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Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Jimmy Butler Talk Game 7 Win vs. Rockets ｜ 2025 NBA Playoffs · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: As much as you can or would like to.
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  Speaker 2: Could you just describe the team meeting last night, what
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  Speaker 2: Raymond said, just kind of the setting of it and
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  Speaker 2: how influential you felt it was.
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  Speaker 3: There was just a level of awareness that matters at
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  Speaker 3: the stage of our careers and the stage and you know,
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  Speaker 3: a playoff series that was going our way then got
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  Speaker 3: away from us and comes down to a game seven
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  Speaker 3: where it's all about just what can you control going
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  Speaker 3: into a game seven that'll give yourself the best chance
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  Speaker 3: to you know, win a game on the road, and
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  Speaker 3: educating a lot of guys that haven't been in this
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  Speaker 3: situation before on what to expect and what wins you know,
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  Speaker 3: in this environment. And he started Draymond started with himself
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  Speaker 3: just talking about having a level of poise.
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  Speaker 1: And composure.
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  Speaker 3: I talked about some of the stuff we can control
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  Speaker 3: that don't necessarily show un statue, like taking care of
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  Speaker 3: well that does take care of the ball, but like
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  Speaker 3: not missing box outs, not getting blown by you know,
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  Speaker 3: metal drive, stuff like that game playing discipline, and Jimmie
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  Speaker 3: talked about just you know, he's going to breathe confidence
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  Speaker 3: and everybody, So it's just a matter of getting everybody
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  Speaker 3: on the same page going into a hostile environment.
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  Speaker 1: Stephanta, the series is over.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything that you could tell Jalen to help
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  Speaker 4: him going into the off season coming out of his
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  Speaker 4: first playoff series like this?
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  Speaker 3: Every opportunity at this stage is a learning experience. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what goes on in their locker room or
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  Speaker 3: what he's asked to do or how they talk, So
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  Speaker 3: I stay in my lane on that. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's always a chance to come back strong or better.
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  Speaker 3: Use the off season to be honest with yourself on
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  Speaker 3: what you need to do to get better. We all
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  Speaker 3: go through that journey in your career. You know, losing
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  Speaker 3: sometimes can make you better, So you just don't let
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  Speaker 3: it knock your confidence.
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  Speaker 5: Stuff.
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  Speaker 6: He was their leading scorer coming into series. How were
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  Speaker 6: y'all able to slow him? Slow him down and make
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  Speaker 6: things difficult for him?
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  Speaker 1: For? Who? For?
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  Speaker 3: For Jalen? He was their leading scorer.
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  Speaker 6: How were y'all able to slow him down and make
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  Speaker 6: things difficult for him?
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, it's just game plan discipline. They
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of threats out there, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: again they were two c for a reason because they
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  Speaker 3: had a certain style that their defense fed on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: fed into their offense a lot, but for him specifically,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't anything you know, out of ordinary. Just he
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  Speaker 3: demands attention, so you want to try to send bodies
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  Speaker 3: at him as much as possible. You know, Fred got
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  Speaker 3: hot those two games that really you know, got them
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  Speaker 3: kind of settled, and he was a legit scorer for him. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: Sengoon's gonna do what he does. But you know, if
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  Speaker 3: you don't let them have easy baskets, then you try
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  Speaker 3: to kind of feast on a little a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of an experience, but you never know how it's gonna go.
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  Speaker 7: Steff y'all played the Rockets twelve times this year between
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  Speaker 7: the regular season and the postseason, and probably every time
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  Speaker 7: you've been asked about their defense. But now that this
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  Speaker 7: season is over with, can you speak to the uniqueness
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  Speaker 7: of the challenge that they face and the adjustment you
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  Speaker 7: had to make from game to game one against them?
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  Speaker 3: Every game was so different. It was all twelve of them,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, from the rotations to the score. It was
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  Speaker 3: low scoring for a majority of them. Then it became
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  Speaker 3: a shooting fest and this game was kind of like
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  Speaker 3: the back to you know, that pattern of a low
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  Speaker 3: score and just defensive, physical, tough, you know, grinded out
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  Speaker 3: type of game. So it was, you know, from I
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  Speaker 3: can only speak for myself in the way that that
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  Speaker 3: was one of the toughest defenses I think I've ever
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  Speaker 3: faced in the sense of the physicality that was allowed
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  Speaker 3: early in the series, and then their commitment to just
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  Speaker 3: trying to take away all the patterns that we usually
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  Speaker 3: thrive off of and guard me a half court at times.
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  Speaker 3: It was wild, but just stay impatient but still being
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  Speaker 3: aggressive was the difference tonight. I only had three points
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  Speaker 3: in the first half and like five shots, but eventually
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  Speaker 3: every I'm trying to make the right play and soft
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  Speaker 3: them up, and eventually, you know, you can make your
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  Speaker 3: presence felt scoring wise, but everything else was about just
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  Speaker 3: trying to make winning plays.
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  Speaker 1: So they have two questions for you.
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  Speaker 8: First one, how difficult was it to kind of play
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  Speaker 8: that floor game. Last time you're in a game, Savages
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  Speaker 8: took like thirty shots you were going for, but this
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  Speaker 8: one seems like you were pretty patient.
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  Speaker 3: Was that difficult to pull off? No, because kind of
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  Speaker 3: to the last question, I knew how they were gonna
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  Speaker 3: guard me, and if I try to play hero ball
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  Speaker 3: too early and it didn't you know, shots didn't fall,
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  Speaker 3: then it could kill our rhythm. Honestly, my whole goal
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  Speaker 3: was to only have one turnover. Literally, that was all
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about because I knew that, man, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't have to you know, I wouldn't get rushed or
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  Speaker 3: get into traps. We usually were going to have an
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  Speaker 3: open shot somewhere, somebody dive into the basket based on
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  Speaker 3: the gravity that was out there, and it kind of
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  Speaker 3: played off that way. I had missed some a couple
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  Speaker 3: maybe two easy ones in the first half, and then
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  Speaker 3: you start thinking about your shot a little bit, but
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  Speaker 3: you look up at the score and we're, you know,
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  Speaker 3: doing what we're supposed to do. So it was definitely
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  Speaker 3: kind of reinforced keep playing that way and eventually I'll
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  Speaker 3: find some open looks. But we were scoring fine, and
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  Speaker 3: then just get stops and play defense.
