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Speaker 1: and on this episode we recap Round two, Game six,
Speaker 1: a one oh four ninety nine win for the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers over the Atlanta Hawks, and now look ahead to
Speaker 1: Game seven Sunday at the Center against the Atlanta Hawks. Yes,
Speaker 1: what is Fanatic about the Playoffs? It is our postseason
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Speaker 1: drop the day after every Sixers playoff game. I'm Brian Selzer.
Speaker 1: It is great to be rejoined by two of the
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six Ers. One seventy six Ers team reporter
Speaker 1: Lauren Rosen, the other Tyrone Johnson. You hear him on
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Speaker 1: Mike Missinelli and you see him on Sixers Outsiders on
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Philadelphia. Guys, let's start with a straw pole, Lauren,
Speaker 1: you can go first, Game seven. Did we think we
Speaker 1: would be here at the beginning of the series. I
Speaker 1: did think that the Sixers might have made quicker work
Speaker 1: of the team, and I think when we look back
Speaker 1: on the series, regardless of how Game seven goes, there
Speaker 1: will be a lot of moments of like, could have
Speaker 1: ended the series. There, could have ended the series. There,
Speaker 1: could have ended the series there. But the bottom line
Speaker 1: is none of those things happened, and now they have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do it in one of the most
Speaker 1: exciting ways possible a Game seven. For me, it's been
Speaker 1: a roller coaster. I thought they should have won it
Speaker 1: in five. I kind of still do. I think they
Speaker 1: should of one in five. Then once they lost the
Speaker 1: Game five and the two big leagues, Honestly, I thought
Speaker 1: they were gonna lose Game six. I didn't think they
Speaker 1: would be able to recover, from being completely honest, but
Speaker 1: I'm very thankful that they did. And now I feel
Speaker 1: a lot better about their chances because I can look
Speaker 1: at this series sort of in totality and in total minutes,
Speaker 1: they've been a better team through six games. It just
Speaker 1: happens to be their bad moments have been a little
Speaker 1: bit worse than the Hawks bad moments, but their good
Speaker 1: moments have been much much better than the Hawks good moments.
Speaker 1: So I do feel pretty good going into Game seven.
Speaker 1: But I am shocked that they were able to mentally
Speaker 1: get themselves together after the debacle. Unfortunately, that was the
Speaker 1: twenty six point league going away in Game five, so tough.
Speaker 1: They showed some mental toughness yesterday, led by one particular
Speaker 1: person who I know we're going to talk about. We
Speaker 1: will get to him in just a second. On the holistic,
Speaker 1: big thirty thousand foot view, I do agree when I
Speaker 1: hear Doc talk about this sometimes when he references that
Speaker 1: this is a young team. I know they're not like
Speaker 1: young young, but for guys like Ben and Joe particularly
Speaker 1: looking at this, like right, they'd never been in a
Speaker 1: spot where hey, it was rolling, you know, they were
Speaker 1: up to one and you know all that stuff, and
Speaker 1: they really had to summon up something to find a
Speaker 1: way to revive themselves, and they did that. I thought,
Speaker 1: collectively they had to, and they did that in Game six.
Speaker 1: I've always felt and I know that the three of
Speaker 1: us are an agreement on this, and I bet that
Speaker 1: probably just about anyone you would ask, whether they followed
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers or not, would be in agreement with
Speaker 1: us too. The Sixers are the superior team. They didn't execute,
Speaker 1: they did not have it together in the way things
Speaker 1: went down, and those back to back losses in games
Speaker 1: four in game five, so the mere fact that they
Speaker 1: won didn't surprise me, and I was impressed they were
Speaker 1: able to rally together on the road. Game got off
Speaker 1: to a hairy start, but they settled themselves down and
Speaker 1: got the job done. And now when you look at
Speaker 1: it in a vacuum, Game seven, it's just a game again.
