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Speaker 1: one twenty four loss to the Atlanta Hawks. What is
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Speaker 1: on ninety seventy five. Bob Cooney, gentlemen, welcome back. Great
Speaker 1: to be speaking with you. Can we all unanimously agree
Speaker 1: on one thing. We'll start with you, t Mac. The
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks are not the Washington Wizards. Now. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of talent, for sure, and shooting is king right.
Speaker 1: I mean, speed in sports is paramount, but in basketball,
Speaker 1: those that can shoot can really play. And why they
Speaker 1: showed that yesterday and they are a formidable opponent. And
Speaker 1: had we not known that, we definitely know it after
Speaker 1: Game one to be sure, Oh, no question, they're shooting.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was spectacular. And we'll get into this more, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: but I think anybody's a really good shooter in this
Speaker 1: NBA when you don't have a hand in your face.
Speaker 1: And the Sixers defense on a Young allowed others to
Speaker 1: be open a little bit too much for my liking. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take care of this right off the bat X factor. Yes,
Speaker 1: Trey Young thirty five and ten, major X factor. But
Speaker 1: I also think what Game one showed that for anyone
Speaker 1: who felt the Hawks were only about Trey Young and
Speaker 1: that he was a one man machine carrying this team. No,
Speaker 1: that's not the case. They've got some good pieces and
Speaker 1: a deep roster. They do, they do, and he's got
Speaker 1: a really good thing going when he dribbled drives and
Speaker 1: hits the Clint Capella with the little lob passes. He's
Speaker 1: a great floater, so once he gets into the lane,
Speaker 1: he has great choices. It's either a light up a
Speaker 1: floater or an alley for a dunk. So you want
Speaker 1: to try to take that away. And when the Sixers did,
Speaker 1: he found other players that were able to hit shots
Speaker 1: yesterday and a lot of them, as I said, were
Speaker 1: just too wide open for my liking. And Bogdanovitch, of course,
Speaker 1: hits the big one towards the end when he did
Speaker 1: have a hand than his face. So the Sixers in
Speaker 1: my mind, have to get on those secondary players a
Speaker 1: little bit better than they did on Sunday. And that's
Speaker 1: something that coach Rivers talked about after the game that
Speaker 1: they didn't like rotate to those guys well, And to me,
Speaker 1: that's like a fixable error. You gotta do it, got
Speaker 1: to execute. It's one thing to talk about it and
Speaker 1: know what the issue is, but you got to carry
Speaker 1: it out and make sure you get that done. But
Speaker 1: it does sound something that you can show the guys.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a video session as we speak later today,
Speaker 1: and they always go over tape and just and look
Speaker 1: at those things and have a more urgency. But certainly
Speaker 1: even Solomon Hill hit two threes. He lived in the corner. Boygdonovitch,
Speaker 1: not just the big shot that spelled the difference and
Speaker 1: created the space for them to finish out the game
Speaker 1: with the win Atlanta. But man, the guy had like
Speaker 1: four threes in the first half and he's been doing
Speaker 1: it forever. Which I understand is this guy played in Europe.
Speaker 1: I just I was in the gym earlier today with
Speaker 1: former Villanova stand out Reggie Ready and who played in Turkey,
Speaker 1: and at one point, you know, Bogdanovitch made a game
Speaker 1: when he shot right over him. So he's been playing
Speaker 1: for He's a that's a world class skill when you
Speaker 1: can shoot the ball, and clearly a coveted player. Right
Speaker 1: Milwaukee tried to get him, and now Atlanta's got him.
Speaker 1: He didn't play against the Sixers in those two games
Speaker 1: in late March, so that they spread the floor in
Speaker 1: Kebob's point with young getting into the lane, as I've said,
Speaker 1: he puts you in the buying where if you don't
Speaker 1: come out, he's shooting a twelve foot floater. If you do,
Speaker 1: he's lobbing it to Capella or making that second past
Speaker 1: somebody else will get it to a guy who's spaced
Speaker 1: out beyond the perimeter. So look, they're young, they're confident,
Speaker 1: they've got talent, and they're they're trying to jump the line. Right,
Speaker 1: there's a pecking order in the NBA. You feel like
Speaker 1: the Sixers are in position to make that next step,
Speaker 1: but not to their liking. They're they're not, you know,
Speaker 1: they want to move on, and like I said, they would.
