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Speaker 1: But even though we did run into that technical glitch
Speaker 1: this week, we still got some tremendous calls, questions, takes, comments,
Speaker 1: and with the seven six are setting their sights on
Speaker 1: what they hope is taking a serious lead. On Friday
Speaker 1: in Atlanta two to one in Game three of the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Semifinals, let us get to the mail bag.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to the podline. We're gonna hear your
Speaker 1: reactions to what happened in Game two, and also reactions
Speaker 1: and takes to what did not happen for the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers on the NBA Awards circuit as of late. So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here we go. Hey, my name's Mike,
Speaker 1: and I am a huge Sixers fan. And one of
Speaker 1: the positives that I take away from Game two in
Speaker 1: the Atlanta series was not only the strength and dominance
Speaker 1: of Joe, but how well the bench played when it
Speaker 1: finally decided to start clicking. And not only did Howard
Speaker 1: get some really important rebounds and putbacks, but it was
Speaker 1: really great to see shakemail Hun come into his own
Speaker 1: and wake up. And I think that just illustrates the
Speaker 1: beauty of sports that you could have a guy you
Speaker 1: know all but left for dead become the hero in
Speaker 1: a game that really depends on him. And so that
Speaker 1: is my takeaway from Game two. Was really really exciting
Speaker 1: to see Shake Milton have a good game, But we
Speaker 1: can't take our eye off of what Joe Embiad is
Speaker 1: accomplished and what he's doing in these playoffs simply because
Speaker 1: we're used to it. It is nothing short of amazing
Speaker 1: and go Sixers. Great points by Mike Lauren. We talked
Speaker 1: about this the other day I think in the immediate
Speaker 1: aftermath of Game two, my reaction was shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.
Speaker 1: But then when I woke up the next morning, I
Speaker 1: was like, damn, Joel embiad did that again. Not I'm
Speaker 1: with few selves. There was so much to love about
Speaker 1: that game too, victory. That was a very poetic voicemail,
Speaker 1: by the way, So shout out to that whole left
Speaker 1: for dead situation. Beauty of sports. I am with that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I need to be reminded about the beauty of sports,
Speaker 1: so I appreciate it. And yeah, Shake really did sort
Speaker 1: of show us just how important any member of any
Speaker 1: team can be, and it was really cool to see
Speaker 1: him come out the way he did. I also liked
Speaker 1: um what the color said about coming back after halftime.
Speaker 1: We just learned from George Hall after Thursday's practice that
Speaker 1: halftime was a bit of a tough time if you're
Speaker 1: a if you're a Sixers player, particularly a Sixer's bench player.
Speaker 1: He let us know that Doc was very honest with them,
Speaker 1: and sometimes that's what you need. Doc. He ripped some
Speaker 1: things apparently, yep uh. George said that whatever whatever he did,
Speaker 1: whatever passion he was bringing to the locker room at halftime.
Speaker 1: It worked and Shake certainly a big part of that
Speaker 1: good It was needed, And Mike brings up another really
Speaker 1: good point about the bench overall deciding to finally get
Speaker 1: it going, and I'm sure the doc rivers are ripping
Speaker 1: if you will, had had a lot to do with it.
Speaker 1: But even the part about Dwhite Howard, because I wasn't
Speaker 1: quite sure how d White Howe would fit into this
Speaker 1: series after we saw Game one and how he would
Speaker 1: necessarily play into the rotation and that he would be
Speaker 1: out of it totally or completely, but just curious to
Speaker 1: see how we would play. But I believe it was
Speaker 1: about ten minutes or so, ten plus minutes where he played,
Speaker 1: and he was really effective in Game number two with
Speaker 1: the second unit and what they were able to do
Speaker 1: out there on the floor, the energy again defensively as
Speaker 1: well as we all know with him on the floor.
Speaker 1: It was really good to see Dwight Howard as well
Speaker 1: as Shake Milton really come into come into his own,
Speaker 1: get back into what we were accustomed to seeing from
Speaker 1: Shake Milton and to be able to have that punch
Speaker 1: while we're seeing it from the other teams Atlanta specifically
Speaker 1: with what Gallinari and heard or were able to do
Speaker 1: in game number two. You want to make sure that
Speaker 1: you're able to do that, whether it's Maxie Hill, Howard
Speaker 1: or even Shake Milton and Cork Mos. It was good
Speaker 1: to see it out there on the floor from the bench.
Speaker 1: Much needed t stybled with some nice contributions in game two.
Speaker 1: Thought George Hill had a really good stretch all around
Speaker 1: quality effort from the seventy six ers to get that
Speaker 1: going and pull away from Atlanta to tie up the series.
Speaker 1: Back to the podline, Hey hello, it's yes. The major
Speaker 1: adjustments I liked in game two yesterday war was bringing
Speaker 1: Shake Milton off the bench. I was a little skeptical,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad to see finally came through. Um. I
Speaker 1: think the next adjustments we had to do going forward
Speaker 1: is keep our bench down to only going using eight
Speaker 1: to nine guys. Yeah, and just I love how Simmons plays.
Speaker 1: Maybe you could just shoot the ball a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Other than that, we got to series, I'd say we're
Speaker 1: gonna win the best out of six. So divine a
Speaker 1: couple of things. What do you think about the size
Speaker 1: of the rotation and how Doc's been using his bench.
