Speaker 1: The big Man was back, and all things considered, he
Speaker 1: was pretty darn amazing. Free buy him bead from out front,
Speaker 1: and that's good man, the big Man getting it done.
Speaker 1: He now has thirty points in the game. But another
Speaker 1: triple double from Joel Embiid wasn't enough for the seventy Sixers.
Speaker 1: In another late season showdown in the Eastern Conference, and
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks defeat the Sixers here in Philadelphia. A
Speaker 1: closing flurry by the Bucks puts them in the win
Speaker 1: cottom with a week to go before the playoffs. A
Speaker 1: discussion about the state of the squad with d Line
Speaker 1: Them and Devon Gibbons on this episode of the broadcast, Hello,
Speaker 1: how are you seventy Sixers pod people? Hope everything's good
Speaker 1: in terms of following the basketball team. I know it's
Speaker 1: a little bit frustrating right now. Three straight losses, kind
Speaker 1: of amazing. It's the first time this season the Sixers
Speaker 1: have dropped three games in a row. You have to
Speaker 1: go all the way back to the second round of
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year to find the last instance that
Speaker 1: the Sixers dropped three straight games, which in and of
Speaker 1: itself is telling of a couple things. One the relative
Speaker 1: consistency the seventy Sixers have had in terms of their
Speaker 1: success over the course of the twenty eighteen nineteen season,
Speaker 1: but also the current state of affairs guys in and
Speaker 1: out of the lineup, and not just any guys, some
Speaker 1: of the best players on the team, whether it's been
Speaker 1: Joel Embiad missing for three straight games on a road trip,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler in and out a bit with varying issues.
Speaker 1: It's late in the year, the playoffs are coming in.
Speaker 1: The seventy Sixers are trying to get there. It's been
Speaker 1: a difficult stretch, but I thought against the Bucks, even
Speaker 1: in that loss on Thursday at the Center, there are
Speaker 1: some things too hopefully build upon. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for checking out the podcast. As always, you
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Speaker 1: with de line Them and Divine Gibbons to resident leading
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers basketball experts in our great city of Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and beyond. We do a regular Sixers and Sixties show
Speaker 1: presented by the Great people at Toyota on ninety seven
Speaker 1: five to The Fanatic, the flagship station of the Sixers
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. So we're gonna play back a conversation from
Speaker 1: that the three of us sat down before the Sixers
Speaker 1: hosted the Bucks in that game on Thursday at the Center,
Speaker 1: Joel embiid it was expected that he would make his return,
Speaker 1: and make his return he did thirty four points, thirteen rebounds,
Speaker 1: thirteen assists, three block shots, just the third player of
Speaker 1: record in NBA history, according to the Great Website Basketball Reference,
Speaker 1: to post those minimums in a single game. But Janni
Speaker 1: sendat Kompo and the Bucks won the day. The Freak
Speaker 1: forty five points, thirteen rebounds, six assists, five block shots.
Speaker 1: George Hill off the bench with twenty. He scored seven
Speaker 1: straight to put the Bucks in front for good. But
Speaker 1: as I said before tipoff happened and got underway in
Speaker 1: front of a sold out crowd at the Center. It
Speaker 1: was me d line them and Divine givens on the
Speaker 1: Fanatic from PJ. Wilhans at the Center and doing an
Speaker 1: episode of six and sixty, and I thought, given the
Speaker 1: subject matter, us reflecting on the state of the team,
Speaker 1: what needs to happen going into the playoffs, and then
Speaker 1: once they get into the playoffs, it'll be worthwhile to
Speaker 1: play back the chat. So here it is the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers and the best team in the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks,
Speaker 1: down here at the Sports Complex, and we've got our
Speaker 1: second to last episode of six Ers and sixty presented
Speaker 1: by Toyota of the season. A great occasion to have it.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com. It is awesome
Speaker 1: to be with Devon Givens and de line them. Lady
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. What's good, Thanks, Bri. I'm hoping for better
Speaker 1: basketball than we saw twenty four hours ago, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, d I mean we needed something better and
Speaker 1: I went off a little bit on these two nights.
Speaker 1: Winning in Minnesota was fantastic, but they couldn't follow it
Speaker 1: up with the two that they needed from Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: that one was really troublesome for me, the one last
Speaker 1: night in Atlanta. So hopefully they can bounce back against
Speaker 1: this Milwaukee Bucks team. Who I guess we'd have some
Speaker 1: guys in the lineup tonight and perhaps revenge on the
Speaker 1: mind after the seventy Sixers knocked them off a couple
Speaker 1: weeks ago on that Sunday game on Saint Patty's Day
Speaker 1: at Fiser Forum. The Sixers, guys, they have lost four
Speaker 1: out of their last six games. They have not been healthy.
Speaker 1: I think it's really important to state that right off
Speaker 1: the top before we get into the details of where
Speaker 1: the Sixers are at this late stage of the season.
Speaker 1: They have not been healthy, but I also you want
Speaker 1: to see some juice before the playoffs come around, right,
Speaker 1: and it's just been something that they have been struggling
Speaker 1: to find, regardless of who's been in who's been out.
Speaker 1: Joell and Beats questionable. He's gonna be a game time
Speaker 1: decision tonight. Know, Jimmy Butler, he was involved in a
Speaker 1: collision at mid court down the stretch of last night's game.
Speaker 1: He missed the game before last night with some back tightness.