Speaker 1: They're a young team that nobody expected, certainly, you know
Speaker 1: back in February January, nobody expected this team to do this.
Speaker 1: But they're for real and they're gonna be a tough out,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Not that it's undoable by any stretch.
Speaker 1: I think the six is the fact that they did
Speaker 1: fight back shows that they can come back, and they've
Speaker 1: done that a number of times in multiple games, particularly
Speaker 1: at home. But a little too big of a hold
Speaker 1: down twenty six in the first half in order to
Speaker 1: come back and win that first game. I want to
Speaker 1: get into Trey Young a little bit more, some of
Speaker 1: the pieces that are part of the Hawks roster, and
Speaker 1: also the second half by the seventy sixers. But I
Speaker 1: did want to get your guys reaction to what happened
Speaker 1: before the ball even tipped. Joel Embiid was made available
Speaker 1: to play and he started. Bob, did that surprise you
Speaker 1: that we saw him out there? No? Not really. I
Speaker 1: mean I had done for purposes of our show. I
Speaker 1: had gotten in touch with some trainers throughout sports and
Speaker 1: medical people, none to do with the Sixers, just to
Speaker 1: kind of find out more about the injury, and almost
Speaker 1: to a person, it was it's a manageable thing. If
Speaker 1: he can tolerate the pain, the swelling and all that
Speaker 1: that injury embodies, then he should be okay to go.
Speaker 1: As you guys know, the telltale thing will be today.
Speaker 1: How did he re playing thirty eight minutes Jester today?
Speaker 1: How did the nie respond? What's the soreness like today?
Speaker 1: What's your you know, I know they have a schedule
Speaker 1: moving forward. How can he meet that today? So today
Speaker 1: will be very important as to what we see tomorrow
Speaker 1: from Joel Embi. But um, I expected him to be
Speaker 1: a go yesterday and I'm glad he was, Tea Mack
Speaker 1: and he talked very matter of fact about it after
Speaker 1: the game. They said it, he's the playoffs you can't
Speaker 1: worry about. You know, I'm in him that someone supposed
Speaker 1: to play, or he's gonna play. You gotta go with
Speaker 1: your best guys, um, and you know as long as
Speaker 1: you know uh um okay, And I'm gonna keep my
Speaker 1: best and I'm gonna keep pushing until you know I can't.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna die rules balls. You know I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do whatever it takes some way. You certainly admire
Speaker 1: that mindset. And it was funny because based on what
Speaker 1: you were reporting Tea Mac on the air when we
Speaker 1: talked before the game, just how Joe wrapped up his
Speaker 1: pregame warm up routine. I mean that made it sound
Speaker 1: like once you saw and heard about what he was
Speaker 1: doing pregame and you saw some of the video clips
Speaker 1: coming through on your timeline on Twitter, it started to
Speaker 1: give you the vibe and impression reading the Tea Leaves
Speaker 1: that this was going to be more and more likely.
Speaker 1: So not only did he play. He played great, he
Speaker 1: really did. I mean, as Bob said, thirty eight minute,
Speaker 1: thirty nine minutes, played his heart out, played with fight,
Speaker 1: played with grit. You know, Dove literally laid it out
Speaker 1: on the line with that following Collins, which you know
Speaker 1: it's one play, but in the game you lose by four,
Speaker 1: and look, he's never in that clear path scenario. But
Speaker 1: that's actually if you were to go back, you probably
Speaker 1: wish he didn't do that. He maybe just let him
Speaker 1: go in because in the end they got four points
Speaker 1: with Collins getting two free throws, and they scored on
Speaker 1: the ensuing possession. But again, like coach Rivers didn't even
Speaker 1: want him to have to be in that scenario. That
Speaker 1: was like college type trapping and pressing in the backcord.
Speaker 1: I mean, then look how the Sixers scored in those
Speaker 1: late stages where Ben missus a free throw, Joe gets it,
Speaker 1: scores and gets a foul shot, and then they stole
Speaker 1: it and Ben got an easy dunk. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that was under the heading of miraculous comeback, but it
Speaker 1: just fell short. But in Bead was every bit as
Speaker 1: good as anybody can imagine him playing in that scenario.
