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Speaker 1: do we do with the word like that? Many of
Speaker 1: us aspire to be great? But how do you get there?
Speaker 1: Where does greatness come from? How do you uncover it,
Speaker 1: nurture it, grow it become great. For some, greatness comes
Speaker 1: from a path you've charted for yourself. For others, the
Speaker 1: path binds you. Greatness could be born in the shadow
Speaker 1: of a big city, the world away, to be considered
Speaker 1: among the greats. That anything is a feat in and
Speaker 1: of itself. This is a kid that in the freshman
Speaker 1: class is the best post guy in this year's freshman
Speaker 1: group to be recognized as the greatest. Those are some
Speaker 1: mighty long odds right now. As hard as it might
Speaker 1: be to define greatness, we know it when we see it.
Speaker 1: Joel Ebid is having a season for the Ages, a
Speaker 1: career high fifty point. He's generational these hours, and he's
Speaker 1: making a serious run for MVP. Shoot the three that good.
Speaker 1: Over time, Joel a bead has tied the game before
Speaker 1: all Joel Embiad's powers. Don't underestimate what he does when
Speaker 1: the bright lights aren't shining. I'm Julius Irving. Let's go
Speaker 1: inside the process. Let's start in cameraon. There was never
Speaker 1: supposed to be a basketball story, at least not in
Speaker 1: the beginning. Maybe some other sport, but basketball, No, that
Speaker 1: wasn't part of the plan. He took a while from
Speaker 1: the the start because that's something of you know, wanted
Speaker 1: to do for a while, for you know, two or
Speaker 1: three years, but my dad just wasn't into it. He
Speaker 1: just wanted me to you know, play every sports, saying
Speaker 1: mainly volleyball because you know, I was super tall and
Speaker 1: I had a lot of potential enough to go pro
Speaker 1: at least according to Joel. This is Luke and Bob
Speaker 1: Mute who is credited with discovering Joel. I heard about
Speaker 1: him who you know, one of the coaches that you know,
Speaker 1: I worked with in my camp. So he's told me
Speaker 1: about Joel because you know, Joe playing volleyball, and he
Speaker 1: was just like, well, he just started playing basketball, and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, he definitely should come to the camp.
Speaker 1: He definitely should see him when you come down. So
Speaker 1: I was looking forward to like seeing him because tearing
Speaker 1: from him, and you know, he's somebody who coached me
Speaker 1: and trained me, so he has a eyeful talent and
Speaker 1: my generation and a lot of talented players. So I
Speaker 1: hearing him rap about Joel and potential, I was very
Speaker 1: eager to, like, you know, really see Joel on the
Speaker 1: court and see what he could do. So and I
Speaker 1: was I wasn't disappointing. Joe remembers his father Thomas, dabbling
Speaker 1: in sports him self. Joel took notice. You know, growing up,
Speaker 1: my dad was in the army. He's a corner and
Speaker 1: the army, but he also played sports and he played
Speaker 1: handball and he was one of the best in his sports.
Speaker 1: So I used to go watch him. You know, he
Speaker 1: was tough and people were afraid of him, and he
Speaker 1: was really good. So I always looked at it in
Speaker 1: the way that, oh, I want to be better than him.
Speaker 1: So anything that I do nowadays is also because I'm
Speaker 1: like got something My dad, like I saw I dominant.
Speaker 1: It was he in his sports. I want to be
Speaker 1: better than him. Joe might do some things that seem
Speaker 1: super human, but in a fundamental way, he learns the
Speaker 1: same way most of us do. If he sees something,
Speaker 1: it typically sticks. And in the summer of two ten,
Speaker 1: his eyes and mine were fixed on the round ball.
Speaker 1: I don't have like an actual memory. The first time
Speaker 1: I actually remember just watching it and actually paying attention
Speaker 1: to it was the finals. You know, Lakers saw takes.
Speaker 1: That's how Kobe became my favorite players the two times
Speaker 1: of the time ending any champions So that was the
Speaker 1: first time I, you know, I watched and I kind
Speaker 1: of saw, you know, what basketball was about. I was
Speaker 1: just telling myself that's that seemed interesting, especially because at
Speaker 1: the time I was playing you know, soccer, volleyball, you know,
Speaker 1: a bunch of other sports. Uh So, you know, I
Speaker 1: just said, he just seemed interesting. Joe just needed to
Speaker 1: convince his father to let him play once again. Luke
Speaker 1: and Bob Day. It's just one of those things where
Speaker 1: you know, Head was a handball player, his uncle was
Speaker 1: a volleyball player, so naturally you go towards the sports
Speaker 1: that you know and understands his dad knew volleyball because
Speaker 1: he being around his uncle who played volleyball ball, he
Speaker 1: knew what that was like, but he never really had
Speaker 1: any experience of basketball, so he didn't know really what
Speaker 1: to expect for kid who was playing basketball. Here in
Speaker 1: the States, your sixteenth birthday usually means what you get
Speaker 1: the chance to learn to drive right, well, in Cameroon,
Speaker 1: it means Joel and b was able to get his
Speaker 1: hands on a basketball. You over two camps back to camera.
Speaker 1: The camp was in Yawn Day at the arena. Their
Speaker 1: two indoor courts and outdoor court, two outdoor courts, so
Speaker 1: pretty simple, pretty basic camp, you know, just really you know,
Speaker 1: trying to bring and help his kids for the game
Speaker 1: you know in Cameroon and give back to the community
Speaker 1: that helped me. And Joel was obviously part of the camp,
Speaker 1: one of the campers. You know, it was starting to
Speaker 1: pick up where like a lot of kids now knew
Speaker 1: that we were having a camp and that at the
Speaker 1: end of the camp we were kidding the five best
Speaker 1: players to go to South Africa for the NBA Basketball
Speaker 1: Without Borders, So probably that yeah, it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: where we had the most talented. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of talented kids, and Joel stood out obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: from being you know, one of the tallest, but definitely
Speaker 1: from being like, you know, one of the guys with
Speaker 1: the most potential. He probably wasn't the best player at
Speaker 1: the camp, but like, even if he didn't have from talent,
Speaker 1: jumped out. I leave that this kid was great. So
Speaker 1: he already had good foot work and his ability to
Speaker 1: like grow and just like seeing stuff like it's just flashes.
