Fanatic About the Playoffs | Setting the Scene with the Cuz and Devon

ninety seven five The Fanatic. I'm Brian Selzer and on this episode we preview Round one game won the seventy Sixers against the Washington Wizards with ninety seventy five the Fanatics, Divine Gibbons and the One and Only The Cuz Anthony Gargano Fellas. It's here. It's arrived. Playoff Basketball of Consequence. I always the word, Yo, Dar, you're ready. We've been talking to that still can't wait. So glad it's final

the year Fanatic about the Playoffs? What is it? Well, it's gonna come to you the day after every game right here on the seventy Sixers podcast Network, presented by DraftKings. It's gonna be one of us here from the Sixers, myself, Lauren Rosen, Tom McGuinness, Matt Murphy, and we're paired up with at least one person from our flagship radio partner ninety seven five, the fanatic breaking down the game that just happened and looking ahead to the next game on

the docket for the Sixers. Devan and I. We do this pretty regularly, but it is it is a true privilege to have the cause himself on. I don't know if we can get this. Uh, we're gonna have to queue up the music to bring in the man who plays the song, perhaps more than anyone in the entire city, because himself well is an admire of you two. I'm giving me. I'm honored to be all you guys. You guys appreciate the soul, of course, and we can't get tired of hearing it. This year we heard it a lot.

We heard a lot of the song. Yeah, it's it's you know, you know what's great about this whole thing is that last year, now obviously with COVID and everything that hit us, then you start the bubble and then the way it just extinguished so quickly, Bank gets hurt and then it's the Celtics and it's over, and there was a really, I think a sense of loss, as though, you know what, we had reached almost a dead end in the process, and then all of a sudden, Doc

and Darrel and then you know, Elton's there still and all the guys were able to resuscitate it and actually grow it, and you know, we haven't been in this close In some ways. It's strange to me because this almost feels like it's been a fifteen almost sixteen months season, not it started in December. To me, this has felt like there's a connection going all the way back to when things ramped up again after the shutdown and the bubble, and it's been a continuation of that story. And I

don't know you guys feel about it. To me, sometimes you start a season and you feel good about a team, but it doesn't always seem like the promises there immediately. Then there's other seasons. I think of two thousand four with the Eagles when they got too and then boom off to the races they're undefeated and start the season.

I don't know if this year was quite in that category for the Sixers, but still right off the bat at least to me, there was evidence that you could feel good that this team had the potential to do something pretty special. Definitely did. I mean, you look at the changes that were made, and you talk about equating

it back to the other seasons. I even take it back to eighteen playoffs, the nineteen playoffs, and certainly with what happened in the bubble and now sliding into this one because of how tough that Boston Love was in the first round, even though they were young and they weren't necessarily expected to win, but the path it looked like they were set up to beat Boston and meet Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers at that time. And you figure things out after that. Okay, they take this step,

they lose, but they're ready. And then the next year, okay, no problem. Then you get to what happens with Toronto in the second round, and it's still stings. I can't watch it because of how how much it stings, and then everything in the bubble. Ben's injured, and the fact that you have to deserve shake Milton in there. Their questions are already surrounding the team, and beat is ready.

Other players not necessarily stepping up, and then the changes have made this off season, so it's still like a continuation for me, just because you have to, of course have that sting that we felt Boston, Toronto and even last playoffs after the hiatus and the bubble, just because you need to feel those things before you start to feel the the you know, the great feeling about winning and being a champion, and I know the fifty wins it was. It was great when you first hit it.

The second year, all right, that's expected. Year three, I don't count it anymore. Just go out there and win those fifty because they're supposed to be in that category and now here coming into this one, the changes that the reshaping of the roster, adding the shooters around both Simmons and Embid, and the elevation that we expected from Tobias Harris with Doc Rivers now in the fold and

Dwight Howard. We're all excited about getting him on a one year deal because you're like, oh, you got a legitimate guy to back up Joel Embid now and then the other little tweaks and everything just started to fall into place. So now everything culminating together the forty nine win season earning that number one seed and you earned it, you know, regardless of what it was, you earned it.

