00:00Let's get to Sixers Celtics, and we're going to have Timothy Parker on to discuss this even
00:05further. And this, you know, there's always these highly anticipated matchups in the NBA
00:10scattered throughout the season. It's not as much as it was anymore. There's no real big rivalries
00:16in the NBA where this guy hates this guy, and we've been waiting all year for it. So we had
00:21the first meeting since the Jalen Brown blockbuster deal, and this was really just a blowout, a no
00:29contest win by the Celtics. Paul George, I know it was Tatum versus Brown. Paul George
00:36dropped 36 points in his return to Philadelphia after that contract was a disaster. And Boston
00:43won 123 to 101. Jason Tatum, 21 points, six rebounds, two blocks. He had 11 in the first
00:49quarter. He had a poster on LeBron James that happened at the exact same score as it happened
00:55back in 2018 in the playoffs when he posted him, which is very eerie, and it looked the
01:00same. It was crazy. Jalen Brown, the guy that has been talking up lamb chops with no gravy.
01:06Oh, I can't wait for this matchup. There's a reason why I want it out. 13 points, game
01:12high, four turnovers in 23 minutes, four fouls by the third quarter, and he barely acknowledged
01:18Tatum's pregame greeting too. So John, with all that being said, what were your thoughts on
01:23the Sixers being basically embarrassed on national TV?
01:27I thought the game was a letdown, to be perfectly honest with you. I blame Joe Mazzula. Okay.
01:35Joe Mazzula, you're running a television program, buddy. Let these guys go one-on-one. Why you
01:39got Tatum running, dog? Why you got Tatum running? Why you got Tatum running off screens? And why
01:45you double teaming Jalen Brown? What you doing? Don't you notice what people want to see? Folks
01:53whatever the hell this guy's name is. Gonzalez. Him too. We came to see Brown and Tatum. I
01:59sat down in front of my TV to see Brown and Tatum. Okay. A little bit of bronze sprinkled
02:04in there. I ain't come to see Joel Embiid not realize which foot is left and which foot
02:07is right and spray both of them. You want to see Joel Embiid where he has a check engine
02:12light on every time he runs up? Let me explain something to you, man. Joel Embiid on the fast
02:18break. The only person could get hurt is Joel Embiid. I don't understand. How you spray
02:24your ankle on the fast break? Lay up, big fella. Come on, man. You might be a half-court
02:28assassin only. Anyway, I digress. I thought that we were going to see fireworks between
02:35these two players. I believe Jason Tatum to be a phony. That's my own personal opinion
02:40about Jason Tatum. I believe he's a phony. I believe Jalen Brown won't every inch of
02:45the smoke. I mean, every inch of it. And tonight, he didn't get his opportunity, whether it be
02:50through the fouls or whether it be through Joe Mazzula coaching like a coward, hiding
02:54Jason Tatum like a light-skinned he is. And so, therefore, I walked away from tonight's
03:00game very dissatisfied but also let down by Nick Nurse's effort to combat what Joe Mazzula
03:05was doing. Nick Nurse, you got to do a better job in a situation like this. LeBron, you got
03:10to do a better job coaching your team in a situation like this. And Philadelphia really
03:15got embarrassed. And I think this is the last time LeBron James let Nick Nurse get him embarrassed
03:19on the national stage.
03:21Can I say something about Embiid? I know we were making fun of him, but there is a legitimate
03:25concern here. There's a legitimate concern with how he's looked through the first part of
03:30the season. And I know Sixers fans and Philly fans are going to be like, oh, you don't
03:34watch the games. I do watch the games, first of all.
03:36I watch them, buddy. I watch them.
03:38Second of all, you're just trying to convince yourself that he looks like he did before.
03:43You're trying to convince yourself that he's going to last for 65 games in a regular season.
03:48That's what you're trying to do. You're trying, oh, we have other guys now. LeBron looked washed
03:53too on Tuesday night. Now, I do have belief in Bron. I'm not going to say that he's washed
03:58already. He's just, he does look a little bit worse and more rusty than he did last year.
04:03What do you say?
04:04I completely disagree with you. This is the perfect version of LeBron for this team.
04:11If he's got to score 30 points and play 35 minutes, this team is cooked.
04:15Well, I'm not asking for that. I'm just saying, I mean, he did not look good on Tuesday night
04:19against the Celtics. He didn't.
04:21He shouldn't look good. That's what VJ Edgecombe's legs are for. That's what Tyrese Maxey's speed
04:26is for. That's what Jalen Brown's endurance is for. LeBron's not supposed to look like the
04:31man on this team. LeBron's supposed to look like the facilitator on this team.
04:35A connector. Basically a connector.
04:36Correct. He's the massager. He's the guy. He's the guy making sure everybody's on point.
04:44But let me address this Jalen B situation.
04:46I thought of a funny story as you were talking.
04:50To Philadelphia 76ers fans, let me tell y'all something, okay?
04:55It's going to sound harsh, but it's going to hit a place on some of y'all.
04:58Y'all know it's true.
05:01If you think your partner is cheating and you go through their phone, you already know the answer.
05:08Okay?
05:10Y'all know what's going on with Jalen B, dog.
05:12Y'all just don't want to go through his phone.
05:15Because if y'all did, y'all know y'all going to have to let it go.
05:17The process is over.
05:18And y'all going to have to move on from this guy.
05:20Because, buddy, watching him run up the court, I can see that y'all trying not to see.
05:26Okay?
05:27Y'all saying the elephant in the room is a lampshade.
05:31It ain't.
05:31It's over.
05:33It's over.
05:34He sprained his ankle on a fast break by himself tonight.
05:39Okay?
05:40By himself.
05:42And so, to me, and I was a huge Jalen B fan, I still think healthy, he's the best center
05:47in the NBA.
05:48But tonight, I want to...
05:51Dunking over him is crazy, by the way.
