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Yeah, yeah. What can I say joe is truly incredible season. We made reality out of a fantasy dream about things like this happening and I'm sure it's going to take a long time before it really sinks in and the tremendous impact of what we've accomplished really

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takes over so that I can really relish it and enjoy it. It's just gonna be super, is just helping out any Well it's great to see the fans here, I guess they've been another pretty good control, I appreciate their tremendous support and they help make it

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all worthwhile. Has it sunk in yet? The fact that you are the best in the world? No, it hasn't. How long do you think it'll take? It'll take a while man, you know, you just, it take a day or two, but I don't think I don't

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think it has sunk in yet. Oh yeah, I have a dream. I clung to that dream, God almighty! How I I clung to that dream, you know what it came through? Yeah. Now therefore I robert H Mendelssohn, acting mayor of the city and

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county of san Francisco, speaking in behalf of Mayor joseph Alioto. Do hereby proclaim may 25th through june 1 1975 as Golden Straight Golden State Warriors Week in san Francisco where you are, thank you Mayor Medicine, I would just like to say on behalf of the warrior

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organization, we like to thank you for this population. I think that has been outstanding season and I think the fans deserve refugees but players putting a lot of hard work, a lot of hard hours and I think that They've actually received all the things that hard

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work should get for them and that resulted in the championship of the NBA for 1975. And I think the fans deserve it and I'm glad to be a part of it. Thank you very much. Anyone that tells you that we had a crystal ball has. Uh

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huh. Really looking at crystal ball? No, actually we had we thought we had enough players to be competitive and hope that we would be able to start a building program. But the building took place just like topsy grew up right before our eyes. I think that's

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one of the reasons why the fans because the fans were able to see this instantaneous evolution and they've clasped us to their collective bosoms. Well yeah it does. I've always wanted to get back at Chicago and I think and I have the opportunity to perfect opportunity

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I think you know because I was drafted by Chicago in 70 and I thought I should have gotten a better shape than I did at the time. But things worked out for me, I got a chance to play with the Warriors and you know, now we're

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playing against Chicago in the series. Uh Cliff and myself both like ex Chicago and in a way, so we you know, got a little bit going on the side outside of just being a playoff playing against Chicago. The rotation between yourself and Cliff has seemed to

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be working. It seems that the bulls are also doing the same thing. Do you think that will continue through the playoffs? I think so Chicago has two centers to good centers I think in Nate and tom Bullwinkle and we, you know, had the same type situation.

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Uh we're able to mix it up a little bit, Cliff goes out and play one way and I play a little bit different than he does. And I think we'll probably continue the whole series of the same way right

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now, we didn't intend to do that much score and that's what our game plan basically was is to try to beat them with our people down low. And we've always done that all year long uh thing about it was we weren't running the place probably that

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we're getting off forwards are better shots. What about the next two games in Chicago now, this would have been a big one for you guys to win here, taking that home court advantage away from the Warriors right away. Well, we just have to get back to

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basketball and play the way we're supposed to play and I hope that we can come out on top. You see any changes that Dick might make for the next two games, defensively saying Blackberry and keith Wilkes. Well, I don't know what kind of, I don't think

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it will make a lot of changes because you have to go with what you've been doing all year long if you start making changes now, you know, there's really no tomorrow and I think all of our people realize what we have to do, we just have

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to go out and we have to be the aggressors rather than let them come out and start pushing us around. Mhm Rick, you think you guys might have started to try and run out the clock a little too early, I believe. Uh it was

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a situation, not that we were trying to run out the clock too early, I think that was smart at that particular time, but we should have used the clock up, but use it wisely. And what I mean by that is that if you're going to use

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the clock up, you should move the basketball and put pressure on their defense, force them to play defense, they may make a mistake and you can get an easy opportunity basket, take them any way you can get them. We uh, once again, uh, play really good

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basketball in the beginning of the game, fought our way back and got ahead and headed incredibly cold stretch of shooting there in the last part of the fourth quarter. But we hung in tough on the defense. Uh you know, when you're not scoring, you're not going

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to, you lose too much ground if you're stopping the other team from scoring. And that's basically what happened, Jeff, what kind of a position you figure, this puts you in, winning the first game that land over the first one here. The way you guys did it,

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coming back like you did in both games. This has to give you a tremendous lived well. Of course Joey was, you know, I was a little bit afraid because everybody thought gee we won in Washington, it was like we won the series. And actually all we've

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done is something we had to do. We had to get a game on their court. And now of course we've got to protect our court, we want our first one here, it's a little bit tougher for them. Now. They've got, you know, they're back, might be

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to the wall, but they still, every game is as an individual game and they're gonna be awful tough. Uh We've got to come out and try and protect our home court friday. You figure you guys a little fortunate tonight. One bucket, I believe in the last

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seven minutes to play, I'll take it with 20 seconds to go. It didn't look that great. You know, they had, they put the e back in, they had an ear out there, they had written out there uh all these people are capable of shooting from anywhere.

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So it didn't look that good. But I think we have to give our defense some credit and that, you know, we made them forces shot and uh on that last shot by Elvin, uh unfortunately it didn't go in and uh we might have been lucky, but

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I'll still take the win. You call that pushing off. Okay. We probably got a little too cautious in the last six minutes. We a couple of times with four minutes that we've got a rebound and we went back out and killed a 24 2nd clock

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and and and Washington is a great basketball team and Casey Jones. You can see the you can see his coaching because in the last four or five minutes yet Sunday and today they really tried to tighten their defense. In other words, they said, we're gonna we're

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gonna win it, we're gonna win it with tough defense. And they were over playing rick and we weren't real smart and we had to cast off some shots at the buzzer and and didn't get a real good shot. Well it puts us in a position where

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we did what we had to do. I mean, we felt after winning back there that we knew that we were in a situation where we could become champions of the world if we won all three games in our, on our home court, tonight's game, I think

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was the most important one. Up to this point, we did what we had to do. But now we have to do it again, massachusetts in the Hall of Fame game last sunday, a sweetness to the big girl with the new york knicks, no matter what the

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complemented 18 or what the one wants, the record is. Mhm Yeah. System number Yeah.