"While speaking to press, he answered all six questions with the same two words, then left."
"Indiana forward Pascal Siakam walked up to set a screen on Celtics guard Derrick White, but Siakam extended a leg and leaned outside the frame of his body, clipping White and forcing the Celtics defenders to switch."
"Siakam then attacked White and banked in a floater to go up by two with six seconds on the clock."
After the Boston Celtics lost 98-96 to the Indiana Pacers, head coach Joe Mazzulla answered six postgame questions identically with the two-word phrase "Illegal screen." He was likely referring to Pascal Siakam's final-possession screen on Derrick White, where Siakam extended a leg, leaned outside his frame, clipped White and forced a defensive switch. Siakam attacked, banked a floater to put Indiana up by two with six seconds remaining, and White's late three missed. The Celtics have been frustrated with recent officiating; Jaylen Brown was fined $35,000 after criticizing refs following a prior loss. Mazzulla remained characteristically intense and unyielding in his responses.
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