Speaker 1: Just I mean you talk about load management. He you know,
Speaker 1: he had load management in that game, and he played
Speaker 1: like a leader. You show it through your actions and
Speaker 1: through uh you know, playing under duress. And to Bob's point,
Speaker 1: it'll be managed. And uh, what's that crappy rapper from
Speaker 1: Days gone by? Ice Ice Baby Like, Joe's gonna have steam.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have ice like. He's really gonna be back
Speaker 1: with a little vanilla Ice. It's gonna be ice for
Speaker 1: the rest of this time. Yeah, tremendous. Listen, that's going
Speaker 1: to be part of the billing now for vanilla Ice.
Speaker 1: You know what Ice ice baby, dig it. It's no meat,
Speaker 1: but he sounds like a bell ringer of the future
Speaker 1: Vanilla Ice. That was another amazing part of it, Like
Speaker 1: the Theater of Joe. I know, the Sixers didn't win.
Speaker 1: In hindsight, some people might say, well, you know, like
Speaker 1: don't don't have the theatrics. He was ready though, he
Speaker 1: was ready, And I wonder now what Atlanta is going
Speaker 1: to try and do moving forward with him. I mean,
Speaker 1: thirty nine points in thirty eight minutes pretty insane. Bob,
Speaker 1: do you think there's there's any type of blueprint that
Speaker 1: the Hawks might be working with as far as their
Speaker 1: coverage with him. Do you think they were feeling some
Speaker 1: things out in Game one just to see how Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid esque he could be. I thought he did a
Speaker 1: great job Sunday of doing what he's been doing all year,
Speaker 1: and that was seeing where the double teams were coming
Speaker 1: from and seeing what was happening the catch turn and
Speaker 1: look that that Doc Rivers taught him at the beginning
Speaker 1: of this season, to see exactly what's coming. I think
Speaker 1: is absolutely special by Joel embe this year. And look,
Speaker 1: Clint Capella can't cover him one on one. A few
Speaker 1: people in this league can. But when he wanted to
Speaker 1: take him, when he wanted to bully and beat him
Speaker 1: off the dribble, beat him with the jump shot, jo
Speaker 1: Ellenbiad did whatever he wanted. So what do you do now?
Speaker 1: If you're Nate McMillan, I don't know. You have the
Speaker 1: luxury of being up on nothing. It could be a
Speaker 1: case of saying, well, let Joe Ellenbiad have his and
Speaker 1: we're up on nothing. We can see what happens. You
Speaker 1: can go that way. You can go with the double
Speaker 1: and triple teams because Sixers didn't shoot the ball very well.
Speaker 1: You know, they have the luxury of being up one nothing,
Speaker 1: maybe they don't have to do anything. But if the
Speaker 1: series is going to continue on and Bead's going to dominate,
Speaker 1: Nate McMillan's going to have to do something, and it's
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Speaker 1: talk a lot about Bob when we're on the air,
Speaker 1: the best thing about the NBA is the stars really
Speaker 1: shine through, and obviously this time of year, you're seeing
Speaker 1: some incredible star player performances, those who aren't hurt or
Speaker 1: dinged up, whether it's Luca and Kauai going at it
Speaker 1: back to back in that series that went to seven
Speaker 1: games between the Clippers and the Mavericks and in game
Speaker 1: one between the seventy six and Hawks. If you're a
Speaker 1: fan of the game, and I I love listening to
Speaker 1: Huby Brown for a lot of reasons. I don't know
Speaker 1: how other people feel about him, but to me, I
Speaker 1: get a kick out of when he's like there you
Speaker 1: go like you don't ever hear announcers sound like they're
Speaker 1: rooting or have a rooting interest in a game. And
Speaker 1: he's not rooting for a team or a player. He's
Speaker 1: just rooting for the game being played the right way.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, there you go, that's nice. Okay, like
Speaker 1: those sorts of things you hear from human He's doing
Speaker 1: that throughout the game on Sunday. But it's great when
Speaker 1: star players, I think are at their best. I mean, certainly,
Speaker 1: if you follow the Sixers, you want and you're a
Speaker 1: fan of the Sixers, you want them to take away
Speaker 1: Trey Young. But seeing a game like that where Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid was outstanding, Trey Young outstanding, you want that as
Speaker 1: a fan of the game this time of year, sture
Speaker 1: and that's where the chess match starts, right, So you
