Pascal Siakam (Indiana Pacers Player)
On the intensity and focus needed for Game 7…
“It’s gritty. Both teams are going to play hard. It’s going to be hard. It’s a lot of things that’s going to happen, and as long as you stay focused within the game plan and play with energy, the hardest-playing team usually wins these games.”
“It’s going to take everything. A lot of crazy stuff’s going to happen, just got to stay within what we do, and as long as you come into the game with pure energy and playing as hard as you can, stay together. That’s the most important. … We’ve just got to manage it, stay together. That’s the main thing that I’ll be preaching to the guys is just bring your energy and bring everything.”
T.J. McConnell (Indiana Pacers Player)
On the effort needed for Game 7
“It’s one of those things where the team that exerts the most energy and plays to exhaustion comes out on top, and it’s win or go home. It’s something every player plays for, a Game 7, and excited for the opportunity. But we have to be more dialed in than any of us have ever been before.”
“They know that if you’re not playing to absolute exhaustion in this next game, why even go? And that’s got to be the mindset from everyone here.”
