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You're in here you've been waiting over a hundred plus waiting hit the like button like and subscribe to the show tell everybody we got a full hour here tell everybody if they want to watch the postgame show they know where to be right here on the PHLY Sixers Podcast. We'll get to the unsung hero a little bit later, presented by Togo, obviously the player of the game, and we'll have our Bet365 Bet Tracker, our pregame bet tracker a little bit later, but we have to talk about this fantastic win for the Philadelphia 76ers improving to 41 and 33 and comeback fashion as they were down by as many as 15 points to the Hornets in the second half after scoring the first five points of the third and evening the score up at 69-69. Hornets take a big swing. They get back in front. They have the Sixers on the ropes. Once again, things look bleak out there on the floor, but they continue to fight. They have a tie score, everybody, at the end of the third quarter. Who are these guys? And then the fourth quarter, one of the best teams in the NBA in the fourth quarter, as we've been talking about all season, we'll just erase the fact that they give themselves a pretty good deficit because of the third. Kyle, they regroup, they gather together and they pull together as a team and they pick up a lot of the things that we were yelling at them for for a good forty minutes of the game. 'Cause we'll talk about that right now. We'll get to that stuff later. They did clean it up. They clean all of that stuff up to pick up a huge, huge win here tonight. Truly a an all-around team effort, and one that I think showed as much resilience as we've seen from this team in years, maybe. They go down double digits multiple times. They don't have their first lead of the game until the fourth quarter. They're getting pasted on the glass, like everything that could go wrong to make you feel like we're doing all this work, we're hitting shots, we're climbing back in the game. And then you just get pummeled on the glass over and over again. You sit there and you say, like, they're just never gonna get over the hump. But in different periods of the game, different guys are stepping up. I'm I don't want to blow the surprise the player of the game or anything like that. Bree has it, right? But to me, that's the reason you brought Paul George to Philadelphia is for games like that. Clutch shot making down the stretch. And more than that, he talked in the locker room after the Bulls game that he felt 100% more explosive and that he just feels better physically right now. I think you see that with the way he's driving to the basket. First half, end of the second quarter, he's getting into the paint. He's using those long drag steps, Euro steps, and throwing guys off balance, scoring around the rim. He's hitting some big pull-up threes. Obviously, he hits the one late that was the biggest shot of the game. And he's making defensive plays. And he got double digit rebounds. What'd he finish with? Twelve, thirteen, thirteen rebounds tonight. Where boy were they at a premium. If you are someone who was wearing the red, white, and blue with the Sixers, you should saw our thumbnail before this. So we said earlier this week that there was nothing that could be done about the fact that Paul George was suspended, failed the drug test. Those are all problems that you had to deal with. You work fast. All you can ask him to do is put his head down, work, take accountability, and now what's in front of you is the final 10 games, now the final eight games after the last two that he's played. Yeah, he came in right away. But he's playing great defense and contributing in that way. Eventually he goes on a crazy heater. Tonight from minute one and all throughout the game, it's two-way basketball, disrupting guys off ball, using his hands and passing lan es. Incredible, incredible, incredible Paul George game. And he was not the only one who had a great game. Maxie comes back and is great. Joel's Like it took everyb ody. But that's like with him coming back and with this full group finally on the floor and healthy, you finally get one of these moments that it's like, okay, I can see why they put this exact group of stars together and why they got this guy. Because if he can give you that, it doesn't have to be every game, but if he can give you that a couple of times in a playoff series, a bunch of times in a playoff run, your ceiling just goes so much higher as a team. And real fast before uh we get to Derek, EJ checks in Barrett in the super chat, he has to leave. He couldn't stay. So he says can't stay. But after some bozo plays from Paul George, had a great fourth and he ended with 13 boards. Still don't get why the horns stop crashing as hard as they were. I guess keep drum. Wanted to make sure we highlight that while EJ is possibly still our guy, EJ. So EJ, thank you so much for the super chat as we are talking about Paul George. No, and to your point, Hornets went five of twenty-two in a fourth, didn't have a single offensive rebound the entire quarter. If you would have been watching the first three quarters of the game and they said, What kind of odds would it take for you to say that the Hornets will have zero offensive rebounds in the fourth quarter? It would have had to be Ashley Album. Yes. Really great effort all around. We'll get the drum. And he obviously made a big impact when he was in there. But it really was a team effort. VJ was doing a better job crashing glass. Paul was obviously doing an incredible job crashing glass. Ubre helped out there in the end. Props to everyone because quite frankly, it was despicable through three quarters. The Hornets at one point were averaging 0.54 points every time they missed a shot. You should not be averaging over half a point when you miss a shot. But they cleaned it up, took care of what they had to do. Great to see. And to Kyle's point, like this is part of like everyone wants to kill Paul. And I get it. And everyone wants to kill more for signing Paul and I get it too. But conceptually if you got reasonable health from Paul, not great, not his last year in the Clippers, reasonable health with Paul, he was a tremendous fit as a third and fourth option, especially with VJ growing the way that he has. He obviously the big man on the floor, when the big man's on the floor and Paul's on the floor, everything looks bad. But when everyone's on the floor together, he showed you today why he makes a lot of sense from the off-ball shooting, uh, he ended up with four made threes, including obviously the one to put them over uh to put them in the lead with a minute left. He contributed on the glass and was really for much of the game their only real committed defensive rebounder. They had four steals, a block, great hands, great rotations, really good decisions outside of that span when he committed like three fouls in a minute and a half. Outside of that, his decision making was good all around. And he really just has a way to impact a game in so many different ways that few others on this team really have. And if you you know talked about a little bit last week, wrote about a little bit last week, but he has the best plus-minus on the team. Part of that is because he's played the most minutes with Joel and some lineup stuff and yada yada yada. But a part of it is that he just does so many things that are irreplaceable with all of your other options. Like everyone else in the forwards on the wings takes something off the table. Paul does not, and I think this