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Speaker 3: or insider Nick Stauskas. After game five of this Sixers
Speaker 3: Knick series, and what a Game five it was at
Speaker 3: Madison Square Garden. The Sixers were down ninety six ninety
Speaker 3: with less than thirty seconds left in regulation. They go
Speaker 3: on to win by six one twelve one ZHO six
Speaker 3: in overtime at the Garden. Tyrese Maxi was a big
Speaker 3: part of it. Joel Embiid had his first career playoff
Speaker 3: triple double. There's a lot to get into, Nick, but
Speaker 3: off the top as you, I mean, you actually texted
Speaker 3: me that it could go down as one of the
Speaker 3: best comebacks or most unlikely comebacks in NBA history. What
Speaker 3: was your reaction?
Speaker 4: I mean, I thought the season was dead in the water,
Speaker 4: down six with twenty eight seconds left. Not sure how
Speaker 4: many times that's been done in the playoffs in NBA history,
Speaker 4: but definitely a tough feat to do. And you know,
Speaker 4: almost feels like a little bit of payback for the
Speaker 4: comeback the Knicks had in Game two at the Garden,
Speaker 4: And so sometimes you need to get a little bit lucky,
Speaker 4: and in this case, just everything went just right in
Speaker 4: that last thirty seconds of the game. And man, that boy,
Speaker 4: Tyreees actually is something special. My goodness. We talked about
Speaker 4: coming into this series, the playoffs being you know, a
Speaker 4: trampoline to kind of, you know, boost yourself to that
Speaker 4: next level of going from star to superstar. And the
Speaker 4: performances he's had in this first round, and you know,
Speaker 4: to do it on a stage like the Madison Square
Speaker 4: Garden hostile environment season on the line. It was just
Speaker 4: truly an incredible game to watch.
Speaker 3: And the Reggie Miller performance that a lot of people
Speaker 3: are comparing the Maxi end of the game too, was
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety five, a series that the Pacers ended
Speaker 3: up winning in seven games at MSG. So if you're
Speaker 3: it was earlier in that series, but if you're a
Speaker 3: Sixers fan, you're hoping that history can repeat itself with
Speaker 3: the visiting team winning in a game seven. That's what
Speaker 3: it will take for the Sixers against the number two
Speaker 3: seed the Knicks and Lauren. For Tyrese, it was seven
Speaker 3: points in the final twenty five seconds. He goes for
Speaker 3: forty six, five and nine in Game five, seven of
Speaker 3: twelve from three point range. What was your instant reaction.
Speaker 1: I know I said this sort of immediately on X
Speaker 1: but I was thrilled for him.
Speaker 2: I was totally unsurprised, just because it feels like we've
Speaker 2: been building to this type of Tyrese Maxie performance now
Speaker 2: for four consecutive years. He has played a major role
Speaker 2: in every playoffs he's ever been part of, including his
Speaker 2: rookie playoff season that he harkens back to a lot
Speaker 2: when he talks about falling out of.
Speaker 1: The rotation not playing a.
Speaker 2: Few times early in that year, a conversation he had
Speaker 2: with Doc Rivers about how he was going to go
Speaker 2: on to help that team win a playoff game.
Speaker 1: At coach, how am I going to do that? I'm
Speaker 1: not even playing.
Speaker 2: Sure enough, goes into that playoff run, ends up coming
Speaker 2: up huge for his team that was again a veteran
Speaker 2: depthy team.
Speaker 1: Then watching him.
Speaker 2: Do it again year after year after year, and now
Speaker 2: to be able to do it in such a dramatic fashion,
Speaker 2: to be likened to a Reggie Miller, to be talked
Speaker 2: about among Michael Jordan, the greats in the game right now.
Speaker 2: I mean Anthony Edwards well deserved has gotten so much
Speaker 2: shine in these playoffs so far. But this morning you
Speaker 2: wake up and people are saying that Tyrese's playoff performance
Speaker 2: is the performance of the playoffs thus far, and you
Speaker 2: love to hear that. You love to hear his name
Speaker 2: mentioned among the greats because he deserves it and he's
Speaker 2: been working towards it for so long. So it was
Speaker 2: spectacular to watch. It was really cool to watch. But
Speaker 2: I wasn't I really am not just saying this. I
Speaker 2: was not surprised to see him put on that type
Speaker 2: of performance.
Speaker 1: Someone was going to be able to do something like that.
Speaker 1: To me, it was Tyrese Maxi.
