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With me as always is my good friend

Alex Spears and Alex we're joined by Nikias Duncan he's a writer at basketball

news.com and a co-host of the Dunkerspot podcast Nikias what's up man?

Hello hello how are y'all?

Good thanks thanks for joining man really looking forward to this been looking forward to it for the last few days. After a week of playoff basketball, what series or team or player even has surprised you the most compared to how you were feeling going into the playoffs?

I would say, very impressed with what Tyrese Maxie has been able to do. I think I'm tied with

Tyrese Maxie and Tobias Harris. And more so Tobias Harris because he was someone that I pinpointed in

this Raptors, Six or Series. And for full transparency, I picked Raptors in seven before the series.

I am going to be taking a big L on that one. so that's fun. But one of the things I was concerned about in regards to the field, it was like, okay, how decisive is Tobias Harris going to be? Because Toronto is going to switch a ton that's going to flatten out some of what Philly wants to do in the offense. And at times of Joel and B, they're going to send a bunch of double teams towards him.

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