Speaker 1: It is almost here, the grand finale of the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference semi Finals. You can't be scared at the moment
Speaker 1: leaving anything out there, and we have to do that
Speaker 1: on Sunday on Sunday Night, a defining moment as the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers aim to advance the more different right now,
Speaker 1: everybody is just still gashas tall Day shows the difference
Speaker 1: the game seven seventy Sixers Toronto Raptors up north. We'll
Speaker 1: talk all about it with Devon Gibbons on this episode
Speaker 1: of the broadcast. How are we doing out there, seventy
Speaker 1: sixers pod people, How we feeling? What's the temperature, what's
Speaker 1: the confidence, the pulse. We are just hours away from
Speaker 1: a decisive Game seven of these second round matchup between
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers and the Toronto Raptors. A berth to
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals is on the line. Seventy six
Speaker 1: ers trying to get there for the first time since
Speaker 1: two thousand and one. I'm Brian Seltzer, first of all,
Speaker 1: wishing anyone out there to whom it applies a happy
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Speaker 1: and certainly for all you moms out there. Big ups,
Speaker 1: mad props to what you do. Love it's and hopefully
Speaker 1: there's a great way to celebrate later on tonight when
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers take on the Raptors. We're gonna speak
Speaker 1: with the von Givens of ninety seven five to the
Speaker 1: Fanatic in just a moment to preview this matchup. First
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Speaker 1: episodes just about every day of the playoffs and we
Speaker 1: hope to continue that trend. After Sunday Night, six are
Speaker 1: sent out to Toronto early. They left Friday afternoon following
Speaker 1: a big one twelve one on one Game six victory
Speaker 1: Thursday night at the Center. Thought it was awesome the
Speaker 1: way that Joel embiid Ben Simmons responded in particular, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler remained fantastic. Another one sided game in this series
Speaker 1: that has been so hard to figure out. That's something
Speaker 1: that I definitely want to bring up with Devon Gibvens.
Speaker 1: But before we do, wanted to play back some sound
Speaker 1: from Saturday morning, the seventy six ers final practice heading
Speaker 1: into Sunday's Game seven at Scotia Bank Arena. Brett browns
Speaker 1: coached as part of four game sevens in his coaching history,
Speaker 1: all with the San Antonio Spurs, the two thousand and
Speaker 1: five and two thirteen NBA Finals and also the two
Speaker 1: thousand and six and two thousand and eight Western Conference semifinals.
Speaker 1: So yes, Brett Brown is a guy who knows about
Speaker 1: everything that goes into game sevens, and these were his
Speaker 1: thoughts about the all important, decisive game. It's a life experience,
Speaker 1: it's sports, euro sporting experience, but planning game sevens are different.
Speaker 1: I've coached there in two game sevens in the NBA Championship.
Speaker 1: I've done it in a Western Conference championship. I've done
Speaker 1: it in a Western Conference semi final and a few
Speaker 1: places you know, earlier days. My experiences and my memory
Speaker 1: are one of the possession per possession mentality is heightened.
Speaker 1: If you you all want to be entertained, go go
Speaker 1: back and watch fourth periods of game sevens and everything
Speaker 1: is just zoomed in it's it's just raw. And you know,
Speaker 1: it always gets back to, in my opinion, defense and
Speaker 1: there are no there'll be no like, oh that's a
Speaker 1: great shot. Everything's contested. Lots of times you just hope
Speaker 1: to get a shot. And there just is a heightened
Speaker 1: sense of urgency in game sevens, and it incrementally increases
Speaker 1: as the clock winds down. Game seven's life experiences heightened
Speaker 1: urgency and intensity. Brett Brown knows all about it, having
Speaker 1: been involved in four game sevens in his career. Joellenbiad
Speaker 1: this will be his first Game seven as a professional.
Speaker 1: He's not getting caught up in what the outcome of
Speaker 1: Sunday's game could have on his legacy up to this
Speaker 1: point in his career now three seasons old. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I just want to win. This is a big game,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever I needed to do, I gotta show
Speaker 1: up and I gotta produce offensive and defensively. So I
Speaker 1: don't I don't really I want to remember that this point.
Speaker 1: I just want to win. Joellenbiads seventeen and twelve a
Speaker 1: just outrageous plus forty in the game on Thursday night
Speaker 1: at the Center. Jimmy Butler's played in one Game seven.