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick was a question mark. He is going to
Speaker 1: be available tonight. James Ennis the third hurt. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna play, So we're gonna see some different combinations and
Speaker 1: once again a not full strength Sixers team time. But
Speaker 1: I think you need to be getting closer to being
Speaker 1: healthy because no matter what, it's starting next weekend with
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and I mean I think we all know
Speaker 1: that Jimmy Butler, come playoff time, even if you have
Speaker 1: a sore back, you'll be out there. I think that
Speaker 1: James Nis, James Ennis the third concerned Brett today a
Speaker 1: little bit more than you would have thought, only because
Speaker 1: he thought he had his rotation in terms of perimeter
Speaker 1: guys set and he doesn't know what the quad injury
Speaker 1: is now or how far it'll set him back. But
Speaker 1: that seemed to be of concern to Brett Brown a
Speaker 1: little while ago. Well, the fact that he limped off
Speaker 1: the way that he did pretty much immediately after it happened,
Speaker 1: walking right to the locker room in Atlanta, and you
Speaker 1: saw that it was it was enough for him to
Speaker 1: again just walk off the floor because he needed to
Speaker 1: have it addressed immediately. And I too, and we talked
Speaker 1: about this before D and Selt where James Ennis look
Speaker 1: to be that wing player off the bench where you
Speaker 1: felt like you can feel you feel comfortable with him
Speaker 1: doing what he needs to do. Jonathan Simmons will see
Speaker 1: how it works out now, but James Ennis was the
Speaker 1: first wing player off the bench, giving you some good minutes,
Speaker 1: some solid point production from time to time. And right now,
Speaker 1: with this happening, where what does he go? Now? Does
Speaker 1: he turn to Shake Milton Ziere Smith? Just to see
Speaker 1: tonight if in the event that they need some wing
Speaker 1: help that one of those two players can in fact
Speaker 1: step in for a few minutes. I think we'll see
Speaker 1: him go to Zaire first, just because not knowing how
Speaker 1: long Ennis would be out Shake Camp play in the postseason,
Speaker 1: and Ziyer might be needed, and so you might as
Speaker 1: well get the run from him now to see what
Speaker 1: you're what you're up again? Sure? I agree? I agree?
Speaker 1: And that's that says it all right there, Since the
Speaker 1: fact that Shake Milton is not eligible for the postseason
Speaker 1: and you can have Zaire Smith, that's the direction that
Speaker 1: they should go. Brett Brown six and sixty presented by
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Speaker 1: phone number six one zero six three, two zero nine
Speaker 1: seventy five. Will start it off with a question, an
Speaker 1: obvious question. I don't think it's a question that the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers are hiding from at this point in the year,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly a pressing one. What is this group
Speaker 1: right now? I mean since the Dubias Harris trailer. I'll
Speaker 1: go through a couple numbers. I try to think at
Speaker 1: two bog down and stats doesn't always translate well to
Speaker 1: the audio streaming or old FM and TANNA if you're
Speaker 1: listening in your card. And by the way, where at
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Speaker 1: good shout out to PJ Wheelhands. All right, eight and
Speaker 1: two seventy sixers record in games played with the projected
Speaker 1: top starting five Simmons, Reddick, Butler, Harris and Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1: They've beaten some of the best teams in the league Denver, indeed, Milwaukee, Boston.
Speaker 1: They knocked off Brooklyn right before Joel set out this
Speaker 1: last stretch of three games. So I think there is
Speaker 1: something to that. There's something to be said for that.
Speaker 1: But it's also in tandem with this whole notion of
Speaker 1: well when can it click? How quickly could it quick
Speaker 1: So just I'm curious how you guys feel. What do
Speaker 1: we know right now and what is the confidence. I
Speaker 1: don't think we know anything really as of yet, except
Speaker 1: where they have a nice starting five on paper and
Speaker 1: not having to see them long before a long stretch consecutively.
Speaker 1: I mean, where where we can get a good feel
Speaker 1: the continuity. We can see it on the floor and say, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that pick and roll works. You can see where that
Speaker 1: dive to the basket from Ben Simmons is effortless because
Speaker 1: the passes effortless from Jimmy Butler or to Bias Harris
Speaker 1: in this case, because Butler's been here longer. We don't
Speaker 1: know all of those things yet. And that's where, again,
Speaker 1: the continuity and being able to stay on the floor
Speaker 1: together those ten get those few games that you were
Speaker 1: talking about. It's just not enough right now now. Are
Speaker 1: they good enough to flip the switch when it comes
Speaker 1: to the postseason for me? Right now? No, because they
Speaker 1: haven't had enough time to do so, even practice time.
Speaker 1: They have not had enough time to figure it all out.
Speaker 1: Could they eventually? They're all pros? They are. They even
Speaker 1: running the same place. But there's nothing like being on
Speaker 1: the floor together to actually get it done, to feel
Speaker 1: good about it and say we can in fact go
Speaker 1: out there and execute these plays the way we need.
Speaker 1: And it's not even offensively so much as we talked
Speaker 1: about all year long. It's on the defensive end that
Speaker 1: really stands out for me. The only switch that I
Speaker 1: have ultimate confidence in being able to do it is
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. I really do. I think the times that
Speaker 1: we have seen him were turned from an injury. Whether
Speaker 1: we want to go to the eight games that he
Speaker 1: sat out after the All Star and then came back.
Speaker 1: Was there a little fatigue, absolutely? But did he have
Speaker 1: game like instantly Absolutely when he sat out the previous
Speaker 1: road trip and came back and Jimmy Butler asked him,
Speaker 1: I need you to get us through three quarters and
Speaker 1: I swear I'll deliver online in the fourth. And Joel
Speaker 1: did that. So that's the one switch I really do
Speaker 1: feel confident about. I hear you not enough sample to
Speaker 1: feel good about that. The only thing. And I you'll
Speaker 1: like again just listening to Brett, your confidence in the
Speaker 1: veteran ness to this group, and I'm going to put
Speaker 1: Joel in there because he has, you know, last year
Speaker 1: under his belt. I think the play through this year,
Speaker 1: and I think mentally when you hear him talk him
Speaker 1: combined with Jimmy and Tobias and then Ben, that I
Speaker 1: feel like there's enough there now. Defensively, I still have questions,
Speaker 1: but I think they're putting a lot of that on
Speaker 1: Joel being there to protect that rim. Six and sixty
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Speaker 1: center between section one oh six, one oh seven, your
Speaker 1: level of confidence in the seventy six or six one
Speaker 1: zero six, three, two zero nine seventy five as we
Speaker 1: hit the final couple games of the regular season, and
Speaker 1: also this will segue us into our next segment building
Speaker 1: what you just said, d Is it really all about
Speaker 1: that one man who wears the number twenty one? How
Speaker 1: much of this hinges on him? These may not be
Speaker 1: the most hard hitting questions, but pertinent ones right now.
