00:00I'm kind of half nervous now.
00:01Half nervous?
00:02I'm half nervous.
00:02Why, he was their entire offense.
00:03He's their entire offense, no doubt.
00:05If Maxie gets hot, he could be their offense,
00:07and he was a liability defensively.
00:09And I don't think, and I don't think this team,
00:10and this is mainly, I'm confident because the Knicks have played
00:13the way they've played, but the fear is,
00:15is maybe subconsciously you let your foot off the gas
00:17knowing Embiid's not in the game.
00:19Like, they have to make sure they continue to play their game.
00:21It's going to be a different look.
00:22The offense is going to run through Maxie,
00:24and they're not going to have the liability that Embiid is
00:26on the floor defensively.
00:27So, listen, it's ultimately a positive because he's their most dangerous player.
00:31It's a huge positive, and here's what happens.
00:32Here's the other part of it.
00:33I don't want to take our foot off the gas because Embiid's not going to be there.
00:36It makes it easier actually to keep your foot on the gas, and here's why.
00:39We now have the same mismatch with our big men that we had against Atlanta.
00:44That's fair.
00:45The Sixers have no depth at the five.
00:48Andre Drummond's their first big man off the bench.
00:50Andre Drummond is like a cigar store Indian.
00:54He's like a traffic cone on defense,
00:55and it's no offensive game either.
00:57So, now we go back to exactly what we did against Atlanta
01:01and what we've done really since, to be fair,
01:04game four against Atlanta,
01:06and that is feed the beast in the low post.
01:09The Sixers do not have an answer for our big men, period.
01:13We'll see you then.
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