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Tyrese Haliburton Talks Game 2 Winner vs. Cavs & Overrated Chants_ Overrate That · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Get used to these moments. How do you how do
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  Speaker 1: you go through your Uh, I'm at peace.
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  Speaker 2: I'm at peace with my game, you know, understanding that
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  Speaker 2: I'm trusting these moments. Uh. I have all the confidence
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  Speaker 2: in the world to make these shots. You know, my
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  Speaker 2: teammates and my coach staff give me that confidence. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm just trying to trying to make plays
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  Speaker 2: out there. You keep your head in a game.
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  Speaker 1: When you're down seconds together. It's the NBA. Crazy, crazier
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  Speaker 1: things have happened. Uh, you know it's Uh, it's just.
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  Speaker 2: Just what basketball is, and especially the end of our
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  Speaker 2: season has looked a lot like this. We've had many
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  Speaker 2: games where you could take a screenshot at any moment
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  Speaker 2: and be like, how do they win this game? You know,
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  Speaker 2: But we just have a resilient group.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: We just figure out ways to win. We don't give up,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, we're battle tested. We've h as a group.
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  Speaker 2: We've basically been together for about two years now, and
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  Speaker 2: that continuity has been really good for us. We've had
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  Speaker 2: to figure out so many different ways to win.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: When some guys got to go and when some guys
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  Speaker 2: don't got it going. Uh, we just find a way,
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  Speaker 2: and uh today that was that was what it was
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  Speaker 2: all about.
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  Speaker 3: The moment.
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  Speaker 2: I've been waiting for that. I've been waiting for that, man.
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  Speaker 2: Uh it was just right in the moment. It was
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  Speaker 2: right in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, man, I've been waiting for that. I'll take
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  Speaker 1: that fine gladly. Uh yeah, it's fine, it's fine. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: a little sore. You know. They told they said they
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  Speaker 1: were gonna ramp up the physicality. They did. We're not crying,
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  Speaker 1: were just coming out here to play basketball.
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  Speaker 3: Those first first half. Uh, just you know, first three quarters,
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  Speaker 3: I like.
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  Speaker 1: Taking it to you just what were they doing at
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  Speaker 1: first sort of make a tough one year and then
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  Speaker 1: kind of the fourth quarter nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they was in a full DENI, you know, taking
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  Speaker 2: me complete trying to take me completely out. And uh
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  Speaker 2: uh you know that's something we've seen from some teams
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  Speaker 2: this year. And uh, I thought we just did a
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  Speaker 2: great job of staying with it. You know, that allowed
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  Speaker 2: you to play on the ball a little bit more.
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  Speaker 2: Had thirteen itsys thirteen thirteen. You know, it's a big game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think we've got to keep staying with
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  Speaker 2: it offensively, keep staying our continuity Uh, it's just it's
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  Speaker 2: junk defense, you know, and and uh, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: trying to put some more variation in the game. They
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  Speaker 2: got a bunch of different guys out there. They're in
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  Speaker 2: full deny on me, and uh, I just have to
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  Speaker 2: you know, keep my head. You know, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: easy to get frustrated in that moment, but you know, teammates,
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  Speaker 2: coach tav told me to stay with it, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was just able to break loose there at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the game. But yeah, man, it's it's just
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  Speaker 2: part of it. You're seeing a lot of different schemes.
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  Speaker 2: It's it happens throughout the course of a season, throughout
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  Speaker 2: the course of a you know, a series. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: we just we just stayed with it, figured it out.
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  Speaker 2: And uh yeah, it's a big one for us.
