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Pacers Eliminate the Knicks in Game 6 to Advance to the NBA Finals _ Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: We are inside the NBA presented by Key on a night,
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers move on to the NBA Finals to
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  Speaker 1: take on Oklahoma City. And they did it convincingly in
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  Speaker 1: the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got it.
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  Speaker 3: They run, They got their running game going in the
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  Speaker 3: second half. They were fabulous. They were you know, stam
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  Speaker 3: ain't gonna talk about it. They gave away so many
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  Speaker 3: layoffs after score. But I talked two stats. You can't
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  Speaker 3: have seventeen turnovers and miss nine free throws in the
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  Speaker 3: close out game and they on the road and think
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  Speaker 3: you're going to win. But congratulations to the Pacers and
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  Speaker 3: man deluging the finals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, eighteen turnovers for thirty four Indiana points.
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  Speaker 2: Nice, how about it, Kenny.
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  Speaker 3: Turnovers come from the team, you know, making the not
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  Speaker 3: making the right mental fatigue as well. They did a
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  Speaker 3: great job of pressuring brunts in today, keeping him out
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  Speaker 3: of the paint, keeping him on the perimeter, and making
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  Speaker 3: him work from baseline to three point line. He made
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  Speaker 3: he had to make four or five decisions between baseline
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  Speaker 3: to free three point line, and that to me was
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  Speaker 3: a difference. Listen, I know we're going to be joined
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  Speaker 3: by the superstars of the pass but I want to
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  Speaker 3: give Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: Nimhart and Thomas Bryant some love.
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  Speaker 3: I've been shotting here for twelve years. It's all about
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  Speaker 3: the others. Those guys play great. Mim Hart did a fabulous,
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  Speaker 3: unbelievable job on guarding, not stopping Dunson, but just guarding
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  Speaker 3: him ninety four feet the whole game.
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  Speaker 2: Michael plaining and hit some tomy shots.
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  Speaker 3: I want to make sure I get those guys to
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  Speaker 3: pop because listen, Kenny knows this. Shuck knows us superstars
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  Speaker 3: get the credit, but the others every now and then
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  Speaker 3: can take you over the hump.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look at the highlights of Game six, which turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be the clincher.
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  Speaker 2: Here at the.
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  Speaker 1: Fieldhouse, Jalen Brunson and the Knicks trying to force this
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  Speaker 1: scheme seven. Back up at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 3: They came out and man, Mitchell Robinson, get that kid
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  Speaker 3: some credit.
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  Speaker 2: A machine on that off does a board they had.
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  Speaker 1: They had a solid first quarter. They more than weather
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  Speaker 1: the storm in the first.
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  Speaker 2: Course they did, but you know what, that storm kept coming.
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  Speaker 2: Chale Bridges can'date the triple.
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  Speaker 3: They had the great pace early on, even though Indiana
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  Speaker 3: was knocking down shots. It was a pace that the
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  Speaker 3: Knicks would like to have stayed throughout the game. They
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  Speaker 3: wanted this game to be one O eight and wound
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  Speaker 3: up being in the one twenties and they cannot beat
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  Speaker 3: the Indiana pass in the one twenties.
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  Speaker 2: And at Pits.
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  Speaker 1: Brute you saw Nie Smith knocked down of three miles.
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  Speaker 1: Turner connects from deep and after after one, Indiana twenty
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  Speaker 1: five to twenty four, and Indiana did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Will continue pushing the pace, specially after many destiny. I
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  Speaker 3: just don't understand how the niss can let them score
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  Speaker 3: after made Matthew Man that was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: The last couple on time and again too unbelievable. Indiana
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  Speaker 1: with a three point league.
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  Speaker 2: Iris Halliburton's got all day and he connects. The ball
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  Speaker 2: is the most dangerous thing on the floor. You never
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  Speaker 2: leave it where you ever care was dropped on that
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  Speaker 2: pick and roll. They just took a vent of that
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  Speaker 2: pick and roll. And this is a jail break right here.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna wind up with a Jeris Walker's bucket and
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  Speaker 1: then another New York turnoder.
