It's time to talk Sixers, Baby bet seven between the Lake and that he rocks the Realm. Here on the broadcast the official podcast of Sixers dot Com. Here's the Steel, Mike Pummington, three bottels of the year, pet God, Robert Cumming getting parts in another three. Now here's today's episode. Okay, here we go. Seventy Sixers gonna try and make some history.
Confronted with a tough, tough, tough deficit in their best of seven Eastern Conference series with the Boston Celtics now trailing three games to none after Saturday's overtime loss one O one to ninety eight, Sixers are gonna do what has never been done in an NBA postseason series before, and net is to erase a deficit after dropping the first three games. That is the task at hand as the Sixers host the Boston Celtics in Game four later on on Monday night. Brian Seltzer, Well, welcoming you back
into a postseason edition of the podcast. Thank you as
always for checking it out. On this episode of the pod, I'm going to touch base with the man our guy, Divine Givens, seventy six Ers insider from ninety seventy five, the fanatic dot Com contributor to the Sixers Radio Network, and a guy who in times like these, at least for me, I feel like Devon brings always terrific perspective and good wisdom to the table when it comes to assessing the current state of affairs, which for the Sixers they're going to try to improve in game number four
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pod as well. So yeah, if you're not on board, we'd love to have you as a subscriber, so please consider doing that. We're gonna get to Divon in just a moment. Going to run back some sound setting the scene for Game number four Sixers a stinging one on Saturday, no doubt about it, a game in which it looked like the Sixers had as good a chance as any to potentially pull out both in regulation and then in overtime.
Could not get it done. Obviously, there were major breakdowns and errors, lapses on the court and in between the Ears two. But now it's just a matter of moving forward. The seventy Sixers, they recognize the task at hand. You know the stat involving the one hundred twenty nine teams that have already had three nothing leads in NBA playoff series.
So no need to fully rehash that here, but Simmons trying to shake off of what the Sixers went through at the end of Game number three in overtime on Saturday, trying to keep the focus forward looking there's a lot of opposities, a lot of mistakes made. Um. It's frustrating when you know what the mistakes are. But we gotta we gotta come in really locking. It is going to be very hard. Boston's a great team. They've been there before.
They've been in a situation where good close to that next round, UM, and you know we want to get
that too. Obviously, it's gonna take a lot the reference challenge as from inside the Sixers locker room on Saturday, Ben Simmons, liking heavy minutes forty two of them, scored sixteen points, eight rebounds, eight assists, did have four turnovers, did have the putback attempt with nineteen seconds to go in regulation, and obviously the bounce passed to the top of the key to jo ellen Bid that was intercepted
by Al Horford. So for Simmons and his fellow young emerging star to ellen Bid, these are situations to grow from. The Sixers are not pinpointing youth and an experience as a factor, but certainly when you look at situations like that, and we'll talk about this, I'm gonna bring it up with divine but opportunities to learn and grow from, no doubt about it. As for Embad, he and the Sixers were back at the training complex and Camden on Sunday afternoon.
They went through a workout that probably to no surprise, was spirited and upbeats. As has been the case in years pasted with teams coached by Brett Brown here in Philadelphia, if you removed contexts, there'd be no way to really tell just how much adversity the team was up against. So the Sixers had some good vibes in the gym. On Sunday, Joel Ebad spoke after practice, were okay, we got we got it there. It's never been numbered for us. All thanky body going news. You got I think it.