Speaker 3: The Michael Jordan man. Is that forty six points ties
Speaker 3: Jordan from the ninety five ninety six playoffs for the
Speaker 3: most points by a visiting player in a playoff game
Speaker 3: at MSG. That's Tyrese Maxey getting forty six and Nick
Speaker 3: how it transpired was chaotic, just like our game two references.
Speaker 3: So first with the four point play that he got
Speaker 3: on Mitchell Robinson, how did that happen?
Speaker 4: If you're the Knicks, if you're Thibodeau, like you have
Speaker 4: to be livid with your guys. The one thing you
Speaker 4: don't do is give up a four point play when
Speaker 4: you're up six with twenty eight seconds left.
Speaker 5: Then you know he got.
Speaker 4: Robinson on his feet, just off his feet just a
Speaker 4: little bit, and you know he was able to finish
Speaker 4: through some contact, gets the call and then knocks it down.
Speaker 5: But really to me and the.
Speaker 4: Broadcasting team, you know, touched on this on the national broadcast,
Speaker 4: but tyrese, what was maybe the most impressive part about
Speaker 4: the whole thing was he didn't look tired ever, like
Speaker 4: he was going a million.
Speaker 5: Miles an hour all game long.
Speaker 4: That last shot was a thirty thirty footer, you know,
Speaker 4: to tie the game. Had his legs underneath them, had
Speaker 4: all the pop. I mean, some of his takes to
Speaker 4: the basket was just using pure speed and strength. Like
Speaker 4: the amount of energy he had to exert throughout the
Speaker 4: whole night and overtime.
Speaker 5: He never looked worn down. He never looked like he
Speaker 5: was running out of gas.
Speaker 4: And I think that might be the most impressive part,
Speaker 4: and that's something that comes from you got to be
Speaker 4: in the gym. You got to be in the gym,
Speaker 4: and you got to be putting in the time and
Speaker 4: effort to get yourself in a position where it's second nature.
Speaker 4: You don't get tired because your body's so conditioned to
Speaker 4: keep going, keep going, keep going. And this is one
Speaker 4: of those games where it's an instant classic. I think
Speaker 4: all New York fans will definitely remember this one as
Speaker 4: a heartbreaker, and obviously all Philly fans are going to
Speaker 4: hopefully remember this as the game that maybe turned their
Speaker 4: season around as they were kind of against the ropes
Speaker 4: and the sense.
Speaker 2: Nick, you talked about how he didn't look tired, and
Speaker 2: I completely agree. Even after the game he was wired.
Speaker 2: He was the first player in the weight room. And
Speaker 2: I will say, people that sort of don't understand how
Speaker 2: the course of an NBA game works, going to the
Speaker 2: weight room immediately following a game is not actually that abnormal.
Speaker 2: It's part of some guy's game to game routine. My understanding,
Speaker 2: and Nick obviously correct me if I'm wrong, is that
Speaker 2: if you work your muscles while they're tired, that is
Speaker 2: helpful for future really long game performances where you have
Speaker 2: to continue to have that type of energy. Right, So
Speaker 2: that's a habit that he's built up all season long.
Speaker 2: He did it again last night after playing fifty plus minutes.
Speaker 1: And what I was going to say to you guys,
Speaker 1: is how.
Speaker 2: Useful, in hindsight was that double overtime performance in San
Speaker 2: Antonio without Joel Embiid not the first.
Speaker 1: Time in a one month period a one month.
Speaker 2: Span where Tyres has played fifty plus minutes in a
Speaker 2: game where he put the team.
Speaker 1: On his back to go on and win spectacular And the.
Speaker 3: Last time we had a podcast with the three of us,
Speaker 3: they ran a similar play to the end of the
Speaker 3: Spurs game and Maxi was not the hero in that game,
Speaker 3: so and it was at the garden, so like he
Speaker 3: had a chance to redeem himself from that he ends
Speaker 3: up playing fifty one minutes on the logo three Nick,
Speaker 3: should Tibbs and the Knicks have intentionally fouled up by three?
