76ers Shock Celtics on Christmas: A Season Turnaround?

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00:00narrow loss against the Philadelphia 76ers, Joe. And I think there are a number of interesting

00:09things about this game. Boston, of course, drop into 22 and eight, four games set back

00:15of Cleveland for the top spot in the Eastern Conference. A little shorthanded. We mentioned

00:20no true holiday on the holiday. Where's that narrative street play, man? Christopher Zingas

00:25goes down early with the injury, took Jason Tatum a while to get going, ultimately did

00:29lead that team. The Sixers sort of a rollercoaster ride of emotions, you know, go pregame like

00:35Joelle and bead. There were concerns he wasn't going to play. All of social media is laughing

00:40at him. He actually does get in there, has a respectable game and Philadelphia completes

00:46the upset wins on Christmas day improves now to 11 and 17. Now I have been saying the Sixers

00:53are dead, never going to figure it out for a while now. It just injuries, attitude, makeup,

00:59roster, composition, coaching, cut any, any number of different factors. This team is

01:04only a game out now of the play in tournament. And again, a long, long season ahead. Have

01:11I, uh, have I been too hard on the Sixers? You know, is, is, you know, we, we can debate

01:15whether or not yesterday was any sort of indictment on the defending champion Celtics, but with

01:20the Sixers, is this a team that actually like Milwaukee before it can turn its season

01:26around?

01:27Well, I mean, this wasn't an anomaly. They've won eight of their last 11 games, uh, to get

01:35to 11 and 17 on the season. And like you mentioned just one game back, but this is not, uh, this

01:42wasn't a shock yesterday, so to speak, because it was just what the sixth time that we have

01:48seen their big three play a game together. And there is no doubt when you have them bead

01:55Paul George and Tyrese Maxey on the court, they are a totally different team. The 76ers

02:02mix in the fact that Caleb Martin came back and absolutely destroyed the six, uh, the

02:07Celtics again, like he used to do there with, uh, Miami. And now you've got yourself just

02:13a, a pretty formidable team coming out of the east. The big question is going to be,

02:19can they all stay healthy and play enough games together though? Right? That's always

02:23going to be the million dollar question, but there is no doubt that the Sixers have been

02:28figuring it out. Uh, over the last couple of weeks here, you win eight out of your last

02:3311 games in some tough environments, in some big spots, and then you put your big three

02:39together and go to Boston on the road on Christmas and beat them. Uh, you're not going

02:44to get any sympathy for being shorthanded, uh, from the, uh, from the Philadelphia 76 or Celtics,

02:51but there is no doubt. Uh, we cannot stick a fork in this team because those three guys,

02:57they're difference makers. That is a much more dangerous team with those three guys on the court,

03:03uh, against anybody, including the champion, uh, Celtics. So I wouldn't be sticking a fork

03:08in them just yet, but how confident can you be that all three can stay healthy long enough in

03:14order to get them there?