Speaker 1: have the stars, Now what do the coaches do to
Speaker 1: take it away? I was a little confused that Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers didn't look to take away Tray Young a little
Speaker 1: bit more yesterday, in an earlier fashion, they came out
Speaker 1: in the second half and put Ben Simmons on him,
Speaker 1: and then they started to jump the high pick and
Speaker 1: rolls later on, which I thought was good. Look tray
Speaker 1: Young six feet tall. I would look to smother him
Speaker 1: as much as you could. He got to do too
Speaker 1: much of what he does that makes him that star
Speaker 1: that you're talking about, Brie. He got to do too
Speaker 1: much of that too easily in the first half, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and I thought they waited just a little
Speaker 1: too long to take away what he does best. Joe Ellenbiad,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, did do what he does and
Speaker 1: continue to do it throughout the game. Now the chess match,
Speaker 1: like you said, Brian, the chess match now starts. What
Speaker 1: does Nate McMillan do to try to take away Joe
Speaker 1: ellenbid because I think we know what Doc Rivers has
Speaker 1: to try to do to take away tray Young. Couple
Speaker 1: things regarding I think one of the adjustments might be
Speaker 1: they come with a bigger guy, but that would be Collins,
Speaker 1: like leaving Tobias who's typically lifted out on the opposite
Speaker 1: side of the floor. They came with Bogdanovitch early on,
Speaker 1: and he was hesitant, like he would come underneath the
Speaker 1: belly of the lane and not go all the way.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you not got the game plan? Are you
Speaker 1: coming or you're not? And then again, like nobody can
Speaker 1: guard Joel, even Capella, who's very athletic, obviously good off
Speaker 1: the ball, shot blocker, extraordinary rebounder, dunker, put back guy,
Speaker 1: but not a one on one defender straight up with Joe,
Speaker 1: not even close. So that was a key thing and
Speaker 1: that's going to remain a factor in the series. Regarding Huby,
Speaker 1: unbelievable in his what eighties, and like I wanted that
Speaker 1: he was right by where we were broadcasting from it,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to bow down in January Stocked. We
Speaker 1: had training camp there the one year and Huby came
Speaker 1: down with one of his friends. He drove down from
Speaker 1: North Jersey and watched practice and then after practice like
Speaker 1: he was going over something with one of our players,
Speaker 1: maybe actually a coach, and everybody in the gym swarmed
Speaker 1: over there like a clinic is breaking out and who
Speaker 1: be Brown is teaching basketball. That's that's how good he is.
Speaker 1: And to your point, Brian, he appreciates the game. And
Speaker 1: you watch like as you say, you know, you watch
Speaker 1: on Twitter and everybody was weighing in about hub and
Speaker 1: his ability, So that that is he's just like our sport.
Speaker 1: You can always learn and if you think you can't
Speaker 1: like come on your kid yourself and you can continually
Speaker 1: grow in your knowledge of the game. And a guy
Speaker 1: like that puts it on a planner, especially for a
Speaker 1: national television audience where everybody's not steeped in the game
Speaker 1: like basketball lifers. So that was excellent. And then Trey Young,
Speaker 1: like Bob, I think you're you're making a legitimate point
Speaker 1: and you're probably not the only guy that is stipulating that.
Speaker 1: They did put ben on him at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the third quarter. What happened, boom, he got a foul.
Speaker 1: So to me, part of the knowledge of this is
Speaker 1: how he plays. He's hooking, he's crafty. I mean on
Speaker 1: the thible review he followed, he's twice not the teeth
Speaker 1: founel he banged into him and then he hits him
Speaker 1: of the elbow. Those are both fouls on Trey Young
Speaker 1: didn't get reversed, but I thought it certainly could have
Speaker 1: been a legitimate challenge by the sissors coach talked about
Speaker 1: defending with verticality, like made him shoot over the length.
Speaker 1: And the problem is with Trey Young, Oh okay, I'll
Speaker 1: just back up to twenty nine feet. He would have
Speaker 1: gone to FDR Park, but there was a flower show there,
Speaker 1: so he opted to go to the Patterson Subway station instead.
Speaker 1: But he can shoot the ball from rain and again.
Speaker 1: And Bob, you had basketball players, you're a fine player yourself.
