Ding ding.

How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA show.

I am Jared Weiss.

My voice is kind of back.

And with me, a man with a beautiful baritone. Mark, how are we doing? Jared, I'm good, man. I'm psych to be here. Get some good NBA's leg on, man. Most people are happy to be here. I like that your sights to be here. I don't really hear in your voice, but I think we're going to get there, but we do Bryant Smith producing, so maybe he'll make, he'll make your voice sound way more

exciting. We'll put some explosions in the background. They'll just like to be here because we know

that Joelle Embed was psyched to be in Philadelphia because he led a 121 to 106 win over the

Chicago Bulls, 43 points on 15 for 27 shooting. I'm not sure if he was more excited to be in Philadelphia or that he saw Tristan Thompson starting in front of him tonight. I'm going to have to go with the ladder, man. He was incredible. He had like a thunder stunk to put it away that they got him to 40 later on in the game. Absolutely dominant defensively too. James Harden, the man hit one three, but it was an important three. Yeah, it was kind of wild, man. It feels like every time that he dribbles more than two or three times between his legs, it's got like a 50% chance to going in. And it was huge, man. He was just constant floor general tonight. It continues to look really good, especially in pick and roll.

Ball starts swinging as soon as he gets downhill and looked really good tonight.

So that three, it put him third all-time with Reggie Miller on the all-time three-pointers list.

And as we're saying, James Hardin, Joel Embed, it's the match made in heaven for pick and roll dominance, 14 dimes are hardened, 15 goals for Embed, he went to the line 16 times. How is it looking? I mean, he was looking fantastic. A lot of it, I mean, as much as you look at 40 points to think offense, I thought the defense was what really stood out tonight. You know, they were dominant shutting down everything that was going on in the half court.

Embed was absolutely crushing.

And he had two blocks late on Zach Levine back to back after they reviewed the first one

because it looks like a goal 10.

I mean, he's beating half Chicago's team down in transition, like stepping into pull-ups

off the, you know, in the elbow out of the slot.

Like, he just was, he was everywhere tonight, man.

Definitely an MVP performance.

Yeah, that's five losses in a row for Chicago.

They are down and fourth.

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