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Say the Name"] Say

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when it was wrong, we were right.

1:30

We was right, y'all, we were right.

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So say the name. Say the names. We

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say the name. Say the name. I say

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the name. I

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say the name. I say the name. Welcome

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to the Rights Ricky Sanchez Podcast. I'm Spike

2:13

Eskin along with a guy who knows a

2:15

little something about heat culture. That

2:17

is Mike Levin. And Darrell said

2:19

that a team with Joel and seven

2:22

Nick Patumes wouldn't win. Yeah, a team

2:24

with Joel and seven Nick Patumes would

2:26

win by 35. What

2:28

the fuck? What a game. Awful

2:32

game. It's the best though.

2:34

A horrendous game. But the best. It's

2:36

the disgusting game. But the best.

2:39

I just... Look, let's start talking about

2:41

Nick Patumes and then we can get to the zone.

2:44

But like just a ridiculous amount of

2:46

shot making and play making and timely

2:48

defense. Bro, how about the dunk? How

2:50

about the dunk that didn't even count?

2:53

The dunk that didn't even count was

2:55

great. Unbelievable. It's

2:57

on BAM. That was a poster on BAM

3:00

after the whistle was blown. Look, the

3:02

defense was unbelievable. You

3:04

put him on hero who started to get hot in the

3:06

fourth quarter and he forces the

3:08

back court just pressure wise and then blocks the

3:10

three to tie it because he's long and he

3:12

gets his quick feet. Those quick Isaiah Pacheco feet,

3:15

lightest Isaiah Pacheco feet a Frenchman has ever

3:17

had. And man, those threes

3:19

were big. He started hitting it against the zone that sort

3:22

of opened things up. I thought he

3:24

was pretty indecisive as a shooter in the first half

3:26

and then that was all gone in the second. He

3:28

was sick. He got a rest from three.

3:31

He was, he knew he was hot. He

3:33

knew it was hot. He was starting to tack off the

3:35

dribble. 20 points a career high season high.

3:38

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. The

3:41

reverse put back off the maxi

3:43

miss was huge. His timing on

3:45

cuts and offensive rebounds was always really, it was always, has always

3:47

been so good on this team. And

3:50

in the game, the fact that it was this

3:52

game when he had a couple two really bad

3:54

turnovers, one of which was on an inbound pass

3:57

is just so

3:59

many. likely things. And this is what the playoffs are

4:01

all about. Like guys stepping

4:03

up and having big moments and fucking

4:06

Nick Batoon where they acquired a

4:08

couple games into the season, having this moment to put

4:10

them over the top. Ridiculous

4:12

shot making necessary defense,

4:15

two way play, some

4:18

offensive rebound tap backs. I

4:20

love, I love them. I love them. What a validating

4:22

thing this is. I'm so, I'm so

4:24

happy about Nick Batoon, man. Fuck. He's got to stay here

4:27

forever. Well, CJ, play the music, play the

4:29

fucking French music. Play it,

4:31

play it, play it. Louder. Not

4:36

so much pump up music. Yeah, we

4:38

knew you wanted to be

4:40

tired, but you must play

4:42

at least one more year

4:44

with the Tyrese Maxie and Joelle and

4:46

B that win many playoff games. I

4:49

can't say it's not offensive, it's not my place to

4:51

say it, but it is still better than I expect

4:53

every time. Really

4:55

better than I expect. All right. Massive

4:57

dude, just massive. I don't have anything

5:00

else to say about Nick Batoon other

5:02

than it was

5:05

indicative. It was

5:08

so interesting, right? Because one

5:10

thing that Daryl said last night when

5:12

we, when we talked to him and something

5:15

that I think we believed was that we

5:18

thought the Sixers would be a little bit better without

5:20

Joelle this year. You know, they weren't

5:22

very good at all. And I think

5:26

we believed in the players on the

5:28

team, on the role players, but I

5:30

did not have it

5:33

in me to believe that Joelle

5:35

and Maxie could have the games

5:37

that they had. Both pretty bad

5:39

games. Just excruciating. I mean,

5:42

Joelle came up pretty big down the

5:44

stretch, I thought, but, but overall a

5:46

terrible game. Maxie looked just terrified the

5:49

entire time. I just didn't think

5:51

any of these guys aside from

5:53

like a campaign scorcher or

5:56

something where he hit seven threes or

5:58

same with buddy healed had the ability

6:00

to just lift them up and

6:03

Batoom along with Oobre

6:05

along with Paul Reed along

6:07

with Kyle Lowry along with

6:09

look healed it has clearly

6:11

has the hips but and

6:14

smoked a fucking layup that I can't

6:16

believe you smoke but played hard and

6:19

and went after it like the rest

6:21

of the team buddy healed buddy healed

6:24

the dribble penetration attacking closeouts even

6:26

when his shots doesn't go in him

6:28

taking those shots and then attacking those

6:30

closeouts he had six assists in this

6:32

game buddy healed he threw a lot

6:34

of to be ball Paul which fine I was

6:37

begging begging screaming zone was pushing them so far

6:39

up you got to beat him back door or

6:41

something you got to beat him over the top

6:43

and then buddy being the one to do it he's

6:46

obviously not that fast but just the leverage

6:48

of his shot allowed him to attack the

6:50

basket he had a couple finishes obviously he

6:52

smoked that layup that was so bad but

6:54

his dribble penetration in the third quarter really

6:56

really turned this game and he did have

6:58

a he has some good defensive plays on

7:00

ball he's just like Tobias he is a

7:02

terrible off-ball defender atrocious so bad but on

7:04

ball he can hang in there sometimes he

7:06

had a great possession on hero and then

7:08

after the possession he smoked the layup but

7:11

everybody everybody contributed everybody was

7:14

both fully to

7:16

blame in the first

7:18

half yeah and then also like fully

7:20

contributed to this victory all nine guys

7:22

that plays just grinded dude and and

7:24

and can I say like

7:26

just putting putting

7:29

my cards out on the table lay my eye

7:33

over the last few years I on some

7:36

level have felt a little

7:38

emotionally disconnected from the

7:41

playoff games just like with this sense of

7:43

dread that was always going to happen and

7:45

I don't know what happened with this game

7:47

but I was standing kicking stuff screaming

7:49

you hear my voice my voice is

7:52

shot my dogs were the dog and

7:54

the foster dog running upstairs my wife

7:56

asking me what the problem is screaming

7:58

pumping my fist Like to see the

8:01

other guys on the team Grind

8:03

away at this game now look it

8:05

helps that Miami has such trouble scoring

8:08

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8:10

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MB then that no inexplicable Like