Speaker 3: Or was there too much time? Or you think they
Speaker 3: should have done it?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think most coaches in that scenario, they
Speaker 4: would prefer to foul, just because the guys are just
Speaker 4: too good now. They're too good, and it's you take
Speaker 4: on too much risk by not fouling, because you have
Speaker 4: guys like Maxie who can step over half court and
Speaker 4: they're within range, and so you know, it's such a
Speaker 4: tricky thing now because guys have also become so good
Speaker 4: at anticipating the foul, and the last thing you want
Speaker 4: to do is, you know, foul someone thirty five feet
Speaker 4: outside the basket as they're you know, going up into
Speaker 4: a shooting motion. But you know, for me, it wasn't
Speaker 4: even just that last Obviously, what's getting the most attention
Speaker 4: is those last two shots of regulation, but it was
Speaker 4: really throughout the entire night he was consistently making the
Speaker 4: big play. Like even overtime started, they were down five
Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, here we go again. They're you know,
Speaker 4: dead in the water. Who answers Maxi step back three,
Speaker 4: you know, cuts it to two. Even at halftime, you know,
Speaker 4: coming into half knicks, we're kind of making up some
Speaker 4: I think they're up eight or nine points and Maxi
Speaker 4: comes flying down the court for a high off blast
Speaker 4: finger roll to kind of cut that momentum a little bit.
Speaker 4: And it just seemed like all throughout the night, anytime
Speaker 4: the team needed him, he was stepping up. And it's
Speaker 4: just it's special to watch, especially when you have a
Speaker 4: guy like Joel who's maybe you know, not quite himself
Speaker 4: right now, as we would all expect, you know, to
Speaker 4: have a second a second option. I feel about even
Speaker 4: calling Maxi a second option, but have someone like that
Speaker 4: who's capable of just complete taking over it is insane.
Speaker 2: Credit to the partnership that the two of them share too,
Speaker 2: because Joel shows a lot of humility to me in
Speaker 2: Game five, understanding that his partner has it going more
Speaker 2: than he does. And he called himself in postgame he said, listen,
Speaker 2: if I have to be a decoy, that's what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do. And then Tyree said something funny too. Terry's
Speaker 2: talked about the defense. He played down the stretch in
Speaker 2: overtime where Joel was fantastic defensively, but said he did
Speaker 2: such a good job of being seven feet tall. And
Speaker 2: I loved that, like the way that they just understand
Speaker 2: what each of them is able to do on any
Speaker 2: given night. For Joel to know, hey, yes, this is
Speaker 2: my team. I am the rating MVP, but my twenty
Speaker 2: three year old, who a lot of people consider my
Speaker 2: number two or my sidekick, has it more than I
Speaker 2: do tonight, and I'm going to do everything I can
Speaker 2: in the body that I'm in tonight to make sure
Speaker 2: that he is able to get it done for the team.
Speaker 2: I love what they have been able to do for
Speaker 2: each other, the respect that they share for each other
Speaker 2: that I feel continues to grow every time they go
Speaker 2: through adversity like this.
Speaker 3: Nineteen points sixteen rebounds, a playoff career high ten assist
Speaker 3: for Embiid four block shots. It's his first playoff career
Speaker 3: triple double. And yes, the nine turnovers. Turnovers were really
Speaker 3: a problem for both teams in this game. It was
Speaker 3: played much sloppier than the first few games in the series.
Speaker 2: Early in the game felt looser, like they were playing
Speaker 2: with more especially the Sixers, playing with more freedom, as
Speaker 2: you have to in that type of elimination game situation.
Speaker 2: Being I mean, Nick, you tell me, but tension can
Speaker 2: often be a disservice in a high pressure moment, and
Speaker 2: it was good to see them playing looser. But as
Speaker 2: you mentioned, turnovers one of the first things that coach
Speaker 2: Nurse and Joel said they're going to have to fix
Speaker 2: for game six.
Speaker 3: Well, rebounding was something they had to fix as well,
Speaker 3: and then Joel goes out and grabs sixteen And the
Speaker 3: rebounding battle is not always indicative of the winning team,
Speaker 3: but it has been in this series, so that to
Speaker 3: me was a sign of Joelle's leadership and just evaluating
Speaker 3: his situation and going and grabbing a game high sixteen
Speaker 3: rebounds felt important, and the ten assists, a lot of
Speaker 3: those were well executed passes. You just wanted to clean
Speaker 3: it up on the turnover column obviously, but his floor
Speaker 3: game overall, how did you evaluate it?
Speaker 5: Lauren?
Speaker 4: You mentioned that, you know, he shows some humility and
Speaker 4: understanding that you know, maybe it wasn't his night to
Speaker 4: carry the team, you know, and I heard you had
Speaker 4: a migraine as well, maybe wasn't feeling great physically and mentally.
Speaker 4: And what I loved is still him being able to
Speaker 4: attract the double teams in the post knowing the whole
Speaker 4: time he probably was never going to attack, and just
Speaker 4: you know, having those quick hitters out to Maxi for
Speaker 4: three who it just seemed like he Maxi didn't miss
Speaker 4: any step in three throughout the night, especially when Joel
Speaker 4: was kicking out to him. But you got to give
Speaker 4: credit to Joel and just understanding that, hey, you know,
Speaker 4: in order for this to work, I'm going to have
Speaker 4: to make some sacrifices and adjustments to.
Speaker 5: The way I normally play.
Speaker 4: And you know, it provides opportunity for other guys to
Speaker 4: really come in and make plays. And it wasn't just
Speaker 4: Maxi too, I mean Kelly Ubrig, Tobias Harris, you know,
Speaker 4: both did their fair share in helping this team win,
Speaker 4: and it's just, you know, it's crazy to see you
Speaker 4: you know, playoffs start and things begin to shrink in
Speaker 4: terms of the rotation and the amount of guys that
Speaker 4: are even playing, Like you see the Knicks one playing
Speaker 4: seven guys, and so, you know, the people who are playing,
Speaker 4: it really calls a lot on them to step up
Speaker 4: and do their part.
Speaker 3: We have a visitor to the podcast, Nick's daughter popping
Speaker 3: on to screen a little behind the scenes. That's awesome.
Speaker 3: He's on dad duty right now, so we appreciate it
Speaker 3: for sure. Campaign had some big shots for the Sixers
Speaker 3: while Kyle Lowry was dealing with boll trouble. So these rotations,
Speaker 3: and there's a question that we had submitted about Buddy
Speaker 3: Healed as well that we want Nick's take on. But
Speaker 3: really good Tobias moments. Kelly Ubred Junior had some big
Speaker 3: buckets when the lead kept changing hands and also Batoom,
Speaker 3: you don't get to the overtime without his block of
Speaker 3: Brunson on the last play. It took an extra stop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it took a little bit from everybody last night,
Speaker 2: and that was sort of something that this group has
Speaker 2: talked about and continue to talk about last night after
Speaker 2: the victory that they are yet to play their best
Speaker 2: basketball together. Last night felt like a very positive step
Speaker 2: in the right direction, getting contributions across the board. You
Speaker 2: mentioned guys that have played in this series, Buddy heal
Speaker 2: d Anthony Melton, who didn't have the opportunity to play
Speaker 2: last night, but you could see affecting things positively as
Speaker 2: this playoff run hopefully continues.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: So the way that the group was each able to
Speaker 2: step up, I mean Tobias scoring first, scoring early and
Speaker 2: more often makes a huge difference for this team overall,
Speaker 2: because when you have to take Tobias into account, you're
Speaker 2: already doubling Joelle Tyrese then has the night of his life.
Speaker 2: What are you doing as a defense, especially when you're
Speaker 2: only going seven deep? Is New York now probably for
Speaker 2: the rest of the series right without Bogdanovich, yesh. So
Speaker 2: that's going to be something that they're going to have
Speaker 2: to contend with, getting Tobias going early, having more productivity
Speaker 2: from Kelly Ray Junior, like he's now done on both
Speaker 2: sides of the ball in this series. They're going to
Speaker 2: be hard to chase around in these next couple games.
Speaker 2: So you hope that the Sixers now are able to
Speaker 2: sort of build on this momentum and take these factors
Speaker 2: that it does feel a little bit like things are
Speaker 2: lining up in their favor in a way that they
Speaker 2: really didn't in the first couple games of this series. Now,
Speaker 2: heading into Game six and seven.
Speaker 3: Hopefully Tobias had a three to start the game. He
Speaker 3: also had a three that brought an eighteen to two
Speaker 3: Nicks run to an end in the second quarter, which
Speaker 3: felt important. And now Game six is a nine pm
Speaker 3: local start with the potential to start later. So you
Speaker 3: talk about recovery for all these players that played fifty
Speaker 3: plus minutes, how do you prep for a game that
Speaker 3: is scheduled to start that late.
Speaker 4: It definitely throws your throws your timing off a little bit.
Speaker 4: I remember my last year playing when I was on
Speaker 4: the Celtics, the NBA Finals games. Because of the East
Speaker 4: Coast West Coast, the games in Boston would all start
Speaker 4: at nine to nine thirty and the game would finish
Speaker 4: and it's like we're in the locker room at like
Speaker 4: midnight and it just you know, you get home, it's
Speaker 4: one in one thirty, And it threw me off a
Speaker 4: little bit. But I guess that's at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, it's an entertainment business, and so I guess
Speaker 4: the TV slots are what matters most. But I feel
Speaker 4: like NBA players are just so used to having their
Speaker 4: clock all messed up with, like the travel and you know,
Speaker 4: flying after games and getting in late to hotels, that
Speaker 4: if there's anyone that can do it seamlessly, it's it's
Speaker 4: you know, these athletes. But you know, maybe just an
Speaker 4: extra long nap in the afternoon and maybe some of
Speaker 4: MJ's secret stuff as well.
