WEBVTT - Fanatic About the Playoffs | Tyrone Johnson Recaps Rd. 1, Previews Rd. 2 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:09.680 search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. This 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:14.440 is Fanatic About the Playoffs from the seventy Sixers podcast Network, 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.400 presented by Draft Gags and ninety seven five The Fanatic, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.640 with new episodes premiering the day after every seventy Sixers 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:27.160 playoff game. This is the Fanatic About the Playoffs podcast 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.640 and on this episode we recap the finale it ended 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.280 up being of Round one, Game five, and look ahead 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:38.600 to the seventy Sixers Eastern Conference Semi Finals matchup yes 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.800 with the Atlanta Hawks. The series starting on Sunday at 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.600 one o'clock. What is Fanatic About the Playoffs? It is 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.199 our new postseason podcast series with us here at the 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.640 seventy Sixers and our friends at ninety seventy five to Fanatic, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.880 the radio home of the Sixers in the Delaware Valley, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.880 with new episodes dropping the day after every Sixers playoff game. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.000 My name is Brian Seltzer. We've got Lauren Rosen, team 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:06.360 Reporter Extraordinary for the seventy Sixers with us and Mike 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:11.120 misson Nellie Show and select outstanding weekend programming on the 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:16.480 fanatic also Sixers Outsiders on NBC Sports Philadelphia is everywhere 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.200 this time of year. It is Tyrone Johnson, ty what's 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.320 up man? How are you? How are you guys doing? 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.320 Thanks for having me, of course, of course, can we 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.360 go through the range of emotions and thoughts we had 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.319 on Wednesday from one o'clock Eastern on through the end 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.280 of the night, one o'clock, of course, being the time 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.960 that the big Man news dropped, and then by the 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.000 end of the night the Sixers moving on with a 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:46.120 very convincing showing without Joel against Washington. Yeah, for me, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.440 it was tough. Well, first I was hoping that it 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.800 would just be okay, They'd say, hey, it's a day 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.760 to day just because of soreness. I was hoping there 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.920 was no injury at all. That's what I was hoping for, 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.680 and obviously that wasn't the case, so that was tough. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.680 Then they said day to day. I said, okay, well, 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.120 he's not ruled out yet, so now let's try to 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.120 focus on the game. Once he's not out, let's focus 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.440 on the game. Let's put that to the side temporarily. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.959 Then before the game he's on the court, and that's 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.760 impossible to ignore, like people are paying attention to it. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.720 You can't just act like that didn't happen. So now 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.680 it's like, oh, wait that Mightne could play soon. Oh 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.640 maybe he'll pull a Willis Reed and try to play tonight. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.200 There were people saying that then the game starts, that 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.239 they can't make shots early, and it's like, oh no, 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.280 could this possibly be a game six? And then the 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.160 second half happens. They explode, shots start falling, and then 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.120 they get Washington up out of there. So it was 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.200 definitely a roller coaster for me, for sure. I was 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.200 right alongside you front row of the roller coaster. A 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.160 really interesting day, but honestly not that abnormal when you 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.120 think about the year that people have gone through, the 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.639 years that Sixers fans have gone through. Awesome to see 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.720 it end the way that it did. A lot of 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.480 angst on Wednesday, and really good to see the guys 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.520 Galvanizes come together get the job done. I agree with you. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.440 I think that second half just like everything started to click. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.080 I think Danny Green's play at the end of the 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.799 second quarter is something that we are not talking about enough. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.320 Selton I just did a Twitter space tyrone and it 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.120 was a lot of fun. We did not mention Danny 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:12.880 Green a single time, and so now I feel like 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.920 I have to that. Well, maybe we did, I don't know. Anyway, 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.120 Danny Green at the end of the second quarter was 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.800 so important, and I just can only imagine what he 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.520 was saying to the guys in the locker room at 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.799 halftime for them to come out the way that they did. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:29.519 I think that was a pivot point, and you don't 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.440 often see pivot points right before halftime. But I was 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.800 really pleased to see Danny Green. I mean, the experience 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.320 that he brings on and off the floor I think 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.800 was on full display, whether or not we actually saw 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.720 it last night. Yeah, he's an extremely important player in 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.800 my opinion. I think he's an extremely important player, has 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.000 been all year. Fans were frustrated with them at Tim's 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.280 in the regular season, but you just see having had experience, 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.760 like you said, just makes a huge difference. And there 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.320 might have been guys who are a little bit nervous 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.320 or worried about this close out, Oh what are we 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.560 gonna do? Seem like he wasn't worried about a single thing. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.920 And that's despite effect in the first half. Wasn't making shots. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.160 He didn't matter him one bit in a game the 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.640 seventy Sixers were without there MVP candidate who rose to 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:11.000 the occasion in a closeout spot X factor. It's a 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.200 cliche narrative to say, well, when you lose the best 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.039 player on your roster, one of the best players on 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.400 the planet, an MVP candidate, that everyone's gonna put all 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.640 their hands in. It's all hands on deck and band 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.800 together and give it your best. But that really was 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.359 the case for the Sixers in the win in Game five. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.640 There were some who shine brighter than others, but really, 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.560 when you dissected the game, and Lauren, I think Danny 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.000 Green is a great case in point. There were various 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.840 juncts to the game where different guys stepped up, left 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.520 their fingerprint on it and helped the seventy Sixers take 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.400 care of business. On Wednesday, Seth Curry. He started the 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.520 season strong. He went through the situation after testing positive 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.280 for COVID. We all know why he was brought in 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.560 and he was fantastic. In Game five. He sought out 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.839 how will Nato exploited that matchup put up a thirty 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.480 spot which was great to see and it was certainly timely. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.800 That was not a wasted thirty point by Seth Curry, No, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.680 not at all. It was his best game as a 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.640 sixer at the absolutely best moment. And I think that 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.640 was something about we probably didn't know about him coming 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.040 in because last year, if you paid attention to him 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.599 in Dallas at all, he didn't have the ball a lot. 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.040 So he was pretty much just asked to be a 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.359 stand up shooter and that straight up shooter and that's it. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.160 He could put it on the floor a lot more 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.840 than we probably realized, and we saw flashes of it 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.440 throughout the season, but between the health and the dribs 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.320 and drabs, with the different lineups and the different responsibilities, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.600 it never fully came together. I think you saw like 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.760 the fully formed Seth Curry game last night, and now 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.839 I'm actually intrigued about what it could be going forward, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.520 because now that's one more thing on film that Atlanta 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.840 or any possible future opponent has to pay attention to. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.240 You know, if we close out on this guy too hard, 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.080 this guy could put it on the floor and make 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.520 us pay, and not just scoring, he also was able 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.120 to distribute. That was a really really good game. Now 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.839 I think That's very encouraging for that are worried about 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.560 Joel Embie to have that anxiety that a player can 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.320 not only just score, which we kind of knew he 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.080 could do that, but can do it in so many 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.919 different ways. That was big. It's a great point he is. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.880 I think Lauren a well rounded player. I know that. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.680 At the beginning of the season. I think some of 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.599 the chatter it seemed like from some of the fans 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.880 was like, Okay, we got someone like Seth Curry and 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.960 maybe he can replicate the type of role that JJ 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.760 Reddick had when JJ was here. I'm JJ fantastic, elite 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.839 at what he does, but there's more to Seth. He's 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.400 got a well rounded offensive game that can hurt you 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.320 in a couple different ways for sure, and it's relied 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.359 upon more when he's no longer the fourth or fifth 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.680 option on this team. Seth Curry is statistically speaking, one 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.240 of the greatest shooters to ever play this game, but 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.120 right now he's a fourth option at best. When you 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.320 come into a team with Joel Embi, Tobias Harris, Ben 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.719 Simmons and you're playing alongside them, really really cool to 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.960 see him be able to activate those sort of all 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.520 time good skills that he has that don't get called 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.520 upon that often when everybody's available, and then see him 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.839 rise to the occasion when those skills are needed. It 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.520 was a pleasure to watch him last night. Game four 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.720 was wonky, obviously because the Sixers were dealing with the 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.600 Joel Embiid situation and listen to find a basketball player 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.240 and I see a potential MVP, go down, go back 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.800 in the locker room. There's just human nature things that 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.080 for me speaking only, it would be impossible to avoid, 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.920 so hard to really know what stock to place in 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.920 game four. I thought Tobias Harris, who understandably saw more 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.640 coverage and more tension once Joe went out in Game four. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.400 Tobias came back in Game five really versatile effort. I 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.840 thought that he had a really really strong series from 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.480 the start in game one to how we wrapped things 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.400 up and help the Sixers put a bow on it 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:43.280 in game five. Interesting that you talk about Tobias having 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.600 a well rounded series, because that's what he's wanted to do. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.840 And he came to the Sixers just over two years 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.360 ago in twenty nineteen, and he expressed that his goals 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.440 were to become a reliable scorer for this team and 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.680 to become a closer. That became a bigger goal for 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.080 him as time went along, and I asked him about 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.560 that after the game, have you accomplished those goals? And 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.240 in a very Tobias Harris fashion, he said, well, I 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.720 think I'm getting closer. He said, he likes the progress 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.200 he's making towards accomplishing those goals. But if I had 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.840 to assess it, I think he's become both a reliable 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.680 scorer and a closer. And should Joel Ebeat not be 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.360 available for any more games, that's going to be continued 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.320 to be relied upon. But when Joel comes back, it 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.040 will also be relied upon. And Tobias Harris is that 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:23.960 guy now, even if he's not willing to say it, 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.400 I am he is that guy. And I'm really impressed 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.600 with the way that he came here. He set the goals, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.440 he signed a new contract, and then he continued to 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.360 get better. You don't always see that, and so I 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.880 really admire the work ethic and the will that he's 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.400 put into his time as a Sixer, for sure. And 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.240 one thing I noticed them when he first arrived, teams 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.600 would hid remember one particular time where they put Kemba 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.920 Walker on him in a playoff series and he wasn't 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.520 able to make Kemball Walker pay. Now, if you put 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.679 a smaller guy on him, he makes them pay consistently. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.160 He did it throughout this series. Game four, like you said, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.040 got a little wonky. There was a lot of help defense, 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.480 Gafford and other guys laying back for him, so it 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.160 wasn't really any single coverage once in beat was out 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.400 of the game, but pretty much throughout the whole series 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.920 he was able to exploit whatever matchups came against him, 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.360 and I don't think he was very good at that. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.679 I may not trying to rip him when he first arrived. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.120 He's a totally different player in that way now, and 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.760 I think going forward against the Halts, there's no place 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.160 for anybody to hide because they're gonna have to put 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.240 a real defender on him, and if they can, if 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.040 they think they can stick Trey Young on him, or 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.920 he's gonna score fifty, like that's not going to happen anymore. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.680 While the previous twenty nineteen version, maybe he would have 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.880 settled for shots and allowed the team to get away 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:28.599 with putting a little guy on him. They're gonna have 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.440 to put Hunter, like a real defender on him or there, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.360 or he's gonna score forty fifty points. We saw thirty seven. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.360 I think that thirty seven could have been more, especially 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:39.960 to Wake games two and three win. He could have 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.120 scored forty fifty in some of those games. I think 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.760 he'll still do that if they don't guard him correctly. 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.679 And that's very different than when he first arrived. You're 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.280 gonna talk around a lot of people. The buzzword with 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.000 Tobias this year has been decisive, more decisive. That's something 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:53.520 that Doc has talked about one and to be more 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.920 decisive and how that's helped unlock his game. I also 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:57.760 think he's been more physical. To build on your point, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.280 like he's not afraid to take the smaller guards down 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.800 to the block and impose his physical will on them 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.680 down there, just as ready as he is to pull 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.640 up for a jumper at the elbow or something like that. 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.000 I love it. Yeah. The one other thing is I 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.719 like that he would been such a willing shooter from 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.520 three At times. I thought there was times where like, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.360 why aren't you taking that shot? Let it fly? Who 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.760 cares if you miss because now if they come out 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.040 on you, he can just do so many things. He 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.080 can score all three levels. So it's like, don't not 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.040 take those three because you can score from out there, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.679 you can score from the midras, you can score at 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.560 the basket. I think he's showing all three levels and 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.280 that has to be tough. And that's versus Randall. If 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.600 anybody watched it of that Nick series, he became a 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.480 very one dimensional pound of ball. And I don't know 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.200 what I'm gonna do type score. You mentioned decisive. He's 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.200 been extremely decisive at all three levels. He's a tough 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:47.280 cover now, decisiveness, aggression, and we haven't even talked about defense. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:48.920 That might be the place that he's I don't want 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:50.440 to say that where he's improved the most because of 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.760 how much he's improved offensively, but it's meaningful improvement on 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.720 the defensive end. Tobias Harris is not a liability on defense. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.400 He's not someone you have to hide on defense. He's 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.160 someone that takes pride in his matchups and that's something Again, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.440 he expressed that he wanted to become a better defender, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.640 that he wanted to be relied upon on the defensive end, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.800 and now he's doing it game after game after game, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.760 and adding defense to your game is a difficult thing 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.960 to do. So the fact that he's really put in 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.280 the work his teammates set it back in training camp. 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.640 But Tobias is often out there running with cones making 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:24.360 sure he can figure out defensive opportunities in the extra time. Right, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.199 and scorers like to put in work scoring. Tobias Harris 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.040 clearly putting in work scoring, putting in work defending, and 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.520 now we're seeing the rewards of his hard work. I'll 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.920 be honest. For me, there was a lot of the 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.840 I wonder factor about Tobias coming to this year. I 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.840 wonder how he's going to respond to how things went 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.760 in the bubble. He to me for me, took care 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.360 of that within like the first month and half of 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.760 the season. I wonder how much of the regular season 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.439 good we saw would translate into the playoffs. Took care 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.840 that this round. I think that Tobias has earned the 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.559 benefit of the doubt. I think he has proven that 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.640 he can a score and volumes scoring a lot of 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.600 different ways. Like we talked about, better defender, and he 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.880 can be that option in crunch time if the Sixers 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.240 need someone, especially now we don't know how long Joe's 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.839 gonna be out for. There were so many good performances 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.880 in this series, and the Sixers frankly were just better 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.920 than the Wizards and Edition and everything else. But they 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:14.840 had to go play like they were better and show it, 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.800 and you just saw it, and he just was just 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.079 better than everybody on that team. As great as Bill was, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.480 he gives you nothing on the defensive end, for example, 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.520 like just absolutely nothing. He gives you something on both things. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.760 He was fantastic. We are taping this Tyrone before your 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:33.920 Thursday edition of Mike's Show nineteen ten eleven. Two block 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.720 shots for Benjamin. What type of feedback do you think 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.960 Benjamin will get over the next forty eight seventy two hours. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.800 It's probably gonna be unfair whatever it is likely. I 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.360 hate to say, it's probably going to be unfair because 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.160 he Oh, the foul shots are a huge thing. The 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.480 hacka been. Oh, he's killing them. Then they tried in 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.319 the first half, which was just cowardly, by the way, 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.319 cowardly effort by Scott Brooks. I would respect what first 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.040 half come on anyway, he makes two ons and then 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.920 all of a sudden, your genius strategy falls apart. But 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.760 the guy, it was fantastic. We know the one thing 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.400 that he doesn't do, and people are always going to 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.679 harp on that. I can't harp on that every single day. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.400 I'll go crazy thinking about one particular thing every single 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.760 day year round. But if you could just get past 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:23.360 that plea, he was incredible. He was incredible lest Furst 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.160 of all one of the biggest to quote. The only 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.480 flaw in his game defensively, people to say at times 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.200 was rim protection. He was excellent at the rim from 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.160 the second half of the third quarter through the end 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:33.520 of the game. I think he just had to get 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.400 comfortable because he hasn't had to do it that much 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.600 because usually it's the big man and Dwhite Howard back there. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.360 He was excellent at the rim. He's excellent roaming, he 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.199 was excellent doing he was aggressive. Was Another big moment 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.959 was that he recognized as a smaller guy. And there's 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:48.840 been at times where he would give the ball up, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.880 not last night, puts his shoulder into his chest, goes 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:53.640 right to the basket. It's a smaller guy. He sees 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.720 a bigger guy. He's quicker. He goes right around him. 