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Tyrese Haliburton Joins Inside the NBA After Pacers Win Game 2 vs. Knicks · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Mays, Haliburton is ready to go, so we do want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to him about game two here, Tyres, thanks
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  Speaker 1: a lot for joining us. We appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Free for your dad, for your dad pops those backwards man.
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  Speaker 1: So h, here's here's a question for you. Look, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: uh six and one on the road, impressive seven and
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  Speaker 1: zero in clutch games. Tell me what goes into that?
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  Speaker 1: How how do you stay undefeated in clutch time in
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  Speaker 1: these five point games five minutes or less? And how
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  Speaker 1: much of it is a state of mind? And doing
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  Speaker 1: it also in a building like this that is so loud.
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  Speaker 3: Uh Yeah, I think preparation and experience. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think we prepare for these moments. We've been involved
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  Speaker 3: in a lot of funky games and the year just
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  Speaker 3: figuring out how the way win in so many different ways.
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  Speaker 3: And even in the playoffs, we've had to figure out
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  Speaker 3: how to win in so.
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  Speaker 2: Many different ways like game one. And when I say experience,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not acting. I'm not saying act like
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  Speaker 2: I'm a vetter.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just saying we've uh we as a group,
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  Speaker 3: we've been together, you know, I think in the NBA
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  Speaker 3: right now, it's it's so common for heavy roster turnover
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  Speaker 3: from year to year, and I think after last year,
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  Speaker 3: the front office did a great job of keeping this
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  Speaker 3: group together and we just experienced so many different things together, winning, losing,
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  Speaker 3: figuring out how to win in many ways, figuring out
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  Speaker 3: how to you know, how we're losing, and how to
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  Speaker 3: correct that. So yeah, I think that those are the
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  Speaker 3: big two things.
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  Speaker 4: Tyra Shack hero O, you an apology during an interview
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  Speaker 4: with Reg's a lot of little bit too much giggling.
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  Speaker 5: For me.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I want these guys to be serious,
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  Speaker 4: and you guys were serious of what was said to
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  Speaker 4: the guys and having that killer instinct and you know,
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  Speaker 4: getting this win tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think just coming out here and understanding what
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  Speaker 3: we were getting into. I think after you take a
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  Speaker 3: game like Game one, you understand that they're gonna come
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  Speaker 3: into the game probably a little frustrated, didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Feel like they should have.
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  Speaker 3: They probably don't feel like they should have lost Game one.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like they gave it away. So we knew
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  Speaker 3: they were gonna hemp up the physicality and played with
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  Speaker 3: some pace.
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  Speaker 2: But I think the.
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  Speaker 3: Biggest thing for us as a group was don't wait
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  Speaker 3: for them to throw the first punch. Let's throw the
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  Speaker 3: first punch and then roll from there. And I thought
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  Speaker 3: we did a good job of that. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: think we just are doing a good job just locking in,
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  Speaker 3: taking it play by play, quarter by quarter, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's leading good things for us.
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  Speaker 5: Tyres as the as the playmaker on this team, the
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  Speaker 5: guy who's getting everybody involved. How is it playing with
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  Speaker 5: Pascal where y'all don't call him many sets for him?
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  Speaker 5: But you know, during that fourth quarter, it was kind
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  Speaker 5: of a stretch where he wasn't getting the ball and
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  Speaker 5: then finding him to get him back because his office
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  Speaker 5: is so random, it comes from.
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  Speaker 2: All over all over the place.
