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00:00And to win those two games down 20 each, I was losing my mind at my house.
00:05I was screaming, swearing.
00:07I couldn't sit down.
00:08My dog was barking.
00:10My daughter high-fived me 3,000 times in two nights.
00:13It was the greatest thing I've ever seen.
00:16It's crazy.
00:17Look, for two decades, what did we have?
00:20We had Lynn Sanity, a G-leaguer, coming up and lighting up the garden for a couple weeks.
00:25That was it.
00:25And that was it.
00:26That was the end of it.
00:27Anything else was sort of just strange.
00:31Nothing was great here.
00:32But look, last year's team, I think, captured the hearts of the city.
00:36It was sort of an overachieving, hardworking team.
00:39And I don't think this year's team had that.
00:41Like last year, it was crazy.
00:43This year, they didn't have it.
00:44It was a team that a lot of money was spent on it, a lot of draft picks, a lot of doubts about what this team would be.
00:51And then I think maybe a little of the Detroit series, but really these two games in Boston,
00:56I think suddenly they are the underdogs again.
00:59They're the overachieving team that sort of the city fell in love with last year.
01:04And I think if they could win tomorrow and be on the verge of knocking out Boston on Monday night at the Garden,
01:12I just can't even imagine these shut down the schools, shut down, you know, government.
01:17It's going to be crazy, crazy.
01:19Yeah, it's, you know, right, wheel people into the party.
01:23It's going to be insane.
01:25And look, it already is.
01:27And I think it takes something like that.
01:29Like, I mean, it's a feel-good moment.
01:31But also, guys who were letdowns all year, you know, Mikkel Bridges had a rough year.
01:37For him to come up with the two defensive plays at the end of game one and two, suddenly he's on the back pages.
01:42He's beloved.
01:44I just think defense, effort, overachieving, that's what the city loves.
01:50And that's what this team has given them in this series so far.