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Thoughts on Sixers comeback against the Cavaliers · The Cooldown Report

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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness, welcome to The Cooldown Report.
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  SPEAKER_00: The 76ers come back down from 29 points late in the second quarter to get the win
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  SPEAKER_00: in their home opener.
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  SPEAKER_00: A game I almost thought about going to.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the first half, I was like, I made a good decision.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second half, probably should have won.
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  SPEAKER_00: What a game.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are not games.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're a Sixers fan, if you're a Sixers fan, tell me right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last season, prior seasons, that's not a game this team wins whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what did they do?
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  SPEAKER_00: They had resilience.
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  SPEAKER_00: They brought it down to 24 at halftime.
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  SPEAKER_00: It could have got ugly.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was getting ugly quick, real quick.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Sixers came back and got the improbable win.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't even know where to start.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's start with what we started with in their last game against the Knicks.
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  SPEAKER_00: The defense.
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  SPEAKER_00: The defense was...
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  SPEAKER_00: Impeccable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought I was going to come on here at that first half and say
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  SPEAKER_00: the Sixers were playing good defense.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought they were rotating well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought they were in good spots.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just thought they were getting unlucky.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought Cleveland was hitting a lot of tough shots in that first half.
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  SPEAKER_00: They got some good looks as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Credit their offense and everything like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I thought the Sixers were playing a good defensive game in
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  SPEAKER_00: the first half despite letting up Oh my god, what do we have here?
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  SPEAKER_00: They lit up 69 points in the first half.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a demolition.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Sixers, they could not score.
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  SPEAKER_00: That offense in the first half was looking every bit like a new team out on the floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: In their first couple games of the season, they looked clunky.
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  SPEAKER_00: They looked like they had no idea what they were doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was swing, swing, top of the key.
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  SPEAKER_00: You take it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You take it here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put up a shot here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shots not falling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turnovers out the wazoo.
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  SPEAKER_00: 15 Sixer turnovers in the first half.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a bad showing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was thinking, it's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: This team is going to go through their ebbs and flows,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially as a brand new basketball team who hasn't played that long together.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been two and a half,
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  SPEAKER_00: three weeks that this team has been on the floor together, including the preseason.
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  SPEAKER_00: They haven't played that long at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: But...
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  SPEAKER_00: They, you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: went through their ebbs and flows and it showed in this game big time,
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  SPEAKER_00: big time because they come out in the third quarter and put up 37 points and
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  SPEAKER_00: then cap it off with 32 in the fourth, outscoring Cleveland by 16 in the fourth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fourth quarter, 16 again in the second.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was tremendous.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was tremendous.
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  SPEAKER_00: The effort and intensity that the team was able to maintain despite being down
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  SPEAKER_00: that much in the first half.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Sixers, you know, this could have been a game that they packeted.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in years prior, definitely a game that the Sixers would pack in.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they showed so much resilience by coming out in that second half.
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  SPEAKER_00: And putting on the performance...
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  SPEAKER_00: Of a lifetime.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you just don't see a lot of basketball teams do that, especially down that much.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were getting beat bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: They were getting beat very, very bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll get into the Sixers players here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tyrese Maxey, honestly, man, he deserves some MVP consideration this season.
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  SPEAKER_00: He kept them afloat in that first half.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was the only player who felt like he was kind of comfortable moving around on
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  SPEAKER_00: the Floor in the first half because the Sixers offense, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_00: like you have a lot of talented players,
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  SPEAKER_00: but all of these guys are like, all right, you can take it here.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can take it here.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: running lanes in transition where they're just not comfortable and used
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  SPEAKER_00: to each other and like, okay, Jalen's going to come down.
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  SPEAKER_00: The left side of the floor,
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  SPEAKER_00: Vijay's going to come down the right,
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  SPEAKER_00: you got LeBron in the middle,
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  SPEAKER_00: he's kind of getting used to their energy and speed as they come down the floor,
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  SPEAKER_00: what kind of pace they come down with,
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  SPEAKER_00: how they like to finish at the rim,
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  SPEAKER_00: where they want their passes,
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  SPEAKER_00: all that stuff like that, you can just tell they're We're just not used to it yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: They haven't figured that out on the offensive side of the floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: They haven't figured out how we're going to dump it down to Embiid.