Speaker 1: Give us a call. Six one zero six, three two
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Speaker 1: here on ninety seven five the fanatic to Bias back
Speaker 1: out top to Joel, He's gonna shoot the three in
Speaker 1: it Joel at me give the Sixers, Oh what twenty three?
Speaker 1: What sixty league heady parts of the crowd. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the last time around the seventy Sixers and the
Speaker 1: Bucks went up against each other. It was only two
Speaker 1: weeks ago in Milwaukee. Joel Embiide a monstrous performance forty points,
Speaker 1: fifteen rebounds, six times block shot in the seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers win one of their signature wins of the season,
Speaker 1: and at that point in time things were rolling, part
Speaker 1: of a season high six game winning streak. I'm Brian Selzer.
Speaker 1: This is six ers and sixty percent by Toyota. Awesome
Speaker 1: to be hanging out with Devon Givens and the line
Speaker 1: him here at PJ wheel hands between one oh six
Speaker 1: and one oh seven on the lower level at the center.
Speaker 1: So yes, we would love to know your level of
Speaker 1: confidence right now. So we head towards the playoffs six
Speaker 1: one zero six three, two zero nine five And in
Speaker 1: particular regarding that man, Joel embiid, how much upon him
Speaker 1: does the weight fall? So I'm gonna hit with one
Speaker 1: more star. We talked about eight and two record with
Speaker 1: a projected playoffs starting five since the Bias Harris trade.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you this as well, the sixers in
Speaker 1: that grouping. I don't know if I'm going to granular here.
Speaker 1: The defensive rating would be third best in the league.
Speaker 1: We'll keep it at that with the starting five including
Speaker 1: Joel embiid do you buy that with a ten game
Speaker 1: sample size? How much do you put stock in that?
Speaker 1: And then how much does that reflect the value that
Speaker 1: Joel is going to need to bring to this team
Speaker 1: if he's out there. Well, right away I would start
Speaker 1: with obviously Embid, but then I was shifted to Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler and Ben Simmons and how versatile those two are
Speaker 1: and how they would potentially dig in, if you will,
Speaker 1: on the defensive end to make sure that they get
Speaker 1: things done. The questions, of course our JJ Reddick and
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris, where do they fit in? But sometimes, as
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's contagious if those three are playing
Speaker 1: the way that they are, and if Jimmy Butler and
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris had given the effort on defensive end, specifically
Speaker 1: on a perimeter with the switching, all the switching that
Speaker 1: they do, Tobias Harris, again, it's contagious, JJ Reddick, You
Speaker 1: say what you want about him. We know the defense
Speaker 1: isn't great, but he gives the effort. It's about the
Speaker 1: wing defense from Tobias Harris. That meat really has my
Speaker 1: as you pointed out the antennas earlier for the radio,
Speaker 1: really has my antennas up as to where are you
Speaker 1: going to be when they need you most when those
Speaker 1: switches happen on the perimeters. So do I buy it
Speaker 1: in the ten game sample size, Yes, because I believe
Speaker 1: three of the five are very good. The other two
Speaker 1: really one I need and Tobias Harris to step up
Speaker 1: d yeah, and the other thing I'll go to philosophy wise, Bright,
Speaker 1: we know the number one thing that they care about
Speaker 1: is that three point line. They take such pride in
Speaker 1: that they are the best defending the three point line,
Speaker 1: and you know, because of the investment they've made an analytics,
Speaker 1: they don't want to give up threes and at times
Speaker 1: they get you know, beat at the rim, and that
Speaker 1: would change if you had Joel back in there. Then
Speaker 1: what we're seeing right now. So I would say, yes,
Speaker 1: I believe in that defensive number two. That again, with everything,
Speaker 1: you'd like to have more than a ten game sample,
Speaker 1: But it's all you're gonna have, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it would drop off significantly as you continue to play
Speaker 1: more games. If anything, I think the more you play
Speaker 1: together you have a chance for that number to get better.
Speaker 1: And of course, with the elimination factor. You're in Round
Speaker 1: one against Brooklyn, Detroit, Miami, Orlando, whatever team it may be,
Speaker 1: if they hit you in your mouth, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to step up and eventually you're gonna say, Okay, this works,
Speaker 1: and let's continue to do this and we can knock
Speaker 1: this out as best as possible as we continue to
Speaker 1: move forward in this fresh round, because if we don't,
Speaker 1: we'll be sitting at home early and there will be
Speaker 1: a lot of questions for a lot of people if that,
Speaker 1: in fact happened. The only thing I would say, Brian,
Speaker 1: whatever you have invested in philosophy wise with your defense,
Speaker 1: if in fact you get punched in the mouth. As
Speaker 1: Devon just said, you can't abort everything. You must still
Speaker 1: stick to your principle, but just do it better because
Speaker 1: changing it on the fly would be, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: would be the worst way to guy, especially with now
Speaker 1: having a new defensive coach. Correct right though he's he's
Speaker 1: new but he's old. He's new, but he's old. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe've been around along. Yeah, absolutely right. And it's so
Speaker 1: late in the season you cannot change up as much
Speaker 1: as you may think because the principles already there. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying exactly. I agree with you, I know everyone.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously there's a there's a desire and one
Speaker 1: of this fan base for this team to be at
Speaker 1: the max of what it can be. In games like
Speaker 1: last night in Atlanta and the one before that against
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks, it's frustrating when you see the pick and
Speaker 1: roll stuff in the execution, but I would almost assure
Speaker 1: you that Trey Young's not gathering his own miss and
Speaker 1: going in for an unscathed lamp. If Joel and beads
Speaker 1: out there on the floor, I mean, that's that's something
Speaker 1: where when I assess the state of this team right
Speaker 1: now in the moment, are you like that can be
Speaker 1: a little bit frustrating, Yes, But when you step back
Speaker 1: and if the full complimented players is out there, which
Speaker 1: we don't know tonight if it will be, it looks
Speaker 1: like Joel is going to play Jimmy Butler is not,
Speaker 1: you do have to think that once the four compliments together,
Speaker 1: things can be tightened up a little bit and the
Speaker 1: results will improve. Six one zero six, three, two zero nine,
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Speaker 1: ninety seven five to fanatical. Let's go to Kevin and Newcastle. Kevin,
Speaker 1: how are you feeling about the squad at right about now?