is one game where he showed you that. He was fantastic down the stretch. Some of the things that he did early, of course, we talk about the star power that they have where I think Kyle, you had pointed out earlier in the pre-game of hey, it's okay if you have a guy that it's like twenty, twenty, twenty and fifteen. They don't do it that way. Right, because you have so much talent that's there and in the first right Derek is Joel Embiid putting up those numbers early. Then we're wondering Tyrese Maxi just kinda easing himself back into it, trying to get his feel, literal feel of the basketball and his time out there on the floor because of his finger. Paul George is not doing that. Vijay Edgecomb is not doing that. Later on, Tyrese Maxie takes his turn of the guys that does the work that keeps them in it and makes the big shots, gets the scoop layups, uses his speed against defenders to get to the basket and so on. And then you get down to the the the final part of the game where they needed everybody to just tighten up. And he was the veteran out there that tightened up from the rebounding to the steals. He had a play where he didn't steal, but the fact that you can also look at the communication on their switching. Well we talk about it a lot of the guys, especially both Derek and Kyle speaking of the defense that they play and how they're leaving so many wide open threes, which we'll talk about later on because there were a lot of those early on in the game. But you can tell with the communication, the vocal uhness coming from him to everybody else and making sure that everybody's in the right spot. And that's where the the value of him from the three-point shooting, obviously, the passing, the 13 boards that he had here where we've set it a bunch of times that we'll talk about it, but we all saw it as we watched this game together here tonight. But to make those shots that he made there down the stretch and to make that big corner three after Kyle, you said it while we were sitting there, after he makes it, that's big after what he missed. Yeah, on the corner. Exactly. Man, I was really bad. And he knocked that one down from the corner. So to have all of that stuff come together for him at the end. And we we talk about this because you also just simply we can't ignore the fact that he had that twenty-five game suspension and how many games they may have won during that stretch of that 13 and 12 record while he was out. Well, that could have been a 16-9 or a 15 and 10, just to pick up a couple of more wins, where he now has to come back. And as Kyle pointed out when he was at practice, that he wants to play or uh pardon me um where he pointed out before the game on wednesday that he wants to play in all games if if possible and they're gonna need all of these games and we jokingly said hey maybe they can run off their final eight or final nine uh of the season but just give yourself a chance i'm not joking go do it go do it i'm feeling crazy i'm feeling let's give yourself a chance every night and when he does stuff like this seeing what he did in the fourth quarter to help out and it was a blowout, but he needed that. When as we said, that that thirteen points that he scored in the fourth quarter, that's not nothing because he hadn't played basketball. So he needed to get back out there on the floor to see some shots fall, to do some make some passes that that were crisp and on the money with some of his teammates there. They need every second they need out there on the floor. And for him to do what he did tonight, to put this together at the end, where they had to forge their way back into this one, the resiliency and not quit and just continue to fight in this one. That was huge from him for a guy that we had the bullseye on him for not being the veteran of understanding what you're putting in your body to avoid something like that to happen. And he comes out here and he does this. And for anybody that might say, hey, you guys overreacting, no, we're not. There are eight games left. And they needed a tiebreaker with this team and they got it. You basically put the Hornets in the rear view. Yes you did with this win. Yes, you did. And Derek said it in the pregame. You basically get two wins here because of this. And we're gonna give you the schedule for tomorrow, uh a little bit later on the show, but we mentioned it on the show on Thursda y. The Hornets were playing a back to back. Sixers tonight. They have the Boston Celtics tomorrow. And that is a big game. And that helps the Sixers out as well if they lose tomorrow. Because the Sixers will be off. You pick up the game tonight and you get another half tomorrow against that Boston team if the Hornets win. So big, big game, definitely worthy of the player of the game tonight, Paul George, for what he did and helping to close this one out. So I want to circle back to something you said about the defense and you know his vocalness. Nick Nurse called him effectively the captain of their defense before Paul returned for that Bulls game. And I think that holds true in a lot of ways because I think you also what you saw tonight was them playing different coverages at different points in the game. Like early they come out and it's they're switching one through four, one through four, and then they're playing drop. And that's what we kind of expect with Joel Embiid available. But with Paul, you put him out there with VJ and it could be Barlow or Ubre. Tonight it's Barlow. But you put Paul, VJ, and one of Barlow or Ubre, and then Maxie, who's gotten better there, and you have better options to just say we don't have to trap guys and then you're just constantly in rotation. You can just switch fluidly and then hopefully you get a good contest at the rim. Later in the game, they're bringing Joel up to the level and he's playing a little bit higher. So that the hornets aren't seeing the same thing on every single boss screen. That ends up working out on some possessions and not on others. But what Paul's presence means is that you just have more outs schematically. You're able to try more things because he's so adaptable. He's also very communicative. He's talking to everybody on the floor. He's rearranging people. Like you go there. I go there. He's a great disruptor in passing lanes. So, like all this stuff that we've talked about in the past is still true. He isn't an on-ball stopper and he is going to get burned gambling from time to time. But you don't have to die the same way for 48 straight minutes when he's available because he opens up other pathways to try to get stopped. So as much as the offense is important, as much as the rebounding is important, the defense cannot be undersold as part of his story. He has made and Derek pointed out the plus-minus stuff, a lot of that is driven by how much better they got on defense the second that he hit the floor this season. This was not a defensive master class on any stretch. And certainly that Bulls game was not. But when you're talking about the a high scoring league where guys are making threes from all over the floor and you know these games are very common where it's like one twenty five one nineteen things like that situational defense is where it's at and Paul George is giving you a lot of chances to get those stops and big moments. Our player of the game tonight, Paul George, with a fantastic performance in the Sixers huge win over the Charlotte Hornets. Final score in this one, 118-114. Again, George, 25 points, 13 rebounds overall for the veteran. And he also had four steals in this one. One block shots, four for eleven from behind the three-point line in 36 minutes and 22 seconds. Definitely worthy of the player of the game tonight. When we get back, we'll continue to take your comments, your super chats. Now we talk about the others. We'll get to the unsung hero a little bit later. We'll get to the big takeaway a little bit later presented by Xfinity as well. But we have to talk about the return of Tyrese Maxi. We've mentioned him, and he was phenomenal. After he got his legs underneath him, he was fantastic. We'll talk about Maxi, Ubre, Embiid, and everybody else. When we get back, Sixers, 118, 114, 41, and 33 now on the season, and they hold over the Charlotte Hornets a two-game lead right now in the Eastern Conference playoffs. It's the PHLY Sixers postgame show. Huge win right here presented by Bet36 5. 