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Time to protect Garden

Landry Fields is keeping a daily playoff diary for The Post, as the 22-year-old rookie shooting guard chronicles his first-ever postseason series, the Knicks’ first-round battle with the Celtics and more. As told to Mark Hale.

This game’s pretty important. We’ve got to protect home court. I think it’s as simple as that.

The Garden should be pretty crazy. Obviously I’ve never experienced it. Not many people have in the past few years. So I’m looking forward to it. It’ll be a lot different now than in the regular season. And hopefully we can ride that. Even down 2-0, we definitely still feel pretty confident, because it could have swung the other way in Boston. As long as we stay focused on what we need to do and just keep it up with the energy, I think that’s been the biggest thing.

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I don’t think there are too many adjustments we need to make for Game 3. Here and there, we might sniff out a few plays before they happen. But other than that, I think with our energy level and the pace that we run at, it should be hard for them.

There is some uncertainty with Amar’e Stoudemire and Chauncey Billups, but we can only focus on things that we can control. We hope those guys have a speedy recovery and hopefully they’ll be back tonight. We might know going into the game whether they’re available, but still, I don’t think that sways us in what we need to do. Because we didn’t have Amar’e for the second half of Game 2 and we still played it pretty tough. Either way, we should be all right.

There are a few things I see that have me confident I can improve, personally. Just understanding my spots and picking and choosing when to be aggressive. I think it was in Boston, I said I just kind of have to be intelligent aggressive and just slowing down and taking what the defense gives me.