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Welcome to the rights, truthful, Ricky Sanchez

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podcast. I'm Spike Eskin, along with a

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are the sixers. That is one Michael

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event, man. Here we

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fucking go, man. Who

3:31

here we go. This series, brick and

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for chicken, a inter

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and Howard Eskin. Oh no, we're not

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3:45

shift was there. Okay. All

3:48

right. We did it. We got them.

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Man. That was such

3:53

an ugly first half. What a disgusting

3:57

half of basketball. Absolutely. And be sure to

3:59

God. and tossed. Thank you

4:01

for not throwing him out of the game.

4:03

Definitely could have been. Definitely. In a regular

4:06

season game, 100% he's tough. Like

4:08

you can make the argument that he like was

4:10

going to get landed on a little bit. Sure.

4:12

But like he was frustrated and he grabbed him

4:14

and that's a dangerous play and he probably should

4:16

have gotten tossed. It is a play

4:19

that I also 100% would have made. I

4:22

do very dirty player things when

4:24

I'm frustrated. He was frustrated. Very

4:26

frustrated. Let's admit it. We come

4:28

correct here. But what a third

4:31

quarter from Joel. A 50 point

4:34

game. Those threes. We've

4:36

been talking about it every podcast. He gets

4:38

more and more comfortable since he came back

4:40

from injury hitting those straight away threes and

4:42

he was five of seven on

4:45

those threes and that was massive. It seemed like

4:47

he made like nine in a row. He did

4:49

make three in a row. I believe on three

4:51

straight possessions. Yeah. A playoff

4:53

career high 50, 13 of 19, 19 of 21 from the line.

4:55

I mean, I

5:01

look just very good with whatever he's got going on

5:04

with his eye and his mouth. I don't want to

5:06

speculate. It's too bizarre to

5:08

be doing this, but it doesn't

5:10

seem to affect the way he's playing right now. So 50

5:13

points and win. Thank God. We

5:15

were due a new ailment that was

5:17

unexpected. Yeah. We've done the knee and

5:19

broken face. How about Bell's palsy? What

5:22

about that? Just random popping up in

5:24

the middle of the series and also

5:26

incredible from Nick nurse when he is

5:29

asked, is there anything wrong with Joel

5:31

and beads? I Nope. No.

5:34

What are you

5:36

talking about? Okay. Yep.

5:39

Hmm. Normal stuff. So

5:41

I, I will

5:43

continue to say this that

5:46

I think and bead coming through in

5:48

the fourth quarter of the Miami game was

5:50

sort of telling

5:54

in that we had, we talked about it after the

5:56

game, but we had seen and bead

5:58

Mopi before does

6:00

it through the entire game and he doesn't come through in

6:02

the end and For

6:04

all of the things that you could say about what he could

6:07

have done in games one and two He

6:09

was still the best player on the floor and

6:11

he wasn't you know We do the plus minus

6:13

thing and it works even when he's not playing

6:15

well But I thought

6:17

in games one and two he was

6:20

specifically like the best player on

6:22

the floor and important But here's

6:24

what I thought was most important was

6:26

in the what are you reading? Nothing.

6:29

Oh, yeah in the in

6:33

The postgame presser where he

6:35

said that they're the better team and they're gonna win Forget

6:38

about what it looks like because a lot of people focused on the

6:40

fact that he had his head down Which I think had to do

6:42

with his eye He sounded

6:44

different like he has

6:47

done the postgame interview was like,

6:49

you know I think we're the

6:51

better team like that thing. That's

6:53

not what he was doing he

6:55

sounded like a guy who was

6:58

Frustrated and confident and I just like even

7:01

though in the first half He was way

7:03

out of control like completely out of control.

7:05

Yeah, I like the aggressiveness But it was

7:07

it was a lot of times he was

7:10

brittin embracing contact I was worried like a

7:12

he was in foul trouble offensive foul and

7:14

be like how much can his body

7:16

take of that? I was I was expecting it to

7:19

wear down and in the third, right? And

7:21

in the first half like aside from the crazy

7:23

shit, they could have got him thrown out of

7:25

the game I did like

7:28

his look in his energy like the

7:30

look on his face. He was engaged.

7:32

He fucking wanted it and You

7:36

know, I actually wrote in the corner

7:38

three today that I felt like even though

7:40

we had not had this sort of Play

7:44

off and bead that we had always dreamed

7:46

of so far the forty five point seventeen

7:48

rebound seven assist guy or whatever like I

7:50

felt like he was different and

7:52

I thought tonight was a monstrous

7:55

game for him especially Given

7:57

the fact that he did lose control

8:00

emotionally in the first half. And by the

8:02

way, he's not the only reason they won

8:04

the game. He was amazing. He said, we

8:06

will get to everything else. But I am

8:08

happy for him that with

8:10

all that he is going through right now,

8:12

the knee thing and the eye thing, which

8:14

by the way, if that was

8:17

going on with me, I probably wouldn't leave the house.

8:19

Like, you know what I mean?

8:21

I'd probably be terrified of it. I don't

8:23

know. He really came through and it felt

8:25

like all playoffs, regardless of how

8:28

it ends, he's been different. And

8:30

the thing I said at the end

8:32

of the newsletter was I might

8:35

be a little less optimistic in the future

8:37

than I've ever been about

8:39

him being healthy through an entire season in the

8:41

playoffs, like that part. But I

8:44

am a little more optimistic that

8:48

I know he's not going to go down without a fight. You

8:50

know, and I thought tonight was,

8:53

you know, you're down to a

8:55

lot of teams come back and win game three, even

8:58

if they get blown out the first two games, but

9:00

they lost two heartbreakers, and especially with

9:02

how game two ended. And

9:04

they had a fight in this game. This was not one of those games

9:06

where they came out hot and they were leading by 17 the

9:08

whole time. They had a fight in this

9:11

game and he was a big part of it. And I'm pretty,

9:13

I'm pretty psyched that for him and I'm pretty psyched they won

9:15

it. Yeah, I mean, he

9:17

starts the game with a with a

9:19

post up spins baseline finishes through contact

9:21

on that first play. He never makes

9:23

that shot when he goes up baseline

9:25

and hits it off the glass.

9:27

That was a really good sign.