Speaker 1: It was. You always see flashes at him and like wow,
Speaker 1: like how did he do that? And I think I
Speaker 1: remember one time I had asked one of the coaches, like, yo,
Speaker 1: you just said this kids, he's been playing for six
Speaker 1: months and he was like, yeah, only six months. That
Speaker 1: just to tell you how how impressive he was one
Speaker 1: he's doing now and it's just a continuity of like
Speaker 1: how special he's been since ever since he picked up
Speaker 1: the basketball. I started playing at six years old. From there,
Speaker 1: my coaching Cameroon, from the first time, you know, we
Speaker 1: started walking together, which was very short, it was for
Speaker 1: five months and we walked together. Bud. He played a
Speaker 1: huge role in you know what I became. It's clear
Speaker 1: what Joe has become, But how did he get to
Speaker 1: this point, let alone get there this fast. He's now
Speaker 1: at the peak of his powers, but let's not forget
Speaker 1: he was doing some pretty remarkable stuff going back to
Speaker 1: his first year in the league and me A Wednesday
Speaker 1: presented by State Farm, Day two of our double header
Speaker 1: comes to you live from State Will Center in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: where many of the NBA's putting young stars take center
Speaker 1: stage out of the Hollywood Lights. There was one particular
Speaker 1: game early in Joel's career that still blows up as
Speaker 1: one of his finance performances. As the Los Angeles Lakers
Speaker 1: walcome to Philadelphia seventy six ers November fifteen, twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: against the Lakers at Staples Center. It was a forty
Speaker 1: six point, fifteen rebound, seven assist, seven block epic and
Speaker 1: beat from Deep Smokes, then mbat from Simmons and mb
Speaker 1: now with fifteen points Simmons beautiful dish to mb the
Speaker 1: three point play. This game was Joe's arrival and beat
Speaker 1: great past Simmons with the monster stopped. Don't know what
Speaker 1: he can't do on the floor Hollywood National Television against
Speaker 1: a legacy franchise out of a foul forty one pm
Speaker 1: B look Out League and Philadelphia soon Evin Harden having
Speaker 1: the time of his life watching this As his star
Speaker 1: began to rise, the rest of the league quickly took notice.
Speaker 1: It blew me away when I first saw him play
Speaker 1: the first time back then Doc Rivers was coach LA Clippers.
Speaker 1: You're watching in college, and I don't remember seeing all that,
Speaker 1: you know, and he didn't play much obviously, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he is talent and more skilled, you know,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of players in the NBA that
Speaker 1: has all this potential athletic ability, but they're not skilled.
Speaker 1: I think Joel's skill level is what surprised everybody in
Speaker 1: our league. In one sense, Joel isn't surprising anyone anymore,
Speaker 1: no way. Game planning against him is usually a feudal pursuit.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, he continues to amaze because he
Speaker 1: continues to get better these days. Joel isn't just wrecking guys.
Speaker 1: He's wrecking double teams, triple teams, full teams, and sometimes
Speaker 1: single handedly. So again it begs the question, how did
Speaker 1: we get here? I'm the top of god that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, if you show me something, you know, I
Speaker 1: just need to see it once or twice and I'd
Speaker 1: be able to do it. You know, I just need
Speaker 1: to sit with my eyes and I be able to
Speaker 1: do anything. How many times have you been in situations
Speaker 1: where you wish your brain could move that fast? It's
Speaker 1: a gift. As far back as Joel and Beet can remember,
Speaker 1: he's always been a visual learner. It just so happened
Speaker 1: his first basketball coaching camera gave him a DVD of
Speaker 1: some of the greats. All I use your arm jump hook.
Speaker 1: He's filed and rolled across the iron. He's got so
Speaker 1: many moves. Big Jim by Ewing who took it to
Speaker 1: the rack, puts it up? What's it in dirt? To
Speaker 1: point day to find out my money? Two twenty seven.
Speaker 1: As I kept watching it was a king pat Ewing,
Speaker 1: you know, Uck was in the team Duncan. As I
Speaker 1: kept watching, you know, I just like a Kim Mole
Speaker 1: because he just felt like the way he moved on
Speaker 1: the basketball court like he just felt like he was dancing,
Speaker 1: like he was hot, Like he was just fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Rebounds around that brow line. There's a dream shaw Ye,
Speaker 1: hey man, what do we have? We gone back about
Speaker 1: five the way he shook his body, the way he moved,
Speaker 1: you know, everything it did. So that was the first
Speaker 1: one that really got into and that I really started
Speaker 1: watching and you know, trying to you know, try to
Speaker 1: kind of become like him and being spending several times
Speaker 1: they didn't finishing. Beautiful touch by Joel e Bed This
Speaker 1: is dream like footwork handling the basketball. It's a big
Speaker 1: man coming off a little screen action and then the
Speaker 1: dream shake gets to his spot. It makes you pay
Speaker 1: the price. That's beautiful. A lot of people talking about
Speaker 1: my shooting touch and you know, and I always thought
Speaker 1: that he came from you know, the first move that
Speaker 1: I ever did. It wasn't a hook shot. It was
Speaker 1: not you know, typical big man move. It was not
Speaker 1: the dog faed away. I used to go, you know,
Speaker 1: off one leg, you know, take a dribble spin and
Speaker 1: you know, fall away off one leg, just like dog
Speaker 1: and big doing the dirt off one foot and then
Speaker 1: he stares down the Dallas bench. As I kept doing it,
Speaker 1: I just kept getting used to it, and he just
Speaker 1: became you know, consistent. The next part of the story.
