WEBVTT - Fanatic About the Playoffs | Another Bonus Mailbag With Lauren and Devon 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.880 Search seventy sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. We 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.160 did one of these last week. Why because the people, 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:15.080 the populace, the great populace out there, they deserve a 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:19.640 platform when the pod line overfloweth we need to provide 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.560 a forum to play voicemails in excess. 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Yeah, Lauren, 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.040 I missed you. What's going on? I haven't seen I know. 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.520 Great to see you, Great to see both of you. 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.560 It feels like old times. This is it's a regular 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:15.760 season again. Yes, it's fantastic. Good to be back. I 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.560 totally was unaware of this until someone brought it to 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.000 my attention on Twitter the other day. I called for 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.360 submissions to the mailbag on the pod line, and I 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:29.080 dangled some merchant swag to entice the people, and then 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.640 we got the notification and we heard the news that 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.440 the pod line was full, so I had to go 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.040 back through clear out the mailbag. We apologize for that 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.039 if you called the first time around and you did 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.520 not get to get a message in It's always open 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.160 two on five four zero three seven sixty three seven. 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.680 Two on five four zero three seven sixty three seven. 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.760 But even though we did run into that technical glitch 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:58.960 this week, we still got some tremendous calls, questions, takes, comments, 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.280 and with the seven six are setting their sights on 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.080 what they hope is taking a serious lead. On Friday 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.480 in Atlanta two to one in Game three of the 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.079 Eastern Conference Semifinals, let us get to the mail bag. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.960 We're gonna go to the podline. We're gonna hear your 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:16.720 reactions to what happened in Game two, and also reactions 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.600 and takes to what did not happen for the seventy 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.720 sixers on the NBA Awards circuit as of late. So, 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.920 without further ado, here we go. Hey, my name's Mike, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.680 and I am a huge Sixers fan. And one of 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.840 the positives that I take away from Game two in 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.360 the Atlanta series was not only the strength and dominance 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.080 of Joe, but how well the bench played when it 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.480 finally decided to start clicking. And not only did Howard 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.680 get some really important rebounds and putbacks, but it was 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.080 really great to see shakemail Hun come into his own 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.720 and wake up. And I think that just illustrates the 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.600 beauty of sports that you could have a guy you 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.800 know all but left for dead become the hero in 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.320 a game that really depends on him. And so that 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.280 is my takeaway from Game two. Was really really exciting 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.680 to see Shake Milton have a good game, But we 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.000 can't take our eye off of what Joe Embiad is 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.480 accomplished and what he's doing in these playoffs simply because 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.200 we're used to it. It is nothing short of amazing 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.520 and go Sixers. Great points by Mike Lauren. We talked 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.000 about this the other day I think in the immediate 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.880 aftermath of Game two, my reaction was shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.760 But then when I woke up the next morning, I 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:38.560 was like, damn, Joel embiad did that again. Not I'm 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.040 with few selves. There was so much to love about 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.200 that game too, victory. That was a very poetic voicemail, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.720 by the way, So shout out to that whole left 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.800 for dead situation. Beauty of sports. I am with that. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.280 Sometimes I need to be reminded about the beauty of sports, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.280 so I appreciate it. And yeah, Shake really did sort 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.200 of show us just how important any member of any 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.160 team can be, and it was really cool to see 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.160 him come out the way he did. I also liked 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.360 um what the color said about coming back after halftime. 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:10.040 We just learned from George Hall after Thursday's practice that 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.720 halftime was a bit of a tough time if you're 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.839 a if you're a Sixers player, particularly a Sixer's bench player. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.120 He let us know that Doc was very honest with them, 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.919 and sometimes that's what you need. Doc. He ripped some 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:29.000 things apparently, yep uh. George said that whatever whatever he did, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.880 whatever passion he was bringing to the locker room at halftime. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.680 It worked and Shake certainly a big part of that 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.840 good It was needed, And Mike brings up another really 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:44.360 good point about the bench overall deciding to finally get 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.240 it going, and I'm sure the doc rivers are ripping 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.320 if you will, had had a lot to do with it. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.039 But even the part about Dwhite Howard, because I wasn't 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.159 quite sure how d White Howe would fit into this 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.080 series after we saw Game one and how he would 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.640 necessarily play into the rotation and that he would be 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.599 out of it totally or completely, but just curious to 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.440 see how we would play. But I believe it was 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.400 about ten minutes or so, ten plus minutes where he played, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.320 and he was really effective in Game number two with 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.800 the second unit and what they were able to do 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.760 out there on the floor, the energy again defensively as 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.800 well as we all know with him on the floor. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.480 It was really good to see Dwight Howard as well 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.600 as Shake Milton really come into come into his own, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.360 get back into what we were accustomed to seeing from 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.400 Shake Milton and to be able to have that punch 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.440 while we're seeing it from the other teams Atlanta specifically 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.240 with what Gallinari and heard or were able to do 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.880 in game number two. You want to make sure that 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.120 you're able to do that, whether it's Maxie Hill, Howard 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.279 or even Shake Milton and Cork Mos. It was good 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.600 to see it out there on the floor from the bench. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.920 Much needed t stybled with some nice contributions in game two. 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.720 Thought George Hill had a really good stretch all around 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:57.520 quality effort from the seventy six ers to get that 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.799 going and pull away from Atlanta to tie up the series. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:05.800 Back to the podline, Hey hello, it's yes. The major 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:10.599 adjustments I liked in game two yesterday war was bringing 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.160 Shake Milton off the bench. I was a little skeptical, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.640 but I'm glad to see finally came through. Um. I 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.240 think the next adjustments we had to do going forward 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.039 is keep our bench down to only going using eight 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:25.320 to nine guys. Yeah, and just I love how Simmons plays. 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:26.800 Maybe you could just shoot the ball a little bit more. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.200 Other than that, we got to series, I'd say we're 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.960 gonna win the best out of six. So divine a 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.400 couple of things. What do you think about the size 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.520 of the rotation and how Doc's been using his bench. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.720 He played by a ear typically. I mean, when we 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:43.920 look at and we start to run it down ourselves, 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.400 you can't you can't eliminate anyone because it seems like 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.880 everyone plays a role. Before Shake Milton was struggling, we 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.960 still had a policement both him and Tarry's Maxie, as 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.200 well as George Hill in the flow, in the mix. 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.760 So I believe this is a play it by ear. 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.960 I understand analytics of a lot of things with coaches 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.480 and what the numbers tell you, but I also love 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.560 the feel. So if you feel a game is going 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.120 a certain way and you feel a certain player, Shake 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.840 Milton in this particular scenario, is your team is in 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:16.960 need of something and Shake Milton is the one who 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.559 maybe can give it to you. And later we learned 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.920 about the conversations Joel Embiid had with Shake Milton, the 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.560 conversation that Rivers also had. Part of me with Shake 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.760 Milton and just staying ready, the fact that he was 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.840 in the gym ten pm at night working on the 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.360 things that he needed to the one on ones. Okay, 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.400 maybe Doc felt some No numbers told him anything except 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.640 for the ten pm at night. It was the feel 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.560 of the game and what he could potentially add to 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.080 the team when they when they needed something so badly, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.240 he was the one. So as far as the rotation, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.480 I think it's a field thing. Quirk Moles can hit 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.480 a shot, Max he can bring the energy. Latistible is 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.520 certainly in the mix. Howard and Hill also, and Furcon 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.160 can do what he does. I think it's a feel 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:04.400 thing and not necessarily a numbers thing. At this time, agreed, 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.600 I didn't have that much to add, so that's why 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.320 I was late to join, but I agree. I mean, 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.400 it really cool to see that each member of the 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.040 bench does serve a pretty distinct purpose, and we've seen 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.640 each member of the bench prove that purpose so far 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.840 in the playoffs. Glad to hear that Doc Rivers is 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.760 going to continue to be flexible with a bench. I 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.680 know that that might not be a popular take among 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.560 the populist but I do think that it's a good system, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.200 and I look forward to seeing how it continues to rotate. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.760 Especially after a Game one loss. What would change in 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.320 Game two? Adjustments were on the minds of a lot 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.959 of people who called in Game two Sixers victory last night, 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.400 what a thrilling one it was. Sixers even up the 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.480 series one one my takeaways from last night's game where 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.280 dwell embid what can you say, forty points, the first 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.040 ever Sixer to do that in a playoff game since 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.559 Allen Iverson. And you know what do the Sixers do different? Well, 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.640 you know they started the game with much more energy 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.960 coaching on Trey Young, obviously putting Simmons on him instead 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.640 of Denny Green and then subbing the tiftyble for Ben 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.800 Simmons to get on Trey Young when Ben Simmons we 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.560 need a break. Shake Milton. I think he is last 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:18.120 night's hero as a good decision by Doc Rivers to 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.360 give Shake some confidence out there. Shake has been working 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.480 as tailoff as we know after games since he has 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.679 been struggling so far in the playoffs. And you know 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.400 what a great tribute that was last night from the 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.320 Fens to Shake Milton, and you know, hopefully this gets 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.360 him going as we continue into the later games in 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.439 this series. Great points. Again, I think these are very 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.760 thorough comprehensive, cause Trey Young did not look like the 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.400 first half Trey Young from game one in game two 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.720 not at all. And Selts you said that Joel Embide 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.360 was sort of your morning after guy, that came to 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.000 mind in terms of someone you needed to give a 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.120 little bit more shy to, and for me, I felt 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.560 like I was thinking about Shake and Joel equally after 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.560 the game. And what really came to mind for me 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.640 the morning after Game two was the defense on Trey Young. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.080 The way that Ben Simmons sort of said that he 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.960 wanted more shots at Trey after game one. He wanted 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.000 that challenge, he was reading for that challenge, and then 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.280 Doc Rivers gave him that challenge and he responded really, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.120 really well. I think that the way that Ben Simmons 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.320 and then obviously the help of Matisse Thybel guarded Trey 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.439 Young in Game two might be the most telling thing 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.520 we've seen in the series thus far, because those two 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.640 are going to continue to be available. They're going to 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.719 continue to make his life difficult and unless Trey can 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.360 figure out, and maybe he will, but some ways to 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.640 change his game in a pretty big way. When you're 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.480 guarding being guarded by those two for the next whatever 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.840 it is, three to five games, it's going to be 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.280 tough for him and it's going to continue to be 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.200 tough for him. Doc Rivers made the first adjustment with 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.600 the coaching staff and defending Trey Young. And now we'll 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.760 see what the adjustment will be to help Trey Young, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.240 if you will, from Nate McMillan and his staff the 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.760 game number three on Friday evening. Because you're right, Laura, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.360 they did it. They did it. They did the necessary thing, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.360 which was this is your assignment. Go out there and 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.400 do what you can do. You're not always going to 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.679 stop him. You're not gonna contain him and shut him 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.000 out totally. He's still gonna have a very good game. 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.520 He's a talented player, but he put a sixteen guys 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.040 on who can move the way that he does and 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.319 has the length oftentimes lent to bothers smaller people. And 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.200 that's what we saw with both Thybo and Simmons, and 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.079 still on occasion Danny Green with what he was able 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.000 to do. And I also thought, I'll give credit to 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:28.960 Tobias Harris a few times as well when he was 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.520 caught on the switch and he moved very well, and 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.440 I thought he stayed I study, stayed grounded, he stay planned. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.800 He didn't go for the ball fakes and all getting 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.720 up in the air, allowing Trey Young to draw out 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.839 the fouls and things like that, so I'll give him 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.440 credit too for also being in the mix, but it 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.280 was the right call to have Simmons on him at 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.920 majority of Game number two. Wish it was a little 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.920 more in Game one, but the adjustment was made. That's 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.800 what the series are for. To me. Perhaps the most 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.400 encouraging thing about Game two is that the obvious areas 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.880 the Sixers needed to clean up what they started doing 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.079 second half of Game one, they did for a longer 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.120 period of time in Game two, and wouldn't you know, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.840 in the end, their execution, their talent, their ability to 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.720 protect the basketball, in addition to some of the other 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.200 things we're talking about scheme up better stuff and put 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.280 better personnel and Trey Young. That all resulted in a 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:21.080 very much needed and nice dub Hi Brian and team 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.680 so round two. Game two was arguably one of my 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.040 favorite Sixers playoff games ever. It had everything Joel posting 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.199 