Speaker 1: For me, I think the Sixers are superior talent and
Speaker 1: it's going to be at the center. So I look
Speaker 1: at those factors and I'm like, Okay, I do like
Speaker 1: the circumstances. If you had to pick circumstances, those are
Speaker 1: circumstances that I would select for this situation. Yeah, Can
Speaker 1: I agree with you? No? So, yeah, I completely agree
Speaker 1: with that. Like Game seven, your home floor, I think
Speaker 1: your team is better. I think that they've done a
Speaker 1: good job. Also, now multiple games in a row limiting
Speaker 1: trade Young's effectiveness compared to his volume. So last night
Speaker 1: thirty four points but thirty shots. I think if that
Speaker 1: happens again in the game seven, the Sixers win this game.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of things pointing in the direction
Speaker 1: I think logically to the Sixers being in a really
Speaker 1: good spot if you're in If people that are into gambling,
Speaker 1: I know there's seven point favorites, if that's a thing
Speaker 1: for you. I think there's a lot of things pointing
Speaker 1: in their direction going into a Game seven, despite the
Speaker 1: fact that we've all probably been bruised a little bit
Speaker 1: throughout this series with what has happened up until this point.
Speaker 1: If we're being honest, I think I know that Joe
Speaker 1: l Embiid is excited about a Game seven, and to me,
Speaker 1: that's meaningful. After the game last night, when Joel was
Speaker 1: asked about his performance, he said he has to be
Speaker 1: better and he knows that he will be better in
Speaker 1: a Game seven in front of the home court, like
Speaker 1: he immediately pivoted to what's going on on Sunday, how
Speaker 1: he imagines it's going to be and what he's going
Speaker 1: to bring to the table, and I'm a big accountability fan. Joel,
Speaker 1: of course eight of the team's eleven turnovers in Game
Speaker 1: six and still managed to get it done. It wasn't
Speaker 1: his best night. He admitted that we haven't seen an
Speaker 1: excellent Joel the way we became accustomed to yet in
Speaker 1: this series, and if there's ever a moment to do it,
Speaker 1: it's going to be in this Game seven, and he's
Speaker 1: already as soon as soon as the final buzzer in
Speaker 1: Game six went off, he was priming himself for that
Speaker 1: opportunity and I really look forward to seeing how he's
Speaker 1: going to embrace it. I think, of course Game seven
Speaker 1: against Toronto was big, but Joel and Jimmy Butler were
Speaker 1: sort of sharing the spotlight in that series. This I
Speaker 1: think is the biggest career of the biggest game of
Speaker 1: Joel Embiad's career thus far, and I don't think it's close.
Speaker 1: There will be some defining potential for some of these
Speaker 1: guys up to this point in terms of what happens
Speaker 1: in Game seven. For sure, we're gonna all take a
Speaker 1: seat in the taxi in just a moment. But to
Speaker 1: double backtie on something that you said, you know, Trey,
Speaker 1: if you just looked at his line on the surface,
Speaker 1: there would be some things obviously that jump out at you.
Speaker 1: One to speak to the point that you made about
Speaker 1: volume five for ten. If he's taken ten threes based
Speaker 1: on game logs and percentages, I'm not expecting him to
Speaker 1: hit fifty percent of those the next game out. That
Speaker 1: would buck trends. I also thought that some of his
Speaker 1: quick decision making with his shot selection and other things
Speaker 1: down the stretch, like that's where the Hawks, to me,
Speaker 1: it got away from them. I mean, they were hanging around,
Speaker 1: hanging around the sixers. They were finally able to get
Speaker 1: some separation late because it seemed to me like whether
Speaker 1: he heat checked himself too much or tried to rush
Speaker 1: things for I thought, as well as he played at times,
Speaker 1: some of his decision making down the stretch put the
Speaker 1: Hawks in a disadvantageous spot. Yeah, for sure. Heat They're
Speaker 1: so reliant on him, so reliant on him, and they
Speaker 1: got one game that if you look at recent history
Speaker 1: with Lou Williams, looks like a fluke. That Game five
Speaker 1: performance just that he hasn't played that well in years,
Speaker 1: and he had this great half all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: But outside of that one little spurt, he's everything as
Speaker 1: far as their creation goes. And I think sometimes he
Speaker 1: doesn't trust his teammates enough at times. And listen, he's
Speaker 1: had tons of success. He was second in the NBA
Speaker 1: and assist this year, but I do think that that
Speaker 1: caught up to him a little bit in the end
Speaker 1: of Game six. Yeah, I agree. When I looked down
Speaker 1: at the final box score and saw thirteen for thirty,
Speaker 1: it didn't really feel like what I had just watched.