9:29

And then I didn't think he did that good of

9:32

a job as a passer tonight. How many assists do you

9:34

have? He had four and three turnovers. It

9:36

just seemed like he was especially in the first half,

9:38

kind of making lazy, not really

9:40

engaged passes, not not intentional and having

9:43

a little bit of tunnel vision. But

9:46

once he got cooking in the third quarter, he

9:48

had three threes on back to back possessions, hit

9:50

another one off the maxi pass the end 10

9:52

the third then draws the three shot foul on

9:54

Hartenstein when he doesn't give him any airspace. And

9:56

then Brunson closes out Alyssa Alyssa said, Brunson closing

9:58

out she's like he's like humping his leg and

10:00

he hits it anyway. I

10:03

mean that's just those are just big gussy

10:06

ballsy shots when once

10:08

again like there's not that many options

10:10

and not that many ways to score we're going to

10:13

talk about campaign god bless campaign but

10:15

like and beat hitting those shots was

10:18

was just enormous and then he kept drawing fouls and he

10:20

kept forcing it and they had to send doubles and

10:23

then they just did enough to

10:25

to survive I was worried about the end like you

10:27

know the first the first half was complete chaos the

10:30

first quarter was beyond cast second second quarter the nicks

10:32

started getting on the glass which was annoying 43 points

10:35

in the third quarter three's all over the place

10:37

I thought that a little too much running clock

10:39

in the in the fourth a

10:41

little too much prevent defense that's how much prevent

10:43

defense kneeling on the ball a little early though

10:45

there pal uh taking the

10:47

air out of everything but I think probably the joe was

10:50

maybe tired and honestly I was like who can I blame

10:52

for this Tobias wasn't even in you couldn't blame Tobias for

10:54

them like starting to cough it up in the fourth but

10:58

they did enough to win I didn't

11:00

think their defense as a team was

11:02

that good um the nicks hit

11:04

shots uh Brunson got going for

11:06

sure 39 points and 13 assists and

11:09

and they they still got 11 offensive

11:12

rebounds shooting a better percentage um I didn't think

11:14

they boxed out that well they didn't high point

11:16

balls as much as you'd want them to but

11:19

a couple like really big plays from the role players and

11:22

and then beat carried him and it's a it is a

11:25

really obviously the season

11:28

is over if they lose this game nicks

11:30

fans in the building you've got a

11:32

you know Mitchell Robinson goes down I

11:35

like Precious the two I've always had like a little soft

11:37

spot for Precious I think he's a tough a tough competitor

11:39

and physical and switches and and can you know is

11:42

really athletic but you gotta

11:44

you gotta punish that and

11:46

and they just they did enough they did enough to win

11:48

a won as

11:50

close to comfortably as this Sixers team

11:53

can ever win which by

11:55

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14:50

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15:23

for years is really nice in this game

15:25

in it's against a tough team that as

15:28

a defensive minded Tom Thibodeau Coast team that

15:30

your well. Does. Other little things that he

15:32

always does. Still, Hurt because that's

15:34

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15:55

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About it. The. I'll.

16:01

Go to the way they. The joneses are better

16:03

defensively. Jonathan a better job of of dealing with

16:05

the sixers would are however they play them. You.

16:08

Know like use more comfortable in the mid

16:10

range. I did a good job of like

16:12

starting and stopping, getting down held, pulling up

16:15

on a dime, drawing fouls you into line

16:17

fall times he some good scores. This is

16:19

really good day as really. Guess I like.

16:22

Obviously. There were a couple. Hey

16:25

man, be be really careful with. You.

16:27

Know slap and down there by body control. don't

16:29

give me the ones he's hit a bunch of

16:31

tough sat there were a couple open three that

16:34

he took were like come on. I'm.

16:36

And a couple nobody rotated over type things

16:38

is gokey been funnier but those tough ones

16:41

as tough midrange wary the jab jab pull

16:43

up whatever if you can just stay disciplined

16:45

on those are not bite on the jump

16:47

than like. Those. It's have sauce and

16:49

I'm up at that on ultimately fine with

16:51

us. I really am like I'm ultimately fine

16:53

without. I'd rather have that than wide open

16:55

Hartenstein floaters or logs or whatever like you

16:57

just make him makes have South and he

16:59

can make him, but they're a inefficient. It's

17:01

as if you don't talents and be like

17:03

he gets he's gonna get hired. This is

17:05

the forty five minutes a night. Yeah.

17:08

And then John and Just Art. Teacher. Countries

17:11

whose for of a tonight he has. His.

17:13

It for three days of the games. As.

17:16

Is is really get His is a baseball

17:18

player is a gamer his to he's not

17:20

like guy he's not a huge shooter he's

17:22

just not used harasser he's a bit a

17:24

basketball player he's not but he's he's not

17:26

even like you is hop and said that

17:28

he guy that guys are doing this again

17:30

plate big is I mean he's hitting shots

17:32

he's he's as good as what he Willowbrook

17:34

Woody Woody Woody What I what I mean

17:36

look they're gonna have to pack but I

17:39

I would just again prefer to those. Those.

17:41

Bronson. Tough mid range is or

17:43

two points. the josh are open threes and

17:45

three points. I'd rather give up that tough

17:47

contested tooth as it but judge. Good for

17:50

jobs. From continuing to make the nurse pay

17:52

they didn't play the same system the the

17:54

entire game defensively the tried to for different

17:56

looks at him and if when brunson brunton

17:58

getting going. forced Lowry

18:00

to have to double a little bit more and help in

18:02

that middle. And then when Lowry helps middle, then Josh Hart's

18:04

open for three and he hit him. I mean, it's just

18:06

like the six, they gave, they gave up 114 points. The

18:10

Knicks just played well offensively. They

18:12

got too many. The most frustrating

18:14

thing is when, when Jaylen

18:16

is not in the game, the

18:19

Knicks do not have many

18:22

players who can dribble. No,

18:24

it's really just McBride and Hart to an

18:26

extent. Yeah, but even those, they're not like,

18:29

they're not making plays for others. They're not making

18:31

plays off the, off the bounce, like against

18:34

a set defense. Like those guys can attack second

18:36

side. They can attack a weaker defender. They can

18:38

attack a big on a switch, whatever. But like

18:41

when you have your defenders in front of them and Jenna Brunson

18:43

is not on the court, the Knicks

18:45

should not score in the half court.

18:47

And too often they like

18:50

Kelly Oubre's playing like too high up on,

18:52

on OG or Deuce and just gets blown

18:54

by to bias, like isn't sturdy enough to

18:56

stay, to stand there and like getting somebody's

18:58

way and make them take a tough shot

19:00

over him. Like there was

19:02

just, they couldn't match up in transition over and over

19:05

and over again. That is brutal, man. They, they

19:07

just get back cut. They're not paying attention. They

19:09

don't communicate in transition. There seems to not, they

19:11

have tunnel vision looking at their guys. It kills

19:13

me. Luckily their offense was as good as it

19:16

was. And then beat hit those threes and

19:18

they shot 15 of 31 from deep because

19:20

like those, they just,

19:22

they gotta clean that shit up. They gotta clean it up

19:24

and they keep, and they keep not doing it. Well,

19:28

I mean the teams are who they are at

19:30

this point. Like I don't think we're gonna, I

19:32

don't think we're gonna see Nick

19:34

coming into the game or coming into the

19:36

series, the Knicks were a really good offensive

19:38

rebounding team. The Sixers are

19:40

a very bad

19:43

rebounding team overall. So getting killed on

19:45

the glass is just like, I don't

19:47

know what, especially with a, a sort

19:50

of compromised and bead, like I don't

19:52

even know if that's gonna change. What's

19:55

wild out of all of this is that, and it

19:57

will, I will go to my, my

19:59

grave. Thinking about this is that

20:01

the zeros could be three. Oh,

20:03

yeah fucking crazy. So we've gone

20:05

22 minutes I feel

20:08

like I we got it. Can we please

20:10

talk about campaign campaign? Let's go. Oh, I'm

20:12

seeing Quinn on Mitchell

20:16

Oh cornerback Cornerback

20:19

when you on Mitchell, um, how is how is

20:21

how we get the cornerback? Yeah, everybody Everybody

20:24

everybody's happy with the fucking cornerback there.