Speaker 1: He played by a ear typically. I mean, when we
Speaker 1: look at and we start to run it down ourselves,
Speaker 1: you can't you can't eliminate anyone because it seems like
Speaker 1: everyone plays a role. Before Shake Milton was struggling, we
Speaker 1: still had a policement both him and Tarry's Maxie, as
Speaker 1: well as George Hill in the flow, in the mix.
Speaker 1: So I believe this is a play it by ear.
Speaker 1: I understand analytics of a lot of things with coaches
Speaker 1: and what the numbers tell you, but I also love
Speaker 1: the feel. So if you feel a game is going
Speaker 1: a certain way and you feel a certain player, Shake
Speaker 1: Milton in this particular scenario, is your team is in
Speaker 1: need of something and Shake Milton is the one who
Speaker 1: maybe can give it to you. And later we learned
Speaker 1: about the conversations Joel Embiid had with Shake Milton, the
Speaker 1: conversation that Rivers also had. Part of me with Shake
Speaker 1: Milton and just staying ready, the fact that he was
Speaker 1: in the gym ten pm at night working on the
Speaker 1: things that he needed to the one on ones. Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe Doc felt some No numbers told him anything except
Speaker 1: for the ten pm at night. It was the feel
Speaker 1: of the game and what he could potentially add to
Speaker 1: the team when they when they needed something so badly,
Speaker 1: he was the one. So as far as the rotation,
Speaker 1: I think it's a field thing. Quirk Moles can hit
Speaker 1: a shot, Max he can bring the energy. Latistible is
Speaker 1: certainly in the mix. Howard and Hill also, and Furcon
Speaker 1: can do what he does. I think it's a feel
Speaker 1: thing and not necessarily a numbers thing. At this time, agreed,
Speaker 1: I didn't have that much to add, so that's why
Speaker 1: I was late to join, but I agree. I mean,
Speaker 1: it really cool to see that each member of the
Speaker 1: bench does serve a pretty distinct purpose, and we've seen
Speaker 1: each member of the bench prove that purpose so far
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Glad to hear that Doc Rivers is
Speaker 1: going to continue to be flexible with a bench. I
Speaker 1: know that that might not be a popular take among
Speaker 1: the populist but I do think that it's a good system,
Speaker 1: and I look forward to seeing how it continues to rotate.
Speaker 1: Especially after a Game one loss. What would change in
Speaker 1: Game two? Adjustments were on the minds of a lot
Speaker 1: of people who called in Game two Sixers victory last night,
Speaker 1: what a thrilling one it was. Sixers even up the
Speaker 1: series one one my takeaways from last night's game where
Speaker 1: dwell embid what can you say, forty points, the first
Speaker 1: ever Sixer to do that in a playoff game since
Speaker 1: Allen Iverson. And you know what do the Sixers do different? Well,
Speaker 1: you know they started the game with much more energy
Speaker 1: coaching on Trey Young, obviously putting Simmons on him instead
Speaker 1: of Denny Green and then subbing the tiftyble for Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons to get on Trey Young when Ben Simmons we
Speaker 1: need a break. Shake Milton. I think he is last
Speaker 1: night's hero as a good decision by Doc Rivers to
Speaker 1: give Shake some confidence out there. Shake has been working
Speaker 1: as tailoff as we know after games since he has
Speaker 1: been struggling so far in the playoffs. And you know
Speaker 1: what a great tribute that was last night from the
Speaker 1: Fens to Shake Milton, and you know, hopefully this gets
Speaker 1: him going as we continue into the later games in
Speaker 1: this series. Great points. Again, I think these are very
Speaker 1: thorough comprehensive, cause Trey Young did not look like the
Speaker 1: first half Trey Young from game one in game two
Speaker 1: not at all. And Selts you said that Joel Embide
Speaker 1: was sort of your morning after guy, that came to
Speaker 1: mind in terms of someone you needed to give a
Speaker 1: little bit more shy to, and for me, I felt
Speaker 1: like I was thinking about Shake and Joel equally after
Speaker 1: the game. And what really came to mind for me
Speaker 1: the morning after Game two was the defense on Trey Young.
Speaker 1: The way that Ben Simmons sort of said that he
Speaker 1: wanted more shots at Trey after game one. He wanted
Speaker 1: that challenge, he was reading for that challenge, and then
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers gave him that challenge and he responded really,
Speaker 1: really well. I think that the way that Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: and then obviously the help of Matisse Thybel guarded Trey
Speaker 1: Young in Game two might be the most telling thing
Speaker 1: we've seen in the series thus far, because those two
Speaker 1: are going to continue to be available. They're going to
Speaker 1: continue to make his life difficult and unless Trey can
Speaker 1: figure out, and maybe he will, but some ways to
Speaker 1: change his game in a pretty big way. When you're
Speaker 1: guarding being guarded by those two for the next whatever
Speaker 1: it is, three to five games, it's going to be
Speaker 1: tough for him and it's going to continue to be
Speaker 1: tough for him. Doc Rivers made the first adjustment with
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and defending Trey Young. And now we'll
Speaker 1: see what the adjustment will be to help Trey Young,
Speaker 1: if you will, from Nate McMillan and his staff the
Speaker 1: game number three on Friday evening. Because you're right, Laura,
Speaker 1: they did it. They did it. They did the necessary thing,
Speaker 1: which was this is your assignment. Go out there and
Speaker 1: do what you can do. You're not always going to
Speaker 1: stop him. You're not gonna contain him and shut him
Speaker 1: out totally. He's still gonna have a very good game.