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  Speaker 8: Secondarily, you've won five series now in Houston. What you
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  Speaker 8: think your reputation is in the city.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a winner.
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  Speaker 9: All that you've been through with Draymond in your thirteen years.
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  Speaker 9: That looked like at the end of the game, you
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  Speaker 9: went you walked up to him and pointed into maybe
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  Speaker 9: the stands or up at the scoreboard, but can you
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  Speaker 9: share what you said to him? And then also when
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  Speaker 9: you guys were walking off, I think Draymond was screaming, surprise, surprise.
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  Speaker 3: We were just talking about back to the score. We
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  Speaker 3: wanted to keep them under ninety. We had done it
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times and we won, and if we
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  Speaker 3: felt like we felt very confident that if we could
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  Speaker 3: do that again, we'd be able to score enough to
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  Speaker 3: create some separation. And that's kind of how it played out.
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  Speaker 10: So much of what dram was talking about was about
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  Speaker 10: how he lost his poise in game six. How important
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  Speaker 10: will it be for him to kind of straddle that
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  Speaker 10: line against the Wolves who have Gobert, who have Aunt
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  Speaker 10: who likes to talk. We have a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 10: who will play physically.
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  Speaker 3: No better or less than tonight. Like make it about basketball.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't need to be a mute and like not
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  Speaker 3: talk and be demonstrative. We wanted that type of Draymond.
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  Speaker 3: But conserve the energy towards you know, us, our huddles.
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  Speaker 3: You know, even when he had that kind of mix
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  Speaker 3: up with Van Vliet, he didn't react, go talk to
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  Speaker 3: the rest, try to plead his case. It didn't go
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  Speaker 3: his way. It was an unfortunate call, but he kept
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  Speaker 3: it about basketball, and we're gonna have to continue to
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  Speaker 3: do that, you know, in the minutes we're playing and
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  Speaker 3: the tough test that Minnesota is going to present the
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  Speaker 3: way they've been playing.
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  Speaker 5: Step, You've been through a number of game sevens.
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  Speaker 11: When you think back to your first one, what's the
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  Speaker 11: the biggest difference between you then and you now? Is
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  Speaker 11: it a concentration, being able to sustain concentration for forty
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  Speaker 11: eight minutes, keeping your nerves down? What's the masturation process
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  Speaker 11: like now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just reps and experience and know how that
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  Speaker 3: first one against the Clippers back in fourteen, we were
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  Speaker 3: up at the half and I we were feeling good
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  Speaker 3: about ourselves and then we kind of got walked down
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  Speaker 3: by just physical, kind of hard nose basketball and that
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  Speaker 3: was kind of the nature that whole series was very
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  Speaker 3: similar to this one. And just fully committing to every
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  Speaker 3: possession like that was something we did tonight that we
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  Speaker 3: needed every fifty fifty ball we needed to you know,
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  Speaker 3: to keep them off the offensive glass, keep our turnovers down.
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  Speaker 3: We only had three turnovers in the first half. It
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  Speaker 3: was just simple things that you can control. Obviously, Buddy
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  Speaker 3: had an amazing first half and took advantage of the
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  Speaker 3: space and knocked down shots. Everything else that we could
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  Speaker 3: control we did and checked off the boxes. And that
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  Speaker 3: allows you to withstand runs and the hostile environment on
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  Speaker 3: the road. Say what, yeah, talent skill, it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: something that either it comes naturally or you go through
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  Speaker 3: reps and you start to figure it out how you
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  Speaker 3: can manage a game mentally, emotionally, and physically. That's all
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  Speaker 3: a part of, you know, the game of basketball. It's
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  Speaker 3: the stuff that you see, you know, in between the lines.
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  Speaker 3: And for two games we didn't have it like the
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  Speaker 3: clearest day that the first possession of the fourth quarter in
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  Speaker 3: Game six, that was a lack of awareness and focus,
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  Speaker 3: and then tonight was the exact opposite. So we took
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  Speaker 3: advantage of another opportunity.
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  Speaker 12: Stephan, we kind of joked about it before the series started.
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  Speaker 12: But now that the series is over and you went
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  Speaker 12: to war against him for seven games, how much more
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  Speaker 12: respect does the camp coach have for his former camper
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  Speaker 12: and the men Thompson.
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  Speaker 3: I talked to him right after the game, like he
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  Speaker 3: kind of saw him develop in front of everybody's eyes.
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  Speaker 3: I know, people who watch the Rockets play, you know,
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  Speaker 3: night and night out for the last two years. I've
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  Speaker 3: seen the potential, seen the raw athleticism, the hunger, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's a dog. He showed all seven games. And he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a problem for sure. You know, he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: try to develop his game, especially offensively, but defensively. He's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a freak athlete, and I think he loves
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  Speaker 3: the challenge and loves to be in the fight. So
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  Speaker 3: he was tough, all serious and kind of crazy that
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  Speaker 3: the old man, you know, got it done.
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  Speaker 13: Steph Draymond had the talk last night. You had a
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  Speaker 13: memorable speech before the Sacramento Game seven. This is not
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  Speaker 13: the first time you've won a game seven here. How
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  Speaker 13: familiar does this feel? Is it like what you guys do?