And now you step into it where this playoffs is just going to be, as you said, Selson, just looking at it as it's just so exciting to have that feeling of these guys can actually do it. Yeah, yeah, they can win. And I'm so with you on the path to a championship. Especially the league. It's a it's a grown grown ups league, right, you know, we always talk about it, and even goes back to when Brett called Jimmy the adult in the room and I still

remember that, could hear him saying that. But it's true. You gotta bleed to no bliss and the bleeding has to come. You don't win tuttles in this league when you're that young, when your core is that young, and you gotta go through it like you brought it up. I mean, that Celtic series was ascruciating because they could

have won every one of those games. They were in every one of those games, and you go down and we all know how Toronto ended, like you said, Dick, and then you know, it was so weird because the first night of last season was against Boston and you guys remember that they actually played a semblance of bully ball, and I read the whole thing wrong. I thought that they would be able to play like that and it would get them to where they need to go. And

it was weird. It just they never were. They never were like this, That Coesian never came. And then you look back on it, and this is all I think where Elton and Darryl come into play. The spacing element that Devon talked about. You know, Josh Richardson, you know, could never play with Tobia's hatters, right in the sense that you got two mid range kind of guys, even though they both can go out, but how many. He couldn't spread the floor, Josh, like the way Kyrie and

Green get spread the floor. I forget about having an extra four man who got all those looks and I love them and he's a good man and he's a pro, but he just was no fit. And I read it wrong. I thought you could bring him out and he just he looked uncomfortable the whole year. To me, where this all starts is what you guys just talked about, alluding

to this notion of a fit. And it's interesting that Joel After a game a few weeks ago, someone asked him about the way the season's gone, in the way that he's played, and he said, I don't think people talk about the fit of this team the personnel enough, and I agree, And I think this goes back to the moves that were made by Daryl Morey right after he came on board. You trade for Seth Curry, you'd

acquired Danny Green. I mean, these are guys that can maximize the space, the balance on the floor with the main guys that you have on this roster, and I think he has so much of the six and success this year, of course has to do with Joe Ellenbid playing at an otherworldly level and Ben Simmons clamping down on defense and Tobias taking his game to a new level. But I think so much of that has to go back so that the roster makes sense. With your top guys,

it just makes sense. And there's that fit. Yeah, and you even go back to where you added Bell and Ellie and Elias Silva to JJ Reddick. So you looked at it in everything. Okay, great, that's those are your shooters, But then you had the other parts of it that defensively where they will explode was a little bit, or maybe you just simply weren't deep enough where you can kind of play that offensive defensive shuffle that coaches like

to do in certain situations. And as you said, because they pivoted to another way, and I was on board. I said, okay, look, we knew that they needed shooters and the whole thing with Jimmy Butler and JJ Reddick leaving as well, but the fact that they pivoted they had another idea, and I liked the idea of what it could possibly be why everyone of else is doing this.

And you know, maybe again it turned out it wasn't the right thing to do, but I was fine with it because I also felt like that that next step will be taken by and beating Simmons, where maybe they could offset a little bit of the other stuff that they would be missing with the outside shooting not being there. But you know, things just didn't work out that way.

And once we got back to that and knowing that you did need that that stretchability out there from the other guys, and you see how it has changed and helped reshape things the way it needed to be. And you see the Monster season and Ebid is now having all right, let's talk about this for one second, because I don't think we can under underplay this enough. So yeah, for whatever reason, they couldn't play with Horford, they couldn't play that whole. The two bigs didn't work. I get it.

But this Joel Embiid is not that Joel Ebid. They're the same guy. But this is immature. This is a guy that understands it. And we've all been there in our own lives, right, like there's a come to point in time where you go, you know, why it's time to get serious. And he had the epiphany. And I mean, you know, we saw it before his before our eyes because we always knew that he could dominate and like you know, like he would have his mom, but he

didn't score against Toronto. We don't have come on, But this is a different We see him now on a like stuff that nobody he's still in that we haven't seen ever, right, Like I didn't see Will, but I remember saw anything like that where it comes to dominance. This is a different be no, it is, it certainly is.