Speaker 1: He's a talented player, but he put a sixteen guys
Speaker 1: on who can move the way that he does and
Speaker 1: has the length oftentimes lent to bothers smaller people. And
Speaker 1: that's what we saw with both Thybo and Simmons, and
Speaker 1: still on occasion Danny Green with what he was able
Speaker 1: to do. And I also thought, I'll give credit to
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris a few times as well when he was
Speaker 1: caught on the switch and he moved very well, and
Speaker 1: I thought he stayed I study, stayed grounded, he stay planned.
Speaker 1: He didn't go for the ball fakes and all getting
Speaker 1: up in the air, allowing Trey Young to draw out
Speaker 1: the fouls and things like that, so I'll give him
Speaker 1: credit too for also being in the mix, but it
Speaker 1: was the right call to have Simmons on him at
Speaker 1: majority of Game number two. Wish it was a little
Speaker 1: more in Game one, but the adjustment was made. That's
Speaker 1: what the series are for. To me. Perhaps the most
Speaker 1: encouraging thing about Game two is that the obvious areas
Speaker 1: the Sixers needed to clean up what they started doing
Speaker 1: second half of Game one, they did for a longer
Speaker 1: period of time in Game two, and wouldn't you know,
Speaker 1: in the end, their execution, their talent, their ability to
Speaker 1: protect the basketball, in addition to some of the other
Speaker 1: things we're talking about scheme up better stuff and put
Speaker 1: better personnel and Trey Young. That all resulted in a
Speaker 1: very much needed and nice dub Hi Brian and team
Speaker 1: so round two. Game two was arguably one of my
Speaker 1: favorite Sixers playoff games ever. It had everything Joel posting
Speaker 1: a crazy forty points in thirty five minutes with thirteen rebounds,
Speaker 1: Curry and Harris over twenty points each, and Shake. I'm
Speaker 1: so happy for shaking this team way to represent hard
Speaker 1: work in the bench. But I still think you. Brian
Speaker 1: had the tweet of the week After last night's game,
Speaker 1: Bryan Clark tweeted asking if Ben Simmons played tonight in
Speaker 1: your ask, Trey Young response was chef kiss brilliant way
Speaker 1: to silence the haters, Ben, I'm young was the best
Speaker 1: game to adjustment in my opinion. Let's keep it team
Speaker 1: momenting up for the rest of the series. Goes sixers
Speaker 1: and always keep up as always, keep up the great content,
Speaker 1: Bryant and team. Thanks for the opportunity to chime in,
Speaker 1: Mary Overfield. Mary always engages with the content. We appreciate that,
Speaker 1: not just because she singled out my tweet. I actually
Speaker 1: think that the tweet and this is relatively breaking within
Speaker 1: the time that we came on to record this. The
Speaker 1: best tweeter of the week had to come from the
Speaker 1: president of Basketball Operations of the seventy Sixers, alluding to
Speaker 1: a character portrayed by stephen A. Smith on General Hospital
Speaker 1: and a comment that Stephen A made on John Clark's podcast,
Speaker 1: The Takeoff about what stephen A thinks these seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers chances are in the postseason. Did we see this?
Speaker 1: I did not know us. I did not You have
Speaker 1: to tell us about this one. Break it to us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way. You have to give Mary her her answer,
Speaker 1: you know, on what you said as well with the
Speaker 1: ash Tray Young that was very good. Yeah. I didn't
Speaker 1: see that tweet either. I must I must have been
Speaker 1: gonna sleep at the wheel, because that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Se Well, listen, Laurd everyone was going after Ryan Clark.
Speaker 1: So Seltz was just going to get lost in the
Speaker 1: mix because that was a ridiculous statement. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: usually clap back, but sometimes you just have to, you know,
Speaker 1: especially from a defender by the way, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. It's a solid cornerback for many years. Like
Speaker 1: come on, man, I mean, all right, your response. All right.
Speaker 1: So here here's the Daryl Morey tweet that I would
Speaker 1: give my nod to if we're going to cast votes
Speaker 1: to Mary about who gets the tweet of the week.
Speaker 1: So John Clark, we love John Clark. Has his podcast
Speaker 1: really very good to take off. Um check it out.
Speaker 1: Stephen A was quoted as saying I have the Sixers
Speaker 1: in seven against the Hawks, but I say that with
Speaker 1: some degree of trepidation. Stephen A. Smith on Sixers Hawks
Speaker 1: The ride ends there the beating the Brooklyn Nets. I
Speaker 1: can assure you of that. Daryl Morey responds, I have
Speaker 1: at stephen A. Smith's brick as the best at General Hospital. Character,
Speaker 1: but I say that with some degree of trepidation. The
Speaker 1: ride stops at the at the Emmy's. I can assure
Speaker 1: you of that. That's pretty good. Yeah, absolutely, Daryl's clever.
Speaker 1: We know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd like to talk
Speaker 1: to Daryl. We gotta make that happen. We gotta get
Speaker 1: back on He needs to answer these calls, these male
Speaker 1: bad questions. We've done it once before. We got to
Speaker 1: do it again. That we can. But we can get
Speaker 1: that done, all right. Well, listen, Daryl Morey and myself,
Speaker 1: we were not the only people coming to the defense
Speaker 1: of Ben Simmons, maybe not even defense, but pumping up
Speaker 1: Ben after his efforts in Game two. I'm so excited
Speaker 1: for the six series. You know. The only thing that
Speaker 1: I'm there is about right now that the Hawks are
Speaker 1: a much better team than I thought that they were
Speaker 1: going to be, and just their potential to get hot
Speaker 1: like we've seen really, you know, has me a bit concerned.
