WEBVTT - Game 3 Reaction! Sixers 102, Nets 97 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.640 I'm Tarvis Mexi and you're listened to the seventy six 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:13.200 Ers Insiders podcast by Everybody. I'm fairly love Yeah seventy. 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:26.000 Six Welcome back everybody into another post Sixers win reaction chat. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:27.440 We're live on Twitter spaces. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.600 This is also available on the seventy six Ers Insiders 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:32.760 podcast feed, So if you're not with us there yet, 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.760 please please please give us a follow wherever you get 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:35.320 your podcast. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.080 I'm Lauren Rosen. Matt Murphy is here. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.680 We are ready to dive into all things Game three 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:42.919 and that what a game it was. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.640 Talk to me about what you saw, Hey, Lauren Rosen. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.440 Great to be back with you. Great to be with 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.840 everyone live and on demand. Sixers up three to zero 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:56.320 on the Brooklyn Nets. Final score one oh two ninety seven. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.520 Finding different ways to win this the first time this postseason, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.360 had a chance to do it on the road, and 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.920 perhaps no game fit that mold more than this Game 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.600 three in Brooklyn. The idea that this is what true 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.480 contending teams in the NBA do. No game, no series, 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.440 is ever going to be easy, but staying in games 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.679 and finding a way in the end a game that 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.399 you don't expect them to necessarily pull out, and they 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.360 go and do it by five in and away game 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:26.920 to go up three to zero and a chance to 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.160 sweep and get some rests. Obviously, one game at a time, 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.520 but I think we've got Lauren back with us for 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:33.240 the stats. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:34.800 Thanks Matt. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.080 Sorry about that, guys, and like you said, finding a 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.840 way to get it done. Doc Rivers not particularly pleased 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.120 with most of the individual performances from last night, but 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.800 when he came to the podium, his immediate takeaway was 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.440 how much of a team when that was? He said, 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.160 it was something that they wanted to learn to do 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.960 all season long, and luckily those reps paid off in 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.840 Game three. We're going to get into the stats now. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.480 If you guys have thoughts, please drop a comment using 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.760 that purple icon in the bottom right hand corner of 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.920 space screen. You can also send us a DM if 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:03.640 you're listening after. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:04.080 The live show. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.000 We will respond to your dms in our next show. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.040 So let us know what stands out to you live. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.960 We're trying to read everything, and here we go. So 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.680 a one oh two ninety seven victory over the Brooklyn Nets, 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.399 a twenty six to fifteen fourth quarter that would prove 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.720 really decisive after Brooklyn had a thirty five to eighteen 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.280 advantage in that third quarter. Tyrese Maxi led the way 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.960 for the seventy six ers with twenty five points, three rebounds, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.480 and three assists. He shot ten for seventeen from the field. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.079 He had another five to three pointer outing, shooting five 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:37.040 for eight from three point range. James Harden in the 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.120 minutes that he was able to be on the floor, 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.519 of course, before exiting the game in the second half. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.800 More on that in a bit twenty one points, five rebounds, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.480 four assists. He shot eight for fifteen from the field. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.320 He had three threes in his twenty nine minutes of play. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.800 Tobias Harris another super solid outing fifteen points, seven rebounds 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.000 and an assist. Joel Embiid finishes with a fourteen point 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.040 ten rebound double double plus twos to steal and two blocks. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.200 The Anthony Melton had a bench high thirteen points. He 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.640 finished at a plus twenty four that was the best 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.639 on the team, and he played thirty minutes off the bench, 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.080 just stepping up and stepping in big after Harden's exit. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:13.680 PJ. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.799 Tucker, the stats never tell the whole story, but three 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.600 points eight rebounds, three offensive rebounds, four assists, and a 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.920 block in his twenty nine minutes of play. Massive down 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.639 the stretch were PJ. Tucker and Tyrese Maxi. But Matt, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.560 when you look at this box score, what. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:29.680 Do you see? 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.079 Can I take the easy way out and just talk 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.200 about Tyrese Maxi? 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.520 Please do? It's about time. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.840 Because you can really look deep into a box score, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.920 just a little past maybe the counting stats on the 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.280 front page, and if you really look at like the 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.680 how the game played out, with the play by play 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:52.200 and each basket listed one by one, Tyrese Maxey's name 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:56.280 is all over that sheet at the fourth quarter and 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.360 late in the fourth quarter, he said after and we'll 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.760 hear from ty will hear from PJ. Tucker coming right up. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.920 But a little bit of a spoiler. He talked about 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:10.280 how the coaching staff and Sam Cassell in particular, had 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.440 said to him it's winning time with about four minutes 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.480 left during a timeout, and he must have taken that 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.760 to heart because he scored ten of the last thirteen 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.120 and there was only two minutes and fifteen seconds left 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.000 in the game. As you're scrolling the box scorer and 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.040 looking at the time of these baskets. When Brooklyn went 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.359 up ninety six ninety one and then his three to 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.159 cut it to two felt like a must have shot 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.440 that was at the two toho three mark, And of 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.080 course he made a steal in a basket to tie 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:43.200 it and then a perhaps bigger three in the overall 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.040 scheme of things out of the timeout with less than 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.440 a minute to go, but that shot down five felt 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.479 like if you miss that, who knows what happens. So 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.640 the amount of scoring Tyrese Maxi did in such a 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.880 small amount of time in a playoff game on the 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.200 road was my main. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:03.080 Takeaway of Tyrese Maxie, a theme that we often draw 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.839 back to remembering what he was like in the situations 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.640 he's been put in as a rookie in the playoffs, 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.440 as a sophomore in the playoffs, and now this year, 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.800 really putting the team on his back in two of 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.640 their last three games, two of their first three games 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.839 of these playoffs. Let's hear him discussing the win post game. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.120 Yeah, I mean just kind of sometimes how the game flows. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:23.200 We're trying to get the ball, Joe all on the 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.120 elbow a little bit, let them tap. So we give 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.440 these their shots. They did a good job of just 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.520 being extremely physical pushing them out. And then the way 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.839 the ball was rotating out the traps, you know, that 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.200 was that was probably the reason why I didn't choose much. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.800 But down the stretch, I mean I knew because James 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.360 is I had the ball in my hands. So once 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.280 you have the ball in your hands, you kind of dictate, 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.160 you know where the ball goes. So trying to get 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:45.600 to Joe, well, if I can't get to Joe, well, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.320 you know, trying to get in the pain, make and 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.239 play for somebody else on myself. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.360 You look happy for everybody down the stretch because it 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:53.560 was a little extra happy for. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.800 DMDY after that. Don't you think it's excited your relationship 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:57.120 with him? 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:58.240 Why you're excited? 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.560 I'm assuming excited. You know. It's funny people thought that 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.160 we would be I guess beaching whatever because we know 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.039 we're in out of the lineups, but literally, like like 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.599 we're like almost on a team, probably like really good friends, 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:11.960 best friends if you want to say so. So it's 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.599 like we cheer each other on and in any circumstance, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.080 and I get on for not being aggressive, he gets 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.120 on me for not being aggressive and and I think 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.120 that's just something that we have in common, is we 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.520 both want to win really bad, but we both want 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.599 to see each other succeed. So I knew he was 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.800 gonna gamble. I'm just glad he didn't have to gamble 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.640 like too hard because it can't felt right. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:30.080 Into his hands. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.000 So you know, he played well though he played well 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.680 with that little baby with mill Duck he had I 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.760 don't know what. I don't know where this Dnne was 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.000 in the regular season, but Dugan but not even wants 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.320 to dunk everything and jump high. But we'll take it. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.040 I mentioned that you guys have been able to ben 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.640 so many different types of games. You'll be able to 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.400 keep up in offensive, powerhousing and defensive stuff. That's like this, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.400 How much does that a thought that you guys gotta 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:51.320 beat his good confidence? 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:52.280 Man? 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.159 It's huge. It's extremely big because we have one. We 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.279 have so many different guys that can do things to 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.040 Like if you saw the game how it went, I 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.599 think I had a big first quarter. Joeoye is still 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.080 trapping him uh to come third quarter when we needed 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.000 when they went on their little run and we needed, uh, 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.440 somebody step up. James was out there, he stepped up, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.760 he hit some big shots. Uh, here's some shots where 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.440 the offense was stalled and then the shot clock got 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.520 laid and he just created. He did some James Harden 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.560 stuff and uh, he hits some big shots. And like 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.240 you said, we can rely on our defense to win 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.000 games and then we could score with the best of them. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.280 We have weapons, we have depth, and we have a 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.840 good system. So can you talk about the surveyor this 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.920 week or ash The next game obviously is the most 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:30.600 important one. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.200 But in your experience, know and in a couple of playoffs, 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.240 why do you feel like it's hard for the sweet happen? 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.480 Why is it hard for one to sweep the other team? 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.680 It's it's hard for a sweeping. It's hard to win 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.280 a close our game because everybody has pride out here. Man, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:46.920 this is the best the best bat Hell players in 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.960 the world. So it's like, you know, if if if 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:51.520 you don't have pride, then you wouldn't be here, you 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.000 know what I'm saying. So you're not gonna just lay 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.440 down and let somebody, uh you know, if it you know, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.679 close out the game or close out the series on you, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.480 You're gonna put your all into it, and uh, that's 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.640 what we're gonna gonna do on Saturday, and you know 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.920 this game's over. Uh we're happy to win, and we 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.920 gotta get ready compared. We gotta be better, way better 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.320 than we were. Uh really good first half, not so 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.720 good third quarter. Finish it out, but uh, you gotta 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:12.680 be better for four quarters. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.520 Next time, you've told your story a real copule of 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.200 times of Midway. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.000 Through your rookie year, you weren't playing. You went into 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.840 Dock's office and told you you were gonna win a 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.840 playoff game. Then you went and did. Now you've won 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.760 a few playoff games. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.200 If you don't mind reflecting, can you sort of take 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.160 us from then to tonight? 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.680 As I know what it feels like to be. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:31.920 Inside your head? 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.560 Well the then during that time, I was just highly confused. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.560 I I was just I went home and I told 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.000 my my uncle and my my dad and my mom 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:41.920 said and Doc called me into the office and told 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:43.520 me I'm to win a playoff game. I'm I hadn't 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.640 played in two weeks. M Like, I ha, that w 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.760 that it well, how they can correlate. But you know, 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.080 as soon as he told me that he played me 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.320 like consistently every single game, and I just I thought 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.560 of something at the confidence switch, Like I've always had confidence, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.839 but when Joe Will was coming up to me to 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.439 and the uh Mike Sky on the team was coming 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.920 up to be telling me like, but we've seen you play, 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.480 we see you hoop, and I just go out there 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.000 on the court and do it and do it with 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.720 the aultar confidence. And I think that was a turning 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.680 point of of of my sh small professional far young 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.439 commersal far. And then once that happened, you know, that 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.040 actually went how it went. And this year I think 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.200 I got a I kept saying coming in to training camp, 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.280 I knew what my role was gonna be. I knew 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.520 this was my first time coming in training camp knowing 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.760 my role was gonna be. Went through some adversity, got hurt, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.720 stuff changed, but you know my mind has always been 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.560 the same. That's to win and do whatever it takes 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.800 to win. And uh, tonight it was you know when 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.880 when our bond hndler, our leader went out wash take 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.720 that role a full porter and help us get into 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.520 our stuff, help us win again. I just kind of 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:42.840 stay back what you're moround. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.679 Doctimity was post compressial mostly way you guys to be 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.079 able to stay composed despite things not going and way, 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.560 it's just like where does that composure coming from? When 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.400 guys are getting tossed for whatever reason, then calls might 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:54.240 not be going there with it. 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.160 We got a lot of old guys out there, like 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.640 cut and he's telling everybody to sit down and be 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.520 quiet then listening to coaching or listen to him. So 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.760 you have that, and you have we have MVP and 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.160 he's the same way he's demanding. You got Tobias who's 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.640 been you know, been the playoff before, Melk who else 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.880 was out there? A lot different guys, and then they 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.600 have me being young, but I feel old, uh now 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.640 because I've been, you know, out there playing with him. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.600 So when you have guys like that, do you have 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.360 the coaching staff who's been there before? You have everybody 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.720 on that was on our bench with the house trays, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.480 dead Man, all those guys, they've been there before. So 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.120 for us to stay calm and that situation was really good. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:36.240 And I'm proud miss for that Winona says. Maxie is 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.000 a baller period. Going to read all these Maxi comments 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.000 real quick. LaToya says, Let's give Tyrese his flowers for 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.880 stepping up like he's done all series. Lexi says, need 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.160 someone to pass along the message to Tyrese that we 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.720 are so proud of him. I think he sees your messages. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.800 He's definitely online. Uh, but we can let him know 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.400 for sure. Genie says Tyrese Maxie, he is him proud 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.640 of how he stepped up and didn't allow the moment 0:10:58.720 --> 0:10:59.959 to become too big for him. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.560 He just played his game. Matt Murphy your thoughts. 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.800 Let's give Lauren Rosen her flowers for those questions in there, 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.000 especially at the end. Get some good stuff out of 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.280 Tyrese reflecting on his journey and how his rookie year, 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.520 that conversation he had with the coach, Doc Rivers, and 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.960 how he was confused about how he would be asked 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.360 to make or win, help them win, or lead them 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.840 to a win in the playoffs at that time, based 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.680 on how the rotation had shaken out, and a couple 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.240 years ago with the Game six in the playoffs and 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.880 how it actually did happen, and now we see Tyrese 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:38.000 Maxi leading to leading the Sixers to another playoff victory. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.800 I really enjoyed that exchange that you both had at 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.240 the end. So well, job well done, Lauren, very. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:46.840 Kind, Matt Murphy, thank you so much. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.080 Someone else who certainly deserves their flowers, if we don't 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.040 mind pivoting p J Tucker. He came into the Sixers 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:58.360 team with a really really sterling reputation as a leader, 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.360 as a player, but most for his reputation in the playoffs. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:03.719 And I think there was a lot of pressure put 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.120 on PJ playing in a city like Philadelphia for the 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:11.240 first time, joining the team on his new contract, And 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:16.280 now he's really shown exactly why the Sixers wanted PJ Tucker. 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.840 He has been everything and more in these first couple 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.080 or first three games rather and as soon as he 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.280 came into the game last night, he made a huge difference. Matt, 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:25.240 what did you see from PJ? 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:25.800 Last night? 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.840 Doc Rivers talked about how important he was to the 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.640 win and said he was the toughest player on the floor. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.440 So a lot of this is stuff that we're rehashing 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.120 because it was almost expected of PJ Tucker to play 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.840 like this in the playoffs based on his body of 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.800 work in his career, but to now see him actually 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.280 doing it in a Sixers uniform is another thing. And 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.079 I what stood out to me is the offensive rebounds 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.200 for the team didn't jump off the stat sheet like 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.640 they did in previous games of the series, but they 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.400 were once again timely and PJ Tucker. For him to 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.240 not only get one offense rebound on a possession, but 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.280 multiple offensive rebounds, and then the Sixers to just have 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.800 multiple looks at it, That's where I'm looking at PJ Tucker. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.400 I know Tom McGinnis on the radio side had a 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.840 line about Tucker that said, is there anyone that plays 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.960 harder or hustles more? I think not, so I would 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:21.960 like to echo that sentiment. 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.920 The way that PJ Tucker has carried himself all season 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.160 has been extremely impressive and we've gotten to see why 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.320 he has the reputation that he has. But it's been 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.680 such a pleasure to see why he has the playoff 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.440 reputation that he has. And the scuttle butt sort of 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.520 around the team is how nice it is to have 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.640 him on their side. Of course, the Sixers came up 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.880 against PJ in the playoffs last season. There's some pretty 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.520 iconic photos of PJ wrestling rebounds away from four or 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.160 five of his current teammates even and they've talked about 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.040 how nice it is to have them on their side. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.160 I was able to ask James Harden about PJ after 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.600 the game last night, and James talked about the years 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.960 that they've spent together, either in the trenches together or 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.800 as opponents, and just how glad he was to watch 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.600 his teammate and friend of many years succeed last night 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.080 when James was watching from the back. Some really good 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.040 content coming by the way about or not about, but showing. Yeah, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.200 this is here's your teaser from at sixers coming up 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:14.480 in the. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.079 Next couple of hours. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.240 Probably shout out to Nick McCain, who was our shooter 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.880 last night, to Julie Villanova Becker Royer, who are going 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:21.880 to push that one out. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.600 Uh, but here we go. Let's listen to PJ after. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:25.240 You can hear it. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.280 You can hear the belief I think so you can 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.240 hear the belief about this group in PJ Tucker's voice 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:32.840 and his tone. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.880 Yeah, absolutely, really really cool stuff. So let's listen to 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.320 who the guy who really was the emotional leader in 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.400 the huddles and in the locker room and then backed 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:42.480 it up with his play last night. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:42.880 Here's PJ. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:43.280 Tucker. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:52.120 That's right. Interesting, it was fun. It was fun because 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.720 this is one of those ones just wild. It's just 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:59.200 will a lot of things won old tanks. It was 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.120 a lot. That's how you expect them to throw everything 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.880 at you, do whatever take to win. You know, they 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.080 try to junk the game up, but all the double 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.800 playing and switching and playing fast, playing hard. But like 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.520 I said, you know you expect that down down on 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.800 two at home, first game at home. Just bring it off. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.720 You tell your guy whose game is kind of kid 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.200 on physicality for some kind of that's any game like 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:27.960 that where there are injections and there. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.920 Is just a lot happened, happen not get something? 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.440 Fine, Yeah, I'm at home. That's it. I love that. 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.080 Those are my favorite kind of games, cause the rest 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.280 started letting a little more go and get chippy and 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.840 you know, to come down. I told Joel before uh 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.560 that we started the playoffs. These type of games the 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.200 ones you remember if you get to where you wanna be, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.280 Those games where you shooting forty percent and you know, 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.280 sixty from the free throw and nobody get a three 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.960 and you win. Those are the ones that's when you know, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.480 you're grow as a team. You do whatever it takes 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.120 that night you get to win. And these are kind 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.320 of games that you know, Bill build that foundation to 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.640 be able to win, cause then when you're rolling, uh, 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.040 it's it's hard to beat you. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.960 Did you think that one guy's tough minded is getting 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:15.920 filter out? 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.960 No, I don't think just too much credit for that, No, 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.640 it definitely doesn't. But it's just like a team cohesiveness 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:31.680 that send the tone accountability. You know, guys having to 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.440 come in and do what they're supposed to do. Do 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.240 your job. If everybody does a job, then everybody's jobs 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.520 will be easy. A lots to be a lot easy, you. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.960 Know j Toss, you know Joel picks up early flagrant 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.840 when your shots start going, does the how do you say? 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:46.440 The boys? 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.960 Those are the ones and the time I'll say, hey, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.240 get out here we go, come on, get back on overs, 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:57.600 let's come on do this, execute talk, communicate better, your 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.240 physical box out. It's the little stuff that gets you going. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.560 We struggled early with office rebound. Kiot threeties started to 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.320 get a couple of going gets harvestown ill, Joe's not 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:09.159 playing all right? 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:09.440 Cool? 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.040 Come on, we know what we gotta do. It's not 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:12.800 it's not rocket science. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:14.800 What do you make him win? 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.920 The living and these shots the German stretch coming kind. 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:22.679 Of quiet, that's what he does. And Terry is I'm 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.480 always trying to get him activated. He gets sometimes he 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.880 gets lost in the shovels, just with James and Joe sometimes, 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.119 but he don't need a lot to get going. Tyre's 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.240 geta lay up and get filed, a couple of free 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.720 throws and then he can just run them off and 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.320 take over the game. So have it that ability. He's 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.920 so young, he's just like she didn't even know. He's 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.119 just like, you know, he missed the pew whatever. But 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.200 he just get it going, make one shot. He's that good. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.200 So I'm always going to try to get him going. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:52.000 PJ. 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.080