One day out of town, one game, him out of town, one clat out of time, man second by second, minute by minute, possession by possession, quarter by quarter, game by game. No doubt, that's the mindset, in the attitude that the seventy sixers are going to have to have. They're going to successfully pull themselves out of this three games to none whole. They do have two home games left out of the four that remain, but Boston with at the very most two opportunities to clench at home in Games
five in Games seven, if both games are necessary. What's going through the mind of the head coach Brett Brown certainly not the notion of being swept. That is the farthest thing from what he is considering at this point in time. He feels that the spirits of the seventy sixers is good and that right now it's all a matter of trying to take care of business at home. We've jumped into this in a quicker way than any of us probably would have guessed at the start of
the year. You know, we were all to hope and to make the playoffs. Then we we've we got real greedy and wanted to win fifty games, and then we wanted to get a home court, and then we wanted to beat Milwaukee and finished third, and we we've we've done all that and then you know, we have a great series against Miami and we win full one. And so the table set, the expectations a set. You can't redial that. And this is true, but to link it where where you know it's connected to we don't want
to get swept, they're mutually exclusive to me. You know, we don't want to get swept because we don't want to get swept. And you know I've said, and I stand by this, we we do have more to give. We've stumbled on an incredibly hard matchup for us, there is no doubt about that. But it's borne out of competitiveness, not sort of the history to date that we've had this season with this team. Bret Brand at the Sextus
training Plex on Sunday after practice. The idea of being swept not amongst his foremost concerns to get into what the seventy sixers should be looking at, trying to adapt and adjust going into Game four, trying to crack this puzzle that the Boston Celtics have presented. We're gonna bring it our guy from ninety seven five, the Fanatic. You can hear them always after games as a part of his postgame show, sometimes on our postgame show on Sixers,
podcasts on Sixers and sixty everything in between. Divine givens what's up, Divine? How you doing? I'm doing good. I'm looking forward to see how the guys respond tonight against the Boston Celtics and Game number four. They're at home, they still have a chance, so I'm looking forward to see what they do. Listen, I felt that on the heels of Game three, if there were any person out there with whom I could talk about in terms of trying to solve the world's basketball problems, it would be you.
What have been your overalls to the first three games? What's been going on that's allowed Boston to jump out to this lead? Well, I think the overall defense of the Boston Celtics had, while while we thought it was good, it was much better than we expected, and the fact that they've been able to harass the shooters out on
the perimeter. Give Ben Simmons a little bit of trouble, which is a bit surprising due to the fact that he's played eighty nine games before Saturday's game and successfully well. Obviously with the season that he's had, historic season that
he's had, it's a bit surprising to see that. I was a little a little taken it back by the lack of points that Embiid had because he has some really good looks and he's been he's been up and down in the series, but putting up decent numbers overall, and I thought that he would be able to really get it going in the paint. He got into it a little bit with Aaron Bains. I hope that didn't
throw his game off. But the other thing that people don't realize as much as you get into the All Star conversation, how is he making it over Ben Simmons al Horford as a reserve and something like that, and you get to see him for these last three games that we've seen, and you understand I know you have,
and I know I have. You understand how good defensively not just physically, but how smart he is at using his body to go up against someone like Joel Ebid who has this physical you would think this domination is presence over him, but the smarts that a veteran like Al Horford has had to play with over these years.
And then you look at it, you go back cells to those Atlanta Hawk days where they had those teams that made it to the Eastern Conference Semis and of course the Eastern Conference Finals one time and losing to Lebron James. Like most other East team does, he played a lot of center and he had to play against
guys like Roy Hibbert just bigger. And you can say what you want about the skill set being Roy Hibbert versus Joel Embi, but the fact that he is that much bigger and the way he's able to kind of push and beat out a little bit too had forced him to reset and maybe turn and face up more than he wants them to, or have to put the ball on the floor in the way the defense collapses. They just play some really good overall health defense celts,
and I think that's really bothered the Sixers. And then on the offensive end as well, when you look at the Boston Celtics. Surprisingly, the way they've shot the ball has been tremendous, and you see someone like Jason Tatum rise right in front of your eyes, Jalen Brown playing through this injury doing the same thing, and Terry Rosier turning into a starting caliber guard in the NBA. It's
been interesting to see it. And that's why I said that, being that we've seen what we've seen in these first three games they've been in the last two, you can argue that they should have won those they have not. Here we are three zero. They are still in a spot where I want to see as a team like this that first time in the postseason, with all of the pressure that's on them tonight six, see how they respond.
And they're led by their coach at Brett Brown. They have some young players that also lead this team on the floor, but they have a nice mix of veterans and I really I'm really curious to see how this team responds. I think they would respond well. I don't think this would be one of those getaway games where it was just okay, let's just pack it in that we've we've been surprised by this Boston team. Let's get
ready to go home for the summer. I really do believe we're going to get the best of the Sixers tonight in game number four. It's funny I think that if you were to ask coaches and players from both teams, everyone, whether you're a member of the seventy six Ers of the Boston Celtics, they tell you that the Sixers probably should be up two games to one in this series.
