Devon Givens believes the Miami Heat are not a threat to the Sixers playoff chances

Devon Givens believes the Miami Heat are not a threat to the Sixers playoff chances

By Sixers beat Maven he’s the best My Brother Devon given joins us what’s up man big day let’s see if it happens let’s hope so it is a big day big game so seven games left on the season and Sixers right now still fighting with the Miami Heat right in front of them

Indiana in the six spot so we’ll see if they can you know do what they need to do to get the big fella back on the floor and then and if I I was counting seven games left from now tonight against the Oklahoma City Thunder to the

Brooklyn Nets the final game on that Sunday it’s about 14 days in total I doubt that he plays the back toback Memphis and San Antonio Saturday Sunday so that that’s a lot of time plus the ramp up that he’s already been doing as Nick nurse and has been talking about

Five on fives wowski reported that yesterday some five on FES the one-on ones that he was doing prior to the basketball activities getting back to it so a pretty good amount of time to get his legs back underneath him of course with the knee and the miniscus and then

Just working out getting back into that game shape nothing is like playing in the game yes the simulated practices and how they have to do it uh but I’m very curious to see what the minutes would look like as we talked about it the other day um the the minute restriction

Should they try to push that on him we know that’s going to be difficult because of who he is no I’m not coming out the game but I’m exactly but I’m I’m really curious and and again we just simply talked about hey if he can just get some some Underneath Him ideally you

Would like that game that’s that playin game to be played here in Philadelphia but if not going to Miami doesn’t I’m not fearful of the Miami he now Jimmy but Jimmy Butler’s Jimmy Butler in the playoffs yeah yeah yeah but I’m not fearful of that team should he come back

Having these new players with him that’s probably enough time to get things to write the ship a little bit if if you will to play in that playing game and if you lose it you know worst case scenario you still have one more game against that nine 10 opponent Atlanta or Chicago

So couple things one now right now he’s listed his out on the injury report but you know come shoot around it’s completely up to Joel told it’s just right now as we know it’s all up to Joe and whether how he feels and he could make that decision coming up um I think

It probably makes sense and no when Joel for his like like we do I think we kind of can read him pretty well y it makes sense tonight’s TNT uh nationally televised you know it’s that big state OKC you know Joel’s back y like that

Feels right to me and then also you got Thursdays Jimmy Butler so you got a little you got you got your first game under your belt correct then you can go and play Miami and it kind of makes a lot of sense that he actually plays

Tonight exactly the point I made when we did the game Sunday against Toronto we talked about a post game kind of we had our watch along with the with everybody and that was fun and we discussed just that coming back all right he was on a

Two- game trip with them and he did not play Toronto we thought all right maybe there’s a chance that the whole thing going on with Toronto right they can’t stand him he doesn’t like them that whole thing actually I was glad just because of the history yeah even though

They not nobody’s there body’s there doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter just it’s like you know some teams have just that bad kind of Mojo bad but no it it played out perfectly nationally televised gam 7:30 start he’s back and everything leading up to pregame is going to be discussing is he going to

Play because he’s going to go through his pregame workout and they’re going to see if he’s able to do it he’ll take it all the way up to the minute like he always does and he’ll tell them that he’s ready to go and it’s perfect and

Every the buildup for it all is right go through that game a very good opponent in the Oklahoma City Thunder right at the top of the west but then to your point as we said again going against Miami where that game counts this is very important for the tiebreaker for

That 78 should everything play out for the Sixers in the heat identical record you need this game on Thursday night to give you that edge if you will to make sure that you host that seven eight matchup in the playin here in pH Philadelphia not in Miami I will say

This CU I was skeptical about it but the play in it works it works I I didn’t like it either now look it has worked we’ve seen it now times cre another level of it does but you didn’t need it it was just no I I thought listen it was just something

Else for them to do to add to the the the whole thing of the the excitement the eyeballs the money get that extra extra two junky yeah you know that word junky like you go you just junked it up like too much like over the top over the

