Dissecting Sixers’ loss to New York Knicks, Kyle Lowry’s debut, and last season’s playoff setback

Dissecting Sixers’ loss to New York Knicks, Kyle Lowry’s debut, and last season’s playoff setback

The Sixers lost for the 10th time in their last 13 games going downhill man you are locked on 76ers your daily Philadelphia 76ers podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day welcome to locked on 76ers thanks for making us your first listen every day we are free and

Available wherever you get your podcast and on YouTube part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day what’s up Mitch how you been bro man I’m good Keith I’m I’m doing well well hoping the 76ers can get well as well I about to help hey are you doing

Better than your 76ers yeah they struggling struggle is real yeah the struggle was is real look man so the Sixers lost last night 110 to 96 in uh Kyle Lowry’s debut now I’ll be honest with you Mitch it was one of those games where Kyle Lowry looked good yeah good we were concerned

About he look now again first game he’s been all for a while the whole nine but you saw the leadership you saw a lot of other things but and Maxi looked like an Allstar but Sixers got problems man yeah major problems and and we got to dissect

This one bro we we really do they got major problems like you know they they couldn’t stop they couldn’t get rebounds they got to a point they had to go small ball because the two cent right and you know Kyle more power to him showed that not Philly toughness but

That North Philly toughness differ right yeah the brother went out there and got stitched up and then return to the game the play um I mean personally I know a lot of people who probably would have quit at that point because they were getting boat raced at the time and and

And they like look man we got a game tomorrow I see y’all tomorrow but now he came back but aside from that Mitch it was rough bro I mean it was rough they was down they did come back now I will say that they did come back but when you

Look at it Tobias Harris struggled mightily yeahum had more fouls than assists and rebounds combined right uh it it was a rough one bro it was a rough one yeah you know you’re you’re you’re not going to win too many games when when your starting front Court

Gives you nine points 12 boards and doesn’t block a single shot um you know there was just they looked like they were still on the um like like was still the allstar break you know uh I mean you’re glad to see Nico baton come back

Um but you know I was looking at some of the numbers and I I didn’t realize this but between Batum Paul Reed and Tobias you know they they played a combined 67 minutes and they grabbed one offensive rebound you know so when you’re in a situation like that um and you know

You’re facing a team that you know I mean Knicks have been struggling mostly because of the injuries they had um but that that’s gonna be a good team I think towards the end of the season but you know you you can’t fall behind by 26 um

And just look as disjointed as they did early on in the game can’t do that um and then expect the guy you know you know I mean every team makes a run right in the 7 76ers made their run and that coincided with um you know with Kyle

Being you know with with Kyle being out there but you know he took the elbow to the head and you know like you said he came back and toughed it out represented North Philly Nation but man it’s uh yeah that that it’s the beginning it’s beginning of a tough

Stretch and you know it just gets tougher moving forward uh I did like what I see what I saw from Kyle Lowry he does look good on the point he looks like um I mean he’s 37 so you don’t know what he’s going to have left in the tank

But they’re gonna have to rely on him much more extensively we’ll see what Nick nurse comes up with when uh when when DeAnthony comes back we’ll see what he comes you know and what he starts doing a little more dep but yeah last night it was just they just couldn’t put

It together you know Kelly uby looked good you know in in spurts for them being you know being aggressive you know buddy Hill just seemed like the only shot he could make was a three pointer last night you know what I mean and um you know they they I know they’re just

Getting pieces back I know they’re just getting pieces back um and obviously they’re missing the guy who was the best player in the league for the first half of the season but you know that guy’s not there that guy’s not walking through that door anytime soon so they’re gonna

Have to get it together yeah but see here’s the thing like everybody keeps saying I know they’re missing pieces right and and I get that they are they they are missing DeAnthony Melton they are missing Robert Covington and they missing the MVP right they’re missing the MVP but here’s the problem with this

Loss the way it looked well first of all you have thought you were in New York Mitch I’m just be honest it was it was kind of like it was it was kind of like how the Sixers when they to go down to the Washington Wizards all they was CH the Nicks fans

Was chanting MVP first quarter when Brunson was at the foul line it was crazy but look I’m uh but I’m G say this let me say this we can’t use the excuse that they got their doors blown off because they were under demand now last I checked the New York