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  Speaker 13: You guys are able to pull it together, maybe in
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  Speaker 13: different ways, in moments like this, in familiar ways.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're thankful to be able to say that because
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  Speaker 3: we've had the way we came into it is this
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  Speaker 3: is another opportunity that we should be thankful for, considering
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  Speaker 3: all the things that we've gone through our entire you know,
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  Speaker 3: this entire run and that we're still trying to do it.
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  Speaker 3: So you can tell that, Kate, there's such a care
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  Speaker 3: factor for every guy on this team, and it starts
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  Speaker 3: with me, Draymond, you know uh Looney who's been here
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  Speaker 3: with us and now obviously with Jimmy and his playoff experience,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're gonna have to rely on that as
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  Speaker 3: long as this ride continues. And the familiar part is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, figuring out out the chessboard in between a
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  Speaker 3: series and sticking with it, not letting go the rope
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  Speaker 3: and being able to turn the page in one game
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  Speaker 3: to the next and meet the moment. It's so much
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  Speaker 3: fun out there. I think that's what we talked about
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  Speaker 3: to our guys the most, was just there's no more
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  Speaker 3: fun that you can experience in basketball than a playoff series,
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  Speaker 3: especially if it goes to distance, So embrace it.
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  Speaker 14: Steph as a shooter who knows that zone, what was
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  Speaker 14: it like to see Buddy getting that, especially given his
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  Speaker 14: sort of unique personality on this team, And did it
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  Speaker 14: bring back any flashbacks of I don't know, Game six
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  Speaker 14: Clay or when you've seen Clay take over playoff games
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  Speaker 14: like that to shoot the way he did with no
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  Speaker 14: dribbling right, just catch and shoot.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's what the game called for. He answered,
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  Speaker 3: it like to be able to turn the page from again,
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  Speaker 3: oh for four last game, been up and down all series.
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  Speaker 3: Probably he probably tell you this first time you played
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  Speaker 3: well in this building. So it was great and timely
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  Speaker 3: to be able to have that shooter's confidence that you know,
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  Speaker 3: if the game says shoot, you let it fly, and
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  Speaker 3: you know we're gonna live with it. And and I'm
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  Speaker 3: happy for him because you know he works, He works
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  Speaker 3: so hard all year. Getting to know him this whole season.
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  Speaker 3: Now you see how much basketball means to him. And
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  Speaker 3: this is only his second playoff run and for him
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  Speaker 3: to have a game like that in Game seven and
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  Speaker 3: he tied a record for most threes and it's pretty
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  Speaker 3: pretty special. So I'm happy for him. Now we gotta
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  Speaker 3: keep it going.
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  Speaker 2: Do you expect from Anthony Edwards and facing Minnesota?
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  Speaker 3: I mean you watched a little bit of their first
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  Speaker 3: round series. He's playing with all the supreme confidence. We know.
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  Speaker 3: You know they had their run last year and they're
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  Speaker 3: a new a new little brando. But same ant who's
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  Speaker 3: who's trying to take you strives with every opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: get and you know it's gonna be a tough challenge.
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  Speaker 3: We know you had to send him multiple bodies at
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  Speaker 3: him and figure out a game plan to go at him.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, they're hot right now. They've been playing some
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  Speaker 3: great basketball the last couple of months, and we're excited
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  Speaker 3: that we have an opportunity to have some more basketball
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  Speaker 3: to play too.
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  Speaker 15: About what Buddy did to not for you guys, he
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  Speaker 15: was huge. The thirty three points were great. Nine three
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  Speaker 15: is incredible, but what he did on the defensive end
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  Speaker 15: was even more impressive. He took on every matchup that
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  Speaker 15: he had, whether it was Jalen fred all over the
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  Speaker 15: hawk and the ball handler he ended up with sitting
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  Speaker 15: going on the post, made him force the miss, knocked
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  Speaker 15: the ball out, he was able to come up with
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  Speaker 15: the loose ball, he made win and plays all night.
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  Speaker 15: Huge game for him, thirty seven minutes. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 15: he's played that mount of minutes all year, but stayed
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  Speaker 15: the course. When we needed the most, he delivered. If
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  Speaker 15: I didn't throw him a grenade, he would have been
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  Speaker 15: nine for ten for three. But I threw him a grenade,
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  Speaker 15: So I'll take that one.
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  Speaker 16: Dreamond coach before you came in, he said that your
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  Speaker 16: emotions played a big part in this.
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  Speaker 3: What were you you know?
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  Speaker 16: What was that conversation with the team before you guys
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  Speaker 16: came out tonight?
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  Speaker 15: Just I thought, you know, my people, I trust them most.
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  Speaker 15: Had you know, we had some heart to hearts after
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  Speaker 15: the last game. My wife, one of my closest friends, Travis.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, my barber is.
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  Speaker 15: One of my closest friends, Coacho, and I just I
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  Speaker 15: powered way too much last game. So I spent the
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  Speaker 15: last two days embarrassed just at what I what I
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  Speaker 15: gave to the game, what I gave to the world.
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  Speaker 15: I was embarrassed. So I've been dying since the last game.
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  Speaker 15: Ended the game out on the floor and prove who
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  Speaker 15: I am. You know one thing about this league, You're
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  Speaker 15: never done proven who you are until you're done, completely finished,
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  Speaker 15: And so I wanted to come out and prove again
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  Speaker 15: just who I am, uh with poise, but with the
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  Speaker 15: same fire, same tenacity, but poise. And I think I
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  Speaker 15: delivered that and gave our guys some to follow what
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  Speaker 15: I gave them last game to follow. They followed it,
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  Speaker 15: and that's why we got bullied. But I think I
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  Speaker 15: gave them some different to follow today and that was
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  Speaker 15: that was the that was the message, that was the goal.
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  Speaker 5: We got it done.
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  Speaker 17: Draymond Steve said that you set the tone last night
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  Speaker 17: at the team dinner with that speech. What goes into
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  Speaker 17: deciding to give that speech and what was the reception
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  Speaker 17: from the rest of your teammates?
