WEBVTT - Fanatic About the Playoffs | Devon Givens Breaks Down Game 5 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.800 This is Fanatic About the Playoffs from the seventy Sixers 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:10.039 podcast network, presented by Draft Gags and ninety seven five 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.920 The Fanatic, with new episodes premiering the day after every 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:21.479 seventy Sixers playoff game. Welcome into the Fanatic About the 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:26.360 Playoffs podcast. On this episode, we recap the Sixers Game 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.440 five loss to the Hawks one nine one oh six 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.720 on Wednesday, as well as look ahead at the rest 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.000 of the series. What is Fanatic About the Playoffs our 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.240 brand new postseason podcast series with us at the seventy 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.839 Sixers and our pals at ninety seven five The Fanatic, 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.400 with new episodes dropping the day after every Sixers playoff game. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.400 I'm Matt Murphy and on this episode, I'm pleased to 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.760 be joined by Devon Gibbons of ninety seven five The Fanatic. Devon, 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.840 let's get started here with last night's game Game five, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.680 As we do every Sixers playoff game, a recap in 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.040 the aftermath, and things were going well for the Sixers 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.080 as large as a twenty six point lead as we 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.480 know fourth quarter, that lead got smaller and smaller and 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.440 the Hawks were able to pull off another comeback in 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:24.080 this Eastern Conference semifinals series. Another just like Game four, 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.920 another three point win for the Atlanta Hawks. So take 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.720 me back to your in the post show, and now 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.080 that you've had a little more time to think about it, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.360 what are your thoughts on Game five? Well, Matt, the 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.639 in the post was very short because the game lasted 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.720 I believed two hours in close to forty minutes, so 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.720 it was a long win on Wednesday night. But just 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.560 sitting on this one a day later now and thinking 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.960 about everything that happened, I'm just I'm still actually surprised 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.560 that the way that had happened. Of course, we know 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.040 what happened in Game four, blowing eighteen point lead, and 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.000 as you mentioned, as much as twenty six in Game five, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.480 I was stunned that it happened the way that it did, 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.760 To be perfectly honest with you, and the way that 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.040 they were rolling, and knowing what happened in Game four, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.440 blowing that eighteen point lead, giving that one up and 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.840 ultimately losing it to tie the series Atlanta did at 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.240 two two, I really thought that the seventy sixers would 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.200 be able to just keep their foot on the gas 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.120 and not give up at all. Just keeping on the gas, 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.360 you know what happened. Don't underestimate this team, and not 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.720 saying that they did. However, something just changed and when 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.919 it changed, it just kept going and going and going, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.840 and unfortunately the result is what we now know, down 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:42.880 three to two, and this best of seven series had 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.280 it back to Atlanta for Game number six. So I'm 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.600 still stunned. This is one of the toughest losses that 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.120 I've experienced in Philadelphia, and I hope that there it 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.519 would have bounced back in games now six and seven 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.600 with the their backs against the wall. You said it 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.079 a three two series now in favor of the Hawks, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.560 who have home court in Game six on Friday night. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.960 We will talk about some of the adjustments heading into 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.240 that game a little bit later on, as well as 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.520 some of the individual performances from Game five, But from 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:19.720 the macro level of Game five, the fourth quarter was 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.880 really the turning point. And for me, I know, I said, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.400 we'll talk about individuals in a second, but maybe we 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.240 can start with one of the guys on the Hawks, 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.920 a former Sixer in Lou Williams, and just the start 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:34.040 of the fourth quarter to be from a broader standpoint, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.800 because the Sixers started with some bench players out there 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.720 with Tobias Harris, and then Lou Williams really took over. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.240 He scored thirteen of his fifteen points in the game 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.560 in the fourth quarter, So that start the first few minutes. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.440 He didn't really get it going right away, but then 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.280 the Sixers subbed their bench guys out, and when the 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.760 starters came in, the Hawks just kept it rolling. So 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.200 the fourth quarter is really what we should focus in on, 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.960 seemingly already in the rhythm, Lou Williams and that group, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.400 and you can also talk about Kevin Herder who was 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.960 also out with Bogdanovi. It's both of those two in 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.160 foul trouble and you're looking at Gallinari and Williams now 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.400 being the catalyst for things. Of course, you'll you'll throw 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.280 Trey Young in there, but the highlight, of course, as 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.880 you just mentioned, is Lou Williams and what Lou Williams 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.680 was able to do by just going out there and 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.919 just flat out, you know, turning the clock back to 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.159 what we saw from Lou Williams all those years, and 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.960 he had it going. And that's what we talk about 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.440 when you speak about championship type of contenders. You want 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.600 to make sure that not only your starters able to 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.040 do the work, but also having your your bench players, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.320 your role players be able to do the work as well. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.440 We've seen a Kevin Hurder game, a Gallonari game, and 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.800 now this one was Lou Williams game where you need 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.599 that extra help. Trey Young has has done his part 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.279 in game one. Then you see Gallonari and Herder in 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.719 the same game against the seventi six is performing very well, 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.280 and that Lou Williams. And that was really it to 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.840 forty to nineteen fourth quarter where the seventy six ers 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.920 dropped that one by twenty one points, and you just 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.600 could not figure out a way, as you mentioned with 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.720 the starters coming back in how to defend Lou Williams. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.480 He's been doing it for years and that's what makes 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.400 him so great for him to be able to still 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.760 do it, number one, at his age, after being in 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.520 the league for so many years and knowing how he plays. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.280 And you have these two all NBA level defenders and 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:31.800 Ben Simmons mtistible and unfortunately no one could really stop him. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.280 And then you have Seth Curry who had a fantastic 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.719 offensive game. But I'm not sure that that was the 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.880 defensive assignment that I would have liked to have seen 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.960 in that moment, especially when you have someone like Lou 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:48.000 Williams just rolling and getting it going. X factor. There 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.960 were multiple difference makers, Lou Williams being one. Let's stay 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.680 on this topic and talk about a couple others. I 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.599 guess we can broaden it to not just one X factor, 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.000 but a few. I think for the Sixers, Seth curR 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.920 was certainly one on the offensive end, and then Trey Young, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.520 let's talk about him now for Atlanta in addition to 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.880 Lou Williams with that fourth quarter comeback. So starting with 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.760 Curry on the offensive end is one thing. But to 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.679 your point about defense, it seemed like when Lou Williams 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.839 had the ball, they were really looking to work the 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.880 Curry cork Mos defensive combo and get them to switch 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.560 or see what they could do. And Herder was being 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.679 guarded by cork Mos, so that that those four players 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.680 and those two matchups were kind of what they look 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:37.240 to be attacking in that fourth quarter run. Absolutely absolutely, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.919 and that was and that's why we talk about the 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.480 defensive the signmons and wanting again Curry not necessarily on 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:49.520 and we speak about the chess match and defensive matchups 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.360 that you want to seek out in your favor, and unfortunately, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.440 when you have a guy going, you want to find 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.680 a guy that you feel like you can again look 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.520 at across from you and feel like you can have 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.120 some success. And that's what Lou Williams was doing and 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.560 they did it to perfection in the fourth period. So 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.760 the Sixers, oftentimes we talk about them doing the same thing. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.320 Fine Trey Young and do what you need to do 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.040 against Trey Young not necessarily known as one of the 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.920 better defenders in the league, and unfortunately the Atlanta Hawks 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.120 had their success with that. With Lou Williams, he's a 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.440 veteran player. He knows how to do it. He knows 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.480 how to work the clock and just look at it 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.400 and see where it get to his spots and get 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.640 the good shot off that he feels as best for 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.080 him and his team. And it worked out for them 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.720 in that game on Wednesday night. So now the adjustments 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.920 have to be made. Can you do the exact same 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.440 thing in game and number six and can you prevent 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.040 them as well as Trey Young, because you cannot forget 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.080 about Trey Young by o'donovis in foul trouble. You don't 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.560 expect for that to be the case once again in 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.680 game number six. You look at it and you say 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.080 they're gonna be at four strength, So defensively you have 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:55.760 to pick it up. This is one thing that we've 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.280 talked about with them, the seventy sixers that have really 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.200 carried them defensively, they've fantastic, and even though they only 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.240 gave up one hundred and three points forty points in 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.960 the fourth quarter, that's not something that you really want 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.119 to hang your hat on. That's a go back talk about. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.120 Look at the film and we need to figure this 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:16.120 thing out because before that our defense was tremendous and 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.000 then in the fourth we gave up that many points 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.800 forty to nineteen and favor of the Hawks in the 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.680 fourth quarter back to Seth Curry for a moment. Offensively, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.040 it seemed like he was almost getting the buckets back 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.440 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, But then when 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.400 it stopped being low Williams, it became Trey Young for Atlanta. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.000 So what were your thoughts on Trey's performance down the stretch. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.680 Never gave up and he was defended well for the 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.760 most part by Ben Simmons emmatistible where he was getting 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.400 some good looks and he was missing some shots. He 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.680 snuck in early on in the first quarter. I remember 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.560 right out of the gate at three pointer or a 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.439 couple of tier drops that he had in the lane 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.240 that worked out for him. And then the Sixers just 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.480 went on their run and I thought that this one 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.360 was going to be a route, but he stayed within 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.040 the game, he stayed within it. They kept chipping away 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.360 and Lou Williams did his part, and then that's when 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.240 you had Trey Young as the star player for this 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.679 Atlanta Hawks team to carry them home. So never giving 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.680 up the coach preaching the right things and having his 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.760 team believe that, hey, all you have to do, all 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.440 you have to do is get to this certain number 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.840 and then we'll be in the good spot. That is 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.439 one thing that we talk about quite often, making sure 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.800 that if you're down big like that, hey, just get 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.600 it to ten by a halftime and we can maybe 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.280 get things going and by the end of the third period, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.160 maybe we're down by four and we'll take things over 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.880 in the fourth. And they just kept chipping away, chipping away, 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.120 and when they needed their closing the clothes he did 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.200 just that. More to come, but first, Draft Kings. 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So 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.400 for me, maybe a little more value of valuing the 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:11.160 basketball in the larger stages, the more important stages of 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.840 these games, because you have these leads, and then what 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.040 happens when a team comes back. Some of it is 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.240 turnovers and just not valuing the ball as much as 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.880 you should down the stretch. So if it's that for me, 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.400 what are things you're looking at for improvements from Philadelphia 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.280 in Game six on the road? I agree with Rivers 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.839 on that with the turnovers, that was tough to watch 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.400 because they just seem like they were going at a 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.200 pace that they didn't need to. You had the lead, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.880 things were going your way. Why does it seem like 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.079 you're rushing to do things? And I remember when he 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.679 called the time out and thinking while we were sitting 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.760 there that this is a good time out. Let's settle down. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.040 We are in a good spot. This is still our game. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.760 Make them again conform to what we are doing. Let's 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.920 not play their game. So I thought that was a 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.360 good one. So the turnovers, you absolutely right, Matt, that's 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.760 one thing. Number two often to lead. You have to 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.840 find a way to while Embad is getting his Curry 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.080 is having a career night, you still have to find 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.280 a way to include others. And then, when I say 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.959 others specifically, I'm going to Tobias Harris, who was two 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.079 four eleven did not have a typical Tobias Harris knight 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.439 that we are accustomed to during this campaign and the postseason. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.720 You need to find a way where he's involved and 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.720 not feeling like he's left out, where he's just floating 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.160 in the corner, standing there maybe roman perimeter, but never 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.320 getting the ball back. You have to find a way 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.160 to do things. And even if it's getting the ball, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.040 and as we talked about finding a mismatch that works 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.360 in his favor, if it's young Bogdanovich, well we saw 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.079 some Bogdanovitch and he didn't take advantage enough in Game 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.280 number five. You have to find a way to get 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.360 Tobias Harris back in the mixture. Your second dairy score 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.240 was Seth Curry with a thirty plus career night type 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.520 of playoff performance. You still need that other one, especially 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.680 when things are starting to diminish the lead. You have 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.880 to get your other guy who is your scorer going. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.880 When you are missing Danny Green, you have to do it. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.920 And that's I think the second key for the seventy 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.959 Sixers is doing that making sure that Tobias Harris feels 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.680 comfortable and you can get him involved and get him scoring, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.640 where now your defense is still playing at that high level, 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.000 but you are now putting up big time points where 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:22.400 they cannot catch up. Let's finish up by talking about 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.400 the adjustment that Atlanta made they introduced prior to the 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.320 last game or a little bit in game for a 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.600 bigger lineup, and this relates to Tobias Harris and his 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.880 production too, because if the Hawks goal with John Collins 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.959 at the three, and they have Gallinari who hit a 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.200 big shot to go up by three points at the 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.000 very end of Game five, as well as Clint Capella, 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.720 Collins has been the only Atlanta defender that's really had 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:52.080 some success, I think against Tobias Harris. So that is 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.280 something I've been looking at, how that big lineup for 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.120 Atlanta with those three big guys has impacted the Sixers end, 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.960 specifically to Bias, and how that will shake out again 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.000 in the next game. Yeah, and I totally forgot that 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.040 Bogdanovitch was on Harrison had a little bit of success 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.679 in Game five as well as Collins, and Tom McGuinness 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.400 was kind enough to remind me of that as we 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.880 were doing our post game coverage after the game. But yeah, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.720 the big lineup, this is one of the things. And 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.040 even when they included Hurder in there because of this 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.080 size at six seven, that you have this big lineup. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.680 But even with the big lineup, to your point, the 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.240 only one that you might feel is good defensively is 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.000 John Collins. If I have Danilo Gallinari, yes, a big guy, 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.360 I still feel on the other end that I can 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.800 take advantage of him. And the same thing goes for Hurder, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.160 not known for his defense. Bogdanovitch the same thing. Very feisty, 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.280 but not a defender. And we already talked about Trey 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.680 Young and as being probably the smaller guy out there, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.280 and we've already seen that Clint Capella cannot handle Joel 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.000 and beat So even with that big lineup, I still, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.760 Matt don't see it as a problem for the seventy sixers. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.080 They have to find a way to execute, continue to 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.760 play seventy six or basketball and share the ball. I 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.280 remember there was one stat early on in the game 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.720 where the Atlanta Hawks, I believe it was halftime. It yeah, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.440 it was halftime. They only had three assists and the 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.760 seventy Sixers were in double digits assists. They might have 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.880 been only fourteen on the baskets that they had, but 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.560 they were sharing the basketball even when in Bad got 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.800 it going and he was perfect to start the game 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.320 from the floor, Quirk mile Is hitting his shot. Same 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.320 thing for Seth Curry, you still need to They were 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.680 sharing the ball, so those guys weren't having to work 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.800 so much. And Doc Rivers talked about it, playing hero ball. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:40.119 He thought post game, share the basketball, play seventy Sixers basketball, 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.280 where yes, and beat is the feature, but the secondary 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.520 everybody else that you're playing off of has had success 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.440 and you have to again find a way to do that. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.360 Do that and even against those big lineups. You have 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.080 those big lineups, I think they have a speed advantage 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.680 when you do that with Simmons out there on the floor, 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.600 Curry being able to get out in the open floor, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.400 hinding his spots and so on and so forth, and 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.800 indeed then just overpowering the other big guys and that 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.960 they start to send those double teams, the ball starts 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.080 to snap around the perimeter again find whatever open man 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.120 there is. Even if it doesn't end up on a 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.720 perimeter with an open shot, maybe you dumping it down 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.640 low for an opportunity at a basket somewhere in the 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.880 painted areas. So the big lineups, good adjustment by Nate McMillan, 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.640 But I don't think that's something that should have hurt 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.200 the seventy sixers. It was more the sixers not doing 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.320 their part and executing even against those big lineups and 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.320 not taking advantage as we wind down with adjustments and 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.520 with bald movement. Something else I've noticed is kind of 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.920 they're playing a little bit tight late in the game 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:47.520 when they're running the right yeah, exactly, so that that 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.680 has impacted the flow of the offense in the sense 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.160 that they're locked in on the next pass coming out 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.720 