Speaker 1: Like I told the bonding um, and lose that shoot out,
Speaker 1: I'm not feeling I'm not feeling too good because they
Speaker 1: haven't had time for all of them to play and
Speaker 1: beat hides out a lot of our defensive mistakes by
Speaker 1: him being in the middle. Well he's not there. They
Speaker 1: just invade the middle and just go right down that.
Speaker 1: That guy Collins must have had about five value dunks. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, we we went em beating it. That's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But you know, and this is the thing too.
Speaker 1: The only team in the NBA, in my personal opinion,
Speaker 1: that can turn and switch off and on is the Warriors. Everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody this time of the year is a little pained
Speaker 1: up or whatever casey. They have experience. Even with Butler
Speaker 1: band eight years in what has he proven a one nothing?
Speaker 1: So we ain't on and all switch. They on paper,
Speaker 1: it looks good, but they're not matching paper. They got
Speaker 1: to play, man. The only team in the league that
Speaker 1: can do that is the Golden State Warriors. And you're
Speaker 1: right last night Trey Young and John Collins that pick
Speaker 1: and roll and to finish at the room, either the
Speaker 1: floater or the attempt to float and drag the defense
Speaker 1: in and beat them leading into that lob to John Collins,
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. And to Brian's point as well, that
Speaker 1: if the fact that Trey Young could grab that offensive
Speaker 1: rebound and go right back in and lay it up.
Speaker 1: The thing that really bothered me with those two players
Speaker 1: were number one, the fact that he so openly went
Speaker 1: to get the rebound, and number two, the other guys
Speaker 1: were watching, so what are you doing? And you know
Speaker 1: what last but not LEAs Man, that's their coach, was
Speaker 1: our assistant coach, so he knows our tendencies. He does,
Speaker 1: and we gotta deal with Trey Young for like the
Speaker 1: next ten years. Man, you understand. So it's gonna be toughful.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not doubting them. I'm not jumping off
Speaker 1: the ship. But if we don't be careful. It wouldn't
Speaker 1: surprise me if I chance, we get knocked out in
Speaker 1: the first round and the six seven EHD they're playing
Speaker 1: hungry man. Yeah, they are playing hungry. But I just
Speaker 1: don't see that happening. Cab, thanks for the call. As
Speaker 1: much as I may have problems with it, it's because
Speaker 1: I think they're very good and they're limiting themselves out
Speaker 1: there on the basketball floor and not putting out that
Speaker 1: full maximum effort because I do think they're that good.
Speaker 1: I was actually surprised at the defensive number cells that
Speaker 1: you put out there in those games that they were
Speaker 1: third in the league. That's phenomenal to me, especially in
Speaker 1: that short amount of time and what they're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out. So I don't think I disagree with keV
Speaker 1: at that point. Yes, if you do fall asleep at
Speaker 1: the wheel, you can get punched in the mouth d
Speaker 1: and you can get knocked out in that first round,
Speaker 1: and then there are plenty of problems to talk about.
Speaker 1: But I just don't see that happen, and they have
Speaker 1: they have enough to get it done. Seven games is
Speaker 1: a long time, yet they're geting another team out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's if you're equal talent then that's where it becomes
Speaker 1: a problem. But if you are the better team, most
Speaker 1: times seven games, it's just too long for the underdog
Speaker 1: to prevail. And I look at it similar to the
Speaker 1: Miami series last year, where they came in, they thumped
Speaker 1: them in game one, the Sixers did at home, the
Speaker 1: crowd was nuts, it was exciting. Game two, Miami came
Speaker 1: back and got them right back, and then the Sixes said, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's turn this up and let's get this out of
Speaker 1: the way. And by the way, Ben Simmons was the
Speaker 1: best player in the entire series. So that's what you're
Speaker 1: gonna need again. While Ebie gets his footing and back
Speaker 1: underneath him, get his legs going, get the game shape,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna need someone like Butler, Simmons, Harris
Speaker 1: or Reddick to step up and be the catalyst and
Speaker 1: the offensive end. Brian, I do like in what the
Speaker 1: Sixers situation is this year to who the Calves were
Speaker 1: last year in terms of trying to get it together
Speaker 1: in time for the playoffs, knowing what they had, not
Speaker 1: caring what the seed was, trying to get to know
Speaker 1: each other because they had made it. The new additions
Speaker 1: similar to it not to the level that the Sixers
Speaker 1: guys are. But I think Lebron said to look, we
Speaker 1: just need to know each other, we need to be healthy,
Speaker 1: and I don't care what the set is, and then
Speaker 1: let's go. And that's what I think they did. Sixers
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Speaker 1: in the three spot in the east trying to wrap
Speaker 1: that up. They cannot clinch it and directly tonight, but
Speaker 1: they got the bucks a great test. I think again,
Speaker 1: some things that you can't dispute. The seventy sixers. They're
Speaker 1: eleven points better. When Joel embiad plays, there's a drop
Speaker 1: of well I should rephrase there's a swing of eleven
Speaker 1: points when he's on the floor and he's not on
Speaker 1: the floor. That's one thing. And I mean, obviously you
Speaker 1: want to win series in the playoffs because what do
Speaker 1: you do you advance, But it's easy to forget. Like
Speaker 1: you said, you just how long the playoffs are even serious?
