00:00Coach, I want to talk about Pascal Siakam here going to Indianapolis.
00:03Take a look at last year around that trade deadline.
00:04That move gets made, and it worked out in spades,
00:07particularly even in this Eastern Conference Finals.
00:10Three games over 30-plus points.
00:12The man was a machine.
00:13Take a look at there.
00:13Close to 25 points, five rebounds, and three-and-a-half assists here.
00:17That's one of those moves that really worked out in the Pacers' favor.
00:19It looks like he's only getting better in that uniform here, Coach.
00:23Yeah, I think, honestly, Donnie, the biggest takeaway from Pascal Siakam
00:27in the series is the fact that he had three games in which he shot the ball
00:30and hit three threes and shot, I think, over the series, over 50%.
00:35No one had that in their bingo card.
00:37But at times, you step on that.
00:39Pascal Siakam is funny.
00:40There was a lot of talk before the series is whether Pascal Siakam is a superstar.
00:45Well, obviously, he delivered because I think he had the biggest performance
00:49was the 39-point performance in game number two,
00:52which got Indian at that 2-0 series lead.
00:55He was absolutely dynamic.
00:57Here is a guy that can beat you in any different ways.
00:59Usually, we think of Pascal Siakam as more of a point forward
01:02in regards to generating offense for his teammates.
01:06But his scoring ability, his ability to take bigger guys to the perimeter,
01:10smaller guys inside off the bounce, what a performance by Pascal Siakam.
01:14And though he was walking towards the podium, he shouldn't have been.
01:18They were right.
01:19Pascal Siakam was the MVP of the Eastern Conference Finals.
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