Speaker 1: But seeing the defensive matchups yesterday, seeing the Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: is willing to change that up put Ben Simmons on
Speaker 1: Trey Young, you know, continue his pattern of trapping. I
Speaker 1: think that really, you know, really made a huge difference.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that I'm tired of was just
Speaker 1: the Ben Simmons slander. You know, the guy's gone out,
Speaker 1: He's had a great playoff so far, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like all we end up talking about day in
Speaker 1: and day out because that Ben Simmons doesn't do this.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons doesn't do that. The guy's out there winning
Speaker 1: ball games. He's out there doing everything he can to
Speaker 1: help the team win. And I would love to see
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons get more praised for what he's doing on
Speaker 1: this team. No secret that I agree wholeheartedly with that statement.
Speaker 1: I think that in some cases, Sixers fans, basketball fans
Speaker 1: in general, are prone to be pretty harsh about what
Speaker 1: guys don't do on the court and what I would prefer.
Speaker 1: If you're going to be harsh, that's fine, that's part
Speaker 1: of being a fan. But what I want, and I've
Speaker 1: said this before, is that same energy when they do
Speaker 1: things well. If you're going to be upset with what
Speaker 1: Ben doesn't do, I'm gonna need you to come celebrate
Speaker 1: what he does do with the same If not greater
Speaker 1: energy because he does some things incredibly, incredibly well. He
Speaker 1: does a lot of things incredibly well. And I don't
Speaker 1: think the Sixers get to where they are today in
Speaker 1: this series, in this season without what Ben does extremely well,
Speaker 1: and I think we need to talk about it more period.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that certainly. Look at the stretch
Speaker 1: the Sixers played towards the end of the regular season
Speaker 1: without him. It was not pretty. How about this one.
Speaker 1: I need every Sixers fan out there to realize without
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, we're not winning that game last night. Without
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, we're not winning this series. Okay, I mean
Speaker 1: all this Ben Simmons slammed. There's got to stop. Please, please, please,
Speaker 1: for the love of God, to stop with the Ben
Speaker 1: Simmon slander. He brings so much more to the team
Speaker 1: than scoring. I mean, if people don't realize this, then
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys know basketball or if
Speaker 1: you're watching in a different sport, no clue, but you
Speaker 1: guys need to too with that Ben Simmons slander. All right,
Speaker 1: go Sixes. This is this is hardening to hear, just
Speaker 1: in the sense that it's the fan base coming to
Speaker 1: the defense of one of the most important players on
Speaker 1: the team. I know that, I know we do all
Speaker 1: the sunshine here, I get it. But I like this.
Speaker 1: I think this is this is encouraging to hear that
Speaker 1: we have a vocal crowd supporting a player rather than
Speaker 1: harping on things. And as someone who clearly enjoys myself,
Speaker 1: clearly enjoys this game, there are things from time to time,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a full game season where I don't
Speaker 1: like things that happen within a game, and that's just
Speaker 1: how it goes. But what the one thing that I
Speaker 1: love about what now you're hearing from the Philadelphia fan base,
Speaker 1: is this too speaking of the Ryan Clark Park and
Speaker 1: we can talk about them. You can't. Yes, that's it right,
Speaker 1: stay away from our this is this is family business. However, yes,
Speaker 1: this is family business. You're an outsider. Mind your business, right,
Speaker 1: And we don't like when others talk about We can
Speaker 1: talk about them, we can say whatever we want, we
Speaker 1: can discipline our wrong. It's done with love. It's done
Speaker 1: with love. But as soon as someone else from the
Speaker 1: outside starts to attack one of our own, then there's
Speaker 1: a problem. And that's what I love. From the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: fan base, because there is. That's exactly what we're seeing
Speaker 1: right now. There are games look fifteen and fifteen but
Speaker 1: only six points. They were a lot of people were
Speaker 1: not happy with that. The fact that I've been played
Speaker 1: a phenomenal defensive gaming game number two but only took
Speaker 1: three shots. There were people who not happy with that.
Speaker 1: But then they realized it was like, oh, Ryan Clark's
Speaker 1: coming at is no, no no, no no. Ben played well,
Speaker 1: Ben played well. It's all good. It's all good. So
Speaker 1: I love it. Keep it going, and Laren, you're right,
Speaker 1: there are so many games and self you mentioned at
Speaker 1: the four games at the towards the end of the
Speaker 1: regular season that it's you also witness how different the
Speaker 1: team is when he is not out there, and the
Speaker 1: good things that he does, and the fact that he
Speaker 1: face guarded a six one point guard for a lot
Speaker 1: of the time that he was out there, thirty plus
Speaker 1: minutes close to forty minutes that he was out there.
Speaker 1: That's not easy. That's not easy. And he did it.
Speaker 1: And let's see how much more he's taken on this
Speaker 1: person's challenge to do that. Now, the offense, that's the
Speaker 1: whole other thing. But for what he did, they won
Speaker 1: the game, two teams scored one hundred and eighteen points.
Speaker 1: People always have stuff to say about how many points
Speaker 1: Ben scores. The team is scoring enough points, and he's
Speaker 1: creating a heck of a lot of them. He does
Speaker 1: arrest the free throws. I acknowledge you'd like see a
Speaker 1: little bit more of there you can't can looked at.