Speaker 1: I have to go all the way back to his
Speaker 1: second year as a pro with the Chicago Bulls when
Speaker 1: the Bulls knocked off the Brooklyn Nets. Butler played all
Speaker 1: forty eight minutes in that game, and he understands the
Speaker 1: type of mindset that Game seven requires. Do whatever to
Speaker 1: ask me to do, it's got a best in my
Speaker 1: ability to win the game and help in any way
Speaker 1: that they tell me or want me to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that called for right now, but
Speaker 1: all else we just want to win. What role could
Speaker 1: experience playing Game seven? And they look at all the
Speaker 1: other subplots surrounding Sundays win or go home matchup. We
Speaker 1: bring on a guy who there is no one else,
Speaker 1: seriously who I would rather speak with on the day
Speaker 1: of a Game seven than our guy from ninety seven
Speaker 1: five to the fanatic. You hear him on in the
Speaker 1: post all the time after games and also for pregame
Speaker 1: coverage as well. The One and Only Divine Givens Divine.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've been ships passing at different portions
Speaker 1: of this playoff series. You're on the post game sometime,
Speaker 1: I'm on the post game sometime. You're always on the pregame,
Speaker 1: but I feel like we have to talk it out.
Speaker 1: This is game set at defining moments of what has
Speaker 1: been a great season so far. It has been a
Speaker 1: great season sells thanks to having me. I look forward
Speaker 1: to it. This is exciting. Who does not get excited
Speaker 1: for Game seven? I don't know about you. I feel
Speaker 1: like the build up to this one has been an eternity.
Speaker 1: It's probably because there's been an extra day in between games,
Speaker 1: but I'm just like, it's got to start. It is
Speaker 1: time to get this thing rolling. Yeah. Absolutely. This is
Speaker 1: one of those deals where after Thursday's big win one
Speaker 1: twelve one on one, of course, and how things played
Speaker 1: out in Philadelphia at the Center, you wanted to get
Speaker 1: right back at it. You wanted this on Saturday. Let's see,
Speaker 1: all right, one day to travel, both teams get to
Speaker 1: Toronto and let's jump ball and figure out where we
Speaker 1: go from here. But the drama is set the NBA.
Speaker 1: He knows how they do things scheduling wise, and with
Speaker 1: the Game seven, they certainly have the entry already build up.
Speaker 1: I've been talking to family members, some friends, and they've
Speaker 1: been asking me, well, how do you feel about Game seven?
Speaker 1: What do you think and I really don't know what
Speaker 1: to feel. I feel good and confident based upon the
Speaker 1: performance seventy six Ers had in Game six with their
Speaker 1: backs against the wall, an elimination game at the center,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, given what the stakes are
Speaker 1: when or go home there, at least for me is
Speaker 1: just this natural underlying sense of a little bit of
Speaker 1: nerves anxiety. How are you feeling well? I'll take it
Speaker 1: back to Thursday before Game six, where I was pretty indifferent,
Speaker 1: and I kept using that word of being unsure of
Speaker 1: how to feel going into a Game six with so
Speaker 1: many key young players on the seventy six ers side,
Speaker 1: specifically Ben Simmons and Joel and Be never being in
Speaker 1: a spot like this, how would they respond to that
Speaker 1: particular situation. And as I got closer, as we got
Speaker 1: closer to game time on Thursday night, I felt better.
Speaker 1: I felt so much better. And then the way that
Speaker 1: they came out, both teams at a little tight, you know,
Speaker 1: no scoring quickly, but once they did get the scoring
Speaker 1: going and you realize how things played out, the Sixers
Speaker 1: ending up with the eight point lead at the end
Speaker 1: of the first I felt really good about that particular game.
Speaker 1: Right now, I think I'm a little more with you.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I'm indifferent, but I understand the
Speaker 1: nature of a game seven, a tournament style one and
Speaker 1: done thing win. I'll go home here, particularly in this game.
Speaker 1: But I do feel better about the seventy sixers chances
Speaker 1: despite what we saw in game number five earlier in
Speaker 1: the week in Toronto, and how we know that one
Speaker 1: turned out. I look at the seventy Sixers team knowing
Speaker 1: that while there is pressure, the majority of the pressure
Speaker 1: is on Toronto Raptors because you are at home. This
Speaker 1: is why you play the regular season the way you do.