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.000 He was doing everything that we've been asking, so we 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.319 should at least have a twenty four to four, eight 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.080 to seventy two hours more. Tore him on ripping the guy. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.560 I mean, wait until he plays another basketball game, because 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.320 he was fantastic into one last night, and I'm not 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.440 going to be worried about what happened before. He was 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.120 great last night. Give the guy a little bit of credit. 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.520 I'm not saying forever if he has a bad game 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.680 any no one's above scrutiny, But goodness gracious, he was 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.920 great last night on both ends. Let's just give the 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.200 guy a clap, and let's wait for Atlanta and then 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.480 decide if we're gonna be mad again. I don't have 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:31.160 a lot to add Tyrone. I think though, that Sixers fans, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:35.880 Philadelphia fans are very very passionate, and if you're gonna 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.440 pick him apart for what he did in game four, 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.360 what I'm asking is you bring that same energy to 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.400 celebrate him in game five. Just match your energy. If 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.360 you're gonna be mad, please now celebrate him. Five for 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.640 eight from the line. Dwight Howard also eight for ten 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.400 from the line, talk about sort of fixing what people 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.160 are talking about. But Ben is also paying attention. And 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.680 Ben posted on Instagram last night and his quote was, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.600 they love me, they love me, they love me, they 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.560 let me not. And I loved that from Ben because 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.080 he's listening, he hears you, and he's proving you wrong, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.920 and he's not afraid to gloat afterwards. And that's exactly 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.520 the type of energy you want from your athletes. He's 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.400 engaged with this community. He wants to do right by 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.400 this community, and now it's time for the community to 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.120 do right by him. And I don't know what's going 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.280 to happen in game one of Round two, but I 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.680 think it would be really nice if everybody could just 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.400 celebrate Ben for what he was able to do last night. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.359 He was wonderful. He's been great all series, great all playoffs. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.920 And another thing that post does is there are fans 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.160 sometimes to feel like they can't wrap their arms around 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.720 him because his personality is just playing different than Joel 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.520 Eb's personality. He was just born different. Every all three 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.800 personalities are all different too. It's not necessarily a bad thing, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.200 but sometimes fans feel like they can't get to know him. Well, 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.440 that's showing some personality right there. Now, Hey, hey you 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.520 gotta if you gotta take those lumps you've got. People 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.640 were trick to kill a guy because he missed a 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.800 couple of foul shots in a game they barely lost. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.320 So yeah, somebody that same manage you should have to 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.920 accept somebody say managey. But I'd like the human fact 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.040 whenever a player shows who they are. I think that's 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.960 a good thing. And it's just I think that there 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.200 are just times where we might go too far. Yes 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.720 we're passionate, but let's not partenend like the guys not 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.720 excellent at basketball. We know what he does and doesn't do, 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.760 but no, no, we know what he doesn't do, but 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.920 we don't ever spend enough time talking about what he 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.520 does do. I should say there are a couple instances 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.080 that stand out to me the most about when this 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.520 happened that Ben was able to tune out noise and respond. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.560 One was in the middle of March or earlier, when 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.920 there was a lot of talk swirling, tune that out, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.840 went about his business and it came back after game 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.240 four he said, I'll be all right, came out and 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.200 did his thing. So so I agree, I think that 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.760 fair treatment criticism praise is certainly a valid thing. I 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.040 want to discuss another big takeaway from this series that 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.800 in a moment, but first, Draft Kings they are the 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.160 official betting partner of your seventy sixers. 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I 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.600 know the Sixers lost Game four in the series came back, 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.119 but I was okay going to bed that night because 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:19.080 I saw number zero nearly helped the seventy Sixers steal 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.240 the game and end the series. And four and then 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.439 Tyrese Maxie comes back in game five and electrifies the crowd. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.200 They said it it was amazing. The intensity was great, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.000 The fans were amazing. You know, it was cool to 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.040 see the chess mask, like I talked about the other 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.320 day of you know the coaches, different coaches pass and 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.159 it's very fun. You gotta stay locked in at all times, 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.040