Speaker 1: You probably know Joel left Africa for the United States
Speaker 1: before his junior year in high school and attended a
Speaker 1: couple of powerhouses before landing at the University of Kansas.
Speaker 1: We were recruiting a couple of other guys off a
Speaker 1: terrific AU basketball team out of Florida. Casey Hill, Brandon Green,
Speaker 1: Chris Walker were three studs that two of them end
Speaker 1: up going to Florida, one of them going to US
Speaker 1: and and and and we're watching and uh, uh, I'm like,
Speaker 1: who is this skinny kid that can run a little bit?
Speaker 1: And and and they never throw it to him, and
Speaker 1: he's pretty good. Bill self is the head coach of Kansas.
Speaker 1: Joe played for the Jayhawks in two thousand and thirteen fourteen,
Speaker 1: So we look into it and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he attended the hottest high school in America, Mont verg
Speaker 1: And and uh he was at Mont verd and didn't
Speaker 1: play at all, you know, his junior year, not because
Speaker 1: they he wasn't good enough, probably, but just because they
Speaker 1: were loaded Luke and Bob Moute. From journal situation, we
Speaker 1: really felt like the best for him was to come
Speaker 1: in you know, good hig school. Um, when I have
Speaker 1: a chance to you know, play and develop and obviously
Speaker 1: get recruited for college. So I went to mom Ford myself,
Speaker 1: and I knew momverg was going to be in a
Speaker 1: position to obviously help him as a student because I
Speaker 1: went there, and also you know, as a basketball because
Speaker 1: you know, I knew what what they were trying to do.
Speaker 1: So it was kind of a don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to say, no, Brander, but it was kind of like
Speaker 1: obvious choice because of the relationships that I had with
Speaker 1: the people there. So that's why I felt confident, like,
Speaker 1: you know, send him in over there and making sure
Speaker 1: that that was a school that he was going to
Speaker 1: go to, the transition from Cameron to here, because I
Speaker 1: mean that was kind of like the path that I
Speaker 1: took as well. Bill. So the following year he went
Speaker 1: to a school in Gainesville, Florida called The Rock and
Speaker 1: he was recruited some I mean US Texas, Marquette, and Florida,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't highly recruited like he deserved. And we
Speaker 1: made it a priority and and we we recruited him
Speaker 1: hard and other people did too, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we got him here. And a cute little story about
Speaker 1: him once he first gets here, because you know, back then,
Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't this big Bravado type guy. He was.
Speaker 1: He was, he was you know thin, you know, way
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty five, two hundred and forty pounds.
Speaker 1: He was obviously very skilled, but the first practice we
Speaker 1: had he got his but whipped. I mean just of
Speaker 1: course we had pros. I mean we had multiple pros
Speaker 1: and he gets whipped. And he came up to me
Speaker 1: afterwards he said, you're gonna have to red shirt me,
Speaker 1: aren't you? And I said, Joe, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think you're you're gonna You're gonna be the first
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. I just don't know if it'll
Speaker 1: be this year next year. It's kind of jarring how
Speaker 1: normal looking Joe's stats were in the surface at Kansas
Speaker 1: eleven points eight rebounds. He took five threes and made
Speaker 1: one of them. But he was a freak. Kansas listed
Speaker 1: him at seven feet, two hundred and fifty pounds that season.
Speaker 1: It was never about numbers, it was always about potential.
Speaker 1: He had good hands, There's no question he's always had
Speaker 1: soft hands and good hands. But the but the thing
Speaker 1: that separating was his feet. I said this at a
Speaker 1: at a Hall of Fame dinner, that that my guys
Speaker 1: footwork reminds me of Elijah One a little bit. And
Speaker 1: I had pros that played with the Lodging one at
Speaker 1: the dinner laugh at me, saying, you just have no
Speaker 1: idea how good that man was. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I probably didn't, But Joe studied a Lodja one and
Speaker 1: learned by just watching me. He was like he was
Speaker 1: a guy that could that could play a piano by
Speaker 1: by sound. I was going to a Kansas game and
Speaker 1: before I go, I'll get briefed by the staff of
Speaker 1: who the top players are. This is Daryl Morey, he
Speaker 1: was still in Houston. Then mentioned Joel and uh and
Speaker 1: I was unlucky. I cut a game he didn't play, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: so I didn't I didn't actually see him live at Kansas.
Speaker 1: Every time NBA people came to our practice, I always
Speaker 1: did an individual improvement with Joe after practice so he
Speaker 1: could show off the things he didn't do in practice
Speaker 1: that day, just to show off his footwork and show
Speaker 1: off that there are some similarities. And uh, and there
Speaker 1: are now granted I'm not gonna say Akim, but but
Speaker 1: we're talking about now a guy that's playing to that
Speaker 1: type of level at the at the end on the
Speaker 1: NBA stage. It is pretty remarkable because his feet were
Speaker 1: just different. I mean, he uh, he was like a
Speaker 1: ballerina there. I mean, folks thought he was gonna be,
Speaker 1: you know, super dominant, but not seeing him live, and um,
Speaker 1: I didn't know much about him. At the beginning of
Speaker 1: Joel's freshman season, Bill self boy him off the bench.
Speaker 1: That changed after eight games. I think the more he played,
Speaker 1: the more comfortable he had. But the thing's saying, I
Speaker 1: mean we played Duke right off the bat in the
Speaker 1: Champions Classic, and Wiggs was unbelievable. Best player in the game.
Speaker 1: It was Jabari Parker versus Andrew Wiggins, and we put
Speaker 1: a seven foot freshman in there and they didn't start.
