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The two sweetest words in sports, we had the first of three of them tonight and Mike and I react to the Boston Celtics bowing out at the hands of the Philadelphia 76ers by Joellen B and Tyrese Maxi and Playoff P and VJ Edscombe, rally from three one down, exercise some demons for prior Playoff series, including 2023 in Boston in a game seven, an awesome, awesome game that featured some interesting strategy from the Celtics to open the game without Jason Tatum, that was the other big headliner. We'll learn more presumably about how he was injured and what his prognosis is, but he didn't play tonight and the Sixers went in and took care of business on the road and they go on to face the Knicks. Michael and I talk about the whole game, what happened in the game, how it got close, how the Sixers pulled away in the end, masterpiece by Maxi, masterpiece by Mb, against the Celtics team that tried everything on defense from zone to guarding it with Smalls, all kinds of crazy stuff. Talk a bit about Boston's offseason, how they got here, what happened in this series, what happened during the regular season, was it a mirage, was it not a mirage, what about Joe Missoula and Missoula ball? And then we look ahead a little bit to Nick Sixers, second round Playoff series, a rematch from a very fun first round series two years ago. And like, is the winner the favorite to come out of the east at this point, the way the four teams that are playing game sevens are playing right now. No one has really made a convincing case that it's not the Knicks or not the Sixers if the Sixers win, so we'll talk a lot about all that stuff coming up on a late night, Saturday night, Zach Lowe show with Michael Pina. The Zach Lowe show is brought to you by Fanduil. It's been a wild Playoff run, but it's not over yet. Fanduil wants to bring you closer to the court to make more of all the action to come. 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It is the site of perhaps the lowest moment of Joellen Beatt's career, a total game seven no-show in the second round in 2023, and he's going to try to get revenge on another postseason defeat next round against the New York Knicks. There's a lot to unpack here, a lot of Celtics obituary stuff to do, but let's just headlines, Michael Pina. Bizarro starting five from Joe Missoula. I was like, jaw on the floor when I turned on the game and saw who was on the court for the Boston Celtics, at least one of whom, Ron Harper Jr., never saw the floor again after a disastrous start. I'm sure that he would like to have that one back. There were like four Joellen Beatt injury scares, including one where Jalen Brown pushed off Tyrese Maxie and pushed Tyrese Maxie into Joellen Beatt's knee. There was an Embed technical for a hostile act on Jalen Brown after the buzzer. There was a super exciting Boston rally that began at the end of the third quarter with the Jalen Brown three and a Derrick White buzzer beater where I thought he traveled in real time before he made the shot, and it got to 99-98 with about four minutes left, and then the Celtics missed five pretty goddamn good shots in a row. Jalen Brown missed a three. Jalen Brown missed a jumper over Vijay Edgecomb. Peyton Pritchard missed a run-out corner three, a five-on-four fast-break corner three, where you just know the leprechauns are in the sky. It's Joellen Beatt. The freaking, it's Joellen Beatt a night after the same basket in Toronto produced the most heart-wrenching bounce of his career, the Kawhi lettered shot. You know that shot by Peyton Pritchard is going in. It doesn't go in. Then Jalen Brown does the push-off at four. Mentioned he misses a little jumper. Sam Hauser misses a three. It's game over. We can talk about all that, but let's talk about this to start with. Joellen Beatt, Tyrese Maxi and Vijay Edgecomb scored 87 of Philadelphia's 109 points. Joellen Beatt 34 points, 12 rebounds, six assists. I'm going to save another critical stat for a second from now. Tyrese Maxi 30 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists. Both of them one turnover apiece. That's the stat I was saving. Tyrese Maxi is that dude. He is that guy. He's been a stud in the playoffs pretty much every time he's gotten into the playoffs, and he beat every single scheme the Celtics threw at him in this series. When they were showing nail help like they do, like Boston loves to do in the first couple of games, he made the right pass to his open shooters. When they stopped doing that and said, we'll play you two on two, he made pull-up threes in their eyes. And when they brought the screener higher, he roasted them for layups just like he did down the stretch of this game twice to Nemi Esqueda. When Boston started icing pick and rolls in the middle of the series toward the side of the floor, Tyrese Maxi said, thank you very much. I'll take that side of the floor and I'll beat you with mid-range jumpers and other stuff. A masterpiece series from a legit flat-out superstar and Joelle freaking Embiid. All the heartbreak, all the playoff losses, the tears in Toronto, the injuries, the appendicitis that was like yesterday, basically, comes out in a game seven in a place where he melted down alongside James Harden, was like a meltdown by association in that game and puts up 34 points on pretty efficient shooting, good enough defense. All things considered, one of the most important and best performances of his career, even though it's only the first round, hats off to those three. And Vijay Ajko, I'm just like, not going to be the headliner? 