WEBVTT - Epilogue: Chris Quinn Interview LIVE from Summer League 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.280 Welcome back on isbel gutierres a host of four years 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.000 of Heat. If you haven't listened to it yet, you're 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.520 missing out. It takes you through the twenty ten to 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.040 twenty fourteen Miami Heat. Obviously Lebron was on that team, 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.479 Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, and this. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.439 Guy right here was close. He was almost on that team. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.799 Chris quinn is his future head coach is what I 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:25.560 like to call him, but he's currently an assistant head 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.280 coach with the Miami Heat. Played with the Heat from 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.639 eight to ten or was it seven. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:31.000 Six to ten? 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:35.519 Six six to ten, and then played for some other 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:37.600 teams and then eventually became a coach here. But I 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.840 wanted to take you back to your playing days because 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.720 you were a Notre Dame guard, All Big East first team, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.600 You're senior season. You were actually one of the undrafted 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.839 Miami Heat stories right, talk to me about how you 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.920 ended up with Miami and just your experience there playing 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:54.840 alongside Dwayne. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:56.760 Yeah, so it it's interesting. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.040 I was just thinking about it was seventeen years ago 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.000 now that I was here in summer League trying to 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.480 earn a spot. Uh, Basically I went undrafted in the 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.240 two thousand and six NBA draft. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.880 My agent called right after the draft. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:14.160 The Miami Heat were coming off the six championship. They 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.320 had most of their team back and they had a 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.000 couple of spots that you know, towards the end of 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.479 the roster that were open and they wanted a couple 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.880 of young guys. Of course, you know, they had no 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.880 draft picks that year, so there was no other guys 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.319 drafted ahead of me for the Heat. There was a 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.920 few of us that they signed right away basically on 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.080 a summer league training camp type deals, uh, so that 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.080 we could go in there, compete, battle it out, and eventually, 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.199 you know, try to try to make make the main roster. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.080 You know, I was lucky enough. You know, my my 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.720 rookie year was obviously Dwayne in his prime. Shack was 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.000 still there, Zoe was still there, Gary Payton, Jay Will. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:55.840 Uh. 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.520 It was. It was the Star Study six team. So 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.040 it was they didn't incredible experience getting to know those guys, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.280 being in the locker room with those type of Hall 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:10.560 of Fame guys. Man. Obviously you mentioned Dwayne, you know 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.520 those years I was there, that was his prime. You know, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.640 he got injured the one year then came back and 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.080 led the league in scoring. But just what a special 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.799 player that always rose, you know, to the occasion and 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:23.680 the biggest moments. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.120 I want to go back to the year, the injury 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.120 prone year, the year that they basically didn't win a 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:30.880 whole lot of games, and it would just giving a 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.040 lot of people some time. But you had some great 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.800 moments in that year, any sort of memorable standout moments, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.239 because there was one play I want to say it 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:39.360 was against the Phoenix Suns. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:40.920 It was just like a fast break. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.200 I think it was an and one, and I think 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.560 you even shocked yourself with the finish. And I'm just like, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.880 I love seeing that from players who are in the 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.240 league and maybe are surprising themselves, Like, what were some 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:50.919 of the highlights from your stint there? 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.679 Yeah, it was one of those games where we were 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.960 down I think fifteen or twenty and they put in 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.680 the second unit for the fourth quarter and then we 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.160 made a big run, cut their lead I think eventually 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.960 to two or three. But it was the shot. Someone 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.119 actually asked me about it yesterday and was wondered if 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.080 it was a trivia question, if I knew who fouled 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.920 me when when I made that that shot, but I 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.880 actually don't remember, but I do remember the moment. I 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.359 kind of just threw it up and it went in. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.800 But it was a lot of fun moments, you know, 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.880 a lot of moments behind the scenes of hard work. Obviously, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.960 my first two years I played for coach Riley. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.639 Which was an amazing experience. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.880 And then my last two years, basically a year and 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.120 a half was Underpo played for Spose. That was his 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.640 first two years. I actually joked with Spo all the 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.480 time that in twenty ten that he traded me away 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.840 from the Miami Heat. You know, obviously the next summer 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.280 is when they when they got to the Big Three. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.320 What was that like when you traded away and then 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:53.480 all of a sudden you turn around and be like, 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:54.800 oh no, Lebron just signed with the Heat. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.680 What just happened? Yeah, yeah, it was a bittersweet moment. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.920 But you know, I joke with he says that the 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:01.960 time he didn't he didn't have a lot of pull, 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.000 But I joke with him that he traded me away, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.040 and it was just, you know, I was happy, you know, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.560 for the organization. Created a lot of great relationships. 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:12.200 Uh. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.120 Fortunately those relationships eventually led me back as a coach, 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.400 and obviously Spoe as a young coach being put in 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.160 that position and then and then doing so well with 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:22.480 it was super cool to see. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.839 Yeah, I was gonna say, what you saw, what you 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.719 experienced from Spoe. He's clearly a different coach than he 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.200 was than he is now back then, But what did 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:31.760 you see from him in those first couple of years 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.400 and made you think, Hey, this guy's got something. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.760 Yeah, it's always it was. It was the same concepts. 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.440 It was his work ethic. He had a ton of 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.080 grid as a head coach. Uh. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.120 He was always trying to. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.680 Look for ways to improve, get better. Uh, how can 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.320 I be better as a coach? How can I how 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.440 better serve our players? And he would always look at 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.000 himself first. Uh, after a bad loss, after a win, 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:54.520 he was always looking in the mirror. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:55.320 How could he do better? 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:56.520 How can he help the team more? 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:57.320 Uh? 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.320 Those are the things that have led him to become, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.080 you know, obviously one of the one of the best 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:01.520 right now. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.479 Now, after you left the Heat, you had some stints 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.320 with some other teams. You played in Russia, you played 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.520 in Cleveland. Also, talk to me about how you got 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.080 back to Miami. What was the path to get you 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:11.680 into coaching. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.400 Yeah, so my fifth year I played in San Antonio 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.600 with the Spurs, which was super cool obviously, you know, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.920 I went from pat Riley, Eric Sposha to Greg Popovich, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.680 just three of the top you know, they just did 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.279 the top fifteen list of all time. These are these 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.120 are three the greatest of all time. Uh so I 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.039 got to learn from the from them, you know, basketball 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.320 one oh one from three of the greatest minds. My 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.760 sixth year playing professionally was the lockout year, right, and 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.239 uh you know, my agent called in in the middle 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.440 of the summer basically said hey, I have a deal 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.600 for you in Russia. At that time, you know, there 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.080 was a lot of discussion if the season was even 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.360 going to start. You know, what did that look like? 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.440 I think it eventually started around Christmas, right, and then 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.240 that you know, basically at that point, I was like 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.200 not guaranteed to be on an NBA roster. I was 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.960 still fighting my way, you know, even after my fifth 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.600 year and I got, you know a good deal to 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.760 go to Russia with my wife, my newborn son who's 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.599 twelve now. We we took off, went to Russia, played 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.760 a season there for for kim Key Moscow, and it 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.320 was an incredible life experience. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.920 Yeah, I mean there was there was good days and 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:22.559 bad days. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.120 But for my wife and I, you know, we still 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.120 look back talk about, you know, the different experiences we had. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:30.919 There were some of the good days, like what what 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:31.480 do you remember? 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.120 So the thing I remember the most is that our 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.240 team won the euro Cup, which was a big event there, 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.119 and it was just like towards the end of the season. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.680 It was a culmination of a lot of hard work, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.159 a lot of you know, good days, bad days. And 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.800 then I just remember my teammates. So basically our team 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.880 was consisted of six Russian players and six you know, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.320 foreign players, non non Russians. So there was a couple 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.400 of Americans, we had an Australian, we had a couple 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.760 of Croatians, and I just remember hanging out with them 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.800 and getting to know that the different cultures. Uh you know, 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.599 we would we would hang out all the time, you know, 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.760 go get coffee is like a way of life over there. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.440 But it was just super cool to get to know 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.360 uh no, no, hold a whole different way, all right. 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:19.000 So you got to Miami as an assistant coach when 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:20.200 Jimmy Butler got there. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:23.360 Talk to me about. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.520 Sort of the fit that he was with the Heat 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.280 and how he maybe he even elevated that just sort 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.240 of on court competitiveness that the Heat just so loves to, 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.080 uh you know say that they're they're very good at right. 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.800 Yeah, So Jimmy was just like a like a perfect 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.120 match for you know, for the Miami Heat. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:41.560 Uh. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.880 He came in, he does it all. He works super hard. Uh, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.920 he's a he's a great leader in the locker room. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.560 And you know, the one thing you know, a lot 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.920 of us in in the Heat culture have in common 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:57.160 is super competitive and you know, for for better or worse, 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.360 if if things aren't going you know the way we 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.120 all think they they all should be going. We we 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.280 have a level of accountability, We talk to each other, 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.160 We preach eye to eye communication, you know, all these 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.760 things that you know Jimmy stands for as well. Obviously 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.960 there's moments where you know he gets frustrated if we're 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.880 not winning, but you know that we all kind of 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.400 feel like that, and it. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:19.240 Was just a good match. 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.480 And obviously you know now he's you know taking us 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:27.120 you know, the multiple finals, you know, multiple conference finals, 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.040 and I think it's just been a great match for 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.640 the Heat and Jimmy and and working together, you know, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.120 towards a common goal. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.320 You guys had such a great run through twenty twenty, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.440 through the bubble, and you know the couple of years 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.720 after that first round against Milwaukee and then this Game 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.360 seven against Boston. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.439 But this past year during the regular season. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.280 What because Spoe says we were close all regular season, 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.000 but from the outside looking in, you might not see that, right, 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.400 So talk to me about what was just off during 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.800 the regular sea enough to make the record be what 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:02.160 it was. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.720 Yeah, I think it was a combination of things. Obviously, 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.400 availability injuries are a part of it, but also like 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.520 we we would have we would have great wins and 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.200 we would have bad losses, right, and you know sometimes 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.160 against some of the better teams we'd play better, and 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.520 against some of the other teams we you know, we 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:19.480 wouldn't play as well. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.800 That's a consistency you just don't expect, or inconsistently you 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:23.319 don't expect it. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.319 Yeah, it was like a roller coaster of a season 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.200 regular season, and we just we kept grinding through it. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.400 We stuck together. There was definitely days where we all 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.200 felt like we weren't you know, we weren't any good. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:40.000 We didn't perform the way we wanted to perform. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:38.920 For a team. 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.680 Sorry to interrupt, but for a team that's been together 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.680 for a few years when you're at that point where 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.200 it's just like, what's happening? We can't figure it out? 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.880 Like what do you do to do that? What do 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.439 you do to just say, look, trust me, it's gonna 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:50.840 be okay. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.679 Yeah, I think you have to maintain optimism, but then 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.719 also like address the issues. At the same time. We 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.679 had you know, we checked every box like meetings, there 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.440 was team meetings, film sessions, practices, whatever it took to 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.520 just keep grinding through while maintaining optimism and a belief 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.000 that we were gonna figure it out. The good thing 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.520 is we had super high character guys in our locker room, 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.520 and you know, that belief started with them. A lot 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.760 of them, you know, felt the way we felt. If 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.240 we can, if we can get it right, if we 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.240 can click at the right moment, you know, we can, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.400 we can make something special happen. And I think you 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.000 know you you talked about Jimmy. A lot of that 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.640 even started with him in his belief you know, he 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.560 thinks when he goes on the court, he's the best player, 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.280 regardless who else is on the court. And you know, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:48.280 we we all felt that same way. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.160 I wanted to ask you about you Donnis Haslam and 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.480 obviously retiring, but how much of a role did he 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.200 have and just maintaining everybody because he'd been doing it 0:10:59.240 --> 0:10:59.760 for so long. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.760 Yeah, he had a huge role. And obviously transitioning to 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:05.480 whatever he's going to do next, he's going to have 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.880 a huge role as well. But he was always the 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.760 first one speaking, the first one reminding guys when they 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.880 needed to do to better, but also encouraging guys. You 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.760 know that we were really close, and you know, you 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.640 know right away you u d he's got he's got 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.840 that credibility right away, he can tell anybody anything and 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.320 then they're gonna respect what he has to say. And 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.160 then I think it was a great moment that that 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.480 last game that you know, he played and he played 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.439 so well and guys were basically like, oh man, he's 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.200 he's still got it. He can do it if if, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.280 if he needs to do it. Uh So that was 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.160 a cool kind of you know, uh springboard into the 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.040 playoffs and then obviously the playing games, we're still a 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.280 challenge for us. We had to crind through those, uh, 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.240 and then we just kept kept grinding through it, you know, 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.760 day by day, you know, little by little, you know. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.439 I think Spoe mentioned in the playoffs there's beauty in 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.800 the struggle. Yes, and really that's kind of kind of 0:11:58.800 --> 0:11:59.800 how we all approached it. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.360 Yes, if people actually listen to what he says and 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.720 not just like think it's coach talk, they'll actually understand. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.000 I mean, it's there's meaning to what he's saying. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.320 It's not just coach speaking, not just trying to get people, 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.440 you know, out of the media room there. But I 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.880 wanted to just go to that first round of the playoffs. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.959 So what was was the play in loss to Atlanta 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.040 was at the lowest point of the season because everybody 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.200 else from the outside looking in thought, oh, okay, let's 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.120 just get it right at the end, win that playoff, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:29.120 it'll be all good. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.720 Yeah. So coming in the locker room after that game 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.400 was very discouraging. We had been beaten and been beaten 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:41.280 handily by Atlanta, and basically we you know, had a 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.360 day and a half to figure out, like, you know, 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.199 we got to get ready for Chicago now, and we 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:47.640 got to figure out how we're going to just get 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.040 one win. And the good thing going back to, you know, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.200 the character of the guys in that locker room. Those 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:57.040 guys wanted to win, and they they wanted to keep playing. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.800 They wanted to keep fighting together as a group. And 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.040 you could tell in the second half of the Chicago 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.040 game that that our guys, we're not going to quit 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:05.920 and just keep battling. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:06.920 And God for exters. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:12.080 So how is it that a team that just barely 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.680 crawled into the playoffs winning that Chicago game basically in 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.920 the fourth quarter has the type of confidence to go 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:23.200 into Milwaukee and take Game one. Like what were the conversations, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.920 Like what did Jimmy, Bam or anybody do to make 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.880 anybody feel that that could happen. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.080 Yeah, So it started with Jimmy and Baam. Obviously they 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.760 they immediately had still believe and everybody and and the 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:40.160 rest of the team. Jimmy was like extremely locked in 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.240 at that point, and and we all could see it, 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.720 we could sense it. We knew he was locked in. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.240 And then we also knew like we had just had 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.480 like two battle tested playing games. You know, it was 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.800 the Atlanta game in Chicago game really prepared us to 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.760 win Game one against Milwaukee. They had they had had 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.800 a lot of time off. At that point. We felt 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.240 like we were just you know, ready to go in there, 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.480 and we really just focused on getting game one and 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:09.600 seeing where that could get us. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.080 And you got game one, but you lost Tyler and 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.880 with the broken hands, like it seemed like immediately the 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.080 challenges were smacking you guys in the face, and it 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.360 didn't seem like it was an issue. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:23.120 Take me to the. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.320 Fifty six point game from Jimmy, because throughout that first 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.640 round when people say playoff Jimmy, it's because he's taking 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.120 shots he wasn't taken in the regular season, making shots 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:33.920 he wasn't taken in the regular season, And it's just 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.160 like a person you've just never seen before. So when 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.080 you're watching that fifty six point game, you're. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:42.720 Thinking, what I'm just watching like in amazement that second half. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.960 You know, the shots he was hitting, you know the 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.600 skill that it required, but also just his will. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.360 To win it was. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.480 It was insane and all of us are just watching 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.320 taking it in I you know, a lot of us 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.440 kept the box score from that game. Really, you know, 0:14:58.480 --> 0:14:59.880 a lot of people were talking to how it's one 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:03.800 of the greatest performances you know, in playoff history, and 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.400 really we're just watching with amazement at the amount of 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.800 will to win. And those are shots, like you said, 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.080 he's not taking as many of those in the regular season. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.200 But he has a great feel for the game. 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.200 He knows when he needs to score, when he needs 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.720 to get his teammates involved, and he can control the game, 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.160 you know, on both ends in so many ways. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.680 And I mean, I still think of Josh Hart doesn't 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.440 slide under his ankle, it might be a different finish 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.800 to the season, but the next round. I think after 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.560 the first two games, Bam got a lot of criticism, right, 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.840 And one of the things that drives me nuts is 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:43.680 when people criticize Bam for not being this refined offensive talent. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.240 If Bam had that refined offensive game, he'd be the 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.320 best player in the league, right because he does everything 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.480 else so well on the defensive end. So talk to 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.320 me about Bam what he means to the team and 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.920 where that like offensive complaint comes up empty. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.160 Yeah, So for us, like. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.440 A lot of that other stuff that people say about 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.720 Bam is just noise We're constantly reminding him, you know, 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.760 what he means to the team, how important he is 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.040 on both ends. You know, are arguably the best defender 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.600 in the league. We ask him to do so much 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.000 on that end of the floor, multiple coverages, he switches, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.920 he guards one through five. He's just as good at 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.800 guarding a perimeter as he is a big And then offensively, 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.840 we we played through him a lot, even if he's 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.160 not taking the shot, even if he's not being aggressive, 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:33.280 we can always. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.720 Throw the ball to him, and. 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.640 Sometimes it's just to be a pressure release, but he's 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.480 getting other guys involved, and you know, a lot of 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.000 that is is through our system that we can we 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.160 can we have the you know, option to play through 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.400 him because of his skill level, and you know a 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.840 lot of that means he's not always gonna be scoring 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.280 like maybe other people want him to do. But we 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.560 all fully understand how important he is to our team 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:00.760 on both at the ends of the floor. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:02.360 And then I just wanted to take you to that 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.919 Celtics series up three to zero. Must feel great, the 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:12.560 level of like ascending stress after lost one, lost two 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.320 and lost three, Like what were those experiences like and 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.480 what was that space between games six and seven, where 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.040 Spoe and Jimmy said, yeah, we're gonna go win, but 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.000 everybody else is like, I don't know. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.919 Yeah. So, as as great as our run was in 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.119 the playoffs, after game six was a worse feeling than 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.919 the feeling we had when we lost to Atlanta, you know, 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.439 the los in that fashion, point one on the clock 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.959 on offensive tip and rebound and then have to go 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:46.080 to Boston for Game seven and pick pick, pick up 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:51.920 the crew, Riley the troops. But right after the game, uh, 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.040 Spoe was saying that, Jimmy was saying that, and I 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.720 think it really it really made everyone else believe. By 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.160 the time we got twenty four hours later, I think 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.159 everyone believed we were going to go in there and 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:08.719 get that win. But obviously, you know, being up three 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.080 to zero to Tide is uh is. 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:12.200 It was a lot of pressure. 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.639 At some point after the game, we all congratulated Spoe 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.959 on not being the first coach to go up three 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.600 to zero and then and then uh, and then lose 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.800 this series. So you know, we definitely had that going 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:25.520 forward as well. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:27.440 It must have been a great feeling and just the 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.080 last thing on Spo specifically because he was obviously part 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.240