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Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges Talk Game 6 Win vs. Celtics · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The final forward, speaking of Ford's Michale Bridges, Karl, Anthony Towns,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson, and Josh Hard at the microphone.
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  Speaker 2: Any of you are all for you? Obviously, you guys
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  Speaker 2: are the first group to do something that no Knicks
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  Speaker 2: team has done in twenty five years. I know you
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  Speaker 2: guys played a win championships, but could you feel how
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  Speaker 2: important to win like this was in this building to
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  Speaker 2: the people that have been here longer than you guys
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  Speaker 2: have and in that ride.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was definitely felt. The energy, the way
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  Speaker 3: they've been supporting us all year, it's been remarkable. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm just really happy that I'll be able to do.
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  Speaker 4: That, not this year, not just this year, big picture,
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  Speaker 4: yes sir, Yes there.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Kat, you came out aggressive. How important was it to
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  Speaker 1: set the tone today? And how much of that was
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  Speaker 1: a concerted effort for you to come out and do that?
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  Speaker 6: I mean just we talked about the importance of this game,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, just my teammates trusted me in uh
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  Speaker 6: positions to score and I'm glad I was able to
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  Speaker 6: repay their trust with some buffets. So it's a really
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  Speaker 6: testingment to my teammates, you know, get me involved in
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  Speaker 6: and allowed me to be aggressive. And it's because of
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  Speaker 6: these guys up here that we got to win.
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  Speaker 7: Jalen, I know, I know you guys as as a
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  Speaker 7: whole somewhat we're not pleased with the intensity levels and
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  Speaker 7: everything that happened in Game five and then tonight it
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  Speaker 7: just seemed like it was the exact opposite sort of
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  Speaker 7: energy from you guys. Where where do you feel like
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  Speaker 7: that came from? Why do you feel like it it
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  Speaker 7: was such an you know, such an obvious swing.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, just the way the whole day at game five
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  Speaker 3: just wasn't us, and we knew that. We reflected on
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  Speaker 3: it and we came back. We knew that we need
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  Speaker 3: to be ready, we need to be better. The way
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  Speaker 3: we prepared, the way we talked out there, the way
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  Speaker 3: we made it an emphasis to have each other's back
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  Speaker 3: and continue to cover for each other. It's just it's
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  Speaker 3: it's focused on the defense side of the ball. When
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  Speaker 3: we're doing that, I mean offense, I mean we're flowing,
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  Speaker 3: and so you just gotta focus on all little things
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  Speaker 3: that we did that.
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  Speaker 8: Any I guess you go, you're closest to you know,
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  Speaker 8: you guys all had such you know, like college success,
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  Speaker 8: you won quickly, you know, you went to the finals.
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  Speaker 8: Can you just imagine how long, you know, what it
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  Speaker 8: must feel like for a fan base to go twenty
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  Speaker 8: five years like this is one has without making a
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  Speaker 8: conference final and seeing the scenes outside or if you
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  Speaker 8: have what you know, how much this must mean.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I think Josh showed me a video walking
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  Speaker 9: here guys climb up, climb up light poles. So yeah,
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  Speaker 9: it's crazy, man, But you know, you know, great for
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  Speaker 9: Them'm happy for them. You know, obviously I'm new here,
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  Speaker 9: but just know how much New York loves or sports,
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  Speaker 9: especially the nick so just so excited to.
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  Speaker 6: Be a part of it.
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  Speaker 9: And I mean, you know they enjoy it for us
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  Speaker 9: right now, but I've so we got way more to go.
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  Speaker 9: But you know, happy for him.
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  Speaker 5: I guess also for any of you. You talk about
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  Speaker 5: looking at the videos of what the fans were like outside,
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  Speaker 5: but it didn't look like a crazy celebration for you
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  Speaker 5: guys on the court today. Is that because this is
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  Speaker 5: a part of like a stepping stone or yeah.
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  Speaker 3: There's just more to go.
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  Speaker 9: You know, we're not done, That's that's what it is.
