00:00But first, let's start off because it's draft week. We could get a big trade ahead of the
00:03draft. It sure seems like where there's smoke, there's fire. It does appear that A.J. Brown
00:07has worn out as welcome in Philadelphia. ESPN is reporting that the Eagles are
00:10open to trading Brown, and it could be potentially to New England. New England now considered
00:17likely, and Schefter says that they will be engaging them. Now, also keep in mind,
00:23a story like this comes out, it could be to get other teams involved in a potential A.J.
00:27Brown trade, so we will see if he ends up going to New England, but it does appear he's on
00:31the way
00:31out in Philadelphia, at least that's my opinion. Meanwhile, on the way out, that's not the case
00:35for Trent Williams. He wanted a new contract to stay in San Francisco, and he got it. He has made
00:39the Pro Bowl, folks, 12 different times. He gets a two-year, $50 million contract extension, so he
00:44will still play left tackle and block for Brock Purdy this upcoming season. Also, Dexter Lawrence
00:49is on the move. He is headed from New York to Cincinnati, and the Giants now have a couple of
00:55picks inside the top 10. Good move for both teams. The Bengals get picks. They'll get to replace
00:59Trey Hendrickson, and the Giants will try and get better for it next season. Meanwhile, a shocking
01:04result in game one of the seven-game series in the Eastern Conference. The one seed goes down in game
01:09one. How about that? The Orlando Magic, on the brink of elimination in the play-in, beat the Pistons
01:14112-101. They were eight-and-a-half-point underdogs. They end up winning outright. Paolo Bencaro had 23
01:21points, nine rebounds, and four assists. Cade Cunningham was back. He had 39 points, and yet
01:27the Pistons still lost. So how about Jamal Mosley, on the verge of potentially maybe being fired by the
01:32Magic, picking up a game one win, and loved the fact that his team played hard and got the upset.
01:38What do you like most about your team's performance tonight, and how did they do it?
01:44Yeah, I really, the competitive spirit that these guys showed to start the game,
01:49being able to battle through runs, but just down the stretch, being able to have a level of poise,
01:55knowing when things weren't always going to go our way. They went on their runs, and our guys did a
01:58very good job of coming together, communicating the things that they saw, both offensively and
02:03defensively. That's a big portion of it for me, is when we communicate at this high level
02:09and understand exactly what everybody's trying to accomplish on both sides of the ball, I think
02:13this team can be pretty good. Coming out, giving up a 35-point quarter. That's not
02:18typical for us. I felt like we were just chasing them all night. We made some runs
02:23to get ourselves back in the ball game. You know, defensively, I didn't think we were our best.
02:29Critical, you know, errors, mistakes that they made us pay for. You know, getting back to the use of
02:35playing at NBA speed, I think, you know, got us a little bit tonight.
02:41The distance will play the Magic again tomorrow. Probably an important game, I would say, for them in
02:45the seven-game series. Meanwhile, the San Antonio Spurs, in game one of their series with the Blazers,
02:50had no problem at all. They win and cover the 12.5. Wemby had 35 points, most by a Spurs
02:56player in a
02:57debut playoff game, since Tim Duncan's 32 points in 98, with Duncan sitting on the sideline, along with
03:03David Robinson in that game. Danny Avija had 30 points in a losing effort. Scoot Henderson had 18,
03:09but Wemby, heck of a debut, you would say, in the playoffs. Here he is on it.
03:13Yeah, I mean, you... It is obviously different.
03:19But we've been really good in the regular season, so we have no reason to act differently or
03:26do anything different. In terms of tactics, the sport aspect of it is different because we have
03:32more time to prepare, and we're going to have to play it four times in a row, but that's it.
03:37Well, first off, we got the first game out the way. Everybody got their first game,
03:41first playoff jitters out the way. Honestly, in the first couple minutes, it felt like, but
03:47I feel like something that we learned is every possession matters. We kind of knew that, but
03:52going into this game, we knew that it's a possession game in the playoffs, so
03:56we just got to realize that in the midst of the battle.
04:00Meanwhile, other games in the first round of the NBA playoffs mostly blowouts. The Celtics beat the
04:0576ers, 123-91. Tatum, 25. Brown, 26. They take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.