Speaker 1: That Ken the Catholic go Irish. But what his daddy
Speaker 1: taught him is, you know, like we all thought our
Speaker 1: kids like, no, no, shoot with the right form. His
Speaker 1: dad said, great, you got the form, get back, shoot
Speaker 1: the bombs. And look what happened. He turned into Trey Young. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing where I know the people want to
Speaker 1: maybe look at his if they're trying to pick him
Speaker 1: apart and say, well, he shoots only this percentage from three,
Speaker 1: but he's not going to stop shooting, and he can
Speaker 1: hit from anywhere, which is what makes him so dangerous.
Speaker 1: And if he is able to pull one of those
Speaker 1: insanely deep shots out of his bag like he did
Speaker 1: a different points in the first quart in the first half,
Speaker 1: those can be backbreaking at times, and you're just like, well,
Speaker 1: what else can we do to him? But I would agree,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it looked like things were different with
Speaker 1: him as far as his success with how the Sixers
Speaker 1: approached defensively, in the second half, but yet he still
Speaker 1: was able to slither in make two big baskets back
Speaker 1: to back midway through the fourth quarter, which in a
Speaker 1: game that close, he still was able to make some
Speaker 1: impact plays down the stretch. So to me, he's really exciting.
Speaker 1: He seems extremely fearless. I just have a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for him. I do. I think that if no
Speaker 1: one was watching the New York Knicks series, they certainly
Speaker 1: see what he's all about. Now. I was just gonna say,
Speaker 1: regarding Trey Young and regarding Joel and regarding the NBA playoffs,
Speaker 1: and I made this point earlier here at home, and
Speaker 1: that is like all postseason plays special, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can go on with the NFL and baseball and
Speaker 1: obviously hockey playoffs are awesome, but it's an incredible formula, right,
Speaker 1: And as you say, these guys are stars. The talent
Speaker 1: is straordinary, right with Brooklyn and Kevin Durant, and the
Speaker 1: way it goes like something's gonna shake out, something's gonna
Speaker 1: be revealed, like in the Brooklyn Milwaukee series, like you're like, boy,
Speaker 1: these teams are so evenly Well, turns out Brooklyn's way better,
Speaker 1: at least in the first game, even without one of
Speaker 1: their best players. In the Sixers series, A, turnovers are
Speaker 1: going to be a problem. Something gets revealed and we
Speaker 1: learned something through every game and that's why the series,
Speaker 1: the entire playoffs look around the league with the Luca
Speaker 1: versus the Clippers, and that's just it's unbelievable. It's a
Speaker 1: tableau of excitement and storylines and dramas. It's an incredible
Speaker 1: package of basketball at this time of the year. It's
Speaker 1: it's special to be a part of it. And now
Speaker 1: the Sixers need to hold serve and they lost to
Speaker 1: home court advantage and now it's there. They got to
Speaker 1: get get it back, get back tie the series, go
Speaker 1: down there, steal a game and take it from there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're right, Brian, it's Trey Young is becoming I
Speaker 1: said this on air this morning. Trey Young is becoming
Speaker 1: one of my favorite players to watch in the NBA.
Speaker 1: He's at exciting and back in the day when we
Speaker 1: were all together on the road, I loved watching Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook live when he was back in Oklahoma City, just
Speaker 1: the way he played Steve Nash. You know, just different
Speaker 1: guys in the league. You just your eye goes to them,
Speaker 1: you say, Wow, that's fun to watch Trey Young is that,
Speaker 1: And it's his passing ability, it's a shooting ability, it's
Speaker 1: his creativity off the dribble. There's just so much about
Speaker 1: him that I really like. I do think though, his
Speaker 1: strengths on offense play into the six or strengths defensively also,
Speaker 1: and that's perimeter defense and the length that they have
Speaker 1: and enveloping him. They have to do a better job
Speaker 1: of just covering him. And I don't mean, you know, covered,
Speaker 1: but I mean envelop him and don't let him get
Speaker 1: to where he wants to be as easily as he
Speaker 1: did on Sunday. Am I off base on this? I
Speaker 1: was trying to think of it. I'm sure the people
Speaker 1: have thrown this out there. That's me. Trey seems like
Speaker 1: you could be the spawn of if Iverson and Curry
Speaker 1: had a love child, Steph Curry. That is am I
Speaker 1: totally off there? Your psychic or psycho. But yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: The love child thing threw me off a little bit.
