All right, welcome to Lockdown NBA, your daily NBA podcast, part of the

Lockdown Podcast network. I'm West Goldberg, host of Lockton Warriors here with

Dave Vermel, the host of Lock Don Eat.

On today's show, the Heat eliminated the Pacers from the playoffs and are poised for a

matchup with the Bucks and the Clippers get a chance of redemption after Luther's

legendary Game 4 performance. But we start today in Philadelphia,

where the 76ers have fired Coach Brett Brown

after getting swept by the Celtics in the first round.

David, there are so many problems in Philadelphia.

Do you think any coach can fix that situation?

Not single-handedly, no. It's not just up to the coach. I think Brown had a pretty good

built-in excuse, obviously, with the injured to Ben Simmons, but there seems to be some more

extensive issues with the roster building and of course the tension between their star players and

whether or not they can't fit together as well as would have been, you know, as you

would have expected to all-star level players to work.

So I think it's a step in the right direction and one that's necessary because Brett Brown has always felt a little not ideal for this type of team.

Like he was brought in specifically.

Yeah, without a doubt. I mean he was brought I always think of brought in a little overmashed right?

Yeah, without a doubt.

I mean, he was brought, I always think of Brown

kind of like the advance of technology

and cell phone usage to, you know,

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