How are you?

Congrats, buddy.

Thank you, Rob.

We're gonna start over there.

Markle, start.

Okay.

We'll start with Tim Reynolds in the back.

So many things to talk about Eric, obviously.

But just you had to burn through time outs just to keep Jimmy breathing.

It's like in the last minute, Um, What?

The Lakers last real possession was right in front of you.

What did you see?

And how angst laden.

Where you when Danny got that look?

Yeah.

I mean, you know, at the end of the day, I like those decisions.

I mean, we had everybody in the paint.

Um, you know, LeBron just had had, you know, a bunch of those possessions the fourth quarter where he was just getting to the basket, offensive rebounding everything at the rim to the free throw line.

Um, so we needed to bring not only a second defender, their third defender.

Then they cut.

And, of course, Danny Green eyes there.

Um, you know, But there was, you know, a karma to it.

I thought I would just competitive spirit throughout the course of the game.

It was great.

Sometimes it's make or miss, and sometimes you need to be a little bit fortunate.

We were, uh, but we also made a lot of plays, you know, particularly on the other end.

Jimmy again, Uh, his will toe win.

Um, is remarkable.

Um, And to do that in 47 plus minutes, um, and take the challenge on the other end.

This is every young player coming into this league.

I should study footage on Jimmy Butler, the definition of a two way player competing on both ends, five steals and then making you know, those big plays down the stretch for us offensively.

And I know guys have been telling Duncan ever since he got here.

Just shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.

Did you have any sense that tonight was gonna be the night where it finally came together?

No.

You know, none of us, you know, really know.

You just know of his makeup.

His character.

He's going to continue toe work, his routes.

Uh, you know, I thought he was just so persistent and their level of physicality on them, a zwelling is nothing like the regular season or nothing like the first three rounds.

Hey, just dust himself off.

Continues to run his routes with great force.

He broke free a few times and he didn't break free a few times and still was able toe.

Put some pressure on it.

But look, he's not only him, but Kanaan and Tyler.

There, like, you know, sticks of dynamite.

We can go off a tiny time and we needed that tonight.

Mallika spoke.

What was it, a conversation with Jimmy where you were like what?

We need you to take a break.

And he said No.

Or was that the understanding going in one and then two?

Can you just describe or contextualized what you saw from Andre Iguodala on the defensive end down the stretch?

If you're not really watching Andre, if you're just kind of looking at it like with a broad spectrum, it appears that he's in three places at once and that's part of his genius.

Um, you know there are great offensive team, so you need some guys that just have incredible instincts and have had a bunch of pressure packed reps.

Andres had those Jimmy's had.

Those J has had those.

Bam is just turned 23 but it feels like he's had a bunch of those by the context of our last couple of years.

Um, and we're, you know, we're pushed, you know, to have to make a lot of different kind of reads and plays.

Uh, you know, defensively.

What was your first question?

No.

Um, no.

This this one was an understanding.

Always looking for opportunities.

You know, maybe Thio steal them a minute or two, you know, like we did last game when we got up double digits and they came right back.

That was the opportunity and missed it.

A To that point, we had already burned the boats.

Next question is from Navin Ganga, Lonnie from the Philippines and congratulations.

Who?

I Congratulations in the wind.

There's this saying within the Miami heat off burn the boats.

And could you just talk a little more about what that means to you guys and how it plays a role in God and God keep culture.

That's ah, longer story.

And I'm sure everybody's heard it.

Um you know, more importantly, we're here competing for a title.

Andi, that's that's the most important story line.

Um, and it's going to take, you know, everything we have.

But this is everything that our guys in our locker room wanted.

And it's this kind of competition between 44 lines, two baskets you can't write or print out of the winner on this one.

This one has to be earned between those four lines.

And that's where our guys thrive.

Dan here.

After Game three, it was Jimmy Effin Butler.

I'm sure he's there in the full curse word.

A To this point, Yeah, we're all we all just want to go back to our cave right now on gather up.

We're here for a purpose.

He was remarkable.

Exceptional.

Tonight, just from a competitive standpoint, I really mean that the young the draft is coming up whenever, ah month, they should study.

Jimmy Butler is a two way player.

Um, but, you know, we can't celebrate this too long.

We gotta we gotta move on and rest up on get ready for another one.

It's just inches us closer to our goal.

That's it when you say it's gonna take everything.

The image that comes to mind is him slumped over a debt free throw.

That's what it's all about.

That's an image of a champion before your champion.

Next question.

Nick Friedel.

Go to follow up on Jimmy.

You praised him a lot over the last three months, but specifically in these last few finals games, how would you put into context his ability to raise the level of his game in the biggest of moments for your team?

Well, he's the ultimate competitors on when you're facing the ultimate competition.

That's what happens.

You hope that it brings out, ah, higher level than you could go just by playing normal competition.

Um, you have to be a A really competitors for that to happen.

And, you know, hopefully that's happening with our entire team right now, because we're being pushed and challenged by a very good team.

Our guys are embracing that.

Next question.

Vincent Goodwill Coach.

You've been on the front end of some of those LeBron three point explosions.

You know, when he was on your team, how did you tell your players?

Not not overreact when he started hitting the first three.

Your first four and you didn't change up your defense?

Did you just feel like you had to ride the wave of that and that it was sort of balance itself out?

Or how do you stay cool during that.

Great players, you're gonna make big time plays.

That's what this level of the finals is all about.

Can you continue to stay with it and find a way to get the win at the end?

We're not expecting it to be easy.

We're not expecting those guys tohave see games.

You gotta beat them.

You know, you have to expect to beat teams when they're at their best.

We're not running from that.

We know this has to be well earned.

Next question, Anthony Chang.

So I noticed the secondary at this point, but the seven man rotation today's by the shortage you guys have used in the playoffs.

Was that the plan going into it, or was it just the way you know Kendrick was rolling in the way Jimmy could really take him off the court.

It was more just the read.

I had every intention, uh, to go with the rotation that we have been on possibly could go with that in game six.

Okay, I'm done here.

Spoke.

Okay.

Last one here, Gary Expo.

I know you could tell your guys, you know, play till the buzzer and, you know, give it your all.

But to see it in this moment, can you appreciate that?

Are you kind of two locked into this game to understand ISI, your guys, a lot of guys in their first time doing this play to give completely everything they have?

Well, it's We have a goal.

We're fighting for a title.

That's what it's going to require.

And our guys have another standing.

You know, through the first two games of this series, we realized this is a different level or we're gonna have to get toe a higher level.

Our guys are extremely competitive.

So this level of play the Lakers have brought, as is bring out of something different.

Um, but, you know, again, we can't sit up here on battered back too long.

We got a we got to gear up and get ready for the next one, just inches us.

Closer to the goal.

That's it.

All right, in the final question will be from David Aldridge.

Oh, Ray hits a shot in 2013 off a scramble to give your life the night the ball swings out to a guy who's almost a finals record for threes who's wide open.

I know this is your profession.

But how do you How do you live with make or miss to Kind of be a defining moment for everything that you do?

Yeah, it's Ah, I don't know.

That's That's the profession.

This is This is the world way, are fortunate to be part of the profession.

The coaches chose the profession that are warriors.

Competitors in there have earned the right to be.

And, you know, you try to create the karma of the game.

A smudge is possible.

Uh, and you're right.

I mean, at the end of the day, sometimes it is make or mess.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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