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Here’s the latest from Tarrytown and elsewhere as we keep patiently/anxiously waiting.
On preparing for either potential Finals opponent:
“If we expect to be who we think we are, then at the end of the day it doesn’t matter. If we play San Antonio, it’ll save me some money because my family lives in San Antonio. I don’t have to buy airline tickets. But at the end of the day, both teams are great and both teams will be a challenge for us.”
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On staying intentional amid any Finals distractions:
“Yeah, the biggest thing is you have to enjoy it because this doesn’t happen. Some guys never make it here, you know. And this is what most people play for, is to have a chance to, at the end of the year, say you won your last game, so you can walk around in the summertime with your chest out and all that other stuff amongst your peers. Having said that, you know, there are a lot more distractions that you got to navigate, so you have to be — I was talking to Allan Houston, he used the right word when I was talking to him about it, but you have to be real intentional about what you’re doing because you’re going to get pulled in so many different directions. And everybody’s human, and it’s natural to get pulled here, get pulled a little here, get pulled a little there, and think that you’re OK. But at the end of the day, after doing the media and practicing and getting pulled three or four different directions — because you’re going to have your family around you, you’re going to have friends around you, you’re going to have people wanting tickets, you’re going to have people wanting to go on this show and that show. At the end of the day, you may not realize it, but it can be fatiguing for you to do all of that stuff while trying to focus on some of the biggest games in your life. So again, going off of what word Allan Houston used, trying to be intentional about everything that we do during this time while keeping an edge is going to be huge.”
On managing scrimmage intensity before the Finals:
“Well, I mean, you can only have so many…
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