Speaker 1: I think Ben would say the same thing too, which
Speaker 1: is why I'm bringing it up. But by and large,
Speaker 1: stay out of family business. Yes, I love that analogy.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great one, divine perfect right. We
Speaker 1: learned this week who the NBA's Most Valuable Player and
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year are. Hey, Brian feeling really
Speaker 1: confident in Joel and Benson's gone into this series here,
Speaker 1: Joel is just getting started. He's playing with the chip
Speaker 1: on his shoulder now that he wasn't the MVC. I
Speaker 1: think Benson is going to do the same thing Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year he was robbed. He's gonna show
Speaker 1: he can shut down the number one and try young
Speaker 1: and then he can get down load with Collins and coppellitives.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling really good. I think we've keep the momentum
Speaker 1: rolling here, especially with Shake Milton coming off the bench
Speaker 1: in the Naxie. I think they're gonna be key players
Speaker 1: here down the stretch. It's gonna be an exciting thing.
Speaker 1: Let's do this. What was the slight that's stuck with you? Well, slight, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, slight might not be fair. I
Speaker 1: think that Yokich worthy Gobert. You can make a case
Speaker 1: which seventy six er, Joe or Ben do you feel
Speaker 1: had the stronger case or one that you think about
Speaker 1: a little bit more, whether it was with how the
Speaker 1: voting turned out or just based on performance on the
Speaker 1: court to win one of the two awards that he
Speaker 1: was a finalist for. I'll go I think that Joel
Speaker 1: probably understands that the reason he didn't win the MVP
Speaker 1: was games played. Yohis played a ton of games, Joel
Speaker 1: missed some games. I think if they both play full seasons,
Speaker 1: Joel wins MVP. So to me, the bigger snub, if
Speaker 1: we're gonna say, we're gonna say snub, is definitely for Ben.
Speaker 1: I like what Danny Green said on his podcast Inside
Speaker 1: the Green Room that historically, Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: is an award that goes to a big man because
Speaker 1: of the statistical impact that you see nightly, that you
Speaker 1: see over the course of the season that shouldn't be
Speaker 1: understated or undervalued, but has historically been. What this award
Speaker 1: is based on what Danny said is in the modern NBA,
Speaker 1: someone that can guard one through five is more impressive.
Speaker 1: And whether or not those statistics come up the way
Speaker 1: that they do for a go bear, maybe we need
Speaker 1: to be reevaluating which statistics we're looking at, because if
Speaker 1: you look at someone like Ben Simmons and you tell
Speaker 1: me that after the way he's guarded Trey Young and
Speaker 1: big men alike, if you're telling me that that's not
Speaker 1: what a defensive player of the Year is, or at
Speaker 1: least the most valuable defensive player in the league is,
Speaker 1: I totally disagree, and so hearing Danny say the way
Speaker 1: that he said it, Obviously Danny and I both biased
Speaker 1: in Ben's favor, but I think that he has something
Speaker 1: worth noting there. I get how the statistics make a
Speaker 1: case for go bet. They will continue to if he
Speaker 1: continues playing this way. But if Ben continues playing the
Speaker 1: way that he's been playing, he's certainly the most valuable
Speaker 1: defender in the League, and it's just a matter of
Speaker 1: if that's the award or not. I agree with Lauren
Speaker 1: on this one that the game's miss you can kind
Speaker 1: of understand why it went the way it did, unfortunately
Speaker 1: for Joel Embi. Quite frankly, I'm a little happy at
Speaker 1: this stage knowing that it happened because he is the
Speaker 1: one that I believe that would definitely use it as
Speaker 1: fuel going forward. But as far as as far as
Speaker 1: to the question of which one, I think it is
Speaker 1: Simmons because of exactly what Green laid out, the one
Speaker 1: through five versatility and how he does it, the amount
Speaker 1: of minutes that he plays, the fact that he doesn't
Speaker 1: he's not fatigued, and all of that, and let's highlight
Speaker 1: the one game that he had when they decided, oh,
Speaker 1: Simmons doesn't do anything offensively, let's play a center on him.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the center happens to be a
Speaker 1: two time Defensive Player of the Year and Simmons goes
Speaker 1: out there and give him forty two points. So I
Speaker 1: look at this one and the modern NBA thing plays
Speaker 1: a big part of it, and that's not the slightest
Speaker 1: center because there are times where we probably thought Joel
Speaker 1: Embies should have won the award as well, but for
Speaker 1: this seventy two game regular season, and which the seventy
Speaker 1: six is worth at the top of the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: the same way that the Utah Jazz were the top
Speaker 1: of the way, basically from front to back for both teams,
Speaker 1: I thought Simmons was deserving of that. They were both
Speaker 1: deserving of the award. I actually thought Simmons should have
Speaker 1: won it, but I knew what the ultimate outcome would be,
Speaker 1: which is now Rudy Goberton being a three time Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. So I do hope he uses
Speaker 1: as fuel like I believe in b would. I do
Speaker 1: not feel like I'm qualified enough to be worthy of
Speaker 1: a vote to cast in these types of ballots. I
Speaker 1: feel like they should go to season to astute minds,
Speaker 1: people who have been around a while, who know this,
Speaker 1: who talk to people, get solid information, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So when I'm looking at this, I take my cues
Speaker 1: from what I hear coaches and players say and read
Speaker 1: what coaches and players say, and I think for me
Speaker 1: throughout the season and especially more recently as the year