20:26

There we go So

20:31

it took It

20:34

took like the 17th straight

20:37

useless buddy healed appearance For

20:39

Nick nurse to finally and it was the

20:42

open three he was open. Yeah, he was

20:44

Josh Hart open on that

20:46

corner three Yeah, and he broke off of

20:48

a beeb all beeb all offensive rebound. Yeah,

20:50

he bricked it and also Smoked

20:53

a layup, which is every single it was a contested

20:55

layup But like it's a contested layup because buddy is

20:57

not fast enough for athletic right to get all the

21:00

way to the rim the

21:04

Did have any buddy did have one incredible rotation

21:06

to stop a wide open Mitchell Robinson dunk

21:08

Which was really really nice so good for him. We got

21:10

to give him credit for that Yeah, he's not like he's

21:12

not hustling. No, he's playing pretty well defensively He's playing better

21:14

than expected eventually, but you just can't get open You know

21:16

get open if you're not gonna be able to get open

21:19

like you're too slow You do you need too much airspace

21:21

to get the shot off like you can't play so

21:23

finally Literally 60 seconds

21:26

after I tweet that I'm going to

21:28

lose my mind if he plays healed

21:30

over campaign one more time he puts

21:32

campaign in and I

21:35

truly believe those two threes and the the

21:37

I think it was a Save the game

21:40

like he I'm

21:42

not I'm trying not to

21:45

overstate this but campaign Has

21:48

big fucking balls. Sure. He does not

21:50

give a fuck He is happy to

21:52

be out there when we have other

21:54

Sixers who are sort of clenching a

21:56

little bit from the pressure You

21:59

can be sure The campaign is

22:01

not fucking scared. That guy is

22:03

a fucking hooper, and

22:05

I'm sick of hearing, well

22:08

we can't have two small guards in the back

22:10

court, you know what we can't have? Buddy healed

22:12

not shooting and fucking breaking threes. And

22:14

if Melton's not gonna play, which it doesn't

22:17

seem like he's going to, you gotta

22:19

play campaign. Those were huge buckets from campaign.

22:22

And energy, by the way. Not just huge buckets,

22:24

but great energy from campaign. Yeah, for sure. I

22:26

like that Melton's available. I'm fine that he didn't

22:28

play tonight. They won. I wouldn't

22:30

rule out, if he's made available, I wouldn't rule out that

22:32

he wouldn't. He couldn't possibly come in and

22:35

make a difference at some point. Cam

22:37

just like immediately finds Batoom in the

22:39

corner for a three, and

22:42

then hits two big snap to

22:44

grid threes. He's

22:46

absolutely overtaken Buddy healed in the rotation. The rest

22:48

of the series Buddy cannot see the floor. Just

22:51

can't. Just cannot, you can't try it.

22:53

You can't try it again. It's over for the

22:55

series. Maybe next series things reset. If we get

22:57

there, God willing. But you can't try it again.

22:59

He's done. Sit him on the bench. He gets

23:01

a floater. That was a big shot. Sixers

23:04

Adam noted that his ability to

23:06

stay ready, and he's been, everyone's

23:09

been saying how pissed off Cam is about not

23:11

playing. He's like, he wants minutes. Nick Nurse, he's

23:13

like- Even Nick Nurse said it, yeah. He wants

23:15

minutes. It's frustrating. And it's like, yeah. They needed

23:18

some more on ball juice. Kyle

23:20

Lowry, God bless him. Nick Batoom,

23:22

God bless him. Can't do much

23:25

with the ball in their hands anymore. They're not

23:27

creating that much. They're not getting all the way

23:29

to the rim. They're not using their speed to

23:31

get other guys open or burning them

23:33

if they double off them. And

23:35

he just hit shots. He can get hot.

23:37

I really like the campaign Kyle Lowry combination

23:40

when Maxie's on the bench. That's just like,

23:43

with just one of them, you're feeling a little bit lacking with

23:45

both of them. You start to have a little bit of juice

23:47

on both sides. He hits a

23:49

step back three over Isaiah Hartens. And he's 11

23:51

points in 16 minutes. He gets two blocks, which

23:54

kind of strips. A

23:56

really good crisp, like high low pass to B

23:58

ball in the dunk. that draws a foul, another

24:01

one to a rolling b-ball that drew a foul. He's

24:04

just, he plays with energy,

24:06

he plays with juice, he

24:08

can hit shots, and he's

24:10

just a little bit fast. And

24:13

this Knicks team is so fast for everybody else except for

24:15

Maxi, he seems so slow. And it's nice

24:17

to have somebody that goes like, hey, we're by

24:19

you. It's just really nice. It's

24:23

a total breath of fresh air. He got the fourth

24:25

quarter interview. Like you just need Nick

24:27

Patoom in the Heat game

24:31

campaign now. This is what

24:34

these guys need once in a while, not all the

24:36

time, can't count on it, but once in a while

24:38

somebody needs to step up every game and just have

24:40

like, those were a collection of huge plays.

24:43

And all those shots, 11 points

24:45

on seven shots, really, really

24:47

big, really big. Huge. They don't win

24:49

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26:37

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26:40

play and victory over Miami, but he

26:42

has wanted to keep it private to avoid

26:44

distractions for his team. Yes, so. I.

26:47

Actually, I mentioned on the

26:49

air yesterday where talk about the I think

26:52

I was like leave it to the Sixers

26:54

for their to be something that is obviously

26:56

wrong with them. Deny that it is and

26:58

then everyone just sort of makes out what

27:00

they think is wrong with a beggar. They

27:03

fill the vacuum but I also mentioned and

27:05

we've talked about this on the pods I

27:07

think and Beat is specifically sensitive about. New.

27:10

Injuries coming out about him because

27:12

he doesn't like being perceived as

27:15

an. As. Injury prone, you know,

27:17

So I can't believe he's playing now. Look,

27:19

people get Bell's palsy. It eventually just goes

27:21

away. I think that's what happens. I don't

27:23

think there's much you can do. But

27:27

like. Forget. About physically

27:29

or whether he can see mentally.

27:32

That's. Gotta be a huge strain. Seven fucked

27:34

up to live in a mirror and

27:36

sister homeless? Yes, this is so much

27:38

for a man is this is it.

