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Tyrese Haliburton & Pascal Siakam Talk Forcing Game 7 vs. Thunder _ 2025 NBA Finals · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: You can pass it down here, go right in the center, Tod.
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  Speaker 2: James Boyd the athletic. Obviously a lot of talk about
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  Speaker 2: your calf and you have to decide whether the player
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  Speaker 2: or not things like that. But you are an inherently
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  Speaker 2: unselfish player. I would imagine your parents ready to be
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  Speaker 2: unel as a person. But how much selfishness do you
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  Speaker 2: have to have in a moment like this to go
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  Speaker 2: out there and play? And how much selfishness is good
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  Speaker 2: selfishs to have as a high level athlete.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I just look at it as you know,
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  Speaker 3: I want to be out there to compete with my brothers.
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  Speaker 3: You know, these are guys that I'm willing to go
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  Speaker 3: to war with and we've had such a special year
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  Speaker 3: and we have a special.
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  Speaker 1: Bond as a group.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, I think I beat myself up
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  Speaker 3: if I didn't give it a chance, you know, And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I just wanted to be out there and fight,
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  Speaker 3: and I had to have honest conversation with the coach
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  Speaker 3: that you know, if I didn't look like myself and
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  Speaker 3: you know, was hurting the team, like shit me down
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  Speaker 3: like that. Obviously, I want to be on the floor,
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  Speaker 3: but I want.
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  Speaker 1: To win, you know, more than anything.
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  Speaker 3: So, uh, I just have an honest conversation with coach,
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I just I want to be on the
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  Speaker 3: floor and if I have the ability to, if I can,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, if I can walk, then I want
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  Speaker 3: to be out there. So you know, I just want
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  Speaker 3: to be out there with my brothers to to to compete.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, those guys have my back, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I have theirs at the same time.
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  Speaker 4: So you know that was important for me again in
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  Speaker 4: the front Terry Sackey for with the athletic this team
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  Speaker 4: has never been this close to an NBA championship in
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  Speaker 4: its history. You've talked with Reggie about how much that
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  Speaker 4: would mean to you personally. How do you weigh that
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  Speaker 4: over the next forty eight seventy hours with the focus
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  Speaker 4: that's going to need to win in their place in
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  Speaker 4: Game seven.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just not trying to look at it from like
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  Speaker 3: a big picture thing, you know, not trying to look
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  Speaker 3: at it in that way necessarily, Like we got one game.
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  Speaker 1: One game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's nothing that's happened before matters, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and and nothing that's gonna happen after it matters. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's all about that one game, so uh, just trying
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  Speaker 3: to approach it the right way. You know, for the
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  Speaker 3: next couple of days there it's gonna be uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the the narratives are are are going to be almost
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  Speaker 3: poison you know, uh to talk about what this would
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  Speaker 3: mean dur city and our organization and legacy talk. And
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  Speaker 3: we played so well and now the pressures on that
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  Speaker 3: like it's gonna you know what I mean, it's there's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be uh, you know, narratives that we can't really
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  Speaker 3: pay attention to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got to control what we can.
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  Speaker 3: You know, so much of these games has come down to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, who's going to start the fight from a
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  Speaker 3: physicality standpoint, and you know, take care of the ball better,
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  Speaker 3: rebound the ball better. You know, those are important things
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  Speaker 3: that we need to focus on. So you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't even want to say, like, you know, celebrate this
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  Speaker 3: one a night move like it's done with. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we did our job to take care home court, and
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  Speaker 3: we gotta be ready to compete in game seven.
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  Speaker 1: Tustin here on the left.
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  Speaker 5: Dustin de here, can you start tying? You talked about
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  Speaker 5: just whether you felt like yourself or not. I guess
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  Speaker 5: how close or how far did you feel to yourself?
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  Speaker 5: How long to take you kind of adjust to whatever
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  Speaker 5: you know you were dealing with and had to commensate for,
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  Speaker 5: and what what do you feel like you you managed
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  Speaker 5: to kind of put together to uh just figure out
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  Speaker 5: to deal with what you know with the calf muscle,
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  Speaker 5: and you know what you.
