Haliburton's Triple-Double Breaks NBA Playoff Records

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00:00All right, so I told you Halliburton's triple-double was historic.

00:04I guess if you crunch numbers as long as you can,

00:06I guess you can find something to make it historic.

00:0932 points, 12 boards, 15 dimes, 4 steals, and 0 turnover.

00:14He's the first player in NBA history with a 30-plus point, 15-plus dime,

00:1910-plus board, and 0 turnover game.

00:24So how about that?

00:25If we can just narrow those numbers down right to there.

00:28Here's Halliburton talking about his ridiculous numbers.

00:31I didn't know that.

00:33I feel like we're making up stats at some point to make me look better.

00:38But I think I'm just trying to play the right way, man.

00:40I just want to impact winning.

00:41I told you guys that for the last two years.

00:47I think after my third year and getting the big contract

00:51and now having to step into a new role,

00:53I think for me it was about how can I impact winning.

00:55And I'm just trying to do that to the best of my ability.

00:58We're building something special here.

00:59We're having a lot of fun with what we're doing.

01:01And I feel like I'm at the forefront of that along with a lot of these guys.

01:06So I'm just trying to play the right way and play the best of my ability.

01:09Yeah, being a showboat and showing up other players.

01:10That's what it's about.

01:11And I feel like I did a good job today.

01:12But, man, I feel like there's so many different opportunities for me to get better

01:16and for us as a group to get better and play better.

01:18Oh, yeah, you're just Joel Korn again.

01:18So we'll take a weekend from this game and just be ready to go for game time.

01:20I'm not even listening to it.

01:22I talk right over him.

01:24So he's a great player.

01:26There's no getting around it.

01:27And everything I said about him is dead on right.

01:30Here's another thing.

01:32Guys, though, look, at some level when you're in the NBA

01:36and you got that many points in a game, you lose track, right?

01:39But a guy like me, like I play like 15 minutes in the game, right?

01:42In a 45-minute game, I play about 15 minutes of burn.

01:45Believe me, my job is to get 10 and 10 boards.

01:49That's my job.

01:50Every time I go, I got a game tonight.

01:52They're like, give me 10 and 10.

01:53We're good.

01:54Don't do anything else.

01:55Just get rebounds and give me 10.

01:58And so when I play, I literally, I just count them.

02:00One, two, three, four, five.

02:04And then I'm like, break.

02:05I need some water, liquor, rum, anything.

02:09Once I can win and give them the 10, then I go in.

02:11I don't care about scoring.

02:13I care about rebounding.

02:14You know what I do?

02:15I count them.

02:16That's three.

02:17That's four.

02:18That's five.

02:18This is what they want from me.

02:20So give them what they want.

02:22I think guys, when they play, know what they're doing in a game for sure.

02:26And guys that play for money, they know they got to get certain numbers to get that check.

02:32It's real simple.

02:33You either average over, you know, if you want to make big money in the NBA, you got to average

02:37over 25 a game.

02:39That's it.

02:40So if you're some guy scoring 13, 16 points, you're not making no money.

02:45That's it.

02:46That's how it works.

02:47You want to be a stud in the NHL, have four or five shots on goal every game in a point

02:51a game or a goal every other game and two assists, three assists a week, or you're not

02:57making $8 million.

02:58And Mike, you know, I'm right.

03:00Yeah, I mean, some of the, definitely the big, big, big stupid money that we talk about.

03:07You got to be able to do that.

03:09I mean, there are some NBA contracts for guys a little further down the bench that are stupid

03:14also in terms of the amount of money that they get for doing nothing and they don't even score and

03:19they don't even score and they get themselves a lot of cash.

03:22So it is pretty amazing.

03:24As far as fancy stats and things like that, of course, Rick Carlisle is quite the curmudgeon

03:29when it comes to that stuff.

03:31He doesn't want to hear anything about all these big stats that Halliburton put up.

03:35But I, you know, I just really tired about talking about individual stats this time of year.

03:41You know, it's just not, it just flies in the face of what's necessary.

03:45You know, I had a radio show this morning and somebody asked me about Ben Matherin's numbers.

03:51You know, I mean, this is a team game.

03:54It's not about the numbers.

03:55It's about being ready.

03:57And a lot of times defining plays in the playoffs have nothing to do with statistical things.

04:02They're loose ball plays.

04:03They're charges taken, stuff like that.

04:06You know, I mean, you know, celebrate that.

04:09You know, talk about that.

04:10I mean, those are the kinds of things that are truly important.

04:15So, look, Tyrese is a great player.

04:18And I think people realize that, you know.

04:22Okay.

04:23He happens to do some very impressive statistical things.

04:27But he's well aware that all of this far transcends statistics.

04:34Okay.

04:35Let me tell you something that I know for a fact,

04:37and I've seen it five million times in both the NBA and NHL,

04:42college basketball, high school basketball,

04:44football, everything.

04:45When the game's over,

04:46the entire coaching staff sits around in their little room,

04:50and they look at stats.

04:52They all look at the score sheet.

04:53They all look at the stats, every one of them.

04:55When the players go to the podium in the presser, what do they do?

04:58First thing they do, they grab the stat sheet,

04:59start looking at their numbers.

05:01Everything.

05:01Rebounds, turnovers, assists, points, everything.

05:05Dimes, free throws, block shots.

05:08That's all they ever do.

05:10In the NHL, we used to get on the plane,

05:13and the entire team is sitting there reading the stats.

05:16Who did what?

05:18How many minutes in the shift?

05:20How many shots on goal?

05:21How many hits?

05:22Plus, minus.

05:24Don't kid yourself.

05:25Do not believe one word that comes out of his mouth.

05:28I don't care what guys do.

05:30I guarantee he cares how many fouls there were,

05:33how many turnovers, how many points off turnovers,

05:35how many free throws one team shot and the other shot.

05:38And then he doesn't care what guys score individually,

05:41but I guarantee he needs four or five guys in double figures to win a game.

05:47Don't kid yourself with all this acting like,

05:50I don't ever care about stats.

05:52That's the easiest out for a coach to talk like he doesn't give a rat's ass

05:57about stats.

05:58That's the easiest out for a coach that I've ever seen.

05:59I have never once in my life seen a coach not look at a stat sheet

06:03after an NBA basketball game.

06:04That's all they do.

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