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If I can walk, I want to play Tyrese Haliburton on His Injury & Game 5 Loss _ 2025 NBA Finals · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Tim Brendel's ap Tyrese Rick said that there was a
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  Speaker 1: discussion at halftime about whether you should keep going or not,
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  Speaker 1: and that you insisted on I'm playing even though you're
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  Speaker 1: obviously laboring. What went into that decision and how can
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  Speaker 1: you explain kind of how limited you were there?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I mean NBA Finals. It's the finals, man.
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  Speaker 3: I've worked my whole life to be here, and I
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  Speaker 3: want to be out there to compete, you know, help
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  Speaker 3: my teammates anyway I can. You know, I was not
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  Speaker 3: great tonight by any means, but uh, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: not really a thought of mine to not play here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if I fucking, uh you know, walk, then
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  Speaker 3: then I want to play. So you know they understand that,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know is what it is. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I got to be ready to go for
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  Speaker 3: Game six.
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  Speaker 4: First ure on the right, Jamal, How did you try
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  Speaker 4: to affect then?
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  Speaker 2: Being limited? How did you try to affect the game
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  Speaker 2: in the second half?
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  Speaker 4: And then uh, just you know, you guys got it
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  Speaker 4: down to soon in the third or fourth quarter there Just.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think got away from you after that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, just trying to keep pacing the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, impact whatever in whatever way.
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  Speaker 3: I can, just you know, trying to get pet the
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  Speaker 3: ball in the right spots, trying to get guys the
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  Speaker 3: ball in the right spots if I can, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And then as far as what happened there, I you know,
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  Speaker 3: I gotta really we gotta watch.
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  Speaker 2: Film to see it. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, we feel like we did a good job in
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  Speaker 3: second half of you know, putting pace in the game
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  Speaker 3: and you know, really getting out runing. We thought we
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  Speaker 3: had a better job of that in the second half,
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  Speaker 3: but we really got to cut down on those turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the turnovers are really killing us right now,
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  Speaker 3: especially in that first half. So we know we can
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  Speaker 3: be better there. You know, we got to be ready
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  Speaker 3: to go for Game six for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Scott agnesfield House Files Tyrese. Uh, First of all, do
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  Speaker 4: you believe this is kind of a continuation of that
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  Speaker 4: injury you had at game two? Uh that we saw?
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  Speaker 4: And then secondly, what about those turnovers stood out? What
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  Speaker 4: were they doing that made things awfully difficult?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's the same same area, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: So you know, I don't know if it if they're related,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, it's the same area. As far as uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know the turnover again, that's the thing you really
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  Speaker 3: got to watch film on. You know, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: some of them are self inflicted. You know, obviously they're
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  Speaker 3: a great defensive team that really swarmed the ball. We
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  Speaker 3: gotta do a better job take care of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: You know, all three of our losses h in this
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  Speaker 3: series have have you know, turnovers have been a big
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  Speaker 3: reason why. So, uh, you watch the film, se we
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  Speaker 3: can get better. We gotta do a better job take
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  Speaker 3: care of the ball, you know, if we want to
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  Speaker 3: have a chance in uh, you know in game six
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  Speaker 3: the right.
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  Speaker 5: Mark Mark spears ESPN's ndscape. At the beginning of the
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  Speaker 5: whole finals, you spoke on the history of the franchise,
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  Speaker 5: the generations of people take a wise, how it's gone
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  Speaker 5: through families, just a pride of the city with this team.
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  Speaker 5: When you think about that, going into a game like that,
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  Speaker 5: knowing that this franchise is not won an NBA championship
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  Speaker 5: in its history, does that bring motivation? Does it bring pressure?
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  Speaker 5: Combination of both? Do you even think about that when
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  Speaker 5: you go home and you walk into that crowd.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the thought is if you lose the
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  Speaker 3: season over you know, so our backs are against the wall.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we we take pride in and playing at
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  Speaker 3: home in front of our fans, and our fans are amazing,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, we know they're gonna come out with
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  Speaker 3: a ton of energy, you know in game six, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so we're gonna have to be able to respond, be
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  Speaker 3: better and look forward to you know, the challenge. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we got to take this a day at a time,
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  Speaker 3: our backs against the wall. I mean, you gotta look
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  Speaker 3: at game six like it's like it's a games having
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  Speaker 3: you know, losing is uh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you lose, your seasons over.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, we got to go in and and
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  Speaker 3: you know, take care our business. Just approach the game
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  Speaker 3: the right way. See, we get better in film and
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  Speaker 3: you'll be ready to compete.