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It took him a while to get going, but once he did, and when you look at his numbers overall, 10 for 18, 3 for 6, got to the free throw line four times, missed one in the final 60 seconds of the game, had eight assists, seven boards for Tyrese Maxey, and only three turnovers and forty-three minutes. Great comeback for him. And I will say, the first quarter of that game, I was sitting there thinking, why is he on the floor? Because they were almost exclusively using him as a decoy. And I don't know if that was to lull the Hornets into a false sense of security, if it was Tyrese feeling the game out a little bit. They're playing through VJ and certainly Joel was the guy who's getting most of the shots up. So it's not like you can't have two guys shoot the ball at the same time. I understand that. And then the second quarter hits and he's a completely different player. And beyond the scoring, right? Like 26 points on 18 shots is great. Chips in as a rebounder. To me, what I was happiest with, and what I think spe aks the most to him and his basketball character. He was probably the guy that was flying around the most at the end of that game defensively to get one last closeout in. Like, I'm gonna get to this guy in the corner. I got to X out to the opposite wing and you know get in Lamello Ball, Con Kanipple, whoever it was, get in somebody's face. He's making the extra effort to do that. And we brought it up that nurse and Maxi had said he'd been spending a lot of time making sure the conditioning level is staying high, and that's easy to say. And then you get thrown back in the game mix, and it's like, well, how much do you actually have? What are the legs like in crunch time in the fourth quarter? What are you willing to give? And I thought the way that he contributed the little things was really, really important because that was a game that for the final what, like eight minutes, nine minutes is basically on the seesaw going back and forth, they take the lead, the Sixers take the lead, they take the lead, the Sixers take the lead over and over again. So all these plays on the margins, the the closeouts, the defensive rebounds, all that stuff adds up in the end. And so look, I thought his burst was great. I thought the shooting at times was great. He did what he needed to do, but as all the other stuff that to me it adds up to what he talked about at the start of the season, the the message of this year, setting the standard, not letting it drop to the point that like it doesn't matter if you've been hurt. It doesn't matter that you've been out multiple weeks. You come back, you're on the floor you got to meet the moment he treated it like a playoff game and I love that he's able to have that type of game even with him being like a complete non-entity for the first 12 minutes of the game because younger Maxie and and a lot of players around the league, quite frankly, if they can't get into the game in the opening 12 minutes, you can just watch guys float through the game a little bit. So the fact that he was able to go from that to the guy that we saw who's able to keep them alive in the third quarter and help them close that out in the fourth is really impressive and shows his growth uh in basically all areas. Yeah, I mean we we talked a lot about like we want to see how he favors a hand, favors a finger, whether or not there's stuff he's uh concerned about doing, whether or not it looks like he can shoot the ball cleanly and effortlessly. And to Kyle's point, he came out and had one made basket in the first quarter, I think, four points total, and then was just a completely different player in a second. I do think he was probably trying to feel that out a little bit, see how the the the pinky felt at game speed. And then he just came out in a second and next thing you know he's bombing 29 30 footers and you're like oh okay like he feels comfortable with his range with that shot and then probably the part that really sticks out he was gambling a lot in the passing lanes in the fourth quarter. He was fighting through screens defensively in the fourth quarter. He was battling for rebounds. And those are all things that you don't do if you have the concern about your hand in the back of your head. He, after the first quarter, was an instinctive basketball player who didn't look like he had anything that was taken off the table. You could not have you could ask for more points maybe or something. You could not have asked for maybe more confidence in that finger in his first game back. And it was there was one defensive play where it was on the left side of the floor in the fourth quarter, and I think it was Josh Green and I can't remember who else was there, whether it was ball or white. Might have been ball. But he stayed ch chestest up up, with the man and he used his left, plucked it, got the steal, and at that point that's when Kyle, you said, now maybe they won't send that extra help when it's not needed, just because, to your point, Derek, that he's not he's not thinking about anything anymore. I'm just doing it. And stuck his hand in there, got the basketball, and they and they and they got that that that play. And that was just a tremendous play that he had there to disrupt what they had going on, the action that they had, but then to come away with the basketball. And and that's what you want to see because as we said in the pregame, all right, no excuses. If you're out there, you're out there. And while he felt things out in the first, it didn't look great. Horners go on a big run. They weren't communicating well enough defensively. And they got bit pretty bad because of it. He and and that's from the second quarter on uh just showed who he is. And you can we always say it, even with Embiid, when Embiid is out there, this is a different feel. And when Tyrese Maxie's out there, there's a different feel out there when you're watching it on the floor. And that's exactly what he gives you. And then look, it drops everybody else down in in their roles of who they are, what they are, and not having to elevate and st and level up in different ways. And so to get that from him, and we'll even give you the WTF moment of the night where he had a fantastic play, everybody, as Attila jumps in, perfect timing with the Rah as Tyrese Maxie gets the open floor and he goes against the Charlotte Hornets in transition, all by his lonesome, and he just unleashes this play that is the player of the game after he is outracing everybody and punches it and posterizes, Miles Bridges on the play, faces, you know, just stares at him, tries to shake his hand, and gave us a great, great now still shot photo that we will probably use until at some point