I mean we talk about it so often, right so that he's just a different guy, whether it's the fact that he became a father, the losses finally stinging the way that you want your star player to feel those losses, the way that he has, and he has established himself in a place where we already thought he could get to, like you said, and he did it consistently, and he

always talks about I just want to dominate. That the one that cut the audio that we always hear about him saying he always wants to dominate, and he has and sells. We've gone over all those games of our favorite m B games this year. There are a number of games that we just forget about, right, last game, fifty point game, And he's done the forties and all these other forties and the thirties and the eighteens, and he just dominant and he's just going in a different way.

And you're right, because he's just a different guy, and whatever it is, as long as that different guy now, who has been the same dude all year long, takes that into this one where they start this playoff series on Sunday in round one in the quarters and carry through the semis and we'll see where everything goes through from there. I mean, is there anybody in the East that can guard him? No, No, I don't think so. No, He's the most dominant player on the floor. That's the

big advantage that you have going in that. Look, all due respect to the big three in Brooklyn and all the stars, nobody is as dominant as in bad and you got because nobody can guard him. So even looking at what the potential options were for this first round, of course Washington they have guys like Beale and Westbrook. Do you think Alex Land or Rui Hachimura it's gonna stop Joellen bid So when I've been thinking about, well, who could the Sixers face? Who might they match up with?

That's the first question, because who is going to stop this guy? And the way he's going right now? I give him a lot of credit. I mean, his mindset and his demeanor seems like it's been in a great place this year. It didn't seem like he was enjoying himself much at all last year, especially now that we see him kind of back to his hip, thrust in and wave into the crowd, whether it's there or not,

their thing that he's been doing this year. But he also seemed in speaking with some people like he really took a calculated approach to how he went about preparing for this season. He's not the type of guy. And I'm not saying this is the right thing or wrong thing. I'm just saying it's not a Joe thing. He's not going to post the late night workout videos or in the gym dripping working up the ladder like, that's not him. He's not going to post that on a social media

I don't care if you do or you don't. It's just that's Joe's way. But he's been like in the film room looking at all this tape. Drew Hanlon, who's his personal coach and works with on the side, he sends him right after every game is over a clip a set of clips with voiceover affirmations that Joe listens to to get ready for the next game that breaks

down what happened the previous game, all that stuff. So I think it's like the combination of his mind being in the right spot, the cerebral part, and then to me, his jump SHOT's been incredible this year and how that's been able to open things up and just being able to attack more off the drill or try and like take it to these double and things like that to try and break down some of the extra coverage you

might see. The thing about him it's so fascinating is that he's supremely smart, right Like he's like he's got that photographic memory. Always talking about I would always call he's got the mind of an art forger, right Like he can look at a painting and he can replicate that plane painting, whether that is you know, a move on the floor or whatever it is, because he's got the touch that we've never seen a true big had

that kind of touch before. I mean, like, you know, I Marvel, you know, he's he's what I am imagined that if Wilt Chamberlain grows with the times, right like the legend of who Will was and I didn't say him, that he would become and be like that would be the evolution of Wilt Chamberlain being this incredible athlete who's really really intelligent, who just knows the game inside now

and could do there's nothing he can't do, which is scary. Yeah, he's still will unleash a eurostep and I'm just like, he's not supposed to be able to do that because of his size. But you're right in us. Just seeing him grow and turning into this player and right in front of our eyes and seeing all these things. It's just been a treat because I think we've all had some concern with certain things throughout the years and this

year not so much. And now he's playing more minutes where he's able to be able to play the way that he needs to and not worry about the ad minute restrictions or anything like that. He can just go out there and play basketball. And seeing the floor and we talk about the double teams all the time, where he's now surveying things, catch face up, seeing when the double team is coming, see where it's coming from, and

locate where the ball now needs to go. And that's just the natural growth the maturity on the floor, and then even the maturity that suck. You just talked about with the things that you heard about how he has approached this season and it can and the beauty of it is he approached the season that way, but he kept doing He didn't waiver, he didn't he didn't get away from that. Whatever it was working for him, he kept that going. And that's that's just the growth of