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  Speaker 1: Were Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I was really for you guys to analyze as far
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  Speaker 3: as what you think about how I performed, you know, I,
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  Speaker 3: uh was just trying to come out and impact the
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  Speaker 3: game in any way I could, you know, still trying
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  Speaker 3: to be who I am at the same time. But obviously, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm dealing dealing with something. But you know, nobody cares.
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  Speaker 3: They don't care. I don't care. So you know, we
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  Speaker 3: gotta get the games. You know, we gotta take care.
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  Speaker 3: We took care of business day, but you gotta get.
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  Speaker 1: Ready for game seven. You know. That's uh, that's a
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  Speaker 1: really exciting time.
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  Speaker 6: Ramona over here, Terry's Ramona Shelburn ESPN. You mentioned the
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  Speaker 6: narratives are going to be poisoned for you guys in
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  Speaker 6: the next couple of days. Keep your focus here. I
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  Speaker 6: noticed to send your social media, haven't. I think your
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  Speaker 6: last post was June sixth, right, maybe game one. Have
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  Speaker 6: you stayed off that altogether? Have you been able to
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  Speaker 6: avoid much much input coming into you from the outside world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've tried my best. I've tried my best.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't have the apps or anything, And
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  Speaker 3: be honest, sometimes I got a log on Twitter to
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  Speaker 3: see what's going on with like WW or uh Susser
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  Speaker 3: and other stuff, honestly, but not trying to stay off
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  Speaker 3: as much as I can and just not pay attention
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  Speaker 3: to outside noise as much as as much as you
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  Speaker 3: know I can, you know, as much as we can
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  Speaker 3: as a group. So you know, all that matters is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the opinions of the guys in the locker
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  Speaker 3: room and what our focus will be over the next
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  Speaker 3: forty eight hours. Yeah, I ideleted the apps, correct, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: David in front.
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  Speaker 7: Terry's can you walk us through the last forty eight
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  Speaker 7: hours where you've been, who has been with you as
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  Speaker 7: they round the clock treatment has proceeded, whether it was
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  Speaker 7: in the training room or at your house or wherever
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  Speaker 7: it was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, trying to think after the game, went to sleep,
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  Speaker 3: woke up, went to hyperbaric chamb got an MRI. I
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  Speaker 3: had a meeting with uh, you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 3: specialists and my agents in the organization.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next day, more treatment at the.
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  Speaker 3: Gym, more stuff at the gym, trying to get some
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  Speaker 3: shots yesterday and then just around the clock, you know,
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  Speaker 3: hyperbaric again, and you know, Carl and Justin and you
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  Speaker 3: know been at my house coming and putting H wave
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  Speaker 3: on me and doing a bunch of treatment that way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I was trying to and then this morning hyperbaric again.
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  Speaker 3: Usually not a game day hyperbaric person, but I try
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  Speaker 3: to give myself the best shot that I could coming
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  Speaker 3: into today.
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  Speaker 1: And then just more H Wave, more treatment at the house.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: They's just you know, we got a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: who uh you know take care of me, and we
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  Speaker 3: have an elite medical staff. So it's been really good
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  Speaker 3: to have those guys, you know, my house, helping however
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  Speaker 3: they can. My family has been on me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they if i'm they call me and they're like, are
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  Speaker 3: you doing treatment R now?
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm about to play the game, like put
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  Speaker 1: some one your leg, you know. So my my.
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  Speaker 3: Family's been holding me accountable. At the same time, so
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  Speaker 3: just trying to take care of the best I could.
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  Speaker 8: Tim the back left, Tim Reynolds ap Tyree Sat.
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  Speaker 1: Ten and fifteen.
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  Speaker 8: And then you guys overcome that you supposed to list
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  Speaker 8: to Cleveland that didn't happen. Your point, you're dragging your
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  Speaker 8: leg the other night, like how just when you when
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  Speaker 8: you look at everything, how crazy is it that there
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  Speaker 8: is just one game left and you're in it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's exciting, man, It's so so exciting. As a
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  Speaker 3: basketball fan. Uh, there's nothing like a game seven. There's
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  Speaker 3: nothing like a Game seven in the NBA Finals. Dreamed
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  Speaker 3: of being in this situation my whole life, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so to be here it's really exciting, really exciting.