27:40

Never stops. Know it. Literally never

27:42

stops of weeks of ways I go

27:45

the wounds well it's usually goes away

27:47

at my father in law had it.

27:49

It starts to can stay for a

27:51

few months but I think it just

27:53

goes away at this. What happens from

27:55

list wins or a maxi. An

27:59

account. weird performance from him, I think.

28:01

He had a couple of moments. He had a

28:03

couple great moments. I mean, the sidestep three, the

28:05

sidestep jumper felt like it was going off. He's

28:07

such a hardcover when he has that, when he's

28:09

stepped back, sidestep, whatever. He was

28:11

three of eight from deep. It felt

28:13

like kind of part of the issue

28:16

about Embiid being

28:19

so aggressive and looking for his own shot in

28:21

the first half, kind of took Maxi out of

28:23

it a little bit. It didn't feel like, and

28:26

part of maybe that was also just like the rhythm of the

28:28

game and having so many replay reviews and bullshit. So

28:31

it seemed like he just kind of wasn't there. Then

28:33

he got hot in the third quarter after he had

28:35

that pick six on Dante Di Vincenzo. Love him blowing

28:37

up his dribble handoff for a little like half-hearted pass.

28:41

And then the three started falling, man. And

28:43

without Mitch back there, he felt really comfy

28:45

going, getting to the rim and fending off

28:47

Precious Echua, got to his mid range. Seven

28:49

assists, one turnover, 41 minutes. It

28:53

was like a kind of a

28:55

regular day at the office type game for Maxi.

28:58

25, seven, and four on 21 shots. That's

29:00

solid, unremarkable, but that's just how good he

29:02

is right now. He's just very,

29:06

just very incredibly competent all areas

29:08

of the floor. Had

29:10

a couple maybe indecisive moments

29:16

or not exactly a little

29:18

loose with the ball or less crisp than

29:21

could have been otherwise. Him

29:24

getting leaned on all series by guys that are bigger than him

29:26

and stuff, and just like I'm

29:29

saying Brunson is gonna start to miss

29:31

or make mistakes if you force him to do everything

29:33

as long as he's on the court. It's the same

29:35

thing with Maxi. Yeah,

29:37

I thought it was a, to your point, I

29:39

just thought it was a solid, normal game for

29:41

Maxi, but hit a few big shots. They keep

29:44

him in there. Look, he was great in the

29:46

first two games. He's

29:49

23, you know, there's a lot on him to be

29:51

the second best player. And a lot

29:53

of times the best offensive player, if MP doesn't

29:56

have it. So it's the most

29:58

improved award winner. Yes, congratulations. So

30:01

I thought it was a good game from

30:03

him and you know as good

30:05

as Jalen Brunson is and if you know

30:07

if you had to have won to win

30:09

a championship today you probably take Brunson but

30:11

he's outplayed Brunson like largely for this series

30:13

which I think is pretty impressive which is

30:16

good with as good as Jalen Brunson has

30:18

been this year. Yeah for sure. Um,

30:21

Ubre after two games of having pretty

30:23

great defense and not great offense I

30:25

think it totally flipped in

30:27

this one. He was

30:29

excellent offensively, started off with a

30:31

patient drive to the rim, finishes with a big two hand

30:34

dunk. I thought that was a nice tone setter. And

30:36

drills a three on a pick and roll with Joel. After

30:39

being pretty hesitant for

30:44

from three for a while now

30:46

which is not something I'd like. No. Even

30:49

if he misses I need him to get him up.

30:51

He felt much more ready to pull, took

30:54

four threes, hit two, which honestly felt like more when

30:56

I was watching. Caught

30:58

an Embiid air ball and dunked it. I could kiss him.

31:00

I love him. Thank you for dunking. Has

31:03

a nice big cut from the corner and

31:05

Embiid finds him again. That's like the only

31:07

movement has from earlier in the season has

31:09

totally gone away. There's like not much movement. There's not

31:11

much flow to the game anymore. It is just like

31:14

grind, grind, grind. But

31:17

Embiid and Kelly have a little bit of

31:19

that nice chemistry where Kelly cuts either cuts

31:21

middle or cuts off the corner

31:23

and he found him there. That was a big shot. And

31:27

when Embiid gets going and

31:30

Kelly is willing to shoot from three, like

31:32

they can't double off. That's why I love

31:34

that basketball. It's also fucking connected. If

31:37

Kelly is not willing to shoot from three, then his

31:39

guy can double off easier. And then that makes it

31:41

harder for Embiid. Or he's got

31:43

to at least be a cutting threat and get Embiid back door. Which

31:46

by the way we haven't really seen

31:48

since Embiid has been back from Kelly.

31:50

It was so good in the first

31:52

part of the year and then Embiid

31:54

disappeared and Kelly went into normal Kelly

31:56

mode. Would be nice to see it.

32:00

I'm sorry to interrupt, but I

32:02

also think the Knicks are. It's

32:05

playoffs, which he hasn't been on playoffs in

32:08

six or seven years, and it hasn't played

32:10

this particular role in the playoffs. The Knicks

32:12

are physical with that. Like everything's hard. So

32:15

all that cutting, you're going to get bumped, you're going

32:17

to get pushed. You're going to end and they try

32:19

to take everything out of rhythm. Nick

32:22

Norris even said before the game today, by the

32:24

way, that they needed to get Oubre some more

32:26

shots. So I mean, he had 38 minutes tonight.

32:29

Like it is when

32:31

I liked the signing in the offseason,

32:33

I did not expect it would be

32:36

this much Kelly, but it's they've gotten.

32:38

They've run every ounce of everything they could

32:40

out of him. And the

32:42

passing has continued to be helpful, man. He

32:45

had three assists tonight, a gorgeous drive and

32:47

bounce pass to B-ball for a dunk once

32:49

once he drew Mitch coming over a really

32:51

nice one in transition, finding

32:53

Tobias for a dunk plays

32:56

that the Sixers would have easily like just put

32:58

their head down and and and biffed in the

33:00

past. It's nice.

