76ers & Thunder Make Dramatic Comebacks + Lakers-Warriors Rewatch & Injury Updates

So let's start with Sixers Cavs.

So the Sixers won 114 to 106.

They trailed by 29 points in the first half.

And the first half to me was the floor of the Sixers.

It was the underbelly of the Sixers.

Everyone who has been down on the Sixers, who has...

Who doubted that this could work has been critical of there's one basketball and these guys are best with the ball in their hands and they're not going to get back in transition and they're not going to box out.

They're not going to play defense.

All those things popped up in that first half.

They played well.

I watched the matchup opening night against the Knicks and their offense in the first half was in stark contrast with that game against the Knicks.

I felt the first half of the Knicks game, they're still filling each other out, feeling out the optimal way to run things.

But they really clicked in that third quarter and parlayed that into an impressive closing of the game in the fourth.

Tonight, they had a really rough first half where it was just a ton of iso ball.

And I think some ball stopping with Joel Embiid and Jalen Brown in particular.

And just a lot of those guys isoing around the elbows and the middle of the floor.

And just a lot of one to two pass possessions.

And I thought one of the things that really stood out in that first matchup was four of the five starters had five plus assists.

And all five starters were in double figures in terms of field goal attempts.

And it was a pretty egalitarian setup in terms of Maxie was the leader as he was again tonight, but it was relatively condensed and everyone was within a few field goal attempts.

Tonight, there was a bit of a gap where Maxie was leading the way, then Jalen Brown, then a little bit of a dip to Embiid and LeBron, then a dip to Edgecombe.

So we did start to see the pecking order shift, which is something I talked about, that the hierarchy, the pecking order is going to change night to night, depending on the matchups, depending on who's playing well, depending on what the game calls for.

But that first half was...

That's the floor of the Sixers, which is just stagnant offense, a slew of turnovers, not boxing out, not rotating defensively, not getting back in transition, not getting out in transition, which I think is a big weapon for them.

And then in the second half, that completely flipped where they came out immediately with...