Speaker 1: But no, like, what you're saying is the evolution of
Speaker 1: the game right like again, And I made this point
Speaker 1: and I've talked about it with Coach Rivers who played
Speaker 1: point guard in the NBA. But the handle has been
Speaker 1: around forever, right, guys with incredible dribbling ability. You're got
Speaker 1: to Pete Maravich and even in this day, Kouzi or
Speaker 1: Tiny Archibald or on and on and on, right Isaiah Thomas.
Speaker 1: But it's the way they do it now with the
Speaker 1: step back, the gather, the depth. Nobody's been shooting from
Speaker 1: range like this other than World be Free back in
Speaker 1: the day. But you wouldn't think of him as having
Speaker 1: an incredible handle, so that ai he had the shiftiness
Speaker 1: or whatever like like for a young player looking at
Speaker 1: Trey Young as you say, he's what six feet six
Speaker 1: one five, But it's the decision making, the hand eye coordination,
Speaker 1: the fast twitch fibers, the whole package, and then getting
Speaker 1: back into the game and the analysis. Bob's talking about
Speaker 1: swarming him and Ben try to do it and spoke
Speaker 1: postgame about you know, being fit if the refs will
Speaker 1: let me be six ten. Well, he's so fast and
Speaker 1: squirmy and weakly off the dribble that you know you
Speaker 1: try to get into him. First of all, you can't
Speaker 1: hand check him at all. You touch him out beyond
Speaker 1: the foul line, you're getting a foul. I think that's
Speaker 1: part of what the Sixers, as I mentioned, we're concerned with.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. They might have to run two
Speaker 1: at him, make him give up the ball. He will
Speaker 1: get it back. That's the other thing when you mentioned
Speaker 1: Curry with the ball movement and all that and off
Speaker 1: the ball actions, he's the energizer bunny. He keeps moving
Speaker 1: when three guys in the gym are still guard him,
Speaker 1: and he still gets forty. That's what these players today
Speaker 1: do and that's something that young players can learn from
Speaker 1: as well. But to the point about Simmons trying to
Speaker 1: be physical with him, you reach out to get physical
Speaker 1: with him, and he's by you, and now he's got you.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing that today's players do, right,
Speaker 1: They iss Smith, all these guys. They get you on
Speaker 1: their hip, they get you inside, and now you're behind him.
Speaker 1: One of the fundamental tenants of basketball is to stay
Speaker 1: between the man with the ball and the basket, and
Speaker 1: that's where he's got you in a bind. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's another thing we had a lot of people saying
Speaker 1: to us today, can't they just get their hands up
Speaker 1: and make Trey Young shoot over well, Trey Young, like
Speaker 1: you said, Tom, Trey Young is so good with the basketball.
Speaker 1: It's someone that has a ball. Once I see somebody
Speaker 1: stand up straight, I got you. And so as much
Speaker 1: as you want to Ben Simmons at six tend to
Speaker 1: stand up straight and get his hands up, once Trey
Speaker 1: Young sees him going up straight and keeps his dribble,
Speaker 1: forget it. He's by you. You have to stay down
Speaker 1: on him to try to negate his quickness. And then
Speaker 1: once you rise to you if you once you start
Speaker 1: to go up, forget it, he's already passed you. So
Speaker 1: it's almost impossible to just vertically get up as easily
Speaker 1: as we would want it to happen. It's just he's
Speaker 1: that good. Right. One other fundamental this is a billy lane.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure it's been said before, but we all
Speaker 1: think about basketball played above the rims, no doubt pretty
Speaker 1: hard to stop values right, but with Bob's talking to
Speaker 1: you get lifted out of your fans. The axiom that
Speaker 1: Coach Lang would talk about, and that is lowest man wins.
Speaker 1: Basketball is about balance and leverage, and the second that
Speaker 1: you lift out, I mean these guys can do it.