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  Speaker 4: What it's like to hit these games winning shots in
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  Speaker 4: these moments, for those of us watching you out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's uh, it's a special feeling, man,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a lot of fun. I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: any basketball fan or anybody who's involved in basketball at all,
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  Speaker 2: everybody in their life has imagined being a kid, being
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  Speaker 2: in the driveway, being in the living room, time winding
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  Speaker 2: down in their head, chewing it, missing, putting more time
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  Speaker 2: on the clock, you know, all the all those things like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: this is a kid's game, man, I get paid a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money to play a kids game. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: just having fun out there. And yeah, just having fun
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  Speaker 2: with what I'm doing. And uh, I uh, really winning
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  Speaker 2: is fun, you know. But I love being in these situations.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow, some way, we find our way in these situations
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  Speaker 2: a lot. And uh, you know, we just got to
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  Speaker 2: find ways to win. And I thought we did a
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  Speaker 2: great job, and we we we wear the wear down effects,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for four quarters, for forty eight minutes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: allowed us to stay with it and get a big
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  Speaker 2: win in the end.
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  Speaker 4: The last point obviously basic throw. What's your read on
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  Speaker 4: that coming off of it? How'd you manage to get
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  Speaker 4: hold of What are you thinking at that point when
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  Speaker 4: the wing down you're trying to go with that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was pissed.
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  Speaker 3: I missed the layup, I lost the ball. If I
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  Speaker 3: would have held on the ball, I would have been
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  Speaker 3: one in the retired of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, that's just funny, how funny how it works out sometimes? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: ball came off, I jumped to grab it and now
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna shoot the floater right there. I kind
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  Speaker 2: of like was looking around, uh but I just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get out to the top. And then I just
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  Speaker 2: saw me and Ty Jerome on top of the key.
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  Speaker 2: I had space and just trying to make a play.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I felt felt comfortable there and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just knocked it down. But you know, I think there
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  Speaker 2: were so many plays that led up to that moment
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  Speaker 2: that were so big. I mean double a Superman flew in,
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  Speaker 2: Michael George top of the key with the tip dunk
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  Speaker 2: should have been and one you know, I thought, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Miles made some some big post seals that you know,
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  Speaker 2: Drew got a big steel there at the end, Pascal
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  Speaker 2: a big lay up.
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  Speaker 1: There was so many different players.
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  Speaker 2: I Ben Mathren the last two games has made plays
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  Speaker 2: that won't be spoken about enough. You know, when they
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  Speaker 2: went on their run last game in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 2: he made a big corner three for us. Thought he
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  Speaker 2: was really big there in the fourth you know, getting
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  Speaker 2: some tippings and different things like that.
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  Speaker 1: We just figured it out.
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  Speaker 2: Man. We have so many different guys who chip in
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  Speaker 2: and and play a part in these wins and uh,
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  Speaker 2: a total team effort, man, it's not, it's not. There's
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  Speaker 2: so many things that lead up to that play. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's one shot, but there's so many plays that lead
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  Speaker 2: up to that, and that's a total team win for us.
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  Speaker 2: And that's who we are. You know, we we are.
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  Speaker 2: We're not a one man show.
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  Speaker 1: We don't. You know.
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  Speaker 2: We have so many different guys who can chip in,
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  Speaker 2: get in double figures. I mean a whole We had
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  Speaker 2: six guys and double figures and that you know, and
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  Speaker 2: that's been the theme for us and our success many times.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to.
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  Speaker 2: Play the right way and uh, you know, we're a
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  Speaker 2: resilient group and I'm I'm really proud of our of
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  Speaker 2: our group for for this effort to night.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless.
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  Speaker 4: It goes with a whole sub line up at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the third and then you Drew Miles, go
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  Speaker 4: and get your top six guys in the fourth quarter entirely.
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  Speaker 4: First off, did you know that that was kind of
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  Speaker 4: bas he was making the first move to make the
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  Speaker 4: second And how big was that that those guys in
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  Speaker 4: that stress? I made a couple of and then set
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  Speaker 4: you guys up, got a couple.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I had no idea. I had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just we I we we have faith in
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  Speaker 2: in coaches, rotations, trusting you know, what he sees out there.
