Coach Popovich is a very intelligent coach. He must have felt that his team needed to get some emotion while playing the game.

I think the first game is all emotion. You get that over with and relax a bit.

And the emotion is especially strong in Boston. Here, Louisa May Alcott is their home-town girl.

It tells you something about this team that we were able to start the season off correctly after that first half,

I think some of it has to be the new [guidelines].

That's the type of personality he has. But he does it in a way that's respectful of his teammates. He's never trying to show someone up.