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  Speaker 1: For me and our group.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, like I said, what's happened in the
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  Speaker 3: past doesn't matter, what happened today doesn't matter. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's all about one game, you know, and approaching.
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  Speaker 1: That the right way.
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  Speaker 3: So everybody's got to take care of their bodies, a
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  Speaker 3: good couple films, sessions, you know, good preparation, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to get ready for that and let the cards ball
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  Speaker 3: where they may. You know, it's already written. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we've we've we've worked our tails off, uh to get here,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, you's got to trust the work that
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  Speaker 3: we put in and uh, yeah, man, I would't want
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  Speaker 3: to go to battle with any other guys, So I'm
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  Speaker 3: really excited about it.
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  Speaker 9: Pascal, what do you feel like was the biggest key
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  Speaker 9: for you guys reducing the number of turnovers tonight, especially
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  Speaker 9: after that was an issue in game five.
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  Speaker 10: We just got to be strong with the ball. Obviously,
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  Speaker 10: we know how disrupted they are. We was just yeah,
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  Speaker 10: it's it's it's it's tough because it's a whole good defensively,
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  Speaker 10: but we gotta we just gotta, we just gotta be
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  Speaker 10: strong with the ball, two hands and yeah, I'll just
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  Speaker 10: take of it.
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  Speaker 1: Front and center.
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  Speaker 2: Pascal, James Boyd the athletic, What does it take to
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  Speaker 2: force a Game seven? What did it take to win
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  Speaker 2: a Game seven? You've been in both the chuice before
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  Speaker 2: your career.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I think at this point, I mean it's
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  Speaker 10: all about hard play. I mean, we've played each other
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  Speaker 10: enough now where.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's pretty much.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I don't think there's secrets out there like
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  Speaker 10: when we play, so I think it's just about who
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  Speaker 10: wants it more like just playing hard and living it
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  Speaker 10: all out there on the floor and living with the results.
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  Speaker 1: Like I think that's all you can.
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  Speaker 10: Really say in case where if you lose, you go home,
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  Speaker 10: or if you force a game seven and then you
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  Speaker 10: get to game seven, it's like, you know, you lose,
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  Speaker 10: you know, you go home. So it's like one game
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  Speaker 10: for the for for for everything. And I think at
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  Speaker 10: that point it's just about hard play and and and
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  Speaker 10: again sacrificing everything. You know, we worked so hard for
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  Speaker 10: this opportunity and and your privilege enough to get it
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  Speaker 10: at the highest, you know level ever and you know
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  Speaker 10: it's it's it's just a blessing. We're fortunate to be here.
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  Speaker 10: I just I just always remember the times where you know,
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  Speaker 10: I had to to go on vacation early, you know,
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  Speaker 10: like those things always play in my mind to just
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  Speaker 10: be appreciative of of the fact that we're still here
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  Speaker 10: and and we haven't we have a great opportunity. So
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  Speaker 10: it's just going to be all about hard play, like
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  Speaker 10: I said, and and and just understanding was in front
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  Speaker 10: of us and going out there and living a lot
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  Speaker 10: there on the floor.
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  Speaker 9: Second Rop Ctter, let's call you let me circle from
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  Speaker 9: your spin Brazil how much did it meant to see
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  Speaker 9: all the sacrifices that Tyres made to being there the
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  Speaker 9: game for you and for the whole group.
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  Speaker 10: He's a tough kid, so I don't think we are
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  Speaker 10: will At least I didn't have a doubt that he
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  Speaker 10: was gonna, you know, be out there with us. And
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  Speaker 10: and yeah, it just shows, you know, he's one of
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  Speaker 10: our leaders on the team, and he's he's doing everything
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  Speaker 10: he can to be out there for us, and and
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  Speaker 10: we appreciate that.