Speaker 1: I thought that he had actually had a stronger performance
Speaker 1: than that line would suggest. And then the second thing
Speaker 1: that I was not excited about but but interested by
Speaker 1: was that lineup that excluded both Ben and Matisse that
Speaker 1: closed down the second quarter. It was Tyrese Seth for Cohn,
Speaker 1: Tobias and Joel And to me, there's not someone in
Speaker 1: that lineup that screams guarding Trey Young, slowing down Trey
Speaker 1: Young the way. Credit to Matise and Ben. They have
Speaker 1: done so far in this series pretty well. And when
Speaker 1: that lineup was able to keep that lead at four
Speaker 1: for the Hawks, they were able to keep this team
Speaker 1: in the game. With Trey Young playing well without someone
Speaker 1: that screams I am Trey Young's defender. I thought things
Speaker 1: were going to go okay for this team based on
Speaker 1: the fact that that lineup was able to have success,
Speaker 1: and then that lineup ended up continuing to have success.
Speaker 1: Or lineups again excluding Ben and Matisse had success against
Speaker 1: a guy that's pretty dang good in the second half.
Speaker 1: So to me, that was something to watch. That was
Speaker 1: something that intrigued me about what could happen in Game seven.
Speaker 1: And then I know we're sort of dancing around Tyrese
Speaker 1: in this whole thing, but the defense that he showed
Speaker 1: he could play against Trey Young was pretty pretty awesome
Speaker 1: at times. Without further ado, we know you all do
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Speaker 1: to love tyres I mean, the way he plays Lauren,
Speaker 1: the enthusiasm just kind of I don't want to say naive,
Speaker 1: but he's just kind of got this like good, wholesome
Speaker 1: thing about him right now, you know, talking about when
Speaker 1: he speaks to his mom and the influence of his dad.
Speaker 1: It's just like the whole thing. He's a great basketball
Speaker 1: player for me, first and foremost, that's what dictates, but
Speaker 1: everything about him, he's got a real energy and great spirit.
Speaker 1: And clearly his performance was excellent and he came in
Speaker 1: at the very precise point where the Sixers could have
Speaker 1: either gone one way or another. Well, I feel like cells,
Speaker 1: every time we've talked about Tyres all season long, it's
Speaker 1: been in this context. He spends some time on the bedge,
Speaker 1: maybe even is out of the rotation, and then he
Speaker 1: comes in and he does something big, and he did
Speaker 1: it all season long, and he got better all season long,
Speaker 1: and it's because basketball really is this kid's life. He's in,
Speaker 1: he's probably in the gym right now. He said as
Speaker 1: soon as he got back, tomorrow is going to be
Speaker 1: the same thing. He's go in. He's going to get
Speaker 1: early work in. It's just it's his life. And he's
Speaker 1: done such a good job of setting up this regimen
Speaker 1: for himself that clearly works, that keeps him ready, that
Speaker 1: keeps him growing, and he's done it all season long,
Speaker 1: and I'm not surprised anymore when he does it. But
Speaker 1: I continue to be incredibly impressed by what he's been
Speaker 1: able to do by the cool head that he keeps
Speaker 1: in these huge situations. I mean, we keep saying it
Speaker 1: that was probably the biggest moment of Tyree's Maxie's career,
Speaker 1: and we keep adding to that list. And of course
Speaker 1: here definitely the trump card thus far of this Game
Speaker 1: six where he really did help the Sixers, if not
Speaker 1: propel the Sixers to extend their season. And I'm with you, Sell,
Speaker 1: it's just the smiling, the energy that he brings, the
Speaker 1: joy that he brings, the way that he speaks about
Speaker 1: his preparation and how much he prides himself in preparation,
Speaker 1: and then of course the idea that he had twenty
Speaker 1: four hours in Atlanta and I'm gonna I'm gonna read
Speaker 1: Tyrese's words instead of paraphrase. But he spent those twenty
Speaker 1: four hours by doing the following, got some pasta called
Speaker 1: my mom, went to sleep, wake up, go to the gym,
Speaker 1: and get ready to go, and then sixteen points seven
Speaker 1: rebounds a steal in a block. To me, that is
Speaker 1: just a great twenty four hours for anybody. But really
Speaker 1: does example if I believe him, I believe that that's
Speaker 1: exactly what he did. And I just think that that's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure to watch Tyrese and his rookie season,
Speaker 1: and I don't even know if that covers it. A
Speaker 1: pleasure to watch feels like light, you know, yeah, a
Speaker 1: tremendous spirit on the basketball side. I think that it
Speaker 1: makes it's another thing that actually makes you feel good
Speaker 1: about Game seven as well. Once Hunter was out and
Speaker 1: six is lose Danny Green. But once Hunter's out, there's
Speaker 1: one plus defender on the Hawks roster and that's Capella
Speaker 1: trying to deal with him be and no one on
Speaker 1: the perimeter is a plus defender. And when he comes
Speaker 1: into the game, it's a very big pressure moment as
Speaker 1: far as the spot that he's in. But he's going
Speaker 1: against better defenders than the Hawks can throw at him.
