Ben DuBose

And so that's why, you know, if the team is insistent that, you know, a player is doing his job or that another one isn't, you know, I do give, you know, not unlimited grace, but some grace for...

for those comments because they know more than we do.

And it's just a much more complicated game right now.

It's not one-on-one.

Everything is, you know, how it functions within a team construct.

And there's just a lot of information on the outside that we don't have.

And you should just always keep an open mind to that.

I feel like a lot of these, you know, clips, these one-on-ones where it goes viral on Twitter.

I mean, that's the main purpose for it to just send it viral.

And then just one or two possessions clipped out of context.

It's not meant to be a good faith discussion.

It's starting with a conclusion and cherry picking evidence to backfill.

And I think defense in the modern NBA is complicated enough that you need to have at least somewhat of an open mind to try and better understand what we're seeing.

Yeah, I'm glad you have an extra day of rest because this week, this has been three heavyweight fights in a row.

Certainly, San Antonio and Detroit on paper, those are really good teams.

But Philadelphia with Maxie and Embiid both playing is a really good team as well, especially on the road.

So you've had three big games in a four-night span.

And so I'm glad they have an extra day of rest.

They can probably get in a practice on Sunday.

That would be my guess because I think this stretch took a lot out of them.