Speaker 1: You are a two seed over and three seed, and
Speaker 1: how that normally plays out is the home team is
Speaker 1: supposed to win. But then I also go back Selts
Speaker 1: and think back to some of those one and one
Speaker 1: series percentages, and the team that goes two and one
Speaker 1: win Games three, they win, and you go to game
Speaker 1: five and the team that percentages win and that one
Speaker 1: it has you had me at least going back and
Speaker 1: forth on how I feel. I think it will be
Speaker 1: a close game tonight against these two teams. No one
Speaker 1: game has been like the other of both teams has
Speaker 1: done certain things with a blowout, a close win, and
Speaker 1: this is what Game seven is all about. But I
Speaker 1: do right now as we speak, like the seventy six
Speaker 1: chances on the room. The pressure thing is really interesting
Speaker 1: because you have the whole specter of Kawhi Leonard and
Speaker 1: his future with Toronto. And I know that nothing's set
Speaker 1: in stone with the core that the seventy six ers
Speaker 1: have right now talking about the veterans they brought in,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler and Tobias Harris beyond this season whenever it ends.
Speaker 1: But it just feels like the looming issue of Kawhi
Speaker 1: Leonard and his future is something more for Toronto, and
Speaker 1: I'm just curious to see how that plays itself out.
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that Kawhi Leonard, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a guy who has been through it before Game sevens,
Speaker 1: he's won a title. I have no doubt that he
Speaker 1: would come out ready to go. But I just wonder
Speaker 1: if that's a dynamic that might somehow play into this,
Speaker 1: into the psyche of the Raptors to a certain extent. No,
Speaker 1: and I totally agree, because not only that, there's a
Speaker 1: domino effect of Kyle Lowry with one more year on
Speaker 1: his deal, the same with Surgeon blacka Marcosol. You make
Speaker 1: that move and all of those things become intertwined. Danny
Speaker 1: Green and Kawhi Leonard have been deeper into the postseason
Speaker 1: than any of them, Surgeon Blaka getting to the one
Speaker 1: Finals as a former member of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1: But you're right, that's all over this entire wea the
Speaker 1: the North, that what happens here. We were not supposed
Speaker 1: to be eliminated in the second round with Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1: This is why you made some move for him to
Speaker 1: get us to the Eastern Conference Finals and eventually represent
Speaker 1: the East and the NBA Finals. So that will not
Speaker 1: be overlooked. That will be a talking storyline the entire night.
Speaker 1: And let's not forget about the head coach. So then
Speaker 1: Nick Nurse is still a young head coach at rookie
Speaker 1: head coach, and you cannot tell me that those things,
Speaker 1: even in game won't come up eventually that it just
Speaker 1: naturally crosses your mind as a human being, even though
Speaker 1: you are the head coach trying to win in that moment,
Speaker 1: it was, it's before the game, towards the end of
Speaker 1: the game, certain things that happened and you're saying, man,
Speaker 1: you know, how do I coach this particular spot. How
Speaker 1: do I do this with Kawahi? Is Kawhi doing right? Then?
Speaker 1: How do we get everybody else involved? So that storyline
Speaker 1: will probably be selves the number one storyline, especially if
Speaker 1: the seventy sixes are able to get themselves out to
Speaker 1: an early lead or even in the middle of the game,
Speaker 1: get themselves out to a substantial league where they at
Speaker 1: least seen they have control. You know, those thoughts of
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard are just going to loom over the entire game,
Speaker 1: right because regardless of whether or not Brett browns coach
Speaker 1: in the postseason Game seven as a head coach before,
Speaker 1: which he hasn't, He's been there. He's had four Game
Speaker 1: seven as an assistant with San Antonio. And I know
Speaker 1: that you're not the one making all the decisions as
Speaker 1: an assistant. But Game seven of the two thousand and
Speaker 1: five NBA Final Spurs beat the Detroit Pistons two thirteen,
Speaker 1: the epic series that the Spurs lost to my Emmy head,
Speaker 1: a couple of Western Conference Semifinal Game sevens. I mean,
Speaker 1: Brett Brown at least knows what it is like to
Speaker 1: be in that type of spot, and he's learned under
Speaker 1: one of the best I'm curious to go back to
Speaker 1: something you said earlier, like what do we make of
Speaker 1: this series? I mean, how much can we extract from
Speaker 1: the first six games, because aside from Game two and
Speaker 1: I guess you could say Game four, these have been
Speaker 1: really one sided games. So what do you what are
Speaker 1: some of the truths if there are any from the
Speaker 1: first six games year a series that in your mind
Speaker 1: you see could be playing out in game seven. Well,
Speaker 1: the one truth, of course is Kawhi Leonard is the problem.