Speaker 1: And and if I'm not mistaken, due doubled him on
Speaker 1: the post and something that he hasn't really gone against.
Speaker 1: I mean, why would they double a guy that's not
Speaker 1: going to score? M B draws the double chater, nice
Speaker 1: look inside the Wiggins straight covered out the ball by Wiggins.
Speaker 1: But the great luck for the young kid, I'm telling
Speaker 1: us something, what protextual he has. Well, you wouldn't look
Speaker 1: at him and say he's only been playing basketball tour years.
Speaker 1: I just remember the poise he had handling traps, handling things,
Speaker 1: seeing things that never been thrown at him before. He
Speaker 1: just knew that it was just a matter of time
Speaker 1: before everything clicked for him. On the Brake Seldon love
Speaker 1: and be great catch. I couldn't go up with the shot,
Speaker 1: so he kind of gets resell losers hurt. Why you
Speaker 1: want watch the catch? First of all, not to travel
Speaker 1: in the location of the defender footwork up and under.
Speaker 1: That's a textbook right there. Yeah, you cannot defend that.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we set to do list we
Speaker 1: you know, through our strength training. You know, we said, okay,
Speaker 1: these would be some goals that we try to try
Speaker 1: to get our guys to reach based on, you know,
Speaker 1: improving their flexibility, core strength, athletic ability, you know, strength,
Speaker 1: what whatever it be. And I all say, and I
Speaker 1: think Joe was very strong, but he became stronger. But
Speaker 1: from a skill set standpoint, I don't think that we
Speaker 1: really said let's do this because or do that, Because
Speaker 1: I don't know that we really gathered what his ceiling
Speaker 1: was until we saw him the next day and then
Speaker 1: the next day and then the next day. It seems
Speaker 1: like to me, his ceiling changed the more we watched him.
Speaker 1: I wanted him to learn how to score before he
Speaker 1: caught it, which I don't think a lot of young
Speaker 1: players understood that, and he got where he is really
Speaker 1: good at that as well. But I don't think we
Speaker 1: set any any goals for him except just trying to
Speaker 1: get him against his ceiling. But his ceiling changed. I mean,
Speaker 1: his ceiling in November wasn't the same as December or December,
Speaker 1: January or January's February. Unfortunately, we didn't get a chance
Speaker 1: to see him in March because he got injured. Kansas
Speaker 1: Jayhawks center Joel Embiid out for the Big Twelve tournament
Speaker 1: and possibly more. How does this fractured vertebrae impact his
Speaker 1: draft stock? A lot of the NBA guys have said
Speaker 1: Jabari Parker is the most polished player, Joel Embiid has
Speaker 1: the most up side depending on that how that injury is.
Speaker 1: If he sits out for the rest of the NCAA
Speaker 1: tournament he makes a full recovery, he could still be
Speaker 1: a top two or three pick. This is what keeps
Speaker 1: NBA general managers up at night. But for now, Bill
Speaker 1: self and Kansas have to march on without their center
Speaker 1: Joel Embied. Joe didn't play in the NCAA tournament that year.
Speaker 1: That's when his bad luck with injuries started. He suffered
Speaker 1: a stress fracture in his back. Then a week before
Speaker 1: Sam Hickey and the Sixes took him third overall, he
Speaker 1: had the first of two surgeries on his right foot. Again,
Speaker 1: Daryl Morey, I think everyone was concerned about the injuries,
Speaker 1: but I thought, I mean, it was very obvious Sam
Speaker 1: was going to select him. I thought it was the
Speaker 1: perfect selection because he had a chance to be what
Speaker 1: he's become, which is, you know, the most dominant player
Speaker 1: in the league. The fact that he was out was
Speaker 1: actually positive for Sam. I knew. I knew that the
Speaker 1: way he was looking at it, he was trying to
Speaker 1: create as many chances of getting a dominant player in
Speaker 1: the future as possible. But whether he played early on
Speaker 1: wasn't as important. Bill, So I know he wasn't soft.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a kid, Tary Black, that was
Speaker 1: a man. I mean, he played in the league. He
Speaker 1: was a man, and uh he loved going against Tark
Speaker 1: every day. You know, we did a rebounding drill. Joe
Speaker 1: broke his orbital bone. You know, he's he's he's uh,
Speaker 1: has to go get fixed up, and then you know,
Speaker 1: has to play in goggles and all that stuff. He
Speaker 1: didn't skip a bee, didn't miss a game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's so from a competitive standpoint like that. He wanted
Speaker 1: to be out there and he wanted to be out
Speaker 1: there for himself, but he also was a team guy.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be out there for his teammates too.
Speaker 1: He liked to win. He liked that feeling. He wasn't
Speaker 1: in it to just get his and move on. I
Speaker 1: felt like he was in it for us. And because
Speaker 1: he was, that definitely benefited him a lot. All right,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Sports Essential presented by Chevrolet. Thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us. Alongside Jen Daniels, I'm Ron Burke. The Sixers
Speaker 1: hosted the Celtics tonight at Wells Fargo Center. However, Brett
Speaker 1: Brown did not coach the team. First round pick Joel
Speaker 1: em Beat's teenage brother Arthur, passed away today in Africa. Brown,
Speaker 1: along with GM, Sam Hinky and Luke bab Mute, were
Speaker 1: with MBIID in Philly. For more. We send it Downstairs,
Speaker 1: where d lineup has been following the story once again,
Speaker 1: Luke and Bob Moute. That was a tough season. Like
Speaker 1: you started the season with Arthur fasting, so you know,
Speaker 1: obviously being injured, having all those expectations and wanting to play,
Speaker 1: but then having to sit and wait. Um then you
Speaker 1: get the news from from back home about Arthur. That
Speaker 1: was really tough on him. But I think I think
Speaker 1: he did a good job. I think that actually motivated him,
Speaker 1: you know, to to to be better, to do good
Speaker 1: and like to look forward to to playing because you know,
Speaker 1: Arthur speak for him, so I think that kind of
Speaker 1: puts things in perspective for him to just continue and
Speaker 1: push hard because then you know, he had a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff to have somebody else to play for it,
Speaker 1: and you know, he pulled through. He pulled through, and
Speaker 1: you know, I know it's still fret for him, but
Speaker 1: like you know, I think that really got him going.