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  SPEAKER_00: Embiid doesn't look his fastest, his healthiest.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't look like he's in rhythm yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: He hasn't gotten to that point yet in the season where his legs are underneath him
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  SPEAKER_00: and he plays comfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even though he managed to score 24 points with a plus 18 from the field and 50%
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  SPEAKER_00: of his shots made a three-pointer, He looked slow.
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  SPEAKER_00: He looked,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: he does not have his verticality yet, if he even gets any of that back at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: He played under the rim,
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  SPEAKER_00: honestly,
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  SPEAKER_00: as a 7'2 guy, playing under the rim because he just doesn't have his legs yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can tell everybody's kind of not used to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We haven't really figured that out on the offensive side of the floor if they're
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  SPEAKER_00: the Sixers, but...
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, Tyrese Maxey was able to hold him afloat.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was able to find his spots in the lane,
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  SPEAKER_00: use his burst,
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  SPEAKER_00: just use his quickness,
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  SPEAKER_00: be able to get to the middle of the lane,
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  SPEAKER_00: find some Florida's,
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  SPEAKER_00: find some layups,
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  SPEAKER_00: hit some three-pointers while this team just couldn't get anything going on offense.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: LeBron James didn't necessarily know,
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  SPEAKER_00: like, I felt like he doesn't really know where he fits in yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vijay said in the beginning of the game when he was doing his interview
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  SPEAKER_00: with Lisa Salters that he's still trying to figure out his role.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jalen Brown clearly trying to still figure out his role on the team.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just, you know, they just haven't played a lot of basketball yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, they're a brand new team.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're a brand new team.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it certainly looked like it in the first half.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in that second half, man,
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  SPEAKER_00: oh my goodness, they were able to turn it on honestly just based on pure talent.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, obviously everyone kind of looked a little bit better.
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  SPEAKER_00: They came out with an effort and an energy on.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're a legit NBA team that just played in the conference finals last season.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're going to be one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're just not like Utah.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're a good NBA team coming out in their first game and they were on fire in the first half.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you have to play a good defense in the second half if you want any chance
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  SPEAKER_00: of winning that game.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the Sixers did.
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  SPEAKER_00: They played a good defensive game,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially in that second half, limiting the Cavs to not scoring good.
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  SPEAKER_00: At all, it felt like.
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  SPEAKER_00: In that third quarter, it looked like they choked up badly.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Sixers just put pressure on their ball handlers,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially Tyrese Maxey and Vijay Edgecombe,
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  SPEAKER_00: guarding Donovan Mitchell and James Harden as they're bringing the ball up
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  SPEAKER_00: the floor,
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  SPEAKER_00: pressuring them full court, getting into their chest, reaching for the ball.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lots of deflections forced Cleveland to turn the ball over 21 times.
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  SPEAKER_00: 21 times.
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  SPEAKER_00: 21 times in this game.
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  SPEAKER_00: While you thought Philly turned the ball over, they only had one turnover in the second.
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  SPEAKER_00: One.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: One turnover in the second half,
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  SPEAKER_00: 15 in the first, forced 21 Cleveland turnovers throughout the totality of this game.
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  SPEAKER_00: And The defense sparked the offense.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're able to find LeBron in transition, Vijay in transition, Tyrese Maxey in transition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jalen Brown was able to kind of settle down a little bit,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially late in that fourth quarter as the Sixers finally He took that lead off
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  SPEAKER_00: that Embiid jumper and Jalen Brown just went to work,
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  SPEAKER_00: got three straight buckets,
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  SPEAKER_00: two
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  SPEAKER_00: mid-ranges in that mid-post-ish area and then a floater in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: To kind of push the Sixers over the top,
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  SPEAKER_00: he was able to find a little bit of his offense and close the deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's just going to be one of the scary things about this Sixers team is
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  SPEAKER_00: that they have some of the just best isolation scorers.
