WEBVTT - Fanatic About the Playoffs | Setting the Scene with the Cuz and Devon 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast Network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:09.760 search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. This 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.000 is Fanatic About the Playoffs from the seventy Sixers podcast 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:18.440 Network presented by Draft Kings and ninety seven five The Fanatic, 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.680 with new episodes premiering the day after every seventy Sixers 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:28.400 playoff game. This is the Fanatic About the Playoffs podcast 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.120 with the seventy Sixers podcast Network presented by DraftKings and 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.080 ninety seven five The Fanatic. I'm Brian Selzer and on 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:39.320 this episode we preview Round one game won the seventy 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.199 Sixers against the Washington Wizards with ninety seventy five the Fanatics, 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.840 Divine Gibbons and the One and Only The Cuz Anthony 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:54.640 Gargano Fellas. It's here. It's arrived. Playoff Basketball of Consequence. 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.440 I always the word, Yo, Dar, you're ready. We've been 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.640 talking to that still can't wait. So glad it's final 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.800 the year Fanatic about the Playoffs? What is it? Well, 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.559 it's gonna come to you the day after every game 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.320 right here on the seventy Sixers podcast Network, presented by DraftKings. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.119 It's gonna be one of us here from the Sixers, myself, 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.560 Lauren Rosen, Tom McGuinness, Matt Murphy, and we're paired up 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.759 with at least one person from our flagship radio partner 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.360 ninety seven five, the fanatic breaking down the game that 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.160 just happened and looking ahead to the next game on 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.080 the docket for the Sixers. Devan and I. We do 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.520 this pretty regularly, but it is it is a true 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.440 privilege to have the cause himself on. I don't know 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.720 if we can get this. Uh, we're gonna have to 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.440 queue up the music to bring in the man who 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:47.600 plays the song, perhaps more than anyone in the entire city, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:53.080 because himself well is an admire of you two. I'm 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.200 giving me. I'm honored to be all you guys. You 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:02.160 guys appreciate the soul, of course, and we can't get 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.920 tired of hearing it. This year we heard it a lot. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.880 We heard a lot of the song. Yeah, it's it's 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.280 you know, you know what's great about this whole thing 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:14.800 is that last year, now obviously with COVID and everything 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.919 that hit us, then you start the bubble and then 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:22.200 the way it just extinguished so quickly, Bank gets hurt 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.720 and then it's the Celtics and it's over, and there 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.360 was a really, I think a sense of loss, as though, 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.280 you know what, we had reached almost a dead end 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:37.000 in the process, and then all of a sudden, Doc 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:42.200 and Darrel and then you know, Elton's there still and 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.680 all the guys were able to resuscitate it and actually 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.639 grow it, and you know, we haven't been in this 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.840 close In some ways. It's strange to me because this 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:57.160 almost feels like it's been a fifteen almost sixteen months season, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.720 not it started in December. To me, this has felt 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.920 like there's a connection going all the way back to 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.960 when things ramped up again after the shutdown and the bubble, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.960 and it's been a continuation of that story. And I 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.640 don't know you guys feel about it. To me, sometimes 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.280 you start a season and you feel good about a team, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.440 but it doesn't always seem like the promises there immediately. 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:24.040 Then there's other seasons. I think of two thousand four 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.560 with the Eagles when they got too and then boom 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.919 off to the races they're undefeated and start the season. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:30.720 I don't know if this year was quite in that 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.560 category for the Sixers, but still right off the bat 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.320 at least to me, there was evidence that you could 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.080 feel good that this team had the potential to do 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.680 something pretty special. Definitely did. I mean, you look at 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.760 the changes that were made, and you talk about equating 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.360 it back to the other seasons. I even take it 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.160 back to eighteen playoffs, the nineteen playoffs, and certainly with 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.040 what happened in the bubble and now sliding into this 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.760 one because of how tough that Boston Love was in 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.280 the first round, even though they were young and they 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.160 weren't necessarily expected to win, but the path it looked 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.080 like they were set up to beat Boston and meet 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.840 Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers at that time. And 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.400 you figure things out after that. Okay, they take this step, 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.000 they lose, but they're ready. And then the next year, okay, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.839 no problem. Then you get to what happens with Toronto 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.960 in the second round, and it's still stings. I can't 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.039 watch it because of how how much it stings, and 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.719 then everything in the bubble. Ben's injured, and the fact 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:26.600 that you have to deserve shake Milton in there. Their 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.440 questions are already surrounding the team, and beat is ready. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.120 Other players not necessarily stepping up, and then the changes 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:34.920 have made this off season, so it's still like a 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.760 continuation for me, just because you have to, of course 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.599 have that sting that we felt Boston, Toronto and even 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.360 last playoffs after the hiatus and the bubble, just because 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.840 you need to feel those things before you start to 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.120 feel the the you know, the great feeling about winning 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.720 and being a champion, and I know the fifty wins 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.640 it was. It was great when you first hit it. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.720 The second year, all right, that's expected. Year three, I 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.600 don't count it anymore. Just go out there and win 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.000 those fifty because they're supposed to be in that category 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.000 and now here coming into this one, the changes that 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.719 the reshaping of the roster, adding the shooters around both 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:14.040 Simmons and Embid, and the elevation that we expected from 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.200 Tobias Harris with Doc Rivers now in the fold and 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.240 Dwight Howard. We're all excited about getting him on a 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.760 one year deal because you're like, oh, you got a 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.920 legitimate guy to back up Joel Embid now and then 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.320 the other little tweaks and everything just started to fall 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.960 into place. So now everything culminating together the forty nine 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.240 win season earning that number one seed and you earned it, 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.360 you know, regardless of what it was, you earned it. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.080 And now you step into it where this playoffs is 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.159 just going to be, as you said, Selson, just looking 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.760 at it as it's just so exciting to have that 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:53.080 feeling of these guys can actually do it. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.320 they can win. And I'm so with you on the 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:01.000 path to a championship. Especially the league. It's a it's 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.640 a grown grown ups league, right, you know, we always 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.000 talk about it, and even goes back to when Brett 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.039 called Jimmy the adult in the room and I still 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.919 remember that, could hear him saying that. But it's true. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:18.320 You gotta bleed to no bliss and the bleeding has 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.039 to come. You don't win tuttles in this league when 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.480 you're that young, when your core is that young, and 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.760 you gotta go through it like you brought it up. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.440 I mean, that Celtic series was ascruciating because they could 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.440 have won every one of those games. They were in 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.720 every one of those games, and you go down and 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.279 we all know how Toronto ended, like you said, Dick, 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.599 and then you know, it was so weird because the 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:48.400 first night of last season was against Boston and you 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.840 guys remember that they actually played a semblance of bully ball, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.440 and I read the whole thing wrong. I thought that 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.880 they would be able to play like that and it 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.200 would get them to where they need to go. And 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.600 it was weird. It just they never were. They never 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.479 were like this, That Coesian never came. And then you 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.679 look back on it, and this is all I think 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.400 where Elton and Darryl come into play. The spacing element 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.600 that Devon talked about. You know, Josh Richardson, you know, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.280 could never play with Tobia's hatters, right in the sense 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.920 that you got two mid range kind of guys, even 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.080 though they both can go out, but how many. He 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:36.080 couldn't spread the floor, Josh, like the way Kyrie and 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.840 Green get spread the floor. I forget about having an 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.760 extra four man who got all those looks and I 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.200 love them and he's a good man and he's a pro, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.640 but he just was no fit. And I read it wrong. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.480 I thought you could bring him out and he just 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.480 he looked uncomfortable the whole year. To me, where this 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.960 all starts is what you guys just talked about, alluding 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.960 to this notion of a fit. And it's interesting that 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.760 Joel After a game a few weeks ago, someone asked 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.240 him about the way the season's gone, in the way 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.480 that he's played, and he said, I don't think people 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.680 talk about the fit of this team the personnel enough, 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.600 and I agree, And I think this goes back to 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.680 the moves that were made by Daryl Morey right after 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.520 he came on board. You trade for Seth Curry, you'd 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.840 acquired Danny Green. I mean, these are guys that can 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.000 maximize the space, the balance on the floor with the 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.160 main guys that you have on this roster, and I 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:27.760 think he has so much of the six and success 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.640 this year, of course has to do with Joe Ellenbid 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.000 playing at an otherworldly level and Ben Simmons clamping down 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.360 on defense and Tobias taking his game to a new level. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.800 But I think so much of that has to go 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.360 back so that the roster makes sense. With your top guys, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.040 it just makes sense. And there's that fit. Yeah, and 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.520 you even go back to where you added Bell and 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.400 Ellie and Elias Silva to JJ Reddick. So you looked 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.480 at it in everything. Okay, great, that's those are your shooters, 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.800 But then you had the other parts of it that 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.640 defensively where they will explode was a little bit, or 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.880 maybe you just simply weren't deep enough where you can 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:07.480 kind of play that offensive defensive shuffle that coaches like 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:12.280 to do in certain situations. And as you said, because 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.280 they pivoted to another way, and I was on board. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.680 I said, okay, look, we knew that they needed shooters 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.160 and the whole thing with Jimmy Butler and JJ Reddick 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.000 leaving as well, but the fact that they pivoted they 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.439 had another idea, and I liked the idea of what 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.080 it could possibly be why everyone of else is doing this. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.360 And you know, maybe again it turned out it wasn't 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.640 the right thing to do, but I was fine with 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.920 it because I also felt like that that next step 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.240 will be taken by and beating Simmons, where maybe they 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.880 could offset a little bit of the other stuff that 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.600 they would be missing with the outside shooting not being there. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.480 But you know, things just didn't work out that way. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.800 And once we got back to that and knowing that 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.680 you did need that that stretchability out there from the 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.640 other guys, and you see how it has changed and 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.240 helped reshape things the way it needed to be. And 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.440 you see the Monster season and Ebid is now having 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.160 all right, let's talk about this for one second, because 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:11.840 I don't think we can under underplay this enough. So yeah, 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.760 for whatever reason, they couldn't play with Horford, they couldn't 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.719 play that whole. The two bigs didn't work. I get it. 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:25.160 But this Joel Embiid is not that Joel Ebid. They're 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.360 the same guy. But this is immature. This is a 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:34.000 guy that understands it. And we've all been there in 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:35.920 our own lives, right, like there's a come to point 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.520 in time where you go, you know, why it's time 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.800 to get serious. And he had the epiphany. And I mean, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.120 you know, we saw it before his before our eyes 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.960 because we always knew that he could dominate and like 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:50.760 you know, like he would have his mom, but he 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.840 didn't score against Toronto. We don't have come on, But 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.120 this is a different We see him now on a 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.680 like stuff that nobody he's still in that we haven't 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.760 seen ever, right, Like I didn't see Will, but I 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.559 remember saw anything like that where it comes to dominance. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:13.240 This is a different be no, it is, it certainly is. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.000 I mean we talk about it so often, right so 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.480 that he's just a different guy, whether it's the fact 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.080 that he became a father, the losses finally stinging the 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.280 way that you want your star player to feel those losses, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.520 the way that he has, and he has established himself 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.080 in a place where we already thought he could get to, 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.440 like you said, and he did it consistently, and he 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.480 always talks about I just want to dominate. That the 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.120 one that cut the audio that we always hear about 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.600 him saying he always wants to dominate, and he has 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.760 and sells. We've gone over all those games of our 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.640 favorite m B games this year. There are a number 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.840 of games that we just forget about, right, last game, 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.160 fifty point game, And he's done the forties and all 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.680 these other forties and the thirties and the eighteens, and 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.040 he just dominant and he's just going in a different way. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.920 And you're right, because he's just a different guy, and 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.040 whatever it is, as long as that different guy now, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.280 who has been the same dude all year long, takes 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.120 that into this one where they start this playoff series 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.960 on Sunday in round one in the quarters and carry 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.320 through the semis and we'll see where everything goes through 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.360 from there. I mean, is there anybody in the East 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:25.320 that can guard him? No, No, I don't think so. No, 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.880 He's the most dominant player on the floor. That's the 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.640 big advantage that you have going in that. Look, all 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.720 due respect to the big three in Brooklyn and all 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:40.320 the stars, nobody is as dominant as in bad and 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.079 you got because nobody can guard him. So even looking 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.199 at what the potential options were for this first round, 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.400 of course Washington they have guys like Beale and Westbrook. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.600 Do you think Alex Land or Rui Hachimura it's gonna 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.040 stop Joellen bid So when I've been thinking about, well, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.720 who could the Sixers face? Who might they match up with? 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.400 That's the first question, because who is going to stop 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.560 this guy? And the way he's going right now? I 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.199 give him a lot of credit. I mean, his mindset 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.280 and his demeanor seems like it's been in a great 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.800 place this year. It didn't seem like he was enjoying 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.200 himself much at all last year, especially now that we 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.400 see him kind of back to his hip, thrust in 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.800 and wave into the crowd, whether it's there or not, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.320 their thing that he's been doing this year. But he 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.600 also seemed in speaking with some people like he really 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.240 took a calculated approach to how he went about preparing 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.760 for this season. He's not the type of guy. And 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.520 I'm not saying this is the right thing or wrong thing. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.560 I'm just saying it's not a Joe thing. He's not 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.200 going to post the late night workout videos or in 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.959 the gym dripping working up the ladder like, that's not him. 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:40.679 He's not going to post that on a social media 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.520 I don't care if you do or you don't. It's 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.199 just that's Joe's way. But he's been like in the 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.840 film room looking at all this tape. Drew Hanlon, who's 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.000 his personal coach and works with on the side, he 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.120 sends him right after every game is over a clip 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.480 a set of clips with voiceover affirmations that Joe listens 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.960 to to get ready for the next game that breaks 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.600 down what happened the previous game, all that stuff. So 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.520 I think it's like the combination of his mind being 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.800 in the right spot, the cerebral part, and then to me, 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.800 his jump SHOT's been incredible this year and how that's 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.640 been able to open things up and just being able 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.480 to attack more off the drill or try and like 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.680 take it to these double and things like that to 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.840 try and break down some of the extra coverage you 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.000 might see. The thing about him it's so fascinating is 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:30.080 that he's supremely smart, right Like he's like he's got 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.480 that photographic memory. Always talking about I would always call 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:39.080 he's got the mind of an art forger, right Like 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.400 he can look at a painting and he can replicate 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.920 that plane painting, whether that is you know, a move 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.520 on the floor or whatever it is, because he's got 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.480 the touch that we've never seen a true big had 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.960 that kind of touch before. I mean, like, you know, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.760 I Marvel, you know, he's he's what I am imagined 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:06.080 that if Wilt Chamberlain grows with the times, right like 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.880 the legend of who Will was and I didn't say him, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.480 that he would become and be like that would be 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:19.280 the evolution of Wilt Chamberlain being this incredible athlete who's 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.080 really really intelligent, who just knows the game inside now 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:28.680 and could do there's nothing he can't do, which is scary. Yeah, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.880 he's still will unleash a eurostep and I'm just like, 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.160 he's not supposed to be able to do that because 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.960 of his size. But you're right in us. Just seeing 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.720 him grow and turning into this player and right in 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.600 front of our eyes and seeing all these things. It's 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.880 just been a treat because I think we've all had 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.320 some concern with certain things throughout the years and this 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.880 year not so much. And now he's playing more minutes 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.560 where he's able to be able to play the way 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.440 that he needs to and not worry about the ad 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.360 minute restrictions or anything like that. He can just go 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.240 out there and play basketball. And seeing the floor and 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.280 we talk about the double teams all the time, where 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.400 he's now surveying things, catch face up, seeing when the 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.640 double team is coming, see where it's coming from, and 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.000 locate where the ball now needs to go. And that's 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.840 just the natural growth the maturity on the floor, and 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.320 then even the maturity that suck. You just talked about 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.320 with the things that you heard about how he has 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.120 approached this season and it can and the beauty of 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.480 it is he approached the season that way, but he 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.640 kept doing He didn't waiver, he didn't he didn't get 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.280 away from that. Whatever it was working for him, he 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.680 kept that going. And that's that's just the growth of 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:43.680 that star player. And now now we'll see what it 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.000 does for him and the team once we get things 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.680 started on Sunday. What could we expect to change now 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.520 that it's playoff basketball? You always hear it's a different world. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.640 Do we expect to see things change for the sixers 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.000 them not be able to get certain looks or shots 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.160 quite as easily. What do you expect to see change 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.560 now that we're talking about starting the playoffs? Well, I 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.639 think part of its matchups, right, Like, it is a 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:12.600 truism that the game does slow down just naturally, You're 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.400 you're going to defend every possession, right so you're it's 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:22.080 almost like in baseball where every pitch matters like Gailor's 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.640 bear down. They're now every pitch the same way. Every 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:30.200 possession now becomes defended. Listen, we all know during a 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.600 normal eighty two game season and you're on back to 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.480 backs or you're on the road five games in eight days, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.520 nine days, whatever, you're not going to defend every possession. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.480 That's just not humanly possible. But in the playoffs, that's 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.679 what I think when people talk about the game slowing 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.240 down a little bit, it doesn't actually slow down and 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.560 become a half court game. It's just defended better. It's 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.760 defended more acutely, and I think that's the thing, and 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.840 that's gonna be the biggest challenge with this offense, and 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.040 you know, kind of getting the spacing and the shooters 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.200 have to shoot. I think George Hill's going to help 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.159 a lot. I think you're gonna see him a lot. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.800 You're gonna see the minutes the starters played prolonged minutes. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.200 I think that's gonna be a big thing with docs rotation. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.240 Well naturally, sure not maybe not in the first round 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.440 or even the second round, but certainly in the third 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.800 round and then hopefully in the finals. I guess I'll 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.920 follow up with the attention in detail has to be there. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.679 They have to be sharper, more precise with how you 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.360 attack certain things, the angles, you have to play those 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:37.199 angles properly. And the physicality, of course is different in 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.879 the postseason. And the beauty of it is when you 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.520 look at the least the starters that you know that 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.679 they've all been in the playoffs, so they know the 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.080 difference in it to bias. Harris spoke about it earlier 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.720 in the week where he started to break down certain things, 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.440 and one of the things that he talked about was 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.600 the physicality that changes once you get to the postseason. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.080 So what does that mean even though Shake Milton did 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.600 it last year in the bubble, how is that going 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.439 to be differ for him? The same thing from Atias 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.000 table as well. Maxie gets a few minutes while his 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.760 speed is there, guess what that angle might be cut 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.720 off a little quicker when you because you're now on 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.600 that scouttering report for the playoffs, and they know exactly 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.639 how they want to attack you, especially when you're playing 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.480 them more than one game where they have an opportunity 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.040 to do so. So I think all of those things 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.199 are going to be important to matchups, and that you 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:29.240 just mentioned certainly important. And then just protecting the basketball 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.600 too when we talk about all that, because possessions matter. 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.960 You cannot you cannot turn it over at a higher 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.600 rate and expect you to win, especially if you're turning 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.560 it over at a higher rate. And then at the 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:42.520 end of the night we look at the box score 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.359 and the field goal attempts are eighty six to ninety nine. 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.080 You just gave up thirteen more shot attempts and possibly 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.040 because you turn the ball over. So those things are 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.600 key and crucial in the playoffs, and that physicality ramps 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.040 up the whistle maybe swallowed, so you're gonna have to 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.119 take advantage and be able to absorb that as well. 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.879 Real quick, because I want to follow up d You 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:10.000 brought up Tobias, and I love his story in so 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.000 manyfferent words. First of all, he's one of those guys 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.720 and you and i've Devine have talked about him before, 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:20.119 and that he's just he's almost lovable. I mean, I 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.840 mean the way I describe him. I root for him 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:28.040 so much because I think he's a real He's a 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:31.600 beautiful guy. Man. He is heartfelt and he's real, and 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:35.239 I think he's caring and I just I love him. 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:40.160 And I think the spacing and Doc just gave him 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.240 a new lease. I think he came to understanding with 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.959 the weight of that contract. You know that you just 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.920 can't slough off. That's a big deal. And I think 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.480 the spacing helped him, and I think Doc helped him 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.680 playing him the plane of four where he naturally belongs. 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.840 And I have no qualms like I don't know about you, guys, 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.479 but I know that he that role on the floor 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.960 for him, that he's going to get you twenty three, 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:11.000 twenty five, twenty six. He'll do that every game. I 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:14.840 have no doubt about that. He to me was one 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:19.160 of the most fun and enjoyable stories. I think revelation 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.639 might be that was my word that he was a 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.040 little bit disrespectful to what his body of work was 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.320 before this season, But there's no doubt he stepped it 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:29.879 up a notch. I think obviously everyone will point to 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:32.439