Top kind of like the um the mid-season tournament I didn’t like it at first it was entertaining I’ll give I’ll give them that the problem though with the mid-season tournament is it comes s the teeth of it’s too early and it’s the middle of football like toward the the

The the crescendo of the NFL season yeah but it was go paid attention to it I did well I mean other than other than other than Geeks yeah losers like you and me yeah yeah yeah like I is what it is like we pay attention to all that stuff but

From a league standpoint you’re better off doing something like that after the after NFL I don’t I don’t disagree but is it too close to Allstar going into the allar I would replace Allstar with that like you know have the allstar build it into it I I hear you there

Something you can do with it it’s too early and then give them a break yes okay I got you you know I mean there’s a way to incorporate the kind of how you can figure it out like you know that’s what they get paid for right exactly no

I I love all this I still think they messed up with the schedule going back well you like to start in December thing and I don’t yeah you don’t you first of all I like the November start when I was a kid and then they pushed it to earlier

In October now and again if I’m sitting there saying that I like it where it is who am about to get mad at starting two weeks before that but I just like I like the November start you know why I loved it cuz being the loser that I am I like having

Multiple Sports so you know come July and August yeah it’s just baseball right and I love baseball but I like variety yeah so having the NBA and the NBA Crescendo August is a is sucks right because Dog Days of baseball yeah you know Camp you love early but then you

Get tired of it you can’t wait preseason stinks and you can’t wait for the season to start so now you have like an NBA and nowadays summertime win does none of it matters Prime Time like it used to be that you had you could never do something like that in the summer but

Now you’re going to still have audience people watch when wherever they want so why not why not the NHL instead of the NBA that’s that more of a winter sport where you say that’s more of a winter sport so you wouldn’t want to push that one listen you could push either one I

Don’t I get I get a love spot I just take the NBA Summer Olympics I got you yeah you know what I mean like you know summer game yeah in that sense so when would the summer league be you would you would have to change all the I mean the whole calendar gets

Moved I know you know all that stuff all right let’s get back to the because I can Meander on this stuff all day big fell and the big news of the day uh is presented by Trumark Financial Credit Union check out trumark.com phly or stop into your local branch to

Learn more about the credit union difference at true Mark Finance today all right so let’s let’s figure out uh he comes back sure the flow what’s your Optimum H what’s your Optimum rotation how do you kind of play it let let’s fast forward and let’s say you know all goes well

He’s integrated sure now we’re in the playoffs how would you play it how do you would you play him the entire first quarter remember how that was going how would you use him I think he’s better on longer chunks than short bursts so I think I don’t think nurse changes

Anything up unless the minute thing of he gets a little fatigued early on coming back so if we’re pushing and fast forward right if you’re going to fast forward to the playoffs like you just asked though nurse likes to run him that first 12 that first quarter that’s what

He’s going to get I don’t think he’s going to change that at all and again I’m very curious once they do get into the postseason if he does come back a little bit sooner if he comes back before that six minute 7 six minute Mark in that second quarter once they get

Into the postseason because that was normally that number that nurse likes to lean on for and B to get back so I would say that he would still be in that 12-minute first quarter run does not come out if we’re in the playoffs there that’s how he’s going to look at so then

You’re also talking about getting to the starting lineup a little bit Kyle Lowry I think is going to stay in the starting lineup I think he’s going to be the back cour mate with maxi going forward then I think and I like that I at first I didn’t because I thought

Now now I I like it but my question is because nurse has been forced to play Lowry more than expected because of the melting injury other people being out Tobias Harris at times Tyrese Maxi also being out a little bit I don’t want him to overextend Kyle Lowry especially the

Way look all due respect Campa has played some decent minutes when he’s been given extended minutes then you have buddy heel coming off the bench because I’m leaving him on the bench too so now you’re talking about two guards one in which buddy Hill of course we

Know we waiting to see him with Joel embiid Second which I’ve been talking about since the campaign was traded for Patrick Beverly coming from Milwaukee campaign has a a decent amount of playoff experience in that Deep Run when we were with the Phoenix Suns he started