Speaker 1: We already knew that. Yes, we already knew that one
Speaker 1: for sure. But one of the other truths is the
Speaker 1: leadership that we've seen now from Jimmy Butler over the
Speaker 1: course of this series. And even can even take it
Speaker 1: back to the Brooklyn series where he stepped up in
Speaker 1: game one and they needed the point production thirty plus
Speaker 1: for him team loss. But after that he impacted in
Speaker 1: different ways of seven point game, I believe, a sixteen
Speaker 1: point game, but Ben Simmons started to take over and
Speaker 1: in b had a game to Bias Harrison, JJ Reddick
Speaker 1: had a game together where they really exploded. I think
Speaker 1: the truths are that these two teams are maybe a
Speaker 1: little more evenly matched than we had thought. That despite
Speaker 1: the fact that Kawhi Leonard is such a great player,
Speaker 1: arguably a top three player in this league, the teams together,
Speaker 1: this thing right here is a fight to the finish
Speaker 1: because they are evenly matching. Maybe we did not know
Speaker 1: that going in where people would select the Toronto Raptors
Speaker 1: in series, and maybe not the seventy six is pushing
Speaker 1: to a seven games because they weren't capable of it.
Speaker 1: So I think the truths of how close they are
Speaker 1: in terms of team and individuals, guys being able to
Speaker 1: step up, that is true. And the fact that while
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard has done what Kawhi Leonard has done, we've
Speaker 1: only seen one Joe well and Bid game and it
Speaker 1: just maybe it just screams Selts that any situation like this,
Speaker 1: similar to the coach, as you said, not many guys
Speaker 1: have been there. Kawhi has been there, he'll perform. So
Speaker 1: Jibaka has been there, we don't know how he's going
Speaker 1: to perform. Jj Reddick has been to an NBA finals,
Speaker 1: we don't know how he's going to perform. Both but
Speaker 1: at the end, you say, talent does, as Brett Brown
Speaker 1: likes to say, rule the day, and Kawhi Leonard is
Speaker 1: with the Raptors, Joel Embiid is with the seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: and no matter despite any illness that he may have
Speaker 1: been going through in the ups and downs of this series,
Speaker 1: you would think that the talent will prevail at the end.
Speaker 1: The question is which side will prevail at the end.
Speaker 1: It just feels like, based on the law of averages,
Speaker 1: Joel's due for a game. Maybe it won't happen, but
Speaker 1: how good he was before the sickness came along in
Speaker 1: the illness for this series, you just feeling I know,
Speaker 1: Marcus sol has had success against him in the past,
Speaker 1: you just feel like Joel Embiid could be due for
Speaker 1: a big game. Do you think the first situation like this,
Speaker 1: it's all about our players or might we see someone
Speaker 1: who we might not expect step up? I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: even thinking about Game six between the Rockets and the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors the other night, where yes, Steph Curry
Speaker 1: goes for thirty three and the second half, but do
Speaker 1: they win that game without andre Igodala doing what he
Speaker 1: did from three? I don't know. No, they do not,
Speaker 1: because while they needed Andrew Igodala and his played throughout
Speaker 1: the entire game, specifically in the first half way where
Speaker 1: Steph Kurry had zero and he erupted for thirty three
Speaker 1: and the second half. But that to your point, Steph
Speaker 1: Kurry erupted for thirty three in the second half and
Speaker 1: they needed every bit of that, and that would even
Speaker 1: go to the absence of Kevin Durant in that series,
Speaker 1: losing that star power. So I do believe that star
Speaker 1: power is key in this game, because once again you
Speaker 1: know Kawhi Leonard is gonna get it. How do you
Speaker 1: match that? Yes, you can match it as a team
Speaker 1: where the balance is there from Butler, Harris Reddick and
Speaker 1: Bed Simmons throughout the starting five and getting the contributions
Speaker 1: that you will from the bench. But you're right, Embid
Speaker 1: had a big game in Game three subpar games, and
Speaker 1: the others did enough in Game six to help push
Speaker 1: this one bring it back to Toronto. But it says
Speaker 1: situations like this, while it is about the team, it
Speaker 1: does kind of scream for another eruption from Joel Embid
Speaker 1: to enforce his will and all the things that he
Speaker 1: says and gets engaged with the crowd, and I'm the
Speaker 1: best in the business, and all of those These are
Speaker 1: the moments that those things really stand out and put
Speaker 1: you in those conversations of being the best. And this
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for him. The team overall can feed
Speaker 1: off of his dominance if he's able to do that,
Speaker 1: where you get outside shooting nights, some really good nights