Speaker 1: With an eyebrow fake. They got you, and that's what
Speaker 1: he does. He gets you off balance, off center and
Speaker 1: then he's weaving and like I said, and then I
Speaker 1: thought to that point, their decision making was Warriors esque
Speaker 1: when they put Draymond Green on the elbow and he's
Speaker 1: got KD, he's got step, he's got Clay. They were
Speaker 1: moving the ball around like that. When it's like an
Speaker 1: eight armed octopus, how do you stop him? And that's
Speaker 1: where they put the Sixers in that situation early in
Speaker 1: that game. All great points, guys. Yeah, to me, one
Speaker 1: of the things that concern me the most in the
Speaker 1: first six minutes of the game, eight minutes of the
Speaker 1: game wasn't anything with the scoring of Trey Young and
Speaker 1: said he had five assists in eight minutes, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: he hasn't even gotten started scoring the ball yet. He's
Speaker 1: just slicing dice and getting that ball movement. They're a
Speaker 1: team that can pass well. They really were able to
Speaker 1: move it pretty well, and it definitely caught the Sixers
Speaker 1: on their heels early. The adjustment. I think looking ahead
Speaker 1: to Game two, listen, is it possible that Atlanta shoots
Speaker 1: twenty threes in the game again. Perhaps could the Sixers
Speaker 1: only hit ten threes in a game? Again, perhaps free
Speaker 1: throws made turnovers for the Sixers. They sound like very
Speaker 1: easy things to circle on a box score, but to me,
Speaker 1: those are the two areas that you got to tighten
Speaker 1: up going into Game two. Agree and the turnovers fascinated me.
Speaker 1: That looked like a young fourth seeded team to the
Speaker 1: first seeded team. That's what the Sixers look like in
Speaker 1: that first quarter yesterday. Offensive fouls, lazy giveaways. Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: with a power dribble inside that he doesn't pick up
Speaker 1: and it goes over his head. It was just it
Speaker 1: was confusing to me. The way they played in the
Speaker 1: first half. That wasn't a Sixers team that I had
Speaker 1: seen before this year, and even carry it into the
Speaker 1: third quarter, it was It was kind of mind boggling
Speaker 1: what was going on with that team yesterday. The goodness
Speaker 1: that Tom pointed out earlier, they did finish strong, and
Speaker 1: I think that's the Sixers team we're going to see
Speaker 1: for the rest of the series. I think they win
Speaker 1: this series. I think they win tomorrow night also, But
Speaker 1: they have to be fundamentally sound and it can't be
Speaker 1: a look you have to scheme if you're Doc Rivers now. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: to me it seemed like, at least for the first half,
Speaker 1: all right, guys, you're the better team. Go out there
Speaker 1: and play, and before you know it, you're down twenty
Speaker 1: six and twenty at a half, and then you made adjustments.
Speaker 1: I hope tomorrow night they go into the game with
Speaker 1: the adjustments in hand what they're going to do with
Speaker 1: Trey Young and offensively have a little bit of a
Speaker 1: better scheme. But they scored one hundred and twenty four points,
Speaker 1: so offensively they weren't that bad, which is exactly in
Speaker 1: line with what they averaged in the first five games
Speaker 1: of playoffs against the Wizards, one hundred and twenty five points.
Speaker 1: Relative to the turnovers. That has been and I've talked
Speaker 1: about this before and then I want to be the
Speaker 1: downer guy, but that has been the Sixers issue at
Speaker 1: times in the playoffs, where not only because the points
Speaker 1: off of it ended up being maybe minus four, but again,
Speaker 1: you lost the game by four, but you're losing all
Speaker 1: those possessions. At one point they had eight more possessions.
Speaker 1: Just real quickly, Brian, you mentioned Trey Young with the
Speaker 1: assists of his five assists, like three of them were
Speaker 1: for threes, so he had accounted for he had only
Speaker 1: made two baskets at the beginning, but he had accounted
Speaker 1: for the flight the first fourteen points of the game.
Speaker 1: So Boby got the US open had on. You're talking
Speaker 1: about falling behind by twenty points at intermission. What happens
Speaker 1: is when you play golf, Oh man, I'm pressing here. Well,
Speaker 1: squeezing the club doesn't make it go farther, all right,
Speaker 1: You're just gonna slice it even more. So that's where
Speaker 1: the Sixers did. They overtried a little bit. That's where
Speaker 1: the charges come in. That's where George Hill loses eye
Speaker 1: side of the ball and flips it out of bounds.
