Tyrese Haliburton on Pacers proving doubters wrong ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ 'NO ONE EXPECTED THIS!' | NBA on ESPN

as we send it to Lisa thank you Mike congratulations to you both Tyrese your first game seven just how did it measure up to how you dreamed it would be uh man unbelievable environment uh you know just a great game overall from top to bottom from us uh backs against the wall having won on the road all series we just found a way yeah like you said Pascal you guys hadn't won here all series what was different about today yeah no we knew like a couple of times we got close um we just got a couple of bad quarters in those games but you know coming in we just knew that game seven um you know just bring the energy and we knew that you know we could we could withand you know whatever run they had not a lot of game seven experience on your team and I know you told your guys you were trying to prepare them for the emotions of the game just how do you think they handled all of the ups and downs that you said were com yeah no they did awesome man um I thought coming in early I wanted to give everyone confidence just being aggressive um calming everybody down and I thought you know everyone just came out with so much energy T got H like everyone contributed the bench coming in like that's what we are we a team so U we just want to keep that going and Tyrese you told me earlier in the series when you guys were down 02 no one expects us to be here we've got nothing to lose just how freeing has that been and especially in a game seven on the road yeah I mean just we're just trying to play free trying to play fun um understand that you know we're not really expected to win these games especially here on the road of game seven like you said we don't have a lot of experience so we just came out played free had fun congratulations to you all we'll see you in the Conference Finals Mike all right Lisa some great theater in this series featured a little bit of everything great performances from Stars incredible contributions from The Supporting Cast comebacks bounceback games nail biters blowouts injuries controversy coaching adjustments that's what NBA playoff basketball all about and the Knicks now go home the Pacers move on they will face the mighty Celtics starting Tuesday in Boston what I look like p [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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