before the season is over. Think of a better guy to get on. Exactly. We're gonna use that. Great, great game from him in his first game back. Uh didn't even think about it. And it's not like he did the left hand because he was afraid to dunk with the right hand. He's been dunking on people with the left hand all season long. That was the play. That was the right play because of the angle that Miles Bridges was coming from on the right side. He had to get it up there quick and he finished it, punched it. Great play from Tyrese Maxie for our WTF moment of the night. And um just a great great performance from him in his first game back, and this gives you that hop e. As what was this, the eighteenth, nineteenth game of the season for all of them collectively together? I wish I had something under twenty. Not enough. Right under twenty. Not enough is the total. They kept telling us on television that this was the one that, you know, for the entire roster to be out there, minus Jennai Broom. And I'm not kidding about Jennai Broom. It's just he was the only one that was unable to suit up tonight because of his injury. That this was the first time to get all of them back and they need this runway and they need all of them to win in order to move up in the standings after tonight and of course tomorrow and the rest of the games that they have going on. Tremendous work from Tyrese Maxie in his comeback game. Tremendous. All right. 18th, Rich says. Thank you, Rich. 18th game on the night. Let's get to Joel and B too. Because he started it off. Uh while he faded there in the end as, far as the scoring, he started it off and tonight he finished with twenty nine points was which was a team and tie for the game high with Brandon Miller. But as we talk about everybody having their their roles and their mom ents. I eight for nineteen, got to the free throw line 13 times. He was thir 10 for 13, six boards, two assists, two block shots, had a key block in the corner. Uh on who did he close out on? Uh Brett Williams. And great block there. Your thoughts on Joel and Bede's game with his twenty nine and an up and down kind of game. Yeah, so I'll be honest. He's the guy that I think I would sit here and nitpick if we were if we were to get neg ative. He's where I start on the rebounding front. And that's not to say that rebounding is just a Joel problem because I think there were a ton of examples of Joel is boxing out Kalk Brenner, he's doing his job, clearing his space, and other guys are failing. But I said to you in the middle of the game, if you're going to play drop coverage and they're going to with Joel, that's the style that he succeeds in. You can't concede the space that they do to pull up shooters and also be an awful rebounding team. And he has to be part of the solution to that. Diabate at times is just eating his lunch by getting up off the floor where Joel is flat-footed, stationary, not moving, and he's just going around him, over him, batting balls away. I thought for a good chunk of that game, Joelle was not good defensively where he has been a master of the the cat and mouse game and pick and rolls where you play the two v1 and you're the one and he used to find that perfect sweet spot where you can challenge the guy who's going to hit a pull-up jumper or a runner. And you can also get back for the potential lob attempt or entry. And he did a great job of that. And he would rebound, and it just feels like he can't get there as much anymore. And that was the story of a lot of the game. And oh, by the way, he settled for a lot of jumpers in the middle portion of that game where I would have rather just go at Diabate, go at Calk Brenner. Especially if you got him in foul, Chuck. Of course. And I'll I'll give him some grace because I'll say the Hornets did a lot of beating him up off the ball, where it's two guys just like hammering him in the back, and they let guys get away with it. If you're not seven feet tall and you're just pounding away on a big man in the post, generally they let you do whatever you want. And that's a problem with how it's officiated. I don't blame him for that. But to his cred it, he makes the biggest defensive play of the game at the tail end of the game in minute, what was it like 36 for him, 35 for him of the night? And so that to me erases a lot of the wrongs for the game because I hated watching him rebound and the team rebound. I hated watching some of those offensive possessions. But it has always come down to for Joel, he's an incredible first three quarters player and can never quite get there in crunch time in the biggest games. And that doesn't mean that he needs to be like, hey, score 15 points in the fourth quarter. It means coming up with winning plays in the biggest moments and summoning enough to close that ground and block that shot effectively won them the game. So I was thrilled with that play to see the effort, the this closing speed to get there. He's flying into the bench to make it happen and that's like the the reckless abandon with his body that I don't know that he was able to have last year for sure where, he he's always's thinking about the knee, and he said the other night that the knee is not as big of a problem. So it was an up and down game, but they don't win that game without him. So he showed you the problems and he also showed you some of the solutions in that one. Yeah, I mean look, part of the reason we focus so much about rebounding is if you just go on points per 100 plays in the half court, the Sixers outscored the Hornets by twenty seven points for one hundred plays. Not counting not counting offensive rebounds, not counting transition points. It's pure first shot half-court basketball. They destroyed him. The reason this game was close was mostly because of offensive rebounds. And I do agree, I don't think this was nearly like, I don't think Joe was the only problem here. I'm not even sure if he was a primary problem. I think this was the worst like one through four rebounding game they've gotten in a long time for three quarters. Like every uh you you should have seen Bree had to put on headphones, we were so annoying. When Kelly had one hold on uh don't say we I was so I was doing the yelling. There was a a play where I said to these guys, I was like, they can't even jump at the right time because Kelly missed a a potential rebound. And then VJ immediately jumps at the wrong time and they get another offensive rebound. And there were definitely some possessions where Joe had his man boxed out and he had no help from any perimeter, especially when Paul was off the floor. When Paul was off the floor, this was way worse. But like Joe's at the point where he can do things right and not get the balls because he hasn't changed direction well enough. He doesn't have a second jump in him at all in this stage of his career. And then at times he's also just not putting in the effort either. So when he has nights where you know he's not really pursuing like you want him to pursue, and also you're getting poor efforts up and down the roster, and you're going against one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the league. And I think Charlotte is like the fourth best offensive rebounding team, something like that in the league, with some athletes that this Sixers team just cannot compete with. And your effort's bad. And you know, you're you're not really locked in in that aspect. It can look ugly. And it looked ugly through three quarters. To their credit and to Joe's credit and to somebody else's credit who might be the unsung hero