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The BroadCast: Playoffs Pod - 4/16/2018 ~ Robert Covington, Sixers.com Head Honcho

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After a convincing performance against the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals, the 76ers set out to take a 2-0 lead before the series shifts to South Florida.
On this April 16th edition of The BroadCast, Sixers.com's Brian Seltzer catches up with Robert Covington, who reflects on the team's post-season opener.
Plus, friend of the podcast and uber-NBA head Charlie Widdoes dishes on some takeaways from the Sixers' Game 1 performance.
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It's time to talk Sixers, baby bet sevens between the Lake and that he rocks the room. Here on the broadcast the official podcast of Sixers dot Com. Here's the Steel, Mike Cummington three bottels of the Year, pet good, Robert Cumming getting parts in another three. Now. Here's today's episode.

Playoff Game Day a number two in the City of Brotherly Love and Delaware Valley seventy Sixers and the Miami Heat set for Game two of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series down at the Center later on Monday night at eight o'clock. Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com saying, what's up? Thank you once again for checking out a postseason pot edition of the podcast. Coming up on this episode, we're gonna sit down with my boss and a great guy, a man who knows his NBA, basketball and all things

round ball related. That would be the head of seventy Sixers digital media operations, Charlie Widows, and we'll spend a few minutes with Robert Covington talking about the Sixers big win on Saturday nights, his defense and that of his teammates as well. Before we get started, a reminder that

to subscribe to the podcast. All you got to do is head to a couple of different places, among them iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, or a SoundCloud type in Sixers podcast network, and that will take you to where you need to go.

There's no doubt about it that it was a welcome to the moment type moment for the seventy Sixers the fan base on Saturday night at the Center one thirty one oh three a dominant win and ended up being for the Sixers against the Miami Heating game that got off to a really testy, chippy, physical and whistle filled start, but the Sixers defense catalyzed a breakout seventy four points showing in the second half and was off to the

races from there. Eighteen three pointers for the seventy Sixers, tying a team record and setting a new playoff record

for the franchise. It was all good stuff. A man who was not only the longest tenured Sixer but someone who had a vital role in Saturday's victory, none other than Robert Covington, played twenty six minutes, was most tellingly a plus twenty nine points two or four from outside the arcs, seven rebounds, four assists, three block shots, and a menace defensively, doing a little bit of everything to disrupt the heat in the second half and get the

Sixers on the right track. After shoot around on Monday at the seventy six or Training Complex, and Camden had the chance to spend a few minutes with the Pride of Tennessee State cover before we talk about some specifics. What was Saturday night like for you in particular? You've been waiting for a playoff game with this team for such a long time and it ended up being a pretty good night. It was a static you know for me,

you know, my energy was going. I knew from the beginning of the game that you know, you can go my one up. You know, I had a lot more energy than I expected. You know, just an atmosphere of being there, being in playoffs, you know, it was an extra boost and you know that kind of helped my know, my productivity for the night. And it was just overall, you know, just being in that moment, just you know,

playing that well, it was a blessing. You know a lot of people get to experienced stuff like that, you know, being you know a kid that you know has a incredible story, you know, just to be a part of that and you know have a major impact. I just to test me, just hard work and you know, the feeling was it was amazing. You are one of the leaders of the defensive unit for the Sixers team. What happened in the second half that really helped you, guys

and turn things around. We've seen what we did. You know they the first half at halftime, you know, the way they was getting easy shots and easy buggets. You know, we just had to be more maniacal and defense, and you know we had to face it. You know, I think the just the adrenaline from everything. At first, the kind of was, you know, up and down a little bit. But you know, once we settled down and they got

you know, INSI our principles and everything. You know, it's a lot better than That's what we say be locking anymore. In particular, even if you look back at the regular season, you've had some success on an all start that Miami has important dragage. What's been your approach with him? Just been watching a lot of film, you know, getting a lot of his tendencies down and knowing that you know his way, he way he plays within the offense. You know, I've been watching a lot of film. I watched the

game from Saturday three times. Um, just you'll continue to see like how my involvement and what I did to you know, help our team in so many different ways, you know, and watch how other guys you know it's playing as well and just seeing their their team scy as a unit. You know it. That's that's what you know, part of taking the next step is and um I think you know the ways that I built with you know, coach parers and everything, just you know, taking to another