9:48

to know that they were gonna play zone They

9:51

put this Miami team this Eric

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Sposer team plays zone more than

9:55

so much more than any other

9:57

team in the league And they all looked

10:00

so confused and so slow

10:02

and so disoriented by it.

10:04

They scored 39 points

10:06

in the first half. They scored 17 points

10:09

in the second quarter. Now they came out,

10:11

I did not expect them to come, the

10:13

way they looked, I was like, okay, maybe they have a little bit of a

10:15

punch in them. They come out in the third quarter and

10:18

they look still kind of weird. It didn't

10:20

seem like it was a hot start to

10:22

the third quarter. No. And they finished

10:24

with 30 points in the third, 36 in the

10:26

fourth. They did turn it

10:28

around and like, that's like gumption

10:30

and fucking integrity

10:33

that previous Sixers teams have

10:35

not had. To

10:38

win this game is a feat into itself. But

10:41

man, it really, really, it was a clunky

10:43

start for both teams. Maxie and Beat started

10:45

off with some of the worst misses they've

10:47

had all season. And by the way, Miami

10:49

is clunky. Like that's- Yes, they clunk you

10:51

up, absolutely. But like, it was

10:53

worse than, I thought it was just some playoff

10:56

jitters, like some, you know, your cold started off,

10:58

whatever. But then they

11:00

go to zone and it just got even more clunky. They

11:02

couldn't get the ball to Joel. Joel was just kind of

11:04

standing around a lot of the time. Sometimes

11:06

he would fight for position, but then other times

11:08

he would just stand on the three point line

11:10

and wait it out. They couldn't get threes off

11:12

quickly with Miami's length. Everybody started hesitating, everybody. Every

11:15

single player on the team was hesitating. You can

11:17

pick which one of your favorite guy you want

11:19

to get upset about, but it was every single

11:21

player on the team hesitating. The length and the

11:24

pressure bothering them. Too many slow decision makers, slow

11:26

shooters, on their

11:28

heels, walking the ball at the court, late

11:31

clock bullshit. Nobody willing to

11:33

drive through gaps in the zone. Like

11:35

they just kept, Miami just kept pushing them out and pushing

11:37

them out and turning them over. They turned the ball over

11:40

so many times in the first half. They only had, I

11:42

think they had 12 in the first half. They had three

11:44

the rest of the game. And

11:46

they were on ball. They were live ball turnovers to like

11:48

trigger fast breaks for Miami. They weren't

11:50

punishing them with a backdoor lob. It just seemed

11:53

like they couldn't get anywhere.

11:56

And then finally,

12:00

I Miami went away from the zone for a lot of

12:02

it. Maybe they thought that there was a I

12:04

honestly couldn't If

12:08

i'm coaching which I never would because i'm not a

12:10

coach But if i'm coaching and I

12:12

see the other team, this is not a seven game

12:14

series It's one game, right? So if they figure out

12:16

the zone by the end of the game who fucking

12:18

cares, right? You're not going to play them again in

12:21

the conference finals if you play them again. Yeah, I

12:23

was Stunned the Sixers had

12:25

not figured it out No, I was stunned

12:27

that they stopped. I would have just kept

12:29

doing it until Until it stopped

12:31

working. No reason not to I have no idea. I have

12:34

no idea what it was. Maybe maybe they were like the

12:37

When I play zone I expend more energy in

12:39

zone than I then I expend don't do it Don't do

12:41

it. Not nothing. Don't you fucking do it? And I spend

12:43

more energy in the zone than I do in a man

12:45

Because you're fucking running around so much and you're a man.

12:47

You can sort of just like travel with some guy But

12:49

in a zone you really are like a type four I

12:54

wonder if that's what it was especially with jimmy being banged

12:56

up I

13:01

will say this about mb'd though I

13:06

did not think he had the fourth quarter

13:08

in him No, I didn't

13:10

think I didn't think he had the fourth quarter in

13:12

him. I we were getting Looked

13:14

at depressed a little bit to me. Yeah, you're getting

13:18

Somebody called up wip today. We were doing the afternoon

13:20

show and he said i haven't been to a six-week

13:22

game in 20 years Tell me what to expect and

13:25

I said look if you see joel

13:27

turning it over walking slow up the

13:29

court in transition grabbing

13:31

at his knee Like not smiling.

13:33

I was like bad sign. They're gonna lose the

13:35

game. I was like you can tell almost immediately

13:38

So I will give joel credit for this He

13:41

looked atrocious in the first two and

13:43

a half quarters of the game everything

13:45

wrong literally everything But

13:48

forget he got bam and foul trouble It's always his

13:50

first thing is like get bam and foul trouble get

13:52

the opposing center and foul trouble and then like that's

13:54

that's the only scripted plays I have so

13:57

he He looked terrible

14:00

And and I'm not even addressing isn't me is not

14:02

the night. He's done this so many times. You can

14:04

never tell so I'm just taking it at face value.

