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We arrived at 2.30 and had a lot of fans waiting at the airport. A lot, therefore we had to leave for an auxiliary output because the traffic was cut. Being in an NBA Finals makes you realize how people get excited in a different way. I received lots of messages, called for congratulations and thank you very much. Now we have several days to rest and I'm sooo quiet. There is time to go for a walk with the kids, and recharge for what is coming.
The series ended 4-0 and can be misinterpreted. We knew it would be very hard from the physical and it was. It was not like the Lakers 4-0 in the first round. If you notice, the mean score difference were far more extensive. Here we were surprised the first game, in which we draw much difference. But after three games were very evenly matched and both ended in overtime.
In the second, we get a good difference at first, but they made him a tough match away. Complicate you, bite you, was complicated and had to go to overtime. The third, for me, was the key to the series. We imagined they were going to start with lots of energy and it did. We took 18 points in the first quarter, they ran us all around and the stadium was exploding. We came the night because we were not playing up with determination. Luckily this happened at the beginning of the game, because we knew we had 30-odd minutes to get the thing turning slowly. Just them down a little concentration, we set to 8 and close the first half and four. Then we made our game and take the chance. But do not forget that Mike Conley had the last ball to win the game.
The latter also finished evenly but they no longer had the same excitement and determination. They were more concerned and we had better mood. We were more responsible in the beginning and ended up winning.
Ends up looking easy, but you must understand that the playoffs are very changeable. A ball or a play can change the entire course of a series. So I feel that this third party defined everything. They could have won them and it was for us.
One of the keys from the sport was that Zach Randolph was not a good series. When a player has a bad series, it may be because they started well, maybe, but then there is something that does not let the opponent recover. Many of us had in mind that we won the series a couple of years ago when we were eliminated in the first round and he will everywhere complicated. So in the second game no longer relaxed and never slacken. The mark in every way. Sometimes ahead, sometimes behind, in some plays we fold in the brand and if our big players, Tiago and Tim in need, we sumábamos some of us. That also ended up affecting Marc Gasol. They were inspired and we do not let them do.
By spending so a great job with a conference opponent, we earn the right to have a good rest. Many days, five were sufficient, but we have ten. One comes with an important emotional charge, we are now focused and threw a bucket of ice on top. Still, that is well understood, not complaining. I prefer this rather than having to undergo a conference finals in a seventh game. So no time to enjoy a little, the other way, do not give even a second to unwind.
For the next, between Miami and Indiana, I always say you have to play with come. But the reality is that in this case changes, because if you have the homefield Indiana on our behalf. If I have to define a NBA Finals in the seventh game, I'd rather be in my court.
On preparing the series, we see the games but players still have much to do, because you know the opponent. There are four guys who work full time as video editors and prepare everything. After five coaches review it and choose the most important clips to show. There he starts to prepare for the game, start the talks, we feel all over his rival, the pro, cons, weaknesses and strengths they have. There is still time to work.
Back to an end after ten years of playing the first is important. The truth is that I have many memories of what it was the previous path in the first. It was all too fast, just come to the U.S. and did not have to suffer like other players who have trouble several years to reach a final. I remember a little over the next two, in 2005 and 2007. The previous path, anxiety. You may have forgotten just because I had other opportunities.
One enjoys more after six years of fighting, trying to get and not of. For different reasons? sometimes years of injuries, some that did not enter the last ball and others in which the opponent scored the last shot. Sometimes just because rivals were better than you. We know all the variables happened to us all these years. I say the same of the Olympics with the selection, because I enjoyed much more recent than the first. Tim is 37, Tony 31 and I 35, is a different maturity. I sometimes but I can give more value now. I do not know if we will return to a end? definitely be the last and that's why we value it very much ..
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