It was that close in Game two and obviously what we saw in Game three, and I know that Brett Brown and the players didn't want to use youth as an excuse. That was a big talking point after Game three. But for me, it's hard not to see certain areas where inexperience has reared its untimely head. And then when you can try asked it with some of the guys in the Celtics. Has Jason Tatum been there before? No, But younger players like Jalen Brown went through the run
last year. He was thrust into extra duty in the postseason. In twenty seventeen. Marcus Smart was a part of the core and he's obviously made an impact. And Al Horford, as we talked about, so steady. So for me, I think you can't completely overlook that dynamic where for the seventy sixers up against it, season on the line, potentially in certain spots of that type of pressure. In Game three in a hostile environment, big run Boston goes on
late in the first half Game two. For me, I do feel like there have been times where the youngness factor of the seventy six ers, well, it may not be the prevailing issue, it has definitely been a factor. For my money. Well, let's just take it back to
the shot wherein b took the shot. Ben Simmons gets the rebound with under twenty seconds to play with the one point lead, and maybe someone a little more sense of being a veteran player would decide to pull the ball out and try to run some clock and force
the Boston Celtics to foul. But instinctually it takes over as a player like Ben Simmons is and he decided to with a short shot, flip it up really fast and maybe get a bucket and give them a three point advantage, and it ultimately turns out to hurt them in the long run in that game. So when you talk about the youth, you can look at that play. You could also look at the play where JJ Reddick was throwing it to whether it was Ebid or Simmons.
We've seen it play forever, so I would like to say it was Joelanbiad that he was trying to get it to ole Ben Simmons was going off of Ebad's pick before he popped out, making sure that you seal off your man where and b make sure our Horford is not to come around and anticipate that pass and get a hand on it and then eventually get that steal that he wound up getting. So youth does play a factor. And of course, you know the argument is always going to be, as you pointed out Jason Tatum
doing when he's doing, how can you use youth as that? Well, as you pointed out, he has so many players on the floor with him that are veteran players, and you can include Terry Rosier and that as well. So it's even in little minutes that he has gotten in those playoff runs in the past, he has gotten him. So you're absolutely right, youth does play a factor in it
at some point. And whether you want to say youth is the reason of it, it's just youth as a little component of the whole thing, in little intangibles of the game that could cost you, especially in close ones. Tatum is averaging just under twenty four and a half points per game in the series. That's tied with Joel Ebad for the highest average of any player. Jalen Brown, Yeah, I mean it really is. Jalen Brown, as you said, in the two games he's been back, has been fantastic,
a big spark off the bench. How much do you think the athleticism that's being presented by those two guys in particular, how much of it difference has that made? And I guess you really zero in on Tatum. He's been terrific. It's hard to overlook it because when you look at someone like Robert Covington that we like to say does have a sense of athleticism, and he's long
and he's range. He likes to get his hand on the basketball to disrupt things, whether it's a dribble handoff or simply when someone tries to dip their body into them, he's able to use his length and maybe deflect the basketball and take them off of their rhythm of trying
to use their offense as a weapon. And in this series, you can just see the quickness the first step celts off the ball, the length that they use even when they pick the ball of maybe a tab it too early, when they pick up their dribble to go for their shot. They have been able to use that length to maybe get a scoop lay up underneath an arm of a player, a high bounce off the glass, to use their length again to kind of shield their way from the defender.
And let's just use Robert Covington again as an example with the six a frame and the long wingspan that he has to make it difficult for Tatum Brown, but they've been able to use that again to their advantage to get a shot off. So I think it does come into play. The one on one ability that both of them do in fact have also plays a factor in it. In the way that they use the backcuts, similar to what the seventy sixers do to use the backcuts and a lot of the cuts that they use
overall to get some of their players open. That's where sometimes the athleticism does in fact come into play. So you have seen it. It's something that's maybe going to be addressed later on in the off season with this team, and it has been it has been glaring, to say the least, in these first three games. When you get to this stage of the season, the playoffs in particular, for teams to advance, sometimes it requires a club getting
more out of some guys than you would expect. I mean, Terry Rossiero shooting fifty percent from outside the arc and averaging over four made threes game, he stands out in a big way. But I'd love to hear what you think about even a guy like Aaron Baines. I mean, I know he's not totally showing up in stat sheets. Yeah, he's made more threes in the first three games of the series than he did all season, But his rugged presence, I think, at least to the eye test, I don't
