It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello, good, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network, coming to you after game two of the Knicks and the Sixers.

A hard fought back and forth, tough game, but a game that the Knicks now take a commanding 2-0 lead as they hit, ready to hit

Philadelphia. We'll see what Embedd is going to do in the series. As I told you, when the series

started, I thought the Knicks would win, like everybody else did, no big deal there. You were

heavy, heavy favorite. But the number of games would be dependent on what exactly the Sixers could get out of

Embed. You don't know when he's going to play. You don't know in a game how many minutes

he's going to play. You just never know almost moment to moment with him. Despite how good he is,

you just don't know minute to minute. And tonight, the Sixers came out with a very, very good effort.

I thought they played very hard.

I thought, except for their turnovers, which were very sloppy and were some of them

enforced and throwing a ball across the middle and given the next easy transition baskets.

Other than that, I thought they did really well.

Maxi, George, Edgecom did what they had to do.

Ubrae, I thought, played for him incredibly well.

Off the bench, Barlow, I thought, played well.

Grimes played well.

Even Boner played well at times.

I mean, so they got a good performance they ran

out of gas i mean that's what it came down to the shots that were falling just look at what their

numbers were throughout the game look what they were from three in the first quarter they were red

hot at the half they were red hot after three quarters they were still very representative and then the fourth

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