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  Speaker 9: And we came out there tonight and you know, play hard,
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  Speaker 9: handle business. But like SATAD season not over. You know,
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  Speaker 9: we got so much more to go, and you know,
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  Speaker 9: we think we play on Wednesday, so you know, get
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  Speaker 9: ready to prepare for them. A whole different team and yeah,
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  Speaker 9: just a whole new series.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Josh, just for you, don't You've talked a lot
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  Speaker 2: about you guys coming out with good energy bad energy,
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  Speaker 2: and what was the difference from your perspective tonight?
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  Speaker 10: I feel like we just watched the film and I
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  Speaker 10: think we were kind of discussed with our communication, our effort,
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  Speaker 10: our center and to start the game. So that's something
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  Speaker 10: that we just we knew we had to fix. We're
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  Speaker 10: able to get stops, We're able to communicate better in
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  Speaker 10: transition and then get out there and play, you know,
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  Speaker 10: play fast and have fun. And I think that was
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  Speaker 10: the biggest thing that we just focused on, was just
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  Speaker 10: our communication and defensive transition.
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  Speaker 11: The series started, you guys were a pretty heavy underdog.
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  Speaker 11: Do you feel like this is an upset and what
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  Speaker 11: is I guess to beat the defending chance to send
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  Speaker 11: them home? What does this do confidence wise for you
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  Speaker 11: guys moving forward?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, upset or not, whatever it is, we beat
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  Speaker 3: a great team. They obviously lost a huge piece, but
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  Speaker 3: regardless the way they came out in Game five, they
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  Speaker 3: knew that. I mean, they're still a great team. And
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  Speaker 3: so regardless of whatever anyone thinks, upset or not, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're just I have to come out the series with
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  Speaker 3: the win that we're moving on. We gotta prepare for
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  Speaker 3: next another team.
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  Speaker 12: You guys have all said at one point or another
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  Speaker 12: through this playoff run that you guys didn't think that
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  Speaker 12: you played your best basketball yet in the playoffs. Just
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  Speaker 12: today was today the best basketball that you guys feel
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  Speaker 12: like you've played in this entire playoff run. And if so,
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  Speaker 12: do you think that this is something that's replicable that
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  Speaker 12: you can take to the next series and repeat what
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  Speaker 12: you guys have been able to do tonight?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like we played forty eight minutes
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  Speaker 3: tonight and just the way we competed, competed and communicated
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  Speaker 3: out there's definitely one of our better performances. But I
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  Speaker 3: still feel like we have a long way to go.
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  Speaker 3: Just the confidence we have in each other and everything,
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  Speaker 3: and just knowing where we are, we're gonna continue to
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  Speaker 3: be on satisfyed.
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  Speaker 13: For Josh and Jalen, you guys were here last year,
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  Speaker 13: tough loss to Indiana in the second round, seven games.
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  Speaker 11: Just what.
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  Speaker 13: I know you guys were pretty banged up in that
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  Speaker 13: series too, but just uh, you know, what do you
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  Speaker 13: think of that team going into meeting them a second
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  Speaker 13: year in a row.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, man, it's gonna be a tough opponent. You know,
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  Speaker 10: they they push the plate. The pace they run on
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  Speaker 10: makes missus and know it was gonna be a huge
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  Speaker 10: communication series for us. We're gonna have to be locked
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  Speaker 10: in on every possession. We're gonna have to get back defensively,
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  Speaker 10: so you know, we can build off this game. I
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  Speaker 10: feel like our defensive transitional communication was was great today
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  Speaker 10: and that's something that we can carry into that series.
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  Speaker 10: But you know, different team. I we just got to
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  Speaker 10: make sure we're prepared.
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  Speaker 14: Josh, you guys closed out the first quarter very strong
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  Speaker 14: and that led into the second quarter. Can you talk
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  Speaker 14: about what what was really the key for you guys
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  Speaker 14: to get that run? And then also you had a
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  Speaker 14: turnover where you had you threw behind micl Did Mitch
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  Speaker 14: come after you and why didn't you do him the lib?