Got two allars one of them didn’t play right last I checked the New York Knicks starting center that didn’t play last I checked the New York Knicks made a a blockbuster trade for OG OB noi he didn’t play yeah so Sixers got Bo RAC by Jaylen Brunson in the New York Knicks backups

Yeah so so like when we say like DeAnthony Melton didn’t play and Robert Covington didn’t play and grasping for straws yeah we’re grasping straws like that was a bad loss now here’s something else I’mma say too Kyle Lowry is a six-time Allstar an Olympian this and

That he was a major upgrade when he got in the game like he made stuff happen so when you look at that you’re saying to yourself like okay I get it but this is a guy who hasn’t played for a while this is a guy that

Knows basketball this is a guy that does this and that but it was obvious that they a much better team with him on the floor than with him not and and to me you could look at it two ways like okay it’s great we got KY but

Is you can look at it like yo what else do we have what else do we have yeah like you got Maxi who who can can score and get Buckets but outside of Cal they had nothing man outside and Maxi like they didn’t have anything and

The thing is there are some people going to say I’m not trying to start two small point guards well yeah Kyle 6 foot but De Anthony Melton is only 6’2 yeah so you already got a small back court yeah and and you know like you you

Know uh they’re going to need and I do think Tobias I mean I hate saying I mean it looks like Tobias was still on All-Star break we gonna he’s gonna have to hit the reset button he wasn’t aggressive last night you know uh prior to the allstar break even though they

Were still losing um you know Paul Reed has stepped his game up moama was making contributions but they got absolutely nothing from them the middle last night and uh you know that that’s going to have to change but you look at him you look at the way Kyle Lowry did play and

You wonder to yourself you’re like you know this is an old guy we’re leaning on man this is a guy who’s going to turn 38 pretty soon um and you know granted he’s back in his hometown but that that don’t get you so far you that don’t get you so

Far and like you said I mean you can make an argument that the Knicks at the trade deadline did know they’ve done more to improve their team maybe anybody in the leag yeah they got two guys they got two guys but we also gota realize like this

Was a a four five game like the Knicks been struggling too because they had the injuries so this was bad this was like a bad wake up dude it was a bad wakeup call and and another thing is yeah you can say that but we can also say that

The Sixers failed at the trade deadline to get a center they failed at the trade dead line to get a center because mooma was unplayable after his first stent and and then they ended up having the bench Paul Reed too so you can say small ball

Lineup you can say whatever you want but they got benched and that’s how they came back yeah yeah it wasn’t good and and and and they did sit still at the trade deadline but right now I want to talk to you Keith and folks out there

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About Kyle we broke we we we got into it a little bit just a little bit and and and and you know I’m sorry y’all but I I this is something now again that they playing a backto back you know tonight they play the Cleveland Cavaliers who

Lost again so Cleveland is going to be motivated to get off the snide so to speak but to me I’m serious man I do think that Kyle I mean again and I know we kept saying I don’t know what he’s going to give I don’t know what he’s GNA

Do but the passes that he was setting people up with um I mean heck Tobias Harris was struggling he’s the one who got him involved like he did a alley to Tobias his first basket then all of a sudden he hit him again later or well

Belly Hill hit him then he he passed the ball to him he didn’t get an assist on it but but he should have in in the fourth right so he was the one that got him inv look man I’m just telling you he’s a point guard a point guard they

Don’t have one I mean Maxi a point guard but he’s more of a scoring point guard what I mean by a point guard is like old school point guard before people say oh no what are you saying no I’m talking about facil facilitator the guy that get

Guys in the right spots a guy what he did was in the Huddle saying no we ain’t running that play well he tried to make like suggestion but I heard that Max said he ain’t running it so when you talk about that you need a floor leader

A General a guy he was like yo go over here go there do this do that do that and it was his he only practiced with him twice so to me the way this team looks right now losing 10 of their last 13 games and then how they got boat R they

Was getting boat raced until he came in the game and how they pulled within six points and then all of a sudden he goes out because he needs a break and then they and then uh the Knicks go on a 10 to two Run game over nah bro I think he

Gota play I think he gotta start that’s just my opinion let’s say It Here and Now Keith Pompei is doing agent work for Kyle Lowry I want my money I want my money you want that cut you know sh I I take 1% of what he makes

