Well, well, well, no Steven A today he's taking the day off so it's time for Molly in the substitutes to carry the show

We've got the goat Tim Legler. We've got Jay will Jay will what's your hottest Celtics take?

No saving for the show chamber the show. We'll have Matt Barnes later no mad dog Wednesday today

He's in Austria crushing Vienna lagers and weener schnitzels. It's first take NBA playoffs. Let's go

Good day. What's going on everybody welcome into first take clearly the hoops edition here and I don't even know who you are anymore

I don't know if you could have seen his face before the open. I'm talking about stone cold

Oh, yeah, it's unnerving. I'm like look he gets I'm like are you gonna smile?

I said you know it's it was ready to deliver like Daniel Day Lewis on set. Yeah, you got your character

I'm not gonna get it. I'm not gonna get it.

Jay will legs how we feeling awesome good? Let's talk some hoops Matt Barnes will be here in just a bit guys

The Philadelphia 76ers are one win away from advancing past the Celtics

Philly 115 103 and game five to take a three two series lead but MVP Joe L

and beat wasn't interested in talking about closing in on his first Eastern Conference finals appearance and beat is only focus on

one thing joelle

Okay, I honestly don't care. We we still got a you know got to get one more win

Yeah, that's all I'm thinking about right now and then obviously you go home

So you're gonna have a lot of you know energy the crowd

And I would imagine everybody plays better home too. So I do play better home

That was the first game of the playoffs that we didn't play well in my opinion and so we can't lose a perspective of we played

Really good basketball and that was our first really really bad game of the playoffs

And so doesn't come at necessarily the best time

But we just have to shift our perspective and get ready for the next game

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