Speaker 1: We are often running with this news alert, and it
Speaker 1: is not a good one for Sixers fans. CS in
Speaker 1: Philly dot Com, John Gonzalz has confirmed Senna, Joel and
Speaker 1: beat It's scheduled to have a second surgery on his
Speaker 1: right foot, leaving the second footer status for the upcoming
Speaker 1: season in doubt. I can't imagine being in the organization
Speaker 1: when you have a talent like Joel and he's in
Speaker 1: the building but he's not playing. Um, you know, for
Speaker 1: the coach, for the franchise, for the fans, seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: head coach Doc Rivers, I don't think anyone knew how
Speaker 1: good he really was. I think they realized that he
Speaker 1: was talented, but man, I bet when they got to
Speaker 1: really see him play, I can't imagine sitting there as
Speaker 1: a coach and taking all those losses for the franchise
Speaker 1: thinking I've had this in my back pocket the entire time.
Speaker 1: And Joel finally graced the floor in a seventy Sixes
Speaker 1: uniform on October twenty six, twenty sixteen. The promise was immediate.
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers fans see this as the start of
Speaker 1: a new era for the NBA team. Tonight, Oklahoma season
Speaker 1: opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder and beat thinking three
Speaker 1: again missed one a few moments ago. There it is ten.
Speaker 1: Dona calls first first NBA hohop. You can see how
Speaker 1: happy he is. Beat that one look easy to have
Speaker 1: to call anodo was the iceola Joejoe his second bing
Speaker 1: whoop here coming down the stretch, Joel and Bean give
Speaker 1: him twenty and down twenty one minutes. And Joel played
Speaker 1: more than thirty one games his first season, he would
Speaker 1: have been Rookie of the Year. The average twenty eight
Speaker 1: two and a half blocks in twenty five and a
Speaker 1: half minutes per game. Lebron James all the way in
Speaker 1: blocked by mb They are loving it at Wells Fargo Center.
Speaker 1: And we know somebody who watched Game seven of the
Speaker 1: finals trying to imitate the King that time with the Swire.
Speaker 1: Since then, his impact rating has gone up every season
Speaker 1: except last year. The shows no indeed techniques on Westbrook
Speaker 1: and steers him down a turnover though by Boston. Now
Speaker 1: Simmons in transition quite a pastor MP Thy Gods posterizes
Speaker 1: bas in the full processed that and be faking the
Speaker 1: three Joba, he rammed it, he windmills a slam. This
Speaker 1: game is overth it be dups it Toronto, not even
Speaker 1: taking time out, Joella, be just win build the jam
Speaker 1: in a playoff game? Are you? Based on what he's
Speaker 1: done so far, It's clear Joel has God given ability
Speaker 1: and athleticism. That's not the whole story, though. Joe wouldn't
Speaker 1: be who he is or gotten to where he is
Speaker 1: without his work ethic, without his mind. He's one smart
Speaker 1: dude early in the in his career, maybe a weekend. Okay,
Speaker 1: we all know he's beyond his years mentally, but he
Speaker 1: hadn't played. It's like a guy that that that was
Speaker 1: had the brightest mind, but nobody's really given him any
Speaker 1: information yet where it could really he could really expand
Speaker 1: on that bill self. And so we're playing down here
Speaker 1: and there's a we were a ball screen mod team,
Speaker 1: you know, different things, and the big guy and uh
Speaker 1: and uh, Joe's teammate, go for the loose ball and
Speaker 1: and immediately Joe runs out and sets a butch on
Speaker 1: the guy guarding the point guarding and he sets it
Speaker 1: and the guy comes off, makes a play. We get
Speaker 1: an easy basket and all that stuff. And I stopped
Speaker 1: practice and I said, Joe, why did you do that?
Speaker 1: I mean, why, why did you want If your man's
Speaker 1: out there, why don't you just run to the basket
Speaker 1: and beg for the ball? You know whatever? He said, coach,
Speaker 1: because my man's out there, So I know if I
Speaker 1: said a good screen, we got our best ball handler
Speaker 1: with the ball, he's gonna come off naked. I know
Speaker 1: he'd make a play for somebody. And and but that's
Speaker 1: a that's the way he thought a weekend that he
Speaker 1: could kind of see things and have a feel for
Speaker 1: things that guys that have only been playing basketball two
Speaker 1: years didn't feel. I think, you know, you know, the
Speaker 1: basketball IQ is is as a part of my game
Speaker 1: that I don't think people pay attention to. Uh And
Speaker 1: especially defensively, why you really takes over is on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. You know where the way
Speaker 1: I placed myself, the way I moved, the way I
Speaker 1: got picking ballum, you know, the way you know I
Speaker 1: got I got guys, especially when you know they're coming
Speaker 1: off pigs or if they're gonna they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: attack me, you know, just giving them space sometimes you
Speaker 1: make them think that they got an advantage of me
Speaker 1: when they really don't. Uh. And you know I just
Speaker 1: use that to my advantage. So yeah, the basketball IQ
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the you know, biggest parts
Speaker 1: of my game, especially on the offensive side too. When
Speaker 1: you start talking about file drawn, like I draw my
Speaker 1: files and you know, I always end up on the
Speaker 1: free throw line. Doc Rivers, what's the old saying you
Speaker 1: don't know a player and take your coaching player. You know,
Speaker 1: I've always knew him was talented, you know, and and
Speaker 1: we obviously saw his skill, But I don't think you
Speaker 1: can appreciate his basketball IQ until you around him. Very clever,
Speaker 1: very smart, understands defenses, you know, offensively, there's no position
Speaker 1: on the floor that he can't see that he doesn't feel.