Speaker 1: And I don't know if anyone thinks back till last year,
Speaker 1: how long did the five game series against the Heat
Speaker 1: feel like? So? And the structure. This might be getting
Speaker 1: a little bit two into the weeds, but the way
Speaker 1: things are format in the playoffs is different too. Like
Speaker 1: right now, the sixers can't practice. They don't have any
Speaker 1: time to practice with how tight the games are. It's
Speaker 1: every other day. If it's not a back to back travel,
Speaker 1: you just don't have practice time. But when you get
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, you're having shootarounds regularly. You have at
Speaker 1: least one day in between games. And if you advance,
Speaker 1: the farther along you play, the more you play, that's
Speaker 1: going to be more practice time for this group to
Speaker 1: get together. And then I think you can start having
Speaker 1: the conversation where yes, there is enough talent there where
Speaker 1: if you give them a set group of practices, they
Speaker 1: might be able to click more quickly based upon their
Speaker 1: talent than another five man starting lineup blue. And the
Speaker 1: quicker you get rid of that first round opponent, the
Speaker 1: opportunity might be there for you to have that time
Speaker 1: to heal up if you will, and have that practice time.
Speaker 1: The video session of course is key as well, getting
Speaker 1: ready as you prepare for that next team, while you
Speaker 1: can probably watch their first few games and watch the
Speaker 1: final few games while you rest at home. So I
Speaker 1: look at it that way when it comes to how
Speaker 1: how important it is for that practice time in the postseason,
Speaker 1: I would agree. I also think you start to like,
Speaker 1: for instance, somebody will be watching that other series sure
Speaker 1: the entire time. There's some coach who really not going
Speaker 1: to know what's going on in this in their own series,
Speaker 1: because all the attention is to that other one, and
Speaker 1: trying to think about matchups and how you will try
Speaker 1: to exploit somebody's matchup going to tonight, Like I'm interested
Speaker 1: if inb plays, and I think he will seeing it
Speaker 1: how much he defends Jannis versus Ben playing Jannis. These
Speaker 1: kind of things go a long way and telling me
Speaker 1: who can be a defensive impact in the postseason, because
Speaker 1: these kind of matchups are what it's about, absolutely, and
Speaker 1: I agree, I would I would prefer Ben on Jannis,
Speaker 1: and I understand the intrigue of Jannis versus Embad of course,
Speaker 1: especially now with a little bit of chatter going on
Speaker 1: in the media. I still will prefer the more natural
Speaker 1: matchup of Ben and Ben. He gets up for those
Speaker 1: types of matchups. You saw, Yes, he got donked on
Speaker 1: and he came back down and he gave him He
Speaker 1: gave it to him right back. So there is that
Speaker 1: competitive edge right there for him. And let's be us
Speaker 1: be honest. He put up fifty points on them the
Speaker 1: last time, so they're gonna want to go out there
Speaker 1: and stop him. Asking me televised game, They're not gonna
Speaker 1: let that happen again. And maybe these last two games
Speaker 1: on a road and woke him up a little bit,
Speaker 1: and this one really has them having their feet underneath
Speaker 1: him tonight. Just get a little bit of the juice back,
Speaker 1: get a taste, still sipping some more. You know that
Speaker 1: that could help cure a lot of the ills for
Speaker 1: the Sixers right now as they try to break out
Speaker 1: of this funk. They've lost four out of the last six.
Speaker 1: Before that, they won six and a row when Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid was in the lineup. He warmed up a little
Speaker 1: bit while ago. Down here at the center where a
Speaker 1: waiting word on whether or not he is in six
Speaker 1: one zero six, three, two zero nine seven five. Of course,
Speaker 1: there is a whole host of this roster beyond Joel Embid.
Speaker 1: Let's maybe as we continue after this break, getting into
Speaker 1: how things might fall into line with some of the
Speaker 1: other players beyond Joel Embid, what they'll have to do
Speaker 1: come the postseason in amazingly next two weeks. What's that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone can agree. The regular season with all
Speaker 1: due respect of the regular season, it's been fun, it's
Speaker 1: been great. It's time to get out time to time
Speaker 1: ago last week when you're already in it's brutal, it is.
Speaker 1: It has been a slog, to say the least. All right,
Speaker 1: six one zero, sixty two zero nine seventy five six
Speaker 1: ers and sixty presented by Toyota here on the fanatic
Speaker 1: will become bring him right back after this to the
Speaker 1: right side of chriscs to middle lad to Janni Feed
Speaker 1: had to give help and Middleton slides of the little
Speaker 1: left hand passed right into the heart of the league
Speaker 1: Adiopo with a flush battle of two of the best
Speaker 1: players in the NBA. Two weeks ago in Milwaukee, Joel
Speaker 1: Embiad had a huge game for the Sixers as they
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks, but Jannis did not do too poorly himself.
Speaker 1: He finished with fifty two points, sixteen boards, seven assists.
Speaker 1: He is obviously just insanely talented, and the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with him tonight in their second
Speaker 1: to last home game of the regular season, fourth last
Speaker 1: game over all. The Sixers cannot clinch the three seed tonight.
Speaker 1: With a win, they would get at worst the four seeds,
Speaker 1: so home court advantage in the first round. There's certainly
Speaker 1: something to be said for that. The Sixers magic number
Speaker 1: is two. They need some combination of two wins, a
Speaker 1: win and a Celtics loss, or two Celtics losses to
Speaker 1: wrap up that three seed. With d line them and
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Speaker 1: oh six and one oh seven down here at the center.
Speaker 1: Yannis MVP conversation. Of course, how strongly in the conversation
Speaker 1: as we hit that quick hitting point, Well, that's it's
Speaker 1: it's hard. No or Yannis at this point really, and
Speaker 1: it's a real conversation. And I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people would you more, would know better than I. And
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna come down to the final game, would
Speaker 1: it not. Yeah, I think part of what I remember
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago when Russell was doing all
Speaker 1: this triple double magic and but on a lesserteen and
Speaker 1: I'm Sam Houston's lesser boo. Milwaukee has been the best
Speaker 1: team throw out, sure, And I think you have reward
Speaker 1: a guy that's in that conversation for also being on
Speaker 1: the best team in the league. And if you look
Speaker 1: around him, it's really what he has. I love the
Speaker 1: lineup around him, but he has driven that that car
Speaker 1: to the top. So, but Harden's numbers in terms of
Speaker 1: the scoring prowess is crazy, this historic, right, And I
Speaker 1: feel like, similar to how Russell was historic that year,
Speaker 1: Harden might bump him off because it is that. I
Speaker 1: wonder how much it is the new blood. The same
Speaker 1: way that Russell Westbrook again followed that MVP type season up,
Speaker 1: you could argue that he was in that conversation again
Speaker 1: when James Harden won. So now in this particular case, well,
Speaker 1: they go the other way, as you said, from from
Speaker 1: start to finish, even though Toronto had the lead in
Speaker 1: the East at the very beginning for a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks they had it and then and then Milwaukee took
Speaker 1: it over and never relinquished it. So and his numbers
Speaker 1: have continued to just get better and better and better,
Speaker 1: and in big games he steps up and he does
Speaker 1: it on both ends. He's a two eight player. Now.