know how you'd measure it statistically. He did have double figure rebounds in Game three. It seems like he's bothered the sixers in the front court just enough to make an impact. And I'm even thinking back to game too. You know, you bring in someone like Greg Monroe and throw him in there, and that seemed to like batter down some stuff in the interior that opened things up
on the perimeter for Boston. To key the run, and you're just thinking through stuff about what's made a difference in this series, that Boston has gotten a little bit more from some X factor guys, and for the Sixers to try and come back, you'd think that some players on their side might have to exceed some expectations of
their own. Sure, and you don't. Let's not exclude Shane Larkin for the that he's also gotten a player like that where he's thrust into the role and we know he was out of the league last year and with Kyrie irving and out out and when Marcus Smart was down for a bit, it was Rosier and Larkin manning the point guard duty. So you're absolutely right. And what
Rosier has been able to do. The one thing that impressed me the most sets about what Rosier has not really everyone, And you mentioned Baines and Larkin and even Greg Monroe, it's their shot selection. They don't they don't force shots. And even when Terry Rosier takes those long twos or those long threes, some of them are off the bounce because he has the necessary quickness to create that separation. You can get the shot off, but the others are just simply simply off of great ball movement
by the Boston Celtics. It swings back to him and he has a good look and he takes it. Same for Shane Larkin, where he may not shoot more than three shots a game, but one of them maybe a pull up, one of them maybe a catch and shoot three, or another might be simply a layup off of a
back door cut that he makes into your point. In game number two where Greg Monroe gave them two good baskets over all, the one being during that run in the second quarter that helped Boston get themselves back into the game with that twenty to five run under five minutes to play. Aaron Bains shooting whenever he needs to shoot, necessarily those cornered three pointers, and you know, making two or three of those, and you're right, they're just getting
those from them. And I'm sure that's where Brett Brown is trying to get out of some of his players as well. Maybe this is where we might have an opportunity to see what the season on the line right now. Does Justin Anderson come into play at some point? T J. McConnell has given you good minutes. Do we see someone like Markuel Falster to try to give you a spark when Shane Larkin is going to floor. So they have given them very good minutes when they've been in there.
Brand Stevens is pressing the right buttons with those players and the best part of boys. We talk about the culture with the seventy Sixers and how things have changed this season with the fifty two win year, dancing to the second round after winning the first against the Miami Heat. It's knowing your role and that's where a lot of when the Sixers team have done all year, knowing their role. And we're seeing the same thing from the other side
in the Boston Celtics. This is a Sixers podcast, so I'm gonna stop talking about the Celtics in just a moment. But they have set the tone in this series in a convincing way. It's almost as if do you feel like they have come out and really taken this hole? You know what, You're not paying attention to us out there. Do you think that we just kind of walked into fifty five wins by accident? Okay, we see that, and
this is what We'll raise you. A three games to none lead and we're missing our best two players, and you can really say one because Gordon Hayward hasn't played all season. Kyrie Irving now out for the remainder of the year. So yeah, absolutely, they've they've taken that approach of Okay, you want to overlook us, and you want to elevate this team in our division ahead of us
before they've accomplished anything. Certainly that plays into it. So yes, and you know, there's this is the playoffs, so it's going to be intense defense. This is gonna pick up tremendously, which we've seen on both sides. You can talk about how good the series is offensively, both teams really have really dug in defensively. They've made it a point, they've made it a challenge to defend one another and it's
really good. And that's why when you when I mentioned when you mentioned t J McConnell, or I've mentioned, or you hear elsewhere or in the arena altogether, and how he's been able to pick up his game and elevate his game for the short amount of time that he is to try to make an impact for this team when they when he knows that they need some sort of spark and to come in with that toughness, that grit that he gives you picking up Terry Rosier ninety
two feet cells and disrupting those inbound passes for Terry Rosier. So I look at it, Yes, that has been maybe a challenge for the Boston Celtics to go out there and say, don't ignore us, We're still here. But um, it's it's been interesting, and it's been it's been really fun overall as a basketball to see both of these teams and the rivalry overall to really come back into play. You make a great point, I think TJ has been fantastic.