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  Speaker 5: How are you, as a point guard finding him in
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  Speaker 5: these situations to make sure he stays involved in the office,
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  Speaker 5: although y'all don't run any sets for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to be honest, I was pretty trash at that. Today.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta do a batter job getting the rock, especially
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  Speaker 3: when he's cooking like that. You know, I think down
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  Speaker 3: the stretch, I gotta do a better job of getting
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  Speaker 3: in the ball. But he made so many big plays,
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  Speaker 3: big shot after big shot, you know, and I got
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  Speaker 3: to do a better job. That's I wasn't great at
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  Speaker 3: that today, But you know, I think it's I think
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  Speaker 3: that's part of basketball. It's not linear success, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and it's not linear growth, and it's not always going
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  Speaker 3: to be. You know, this this great facilitating game. I
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  Speaker 3: have games where I'm not very good at that, So
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  Speaker 3: I had to do a better job of that. I'll
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  Speaker 3: do a better job.
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  Speaker 2: Lay in game three. But man, he was unbelievable today.
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  Speaker 3: We had a lot of different guys step up, and man,
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  Speaker 3: it really started with him.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know Tyres as an overrated point guard. No, seriously,
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  Speaker 6: you know there are things that you have to come
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  Speaker 6: to the arena and say. You know, as a point guard,
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  Speaker 6: we used to say, well, there's three.
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  Speaker 7: Things you gotta do for me.
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  Speaker 6: I as I say, I'm going to push the ball
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  Speaker 6: as fast as I can. I'm gonna make sure I
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  Speaker 6: make great entry passes. I'm gonna run into my shot.
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  Speaker 6: Those are the three things. I'm like, I got to
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  Speaker 6: do that every day. What are the three things that
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  Speaker 6: you say for this team? Because it isn't always scoring
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  Speaker 6: that you say I gotta do these three tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think obviously get guys involved, right, I think
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  Speaker 3: consistent conversation with the coaching staff, seeing what they're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought we did.
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  Speaker 3: A poor job in the first half of getting downhill.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we were living in a long twos and
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  Speaker 3: Pascal was bailing us out a lot of the time.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought we had a lot of different guys
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  Speaker 3: step up and just trying to keep that consistent conversation.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think defensively for me, just trying to
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  Speaker 2: do the best I can.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think if I'm doing my job on
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  Speaker 3: that end, being solid, you know, it's easier for guys
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  Speaker 3: to hold me accountable. And I think that also gives
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  Speaker 3: me more equity to hold guys accountable if I'm you know,
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  Speaker 3: doing my job there and helping out and just doing
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  Speaker 3: the best I can on that end. So those are
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  Speaker 3: the biggest things for me. And at the end of
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  Speaker 3: they just figure out ways to win. Just figure out
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  Speaker 3: ways to win, you know. I think that that starts
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  Speaker 3: with me at the point guard position, and then yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: to try to win games.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I don't think you guys came out to
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  Speaker 7: play tonight. I thought y'all came out flat lack of
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  Speaker 7: days ago, because if you actually look the only guy
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  Speaker 7: played well the first half was Pascal, So I thought
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  Speaker 7: y'all came out like we got to split. What happened
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  Speaker 7: at halftime? They say something, Somebody says something to guys,
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  Speaker 7: let's get greedy Pascal because he's the only one played
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  Speaker 7: good in the first half. Yeah, does somebody say something halftime, guys,
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  Speaker 7: let's get off our ass and go well.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think the biggest thing the conversation at
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  Speaker 3: halftime was we probably played one of our worst halves
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  Speaker 3: of the playoffs outside of the Cleveland game. Cleveland Game three,
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  Speaker 3: that's probably one of our wors. We're only down three, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, I think for us it was like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: nobody's playing good right now except for p you know,
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  Speaker 3: so everybody, let's join the party. You know, Pe appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's keep it going, keep doing what you're doing. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, when you're have played such a terrible half
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  Speaker 3: like that and you're only down three, I think that
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  Speaker 3: gives you a lot of confidence. And I thought we
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  Speaker 3: did a great job coming out in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 3: We started the fourth quarter well, you know, I thought
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  Speaker 3: we did a great job of that. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you. Nobody nobody was good in the
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  Speaker 3: first half.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Tyree, I'm a big boxing fan, and you see
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  Speaker 5: in a lot of these big fights, when a guy
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  Speaker 5: take their best shot and it does nothing to them,
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  Speaker 5: they just keep pressing for it. And I feel like
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  Speaker 5: that's how y'all looked out out there tonight, Like as
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  Speaker 5: y'all mine say, you know, we've taken their best shot,
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  Speaker 5: we know we can take their best shot, let's keep
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  Speaker 5: pressing for it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think just trying to take it to play
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  Speaker 2: the time, bro.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know, this team, similar to us, has
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  Speaker 3: had to find ways to win and make different ways.
