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Karl-Anthony Towns Joins Inside the NBA After Knicks Win Game 5 vs. Pacers · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: And look who's sitting down next to you. Okay, Carl
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  Speaker 1: with his toes out.
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  Speaker 2: Better than yours side.
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  Speaker 3: There are any everybody has been here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're the only basketball player I know got good
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  Speaker 4: looking feet.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, man am twenty four points, thirteen rebounds on
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  Speaker 1: the night in the game, you absolutely have had to
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  Speaker 1: have kat and you had to have it with with
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  Speaker 1: yourself on the on the injury report, with the with
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  Speaker 1: the knee. How did it feel as the night started?
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  Speaker 2: It don't matter. You got to get the job done.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me this regular season game in February, you're playing
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  Speaker 1: on it.
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  Speaker 2: I always try to play. I always try to play,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: But nothing really came across my mind that I was
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  Speaker 5: going to miss his game, his game five as do
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  Speaker 5: I die, So definitely want to show up.
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  Speaker 3: We know your versatile big man. Also know you from Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Me and Charles are always on you about going inside
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  Speaker 3: out outside. When do you make it the termination in
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  Speaker 3: the game. I mean, listen, you're fabulous three point shooter,
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  Speaker 3: but when do you make the determination? You know what,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna shoot the outside jump out. I'm going
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  Speaker 3: inside and playing with four tonight.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's I'm glad you said that. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like today in this series.
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  Speaker 5: I've been having a lot of success getting downhill and
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  Speaker 5: getting to the rim. So I just, you know, like
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  Speaker 5: you said, I can shoot the three ball, but I
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  Speaker 5: really wanted to get downhill and pose my will early
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  Speaker 5: on inside, and then as the game progressed, you know,
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  Speaker 5: when I get an open three and trailer like that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, maybe I'll take it, But especially if I'm
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  Speaker 5: trailing in and the defender comes up, I gotta I
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  Speaker 5: gotta have the ability to drive to the basket.
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  Speaker 2: I d utilize that part.
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  Speaker 1: Can we put that stat back up, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: while we wait for that nine of us, nine of
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  Speaker 1: your ten buckets of paint tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to say this, I don't know anything
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  Speaker 4: about basketball, but I'm pretty damn sure. It's good to
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  Speaker 4: be on that list. I mean, that is incredible right there.
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  Speaker 4: To be on the list with Kobe and Shaquille and
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  Speaker 4: Jerry Weston l Jabala, Man, that is impressive.
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  Speaker 2: You should man that the only three people to do it.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy. God is good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Good.
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  Speaker 2: So listen, what was y'all? What did you know?
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  Speaker 4: Because obviously New York is a unique place because you
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  Speaker 4: live here, man, you can't watch TV, you can't definitely
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  Speaker 4: can't listen.
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  Speaker 3: To the radio.
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  Speaker 4: What were you guys on first of all, on the
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  Speaker 4: trip back from Indy there and in the last four
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  Speaker 4: to eight hours, what were y'all private conversations?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was just why not us? I feel
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  Speaker 2: that we all felt that we could do this.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we've shown that resiliency all all year, especially
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  Speaker 5: in the playoffs. So for us, it was just like
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  Speaker 5: why not us? Like why not go out there and
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  Speaker 5: take a game by game? Obviously, but you know, let's
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  Speaker 5: worry about the next game, and game five is.
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  Speaker 2: The next game. Let's get that one. Then let's worry.
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  Speaker 5: About game six after game five, and then you know,
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  Speaker 5: and then we worry about game seven after game six.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, we gotta take a game by game,
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  Speaker 2: staying the president.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you look at this call yourself in Jalen
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  Speaker 6: and was on that list with the greatest players that
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  Speaker 6: ever played the game. But to me also there was
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  Speaker 6: some guys that haven't gotten any spotlight that really did
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  Speaker 6: the job when they come into the game Shamman, Yeah, right, how.
