All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on this week's Sixers Beat, a part of the CLNS Media Network. I probably shouldn't say this week since we actually might record more than one this week. Who knows? Who knows? I think this is two in four or five days. So, yeah. I think we're already there, buddy. We are already there.

We're almost like competent podcasters.

It feels cool, no, no, don't go that far.

It's only taking us five years to get to this point, but here we are.

So it's probably good that we don't do these after every game.

It probably is.

For my own sanity, I am glad that we could avoid game one, and not that we won't talk

about it, of course, but that we didn't have to react to it quite as in the moment, as we

otherwise would have.

Because game two was a completely different outcome and a completely different feeling to it.

You know, you saw, I forget who it was.

I think it was maybe Ben Falk.

But they had a stat where home teams that lose game one win game two, 79% of time.

And that makes a lot of sense, right?

You have, first of all, the home team in a playoff series is usually the better team.

So you would think they would win above 50% as is.

Then you add in factors of motivation and desperation, and you would expect that to go up even more.

And I think we saw all three of those factors play in on Monday night.

You know, you had the better team that was a desperate team and the more focused team.

And that third quarter was something I've never seen before.

Woo, what a beat down.

Kenny Ackinson said before the game that he was expecting a haymaker right away.

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