of timeouts and things like that. So going back to 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.680 game four real quick, I know where a couple games 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.920 removed from that, but the Shake Milton play where he 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.119 let the final play develop so long that Seth Curry 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.240 nearly didn't get the shot off, and then Shake Milton 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.080 actually had the ball again in game five, and he 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.119 drew Hurder and somebody else and Seth Curry kind of 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.720 slipped out but he didn't see it and he went 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.080 the other side of the court. These are the final 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.560 possessions of Game five. Tobias Harris had a big turnover 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.520 right out of the time out with about twenty seconds left, 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.720 where he was just totally zoned in on what was 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.239 drawn up in that one pass and they're just locked in, 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.479 and he threw the ball. He was looking for him 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:35.840 be kind of at the top of the key, and 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.119 he just overthrew and turned it over with about twenty 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.640 seconds left. So it seems like they're playing so tight, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.200 but they've I guess, like you said that, when they're 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.160 they're just nervous about losing the game at the end. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.320 So that's what I've been noticing, just a little bit 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.840 of tightness and not looking at the next option. And 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.560 the same thing in both games. In both four and five. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.560 You've already seen the things diminished. The momentum is now 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.240 on the other side, so much pressure is on you. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.760 But you're pros. You won forty nine regular season games, 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.600 you won the first series in five games, you had 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.320 a tough game in two and three that you pulled 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.679 those out really having a control of the game, but 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.760 showing why you were, as we thought, the better team. 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.800 And you have to again find ways to do these 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.399 where yes things get tight, but that's part of it. 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.320 Atlanta is not going to quit, and you want to 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.600 make sure that you do your very best in those moments. Sure, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.400 it's a tough position to be in, but as we said, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:36.080 you are professionals. This is what you do and the 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.600 moment shouldn't be too big at that time when you 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.840 have the ball, the same thing, I thought it was 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.560 rushed tight to your point of Embid. When he caught 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.359 great Ato at four doc rivers for Embid in that 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.480 game number four where he got the ball, had an 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.040 opportunity to lay up, I thought that he rushed it. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.080 I felt like he could have taken a power dribble 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.080 even if his knee was bothering him. This is the 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:00.600 final possession. You want to make sure this is the 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.200 final possession and you walk away with the win, power dribble, 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.320 lay up or dunk or in that same sequence somehow 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.840 maybe get a foul call and knocked down your free throws. 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:11.520 And now Atlanta has to go down and be the 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.440 one playing with their backs against it final possession and 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.280 try to get a win. So you have to find 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.159 a way to execute these things down the stretch, and 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:21.600 the turnovers are not going to help you. Had it again, 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.359 it was a three point loss, which was technically a 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:29.160 one point game, and the seventy Sixers unfortunately couldn't find 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.399 a way that you have to execute these It's a 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.600 tough situations that put that's part of the game. That's 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.400 part of the game. And we've seen before Tobias Harry 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.000 seeing the game winner against the Los Angeles Lakers and 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:42.320 so many others where game winners have happened. I don't 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.600 think that they should be as tight, especially at home. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.000 Even though you've blown the lead the way that you did, 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.520 you have an opportunity. I didn't expect them to be 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.119 as tight as they were and not get a better 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:53.840 look and even get a possession overall shot at the 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.680 at the rim at all backs against the Wall. Game 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.680 six Friday night in Atlanta, seven thirty. If the Sixers 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.880 win that, they will play a game seven in Philadelphia 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:10.119 on Sunday. Divine, where can the people find you this week? 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.119 Coming up? What do you have coming up? Where can 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.240 we listen and see you. Well, you can catch me 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.040 to on the Fanatics starting at six pm on Friday 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.119 as I get ready for the pregame seventy Sixers and 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.879 the Atlanta Hawks game number six and then hopefully Game seven. 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.240 We're talking about a six pm start on Sunday, and 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:35.280 we're getting you set for the game against the Atlanta 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.000 Hawks in game number seven on Sunday. So right there 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.359 ninety seven five dot com. You can check them out 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.080