that star player. And now now we'll see what it does for him and the team once we get things started on Sunday. What could we expect to change now that it's playoff basketball? You always hear it's a different world. Do we expect to see things change for the sixers them not be able to get certain looks or shots quite as easily. What do you expect to see change

now that we're talking about starting the playoffs? Well, I think part of its matchups, right, Like, it is a truism that the game does slow down just naturally, You're you're going to defend every possession, right so you're it's almost like in baseball where every pitch matters like Gailor's bear down. They're now every pitch the same way. Every

possession now becomes defended. Listen, we all know during a normal eighty two game season and you're on back to backs or you're on the road five games in eight days, nine days, whatever, you're not going to defend every possession. That's just not humanly possible. But in the playoffs, that's what I think when people talk about the game slowing down a little bit, it doesn't actually slow down and

become a half court game. It's just defended better. It's defended more acutely, and I think that's the thing, and that's gonna be the biggest challenge with this offense, and you know, kind of getting the spacing and the shooters have to shoot. I think George Hill's going to help a lot. I think you're gonna see him a lot. You're gonna see the minutes the starters played prolonged minutes. I think that's gonna be a big thing with docs rotation.

Well naturally, sure not maybe not in the first round or even the second round, but certainly in the third round and then hopefully in the finals. I guess I'll follow up with the attention in detail has to be there. They have to be sharper, more precise with how you attack certain things, the angles, you have to play those angles properly. And the physicality, of course is different in

the postseason. And the beauty of it is when you look at the least the starters that you know that they've all been in the playoffs, so they know the difference in it to bias. Harris spoke about it earlier in the week where he started to break down certain things, and one of the things that he talked about was the physicality that changes once you get to the postseason. So what does that mean even though Shake Milton did it last year in the bubble, how is that going

to be differ for him? The same thing from Atias table as well. Maxie gets a few minutes while his speed is there, guess what that angle might be cut off a little quicker when you because you're now on that scouttering report for the playoffs, and they know exactly how they want to attack you, especially when you're playing them more than one game where they have an opportunity to do so. So I think all of those things are going to be important to matchups, and that you

just mentioned certainly important. And then just protecting the basketball too when we talk about all that, because possessions matter. You cannot you cannot turn it over at a higher rate and expect you to win, especially if you're turning it over at a higher rate. And then at the end of the night we look at the box score and the field goal attempts are eighty six to ninety nine. You just gave up thirteen more shot attempts and possibly

because you turn the ball over. So those things are key and crucial in the playoffs, and that physicality ramps up the whistle maybe swallowed, so you're gonna have to take advantage and be able to absorb that as well. Real quick, because I want to follow up d You brought up Tobias, and I love his story in so manyfferent words. First of all, he's one of those guys and you and i've Devine have talked about him before, and that he's just he's almost lovable. I mean, I

mean the way I describe him. I root for him so much because I think he's a real He's a beautiful guy. Man. He is heartfelt and he's real, and I think he's caring and I just I love him. And I think the spacing and Doc just gave him a new lease. I think he came to understanding with the weight of that contract. You know that you just can't slough off. That's a big deal. And I think the spacing helped him, and I think Doc helped him playing him the plane of four where he naturally belongs.

And I have no qualms like I don't know about you, guys, but I know that he that role on the floor for him, that he's going to get you twenty three, twenty five, twenty six. He'll do that every game. I have no doubt about that. He to me was one of the most fun and enjoyable stories. I think revelation might be that was my word that he was a little bit disrespectful to what his body of work was before this season, But there's no doubt he stepped it

up a notch. I think obviously everyone will point to the Lakers home game when he knocked down the shot final seconds to win it. But then going back to what you guys said, do I think it was you about how Joel didn't just show it for the first couple of weeks, make a statement and then go away. He kept doing it. Tobias was to me a legit

option in fourth quarters throughout the season. He won him a handful of games, played great in fourth quarters all season long, and he just I'm thinking back to that Knicks game at home when he trotted down the floor and he barked the I'm an all star thing. Old worldly Tobias, gentle Tobias, but a little more too Tobias,

