Tyrese Haliburton was HYPED by his defensive prowess in spite of ‘frantic’ Q4 | NBA on ESPN

Tyrese Haliburton was HYPED by his defensive prowess in spite of ‘frantic’ Q4 | NBA on ESPN

A physical frantic intense fourth quarter the Pacers pull out a win how would you describe that fourth quarter uh frantic we didn’t do a good job of I didn’t do a good job of getting us in sets to make shots but uh I mean the game was everywhere that’s a hard

Playing Team over there so anyway we can figure out to get a win that’s good they took a two-point lead for their first and only lead of the fourth quarter you closed 8-0 so let’s talk defense your favorite thing to talk about yeah yeah

Yeah you saw us you saw us I had a box out we got a rebound yeah yeah yeah let’s talk about it no we did a good job closing the game obviously starting lineup change our first time playing in these lineups and we figured out and did

A good job you been a part of these situations so much in your almost two years now with the Pacers but this season especially when it was tight when it was a tie game and you wanted that ball how much has the past experiences help yeah I mean I I think uh success

And failure are all great teachers they’re the best teachers so uh that’s that’s kind of the best part of when I got traded here was kind of thrust into you know having to close games I’ve never had to do that before in my life so uh the experience has been good and

Just trying to learn from that and grow from that I know you were learning a lot over the last couple of weeks how much did this team need a game like this against the quality team yeah we needed this one uh we 500 coming into this game

Uh anytime you can stay above 500 uh you want to do that in the NBA we got a a tough two weeks uh coming up so just got to be prepared for that final thought you go to Chicago but you saw a starting lineup change and we saw different

Combinations on the court at different times what did you think of the adjustments your staff made I thought they did a really good job I thought they did a really good job calming us down in that timeout uh we did a good job getting us in a a good set got miles

Of foul and free throws got me a three um thought we did a really good job closing the game tonight all right congrats appreciate the time appreciate it thank you JJ thank you Tyrese 6 30o 10 assist game of the year for Tyrese Halbert and the Pacers Allstar Quinn

Delivered but again eight in double figures tonight and as Tyreek said when they needed the defensive stop slate they got [Applause] them NBA ony is

Hear from Indiana Pacers PG Tyrese Haliburton as he speaks on how he and the Pacers pulled through a tightly contested fourth quarter to get the win over the Houston Rockets.

(Courtesy: “Pacers/Bally Sports Indiana”)

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