33:02

The defense, I thought, was pretty rough after

33:04

after playing better in the past

33:06

few games, he gets back cut

33:08

so easily off ball. He gets overly reachy

33:10

sometimes he he's out of position. Sometimes an

33:12

OG can just make an easy straight line

33:15

drive. And he plays he always plays a

33:17

little bit too lackadaisical off shooters, off the

33:19

catch. The

33:21

it's the really tough. The guy I trust

33:24

the most on shooters is

33:26

is Batum. But the guy I trust the most

33:28

on Brunson

33:30

is also Batum. So it's kind

33:32

of tough to do it. But it was

33:34

an overall really solid, especially offensively game

33:36

from from Oubre. And and

33:39

Niko man, like defensively,

33:41

that guy is just so, so, so

33:44

helpful. Lowry's been helpful also,

33:46

but like the length and the awareness

33:48

and just like he saves more

33:51

than any player in the

33:53

Joel Embiid era outside of Joel

33:55

Embiid. Nick Batum has saved so

33:57

many people's asses with like. contest

34:01

sometimes doesn't get the shot but obviously the blocks

34:03

he had I counted three big blocks today maybe

34:05

they gave him credit for one steal he

34:08

blocks a Brunson drive that was huge deuce

34:11

McBride got an offensive rebound off of a

34:13

Brunson missed free throw and it

34:15

was the TNC had a bad camera angle on it so

34:17

it was like you couldn't really tell what's going on but

34:19

deuce got the rebound I was about to put it up

34:21

and and Ubre Batum blocked him from

34:23

behind that was huge and then the biggest play

34:25

of the game which would have cut

34:28

it to like five or six a little too

34:30

little too close for comfort was blocking a

34:32

Hartenstein dunk from behind which

34:34

was just a massive massive play and

34:37

again he had another another three after being

34:41

very cold for for much of much of

34:43

the regular season he's really after

34:45

that Miami game the second half of that Miami game

34:47

he's just become a very willing three-point shooter and that

34:50

just matters like we can't

34:52

we can't be trigger happy we just

34:54

cannot know and we want to be

34:56

triggered great we

34:58

can we must be trigger happy what I

35:00

meant to say that's what we have to

35:02

be doing yeah so that's so good it's

35:04

I mean yeah he's I mean I love

35:07

him yeah I love him and he's great and I wish

35:09

that we got him like six years ago so he's still a

35:11

little bit more like offensive juice that's

35:13

not just stand there or make the right

35:15

pass or something it'd be like if 27

35:18

year old Nick Witsune was here like he could just

35:21

be the third guy right now like he could that'd

35:23

be fine for that like Chris Middleton style like that's

35:25

right go do it but he's just

35:27

he's not quite in

35:30

rhythm as an offensive player more than just like catch and

35:32

shoot in the occasional good like cut middle for a pass

35:35

yet the you were

35:37

talking about Batoom I wanted to jump back to well Ubre

35:40

for a second Ike

35:42

mentioned today like he was

35:45

like so Ike

35:47

likes only Chuckers Ike Reese he

35:49

likes shooting loves scoring but

35:51

he was saying he was talking about some of that

35:53

strain in you as well I do I do I

35:55

love bucket getters but he was mentioning

35:57

he was talking about maxi shooting 30 times in

36:00

a bead shooting 30 times and he's like, the

36:02

other guys on the floor, because I like shooting so

36:05

much, but he's talking about Oubre, he was like, the

36:07

other guys on the floor need shots or

36:10

they just, they go dead. Like that's when

36:12

you stop getting movement and stuff like that. And I

36:14

think, I think with Oubre

36:16

specifically, he has done, he has

36:19

worked very hard defensively and

36:22

rewarding him with the ability

36:24

to shoot at the start of

36:26

the game and saying, go get it and like we want

36:28

you to score, I think is particularly

36:31

meaningful with somebody like Oubre. And

36:33

you're right about Batum. Like the, the, the

36:35

specific thing about Batum is that he is

36:37

not allowed to retire. He,

36:40

we have been waiting for a player,

36:42

for players like Kyle Lowry and Nick

36:44

Batum to be on the Sixers for

36:46

the entire time we were doing the

36:48

podcast and Nick Batum, you must not

36:51

retire. We need one more year out

36:53

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39:01

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39:03

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39:05

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39:23

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39:25

come on dude He did one time have a nice seal

39:28

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39:30

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39:32

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39:34

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39:37

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39:39

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39:41

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39:43

got a tip off of a maxi drive got another

39:45

a couple low boards Miss

39:47

that bunny like you said He

39:51

misses those camera side wing

39:53

threes every time When

39:55

you can see it, and it's right in line with

39:57

like the the hard cam. Yeah, you're looking at your

40:00

far. I'm like every

40:02

time. I'm never thinking

40:04

that this is going in and

40:06

I'm looking at something like okay maybe if I look

40:08

at just him reacting to it instead of

40:11

the path of the ball then they'll go in

40:13

and no matter where I look I think honestly

40:15

I'm immaterial to whether the shot goes in or

40:17

not. Hard to believe. That's frustrating to me. I

40:19

want to make a difference here but

40:22

yeah 0 for 2 from 3 and 33 minutes

40:24

is ridiculous doesn't get to the line once. Had

40:26

a b-ball

40:29

wide open on a roll one time didn't hit

40:31

him took a contested step back 18 footer

40:34

instead. You

40:37

know his on-ball D is

40:39

fine sometimes he's at least learned

40:41

back taps I think Kyle Lowry has taught him how to

40:43

like slap the ball away which is kind of nice but

40:46

like man off-ball defense. He

40:48

is trying hard. They go to

40:50

Brunson Tobias tags a rolling Mitch

40:53

but he tags him from like

40:55

the upper wing like pretty high up

40:58

and then he goes all the way down with him

41:00

and Boyan just like kind of rotates over and then

41:03

the ball gets very easily swung to

41:05

Boyan and it's he's 25 feet

41:08

away from the guy he should be covering. He's so

41:10

far and and Boyan has never

41:12

missed against us. Honestly

41:15

every the fact that Boyan is one for

41:17

three in the game and he

41:22

I'm happy every time Boyan bugged on him which is not

41:24

in the game. I

41:26

would be if I'm them I'm playing a

41:28

little bit less either Ananobi or

41:30

Hart they're both playing big minutes Devan

41:33

Tienzo wasn't great tonight I'm pleased

41:35

because of how automatic he

41:37

is from three against us I am pleased

41:39

whenever Boyan is not in the game and so if I'm the

41:41

if I'm the Knicks I rather I would rather be

41:45

playing him but yeah we're

41:47

just dealing with it's a biased thing and you

41:49

know we're just dealing with it it's not gonna get the

41:52

effort is there and that's nice but like holy shit

41:54

dude once once the season is

41:56

over hopefully in a few months then

41:58

we will have the conversation about how much

42:01

of a waste of time and contract

42:03

and how hurt they

42:05