like I'm gonna show you and here it is. Yeah, like it and for me with him and I don't think I'm unfair and saying this because I know how he felt about it, where he was disappointed in himself in the bubble, how he performed against the Boston Celtics. So and I was too because I expected so much, and definitely with Simmons being out of the out of the entire playoffs after the surgery, that you wanted to

buyas Harris to step up, he did not. Then he had to concussion and that and ya, he earned some points for me when he felt the way that he did and still came back and wanted to finish that game and showed me something. But you're right, he came back and he had something about him that just seemed a little different. I think one thing that you mentioned Doc celt and Doc telling him to stop thinking, just go playing. Why are you thinking? Catch the ball? Go?

And that's what you do. You have a very good first step. So when you take that long first stride with your six nine frame and you have that ability to shoot over top of your defender and even shoot the way that he does on the move off the glass and get a very good look at a layup, it's something that's to his advantage. And he did it, and he confidently kept doing it and it didn't stop. And I feel like he wants to redeem himself from

last season. The fact that again, so it's the All Star snub and he's an All Star, carry all of that into the playoffs and beat if you don't win the MVP. Carry that into the playoffs because while it may not be awarded until after the season, we all know the buzz will be out there, right the all NBA teams, the buzz will be out there. Use all of that, and Tobias Harris has to continue to use those things. Then use those things, okay, because that's going

to ultimately help the team overall. And he has been really good. He has been really really good the season. I hope his knee is good and he's able to hold up. And I'm sure he's frustrated how things were last year. But yeah, just go out there, catch and go think, just go go left. They can't stop. Just do it. What about the other gentleman who might be in the running for an end of season award, whether he gets it or doesn't. The OFT discussed Benjamin More

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See DraftKings dot com Slash sports Book for details. Gambling problem called one eight hundred gambler Ben Simmons. Fellas can't have a conversation about the postseason obviously without talking about Ben two five. It's amazing it you just mentioned his name, Ben and doing what Devon and I do for living. The phone lines just light up like one It's amazing, like you could see them as soon as you say Ben, you don't even get the Simmons, and all of a sudden,

boom boom, boom boom and they light up. And he is such perhaps the most polarizing athlete that's been here in a long time. Man, You know, you gotta go back a ways. And it's odd because it goes back to the same conversation anytime we talk about Ben, and I do think that people are awakening to his incredible skills and his gifted nature. That he is such an amazing defender. He'll never cheat you on the defensive, especially on the playoffs, bab He's gonna give you everything he's got.

He's your regal and he's a beautiful player to watch and can can facilitate like no other and rebound the whole thing. And you know, because it's gonna come back to as long as he's not the reason the offense stalls. You know, let's face it, this is a huge playoffs

for Ben. When it comes to the families, right or wrong, it is it is and we always bring up the success that he's had it in first round against Brooklyn in eighteen how part part of the Miami and eighteen Brooklyn and Night team where he was tremendous on the floor and then you know some of the questions we may have of his performance in the second round. This

is huge for he for e beat. There are the cornerstones of this, this whole thing, and um as we talk about being angry of how things played out last year and the the the domino effect from eighteen to nineteen to twenty and now where we are right now, the number one seed, all eyes are going to be on him and he can impact the game in a

lot of different ways. And as long as he goes out there and and you mentioned it, never cheats the game, and he doesn't plays the minutes hard and takes the assignment that's that's given to him, there there are gonna be a lot of a lot of good conversations I'm sure throughout this postseasons, as long as this run goes about what twenty five does. He's a tremendous player. I love the guy. He frustrates me. He's a polarizing guy. I mean, but but but he frustrates me because I know,