14:06

He's playing it is what it is. Yeah, I

14:09

I Was shocked

14:12

because I thought and I tweeted

14:14

look the the runner going on is nice But

14:16

they will need something from Joe all their Tyreese to win

14:19

this game So I'll hit the

14:21

two threes those are big he hit the

14:23

and one in the lane huge finally finally

14:25

gets after an offensive rebound Yeah,

14:27

I mean it 15 rebounds, but this is one of the

14:29

more embarrassing Rebounding performances of Joe I was

14:32

clear I would say yeah, I don't know how he had 15 rebounds

14:34

But it was they kept rebounding around

14:36

him all the time Well, I thought his rebounds

14:38

came when he was on the periphery of the

14:40

scrum actually What would happen was there would be

14:42

three people under the basket? He'd be on the

14:44

outside and the ball would come to him, but

14:47

he hit the two threes He hit the end one.

14:49

He threw a couple of really sweet passes and he

14:52

he like He

14:54

had just he gave them just enough to get

14:56

them over the hump and All

15:00

I can hope is Whatever

15:05

Whatever block he had or like whatever

15:07

is going on in his head that

15:09

puts him in that Like

15:12

he's gonna get plenty of defensive pressure against

15:14

the Knicks of course. I Hope

15:17

that fourth quarter Got him

15:19

over that hump. It's not he's hit game-winning

15:21

shots before all that kind of stuff But

15:24

when you don't get it the

15:26

thing about being a superstar is when you

15:28

don't have it When

15:30

you literally don't have it you still

15:33

have to fucking dig deep and and

15:35

make plays Yeah, he dug deep and

15:37

he made plays and He

15:40

it was not a great game. You know I was saying

15:42

on the radio today I thought this was a legacy game

15:44

for him. It did not end up being that But

15:47

it was a I thought it was a meaningful game

15:49

for him with as bad as he played and that

15:51

he came through In the fourth quarter. Yeah, I mean

15:55

Best this is a game

15:57

six as we talked to Daryl about last

15:59

night But easily

16:02

the most impressive, advanced game

16:04

of his career. For

16:07

this team, I mean, for the six, the most

16:09

impressive opponent that they beat, even with Jimmy, you

16:12

know, banged up with whatever happened to his knee. Yeah,

16:17

those are big plays. Those threes were big

16:19

plays. We had talked about a lot over the last couple

16:22

weeks of the season when Joel came back from the injury

16:24

that he was taking more threes and taking them more confidently.

16:26

He was two of four from deep today. Those

16:29

two big threes in the fourth quarter were absolutely

16:31

massive. And then offensive rebound and put

16:33

back with the floater that he was working on all off

16:35

season and he got fouled. He was nine to 10 from

16:38

the line. That's obviously huge. But like- They

16:40

were great from the line overall tonight, by the way. Always,

16:42

have been all season. Yeah. Have been for the

16:44

past couple years. Like they are some of the best

16:46

foul shooting teams in the league and

16:49

that edge makes a difference

16:51

every time. So Joel's final line, 23

16:53

points, 15 boards, five assists- Five

16:56

assists were nice. Three turnovers. And

16:59

we'll talk about it when we get to Kelly, but like that

17:01

passed to Ubre underneath when he sealed him

17:04

on Jimmy and got an M1 on it.

17:06

That was the game winner pretty much. Yeah.

17:08

A huge pass, a huge gutsy play to

17:10

make in that moment. But

17:13

then B just didn't have it, man. Like

17:15

a couple of those plays aside, which were great,

17:17

but like he draws two fouls on

17:19

Bam and then they bring Kevin Love in, which I

17:22

think is the worst matchup for Joel. Yeah,

17:24

but he can't post them up. He

17:28

can't post them up or he can face up

17:30

and he scored a couple of times on them with little ducks, but they're just gonna

17:32

send bodies at him. I

17:35

would rather Bam be out there who

17:38

thinks he can cover Joel one-on-one than

17:40

have the bodies being thrown at Joel when he's

17:42

not feeling comfortable and he doesn't know where the

17:44

bodies are coming from. And on defense, like Joel

17:46

just does not get out on shooters. No, he

17:48

won't do it. He just stares at him. He

17:50

just stares at him and they scored a lot

17:53

on those. Kevin Love was a plus 11 in 17

17:55

minutes because they

17:57

just got a bunch of threes. when

18:00

they're playing five out. And he's not

18:02

comfortable doing that. He's, even when he's fully healthy,

18:04

he's not comfortable doing that. Luckily

18:07

the Knicks don't really have a, you

18:09

know, between Isaiah Hartenstein and Michelle Robinson,

18:11

like they don't

18:13

have that as an option. That's why it's kind of nice that

18:15

they're not playing Milwaukee at least. Cause Brooke

18:18

Lopez would have eaten them up again. But

18:20

he just

18:22

didn't have it all game and he was loose with the

18:24

basketball. He turned it over twice on one possession and then

18:26

left Kevin Love open on a wide open three. They

18:29

go to zone, once they go to zone, he

18:31

starts to back down from the nail and Jimmy

18:33

darts from the blind side and picks his pocket.

18:35

Like he's just gotta know that that's coming. Marcus

18:38

Smart has done that to him. So many playoffs,

18:40

so many playoffs, Marcus Smart has done that and so has

18:42

Jimmy. And they couldn't get the ball to the

18:44

zone. And then when he got the ball to him, he was missing

18:46

bunnies and stuff. He had

18:49

a pretty cool slap outlet pass for a fast break. That's

18:51

about as good as I could say about it in the

18:53

first three quarters. It was a really,

18:56

really rough and beat game. I thought he

18:58

was moping around, he looks slow. They

19:01

take on his energy and the frustrating thing

19:03

is usually Maxi brings his own energy, but

19:05

Maxi didn't have that energy tonight for a

19:07

lot of it. And so everybody was just

19:10

like lackadaisically moving up the court. And

19:12

thank God that they pulled this out because it would have been

19:14

like a real, real, real, real reckoning if

19:16

they did not pull it out because you just can't,

19:19

you can't keep being this bad in the playoffs. You

19:21

can't keep blowing it. At halftime, I was doing this

19:23

podcast in my head. Like I

19:25

was, because I knew what the podcast was

19:27

going to be, I was wrong. And people are mentioning

19:29

in the chat, we have to give as a

19:33

vegan, this hurts me a little

19:35

bit, but we

19:38

have to give credit to what really got the

19:40

Sixers in the game and that

19:42

is breaking for chicken. Dude, those two missed

19:44

free throws is like a fucking crowd up.

