Coach just watched your run through the playoffs, right?

It's sort of like this is your life.

But let's start with Bam out of bio.

Just the ownership he took in Game five.

The difference you saw in him in Game six was what?

Well, he wants all the responsibility, so we didn't think anything of it.

I mean, obviously we all went up to him and said, Hey, it's, Ah, team responsibility, But hey, is one of the great players already in this association.

I've said this before.

He will become one of the great winners.

Uh, he's about all the right things.

Hey, competes at all levels.

He should be, uh, the most improved player should be first team, all defense, whatever.

I'm not a tangent right now, but, um, he's all about winning.

That's the only thing that matters.

And he took that responsibility on his broad shoulders and lead the way tonight.

This is the fifth group you've taken to the finals, right?

I'm sure each one of those is special.

So this is about favorites.

I just wanna know what makes this one unique.

Well, we have a lot of guys in our locker room that have been looked over passed over, uh, been told in some form or fashion that they're less than this group loves to compete.

Andi there the anti, uh, analytic, anti au anti.

Whatever.

I don't know.

Um, they just want to compete.

It might not play out in statistics, but in between the four lines, um, they tend to find a way thio get a win.

Certainly every team has a belief that they could do it.

Your team has expressed that we heard Jimmy Butler early before any of the playoffs started talks with Rachel Nichols about that.

But how has that confidence grown after you win one and you sweep the first round and you take out the bucks?

And five, How's that confidence grown?

Well, you go through these kind of battles together.

I mean, first of all, we're in a global pandemic.

Uh, we're in this situation that anybody that has been fortunate enough to spend two months or three months like we have together just the life experience you get to know each other on such a deeper level and then going through the competitive nature of playoff Siri's and coming through guys, they're gaining confidence.

We do have a lot of young players that are becoming, you know, different players.

Uh, as you go on and our veteran guys, Jimmy and you D and Andre.

Uh, J Gorn, uh, they allow those guys, uh, you know, just to be young and to gain experience and to play free because they have all the experience and they take that responsibility Rachel Nichols gave you all, like, seven minutes for she asked for the Lakers.

I'm gonna give you a whole day.

We'll get to that another day.

We'll let you go.

Enjoy this.

Prepared for the Lakers?

Uh, for Wednesday, Game one on ABC.

Thanks, Coach.

All right, John.

Thanks.

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