Vincent Goodwill

They had nothing left in the tank because of the physicality and the speed of the game.

And now you wonder if this is a formula that they can replicate for Game 3 just being back home.

That's impossible because, Dan, you know it from being around these players, the series don't get easier as they go along.

They don't get less physical, they get more physical.

And if there is a vulnerable part of your body, let's say you got a bad hand, you know what they're going to do to your hand?

They're going to whack your hand every chance they can because it's vulnerable and they're going to see how long you can go before you say uncle.

And I think with Embiid, him getting nailed on that screen by Mikael Bridges, who's not the most, you know, he's not the physically toughest dude in the world.

And he nailed Embiid.

So if you're Nick Nurse, and he did some good things last night.

I'm going to say that, Dan.

He did some good things even in the fourth quarter.

when they were trying to get the ball out of Jalen Brunson's hands, and you've got to see, wait, do the Knicks have another guy that can create a shot late in the clock?

I think if they have fresher legs, let's say they have a lead in the last four or five minutes, Embiid or no Embiid, I feel like defensively, they found some things that they can counter to, and then you worry about Embiid later.

I wouldn't say this.

I would not make Joel Embiid the focal and center point of my offense, knowing where he is or isn't physically.

I'm going up and down the floor, and I'm telling Joel, come and catch up to us when you catch up to us.

Dan, it's the New York Knicks.

If the update is due at 5 o'clock, they will tell us at 5.01.

They did the, we don't know what you're talking about last night thing to us when we were saying, hey, did you know that OG grabbed his leg and was limping off?

And they were like, well, we don't know about testing.