Rick Carlisle's Reaction to Pacers' NBA Playoff Game
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00:00 Well, let's give you Rick Carlisle first.
00:03 Of course, he was very happy.
00:04 He's been a little surly throughout this entire playoff series.
00:08 In fact, at the end, he basically says, too bad.
00:12 You're going to have to deal with us a little bit longer
00:14 as if nobody wants the Indiana Pacers to stay in the NBA playoffs.
00:18 Here's Rick.
00:18 That's ridiculous.
00:19 Competitive level in this series was through the roof.
00:23 We played a great game tonight,
00:27 but whatever we threw at them, they just they kept coming.
00:30 They kept coming.
00:31 The crowd was unbelievable.
00:33 And, you know, I just told our team, when you win a game seven
00:37 in Madison Square Garden, you've made history.
00:40 It's very, very difficult to do.
00:42 This is this is the most raucous crowd
00:45 in the NBA that I've seen.
00:48 And we're going to Boston and Boston's up there, too.
00:50 But today, this was this was really, really, really loud.
00:55 So a lot of times when the team scores the way you do in the regular season,
00:59 there's sort of a let's see if the playoffs, you know, the game's going to be different.
01:02 What? Well, we're the uninvited guest.
01:05 So here we are. OK.
01:07 You know, OK, let me say this to just be real brief.
01:13 That crowd yesterday was not raucous.
01:17 They were on their hands.
01:18 They were sitting on their hands.
01:19 They were getting their ass beat.
01:21 So I have seen way more rowdy crowds at the garden,
01:26 and I've been there for a lot of them.
01:29 I have seen that place way more lit than yesterday.
01:32 They were getting their ass beat.
01:33 There was no lit anything.
01:35 They got excitable when they got within seven.
01:38 But then it went right back to being a funeral.
01:41 I don't care what anybody says.
01:42 In fact, they were way rowdier in
01:46 games one, two and five
01:50 than they were in game seven.
01:52 And the Ranger crowds against Carolina were rowdier as well.
01:58 I don't want to hear it.
01:59 You know what yesterday was?
02:01 It was rich, famous people showing up as usual for the big game
02:05 and sitting on their hands and having people still film them like they matter.
02:09 Celebrities don't matter when you're losing.
02:11 I don't care.
02:12 I don't need to look at movie stars when I'm losing and when I'm losing money.
02:15 I don't care about, you know, any of them.
02:18 Now, I really don't care about any of them, not one of them.
02:21 So you can show them all day.
02:23 And there's another one.
02:23 This guy, Spike Lee, I've told you this a thousand times.
02:26 When are they going to stop showing this little clown?
02:29 You can quote me on that.
02:31 True. That has nothing to do with anything.
02:33 He thinks he's on the Knicks.
02:34 Like he he literally thinks he's on the team.
02:37 Like he's like yelling at players and he thinks he's coaching.
02:40 He's the general manager.
02:42 Bro, you're a you're a D.
02:44 Like, chill out.
02:45 Like, go walk your dog or something.
02:47 You little B.
02:48 Honestly, I can't even look at him.
02:50 So sick of hearing about this guy at every Nick game.
02:53 Like, oh, my God, it's just it's worse than Jack Nicholson.
02:56 And they're still showing his crony old ass out in L.A.
02:59 He's like one hundred and five now.
03:01 He's like cripple.
03:02 And I'm they're they're still showing him like why?
03:05 It's painful with Spike.
03:09 It really is seeing him out there.
03:11 It's painful how much they show him.
03:13 Here's Jalen Brunson gets right down to business.
03:16 Scotty Bras tax this season was a failure.
03:19 Do I take pride in what I have accomplished?
03:22 Um. I would say is there's pros and cons to how I played.
03:28 The pros is obviously
03:31 I played well individually at some points in time during the playoffs.
03:35 The cons are that I didn't play well enough to help my team move forward.
03:40 And so you can say I got hurt in game seven.
03:45 I wasn't playing well in game seven.
03:47 We had a two oh and a three to lead.
03:51 And so. It's just it's hard to look at things individually
03:57 when you don't help your team.
03:59 You didn't think this was a successful year. Right.
04:02 Why do you feel that way?
04:03 And how would you evaluate the year?
04:06 Did we win the championship?
04:08 Did we get close?
04:13 So, you know, that's just that's my mindset.
04:16 This is right.
04:18 They lost in the conference semis.
04:20 I mean, they didn't even make the conference final.
04:22 They didn't make the NBA final.
04:24 So I don't want to hear it. I'm with him.
04:26 It's they they didn't get it done.
04:27 They were up to. Oh, they didn't get it done.
04:29 Let's face facts.
04:31 They were a walking wounded.
04:33 They were a mass unit. They were cripple.
04:35 They literally have you ever seen a team in your life in the NBA
04:39 that had that many star players injured at the exact same time?
04:43 I mean, they were playing with bums.
04:45 I mean, I thought they were going to call me up.
04:48 They didn't have any players.
04:49 I mean, they had no one to play.
04:51 The other day they put Jeffries in a game.
04:53 I didn't even know he was on the team.