knots just this this series. So you know, just have to be more locked in because the States game, you know, cost you a lot in the playoff. See you like that. You know, every every mistake counts, you know, so they just got to be, you know, really locked in. And that's what I've been doing. Mindset confidence to the group going into game at number two. Oh, sky high, sky high confidence on the whole nother level, just based off

of how good we've been playing. And then you know we've we've seen the little adjustments that they can potentially make, and you know we're prepared for it. So we just got continue to go out and play away. Thank you, rap, thank you. That was Robert Covington sharing thoughts going into game number two of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. And now we shift to a location where I usually gravitate for all wisdom on things seventy six ers, NBA basketball, college

basketball hoops. Otherwise the office of the boss man. Charlie Widows. What's up, Boss? What's going on? Excited to be talking about game two after game one? I figured by now you'd know the lay of the land that once we hit the record button on the podcast machine, and I know you have a vested interest in the series that you're watching game one for on your television. Right now, we need to mute the volume or do we leave the volume up? Is with your iron Eagle announced a

Donovan Mitchell jam What a start to that guy. So we're talking about Utah, Oklahoma City, which one of my favorite Western Conference series. The beginning that after Westbrook opened up with a huge dunk, the run that Utah went on when Donovan shot four for four was pretty incredible. Credit to the Thunder for winning that series or that game though. Is he your second favorite series overall? I think so yeah. I mean I would have loved a

full strength San Antonio Golden State series. Like I'm sure a lot of people, but yeah, it's just what a contrast of styles Utah and Oklahoma City and both teams are so close. Yeah, I think this is my second favorite one. What about you? Definitely on the intrigue factor. But I'm keeping my eyes on some of the teams in the Eastern Conference. Yeah, I mean, we just watched here,

we watched Indiana Cleveland. I think that's a pretty compelling series, even for me still this stage, I know, perhaps not for others. Toronto, Washington, Yeah, definitely, yeah, Yeah, I mean I think the East teams a little more up for grabs, and granted we have such a we're so close to one of the teams that's vying for it when I think a lot of people think Houston and Golden State

are probably the ones fighting for the West. Yeah. Um, I just you know, for people who really love the sport, this true is the not really going down on them by saying this the golden time of the year. Aware it's night after night, you get to follow actions, see what's involved, and especially if they're not having been postseason basketball in Philadelphia for six years, you walk into the center Saturday night. You feel it, you see it, you hear it. It's just it is what everyone says. It

is a totally different level. Yeah, and Brett Brown said there's only one other arena that he's been to in his I don't know how many years he's been in the league, fifteen or so that even can compete. That's Golden State six or fans brought it on Saturday, and

I was thinking about it. I really think this is maybe the best kind of like symbiotic relationship between fans and players players to say, our fans are gonna bring it, we know it, and the fans expect, have come to expect this level of performance from the players and this level of passion from the players, and they deliver it. I mean, both are just like totally in sync with

each other. It's pretty crazy. I remember, so I grew up in LA and my dad got Clipper season tickets a long time ago, and he was saying he remembers their first trip to the playoffs and what that felt like with Chris Paul, and he was, you know, there was this kind of like new confidence that Clipper fans had because they had a team that they really believed in.

But it wasn't like this. I mean, there were still like you'd get to the end of games and I remember feeling like very unsure if the Clippers could pull it out, even if they were the more talented team. Whereas this is there's just such confidence again and the fans of the players and players of the fans. We heard Covington saying during the interview that the team's confidence and you can't blame it right now is sky high.

That was his quote. And the way that they're going about this winning streak, a chance to tie a continuous franchise record in Game two against Miami if they get an eighteenth straight. They've just been rolling past teams, Steve rolling teams, And I know that people want to say, well, the schedule was this, and then we've talked about this outside of the podcast for him. But A you play who's on the schedule. B When you trounce teams on

the schedule, that's something else. And quite frankly, like it's not like it was totally sisters of the Poor on the schedule. They had to take on Denver playing for something at the time, Minnesota, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and now it's a playoff series, right, No, And I've heard I think it's it's hard. You can't blame people for from Afar looking at the schedule and saying the Sixers had the easiest slate at the end of the year, just like they had the hardest late at the beginning of the year.

