WEBVTT - Fanatic About the Playoffs | Bring On Game 7!!! 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:09.559 search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. This 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.280 is Fanatic About the Playoffs from the seventy Sixers podcast network, 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.280 presented by Draft Gangs and ninety seven by The Fanatic, 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.520 with new episodes premiering the day after every seventy Sixers 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:27.320 playoff game. This is the Fanatic About the Playoff podcast 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.120 and on this episode we recap Round two, Game six, 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.240 a one oh four ninety nine win for the seventy 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:38.320 Sixers over the Atlanta Hawks, and now look ahead to 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:44.920 Game seven Sunday at the Center against the Atlanta Hawks. Yes, 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.000 what is Fanatic about the Playoffs? It is our postseason 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.920 podcast series with us here at the seventy Sixers and 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.920 our pals at ninety seven five The Fanatic. New episodes 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:59.760 drop the day after every Sixers playoff game. I'm Brian Selzer. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.960 It is great to be rejoined by two of the 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:08.200 hardest working people covering and bringing you content surrounding the 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.440 Philadelphia seventy six Ers. One seventy six Ers team reporter 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:16.720 Lauren Rosen, the other Tyrone Johnson. You hear him on 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:21.600 the Tyrone Johnson show weekends Fanatic also week days with 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.400 Mike Missinelli and you see him on Sixers Outsiders on 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:31.680 NBC Sports Philadelphia. Guys, let's start with a straw pole, Lauren, 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.200 you can go first, Game seven. Did we think we 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.720 would be here at the beginning of the series. I 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:40.520 did think that the Sixers might have made quicker work 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:41.759 of the team, and I think when we look back 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.000 on the series, regardless of how Game seven goes, there 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.160 will be a lot of moments of like, could have 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.080 ended the series. There, could have ended the series. There, 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:49.640 could have ended the series there. But the bottom line 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.240 is none of those things happened, and now they have 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.040 the opportunity to do it in one of the most 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.520 exciting ways possible a Game seven. For me, it's been 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.640 a roller coaster. I thought they should have won it 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.640 in five. I kind of still do. I think they 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.760 should of one in five. Then once they lost the 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.000 Game five and the two big leagues, Honestly, I thought 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.040 they were gonna lose Game six. I didn't think they 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.840 would be able to recover, from being completely honest, but 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.720 I'm very thankful that they did. And now I feel 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.720 a lot better about their chances because I can look 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.080 at this series sort of in totality and in total minutes, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.360 they've been a better team through six games. It just 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.079 happens to be their bad moments have been a little 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.119 bit worse than the Hawks bad moments, but their good 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.160 moments have been much much better than the Hawks good moments. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.800 So I do feel pretty good going into Game seven. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.680 But I am shocked that they were able to mentally 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.960 get themselves together after the debacle. Unfortunately, that was the 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.560 twenty six point league going away in Game five, so tough. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:46.240 They showed some mental toughness yesterday, led by one particular 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:47.959 person who I know we're going to talk about. We 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.520 will get to him in just a second. On the holistic, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.760 big thirty thousand foot view, I do agree when I 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.240 hear Doc talk about this sometimes when he references that 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:58.880 this is a young team. I know they're not like 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:04.240 young young, but for guys like Ben and Joe particularly 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.400 looking at this, like right, they'd never been in a 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.880 spot where hey, it was rolling, you know, they were 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.160 up to one and you know all that stuff, and 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.600 they really had to summon up something to find a 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.359 way to revive themselves, and they did that. I thought, 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.760 collectively they had to, and they did that in Game six. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.000 I've always felt and I know that the three of 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.120 us are an agreement on this, and I bet that 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.320 probably just about anyone you would ask, whether they followed 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:28.880 the seventy sixers or not, would be in agreement with 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.760 us too. The Sixers are the superior team. They didn't execute, 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.000 they did not have it together in the way things 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.440 went down, and those back to back losses in games 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.400 four in game five, so the mere fact that they 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.280 won didn't surprise me, and I was impressed they were 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.480 able to rally together on the road. Game got off 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.320 to a hairy start, but they settled themselves down and 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.720 got the job done. And now when you look at 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.800 it in a vacuum, Game seven, it's just a game again. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.680 For me, I think the Sixers are superior talent and 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.720 it's going to be at the center. So I look 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.720 at those factors and I'm like, Okay, I do like 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.560 the circumstances. If you had to pick circumstances, those are 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.960 circumstances that I would select for this situation. Yeah, Can 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.840 I agree with you? No? So, yeah, I completely agree 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.760 with that. Like Game seven, your home floor, I think 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.320 your team is better. I think that they've done a 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.760 good job. Also, now multiple games in a row limiting 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.000 trade Young's effectiveness compared to his volume. So last night 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.719 thirty four points but thirty shots. I think if that 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.400 happens again in the game seven, the Sixers win this game. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.400 So there's a lot of things pointing in the direction 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.000 I think logically to the Sixers being in a really 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.719 good spot if you're in If people that are into gambling, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.240 I know there's seven point favorites, if that's a thing 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.440 for you. I think there's a lot of things pointing 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:49.000 in their direction going into a Game seven, despite the 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.599 fact that we've all probably been bruised a little bit 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.760 throughout this series with what has happened up until this point. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.200 If we're being honest, I think I know that Joe 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.000 l Embiid is excited about a Game seven, and to me, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.680 that's meaningful. After the game last night, when Joel was 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.880 asked about his performance, he said he has to be 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.760 better and he knows that he will be better in 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.000 a Game seven in front of the home court, like 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.520 he immediately pivoted to what's going on on Sunday, how 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.240 he imagines it's going to be and what he's going 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.200 to bring to the table, and I'm a big accountability fan. Joel, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.840 of course eight of the team's eleven turnovers in Game 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.400 six and still managed to get it done. It wasn't 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.680 his best night. He admitted that we haven't seen an 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.760 excellent Joel the way we became accustomed to yet in 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.039 this series, and if there's ever a moment to do it, 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.200 it's going to be in this Game seven, and he's 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.960 already as soon as soon as the final buzzer in 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.600 Game six went off, he was priming himself for that 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.960 opportunity and I really look forward to seeing how he's 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.760 going to embrace it. I think, of course Game seven 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.480 against Toronto was big, but Joel and Jimmy Butler were 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.760 sort of sharing the spotlight in that series. This I 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.640 think is the biggest career of the biggest game of 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.679 Joel Embiad's career thus far, and I don't think it's close. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.800 There will be some defining potential for some of these 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.440 guys up to this point in terms of what happens 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.039 in Game seven. For sure, we're gonna all take a 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.680 seat in the taxi in just a moment. But to 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.880 double backtie on something that you said, you know, Trey, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.120 if you just looked at his line on the surface, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.720 there would be some things obviously that jump out at you. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.560 One to speak to the point that you made about 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.360 volume five for ten. If he's taken ten threes based 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.800 on game logs and percentages, I'm not expecting him to 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.599 hit fifty percent of those the next game out. That 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.120 would buck trends. I also thought that some of his 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.320 quick decision making with his shot selection and other things 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.359 down the stretch, like that's where the Hawks, to me, 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.000 it got away from them. I mean, they were hanging around, 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:44.880 hanging around the sixers. They were finally able to get 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.760 some separation late because it seemed to me like whether 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.400 he heat checked himself too much or tried to rush 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.440 things for I thought, as well as he played at times, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.640 some of his decision making down the stretch put the 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:01.880 Hawks in a disadvantageous spot. Yeah, for sure. Heat They're 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.680 so reliant on him, so reliant on him, and they 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.000 got one game that if you look at recent history 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.880 with Lou Williams, looks like a fluke. That Game five 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.360 performance just that he hasn't played that well in years, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.600 and he had this great half all of a sudden, 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.720 But outside of that one little spurt, he's everything as 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.880 far as their creation goes. And I think sometimes he 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.400 doesn't trust his teammates enough at times. And listen, he's 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.720 had tons of success. He was second in the NBA 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.320 and assist this year, but I do think that that 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:34.880 caught up to him a little bit in the end 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.520 of Game six. Yeah, I agree. When I looked down 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.640 at the final box score and saw thirteen for thirty, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.360 it didn't really feel like what I had just watched. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.680 I thought that he had actually had a stronger performance 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.400 than that line would suggest. And then the second thing 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.520 that I was not excited about but but interested by 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.840 was that lineup that excluded both Ben and Matisse that 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:01.360 closed down the second quarter. It was Tyrese Seth for Cohn, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.840 Tobias and Joel And to me, there's not someone in 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.160 that lineup that screams guarding Trey Young, slowing down Trey 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.480 Young the way. Credit to Matise and Ben. They have 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.160 done so far in this series pretty well. And when 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.320 that lineup was able to keep that lead at four 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.040 for the Hawks, they were able to keep this team 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.760 in the game. With Trey Young playing well without someone 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.800 that screams I am Trey Young's defender. I thought things 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.800 were going to go okay for this team based on 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.040 the fact that that lineup was able to have success, 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.920 and then that lineup ended up continuing to have success. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.280 Or lineups again excluding Ben and Matisse had success against 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.040 a guy that's pretty dang good in the second half. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:40.440 So to me, that was something to watch. That was 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.760 something that intrigued me about what could happen in Game seven. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.520 And then I know we're sort of dancing around Tyrese 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.520 in this whole thing, but the defense that he showed 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.600 he could play against Trey Young was pretty pretty awesome 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.000 at times. Without further ado, we know you all do 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.000 your lifts and your ubers these days, but it's time 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.360 to do things the old fashioned way. Get your fare ready, 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.600 we're gonna hop aboard the taxi. X factor. Hard not 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.680 to love tyres I mean, the way he plays Lauren, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:14.640 the enthusiasm just kind of I don't want to say naive, 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.000 but he's just kind of got this like good, wholesome 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.600 thing about him right now, you know, talking about when 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.720 he speaks to his mom and the influence of his dad. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.480 It's just like the whole thing. He's a great basketball 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.560 player for me, first and foremost, that's what dictates, but 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.000 everything about him, he's got a real energy and great spirit. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.679 And clearly his performance was excellent and he came in 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.240 at the very precise point where the Sixers could have 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.520 either gone one way or another. Well, I feel like cells, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.640 every time we've talked about Tyres all season long, it's 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.960 been in this context. He spends some time on the bedge, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:46.920 maybe even is out of the rotation, and then he 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.800 comes in and he does something big, and he did 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.440 it all season long, and he got better all season long, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.000 and it's because basketball really is this kid's life. He's in, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.280 he's probably in the gym right now. He said as 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.120 soon as he got back, tomorrow is going to be 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.959 the same thing. He's go in. He's going to get 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.560 early work in. It's just it's his life. And he's 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.800 done such a good job of setting up this regimen 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.760 for himself that clearly works, that keeps him ready, that 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.640 keeps him growing, and he's done it all season long, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.920 and I'm not surprised anymore when he does it. But 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.720 I continue to be incredibly impressed by what he's been 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.120 able to do by the cool head that he keeps 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.240 in these huge situations. I mean, we keep saying it 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.600 that was probably the biggest moment of Tyree's Maxie's career, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.080 and we keep adding to that list. And of course 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.800 here definitely the trump card thus far of this Game 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.960 six where he really did help the Sixers, if not 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.600 propel the Sixers to extend their season. And I'm with you, Sell, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.200 it's just the smiling, the energy that he brings, the 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.440 joy that he brings, the way that he speaks about 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.040 his preparation and how much he prides himself in preparation, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.040 and then of course the idea that he had twenty 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.360 four hours in Atlanta and I'm gonna I'm gonna read 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.600 Tyrese's words instead of paraphrase. But he spent those twenty 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.839 four hours by doing the following, got some pasta called 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.640 my mom, went to sleep, wake up, go to the gym, 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.680 and get ready to go, and then sixteen points seven 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.880 rebounds a steal in a block. To me, that is 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.360 just a great twenty four hours for anybody. But really 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.439 does example if I believe him, I believe that that's 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.560 exactly what he did. And I just think that that's beautiful. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.520 It's been a pleasure to watch Tyrese and his rookie season, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.160 and I don't even know if that covers it. A 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:24.240 pleasure to watch feels like light, you know, yeah, a 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:29.760 tremendous spirit on the basketball side. I think that it 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.520 makes it's another thing that actually makes you feel good 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.880 about Game seven as well. Once Hunter was out and 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.439 six is lose Danny Green. But once Hunter's out, there's 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.400 one plus defender on the Hawks roster and that's Capella 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.480 trying to deal with him be and no one on 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.520 the perimeter is a plus defender. And when he comes 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.320 into the game, it's a very big pressure moment as 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.880 far as the spot that he's in. But he's going 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.640 against better defenders than the Hawks can throw at him. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.360 Throughout the regular season. At times when he played had 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.720 to play against Denver team when there was like six 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.720 guys and it was just him out there, like he's 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.640 had to play against other plus defenders tougher. I'm saying, 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.719 just it seems like he's a kid that thinks basketball's basketball. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.120 At least that's how he seems like his approaches is 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.000 like basketball's basketball. Once he's out there and if he 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.840 doesn't have those nerves, the Hawks do not have as 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.960 tougher challenge as he's seen, maybe even at Kentucky at times, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.920 because Trey Young, if we're talking about on the defensive end, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.280 when he's guarding them, no, just no shot of staying 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.040 in front of them, Lou Williams and different guys that 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.360 they try to do it. He's just flat better than 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.480 them as far as his offense vers their defense. And 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.000 I think that that's something that he recognized and took 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.360 advantage of. So the mental side, I give him a 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.040 lot of credit for I had faith in the basketball 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.840 part because the Hawks don't really have an answer for him, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.320 and I don't think they're going to have an answer 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.040 for him in Game seven either, unless they find a 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.360 player who's currently not on their roster and sign them. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.160 I just don't think there's an answer there. And I 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:57.520 think that he at some point early recognized, you know what, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.480 this is just basketball, and I'm better than these guys 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.080 and I'm gonna go show it. Ty Larne brought up 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.120 the defense Trey Young at ninety three. That was just 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.120 an incredible three pointer, But I honestly thought that was 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.199 some of the better defense. I've seen him from Tyree's 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:17.439 like shake his hand. Unfortunate. Tray's an excellent player and 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.360 he can make some crazy shots. But I thought his 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.160 defense on that play, you know, and I'm sure that 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.800 that Doc and the staff did this, I would have 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:25.680 been I would have been pumping him up for that defense, 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.080 and I'd be showing him that clip despite the fact 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.360 that it went in. For sure. For sure, I thought, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.439 and Lauren brought did bring up the defense, and I 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.480 think that was something that maybe another thing maybe Doc 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.560 Revers ends up finding in the game six that could 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.079 carry over, like I can trust Maxie to stay in 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.200 front of him. Trey's gonna do what he does, but 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.160 if I have to do it, he has the ability 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.679 to do so. I think that's huge. Well, the speed 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.760 thing is interesting to me. Sorry, Selta want to add 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.480 one more thing. I spoke to my grandmother in California 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.840 after the game. She's become a six Ers fan. This week, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.160 She's watched three six games, the most recent three, and 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.120 her big takeaway was, Man, that Trey Young is just 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:09.120 so fast. Good thing. Tyrese Maxie is also fast, and 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:10.640 I think she sees them as like, Okay, they're two 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.240 young guys. They both had good games last night. She 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:13.760 sees them as like like for like, and I don't 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.640 know that we're there yet, but just to hear her 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.320 talk about the fact that Trey is so fast and 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.640 so is Tyrese, I thought was really interesting, having just 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.880 spoken to Doc Rivers who said the exact same thing. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.720 So maybe my grandma is really onto something. But it 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.560 was such a pleasure to hear her find this joy 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.480 and watching the two of them go back and forth 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.480 and seeing them as equals because she hasn't been watching 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.120 basketball forever. I thought that was really interesting. We gotta 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:46.800 have her do the advanced scout for Game seven. 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You saw 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.800 the fight in the grit of a whole group that 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.200 wanted to win and wanted to pick the next guy up. 