have, this organization has been by

42:07

trading for Tobias with

42:09

those picks, trading for an expiring Tobias so that

42:12

they can then give him the most money they

42:14

could possibly give him. And

42:17

saddle Joel with this guy who

42:19

just like isn't that good at

42:21

anything for years. And

42:26

like, is he capable, is he a

42:28

professional sometimes? Absolutely, did he help them out in

42:30

some of those years? Was he better in the

42:32

past? He's a professional sometimes. A.U. reminded us of

42:35

him scoring like over 20 in every game of that

42:37

Hawks series except for one. He

42:40

wasn't the problem for all of it, but he was

42:42

never the solution. And right now

42:44

he's pretty much the problem because

42:47

they just need some other people to step up because

42:50

of, you know, Max, he

42:52

can't do it all and Bead's banged up. He

42:54

just wish you had somebody, anybody that could

42:56

just take over a little bit. And Tobias

42:59

is just not that guy. He really is not that

43:01

guy. And it is

43:04

crushing how much time has

43:06

been wasted with him making as much

43:08

money as he possibly could on this

43:10

team for that long. And

43:12

like, I'm sure he's been a lover. Five hundred grand a

43:14

game. I'm sure he's mattered. I'm sure everybody likes him. Per

43:17

game. I like him. He was

43:19

great on this podcast. I think he's a sweet guy. And

43:21

I think he's a solid basketball player. But in this stage,

43:24

on this team, he has been

43:26

such a bad fit and a

43:28

bad. Sickest

43:31

win a huge game. Mike

43:33

finally unleashes on Tobias. It's just so much

43:35

money. It's so much of the salary cap

43:38

has given it to bias. And it's just

43:40

like, if he was, if he was making

43:42

the mid-level, then you could go like, okay,

43:44

that's fine. Other guys stepping in, whatever. But

43:46

so much money has been given to Tobias

43:49

for him to be playing forgettable

43:52

or detrimental basketball

43:54

for much of his time

43:56

here. And it's, it's

43:58

almost over. It's almost over. It

44:02

is almost over. You know, to

44:04

jump jump back to Buddy Heald

44:06

for one second, because you mentioned

44:08

Boyan Bogdanovich, MOC wrote a thing

44:11

about the five Michael Connor who writes for

44:13

us at the Ricky, about five takeaways from

44:15

the series so far before this game. He

44:17

can subscribe to his writing at writesrokeystanchions.com. You

44:20

should do that, please. Subscribe to all of

44:22

our writers. It's free. But

44:25

he just mentioned. Like

44:27

Darryl's trade deadline moves. And like,

44:30

I think you can you

44:33

can debate some of them. But the idea

44:35

of trading for Heald and on this podcast

44:38

saying he was the best player traded at

44:40

the deadline. Yeah. When. I'm going that way

44:42

now, for sure. No, not it doesn't. They

44:46

probably, if it was possible, should have

44:48

just traded for Bogdanovich. He's

44:50

better than Heald by like tenfold,

44:53

you know? Yeah, just

44:56

saying he wouldn't be afraid to shoot. Like

44:58

that. That guy's never afraid. That's

45:00

true. I mean, yeah, Bogey has had any

45:03

and he shoots it higher. He needs

45:05

less air space. The

45:07

Knicks have been frustrated with Bogey. He was

45:09

in a funk for a little while. Also,

45:11

it always feels like it hurts moment. Sure,

45:13

guys. Truthfully, nobody of real true substance

45:17

was traded at the deadline. Except for campaign. Really makes

45:19

a difference. Yeah. I mean, but Pat Bev is playing

45:21

is playing important basketball

45:23

for Milwaukee. Also, the

45:26

Lowry pickup was big. That color. That

45:29

colored why we weren't in love with

45:31

the deadline. Lowry, I thought was great. He

45:33

was second in the team in plus minus plus 11, 31

45:36

minutes from a guy who's 75 years old. He's

45:39

great every game, by the way. He

45:41

just does his job very

45:44

well. Like the biggest Kyle

45:46

Lowry thing, they have a couple things to

45:48

say about him. But the biggest one is

45:50

this is the first time all series that they've

45:52

got. They got beat repeatedly with a rolling big

45:55

because they had to step up to to Brunson

45:57

because they were he was hitting those shots. And

46:01

they got beat with rolling big, it was like dunk, dunk, dunk.

46:04

And tried to do it

46:06

again with the Chua. And Lowry just steps in from

46:08

the weak side to draw the charge on him. And

46:10

it's just like, that's just the right play. That

46:13

is just the right play. That was Kyle

46:15

Lowry making the fucking right play once again

46:17

and saving a bucket. And that was big

46:19

and he had two big free throws late

46:21

after missing two in game two. A huge

46:23

pull up when both guys went with Joel

46:25

in the role. He had, same play happened

46:27

last game. Maxi drives right and Lowry drifts

46:29

to the left corner. And

46:31

Maxi finds him in the corner, hits another

46:33

three, happened last game two. Had

46:35

a nice bucket off an in-bounce pass. Fact

46:38

that they got anything out of an in-bounce pass is

46:40

a miracle. It was a great cut from

46:43

Lowry and a great pass from Maxi. And

46:45

he's gonna do his grift stuff. He does,

46:48

it's nice when he's on

46:50

our team. He strips an OG post up that

46:52

he probably fouled him on. He feeds Ante DiVincenzo

46:54

into transition foul and gets him frustrated. The charge

46:57

he took was enormous by

46:59

the way. Yeah. And the grifty stuff, yeah, amazing

47:01

by the way that he does it. Like, amazing.

47:03

Yeah, he does it too. I mean, he's not

47:05

the only guy. But like, it's nice to have

47:07

your role players be smart. And that's what I've

47:10

been saying with Lowry and Batoum for a really

47:12

long time. Your role players either be really smart

47:15

or have to, like you can make up for,

47:17

okay, the threes aren't falling, but I'm still really smart in

47:19

these other ways. And I can win you possessions with my

47:21

brain and it's very nice. Last guy

47:23

to talk about, B-ball, fucking, Paul,

47:26

seven minutes, held up, fought

47:29

on the glass. You made offensive rebounds, by the way.

47:31

Couple big ones. And he wasn't doing anything kooky with

47:33

him, right? He just got the rebound and kicked it

47:35

out. He got fouled a couple times. He

47:37

didn't even think about, I don't know. No. B-ball's

47:40

great, man. Every time B-ball touches the ball

47:42

and has possession of it, do you start

47:44

to think what it goes

47:46

through my brain is, no, no, no, don't do this to

47:48

me. Don't do this to me. Don't do this to me.

47:50

He wants to cook literally every time

47:53

he touches the ball. He's like Oobre in

47:55

that way. If that's it,

47:57

Oobre's a guard, you know? He

47:59

wants to cook. cook. Yeah, great. And yeah,

48:02

how to dunk. I love that. And the dance

48:05

all on the fourth when you're in the penalty. That's

48:07

Bronson selling it. That's what he's supposed to do. But

48:10

Lowry would have done the same thing. And

48:12

B balls dunk, I will say, you made

48:14

the point last five that sometimes dunks are

48:16

just like momentum swings for the crowd. I

48:19

think his dunk was off of a after

48:22

the Josh Hart lob to Mitchell Robinson. And

48:24

B balls dunk was the play after that.

48:27

And just like, sometimes you need somebody to

48:29

dump dunk the goddamn ball. And thank you B

48:31

ball for doing it after we got on him

48:33

many times this year for not dunking it. The

48:36

last thing I'll say, I do still think

48:38

that Ricky council should play a role in the

48:40

series. I'm surprised that Nick hasn't gone to him.

