"When you see that in a player, you know he's ready to do something special. ... He's ready to turn it up, get after this game, run hard, run like an animal," Thomas said. "I believe it was all the frustration that he was going through. ... He needed to get it out of his system and I think everybody else kind of recognized that."
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