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  Speaker 15: Uh, Well, think what goes into it is really decided
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  Speaker 15: who's going to give a speech. Obviously I always try
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  Speaker 15: to defer to Steph, defer to Jimmy, and they wanted
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  Speaker 15: me to speak. But I had a lot to say,
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  Speaker 15: and like I said, most importantly was calling myself out.
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  Speaker 15: You know, you can't go into a game seven expecting
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  Speaker 15: guys to rally off the game we had before and
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  Speaker 15: not address it, and so I wanted to address that
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  Speaker 15: number one. Then secondly tell everybody else what we needed,
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  Speaker 15: which was a togetherness like no other and our huddles together,
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  Speaker 15: trusting in each other and believing. And so I thought
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  Speaker 15: it was much needed. But as much as I think
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  Speaker 15: this team needed, I feel like I needed it for
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  Speaker 15: myself even more because you got to be accountable. You
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  Speaker 15: can't be a leader and not be accountable, and you
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  Speaker 15: call other guys out when they're just stinks, then you
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  Speaker 15: better say when yours does too. And that's what I
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  Speaker 15: That's what I tried to make a point in doing.
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  Speaker 17: For thirteen years and six game sevens together with Steph.
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  Speaker 17: What does it mean to you to walk off the
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  Speaker 17: court after a game like that?
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  Speaker 15: It means a lot, especially losing a three to one lead,
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  Speaker 15: having him come on the road and win. It means
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  Speaker 15: a time to continue playing at this level, having an
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  Speaker 15: opportunity to compete at this level, and it's a little
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  Speaker 15: more special that we've done in here before, so it's
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  Speaker 15: a familiar feeling.
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  Speaker 13: Grandma couldn't help notice you and Steve having a talk
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  Speaker 13: shoot around, mostly Steve talking and you listening. Just what
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  Speaker 13: was kind of the mood of that one?
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  Speaker 15: Uh, just really setting a tone for what he needed
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  Speaker 15: from me today, which is poise leadership. But he had
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  Speaker 15: some great words he told me. He gave me a story,
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  Speaker 15: a few different stories. They were great, but I think
• 18:51
  Speaker 15: the gist of it was just you've done so much,
• 18:57
  Speaker 15: whether we win or lose this game, when it's all
• 19:01
  Speaker 15: said and done at the end of your career, nobody
• 19:02
  Speaker 15: will remember. So go out have fun with poise. Give
• 19:07
  Speaker 15: your guys something to follow. You know, you told me
• 19:12
  Speaker 15: you're one of the most competitive people I've ever been around,
• 19:17
  Speaker 15: and one of the greatest leaders I've been around. So
• 19:20
  Speaker 15: it's my job to let you know what what your
• 19:23
  Speaker 15: leadership should be tonight, like, how you need to leave,
• 19:27
  Speaker 15: what that needs to look like for tonight. It's my
• 19:29
  Speaker 15: job to prepare you for that, my job to get
• 19:33
  Speaker 15: you ready emotionally to play. And it's one of the
• 19:37
  Speaker 15: better conversations we've ever had, and we've had some great
• 19:39
  Speaker 15: ones h with that one I'll remember for the rest
• 19:42
  Speaker 15: of my life.
• 19:43
  Speaker 13: You talked about the huddles. I noticed there was a
• 19:45
  Speaker 13: you had a huddle right before the start for tip off.
• 19:47
  Speaker 13: Maybe in a different kind of way, it definitely sounded
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: or felt like a little more emotional. Was that a
• 19:52
  Speaker 13: big moment for you?
• 19:53
  Speaker 15: It was definitely a big moment for us, for me,
• 19:56
  Speaker 15: for us, you know, the emotion in the game seven high,
• 20:00
  Speaker 15: and we just wanted to make sure we were on
• 20:02
  Speaker 15: the right side of that. Not tightening up he's got
• 20:05
  Speaker 15: to be loose, but understanding what every possession means, Understanding
• 20:09
  Speaker 15: that we weren't giving our energy to anything outside of ourselves.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: And thinking setting that tone everybody we did that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: How would you contextualize this series for Steph with just
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: the way that infended him, the way he performed and
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: then finishing with fourteen.
• 20:26
  Speaker 15: Fourth that was huge. That's why he is who he is.
• 20:28
  Speaker 15: He he just made the simple play tonight had three
• 20:33
  Speaker 15: points for a lot of the game and then he
• 20:34
  Speaker 15: bust out. But he made the right play. He just
• 20:38
  Speaker 15: moved the ball on and allowed trusted other guys to
• 20:40
  Speaker 15: make the play because of how they was guarding them.
• 20:43
  Speaker 15: And it's a beautiful game to see him close it out.
• 20:46
  Speaker 15: He knew once like, all right, now it's time for
• 20:47
  Speaker 15: me to take over and take this thing home. It
• 20:50
  Speaker 15: was beautiful, man. But I want to give a lot
• 20:53
  Speaker 15: of credit to that team down there. He may the
• 20:56
  Speaker 15: way he had those guys fighting, I guess a lot
• 21:00
  Speaker 15: of respect for that team throughout the series. One of
• 21:02
  Speaker 15: the tougher series i've played there personally, But that's a
• 21:08
  Speaker 15: young team to be reckoned with. And I told myself
• 21:10
  Speaker 15: I was gonna talk crazy because they have been talking
• 21:12
  Speaker 15: crazy all series and on the internet. But I gained
• 21:16
  Speaker 15: so much respect for those guys and Goon is an
• 21:18
  Speaker 15: incredible player. The way Fred van Vliet and Steven Adams
• 21:22
  Speaker 15: led those guys, they had no experience, and they led them,
• 21:25
  Speaker 15: took us to the brink. That team's going to be
• 21:28
  Speaker 15: a force to be reckoned with. And I hope they
• 21:30
  Speaker 15: understand it. You know, things can change fast in this league.