Speaker 1: round down and also now in the playoffs, you hear
Speaker 1: and see the opposing coaches talking about how incredibly versatile
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons is on defense, and I would love to
Speaker 1: see what the vote would have been if coaches had
Speaker 1: cast their ballots for this, how the awards would have
Speaker 1: turned out. I still think it would have turned out
Speaker 1: the same, most likely for MVP that Yokis would have
Speaker 1: gotten it. I think it would have been a much
Speaker 1: much tighter race, if not a different result. Head coaches
Speaker 1: voted for Defensive Player of the Year between Ben and Gobert,
Speaker 1: So that is what I will say to that. And
Speaker 1: just because it feels topical, kind of wild to see
Speaker 1: Clint Capella get more Defensive Player of the Year votes
Speaker 1: than Joel Embiide, especially this week while we're watching them
Speaker 1: go head to head. That was maybe the thing I
Speaker 1: was most I thought my eyebrows were kind of gonna
Speaker 1: detach from my forehead when I saw that one can't
Speaker 1: have two centers in the top five, No, no, has
Speaker 1: to go to one. Now look Simmons will be on
Speaker 1: the first team All Team Defense, as he should, and
Speaker 1: that's a great accomplishment. Again, but I thought the award, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it would go to Simmons this year. Well,
Speaker 1: I thought he was again worthy of the choice, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it, no databout and I agree. I hope
Speaker 1: that this is just a source of motivation and a
Speaker 1: cause for these guys to rally even further and prove
Speaker 1: everyone wrong as soon as Friday, when the Sixers and
Speaker 1: Hawks do it up in Atlanta for a Game three, Listen,
Speaker 1: we got it. I'm the same Big Ben Simmons, the
Speaker 1: guy we gotta win. They's next two a HL and
Speaker 1: in the series Canadas team hang around. Gotta beat them
Speaker 1: yea and get some rest for the ECF because that's
Speaker 1: our goal gets to the East Ees, win that in
Speaker 1: goose to the finals. So we got to beat this
Speaker 1: team quick. I agree with the sentiment you do not
Speaker 1: want to let the Hawks hang around. I think I've
Speaker 1: seen enough, at least at this point in time to
Speaker 1: believe they are going to hang around. Not saying the
Speaker 1: Sixers can't end it in three games starting on Friday,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's going to be easy. So
Speaker 1: my original prediction before this series was Sixers and six
Speaker 1: because I respect what Atlanta had done since the coaching change,
Speaker 1: what they did and dismantling New York Knicks in round
Speaker 1: one and believing that looking at their depth overall, the
Speaker 1: amount of shooters that they had, and of course the
Speaker 1: star player like Trey Young, that they were worthy of
Speaker 1: winning a game or two against the seventy sixers. Now,
Speaker 1: a bit of a like Lauren, how you like to
Speaker 1: say the benchmarks and you know, see see where things are.
Speaker 1: I was. I was happy with how they responded after
Speaker 1: game one, round round one, I mean part of the
Speaker 1: game one. Of course we didn't like the result. Started
Speaker 1: off well in game two and then it kind of
Speaker 1: went away. But they responded again to what the coach
Speaker 1: decided to throw at them in the locker room. Now
Speaker 1: let's see how they respond going on the road, hostile
Speaker 1: environment on a Friday night in Atlanta where it's going
Speaker 1: to be a tough place to play, and listening to
Speaker 1: that crowd from the watching the television during round one,
Speaker 1: they really get into it. So how are they going
Speaker 1: to respond in that spot? And that's to the caller's point,
Speaker 1: this is what it's all about and becoming a champion.
Speaker 1: I don't and Doc Rivers is told, with all due
Speaker 1: respected to call other, the point that the caller made
Speaker 1: a ECF is the goal. ECF is not the goal
Speaker 1: if you listen to Doc Rivers and the players, the
Speaker 1: goal as a championship. So that's just another step to
Speaker 1: where they need to be. Now this is another small
Speaker 1: step but kind of big and going on the road
Speaker 1: and not as you said, so us letting this team
Speaker 1: hang around and letting that crowd really uplift their team
Speaker 1: and get get to where they want to go again.
Speaker 1: So a very huge, huge weekend for the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. All right, looking ahead games three a little
Speaker 1: bit more. We saw the seventy six ers adjusting Game two.
Speaker 1: What might the Hawks do in Game three? Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is David and a six Ers fan living in Boston,
Speaker 1: for whatever that might be worth. You know, last night
Speaker 1: was working two is clearly evident that this team is
Speaker 1: going to win, like getting stops and scoring officially in
Speaker 1: getting to a line. It's going to be tough for
Speaker 1: them make it to the next tiunt against the Nets.
Speaker 1: But that's a formula to win it the thickest. It
Speaker 1: knows what they're going to get from the bench. Thank you, formula.
Speaker 1: We have a formula. But I think everyone agrees. But
Speaker 1: the Hawks showed even more than getting a win in
Speaker 1: game one, and then I think they showed again in
Speaker 1: Game two when they took the lead eighty seventy nine.
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna be irritants. I don't think they'll go
Speaker 1: quickly or quietly. It's going to be a challenge either way.
Speaker 1: It definitely is going to be a challenge. With the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks, they felt like when you give them the
Speaker 1: whole coin advantage and they feel like knowing that the
Speaker 1: team plays so well on their home floor and they
Speaker 1: take game one and do it in the manner in
Speaker 1: which they did by making twenty a franchise record, playoff
Speaker 1: record twenty three pointers, they have to feel good about themselves.