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  Speaker 2: And understand, you know, when we got the we fouled
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  Speaker 2: and we subbed in for offense the last five seconds,
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  Speaker 2: got the three. So I knew he would leave me
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  Speaker 2: on the floor after that, and we're just trying to
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  Speaker 2: make plays, man, trying to make plays, trying to figure
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  Speaker 2: it out. You know, we wear it on them for
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  Speaker 2: forty eight minutes. At the end of the you know,
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  Speaker 2: they came out, pressed us full court, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they played more our style, and by the end of
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  Speaker 2: the game, you know, everybody was tired, but they were tired,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And I feel like that's part of the
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  Speaker 2: way down effect of forty eight minutes. So I feel
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  Speaker 2: like as a as a group, you know, we just
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  Speaker 2: stuck with him. Man. Understood. We went down seventeen in
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  Speaker 2: the first quarter. We we just talked, we were down
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  Speaker 2: seventeen against Milwaukee, and we figured out, let's win every
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  Speaker 2: quarter by six, win the second quarter by six, lose
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  Speaker 2: the third quarter.
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  Speaker 1: So we knew we had ground to make up and
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  Speaker 1: we just we just figured it out, man.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, like I said, man, we were really resident
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  Speaker 2: group and I'm really proud of our group.
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  Speaker 4: Is it just to be up to the game Virgal
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  Speaker 4: places that you guys?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, huge, man, huge.
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  Speaker 2: You know I always say, you know, the playoffs series
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  Speaker 2: don't start till you know.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody wins a row game. We we want we won too.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we're going back home where we've had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of success over the last two years in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. But I think you have to understand, uh,
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  Speaker 2: being down to oh, losing both on.
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  Speaker 1: Your home, on your home floor.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna come to play desperate, and you know this
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  Speaker 2: is a team who they don't lose often, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean. So coming in today, we expected a
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  Speaker 2: punch and we were after weather the storm. Well, they
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  Speaker 2: threw a big punch you know there in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 2: and we weathered that storm, and so we got to
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  Speaker 2: be ready to expect that in the third quarter or sorry,
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  Speaker 2: in game three, start dealing with some injuries and we
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  Speaker 2: don't know who's gonna play, but that that doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: We have to keep the focus on us and play
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  Speaker 2: pacer basketball. And I think that's gonna be the big
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  Speaker 2: thing going into Game three is continue to be who
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  Speaker 2: we are. I mean, the past two games had seventeen
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  Speaker 2: turnovers both games.
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  Speaker 1: That is not who we are. You know, we really
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  Speaker 1: have to improve there.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, kudos them for what they're
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  Speaker 2: doing defensively, but I feel like a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: are unforced and so we'll watch the film, we'll figure
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  Speaker 2: out how we can be better there. We all rebounded
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  Speaker 2: them today, which is shocking to see because it didn't
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  Speaker 2: feel like that.
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  Speaker 1: But there's so many, so.
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  Speaker 2: Many areas where we feel like we can improve. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the good thing about it. Good thing about this series.
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  Speaker 2: You're up to well, but you you still know there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot to improve on. So, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: great thing about going home. We get two days, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody take care of their body, get to sleep in
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  Speaker 2: their own bed a little bit, and play at home
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  Speaker 2: in front of the greatest fans in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be the aw.
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  Speaker 2: Funf that overrated chance that the Cavs fan base, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean sure, yeah, uh that one was unexpected.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know we had beef, but uh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: guess that I mean, good for them, man, that came
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  Speaker 3: out of nowhere. But uh, it's just, uh, I think
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  Speaker 3: now that that label's.
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  Speaker 2: There, they're all as that's gonna be every time we
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  Speaker 2: play somebody, every time on the road. He'll probably follow
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  Speaker 2: me until the next poll comes out and then we'll
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  Speaker 2: see if I'm number one again. But uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for me, I just control what I can man, and
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, I mean OVERRTE that.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks appreciate you guys.