We saw that in Game two him really come in there and make a difference and give the Sixers a shot. And yeah, the big picture, you think about this in the context of what it means long term, not just this spring, but could we see future editions of the rivalry play out in the postseason given the timelines of both of these teams. For the Sixers, where would you
say adjustments should start going into Game four tonights. If like we saw in game numbers two and three, if things are there for Joel LNB to do his work on the block, you do it. You feed him constantly because if you are allowed to get him going, get him to the free throw line, get those players in foul trouble Aaron Bains and more specifically Al Horford. I think that's to the advantage of the seventy six ers, so I would do that. I like the fact that
he didn't take many three pointers. I think he was over one on Saturday. So for me, I've always been up to three three pointers for him, so I was fine with the one because I do believe it was in a trail position. No, it was actually a little earlier than it should have been, but that's it. Dominate on the block like he has been. I want to see his presence on a defensive and more glaring than anything,
because that's where they're gonna need it. Overall, when Jason Tatum, Brown Rosier are going to the basket or for being very creative and selective win and how he shoots make it very difficult for them offensively to get anything going. So that's one adjustment. While we have seen them go into and beat a lot, I want to see a steady dose if you will be on the block. And for him too, I understand fatigue comes into play just the playoffs you got you gotta fight through and then
for him to bang with Horford and Bains. I know it takes a lot out of the energy while tremendously takes a lot out of you, but we have to see him fight through that. So that's one thing I would like to see. I would also like to see Selts something that I thought we would see a lot
more of. If t J McConnell's in the game with Ben Simmons, let TJ run the ball a little bit and allow Ben to play off of the ball where he's able to be in attack mode, not when the defense is set up in geared to stop him at the top of the key. I want to see him to be able to catch it on the move, make a decision going to the basket maybe and get some of those little jump hooks up, maybe a dunk or two to ignite the crowd, to get himself, get his
teammates going. That's something I want to see, you know, some backdoor cuts for Ben Simmons to make it easier on him so he doesn't have to think as much and to simply catch and go and make some plays. And also if the opportunity is there, as you pointed out Greg Munroe, Shane Larkin, where those minutes are there for them for maybe a five minute stretch to help
you to give someone else a breather. I really would like to see them for maybe three to five minutes, just whether it's the defensive intensity, being able to push the break. Will we see Mark el faults and maybe something that he can give you against someone like Shane Larkin for a two to three minute stretch where it's beneficial not only for him in the future, but for this team tonight, where we get a chance to see them, maybe get a spark from those players that were unexpected
from the team. Overall, it's been a nice chest match between Brett Brown and Brad Stevens, and I want to see if Brett Brown decides to dig a little deeper into his bag of tricks tonight to see if he can maybe pull something out of some of these other
guys to salvage the season. Going back to what you said about Simmons, I think that based on what Brett Brown said Sunday surrounding the Sixers practice availability, that that seems like an area where he feels like Simmons could make a bigger impact post him up, not even necessarily so much try and I've through an attack the rim, which that's obviously a huge part of his game, but we saver the course of the regular season just how effective and versatile Simmons can be when he gets his
man down in the block and can use his strength and physicality to score inside. And it's not even just the scoring overall. First of all, if he has one of those smaller guys like my size on him, he absolutely needs to dominate and go up there and get
a bucket. But the other thing if he gets a bucket or two, while they may not double team, if he gets to the basket though and gets a round and embeat his lurking, and he has the opportunity, because we know how he is, he thinks past first, the opportunity to dump it off to him, beat for an easy layup and easy dunk again, to get the crowd going, to get those guys some confidence. That's something that is
again beneficial to the Sixes and Ben Simmons. And you're absolutely right if he's able to get it going, because we've seen so many times where he's had the opportunity to post up players and we haven't seen it as much as we would have liked, but it is a weapon that I believe they can unleash. It has been there for them through the first three games. I'm not sure why it hasn't been used as much. But if it is there again, all hands on deck to night selves.
You need everything in the bag of tricks that you have to go out there and try to lock down this win. Do you think that Simmons has been saying all the right things despite some of the growing experiences he's been encountered with in this series. Sure, he said all the right things. And I definitely like after game number two where he pointed out he wasn't good and something that he has to learn from. It wasn't an excuse. He knew he has to go out there and be better.
At the one point performance was something again that we did not expect, something that none of us would have thought, especially in a tight game like that, were just a few more points, something that we're accustomed to seeing from him would have hopefully secure a win for them. Yeah, it's one of those things where yes, he is learning, Yes he is young. I don't like to necessarily use the young thing because you're in game number ninety. They're
young players. All these the floor on both sides, So let's just see if he can just go out there and execute. Execution is key and this thing, it starts and ends with him because he's his head of the snake, and we know about the whole snake thing now with the playoff logo with the team Boston Celtics as it has made it a point to try to use him, to take things away from him, to again cut the head off of the snake and not allow the offense to get going. So he has been saying the right things.
