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Pacers Take a 2-0 Series Lead vs. Knicks Going Back to Indiana _ Inside the NBA · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Did anybody on this panel before the series started see
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  Speaker 1: it being too nothing Indiana after these first two Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: We all we've seen Indiana go on the road and
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  Speaker 2: win games all playoffs long. But I don't think anyone
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  Speaker 2: had this on their Bengo card. Has everyone's been saying,
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  Speaker 2: I thought that Nick was gonna have a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more fight. The crowd was never into the game. I
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  Speaker 2: want to ask you guys a question. I've seen a
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  Speaker 2: lot of a lot of scouting points, but Phil Jackson
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  Speaker 2: did something I've never seen them before. Of Course, you
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  Speaker 2: talk about players, but if they can be a threat,
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  Speaker 2: he will put threat. For example, Siakam as the player is,
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  Speaker 2: but they didn't take him as a threat tonight.
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  Speaker 3: He went off like you know.
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  Speaker 2: They probably you know, contraying on Halliburn and contrating on
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  Speaker 2: Nie Smith. Hey we're gonna look out for Nie Smith tonight.
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  Speaker 2: But they didn't treat a Pascal Siakam like a threat.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think one of your points you always make
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  Speaker 4: when you because I told you I think he's most.
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  Speaker 3: Unerrated player in the league.
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  Speaker 4: I told you that I thought he played tonight like
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  Speaker 4: you know what, I let my team down in Game
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  Speaker 4: one and he came out aggressive from the get go,
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  Speaker 4: and I thought he set the tone because and he
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  Speaker 4: told the person kept.
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  Speaker 3: Him in the game the first half.
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  Speaker 4: But you know Checkie always talking about a great player
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  Speaker 4: can't have two bad games.
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  Speaker 3: Row that to me.
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  Speaker 4: What see Ikam did tonight? You know what, I even
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  Speaker 4: though we won, I didn't do my part, but he
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  Speaker 4: got it going tonight and then the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: guys joined the party. But he's the only reason they
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  Speaker 4: were in the game in the first place. Well, he
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  Speaker 4: played extraordin Lli well. But the interesting thing about the
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  Speaker 4: Any and Anna.
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  Speaker 5: Pacers is that they could have four guys take twenty
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  Speaker 5: shots different nights, Na Smith, Halliburton, Turner, Siakam, Martin, them
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  Speaker 5: all Rolo take twenty but those four you wouldn't be
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  Speaker 5: surprised if they took twenty shots. So it's hard to
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  Speaker 5: defend a team that is that versatile, and that's why
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  Speaker 5: they are where they are now.
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  Speaker 6: Well, here's what I'll say with Pascal.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't they don't run plays for him, so he
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  Speaker 2: got transition. He came in, got the switch and it
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  Speaker 2: took advantage of the switch. So it's a lot harder to.
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  Speaker 3: Key on that.
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  Speaker 4: I played with a guy just like that, said Toblo's
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen a guy move better without the ball
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  Speaker 4: and finished with twenty eight twenty five points.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, we didn't run a single play for him.
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  Speaker 4: I said, well, because Kevin Johnson Dan Marlin was shooting
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  Speaker 4: it all the time.
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  Speaker 3: God just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: The thing about look your all defense ninth time this year.
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  Speaker 1: But you know how tough a cover this guy is.
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  Speaker 1: Pascal siaw come tell me about defending him.
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  Speaker 3: He's a very tough cover.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it reminds me of Boris di Al, Like
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  Speaker 2: he's never as soon as you touch his body, he'll
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  Speaker 2: spin off you and so you can never get leverage
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  Speaker 2: on him. I was speaking the other day about our
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  Speaker 2: series with Minnesota, and I was saying, the only I
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  Speaker 2: lost my match up to Julius Randall. The only other
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  Speaker 2: time I really felt like I lost my matchup in
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  Speaker 2: the series once against Pascal Siaka when we played Toronto
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  Speaker 2: his championship. As Shack's been talking about, he destroyed me.
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  Speaker 2: And it's hard to figure out because it's not like
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  Speaker 2: a set play to where you can key on one move.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like random action and he find a way
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  Speaker 2: to get the points.
