.

The breakdowns started so early, Doc Rivers nearly drew a technical foul in the first quarter. The Celtics [team stats] just had come out of a timeout, and the ball barely was inbounded before the play was botched. Rivers ran onto the floor, spewing epithets and...

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