when we get to him, he did lock in in the fourth quarter. A hundred percent. Not only with that block, but the glass was just better cleaned up. He was a part of it. Everybody else was a part of it. Everybody as well. Yeah. But like I said, they really needed to clean that up because quite huddle must have been nasty going into the fourth quarter because they all got it together real quick. And I mean, look, if that's true, look, credit to Nick Nurse and Kyle Lowry and the rest of the coaching staff. And B scared the hell out of me though. Buckled your knee one play. And then even on that block, if you go back and watch the close-up on that block, that right knee buckled, and I'm sitting there saying, Oh my goodness, here we go again. They got through it though, everybody. Sixers win, huge win. As uh we see a lot of people say here, including in the super chat, Riaz, my favorite win of the year, as Riaz says that. I know it's early, but we'll rather see the Knicks or the Cavs in the first round in the playoffs, if healthy. Got to get in that sixth seed in order to do something like that, Riaz and stay there. But a fantastic win. I'd rather they avoid the play in. 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That was them. Not me and not us. Andre Drummond, the unsung hero, Derek, because of the work that he put in, and the minutes that he got, six minutes and twenty seconds, only two rebounds, one assist, and one block shot. But it seemed like in that six minutes that he had six rebounds and two block shots in that timeout there. Well, and he like both those rebounds were contested rebounds too. Um and one where he specifically back with one hand and one handed rebounding with the other one. And look, if you go back to our pregame show, Kyle or Devon brought up the possibility of playing Drummond, wasn't all that enthused by it. So I'll take the L on that one. And look, I think it was AC Phila in the chat who was mentioning like hey, it's one game, he played. Don't get fooled by this, I think AC Phila said the record. I don't I don't disagree. I d look I still think Bona should be the backup center on most nights, but this was one where, like we mentioned, the Hornets are a great offensive rebounding team with some incredible athletes on it, and they pursue the heck out of it. And you're getting destroyed through three quarters. I think Nick made the right move by going to Drummond to start the fourth to see whether or not uh he could help control that. I think Drummond responded well. I give both of them their props for it. I'm not sure they win the game if they don't get it, you know, start or control the the glass to start the fourth quarter. And he was a huge part of it. And that block was a pretty nice block. He got like he looked like he had pretty good mobility for Andre Drummond. Great timing. It was a really good performance that they desperately needed. And that incredible pass from basically under the rim with cock runner hanging off them for the the corner three on that possess ion. Look, we we don't have to be like, oh, Drummond's gotta play every night. Yeah, no. What you say and what you when you look at a roster you say, different matchups are going to require different sorts of players, right? With the way the league has gone, there aren't a lot of like big bodied centers that are gonna like Jokic's of the world where you're just dumping them the ball and oh that guy's gonna go score or he's gonna pass out of the post. It is a lot of vertical athlete, rim-running types who are gonna block shots, go and dribble handoffs, and that's really it. And a dembona in a lot of those games is going to be the better player and the better fit. When something is happening like tonight, when you are getting pasted on the offensive glass, you need somebody who can come in and just be like a a space eater where even if Drummond is not getting those rebounds, he is taking up one, maybe two different guys on a single possession, and that's freeing up the VJs, the Pauls, the Tyreses of the world to go and grab the ball. And so they do a better job of gang rebounding because it isn't it's never just one guy's job to rebound the ball. We talked about Charlotte pregame. One of their superpowers is that yes, Diabate is a dangerous rebounder himself, but basically the entire roster rebounds. Every single guy will go and get the ball. I'm pretty sure Khan Kanipple had double-digit rebounds in that game. And he's a good rebounder, but he's not a double-digit rebounder. It just so happens that this was his game to step forward. So drum offered exactly what they needed at the moment that they needed it. And then when he comes out of the game and Joel comes in, they stayed on that same kind of wavelength. Joel did a better job of clearing his porch, giving guys opportunities and rebounding himself. So he's the unsung hero. He's not someone that maybe we want to see play every single night, but I think we all look at that and say that's why he's on the roster. That's what he is here for, is so that he can turn the water off when a team is killing you like that. He's a change of pace big when you're getting killed by a specific skill set. One other thing I want to give him a credit for, real quick. Kelly had that dunk, and he looked like he was maybe about the flex talking a little too much smack. Drummond went and kind of gave him like a celebratory shove, and I'm convinced Drummond did that so he could distract Kelly and prevent him from getting that tech. A real veteran movie. Veteran presence drum right there. So he gets a little bit of extra credit for that one. I give him credit for just simply staying ready because Bonad taken that backup role and he wasn't getting called on. And I even wondered when I was talking to the guys pregame, we ran out of time, if Barlow would be the one that they would go to with that with that uh second fi uh five minutes behind Bona if things got a little out of hand. But Drummond stayed ready and he came in and he made the most of those six minutes and twenty seconds where again I Gavini says, no way. It was only um, you know, two rebounds. No, it was two rebounds that Andre Drummond had, but it seemed like he had way more because of the impact of that time out there on the floor. So tremendous workman. And uh just great, great work overall from him to just stay ready, be ready and have his impact, and to not allow Kelly Ubre to get a technical for taunting because of that great dunk that he had. Jealous of Tyrese Maxie's poster. Then he goes, I don't know how the lane opened up the way that it did, but he took advantage of it and punched that one on Diabate for his own dunk. So the unsung hero of the night, not only for his rebounds and his block, but also from preventing Kelly Ubre from picking up a technical foul. Andre Drummond, presented by Togo, the leader in operations outsourcing, let Togo handle the work that gets in the way of your work. You call the plays. We execute at Togo, visit harness togot.com. All right, when we come back, your super chats, Vijay Edgecomb, Kelly Ubre, much, much more as we close out the show and we gotta update the uh pre-game picks with the tracker. And maybe check in on some the Kings made a comeback in their game. We'll get some up there. Everything to play for tonight. Bet 365, post-game pick tracker on the other side, super chats, and all of your conversation right here on the PHLY Sixers Postgame Show. Guys, we've all been there before. 