00:00The Indiana Pacers, are we actually going to get a healthy Tyrese Halliburton?
00:03Here's Tyrese Halliburton talking after the Game 5 loss.
00:06Tyrese, Rick said that there was a discussion at halftime about whether you should keep going or not
00:10and that you insisted on playing, even though you're obviously laboring.
00:15What went into that decision, and how can you explain kind of how limited you were out there?
00:22I mean, it's NBA Finals. It's the Finals, man.
00:24I've worked my whole life to be here, and I want to be out there to compete.
00:27You know, help my teammates any way I can.
00:32You know, I was not great tonight by any means, but, you know, it's not really a thought of mine to not play here.
00:39You know, if I can, you know, walk, then I want to play.
00:44So, you know, they understand that and, you know, is what it is, and, you know, got to be ready to go for Game 6.
00:52Tyrese Halliburton post-Game 5 there, that press conference here.
00:55The interesting part's going to be, Joe, is he did come back from the injury and play a lot of minutes.
01:00He was ineffective in those minutes he did play.
01:03They need Tyrese Halliburton to have good games and for great games to win this series or at least win game number 6.
01:09Give me your level of, let's just say, enthusiasm on him playing, but playing well in Game 6 after what you saw in Game 5.
01:16Listen, he was minus 13 at the end of it all.
01:20He was minus 19, I think, minus 18 or 19 in the first half.
01:24So, he did pick it up in the second half, although the scoring punch wasn't there.
01:29But let me reiterate, they didn't need him to be a big scorer in that game yesterday in order to be able to pull off the upset.
01:38They had that game in eight and a half minutes, down to two, down from as much as 18 and down to two.
01:45They had a chance to pull off the upset, but it was the sloppiness.
01:49It was the turnovers down the stretch that ultimately did them in.
01:53One team executed.
01:55The other team didn't.
01:56That was your game.
01:57Whether Halliburton is 100% or not, none of these guys are 100%.
02:01Stop turning the ball over and you've got a chance on your own home court, Halliburton points or not, to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder and bring it to a Game 7.