19:47

This is the chicken game. I

19:49

would, you could call it the Poulet game, which is

19:51

chicken in French. Yes. Les

19:54

Poulet. Les Poulet, yep. Cause

19:57

Nick Ritum did it also, but Absolutely..

20:00

Woodley. Yet. Ticket and saved

20:02

it. Did say that right. Like only the

20:04

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chicken can't figure out

22:19

what maxi's deal was in this game

22:21

yeah just can't figure it looked

22:24

scared hate to say it but looks scared i

22:26

think just the zone like it just felt like

22:28

he was on his heel on his back foot

22:31

all night it was just like every so many everybody

22:33

to bias did this the most but like just like

22:35

waiting it seems like he was unwilling to pull from

22:37

deep i don't know if he just didn't feel right

22:39

he got he got like an elbow from jimmy early

22:42

on maybe that just sort of put

22:44

him into a weird head space that

22:46

he couldn't kind of turn it on as much

22:48

he finally did like he hits a contested floater

22:50

to bust his own some some

22:53

movement with dho with joel getting to

22:55

score and iso has a little step

22:57

back there finally attacks butler in

22:59

isolation and scores at the rim i

23:01

would have wanted him if he was

23:03

right to go at jimmy's knee like

23:05

a fucking wrestling heel like absolutely attack

23:07

that same knee every time go to

23:09

make him slide that fucking feet take

23:12

a goddamn chair to that knee

23:14

if it takes i don't care i would

23:16

want to fusci out with the you know

23:18

absolutely some salt some salt in the knee

23:20

um yeah i mean you

23:22

there was one there were a couple plays that maxi made

23:24

were still pretty impressive like the fact that he can turn the

23:26

corner and get that ball up quickly as we've talked about onto

23:29

the backboard he had a couple um forced

23:32

a couple goal tens there were a

23:34

couple plays on on jimmy and then

23:36

on bam where those guys block this

23:38

play every time and maxi got

23:40

it up too fast and got it in and it was and that's

23:42

what he can do but man

23:45

he just looked like he was waiting

23:47

for other guys to do stuff and that just

23:49

has not been the case no at all for

23:51

the for the Last two

23:53

seasons, but especially lately, especially the last month or

23:55

so. And and dude, you know what it reminds

23:58

me of a little bit is the. I'm.

24:00

Not saying it's the same things better. it reminds

24:02

me of that. the winning the sixteen games at

24:04

the end of the year, you know. Five years

24:07

ago and and then I was sending us the

24:09

playoffs. And it's a different world of seven years

24:11

set. Oh My. God. Seven years ago. But we

24:13

are. So how have we been doing this podcast

24:15

for Eleven years They've been. They've been in the

24:18

playoffs for a higher percentage of this podcast than

24:20

they have been. Like.

24:22

During the press impossible they thanks

24:24

for ten years the be. A

24:27

delight Maxis I was I was looking for him I

24:29

was like during the blitz them and they did the

24:31

other borders and sometimes I want to see more of

24:33

that of like oh you're in a with Massey what

24:35

we have joy and like you have the that you

24:37

can't. You. Can't play with. Seven.

24:40

Guys on the cover for somebody going to be

24:42

open and I was waiting to see what max

24:44

he did okay blitz and to get the ball

24:46

in his hands. Can you find the open guy

24:48

before My name is quick. Defense rotates and one

24:50

time we find Lowery on the wing when he

24:52

has a three and then every other time it

24:54

was just like he's not make be wasn't punishing

24:56

them, he wasn't punishing them for sending multiple guys

24:58

adam know and maybe was just the personnel like

25:00

Miami just as they just did. The zone is

25:03

good, like they have a lot of. Flexibility

25:05

to with are bending as a getaway to

25:07

fuck up man he's gonna never thought everybody

25:09

dead and and if I'm if I'm Tom

25:11

Thibodeau who's very stubborn man and I and

25:13

I haven't checked to see how much the

25:15

next played zone but I would absolutely throw

25:17

some zone against the Sixers if if you're

25:19

New York. Yeah, no reason not to try

25:22

to see if they can. Slow.

25:24

Down Slow down. some dribble handle stuff for the

25:26

maxi make everybody like think about it They have

25:28

the similar you know you can imagine josh Hearts

25:30

or Jail and Brunson. Picking. And

25:32

beat pocket on the blind side and doing the exact same

25:34

thing that immediate. They. Just gotta figure

25:36

it out. And it is disappointing from the coaching

25:38

staff and from the players that. There. Wasn't

25:41

more of an attack plan. Everybody seems

25:43

like. They. Were just so scared and

25:45

and once again somebody mentions on twitter and

25:47

and we said this format like. Month.

25:50

It's the like the six or suchlike is

25:52

nine seconds long and Miami South hikers like

25:54

fifty five will decide Now this. On

25:56

a debt Can I tell you One of

25:58

the things is with like no more crossing

26:00

the the center court line at sixteen your

26:03

skin all of the court and i think

26:05

part of that has dwells conditioning or he

26:07

wasn't he was right like he just wasn't

26:09

in gonna say and maybe he said a

26:11

plate and that Brooklyn game. There's.

26:13

Gotta be a way to get him and

26:15

get better shape during the during practice. Whatever.

26:17

Like maybe he's just not right. Maybe Did

26:19

really tweak as the pretty bad and in

26:21

that I'm in Orlando game. But.