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  SPEAKER_00: You saw Embiid as he started to get going in
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  SPEAKER_00: that fourth quarter find isolation buckets against Evan Movley
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  SPEAKER_00: and whoever was guarding him out in the post or out on the perimeter.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was able to find his shots.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jalen Brown is just a piece of He's a big guy,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he's got a lot of offensive prowess,
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  SPEAKER_00: so he's able to find his shots in those late fourth quarter situations where
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  SPEAKER_00: the game is tied or they're down and they need a bucket.
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  SPEAKER_00: They can go to guys like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, you can go to Tyrese Maxey.
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  SPEAKER_00: LeBron James is still capable.
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  SPEAKER_00: VJ is capable.
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  SPEAKER_00: These guys are going...
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're playing a close game against the Sixers,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it showed in the game against the Knicks two days ago,
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  SPEAKER_00: that if you're playing in a close game against these guys...
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  SPEAKER_00: Nine times out of ten,
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  SPEAKER_00: probably, you just might lose because these guys are great isolation scorers.
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  SPEAKER_00: These guys can find a bucket in a tough situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something that kind of showed up in this game a lot was who's going to take
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  SPEAKER_00: or something that as the skeptics would say, oh, there's only one ball.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who are you going to go to in the clutch?
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  SPEAKER_00: All of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got Jalen Brown.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got LeBron James.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got Joel Embiid.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got Tyrese Maxey.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: These guys are going to score the ball at will if they have the opportunity
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: to go one-on-one against a lot of guys in the league.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're just going to score.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: They're just going to score on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they were able to close the deal, draw fouls, went 23 of 30 from the free throw line.
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  SPEAKER_00: Honestly,
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  SPEAKER_00: early in the game,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Sixers were missing a lot of free throws,
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  SPEAKER_00: which kind of put them behind even more and set that 29-point deficit then back
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  SPEAKER_00: a little bit far.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah...
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  SPEAKER_00: The Sixers offense, they're going to be able to find a bucket.
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  SPEAKER_00: LeBron James did a good job of distributing and playing his role,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'm going to shout out LeBron James for his defense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Man, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this game and in the next game,
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  SPEAKER_00: LeBron James is being put on Carl Anthony Towns and Evan Mobley
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  SPEAKER_00: because Joel Embiid's mobility just isn't there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they have Joel Embiid, the worst offensive player on the team, just kind of sagging off.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they have LeBron guarding centers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's been...
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  SPEAKER_00: Phenomenal.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's been phenomenal through two games.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's 6'9", 280, 265,
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  SPEAKER_00: whatever weight he is,
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  SPEAKER_00: he's guarding these centers impeccably,
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  SPEAKER_00: pushing them out of the post, getting a contest, grabbing rebounds.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: You couldn't ask for a better defense from
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  SPEAKER_00: a going-on 42-year-old LeBron James playing in his 24th NBA season against...
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: Carl Anthony Towns and Evan Mobley.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: Those guys are legit, and he's guarding them well.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Came up with a late steal in the game.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_00: He just has great defensive instincts as well.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: He's played a long time,
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  SPEAKER_00: so he's going to be able to read where the ball is going to go in passing lanes.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's got probably the highest IQ in basketball out there with Nikoli Okic,
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  SPEAKER_00: so he's going to be able to play a good defense if he's not extended on
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  SPEAKER_00: the offensive end, which he really isn't because LeBron, in his 33 minutes,
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  SPEAKER_00: Goes for 17-10, 5 assists, 3 steals, a block.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sat out a lot of the 4th quarter,
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  SPEAKER_00: that mid-4th quarter where the Sixers,
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  SPEAKER_00: because of their bench depth and the ability of Contavious Caldwell
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  SPEAKER_00: To give you 25 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Adem Bona, even though I think he's truly struggling, giving you 14 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anthony Simons giving you 17 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: LeBron James is able to come in with 3 minutes and 30 seconds left to go off
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  SPEAKER_00: the bench with Joel Embiid energized and ready to play defense
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  SPEAKER_00: and close this game out.