I believe, I know what he can do. I've seen it before and I want more. I'm greedy. Yes, I think you're right on Divan. I think it's it's not out of dislike or anything else. I think the criticism you hear it's more frustration. And I think it's more because I think everybody believes in the ability that he has. Like you know, I watch him attack the rim, and man, he can look so good like it just does. Think that's seven feet so fluid. He's a beautiful player, right

like he about you know, an art form. I mean that's the movement. The art of movement is watching Ben Simmons, and you know, greedy's a great word. Man. I just think everybody's you know, maybe a little impatient, But I do think it all clips clicks for him. I don't know what's gonna happen this this summer, but I think it all clicks for him. I think he's too good

to child. Just him mints missing last playoff right, so just him missing last playoffs appearance and how much that might weigh on him as well, where he couldn't help the team and he wants to be there for them this season force, force, force, force, just let me see

the force. Bend with the force early. I feel like that was something where after he came back off that little bit of the injury absence down the stretch of the season, first quarters, bend time force, right off the bat, blitz him, get that battering ram going do your thing on defense. I think that's what everyone comes back to that when he is in his get downhill, you know, push the pace if you can do it. Obviously, playoffs is gonna be a little bit different. I think that'll help.

I think Doc's helped him. I do. I think that Doc is with all these guys, goes back what we were talking about Tobias. Just be the best version of yourself right now, we're gonna ask you do anything too crazy. Just try and maximize what you've got and you can bring to the table. It was Brett and Ben. I mean, you know, the tides go back so long, right, They're so deep, they're so intertwined. And Ben comes at it and he's so young when Brett has him, I mean

that that alone's a tough dynamic, no doubt. Absolutely, Yeah. I think it goes back to what we were talking about at the beginning, and some of the guys have actually spoken about this week talking about Doc. It's freshness, something different, new set of eyes, different tone, and Doc's

got a pedigree, you know, he's been there. I think that in particular, Ben and Joe are on the right place in their respective timelines, different from the guys that Doc had in LA last year because they're still younger, haven't tasted what some of those guys in LA tasted, where Doc's voice carries that much more. I just think it's been great. I think it's a great fit all around. Who do you think we might be talking about as

we get farther along. I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed and hopefully not jump of the gun that we are not perhaps thinking of quite enough yet. Who could be someone who emerges for the sixers that maybe we haven't quite talked about as much as we obviously would the

top three guys. If if we talk about defense wins championships, then I'm gonna go back to the bench and with your rotation, if you feel like part of that first eight, And I know Rivers came on you know the station yesterday with Mike ms Nelian said that he's not really worried about that, And I'd love to hear that because so many guys have played so well they might have earned some minutes. We're going with defense, and I'm gonna go to the tease tyble and how important he might

be with his perimeter defense. If Doc feels like, hey, he's so disruptive out there that I can extend his minutes from fifteen to twenty and his defense is turning into offense. He's getting some fast break bad get some baskets and transition. You reward them with the you know, an outlet pass, or even with him just getting a steel and going the other way and just taking it in for a dunk. But I just think with him combined with Embiid Simmons and Green out there on the

perimeter and sometimes Hill as well. And not to say that no one's talking about it, but just to answer your question selves, I think Batista I will when we talk about all eyes on people, I think so many people are gonna see, all right, what does this guy you know have for us as far as the playoffs go. Now that this is his second year, he already kind

of knows how these guys play. The scattering port He and Dan Burke going over things, and Burt hey Man, you know first, Dave Yagers my guy defense he and David you know. So look, I think Matista, that's that's what I'm going And you you were appointing, you know you agree. I agree with you. I do, especially if the matchup is Brooklyn, because will need him against Brooklyn. You'll need him to defend, to help defend those big three.

I'm with you. I love the kid. I think the kid is such a great defender, willing player, you know, so I'm with you. I also think George Hill and Danny Green. I think Danny Green we don't talk enough about because he's a guy that's been through playoff wars. He's gonna get his fair share of looks, and there's gonna be days and we've seen them. I mean, divine, you've talked about it. When when Danny goes off and he's feeling it like that, he'll win you a game.

