Tim Legler

When Brunson started making those shots, you're still down 18, 16, 14.

It felt to me like that crowd knew right then they were going to win that game.

Because of the history with the guy.

They watched him do it 20 times.

We just needed this.

We were waiting, hanging on the edge of our seat.

We were so loud early.

And then, man, they jumped us in the third quarter.

And it's like, wow, are we going to lose this game?

And it was a little bit of that in the third quarter.

They were just waiting.

Give us one 8-0 run, and we're going to be fine.

And that's what he did.

He gave them that run and let them believe it again.

There's not a comparison for him for this reason.

Other guys that have been smaller type guards that are your team's highest volume shot taker, leading scorer, that's a hard way to go about it.

If you got a guy that's under 6'6", even, that's like your point guard-ish that takes most of the shots.

And here's why he's different than those other guys.

Most of those other guys, lightning quick.

Right, and so they played a certain way that you're like, okay, you can see how you can get escapability.