YOU. I FEEL NICE. >> INSIDE THE NBA IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE THREE ROW KIA SORENTO, BUILT FOR THE UNSTOPPABLE. >> KIA IS THE OFFICIAL AUTOMOTIVE PARTNER OF THE NBA. >> ALL RIGHT, INDIANA PACERS WHO'VE BEEN KNOCKED OUT IN THE FIRST ROUND. THEIR LAST FIVE APPEARANCES, A CHANCE TO KNOCK OUT THE BUCKS AND MOVE ON TO THE EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMIS IF THEY COULD WIN ON THE MEAN STREETS AND THEY GOT OFF TO A GOOD ENOUGH START, THERE'S MYLES TURNER INSIDE COMING OFF BACK TO BACK 29 POINT GAMES 15 TO 2. PACERS RUN EARLY. KHRIS MIDDLETON. AND THEN WATCH OUT BEV AND OBI TOPPIN MAN THIS LITTLE LEPRECHAUN ALWAYS STEPPING UP ON BIG DUDES. OBI GOT A T OUT OF THAT WHOLE THING MILWAUKEE COMING BACK AT HIM. GOT THE LEAD 3633 AND TERM ON SLOW TO SMALL. >> ERNIE I LOVE THAT LITTLE DUDE, MAN MIDDLETON PROFESSIONAL SCORER. THAT'S JUST GENERATIONS JAMAL CRAWFORD OH OH STOP IT, STOP IT. I'M JUST IN A PROFESSIONAL. STOP IT NOW. STOP IT. >> JAMAL CRAWFORD. >> YEAH, I KNOW MIDDLETON I DIDN'T SAY. I'M JUST SAYING PROFESSIONAL SCORER. >> JUST NINE POINT NIGHT FOR KHRIS MIDDLETON. >> HE'S MICHAEL REDD. THAT'S WHAT HE IS. >> THERE YOU GO. BETTER BETTER BOBBY PORTIS AFTER BEING EJECTED IN GAME FOUR. >> MIKE AND MALIK BEASLEY CAN SHOOT THAT THING. YES HE CAN. OH WHAT WAS THAT. >> HE HAD HIS HANDS ON YOUR KNEES. >> HANDS ON YOUR KNEES. PORTIS 29 AND TEN. >> WHILE THAT THOSE FANS CONTINUE TO SCREAM INTO THAT COURTSIDE MIKE ALL NIGHT LONG. >> IS THAT THE ONLY MOVE THEY KNOW THE LITTLE LITTLE TWO LITTLE THINGS. >> YEAH ONE 15' TO 92 TWO THE BUCKS WINNERS AND STAYING ALIVE AS THEY GO TO INDIANA THURSDAY FOR GAME SIX OF THAT SERIES. AND AGAIN INDIANA HIGHEST SCORING TEAM TWICE IN THE 90S IN THIS IN THIS SERIES. AND THEN YOU KNOW WE HEARD SPYRO AND GAR AND STEPHANIE READY TALKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF GIANNIS AND DAME LILLARD RETURNING IN THIS SERIES, POSSIBLY FOR GAME SIX, WHICH WOULD MAKE IT INTRIGUING. >> YEAH INDIANA MISSED A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT. YOU KNOW MILWAUKEE CONTROLLED THE PACE OF THE GAME. YOU KNOW THEY PLAYED WELL. THE OTHERS PLAY WELL. THE CROWD WAS INTO THE GAME THE WHOLE GAME. AND YOU KNOW THEY JUST HAVE TO GO BACK HOME REGARDLESS OF WHO'S PLAYING. THEY JUST HAVE TO GO BACK HOME YOU KNOW CONTROL THE PACE PLAY THEIR GAME SHOOT THREES. GET OUT. AND YOU KNOW JUST YOU KNOW, TRY TRY AND WIN THE GAME. YOU KNOW WITH GIANNIS AND DAME COMING BACK PROBABLY WON'T BE 100. SO I WOULDN'T BE TOO WORRIED IF I'M INDIANA I'M PLAYING AT HOME. WE JUST HAVE TO FOCUS A LITTLE MORE AND JUST DO WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO. YOU WERE ON THAT 95 TEAM IN ORLANDO THAT BEAT HIM BY 24 WHEN THEY WERE IN A CLOSEOUT SITUATION. WHAT YOU SAW TONIGHT AND GOING BACK TO THE LAST