You know yeah no I hear that I hear that I mean it’s understandable because um you know we this 276s is prior to the injury and it’s the president 76ers and prior to the injury even with Joel they were playing faster than they you know than they played probably ever since

Joel’s been there now you know they’re not scoring as much as they as they were um and and you know we we do talk about the whole positionist basketball but I think that um you you know Kyle is you they’re going to have to be more the

Offense is going to get slower I think you know I I think with him out there he’ll get guys in position and I do think that from what I’ve seen from from Nick nurse this year I do think that guys like Kelly Uber I don’t that was

Just last night was just a hard game you know seemed like guys were just getting to know each other again for the first time uh Nico Batum was not giving them anything uh Paul Reed a lot of guys just didn’t give them anything I I think that

They’ll get on Pace I think that was you know um I think that was a game that they just kind of need to get out of their system now I say that and recognizing that the schedule’s not going to get any easier you know they they’re going

Through a tough The Crucible of their schedule right now um and and yeah Kyle L is going need to be out there he know he’s a guy who’s got Championship pedigree he’s a guy who like you said can get guys in the right places but the

Bad thing about the six is right now if you get these guys in the right places when when they get there when damn it they gotta execute man I mean just the execution was bad you know again I know buddy Hill you know he’s been playing well he was averaging about 22 points

Per game you know as a 76 I mean last night he just his shot just wasn’t there um you know so he became basically a three-point shooter um and you know Maxi you know Maxi had his 35 but it didn’t it wasn’t a 35 to me to

Really move the needle and like you said when Kyrie when Kyle kyry when Kyle Lowry was on the floor you know they that’s when they made their run you know that’s when they made their run and and that’s not lost on Nick nurse it’s not lost on Nick nurse but um they’re just

You know you just can’t have those efforts like you know like you said we can’t talk about the 76ers injuries um you know Tobias Harris no matter what you say is is one of one of the highest play players in this league and he just can’t the up and down they needed him

Last night you know that’s a game against a team that conceivably they’re battling for seating least at least right now they better hope they don’t play them in the playoffs man yeah I mean they better hope so I mean you know Joel andb does clean up a lot but we

Don’t know we keep man there’s this tener out there that he’s gonna be there you think that’s going to be the case uh I mean if they keep losing like this no like you ain’t trying to come back be a part of this like but but I do I do

Think really I do think he will come back I I mean because I I I don’t know I I I do like it depends because that’s the only hope man I mean that’s the only hope for this season the way I see it yeah man it’s it’s bad now here’s the deal

Um like we said yeah of course if they play the Knicks I don’t see if they play the Knicks it will probably be a 4 five or a 36 matchup that’s what it’s going to be right yeah and and I don’t see the Sixers winning I I don’t like I don’t um

R is back and you know he comes back I mean and then you got OG locking people down like I just don’t see it I don’t see it and then you got um Mitchell Mitch Mitchell Robinson the center probably be come on man so like they that was out

Three starters that’s a good I’m telling you that’s I hate to say it because it’s New York that’s that team’s that’s a be honest man that team and and the thing is they haven’t tuned tibs out yet you know that’s you know I I mean they you

They usually teams get to that point but it’s it’s you know there enough freshh fresh faces on that roster where they have haven’t tuned him out look man here’s here’s a problem last night they had precious aure giving them the business this dude had 18 points 11 rebounds on seven for nine shooting

Right I mean presses now don’t get me wrong he’s a quality player but you know it’s a bad night when he having a showcase game against you like Josh Hart you know normally when I see any other game Josh Hart can play but he’s more of

A defensive stopper he had 18 points on seven for 13 shooting right I mean come on man and then uh banovic you know he was six for six on threes yeah just like layup line yeah it I mean saying like it wasn’t a layup line but he was hitting

Them like they were layups yeah you know what I mean yeah and yeah they um that’s what happen you go to that small ball and team just had a way you know team just and and you know you couldn’t turn to your big man because your big man

Were aw last night yeah it was it was a bad look it was a bad look bad look y right now I want to want to bring people into uh what lockon is doing lockon has launched the first ever National Sports 247 streaming Channel on YouTube and now

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Um and uh I do a question a Q&A that I do once a week on Fridays um but but then and you know appears in the Philadelphia inquire um but in the addition to that I want to I want to talk about one question I got and the question was about the 76ers