For Chris Paul yeah when Paul got hurt when Paul missed the last month and a half he start yeah and the wins there were he was really good he’s a he’s a terrific backup one right and he can score he can run a team and defensively

You lose a lot there but he’s going to give effort and scoring wise that’s going to work out but that being said that looks like my and Nick Batum is is going to stay in the starting lineup with me I like the way Kelly UB has been

Playing but I think I want that offensive punch with Buddy heel coming off the bench and camp pign and that’s going to fluctuate of how they have certain players on the floor with defensively is not going to be all that bad I don’t think out there especially

Well think about it right and that’s that’s like eight right there in your rotation and Paul Reed coming off the bench and makes nine yeah let’s keep it at eight so I mean he’s had some decent playoff moments yeah but like you know you count

On really count on I’m like 15 but I listen the K my only beef with the with Paul Reed is just like knowing the game like like sometimes you can get a little loss yeah you know you you got to be you got head’s got to be in the game man

Playoff moments like I’ve seen some some I mean he’s gifted and he can do certain things but I need your head the game he’s been much better this season yeah and in the playoffs last season I thought he was really good he was all right okay yeah all right yeah yeah

I listen I always keep on look I like the kid oh yeah a great guy I don’t know if he’s ready right this moment to give had to give me x amount of minutes like important minutes 15 is what I give him yeah especially if the big Fells back

And then you go small ball and sometimes Batum is going so I’m with you now and and I love having the offense on the bench like to me the whole part of the rotation will be to stagger Joe and and Maxi yeah right because when when one’s

On the floor the other one gets his rest and vice versa and I think it’s key and that’s where buddy you know and even UB y but like you know UB can slide in UB and Matt and Tobias could slide in with maxi and I want to see buddy and Joe interesting

Well I think you would get that just because because Maxi would come out around six minutes in that first he’ll get that six minutes of rest unless there’s a special situation where nurse will bring him back he’ll carries the second quarter until mbid comes back so heel will have

That first sub between he and UB that first sub for tyres Maxi and then Kyle Lowry that point of the whole thing so I think you would get your wish there yeah well I mean I think that’s the the smart way to to attack it I I like that

Rotation yeah I I don’t disagree yeah I don’t disagree but buddy and Joe I mean it’s like that’s that could well that’s that’s where we go with the JJ reic piece the Seth Curry piece of those those gravity type of Shooters especially with those pin Downs where we

Watch JJ reck specifically JJ reic and Seth Curry had career years too but my favorite was the JJ reic part where he would come off those Baseline screens those pin Downs there there those dribble handoffs right and and and he’s curling and he’s pulling up there for those jumpers now they’re going to

Extend back a little bit more with that three-point line for Buddy heel like Seth Curry but the way that has the potential to work and then the playmaking that we did see with Buddy Hill in those first few games if he’s able to get that back with Joel embiid

Now being that role man and not readed or bomba then I think there’s a potential for a lot of success in that way and if it works that way all the attention of course is going to shift over to Joel embiid and know that coverage then buddy heill is going to

Get some layup opportunities and some Runners there at The Rim I I I gotta tell you brother that excites me no it really is this is the reason why I want to back that’s why he was traded for you bring him here for that reason yes and

That is why you bring him back because you have a chance whenever he’s back there like we said a couple of weeks ago when I know you let that leg legs on but when he was on the all CD with Adam Mars on the NBA show and he talked about B

Comes back they’re going to be right there in that conversation once again of contention because that’s how important he is we’ve seen it they were 29 and 13 at one point on the floor with him before the Golden State injury since then look at their record now they were 40 and

35 because the guy has not been on the floor think about that I know I know and you have so many shots right you only have so many shots at the prize right and he’s still in his prime so you put him on the floor yeah you know you can’t

Worry about you know stuff happens stuff happens I mean that’s just what that’s his life yeah but doctors say you’re clear doctors feel comfortable you’re not you know playing you know game of Risk you you got to take a shot man who knows and that’s the one thing about