Speaker 1: In Beat calling port here comes to double team Lee
Speaker 1: trying to knock it away. Great feet from em Beat
Speaker 1: the Bible able to put it in. You've got to
Speaker 1: feel where that double team is coming from, Mike and
Speaker 1: then antesipate that next passion and Beat gets rid of
Speaker 1: it quick. He has the rare ability that very few
Speaker 1: players have that they're skilled, they're athletic, uh, they're smart,
Speaker 1: and they have feel Very few players walking earth have
Speaker 1: all those uh, and Joel has them all. A lot
Speaker 1: of guys, you know, a lot of my teammates that
Speaker 1: always ask me a lot, how do you do it?
Speaker 1: I just tell them it's easy. Well it might not
Speaker 1: be easy, but you just gotta you just gotta be
Speaker 1: smart about it. Like it's hard to explain. But you know,
Speaker 1: when I'm being guarded, you know, guys tend to be
Speaker 1: you know, very physical with me. That's not the right
Speaker 1: way to approach it. You know, That's the way I
Speaker 1: usually take advantage of it, because if you're gonna try
Speaker 1: to be physical and you're gonna put your hands all
Speaker 1: over me, you know, I'm just gonna use it to
Speaker 1: get to the free throw line. Harris there was surrounded
Speaker 1: by Minnesota Timberwolves, Is and p. You can tell it.
Speaker 1: He's fired up and there's so much Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: talking about beer mortals earlier. Yeah, that's the guy falling
Speaker 1: to the ground. Be immortal, the sublime. You know, I
Speaker 1: can just do my thing and just you know, being
Speaker 1: a bully, you know, just get any shots that I
Speaker 1: want the basketball IQ. I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: biggest parts my game, and this year it's the reason
Speaker 1: Joel has turned himself into an MVP. I think the
Speaker 1: average fan sees a guy like Joel and thinks he
Speaker 1: just shows up, rose out of bed, and that's how
Speaker 1: he looks and he just plays that. Well, you're not
Speaker 1: that skilled without a lot of work and a lot
Speaker 1: of hours in the gym. You know, you can be
Speaker 1: giving God given ability, um, you know, athleticism, size, but
Speaker 1: to shoot the way he shoots, to dribble the way
Speaker 1: he dribbles, to have all the up and under mooves.
Speaker 1: That takes hours, hours upon hours working on your craft.
Speaker 1: The game ends and Joel Embie needs to fix his
Speaker 1: film fix ry adopted the game. When I get home,
Speaker 1: you know, pobbly pobably eat U and U. And when
Speaker 1: he's time to go to bed at you know, everybody
Speaker 1: goes to bed. Then why before I go to bed,
Speaker 1: I like to watch the game, the same game that
Speaker 1: we just played, you know, just watching right after and
Speaker 1: try to see it doesn't matter a good or bad game,
Speaker 1: trying to see you know, I was being guarded. We
Speaker 1: played as a team. Why that can't do better? You know?
Speaker 1: I do that and then go to sleep, and then
Speaker 1: in the morning, you know, come in and we do
Speaker 1: the same thing. Doc Rivers is in his first season
Speaker 1: coaching Joel embiid. He studies his game, He studies his
Speaker 1: opponent's game. He understands when we're playing a team, what
Speaker 1: they do well, what they're doing, what they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to do for him? Are they gonna trap him? Are
Speaker 1: they gonna front him. Are they gonna guard him single coverage,
Speaker 1: which doesn't see very often anymore. That's another area of
Speaker 1: preparation though, that great players have to put in. Again,
Speaker 1: people think they show up and play, They don't. They
Speaker 1: put a lot of work into it. I know I've
Speaker 1: been there. In Joel's case, his ability to process what
Speaker 1: he sees and map that information from his eyes to
Speaker 1: his mind is pretty powerful stuff. This year especially, I
Speaker 1: watched film my home, you know, at the gym, right
Speaker 1: before the game and the bus anywhere. Really, like I'm
Speaker 1: always on my phone, uh just you know, anytime you
Speaker 1: know I'm not doing anything, you know, I'm usually watching
Speaker 1: something basketball related. The curators of Joe's film collection are
Speaker 1: the sixest coaching staff and his personal coach, Drew Handlon.
Speaker 1: He goes over the you know, the tape or the
Speaker 1: game tape for every single game and any sense of
Speaker 1: voiceover and you know, we kind of go over and
Speaker 1: you know, see what we can do better, especially for me,
Speaker 1: because every single game I see different differences. We might
Speaker 1: play Toronto, They're gonna send for guys on me by
Speaker 1: like before the ball is even in my hand. Curry
Speaker 1: with tennis shoot back to Jewell. He fakes on Baines,
Speaker 1: he goes baseline left. He's triple team back out the
Speaker 1: set three ball by Curry is in the Here he's
Speaker 1: gone Steph Curry knocking down the trouble from the top
Speaker 1: and beat baseline left was sworn by the raptors and
Speaker 1: Curry wide open and he pours in his third three.