26:24

Like. Gotta. Figure out a

26:26

way to to play without him. I thought the ball

26:28

was finds and a if to well wasn't. Wasn't

26:31

himself, which he definitely was an eye when the plate.

26:33

I'm thirty eight minutes. Not because. I. Must

26:35

say had a remote him getting hurt and as

26:37

because I don't think he was effective there were tons

26:40

of my gamer I was like I just think

26:42

people would be more effective. At least he can switch

26:44

everything. feeble. had good minutes to napa my given

26:46

it's him as still less. How about will bring. I.

26:49

Am proud to have switched to being Tell You A

26:51

Re Guy Have you been. Proud.

26:53

To do it, He just. It's.

26:58

So funny that indeed en masse he

27:00

looks like their heads were out of

27:02

it tonight. But you have here at

27:05

list of guys that are not fucking

27:07

scared. Kelly Array. The

27:09

tomb obviously campaign not fucking scattered the

27:11

up. He just isn't mad as he

27:13

freaky. Three minutes, three points where the

27:16

best shot was a killer he an

27:18

hour he speaks German based on the

27:20

corner file our A not scared at

27:22

all Tobias Harris the should be sent

27:24

to the moon but but but they

27:26

do have but but who bray to

27:28

to talk about who breaks which is

27:31

like you look at the stat line

27:33

and sought super impressive. but he was

27:35

aggressive in the times when they needed

27:37

him to be aggressive and. He

27:39

just like. an end

27:41

to his credit and it was exactly

27:43

what i did not expect from him

27:45

is that he played like team basketball

27:47

he played winning basketball tonight they have

27:49

to be me winning plays he played

27:51

hard he was on the ground he

27:53

drove when he needed to and he

27:55

wasn't selfish this was this was not

27:57

like about getting buckets for boob rate

28:00

It was like he played a winning basketball game. I

28:02

thought I love it I did think

28:04

he played a pretty bad first half, but as did everybody

28:06

but he had a Finally attacks the

28:08

basket and scored in the second half when that's

28:10

the thing is like You just

28:12

need guys to attack the gaps

28:14

in the zone and so much of the zone is like

28:16

yes You have to pass through it. Yes, you have to

28:18

flash high and see if you can move

28:21

the ball before it But faster than the defense can

28:23

move but you also have to attack when they're sliding

28:25

over you have to attack that that leg that they're

28:28

Escaping when they're moving that leg

28:30

you got a fucking attack that leg and move a finally did

28:32

and he took the ball in And he scored over Kevin Love

28:34

a couple times. That was really nice They

28:40

really the zone is the zone is really driving me

28:42

crazy that they that they weren't doing a better job

28:44

But well, it's not that duck in with her Yeah

28:46

Well, it's funny people were like mad at me nurse

28:48

about the zone and I'm just like I would be

28:50

mad at him if it Wasn't every coach we've had

28:52

for the last eight years. They can't play against own

28:55

I wouldn't mind it is putting Joelle down low

28:57

a little bit more and being like at least

29:01

Try to make them front so you can throw over the

29:03

top and they have to start thinking about it And then

29:05

you can like act like you're gonna make that pass and

29:07

then whip it to the corner Like it just seemed like

29:09

he was in the same place pretty much every time on

29:11

every time down just wasn't it wasn't working But

29:14

man that that ubre duck in he was he was in

29:16

the Dunker spot over and over again I was I was

29:19

kind of wanting him in the fourth quarter to attack a little

29:21

bit more He kind of took a backseat But I also liked

29:23

him back there because he's the one of the only guys that

29:25

would is a lob threat from

29:28

the on the back line and only

29:31

he ducks in gets position on Jimmy and beads makes

29:33

the pass and Ubre like he has all like all

29:35

year long when it be a new bread on the

29:37

court together They've had a nice little chemistry on those

29:39

cuts and he got it and that was

29:41

so huge. I will say Kelly

29:44

Inexplicably, I don't know if he got fouled on it. But

29:47

with like 18 seconds left. Is this the

29:49

he went for two He went

29:51

for a shot like a contested two. Yeah off

29:53

the chaotic inbounds were Lowry fell down twice Oh,

29:55

right, right, right, right and that was missing. I

29:57

was not going in lovely. They found him. Yeah

30:00

That would have been if you should have run away. Yeah,

30:02

so that's you know There's

30:04

occasionally you're gonna have some galaxy brain in there from

30:06

from our friend, but Just

30:09

as I said all year long man, he had three

30:11

offensive rebounds five defensive his ass. Let

30:13

us in his length I don't think his defense was

30:15

on on hero was very good But he just like

30:18

a helpful presence out

30:20

there to make a

30:22

play grab a ball rise up and high point

30:24

it before anybody else does it

30:26

was Necessary he was

30:28

just another 37 minutes for Kelly you brave I told

30:31

you that in a win against Miami to Avoid

30:33

the Boston half of the bracket if I would have told you that

30:36

when they signed him for the minimum this offseason You would have fucking

30:38

had a baby Hmm

30:42

I would have had a baby Baby

30:44

you've been so surprised that you had a baby Define

30:48

all define all science

30:51

a baby out of shock Um

30:55

You wanna do Tobias let's do it Do

30:57

the air ball and then the three that broke

31:00

the backboard? I just like I can't I can't

31:02

man. I can't I can't

31:04

so he he hit He didn't a couple in

31:06

the first quarter a couple like when everybody else

31:08

was missing He had a couple contested midrangers at

31:10

the end of the shot clock, which is like,

31:12

okay. All right Maybe he's using it

31:15

and then air bottle layup missed four

31:17

layups in one possession. Oh Charles

31:19

like Charles Smith moment Yes, it was

31:21

his Charles Smith moments exactly what it

31:24

was Then

31:26

he has he ends up having a big tip in and

31:28

a big drive and leave for b-ball and

31:30

then he bricks another one And he making slow

31:32

decisions. I will say I got to give him

31:34

credit for having five offensive rebounds I can't imagine

31:36

there's been many games in Tobias's career that he