• 21:32
  Speaker 15: You're you're only on the up until you're not, you know.
• 21:37
  Speaker 15: But they got something promising that they can continue to
• 21:39
  Speaker 15: build on. Jabari Smith incredible.
• 21:41
  Speaker 18: Uh.
• 21:42
  Speaker 15: He played like a Vetus whole series, getting his spots,
• 21:44
  Speaker 15: knocking big shots down.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: A lot of respect for those guys.
• 21:50
  Speaker 19: Draymond Steve talked about meaningful basketball and being able to
• 21:53
  Speaker 19: play it this time of year when you go back
• 21:55
  Speaker 19: to the trade deadline and all proceeded since then, but
• 21:59
  Speaker 19: these are kind of games you were thinking about playing
• 22:02
  Speaker 19: when the trade happened, and just in this.
• 22:04
  Speaker 15: Moment, absolutely, this is exactly what the trade was for
• 22:09
  Speaker 15: to get back to this level play many for basketball
• 22:14
  Speaker 15: and stuff has been saying all year, and Jimmy, this
• 22:18
  Speaker 15: is what he's been to this group has allowed us
• 22:22
  Speaker 15: to be in this position to continue to our season
• 22:24
  Speaker 15: and possibly do something special.
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: Stre You talked about winning the championship right after shortly
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: after the trade on aust Our weekend.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: But now that you have gone, you still have to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: go through the war.
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: Like now that you've gone through a seven game battle,
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: what do you feel this group is capable of doing
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: moving forwards.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: In the next round.
• 22:42
  Speaker 15: I think this group is capable of exactly what we
• 22:44
  Speaker 15: set out to do, which is winning championship. We know
• 22:48
  Speaker 15: the things that we need to improve on and continue
• 22:50
  Speaker 15: to get better at. But I got the utmost confidence
• 22:53
  Speaker 15: in this group. Didn't want to go seven games, but
• 22:57
  Speaker 15: it and it won't hurt us with that experience that
• 22:59
  Speaker 15: our younger I's got the opportunity to get. But I
• 23:04
  Speaker 15: think we're right where we need to be, where we
• 23:06
  Speaker 15: want to be, with an opportunity to continue to extend
• 23:09
  Speaker 15: this thing.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: And we believe. Yeah, I mean that was never rattled,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: but you know with every win, I think that grows.
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: When you talk about feeling embarrassed the past couple of
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: days leading into tonight, how do you use that as
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: fuel and how do you like in what ways do
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: you channel that feeling onto the court?
• 23:31
  Speaker 15: Well, I had to channel it in a different way
• 23:33
  Speaker 15: because that could leads you to come out and I
• 23:35
  Speaker 15: want it so bad. I actually went the opposite way.
• 23:38
  Speaker 15: I listened to all slow music. The last couple of days,
• 23:42
  Speaker 15: she kind of calmed myself down, went to the spa
• 23:44
  Speaker 15: meditate because I knew, like I know, I can ratching
• 23:50
  Speaker 15: my intensity up. I know I'm going to meet the
• 23:52
  Speaker 15: intensity level, but I felt like I was going too far.
• 23:55
  Speaker 15: I listened to checkout time on the way to the
• 23:59
  Speaker 15: game the other day, and that was the exact mindset
• 24:01
  Speaker 15: I had going into that game. So I wanted to
• 24:04
  Speaker 15: change it up a little bit today some Brent fire,
• 24:08
  Speaker 15: as you know, Sizon nineties, R and B just kind
• 24:14
  Speaker 15: of changed it, completely changed it up, so it was
• 24:17
  Speaker 15: good for me.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Came into the series, j Thin Green came to the series,
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: their leading score, and y'all had different guys on them
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: throughout the series. And I think just one game he
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: was able to get off. How were y'all able to
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: corr him kind of keep him in check throughout the series.
• 24:31
  Speaker 15: I think doing your work early, we did a good
• 24:34
  Speaker 15: job on him to start the series, and I think
• 24:35
  Speaker 15: that kind of route of his confidence a little bit.
• 24:38
  Speaker 15: You know, this isn't something he's been a part of before.
• 24:41
  Speaker 15: He's a good young player. He'll learn from his mistakes.
• 24:43
  Speaker 15: But you got to get a guy's credit that was
• 24:45
  Speaker 15: guarding him, Buddy, STEPH, VP, GP JK, anybody who was
• 24:50
  Speaker 15: on him. He was a focal point and and trying
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: to take him out of this series. We know what
• 24:55
  Speaker 15: they're capable of when he's scoring, and so we really
• 24:58
  Speaker 15: wanted to take him out of the series, and I
• 24:59
  Speaker 15: think we did a good job of it. But like
• 25:01
  Speaker 15: I said, he's a good young player. He'll grow, He'll
• 25:03
  Speaker 15: continue to learn from this. Uh tough first experience for him,
• 25:07
  Speaker 15: but he won't He's not the first young up and
• 25:09
  Speaker 15: coming start to have a tough experience in the playoffs.
• 25:12
  Speaker 15: Won't be the last. I think he'll continue to grow from.
• 25:14
  Speaker 15: And he got a great coach to lead him, uh Fred,
• 25:18
  Speaker 15: great leader to lead him, and I think he'll grow
• 25:20
  Speaker 15: from it. But you know, I gotta give our guys
• 25:22
  Speaker 15: a lot of credit and our coaching staff a lot
• 25:24
  Speaker 15: of credit with the game.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Plan on him.
• 25:26
  Speaker 14: Dreymond, how would you describe sort of the vibe when
• 25:29
  Speaker 14: Buddy gets in that zone and related to that any
• 25:34
  Speaker 14: any interaction with him and Jimmy. Him and Jimmy have
• 25:36
  Speaker 14: gone back and forth and what was tonight, Levan, Did
• 25:39
  Speaker 14: Jimmy say anything afterward or what was that?