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Well, what's going on? Coming down the stretch of that game. Last I saw, it was a six-point. Now down to a three point Hawks lead with about eight forty to go. So double screen, everyb ody. Triple screen. Whatever you're doing. As as Mark Zoomov used to say, hold on, we're coming in for a landing. All right, we're coming in for a landing. All right, let's get to the uh let's get to the quick bet three six five postgame picks trackers quick because I lost. Bree won. I lost tonight. So we'll do that one. That said I lost, so we're gonna make this as short as possible. Presented by Bet 365, our Bet 365 pick tracker. I'm now at two and three. Bree, where's your uh updated number after tonight? I think I'm three and one. Three and one. Bree is three and one. She is killing the field right now. Just make sure you follow Bree's pregame picks with the Bet365 pregame picks where winning is everything. Download the app and use code PHLY365 at sign up today. Cyan uh Cion James did not play a lot like I expected him to in this one. He's been playing a lot. He did not get those minutes tonight. So uh missed you on that. But definitely got the number on Joel. He almost cleared that in the uh first quarter with the scoring, Joel Embiid. So make sure you check out Bet Three Six Five where winning is everything. Download the app. Use code PHLY three six five at sign up to six oh uh Sacramento. New customers. When you sign up. Derek's doing the me. Deposit $10. Place the bet for five. You get $365 when you place your first bet. Bonus bets, win or lose at Bet36 All right. My apologies, Bet 365. I didn't mean to interrupt your read, but Sacramento just went on a six-o run and we're all tied up. No problem. I always told you Killian Hayes was a a purebred scorer. That's all right. Two guys, I want you guys to get in uh to a little bit of conversation. Thirteen points for VJ Edgecombe and for Kelly Ubre in his first game back, he had nine points, uh, five boards and one steal uh on the night. So Kyle, Vijay Edgecombe, your thoughts on his night, which was an up and down night. Because I know we have a bunch of super chats after this. I want to say one quick thing before Vijay. I thought Nurse coached this like a playoff game and, I give him credit for doing so because this was not a regular regular season game, and I'm glad that he adjusted to the moment in that way. So just wanted to make sure I said that. Uh VJ had an up and down night. He's in foul trouble. I thought a couple of those were 50-50 leaning toward I agree. I wouldn't have called those where he's guarding up. He's guarding Miles Bridges. He's playing physical. He's cutting off lanes and he just gets the call against them, he's a rookie, it's gonna happen. I also would just love if this guy could finish a put back dunk or a put back layup or a poster attempt. One of those or if it's not there, just lay it in. Right. Just drive it. Talk Brenner. So you you tip your cap to him. But VJ had some incredible moments in really important stretches like middle of the third quarter where that game could have gotten away from them . Out of the timeout, VJ hits a really tough runner that stops the bleeding a little bit. Short period later, he hits a nasty right-to-left crossover on Brandon Miller. Goes to the basket, lefty layup, and then he completes the run. I think they were within seven after he hits a corner three. It's like, okay. And Kyle that's back in this game. He had the worst three point miss of the night where he barely got it to the rim. It was almost a wedgie because of how bad that was. So after those two misses at the rim and that miss from behind the three-point line, to do what he does in the fourth quarter in the big spot, still take in make. Right. He hit the giant pull up three. And that was also out of a timeout. And that's one where it's like you look at him, it's like, hey Rook, what are you doing over there? Are are you you actually gonna pull that? So to have the confidence to take that is one thing to actually knock that shot down is another. And then by the way, another huge play that he's a part of that I think Paul ends up getting more of the credit for. He perfectly plays that defensive possession against Lamello ball late in the game where he plays far enough back without allowing him to shoot. Then he presses him a little bit and he's you know he's almost daring them to either shoot or pass, like make a decision. And Lamello is so indecisive that he gets caught between two worlds. He throws this looping entry pass and Paul' in thes right position. He creates the turnover. So a winning play that does not show up in the stat sheet for him. And I like the moments of self-creation for him in this game, super encouraging. And I think the stuff that he's doing with Joel Embiid, the the pick and pop where he's getting downhill and then the kickback, where Joel's getting a three where he's got nobody within like 10 feet of him. Some of that is like, hey, we're gonna dare you to shoot Big fella some of that is VJ is putting pressure on these teams as a driver and I think he's getting way better at getting to his spots and manipulating def enses. Yeah I mean this was a game where, like you mentioned, up and down a little bit, only played 31 minutes because he went foul trouble a decent amount. Did a lot of the things that I think we're hoping he grows into, whether it's a shot creation, three-point shooting, the two-man game with Joel.y Pedla a really good defensive game. And, you know, first of all, he just didn't shoot a ton, like five of eleven from the fi eld. Converts a couple of bunnies, or at least shots at the rim. Not necessarily bunnies because some of them were contested. But you could have had a real nice like 17-5-3 kind of night with really good defense, the kind of thing that you're thrilled to get with your fourth option. Um, but you know, he missed a couple, uh had that foul trouble, was a little bit inconsistent with his aggressiveness, aggressiveness, but I thought overall a good, albeit not great. Uh Ubre, uh his first game back too, kind of gets lost in things. Yeah, some good plays, had again up and down uh on the night. Definitely up and down. Um, you know, he had another pretty bad foul in mixed in there. We just need to just had a couple understand that no that's a Kelly. Someone or Drummond, one of them are gonna do that. Well and and Paul had a stretch where he had three bad fouls in a really short stretch. Um you know, look, I I think for the most part he gave you effort defensively. I little disappointed with his effort on the glass. I I thought he was in position to make a bigger impact. And quite frankly, going back to VJ too, because Vijay had ended up with what five boards but three of them were on the offensive glass. He could have helped out. He had a couple where he just ran away from the spot that he should have been at. Um what are you looking at, brother? You know, but I was kind of expecting Kelly to be a little bit rusty, and I thought he was. All right. Let's um get to a qu ick big takeaway here on the night presented by our good friends from Xfin ity. Visit xfinity.com. All right, as we monitor what's going on with the Kings and the Hawks right now. Nothing gold can stay as Robert Frost once said. It got too close. You know, they they need their losses. The Kings do. So as we talk about the Kings, let's look ahead to Sixers off day, which is Sunday. But there are some important games for Sunday that we still will keep an eye on. And those are the Miami Heat who are the Sixers next opponent. So this will be a second half of a back to