Speaker 1: from Harrison and Reddick specifically, and we'll see how it
Speaker 1: plays out. But I totally agree that this does seem
Speaker 1: like a spot for a Joel Embid blow up along
Speaker 1: with the steadiness that you've already gotten from Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1: I know this is the playoffs team shoot worst the
Speaker 1: playoffs seventy six ers just under thirty three percent from three,
Speaker 1: Toronto just under thirty one percent from distance, but always
Speaker 1: seen good three point defense. I was looking at some numbers,
Speaker 1: and neither team have contested a ton of shots. What
Speaker 1: do you make of how the three point shooting has
Speaker 1: gone in this game, because that to me is certainly
Speaker 1: variable that obviously in the game, seven could swing it
Speaker 1: to either side. No three point defense has been awful
Speaker 1: on both sides. You can think back there's so many
Speaker 1: chances that both teams have had way which is wide
Speaker 1: open sel it's too many wide open three. Luckily for
Speaker 1: the Sixers Gay some of those Danny Greene and Pascal Siakam,
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry, those shots have not fall. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors fans would think the other side, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's create that JJ Reddick and Tobias Harrison not hitting
Speaker 1: at a very high clip. But what happens in these
Speaker 1: big games, you know, what happens that maybe teams get
Speaker 1: a little bit of tight, players get a little bit tighter,
Speaker 1: and those shots will still be there. But who steps
Speaker 1: up and make those shots? As I pointed out, with
Speaker 1: him be getting the attention that he's gonna get to,
Speaker 1: Kawai Land is gonna get that same attention on the
Speaker 1: other side, because the seventy sixers do have to pay
Speaker 1: attention to Kawhi Leonard, any attention that he will draw,
Speaker 1: which will leave Kyle Lowry and Dan green and Pascalfy
Speaker 1: I'm open for a few more looks. Do they have
Speaker 1: that necessarily comfortability of being at home and feeling at ease,
Speaker 1: you know, with their role players being in front of
Speaker 1: their home crowd versus on the road. Maybe so, But
Speaker 1: then you have guys on the Sixers side that just
Speaker 1: seem like they are not afraid of the moment, Mike Scott,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler and JJ Reddick specifically, where that may not
Speaker 1: be a problem. So both sides, I believe, will have
Speaker 1: another night where they'll have plenty of attempts from behind
Speaker 1: the three point line. Looking at the statue from what
Speaker 1: happened on Thursday thirty six for the Toronto Raptors to
Speaker 1: the twenty eight of the seventy sixers, these two teams
Speaker 1: are going to get him up. And we know the
Speaker 1: game is played that way, but these two teams are
Speaker 1: definitely going to get him up, and it may be
Speaker 1: it may ultimately be the difference in this game tonight. Ben,
Speaker 1: what do you think it takes for Ben to bottle
Speaker 1: up what we saw in game sex bringing into Game seven? Well,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. I don't know, and I hope
Speaker 1: that whatever was in him to come out and perform
Speaker 1: the way he did from the tip from the opening tips,
Speaker 1: similar to what he did against the Brooklyn Nets in
Speaker 1: game number two after he a tough game one that
Speaker 1: he does in fact realize what the moment is, how
Speaker 1: much better this team is when he's playing like that,
Speaker 1: playing downhill, playing with a full head of steam, playing
Speaker 1: with the goal of I'm going to pass because that's
Speaker 1: just in my nature as a basketball player, but also
Speaker 1: realizing that this is what we need tonight. We need
Speaker 1: this tonight. Maybe he feels like some nights they don't
Speaker 1: need it and he can just focus on the defense
Speaker 1: of Kawhi Leonard the assist numbers to get everyone else
Speaker 1: going because he is a point guard, but right now
Speaker 1: they need to all around basketball player Ben send it.
Speaker 1: So maybe there's another conversation in there with doctor Jay
Speaker 1: or doctor Jay said enough for two games anyway, and
Speaker 1: it works and carries across the border to get him going.
Speaker 1: But still he was phenomenal on Thursday night. They need
Speaker 1: every bit of that. Again, it may not be in
Speaker 1: terms of point total with twenty one points. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: instead of twenty one points, maybe there's six more assists
Speaker 1: mixed in there in a big moment where no one
Speaker 1: can look at it and say, well, did that triple
Speaker 1: double really mean anything? Well, if he's able to bottle
Speaker 1: it up as you use that term, and bring it
Speaker 1: with him to Toronto. I hope he feels confident coming
Speaker 1: off of that game number six and decides to lay
Speaker 1: it all out on the line in this game seven.
