Any Given Wednesday (?)

Doc's speech after morning shoot-around (compliments of Tony D'Amato):

I don't know what to say really.  Eight hours to the biggest battle of our professional lives all comes down to tonight.  Either we heal as a team or we are going to crumble.  Inch by inch, play by play, till we're finished.  We are in hell right now gentlemen, and we can stay here and get the s*** kicked out of us, or we fight our way back into the light.  We can climb out of hell one inch at a time.  Now I can't do it for you.  I'm too old.  You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you.  That's, that's part of life.  But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff.  You find out that life is just a game of inches.  So is basketball.  Beacuse in the game of life or basketball, the margin for error is so small.  I mean, one half step too late or too early and you don't quite make it.  One half second too slow or too fast and you don't quite catch it.  The inches we need are everywhere around us.  They are in every break of the game, every minute, every second.  On this team, we fight for that inch.  On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone around us to pieces for that inch.  We CLAW with our fingernails for that inch.  Cause we know when we add up all those inches that's going to make the f****** difference between WINNING and LOSING, between LIVING and DYING.  I'll tell you this:  in any fight, it is the guy who is willing to die who will win that inch. And I know, if I am going to have any life anymore, it is because I am still willing to fight and die for that inch because that is what LIVING is.  Now, I can't make you do it.  You gotta look at the guy next to you.  Look into his eyes.  Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.  You are going to see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows when it comes down to it, you are gonna do the same thing for him.  That's a team gentlemen, and either we heal now, as a TEAM, or we will die as individuals.  That's basketball guys.  That's all it is.  Now what are you gonna do?