And I think he's gonna win them a big game. I could see him going, you know, seven for nine from three in one of these pivotal games and winning it for him. I thought he had an awesome season. He'll make the play for you. Defensively, he can be there and counter pond and I just thought super efficient. After the All Star Break, he just went up another notch. I think it was perfect, perfect edition for this team. You're gonna need You're gonna need those guys. This is

a team thing. They always preach team. As much as we talk about an individual award for a most Valuable player four and B, they always talk about team and that's what they're gonna need in order to win. So if in B can win you two games, stars do that in the playoffs, superstars do that, they'll win you

games in series. We've seen it so many times. If he's gonna do that, there's gonna be that Danny Green that goes seven for nine from d and self that they're going there's gonna be Shake Milton where he goes for six or twelve one day and all of a sudden you look up and you're like, wait a minute, Shake has seventeen just like that in fifteen minutes. Whoever it might be, it is going to have to be a team thing. And I think that they are set

up perfectly. It kind of just circles all the way back to what we talked about, well, how this team was built, how this woman was put together, and they all lean on one another, they trust each other. It looks like now after seeing him for seventy two, it looks like they trust one another and they have the right coach in there right now to lead the way to get them finally where we want to see them

get two. I feel comfortable that I've seen enough from some of these bench guys who might be called upon to know that if they needed to do something in the postseason, there might be an opportunity for them to win the sixes a game or get them back into a game. I mean, I'm a byproduct of my environment. I listened to probably just about every word that Brett Brown said for the last seven years, but he would always talk about that game Spurs Dallas. I believe it

was Steve Kerr. When was it West Finals? Steve Kerk comes off the bench. I don't think he played a minute in the series. That was the stories goes out, bang bang bang, just knocks down a bunch of threes and Spurs end up winning the game, winning the series. Who knows could be a Firk. Maybe Firk bring him in in the right listening in the right again. Match right, you look at a team like Brooklyn, you're gonna the

fir game. You're gonna need You're gonna need your three point shooters, right, so you're gonna need him to come out and ye, and I gets the team like Brooklyn doesn't play great perimeter defense. He'll get good lucks and if you get them on the right night, he'll mock those looks down. So you know, now, I guess if it's a Milwaukee you're playing in the conference finals. They're not a great defensive team, but they're a little bit better.

I think they're getting on matchups. It is, but I could see fur Can against one team, I could see Shake again and said, now they're like that sort of thing. That's why. And you know what if I talk that earlier, man, that's what makes the playoffs so much fun because styles make fights. Man, I'll tell you what. Though, I'll tell you what. I don't know why, and he but he

put it in my head somehow. Someway we're gonna see Tyrese Maxie, at least in the first two I don't know about the confidence finals, but those first two rounds, he just continues to do stuff, and he does stuff that when you look at the team, you say, nobody, no one else can really do what he just did right there. And it could be two minutes, three minutes, five minutes, he's gonna do something. And I think that that's where the depth of this team goes. Where you

can't play him ten, you can't play him fifteen. But if Doc Rivers sees a moment and he says, Tarisco, I just need you to run, attack the basket, get these guys in foul trouble, get the ball on the rim, the white howard, you clean it up if it comes off. He's going to do something. I see it. You know, it's a great point that you bring up because he's so fast, so fast, he could just change momentum, like

he can give you a spark. Well, you put him in the game, and you know a third quarter and like, like to me, the perfect time for him beginning of the second quarter, end of the third quarter where you need that one little lift to get me to the end of the quarter, and he'll give it to you. He might score five points in three minutes and dish out and assist and get his steel. He's been great. I agree. I agree with all of it. He's been great.

I agree with all of it. Different presents, bouncy, flashy, change it up. He's gonna be a hell of a player. Man. Yes, I think I agree with that. Uh, we'll do it again. This is the first time, hopefully of a long series of gatherings via microphone and zoom to talk about seventy six ers playoff action. I love it. July. We're talking to July. I know. We'll do it on the beach. We'll go to the boardwalk. No question about it, man,

no question. All right. You of course can hear the cause every weekday ten until two and then devon weeknights at six on the Home of the Sixers in the Delaware Valley ninety seven five the Fanatic fellas. Thank you so much, Thank you guys, thank you. Look for the next edition of Fanatic about the Playoffs to drop on Monday, May twenty fourth. That will be the day after Game one, which is on Sunday at one o'clock. We will recap Game one and look ahead to Game number two, which

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