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Luka Doncic Talks Lakers Win vs. Clippers on His Birthday - Full Press Conference · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Luca was hoping to learn how to say happy birthday
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  Speaker 1: in Slovenian, but I don't trust it yet, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: just say in English, where since you got here, have
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  Speaker 1: you identified a certain just kind of fight and tenacity
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  Speaker 1: and spirit and the team that you can win a
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  Speaker 1: game like this third and four nights back to back,
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  Speaker 1: And how would you describe but what you've seen from
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  Speaker 1: your teammates.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it shows, especially today, you know, coming
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  Speaker 2: to back to back without two of the starters, it's
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  Speaker 2: a tough game to play and to win. I think
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  Speaker 2: we show our character today. I would just say that.
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  Speaker 2: Then the second group with Braun, you know, they gave
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  Speaker 2: us life. He like inspired us to play Veriss, to
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  Speaker 2: play harder. So thanks to them, we won the game.
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  Speaker 1: You've gone against the Clippers a couple of times in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. Seemed like there are a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: are pretty comfortable, and you know, calling two bots out
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  Speaker 1: into that action, you get the two step backs and
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  Speaker 1: the fourth But is that kind of feel like, Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is what I do, This is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm used.
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  Speaker 2: To Yeah, I little bit. Yeah, I think the thing
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  Speaker 2: I was doing different is don't wait for just go
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  Speaker 2: and that's what will helped me. And in the second quarter,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the second four quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Luke, obviously without Austin and I and Ruey, like a
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  Speaker 3: lot was gonna fall on you and the Brown offensive.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm curious kind of what you made of Van Doh, Gabe,
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  Speaker 3: Jordan and Trey and and kind of could you just
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  Speaker 3: sort of describe the life those guys give you when
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  Speaker 3: they play that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I said before, you know, they give us
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  Speaker 2: life to this game. They pushed it to be better.
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  Speaker 2: And when the second goal with the bron came out,
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  Speaker 2: you know, then they pushed the ball, they defended. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they showed us like a little bit how we need
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  Speaker 2: to play. So without that, we don't need this game tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Can you reflect a little bit on the last year
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  Speaker 4: of your life, making the finals change, the teams grow
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  Speaker 4: in your family, just kind of where where do you
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  Speaker 4: kind of view things for you right now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's all good. I'm happy. That's all
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  Speaker 2: the matters. You know, have a little daughter, My family
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  Speaker 2: is good, the people around me are good. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's everything I want.
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  Speaker 5: Weird speaking with Jedge, he mentioned that after you arrived
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  Speaker 5: here there was about week period where you're with the
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  Speaker 5: team but you know, waiting to come back, and they
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  Speaker 5: had wins over like Indiana, the Clippers, big time wins.
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  Speaker 5: What did you learn about the group during that period
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  Speaker 5: in terms of the effort, fight, and I guess how
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  Speaker 5: did you see yourself? I guess adding to that when
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  Speaker 5: you work actually returned.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the first thing I noticed was how
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  Speaker 2: connected to play on both tends on the floor. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the ball is moving, and that's the first things I, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I learned or I watched the first time. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: for me, it was just trying to fit in that
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different basketball that I'm used to. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, since I've been back, they just let me
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  Speaker 2: be me, and you know, I got a long way
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  Speaker 2: to go, but slowly I'm starting to feel like myself.
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  Speaker 6: Look, you guys have been the best defense in the
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  Speaker 6: league for the past more and a half, but but
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  Speaker 6: these last six games, it's been one hundred and two
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  Speaker 6: points a fewer for every opponent coming out of the
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  Speaker 6: All Star Break. What do you think has been the
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  Speaker 6: key to kind of just ratcheting that up to a
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  Speaker 6: different level defensively?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody got each other's back on on the defensive end,
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  Speaker 2: you know, somebody penetrate, that's always somebody that's going to help.
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  Speaker 2: And the rotation is very good. So I think we
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  Speaker 2: just connected on the defensive end. Everybody's flying around and
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  Speaker 2: that's and the talk. The talk is amazing. So that's
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  Speaker 2: two or three things that helps.
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  Speaker 9: To look at you got first of all, happy birthday.
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  Speaker 9: Second of all, you got some nice scratches on the
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  Speaker 9: side of your face. But that reminds me the teams
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  Speaker 9: have been trying to muck up the game, get physical
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  Speaker 9: with you guys the last few games, and you've been
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  Speaker 9: able to stay the course and still get the w's.
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  Speaker 9: How do in those moments when they're trying to do
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  Speaker 9: that and you know they are, are you able to
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  Speaker 9: stay with your style and your game planning and get
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  Speaker 9: through it?
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  Speaker 2: Just use aggression against them, you know. I think players
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  Speaker 2: with high i Q know how to use that aggression,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in favor of them. So just say use that.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Loka, when you're on the court with Braun, what
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  Speaker 5: are the factors that determine which of you initiate the offense?
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  Speaker 2: Probably go back and forth, you know, I think we both.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, his off ball is amazing basketball, so
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  Speaker 2: he can play both. I'm still working on my alf
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  Speaker 2: ball but it's getting better. But I say back and
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  Speaker 2: forth both. I love, thank you, thank you,