Listen obviously Boston is playing incredible ball Fant I mean you know are are are they the 96 Bulls no you know what I mean I mean look and Milwaukee you look who the coach is I expect them to play I I do listen you got Dame and

Giannis I mean and that supported cast I mean they’re going to be nasty but who I I keep going back to it you got a really good co I’m actually see nurse in the playoffs too I am too um again of course he’s had his success he’s had some

Really good runs the best being the championship year but he’s had some other success as well so I am I am very interested to see what he does he finally gets his team back they have their different Playbook from what it is now to what it is supposed to be when

Joel embiid is on the floor so I I am interested to see how he plays Everything once he has his full compliment of players minus the Melton because I can’t count on that and I can’t really count on the cumington part either so minus those two players having

His full compliment of what it is and embiid even at 80% is still a darn good we’re talking about the MVP here now he’s not going to give you 35 and you shouldn’t expect a 35 on average he can still give you 35 on any particular night but having him

Back even less than 100% but on his way back as the arrows continue to point up I’ll take their chances yeah I I I gotta I gotta tell you right I I can’t wait to watch I miss him I miss watching him play it’s a different view yeah it’s it

Listen just as a basetball dude like you watch it play like it’s it’s so incredible it just is we take it for granted like I understand it’s hard to build around a big these days I I get that to win a title but there are way

Too many people that just want to move want to trade him and have wanted to trade him and they’ll say look see I was right he’s hurt again how many times I got that text I was right I told you if they should have trade him and I keep

Going back to the same same thing for you’re you’re going to you never get anything close to equal value and you’re you’re going to it’s it’s as we know going through the process none of it is is a lock I don’t know I I I

Feel like if you have a chance if you can have a chance to win which they do then you keep that window open so it’s tough to build around a big Tech technically there are only two that matter in the NBA Wy well he’s the third

Now but the two joic and embiid they’ve built the right way clearly win um no I don’t think I don’t you view him as a traditional um no because I think he is a four but in today’s League a four he’s a five um I still don’t he won

So I give him that but I don’t look at him as though I never looked at him as a I never looked at him as a winner I know that’s all I’m talking he’s a great player now joelan be still have yes he is Joan B has to still prove himself as

A winner also but all right we we can get into to all that but when you have a chance and you have a player like embid and yic yes you you take every possible chance that you have that window is still open there’s no reason to gut the

Team you get a lot of draft picks back but as much as people get on the the people in the front office how do you how do you feel about them putting that together team to start from scratch to build back into that Contender and how long is that going to

Take when you have it right now you exhaust all possibilities that you have currently in the moment to do just that and I think that’s what you have to do right now with you all in beating and he has a really good team then there’s the questions of who the third best player

Is who the fourth best player and all that where that is defined with the Nuggets Aron Gordon and then Michael Porter Jr whatever order you put them behind joic and Murray and then you have disappointing C kyp cavius cwell Pope proven winner already twice with the

Lakers and the nuggets for what that is and then you go on down the line Bruce Brown what he did before he got the big contract in the off season are those there with the Sixers that is the question I don’t know that to be true because Tobias Harris supposed to be a

Third guy that is not defined anymore with Tobias Harris is it buddy heill Kelly UB who is that that’s where these moments are going to be big to find out who those players are in these roles to see with the big fell and Maxi on the

Floor if all of that stuff starts to line up well certain things would appear to make sense so buddy healed appears to be which would be a good fit appears right like it’s all you know you think about it spacing all that stuff what what they do the fact they could spread

The floor you could shoot it all that stuff would would appear that you could make that case so that now you get the now you get the chance to watch it hey I got you yeah did you watch uh Iowa night you know I did I watched

Both games yeah so I was at the Flyers gape so tell me about I mean Caitlyn 41 93s yep 11 assists 11 12 assists whatever it was she was phenomenal first I’ll say this first half they went on their run to begin the game and then LSU

Angel ree just took over and she had what 20 boards for she had 19 boards before she got well not before she got hurt but she was hooping and then she sprained her ankle right so it kind of took away from some of the things that