• 25:41
  Speaker 15: I didn't catch any of their banters to night, but
• 25:44
  Speaker 15: Buddy was huge, and ironically I could see just the
• 25:50
  Speaker 15: way he was walking this morning, like the way he
• 25:52
  Speaker 15: was talking like he was he was so engaged, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 15: he delivered on the biggest stage. Got to give him
• 25:58
  Speaker 15: his credit. It was huge for us. Sure, it was
• 26:01
  Speaker 15: big for his confidence. We're gonna need that buddy to
• 26:04
  Speaker 15: continue on and it won't be nine threes every night,
• 26:07
  Speaker 15: but just the intensity and focused level that he had
• 26:11
  Speaker 15: she get home. Excuse me an these playoffs it becomes
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: more and more important.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: You mentioned kind of your mindset shift from Game six
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: to Game seven, the need for kind of a calmer
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: version of yourself. You're about to go to Minnesota, quick turnaround,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: go bear the size of Minnesota.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: What do you need to do.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: In that series?
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: And I guess how do you have to keep that
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: similar type?
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I have to keep it similar for my guys.
• 26:35
  Speaker 15: I forget anybody else, but for my guys, I need
• 26:39
  Speaker 15: to stay that so I'll be locked in.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: It'll be good.
• 26:43
  Speaker 15: But finding that balance, finding that line not crossing it
• 26:47
  Speaker 15: is important for me and this team.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: And I gave on my word I'll continue to get
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: on my.
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: Work, Andy Draymond.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Steve said he didn't have you guys ready for last game.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Apparently you're ready to this game.
• 27:00
  Speaker 16: What did he do to to help that process?
• 27:03
  Speaker 15: Number one New Rock Number one was coming into the
• 27:05
  Speaker 15: locker room right after game six and saying, that's for me.
• 27:07
  Speaker 15: I ain't y'all ready to play. So the accountability and leadership,
• 27:12
  Speaker 15: uh number one. But number two just the belief. I
• 27:16
  Speaker 15: would tell y'all Steve so calm in these situations everybody
• 27:19
  Speaker 15: get riddled. He'd just be just like this. So when
• 27:22
  Speaker 15: you have a coach that walks in like that, it
• 27:24
  Speaker 15: settles everybody down. And you know, obviously he's the best
• 27:29
  Speaker 15: in the business when it comes to game plans this
• 27:31
  Speaker 15: time of year. There were some pretty jubilant scenes with
• 27:34
  Speaker 15: you and Steph late in the games. There's been some
• 27:36
  Speaker 15: hostility with the Houston crowd.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Do you guys enjoy playing in this arena and winning
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: in this city?
• 27:40
  Speaker 15: It's always fun winning in the city and winning in
• 27:42
  Speaker 15: this arena. So Fred had made a comment earlier the
• 27:46
  Speaker 15: series said this ain't that team. It's that organization though,
• 27:51
  Speaker 15: and we we like coming to this city and playing
• 27:54
  Speaker 15: in these situations, it's been good to us. And also
• 27:59
  Speaker 15: I think what you saw from us say is like
• 28:02
  Speaker 15: this stuff is hard.
• 28:03
  Speaker 20: Man.
• 28:03
  Speaker 15: He told me the other day, he said, I got
• 28:05
  Speaker 15: a question and they were saying, like, Yo, this is
• 28:07
  Speaker 15: tougher than it used to be. It's like, man, it's
• 28:12
  Speaker 15: always been hard, and we know how hard it is.
• 28:16
  Speaker 15: Just looked easy, but it's always been hard, and so
• 28:18
  Speaker 15: just you know, to get over that hump, first hump.
• 28:22
  Speaker 15: Now you feel good about it, enjoy it, appreciate it tonight,
• 28:25
  Speaker 15: and move on from it tomorrow.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Draymond, there was a lot of you know, back and
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: forth physicality throughout this entire series.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: You know, between you and the other team.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: I mean sorry you and some of the other players,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, all of them
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: gave you respect and said that you're a very good player.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Fraid just got through talking about how good of a
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: person you are, good of a player.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: What does that mean to you?
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Knowing that all of the negative things you hear about yourself,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: but knowing that the players respect you like that.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: It's always about players respect from your peers.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 28:58
  Speaker 15: Fans will feel how they feel, the public will feel
• 29:00
  Speaker 15: how they feel. It's Okay, I'm really not here to
• 29:03
  Speaker 15: appease to them, but when you got respect amongst your peers,
• 29:07
  Speaker 15: that's the most important thing. And like I said, they
• 29:10
  Speaker 15: earned my respect. Always got a lot of love for Fred.
• 29:15
  Speaker 15: You know, we've had our battles, but Fred is a
• 29:19
  Speaker 15: stand up guy.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: The way he led those guys this year.
• 29:23
  Speaker 15: Coming in last year, it's tough continue to leave believe
• 29:27
  Speaker 15: to carry this team to a two seed. We're probably
• 29:31
  Speaker 15: in average Asia twenty four, so special. But Fred is
• 29:35
  Speaker 15: a special leader. I told you all the other day.
• 29:37
  Speaker 15: He's the reason we lost him to Toronto. Everybody trying
• 29:41
  Speaker 15: to make it like, oh, he's not giving Kara respect. No,
• 29:43
  Speaker 15: it's not that Fred was that X factor. We had
• 29:47
  Speaker 15: no matchup for him. We couldn't get matched up with him,
• 29:50
  Speaker 15: and he beat us a big shot after big shot.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: But it's a lot. Like I said, I got a
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: lot of respect for those guys. Man.
