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The Miami Heat crush the Philadelphia 76ers without Joel Embed.

106.92 winners as 7.5 point favorites.

Okay. So the first thing I'd say is this was a close game. At halftime, the Sixers were

favored. Scott, you're going to make the point about the heat or dominant here really

relatively without Embed. Anything about that first half, let's start there that makes you think,

huh, the fact it was so close, that tells us something.

No, I wasn't reading too much into a first half of the first game of a playoff series,

you know, coming off of a layoff, coming off of finishing up one series, facing the

opponent, a new opponent now. I don't read too much into the first half of the first game

of the playoff series. I'd be curious if it continued in the first half of game two and then so on and so forth,

the more times these two teams play each other.

But no, I brushed aside that first half.

I was more focused on the game outcome, which to me was never really in doubt,

despite how close the first half was.

And this is new how much transition there are with teams later in the year where

back in the day, if you were one of the final four teams, final eight teams, it was like you

usually had a team you had a year or more.

And the opponent would have played that team three, four, five, six times if it was

in conference. Here we got, you know, a heat versus Sixers with Hardin and Embed on the floor. I don't think they had a matchup this year, if I'm not mistaken. Well, they've never seen, they have never seen, of course, the Sixers without Joel Embed and with James Hardin.

Yeah.

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