Speaker 1: I mean, your top three players had twelve or thirteen
Speaker 1: of the turnovers in Tobias, Joel, and Ben, so that
Speaker 1: they have to get that down and to Bob's point,
Speaker 1: they were much better at it this season. There were
Speaker 1: games where you look down and they only have eight
Speaker 1: or nine. You know, sometimes you have so double digit
Speaker 1: turnovers in the first half, and that can you want
Speaker 1: to be a championship team that cannot happen. I feel
Speaker 1: like there was a good enough sample size, and granted,
Speaker 1: the regular season is not the playoffs, but I thought
Speaker 1: there was enough evidence during the regular season for now
Speaker 1: that we can say the Sixers or a team that's
Speaker 1: had its metal tested. They finished strong and fourth quarters,
Speaker 1: they found ways to win games. But this is really
Speaker 1: the first time that they're going to feel some a
Speaker 1: little bit of pressure like this is this is going
Speaker 1: to be some pressure, I think. I think it's certainly
Speaker 1: a manageable situation given the experience and the talent and
Speaker 1: the coaching they have. But you're at home, you're down
Speaker 1: O one. You certainly don't want to go to Atlanta
Speaker 1: down oh two because then it gets real. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: if you know, if you really believe that you're an
Speaker 1: MVP candidate Joel Embiid, you take over this game. And
Speaker 1: if you think you're a defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, well then you make your mark on that
Speaker 1: end of the floor with a tre Young and try to,
Speaker 1: you know, do something there to help the team out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a good thing for these guys. It's okay,
Speaker 1: like this is where they are in their progression. I
Speaker 1: really don't count last year's playoff rount, so just take
Speaker 1: it to two years prior Ben Simmons's first playoff run,
Speaker 1: they win a series, they lose to Boston. His second
Speaker 1: playoff runt, together with Joe LMB, they lose on a
Speaker 1: quadrupleed doink to the eventual champions. I don't count last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is your natural next progression. You're expected to win
Speaker 1: this second round. You lost the first game. You have
Speaker 1: a little bit of pressure on you. You do have
Speaker 1: KG veterans around you and guys that have all been
Speaker 1: through this before. But it falls on your shoulders. So
Speaker 1: to me, it's good. Have at it. Here you go,
Speaker 1: Ben and Joel, this is your team. Go get it,
Speaker 1: Go get it in this adversity that you've created for
Speaker 1: yourself in game one, right, and again, these are the
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs. Nobody said it was gonna be easy. It's
Speaker 1: not easy. It's hard, and this is as you say,
Speaker 1: this is adversity. We go back to the Coach Rivers
Speaker 1: line from when the playoff seeding was, you know, taking
Speaker 1: place with the top seed in Brooklyn and whatnot. There
Speaker 1: are no accidental champion? Is it the easier side of
Speaker 1: the bracket, and then you're not in with Milwaukee and
Speaker 1: Brooklyn probably so because those were two and three in
Speaker 1: terms of the seedings. But guess what, like I said Atlanta,
Speaker 1: they're not looking at the number four or five next
Speaker 1: to them or whatever. They're here to win. So this
Speaker 1: is it. And look those guys you don't count last year,
Speaker 1: but the sour taste lingers and fuel of the Tobias
Speaker 1: Harrises and the duel and I know Ben didn't play,
Speaker 1: but these guys, there's unfinished business here and so and
Speaker 1: this is it and again and now you have to play,
Speaker 1: as you say, with the experience that you've built up,
Speaker 1: it matters. It's like collective team muscle memory. They've come
Speaker 1: back to win, and they won twenty nine home games.
Speaker 1: They've done it multiple dozens of times. But with twenty
Speaker 1: road wins and the at home floor twenty nine times
Speaker 1: multiple times, you're gonna be tested. There are going to
Speaker 1: be runs. These other guys are really good also. So
Speaker 1: here it comes like you say, you want to have
Speaker 1: a special season. You've got a great group, and they do.
Speaker 1: And now you got to respond and go with the results.
Speaker 1: I'm ready, let's go Game two, Let's play. Let's play
Speaker 1: Monday night, seven thirty. Who's waiting for Tuesday, not me
Speaker 1: play at noon. Let's go other than Joel probably needs
Speaker 1: a couple Yes, all right, excellent fellas. Great to do
Speaker 1: it in three zoom boxes even if we couldn't do
Speaker 1: it in person. Thanks so much. See a team mac
Speaker 1: all right. Yes. Back when I started with the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers in twenty fifteen, the ten wins season. Excellent
Speaker 1: being on the road, especially with those two fellas. Learn
Speaker 1: a lot from them and great to have them on
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