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| AP |
NEW YORK -- When Tom Thibodeau's coach's challenge failed on an and-1 by Jimmy Butler with 3:40 to go in the third quarter Friday night, New York Knicks guard Immanuel Quickley took a peak at the scoreboard and saw his team trailing by 21 as the Miami Heat star sank the ensuing free throw.
"It's a decision to mentally check out or not," Quickley would say later. "It's a decision to keep fighting. It's a decision to tell yourself, 'You got to keep fighting,' no matter what.
"I did look at the score and say, 'Dang,' when I seen how much we was down, I literally said that. But then I got right back to it, seeing where I was at mentally and said, 'Let's go. Let's try to get a comeback going.'"