And I remember talking to people from the Bucks when they came in the Calves, a bunch of other teams who kind of even the Heat, A couple of friends from the Heat who who had these assumptions like, you know, the Sixers have have beaten up on bad teams, but we think we have something that they is gonna is gonna slow them down. And I think it's easy to look at the schedule strength of the schedule, and it's also easy to look at individuals and break the game

down to individual matchups or strengths and weaknesses. The thing that the Sixers do that people don't even really it's like they're not counting on any individual. They're counting on a system that is so diversified. And I mean, you can't just pick one thing and stop it, you know. Like I remember talking to a friend from the Heat who was like talking about how how dangerous they've been when they go small, and we've talked about this, but

the sixers go small too. They're just not small like they go small in in you know, in terms of skill level that way, where they're not throwing out a traditional big who can't shoot, but that they're still six ten across the board almost. We'll get to the key x Ando's takeaway in a moment from Saturday, but just whole experience for you. What was the biggest thing that that you walked away from the arena with on Saturday night?

It was rocking, like everyone said. I mean, I think there was at the beginning of the year, like it took a little while for fans to get settled in their seats. It definitely struck me that I think there was twelve minutes left on the pregame clock and fans will already standing and chanting and full. The arena was full. Um, the eight o'clock staring helped. The Saturday helped, but I think the people are just so into it. Um any

who rather probably did rather? Yeah, Um, you know, sometimes you have to remind yourself Joel is still not playing and the fans are still this excited, And I really do have to remind myself it's at a point now where that's not even really yeah, and it probably sounds crazy, um, and it won't be this way forever, but you just you wake up in the morning and you're thinking about different things about what could go onto the game, and it's like him not being there right now, quite frankly,

isn't a foremost concern. No, um, And I had to remind myself. I think the Cleveland game Dario didn't play either, Is that or JJ didn't play. One of them didn't play. Let's go to the tape. I think it was JJ didn't play against Milwaukee. I think they were without Dario in that game. Yeah, uh, he didn't. No, he came back in the Cleveland game, but he was he was, but he was kind of out of it. I mean he wasn't even himself and I just won for nine game.

Yeah right. Um. Again, another they're like if you if you zoom in on that wind streak. Another thing, you know, Joel missed a bunch of games. They weren't put perfectly healthy and they still played that well. Um. Yeah, I mean the atmosphere was electric, and you know, I think the first half not to get two into the exit

of the nose yet. But like the first half is kind of how you expect, right, you know, Miami can muck it up, and they're really tough and they execute their game plan, especially defensively, and the first couple of possessions were like, oh my god, you know, they picked JJ's pocket, they got a little physical, Um, we weren't finishing around the rim, and um you know that that was kind of like what you feared about this team.

And then the rookie point guard I think kind of like got the Sixers out of it, which just he refused to be denied. And then they continue to just play their game, which is sharing the ball, and some shots start to fall and then boom, it's a I could not believe. I looked up and they were up by twenty against this team. Another wind streak in which the Sixers and a win in the wind streak where

they just opened things up tremendously. Yeah, you know, it's it seems like, yeah, I think with Simmons first three shots where Missus kept him a little bit farther out than probably he'd liked, but then it was like he had that one dunk that set him and everything else in motion, And obviously we've been focusing on this and just talking about stuff that we've done on the website and social and all that. But the real tactical X and O decision that was made in that game was

to start the third quarter with arsni Elusovan. For as much attention and curiosity I think there was about well, how would Brett Brown do in his first playoff game as a head coach, I think Goda spoke to a broader theme of the game that for the first timers going through a playoff game for the first time, whether it was Brett some of his assistants, guys like obviously Ben Simmons, Daria Scharch, Robert Covington, Mark hell Foltz, didn't

seem like the moment was too big. No. Yeah, And as much as from a six Ers perspective, you can say Miami's a tough matchup, like they may not have the most high end talent, but they're so well coached, they're so deep, etc. From the other side, the Sixers are really tough matchup for them because, as you said, as we talked about, we can go small to match them, and the small isn't small. Still long, Eric Spoelstra is awesome,