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  SPEAKER_00: LeBron, if you have the luxury of doing that, you're going to win a lot of basketball games.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: You can bring LeBron James in with three minutes left to come close your game
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  SPEAKER_00: and facilitate the offense and be a connecting piece for the Philadelphia 76ers.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he was able to provide a good role.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: Joel, like I said, in his 34 minutes, 24.7 rebounds, one assist, plus 18 from the field.
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  SPEAKER_00: I truly think he struggled in that first half.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was able to find it a little bit in the second, just kind of get himself going.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was kind of what happened in that next game.
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  SPEAKER_00: He came out slow.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then he,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the second half, started to kind of ramp it up and ended up playing a good game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not to the Joel Embiid standards of two,
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  SPEAKER_00: three years ago, but a good game as he's ramping back up in the season.
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  SPEAKER_00: His first 10, 15, 20 games, he's still got to get his legs underneath of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was able to finish out and have a good game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, Jalen Brown, he played 38 minutes.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out Jalen Brown's defense, man.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out his defense.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was guarding James Harden, Donovan Mitchell, primary ball handlers.
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  SPEAKER_00: All night long doing an amazing job holding them to tough,
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  SPEAKER_00: tough shots that in the first half honestly they were making but in
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  SPEAKER_00: the second half started to cool down and we don't win this game without his defense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then of course he was able to help close the deal at the end of the game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vijay playing good minutes,
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  SPEAKER_00: spacing the floor,
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  SPEAKER_00: running the floor, getting out in transition, 11.7 rebounds, 6 assists.
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  SPEAKER_00: This team really is able to share the ball.
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  SPEAKER_00: 6 assists for Tyrese Maxey, 6 assists for Vijay Escombe, 5 for LeBron, 4 for Jalen Brown.
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  SPEAKER_00: This team is sharing the basketball for a team that...
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  SPEAKER_00: The Cooldown Report.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a believer.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: I feel really bad.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: He's very early in his career.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: I just have a problem with his activity and the way he plays on offense and on defense.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think his hands are the best.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: He's not grabbing rebounds very well.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: It seems like it's slipping out of his hands a lot.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: On defense, I don't know if Nick Nurse is telling him to...
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: On ball screens to come and double on the ball screens and come all the way up
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  SPEAKER_00: and let the big slide down when there's no other big on the floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: Evan Mobley,
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  SPEAKER_00: he missed a little bit,
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  SPEAKER_00: a couple gimmies with Adem Bona,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: trying to recover all the way from the coach's mark to the center of the lane.
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  SPEAKER_00: He missed a couple of them, but, you know, those are shots you can't give up.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: You can't give up free layups and dunks to Evan Mobley.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if Nick Nurse is telling him to do that,
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  SPEAKER_00: like I said, but he was a minus 10 tonight, lost his minutes big time.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: He's got to do a better job.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: Either that or we're going to need another backup center.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: Really, really bad, man.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that was just not a good look.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just wasn't with that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, he served in his minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: But, ideally, you don't want Joe Embiid playing 34 minutes in the second game of the season.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, like, you just gotta get another center at this point.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like, he's just not playing well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Didn't really grab any rebounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two rebounds on the night.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're the only big on the floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, unacceptable.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, but, you know, Anthony Simons, he struggled today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Two points, three rebounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was a team worse, minus 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, he's a good player.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, he'll bounce back.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: I believe in him bouncing back.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: And again, like I said, once we get Dean Wade on the floor, once Dominic Barlow comes back...
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: The team will be better set off the bench, even though they're pretty decent.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: They're just running eight guys right now in the second game of the season.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: Not really good, but once you get those two guys back, you're back to a 10-man rotation.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but that defense, man, that defense sparked that win.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out the Sixers defense.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, if they're going to play like this all season...
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: On the defensive end, they're set.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: Offense needs work.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Still looks sloppy in the second half.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: Just because they won doesn't mean the offense looked good.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: They scored 114 points.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: But the defense, again, they held the Knicks to 100.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: They held the Cavs to 106.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: These are legit NBA teams that score 120, 130 points a night.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: And they were able to hold them to a very low scoring night.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: 7 for 29 for Cleveland from 3.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: Only 24%.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: Cleveland struggled from the free throw line, only hitting 75% of those, 21 for 28.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: Donovan Mitchell in the clutch, man.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: I can't believe you missed both of them free throws.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot believe it.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: I did not see that coming.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: The announcers,
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: Matt Cord for the Sixers,
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: who does over the PA,
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: he does the Chick-fil-A thing when he misses the first one,
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: and I'm like, man, it's Donovan Mitchell we talking about.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: Why are we doing that?