I just want to see him a little more aggressive self to look for his more and even with Marcus Mars, I know that's a tough matchup. He's so physical, he gets into your body and disrupts a lot of things, but he's making it a challenge a point. You know, it's his purpose to go out there and stop Ben Simmons.
I want to see him making his purpose to beat Marcus Mars because that will ultimately give him again that confidence that we've seen from him for the last four months where he's been so great, and they definitely need that tonight. So hopefully when we're talking about some of the things that he is, he's talking about postgame and how he's been saying the right things. Hopefully is again talking about a victory and he's saying the right things about how he was able to help his team get
it done tonight. There was definitely the tough turnover that JJ Reddick was involved in down the stretch in regulation on Saturday. I think other than that, he's had a really solid series. He's been arguably the most consistent shotmaker
for the seventy six from three point territory. You figure that if Robert Covington could get himself going, Dario Scharitch could get himself going, and even with a certain degree Marco Belinelli and or Sonny Eli Silva, that could help improve the sixers odds overall the outside shooting, and we know that it seems just from watching it that Brad Stevens his goal is to obviously again take it away from Ben Simmons, let him be, to a certain extent,
go off because he's that good. He's going to get his in the low block, but also disrupt the outside shooting as much as possible because they have so many weapons and You're right. JJ Reddick has been the most consistent outside score for this team and he needs help. He can't do it alone. And we'll see a twenty eight, twenty three or twenty a performance from him, and it'll be really good, and it'll probably be enough from him. You need more along the lines of a fifteen, maybe
an eighteen point outbursts from Amarco Bell and Nelli. We haven't seen that as of yet. You'll sign. Iliosilva looked to be on that trajectory on Saturday, but things kind of went away from him after those two big threes and a couple of layups. Shot the one air ball that I think the Wells Fargo Center would have exploded itself on Saturday had he made that one from the corner.
Unfortunately it was an airball. So yes, if you can get some help from those other outside shooters, it will help out tremendously, not just JJ Reddick, but also again Joel and B where now there may be a little more focus on what they're doing out on a perimeter and making sure they stop those guys and where and B could probably benefit on that as well, maybe even Ben Simmons. If they get those outside shots going. They
can't play off of them at all. Where Ben Simmons, if he's able to get by his man get to the basket, maybe get himself something going to towards the basket for an easy bucket. All right, Well, we know, based on what we've seen over the last seven months,
the center should be rocking regardless of circumstance. Later on on Monday Night, before we wrap this up, last thing, got to ask you, what do you think we're gonna see in the game that follows the first game on the card tonight between the Toronto Raptors in Cleveland Cavaliers, another three OZ series. Unfortunately, it does not look good
for Jurassic Parks. It's just a tough hole for them for us to ask them to go in the road down three oz where they've been in these I'll say game one and three where they should have won those two games coming back the way they did have an
opportunity to win both games gaming them before. With the way Lebron James is playing so tremendously and he seems so confident with his fadeaway jumper that we've all seen him make consecutively like seven in a row and just going to the basket, even the way he shot that shot to end the game, the buzzer beater, getting him on the move like that, and the way he just tossed it up, like, oh, let me just throw this up there, Maybe just go off the glass while I'm
fading away, running towards the sideline and underneath the bucket. It was. It's just it's tough to ask them to do that and have og On and Nobi out there trying to defend. He's done a nice job. But to ask a rookie to do what you want a defensive stopper to do against le Bron James, it's a tall task. So I think it's gonna be really tough for Toronto to head back to Toronto for game number five. I think the series is done. Doesn't matter whether we could
be talking about wins, losses, or things between. Always great insights and chatter from Divine Givings. You hear him on postgame coverage, you hear him on six and sixty, and a bunch of other stuff as well. Divine, hopefully we're talking more about Sixers basketball in the immediate future. I would not be surprised if we areselves. Thanks again. All right, man, that is Devon Gibbons. We thank him as always for taking the time to chats. We thank you as always
for taking the time to listen. At the very least we know this. As far as future podcasts for this season are concerned, we're gonna have a Game four rewind in your feed on Tuesday morning, so be on the lookout for that, and hopefully, if things go well, we'll have some more pods to do. As the Sixers looking to for say, Game five and send the series back
to Boston on Wednesday. We'll be in touch here on the pod regardless of what shakes out, but ask for now, let's see what pans out in Game Number four is six o'clock on Monday night from the Center. See