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  Speaker 3: He's extremely tough cover.
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  Speaker 2: And what I love about this guy, he's definitive with
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  Speaker 2: his moves. You don't dance around put between his legs.
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  Speaker 2: You make a mistake defensively one or two dribbles, either
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  Speaker 2: that pull up drump shot or he's going straight to the.
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  Speaker 3: Basket, you know, earn it.
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  Speaker 4: Thing I like about him too, he kind of plays
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  Speaker 4: like a little old school guy. What I mean by
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  Speaker 4: that is he never let a little guy play him. Ever,
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  Speaker 4: the way the NBA's day, everybody switches everything anytime they
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  Speaker 4: put a little dude on him.
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  Speaker 3: And this game was so simple watching the Pacers just.
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  Speaker 4: Ran a pick and roll every time and took advantage
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  Speaker 4: of the mismatches, whether it was Halliburton dancing or Siakam
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  Speaker 4: or Miles Turner. I never understand that the nbad why
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  Speaker 4: guys don't be like they never hunt out mismatches, but
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  Speaker 4: the Pacers will hunt out mismatches all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny, I guess they answered the question that was posted
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  Speaker 1: before the game. Would they be satisfied just leaving here
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  Speaker 1: with a split?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 5: Like I said, these are the final four teams, They're
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  Speaker 5: not no one satisfied. They understand what's that stake. Now,
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  Speaker 5: when you get this close to the end of the tunnel,
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  Speaker 5: you have a tunnel vision, you understand what's that stake.
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  Speaker 5: So there's a focus from game to game. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: the one thing that the Knicks have to understand is
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  Speaker 5: like when you put yourself in an O two hole
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  Speaker 5: and you're saying, now, you can be the team four
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  Speaker 5: out of five times that you couldn't even be at home.
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  Speaker 3: That is an you.
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  Speaker 5: Could be down oh two coming home, but it's very
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  Speaker 5: difficult to be two going back on the road. And
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  Speaker 5: for the first time that is probably insurmountable.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm all right, good stuff here post game to
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  Speaker 1: rebound me and here are the highlights.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's going to happen, but I could
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  Speaker 4: ask a deal with sev of these are you were
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  Speaker 4: right there?
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  Speaker 3: I had no doubt. I'll take four of myself. But
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  Speaker 3: that's what we're gonna get.
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  Speaker 1: Just the start of an incredible night for past Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, man, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 4: He kept them singing handle in the game the first half.
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  Speaker 3: Because the rest of the guy who were on spring break.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he came glass, He came out and scored
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  Speaker 1: sixteen in the first quarter.
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  Speaker 5: But you know what, also in this era of you know,
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  Speaker 5: shooting point guards, shooting scoring point guards or converted to
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  Speaker 5: guards to point guards, Haliburton is a traditional point guard
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  Speaker 5: where he's gone to get people involved. He said, the
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  Speaker 5: first thing that I think about is get people involved.
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  Speaker 5: Tell you what's man, that's just Jaylen Brownson. He earned
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  Speaker 5: some respect, man. Yeah, he scores that well, Chuck. He's
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  Speaker 5: a guy who can get it done. Oji And I
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  Speaker 5: know he played well today. He really early in the game.
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  Speaker 5: He was active. He was giving guys second opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: He and Mitchell.
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  Speaker 5: Robinson, but you know, just eating the glass. They were
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  Speaker 5: eating the glass today.
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  Speaker 4: Were Mitchell robb was just hand helling these little dudes
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  Speaker 4: down low.
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  Speaker 3: You know. But then lock him. I'm on here, come
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  Speaker 3: I kill him big.
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  Speaker 4: I killed kill him a little Yeah, but he said,
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  Speaker 4: right here, kill him big, kill him, kill him big,
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  Speaker 4: kill him a little question here. He takes on all comers.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, He's got twenty one of Indiana's thirty
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  Speaker 1: one points.
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  Speaker 5: Offensive rebounds again killed Indiana in the first half, and
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  Speaker 5: that's what kept the Knicks going.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, like fifty to fifty balls. That turns into a
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  Speaker 6: three pointer for Cat.