back. Second night of a back to back for the Miami Heat who play the Pacers tomorrow at 5 p.m. And the heat right now, they are currently in the ninth spot tied with the Charlotte Hornets at 39 and 35, half game back of the Orlando Magic, who take on the Raptors tomorrow night at 6 p.m. where, the Sixers right now are half game back of the Toronto Raptors and the Charlotte Hornets after a wire-to-wire game where they had to play all 4 8. They host the Celtics, who are a game and a half up on the New York Knicks in the standings. That's an important game for the Celtics. So, Kyle, these are matchups again tomorrow that we will be paying attention to because of where we are right now in the standings with the seatings and all. You gotta hope for the Orlando win, right? You have the tiebreaker on the map. So I would that's uh it's a Mag ic Pacers Celtic Sunday. Yeah, yes, I hate the last part of that. That's all right. But the Magic Raptors is a bit of a win-win. Because like Orlando's currently an eighth. If they if they lose, you can pretty much cross them off the list. You hope they win because you want to catch Toronto at the five spot, but you you do get benefit either way. And in the event that Charlotte does win tomorrow, tonight was important because you get the tiebreaker now. So if if you do tie up Kings or Kingsing, by the way. So I think we can just cross them off. They're trying to get their pick. So or sta give themselves the best odds there uh for that one. But those are some big games tomorrow, of course, and the Sixers and the Heat. That's a seven o'clock start on Monday. So we'll be with you for the pregame coverage here, all four of us together on Monday night in Miami. Stay in Charlotte tom toorrow. Please. No southeast flu for anybody. Gotta dial it up again on Monday. Gotta dial it up. And uh so big games tomorrow with the Miami Heat uh, of course, taking on the Indiana Pacers. So you're rooting for them. 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So Dave, if they bring that fourth quarter effort for 48 minutes, anything is possible. We have the talent and they're and then they're healthy. The first half rebounding effort was inexcusable, as we talked about, Derek. Inexcusably. Yeah. No, and I I agree with everything. If they play that locked in and actually commit themselves to the glass, they can play with anyone. Now we have a year's worth of data. I think they came in as like the fifth worst defensive rebounding team in the league coming into the today's game. They certainly didn't do themselves any favors with this one. So can they lock in like they did in the fourth? I have my doubts, but when they do, absolutely they can play with anyone. Yeah, I I think I'll focus on the the anything is possible side of this. I think what's so encouraging about that game is that there were multiple points in that game where you could have just said, eh, we're packing it in. I know it was a meaningful game. I know that it was a playoff type atmosphere, but it is still a late March regular season game, and this is not a team that's got the greatest track record in terms of coming up in big moments. And at no point did these guys fold. And I think the fact that it was different players at different points of the game is what was so heartening. It's like, all right, now it's my time to to take the baton, so to speak, and run with it. Like Joel carries them early, Maxie in the second quarter, VJ for a period in the third, Paul sprinkle him in throughout the game when they really needed him. And it's it's just a reminder of they do have quite a bit of talent on this team when they're able to get it on the floor. So yes, it does make the rebounding that much more infuriating because you know the average person watches a game and they say rebounding is a lot of effort, right? Effort and positioning in many cases. And we had a couple people in the chat point out tonight that they're placed where they got to the ball, had their hands on the ball, and then just couldn't catch it or secure it. And those might have been the most infuriating ones of all. So I'm with you, David. I'm with you, everybody who keyed in on the rebounding tonight. You should have heard me screaming. It is why Bree put some headphones on in the middle of the game. You might be able to hear it during the Flyers pregame show. It is very possible. My voice was echoing throughout this studio. All right, everybody, we're heading to overtime here on the PHLY Sixers postgame show on this Saturday night. Saturday night postgame. We thank you on the television side. We really appreciate you hanging out with us tonight. Head on over to all phl y dot com for the remainder of the show. If you join us on the television side on Monday, pregame 630, Sixers Heat, right here on the PHLY Sixers pre game show. B. McCoy, Bernard. Great win. Needed that one. Bree put the the super chats in senior citizen mode, so I didn't have to read them all. We can make a deep run if we rebound better and stop all the switching, which leads to wide open threes, Kyle. Let's go. I don't think it's the switching. No, switching the open thing. Switching cuts down. It's fine. They prevent the switching, is what I would prefer to see compared to send two with the ball every time and then hey the ball's gonna rotate to whoever the corner shooter of the night is. So I don't want the open threes. That's the thing that we talked about with Paul George, with the communication and everybody just understanding your assignment and getting to the open man. If the communication is already there and is set in stone, then there shouldn't be looking over here and looking over here of who's got that guy that can sit there for what Brandon Miller had a few times in the first half, those wide open set your feet threes, communication , understanding the principles, the assignment of it all, and get to the man and and that's it. Just just contest. And also, everyone doesn't need to be a fly by. Nope. Sound close out. Well, and hand up, one hand up, one to the side, and just make sure that you do your job. Well, and that's part of my complaint with nurses typical scheme, not the switching, the typical, you know, double on the driver, try to recover out. When you're recovering out like that, your momentum tends to take you past the shooter. You're pretty much trying to rebound four on five anyway. When you do that with a big man who's relatively immobile and a bunch of smaller perimeter players, it leads to some pretty bad positioning. Um yeah, look, their rebounding was incredibly frustrating. Like we've said before, I give them a ton of credit for cleaning it up when they needed to. We appreciate it, Bernard. Thanks for the super chat. As always, I'll give credit one more time to Joel Embiid, though. Uh, on that block shot, Brandon Miller in the corner in the waning seconds. He avoided body and got the block. Yeah. And that's real at his size moving like that. That's a really difficult well and I was convinced somebody was fouling a three-point shooter on that possession. Convinced. I think all of us agree collectively that that would have been the case uh on that one. So thank you, Bernard, for that. Brandon from New Jersey says, Mo Crevis, you are a sixer. Arizona big man. You know, he's got some famous. He's a really interesting defensive guy, if nothing else. Mo Crevice, or are we going with our our our man from Michigan man, you know, gotta go with Mara. Mara probably go Mara listen if the Rockets pick is at twenty one or twenty two in that range, there're gonna be some