48:42

I think the campaign move was nice. There's

48:44

a chance that he doesn't I don't think buddy should play

48:46

at all this rest is here. I think he's I think

48:49

he's done. I think I think you go with the tomb

48:51

B ball and campaign as the as the final three rotation

48:54

guys. And if Cam's not getting anything

48:56

going or Tobias is busted again, or

48:59

whatever it is, I think Ricky council needs to

49:01

be especially if Melton's not ready, needs to be

49:03

the next guy. He is just, he's

49:06

just a really good rebounder. And he's really athletic.

49:08

He can get you those plays and get like,

49:10

just steal you a couple minutes here and there.

49:12

I didn't love that they played some maxi and

49:14

Embiid both on the bench minutes. But if

49:16

you're going to do that, Ricky

49:19

council, like let him let him cook, let him try

49:21

let him go to the basket, see if he gets

49:23

fouled. I get the the concern

49:25

of playing like a sort of haphazard rookie. But

49:30

I didn't even have a contract to the last day

49:32

of the season. Well, they wanted they wanted to, I

49:34

know, set our expectations and build up to it and

49:37

reveal it. That's the momentum they need to go into

49:39

playoffs with the Ricky contract. But

49:41

anyway, he I still think he should be in the cards.

49:43

And I really think that buddy should should be, you know,

49:45

on ice the rest of the series for sure. I agree

49:48

with your own buddy. Last

49:50

two things, non specifically basketball

49:52

related. And I probably

49:54

say this twice a year. And

49:56

I think there was extra attention on the refs.

50:00

this game. And by the way, all the petitioning

50:02

and whining in the world, I

50:04

don't think made any difference in this. No,

50:06

no, no. They're playing the replaying the end

50:08

of game two, like now. Oh, right now.

50:10

Okay. Turn it on. I, the

50:14

NBA has to do

50:16

something about players

50:18

complaining to the refs after

50:21

literally every single shot

50:23

they take. It's fucking

50:25

annoying. It's definitely annoying, but

50:28

it's like the refs doing

50:31

more technical fouls. Yeah, but just give them a

50:33

technical every time they bitch. And then it's over.

50:35

It would take two games and, and

50:38

then the other thing with the refs and well, whatever

50:40

we, I don't want to get into a ref debate,

50:42

but it's annoying. And, and Maxi

50:44

has gotten all of a sudden really guilty

50:46

of it. Maxi complains a lot about

50:48

calls. I just, it's like everybody

50:51

next Nick's players too. It's everybody. It's just

50:53

annoying. And the second thing is I do

50:55

it. We shocking on my

50:57

couch and did I ever play

51:00

the get hot, the new

51:02

song that somebody played? Remember

51:13

I sent to you via text. I don't think

51:15

you did send it. A lot of

51:17

songs floating around the Ricky universe that make

51:20

me a little bit uncomfortable. Oh,

51:22

come on. It's great. We never mentioned the

51:24

AU song. I know the Batoom song. It

51:26

was actually like the Batoom song. Oh my

51:28

God. It was great. Do you

51:30

know the original? Do you know that pod song

51:33

or no? Here comes the boom,

51:35

right? Is that what it's called? It's called a

51:37

boom by pod. But the funniest part about that

51:39

song was AU texting me early

51:41

in the day. If I record

51:43

a parody song about Nick Batoom to pod's

51:45

boom, which by the way came out 25

51:47

years ago and was only

51:51

like a moderate hit on rock radio. He

51:53

goes, could see they do a video for

51:55

that? And I'm just looking at the text.

52:00

to do what? Wants to make a parody song?

52:02

Awesome. Mitchell Robinson walking

52:05

out of... Were you going to say that, CJ?

52:08

About the Batoon video, I was going to

52:10

say Spike, you texted me saying, oh, can

52:12

you just like add the lyrics and put

52:14

a picture of him on it? And then

52:16

I opened the dock that you sent me

52:18

and it was like sighted with multiple sources.

52:21

He made the entire script for the video,

52:23

which was incredible. It was great. Very,

52:26

very... I was tweeted that Mitchell Robinson left

52:29

with a walking boot. Oh, wow. Here's

52:31

the other song. They

52:37

just got to get hot. They got to get hot.

52:39

They got to hit the shots. They got to get

52:41

healthy. They

52:43

got to get downhill. They got to get the lines. They

52:45

got to get to the rim. They

52:48

got to not fucking double too much. They got to force

52:50

them to take a tough shot. There

52:56

we go. The other thing, I don't

52:59

think we can do the pod without mentioning the

53:01

fact that 60%

53:03

of the crowd was Knicks fans. Now... Well,

53:07

it was... If you look at... So

53:09

I got a text from somebody... They kept... The broadcast

53:11

certainly kept fucking showing him, at least TNT did. Like

53:14

a lot of lower ball behind the Knicks bench

53:16

a lot. I got a text from a

53:18

guy named... I worked with named Dave who was

53:21

like, this is embarrassing. I've never seen anything like

53:23

it. And add... Sixers

53:25

Adam was like blown away by it. And

53:28

maybe it's 50%, whatever it was. It

53:30

was so much that forgetting about the

53:32

noise that they make, when

53:34

the Sixers were doing great things, the place just wasn't

53:37

like loud enough. And look, I

53:39

get it. Knicks fans are

53:41

priced out of their own building because

53:43

Turtle and Ben Stiller pay $25,000 for

53:46

courtside seats and tickets are too expensive.

53:48

I get... And I also get, if

53:51

you have tickets, you're like, fuck

53:53

this team. I'm making $100 on

53:56

my tickets. I'm not going to the game. I

53:59

don't know what else to say. other than like I get

54:01

it from the Sixers fan point of view, I get

54:03

it from the Knicks fan point of view, it is

54:05

kind of a bummer though to see that many Knicks

54:07

fans in when, when the

54:10

Sixers are like a

54:12

real team, you know, this is the, they didn't,

54:15

they didn't like whatever.

54:17

They're a real team with a star player,

54:20

a two star players. And it was a

54:22

bit of a bummer that the Sixers have

54:24

not give them that I would say that

54:26

the bummer is the Sixers have not given

54:28

those people a reason so

54:31

far to be excited enough to be

54:33

like, you know what? No, I'm not, I'm not selling tickets.

54:35

I'm going to the game. It was just a bummer. Yeah.

54:37

That's all. Yeah. Who

54:40

break crashing his Lamborghini? Oh,

54:42

well, it was actually, so

54:46

I know the report was that he crashed the

54:48

Lamborghini, but actually what happened was is he was

54:50

on a bike and, um,

54:55

and a car hit him.

54:57

Yeah. I don't know.

