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00:00 The Garden Report is powered by PrizePix, the exclusive daily fantasy partner of the CLNS Media Network.

00:07 Hey, Bobby Manning here. Welcome to a practice edition of The Garden Report.

00:12 Celtics Pacers in between games one and two reconvening this afternoon.

00:18 Celtics got into practice over at the Auerbach Center. We were over there a little while ago.

00:23 Pacers just talking at their team hotel and just a lot of confidence from them and some of the things they did well.

00:33 A note on things they need to do better. Certainly a few things defensively and shaking off the loss.

00:42 They've talked about how they've been there before. Many of the similar messages we heard from them last night.

00:47 That they've had bad game one losses in particular in each round of these playoffs.

00:52 Talking to Obi Toppin, talking to Tyrese Haliburton today, you still don't suspect that they're just going to crumble or fall apart.

00:58 Despite how devastating that loss was last night. The turnover on the inbounds, Jaylen Brown's three.

01:04 Haliburton tough on himself. Said he felt like it was the first time he really cost his team.

01:10 With some of his mistakes, turnovers in particular. The biggest thing they have to clean up.

01:15 And on the Celtics side, plenty for them to fix too. The lineups at certain points in that game gave up big runs to Indiana.

01:23 With double digit leads disappearing within minutes. Big conversation today for Joe Mizzoula.

01:30 Many of the questions, will he go smaller? Will he go to some options off his bench?

01:35 Namely, O'Shea Bressett, Xavier Tillman at those frontcourt spots that can deal with Indiana's speed a little bit better than Al Horford.

01:44 Blue Cornet showed capable of in game one. They were really able to attack the Celtics interior.

01:50 Joe noting that you have to live with some of that stuff as Al Horford did the other day.

01:54 Especially the mid-rangers, they're willing to give up some of those in favor of threes.

01:58 Rick Carlisle saying today that they're willing to do the same.

02:02 So a similar mindset on both sides. Of course produces the kind of game you saw yesterday.

02:07 Tight one right down to the wire. And I would expect that to continue in this series.

02:10 I really don't expect many blowouts, if any, in this series based on the play style here.

02:16 These teams just able to get back into it so quickly with the number one, number two offense of all time.

02:21 But don't expect any lineup changes, at least if Mizzoula was talking truthfully here today.

02:27 Here's what he had to say about why he has some hesitation about shaking up the lineups completely here.

02:32 Joe, I know you guys didn't go to it a ton during the year, but in a series like this with a lot of speed,

02:37 you know, Indiana playing small at times, could Tatum at the five be an option here?

02:43 Is that something you could think about, like an ultra small lineup at times?

02:46 Yeah, I mean, with their ability to play different lineups, the way they sub,

02:51 they sub two, three guys at a time, they're willing to go away from sub patterns for certain guys.

02:55 So you just got to be wary of going to anything and everything at any particular time.

03:01 And it's something our guys have done a great job of staying open-minded to whatever makes the most sense in the game

03:05 and being ready to execute.

03:07 So, yeah, I think anything's on the table versus a team like this because of their versatility.

03:11 So injury report will be out shortly.

03:13 We'll see, of course, Xavier Tillman's out for personal reasons right now.

03:17 I would expect they'll let him take his time with what he's dealing with right now.

03:21 So he may or may not be available for game two.

03:24 And maybe Mizzoula just doing some subterfuge there in terms of hiding adjustments that they could be making in terms of lineups there.

03:33 I have to imagine rebounding is a concern there, too, even though it went unmentioned,

03:38 against going super small since they just haven't done it for a while this year.

03:42 But I do think it's going to be important to at least try it in this series where the Pacers are so comfortable going inside

03:48 and shooting over Horford and Cornett.

03:50 But, of course, Pacers started 12 for 21 in that game from midrange, and over time they went 0 for 2.

03:58 So living with it for a little while and hoping it comes back down there is a big part of the Mizzoula mantra.

04:04 It looks like they're going to continue to trust their core rotation, at least for now.

04:08 Game two is tomorrow night.

04:09 We'll have shoot-around coverage in the morning and then, of course, all the coverage of the game after a classic last night.

04:14 Really fun one to watch.

04:15 I hope this one's even close to what we saw last night over at the Garden.

04:19 We'll be there.

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04:26 I'm Bobby Manning, and this has been a practice edition of the Garden Report.

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