Name: 'It was a nice, lucky bounce' Nick Nurse on Kawhi Leonard's buzzer-beater | 2019 NBA Playoffs
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What's going through your mind when eyeballs bounce it on the rim for about seven minutes?

I think it was going in the whole time to me.

I thought it was, but just again, I thought it was Obviously it's a nice, lucky bounce, right?

But I thought we were very unlucky for a lot of that game.

So it came back to us a little bit balanced out.

Kyle didn't have Taliban seem to have the greatest scoring nights, but his contribution would have been as good as he's had all year.

Yeah, I really was impressed with his defense, Doug.

He was being sold alert and aggressive on his switch outs.

Right, You, just every time you you saw on opening coming there, he waas taken it away and then obviously had that huge steel.

I think we had back to back shot clock violations and that was getting ready to be 1/3 1 and he got do it just in the nick of time.

Uh, you play the whole second half, and he was He was great down the stretch defensively.

They gave me talked about defense and lock it in the last 3.5 minutes.

I think JJ Reddick had and one opportunity only.

Their field goal made by Philly was that butler bucket the last 45 seconds.

What impressed you about your defense over the last four minutes?

Um, I mean, we just We just We're doing it all right.

Um, we were corralling the right guys for a split second with two.

We were either rotating or hustling back to our own, so it wasn't, you know, because we put two on the ball.

Didn't mean something was automatically open.

Um, and then we rebounded it after we contest.

But, you know, those possessions defensively were awesome.

They had again a lot where they didn't didn't even get a look at the basket.

That last play was it basically, give Kawai the ball the top and let him try to create as he kind of didn't.

We were when we run Kyle off their first as the first option and then quite loops under there and gets it at the top, and then it XYZ call from there.

We've seen that one a few times this year again.

He's probably taking it four or five times but balanced out again a little bit.

I think you missed a couple of those along the way this season, that exact same played similar shot.

So, um, it's good that the balancing scales were there tonight.

Nick, What's it been like for you to coach Kwai Leonard this first year?

And what have you seen from him as the stakes have gotten higher and higher in the playoffs?

Well, um, first of all, what it's been like to coach him, he's, um uh I'm sure I have along the line had a more attentive player, you know, probably some one of my walk on someone of college teams I coach that was paying attention, but he's It's amazing to me that he's, um whether we're in the huddle or in the locker room or in the film room.

He's He's always locked in on what the coaching staff is saying, and I think that is, Ah, interesting thing about him, right?

So that's e think that's I think that's a pretty big statement to say that.

But then again, and then when you get to his play here in the playoffs, it's been it's been at at an elite level, right?

He was awesome at both ends, and that's that's again, I think is uniqueness.

Not only Kony, he gets you 30 all right, and then anywhere upwards from that, Um, but there's moments when he could just decide you're not you're not scoring, either.

I'm gonna take it from you or something like that and I think that's ah pretty amazing thing.

I will go to Soap and a coach so panned out with The New York Times, I was wondering, you know, there's been a lot made in recent years of the Raptors.

Um, what does this win mean for the franchise as a whole?

The most important thing is that this team is still playing and and I think there's still room for growth with this team, right?

I've mentioned it a few times served during both these playoffs.

I thought we played a very, very good hot Orlando team, and if we get through would make us better.

And this was a very, very good team with unbelievable offensive firepower.

Um, and we obviously, hopefully grew are continuing to grow through, advancing through this Siri's.

So that's what's most important to me again.

I I don't, um I don't think the past has really anything to do with this team.

I know it's always there for historical data, and we need to compare and stuff, but I I I don't our won't or can't.

Well, all I really care about now is these guys enjoying this for a few hours tonight and then getting it in their game faces locked back in tow.

Prepare for the next round to John on your left there, Nick.

What did you think of surges game tonight?

Well, he he was obviously really big out there, right?

Um, I'm not sure if he blocked any shots or not, but he was maybe alter in a few, and he grabbed a few rebounds.

When he was when he was one of the maybe the second most confidence guy out there behind.

Why write it get kicked over to him and he was just pulling it, Or he was flying inside and catching a dump off when he was finding a way to get it in.