Smith’s above coach, accepted Boston Celtics drillmaster Brad Stevens, was visibly addled speaking with reporters Tuesday night above-mentioned to Boston’s bold adjoin the New York Knicks.
“You apperceive the endure week’s been tough. I was blessed that I got a adventitious to say goodbye,” Stevens told reporters, as apparent on Comcast SportsNet New England. “And this is absolutely about if you drillmaster somebody, I beggarly you get a lot added out of apprenticeship them than they do from you. So that’s that.
“I mean, I don’t know, I could go on and on and it wouldn’t do him justice, so. He was special, he was tough, he set a abundant example.”
Stevens visibly struggled to accumulate his accord talking about Smith, as his articulation absurd and trailed off several times while answering questions. Asked what fabricated Smith so appropriate and so tough, Stevens explained that the appulse went above the basketball court.
“Those two years, right, he got boxy as a player, he was a absolutely acceptable player. Found a alcove and became one of the added high-achieving guys that I got to drillmaster from area he started,” Stevens explained. “But the endure two years he’s been through a lot and he just never gave in.”
Stevens said he’d get aback to Indiana to appear casework for Smith and pay his respects, and was abiding to say how beholden he was to the Celtics alignment for absolution him do so endure anniversary as well.
Basketball on Tuesday night, however, was annihilation added than a distraction.
“I don’t apperceive (if it’s acceptable to accept the bold Tuesday),” Stevens admitted. “I mean, I anticipate at the end of the day I’m traveling to go out and I’m traveling to do my job and do it as able-bodied as I can.”
That’s apparently all Andrew would accept asked for, too.
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