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  Speaker 10: Nah? Nah, Mitch ain't say nothing. I knew Mitch can't
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  Speaker 10: jump off one foot, so I didn't want to put
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  Speaker 10: him in that position. You know, it's not like young
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  Speaker 10: Mitch when he was like super athletic. It's a little
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  Speaker 10: older Mitch. But but for us, you know, we biggest thing.
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  Speaker 10: We've got to end quarters, end quarters, right, and you know,
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  Speaker 10: I feel like that's something that we did and we
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  Speaker 10: were able to pick it up in that second get stops,
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  Speaker 10: run and play nick basketball. You know, everyone played well,
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  Speaker 10: everyone talked, everyone communicated, made plays offensively and defensively. So
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  Speaker 10: that's something that we preach all the time. Is any
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  Speaker 10: quarters strong. And hopefully Mitch finds a little more athleticism
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  Speaker 10: next time.
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  Speaker 7: I got him, all right, Uh Kat, I'm curious if
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  Speaker 7: you during this game series, if you feel like you
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  Speaker 7: learned anything about the group that you guys have, maybe
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  Speaker 7: something you wanted to see from the group that maybe
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  Speaker 7: it confirmed or something that that presented itself that that
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  Speaker 7: you didn't expect dur in the series.
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  Speaker 6: I was I wouldn't say not expect, but you know,
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  Speaker 6: when you're in these situations, especially in the playoffs, you
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  Speaker 6: know you gotta we talk about that. You know, that
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  Speaker 6: New York grit that that that unrelentless belief that we
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  Speaker 6: will never lose. And I think that this series, you know,
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  Speaker 6: when you want to go deeper into the playoffs, you
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  Speaker 6: have to have that and and and we showed it
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  Speaker 6: this series.
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  Speaker 15: And I think that was really special for us.
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  Speaker 6: You know, in the last series, we showed, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're we're able to finish games in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 6: and and even the close games will find a way
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  Speaker 6: to win. But this series was different because we put
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  Speaker 6: our we had ourselves in deficits that were you know,
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  Speaker 6: twenty plus and we still found a way to win.
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  Speaker 15: And that's the testament to these guys, you know, never, never,
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  Speaker 15: not believing that we're gonna win a game, regardless of
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  Speaker 15: how the game is going, and and regardless of the
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  Speaker 15: ebbs and flows of a playoff series.
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  Speaker 6: Or a game. This team has a tremendous belief in
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  Speaker 6: each other and we believe that anytime we step on
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  Speaker 6: the court, we have a chance to win.
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  Speaker 14: This is this is for whoever the you know, I know,
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  Speaker 14: the job's not done.
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  Speaker 1: But the the hurdle that you know, at least we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about in the media from the beginning was
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  Speaker 1: after consecutive you're just getting the second round to get
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  Speaker 1: into the conference finals. So how much personal satisfaction is
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  Speaker 1: it from you, guys, if at all, for to get
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  Speaker 1: to that point and clear that hurdle.
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  Speaker 6: We're not the media. We didn't what did don't believe
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  Speaker 6: in what I believe in. We believe in each other.
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  Speaker 6: We know we could we could do something special. And
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  Speaker 6: as long as the belief in that locker room is that,
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  Speaker 6: we don't care what anyone outside that locker room says.
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  Speaker 10: Guys, since you are about the same age, I wonder
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  Speaker 10: what was the best basketball when the Knicks last made
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  Speaker 10: the Cornerence finals?
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  Speaker 14: Between you two, between you four, I'm the oldest life.
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  Speaker 14: Hey that shout out that?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, who's wasn't?
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  Speaker 11: Sorry?
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  Speaker 10: Who's the best basketball? Between you four?
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  Speaker 14: When the nixt last major conference from.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm just.
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  Speaker 11: We were like, oh, how old are you? Twenty fribly me?
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  Speaker 11: I was the oldest. I'm the tallest brother to me,
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  Speaker 11: prib me hap to be me