a crazy forty points in thirty five minutes with thirteen rebounds, 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.800 Curry and Harris over twenty points each, and Shake. I'm 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.319 so happy for shaking this team way to represent hard 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.200 work in the bench. But I still think you. Brian 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.600 had the tweet of the week After last night's game, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.400 Bryan Clark tweeted asking if Ben Simmons played tonight in 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:53.160 your ask, Trey Young response was chef kiss brilliant way 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.080 to silence the haters, Ben, I'm young was the best 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.280 game to adjustment in my opinion. Let's keep it team 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.800 momenting up for the rest of the series. Goes sixers 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.920 and always keep up as always, keep up the great content, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.640 Bryant and team. Thanks for the opportunity to chime in, 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:15.760 Mary Overfield. Mary always engages with the content. We appreciate that, 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.040 not just because she singled out my tweet. I actually 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.720 think that the tweet and this is relatively breaking within 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.960 the time that we came on to record this. The 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.640 best tweeter of the week had to come from the 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:32.440 president of Basketball Operations of the seventy Sixers, alluding to 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.120 a character portrayed by stephen A. Smith on General Hospital 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:41.199 and a comment that Stephen A made on John Clark's podcast, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.800 The Takeoff about what stephen A thinks these seventy six 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.640 Ers chances are in the postseason. Did we see this? 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.160 I did not know us. I did not You have 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:56.320 to tell us about this one. Break it to us. Yeah. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.040 By the way. You have to give Mary her her answer, 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.080 you know, on what you said as well with the 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.320 ash Tray Young that was very good. Yeah. I didn't 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.440 see that tweet either. I must I must have been 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.079 gonna sleep at the wheel, because that's a good one. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.600 Se Well, listen, Laurd everyone was going after Ryan Clark. 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.760 So Seltz was just going to get lost in the 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:21.360 mix because that was a ridiculous statement. Yeah. I don't 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.320 usually clap back, but sometimes you just have to, you know, 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.080 especially from a defender by the way, right, Yeah, yeah, 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:33.280 that's right. It's a solid cornerback for many years. Like 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.400 come on, man, I mean, all right, your response. All right. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.200 So here here's the Daryl Morey tweet that I would 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.120 give my nod to if we're going to cast votes 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:43.920 to Mary about who gets the tweet of the week. 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.120 So John Clark, we love John Clark. Has his podcast 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.440 really very good to take off. Um check it out. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.080 Stephen A was quoted as saying I have the Sixers 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.120 in seven against the Hawks, but I say that with 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.720 some degree of trepidation. Stephen A. Smith on Sixers Hawks 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.080 The ride ends there the beating the Brooklyn Nets. I 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.520 can assure you of that. Daryl Morey responds, I have 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.480 at stephen A. Smith's brick as the best at General Hospital. Character, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.960 but I say that with some degree of trepidation. The 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.560 ride stops at the at the Emmy's. I can assure 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:23.480 you of that. That's pretty good. Yeah, absolutely, Daryl's clever. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:32.480 We know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd like to talk 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.800 to Daryl. We gotta make that happen. We gotta get 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.320 back on He needs to answer these calls, these male 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.040 bad questions. We've done it once before. We got to 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.360 do it again. That we can. But we can get 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.600 that done, all right. Well, listen, Daryl Morey and myself, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.560 we were not the only people coming to the defense 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.400 of Ben Simmons, maybe not even defense, but pumping up 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:58.480 Ben after his efforts in Game two. I'm so excited 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.800 for the six series. You know. The only thing that 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.640 I'm there is about right now that the Hawks are 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.120 a much better team than I thought that they were 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.440 going to be, and just their potential to get hot 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.760 like we've seen really, you know, has me a bit concerned. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.120 But seeing the defensive matchups yesterday, seeing the Doc Rivers 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.840 is willing to change that up put Ben Simmons on 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:25.800 Trey Young, you know, continue his pattern of trapping. I 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.400 think that really, you know, really made a huge difference. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:30.720 And the other thing that I'm tired of was just 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.560 the Ben Simmons slander. You know, the guy's gone out, 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.720 He's had a great playoff so far, and yeah, I 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.160 feel like all we end up talking about day in 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.240 and day out because that Ben Simmons doesn't do this. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.120 Ben Simmons doesn't do that. The guy's out there winning 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.760 ball games. He's out there doing everything he can to 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.040 help the team win. And I would love to see 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.320 Ben Simmons get more praised for what he's doing on 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:57.360 this team. No secret that I agree wholeheartedly with that statement. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:02.840 I think that in some cases, Sixers fans, basketball fans 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.879 in general, are prone to be pretty harsh about what 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.680 guys don't do on the court and what I would prefer. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.880 If you're going to be harsh, that's fine, that's part 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.960 of being a fan. But what I want, and I've 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.399 said this before, is that same energy when they do 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.520 things well. If you're going to be upset with what 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.600 Ben doesn't do, I'm gonna need you to come celebrate 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.160 what he does do with the same If not greater 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.080 energy because he does some things incredibly, incredibly well. He 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.600 does a lot of things incredibly well. And I don't 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.679 think the Sixers get to where they are today in 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:36.280 this series, in this season without what Ben does extremely well, 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.160 and I think we need to talk about it more period. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.520 I would agree with that certainly. Look at the stretch 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.439 the Sixers played towards the end of the regular season 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.400 without him. It was not pretty. How about this one. 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:51.280 I need every Sixers fan out there to realize without 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.960 Ben Simmons, we're not winning that game last night. Without 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.440 Ben Simmons, we're not winning this series. Okay, I mean 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:03.399 all this Ben Simmons slammed. There's got to stop. Please, please, please, 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.160 for the love of God, to stop with the Ben 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:10.240 Simmon slander. He brings so much more to the team 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.800 than scoring. I mean, if people don't realize this, then 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.919 I don't know if you guys know basketball or if 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.080 you're watching in a different sport, no clue, but you 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.800 guys need to too with that Ben Simmons slander. All right, 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.720 go Sixes. This is this is hardening to hear, just 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.600 in the sense that it's the fan base coming to 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.399 the defense of one of the most important players on 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.640 the team. I know that, I know we do all 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.760 the sunshine here, I get it. But I like this. 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.359 I think this is this is encouraging to hear that 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.480 we have a vocal crowd supporting a player rather than 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:51.280 harping on things. And as someone who clearly enjoys myself, 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.720 clearly enjoys this game, there are things from time to time, 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.680 we're talking about a full game season where I don't 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.879 like things that happen within a game, and that's just 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.760 how it goes. But what the one thing that I 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.440 love about what now you're hearing from the Philadelphia fan base, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.720 is this too speaking of the Ryan Clark Park and 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.840 we can talk about them. You can't. Yes, that's it right, 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.399 stay away from our this is this is family business. However, yes, 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.960 this is family business. You're an outsider. Mind your business, right, 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:29.120 And we don't like when others talk about We can 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:30.959 talk about them, we can say whatever we want, we 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.840 can discipline our wrong. It's done with love. It's done 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:36.760 with love. But as soon as someone else from the 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.640 outside starts to attack one of our own, then there's 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:42.679 a problem. And that's what I love. From the Philadelphia 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.000 fan base, because there is. That's exactly what we're seeing 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.760 right now. There are games look fifteen and fifteen but 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:50.520 only six points. They were a lot of people were 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.560 not happy with that. The fact that I've been played 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.000 a phenomenal defensive gaming game number two but only took 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.000 three shots. There were people who not happy with that. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.119 But then they realized it was like, oh, Ryan Clark's 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:00.880 coming at is no, no no, no no. Ben played well, 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.040 Ben played well. It's all good. It's all good. So 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.199 I love it. Keep it going, and Laren, you're right, 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.600 there are so many games and self you mentioned at 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.320 the four games at the towards the end of the 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:17.800 regular season that it's you also witness how different the 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.720 team is when he is not out there, and the 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.680 good things that he does, and the fact that he 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.880 face guarded a six one point guard for a lot 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:28.560 of the time that he was out there, thirty plus 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.360 minutes close to forty minutes that he was out there. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.040 That's not easy. That's not easy. And he did it. 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.119 And let's see how much more he's taken on this 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.639 person's challenge to do that. Now, the offense, that's the 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:41.720 whole other thing. But for what he did, they won 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:46.000 the game, two teams scored one hundred and eighteen points. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.879 People always have stuff to say about how many points 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.520 Ben scores. The team is scoring enough points, and he's 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.560 creating a heck of a lot of them. He does 0:20:53.760 --> 0:20:57.879