Speaker 1: So that's what I was going to ask Nick.
Speaker 2: Logistically, as we get into sort of the later later
Speaker 2: hours of the pod, if you're still listening, hopefully you're
Speaker 2: as interested in these little logistical NBA you.
Speaker 3: Might even say that we all love each other again
Speaker 3: on the sign.
Speaker 1: Off, and I hope so.
Speaker 2: But Nick, what I'm curious about when you go into
Speaker 2: a situation where you start having your game two hours later,
Speaker 2: you'd imagine that more often than not.
Speaker 1: There's a shoot around in the morning. Do you prefer
Speaker 1: that the whole day gets pushed back?
Speaker 2: Would you rather shoot around later, would you rather start
Speaker 2: your nap later or just take a much longer one,
Speaker 2: do you wake up groggier if you take a longer nap,
Speaker 2: Like what goes into the calculus of reordering your day
Speaker 2: when you're really giving two hours back.
Speaker 4: Personally, I would prefer to do a normal shoot around
Speaker 4: maybe like ten am, you finish at eleven am, and
Speaker 4: then bam, you got seven eight hours to really get
Speaker 4: yourself together before you got to head back to the
Speaker 4: arena and get prepared for the game. So as a player,
Speaker 4: I was definitely a huge napper in the afternoon, Like
Speaker 4: I would take three four hour naps and I was
Speaker 4: fine doing that. The thought of doing that now when
Speaker 4: I'm not playing would just I don't even understand how
Speaker 4: I took such a long nap in the afternoon. But again,
Speaker 4: I think you you just get used to it, like
Speaker 4: you have game days and then you have practice days
Speaker 4: as an NBA player, and I think you just get
Speaker 4: used to whatever rhythm is working best for you. And
Speaker 4: I think everyone's different with their preferences. Like I'm sure
Speaker 4: some guys they only nap for you know, twenty thirty minutes,
Speaker 4: and that.
Speaker 5: Might work for them.
Speaker 4: I was kind of like, get my half of my
Speaker 4: sleep at night, half of my sleep during the day,
Speaker 4: so probably not very healthy, but we may do so.
Speaker 2: If you're playing for the sixers in this game six
Speaker 2: are you taking a six hour nap?
Speaker 5: I don't know. It would be like a it would
Speaker 5: be like a.
Speaker 1: That's a slumber.
Speaker 2: Well, you said a three or four hour nap, so
Speaker 2: you get two hours back now we're talking of I
Speaker 2: feel like.
Speaker 1: You can five or six hour nap.
Speaker 4: Like you can't sleep for more than three at least
Speaker 4: for me, you can't sleep like more than three or
Speaker 4: four hours during the day.
Speaker 5: Otherwise it's like big trouble.
Speaker 2: You wake up at the same time then, though, and
Speaker 2: you don't have to go to the arena for two
Speaker 2: more hours than you'd normally spend.
Speaker 1: Like what are you doing in that extra time? Are
Speaker 1: you getting nervous? Are you keeping yourself calm? Are you
Speaker 1: welcoming anxiety?
Speaker 3: Do you go to the arena earlier than usual?
Speaker 4: Personally, I would probably just like keep my arrival time
Speaker 4: kind of like at the same time, you know, depending
Speaker 4: on what my shooting time is before.
Speaker 1: The game, you know what my way hold on.
Speaker 2: Just again, while we're being really specific, the same time
Speaker 2: on the clock or the same time of day, because
Speaker 2: for context, players operate based on the clocks. If your
Speaker 2: shooting time is ninety minutes on the clock, that can
Speaker 2: be a different time of day depending on what time
Speaker 2: the game starts. So are you saying you're going at
Speaker 2: the same time or you're going at the same amount
Speaker 2: of time removed from tip off.
Speaker 4: Same amount of time removed from tip off you get
Speaker 4: to the arena, everything is the exact same in terms of,
Speaker 4: you know, it's going to take you know, five ten
Speaker 4: minutes to get your you know, shoes on, your tights,
Speaker 4: get your ankles, tape, whatever it might be, do your
Speaker 4: whole thing and get on the court. Do you warm up,
Speaker 4: listen to your music, meditate, whatever it is you need
Speaker 4: to do, whatever your routine is. You want to try
Speaker 4: to keep that, as you know, consistent as possible, no
Speaker 4: matter what the game, no matter what time the game starts.