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: But he missed both of them, which I was like, oh.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: The Sixers, it's just the Sixers year apparently.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: But overall, he played well.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: 32 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: He was cooking in that first half.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely cooking.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: 11 for 19 from the field, 50% from 3.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, he misses 2 free throws and went 8 for 11.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: Had 5 turnovers.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um...
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of those being late in the game.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: But he played well.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: Evan Mobley, I thought he was good in his minutes, even though he was a minus 15.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: Was 18 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Jared Allen, 28 minutes, 14.7 rebounds.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: Mario Hazonia.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: Back in the league, Europe, overseas MVP, comes back.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: He was bodying in this game in his 19 minutes.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: Was plus one, even though they lost.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: Ten points, three rebounds, two assists, two steals, one block.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Great pickup by the Cavs.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: Underrated pickup.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: He was awesome, I thought, in his minutes.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: James Harden hit a couple clutch threes at the end of the game, but...
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: Was kind of lulling in the middle of the game, especially in that third quarter.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: 16 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Had 6 turnovers in this game.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: 5 and 6 turnovers for Donovan Mitchell out of the 21 that Cleveland had.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's 11 for them just by themselves.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: They're the primary ball handlers, of course, but not good.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: Not good at all.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: You can't turn the ball over like that to win this game.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: Cleveland, I mean, that's just...
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: Heartbreaking loss.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Heartbreaking loss.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: You're up 29 at one point, 24 to go into the half, and you lose the game.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: That's tough.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's not a good look.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you have Porter Jr. in there, Craig Porter Jr.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: He, you know, was kind of out there getting cardio.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: They put Joel Embiid on him, and he wasn't able to score zero points in his minutes.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: Peyton Watson, their new pickup, looked good.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, slow game offensively, only eight points, but I thought he was good.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: I thought he was good on defense, had a block in this game.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: I thought he was pretty good and looks like a good pickup for them.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: Cleveland, they'll be good.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: They're a good regular season team.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: I think they just kind of got sped up,
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: especially in that third and fourth quarter as the Sixers were starting to mount
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: that comeback,
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: especially early in the third because the Sixers kind of turned it on within
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: that first minute and a half.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: They brought it within 19 after being down 24.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, going into the half, 29,
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: at one point in the third quarter,
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: and Cleveland just slowly,
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: slowly started playing faster,
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: they looked sped up, uh,
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: getting into their ball handlers,
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: they were forcing turnovers,
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: the Sixers were,
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: and they ended up losing the game,
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: but they'll be a good regular season team,
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: the playoffs is another thing,
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: you got James Harden on the roster, I mean, like,
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: come on, man,
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: it's James Harden on the roster,
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: but, you know, um, They'll be a good regular season team.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: You don't worry about them too much.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, Cleveland in their opener, I thought they looked really good in that first half.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: But they just got to get better and not speed up.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: Kenny Atkinson, man, call a timeout?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: I thought he really let them play on in that third quarter.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: You can slow your team down here and try to get in a good set.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: He did after a timeout, but then they let go of the rope again.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: The Sixers, improbable comeback, man.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: I was ready to come on here and be like, yeah.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's the swing of things, man.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's a new team, and it still is a new team.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, they dropped 114 points.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing to write home about.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: The offense, still really nothing.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: Just a lot of going to the one guy and them creating shots,
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: and you can do that when you're this talented of a team.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: You can do that against the Knicks, too,
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: two nights ago,
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: but you've got to be able to find offense within sets,
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: within the flow of the game,
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: not turning the ball over because you're looking at Tyrese Maxey in the corner
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: and you're like, oh, he's open when he's not opening.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: You're Jalen Brown at the top of the key when you can go buy this guy and get a layup.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: You don't got to pass it to him because he's Tyrese Maxey or LeBron James
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: because he's LeBron James.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: You got to love LeBron James doing a lot of hot potato at the top of the key
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: because he's like, go get a bucket.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: We need to run some sets.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Here, you know, if you're the Sixers, Nick Nurse.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let's run some sets.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: I know it's tough because,
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: you know, you got five new guys who have never played together before.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: And Joel Embiid isn't fully there yet.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: And LeBron's trying to figure out his role.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: And Tyrese and Vijay and Jalen,
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: you know, a lot of guys, you know, in that starting lineup, in that true five.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, you got to run some sets out of this.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: You got to get these guys comfortable with, you know, going at their matchups.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of the time, if you're the Sixers...
