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Last Game Quotes (Game 6 vs Nets)
May 31, 2022

Antoine Walker
"We've been making big plays in the fourth quarter all season long. Not to come through tonight, in an elimination game, that hurts."

"I think the biggest thing that we can take out of this season is that we need home-court advantage," Walker said.

"I think the second half, they slowed us up," Walker said. "We were executing our offense early on in the first half."

Paul Pierce
"I think this is just the start of something," Pierce said. "We have nothing to hang our heads down for. We had a great year. I think this is just the beginning of a young team taking a big step.

"Nobody really expected us to be here. We're going to get better. We have the potential to be a championship team someday."

Erick Strickland
"I don't feel disappointed with anything except that we lost. I played as hard as I could," Strickland said. "I'm more disappointed for those guys (Walker and Pierce), for what they did for us all season."

Jim O'Brien
"Jason Kidd is an off-the-chart player," Celtics coach Jim O'Brien said. "He is as good a point guard that I've ever seen. To be able to get triple-doubles on a regular basis is something to be said."

"If you're the Boston Celtics and with the team that we built, you got to make threes, and we just didn't get that done," O'Brien said.