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Ah yes, hope you're enjoying your Friday.

Janice Adetta Cumbo, oozing confidence.

That is right, after the Bucks won game six, forcing a game seven against the Nets.

And we got drama.

We have got some drama.

We will see a little bit later on Friday if a couple of teams can force a game

seven just as the bucks have.

Jazz will try to do it.

Sixers will try to do it.

For a second, it is just an absolute joke that the Sixers haven't closed out the series.

You go back where Embed was 0 for 12 in the second

half of Game 4 and then Game 6. I'm sorry, game 5, where they had the 26 point lead and blew it.

That's just, they shouldn't have dropped the last two games, and yet somehow they did.

Somehow they did, the Sixers are just a completely immature team.

I love, and this might seem like it's nitpicking,

but the little things matter in the playoffs.

And Joel and B, this was after game four,

he had gone 0 for 12 in the second half.

Sixers lost the game, had a golden opportunity to go up 3-1 in the series.

Didn't work out. Series was tied 2-2 at the time.

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