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: If you're Tyrese Maxey and you're being guarded by James Harden, you're winning that matchup.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you're Jalen Brown and you're being guarded by Donovan Mitchell or James Harden,
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: you're winning that matchup.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: Even Peyton Watson at some points, you're winning that matchup.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: You're bigger than Peyton Watson.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you're Joel Embiid and you're being guarded by Evan Mobley,
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: I know he's a former depoy, but you're winning that matchup.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: You're an MVP.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: You're still getting your legs underneath you, but you're an MVP.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're LeBron and you're being guarded by Peyton Watson...
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: You're winning the matchup.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: Attack it.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's all that stuff.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's a little tough.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: They're going to swing.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: They're bobbling the ball a lot,
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: just trying to get it to guys because they're seeing that they're open.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: Not familiar with the lanes that they run while they're in transition.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: Not familiar with the spacing and where these guys want to be on the floor
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: and how they fit together.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: All that comes in due time.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: They look clunky in that first half and they still look clunky in the second half.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: This team kind of showed in this game that they're just going to ebb and flow early
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: in the season.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: They were very low in the first half,
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: high in the second half, and that's just how this team's going to be.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure they'll have a whole game where I thought it might be this game
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: where they just look bad.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's purely bad.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: No shots are going in.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: You're not finding good looks.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: The three-pointer's not there, and it's still kind of not there.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: They shot 25%, seven for 28.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: A three-ball,
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how you find that because the three-ball for
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: the Sixers has not been good so far.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: They were 11 for 40 in that first game against the Knicks.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: So you got to be able to find that three-ball,
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: and maybe that's more KCP minutes,
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: more Dean Wade when he comes back, more Anthony Simon, something like that.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: This team's really, they're going to figure it out on offense.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: They're too talented.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: They're too talented of a team to not figure it out on offense.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not worried about that.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: I said it in game one.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to say it now.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: They were bad.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still not worried.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: They're missing shots.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: They're not finding the right reads.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: They're making errant passes because they think guys are open.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they'll figure it out.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: They have LeBron James,
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: Tyrese Maxey,
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_00: VJ Edgecombe,
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: Jalen Brown,
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: and Joel Embiid with Contavious Caldwell-Po and Anthony Simons and Dean Wade
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: and Adem Bona off the bench.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: They're a good team.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just not worried about their offense.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: It's their defense that I'm impressed by.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so impressed by the defense that they were able to spark it on
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_00: after being down 24 at the half,
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: coming out of halftime, saying, we're not going to lose.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: We're not going to go out sad.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: To a team in the second game of the season.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: Letting go of the rope as Tyrese said.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: We're not going to do that.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: We're not going to do that.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to fight because that's what this team has to do.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: To be able to compete in the postseason and later in June.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's what they're going to have to do.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: They're going to have to compete.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: And they did it on the defensive end.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it sparked their offense because they're a good transition team.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: And that's how this team is going to win ball games early in the season
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: until they figure it out on offense.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: Impressive win by the Sixers.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: 29 down.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: Come back and win.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: You guys know I had to rep the jersey.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't take it off.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't take it off even though they were down 24.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't do that.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't do that, I believe.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: Just like the Sixers did today.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: They get a win.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: They're 2-0 on the season.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: They won their home opener.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: They're going to play their next game on Saturday against Milwaukee.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully go 3-0.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's been great.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: This was The Cooldown Report on the Philadelphia 76ers against the Cleveland Cavaliers.