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  Speaker 3: You see last series they had like two twenty point
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  Speaker 3: comebacks or whatever the case was. So they're very similar
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  Speaker 3: to us, where you know, you never stopped playing. He
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  Speaker 3: never can relax because Jaylen starts making shots and those
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  Speaker 3: other guys get in on the rebounds and crash and
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  Speaker 3: get extra shots, and everybody gets going, and the crowd
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  Speaker 3: gets into it, you know, and the billion celebrities that
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  Speaker 3: are here or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody gets into the game.
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  Speaker 3: So I think we just got to do a good
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  Speaker 3: job of taking it, you know, play by play to
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  Speaker 3: the best of our ability. But yeah, I think that
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  Speaker 3: that you definitely have to look at it like that sometimes,
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  Speaker 3: But honestly, it's like until clock hads zero. This team's
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  Speaker 3: very similar to us, and the fact that you know
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  Speaker 3: the game's not over till it's over.
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  Speaker 1: Got one more ty resent. I appreciate your patience as
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  Speaker 1: you face this long line of questioning, but we have
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  Speaker 1: an extra guide, Framond Green here on the set, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't want you to miss the bus. But you
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  Speaker 1: did this against Cleveland too, Yeah, you know, won the
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  Speaker 1: first two and then you got one home thing got way?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So how do you prevent that this time?
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  Speaker 1: And how much discussion will there be about that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the main conversation right now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think, uh, you coming here, you steal too,
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  Speaker 3: which is a you know, a great thing.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, but you can't relax when you get home. And
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  Speaker 2: I feel like last series we did that.
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  Speaker 3: Uh So I thought we had a great conversation there
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  Speaker 3: after the game about it. We got to lock in
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  Speaker 3: and take care of game three. Everybody was twenty five
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  Speaker 3: hundreds on the same day, so we'll have some some.
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  Speaker 2: Rowdy fans, maybe a little intoxicated. Who knows how we'll
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  Speaker 2: get out there. Uh. You know it'll be It'll be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think they call it pacers and Racers. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's my first time experiencing it, so it'll be a
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  Speaker 3: lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on the second win here at the Garden and
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  Speaker 1: a two nothing lead in the series. Congratulations, man, thanks
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  Speaker 1: a lot for spending the time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Chuck, Chuck, what did you say you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: get stay at Saint Elmo's done?
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  Speaker 7: Are you done? I'm taking well done? Come on, brother,
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  Speaker 7: come on, just takes a little longer. You're too old
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  Speaker 7: for that. You like me, You're like media medium rare.
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  Speaker 7: Oh my god, I would never eat media.
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  Speaker 2: You're too old for that. Man.
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  Speaker 7: I'm from Alabama. Man, we just toow some some salt
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  Speaker 7: on it.
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  Speaker 2: You have had a lot of experience. Man, You've been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of cities. You're around for a long time.
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  Speaker 7: Man, Saint Elmo's Tomorrow night is gonna be on fire.
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  Speaker 2: He's okay.
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  Speaker 7: You want me to bring Pops? You want to go
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  Speaker 7: with Pops? I hate you want to bring Pops. You're
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  Speaker 7: welcome to your brother. I'm taking I'm taking the Godfather
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  Speaker 7: tomorrow night. You were going to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I appreciate, but it's your breakfast read yess how
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  Speaker 2: I got your back