Speaker 1: Throughout the regular season. At times when he played had
Speaker 1: to play against Denver team when there was like six
Speaker 1: guys and it was just him out there, like he's
Speaker 1: had to play against other plus defenders tougher. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: just it seems like he's a kid that thinks basketball's basketball.
Speaker 1: At least that's how he seems like his approaches is
Speaker 1: like basketball's basketball. Once he's out there and if he
Speaker 1: doesn't have those nerves, the Hawks do not have as
Speaker 1: tougher challenge as he's seen, maybe even at Kentucky at times,
Speaker 1: because Trey Young, if we're talking about on the defensive end,
Speaker 1: when he's guarding them, no, just no shot of staying
Speaker 1: in front of them, Lou Williams and different guys that
Speaker 1: they try to do it. He's just flat better than
Speaker 1: them as far as his offense vers their defense. And
Speaker 1: I think that that's something that he recognized and took
Speaker 1: advantage of. So the mental side, I give him a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for I had faith in the basketball
Speaker 1: part because the Hawks don't really have an answer for him,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they're going to have an answer
Speaker 1: for him in Game seven either, unless they find a
Speaker 1: player who's currently not on their roster and sign them.
Speaker 1: I just don't think there's an answer there. And I
Speaker 1: think that he at some point early recognized, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is just basketball, and I'm better than these guys
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go show it. Ty Larne brought up
Speaker 1: the defense Trey Young at ninety three. That was just
Speaker 1: an incredible three pointer, But I honestly thought that was
Speaker 1: some of the better defense. I've seen him from Tyree's
Speaker 1: like shake his hand. Unfortunate. Tray's an excellent player and
Speaker 1: he can make some crazy shots. But I thought his
Speaker 1: defense on that play, you know, and I'm sure that
Speaker 1: that Doc and the staff did this, I would have
Speaker 1: been I would have been pumping him up for that defense,
Speaker 1: and I'd be showing him that clip despite the fact
Speaker 1: that it went in. For sure. For sure, I thought,
Speaker 1: and Lauren brought did bring up the defense, and I
Speaker 1: think that was something that maybe another thing maybe Doc
Speaker 1: Revers ends up finding in the game six that could
Speaker 1: carry over, like I can trust Maxie to stay in
Speaker 1: front of him. Trey's gonna do what he does, but
Speaker 1: if I have to do it, he has the ability
Speaker 1: to do so. I think that's huge. Well, the speed
Speaker 1: thing is interesting to me. Sorry, Selta want to add
Speaker 1: one more thing. I spoke to my grandmother in California
Speaker 1: after the game. She's become a six Ers fan. This week,
Speaker 1: She's watched three six games, the most recent three, and
Speaker 1: her big takeaway was, Man, that Trey Young is just
Speaker 1: so fast. Good thing. Tyrese Maxie is also fast, and
Speaker 1: I think she sees them as like, Okay, they're two
Speaker 1: young guys. They both had good games last night. She
Speaker 1: sees them as like like for like, and I don't
Speaker 1: know that we're there yet, but just to hear her
Speaker 1: talk about the fact that Trey is so fast and
Speaker 1: so is Tyrese, I thought was really interesting, having just
Speaker 1: spoken to Doc Rivers who said the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: So maybe my grandma is really onto something. But it
Speaker 1: was such a pleasure to hear her find this joy
Speaker 1: and watching the two of them go back and forth
Speaker 1: and seeing them as equals because she hasn't been watching
Speaker 1: basketball forever. I thought that was really interesting. We gotta
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Speaker 1: hundred ambler. Okay, Continuing the conversation, Guys, they said it
Speaker 1: plus as a team to come out here. You saw
Speaker 1: the fight in the grit of a whole group that
Speaker 1: wanted to win and wanted to pick the next guy up.