31:38

said five offensive rebounds He was

31:40

giving effort, but they

31:43

sat at the end of the game, man They sat him at

31:45

the end of the game finally sat him at the end of

31:47

the game what I've been asking for Still played 33 minutes. Okay,

31:49

I would have liked less because he wasn't playing well, but it's

31:51

not like other guys were you tried to trick Daryl into that

31:54

I tried to trick Daryl into admitting that he should and

31:56

finally Nick nurse goes like I hear what Mike's saying And I

31:58

will do it. Yeah bias did not earn a spot

32:01

in those closing lineups and he didn't play the

32:03

last four minutes and that's the right call. Like

32:05

he is, he makes too many slow decisions. His,

32:07

his hips are too slow on defense. Um,

32:11

it just didn't, he just didn't earn a spot

32:13

in those closing lineups. And, and I'm proud of

32:15

Nick for, for pulling him there and

32:17

they pulled out a win maybe because of it.

32:19

And so I don't think that this means that

32:21

Tobias doesn't have a chance

32:24

to redeem some of that in this Nick series. He's going

32:26

to have to hit shots. He's going to have to play

32:29

some straight up defense. It's a little weird cause there's

32:31

no Julius Randall, which is the easiest matchup for Tobias

32:33

on, on that next team. Um, so

32:36

we'll see where he ends up, but he

32:38

wasn't good tonight. No, he just wasn't good

32:40

enough. He was, he was terrible. And I know

32:42

we, I mentioned him in the group, but, and

32:45

again, numbers wise, I

32:47

don't know what his numbers look like, but I feel

32:49

so, and you mentioned

32:51

this in the pod with Maury, I

32:54

feel just so settled when Lowry

32:56

is on the court. I just do.

32:58

He is not shaken by anything makes

33:01

the right play largely,

33:03

um, like takes open threes,

33:05

you know, takes threes that maybe aren't even

33:07

so open all the time. Um, he's

33:10

just, he was a to

33:12

have, to have Melton not

33:15

able to play, but have

33:18

Kyle Lowry is enormous. You know, if they don't get

33:20

him on the buyout market, they certainly don't win this

33:23

game. I don't think, yeah. I agree. Holy. He starts

33:25

off on Jimmy. He played Jimmy for a lot of

33:27

the game. I thought he did a pretty

33:29

good job. Jimmy, you know, obviously hurt his knee, but he

33:31

was still five of 18 from the field. Um,

33:35

Lowry's penetrating like secondary creation is, is really huge

33:37

when nothing else was working. The fact that he

33:40

can just like scoot in there and get a

33:42

layup or at least touch the paint is big

33:45

and had the game two steals

33:47

felt like more, um, had

33:49

an off ball steal and hero to trigger a fast break,

33:52

ripped a loose ball off my out of Miami's hands on

33:54

an air ball that I think Kelly missed had a big

33:56

poke out on, on hot guys late in the third quarter

33:58

that ended in an, in an beat three. I think

34:01

it was fourth quarter. And there's

34:04

just a, there's a calmness to them. I don't think

34:06

that Lowry and or Batoum played well in the first

34:08

half, but there was

34:10

some like calmingness

34:14

to their games in a

34:16

game that nobody else seemed to have their head. And

34:19

I mean, I've

34:22

been excited about it all year. Like the fact since, since

34:24

Lowry got here and as Batoum got healthy, like two

34:27

guys that just really, really

34:31

help this team keep their

34:33

heads above water in like the, in

34:36

the bad times. Cause there's going to be times when a beat's

34:38

not hitting and he's going to mope and he's not going to

34:40

get back on defense and it's going to be a fast break.

34:42

And the fact that Lowry can

34:44

force a tough layup and

34:46

they can miss off it or, or Batoum can get

34:48

there and get a chase down block or something. Like

34:50

these old guys on this team are

34:53

providing a lot more juice than, than they

34:56

should have to, but it's, it's, it's

34:58

great having them in. So we right

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37:16

is going to be a tough out and

37:19

Jalen Brunson has played great, great

37:22

player. They have played

37:24

great record wise on off wise

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or like numbers wise when Jalen

37:29

Brunson is playing when Anna nobies

37:31

playing when Julia Strandall is not,

37:35

they are tough. I'm going to be

37:37

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37:39

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motherfuckers. But if Embiid is

37:43

physically able and Tyrese Maxie wakes

37:46

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Sixers and they opened up at Draft Kings.

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Sixers are two and a half point dogs

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the Sixers should win this series and here's why. I've

38:16

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38:21

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38:23

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38:25

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38:28

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38:30

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38:33

those small guards have trouble. In

38:35

addition, those teams that have

38:37

the one sort of

38:39

heliocentric wing player, it gets

38:41

very very hard. It gets hard for, got

38:44

hard for Harden, got hard for Luca and

38:46

Jalen Brunson great player but

38:48

certainly not the creator for others the

38:51

way that those guys are. And

38:53

though Jalen Brunson can score and will score

38:55

and again they are motherfuckers, I

38:58

just don't see where the points

39:00

are coming from for them. They don't have

39:02

a lot of players that can create offense

39:06

and I just think over seven game

39:08

series, if the Sixers are serious about

39:11

this, this is a series that

39:13

the Sixers win. Again, the Knicks are good.

39:15

They have a lot of players but I

39:17

just don't think the

39:21

Sixers should not lose to that team in the seven

39:23

game series is what I think. They could, they don't

39:25

have home court but I think the Sixers should win

39:27

the series. I think it's going to

39:29

be a really tough series. I think they are a good team. I

39:31

think Tips is going to play them all 47 minutes and 30 seconds.