Speaker 1: It was always okay, he has the potential because he
Speaker 1: has the length, the athleticism. Now it's showing on the
Speaker 1: floor where he's an actual good defensive player. And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of that might have to do with Budenholzer. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean we can talk about coaching as
Speaker 1: like Jason Jim No, but but you know, the being
Speaker 1: able to teach guys, this is the next level for you.
Speaker 1: Are you interested in getting there? And clearly you know
Speaker 1: Budenholzer's the Atlanta team that won sixty games not that
Speaker 1: long ago. I mean he was responsible for making them
Speaker 1: as good as they conference finals team exactly exactly, all right,
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Speaker 1: six three two zero nine seventy five and hey, only
Speaker 1: four games left for the Rockets and the Nuggets. But
Speaker 1: you know Houston only one and a half game behind
Speaker 1: for that two seats, So I mean Harden certainly has
Speaker 1: the Rockets playing great as they've gotten more healthy. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Joe. You're on six sixty percent Abody Twitter,
Speaker 1: Joe hay Field man on the car to the game.
Speaker 1: We looking to our question tonight, who hits more minutes
Speaker 1: on the car? Bryce Harper? Desire who gets more minutes?
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, Zaire Smith. I would give that to Zaire
Speaker 1: Smith because there is no James Nis and you do
Speaker 1: have to figure something out eventually with Mike Scott starting.
Speaker 1: Zire Smith is simply gonna get a few minutes to
Speaker 1: see where he is, see how see how we see
Speaker 1: how he steps up in the moment. This is a
Speaker 1: nationally televised game. It may not be ten minutes, but
Speaker 1: Bryce Harper, if he's out there, he would only get
Speaker 1: about two minutes. So Bryce Harper is gonna win that
Speaker 1: one with the five to seven minutes that Brent Brown
Speaker 1: decides to run him out there for tonight, not in
Speaker 1: a blowout where the team is lost and you're throwing
Speaker 1: him out there to see what happens, probably gonna throw
Speaker 1: him out there in some significant time to see how
Speaker 1: he responds to that action. It really is amazing, first
Speaker 1: of all that Zire is even on the court, having
Speaker 1: a chance to play in games of some consequence. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's definitely in a position. I know he spent some
Speaker 1: time in the league. Do you obviously saw all those games.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna need some time, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: There's flash, the potential you see every now and then
Speaker 1: there's the athleticism. He's got a nice build, of course,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna need to figure it out. And that's
Speaker 1: that's the operative word, figure it out. And I think
Speaker 1: it's asking a lot of a young guy who did
Speaker 1: have so much, you know that to start the year
Speaker 1: with not just the injury, but then the illness and
Speaker 1: then you know, you were a first round picking. You
Speaker 1: had to spend your time in the G league, which
Speaker 1: is totally fine and you should develop your game down there.
Speaker 1: But for me, I just think defensively, what is necessary
Speaker 1: at the NBA level. I hope they run him out
Speaker 1: there tonight, but where his development needs to take place
Speaker 1: is definitely at the defensive end of the court. Because
Speaker 1: at the G League level he was always getting himself
Speaker 1: in foul trouble. Oh okay, yeah, So I mean, and
Speaker 1: that's where I think it's situationally too. Who's out there
Speaker 1: on the floor that Brett Brown's says, I like this matchup.
Speaker 1: Go out there with Startling Brown, go out there, even
Speaker 1: though Tony Snell's a veteran, Go out there with Tony
Speaker 1: Snell because he's more of a spot up shooter than
Speaker 1: he is someone who can put the ball on the
Speaker 1: floor and gets to the basket. So I think maybe
Speaker 1: Brett Brown will look at it in that regard to
Speaker 1: see if that's a better spot for Zaire Smith just
Speaker 1: to get his feet out there again on the floor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because Devanni does have the length. Yes, he'd like him
Speaker 1: to be able to be that in certain situations, to
Speaker 1: be able to know you can throw them out there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And of course if they get out in the open floor,
Speaker 1: that's where he also excels, filling out those lanes and
Speaker 1: potentially getting something in a fast break alluep or just
Speaker 1: finishing catching don't yep, We are standing by waiting word
Speaker 1: on whether or not Joell Eenbie'd play tonight. He did
Speaker 1: warm up not too long ago. Down here at the Center,
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna find out probably real soon about
Speaker 1: Joe status. It would be excellent, of course, to have
Speaker 1: him back in the Sixers trying to break out of
Speaker 1: a two game losing streak. They dropped four out of
Speaker 1: the last six. We've been talking about obviously, feelings of
Speaker 1: confidence going into the postseason, which will start the weekend
Speaker 1: after this one. The packed of course that Joel Embid
Speaker 1: would have on the Sixes fortunes, but where do things,
Speaker 1: guys fall in line after that? Of course, everyone understands
Speaker 1: what Joe can bring to the table, but after indeed,
Speaker 1: what then? Well, I'm gonna say one of my questions
Speaker 1: today to Brett was how comfortable are you because you
Speaker 1: only have four games left with your postseason rotation? And
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting that he still has the
Speaker 1: decision what do I want to do at the backup point?
Speaker 1: Do I want to give those minutes to Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: or am I going to give it to TJ McConnell.