Speaker 1: Then we're gonna play a team like you know, Washington,
Speaker 1: where they're gonna try to send me baseline where the
Speaker 1: hub is posted up for a beat. He goes against
Speaker 1: Thomas Bryant to left of the lane. Here comes a
Speaker 1: double whirls around the trip, throws it off the glass
Speaker 1: and in it beat making a quick decisive move on
Speaker 1: the left watch spinning into the lay with the right
Speaker 1: hand lamp to the right of the rim. We try
Speaker 1: to figure it out every single game, and you know,
Speaker 1: once we go over it and we see every aspect
Speaker 1: of you know, I was being guarded and what I
Speaker 1: can do better. And then we go over to the
Speaker 1: you know, the next opponent, you know, whether it's gonna
Speaker 1: guard me, send me ever clip to played against them before, Well,
Speaker 1: I got my shots from shot the ball against them.
Speaker 1: We go over that then you know, all day, whenever
Speaker 1: I got the chance, I just you know, just keep watching,
Speaker 1: and right before the game, same thing, just to kind
Speaker 1: of we mind what I have to do. Players have
Speaker 1: every avenue. Now. I would love to have been a
Speaker 1: player in this day and time. I mean, we had
Speaker 1: no film zero. I mean honestly, I'd go on the
Speaker 1: West Coast and I would not know how the other
Speaker 1: team players looked. Not only have we not seen him play.
Speaker 1: And now these guys, we download everything, they can get
Speaker 1: it on their iPhones, on their iPads. We can break
Speaker 1: it down for them, and you know, in five minutes
Speaker 1: after their game, Joel can say, hey, let me see
Speaker 1: all the pick and role plays that happened tonight, and
Speaker 1: within five minutes he could be looking at it on
Speaker 1: his phone. So things have absolutely changed for the better
Speaker 1: in that department. And we've also been able to edit
Speaker 1: film so now they don't have to watch a full
Speaker 1: game if they don't want to. Addits uh that that
Speaker 1: we like, the edits that the player, the individual players like,
Speaker 1: we can put on their their devices as well. The
Speaker 1: result this season is that Joel Embiid is weaponizing his preparation.
Speaker 1: He's helped me a lot when we usually go over film,
Speaker 1: you know, I have so many different moves that I
Speaker 1: can't use. Uh and then and at times, you know,
Speaker 1: in the past, you know I haven't really I haven't
Speaker 1: really figured out, you know, when to use it. And
Speaker 1: that's a good thing about going over film. You know,
Speaker 1: if I missed something and if I didn't do what
Speaker 1: I should have done, you know, we talked about it.
Speaker 1: If we're being frank, the way last season ended was hard.
Speaker 1: The Sixers were swept out of the Bubble by Boston.
Speaker 1: The Sixers inbound doing bad, he shoots at three on
Speaker 1: makes it Boston inbounds, time expires, and the Austin Celtics
Speaker 1: have defeated the seventy Sixers in Game four one ten
Speaker 1: to one oh six, thus ending the seventy six Ers season.
Speaker 1: After this Round one playoff victory, Joe put up some
Speaker 1: impressive numbers, highlighted by three thirty point games in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: He left the Bubble disappointed in the outcome and in
Speaker 1: himself the stuff last year we didn't win. We thought
Speaker 1: we we could accomplish winning the whole thing. We didn't
Speaker 1: even come course, obviously, we had some bad luck with
Speaker 1: injuries and stuff, but that should never be an excused
Speaker 1: and then as me kind of ridiculous, I didn't make
Speaker 1: any all NBA teams and and all that STU. So
Speaker 1: it was kind of like a punch in the gut.
Speaker 1: Joel went into last off season with several big vocal points. Again,
Speaker 1: Doc with my talk with Joel was more about winning
Speaker 1: first and things that he would have to do to
Speaker 1: impact winning on our team. His first thing was conditioning.
Speaker 1: I needed to get him in better shape than he
Speaker 1: was a year before. You know, I thought, but the
Speaker 1: season as rugged at as it is always and this year,
Speaker 1: the seventy two games that come quickly. Our first thing
Speaker 1: for Joel was conditioning. Our second thing, well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: work with him as a team, and he had to
Speaker 1: work with an individually, is being a better passer out
Speaker 1: of the post. And then the third thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: the ratio of jump shots, post ups in between shots.
Speaker 1: We wanted to change, you know, we thought that jump
Speaker 1: shots the in between shots were high and the posts
Speaker 1: were low, and we told him afore the year, we
Speaker 1: wanted to flip that. Give Joel credit. He did all
Speaker 1: the work and he's done great and all those things
Speaker 1: in respect to Joe's refinements on the court. His commitment
Speaker 1: to watching film is at the heart of his success.
Speaker 1: He studied tape, got his reps, and now look at him.
Speaker 1: He's unstoppable. Back to work and in the double figures
Speaker 1: for the eleven. There is literally, I don't know if
Speaker 1: any way to stop that defensively, and I've been taught
Speaker 1: by some pretty good defensive coaches. There's not much you
Speaker 1: can do with that about hiding his car keys, Joe
Speaker 1: feels his fadeaway and ability to attack off the dribble
Speaker 1: have unlocked new dimensions to his game. The feed away,
Speaker 1: that's you know, over the past two years, that's something
Speaker 1: I've you know, I've gotten comfortable with. And you know,
Speaker 1: that's an unguardable shot. I mean, especially being seven fit,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna block that shot. So you know, once
Speaker 1: you get to the playoffs and teams start doublet me,
Speaker 1: you you need to find different ways to you know,
Speaker 1: attack and get the shot off, and you know, find
Speaker 1: a balance in between, you know, getting your teammates involved
Speaker 1: and also being aggressive. And that's a shot that you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm being double uh, you know, that's that's easy
Speaker 1: to get to when that's a shot that we walk
Speaker 1: on and you know it's easy to make too, but
Speaker 1: just gives him something else that he can do. He's
Speaker 1: always been a great post player. He just didn't go
Speaker 1: down there enough, you know. But I think as the
Speaker 1: little step away fadeaway has really give him another counter move.