Like you never want to under underestimate Eric Spoelster. But I think if he were honest, he'd probably say Brett Brown is pretty good too. I mean, Brett Brown is thinking a couple steps ahead just like he is. Not to say one's better than the other area, but like they're playing the same game, they're both playing chess, and

so I think that adjustment was pretty easy. And especially you know, without Joe playing, you could argue that their best lineups are probably Ben and four shooters or Marquel and four shooters, and they have that, and those are also those also happened to be most of their more experienced players when you can get Urson, Marco JJ on the floor at the same time. And we talked about this earlier today. But Ington, I just I don't think his number nearly showed how impactful he was. No, it

was amazing. I mean, you can go on the statstonem dot com and look up deflections in the game, and he didn't have it. He wasn't credited for a single deflection, which to me was I mean, I kind of feel like, in my mind's eye, you can remember various plays where he you know, got a hand in there to scrape a ball away in one spot or did something disruptive. He has really throughout now the five times that the Sixers and the Heat have played each other between the

regular season the playoffs, put go on drug. It's the All Star under wraps taking him away fourteen from the

field in Saturday's game. But it's it's interesting to hear Brett talk about how things have gone stylistically for the Sixers since Joel hasn't been available, which amazingly now more than half the winds and the windstreak have come without Joel, right, And it's philosophically it's a lot of the same stuff that you hear him talking about anyway, playing with pace, shooting threes, locking in defensively, but it has gone to

a different type of format. Like you just said, it's like Ben, get inside, draw the crowd and then orbit four shooters around you. Yeah, and I mean one of the odds of you know, all four of those guys not being on in a given game, right, as we've seen, not real great well. And so they play with pace and that they push everything makes missus. They get the ball up into the half court but I've also noticed

just how fast they play in the half court. JJ and Marco coming off screens at full speed, and JJ gets going to his right, Marco gets going to his left, and they're ready to score off of that, and then there's other actions. And again, like because the Sixers have a good game plan and because they're they're long, Miami has to make these choices where they're playing Tyler Johnson

or Wayne Ellington, who like certainly can shoot. They can definitely shoot, but can they chase those guys around screens? Can they guard one on one in mismatches? And the answer is no, So they really have to and then they can't really get there other than Ellington and I guess Olenik, who's a different, different kind of thing, but they can't get these shots off against the Sixers length. That's where Covington comes in. I don't know what his

on off numbers were. I mean I assumed they were great. He was plus twenty. That's where you go, right, you know that old saying like what he does doesn't show up in the in the stack on but it does. He was plus twenty. It's also interesting when you've looked at what's been happening with the Sixers, not just in the playoff game last Saturday, but during this winning streak. Is how when you want to have a conversation about

a player in an isolated, individual vacuum. You know, that's understandable, valid, everyone does it, But then you also have to account

for how a fit could come together. And with guys like Marco Belinelli and Orson Eliosova, they were on a team that was going into the final week of the season on track to finish the poorest record in the Eastern Conference, the Atlanta Hawks, and now here they are, and they are two vital contributors to a team that people are saying could make a run as far as who knows, not just the Eastern Conference finals, the finals, Yeah, David, huge.

And it's another reason why I think a lot of the Eastern Conference teams that the Sixers have played, you know, they have kind of underestimated the team that they're seeing now, whether it was in Milwaukee in the last day of the season, Miami, who played the Sixers at in Miami. The two losses were just at the beginning when those guys came and they weren't quite the focal points of what they are now they make a huge difference, huge difference.

And now, like, like, don't get me Justin Anderson played some pretty good basketball at points this year before he got hurt both times. Now he's like the fifth wing off the bench. I mean, they're just so much deeper and they can mix and match with matchups. Now, you know, maybe Anderson, I don't know, maybe he doesn't get too many minutes in this series, but who knows, if they win this year, maybe he comes in play next series

with a certain matchup. So not only are Arson and Marcos so valuable just for obviously the shooting and spacing, but they also just make the depth so much better. Evolution to the bench. Big storyline six is being a third quarter team, huge storyline down the stretch of the season, and JJ Reddick playing some of the best, most productive offensive basketball of his twelve year career. I mean, it

seems like he's totally flicked the switch. And I feel like, at least for me, it's very easy too at times set the bar very high for Reddick and not be always impressed by the numbers that he puts up. But you know, because you're, like, he's the veteran you gave him the deal, you gave him. He's been around before, but he really has been fantastic. And second half twenty three points another example of him stepping up rise in

the occasion. Yeah, I mean, you tell me. The number one question was like, if Miami punches you in the mouth, how do you respond? Right? And that's what happened. Yeah, the first half was definitely a punch. That was a punch um physically literally At some points, you know, there were physical you know again, JJ got ripped on like the second possession of the game, and then I think that was the play that Covington got back and had

