Chris Cote

Don Levitard.

Yeah, and the Heat absolutely just ground them down.

If you look at it, every quarter, Philly's offense got worse and worse and slower and slower.

And this is what I talked about yesterday.

This is how Miami wins games.

You're not going to win games outscoring the opposition because you don't have the talent that they have.

You've got to make it ugly.

You've got to pull it down into the mud, which is all air-exposure cliches that I'm saying right here.

But that's where they get it because...

You don't have the roster talent or roster depth to play any other way and be successful.

I mean, like, I think that's...

testament to the guy's not right physically and I think you know that's kind of been the thing that we've all been eyeing all season long is hey as they move or appear to move to a more Tyrese Maxey centered offense what how much from Joel do you need in order to be successful do you need him to be the Joel that he was when he was MVP or does he just need to be opportunistic

Jeremy, correct me if I'm wrong, Bam always gives him problems, right?

He always has problems with Bam.

Bam's activity and Bam's mobility, he forces him to move and run around a lot more than he would like to.

That's the million-dollar question, or I guess $150, whatever, however much money he makes.

The idea is that, again, can we carry the Sixers?

Can we carry an offense without having to rely on him other than in opportunistic moments?

Last night is a great example of probably a night where it's like, yo, I kind of want my other guys to be stepping up.

and for Joel to kind of just focus on rim protection and rebounding and all those things because, as I said, Bam gives him problems.