45, 44 minutes and just does everything right, completely fearless. What, there's a lot from Boston, but just hat tip to those three guys in the Sixers. Awesome game. I can't wait for the next round. Where would you like to start now? I guess we could start with Maxi, who you've already covered a little bit, but I just, the entire series, he was unstoppable. Boston had no solution as you just outlined, bringing bigs up to touch, blow by for a layup, basically every time. Yeah, no chance. You're in a drop. He's going to hit the pull-up three. You try to deny. He gives the ball to MB, cuts back door. Their give and go was money the entire series. The baseline step back jumper that he just, in his bag, basically the entire series and tonight. And I thought that after Pritchard missed that corner three, that I thought that once, I thought that that was the game, honestly. I think there was like two minutes to go. And it was a one-point game. It just felt like if that went in, that Boston was probably going to win the basketball game. And when it didn't, Maxi, reverse layup coming down the other end immediately, and then the next position after that, driving layup past Kata, I believe, on a blow-by. And the fact that he still has that, he had that burst and that speed at that point in the game is just amazing. I don't even know what to say about it. So he was, he's the best player on the team. He was the best player in the series. And shout out to him. I can't wait to see what he does in the second round. Unbelievable performance by him. The whole series through. And by the way, stood up much better on defense as the series went on than I thought he would against Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. That should have been the headline. Jason Tatum out tonight with a left leg injury. Joe Missoula said he was day-to-day. It doesn't matter anymore. There's no next round to come back for. Hopefully, Embiid was doing the post-game interview on the floor. He looked like he was in good spirits. I think he had his son out there with him. Hopefully, that's an indicator that whatever he did to his knee, and then he was on the floor like nursing his right side at one point. Hopefully, that's all okay. But Maxi was unbelievable. Embiid was unbelievable. And just a gritty comeback from 3-1 down. The alarm bells for me started actually going off in game three. And I've talked about this already, which the Celtics squeaked out in Philly. And it felt like, ooh, no Embiid. That's a little bit of a, that was a too hard of a game. Almost for them. And since that game, Embiid found his footing. And just what a bizarro game for the Celtics. You know, they kind of, it's, it's, we had some people over last night to, to do, to watch, to watch my silly cameo on your friends and neighbors. We had a little bit of a mini watch party. And one of them was a Sixers fan and he came and he's, he was just giddy. And I was like, he was still talking about the sequence of around the back, the behind the back passes and Calubre dunks from game six. And I said to him, I was like, it just felt like they magically became the team. Everybody thought that they could be, but no one ever thought that they ever actually would be. And they never were. And it didn't look like they were ever going to be, have time to become that team. And then instantaneously, they became that team and it sustained again tonight. And similarly, Boston kind of became the team that I feared they would be at the start of the season. When I was far too low on them, I took the under on 42 and a half. And my reasons were after giving away like five rotation guys, including your entire proven front court to duck all the aprons and eventually the tax justifiable. They may, they made out well in all those trades, but like, I don't trust any of the big men on the team. Like none of them have proven that they can do anything at NBA rotation. And without Tatum, I was like, are they deep enough? And they proved me so silly Lee wrong the entire season by being maybe the best story in the NBA. And then they got to the playoffs. And I mean, Tatum played like an unbelievable game tonight, 17 and 12. He had a two quarter backkeepers. He had a dunk, like almost a game of his life. And it was all found money for an offense that needed it. But they kind of became that team where it's like, oh yeah, there was actually a price to be paid for all these big guys who walked out the door. And obviously Tatum missing the game hurt them, but it was just a weird like, like teams like team destiny swap happened in real time. And I don't, I'm still kind of shell shot from it. Yeah, 100%. I think the player in the series who kind of encapsulates that to me is Paul George, who has was fantastic. I think he was like sick coming into tonight's game and he only finished with 13 points on 10 shots, played 42 minutes. And by the way, and just, I just want to say this before I forget, got blocked at the rim by Jalen Brown at the end of the game. I've on a crazy good spin move around Derek White in the post in a game that had like four crazy blocks at the rim and beat on Jalen Brown, Derek White on Croydon Grimes. Just like what a, just a ton of great plays in the game. But anyway, continue on. Incredible game. But he was just an assassin and they, you know, they would run plays for him out of timeouts. That was kind of Nick nurses go to in the