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00:00But good for Siakam. Here he is talking about his journey to Eastern Conference Finals MVP, the Larry Bird Award.
00:07It's been a crazy journey, a lot of ups and downs.
00:11And, you know, I know, I know, you know, I'm not, I'm not the, you know, the guy that everyone's going to talk about a lot and all that stuff.
00:19And I really don't care about it.
00:21You know, I'm just, I'm just a young kid from Cameroon that's, you know, moved to the U.S. when he was 18 years old and gave everything to the game of basketball.
00:29Like, and I just work every single day.
00:32I don't cheat the work.
00:34Like, no matter good games, bad games, I'm in the gym.
00:38I care about the game of basketball and I want to be as great as I can.
00:43And to me, that's all that matters, man.
00:45Like, all the other stuff don't really matter.
00:47And, yeah, like, it's cool.
00:50It's pretty cool, though.
00:51But the work continues.
00:53Yeah, listen, that's as good as it gets in terms of a guy just to, you know.
00:59He, I think he admires his own work.
01:01He knows he's good.
01:02And he's already won a title.
01:04And now he's going for another one.
01:06And he's got a, he's got a Eastern Conference Finals Larry Bird MVP.
01:10I mean, the guy's having a great career.
01:13Who would have thought this kid from Cameroon would turn into this monster?
01:16He's a great player.
01:17I got to tell you.
01:18I mean, he's, let's face facts.
01:20I think Giannis is, you know, maybe a little better than him, without a doubt.
01:25But they have the same amount of rings.
01:28And this guy's playing for another one.
01:30And Giannis isn't sniffing one anytime soon.
01:33He hasn't sniffed one in Milwaukee since they got it done a few years ago.
01:37It's only gotten worse for him to the point where he wants out of Milwaukee.
01:41He's not happy anymore.
01:42This guy, I think Siakam's happy in Indy.
01:46I think he was happy in Toronto.
01:48I think he just wants to ball.
01:50I think he's a legit pro, just wants to ball.
01:52He doesn't care where it is.
01:53He goes to the rack and finishes.
01:55That's all I know.
01:56And he can shoot too.
01:58He can shoot.
01:59That's for sure.
02:00The Pacers did join the 2018-2019 Warriors.
02:04Only teams in NBA playoff history to average 115 plus points per game
02:09and 28 plus assists per game through the first three rounds of the playoffs.
02:15That's pretty good too.
02:16You know, there's a lot of historic stuff with both these teams.
02:19That's pretty good.
02:19I don't think it's that hard to get that many assists, Mike,
02:21when you have that many transition number runs.
02:24Like they're three on twos, two on ones, three on ones.
02:28They're constantly getting turnovers and going the other way with speed
02:32and with, you know, a definitive finish.
02:36They know what they're doing when they get out and break out
02:39and they just pass and finish.
02:41And then when they move the ball, I think they take really good looks.
02:47How many times did I tell you they just leave Turner standing all alone
02:50for open threes?
02:50They're like free throws.
02:51He did it again Saturday night.
02:53The guy didn't do anything the entire game,
02:55but in the late stages of that game in the fourth quarter,
02:58he hit a big dagger from outside.
03:00And then how about this guy?
03:02Honestly, I almost had a stroke.
03:04I forgot to mention Thomas Bryant hit three threes.
03:08I saw you tweet about that.
03:10What a hack he is.
03:11And he hit three threes.
03:12He's a terrible player.
03:14And he hit three threes.
03:15Like it was all going their way.
03:17Trust me.
03:18It was all going their way.
03:19That's for sure.
03:21Miles Turner.
03:22Now you sent me this and I had seen it on Saturday night too.
03:24I thought this was really interesting from Turner.
03:27We had a big period in this league where super teams were the way to go.
03:32Turner says his team and the Thunder, maybe the new way of the NBA.
03:36I think it's a new blueprint for the league, man.
03:37It's just, you know, I think the years of the super teams and, you know,
03:41stacking is just not, it's not as effective as it once was.
03:44You know what I mean?
03:45There's NBA, since I've been in the league, you know,
03:47there's NBA is very trendy.
03:48It just shifts.
03:49The new trend now is just kind of what we're doing.
03:51OKC does the same thing.
03:52You know, young guys get out and run, defend.
03:54And, you know, she used the power of friendship is how they call it.
04:00Listen, that guy, I've never seen a guy left more wide open than that guy
04:04the last two years in the playoffs by the Knicks.
04:06He's got a lot of threes, man.
04:08He's got a lot of wide open threes.
04:11But it's amazing how many of them, it's the same thing you say about McConnell too.
04:16Like these guys, they just, go ahead and shoot.
04:20Oh, you're going to make every single one?
04:22Oh, all right, maybe we'll start, like, throwing a body at you.
04:25But it's like they want him to shoot.
04:26They never did.
04:27The only time you saw a body on McConnell the entire series for two years was Shamit.