That Was Rough to Watch...

Well, that was not ideal. The young guys, the backups, they got plenty of time against the Celtics and they played the Celtics starters and it just ended up not necessarily going, I think, how any of us wanted to have that one go. The final score yesterday was Celtics significantly more than 76ers. What's going on, everybody? Christian Pedersen back with another episode of Sixers Digest, the show that's going to give you a little bit of a post-game emotional recap. I don't know how much you want to dive into the X's and O's of this loss other than to say that it got us plenty of time for guys like LeBron and company to get out there and the starting five was a crazy look I think in the grand scheme of things compared to what any one of us really I mean Jabari Walker was starting at center and they had Mitchell Robinson and so a six foot seven starting fourth string center versus a seven-foot defending NBA champion it went as well as the as the scoreboard shows you but at the same time I think there was some really interesting key takeaways to get into all of this so what do you say we dive into that on this episode as always if you want to like subscribe comment share follow love hearing from you guys on all of this stuff this was game three of four in the preseason the first of two against the Celtics like I said Paul George started the Celtics started of their main guys we did not so it felt a little bit tactical to not be like oh here's the Jalen Brown revenge game let's spend all our bullets on that and instead Nick Nurse was feeling some things out he saw a lot more Dean Wade Jabari Walker LeBron Filan and a lot of guys who I think were trying to assess what we really have in the lower down depths who's going to maybe get that last two-way contract those were the kind of battles that we were fighting on this one and thankfully uh that's why you do the pre-season and you don't have to do this in the middle of the regular season and before we go any further gotta check in on thankfully our Calshi odds have not changed at all this one did not hurt us that badly and a reminder to everybody thank you to Calshi for sponsoring this channel if you would like to use the code digest nba and the code we have for you when you're signing up Calshi will hook you up with 55 when you trade your first 25 dollars in options like i said the starting five was a crazy look in the grand scheme of things we will most likely never have Justin Edwards, Dean Wade Jabari Walker, VJ Edgecombe and Tyrese Maxey out there as a starting group Justin Edwards getting 31 minutes it was that kind of a game it was also though a game in all of that where i think you had some guys i mean this is a look that we might give when we are up 30 on some stuff and so you had to see how do some of these guys respond to minutes that were not garbage um just pickup minutes this was instead how do you have some of these guys respond to getting hit in the face a little bit and going toe-to-toe with some big guys the overall of the night fantastic shooting not fantastic three-pointer not fantastic three free throw it was generally one of those nights where i guess this is a live by the offense die by the offense and on nights where we are not going all gas no breaks things weren't working out incredibly well the points off of turnovers and i think the fast break points still a highlight for me so if i'm trying to do the what were some of the good takeaways the tempo with this team is still there and having vj out for as much as we did and having dean wade out there and having the tempo maintain and having LeBron and having the tempo maintain and having all the different little odds and ends of pieces of saint thomas and etc you know mix and match whoever you want to mix and match with but having the again like a little bit of a broken record but having this group of guys of dylan jones jameer nelson caleb love uh ryan repair getting 20 plus minutes having all of that and still maintaining good tempo to me was the main takeaway of looking at all of this and being like okay you know if you're gonna lose a pre-season game fine don't just have it be aimlessly wandering around out there just being like okay we got to kill time and sit back on our laurels and be like okay well we didn't play we didn't play Jalen Brown we didn't play Joel Embiid we didn't play uh LeBron James so you know whatever have it be something where okay if we're going to take a loss like this let's still have it be one where it's like what are the key positive takeaways how do we grow this group how does this all get better even through some of this adversity if you want to call it i'll put it in air quotes because this was if if this was really adversity this would have been like this if the Celtics in the regular season beat us with our best out there and their best out there and we lose by 30 then yes that is adversity that this team has to go through right now this was one where it's growing pains of like i said having Jamir Nelson start at center against Mitchell Robinson is a that's a tall task literally and figuratively for our interior presence to go through but on some of the post-game takeaway we had i thought still some interesting stuff to have uh be discussed about and this one was a quote from Nick Nurse about Dean Wade just saying he's super solid guy really smart um there's things that you notice when you're with him every day that you didn't know he was good at because you only see him a couple times a year some things like that now you see him on a daily basis but he's been really really good dean wade was part of the action galore last night and i think if we've got those we've got those backup backup pieces because it's clear that dean wade's not going to be a starter but if the backup pieces right now that we have are the baron and dean wade justin edwards having himself a little bit of a coming out party and Caleb Love is looking good and we got to get Anthony Simons healthy but he'll be part of that rotation this is going to be something where there there's not gonna be that steep of a drop off from our alleged like super team starting five to the guys on the bench and i think that yeah you you're gonna almost have like parallel plot lines this year of watching the how quickly can the superstars merge their talents and make this all work but also how quickly can we cycle in that bench and how you know how not like short of a leash is Nick Nurse's gonna have but how quickly is Nick Nurse gonna dip into the bench and just be like look i like it when this guy's out there i like it when that guy's out there i like it when we have you know some of the smaller tempo tempo tempo tempo kind of lineups and it's all this is all really good headspace for our guys to be in speaking of pace and and whatnot this was a quote from Tyrese Maxey talking about LeBron filling plays with an unbelievably great pace just been telling him like pick your spots man us as smaller guards have to find the way to get in the paint not let the defense completely collapse on him get there in time so again talking about speed and pace and pace and speed and pace and as much as that is like oh my god i'm saying the words pace 200 times in this episode in a short amount of time to actually have some of that on tape now where it's you know 25 minutes or so of LeBron filling against the Celtics and him i did a video on him earlier this week saying i think you know he's looking like he's kind of low-key ready already for the NBA speed of the game and if he's a guy that has Tyrese Maxey turning heads and being like oh dude dude's got some speed it feels like to me the takeaway from this loss was yeah that was not necessarily a blast to watch and i hope that there are not a ton of those throughout the regular season but that our guys are our guys are fighting out there our backups are very fast our backups have some really good chemistry and some gel and some vibe to them and some sizzle whatever the verb is that you want to put in there that i think they can kind of cook a little bit and that if that if there's going to be a takeaway in the positive my positive would be that the pace had maintained and so i think that we've got some pieces that went out there and showed hey when this is all actually going together that things are going to fit together nicely and not be a, hey, there's this group up here and then there's this group down here and there's kind of nothing in between to make it all work. 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