• 29:58
  Speaker 15: They took us to the brink. They never backed down
• 30:00
  Speaker 15: from anything. That's what they got. A bright future if
• 30:03
  Speaker 15: they can continue to work and put it together. Uh
• 30:06
  Speaker 15: really bright future. That's a tough, tough team, athletic dogs.
• 30:14
  Speaker 15: Didn't back down at all. So I got a lot
• 30:16
  Speaker 15: of love and respect for those guys.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: They made me better this series.
• 30:20
  Speaker 15: I had to get better in order for us to
• 30:21
  Speaker 15: win this series, and that was because of what they did.
• 30:26
  Speaker 18: Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Buddy, Oh my boy, can you please?
• 30:38
  Speaker 16: Well?
• 30:39
  Speaker 19: I guess so, what can you say about Buddy's performance
• 30:41
  Speaker 19: and its.
• 30:46
  Speaker 20: Buddy gets paid a lot of money too to play
• 30:49
  Speaker 20: at a high level. You know, Buddy was Buddy tonight?
• 30:56
  Speaker 20: Good for you, Buddy, Buddy, good for you. Now, Buddy
• 31:00
  Speaker 20: thought he was huge, but we know the type of
• 31:03
  Speaker 20: basketball player that he is, and he's a tough cover
• 31:07
  Speaker 20: for sure whenever he's making shots. But he made so
• 31:09
  Speaker 20: many right players on the defensive side of the ball,
• 31:11
  Speaker 20: getting the ball where it needed to go.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Buddy was really, really, really big for us tonight.
• 31:18
  Speaker 19: What did you see from Draymond today? Draymond talked about
• 31:21
  Speaker 19: how he took accountability for I guess how he was
• 31:24
  Speaker 19: in Game six and he made a speech at pregame
• 31:27
  Speaker 19: dinner wondering what what did you see?
• 31:30
  Speaker 20: I just saw dre Ben dre staying poised, not let
• 31:34
  Speaker 20: all the nonsense get to him, expecting what's gonna happen.
• 31:40
  Speaker 20: I think that was the biggest thing for him, not
• 31:42
  Speaker 20: letting and get him out of character, compete, stay in
• 31:45
  Speaker 20: the game and be the anchor for us on the
• 31:48
  Speaker 20: defensive side of the floor, and then make some big shots,
• 31:52
  Speaker 20: start us off the right way and control the offensive.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Side as well.
• 31:57
  Speaker 9: Jimmy Buddy had said that team meaning was. He called
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: it emotional, but he credited your leadership, Steph and Draymond
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: with really getting him to lock in and everybody else,
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: What did you say and what was it like going
• 32:09
  Speaker 9: through your first game seven with Draymond and seven?
• 32:11
  Speaker 20: I mean it was It's a pleasure to be able
• 32:14
  Speaker 20: to compete in a game seven on the road with
• 32:16
  Speaker 20: those two Hall of famers, And I mean my message
• 32:20
  Speaker 20: to my guys was I wasn't being who I was
• 32:25
  Speaker 20: in a sense of pumping confidence into my guys.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's a part.
• 32:30
  Speaker 20: Of my leadership that I've I've learned and gained throughout
• 32:35
  Speaker 20: my years of playing this game at a high level,
• 32:38
  Speaker 20: and I wasn't doing that for the first six games.
• 32:41
  Speaker 20: So I wanted to make sure to let them know
• 32:43
  Speaker 20: that I was gon. Lets you know, everything was gonna
• 32:46
  Speaker 20: be fine. We're right where we wanted to be. And
• 32:48
  Speaker 20: I think I got back to being who I'm supposed
• 32:51
  Speaker 20: to be.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: How much did you guys need it?
• 32:53
  Speaker 14: Seems like the last couple of games showed you really
• 32:55
  Speaker 14: needed a secondary shooter, someone besides you and Steff to
• 32:59
  Speaker 14: be making those shots the way a body did tonight
• 33:01
  Speaker 14: from beyond your entertaining byplay with him strategically. How much
• 33:06
  Speaker 14: did you need that? And what what allowed that? Was
• 33:08
  Speaker 14: there more space for him tonight or no? I think
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: we actually rebounded the ball better. We got to the
• 33:14
  Speaker 14: loose balls. It's easier to score whenever you get the
• 33:18
  Speaker 14: opportunity to shoot the ball at that side of the floor.
• 33:21
  Speaker 14: We didn't turn the ball over.
• 33:22
  Speaker 20: All of that plays a role and Buddy having a
• 33:25
  Speaker 20: game that he did and Guy's been able to make
• 33:27
  Speaker 20: shots at the clip that we did. So as long
• 33:30
  Speaker 20: as we get the ball, security, rebound, playing, transition and gets.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Easier for everybody.
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: Jimmy free van Vliet had been an issue for y'all
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: the last few last few games. What was it about
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: tonight or how did y'all defend him differently tonight? Raymond
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: wasn't here talking about him earlier, But how much of
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: a focus?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: What's he for y'all and what were y'all able to
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: do against him to night.
• 33:51
  Speaker 20: I mean, Fred's a tough cover, along with a lot
• 33:55
  Speaker 20: of guys on that roster, But I think it's just
• 33:57
  Speaker 20: making everything difficult, contesting every set, not losing him in
• 34:01
  Speaker 20: transition or in the half court, and then rebound in
• 34:04
  Speaker 20: the basketball. You know, whenever you don't rebound and they're
• 34:07
  Speaker 20: kicking it out and you're walking into open threes, the
• 34:10
  Speaker 20: basket gets bigger for anybody.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: In this league. So I think we did a good
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: job of controlling that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 13: This is your first time through with this. These guys
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: you mentioned obviously Draymond and Steph and put Current there too.
• 34:24
  Speaker 13: He's been through with some of these and Draymond said
• 34:26
  Speaker 13: that after Game six, Kurt put it on himself, but
• 34:28
  Speaker 13: he didn't have you guys prepared. What's just been like
• 34:30
  Speaker 13: to go through it with that kind of accountability from
• 34:33
  Speaker 13: those three guys.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I think that's what real leaders do.