GAME, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH THE WITH THE PACERS. THEY DON'T SCARE YOU DEFENSIVELY AT ALL. YOU KNOW THEY GAVE THAT TEAM THAT SCORED 115 POINTS WITHOUT DAME AND WITHOUT GIANNIS AND THAT GO BACK. REMEMBER THE GAME WHERE IT WENT DOWN TO THE WIRE. BECAUSE THEY PLAYED NO DEFENSE. SO IT'S EVEN WHEN YOU BRING IN BACKUPS IT'S EASY TO SCORE AGAINST THOSE GUYS. THAT'S THE ONE THING WE'VE BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT THEM ALL YEAR. THEIR DEFENSIVE INTENSITY. THEY LEAD THE LEAGUE IN SCORING BUT THEY'RE NOT GREAT OFFENSIVELY. SO WHEN YOU BRING BACKUPS IN, YOU KNOW THEY'RE LIKE, OH, WE CAN GET ANY SHOT THAT WE WANT. YOU KNOW KENNY TALKS ABOUT ALL THE TIME LIKE THERE'S NO PRESSURE ON THE BALL. WE'RE GOING TO GET WIDE OPEN SHOTS BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO MANY BAD HABITS. AND YOU SAW THAT TONIGHT. EVEN WITH RESERVES THEY PUT 115 ON THE BOARD. >> YEAH. AND THEY SCORED 113 IN THAT LOSS. IN GAME FOUR. THEY SHOT BETTER THAN 50% IN BOTH OF THOSE GAMES. WE'LL LET YOU WEIGH IN IN A SECOND. BUT LET'S HEAR FROM DOC RIVERS. >> I DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE GOING TO WIN ON THAT. >> YOU NEVER KNOW AS A COACH. >> YOU KNOW, BUT I DID WALK OFF THE FLOOR AND I SAID, WE'RE COMING TONIGHT. >> I TOLD OUR COACHES THAT. I SAID, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GOING TO WIN, BUT WE'RE NOT. WE'RE COMING TO PLAY AND WIN TONIGHT. >> YOU COULD FEEL IT. >> YOU CAN FEEL IN THE PREPARATION HOW LOCKED IN THAT WAS NOT A TEAM WALKING THROUGH A WALKTHROUGH THINKING THIS WAS IT. THAT'S THE TEAM THINKING THEY CAN WIN. AND IT SHOWED. >> HOW DOES WINNING THIS GAME IN GETTING A COUPLE EXTRA DAYS FOR GAME SIX JUST AFFECT THE INJURY TIMELINES? GIANNIS AND DAME. IS THERE A CHANCE THAT IS EXTENDING THIS SERIES THAT YOU GUYS YOU KNOW HOPE TO GET THEM ON THE FLOOR. >> I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER THAT. >> I KNOW I HOPE I THINK THEY'RE VERY VERY VERY CLOSE . >> I THOUGHT HE WAS FROZEN I DID TOO I DID TOO I WAS I WAS LIKE, COME ON, TNT. THE ZOOM LOCKED UP? WHAT IF THAT HAPPENS ON THURSDAY, KENNY? >> WELL, CHUCK, KIND OF TOOK IT BECAUSE THAT WAS MY NOTES HERE. >> WHAT DID I SAY? >> I WROTE IT, I WROTE IT EARLIER, RIGHT AFTER. >> OH, YOU MEAN THE DEFENSIVE THING I'M TALKING ABOUT? >> I'M TALKING ABOUT THE DAME. >> AND NO, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GIANNIS DEFENSE BECAUSE I WAS THIS IS LAST YEAR I WAS ASKING YOU ABOUT I KNOW I UNDERSTAND BUT I'M GOING TO BRING INTO THIS OKAY I'M GOING TO BRING THAT INTO IT. >> THIS IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE WHEN PEOPLE SAY DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS. BECAUSE TONIGHT IF YOU'RE ABLE TO LOCK IN DEFENSIVELY ON SECOND UNIT GUYS MOSTLY THEY'RE THEY'RE USUALLY