Speaker 1: So that's a decision. He thinks he knows what he
Speaker 1: wants to do. Personally, I think he's gonna go with
Speaker 1: the Butler more than the TJ, and TJ will become
Speaker 1: more of a situation needed as opposed to part of
Speaker 1: the regular rotation. And the other is who's the backup five.
Speaker 1: We haven't even said Greg Monroe's name yet, and I
Speaker 1: asked that about you know, what's his role gonna be.
Speaker 1: I love that Brian, that he was willing to use
Speaker 1: the word insurance, and that's that is what that guy is.
Speaker 1: And with an embed you better have insurance because you
Speaker 1: have invested in wanting to go far in this postseason.
Speaker 1: If you need, he needs a rest, if he his
Speaker 1: need bothers you a. Greg Monroe has been there. He's
Speaker 1: a season postseason guy, and he has the right personality
Speaker 1: knowing that he probably will not be part of the
Speaker 1: regular road take because he's been there with that Boston
Speaker 1: team where they will bring him in sparingly in certain spots,
Speaker 1: saying with Toronto and Milwaukee as well. So I can
Speaker 1: agree with you there now the backup, the backup big
Speaker 1: man spot after Joel Embide. Something still tells me that
Speaker 1: he he may lean Amir Johnson when he needs him
Speaker 1: becoming because he trusts him, Yes, he trusts us huge, yes, yep.
Speaker 1: And and I know a lot of people. It's not
Speaker 1: a it's not a sexy thing where you want to
Speaker 1: go with Amir Johnson over Bolden or even Bobon because
Speaker 1: he's a fan favorite. Listen, we all like Boban, but
Speaker 1: there are certain matchups that are not favorable for him.
Speaker 1: And we said it when it happened that that might
Speaker 1: be something they're gonna have to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: And it has now shown in certain games where he's
Speaker 1: played four minutes and he's gotten zero shot, zero rebounds,
Speaker 1: zero block shots, and they're like, Okay, we know we
Speaker 1: have to go in a different direction fast, and he's
Speaker 1: and he recognizes that. So something tells me still, even
Speaker 1: with the addition of Greg Munroe, that Emir Johnson is
Speaker 1: going to be in that mix. I'm just saying it's
Speaker 1: the asin is popular because he and the word is
Speaker 1: definitely trust. But what is amazing to me, Bright is
Speaker 1: that you have five deep at the center position when
Speaker 1: the guy who starts at the center position on the
Speaker 1: court the most and right now you could use a
Speaker 1: little extra help on the perimeter. Yeah, we obviously know
Speaker 1: how great Joe El Embiid is. Could he be great
Speaker 1: and at his peak, Max every single playoff game, that
Speaker 1: might be a little bit unrealistic to expect. So if
Speaker 1: there are a couple of games where he may not
Speaker 1: have it going on or the Sixers need something else.
Speaker 1: Is Jimmy Butler the next guy? How will be and
Speaker 1: Simmons have to effect postseason games to get the Sixers
Speaker 1: to their peak top level? Do you think I think
Speaker 1: he has? I think he has to effect it. Number one,
Speaker 1: remembering what happened in Boston and understanding the one point game,
Speaker 1: the fact that they were able to build that wall
Speaker 1: at the free throw line and eliminate things, the fact
Speaker 1: that Brett Brown had to start not only for Robert
Speaker 1: Covington but also for Ben Simmons because he needed to
Speaker 1: be off the ball to allow things to roam a
Speaker 1: little free for the offense to get going. And it
Speaker 1: was effective. It was a positive substitution. I think he
Speaker 1: has to go in there and remember that one, but
Speaker 1: also remember the success that he had in the Miami
Speaker 1: Series and how impactful he was and how aggressive he was,
Speaker 1: the numbers he was able to put up and go
Speaker 1: out there and execute those things and get it done
Speaker 1: because they are going to double and triple team Joe
Speaker 1: llenb that's a fact. And if the shots are not
Speaker 1: falling for some of the others, he's going to have
Speaker 1: to find a way to get to the basket and finish,
Speaker 1: get to the free throw line and finish at the
Speaker 1: rim and get to the free throw line and knock
Speaker 1: down those and one oportunities because he is that good.
Speaker 1: And he also has to be strong on the defensive
Speaker 1: end to start to create those opportunities offensively, those fast
Speaker 1: break opportunities, grabbing the rebound off of the glass and
Speaker 1: turning and pushing. Ben Simmons is going to be key.
Speaker 1: I think he's the second most important guy in this
Speaker 1: series because of what he does and what he doesn't
Speaker 1: do where defenses are gonna key key on him strongly. Ye,
Speaker 1: which is why I didn't really love his game last night.
Speaker 1: Now that concerns me, to be honest, A loafing last night.
Speaker 1: He was loafing along. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I said
Speaker 1: to Brian earlier that you know, use last year's experience,
Speaker 1: not just Ben, but the team to utilize Ben differently,
Speaker 1: like some of what we've seen, running him along the
Speaker 1: baseline and letting him duck in some when you have
Speaker 1: the ability to put the ball in Jimmy Butler's hands
Speaker 1: and people are gonna dare bend to shoot at twelve
Speaker 1: footer or fifteen footer, then utilize him different, make them pay,
Speaker 1: post him up a little more than you would have
Speaker 1: the year ago because he can do that jump upon Yeah,
Speaker 1: he can. And when you bring up the point guard
Speaker 1: minutes for Jimmy Butler potentially as a backup, how many
Speaker 1: minutes would would you be comfortable with and still mixing
Speaker 1: it in TJ from time to time? Right? So what
Speaker 1: if I give TJ ten? So I'm giving you, know,
Speaker 1: Jimmy about five? Right, Okay, all right, fair enough? I
Speaker 1: like that. But instead of instead of you getting the
Speaker 1: like fifteen to eighteen out of TJ. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're going to get that, right, I really don't, right,
Speaker 1: I agree to me. What's intriguing is you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: now having the benefit of a second playoffs that Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons are gonna be playing, and we're gonna find out
Speaker 1: more just how much directly, single handedly he might be
Speaker 1: able to affect games. How much could Tobias Harris Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler if they're able to help space and spread the
Speaker 1: floor even more, give Ben a little bit more space
Speaker 1: to do some things. It all obviously comes together, but
Speaker 1: no doubt an important second postseason coming up for Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: So the way the Eastern Conference looks right now, as
Speaker 1: we examine these six through eight seeds, there is a
Speaker 1: game separating four teams that are in contention for three
Speaker 1: playoff spots. Pistons right now are number six. They're even
Speaker 1: at five hundred thirty nine and thirty nine. They've lost
Speaker 1: two in a row. Brooklyn has dropped under five hundred
Speaker 1: thirty nine and forty. They've dropped two in a row.