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  Speaker 5: Have you felt the way to the city at all
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  Speaker 5: in their dreams of having this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that our city, our fans
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  Speaker 3: are you know, as hungry for this as we are
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  Speaker 3: as players, you know, and and uh, you know that's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun. You know, competing and playing at
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  Speaker 3: the highest level is uh, you know, it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun. You know, we we have fun, you know
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  Speaker 3: with this challenge, and you know, Nobody said this is
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  Speaker 3: gonna be easy, So you know, you know, we got
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  Speaker 3: to be ready to go for Game six.
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  Speaker 6: First row, middle, just I guess kind of keeping going
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  Speaker 6: on this point when you guys, you guys have talked
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  Speaker 6: a lot about all the comebacks you've had in this season,
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  Speaker 6: not only in this playoffs but before that. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: how much does all that kind of give you, guys
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  Speaker 6: muscle memory for a situation like this when you are
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  Speaker 6: facing elimination.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we've had our backs against the wall
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  Speaker 3: many times over the last two years, had to figure
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  Speaker 3: out different ways to win. So you know, the way
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  Speaker 3: that this year has gone, you know, nobody said that
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  Speaker 3: this was going to be sweet.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know, it's it's a kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of poetic that we're here, you know, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we got to be ready to go for Game six.
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  Speaker 3: Our backs are against the wall. It's a really tough team.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to go home, and you don't have to
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  Speaker 3: get ready on a couple of days, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: there shouldn't even be a conversation about Game seven or
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  Speaker 3: anything like that, like, you know, this is this is
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  Speaker 3: the game, and so everybody's got to be prepared and
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  Speaker 3: starts with me and uh, you know, we all got
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  Speaker 3: to be better. You know, that's just a point plane.
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  Speaker 5: Period first, sure on the right that this is the
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  Speaker 5: first time I feel like i've seen you guys in
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  Speaker 5: this playoffs get sped up by defense.
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  Speaker 2: Did you feel that way? And what in what we
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  Speaker 2: do you fight that contributed to your turnovers? Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: a good point.
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  Speaker 3: I think we just we gotta be better, you know,
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  Speaker 3: gotta I honestly want to watch the film you know
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  Speaker 3: see where you know, different different areas. I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: especially here in the fourth we had some really bad
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  Speaker 3: turnovers me myself personally, you know. So, uh, we've got
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  Speaker 3: to do a better job of getting spaced, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting downhill. I think that's the most important thing, keeping
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  Speaker 3: pacing the game.
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  Speaker 2: We really you know.
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  Speaker 3: Got after in that second half, cut the lead down
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  Speaker 3: and they just made you know, shot after shot and
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  Speaker 3: you know, we didn't make enough plays that we needed
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  Speaker 3: to down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, watch the films here. Can get better.
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  Speaker 3: But twenty two turnovers against a team like this is
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  Speaker 3: a recipe you know for disaster. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: should be the main area that we focus on going
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  Speaker 3: into you know, the next game. And obviously we can
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  Speaker 3: be better on you know, many many points on the court,
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  Speaker 3: but I think taking care of the bulls are, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Is the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 7: Last question in the middle Dan Dan Devon Yea who
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  Speaker 7: sports kind of along those lines. As frustrating as this
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  Speaker 7: outcome is, I think, you know, to have gotten down
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  Speaker 7: so big and come back, what are the positives that
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  Speaker 7: you can take away from this as you go into
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  Speaker 7: game six?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think, uh, the fight is always going
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  Speaker 3: to be there from this group, you know, and we've
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  Speaker 3: shown that when our backs are against the wall, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we have many different guys that can chip in and
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know we have shown that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're always going to fight. So you know, going home,
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  Speaker 3: there's not a better opportunity than to fight, you know,
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  Speaker 3: on your home floor. So you know, it's that's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun
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  Speaker 3: playing a you know winner go home game and uh
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  Speaker 3: at our home, you know it's going to be it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of fun. I look forward to
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  Speaker 3: competing and you know, we'll we'll we'll we'll be ready
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 2: Thank your time,