SGA's Stellar Performance: Key to NBA Finals Success

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00:00SGA 34 points, five boards, eight dimes.

00:04As you always like to say, SGA agrees.

00:07Stay focused, son.

00:09You have to stay focused on the task at hand.

00:12Now, whatever that may be for your team

00:15and how you want to attack them or go about the game plan,

00:18but you have to lock in and stay focused.

00:20And even tonight, we've had some moments of slippage.

00:23Now, you're not going to be perfect out there,

00:24but it goes without saying,

00:27to make it this far into the season,

00:30it's going to take supreme level of focus to reach an ultimate goal.

00:34And they're there to display that to the highest form.

00:36Like, they play a full 48 minutes,

00:38and you can't just throw the first punch.

00:41You've got to try to throw all the punches all night.

00:44And, yeah, that's what we did.

00:45We threw enough punches tonight to get a W.

00:48Listen, I agree with that because, you know,

00:50the reality is in game one, they played about 44 minutes.

00:55And then there was about, you know, five minutes or so

00:59where they just didn't play and they got caught and they got beat.

01:03It was basically the last five minutes of the game, right?

01:06I mean, at one point, you're up, you know, 15 or whatever.

01:11And then it was, what, seven minutes left?

01:14And then it was down to nine, seven, whatever.

01:17And at that point, from under 10, when they got it under single digits,

01:22I thought the Thunder stood around and watched the Pacers beat them.

01:27They just kept scoring and they kept coming down and hitting shots.

01:31And then they'd go down and take a bad shot or turn it over or, you know,

01:36make mistakes.

01:37And I think the difference for me is that we've seen it every night is that

01:42for the most part, the Pacers do play 48 minutes strong.

01:46And that was the Knicks problem.

01:49The Knicks problem was, is that they were playing 40 minutes, 40 minutes.

01:54The game's 48 minutes.

01:55The Knicks would play 40 minutes hard and they wouldn't play hard for eight minutes.

01:59You could, whether it was two, two, two, and two of every quarter,

02:03they just stopped trying.

02:04They just took a break and then they didn't have the depth and the bench

02:09that the Pacers have.

02:11The Pacers go hard with whoever's out there.

02:13They put five out, they put five in, they play hard.

02:16And if the Thunder don't play hard for 48 minutes,

02:19they're going to get beat by this team.

02:21That is a legitimate playoff built winner.

02:25The Pacers would a great coach.

02:27I don't know how many times I got to say it.

02:29Like they're, they're very capable of winning this and beating them.

02:34I've always thought Hope City was better and that they would beat them.

02:37But if anyone can do it, it's this team.

02:41No doubt about that.

02:42Here's to know also SGA, this guy's unbelievable.

02:46Yeah.

02:47Unsurprising at this point, it's just kind of what he does.

02:49He just continues to progress and improve and rise to every occasion that he,

02:55he puts himself in and that we put ourselves in.

02:57Um, and I thought, you know, his floor game tonight was really, really in a great rhythm.

03:02Um, I thought everyone played better individually and I thought we played better collectively.

03:07And I thought that was just a byproduct.

03:08I give the team a lot of credit because that's a long 48 hours when you lose game one like that,

03:12coming into game two.

03:13And the guys did a great job of just focusing on what we needed to do to stack to a win tonight.

03:18Uh, and that's how we got it.

03:19So that was individual players, collectively, offense, defense, everything.

03:24I don't think that he, uh, shoots, uh, particularly well from outside, from downtown at all.

03:30He hit one three.

03:31That's the only part of his game that isn't, uh, crazy.

03:35Cause the rest of his game is crazy.

03:37He's incredible.

03:38Uh, you know, at the top of the key end to the elbows, to the paint, uh, on the wings.

03:46Uh, he, he gets his shot off.

03:48He gets his space.

03:49He finds where he wants to get his spot and then he, and he, and he makes it so, but outside

03:54shooting isn't, I think a part of his repertoire, at least not at this point.

03:58I think he's an MVP inside a three point line.

04:01That's why he got the MVP so great.

04:03Uh, and especially literally from the free throw line in, he's lethal.

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