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"I thought he was gonna get 50" JJ Redick Talks Luka Doncic's 45 Points in Return to Dallas · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: J J.
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  Speaker 2: I know you said before the game that the message was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of we've got your back, Luca. But
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  Speaker 2: how impressed were you with with how he played throughout
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  Speaker 2: the night and kind of what he was able to accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me start by saying.
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  Speaker 3: The the moment with a tribute video and him sitting
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  Speaker 3: by himself and getting to actually live that and live
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  Speaker 3: in the moment and allowing himself to be vulnerable, and
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  Speaker 3: his teammates supporting. Some of his teammates got emotional, some
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  Speaker 3: of the coaches got emotional. It's a beautiful moment. I
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  Speaker 3: thought the video was great, but I think just his
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  Speaker 3: ability to then go perform lights turn on. He you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's teary eyed still as we walk out on the
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  Speaker 3: court for the tipball. To have the emotional resolve to
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  Speaker 3: then go put on that kind of performance, it's superhuman.
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  Speaker 3: And I think all his teammates know that too, because
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  Speaker 3: I think all his teammates can empathize with what he
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  Speaker 3: just went through over the last couple of months and
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  Speaker 3: maybe some anticipation, maybe some dread, but certainly a ton
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  Speaker 3: of emotions about tonight and then he went and did that.
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  Speaker 3: It's big time, and you know, he let us I
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  Speaker 3: thought lebron in the second half, the amount of energy
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  Speaker 3: that he expended on the second night of a back
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  Speaker 3: to back on both ends of the court, teach tape stuff.
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  Speaker 3: He led our defense again, We challenged the guys at
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  Speaker 3: halftime and had a forty points second half. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we had a small little blip there to start the
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter, but our guys certainly had Luca's back, and
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  Speaker 3: he had his teammates back for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Just to follow up on Luca, you you know, as
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  Speaker 2: a former teammate and then you spent years watching him,
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  Speaker 2: He's known to rise to big moments. I suppose it's
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  Speaker 2: fair to say, but to be able to do it
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  Speaker 2: in on top of the emotional setting is is that
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  Speaker 2: kind of a different level.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I thought he was going to get fifty.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was disappointed, so we let you down.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, there was a lot of benefits probably for Luca
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  Speaker 4: moving on from this, having this, being being able to
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  Speaker 4: put this behind him. But I'm curious though about what
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  Speaker 4: you feel, like you mentioned kind of his teammates being
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  Speaker 4: able to live that moment with him when he came
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  Speaker 4: off the court. I don't know if you noticed it
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  Speaker 4: in the fourth the embraces he got, particularly the one
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  Speaker 4: he got from Lebron as he walked up the corn
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  Speaker 4: to the fourth quarter, Like, what can this do for
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  Speaker 4: your group? As you guys are gonna you know, you're
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  Speaker 4: a couple of games away from like really getting tested
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  Speaker 4: in ways that you know, teams that are put together
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  Speaker 4: this quickly, you know haven't always done.
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  Speaker 1: Very well with it can bring you together, It can
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  Speaker 1: bring you closer. You never know.
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  Speaker 3: NBA is a fickle thing, Greg, Greg and I were
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  Speaker 3: talking as that moment was happening, both kind of fighting
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  Speaker 3: back some emotions, and you know, Greg said to me,
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be awesome for our group to
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  Speaker 3: go through this with him and for him to go
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  Speaker 3: through this with them. Does that mean we're going to
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  Speaker 3: win an NBA championship or get to the conference? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, but it was an awesome moment for everyone.
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  Speaker 5: When he started rolling in the first quarter hits the
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  Speaker 5: three in front of your guys bench tacked on a
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  Speaker 5: couple more threes that quarter. What was the feeling was
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  Speaker 5: there like a palpable kind of momentum? And did you
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  Speaker 5: feel in Luke at all? And ease or any sort
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  Speaker 5: of comfort having gotten over the initial wave of what
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  Speaker 5: the night was going to be about, and then getting
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  Speaker 5: into the basketball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I thought making some early shots, not
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  Speaker 3: getting off to a slow start, and then all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden having depressed later. It just he got into
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  Speaker 3: the rhythm early, and you know, outside of that stretch
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  Speaker 3: in the second half where they were double teaming him,
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  Speaker 3: he never really lost that rhythm and just made the
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  Speaker 3: right decision and was able to score versus nearly every coverage.
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  Speaker 6: The goal was to make the playoffs outright, avoid the plan.
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  Speaker 6: I know you guys still have more work to do,
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  Speaker 6: but you guarantee that for yourselves, your first time experiencing
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  Speaker 6: as a coach. Just how does it feel and what
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  Speaker 6: you guys told the group from that standpoint post game,
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  Speaker 6: if you're ele see addressed it after.
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  Speaker 3: That, We did, I mean we we we There's a
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  Speaker 3: few things that we talked about as a group, but
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  Speaker 3: I we're told we were in Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a it's an accomplishment, truthfully, it is.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at the Western Conference this year, it's
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  Speaker 3: an accomplishment to be in the playoffs. We want the
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  Speaker 3: third seed and we have two more cracks to guarantee
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  Speaker 3: that spot for me as a coach, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking about the third seed, to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 3: so i'll I mean, it's a cool moment to share
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  Speaker 3: when we found out, you know, with the staff. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: we want we want more jaj.
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  Speaker 2: After you had made that run to kind of reclaim
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  Speaker 2: control in the fourth quarter. That was that one crazy play.
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  Speaker 2: But you seem trying to stifle us market. What did
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  Speaker 2: you see?
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  Speaker 1: I saw the Harlem Globe club trotter.
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  Speaker 3: What was happening there? I have no I have no
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  Speaker 3: idea as I what is it a whirling dervish or something.
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  Speaker 3: I just we actually made some sick plays, you know.
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  Speaker 3: We had some crashes got it, got it, multiple multiple
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  Speaker 3: cracks at it. It felt like on that play, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you you almost want to make a uh emphatic statement
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the play with some sort of
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  Speaker 3: dunk or three or behind the back pass.
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  Speaker 1: And he got out of control. He got out of control.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks