Mike Thibault Quotes

You just have to keep talking your team through the frustration. At the timeout, you gotta say, 'Hey, we just gotta play through it.' What I told them at halftime is that sometimes that is going to happen in a playoff game. You're going to get frustrated with whatever way the calls go, and it's not going to change, so you might as well use these games to get in that mode.

- Mike Thibault

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