• 34:38
  Speaker 20: They always try to take all the burden, but that's
• 34:41
  Speaker 20: that's not the case. You know, Steve can't control if
• 34:45
  Speaker 20: we're not getting to lose balls. He can tell us,
• 34:47
  Speaker 20: but we're the ones that have to go out there
• 34:48
  Speaker 20: and do it. He can draw up all the plays
• 34:50
  Speaker 20: that he wants, but we're the ones that have to
• 34:52
  Speaker 20: go out there and execute and play hard. But the
• 34:55
  Speaker 20: fact that he's willing to take that for the guys
• 34:57
  Speaker 20: is huge, you know. Same with Draymond, same with Steph,
• 35:00
  Speaker 20: same with myself actually, and so many guys on his roster.
• 35:03
  Speaker 20: So you know, we just talked about controlling what we
• 35:06
  Speaker 20: can control, go out there and compete, and we know
• 35:09
  Speaker 20: if we do that, we win a game.
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  Speaker 5: Jimmy.
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  Speaker 17: Obviously, Steph only had three points in the first half,
• 35:15
  Speaker 17: but he still was leading in defensive rebounds to assist
• 35:18
  Speaker 17: Steele's blocks. How do you explain his impact when the
• 35:21
  Speaker 17: shots aren't falling, also knowing that he could go off
• 35:24
  Speaker 17: at any time.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, I think that's the true definition of like I
• 35:29
  Speaker 20: don't I don't know, I don't even know what you
• 35:31
  Speaker 20: call it. The best player, One of the greatest is
• 35:33
  Speaker 20: that they impact the game in more than just scoring
• 35:37
  Speaker 20: or shooting. So to be able to guard, to be
• 35:39
  Speaker 20: able to rebound, to find guys on are open. It's
• 35:43
  Speaker 20: a hard job for him because he always got three
• 35:45
  Speaker 20: people that's on him and he's always making the right
• 35:47
  Speaker 20: play over and over and over again.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: But we needed it.
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  Speaker 20: And then when it was time for him to make
• 35:53
  Speaker 20: some shots, we needed it, and he came.
• 35:56
  Speaker 13: Through having a time to stop thinking about that game.
• 36:00
  Speaker 13: But you've got you going back to Minnesota second round series.
• 36:04
  Speaker 13: Just what comes to your mind about this series, about
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: this challenge.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Obviously quick turnaround.
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  Speaker 1: For game one. Honestly, I got to like midnight to
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: enjoy this win.
• 36:13
  Speaker 20: So that's what I'm gonna do, and then I'll focus
• 36:15
  Speaker 20: on Minnesota come after midnight. But I wonry about how
• 36:20
  Speaker 20: I'm gonna get my coffee machine to Minnesota and how
• 36:23
  Speaker 20: I'm gonna get my kids there.
• 36:26
  Speaker 16: Jimmy Dremond was in there earlier. He said that this
• 36:29
  Speaker 16: series actually made him a better player. Just curious, is
• 36:32
  Speaker 16: there anything that you're gonna take into the next series
• 36:34
  Speaker 16: that you might have picked up from Planet scene.
• 36:37
  Speaker 20: I'm gonna take how resilient we are as a group,
• 36:43
  Speaker 20: coming from where they were, you know, post trade before
• 36:47
  Speaker 20: I got here in the way that everybody locked in
• 36:50
  Speaker 20: and it made me feel welcome, and we took off
• 36:53
  Speaker 20: this way and we never waivered.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: The confidence never went anywhere.
• 36:58
  Speaker 20: Really good group of hoopers, really good group of people.
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  Speaker 20: So that's what I'm gonna take into this next round
• 37:04
  Speaker 20: is we got some guys that can play at the
• 37:06
  Speaker 20: extremely high level, and on any given night, it could
• 37:10
  Speaker 20: be anybody's name.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: So much of the series was about you and Draymond
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: battling their you know, double center lineup. You've been with
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Draymond now a few months seeing you know, six five
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: sixty six, Maybe what you know more appreciation do you
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: have for what he physically has done over the last
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: decade is basically a center.
• 37:30
  Speaker 20: A lot, but he's been doing that since he came
• 37:32
  Speaker 20: into the league. What I respect more than anything is
• 37:36
  Speaker 20: the way that he can talk to anybody and everybody
• 37:39
  Speaker 20: and it's so like on point, and it's it's quick,
• 37:42
  Speaker 20: like the fact that you tell me, hey, that's to
• 37:44
  Speaker 20: loose balls. You didn't get no more, And I'm like,
• 37:46
  Speaker 20: you're right, you know, like you talk to Steph and
• 37:49
  Speaker 20: you can talk to BP and whoever it is, and
• 37:51
  Speaker 20: it's like you don't got to repeat it. I got it,
• 37:54
  Speaker 20: Like that's I didn't know. And I respect it so
• 37:57
  Speaker 20: much now that he'll talk to anybody and everybody quick
• 38:01
  Speaker 20: to the point because it's all about winning, so all
• 38:03
  Speaker 20: the battles that he goes through, it's his leadership quality
• 38:07
  Speaker 20: of like getting to the point of moving on that
• 38:09
  Speaker 20: I respect the most.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: How would you qualify how physical this series was for
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: you and him?
• 38:13
  Speaker 20: The very physical, more so for him because he gotta switch,
• 38:18
  Speaker 20: he gotta battle both of the bigs.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Only got to battle, you know.
• 38:22
  Speaker 20: The Big a couple of times, and I get to
• 38:23
  Speaker 20: move out there to the guards. But uh, all of
• 38:27
  Speaker 20: that physicality, uh ended with four wins for us, So
• 38:30
  Speaker 20: we're happy.