Speaker 4: So that's for me personally. But maybe some guys would
Speaker 4: use the extra two hours to you know, maybe take
Speaker 4: a longer nap or you know, whatever it.
Speaker 5: Is they do.
Speaker 4: I'm sure you know, some of these guys have kids too.
Speaker 4: They probably you know, doing dad duties at home and
Speaker 4: all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Believe it or not.
Speaker 3: I have two more items on this before we wrap
Speaker 3: up with the Buddy Heel question, and it's that Nick
Speaker 3: Nurse just said he too loves the late start, like
Speaker 3: Nick was saying about the NBA Finals games with his
Speaker 3: experience in that he says he's had a lot of
Speaker 3: them in the playoffs and he loves the late start.
Speaker 3: And the other one to tie it back to six
Speaker 3: Ers Nicks, Walt Clyde Fraser, the Knicks legend who is
Speaker 3: their TV analyst, was saying that his first playoff experience,
Speaker 3: he ate his lunch too early or his pregame meal
Speaker 3: too early in the day, and that he was hungry
Speaker 3: by halftime of the game. So that was his rookie mistake.
Speaker 3: And he said so many of the Nicks are new
Speaker 3: to this that stuff like that could happen to them,
Speaker 3: and who knows about the Sixers. So just some other
Speaker 3: food for thought there. But my last thing before if
Speaker 3: Lauren has any closing thoughts, is the question that Mary submitted,
Speaker 3: which I thought was a really good one to get
Speaker 3: in here, And.
Speaker 2: Can I get a little to Mary context before you
Speaker 2: read the question. So one of the little subplots, as
Speaker 2: you guys know, if you listen this deep into the
Speaker 2: podcast or into any programming that I'm a part of.
Speaker 2: Are sort of bench subplots, interpersonal subplots, and obviously Buddy
Speaker 2: Heald played at the beginning of this series, hasn't played
Speaker 2: in the last couple of games. Has had an extremely
Speaker 2: positive attitude though, despite being in a position that no
Speaker 2: player wants to find themselves in. And I thought it
Speaker 2: was really interesting last night. We talked about all the
Speaker 2: great things that Tyrese Maxey did in his performance in
Speaker 2: Game five, heroic truly, but when he missed those free
Speaker 2: throws towards the end of regulation, it was all over
Speaker 2: his face, how upset he was with himself. It reminded
Speaker 2: me of the free throws he missed on Christmas Day
Speaker 2: in Miami. It just really bothers him. He's a great
Speaker 2: free throw shooter. He's one of the best guys when
Speaker 2: it comes to preparation in the entire NBA. Guys all
Speaker 2: over the league are giving him credit for that. So
Speaker 2: he's not one that's going to take missed free throws
Speaker 2: in a big moment. Well, it was all over his
Speaker 2: face when he went back to the bench. I of
Speaker 2: course wasn't in the huddle, but I did watch this
Speaker 2: moment between he and Buddy Healed where Buddy sort of
Speaker 2: and again, these guys haven't known each other for that long,
Speaker 2: They've only been teammates for a couple months. But Buddy
Speaker 2: had no problem getting in his face. And I didn't
Speaker 2: know what they said. But what we do know is
Speaker 2: what happened next. Tyrese went out there, put the entire team,
Speaker 2: the entire city of Philadelphia on his back, and then
Speaker 2: after the game was very quick to credit Buddy Healed
Speaker 2: for what ended up happening in that conversation, which was
Speaker 2: as follows, Buddy pulls Tyree's aside and says, hey, I
Speaker 2: would be upset too if I had missed those free throws,
Speaker 2: But you.
Speaker 1: Are you and you know what you can do, so
Speaker 1: just go do it.
Speaker 2: And it was so cool to hear Tyresee quickly giving
Speaker 2: credit to a teammate for what he was able to
Speaker 2: do for him on the bench in a moment that
Speaker 2: would not have come out without Tyrese telling the story right.
Speaker 2: So that leads us, of course, to some questions that
Speaker 2: we got relating to that story, including one from a
Speaker 2: loyal listener, Mary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mary loved hearing that story and asks what advice
Speaker 3: would you give to Buddy as he works through this
Speaker 3: playoff rotation that the Sixers have right now.
Speaker 5: Well, a couple of things. You know.