Coach like um which coach would have got the Sixers out of the second round last season right and you know and I get it that that in a way I think the question was a sarcastic question for me to destroy doc right so you know but then

The more I thought about it and you know and and I wrote about it I was like I said to the guy you know I said look man red arback yeah Lenny Wilkins Greg papovich um and uh Phil Jackson would have had a hard time getting that team

Out of the second round last year and and in the way and I get it like some people want to talk about um you know people wanna people want to talk about you know G like the whole series or the game seven this and that right well the

Thing is the reason why they wouldn’t have do they wouldn’t have got out of that second round is now you might say okay well would they have swept the Celtics n they wouldn’t have swept the Celtics like I’m talking about the other guys they wouldn’t have done that right

And the reason why they wouldn’t have done that is because it’s hard to win when you’re two best players are struggling and that’s exactly what happened with Joel embiid and and James Harden and The Winner Takes all game right so the future Hall of Famers were terrible I mean I’m not just saying

Bad yeah they were they were putrid right Hardon had nine points seven assists and six rebounds you say what’s wrong with that well he made just three of 11 shots including going one of five on three-pointers in the biggest game of the Season Haron looked like the game

Had passed him by yeah the third forget this now he 34 now but he’s 33 last year he had more air balls three than made baskets in the first half two he also had no lift on his jumper and looked a step too slow Harden shot two for eight

From the field and ended up with six point six assists and five rebounds in the first half now let’s get to Jo Joel huh do we have to he was horri he was horrible Joel finished the game with 15 points on five for 18 shooting while missing all four of his three-point

Attempts he led to Sixers with eight rebounds and two blocks but he spent most of the game in the perimeter the reigning MVP who played with for sprain LCL so I’m going give him credit looked fatigued now there going to be some people to say but Pompei but Pompei that

Was game seven this is a seven game series you know what happened what happened and what my what my thing come back to that my answer to that my comeback is okay let’s give James Hardy credit for scoring 45 and 42 points to lead the

Sixers to um to victory in game one and game four respectively right nobody had any expectations of him no no expectations expectations but look this is what happened when they had expectations yeah and I’m still amazed that James Harden failed the score in the fourth quarters of games five six and

Seven on a combined 0 for6 shooting in the series loss so when we want to blame the coach nobody’s coaching that yeah that’s that’s that’s that’s a players’s loss that’s a player loss you know I mean they completely they completely rolled over in game seven and this was after

Game six when Joelle made me Furious when he said after that loss he said who doesn’t love game who doesn’t love game seven and my mindset was y’all shouldn’t love game seven because you as The Underdogs and the lowest seated team had the opportunity to take the higher

Seated team out in your building in game six and and they just look disengaged and um you know I don’t think any coach I mean if if you had you you could take any of those coaches Phil Jackson red hour back Larry Brown you could put them in the coaching box and

Have the rest of those guys sitting on the bench you know as assistance pick a coach any coach and they weren’t going to beat the Celtics last year and I mean the effort just wasn’t there I mean you can have a clone of of of um Coach K Dean

Smith uh Bill Walton I mean I mean anybody like you know what I mean like you could have had anybody like Casey Casey Jones I mean anybody Pat Riley yeah get two best players like I’m just saying if the Lakers were playing and Magic Johnson and Karen did

With James Harden and what did they would get both raced if Larry Bird and and and Kevin mcel and name whomever did what they did they would have lost like if if Dr J and Moses Malone and and Charles bar well Barkley wasn’t on those teams but Andrew Tony and Mo Cheeks and

Bobby Jones or but let’s just say Dr J and Moses because they were the two best yeah come on man you win like you just can’t win like so stop it y’all but listen I want to say this real quick before we get ready get out of here I

Apologize for not breaking down tonight’s game against the Cavs all we need to know that this is going to be a Revenge game for the Cavs the Cavs are going to be hungry we’ll see what the Sixers can do but to me is more about the Sixers than the Cavs we already know

What the Cavs are going to try to do the Sixers got to try to find some defense and get better and they’re not going to be able to sneak up on the Cavs like they did last time they’re not yeah they to come out I mean it’s I

Think it’s a must win for the Sixers you know they they got to get off this skar because mil is waiting in the win oh yeah you know Doc is like I’m ready y’all talking about I can’t goach like I’m ready but look y’all we want to

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