Doc Rivers called his team out after a loss to the Pacers on Friday.

“We’re just not there yet as a team,” Rivers said. “I think we’ve got a tough group of guys; we just haven’t all bought in yet. It’ll come. I’m not that concerned by it. I just know we need it.

“We’ve got to be a hit-first team, and we’ll get there.”

Paul Pierce recognizes there has been a problem.

“We have to be a more physical team,” Pierce said. “I think we play physical in spurts, where it’s something that we have to do constantly. We have to definitely be a better rebounding team. It has to come not only from our bigs, it has to come from our point guard, it has to come from our 2- and 3-guards. It has to be a combination of the five guys that we put on the court that’s going to create the toughness that we’re going to need out there. It has to come from all of us.”