Speaker 1: The Orlando Magic are eight and two in their last ten.
Speaker 1: They're thirty nine and forty, and Miami is two hundred
Speaker 1: five hundred. They're in the ninth spot at thirty eight
Speaker 1: and forty. They've dropped two straight. It's really intriguing. The
Speaker 1: Sixers haven't played Detroit since the earliest stage of the season,
Speaker 1: before the Jimmy Butler trade. If I'm not mistaken, Orlando
Speaker 1: knocked them off last week when the Sixers didn't have
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. We know the Brooklyn deal. Miami, I think
Speaker 1: it's clear the Sixers have their number, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think there are certainly cases you could make with
Speaker 1: those other three teams why you wouldn't want to play them,
Speaker 1: And for me personally, right now, I'm kind of leaning
Speaker 1: more towards Detroit and Orlando as the two teams that
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to see it because they're playing good basketball.
Speaker 1: Yes it is, and I think that when you look
Speaker 1: at Orlando, to me, Orlando has looked more like a team.
Speaker 1: They've got some athletes on the wings, and you're talking
Speaker 1: about areas where the Sixers have had a little bit
Speaker 1: of issue, a pick and roll with Vussovich and Augustine
Speaker 1: to the point, and then they're athletic players on the
Speaker 1: win with Gordon and Isaac, and you got a guy
Speaker 1: like Ross coming off the bench. I don't know. They
Speaker 1: intrigued me, especially now that they're playing better basketball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm at a different point this year. Last year,
Speaker 1: I was nervous because these guys hadn't played basketball. This year,
Speaker 1: you've added what I consider two All Star caliber players
Speaker 1: to a team that already has two All Stars. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't be concerned about who I'm going to play because
Speaker 1: my talents should be better than them. Over the course
Speaker 1: of seven games, and they should be worried about matching
Speaker 1: up with you, exactly right, unless unless you had something
Speaker 1: that is your one weakness that is so bad as
Speaker 1: a team. And I don't really think that I see
Speaker 1: that in the sixers. You know, we can talk about
Speaker 1: their pick and roll defense, and we can talk about
Speaker 1: how some guards have really torched them Treyon, but by
Speaker 1: and large defensively, I got to go to the team
Speaker 1: number that that's starting five, the net rating of three,
Speaker 1: and say that I really don't have an outstanding weakness
Speaker 1: that another team could just ride for seven games. And
Speaker 1: all of that. The coaching on each of those teams
Speaker 1: is really good. Look at Orlando with Steve Clifford and
Speaker 1: you talk about the ad night say that, and the
Speaker 1: and the wing Steve Clifford has turned around, and Dwayne
Speaker 1: Casey and Detroit and even when you go to Miami
Speaker 1: and you say, okay, yes they don't have it. Eric
Speaker 1: Spoistre is still Eric Spostre where he might just win
Speaker 1: you a game like he did last season in the
Speaker 1: first round. Right, So, but I agree with you. I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid of Detroit. Kenny Atkinson and the Nets just
Speaker 1: because they had the confidence already with what they've done
Speaker 1: against the seventy six and now it's a new unit here,
Speaker 1: but they have already seen this team and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can hang with them. We're not afraid of them.
Speaker 1: Where everyone else there could be a problem specifically too
Speaker 1: with Andre Drummond, with the real estate that Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: has in his head. But he's been playing. He was
Speaker 1: player of the week just like well a week. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That and when you have a Blake Griffin who can
Speaker 1: go off for fifty yeah in a giving game. Yep,
Speaker 1: you know that's that would scare you a little bit
Speaker 1: in terms of having that caliber of one guy who
Speaker 1: can put them on his back. Yeah, Detroit, just bring
Speaker 1: them on. Let's just let's do this. Knock this out
Speaker 1: in five, get some rest, get ready for the second
Speaker 1: round against the Rafts. I think for me, what this
Speaker 1: comes back to is the whole idea of the sixers.
Speaker 1: Can they turn the switch on? Can they turn the
Speaker 1: switch off? I think there's a team, there could be
Speaker 1: several teams out there that might make the first round
Speaker 1: a little bit frustrating. They get through the first round.
Speaker 1: It's these other things that we've been talking about some
Speaker 1: of the areas where the Sixers are trying to tighten
Speaker 1: up where in the second round, that's when you really
Speaker 1: might start to zero in on those more and they
Speaker 1: might become a little bit more of an isshar And
Speaker 1: I think we have a minute left. We have another
Speaker 1: one of these shows next week at the Center before
Speaker 1: the regular season finale. I'm looking forward to doing it
Speaker 1: with the two of you. I think that's our brooking
Speaker 1: day and I think we could say that throat out there,
Speaker 1: but real quickly, are we going to be in better?
Speaker 1: What are our spirits gonna be like this time in
Speaker 1: less than a week? Better than what they are right
Speaker 1: now going on a four game winning streak to close
Speaker 1: out the season. Well, I don't see that. You don't
Speaker 1: see that because I see in people's features. Yeah, after
Speaker 1: they clinched it there at see by the way, brib
Speaker 1: they can't do it on their own tonight, but the
Speaker 1: one win because not enough. But you know, the other
Speaker 1: teams aren't playing and in Bolting in Indiana play one
Speaker 1: another tomorrow, so something will help you if the six
Speaker 1: get the win tonight. Yep, all right, big thanks to
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Speaker 1: at the studio. Huge thanks to Devon. Indeed it was
Speaker 1: a great time. I'm Brian Seltzer, Big Test tonight. Enjoy
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