39:36

I agree that when the defense tightens up in

39:38

the playoffs and you're depending on

39:40

a small guard that does

39:43

and should get tight, they

39:46

get a lot of stuff, you know,

39:48

they turn you over and get out and get out and transition.

39:51

I really, who do you think I'm going to

39:53

say I want covering Jalen Brunson? Who

39:56

do you want covering Jalen Brunson? You

39:58

want? Ubra covering Jill.

40:00

I want Nico Batum covering Jill. Oh, jeez.

40:03

Length. He's not going to be Can I

40:05

ask you something? with Guile real quick? They

40:07

didn't start Batum tonight. What do you think

40:09

that that is about? They started? I think

40:11

that I think that nurse

40:14

likes having at least one of Lowry

40:16

and Batum on the floor at

40:19

the same time. Okay. Just to like be the

40:21

be an adult. But I

40:24

think he worries sometimes that there's not enough

40:26

offense when they're both out there at the

40:28

same time. I

40:30

would prefer Batum start

40:33

and it's Ubra coming off the bench to give you

40:35

a little pop of athleticism and

40:37

and head down get to

40:39

the basket. Off the end more

40:41

of the two minutes within bead by the way over two

40:43

minutes of the I think like there was a little bit

40:46

before the zone fucked everything up. I sort of thought

40:48

that man these guys have a

40:50

little bit of an embarrassment of riches after

40:52

having not nothing you know it's

40:54

like there's too many options were sort of paralyzed

40:56

by how many options we have like we could

40:59

get you know we can get maxi D H

41:01

O we can get you know Batum at the

41:03

at the nail picking them apart we can get in beat

41:05

obviously we can get some Tobias face ups whatever and they

41:07

kind of all just were like what should we do we

41:09

can do any of it but then just turned out like

41:11

nothing worked. So

41:14

I I don't I

41:16

like the idea of let's

41:19

have a little bit more balance a little bit more

41:21

role playery stuff and then Ubra can come in when

41:23

one of maxi or M bead sits and then go

41:25

okay I can I can carry us for like a

41:27

four minute stretch here type of

41:29

thing but I would love the tomb on

41:32

the tomb starting and on Bronson I think

41:34

his length is going to make it hard

41:36

on him Bronson is not crazy fast he's

41:38

just really like shifty and I think between

41:40

and as an incredible floater and mid range

41:43

game and uses his shoulder to like digging

41:45

and scoot it up and get to the

41:47

rim. He's an excellent player he's gonna he's gonna get

41:49

his but I think the tomb would make it really hard on him because

41:52

he can keep it he can slide his feet really well. They

41:56

should win I mean they should win they should win I mean they're

41:58

gonna be And Anobie's gonna cover

42:00

Maxie a lot. That's a tough cover. Earlier

42:03

in Maxie's career, that was a really tough cover. I think there

42:05

were a couple times, you know,

42:07

the game that we rang the bell was

42:10

a tough Sixers game with Ananobie doing

42:12

a lot of smothering of

42:15

Maxie. Obviously, MB didn't play in that

42:17

game. I think Demon Shenzo will get a shot on Maxie

42:19

too. You

42:21

kind of just like, what I want, and this

42:23

is, you can play the goddamn song, but

42:26

like, if Batum can hang on to

42:28

Brunson, then you don't have to double off of

42:30

Demon Shenzo, who has become a really, really good...

42:33

Three point shooter off the couch. No help. No

42:35

rally, such a nothing play. Send the guy in

42:37

front of you. No help. No help. Stand

42:39

up to watch this other guy. No help. We may as

42:41

well try. No help. Is it

42:43

gonna work? Oh, it's gonna work. It didn't work. If

42:46

you double off of, let me finish this. Yeah, yeah,

42:48

yeah. If you double off of like, Josh Hart, or

42:50

even like, kind of Ananobie whatever, like, I don't love

42:52

it, but like, or like, press a

42:54

Chewah or something, okay, you gotta send

42:56

help to somebody on a Switch, fine. But like,

42:58

if you're doubling off of Boyan Bogdanovich, or

43:01

Dante Di Vincenzo, or Brunson for some

43:03

reason, like, you're gonna get burned. You

43:06

gotta, it felt like tonight there were just so

43:09

many heat threes were wide open. And

43:11

if that's a miscommunication, that's like,

43:14

assuming somebody else is gonna get there,

43:17

it frustrated me. I will say,

43:19

I wouldn't have minded some Ricky Council minutes

43:21

tonight. I think that he would

43:24

have, just the effort, and the second effort is

43:27

there for him, in a way that

43:29

it isn't for some other guys. And

43:31

just getting that, like, I think this is kind of

43:33

a Ricky Council series, of just

43:35

giving, stealing them a couple of possessions, because the

43:38

Knicks are like, the Knicks are gonna steal your

43:40

possessions. It was so frustrating

43:42

watching Miami get to 18 offensive

43:44

rebounds in this game, and

43:48

turn the Sixers over, and Sixers only generate

43:50

four steals in this game. It's not, that's

43:52

not who they are. It

43:54

was a frustrating one, and I think they would

43:57

do with a little bit more athleticism and verticality.

44:00

So this per our very own Dan

44:02

Olinger, who you can subscribe to his

44:04

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44:06

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44:09

right into your inbox. This

44:12

is about Tobias not finishing the game from

44:14

Nick Nurse. I thought Tobias was

44:16

playing fine. By the way, anyone

44:18

who has ever had a significant other, if

44:20

they tell you that something is fine, that

44:23

means it is bad. So I

44:26

thought Tobias was playing fine. How are you

44:28

doing? Fine, nope. I thought Tobias

44:30

is playing fine. He played a ton of minutes,

44:32

thought he was absolutely tired and that's the only

44:35

reason I made the switch to Kyle. I just

44:37

thought it was a time where Kyle makes a

44:39

play or two. Thank God Tobias was

44:41

the only person who was tired. Yeah,

44:43

he's the only one. None of the other guys

44:45

are tired. It's fine for him to lie. It's fine for him to

44:47

lie. Yeah. Yeah, man.