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  Speaker 2: They clean these offensive rebounds up, they'll beat them by twenty.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, this was one of the few mistakes by Robinson.
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  Speaker 5: Way he was able to get beat off the dribble,
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  Speaker 5: but he's played well throughout the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really thought the Knicks was round with a
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  Speaker 2: lot more fight to night sirs man. Yeah, but a
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  Speaker 2: couple of skirts that had the crowd in the game
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  Speaker 2: that you're supposed to take off.
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  Speaker 3: Never never call it quite get away from the basis fifty.
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  Speaker 6: Two to forty nine year halftime score.
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  Speaker 3: See now these other guys are getting going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm hard. He took the first half off now
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  Speaker 1: of going. Now it's one yep. I had a dozen
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  Speaker 1: get out in that Hall of Burton. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I remember on that guy. You should have heard this arena.
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  Speaker 1: You've been silent when he got the ball out of
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  Speaker 1: They just knew what was gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Myles Turner bought this thing home to game one.
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  Speaker 3: Cat really got bits, You sure did.
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't understand that because when Robinson was only
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  Speaker 4: making one out of two free throws, you got to
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  Speaker 4: go back to your best player and once.
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  Speaker 3: The fundamentals right there, boy. Yeah, and he's underrated in
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  Speaker 3: terms of his size.
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  Speaker 5: People, but don't think that he's six foot nine, oh
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  Speaker 5: but a seven.
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  Speaker 3: We know, Worry is a mad every player he.
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  Speaker 6: Picks all right.
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  Speaker 1: So here we go eighty one a piece, going to
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter over Ben Shepherd four three Ben Shephard.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, that little guy right there, McConnell. Yes, sir man,
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  Speaker 4: you got to give him some flowers too. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 4: he as.
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  Speaker 1: It and they would build a ten point fourth quarter lead.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, shot, I have no idea how he
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  Speaker 3: makes that shot.
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  Speaker 5: The funny thing is you keep saying that you he
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  Speaker 5: was saying that, you know, see, I can score some
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  Speaker 5: different places. He's the only guy who made the All
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  Speaker 5: Stars Ship two on a basis.
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  Speaker 6: Thirteen fourth quarter points for Miles Turner.
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  Speaker 3: See, I mean that's not a play. That's just outrun
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  Speaker 3: that work.
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  Speaker 6: And it's hard to scout that there's your ten point lead.
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  Speaker 4: This man, single handley tried to bring these boys back.
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  Speaker 6: Is it too much?
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  Speaker 1: Though?
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  Speaker 6: It's too much, way too much.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, But you gotta hey, man, that's all he gives,
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  Speaker 4: all this effort. That's all you can ask. I'm that
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  Speaker 4: shut up A shot.
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  Speaker 1: So one ten one oh seven, and suddenly life back
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  Speaker 1: in the garden where moments earlier it had been silent,
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  Speaker 1: and now Brunson bind him.
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  Speaker 6: What a great fine.
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  Speaker 4: Man they got lucky on this out of bounds play.
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  Speaker 3: He grabbed his shirt up. I didn't like this shot
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  Speaker 3: right here.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't like that one either, but there's not much
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  Speaker 5: you can do. You got to get something up. But
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  Speaker 5: here Jesus didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Want They had plenty of time, just didn't want that.
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  Speaker 2: And Indiana hasn't shown to be a foul team in
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  Speaker 2: that situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't do it twice the other night exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the Nicks won the boards again, but that
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  Speaker 1: huge rebound right there to seal the deal for Indiana
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  Speaker 1: got on when they absolutely needed it, and they win
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  Speaker 1: the game one fourteen to one oh nine thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: for Pascal Siakam, and it's two nothing Kenny in favor
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  Speaker 1: of the Indiana Pacers going home for three and four.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the thing that you have to be aware of
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  Speaker 5: is you're going to go home with a great deal
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  Speaker 5: of confidence. But at certain times, I think Raymond and
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  Speaker 5: Shaq and Chuck you ganswered this.
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  Speaker 3: You have to find isolation within this in jubilation.