those two blocks right around it, right around okay um. Yeah, But like there were times when it looked like are the Sixers offense wasn't going to be able to get into its stuff because Miami was just gonna be physical and they responded. You know. So, I don't know if I'm if I'm Marek's pulsure, I don't, I don't. I really don't know what to do next. There's only so much and this is one of those games where I feel like it could reveal that there might only be

so much that Miami could do. I mean, if the seventy sixers come out and have another pretty convincing performance, then you're going back down to Miami, and yeah, that that'll change the dynamics a little bit. But you would think that two one sided performances in succession could reveal

perhaps where one team is and one is right. Not quite, Yeah, I'm I think in the second half there were some sets that they ran where they would kind of have like a double screen and then like three guys would flare in different directions and it would generate some open looks and Miami hit some shots. Um Olnik is tough to guard, for sure, but the problem with that is a mere Johnson can guard Kelly Olynik. He's it's one

of the guys that is not pretty well. Spent the last couple of years with him right right, and and a mere strengths are positioning, you know, um being sturdy in the post, and so that's not even a great match even though Olnik is a pretty dangerous score like, it's just not a great matchup for them. I also think it's important we've been talking this long and we're not mentioning just like the change of pace that fault springs it was the next thing. I was gonna tin tea. Yeah,

what a blessing to have that as a backup point guard. Um. Yeah, he's run the team well too. That's the other thing. He played four games before he missed sixty eight, and he came back and I was talking to one of the coaches on the team and he was like, you know, just look at the way that Mark Hell is directing traffic and pointing things out and getting guys into things.

I mean, that's not the simplest thing to do if you'd only played four NBA games before you come back and oh, by the way, there's this spotlight and amount of attention on you. And I think defensively, he's he's done okay. Two, he's had his moments where um gotten his length in there and used that to help the sixers.

Did you happen to notice the play? I think it was in the third quarter where Wade had the ball like in the corner, near the corner, and he spun one way and really shook Mark Hell and created a

lot of space. But then by the time that Wade lifted elevated to shoot, Mark Helle's hand was right there and he had recovered which I think, you know, talking to the guys in the basketball side, like his recovery ability at at his age with his explosiveness allows him to make the mistakes that you know rookies are going to make, and he's just able to close that gap.

And the other thing is just on offense, even as he regains the confidence in his outside shot, he teams don't win by laying off of him because as soon as he puts the ball on the floor, he closes the space so much that they that the defender almost always has to put hands on him and he can draw fouls that way. There was a couple of plays where he was at the three point line and had a little bit of space and then he went to drive and just he's too quick. You can't stay in

front of him. And I just think forty eight minutes of rookie point guard with nineteen assists and one turnover in the second half is really something. It's incredible. And the one basket Folts made highlight worthy out of the four shots, it was wow. Yeah, But how about Folts three or four from the free throw line. How about

Ben Simmons out of ten from the stripe? That's something where I thought that was encouraging too that early on, when it seemed like Miami was really trying to pack it in in the first quarter, Ben seemed too, perhaps even more so than he was in the regular season, more aggressive, kept forcing the issue, trying to get to the bag, ask it if you got fouled, Okay, I'll go to the line and try and do what I can, right.

I mean, it reminds you a little bit of the way that Cleveland came back against the Sixers in the second half in the game here a couple of weeks ago. Is if you have and you know, with Ben being a Lebron role, if you space four shooters around the court, with Ben or Lebron going down the lane, you can't guard either than one on one. You're gonna have to bring help. And they're both so good at finding shooters.

So to me, you know, if you're playing the Sixers, you just hope, you know, the Sixers shoot seven for thirty five from three or whatever, you know what they have to go. It almost feels like that's what it might take the Sixers, more of the Sixers being off their game than some other team being able to impose

its will on the Sixers right now. Right that being said, for the Miami Heat going in a game too, you'd have to think that a starting point for them in terms of trying to turn the things around would have to be the two of their more productive counted upon players are going to have to deliver what they're expected deliver. Talking about Draggits and Hassan Whiteside, Yeah, and you know Richardson shot out for four from three and I and he's probably a better shooter than that. He went he

was a minus thirty in twenty seven minutes. Um yeah. I think the problem with Whiteside and is that he he changes the way you play, and their strength is a space game and playing probably James Johnson or even Justice Winzo at five. Um So, I think until Joel comes back and there's more of a post emphasis to the Sixers offense, I don't see how Whiteside fits in there.