series, either the, you know, his signature ISOs on the wing. He had, doesn't really matter who was guarding him in those situations, whether it was Derek White too small, Jalen Brown couldn't really handle him. And, you know, they'd run him off screens. He had a couple of huge threes. He had a step back three that was just absolutely disgusting. I can't remember who that was over on the left wing. But he was, he's just the fact that he looks like Paul George completely changes how people should look at the Philadelphia 76ers. And if he is for real in the next round, that's going to be really interesting. But to your, also your point about, you know, Boston's front court and being thin, you know, Vuch taken out of the rotation tonight. When you said if there's a player that symbolizes all of this team destiny, I thought you were going to say, Nicole Avuchovich, the front court solution that they added at the trade deadline for a player and Anthony Simons, who was actually useful to them and Vuch in the end, when it really mattered, was a great, was not useful to them. No, he was, you know, I don't want to say he's, he's washed up and he can't, I don't know. I don't want to, you know, throw dirt on him right now, but he just had an absolutely terrible series. Couldn't move. Couldn't guard Maxi, obviously had difficult in the pick and roll. Couldn't guard and bead couldn't rebound. So didn't play. It wasn't really surprising to me. Luga guys are starting also cannot guard Joel Embiid. And I thought it was really interesting, you know, they go zone at the start of the fourth quarter and that really stifled Philadelphia's offense. And, you know, guarding him, they guarded Embiid with Hugo Gonzalez. They guarded him with Jalen Brown a ton. They had Jordan Walsh on him for a couple of possessions, I think, like they just didn't have the horses to go. I mean, just like a terrible matchup in a situation like this and kudos to Joel Embiid for capitalizing kudos for him to staying upright. I thought he was going to go out of the game multiple times. Like, as you said, and I didn't know if like the appendicitis was acting up. He was clutching his side. He was stretching on the, on the bench there. He had guys falling into his knees. He was limping. So just kind of a remarkable gutsy performance by him on the offensive end for sure. And, you know, I thought Boston was starting to figure things out offensively, particularly with Jalen Brown, who if Boston won this game, it would be like a capstone performance for him. I know he's won finals MVP, but he played tremendously down the stretch. And they had something hunting Maxi, I thought Maxi, you know, he's very physical. They had him in, you know, picking up fouls, trying to deny entry passes to Jalen and Jalen had a couple and ones on the on mismatches when they did switch. They were trying to hedge earlier in the game. Didn't really want to switch. But yeah, just a great chess match. Just an awesome physical basketball game. Both teams exhausted everything that they had and super entertaining. Yeah, I'm not sure, you know, everyone always says it's the playoffs is chess, not checkers. I'm not sure Joe Mazzullo is playing chess tonight. He might have been playing boggle. Like I'm not really sure what board game was being played, but the starting lineup was absolutely bizarre. And look, you like a coach who's willing to make creative adjustments and think ahead of the game. There's some kind of line between that and a team just getting so far out of its character in the biggest game of this season that it seems to be a great game. That it seems almost alarming and crazy and zone defense completely out of their character. It kind of worked. It slowed them down a little bit. Guarding and bead with smalls, not a completely foreign thing for Boston or even the team that the Sixers are about to play. We'll talk about OGN and OB has guarded and beat a little bit in prior matchups before the lineup. It was just, it felt like a team that just lost itself and lost its mind a little bit. And yet we're still in the game down one with four minutes left. It just could not make a shot again until the game was over. Let's talk about that actually because, you know, their offensive rating going into this game was 114, which is about league average down from number, their number two ranking for the season. And this was a bad offensive game, efficiency wise for them. I do feel like, and another bad three point shooting game, right? And that's the dominant denominator. Every time they lose, it's 13 of 49 tonight. They had a 13 of 15 game earlier. I think it is fair to have a conversation about Missoula ball and the playoffs after the meltdown against the Knicks last year when they just chucked away the first two games. And it's not just the threes. It's they seem to lapse back into the most predictable versions of themselves on offense, which is difficult to guard because they have two big guys who, yeah, if they go hunting, they can hunt and make mid-range jumpers over smaller guys and all of that. But I've called them team extreme before and they were team extreme again this year. They were dead last in free throw rate, dead last in shots at the rim, take a ton of threes. They took a ton of mid-range jumpers because they're obsessive about not turning the ball over and they were very good at that. Philly actually won the turnover battle in this series. Both of the they couldn't force any turnovers because Boston doesn't really do that either. And I just, you know, I think it's going to be interesting to see how they come out of this and do they think like we need to have a little bit more variety, a little bit more. Variety is not even in the right way. You kind of understand what I'm saying. I was like, like, I think this is going to be a little bit of a referendum on maybe this stuff doesn't quite work as well in the postseason. And it's saying that they did win an NBA championship, but there's a sandwiched around that are some just weird, like weird, ugly ish performances in big moments. I guess I shouldn't just yada yada the championship. They won the championship. They were the best team that year. They made the finals with the Amaya Madoka previously. The pedigree is there. They've been the most consistent winning team of the 2020s. There's no question about that, but this is a first round playoff loss to a team that was basically in shambles health wise the entire season. Yeah, I think that, you know, obviously they shot what they shot from behind the three point line, not what you want. I thought a bunch of the threes that they took in this game. I mean, they got three, they missed a lot of good shots. They also missed a lot of like highly contested late clock threes. Late clock and like quick threes that were also contested and off balance. I thought, you know, starting Garza starting like their starting lineup to me was out of desperation. And I thought that they were going to the game plan was basically we're going to go at Joel and beat and take like 50 threes and see what happens. But I think like, you know, one of the ways by the way credit also to the Sixers just to interject before I forget. Sure. Shooting all the threes and going at him beat. I think one of the smartest things the Sixers did was not be concerned about Luca Garza shooting above the break three. So like we're not going to over rotate to this. We know what you're trying to do. We'll see if he makes some and he did not, he did not make some. Yeah, I think that one of the keys for Boston starting the series hot and kind of cooling off was just second chance opportunities and pounding the offensive glass. That was a hallmark for them this season, like the differentiated from how they played in the past. And they just didn't grab any offense. I offensive rebound rate of 17.9% according to cleaning the glass. I'm looking at it right now tonight, which was terrible. And I thought that I saw before coming into this game or coming into going to game six, they grabbed 40% of their missed threes. And I thought that that was just a huge variable because when they miss it three, they grab an offensive rebound. They usually kick it out to whoever it may be Jalen Brown, Peyton Pritchard, Sam Hauser, and that shot usually goes in. And you could just see like Nick Nurse on the sideline on those situations. That was like the I'm pulling my hair out moments for him. And Boston just couldn't attack or couldn't crash the offensive glass successfully. And I think that that is kind of the, the layer that they added this season, if you will, strategically while still maintaining pretty good transition defense. And obviously not turning the ball over, which is a part of that. But yeah, I think like to your point of should they is this something that they need to kind of deviate from a little bit. I think like it's really interesting that they increase their three point rate in the playoffs more than any other team kind of dramatically. And like Jason Tatum not playing this game matters, I suppose for sure. Obviously he's their best player and a fantastic player. But you would like to see just like they ran a wedge screen action where Hauser set a wedge screen for Jalen Brown and he caught it in the paint. And it was like a really nice, I think it was an ATO. Yeah, they switched it. They didn't switch it because they didn't want to switch Maxi on them. They chased Jalen Brown over it and he got a layup out of it. Right. And just kind of working stuff like that in more in the half court would be terrific. Obviously they run a ton of stack pick and roll and the Sixers like snuffed that out like they took that out of the series. I thought their defense was tremendous. But yeah, to your to your point could probably stand to to not take the bad threes and kind of work. So like get to the free throw line would be nice. But I do think like because of who they had available tonight. Three pointers was probably going to be what decided their season. I mean, I guess it's they played 80% of the season with this guy's they had tonight without Tatum. Before we move on to the future, another MB thing. I mentioned the one turnover and when Boston started putting wings on him, Hugo and Jalen Brown and Shireman even had him for a possession or two. Yeah. Initially, he looked like a little cautious and less comfortable than he did against Boston's traditional big guys. And I just started to wonder like we've seen him not want the ball with the same ferocity that he normally does late in some big playoff games, notably against the Knicks two years ago. And again, vengeance series two coming up for him. And it turned out he was just kind of feeling it out. And then once he felt it out, he got very comfortable and just put Jalen Brown in the basket multiple times, kicked out, I think for a Maxi three when they said they started doubling and almost tripling at times because they had to and did not look out control once did not throw any wild