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  Speaker 5: So because when you go to a restaurant, everyone's excited,
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  Speaker 5: all of the banners around, So we could give you
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  Speaker 5: a gassing situation of like you better than you. All
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  Speaker 5: the reason why they're better than the Knicks right now
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  Speaker 5: they outworked them, and so you you didn't outscal the Knicks.
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  Speaker 5: You outworked the Knicks in key moments. And if you
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  Speaker 5: believe that you're just skillfully can walk in there and
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  Speaker 5: be Kobe Bryant and me Michael Jordan. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: you have to grind this game out and isolation and jubilation. Well,
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  Speaker 5: number one, you can't go out this weekend because you
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  Speaker 5: got the Indianapolis five hundred there. So not only you're
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  Speaker 5: gonna be gassed up by the Pacers fans, you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: be gassed up because all them them racing fans gonna
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  Speaker 5: be getting drunk all week So.
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  Speaker 4: You got to stay under that. But I want to
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  Speaker 4: say that as a guy in a unique situation, I've
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  Speaker 4: lost the first two games at home and I've won
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  Speaker 4: the first two games on the road, and I remember
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  Speaker 4: some of the great Paul Westfall said to me, he's
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  Speaker 4: the guys, we just got to win a game. We
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  Speaker 4: were going to play the Lakers. We were the number
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  Speaker 4: one seed in the West, and they came in and
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  Speaker 4: shocked us. James Worthy was on that team, and we
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  Speaker 4: were in shell. Chuck and Paul sit us down. He says, okay, guys,
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  Speaker 4: let's do not panic. Let's go and win game three
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  Speaker 4: and put the pressure on him. In game four, he said,
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  Speaker 4: we get back to Feen's, we're gonna win the serious
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  Speaker 4: And that's what happened. And so we went down to
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  Speaker 4: Houston and played these guys.
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  Speaker 3: Oh too.
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  Speaker 4: We won the first two games in Houston the year
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  Speaker 4: they won the championship. We were the best two teams
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  Speaker 4: in the NBA went they beat us in seven. But
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  Speaker 4: I remember tend the guys after we won the first
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  Speaker 4: two in Houston. We can't come back here. We cannot
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  Speaker 4: come back here. And if I'm if, I'm Rick and
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  Speaker 4: Tyres and those guys, guys, we're not going back to
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  Speaker 4: New York. Y'all saw what happened when we let down
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  Speaker 4: in Game three against Cleveland. Donovan went crazy. Number one
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  Speaker 4: I says, we're not going back to New York. Only
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  Speaker 4: thing matters is game three. Because we win game three,
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  Speaker 4: they know it's a wrap. But I'm telling these guys
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  Speaker 4: like because I remember telling these guys we beaconds guys,
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  Speaker 4: we got to wrap this thing up. And for it,
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  Speaker 4: they ended up beating us in seven. When you look
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  Speaker 4: up and win the first two games on the road,
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  Speaker 4: you cannot come back.
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  Speaker 6: I want to put a period on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Indian, all the fellas make a great point. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we all speak from experience, But I think I think
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  Speaker 2: Indiana will be ready, and they need to be ready.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we need to excise me weak. They need
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  Speaker 2: to play well, play hard, put the team away, put
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  Speaker 2: doubts in their mind. Win, not not only win game three,
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  Speaker 2: win by twenty thirty points to let them know it's over.
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  Speaker 2: Because you make good point, Chuck. If you lose those
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  Speaker 2: two and best out of three, who can change even
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  Speaker 2: if it goes three to one.
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  Speaker 3: If you go three to one, they're coming back here.
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  Speaker 4: And then, let me tell you something. They're not gonna
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  Speaker 4: win game five here. They're not gonna win game five.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't been I haven't been that impressed with it.
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  Speaker 4: With the garden mystique, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: When someone brings him a media media, look, this dude
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  Speaker 1: has been eating shoe leather his entire life, and he's
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  Speaker 1: not about to stop.
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  Speaker 3: He'll each treat me, but he won't meet. But you
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  Speaker 3: can streat me. I I did with the white sauce.
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  Speaker 3: I got to put the white sauce on. It got
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  Speaker 3: to come up that raccoon and the skunk under there.