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  Speaker 3: Them Hart with six steals again, I'm gonna give him
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  Speaker 3: shuck pumps.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he would have gover in the thirty fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, every time runs and went into the lane, you see,
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  Speaker 3: he sees hands and bodies and.
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  Speaker 2: So that was just too much for him.
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  Speaker 3: Siakam was great in the open court, half court, mid court,
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  Speaker 3: free throw line, everywhere on the court.
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  Speaker 2: Three poor love.
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  Speaker 1: So they got a little run going here at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the half and then big bucket for New
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  Speaker 1: york O g Annobi here.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so with down four, but this is when he
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  Speaker 3: lost the game. Coming up at the first five to
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  Speaker 3: seven minutes of the third quarter, all hell broke loose
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  Speaker 3: as they say, oh you said that, well, I said nine,
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  Speaker 3: you made it up.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't nothing run to start the first quarter and it's
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  Speaker 1: over now.
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  Speaker 2: And he the Knicks view was probably a little round.
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  Speaker 2: They made a little run, but.
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  Speaker 3: They were down fifteen, and he was finding but had
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  Speaker 3: a nine old run.
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  Speaker 2: But they just couldn't They got in the flood. They
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  Speaker 2: could not with tea.
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  Speaker 3: You think it was fatigue, h it might have been.
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  Speaker 3: But if the one of the pacers get going and listen,
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  Speaker 3: this guy hits two.
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  Speaker 2: Threes on a row from that same bible.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Bryant, there's your guy, Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And Ernie, you got to get him the credit because
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  Speaker 3: he got benched and other started playing again as Bradley
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  Speaker 3: got hurt.
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  Speaker 2: He had four points in the series coming into this game. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even know that was his game.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know the top of the shooting three in
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  Speaker 2: such a highing of either. But give him credit for
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  Speaker 2: being radio shack. Yes, kudos.
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  Speaker 1: So after oh oh, and Nicks had cut it to seven,
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  Speaker 1: but long, but then it's the Pacers up ninety two
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  Speaker 1: to seventy seven after three.
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  Speaker 2: This is still right.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you got to get off the ball, Quicker.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I thought, you know they didn't throwing bodies
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  Speaker 3: at at Jalen. This is the best that they've got
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  Speaker 3: him in the second half. I've seen all series.
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  Speaker 1: Halliburton with the fee to Miles Turner, I.
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  Speaker 3: Know who feels so good right now? Voted by his peers, overrated.
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  Speaker 2: And them Hart Where was a Kubo d How you
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  Speaker 2: like it now, Kidney?
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  Speaker 3: You like now?
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  Speaker 2: Look at that turn.
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  Speaker 1: That Halliburton call him game and the Indiana Pacers celebrate
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  Speaker 1: as they are heading to the NBA Finals for the
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  Speaker 1: second time in their NBA history.
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  Speaker 2: And Ernie I know that was your call. Letting Reggie
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  Speaker 2: pass out the trophy. It's such a class at No,
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  Speaker 2: that was was your call. I'm not going to take
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  Speaker 2: credit for that.
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  Speaker 1: But whoever come up with the idea, it was a
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  Speaker 1: brilliant idea the NBA did. The NBA said we need
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  Speaker 1: a little bit to hand it out, and Reggie was
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  Speaker 1: the perfect guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but there is no legend bigger than you. Well
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  Speaker 3: in Indiana, Reggie is Yeah, I would agree on a
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  Speaker 3: nobody bigger than my cancel, bigger than Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We love Ernie.
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  Speaker 3: We just go out. He can give it out in Milwaukee. Here,
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  Speaker 3: you give it out of Milwaukee any time. He won't
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  Speaker 3: to I don't nobody bigger than my Ernie. Let's listen
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  Speaker 3: to Tom Tip. Yeah, I think you know.
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  Speaker 4: And again there's disappointment because you fall short of what
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  Speaker 4: your goal is, right, and there's in the end, there's
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  Speaker 4: only going to be one team, uh that achieves the goal.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think the challenge for us is to
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  Speaker 4: look at it for what it is, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: we finished in the in the top three, but it's
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  Speaker 4: we're falling short of the ultimate goal. And so for us,
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  Speaker 4: it's to use that for motivation and determination to work
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  Speaker 4: all summer to prepare ourselves to make the final step
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  Speaker 4: and keep improving so we can achieve our goal. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the way we have to approach it,
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  Speaker 4: and that's the way we have to look at it. So, uh,
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  Speaker 4: it's improvement from last year, but it's aultimately not what
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  Speaker 4: our ultimate goal is.
