Got a lot to get to here tonight. A two game night, Philly taking care of Toronto to even that series at a game a piece huge win for Philly.

It seemed like after game one we could be headed to that five gamer that I think Danny and I both predicted because still could be going in that direction.

And then we got to talk about Denver Portland and get to some free agent rankings as well here.

But I think where you have to start here is with the defensive adjustments that the sixers made, which I thought were very successful.

Yeah, and I mean, one of them was something you posited on our game one recap, which was kind of figuring out, okay, how can you slow down what Toronto is doing?

And the idea behind it was there are the similarities in terms of the lack of an in between game.

I think I think it's very no the mid-rider, the pull-up mid-ranger all that with Pascal, see, I come in the honest and what some teams have done, including Philadelphia, on the honest is put a center as this primary defender.

And using Joel and Bede in that matchup, one of the biggest benefits there was that he was able to be so much more disruptive around the basket.

Yeah, I thought that Toronto really struggled to finish around the room and Siacum in particular was forced into a really rough game.

Nine of 25 from the field, a only got to the foul line for two attempts, 21 points overall.

And yeah, he got up to 25 shots, but he tried and beat a couple of times early.

He hit Bede with one spin move early on, but overall he wasn't really trying to beat.

Bede was just laying back and saying, hey, I'm seven two.

You want to go into me.

Generally, Siacum has had the length and athleticism in Binge and most guys who guard him, he was able to get those great touch finishes off the glass, moving to the room and Bede really denied that from him.

And Siacum did hit two of seven from downtown, but it was a lot of awkward shots from him going seven out of 18 from two point range.

And a guy who shoots around 60% in a lot of games.

So that was huge just to slow down Siacum himself and then to also be able to have more help available on some of the drives.

Kawai Leonard was still 13 to 24, but when Bede was in the game, he wasn't doing as much.

I thought his looks were a lot harder.

It was still a dominant game with 35 points.

He's really the only raptor who played well offensively and they tried to dare the raptors to get it into the post of Marcus.

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