Speaker 4: First, just kind of piggybacking off the story that Lauren
Speaker 4: just told it, it seems like he has the right
Speaker 4: mindset in terms of just trying to be as helpful
Speaker 4: as he can to his teammates. If he's not going
Speaker 4: to play, try to have a good attitude, try to
Speaker 4: have a smile on his face, try to encourage his teammates.
Speaker 4: Seems like he's doing all the right things. And secondly,
Speaker 4: you know, just a little precursor here, like Buddy Heal
Speaker 4: should not be ever taking any advice from me. The
Speaker 4: guy is an absolute stud. He's car himself into one
Speaker 4: of the elite three point shooters that the NBA has
Speaker 4: ever seen, and the numbers have said that and in
Speaker 4: a lot of different ways. So by no means what
Speaker 4: I ever tried to give him advice, because the guy
Speaker 4: knows what he's doing. But I think I would just
Speaker 4: you know, I would say that in the playoffs, depending
Speaker 4: on who you're playing, obviously, coaches are going to go
Speaker 4: with certain rotations that they are favorable to. Them, and
Speaker 4: I think it's just important for him to remember that
Speaker 4: that can always change if they move on to the
Speaker 4: next series, or if the Knicks make an adjustment in
Speaker 4: terms of who they might be playing. It's just important
Speaker 4: to stay engaged and locked in because things change so
Speaker 4: quickly in these series and just in the playoffs in general.
Speaker 4: So I think he has the right mindset in terms
Speaker 4: of staying positive and staying ready, and I think he
Speaker 4: just needs to remind himself. For me, if I was
Speaker 4: ever down, the thing that worked best for me is
Speaker 4: going back and watching old highlights of myself, like having
Speaker 4: my greatest game and you know, having that swagger and
Speaker 4: confidence to remind yourself like that's who I am, that's
Speaker 4: what I'm capable of doing. And in his situation, when
Speaker 4: he has played, it's been limited minutes, and so every
Speaker 4: shot takes on so much meaning. So if you miss
Speaker 4: two shots, you miss three shots all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: if that's your whole.
Speaker 5: Game, then you're like, well, man, I had a terrible game.
Speaker 4: But the reality is for a guy like Buddy, throughout
Speaker 4: the stretch of a normal regular season game where he's
Speaker 4: playing thirty five minutes, forty minutes There's plenty of times
Speaker 4: where in a quarter he might miss three in a row,
Speaker 4: but when you get more opportunity, you kind of forget
Speaker 4: about that because you know eventually those shots are going
Speaker 4: to drop. And so I think it's just important to
Speaker 4: put those things in a perspective and just realize that
Speaker 4: once he gets those opportunities again, you know, I'm sure
Speaker 4: the real Buddy, Heel, the old Buddy Heill, whatever you
Speaker 4: want to call it, will come out to play.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse has said all season long, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: beyond our time shared with him, he's a big believer
Speaker 2: in energy and that at any given moment in a
Speaker 2: team environ, you are either giving energy or taking energy away.
Speaker 1: To understand that.
Speaker 2: Buddy is in a suboptimal situation right now, but was
Speaker 2: going to give energy no matter what, and then to
Speaker 2: see it manifest itself and be rewarded for that energy
Speaker 2: given despite playing zero minutes in the game.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what Nick Nurse is talking about.
Speaker 2: That's giving energy, not taking it away, being strategic about
Speaker 2: where you give it and how you give it, and
Speaker 2: then seeing rewards from it. So I just think that
Speaker 2: that was a really cool pullback of the curtain. And again,
Speaker 2: like I said, I saw it happen, but I have
Speaker 2: no idea what was said, nor does anyone that wasn't there.
Speaker 2: So I also credit Tyrese for giving Buddy his flowers
Speaker 2: when he really did make a meaningful impact on a
Speaker 2: game that he didn't play in.
Speaker 3: I love when Nick Nurse talks about energy, just that
Speaker 3: word around him. He said something on Media Day that
Speaker 3: was sort of philosophical like that. I don't have the
Speaker 3: exact quote, but yeah, really good stuff. I love the
Speaker 3: point about future games things can we're talking about seven
Speaker 3: eight man rotations when we this could be any player
Speaker 3: on the sixers who could get a moment at any
Speaker 3: point going forward in the next game, in a potential
Speaker 3: next round, all of that stuff. So it's just a
Speaker 3: roller coaster of a time the NBA playoffs, And now
Speaker 3: we know on the old Nick Stauskas YouTube videos, if
Speaker 3: there's like a Nick Stauskas fan eleven commenting this guy's awesome,
Speaker 3: that might be that might be.
