Rick Carlisle PostGame Interview| Indiana Pacers eliminated from East Semi as lose to Boston Celtics

Rick Carlisle PostGame Interview| Indiana Pacers eliminated from East Semi as lose to Boston Celtics

[Music] I don’t really know where to start but first want to just tell you that uh we thank we thanked our players a few moments ago for a you know for an amazing season a magical season um know the level the level of fight was just tremendous all the way through this um circumstance never never phased them one way or the other they were they were they were in this to win every possession that they could and any any game that they could and so uh a lot of respect to um our players and just how they conducted themselves in this series um so you know it it’s um there were a lot of things accomplished this year um and certainly uh expectations will be raising for next year which is good which is good so there there are challenges to meet over the summer for our guys to all get better um all of us involved need to get better and um you know there’s some exciting things you know Tyrese is going to be on the Olympic team that’s a great honor represent your country um Drew neart I believe is going to be with Team Canada that’s going to be a great honor for him and I think uh I think Ben Ben mathan will not be cleared to play for Team Canada but but he will be with the team and so he’ll be a part of that so that will be another great experience for um those two young Canadian players you know miles miles got hit in the back early in the game um had to go back to the locker room a couple times to get worked on you know he stayed in there kept fighting but he was it was very difficult for him throughout the game and so he gave it everything he had he was he was tremendous this year amazing seak was great I don’t know what what more we can say about Pascal you know just tremendous um and really all the guys just you know the the everything the fight the the character the Integrity um the competitive Spirit you know really really exceptional so I’m really proud of all the guys in uh our group and and and our staff too I think our our coaching staff who done an amazing job this year as well guess just to continue going on that I mean you you’ve talked so much throughout the last couple years about just putting these guys in competitive scenarios and learning from those scenarios obviously you got a lot uh that that you can take from this I mean what what do you see is some of the most important lessons most important sort of experiences that you’ve got over just the last you know month and a half or two months or whatever it’s been since these playoffs started well when you get into um the third round of the playoffs you know the level of competition RIS each each round you know um and um you know the demands are very very high and one of the things our guys Learned was that the individual expectations you have on a particular night you got to throw that stuff away you know and you just got to play the game as it comes to it as it comes to you um there there are things you can do to you know man manifest your involvement but the they’re they’re effort type things it’s not you know it can’t be my turn it can’t be getting itchy about catches and shots and stuff like that otherwise you lose it’s just you just flat out lose and so there’s a lot of growth there you know our guys just got better and better with all that stuff as uh as the as the as the games went along so and that’s you know that’s one of the one of the things that’s that’s that’s hard hard to understand um but it’s really it’s really an us against them or everyone thing you know that’s that’s just how it is and our guys embraced it they embraced it you know and you grow up a lot playing this level of competition Rick how do you evaluate a series like this where in so many games you’re so close and right there late but can’t quite get over the hump in any of them well you know I just I look at the process and the level of fight our situation with Personnel all that kind of stuff I there’s no excuses I mean these guys you know Boston has a great team you know they led the league from wire to wire and really ran away with it um and look they’re opportunistic they don’t want this thing to go on any any longer um give them credit for the stuff they pulled off at the end of the last two games um they simply made more plays you know they blocked shots they got offensive rebounds they made they made key shots um um we we were unable um I love the fact that you know our guys never wavered competitively one one inch or millimeter or anything like that um you know we we played at a at a great level and we um you know we we made our share of mistakes like tonight yeah we we gambled probably five times in the second half that led to at least 10 points for them and those are those are discipline type things that you have to you have to learn in this kind of environment you know and you know I just you you swing and miss and they get a three you swing and Miss they get a layup and it’s just and then if you’re unable to match at the other end I mean it’s it makes it very very difficult and then momentum ships and so you know th those are some of the lessons those are like you know strategic things and and and discipline and and and um you know stuff like that so but yeah I mean I just I’m just super proud of the guys no one you know no one wants to get beat four games in a row um but but there was there was Zero quit in any of our guys at any at any point in time and they represented themselves they represented the city you know the organization in a in a very high manner get tied for the last two games of this series but those 15 playoff games getting all right so that’s Rick Carlo Derek all V e let me teach you a thing or two about cruelty watch First Blood Z an enemy has been [Music] defeated e your tower has been destroyed an ally has been defeated our base is under attack an enemy has been defeated defeated an enemy has been defeated double kill shut down our base is under attack only strong so f V got so get in my Bel k [Music] First Blood 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Rick Carlisle PostGame Interview | Indiana Pacers eliminated from East Semi as 105-102 lose to Boston Celtics