04:13Certainly, Joe Mazzula expected a win, and he says they got it.
04:16I mean, it just seemed like you guys took care of business from the beginning. What
04:20brought... What brings that mentality on? Is that built culture?
04:23I mean, it's two things. I mean, one, we have to... You know, we have to have an understanding
04:27of, I thought we got off to a good start in the series. And two, it really doesn't matter
04:30anymore because, you know, in 48 hours, we had to do it again, and you expect a better
04:33version of both. We have to expect a better version of both our opponent and ourselves.
04:37So, I think, you know, the maturity, like you were saying, the maturity of the competitive
04:40character of our guys to stick to the process of winning and give us a shot every night is
04:45consistent. I thought we had a good week of practice. I thought we got off to a good start.
04:49But that's just the beginning of a long series, and we got to be ready to take that on.
04:53You know, not getting off to a great start offensively, getting in some foul trouble with
04:59both bigs, etc. So, the first quarter, obviously, was moving past us pretty quick, and we just
05:08didn't do enough, you know, at either end to get in to settle into the game. I thought
05:13from the second quarter to about midway through the third, we finally got ourselves underneath
05:18us a little bit and played, you know, pretty good basketball. But the minutes around that
05:26was absolutely unacceptable.
05:29It would appear if Philly doesn't get back Joel Embiid, at least for those home games coming
05:34up, they don't probably stand much of a chance. Same could be said for the Phoenix Suns. My
05:40gosh, they got 17.5 points yesterday. It wasn't enough. Expect them to be 20-point dogs in a playoff
05:45game coming up, potentially, tomorrow night. The Thunder beat them 119-84, an absolute blowout.
05:53Shea Gilgis-Alexander, 25 points, said they set the tone early.
05:57Just a big win for you guys after a week off. Is it important to sort of set that tone
06:01early,
06:02kind of in a long postseason run, to get the first one like tonight?
06:06Yeah, absolutely. It is very important. In the playoffs, over a run, when you have a chance
06:15to win games, you need to win games. Being the one seed, both of our opponents the last
06:20two years have come off of playing, so they're a little bit more tired. That probably has something
06:26to do with it. But we still have to do our job, go out there and win. Now, this team
06:30is going to get
06:31better throughout the series. It's who they are, it's who they've been all year. They have really
06:34good players, well coached, play really hard, play the right way. So we have to be ready to
06:38get better as well. And expect a better team on the other end. They're going to be better
06:42for the rest of the series. They're not going to be like tonight.
06:44So how important are these next, say, 48 hours to get ready for a game two after a loss like
06:50this?
06:51Yeah, I think we have obviously some things to learn from. We have some film, definitely different
06:59than the regular season matchups. You know, we're both the majority healthy. So spend these next few
07:05days breaking down film and see where we can be better. All right, San Antonio, of course, looks
07:10like potentially them and Oklahoma City may be in the end. We'll see if this plays out over the course
07:14of the Western Conference playoffs. Now let's get to Major League Baseball. If you're a Mets fan,
07:18I'm sorry. It's been a rough run for you. They've lost 11 games in a row. They led one nothing
07:25in
07:25the ninth. The Cubs came back to tie and then won it in extra innings. Former Met Michael Conforto had
07:30the game-tying double off Devin Williams. And right now, the job security of the manager,
07:38Carlos Mendoza, has come into question. Here is Francisco Lindor on that.
07:42It's going to get loud. A lot of that talk is going to be around Carlos Mendoza. I mean,
07:45what would you say about how the job manager is done with you guys?
07:48He's done a fantastic job. This is not on him. This is not on him. He has to make sure
07:53everybody
07:54here is prepared. Every coach here is prepared. And we have the information. It comes down on us.
07:59Mendoza is our guy. He's our leader. He's in control. And he's done a tremendous job.
08:06We just haven't executed. You know, it would be unfair to put everything on him because at the end
08:09of the day, he has gotten the ship in the right direction. We just have to, the people are paddling.
08:15We've got to paddle and execute.
08:19Meanwhile, no team that has ever lost 12 games in a row has made baseball's postseason.
08:23We'll see if the Mets can finally get a win here coming up.
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