Speaker 2: Nick Listen, whatever you got to do to keep yourself
Speaker 2: confidence high.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: I'm not accusing you of anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean even now, even now that I'm not playing.
Speaker 4: I still go back and just have to remind myself
Speaker 4: every now and then so I can come out of bed.
Speaker 4: Now my back's hurt and feeling old. I'm like, didn't
Speaker 4: always it wasn't always like that. I used to wake up,
Speaker 4: get out of bed, wind mill like it was nothing.
Speaker 4: And yeah, you know, ty Resee is he's got those
Speaker 4: young legs right now. Tyrese is going through that phase
Speaker 4: where just you could get out, get up out of
Speaker 4: bed and be ready to go. It's it's a great feeling.
Speaker 3: Where does the whatever amount eight threes or whatever against
Speaker 3: Billy Donovan and the Florida Gators video rank in your years?
Speaker 4: To be honest, I go back and watch sophomore year
Speaker 4: Michigan highlights because I was here, I won Big Ten
Speaker 4: Player of the Year, and I just feel like I
Speaker 4: was I was an extra bouncy that year, so I
Speaker 4: would like dunk on some guys, and I feel like
Speaker 4: I enjoy watching those highlights more than anything.
Speaker 5: But man, I know what.
Speaker 2: I'm doing this afternoon. I haven't watched any of that time.
Speaker 2: To be a good friend and a good co host
Speaker 2: and go check out some Nick Stauskis sophomore tape.
Speaker 3: I'm going to watch the one where you made whatever
Speaker 3: in your driveway, like whatever. The number of free throws was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we did like as many threes as you could
Speaker 4: make in five minutes, but it was it was raining outside,
Speaker 4: so it was like a little bit.
Speaker 3: It was great, And didn't Steph Curry see it.
Speaker 4: It was right after we lost to we lost to
Speaker 4: Louisville in the National Championship game, and then I went
Speaker 4: back home, you know, after you know, the school semester finished,
Speaker 4: and so like I guess there was a lot of
Speaker 4: attension on you know, all of us from that Michigan team, and.
Speaker 5: So I put out that video.
Speaker 4: I think I went seventy for seventy six, but I
Speaker 4: made my first forty six in the video, so I
Speaker 4: was like forty six before start, and so I posted it.
Speaker 4: And I used to always post YouTube videos like that.
Speaker 4: I didn't think anything of it. And the next morning,
Speaker 4: I remember, I woke up and my phone was crazy,
Speaker 4: like all these notifications, and all the notifications had Steph
Speaker 4: Curry's name in it, and I was like, what did Steff?
Speaker 4: Because it was playoffs at this time, I was like,
Speaker 4: what did Steph do?
Speaker 5: Last night? Like, you know, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: And then I realized that he like responded to my
Speaker 4: video I posted and he said three point shootouts sometime
Speaker 4: with the question mark and like that stuff was like
Speaker 4: my favorite player at that time. So I was like
Speaker 4: over the moon happy that he just acknowledged my existence.
Speaker 4: And yeah, we actually Steph Cree was supposed to come
Speaker 4: to my backyard to do a three point shootout, but
Speaker 4: at that time, the amateurism thing of the NC double
Speaker 4: A basically didn't allow for me to have a like
Speaker 4: because it was gonna be televised like TSN in Canada
Speaker 4: was like going to televise and every everything was set
Speaker 4: and the NC double A like stepped in and they
Speaker 4: basically said I wasn't allowed to do it because it
Speaker 4: was a televised event against amateur versus professional, and.
Speaker 3: So nowadays it would be definitely TV.
Speaker 5: It's just it's a shame I came a little too
Speaker 5: a little too early.
Speaker 3: Did he address that at the twenty twenty one NBA
Speaker 3: Finals when you were playing against him, So he was he.
Speaker 5: Had bigger fish to fry.
Speaker 1: You don't say.
Speaker 3: In a time of year that is typically crazy with
Speaker 3: the playoffs, this Sixers Knicks series has gone beyond crazy,
Speaker 3: so we will see how it unfolds. And Nick Staskas,
Speaker 3: thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to watch game six with you. Nick, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys. I'm come to be in the building tomorrow.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a great time. We got a color
Speaker 4: board me, we'll get the outfits going. It's gonna be
Speaker 4: it's gonna be phenomenal.
Speaker 1: We will Nick's askas, thank you so much.