Speaker 1: No doubt Tyrese was X factor number one. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if based on past performance we can label Tobias
Speaker 1: necessarily as an X factor. I think he has set
Speaker 1: a standard for himself that clearly he expects, but I
Speaker 1: thought he got back to it in Game six. The
Speaker 1: Sixers needed him at some very key points. He came
Speaker 1: up with big baskets, finished with twenty four to tie
Speaker 1: Seth for the game high, and it was nice to
Speaker 1: see Tobias respond in that way. I agreed. Look, here's
Speaker 1: the thing about Tobias. He's been so reliable all season long,
Speaker 1: and it was such a shame to see him struggle
Speaker 1: the way that he did in Game five, because like Tyrese,
Speaker 1: he puts in so much preparation. He continues to have
Speaker 1: a cool head. He rises to the occasion. He's done
Speaker 1: so all season. So to me seeing him have a
Speaker 1: tough Game five, I wasn't worried about his ability to
Speaker 1: produce in Game six, but I thought it was interesting. Tie.
Speaker 1: When we opened up, you talked about the mental toughness
Speaker 1: that the team showed, and for me, with Tobias in
Speaker 1: game six, it was all about mental toughness because Tobias
Speaker 1: knows he's so intelligent. He knows what people are saying
Speaker 1: about him, he knows what people are saying about his teammates,
Speaker 1: his coach, and his team. And he really clearly did
Speaker 1: come into this one and say you know what, and
Speaker 1: his first couple of shots didn't fall, he got into
Speaker 1: foul trouble and he kept going, He stayed confident with himself.
Speaker 1: He found what he needed later in the game. And
Speaker 1: I know based on the sort of fabric of this
Speaker 1: team and where everybody fits in, but the way Tobias
Speaker 1: his mind is working is important for the rest of
Speaker 1: the group. So to see him show that toughness and
Speaker 1: that determination, not surprised again, but really impressed that he
Speaker 1: was able to do that in this particular situation. I
Speaker 1: think he was really important in a lot of ways
Speaker 1: that we could see and a lot of ways that
Speaker 1: we couldn't see. You completely agree with that, and I
Speaker 1: think that what was to me what made it's so
Speaker 1: impressive was I look at it as sort of he
Speaker 1: had six bad quarters in a row and then turn
Speaker 1: around because I think it was the fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: Game four where that was the unfortunate lead where he
Speaker 1: didn't score in that quarter. Then obviously Game five as
Speaker 1: a game, we all agree that was a struggle for him.
Speaker 1: And then as you mentioned, he misses the first couple
Speaker 1: of shots, and then he has two fouls in the
Speaker 1: first quarter of Game six, So it's like the one
Speaker 1: quarter in the one game four quarters, and then another
Speaker 1: quarter to start the next game. This is one of
Speaker 1: those things where maybe the old Tobias a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, that Toronto, the one that played against Toronto
Speaker 1: the last time there was a Game seven, maybe he
Speaker 1: can't recover in game that way and turn it around.
Speaker 1: This one was able to completely just shove that away
Speaker 1: and he came back right at the start of the
Speaker 1: second quarter. Doc waited longer to bring Ben Simmons back,
Speaker 1: and immediately when he got in the game, he started
Speaker 1: to get into the paint, and I think that was
Speaker 1: big in the game and it's really turned around. So
Speaker 1: a lot of credit for him because that was a
Speaker 1: tough moment. I think another weaker mental player maybe packs in.
