Tom Thibodeau Urges Knicks to Stay Focused Against Pacers

SportsGrid

Watch Tom Thibodeau Urges Knicks to Stay Focused Against Pacers - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00Let's start things off, Scotty, by hearing from Coach Tibbs.

00:03As you know, big history between the Knicks and the Pacers.

00:07New York is going nuts.

00:09Thibodeau sees all of it, but we got to stay focused, son.

00:13But I think the important thing for us to understand as a team

00:16is that you have to earn your wins each night.

00:20So we're not going to win because we're home.

00:23We're not going to win because of, you know, what happened previously

00:26or the history.

00:28We have to go out there and earn it with our play.

00:32It starts with your preparation going into the game

00:34to understand how important that is,

00:36and that's where we want the focus to lie.

00:39So, you know, we're proud of the organization, the tradition that we have,

00:44and all the great players that have been here previously,

00:47you know, front office, coaches, everybody, you know, ownership.

00:51And so we have an understanding.

00:53We know what the Knicks mean to the city,

00:55and so there's, I think, a responsibility that goes along with that.

01:00Yeah, and it's, if they lose, the city, the crime will spike.

01:05People, they're already foul mood to begin with.

01:09As always, it's a dangerous, rough, nasty city,

01:13and they'll be even meaner and grosser and more violent than ever.

01:18If they lose, people, like, so it's the Buffalo-Pittsburgh syndrome.

01:22When they lose in the playoffs in football,

01:24those towns go into a complete, full-on depression.

01:28I mean, it is, they're eating Xanax, Xanny bars.

01:32I mean, people, they don't go to work.

01:34Babies aren't born.

01:35Education.

01:36No one goes to class, the whole deal.

01:39In New York, when they lose, people get beaten with baseball bats,

01:45raped, shanked, kidnapped, shot in broad daylight in the head.

01:50I mean, like, I'm not kidding.

01:51Like, you're going to see.

01:53I will go into full-scale depression if they lose the series,

01:57because my problem with it is they got too much work to, you know, cut out.

02:02They got to win eight games, and these are the eight hardest games to win

02:06in basketball, and particularly against a team that's had your number

02:11over the years that you can't deny what the Pacers have been able to do

02:15against the Knicks.

02:16I pray to God the Knicks win, and I'll be watching full-on and losing my mind

02:21and rooting for the Knicks.

02:22I'm completely on the take for the Knicks.

02:25But you know how I feel about the Pacers.

02:28I said the Pacers two months before the playoffs started.

02:32I told you when they were – we were looking at their odds that were so terrible.

02:35What were they, 13-1 or something?

02:37And I was like, that's a team right there you don't want to play in the playoffs

02:40is the Pacers.

02:41They're a playoff-built team.

02:43They're built for one thing, playoff runs.

02:45I'm telling you, they're a problem, and if they lose the Knicks to this team,

02:50I mean, the city, oh, my God.

02:54You think they shoplift now?

02:58What do you see what happens when they lose?

03:00I mean, honestly, people won't even eat.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended