Speaker 1: I'm Paulie and you listen to the seventy six Southern's podcast.
Speaker 2: Three to shoot, step back three right perimeter. Why did
Speaker 2: the right note read with the offensive where he goes
Speaker 2: behind his back, into his legs and lays it up.
Speaker 2: Beepall Paul out of the bug head to know he
Speaker 2: stares the Sixers by seventeen time out Brooklyn one of
Speaker 2: the best sequences of his offensive life. As Paul Reid
Speaker 2: went behind his back, between his legs, He's on the
Speaker 2: left side. Next thing you know, a finger roll like
Speaker 2: the iceman.
Speaker 3: Good morning, everybody, Welcome back to another post Sixers win conversation.
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Speaker 3: Matt Murphy is here. This is perhaps the biggest reaction
Speaker 3: of the season thus far because it was a playoff
Speaker 3: win in South Philadelphia last night. Matt Murphy, Good morning,
Speaker 3: how you feeling.
Speaker 4: Hello, Lauren Rosen. Game one energy playoff energy for a
Speaker 4: Sixers home game. Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni was the
Speaker 4: bell ringer. The fans loved that they loved the new
Speaker 4: playoff intro video. The whole lead up to the game
Speaker 4: was exciting as you might expect, really good crowd on hand,
Speaker 4: the red T shirts for the Love of Philly, with
Speaker 4: the red uniforms. It had everything you would be thinking
Speaker 4: of and wanting for a game one atmosphere. And then
Speaker 4: the Sixers went out against the Brooklyn Nets in the
Speaker 4: three to six game, the first game of the seven
Speaker 4: game series, and they never trailed for a single second.
Speaker 4: They win by twenty one twenty one, one oh one,
Speaker 4: and there was talk coming in like could there be
Speaker 4: some rust for either team after the play in week
Speaker 4: and you don't play for over a week. There was
Speaker 4: no rust. The Sixers came out and handled business from
Speaker 4: the jump.
Speaker 3: No rust. Indeed, Matt, I'm gonna get into the box
Speaker 3: score now, guys. As we mentioned, hit that bottom right
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Speaker 3: out to you and who you want to hear more
Speaker 3: about as the show continues, But for now, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: run us through the box score and hopefully inspire some
Speaker 3: of those comments and Matt, I'll hear yours as soon
Speaker 3: as I get done. So Joel embiid the I don't
Speaker 3: want to say the MVP, but perhaps the MVP favorite
Speaker 3: and officially a finalist leads the way for the seventy
Speaker 3: six ers last night twenty six points, five rebounds, three assists,
Speaker 3: a steal, and two blocks. Tobias Harris and James Harden
Speaker 3: also finished with twenty plus last or rather not last night,
Speaker 3: Yesterday midday, James Harden finishes with a twenty three point
Speaker 3: thirteen assist double double plus four rebounds and a steal.
Speaker 3: Tobias Harris twenty one points, four rebounds, four assists and
Speaker 3: a block. Tyrese Maxi finished with thirteen points, six rebounds,
Speaker 3: five assists, and three steals. PJ. Tucker statline never tells
Speaker 3: the whole story, but it told a pretty good one.
Speaker 3: Yesterday six points, seven rebounds, two assists, and five steals
Speaker 3: rounding out the starting five. Then we had Paul Reid
Speaker 3: coming off the bench giving a bench high eleven points,
Speaker 3: four rebounds and two steals, and a whole lot of energy.
Speaker 3: George Niang added eight points. Jalen McDaniels in his playoff
Speaker 3: debut as a sixer, added five points, four rebounds and
Speaker 3: two assists. D Anthony Melton six points, two rebounds, three rebounds,
Speaker 3: rather five assists and a steal. He finished at a
Speaker 3: bench high plus fifteen in twenty two minutes of play. Matt,
Speaker 3: there's a lot there. I want to talk about. The
Speaker 3: three point shooting. Of course, the six er set a
Speaker 3: new playoff franchise record with twenty one threes, previously just eighteen,
Speaker 3: so they go crazy from beyond. Joel Embiid was handling
Speaker 3: doubles leading to that twenty one for forty three three
Speaker 3: point shooting on the night. What stood out to you, though,
Speaker 3: beyond what I've already gone over.
Speaker 4: There's many options as a who typically picks team stats.
Speaker 4: Because it was such a team victory. When Brooklyn comes
Speaker 4: out in double teams, Embiid so much triple teams. I
Speaker 4: think one time you said to me, as we were watching,
Speaker 4: you leaned over and said, quadruple team came at one
Speaker 4: point for Joel Embiid, and the three point shooting tops
Speaker 4: the list for me. It's kind of the obvious pick.
Speaker 4: The franchise playoff record twenty one threes on forty three
Speaker 4: attempts forty eight point eight percent. And something that I
Speaker 4: think I didn't talk about enough coming in was the
Speaker 4: looks they would get. I talked about how successful they
Speaker 4: were in the regular season at making threes. I didn't
Speaker 4: talk about the double teaming as much, and how great
Speaker 4: of decision making Embiid has showed as he's progressed in
Speaker 4: his career and this season and heading into these playoffs
Speaker 4: at making the right passes, and the shooters were paying
Speaker 4: those passes off with makes, and they really made Brooklyn
Speaker 4: pay for any of the defensive approach and double teams
Speaker 4: against Mbia. And I was over at the Brooklyn press
Speaker 4: conference with their coach, Jock Vaughn after the game while
Speaker 4: you were with Doc Rivers, and he talked a lot
Speaker 4: about the amount of shots the Sixers got up nineteen
Speaker 4: more shots, fourteen more threes, and a lot of that
Speaker 4: had to do with the effort on the glass as well, Lauren,
Speaker 4: So the second efforts twenty one second chance points, fourteen
Speaker 4: offensive rebounds. PJ. Tucker kind of led the way in
Speaker 4: that department. But yeah, you shoot more shots, you shoot
Speaker 4: more threes, and you make twenty one, your chances are
Speaker 4: pretty good in a ballgame. But that energy you want
Speaker 4: to see attacking the glass was big.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you mentioned PJ. Tucker offensive rebounds Bears repeating seven
Speaker 3: rebounds total but five on the offensive glass. That matches
Speaker 3: Brooklyn's total offensive rebounds. Matt, if you're cool with it,
Speaker 3: I'm ready to hear from James Harden. We already went
Speaker 3: over it. But James last night twenty three points, thirteen assists,
Speaker 3: four rebounds, and a steal. He finished at a team
Speaker 3: high plus twenty. Struggled a little bit shooting these twos
Speaker 3: early in the game, but ended up with seven threes
Speaker 3: on the night, and just drew the attention that you
Speaker 3: need James Harden to draw, especially when multiple as you mentioned,
Speaker 3: up to four defenders are already taking care of Joel Embiid,
Speaker 3: the two of them working really well together, not showing
Speaker 3: much rest last night. And so let's hear from James postgame.
Speaker 4: What was working for you guys tonight to distance in
Speaker 4: all the threes that you guys need.
Speaker 5: Something that that was giving us, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5: They just they doubled Joe the whole whole game basically,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, tried their beast to not let
Speaker 5: him get going. He still had twenty something, but I
Speaker 5: think he did a really good job of just making
Speaker 5: the easy passes.
Speaker 6: And you know, we knocked shots down how much that
Speaker 6: a must be contagious. If he's playing so off his
Speaker 6: old teams and helps everyone else.
Speaker 5: It makes it easy, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 5: he's gonna get his books no matter what.
Speaker 6: That's just how good he is.
Speaker 5: And then you know, we're making shots to be attacking
Speaker 5: the basket and were just generating easier shots for us.
Speaker 5: And I think that's what's a That was a kid tonight.
Speaker 5: With that being said, Game two is gonna be much
Speaker 5: more difficult, you know what I mean. They're gonna make
Speaker 5: adjustments and we gonna make adjustments. So, uh, it's gonna
Speaker 5: be the most important game of the series, and we
Speaker 5: gotta come out with the same mindset.
Speaker 7: What did you make of the LAPJ played today?
Speaker 5: That's what we brought on her for, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, Like the extra possessions, the shot making in
Speaker 5: the corners. Uh, he's the defense. That's the reason why
Speaker 5: he's on our team, you know what I mean?
Speaker 8: Yeah, can you talk about this second morning that you
Speaker 8: were four from five to three?
Speaker 6: Like four in a row and the step back three.
Speaker 6: It's trying to be aggressive.
Speaker 5: They joy they double double team and Joel, So you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, somebody else gotta make shots and
Speaker 5: and be aggressive and.
Speaker 6: You know, just just put the work in. You live
Speaker 6: with the results. And that made some shots. You mentioned adjustments.
Speaker 6: You know, both teams will make ajustments.
Speaker 4: Would you be surprised that they came out and doubled
Speaker 4: Joel again like they did today?
Speaker 5: Well wait, wait, wait and see, I mean I can
Speaker 5: t I can't tell you, you know what I.
Speaker 6: Mean, But what you kiss?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 6: I mean, guys didn't I mean, he's the MVP.
Speaker 5: So it's it's like, you know, would you rather him
Speaker 5: scoring forty or you know what I mean, living with
Speaker 5: us making shots? And either way it's fine, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean. Like, so well, we'll be ready for
Speaker 5: either way.
Speaker 6: You talk about talk about how.
Speaker 9: You feel that back, Uh you think about that.
Speaker 4: Stronger?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Uh, I mean I couldn't make a layup, but
Speaker 6: that's the least of my worries.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: But yeah, m I mean my legs, my body feels
Speaker 6: just just powerful, feels strong, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Like there's a stint where I played I think thirteen
Speaker 5: minutes straight from the end of this first quarter, twelve
Speaker 5: minutes and then the whole second quarter, and I felt
Speaker 5: really good, you know what I mean, So, uh, the
Speaker 5: work that I put in, and this is uh, you know,
Speaker 5: this is the reason for.
Speaker 10: It change historically, last question for game change. Historically, this
Speaker 10: team has struggled in the playoffs whenever a t while
Speaker 10: hits the bench. Obviously, you that's a great minute today.
Speaker 10: And I've been coming on down the stretch. I guess
Speaker 10: what's allowing you to have more success?
Speaker 5: And you know I've I've just docking, you know, myself
Speaker 5: just on the same page in the sense of in
Speaker 5: that second unit, who's out there, who's gonna be, who's
Speaker 5: gonna be playing on the court, and what we're trying
Speaker 5: to accomplish, you know what I mean. We can't make
Speaker 5: it too difficult. We gotta make it easy. And knowing
Speaker 5: we're trying to accomplish, and I think that group would
Speaker 5: melt and and J mack and and George and p Reid.
Speaker 6: You know, we get it.
Speaker 5: Obviously everything isn't gonna be great, but defensively we have
Speaker 5: to get stops and then offensively as much space as
Speaker 5: we can, you know what I mean, then I'll I'll
Speaker 5: do all the work and gods should be ready to
Speaker 5: shoot and make players to finish. And you know, tonight
Speaker 5: was a great, great, you know example of that, and
Speaker 5: that that unit is gonna be extremely key, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, Like start the second quarter, start the
Speaker 5: fourth quarters.
Speaker 6: That's a big that's a big part of the game.
Speaker 5: And if we can manage and and be even or
Speaker 5: even take the lead, you know, then we that's a
Speaker 5: bonus for it.
Speaker 6: So, uh, tonight was a great start and got to
Speaker 6: be even better game too. Thanks James for sure.
Speaker 4: James Harden postgame good stuff. Good to hear from him
Speaker 4: after a strong performance reiterating his stat line with the
Speaker 4: twenty three points thirteen assists against the Brooklyn Nets in
Speaker 4: Game one. Lauren got a question in here from Extreme
Speaker 4: that relates to Harden. Extreme says, do you think that
Speaker 4: yesterday's game was just a preview of what Harden has
Speaker 4: in store for the rest of the playoffs? And I
Speaker 4: think for me the answer is yes, because of what
Speaker 4: he said towards the beginning or middle of that SoundBite
Speaker 4: there talking about how he couldn't make a layup in
Speaker 4: this game one against Brooklyn, and most of his scoring
Speaker 4: came from three point range. That assists numbers around where
Speaker 4: you would expect it to be based on how he
Speaker 4: has transformed his Hall of Fame career at this point.
Speaker 4: But add on some more of those layups and I
Speaker 4: think the best is yet to come.
Speaker 3: Rather noteworthy to mention with James Harden, who of course
Speaker 3: has led the league in free throw attempts and makes
Speaker 3: in his career, shot zero last night. So, like we
Speaker 3: talked about, the finishing out the rim wasn't quite there.
Speaker 3: That's where he's used to getting those calls. Matt, You
Speaker 3: and I remarked a few times it was really playoff
Speaker 3: basketball and they were really letting them play out there.
Speaker 3: But you imagine that that number will also start to
Speaker 3: creep up for James Harden, just understanding how skilled he
Speaker 3: is at drawing those opportunities. Worth noting. Also, while we're
Speaker 3: talking about free throws, the Sixers did not miss a
Speaker 3: free throw last night. The only Sixers to attempt free
Speaker 3: throws were Joe ell Embiid, Tyrese Maxi, and Paul Reid,
Speaker 3: who had just won, but between the three of them
Speaker 3: sixteen for sixteen from the foul line last night. Yes,
Speaker 3: agree that James Harden is not where he could potentially be,
Speaker 3: and understanding that that's the case, it was a great
Speaker 3: start for James. Matt, you have other questions you want
Speaker 3: to go to before we hear from more of the guys.
Speaker 4: I have comments about bee ball, Paul and stuff like
Speaker 4: that that I think we can play some of these.
Speaker 4: This sound first, because the next two up in the lineup,
Speaker 4: correct me if I'm wrong. We've got read at some
Speaker 4: point either flipped with d Anthony Melton, but those two
Speaker 4: guys both talked about Paul's dribble move that he had
Speaker 4: in the second half and just Paul's overall performance off
Speaker 4: the bench.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it back to back. Let's hear from
Speaker 3: Paul Reid, and then we're gonna immediately hear from d
Speaker 3: Anthony Melton, who discussed Paul Reid following the game last night.
Speaker 3: And just for some extra color, this was once we
Speaker 3: had gone inside the locker room. In the playoffs, some
Speaker 3: of the players addressed the media at the podium, some
Speaker 3: addressed the media at their lockers in the locker room.
Speaker 3: This was a little bit a little while after the
Speaker 3: game had ended. The vibes in the locker room were
Speaker 3: incredibly high. In Paul's media that I'm going to play
Speaker 3: for you. Now, you're going to hear a little bit
Speaker 3: of a lull in the question and answer. You're going
Speaker 3: to hear some laughter. That was both d' anthony Melton
Speaker 3: and Tyrese Maxey from across the room giving Paul a
Speaker 3: little bit of grief for not even grief, but giving
Speaker 3: him a little bit of playful banter about just how
Speaker 3: good he was last night. And they gave their opinions
Speaker 3: on these two finishes that we've already disc guys, so
Speaker 3: here from Paul. Then you're gonna hear them laughing in
Speaker 3: the middle. Just know that that's Tyres and d they
Speaker 3: jumping in as well.
Speaker 6: But we was trying to take away, uh, and that's
Speaker 6: what we did. Moves out there with five or six dollars.
Speaker 1: Five to six, you know, a couple of darn couple rebounds,
Speaker 1: a couple.
Speaker 8: Of stairs's pread you do, speaking of that, can you
Speaker 8: talk us through that where you kind of drimple around
Speaker 8: your legsample the offensive board.
Speaker 6: It seems like this move is just kind of confidatural sometimes.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I just you know, My first instinct
Speaker 1: I got the ball was to pass it out for three,
Speaker 1: but they jointed the past. I had to make a move.
Speaker 1: I've seen the lane open up. Guess I've seen the
Speaker 1: lane opening up.
Speaker 6: I drove the ball.
Speaker 1: They want to do flew by, and I like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a good feeling. It was a special feeling.
Speaker 1: It's a special feeler. Let me know, like all the
Speaker 1: fans lock down, and you know they liked me a lot.
Speaker 6: Well, you guys have.
Speaker 8: Had a lot of success the bards against a lot
Speaker 8: of extra boards. You had a couple of hours, I
Speaker 8: guess was that that What do you think was working.
Speaker 6: To man to do that?
Speaker 4: What this kid to get all those offensive boards?
Speaker 6: That's all those things just bouncing the right way. You know.
Speaker 6: I was able to read it.
Speaker 1: You know, I've seen how I was gonna bunce south around,
Speaker 1: so I was able to get to the spot where
Speaker 1: I was gonna bounce you, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: was just trying to do what I normally do, get
Speaker 1: my teammates shots.
Speaker 8: I think you know, over the years, when when you've
Speaker 8: had foul trouble, doctors.
Speaker 6: Just like I just want to play hard. I don't
Speaker 6: really care about that or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, Yeah, all right, you don't want me
Speaker 1: to dan follow tubble. You want me to play hard,
Speaker 1: but you want me to play smart to that same time, man,
Speaker 1: the one you don't want me dan. I'm thinking, I
Speaker 1: think I'm finish it about that.
Speaker 8: I was just gonna say, like, you did play hard today,
Speaker 8: so you.
Speaker 6: Stop or whatever. But that's something you always bring it.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I'm always play hard, but it's about
Speaker 1: playing smart with and uh it's big. I'm able to
Speaker 1: stay on the court and keep helping the team anyway
Speaker 1: I can.
Speaker 3: Hopefully the good vibes are coming through the audio as
Speaker 3: well as they were in person. Here's d Anthony Melton,
Speaker 3: who continued the good vibes and talked about Paul Read
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 6: Little bruise and bumps.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, this is what the that week off
Speaker 9: was for. I know, coming into the ploffs is gonna
Speaker 9: be physical game. You know you're gonna get beat up
Speaker 9: stuff like that, but you know it's for the long run.
Speaker 9: So I'm ready for my body of the line for
Speaker 9: my team. You know, I got healthy for this moment
Speaker 9: and you.
Speaker 6: Know I'm ready. We'll see how you like to move
Speaker 6: crowd man.
Speaker 9: I mean, I've been in the playoffs s couver of times,
Speaker 9: but you know it's Philly crafts different. The screaming, yelling
Speaker 9: every play.
Speaker 6: I felt. We've had this vibe.
Speaker 9: Throughout the easy though too, but I think you know,
Speaker 9: playoffs we definitely turned it up the house too.
Speaker 3: What do you make it?
Speaker 6: The way Paul re.
Speaker 9: Pret murdered? He came out with energy the second half.
Speaker 9: You know, you know, we challenged him, We said, what comeing?
Speaker 9: We needed to stay locked in, We're go play some
Speaker 9: big minutes bus So we came out there. You know,
Speaker 9: he was crashing boys, finishing around the redmen. You know,
Speaker 9: that's stuff we need him to do for want of them.
Speaker 9: You know, go far too.
Speaker 6: Specifically that between the legs. What did you what did
Speaker 6: you see? Yeh? What was you calling?
Speaker 9: That's the pre murder special. Yeah, he let him do
Speaker 9: that move, so I'm glad it worked out. And then
Speaker 9: he hit him at the pump fake, So I'm more
Speaker 9: excited about the reverse dunk, and well I like.
Speaker 6: That more so.
Speaker 9: You know, we're excited for him and we're gonna need him.
Speaker 6: Has he ever done it to you? No?
Speaker 3: Of course, you remember that song what's if you couldn't
Speaker 3: hear that was shake Milton there at the very end
Speaker 3: saying you don't remember that one time playing with each other.
Speaker 3: Good vibes last night after the game, Matt Murphy.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts Earlier? I had asked in the pre show
Speaker 4: which play was it the reverse dunk that you thought
Speaker 4: more highly of? I mean, both were great plays, but
Speaker 4: what was your favorite? The reverse dunk or the between
Speaker 4: the legs dribble move? And Winona had chimed in and
Speaker 4: said the reverse dunk shows a level of confidence. And
Speaker 4: then Winona said, did PJ really curse be ball Paul
Speaker 4: out at halftime? Whatever works? And that was something that
Speaker 4: I know you were all over with PJ Tucker's comments
Speaker 4: from the locker room as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can read that quote actually just to let
Speaker 3: PJ do the talking for himself. But we haven't given
Speaker 3: PJ enough shine yet, and I'm definitely happy to talk
Speaker 3: about him a little bit now. Tobias Harris on PJ
Speaker 3: Tucker's impact, Tobias said, playoff basketball is about every possession. PJ.
Speaker 3: He gave us more possessions out there, crashing the glass,
Speaker 3: being physical, his presence defensively five steals five offensive rebounds.
Speaker 3: That's huge for us. Also huge for the Sixers was
Speaker 3: the way that PJ. Tucker was communicating in huddles clearly
Speaker 3: during halftime as well. We are able to see sort
Speaker 3: of the way that he communicates with players out on
Speaker 3: the floor. Matt We took a look at a few
Speaker 3: sort of impromptu huddles out there on the floor, usually
Speaker 3: led by James Harden or PJ Tucker, but then there
Speaker 3: was apparently one in the locker room. De Anthony alluded
Speaker 3: to the fact that they challenged Paul to be better
Speaker 3: in the second half at halftime, and Paul obviously was
Speaker 3: able to respond. Here's what PJ said about going back
Speaker 3: into the locker room and having a word with Paul.
Speaker 3: He said, I felt like he just didn't have the energy,
Speaker 3: and then Paul came out in the second half and responded.
Speaker 3: So I told everybody, I'm gonna have to curse Paul
Speaker 3: out at every halftime. We need him and I'm always
Speaker 3: going to stay on him. Great to see that veteran
Speaker 3: leadership from PJ. Tucker. I had a couple comments from
Speaker 3: about PJ. Matthew said, PJ Tucker brought the playoff PJ energy.
Speaker 3: We've been waiting for Winona had a shout out for
Speaker 3: PJ Tucker. But Matt, your thoughts, any comment you saw
Speaker 3: or your own about what PJ was able to do
Speaker 3: last night.
Speaker 4: Well, they're both energy guys. So if PJ Tucker and
Speaker 4: that's to quote Doc Rivers talking about energy guys on
Speaker 4: this team, and if PJ wanted more energy from Paul
Speaker 4: Reid and discussed it at halftime, that's great because particularly
Speaker 4: at the start of the fourth quarter is when you
Speaker 4: really saw that energy from bee ball Paul as well
Speaker 4: as Jalen McDaniels working with James Harden. That was a
Speaker 4: crucial part of the game, and that's when a lot
Speaker 4: of this Paul Reid stuff happened. A lot of this
Speaker 4: Paul Reid action happened, and there were some tweets and
Speaker 4: messages about that. Genie said, just so proud of Paul.
Speaker 4: I'd been wanting him to have a bigger role and
Speaker 4: receive more minutes early on in the season, just to
Speaker 4: prepare for moments like yesterday, and he did not disappoint
Speaker 4: ads in the three clapping emojis. And I've said this before,
Speaker 4: but I know you asked about PJ. But I'm I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go with the bee ball Paul route for a
Speaker 4: second further.
Speaker 3: Because you're good.
Speaker 4: I've said this before, but rewind two years to the
Speaker 4: G League bubble and Paul Reid was there with the
Speaker 4: Blue Coats. He was MVP of the G League. He
Speaker 4: would stay after practice and just pull up. Obviously, he
Speaker 4: did plenty of work with the coaches during practice beforehand,
Speaker 4: even but he would put in extra work by himself,
Speaker 4: and he would often pull up YouTube videos of ball
Speaker 4: handling drills and he would put his phone down on
Speaker 4: a chair and just do all these ball handling drills
Speaker 4: from YouTube, or at least it looked like YouTube. Could
Speaker 4: have been someone sent him a training video or something,
Speaker 4: but he would work on stuff. So I've seen Paul
Speaker 4: do that between the legs. It's kind of just like
Speaker 4: a natural skill and move that he does quite frequently
Speaker 4: when he's practicing. And to see him do it in
Speaker 4: a playoff game for the Sixers at the NBA level, like,
Speaker 4: I didn't know it was coming in that type of moment,
Speaker 4: So it was fun to see his hard work pay
Speaker 4: off and then get the shout outs from his teammates
Speaker 4: after the game.
Speaker 3: Pfizer said, this was a huge team win. We looked
Speaker 3: more athletic than the other team. Shout out Doc for
Speaker 3: the rotations, Matt. You and I mentioned it early with
Speaker 3: a ten man rotation last night, and of course we
Speaker 3: know that as the playoffs go on, rotations tend to
Speaker 3: get smaller and smaller. But cool to see each of
Speaker 3: those guys and then of course even more guys at
Speaker 3: the end of the fourth quarter make contributions and make
Speaker 3: those rotations work. I don't think we've talked enough about
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid, so let's do a little bit of that
Speaker 3: really quickly. Interest, So good morning.
Speaker 4: Their names starting with P Paul and PJ with playoffs
Speaker 4: and you can go playoff Paul and playoff PJ. It
Speaker 4: all just works out. We've seen a number of comments
Speaker 4: this morning about calling them both playoff such and such.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad you added that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Indre says, good morning, Lauren. Please talk about Embiid's defense.
Speaker 3: He didn't get rattled for a second. Despite the double
Speaker 3: and triple teams on offense. He was still so impactful
Speaker 3: on the other end for all of his minutes. Matt,
Speaker 3: no doubt about it. You mentioned it. We leaned over
Speaker 3: to each other a couple times and talked about the
Speaker 3: quadruple teams that we were seeing from the Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 3: last night. They clearly wanted to slow Joel Embiid down
Speaker 3: and make the Sixers win with their other options. The
Speaker 3: Sixers did just that. It'll be interesting to see sort
Speaker 3: of what adjustments they might make then for Game two,
Speaker 3: will we see a little more man coverage for Joel
Speaker 3: Embiid and a little bit less, a little bit less
Speaker 3: attention given to him, and maybe some more scoring. I
Speaker 3: don't know, Matt, it was. It was cool to see
Speaker 3: him though, The maturity that we've seen from Joel Embiid,
Speaker 3: the way he's learned to stay cool in those moments
Speaker 3: and find his teammates. I thought he did a really
Speaker 3: good job considering what the defense was giving him last night.
Speaker 4: We're gonna see different defensive approaches against Joel Embiid in
Speaker 4: maybe even in each game, and as the playoffs progress
Speaker 4: multiple series, perhaps so. Jock Vaughn and his postgame media,
Speaker 4: the Nets head coach was talking about some maybe travels
Speaker 4: and other violations that he thought should have been called
Speaker 4: on Embiid, but they might just have to go back
Speaker 4: to the drawing board because the shot making just proved
Speaker 4: that you can't play off of some of the He's Sixers.
Speaker 4: So that's just a minor thing. It's only one game
Speaker 4: in a seven game series. But what they tried out
Speaker 4: of the gates just did not work. And I don't
Speaker 4: think we can talk about Joel Embiid without talking about
Speaker 4: Arthur Embiid. The one o'clock start time meant we got
Speaker 4: some Arthur Embiid content postgame, Joelle's son. He brought him
Speaker 4: up to the podium and a few seconds in, Arthur
Speaker 4: slammed the microphone down, not slammed it, but dropped the
Speaker 4: microphone because he was curious about what it was. And
Speaker 4: Joel said that's for daddy, and Arthur didn't care anyway
Speaker 4: and kind of just went for it. But you see
Speaker 4: Joel Embiid the father this journey that Sixers fans have
Speaker 4: been on with him, and the day game meant that
Speaker 4: Arthur was able to be there. We've seen him a
Speaker 4: little bit, but sometimes Joel is communicating with him over
Speaker 4: the phone after night games, things like that from how
Speaker 4: we see it from our perspective, perhaps, but he was
Speaker 4: there and it was really nice to see them together
Speaker 4: after the game one win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you haven't seen that content, head over to
Speaker 3: at Sixers. They have a really wholesome moment between Arthur
Speaker 3: Embiid and James Harden meeting perhaps Uncle James for the
Speaker 3: first time James. Arthur offered James one of his cars.
Speaker 3: James said thank you so much, and then Arthur took
Speaker 3: it back. It was very cute, So please go check
Speaker 3: that out. Speaking of James Harden discussing Joel Embiid last
Speaker 3: night and discussing the way he handled those double and
Speaker 3: triple teams from Brooklyn all night, he said, Joelle is
Speaker 3: going to get us buckets no matter what. That's just
Speaker 3: how good he is. D' anthony Melton on the Sixers
Speaker 3: fans in the building, Matt, we didn't mention yet the
Speaker 3: b ball Paul Chance from the entire arena.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: That was amazing. It was amazing, And d Anthony Melton said,
Speaker 3: I've been in the playoffs a couple of times, but
Speaker 3: this Philly crowd is different, and that, of course, no
Speaker 3: disrespect to the Memphis crowd. The Memphis crowd does a
Speaker 3: great job. I've seen some great games in Memphis but
Speaker 3: cool to have a d Anthony on our side and
Speaker 3: b see him show some respect to the Philly crowd.
Speaker 3: They were loud.
Speaker 4: That's another level. How many fan bases are cheering the
Speaker 4: name the nickname of the backup se.
Speaker 3: Twitter game correct? That is how Xers fans set themselves apart.
Speaker 4: That's not a chant, that's not an MVP chant, that's
Speaker 4: a B ball Paul chant. In the playoffs, Yeah.
Speaker 3: They were locked in and hopefully we'll bring that same
Speaker 3: energy tomorrow night, Matt, as we begin to look ahead
Speaker 3: tomorrow night, Game two seven thirty pm tip off in
Speaker 3: South Philadelphia. Then the series will shift to Brooklyn, another
Speaker 3: seven thirty start on Thursday, so two days off and
Speaker 3: off day in a travel day you'd imagine for the
Speaker 3: seventy six ers. They'll play again in Game three on Thursday.
Speaker 3: Game four comes another Saturday one pm tip off. In
Speaker 3: a perfect world, that is where the series ends a
Speaker 3: week from yesterday in Brooklyn. But games five through seven
Speaker 3: should they be necessary times TVD, We will keep you posted,
Speaker 3: Matt before we wrap up. Is there anything else that
Speaker 3: you wanted to chat about or comments you wanted to
Speaker 3: read before we head out for today?
Speaker 4: I did see a comment that I was going to
Speaker 4: make my last point of the show because it was
Speaker 4: about Jaden Springer getting into the games playoff experience for Jaden,
Speaker 4: and we haven't talked that. The comment came from Avocati
Speaker 4: who said, let me pull it up. Not a question,
Speaker 4: but I was so happy to see Springer minutes yesterday,
Speaker 4: and guys, when that happened, it meant that the game
Speaker 4: was in hand, and Jaden really proved himself in the
Speaker 4: in the G League playoffs. But at the point that
Speaker 4: he got in yesterday, the teams were or at least
Speaker 4: the nets were regrouping ahead of the ahead of Game two,
Speaker 4: and Jaden Springer at the age of twenty, gets into
Speaker 4: the playoff game for a few minutes along with some
Speaker 4: of the other Sixers bench players. This is a deep
Speaker 4: Sixers team. You never know who's going to be called on.
Speaker 4: When I saw a comment as well from Alex who
Speaker 4: asked about Shake Milton and if Shake will earn a
Speaker 4: regular spot in the playoff rotation going forward. I think
Speaker 4: time will tell with these things. But it is a
Speaker 4: deep Sixers team and whether or not guys were proving
Speaker 4: themselves all they each had their moments throughout the year,
Speaker 4: and for Jaden Springer, his G League playoff run culminated
Speaker 4: with the Blue Coats winning their first ever NBA G
Speaker 4: League title. I don't think we've been on spaces since then.
Speaker 4: So he won Finals MVP, and just congratulations to Kobe
Speaker 4: carl the head coach of the Blue Coats. Jaden players
Speaker 4: like that. The two way guys Mac McClung and Lewis King,
Speaker 4: who are were with the Sixers for the playoffs, not
Speaker 4: dressed in uniform, but they were around the team. And
Speaker 4: then the front office with Prosper Kirangua who's part of
Speaker 4: the Sixers front office, and then his duties also include
Speaker 4: being the GM of the Blue Coats. Jamiir Nelson is
Speaker 4: the assistant GM of the Delaware Blue Coats. And third
Speaker 4: straight finals appearance, they climb the mountain, they win the
Speaker 4: NBA G League title, and Jaden Springer had a lot
Speaker 4: to do with it. And then he's back in action
Speaker 4: on the playoff floor against the Nets. So some good
Speaker 4: experience for him. But that was my last word today, Lauren,
Speaker 4: What is your last word?
Speaker 3: No doubt about it, Matt. Credit to those guys for
Speaker 3: the vibes that they brought last night shake on the
Speaker 3: bench just absolutely erupting to cheer for Tyrese maxed to
Speaker 3: cheer for bee ball Paul. Jaden Springer just such a
Speaker 3: delight to work with and it was so cool to
Speaker 3: see him get some shine at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: Looks like he's starting to come into his own. And
Speaker 3: of course, anytime you see Jaden Springer out there in
Speaker 3: this playoff run, things are probably going well well. I'd
Speaker 3: say either things are going really well or he's getting
Speaker 3: a cool opportunity right Whether we see him for some
Speaker 3: offense defense down the stretch, or perhaps even some more
Speaker 3: meaningful time, it remains to be seen, but cool to
Speaker 3: see Jaden get an opportunity in the playoffs last night.
Speaker 3: For sure, you mentioned Alex. I wonder if it's the
Speaker 3: same Alex who wanted to give credit where I think
Speaker 3: credit is due to Tobias Harris, one of the keys
Speaker 3: to success for the Sixers. Whenever he's aggressive and scores
Speaker 3: twenty plus, they are a tough team to beat. Also
Speaker 3: takes pressure off of Harden and Embiid to provide most
Speaker 3: of the scoring. Adds credit for PJ. Tucker for doing
Speaker 3: all of the dirty work. To help this team win.
Speaker 3: So many times he battled for offensive rebounds and created
Speaker 3: open shots for Harden and others. He's such a valuable
Speaker 3: player who's often over looked that perhaps might be my
Speaker 3: last word as well. Absolutely awesome to see playoff PJ
Speaker 3: Tucker show up and under a lot of pressure, Matt.
Speaker 3: This city does not give guys a lot of wiggle room,
Speaker 3: and while PJ has an absolutely sterling playoff reputation, he
Speaker 3: had to match it with his play last or rather yesterday,
Speaker 3: and he absolutely did so. So looking forward to seeing
Speaker 3: what more is in store from playoff PJ, perhaps playoff
Speaker 3: Paul as well, and of course the rest of the
Speaker 3: guys who did exactly what they were supposed to do
Speaker 3: in Game one. So Game two comes tomorrow night, seven
Speaker 3: thirty pm. Matt and I will hope to be back
Speaker 3: with you on Tuesday morning rather to celebrate a second
Speaker 3: win in this series. The thanks as always for listening.
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Speaker 3: We did an interview series with the guys in the
Speaker 3: second half of the season, helping you guys get to
Speaker 3: know them a little bit better. So if you're hungry
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Speaker 3: about guys who were awesome last night, like PJ. Tucker,
Speaker 3: like Paul Read, they have features on the seventy six
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Speaker 3: so let us know what you guys think. Matt, I'll
Speaker 3: let you have the last word.
Speaker 4: Thanks everyone, Thanks Mary Winona, Jeannie, Sophie, everyone else who
Speaker 4: is in here. Thank you, Lauren Rosen and the playoffs
Speaker 4: can be a long journey. Each game tells its own
Speaker 4: story and we look forward to talking about it all.
Speaker 2: Thank you everyone, no.
Speaker 3: Doubt about it.
Speaker 7: Enjoy the games today, guys, we'll talk next time to
Speaker 7: fight
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