“I just let them know, ‘Day 1, right now, moving forward, we’ve got to be on our P’s and Q’s every single day,’” Tyrese Maxey told his teammates. “‘We have to work extremely hard, outwork people, and play hard every single night.’“Coach Nurse made a statement that when fans leave the building, wherever we are at, they’re going to say we played our tails off that night. So that’s what we are trying to do.”