Speaker 1: I mean, the job is always going the road. At
Speaker 1: least get a split and you feel good, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that they do so. Again, Let's see what the
Speaker 1: Sixers do. Let's see how they respond to what's in
Speaker 1: front of them with now this confidence at Lant's coming
Speaker 1: in with nothing on their shoulders, no pressure, just go
Speaker 1: out there and play basketball. And the pressure is on
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers. And if you're going to be a champion,
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to face some adversity and once you
Speaker 1: do what you do in Game three, then you can
Speaker 1: feel a little bit at ease, but not take your
Speaker 1: foot off your gas, off the gas for game four,
Speaker 1: come back home next week and close it out in
Speaker 1: game five. I love the swing factor swing games in series.
Speaker 1: There are a couple. They could usually be games threes
Speaker 1: or game fives, but I love those propositions, the chance
Speaker 1: to swing the momentum of a series. Let's had a
Speaker 1: couple of points about the Sixers last right. I mean,
Speaker 1: Indeed's playing like v Pig. You know, he wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: get it to get place sixty games, but he's an
Speaker 1: MVP top three player in the NBA right now. I
Speaker 1: think people need to give the sentens all a break
Speaker 1: about how he shot the bootball or lack of shooting
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, but he completely shot down for the
Speaker 1: most part, Trey. What's the Sixers needing because they don't
Speaker 1: really have anyone that can stop that shooting point guard.
Speaker 1: And it was nice to see Shake kind of get
Speaker 1: out of this shell and finally start scoring for Sixers
Speaker 1: because nobody on the bench wanting the score the other night.
Speaker 1: But I really like how they're playing, and I'll see
Speaker 1: we can keep it going. Just Sixers. Lauren what do
Speaker 1: you expect to see from Trey Young in game three?
Speaker 1: Because obviously lots of people are going to look to
Speaker 1: him and be like, Okay, we saw what happened second
Speaker 1: half Game one, we saw what happen throughout Game two.
Speaker 1: A little bit of pressure for him to regain the
Speaker 1: form that we saw first half of Game one and
Speaker 1: what he showed throughout that Nick series. Can he recapture
Speaker 1: some of that? I'm gonna answer your question with a question.
Speaker 1: I think it depends on what are the Sixers going
Speaker 1: to do on defense? Can the Sixers replicate what they
Speaker 1: did defensively in Game two? If they can, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it matters what type of confidence or game
Speaker 1: Trey Young brings into Game three. Because of just how
Speaker 1: well Ben Simmons was able to take a challenge, accept
Speaker 1: a challenge, and rise to the occasion, it was really
Speaker 1: cool to watch. I'm looking forward to that matchup again.
Speaker 1: I know everybody is Trey Young. We know there's no
Speaker 1: shortage of confidence there, there's no shortage of talent there.
Speaker 1: But as Color two colors Ago said, there's a formula
Speaker 1: now and if the Sixers can stick to it, as
Speaker 1: long as they're also producing on the offensive end. I
Speaker 1: like their chances. We're hearing thoughts, feelings, people's emotional state, temper,
Speaker 1: your checks going into game number three of this series. Hey, Brian,
Speaker 1: this is Steve calling in. I just wanted to say,
Speaker 1: six Ers and five, I'm not afraid of the Hawks.
Speaker 1: Game one didn't worry mean at all. We saw Game
Speaker 1: two the better team war them out by the end
Speaker 1: of the game. Hawks are going to be no problem.
Speaker 1: I love the content you guys put out and we
Speaker 1: just appreciate you. Trust the process. Listen, we're just happy
Speaker 1: if you call and leave voicemails. You don't, it's not
Speaker 1: a prerequisite that you you maybe maybe you give us
Speaker 1: a nice, warm, fuzzy we'll certainly take them, acknowledge them,
Speaker 1: but not a not a prerequisite, but we do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So Stephen, there's no problem Hawks. This thing's over. I'd
Speaker 1: like to agree. I don't know that I can. I
Speaker 1: try to. I try not to get too high or
Speaker 1: too low. But that does sound nice and it does
Speaker 1: sound possible to me. Um, Like you said, Selts, game
Speaker 1: three is big. Game three is a swing game. I
Speaker 1: think if the Sixers get Game three, well, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously they have to get game three in order to
Speaker 1: win in five. But I do think that if they
Speaker 1: get Game three boat that boats in the favor of
Speaker 1: a much shorter series. So I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 1: this one. I think, in particular, d that if the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers use a similar blueprint and they're able to
Speaker 1: win game three, that is, amongst other things, Joel dominates
Speaker 1: in Atlanta again cannot come up with an answer for him,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers frustrate Trey Young. I think if those
Speaker 1: two things happen again and the Sixers win Game three,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get real interesting in game four, because then
Speaker 1: I think the Sixers will have shown signs of having
Speaker 1: found the code to crack that situation, and they have
Speaker 1: the personnel to back it up. Sure, you figure it out,
Speaker 1: and like we mentioned a little while ago, when with
Speaker 1: a series that scheduled for seven games, the adjustments. We
Speaker 1: know what the players, of course are about and what
Speaker 1: they're trying to do, but it's also the chess game
Speaker 1: between the two head coaches and the coaching staffs and
Speaker 1: how to figure out these little things. And they may
Speaker 1: have witnessed in the first two games. So one punch