Speaker 1: Tell me what have stood out the most to you
Speaker 1: about Jimmy Butler specifically in the second round. Whether it's
Speaker 1: tangible stuff that we can measure through stats or intangible things.
Speaker 1: I think it's more of the intangible things of the leadership,
Speaker 1: the command that he has on the floor. All year long,
Speaker 1: we've said this is Ben Simmons and Joelnbiad's team, hands down.
Speaker 1: We all knew it. But as this playoffs has moved
Speaker 1: on and we've gotten to the second round, we knew
Speaker 1: that Jimmy Butler from Afar could score. We've seen it
Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bulls, we saw it in the playoff
Speaker 1: round with the Minnesota Timberwolves. That was never a question.
Speaker 1: The question was how does he get along and interact
Speaker 1: with his teammates. And then the biggest moments right now
Speaker 1: with this basketball team, the ball being shifted into his
Speaker 1: hands a majority of the time to help Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: initiate the offense. The leadership that you see from him
Speaker 1: on the floor really really stands out for me. And
Speaker 1: even when you have the wired up stuff from the
Speaker 1: nationally televised broadcast and telling Joel embiiding game number three
Speaker 1: to take us home, big fella, and how they respond
Speaker 1: to him on the floor, the interactions that you also
Speaker 1: see with him communicating with Brett Brown, that stuff really
Speaker 1: stands out. Not being afraid of them moment, that stuff
Speaker 1: stands out to me. And how much of an impact
Speaker 1: he has had on this basketball team with the two
Speaker 1: young guys and of course the veterans and Harris and Reddick,
Speaker 1: Scott Ennis and everyone else that contributes off the bench
Speaker 1: that just simply follows that lead. Now maybe Reddick and
Speaker 1: the Harris not so much because they are those veterans,
Speaker 1: Scott and Ennis, but they're all engaged as one. And
Speaker 1: I would say it's really about his leadership and the
Speaker 1: intangibles that he does bring to the table hopefully get
Speaker 1: the scoring again, but watching him through the playoffs and
Speaker 1: in the second round, he will also know that there
Speaker 1: are those opportunities where Embid and Simmons need to get off,
Speaker 1: Reddick and Harris need to get off, and just that
Speaker 1: iq that he has out there on the floor, the
Speaker 1: right decisions that he makes out there on the floor,
Speaker 1: playing the way he plays, not turning the ball over,
Speaker 1: and still giving you solid defense on the other end,
Speaker 1: those things really stand out more than the overall production
Speaker 1: of points. All righty, we will leave it at this.
Speaker 1: I will not put you on the spot, Divine for
Speaker 1: a prediction. I will just simply ask to put a
Speaker 1: bow on all this. The seventy sixers will advance to
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. If you're two young guys, your two
Speaker 1: young cornerstones Simmons and Embid are able to have positive
Speaker 1: productive games tonight. The shooting from Reddick and Harris and
Speaker 1: Scott specifically, I will even include in this and that
Speaker 1: they will shoot at a pretty high clip on the
Speaker 1: road tonight against the Toronto Rafts. The turnovers will have
Speaker 1: to be down, of course, and the assist numbers have
Speaker 1: to be up twenty four plus in order for this
Speaker 1: basketball team to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. Excellent.
Speaker 1: If you're listening to this before four o'clock Eastern on Sunday,
Speaker 1: Divine's gonna have pregame coverage lockdown on ninety seven five
Speaker 1: to the Fanatic, where you can hear Game seven on
Speaker 1: the radio, and then Divine will be on the old
Speaker 1: radio again after the game to break it all down
Speaker 1: regardless of whatever happens. Divine, thanks so much man, Thank
Speaker 1: you so susy. Soon hopefully we're talking for the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference finals. Amen, brother, That is Divine givens awesome stuff
Speaker 1: as always from our guy from ninety seven five at
Speaker 1: the Fanatic. Hey enjoyed tonight's game. Hopefully we are talking
Speaker 1: more about it in the days and weeks to come.
Speaker 1: At the very least, we'll have a rewind episode of
Speaker 1: the podcast recap in the game shortly after it goes
Speaker 1: final or first thing on Monday morning. All righty all
Speaker 1: comes down to this, have fun, see yah