That Was the Most Amazing Game Ever...

That was the single craziest, greatest, most dramatic, and exciting thing that I have ever seen, maybe beyond even basketball, just in life. And yeah, let's talk about it. What's going on, everybody? 2-0. I want to say that I hear myself at some of this, that I am a YouTuber screaming about, that was the craziest thing ever. And maybe hyperbolic and overreactionary, but at the same time, can I just... Oh, first off, what's going on, everyone? Christian Pedersen back on another episode of Sixers Digest. Like, subscribe, comment, share, follow Sean and I got you for your daily content. If you are new to this channel, can I just say we're going to potentially hang that in the Mona Lisa? Sixers come back from down 30 to just make absolute history. I will run the numbers by you here and let you know that that is the biggest comeback win ever for LeBron. biggest uh comeback for philly biggest blow and lead since the 96 season for both teams cleveland being 155 and 0 in such games and philly uh 0 and 156 in such games nba teams in 466 straight and the sixers just pulled that off now we gotta be some degree of fair and balanced and talk about how the excitement of coming back from that deficit involved us falling into that deficit so overall if i'm going to grade this one i'm going to give it a b given that the first half was an f and the second half was an a minus and so that aggregates out look i heard the boos on the broadcast in the middle of the second quarter richard jefferson's bald shiny head was talking about are they going to set the record for most turnovers ever and like like i was I was ready to come on here and be like maybe Jalen Hurts' medical snafu is not the worst thing in Philly right now then uh we turn it around and this the just insanity that was that fire in that third quarter and I would love to know did Nick Nurse who by the way Nick Nurse blinged out like just got that chain now every game is that going to be a new thing I love that side note there but Nick Nurse and game company did whatever adjustments they needed to do in the second in at halftime and came out firing so let's break down the total numbers of what we've got going on where do we want to start you guys want to start with the starters our main squad here another night of 30 plus minutes for everybody Tyrese Maxey up into the 40s and uh commensurately scoring an absolute ton and I look I get talking about like the the feast and the famine and Embiid Van Gundy was talking about how he's like four for 20 to start the season he looks all out of sorts he started scoring more in that second half and so maybe some of this really was like just the rust and the excitement of being home and the nerves and it was trying to play too fast and the Cavs are ready okay, I can go for extenuating circumstances and I can look around and be like, this is a pretty dang good overall batch of numbers you can ask for a little bit of improvement obviously in everybody, but VJ getting up into the double digits was fantastic the assist numbers VJ, Maxey, LeBron Jalen Brown all a fair amount of them everybody being in the plus on the plus minus in aggregate this worked out and i'm not a day where i am really mad at this on the flip side looking at the bench players same group ultimately did not have Deandre Wade available tonight, Adem Bona some moments were not that fantastic i also saw a couple of steals and so i'll get off Adem Bona Jabari Walker upped it from three minutes to four minutes scoring once Anthony Simons was certainly more quiet tonight in terms of being an overall bucket and the plus minus not reflecting very well on him but i was still happy with him out there he was a good change of pace he's like he looks after missing the entirety of the preseason he looks healthy enough to be a regular guy for me KCP with his 25 minutes but you'll notice almost no scoring from these guys and that it was a big a big change from game one to game two so as we talked as i talked about in the pregame having a bunch of different questions about like what is this going to look like is are we going to see uh different rotations are we going to see LeBaron we didn't obviously get any lead until the last couple minutes of the fourth quarter so it wasn't time to be changing around and so i think that my answer is this starting group is fantastic and seems to be gelling and seems to yes there are some well you know those turnovers that possession and they're still going to maybe be some of that like we're only two games in but effing lethal bro absolutely lethal best starting five in the NBA able to overcome putting themselves in a 30 point hole and uh and win by a like not needing a buzzer beater that being said i i will be i will be honest and say that i i don't for sure know if that is 100 sustainable i just i just don't know the overall shooting numbers ended up being okay this is where like i i gotta i can't objectively even though that was an amazing come from behind win i can't objectively come on here and be like that was the greatest game that the Sixers have ever singularly played shooting 25% from three is just okay shooting 75% from the free throw line is just okay we ended up shooting better than the Cavs overall so the defense stepped up and got better as the game went on the turnover numbers that i thought was that was really interesting a ton of them in the first half but then ultimately only three of them in the second half and we started generating them so i don't know man i like the we only got we barely got out rebounded the offensive boards and defensive boards we trailed them by one in each of them so like i i i i like this this is one where i think in aggregate when you really look at the if i was just doing box score Billy and did had not watched this game i would have been like well they're pretty close game man this was kind of back and forth probably pretty even and everything tons of points in the paint like what a what a battle what a you know oh bro they've both been a great game you couldn't tell from that that this was something where this was a test and they passed kind of vibes so we're gonna obviously i mean we literally have 80 more of these so we will get a larger sample size but we're gonna obviously have to go a couple more games to really figure this out in terms of how this all works and we're going to need to get Dean Wade back to help us have some relief and there will be stretches where eventually we'll see Taco Fall and we'll see Dom Barlow and we're going to get like we will need to get to the bench but i think that this has to answer some of the initial questions about can these guys share the ball can these guys mesh can these guys come together and play as good a basketball as we hypothetically think they can't because at two and zero with the two being an amazing road win that was a gritty come from behind 10 and then winning at home after getting booed in the second quarter i'm good enough to say that that all all questions answered so let me know what you think drop a comment like subscribe share follow have a great rest of your night even better tomorrow go sixers