interesting players on the board and we're going to have some guard wing conversations. Some fun philosophical debates about if they could actually draft a guard after trading the game. It's Quentin Grimes insurance, man. Quentin Grimes insurance. We'll see. That's topic for another day. We won't be talking about that till late June anyway, because as some people have already said, Scott, driving home from the Phillies, L, back to D.C. listen to the Sixers W. If that's what it takes, I will do it again. Scott, appreciate you. Thank you for your service and sacrifice. Go ahead. I know you wanted to get that one hit for a while off your chest to the Phillies. Oh. Extra innings. I feel like Kyle forced extra innings uh and then lost anyway. But yeah, one hit through eight innings was driving me nuts. On a guy who wasn't real sports were on tonight. Guy who wasn't scheduled to pitch anyway. Jake Jacob deGram was scratched and you know, all that. Make sure you check out the PHLY Phillies Podcast on Monday at noon as the team is back Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Anthony Gargano on Wednesdays, but you have Jamie Lynch and Corey Sideman Monday, Wednesday, and Friday right here on the PHLY Phillies Podcast. Go check out the merch while you're in there as well. Ash Monroe is all we got is one goddamn hit. Look at that on the hip. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that merch. I need to get the I do. I think I'm powder blue. I'm going gray. See, I already have a gray PHL white. Yeah, but that one powder blue too. I love the coloring the colorway with it. I'm in. I'm in. I'm in. Ash Munro, death taxes. Make sure you fire your taxes, everybody. And the 76 is winning. 65% of. the game CPA Gibbons over here. And 76ers are winning 65% of their gains when Joel and B plays. Now Ash, as always, updating it for us. 22 and 12. Except he didn't. They're 23 and twelve. They're actually twenty-three and twelve now. Thank you, Ash. Pretty damn good. And thank you for checking in, Ash, of course. That's a pretty good number when the big fella plays in the basketball game for the home team. Thank you, Ash. Always good to see from you. We'll see you as the playoffs are getting ready to get underway. Finally, super chat from Kay Fergie. We're up by forty in the fourth, but a huge w in. I don't know why we would have expected. Was that did we miss a Chicago I think he's talking about Chicago g ame. My bad. It's yeah it's almost ten PM on a Saturday. My brain starts to go or ten whole PM you sound like me. Wow. Um listen my brain as far as speaking, not in the not always after this time of night. Although given that the bars are gonna be open in Philadelphia until four AM this summer. That's crazy. This is a topic for another day. PHLY Six or Summer, baby. Let's go. I asked my wife. I was like, who is this game's on? Who do you think which bar because it won't be every bar. It's a thing you have to apply for. And not every bar even has enough traffic to last until two, let alone four. So I'm curious. I feel like McGillens is number one with a bul let. Like they're they're at the counter submitting their paperwork the second that the governor put that bill or signed that bill into law. So wonder who else will be op en that late. Sixes after dark, post games . World Cup after dark. Get Devon talking some soccer up here. Boy . Got my got my my my kit. I'm all good. Oh yeah. Team USA. I have two. I have a I have three. Two un ion and one a local store of my buddy, little lapstone. Oh yeah, that's a it's a good spot. Pretty cool one. Can I ask you about the union kit? Is that one that you bought or is that one that the union sent you? They sent them to yeah. So I'm gonna shout out my uh our media colleague Brela Moore who works at Fox 29. I give her shit all the time because the union send her boxes of jerseys and scarves and things all the time. I don't know that she's played soccer a day in her life. I don't think that you have either. I actually like I genuinely played, went over to Europe and played as a teenager , I've not gotten a single fucking piece of union gear ever. Pointed at you, union union PR. I'm coming for you. We know you. We know you. We we love you, but it drives me crazy. We love you. Anyway. We cover the Sixers. We were partners. So did Devine ever cover the Union? He was on the radio. We were partners. That's why all of us got one. Okay. All of us got one. That's fair. That's fair. All of us got one. And by the way, I didn't get mine until like really late. They were sending them to everybody else, and then they finally send it to me. Every time I see you one. It's like every TV person, like I get it. They're in a different class of media than we are where we're like supposed to be the more serious. Like, oh, we're impartial. We don't send me some free stuff, man. I don't ask for a lot. Did you ever go for their media um thing that they do? I've never gotten invited for any of it. You want a hat? I'll bring you a hat. I don't have any scarlet. I'm just a little bit bitter.. That That''ss all all right. Well, we know some people over there. It's really, it's not a big deal. McGillen's own and said no, Brandon said. What ? That's crazy. Thank you, Brandon. McGillins is like the number one place people would stay at until four AM. They they're throwing money down the tra in. I need to speak to the McGillens. Anyway, we're we're in we're When did that start? World Cup? Yeah. June. So the law goes into effect in I believe it's early it's like June tenth. Okay. Until late July, like the 22nd or something like that. I might be making those dates up. So it'll be there for our our post draft show. We'll see. Maybe we'll be out somewhere. We'll get some uh some fans, some soccer fans in the building, some football fans in the bu ilding. Everybody say it depends on where they're from. Some people don't care about the soccer thing. Other people be like, shut the hell up, you stupid American. Uh one eighteen, 114 score for your Philadelphia 76ers, who are now two games up on the Charlotte Hornets in the Eastern Conference standings as a result of the Atlanta Hawks win tonight. 123. I believe it was one thirteen over the Sacramento Kings. The Atlanta Hawks remain good job, good effort, Kings. Yes. Uh remain in front of the Sixers in the standings right now uh ahead of the Philadelphia 76ers. Next up for your basketball team, the Miami Heat, 7 o'clock tip time, 6:30 pregame for us here on the show. We hope that we all are together on Monday night for another big game where Kyle talked about the point of hey, South Beach and all. Also, Derek, just don't let an emotional win carry over into your next game. You're in playoff mode now. Your playoffs have started. Don't pull the FERC on Quirkmaz in Portland. Go out to the club and say, This is the best day of my life. You don't do that. So uh good win. Great win by this basketball team tonight to uh do their job and get the tiebreaker over the Charlotte Hornets in case they need it uh in a couple of weeks. Uh it's time for the world famous on a Saturday night . Roll call where we had a ton of you. A long roll call, baby, because I only got some of you, and it's still a lot of names. Thank you to a bunch of super chatters tonight from David, who we did get to your super chat, David. Thank you for that. Thank you to Ash Monroe, Kay Fergie. What up? EJ Barrett, who had to go early. Yes. But we obviously appreciate him. Bernard McCoy, Scott, who sacrificed for everyone? Going to that Phillies L and listen to the Sixers win on the way home. Way to go.