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  Speaker 3: Tom, what do you what do you feel like are
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  Speaker 3: those next steps you guys have to make?
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  Speaker 4: And again, like you would do after every season, you
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  Speaker 4: take a step back, I think, decompress, You do a
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  Speaker 4: deep dive on the team, and then you analyze what
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  Speaker 4: you think you need to improve upon. And then you know,
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  Speaker 4: we have the draft, and then we have free agency,
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  Speaker 4: and there's trades, and then there's the internal development and
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  Speaker 4: then it's the study in preparation for next season. And
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  Speaker 4: so it's a big off season for us.
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  Speaker 2: So in Game six, that's the game right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, And look at Thomas Bryant with just eight points,
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  Speaker 1: two out of three in the third quarter and the
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  Speaker 1: points off turnover, the fast break points is Indiana just
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  Speaker 1: turned it up in the third and that's when the
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  Speaker 1: game turned in their favor and stayed.
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  Speaker 4: Just that way.
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  Speaker 2: So look the Pacers.
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  Speaker 1: The Pacers the first three wins of this series came
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  Speaker 1: by a total of seventeen points. They win Game six
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  Speaker 1: by seventeen. Finally had a little bit of breathing room.
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  Speaker 2: Canny.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the breathing room came when you know, they got
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  Speaker 3: double digits. The Knicks move that this game was over,
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  Speaker 3: so they didn't have the same fortitude knowing that there's
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  Speaker 3: something at the end of the rainbow. So again, I
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  Speaker 3: just thought that they did an unbelievable the same way
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  Speaker 3: the Knicks jammed up Halliburton in Madison Square Garden, the
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  Speaker 3: Pacers jammed up Jaylen Bronson. It was the exact mirror
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  Speaker 3: of what both teams have done defensively, and that changed
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  Speaker 3: the complexity of the series and made the Pacers the
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  Speaker 3: Eastern Conference champions. I knew the mix were not going
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  Speaker 3: to They did not have a hell of their first
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  Speaker 3: quarterble for links and Pacers was playing them. Look at
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  Speaker 3: a Chamart. But if you're the Knicks, you know what
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  Speaker 3: you're thinking to yourself, what's that?
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  Speaker 2: Damn?
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  Speaker 3: How do we lose Game one? And that that changed
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  Speaker 3: the entire outlook.
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  Speaker 2: One game two.
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  Speaker 3: But if they had of one game one, it would
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  Speaker 3: have been a different game too, but they fled out
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  Speaker 3: blue game one, and man, it's hard to get four wins.
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  Speaker 2: You can't be giving games away.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're the Knicks, you'll be like, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: I cannot believe we gave away game one and.
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  Speaker 1: That leading by seventeen in game one. To refresh your
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  Speaker 1: memory seems like an eternity ago being.
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  Speaker 3: Up ten would a minute to go. And then and
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  Speaker 3: as a player, when you get this part, things like
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  Speaker 3: that hurt all summer, Oh my hurt all like if
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  Speaker 3: you don't blow gout, have a stomach ache, the host
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  Speaker 3: whole something like damn yeah, yeah, because you when you
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to win four and you just can't give
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  Speaker 3: cause then because you know, if you get out one away, Ernie,
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  Speaker 3: you got to win five games now.
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  Speaker 2: So and I'm like, damn, we gotta win. That's a
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  Speaker 2: great one.
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  Speaker 1: Indiana shoots fifty four percent in this game, So when
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  Speaker 1: they're twelve wins in this postseason, they've shot fifty percent
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  Speaker 1: or better ten times. And again, the points off turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera just overwhelming for Indiana, and the fast break
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  Speaker 1: points and the bench points they all add up, and
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  Speaker 1: when they all add up, it means you're going to
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if your mom would hold the tape tighter, I
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  Speaker 3: probably wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Even be able to go through. It would have got
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  Speaker 2: to the refrigerated's house.