SECOND UNIT GUYS BECAUSE THEY'RE FINISHERS. THEY'RE NOT ALWAYS CREATORS. SO NOW THEY HAD GUYS ON THE FLOOR COVINGTON MALIK BEASLEY HAS BEEN A HE'S A FINISHER NOW. BUT HE'S BEEN A CREATOR IN HIS IN HIS DAY AT TIMES BOBBY PORTIS LIKE THESE GUYS ARE USUALLY FINISHERS. THEY'RE NOT THE PLAYMAKER GUYS. SO THAT'S WHERE DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS. NOW YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING MORE SCORING TO THE TO THE MILWAUKEE BUCKS. AND NOW THOSE GUYS WHO HAVE AN EXTREME CONFIDENCE CAN GO POSSIBLY BACK INTO A MORE NATURAL ROLE OF BEING A FINISHER. NOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE SHOOTING WITH MUCH MORE CONFIDENCE, CONFIDENCE AND MUCH MORE EFFICIENCY, POSSIBLY. AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY JUST NEED GIANNIS. EVEN IF DAME COMES BACK, IT ALLOWS GUYS TO GET MORE OF AN UNNATURAL POSITION. BUT THEY'RE GOING TO BE PLAYING WITH THE HIGH LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE ON THE INDIANA SIDE. >> LOOK WE REALIZED LIKE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THEIR BACKCOURT OF HALIBURTON AND NEMBHARD FIRST TIME IN THE PLAYOFFS. AND THERE'S THIS LEARNING CURVE INVOLVED. AS YOU GUYS KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PLAYOFF BASKETBALL AND REGULAR SEASON BASKETBALL. AND ADD TO THAT HOW TOUGH IT IS, AS YOU GUYS ALL SAY TO CLOSE OUT A SERIES. YEAH. AND THEY SAW THAT FIRSTHAND TONIGHT. WHAT LESSONS DO YOU LEARN AND HOW DO YOU MAKE SURE THAT THE SERIES DOESN'T GO BACK TO MILWAUKEE? WELL YOU DEFINITELY HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS. >> AND YOU KNOW, INDIANA IS A FAST PACED TEAM. THEY HAVE TO PLAY THEIR PACE. THEY LET MILWAUKEE, YOU KNOW, CONTROL THE PACE AND LET MILWAUKEE SCREW THE GAME UP. SO YOU KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO GO BACK LOOK AT FILM GO THROUGH A WALKTHROUGH. THEY'RE GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT UPSET. AND YOU KNOW I LOOK FOR I LOOK FOR INDIANA TO CLOSE THEM OUT AT HOME AND CLOSE THEM OUT. BIG >> WUN. 15' TO 92 WAS BIG TONIGHT ON THE MILWAUKEE SIDE AS THE BUCKS STAY ALIVE. IT'S A32 SERIES AS THEY HEAD BACK TO GAINBRIDGE FIELDHOUSE, A GAME YOU WILL SEE HERE ON TNT. >> WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY TIE? >> SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR TIE? >> MESMERIZED BY IT. >> I LIKE MY TIE. >> GO UP HIGHER, Y'ALL. >> GREAT TIE. >> WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY TIE, OLD MAN? TIE. CHRIS PAUL. DON'T BE WORRIED ABOUT THE TIE. WORRY ABOUT THE MONEYMAKER. >> DIDN'T SAY THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT. THEY JUST SAID THEY WERE MESMERIZED. >> DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE TIE, DUDE. YOU LOOK AT THE MONEYMAKER. THEY STARE AT YOU WENT TO AUBURN. >> T