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.640 No doubt Tyrese was X factor number one. I'm not 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:22.600 sure if based on past performance we can label Tobias 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.120 necessarily as an X factor. I think he has set 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.280 a standard for himself that clearly he expects, but I 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.760 thought he got back to it in Game six. The 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.960 Sixers needed him at some very key points. He came 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.240 up with big baskets, finished with twenty four to tie 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.480 Seth for the game high, and it was nice to 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:44.080 see Tobias respond in that way. I agreed. Look, here's 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.440 the thing about Tobias. He's been so reliable all season long, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.400 and it was such a shame to see him struggle 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.080 the way that he did in Game five, because like Tyrese, 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.120 he puts in so much preparation. He continues to have 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.000 a cool head. He rises to the occasion. He's done 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.800 so all season. So to me seeing him have a 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.360 tough Game five, I wasn't worried about his ability to 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.400 produce in Game six, but I thought it was interesting. Tie. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.960 When we opened up, you talked about the mental toughness 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.919 that the team showed, and for me, with Tobias in 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.320 game six, it was all about mental toughness because Tobias 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.600 knows he's so intelligent. He knows what people are saying 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.920 about him, he knows what people are saying about his teammates, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.960 his coach, and his team. And he really clearly did 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:24.359 come into this one and say you know what, and 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.640 his first couple of shots didn't fall, he got into 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.160 foul trouble and he kept going, He stayed confident with himself. 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.320 He found what he needed later in the game. And 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.879 I know based on the sort of fabric of this 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.400 team and where everybody fits in, but the way Tobias 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.800 his mind is working is important for the rest of 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.119 the group. So to see him show that toughness and 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:49.600 that determination, not surprised again, but really impressed that he 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.679 was able to do that in this particular situation. I 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.120 think he was really important in a lot of ways 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:56.399 that we could see and a lot of ways that 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.639 we couldn't see. You completely agree with that, and I 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.960 think that what was to me what made it's so 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.199 impressive was I look at it as sort of he 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.720 had six bad quarters in a row and then turn 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.560 around because I think it was the fourth quarter of 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.639 Game four where that was the unfortunate lead where he 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.480 didn't score in that quarter. Then obviously Game five as 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.680 a game, we all agree that was a struggle for him. 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:20.560 And then as you mentioned, he misses the first couple 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.280 of shots, and then he has two fouls in the 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.280 first quarter of Game six, So it's like the one 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.960 quarter in the one game four quarters, and then another 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.280 quarter to start the next game. This is one of 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.560 those things where maybe the old Tobias a couple of 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.840 years ago, that Toronto, the one that played against Toronto 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:37.840 the last time there was a Game seven, maybe he 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.399 can't recover in game that way and turn it around. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.640 This one was able to completely just shove that away 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.359 and he came back right at the start of the 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.040 second quarter. Doc waited longer to bring Ben Simmons back, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.760 and immediately when he got in the game, he started 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.439 to get into the paint, and I think that was 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.600 big in the game and it's really turned around. So 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.639 a lot of credit for him because that was a 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.520 tough moment. I think another weaker mental player maybe packs in. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.800 He says, you know what, distances at my time, he 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.920 went the opposite way helped him a lot, and I 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.000 think he's in a really good space now, both physically 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.200 and mentally for Game seven. A couple of the things 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.920 to highlight quickly before we get some final thoughts before 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.400 Game seven. Joel embiad it's really hard for me, guys 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.320 right now to evaluatehoe given what's going on with his 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:27.040 right knee and who knows, who knows, It's just it's hard. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.560 I can't imagine what it must be like for him 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.560 to just get the work with treatment and put in 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.520 all the extra stuff with that and then go out 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.639 there and try to compete at the level that he 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.679 expects of himself. One thing to me that has swung 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.159 certain parts of the series is which team has been 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.159 more aggressive on the offensive glass. We certainly saw that 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.800 in Atlanta's first comeback in Game four, six ors finished 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.520 plus six on the offensive glass. Joel Embiid had seven 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.480