44:52

I don't know what's gonna happen this fucking year. I'm still recovering

44:55

from the heat game. I'm not doing a good job of looking

44:57

forward to the Knicks. It's gonna be probably a six or seven

44:59

game series and people are gonna get punched in the mouth and

45:01

somebody's gonna get hurt and all that stuff. But this

45:04

Miami game is brutal. Delon Wright fucking killing

45:06

me after I wanted him all year. Heywood

45:09

Highsmith hitting like, how many points is Heywood Highsmith? He had

45:11

nine. It felt like he had 70. He

45:14

had a ton of tough twos,

45:16

like weird in-between twos in strange

45:18

spots. People wanted us

45:20

to bring up the refs. I thought the refs were bad. But

45:24

there was a defensive three seconds on Lowry where his

45:26

foot was like, as they called it, like

45:28

he's been standing with one foot out of the paint for

45:31

a while. And you're like, what are you doing?

45:33

There was a delay of game, technical foul. It's

45:35

like, this is the playoffs, fucking grow up. I

45:37

did kind of like them not calling grifty fouls.

45:39

Those were fine. Yeah. That was

45:41

fine. I was fine with that. Lowry getting tackled

45:43

by a hero on the layup that

45:46

he goaltended was a crazy choice to

45:49

not call a foul on. And bam, blocking

45:51

and be like an offensive tackle on a

45:53

Jaime Hawkins drive under the basket was also

45:55

insane. I didn't think it

45:57

was a well-refereeed game in that respect.

46:00

But but as far as ignoring the grifty fells, that's what

46:02

I've been asking for for four years So that that part

46:04

of it I'm I have been fine with Yeah,

46:07

the previewing next is like I

46:10

just I want to bask in this game. I'm

46:12

sorry I do too the game was terrible, but

46:14

it was it was exciting

46:17

and it I don't know if it's cuz I

46:19

I Switched some bag at IP

46:21

and I have all this like Philly

46:23

coursing through my veins or whatever I

46:25

was so fucking excited man back like

46:27

you're back thinking stuff screaming throwing pillows

46:30

scaring the house Let's fucking go it

46:32

is like when someone to heal turns

46:34

turns baby face. Yes You're

46:36

going from New York to Philly and now

46:38

and now we face the next yeah, so

46:40

and and By the

46:43

way, like I if this thing says were to

46:45

lose this series I will eat more shit from

46:47

co-workers that I've ever eaten in my entire life.

46:49

Yeah Yeah, I would

46:51

like the inbounding to be a little bit easier

46:53

Thank God. Yeah, that's right bounding It always comes

46:55

down to inbounding some some basketball and it fucking

46:58

is a torture chamber every time I

47:00

love it I just love that they got people finally

47:02

and an alley-oop like that was so that was so

47:04

nice for him To do and

47:06

they people alley-oop was sick by the way and it

47:08

was from buddy I mean like that was a great

47:10

play it really I truly but he didn't shoot well

47:13

He's here to shoot. He should shoot better. He should

47:15

shoot more or yeah, but like hit

47:17

him him penetrating and tagging with close-ups was was

47:19

like part of the difference in addition to between

47:22

hitting those threes Part of the difference in this

47:24

game by the way b-ball lays that fucking up

47:26

a lot the fact that you've dunked it Yeah,

47:28

and dude, this isn't nothing when you

47:31

I'm doing a lot. Sorry I'm just you can

47:33

somebody asked the chat if I just ate a

47:35

weed gummy While we were doing the pod and

47:37

I did cuz I gotta go sleep after and

47:39

I gotta I gotta come down the When

47:42

you dunk the the alley-oop the

47:45

crowd fucking loves it And

47:47

and you you got

47:49

to take every advantage that you can get

47:51

in a game like this and a home

47:54

Basketball crowd can help swing the game. That's

47:56

why you dunk that alley-oop and don't lay

47:58

it in. That's why you don't dip do.

48:00

That's why you don't get in

48:02

a game in a season where it felt like

48:04

Embiid or Maxi had to do everything for them

48:06

to survive. Like they didn't do that tonight and

48:09

they still won and that's role players

48:11

making plays hitting shots, a couple of

48:13

timely defensive possessions, a couple of

48:15

decent offensive rebounds, 15 offensive boards, nothing to sneeze

48:17

at a lot to clean

48:19

up before a very tough Knicks team that's going

48:21

to fucking not

48:24

back down one inch. Nope. But they beat

48:26

a good team tonight. It's the first

48:28

time they've advanced against a good team in

48:30

the history of this podcast and

48:32

I'm happy about it. Thank fucking

48:34

God, man. That was a brutal first half. It was

48:37

brutal. I, again, I was saying

48:39

through the first half and a half time I was

48:41

doing the podcast in my head and I was fucking

48:43

miserable. Yeah. But we still have

48:46

a chance of it being here. We have

48:48

a chance. The chicken game, the chicken game,

48:50

Lee, God damn, Lee, Lee, Lee. So we will talk to

48:52

you after game one

48:57

of the Knicks. Enjoy this one. Bask

48:59

in it. Is it pathetic that we're

49:01

celebrating a playing game over the AC

49:03

a little bit? Do I care? Not

49:05

at all. I

49:07

am. I have no shame.

49:09

Survive, survive in advance. No

49:12

shame. It's March, baby. Eaten weed

49:14

gummies on the pods live on

49:16

the internet. No shame.

49:18

We'll talk to you Saturday night. Are

49:20

you down with TTP? Yeah, you know,

49:23

lickbait. If you don't fuck with me,

49:26

then I don't. Thank

50:00

you.