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00:00I thought start to finish was terrific and also want to congratulate the Celtics on
00:24a terrific season, you know, unfortunate injury to Jason Tatum, but they're a terrific
00:33organization, ownership, front office, coaching staff, Joe Mazzulli's terrific coach, great
00:41players, first-class organization, hats off to them for the season they had in defending
00:48their championship.
00:49You know, and again, it's how you respond to the challenge that's in front of you, and
00:55so, you know, we can't get carried away.
01:00Obviously, it's a great win, and we advance, and, you know, you look at that, but you also
01:07understand you have to get ready for the next series, and we know that Indiana's a terrific
01:13team, and we're going to have to be ready.
01:14I mean, I feel like we played 48 minutes tonight, and just the way we competed and communicated
01:25out there, it's definitely one of our better performances, but I still feel like we have
01:29a long way to go.
01:32Just the confidence we have in each other and everything, and just knowing where we are, we're
01:39going to continue to be unsatisfied.
01:41But this series was different because we put our, we had ourselves in deficits that were,
01:46you know, 20-plus, and we still found a way to win, and that's a testament to these guys,
01:52you know, never, never not believing that we're going to win a game, regardless of how
01:57the game is going, and regardless of the ebbs and flows of a playoff series or a game.
02:02This team has tremendous belief in each other, and we believe that any time we step on the
02:07court, we have a chance to win.
02:08Yeah, there's just more to go.
02:12You know, we're not done.
02:13That's just what it is, and we came out there tonight and, you know, played hard, handled
02:19business, but like I said, our season's not over.
02:21You know, we got so much more to go, and, you know, I think we play on Wednesday, so, you
02:26know, get ready, prepare for them, a whole different team, and, yeah, just a whole new series.
02:31Yeah, man, it's going to be a tough opponent.
02:36You know, they push the pace.
02:39They run on makes, misses, and it's going to be a huge communication series for us.
02:46We're going to have to be locked in on every possession.
02:49We're going to have to get back defensively, so, you know, we can build off this game.
02:56I feel like our defensive transition, our communication was great today, and that's something that
03:00we can carry into that series, but, you know, different team.
03:06We just got to make sure we're prepared.
03:08The other day, we set a goal out.
03:09We didn't achieve that goal, but shouldn't take away, you know, for me, from the mindset
03:16and the effort that the players put in, so, you know, we have a responsibility and ownership.
03:21We didn't do it, but the approach, the process to it, you can't ask for any more from the guys,
03:27so I thought they gave it everything they had throughout the season.
03:29You know, obviously, we didn't achieve that, but you can't take away from what they did.
03:36You know, this is the price you pay for trying to go after something, and that's how it goes,
03:40but I'm really just thankful to the guys, you know, for who they are as people
03:44and what they've done as players, what they've done as a team.
03:48I mean, there wasn't really, you know, there wasn't really much emotion there.
03:53It was just, that's just the way it goes.
03:54I mean, you can't have an expectation that a series is supposed to go a certain way.
03:59Obviously, losing a player, you know, to that type of injury was tough,
04:04but, like, that's just, that's part of it, and, you know, you move on.
04:08You move on as a team, and that's it.
04:10Yeah.