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  Speaker 2: Great have they been? True? True? They have been.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you know pay attention to it,
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  Speaker 6: but they have been a plus. The only guys in
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  Speaker 6: this series who have a plus are the guys coming
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  Speaker 6: off the bench. Yeah, what has been their message when
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  Speaker 6: they weren't playing?
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  Speaker 5: You know the thing about it is locker room has
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of professionals. Everyone's a professional in there. You know,
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  Speaker 5: everyone's just ready for their moment. You know, you never
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  Speaker 5: know when your name is gonna be called. You never
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  Speaker 5: know when Tim's gonna look at.
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  Speaker 2: You and say go go in.
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  Speaker 5: So we all those guys are just they just professionals.
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  Speaker 5: They work hard every single day and they're ready when
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  Speaker 5: their name is called.
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  Speaker 2: Underdog just told me I want.
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  Speaker 1: To Underdog is our stat guy. By the way, everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows that Ernie twenty six points.
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  Speaker 4: Well, y'all playoff high off the bench, Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 4: when he actually plays, y'all bench, they're pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 5: I think everyone in that locker room is good. So,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, when they're just ready when their name
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  Speaker 5: is called.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, kat Halla Burton coming off this historic triple double
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  Speaker 1: the other night. So when you talked about how are
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  Speaker 1: we going to try to negate this guy because he's
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  Speaker 1: been their engine.
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  Speaker 2: What was the plan going in tonight? Uh, just make
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  Speaker 2: it difficult for him.
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  Speaker 5: I thought we did a better job today and making
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  Speaker 5: it difficult for him to get those open looks and
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  Speaker 5: to get going. And as you see right now on
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  Speaker 5: the screen, we're just doing a great job of applying
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  Speaker 5: pressure and making sure that every time he's looking to score,
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  Speaker 5: you know, he's seeing bodies, he's seeing people were not
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  Speaker 5: allowing him to have space to you know, utilize his talent.
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  Speaker 5: Mckal does a great job right there. So just a
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  Speaker 5: great job tonight of executing the game plan.
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  Speaker 3: So you're going back to Indiana. Of course they're going
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  Speaker 3: to try to push the pace. Of course they're going
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  Speaker 3: to try to make some adjustments. How are you guys
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  Speaker 3: going to slow him down? And what's the game plan
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  Speaker 3: and what's the message?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, first off, regardless of them changing a game
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  Speaker 5: plan us you know, changing our game plan and obviously
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  Speaker 5: UH doing different things, it has to start off with
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  Speaker 5: that desperation that we started with tonight. I thought that
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  Speaker 5: we did a great job coming out the gates off
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  Speaker 5: the jump ball zero zero and and applying pressure and
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  Speaker 5: having that energy that's needed, especially in the do or
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  Speaker 5: die game. So, uh, that's a that's a shot out
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  Speaker 5: to us. We got to start with that and then
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  Speaker 5: we'll worry about the game plan adjustments later.
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  Speaker 4: I got to say something. I gotta criticize you. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 4: why do you be getting them? Dumb foul? The same question,
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  Speaker 4: why do you why do you do that? God only knows.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, because you know they when you got your
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  Speaker 4: fourth file, they took you out, they made a run. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you gotta stop.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta got job, I gotta do it.
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  Speaker 4: You can get fouls, but the couple like the other
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  Speaker 4: thing when you just grabbed somebody about.
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  Speaker 2: The risk Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, you talk about last game of this game, last game,
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  Speaker 5: every game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're talking about the one with the picking you yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah yeah. But you can't be getting them. No, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can't. You ain't wrong, you ain't wrong. I gotta
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  Speaker 2: I hurt our team.
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  Speaker 5: But again, I mean, I want to give a shout
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  Speaker 5: out to the bench and the guys, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: everyone who comes in and they they hold it down.
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  Speaker 2: Even when I'm making these mistakes. I got to fix
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  Speaker 2: that though. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty four and thirteen Tonight, New York stays alive. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we will see you in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 2: Six regulations, Yes, sir, appreciate, appreciate, Yes, Sir Carl. They're
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  Speaker 2: always good to see it very you know,