Speaker 1: He says, you know what, distances at my time, he
Speaker 1: went the opposite way helped him a lot, and I
Speaker 1: think he's in a really good space now, both physically
Speaker 1: and mentally for Game seven. A couple of the things
Speaker 1: to highlight quickly before we get some final thoughts before
Speaker 1: Game seven. Joel embiad it's really hard for me, guys
Speaker 1: right now to evaluatehoe given what's going on with his
Speaker 1: right knee and who knows, who knows, It's just it's hard.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what it must be like for him
Speaker 1: to just get the work with treatment and put in
Speaker 1: all the extra stuff with that and then go out
Speaker 1: there and try to compete at the level that he
Speaker 1: expects of himself. One thing to me that has swung
Speaker 1: certain parts of the series is which team has been
Speaker 1: more aggressive on the offensive glass. We certainly saw that
Speaker 1: in Atlanta's first comeback in Game four, six ors finished
Speaker 1: plus six on the offensive glass. Joel Embiid had seven
Speaker 1: offensive rebounds, which is a really good number for him,
Speaker 1: and he had some timely put back slate. And I
Speaker 1: think it's encouraging high that, regardless of what Joel might
Speaker 1: be able to are not able to do with his
Speaker 1: movement right now because of the knee, if he can
Speaker 1: give you effort plays like that, and especially at the
Speaker 1: time of the game where possessions are pivotal, which it
Speaker 1: was in the fourth quarter, that's gonna go a long ways.
Speaker 1: And it's certainly taking advantage of things that Joel can do.
Speaker 1: Perhaps that's maybe a little bit more manageable depending on
Speaker 1: when and how he uses his knee. Yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with that, and I'm really physical game yesterday too when
Speaker 1: he was able to fight through it. Um I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how I was a foul call
Speaker 1: on him when Colins headlocked him on that dunk. I
Speaker 1: don't know how it was a foul him. He gets
Speaker 1: him in a headlock and dunk say they called it
Speaker 1: on and being and we know later on when they
Speaker 1: called the offensive foul and then Collins kicks someone he's
Speaker 1: on the ground, physical thing, and Cappella the one thing
Speaker 1: he does really well. I think that is an effort thing.
Speaker 1: I think Trey Young creates a lot, but he's a
Speaker 1: very good rebounder and be being able to match him
Speaker 1: on the glass yesterday, to me is a big moment,
Speaker 1: is a big thing going forward because then you really
Speaker 1: neutralize what Cappella does because he's not a player you
Speaker 1: can throw it to in the posts. We know what
Speaker 1: he doesn't do, rebounding sort of his thing and catching
Speaker 1: ali oops like that's kind of his whole game. By
Speaker 1: taking away half of that just gigantic, especially on the
Speaker 1: one leg. And I think that him strategically working the refs,
Speaker 1: I think he might nay and it getn't find who knows,
Speaker 1: because he talked about the refs after the game right away,
Speaker 1: and I think that was on purpose. If he gets
Speaker 1: some calls in that Game seven, in addition to the rebounding,
Speaker 1: maybe some of those putbacks are and ones instead of
Speaker 1: just two points, and then who knows. So I think
Speaker 1: it was really important. Joel is a really smart guy,
Speaker 1: and he understands how these series has gone thus far
Speaker 1: in terms of what he can control, what he can't control,
Speaker 1: where the team has been, where his health has been,
Speaker 1: home road. He considers all of it. And I love
Speaker 1: watching Joel Embiid's brain work, and I do think we
Speaker 1: talked about it at the top. He's ready for this
Speaker 1: Game seven. He is going to do everything he can
Speaker 1: given the knee situation. I'm with you, South, It's really
Speaker 1: hard to know how to evaluate what he's been to do.
Speaker 1: But let's just assume that he's struggling out there because
Speaker 1: he said he is, and Doc Rivers has said that
Speaker 1: it's been hard for him to play through the pain
Speaker 1: that he's dealing with. Considering, I think that it's been
Speaker 1: really impressive and I'm looking forward to just seeing him
Speaker 1: in this game seven opportunity. Think about how much that
Speaker 1: Game seven in Toronto stung for Joel Embead, who wasn't
Speaker 1: at peak health in that Game seven either, but he
Speaker 1: remembers it, he hasn't forgotten about it, and now it's
Speaker 1: time to get a second chance at home against a
Speaker 1: team that he knows these Sixers are better than against Toronto.