Speaker 1: the other one punched back. It's even now, how do
Speaker 1: we respond? And I think the formula, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: sels is and this is what I've talked about a
Speaker 1: lot with the team in general, and why I thought
Speaker 1: they were winning six and was because number one, you
Speaker 1: have the best player in the series and Joel and
Speaker 1: b clearly and they have no answer for him. On
Speaker 1: the other side, Trey Young is as good as he is,
Speaker 1: he's still a young player and this is new to him,
Speaker 1: and you do have someone who can defend him, not
Speaker 1: just one but two. Now you may not stop him,
Speaker 1: you can contain them. And if you do that, all right,
Speaker 1: do you limit enough from the others where they're not
Speaker 1: hurting you as much where the end result is a
Speaker 1: loss for the seventy sixers. And I think if I
Speaker 1: look at it that way, once again, the Sixers have
Speaker 1: the advantage with that because of the overall team that
Speaker 1: I think they are, which I still believe they are
Speaker 1: the better one. So if they do that can be
Speaker 1: dominant self to your point, defensively, that's what they rely
Speaker 1: on to win games anyway, then they are in a
Speaker 1: very good spot. In Game number three, and then the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks or in their heels at that point in
Speaker 1: game four. All Right, I think we're gonna end this
Speaker 1: if I have the right voicemail queued up on a
Speaker 1: somewhat obscure note. But I do need some assistance and
Speaker 1: helping arbitrate this situation, and I will turn to the
Speaker 1: two of you I trusted podcasting partners in crime. Hey, Brian,
Speaker 1: i's a go man. My name is Luke, Huge Sixers
Speaker 1: saying here, definitely listen to your podcast. I love the
Speaker 1: kind of five minute updates that you guys have been
Speaker 1: doing here. I actually I'm the guy who created the
Speaker 1: thrust the Process graphic that you may have seen on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I've kind of been putting it out. I also had
Speaker 1: it at a game one time, says behind the Sixers bench,
Speaker 1: And it's sort of the phrase thrust the Process as
Speaker 1: sort of taken off sense. So keep up the good work.
Speaker 1: I heard just sending out swag. That's true. I'd appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thrust the Process. Now listen, I think what we need
Speaker 1: to arbitrate here. I feel like I saw that. I
Speaker 1: feel like I saw that in a couple of places
Speaker 1: the fifth quarter. Our friends over the fifth quarter um
Speaker 1: posted that T shirt out there in the logo and
Speaker 1: the graphic. Luke claims to be the mind behind it.
Speaker 1: From one swag person, do we hook him up with
Speaker 1: some swag? Well, when did he? When did he come
Speaker 1: up with this this thrust? The process, we'd have to
Speaker 1: do a deeper dive on that. That would, yeah, true,
Speaker 1: Luke explain that. But after which thrust right was the
Speaker 1: first thrust that we saw this season in Orlando. It
Speaker 1: was the first thrust. I think it was, yeah, because
Speaker 1: that's when we were like, oh, that's weird, new and
Speaker 1: and now it's become a thing. So um, I agree
Speaker 1: with Lauren swag them up. I think we have to
Speaker 1: swag them up. We're in the giving spirit here. We've
Speaker 1: done this before nothing else. I love. I love fan engagement,
Speaker 1: fan art, fan memes, fan graphics, I love all of it.
Speaker 1: So of course, of course we gotta get the swag.
Speaker 1: That's right. The culture we're trying to promote here is
Speaker 1: if you call the podline and you put yourself out there.
Speaker 1: Not everyone's doing it. People do it. Hey, you know
Speaker 1: what we support that put yourself out there? He is
Speaker 1: the question comment take or U a four to one
Speaker 1: one that you're behind a great little slogan surrounding one
Speaker 1: of the new signature moves of one of the best
Speaker 1: basketball players on the planet. Okay, we can reward that.
Speaker 1: Here's a slogan that I've been waiting for since the
Speaker 1: middle of the season. I guess. Well, actually, no, pretty
Speaker 1: much at the beginning of the season, when we knew
Speaker 1: that this team was very good, the record would be solid.
Speaker 1: This this swag has to be stay with me morning,
Speaker 1: six of fans and six of fans only. Uh, where's
Speaker 1: that T shirt? Selves? Well, listen, you can make that one,
Speaker 1: and I'll make Jake Tapper engage us with my content,
Speaker 1: and then we can go into business. Hey, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying far reaching, it really is. I know that we're
Speaker 1: not doing video on this one, but if we were,
Speaker 1: I would just put my mic down and see myself
Speaker 1: out nothing. I have nothing to add. We'll just need
Speaker 1: our creative director, Lauren to give us the sign off
Speaker 1: and licensing for that. That's right. Yes, we were going
Speaker 1: to put Lauren Rosannut on the bottom of the T shirt,
Speaker 1: but you know, good morning, six of fans and six
Speaker 1: of fans. As long as I'm getting ten percent, it's fine.
Speaker 1: Do whatever you're going You gotta ask for more ten
Speaker 1: percent please, yes, all right, I don't have to come
Speaker 1: back to the counter, but gotta go. Gras look forward
Speaker 1: to it. Guys, we're gonna clap it up. Great mail bag,
Speaker 1: great awesome. Thank you everyone for submitting, for calling, for
Speaker 1: breaking the podline and forcing us to go in, clear
Speaker 1: out some old messages and fix it. If we played
Speaker 1: your voicemail again, we appreciate it. We'll be in touch.
Speaker 1: You will hear from myself most likely to get your information.
Speaker 1: If you do not leave it to send you some
Speaker 1: gear and some merch, we'll do it again at some
Speaker 1: point next week. Just keep filming the podline two and
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Speaker 1: enjoy Game three. See you, guys, see you.