Tyrese Haliburton Calf Strain Update: Will He Play?

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00:00Tyrese Halliburton participated in practice today and it was just a walkthrough because that's all

00:06he can do anyway all these people keep telling me that this guy as long as he can walk he'll play

00:12but that doesn't mean as I said to Mitch Lawrence that he's going to be effective the other night he

00:17played and he was dramatically ineffective over six from the floor all of his shots were short

00:25hitting the front of the rim he was turning the ball over he couldn't defend anyone couldn't get

00:29any space with his uh you know off the dribble the guy couldn't get any shots that were decent off

00:35couldn't get his step back going couldn't do anything but everybody kept telling me how he's

00:40fine they just need to get him out there and play him because he's so important I never agree with

00:45anyone that tells me a guy that's 60 is better than a guy that's 100 that's healthy uh that can play

00:52at a high speed like T.J. McConnell can let's listen to Halliburton sell you a bill of goods

00:58you uh have any update for us then uh nothing more than you've already seen uh practiced today

01:05did what I could um I know coach just told you guys uh what the uh process will be tomorrow for

01:11me to play and um yeah we're just taking it from there are you dealing with the strain uh yeah

01:16treatment he's having treatment all day every day I guarantee he's had I bet he's had 12 hours of

01:24massages and treatment on on the calf and there's nothing you can do like it's real simple if you

01:31play ball and you pull up lame with a calf you tear it you pull it either or strain it whatever

01:36you know it's a bad muscle to pull and it's a bad muscle to strain and it's a terrible muscle to tear

01:44and if you have a calf problem you're just not able to start running fast no burst no burst ability

01:54no jump shot you don't have any kind of ability to you know get up in the air and do anything that

02:00you normally do that's just all there is to it most guys that injure their calves don't play

02:06for a couple weeks at least you pull up lame with a calf you're done they shut down immediately

02:12this guy's in the nba final so he's got to play hero ball and play through it and I just I want

02:18to see it to believe it I really do now here's rick carlisle says they won't know for sure at all

02:25about hallie until basically game time yeah he uh he participated in our all our walkthrough stuff

02:32so um but it's it's a walkthrough so it's not there was no real running or moving or anything so

02:39um so we'll see see how how where we are tomorrow um it's it's a topic that's people want to hear

02:50about and know about and there's going to be a lot of questions about it um but we will not

02:57really know for sure until when the finals is late tomorrow afternoon early evening spit it out like

03:04they're not winning the finals with this guy injured uh and or with this guy at half speed

03:09uh and let me tell you something else I'm going to say this right now to you they're not going to win

03:14even if he was 100 because this team is just flat out better than them and it's showing now more and

03:20more the deeper they go in this series the more problems the Pacers are having with them that's the

03:26thing Scott too and the Pacers play close and then what does Oklahoma City do at the end okay let's

03:30turn it on now blow out and blow you out and cover that's what these guys do they can that's the whole

03:35thing Indiana they're going to have to like really come out and do well in the first quarter first half

03:39and try to maybe hold on for life to keep it close but you know what Oklahoma City does in the fourth

03:43quarter they bury you so McConnell came to the defense of his coach when people like me said he should

03:51have played more us to Rick wholeheartedly with his substitutions um let's make one thing perfectly

03:58clear Rick is a hall of fame coach he knows what he's doing and we all have the utmost faith in

04:05his rotations his x's and o's uh we all love him and that's the bottom line so uh this guy knows what

04:13to say his dad coached him his whole life he is a uh coach's son and his dad broke his ass his entire

04:22life to turn him into this monster player that he is for his size like he's he's no more he's 6-1 on a

04:29good day what he does at 6-1 on a good day is destroy team souls this guy's unbelievable