Speaker 1: It was a more emon matchup. Joel Embiad knows that
Speaker 1: he's the leader of the better team and they're going
Speaker 1: to a one game situation at home. I think Game
Speaker 1: six obviously was massive, it extended the season, but this
Speaker 1: Game seven, I honestly feel more confidence about. As for
Speaker 1: Game seven, the adjustment. What version of the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: do we need to cease tie? We can start with
Speaker 1: you in Game seven. Things in these final hours to
Speaker 1: clean up, adapt, tweak, modified. You know, I need to
Speaker 1: go back to the nightmare that was Game five. But
Speaker 1: give me the first half of Game five and then
Speaker 1: don't turn the ball over in the third quarter like
Speaker 1: they did, which I think was the beginning of sort
Speaker 1: of the end right there. That's the game plan to me,
Speaker 1: the same kind of early game plan that they had
Speaker 1: in Game five that got him that big lead and
Speaker 1: just sustained on the offensive and more importantly to me,
Speaker 1: the defensive end. That that was the thing that was
Speaker 1: kind of and I think Maxi may ended up solving that.
Speaker 1: So maybe a little bit more Maxie sprinkled in to
Speaker 1: game five, and who knows, maybe that is the answer.
Speaker 1: I think that there is, believe it or not, some
Speaker 1: good things to take from that game five. The last
Speaker 1: time they were at home, they just couldn't finish. Take
Speaker 1: that and give that for forty eight minutes and it's
Speaker 1: there and defensively, I think this has Ben Simmons chance
Speaker 1: to shine. Obviously we haven't talked about him much, but
Speaker 1: the people have been frustrated with him, the fans. I
Speaker 1: did a show earlier today. The fans are frustrated with
Speaker 1: him right now. For whatever, it's his chance right here
Speaker 1: to really have that moment because no one will care
Speaker 1: what he did in games one through six if he
Speaker 1: has huge defensive moments that they can see at home
Speaker 1: in game seven down to stretch, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a big opportunity for him to kind of win back
Speaker 1: the hearts of people who are a little bit upset
Speaker 1: with them right now. It's interesting because to me, this
Speaker 1: game seven sort of feels like when you study for
Speaker 1: a test for a long time and then you go
Speaker 1: in and you know what material you know really well,
Speaker 1: and you know what material you're not as sure about.
Speaker 1: But at least you know what's going to be asked
Speaker 1: on the test, right, Like, you know what the questions
Speaker 1: are going to be, and it's just a matter of
Speaker 1: how you utilize the knowledge that you've built while you've
Speaker 1: been studying. So to me, we know that there are
Speaker 1: going to be some limitations, whether it's because of health
Speaker 1: or lineups or confidence. This team has had some roadblocks
Speaker 1: in this series, but they know what they are, right.
Speaker 1: So if it's been really excelling on defense and letting
Speaker 1: the crowd see that and embrace him for that, that's
Speaker 1: a win. That's how you get points on this test, Joel.
Speaker 1: If it's winning the mental game because your physical game
Speaker 1: isn't exactly where you want it to be, that's points
Speaker 1: on this test. Embracing one another, listening to your veterans,
Speaker 1: using more tyrese again, like, all of these things are
Speaker 1: adding up to extra points on the final exam. And
Speaker 1: I think that this Sixers team has learned a lot.
Speaker 1: You said it just now. Tie. They're not to me,
Speaker 1: going to find themselves in the same situation they were
Speaker 1: in Game five because now they know how badly it
Speaker 1: hurts to end up in that situation. So I agree,
Speaker 1: come out strong, show what you've learned, don't let up.
Speaker 1: But they remain the better team, and we've said it
Speaker 1: before every game. So I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons for the Sixers, for the Sixers fans to feel
Speaker 1: enthusiastic about what's coming on Sunday, you know, a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm going to build on that test. Taking analogy for
Speaker 1: a second, I'm going to say that there were situations,
Speaker 1: maybe it was an sat something like that. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember where you study, and you study, you take
Speaker 1: your practice tests, you do it over, you see all
Speaker 1: the same type of questions. Then you're funnily like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's two or three in the morning the day of
Speaker 1: the test, and you say, wait a minute, there is
Speaker 1: literally not anything more that I can do because I've
Speaker 1: reviewed all this stuff. I know exactly what's coming. I
Speaker 1: just gotta go take the test. I'm gonna be loose,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be free. Part of me wonders if whichever
Speaker 1: team can master that loose, free mindset can play within
Speaker 1: itself the most. If we're looking at intangible stuff, for
Speaker 1: Game seven. But to bring it back tie to what
Speaker 1: you were talking about with Ben, right, We haven't talked
Speaker 1: about him yet. I think I can't remember. It was
Speaker 1: on Mike Show earlier this week, or maybe it was Devon.
