WEBVTT - Fanatic About the Playoffs | Breaking Down Game 1 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:09.720 search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. This 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.440 is Fanatic About the Playoffs from the seventy Sixers podcast network, 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.400 presented by Draft Gags and ninety seven by The Fanatic, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.640 with new episodes premiering the day after every seventy Sixers 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.920 playoff game. This is the Fanatic About the Playoffs podcast 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.240 and on this episode we break down Round two, Game 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.599 one and look ahead to Game two on Tuesday night. 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.319 With the seventy Sixers coming off a one twenty eight 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.479 one twenty four loss to the Atlanta Hawks. What is 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.600 Fanatic about the Playoffs? If you do not check us 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.120 out during the first round, this is our brand new 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.320 postseason podcast series with us here at the seventy Sixers 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.880 and our pals at ninety seventy five The Fanatic, the 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.600 radio home of the seventy six Ers. New episodes dropped 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.520 the day after every Sixers playoff game. My name's Brian Seltzer. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.720 It is outstanding to be rejoined by the radio voice 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.280 of the seventy Sixers on The Fanatic and the Sixers 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.280 Radio Network, The one only Tom McGinnis and from the 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.600 John Kincaid Morning Show six to ten every weekday morning 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:15.200 on ninety seventy five. Bob Cooney, gentlemen, welcome back. Great 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.720 to be speaking with you. Can we all unanimously agree 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.880 on one thing. We'll start with you, t Mac. The 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.920 Atlanta Hawks are not the Washington Wizards. Now. They have 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.520 a lot of talent, for sure, and shooting is king right. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:31.400 I mean, speed in sports is paramount, but in basketball, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.520 those that can shoot can really play. And why they 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.760 showed that yesterday and they are a formidable opponent. And 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.440 had we not known that, we definitely know it after 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:46.360 Game one to be sure, Oh, no question, they're shooting. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:51.639 Yesterday was spectacular. And we'll get into this more, I'm sure, 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.920 but I think anybody's a really good shooter in this 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.880 NBA when you don't have a hand in your face. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:03.120 And the Sixers defense on a Young allowed others to 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.200 be open a little bit too much for my liking. Okay, 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.480 let's take care of this right off the bat X factor. Yes, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.080 Trey Young thirty five and ten, major X factor. But 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.760 I also think what Game one showed that for anyone 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.080 who felt the Hawks were only about Trey Young and 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:24.200 that he was a one man machine carrying this team. No, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.520 that's not the case. They've got some good pieces and 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.000 a deep roster. They do, they do, and he's got 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.120 a really good thing going when he dribbled drives and 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.600 hits the Clint Capella with the little lob passes. He's 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.959 a great floater, so once he gets into the lane, 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.960 he has great choices. It's either a light up a 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.200 floater or an alley for a dunk. So you want 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.000 to try to take that away. And when the Sixers did, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.919 he found other players that were able to hit shots 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.440 yesterday and a lot of them, as I said, were 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.839 just too wide open for my liking. And Bogdanovitch, of course, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.560 hits the big one towards the end when he did 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.880 have a hand than his face. So the Sixers in 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.720 my mind, have to get on those secondary players a 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.400 little bit better than they did on Sunday. And that's 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.520 something that coach Rivers talked about after the game that 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.520 they didn't like rotate to those guys well, And to me, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.040 that's like a fixable error. You gotta do it, got 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:18.679 to execute. It's one thing to talk about it and 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.000 know what the issue is, but you got to carry 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.280 it out and make sure you get that done. But 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.440 it does sound something that you can show the guys. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.200 They're gonna have a video session as we speak later today, 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.359 and they always go over tape and just and look 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.160 at those things and have a more urgency. But certainly 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.920 even Solomon Hill hit two threes. He lived in the corner. Boygdonovitch, 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.600 not just the big shot that spelled the difference and 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.680 created the space for them to finish out the game 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.480 with the win Atlanta. But man, the guy had like 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.600 four threes in the first half and he's been doing 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.520 it forever. Which I understand is this guy played in Europe. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.200 I just I was in the gym earlier today with 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.240 former Villanova stand out Reggie Ready and who played in Turkey, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.840 and at one point, you know, Bogdanovitch made a game 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.360 when he shot right over him. So he's been playing 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.360 for He's a that's a world class skill when you 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.920 can shoot the ball, and clearly a coveted player. Right 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.840 Milwaukee tried to get him, and now Atlanta's got him. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.960 He didn't play against the Sixers in those two games 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.600 in late March, so that they spread the floor in 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.520 Kebob's point with young getting into the lane, as I've said, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.080 he puts you in the buying where if you don't 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.880 come out, he's shooting a twelve foot floater. If you do, 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.080 he's lobbing it to Capella or making that second past 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.440 somebody else will get it to a guy who's spaced 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.320 out beyond the perimeter. So look, they're young, they're confident, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.600 they've got talent, and they're they're trying to jump the line. Right, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.320 there's a pecking order in the NBA. You feel like 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.840 the Sixers are in position to make that next step, 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.760 but not to their liking. They're they're not, you know, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.200 they want to move on, and like I said, they would. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.320 They're a young team that nobody expected, certainly, you know 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.960 back in February January, nobody expected this team to do this. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.680 But they're for real and they're gonna be a tough out, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.080 that's for sure. Not that it's undoable by any stretch. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.560 I think the six is the fact that they did 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.560 fight back shows that they can come back, and they've 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.520 done that a number of times in multiple games, particularly 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.640 at home. But a little too big of a hold 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.159 down twenty six in the first half in order to 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.640 come back and win that first game. I want to 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.520 get into Trey Young a little bit more, some of 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.880 the pieces that are part of the Hawks roster, and 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.320 also the second half by the seventy sixers. But I 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.680 did want to get your guys reaction to what happened 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.840 before the ball even tipped. Joel Embiid was made available 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.839 to play and he started. Bob, did that surprise you 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.440 that we saw him out there? No? Not really. I 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.520 mean I had done for purposes of our show. I 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.120 had gotten in touch with some trainers throughout sports and 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.760 medical people, none to do with the Sixers, just to 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.599 kind of find out more about the injury, and almost 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.640 to a person, it was it's a manageable thing. If 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.719 he can tolerate the pain, the swelling and all that 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.040 that injury embodies, then he should be okay to go. 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.640 As you guys know, the telltale thing will be today. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.200 How did he re playing thirty eight minutes Jester today? 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.640 How did the nie respond? What's the soreness like today? 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.799 What's your you know, I know they have a schedule 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.279 moving forward. How can he meet that today? So today 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.159 will be very important as to what we see tomorrow 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.880 from Joel Embi. But um, I expected him to be 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.720 a go yesterday and I'm glad he was, Tea Mack 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.159 and he talked very matter of fact about it after 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:27.239 the game. They said it, he's the playoffs you can't 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.880 worry about. You know, I'm in him that someone supposed 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.800 to play, or he's gonna play. You gotta go with 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.280 your best guys, um, and you know as long as 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:44.320 you know uh um okay, And I'm gonna keep my 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.200 best and I'm gonna keep pushing until you know I can't. 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.880 You know, I'm gonna die rules balls. You know I'm 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:54.839 gonna do whatever it takes some way. You certainly admire 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.520 that mindset. And it was funny because based on what 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.440 you were reporting Tea Mac on the air when we 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:03.120 talked before the game, just how Joe wrapped up his 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.520 pregame warm up routine. I mean that made it sound 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.560 like once you saw and heard about what he was 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.680 doing pregame and you saw some of the video clips 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.320 coming through on your timeline on Twitter, it started to 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.920 give you the vibe and impression reading the Tea Leaves 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.600 that this was going to be more and more likely. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.800 So not only did he play. He played great, he 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.760 really did. I mean, as Bob said, thirty eight minute, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.320 thirty nine minutes, played his heart out, played with fight, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.880 played with grit. You know, Dove literally laid it out 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:35.040 on the line with that following Collins, which you know 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.560 it's one play, but in the game you lose by four, 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.400 and look, he's never in that clear path scenario. But 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.720 that's actually if you were to go back, you probably 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.560 wish he didn't do that. He maybe just let him 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.640 go in because in the end they got four points 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.320 with Collins getting two free throws, and they scored on 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.920 the ensuing possession. But again, like coach Rivers didn't even 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.080 want him to have to be in that scenario. That 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.600 was like college type trapping and pressing in the backcord. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.600 I mean, then look how the Sixers scored in those 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.640 late stages where Ben missus a free throw, Joe gets it, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.280 scores and gets a foul shot, and then they stole 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.560 it and Ben got an easy dunk. I mean, that's 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.600 that was under the heading of miraculous comeback, but it 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.960 just fell short. But in Bead was every bit as 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.720 good as anybody can imagine him playing in that scenario. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.240 Just I mean you talk about load management. He you know, 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.640 he had load management in that game, and he played 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.400 like a leader. You show it through your actions and 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:34.320 through uh you know, playing under duress. And to Bob's point, 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.800 it'll be managed. And uh, what's that crappy rapper from 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.680 Days gone by? Ice Ice Baby Like, Joe's gonna have steam. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.400 He's gonna have ice like. He's really gonna be back 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.640 with a little vanilla Ice. It's gonna be ice for 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.040 the rest of this time. Yeah, tremendous. Listen, that's going 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.800 to be part of the billing now for vanilla Ice. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:59.440 You know what Ice ice baby, dig it. It's no meat, 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.520 but he sounds like a bell ringer of the future 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.640 Vanilla Ice. That was another amazing part of it, Like 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.959 the Theater of Joe. I know, the Sixers didn't win. 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.040 In hindsight, some people might say, well, you know, like 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.920 don't don't have the theatrics. He was ready though, he 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.319 was ready, And I wonder now what Atlanta is going 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.360 to try and do moving forward with him. I mean, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.920 thirty nine points in thirty eight minutes pretty insane. Bob, 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.280 do you think there's there's any type of blueprint that 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.400 the Hawks might be working with as far as their 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.320 coverage with him. Do you think they were feeling some 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.199 things out in Game one just to see how Joel 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.440 Embiid esque he could be. I thought he did a 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.680 great job Sunday of doing what he's been doing all year, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.080 and that was seeing where the double teams were coming 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.160 from and seeing what was happening the catch turn and 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.160 look that that Doc Rivers taught him at the beginning 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.640 of this season, to see exactly what's coming. I think 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.000 is absolutely special by Joel embe this year. And look, 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.560 Clint Capella can't cover him one on one. A few 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.000 people in this league can. But when he wanted to 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.800 take him, when he wanted to bully and beat him 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.320 off the dribble, beat him with the jump shot, jo 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.920 Ellenbiad did whatever he wanted. So what do you do now? 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.520 If you're Nate McMillan, I don't know. You have the 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.400 luxury of being up on nothing. It could be a 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.840 case of saying, well, let Joe Ellenbiad have his and 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.040 we're up on nothing. We can see what happens. You 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.880 can go that way. You can go with the double 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.840 and triple teams because Sixers didn't shoot the ball very well. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.120 You know, they have the luxury of being up one nothing, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.080 maybe they don't have to do anything. But if the 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.280 series is going to continue on and Bead's going to dominate, 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.559 Nate McMillan's going to have to do something, and it's 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.880 probably going to be in the form of Bella Teams. Fellas, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.240 we got tea Max Pooch chatting up in the back 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.920 of you know what that means. That's my reminder. 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Going back to something that Tack and I 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:58.800 talk a lot about Bob when we're on the air, 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.640 the best thing about the NBA is the stars really 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.600 shine through, and obviously this time of year, you're seeing 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.120 some incredible star player performances, those who aren't hurt or 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.400 dinged up, whether it's Luca and Kauai going at it 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.600 back to back in that series that went to seven 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.080 games between the Clippers and the Mavericks and in game 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.520 one between the seventy six and Hawks. If you're a 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.319 fan of the game, and I I love listening to 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.000 Huby Brown for a lot of reasons. I don't know 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.160 how other people feel about him, but to me, I 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.440 get a kick out of when he's like there you 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.240 go like you don't ever hear announcers sound like they're 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.040 rooting or have a rooting interest in a game. And 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.120 he's not rooting for a team or a player. He's 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.360 just rooting for the game being played the right way. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.600 He's like, yeah, there you go, that's nice. Okay, like 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.280 those sorts of things you hear from human He's doing 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.040 that throughout the game on Sunday. But it's great when 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.680 star players, I think are at their best. I mean, certainly, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.520 if you follow the Sixers, you want and you're a 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.040 fan of the Sixers, you want them to take away 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.400 Trey Young. But seeing a game like that where Joel 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.959 Embiid was outstanding, Trey Young outstanding, you want that as 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.080 a fan of the game this time of year, sture 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.760 and that's where the chess match starts, right, So you 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.960 have the stars, Now what do the coaches do to 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.960 take it away? I was a little confused that Doc 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.400 Rivers didn't look to take away Tray Young a little 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:16.600 bit more yesterday, in an earlier fashion, they came out 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.679 in the second half and put Ben Simmons on him, 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.319 and then they started to jump the high pick and 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.640 rolls later on, which I thought was good. Look tray 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.920 Young six feet tall. I would look to smother him 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.480 as much as you could. He got to do too 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.840 much of what he does that makes him that star 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.280 that you're talking about, Brie. He got to do too 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.120 much of that too easily in the first half, in 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.640 my opinion, and I thought they waited just a little 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:41.280 too long to take away what he does best. Joe Ellenbiad, 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:42.920 on the other hand, did do what he does and 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.040 continue to do it throughout the game. Now the chess match, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.960 like you said, Brian, the chess match now starts. What 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.439 does Nate McMillan do to try to take away Joe 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.319 ellenbid because I think we know what Doc Rivers has 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.480 to try to do to take away tray Young. Couple 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:02.360 things regarding I think one of the adjustments might be 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.680 they come with a bigger guy, but that would be Collins, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.400 like leaving Tobias who's typically lifted out on the opposite 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.200 side of the floor. They came with Bogdanovitch early on, 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.959 and he was hesitant, like he would come underneath the 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.760 belly of the lane and not go all the way. 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.080 I'm like, you not got the game plan? Are you 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.920 coming or you're not? And then again, like nobody can 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.280 guard Joel, even Capella, who's very athletic, obviously good off 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:28.640 the ball, shot blocker, extraordinary rebounder, dunker, put back guy, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.440 but not a one on one defender straight up with Joe, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.400 not even close. So that was a key thing and 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.680 that's going to remain a factor in the series. Regarding Huby, 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.200 unbelievable in his what eighties, and like I wanted that 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.520 he was right by where we were broadcasting from it, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:49.960 and I wanted to bow down in January Stocked. We 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.680 had training camp there the one year and Huby came 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.480 down with one of his friends. He drove down from 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.560 North Jersey and watched practice and then after practice like 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.800 he was going over something with one of our players, 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.040 maybe actually a coach, and everybody in the gym swarmed 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.080 over there like a clinic is breaking out and who 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.360 be Brown is teaching basketball. That's that's how good he is. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.760 And to your point, Brian, he appreciates the game. And 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.680 you watch like as you say, you know, you watch 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.800 on Twitter and everybody was weighing in about hub and 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.440 his ability, So that that is he's just like our sport. 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.320 You can always learn and if you think you can't 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.320 like come on your kid yourself and you can continually 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.120 grow in your knowledge of the game. And a guy 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.720 like that puts it on a planner, especially for a 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.720 national television audience where everybody's not steeped in the game 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.920 like basketball lifers. So that was excellent. And then Trey Young, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.400 like Bob, I think you're you're making a legitimate point 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.440 and you're probably not the only guy that is stipulating that. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.760 They did put ben on him at the beginning of 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.760 the third quarter. What happened, boom, he got a foul. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.600 So to me, part of the knowledge of this is 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.000 how he plays. He's hooking, he's crafty. I mean on 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.320 the thible review he followed, he's twice not the teeth 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.440 founel he banged into him and then he hits him 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.000 of the elbow. Those are both fouls on Trey Young 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.840 didn't get reversed, but I thought it certainly could have 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.000 been a legitimate challenge by the sissors coach talked about 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.640 defending with verticality, like made him shoot over the length. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.360 And the problem is with Trey Young, Oh okay, I'll 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.720 just back up to twenty nine feet. He would have 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.200 gone to FDR Park, but there was a flower show there, 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.280 so he opted to go to the Patterson Subway station instead. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.880 But he can shoot the ball from rain and again. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.480 And Bob, you had basketball players, you're a fine player yourself. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.280 That Ken the Catholic go Irish. But what his daddy 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.200 taught him is, you know, like we all thought our 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.360 kids like, no, no, shoot with the right form. His 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.840 dad said, great, you got the form, get back, shoot 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.360 the bombs. And look what happened. He turned into Trey Young. Yeah, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.200 that's the thing where I know the people want to 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.640 maybe look at his if they're trying to pick him 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.280 apart and say, well, he shoots only this percentage from three, 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.520 but he's not going to stop shooting, and he can 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.320 hit from anywhere, which is what makes him so dangerous. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.160 And if he is able to pull one of those 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.720 insanely deep shots out of his bag like he did 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.200 a different points in the first quart in the first half, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.880 those can be backbreaking at times, and you're just like, well, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.480 what else can we do to him? But I would agree, 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.480 I mean, obviously it looked like things were different with 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.199 him as far as his success with how the Sixers 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.760 approached defensively, in the second half, but yet he still 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.360 was able to slither in make two big baskets back 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.760 to back midway through the fourth quarter, which in a 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.720 game that close, he still was able to make some 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:25.200 impact plays down the stretch. So to me, he's really exciting. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:30.320 He seems extremely fearless. I just have a lot of 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.439 respect for him. I do. I think that if no 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.840 one was watching the New York Knicks series, they certainly 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.680 see what he's all about. Now. I was just gonna say, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.520 regarding Trey Young and regarding Joel and regarding the NBA playoffs, 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.119 and I made this point earlier here at home, and 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:49.080 that is like all postseason plays special, right. I mean, 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.080 you can go on with the NFL and baseball and 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:56.800 obviously hockey playoffs are awesome, but it's an incredible formula, right, 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.399 And as you say, these guys are stars. The talent 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.560 is straordinary, right with Brooklyn and Kevin Durant, and the 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.280 way it goes like something's gonna shake out, something's gonna 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.520 be revealed, like in the Brooklyn Milwaukee series, like you're like, boy, 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.760 these teams are so evenly Well, turns out Brooklyn's way better, 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.800 at least in the first game, even without one of 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.679 their best players. In the Sixers series, A, turnovers are 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.199 going to be a problem. Something gets revealed and we 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.240 learned something through every game and that's why the series, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.240 the entire playoffs look around the league with the Luca 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.919 versus the Clippers, and that's just it's unbelievable. It's a 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:36.159 tableau of excitement and storylines and dramas. It's an incredible 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.640 package of basketball at this time of the year. It's 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.639 it's special to be a part of it. And now 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.320 the Sixers need to hold serve and they lost to 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.280 home court advantage and now it's there. They got to 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.919 get get it back, get back tie the series, go 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.880 down there, steal a game and take it from there. Yeah, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.639 and you're right, Brian, it's Trey Young is becoming I 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.840 said this on air this morning. Trey Young is becoming 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.280 one of my favorite players to watch in the NBA. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.520 He's at exciting and back in the day when we 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.520 were all together on the road, I loved watching Russell 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.720 Westbrook live when he was back in Oklahoma City, just 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.520 the way he played Steve Nash. You know, just different 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.119 guys in the league. You just your eye goes to them, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.239 you say, Wow, that's fun to watch Trey Young is that, 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.760 And it's his passing ability, it's a shooting ability, it's 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.439 his creativity off the dribble. There's just so much about 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.199 him that I really like. I do think though, his 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:28.760 strengths on offense play into the six or strengths defensively also, 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.119 and that's perimeter defense and the length that they have 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.680 and enveloping him. They have to do a better job 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.880 of just covering him. And I don't mean, you know, covered, 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.560 but I mean envelop him and don't let him get 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.080 to where he wants to be as easily as he 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:44.439 did on Sunday. Am I off base on this? I 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:45.880 was trying to think of it. I'm sure the people 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.760 have thrown this out there. That's me. Trey seems like 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.240 you could be the spawn of if Iverson and Curry 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.560 had a love child, Steph Curry. That is am I 0:19:55.600 --> 0:20:00.600 totally off there? Your psychic or psycho. But yeah, you're right. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.160 The love child thing threw me off a little bit. 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.600