54:59

It's not good. Crash again

55:01

tonight. Crash again tonight. You play it. You play that

55:03

good offensively. You're willing to shoot crash again tonight, but

55:06

as long as, as long as you're okay, you keep

55:08

crashing it, man. It did. Okay. We'll cover it. TMZ

55:11

said he ran

55:13

a red light and totaled another

55:15

car. So first

55:17

of all, I'm glad that the other person

55:19

is not harmed and he's not harmed Kelly.

55:21

Everybody's fine. Maybe stay away from streets for

55:24

a little while. Just in

55:26

all just take a helicopter everywhere. Josh

55:28

Harris, maybe

55:32

get him a helicopter, you know, get him

55:34

a chauffeur or something. Oh,

55:37

Derek, Derek just tweeted that Joel city started

55:39

having migraines a day or two before the

55:41

play in against Miami, which are the first

55:43

symptoms. God, that

55:45

is really hard to play in with

55:48

all the shit he's got and a

55:54

fucking 50 burger tonight. Yeah. And

55:56

a win. Do it again on Saturday

55:58

Sunday. Yeah. Let's just. Here's my

56:00

thought. Here's my thought for the rest of the series. Why

56:03

don't we win on Sunday? And

56:06

then win game five. That's

56:10

amazing. Yeah, I like that. Really

56:13

good campaign quote. Energy

56:16

costs nothing. Oh,

56:18

he's the best. That guy's

56:20

my fucking dog. It's

56:22

a great quote. Every time he hits

56:25

the shot, he dances up court like he's in

56:27

an and one mixtape game or something. Yeah,

56:31

it's the best. And

56:33

he's and he was a guy who was drafted out

56:37

of Murray State and was sort of

56:40

seen as just really a pretty

56:43

solid mid round bust comes back, has a

56:46

good playoff run with the

56:48

Suns, has a good time

56:50

with Milwaukee and then gets buried a little bit. And now he's

56:52

back and he's just like, he

56:54

makes it happen, man. And he's not consistent

56:57

enough to do it all the time. But like he

57:00

can lock in, he can snap to grid, he can

57:02

fucking hit those threes, he can dance

57:04

and get to his floater. He's

57:07

a decent, decent enough passer.

57:09

Has the weirdest form. Very

57:12

weird, very weird. So I

57:14

mean, look, keep doing this.

57:16

We'll build you a statue. We'll do a very small

57:18

statue. Tiny little statue. Tiny little

57:20

statue right next to the tiny Iverson statue.

57:23

Yeah. Oh,

57:25

thank God. Thank God they won. Thank God they

57:28

won. Yeah, I was nervous. That's the difference. I

57:30

think you might have said this, but that's the

57:32

difference of like Sixers fans and Knicks fans and

57:34

maybe some Sixers fans do it afterwards. I don't

57:36

really participate in like post

57:39

win cocky talk because

57:41

I just feel nervous. I just feel anxious about the next one. But

57:44

like Knicks fans are

57:46

this is still early for them in their

57:49

like relevance. Of

57:52

like a team that matters a little bit. And so they're like,

57:54

it's always going to work out. Here we are. We're storming our

57:57

way through and it's just going to get better from here. had

58:00

so many Sixers disappointments,

58:03

the when's the next shoe gonna drop, how are

58:05

they gonna blow it in the last minute, whatever

58:07

it is. And the

58:09

Knicks are just like, obviously Maxi rules and there's a

58:11

lot of fun guys on the team, but the Knicks

58:13

are, as a team, like as a holistic team unit,

58:15

the more fun team to root for. Sure. They

58:18

like play a style and an

58:20

aggressiveness and an energy and athleticism that is

58:22

just like, that is just more

58:25

fun to watch. But their

58:28

fans are not quite, they haven't been,

58:31

they've been hardened by years of like

58:33

futility and irrelevance, but like

58:35

they haven't been, they haven't had enough

58:37

playoff slip

58:40

ups to

58:42

like cut down the cockiness. And

58:45

I feel none of that. I feel only

58:48

dread, just dread. And

58:51

then afterwards we exhale and then

58:53

more dread. Knicks fans are this weird combination.

58:55

And again, I spent years

58:57

around them now, but

58:59

they're this weird combination now

59:01

of, they're

59:03

constantly complaining about not getting respect and

59:06

national respect about how good they are,

59:08

about how good Jalen Brunson is, blah,

59:10

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But then

59:13

when you move them into the category

59:15

of, okay, well, then

59:17

are you gonna win a championship? And

59:19

they're like, well, no, we're not there

59:21

yet. It's like, there's

59:24

only a few different kinds of conversations

59:27

about NBA teams. There's teams

59:29

good enough to win a championship. And if you

59:31

don't, they ask, why not? There's

59:33

shitty, shitty, shitty teams. There's rebuilding

59:36

up and coming teams. And then

59:38

there's everybody else that gets completely

59:40

ignored. You cannot complain

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about not getting respect about how

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good you are. And then

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also say, you don't wanna

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be held to the same standard as

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every other team who is

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in that position. Knicks are the two

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seat, the Sixers are the seven seat.

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The Knicks were favored to win the

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series. So like, you're... you're getting respected.

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Like stop whining is my position to

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them. And by the way, as you've

1:00:06

sort of hinted there, very

1:00:09

fun to root for and scrappy

1:00:11

and plays hard pivots

1:00:13

real quick if you

1:00:15

don't win anything. Is, you know, like all of

1:00:18

a sudden you wake up, like Nick's, whenever their

1:00:20

season ends this year, they will wake up and

1:00:22

say, okay, well who are we gonna add? Because

1:00:24

you can't just come back with the same team

1:00:26

next year, whatever. Joel says

1:00:29

he was trying to make sure Mitch

1:00:31

Robinson didn't land on him, the

1:00:34

play that he was called a flag on one four. And

1:00:36

I get it, and I'm sure that was part

1:00:38

of it. But

1:00:41

that was an aggressive shove. When the guy was

1:00:43

about to go up, you grabbed him, and then

1:00:45

it was like a grab pull and then a

1:00:47

shove afterwards. And look, I

1:00:49

truly, I get, I would have done

1:00:52

the same thing. And people

1:00:54

calling him beat a dirty player, I

1:00:56

understand why he would do that, why he would say that.

1:01:00

For sure. They

1:01:04

just gotta get hot. They gotta get hot,

1:01:06

they gotta hit the shot, they gotta, you

1:01:08

know what I mean?

1:01:11

They gotta get downhill, they gotta get the one, they

1:01:13

gotta get to the rim. They

1:01:16

gotta not fucking double too much, they gotta

1:01:18

force the take-tut shot. Okay,

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we will talk to you after the game on

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Sunday. Go Sixers, we're not

1:01:26

dead yet. Are you down with TTP? Ah,

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you know, like fast, yeah, for sure. If

1:01:31

you don't fuck with me, then

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I know you're not gonna fuck with me.

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Don't talk with me. I'm

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gonna go to the pool for the second half. You're

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not gonna fuck with me. Thank

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you.