Speaker 1: I was driving around and I heard a call or
Speaker 1: talk about Ben Simmons at the start of games, and
Speaker 1: Laren and I have talked about this before. We focus
Speaker 1: a lot on closers sometimes, especially the way that Ben
Speaker 1: seems to be a most successful I like to look
Speaker 1: at starters. When Ben starts in that mindset that we
Speaker 1: all know that Ben is in when he's at his best,
Speaker 1: I think really good things happen for the Sixers and
Speaker 1: it opens things up right away. So I'm not even
Speaker 1: talking about third quarter, fourth quarters, scenario, time score, whatever,
Speaker 1: what the rotations look like. We know Ben's gonna be
Speaker 1: out there to start the game, and I just want
Speaker 1: to see Ben right off the bat get to it, um.
Speaker 1: And if that's the only thing that happens on the
Speaker 1: offensive end, where he opens things up for other guys,
Speaker 1: gets himself into a rhythm and a groove, we know
Speaker 1: he's gonna lock it down defensively. No issues with that, UM.
Speaker 1: I think the sixers will be in a good spot.
Speaker 1: That's all yea tests that that's that's a good point.
Speaker 1: And hopefully the teachers, all the proctors referee. So I
Speaker 1: stay out of the way because that that is um
Speaker 1: frustrated me throughout. I'm not speaking for either one of you,
Speaker 1: two guys. I'm just saying that is frustrated me throughout.
Speaker 1: They've either been too involved or not involved enough. Maybe
Speaker 1: they have, can you know, speaking of a test, they've
Speaker 1: they've been watching this series, they go over film after
Speaker 1: games allegedly maybe hit the sweet spot on this is
Speaker 1: a foul, This isn't a foul. This is a foul
Speaker 1: for both teams, and this isn't a foul for both teams.
Speaker 1: I think that could be something that maybe can may
Speaker 1: difference in my personal opinion in a game. Step now,
Speaker 1: the only thing that I hear in my head, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I'm dating myself with you guys,
Speaker 1: is that voice that says, take your tape, activity sheet
Speaker 1: and a pencil. Was that something when you guys took tests? Yet?
Speaker 1: All right, I have no idea what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: but I do know what it was like to like
Speaker 1: have people interrupt you when you're taking a test and
Speaker 1: like sometimes a proctor is a little too chatty, and like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that we had to do this whole analogy. Man, No,
Speaker 1: this is good. To make it all right, guys, we
Speaker 1: will leave it at that, Thanks so much. Hopefully we're
Speaker 1: doing it again at some point down the roads. This
Speaker 1: run for the seventy six ers, they try to continue
Speaker 1: it on a Sunday in a big game seven. And yes,
Speaker 1: of course this is why we all listen to podcasts, right,
Speaker 1: the combination of the basketball chatter which you hopefully find
Speaker 1: useful and insightful, and also obscure analogies and references to
Speaker 1: arcane test taking practices. I know we're letting Lauren and
Speaker 1: Ty go, but on the way out the door, egregious
Speaker 1: on my part to not lead and facultate the conversation
Speaker 1: to Seth Curry. We will give him our final shout
Speaker 1: out of this episode of Fanatic about the playoffs. Outstanding
Speaker 1: stuff from Seth Curry. Twenty four points tied to Bias
Speaker 1: for the team high and a pivotal winner go home
Speaker 1: Game six. He has been off the charts and he's
Speaker 1: combined to hit thirteen threes in his last two games.
Speaker 1: He's the first seventy Sixer ever to in back to
Speaker 1: back playoff games knockdown at least six threes. Outstanding. He
Speaker 1: has been so immense to what the seventy Sixers have
Speaker 1: been doing in the playoffs, especially trying to stay alive
Speaker 1: in advance here in the second round. All right, next
Speaker 1: episode of Fanatic About the Playoffs will at least one more,
Speaker 1: we hope there are some after That is going to
Speaker 1: be after Game seven, so look for that on Monday.
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Speaker 1: our fingers hope is a successful game that sends the
Speaker 1: Sixers in to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first
Speaker 1: time since two thousand and one. Al righty, enjoy the game.
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