passes just kept it very basic and very simple. And there was absolutely no stopping him. And in that sense, I thought it was one of the sort of most polished big game performances of his career. There was that stretch in the third quarter where he just completely took over the game. Look, Bill and I are going to talk surely tomorrow night about the future of the Celtics beyond just this kind of reckoning after this. And you know, they, they, they're will have access to the mid-level exception this summer, assuming they don't bring back butchivitch and I don't think that they will. They have a Kata extension possibility. They have a patent pritchard extension that they could offer. I don't know that he'd take it. I don't really know how dramatically there can change this team unless they start looking at very, very big ticket items. You know, they owe a pick to Portland and they have a pick swap out to San Antonio, but otherwise they have most of their picks available to trade. I don't know what the answer is. I don't want to really have that conversation now, but it will be interesting to see how dramatically they pivot or what they're going to do. And I don't know how dramatically they pivot or whether the pivot is just sort of a little bit of a stylistic one, but it's going to be an interesting offseason for a Boston team that was one of the best stories in the entire league. The Vegas favorites to make the finals out of the east once the playoff started fell into this matchup with Philly that look like a pretty friendly one for them, especially when MB had the appendix thing and now they are out. Let's take a quick break and talk a little bit about the second round of the playoffs, which is actually beginning. The first round will end. We'll talk about the second round after the effort. Are your ad campaigns lighting up the dashboard? But not the pipeline. That's bull spend. And marketers are calling it out in dashboard confessions. My boss asked for results. So we opened my dashboard for the only positive sounding metric I had. Impressions. Cut the bull spend. See revenue, not just reach. LinkedIn delivers the highest return on ad spend of major ad networks. Advertise on LinkedIn. Spend 200 pounds on your first campaign and get a 200 pound credit. Go to LinkedIn.com. LinkedIn.com. Slash lead terms and conditions apply this. All right, really quickly, we got a couple more game sevens tomorrow and then the playoffs continue. This is not the end of the playoffs, even though it seems like this has been an interminable, the awesome first round, nicks, sixers, Michael Pina, early quick thoughts on a series that is the winner of this now the favorite to make the finals out of the east are the nicks. It's all lining up for the nicks, man. I mean, like it's it really is all lining up for them. I mean, I'm not sure where my preseason pick, but this Philly team playing like this can beat anybody in the east. And we knew that we knew that they had this in them. We just never thought it would actually emerge for a million different reasons. What are your early kind of inklings on this one. And beads health is obviously top of mind. I'm really interested to see just how New York deals with him. If he is healthy, you know, Carl Anthony Towns is coming off maybe the best playoff series of his career, I thought. And, you know, they have Mitchell Robinson and I want to see how often Mike Brown goes double big there. Just how they deal with, you know, you mentioned O. G. and a note be obviously and he's handled him. You know, they'll, they'll, if they do that, they're going to double, they're going to bring a lot of help. And one thing I just want to say real quick, when Boston was doubling, I thought VJ Edgecomb hitting the threes was a humongous variable in that game. But sticking with the Knicks, how they deal with them be defensively is, is, is massive. Obviously, you know, talked about Paul George already. If Paul George is playoff P or whatever, and looks as he did in the Celtic series, and is just a, at times dominant take over the game two way forward. Like, I don't, I don't know. Like just thinking out of top of mind, like, is it a, is it a toss up series? Am I, should I be favorite? Should the Knicks be favored a little bit? I mean, obviously the Knicks had a really great matchup against the Atlanta Hawks and a small front court. So it's just a little bit different, but there's just a lot to think about with this series and, and, and kind of who guards who, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it all unfolds. All right. The Knicks should be favored. Okay. They're, they're, they're deeper. They're healthier. Michael Bridges rediscovered that in, in that unbelievable game six, where I felt like I was hallucinating the whole game against the Hawks. When the score was 60 to 19, I actually texted my wife who doesn't care about the NBA. And I was like, I, I don't really know who, like, I just felt like you needed to know the score. This, this game is 60 to 19. And I don't think I've ever seen that before. And she, she emojied it with a like exclamation point. So she even was surprised. But Michael Bridges rediscovered the basket thing is something you're allowed to move towards with the ball and then put the ball into it from close range. But they should be favored. And if only because some, a lot of the skepticism about the Sixers playoff viability was one series, sure, they can beat anybody. Can they stay healthy? Can Embiid stay healthy for