After scoring 30 in the series opener against the Boston Celtics, Detroit forward Cliff Robinson had some interesting comments that left the Celtics coach scratching his head.  Robinson stated that open shots were and should be available against the Celtics, the coach begged to differ.

``I think he's mistaken,'' O'Brien said. ``I have no idea what he was referring to, to tell you the truth.''

When it was explained that Robinson meant that openings were there if the ball was reversed against the Celtics defense,  Steve Bulpett of the boston Herald writes, the coach said, ``Well, he's wrong.''

``After I hit a few, they just kept leaving me open. The way their defense is set up, you're going to get a lot of shots like that, so it's just a matter of being prepared to knock them down. I just happened to be in a situation where I was the recipient of a lot of those passes.,' said Robinson, who hit 12 of 24 shots including 6-10 from behind the arc.

``I think, No. 1, you don't become the team with the third-best field goal defense in the league by just playing one side of the court,'' O'Brien said. ``We understand that if you take away the strong side, teams that reverse the ball as well as the Detroit Pistons are going to reverse the basketball and we must then cover that side of the court. And we did not do a very good job of moving our defense from one side of the court to the other. That, I would say, is the biggest change that I think you'll see.?