She was able to do because it looked like early on Iowa had their and basketball is a game of runs and Iowa came back and made their run Caitlyn Clark was tremendous and their defense was really good where they were forcing her to turn the ball over she was

Missing some shots there that happens because of how they were playing defense on her then after Angel ree got hurt second half they were tied 45 45 I think it was at the break second half Caitlyn Clark I don’t know what haly van lit and she’s a really good player after she

Transferred from Louisville to go to LSU she’s a really good player but some of her defense was questionable she was going under the screen she’s like Steph Curry and in and women CLE B you can’t go under the screen I don’t know if the defensive I

Don’t know what Kim I don’t know what they were doing defensively telling her go under the screen and then you talk about having Johnson why well she can’t be on there flj Johnson because she can’t be on it because you don’t want her to get in any fou because she’s such

A good score I think she had 25 last night she was really good so their defense was so questionable and you can’t give CL Caitlyn Clark that kind of space to get those shots off she shoots from 35 feet from the basket what are you doing and then she got hot and then

She’s playing again in these pick and roll coverages where she’s making these perfect pocket passes and these she probably should have had 15 and 16 assists they were missing some layups there too that’s how good she was and again there for Angel Reese to get hurt

The way she did she couldn’t move the same way offensively to get the buckets that she was still grabbed 19 boards I thought she was tremendous but this was Caitlyn Clark’s moment last year it was LSU this year last year was L she had to

Said like you got to step up tonight and she did she did she dropped a 40 she hung 40 on that defense man and she was really really good now I’m very curious because Paige Beckers coming back from the ACL still be as good as she is now

This is the matchup in the final four that’s going to be fun and then Gino ARA never recruited Caitlyn Clark and that was her dream school never came after so I’m I can’t wait to see what she does like a little stick of to Gino R in his

Final four so that’s going to be fun too yeah it’ll be it’ll be pretty awesome and then of course Dawn in South Carolina yeah yeah it’s could be fantastic it’s good stuff man really to to and look man as long as much as we watch basketball and I remember in our

Previous spot I would talk about it then because South Carolina because of what you saw with LSU then Paige Paige Beckers coming in as a freshman I was excited to see her a f with her she has another ACL so that’s unfortunate but to see women’s college basketball for what

It is and I watch the WNBA I’m a nerd like that I was talking about we already know that all City sends their their basketball teams to Summer League I want to go see the aces when we go to Las Vegas you know what I mean so for I I

Hope people are watching these games and watching how fun the basketball is with women’s college basketball and when WNBA gets because they have so much talent they do so much talent and you look at fundamentally yeah the basketball is really strong it has to be because they

Don’t have the same type of athleticism no disrespect but when you see the ball move like that and then you see just perfect form rising up like open shots the ball just just moves yeah just pops yeah I mean that’s fun to watch that’s why the game The Game’s a beautiful game

When you see it played with like Supreme ball movement you know we can tired of just you know it’s always pick a roll and like that’s what it is but when you actually see the the ball just move the game’s beautiful yeah it really is man it’s fun basketball they’re really

Talented the shooting is really good the passing is crisp because you know it has to but then when you have some defense as well like Angel Reese there was this really there was this pass that Caitlyn Clark made and she was trying to snap it

Quickly to the top of the key to our teammate Angel ree read that thing boom going the other way layup again this was during that run in that first half but they have to be on top of they have to be sharp with what they do and it’s

Really fun and I love the nil part too man because they they start to get paid and it’s really cool to see them yeah it’s awesome six of them have sneaker deals man how about that it’s great I know yeah it’s cool the whole thing a

Lot of fun makes a lot of fun it is my brother the Great Devon GI baby back tonight after hopefully Joel and be’s return see the Sixers all phly show starring that man Devon giv of course Derek Bodner Kyle newbeck who also do an amazing Job we all sitting like the mayor

Devon Givens joins Anthony Gargano to talk about the return of Joel Embiid before the end of the regular season. Devon stats that he believes Embiid will not play back to backs and doesn’t fear the Heat mucking up the Sixers chances to get into the playoffs.

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