I really don't. Um So, I don't know. He played twelve of just over twelve minutes in Game one four in the second half, right, they shut him down after that start to the third and Olenic finished with twenty twenty six and he played thirty thirty almost thirty one minutes. Uh, you know what and Bam. You know, even Bam is able to play at the pace that they're looking to play more than than Whiteside. It is pretty uh, pretty

outstanding for the Sixers. And really, you just, um, you know, maybe as we begin to put a bone, and this is just as corny and cliche as it probably is to say, you feel good for the fan base that's been hanging around. You know, early minutes of that game Saturday seemed like, you know, maybe some uneasiness when Miami made its move, but then in the end things opened up, and you know, it's just what we've seen more and

more of over the last month and a half. Is that give the seventy six or forty eight minutes and they'll figure out a way to get it done. Yeah. And I think that uneasiness, which even I felt, I mean, there was such a buzz in the building and you just didn't know what to expect. And I don't mean that in the Sixers could go down by a lot. I didn't think that was likely, but like we're we going to see another blowout of a good team like

we've been seeing a lot recently. I just I think that uneasiness was channeled in you know, Covington making some really great plays defensively to start the game. Uh, and guys just hustling. So even though you know, the offense looked a little disjointed or the shots weren't falling right away, there was just that intensity. And then I thought, what Foltz's first stint off the bench was a real momentum changer.

I think he was. I think they went on a twelve nothing right, I don't know, he was a he was a plus twelve in his first four minutes in the game. He was. Yeah, that's that's really been a theme that we've seen recurrent lately, that he comes off the bench late in the first quarter and good things happened in the game against the Bucks. I think it was he had to say in twenty straight points after

he checked in for Simmons, who got into foul trouble early. Yeah, I mean, and there was great, He's been great, And there was no you know, with the initial struggles, there was no like finger pointing or anything like if anything. They just stayed connected and um and just blitzed, you know, blissed Miami. It is no doubt group together. So in closing from one seventy Sixers employee to another. What do

you think we're gonna see in game two? Uh, it's I don't know what tactical adjustment there is to be made. I mean, I think you pretty it's pretty clear what Miami's lineup decision is going to be. Um in terms of five going small essentially, yeah, you know, and maybe there's something else for Ben maybe you know, but again, he shot seven for ten from the free throw line. What are you gonna donna finish five for ten? You

know after that over three starts? Yeah, I'm like he found his way, no doubt about it, right, Like did Marco make a circus shot or two? Sure? And maybe you hope those don't go in? And um, you see Josh Richardson hit a couple more. Um, I think Dragee really struggles with his length, with with the Sixers length. Um, So I don't know. Maybe it's it's James Johnson bringing the ball up like we've seen before. I'm more justice winslow playmaking. But it's it's gonna be fun to see

Game two again, another one without Joe who's out. So you know, the series doesn't start until the oa, the home team loses the game. So I think that's still on the Sixers to kind of take care of business. Now. Do you know who JJ read it quoted when he mentioned that after practice on Sunday, Who was it, Yes, Glenn Rivers. He said Glenn would always say pearls of wisdom being expensed. Yeah, a champion Glenn indeed. Yeah. Yeah, It's just the Sixers have so many different weapons to

go to that you just can't take. It's almost like taking one away opens up another one totally. You know. So it's just remarkable how there's a clear, defined core nucleus for this team that everyone can see, but the compliments that have been sprinkled around, it's just h Yeah, I made a really great fit. Yeah, there was, um, there was that play coming out of a time out I believe where Ben. I mean he was going into

time out. Ben got the ball in the post and whipped across court pass to the wing for Dario and he was kind of like falling. Awa hit a pretty contested three and he wasn't he hadn't really been in the flow until that point. So I was like, wow, he's making that Like good luck. I mean, there's No, it was a perfect pass from Ben And you know, again, maybe those don't all go in, but I just don't.

I'm not sure if that breaks them. As we know, seventy six ers have been just about flawless on their home courts since the holiday and start of the new year, and they look to continue that trend and get more the same out of what has been the hottest team in basketball over the last now month plus a day to the date, Chuck, thank you as always, thanks looking forward to Game two. Indeed, watch the game on NBC

Sports Philadelphia. Tonight's also on TNT if you're outside the area and a clock start time, will have a rewind edition of the podcast for you tomorrow. Enjoy the game.

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