multiple rounds, particularly now it's every other day, basically for the rest of the playoffs. This is a low travel series. Obviously that's helpful. And, and so we'll see. I mentioned the vengeance factor. We've got the Mitchell Robinson, Joel Embiid history where Joel kind of grabbed his foot and they've started a whole kerfuffle and there was an ankle injury as a result or maybe as a result, I guess as a result. We got interested to see who Embiid guards. I assume he will guard Josh, Josh Hart to start the series when the Knicks had their starting five. Maxi. I mentioned McHillbridge is because Maxi is a tough cover for this, for this particular, he's a tough cover for everybody. But the super fast water bug guard is a tough cover for the Knicks. Like it's not really what Andy Nobby specializes in, although he's had some shots at Maxi in the past. It's certainly not going to be Jalen Brunson who will be hiding on Kelly Ubrey when the starters are against the starters and Kelly Ubrey's minutes are played great. He played great. But the Sixers have leaned in. They had him on the floor at the end of this game for his defense. But they've played that lineup with Grimes, Edgecomb, Maxi, George and Embiid almost as much in the playoffs as they did in the entire regular season and it was gangbusters in LIMBI. It was plus, I think, 17 going into tonight in 15 minutes or maybe it's the other way around. But anyway, and it's going to be Bridges to start the game on Maxi and they need him to be like Phoenix Bridges defensively. And then you'll see pieces of like do some McBride will get some of the job and Oze Alvarado is Taylor made to do some of that job. Shamet has actually done it a little bit, but he's out of the rotation. So that's something I'm watching. And then you mentioned the double big. I think this is a good double big series for the Knicks. I think you could put Kat on basically on the power forward in any lineup other than the one I mentioned with the three guards and Paul George. You can put him on Ubre, if Barlow gets in, you can certainly put him on Barlow and put Mitchell Robinson on Embiid. So there's a lot of meat in this in this series. And obviously the Sixers will go at Brunson, right? They'll try to get Brunson on to Maxi and just get out of the way and let him ISO maybe even. So there's there's some interesting levers both of these teams can pull. But that series two years ago was a classic and it featured that wild comeback in game two with the controversial non call on a Sixers out of bounds play. It featured Maxi in game five, like single handedly keeping the Sixers alive in that series and forcing a game six. And then Josh Hart hits a million clutch shots in game six and like what the hell is going on. And and there was what there was one other thing that series that I wanted to mention. It featured a couple of games in crunch time where it didn't look like Joel Embiid was super pumped about like having the ball there and the responsibility of the last shot and played a little bit of a hot potato for a couple of stretches. So I think it's going to be an awesome series between obviously two of the classic NBA franchises. Have we left anything out that you did you're interested in? No, I'm I'm I mentioned Kat a little bit. I am interested to see just when he is at the five who who will guard him. Will it be Kelly Ubre, Paul George? How are they going to like how are they going to do that? Maybe Embiid. I mean, I don't think that I think they will start by cross matching Embiid on heart. But to your point, like, yeah, there's not really a there's not a prototypical sort of like bigger bulkier four or three point five kind of player to guard Kat. Right. And I want to see how Kat kind of takes advantage of that because I really liked how the Knicks used Kat in that series. He had a lot of high assist games just playing through him elbow extended. And he picked the Atlanta Hawks apart. I thought that I think like guarding the New York Knicks when they have that flavor in their offense makes them really difficult as opposed to just more of a predictable Jalen Brunson dribble, dribble, dribble, or just a bunch of high pick and roll. So I'm interested to see that and if they can kind of keep hitting that keep pressing that button that'll be interesting to see. But yeah, otherwise just awesome matchup. You said it already with Maxi. How do you stop Tyrese Maxi is like a big question in these playoffs. I can't wait to see how the Knicks kind of figure that one out. But this will be a really fun series. And Anno Nobby, my scene partner obviously from your friends and neighbors, when is he knows him from that first and foremost is playing out of his freaking mind right now. And if he plays it even like 90% of the way he played against Atlanta, he's like, that's an all star level player. So it should be a really fun series, a lot of Amtrak miles to pile up Celtics out. The bill pod is going to be fun tomorrow. Celtics out, Sixers move on, lots to reckon with for the Celtics. We'll get more into that as the week goes on. Michael Pina, thanks for staying up late, my friend. Thank you, Zach. All right, that's it for the Zach Lowe show. Good night. Sleep well. Two more game sevens tomorrow. Thanks to Michael Pina for staying up. Thanks to Mike, Billy and Jonathan on production also for staying up on a Saturday night. And thanks to you all for listening to and or watching the Zach Lowe show. 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