Speaker 1: And when you're a post player and you can spend
Speaker 1: away from the basket and take that shot, or spend
Speaker 1: towards the basket and attack with hook shots and get
Speaker 1: to the basket, it literally makes you unguardable. And there's
Speaker 1: the double by Temple Joel tough shot and he trained
Speaker 1: it to his career high. Here tonight they would be
Speaker 1: rejoicing its quick work is unbelievable. And adding the fadeaway
Speaker 1: jump shot did that has been great. Going into the
Speaker 1: short off season that we had. You know, I just
Speaker 1: we just looked on myself and the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: I've been mainly a post player, and I felt like
Speaker 1: I was easy to double. We needed to find, you know,
Speaker 1: other ways, different ways how to attack to make sure
Speaker 1: that I don't get double. And that's where you know,
Speaker 1: ball handling comes in, you know, shooting off the dribble.
Speaker 1: I mean if I'm handling the ball out the top
Speaker 1: of the key, it's hard to double. That's where the
Speaker 1: jump shot sets everything up. You know, if Joel didn't
Speaker 1: have a jump shot, he wouldn't have a great attack move,
Speaker 1: you know. But the fact that he can face you
Speaker 1: up and you have to honor that he has the
Speaker 1: ability to just go up and shoot sets everything up,
Speaker 1: and he knows how to set it up. And that's
Speaker 1: where it's IQ comes in. I mean, he does a
Speaker 1: great job of setting up its defenders. Guys, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna leave that manages to come dumb with me while
Speaker 1: I'm handing the ball. So that was probably the main thing.
Speaker 1: You know, that that I will say that has been
Speaker 1: able to make me so successful this year is just
Speaker 1: shooting off the dribble and just being able to handle
Speaker 1: the ball. And you know, as the time goes off,
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna get better. Seaquille O'Neill has never shied
Speaker 1: away from being tough on Joel. Joe's immense potential has
Speaker 1: always been the source of shocks immense expectations. I think
Speaker 1: he's a fabulous big man, and you know, sometimes when
Speaker 1: you see things that can make people better, sometimes you
Speaker 1: just say it out, and you know, I always talk
Speaker 1: about the word G fourteen classification. I do have G
Speaker 1: fourteen classification when it comes to being a dominant big man.
Speaker 1: And when you see a guy with that much talent,
Speaker 1: a lot of times you want him to assert his
Speaker 1: dominance and being gets triple teams, still gets it to
Speaker 1: God and he'll go to the free throw line for
Speaker 1: three point play. It's not that many guys that can
Speaker 1: do this what he's doing. You talked about Shack mean,
Speaker 1: that dominant horse down low, and he's one of them.
Speaker 1: Early in his career he fell in love with the
Speaker 1: jumper a lot, and the great Charles Barkley and myself
Speaker 1: would say go inside, and you know he he thought
Speaker 1: it was criticism. But now he's playing the way he's
Speaker 1: supposed to be playing. And what do you know, MVP
Speaker 1: talks for Joel Ember Joe's impact on winning this season
Speaker 1: can be easily quantified, but he goes beyond that. Joel
Speaker 1: is one of the main reasons while Daryl Murray jumped
Speaker 1: right back in after leaving Euston. I think it's just
Speaker 1: rare to have a player elites. I'm both under the
Speaker 1: floor and frankly, you can count on one hand the
Speaker 1: number of players in NBA history. You can do that.
Speaker 1: I'm on too, So I need you the oppressor with
Speaker 1: all falling, I got your backs. Who who to have
Speaker 1: him be? Someone who's our go to guy on offense
Speaker 1: while consistently handing handling double teams and at the same
Speaker 1: time completely shut the other team down. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's it's mind mind melting to watch. Most of
Speaker 1: the time. He drives winning with everything he does. You know,
Speaker 1: he creates double teams that drives winning. If they don't,
Speaker 1: he gives us a go to guy on the post. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I think this is his best year that he's ever
Speaker 1: had defensively. And so when you put all those things together,
Speaker 1: you know every night when you show up at the game,
Speaker 1: that you're getting a certain amount of points, a certain
Speaker 1: amount of rebounds, and a defensive anchor. Very few teams
Speaker 1: can say they have that. We're one of them that
Speaker 1: that can say that, and that that's what makes us special.
Speaker 1: I know how much he worked over the summer because
Speaker 1: I came obviously right towards the tail end, and I
Speaker 1: saw that work every day. He was doing a lot
Speaker 1: doc and Joel I've done a really nice job getting
Speaker 1: him to the middle of the floor, a place that's
Speaker 1: very hard to double and just a complete package of
Speaker 1: dribble drives, pull up spin moves and frankly, the only
Speaker 1: way to guard him is to follow him. And so
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. Everyone's everyone's like he's fouled so much. Well,
Speaker 1: it was either they're following him or he's dunking it.
Speaker 1: So I man, not really Joel's fault that the only
Speaker 1: way to guard him is to follow him. It's really
Speaker 1: that simple, and Joel has made it look that easy,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't really all been easy. Joel em beat
Speaker 1: is a dead. Parenting is hard, and parenting as a
Speaker 1: professional athlete comes with its own set of challenges. I
Speaker 1: tell him has been challenging because you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: family man. I like to be you know, by my family,
Speaker 1: especially being and your dad. You know, I want to
Speaker 1: be of one. I want to see everything and does
Speaker 1: I want I wanted to grow up and me being
Speaker 1: dead with them at every steps that he takes. Seventy
Speaker 1: six is head coach Doc Rivers. That's four children of
Speaker 1: his own. He played thirteen years in the NBA that's
Speaker 1: not easy because you're on the road a lot. Again,
Speaker 1: the hours that you have to work on your craft
Speaker 1: takes you out of the house for the most part,
Speaker 1: and so, you know, I thought it was always easier
Speaker 1: one through five, but once they start getting involved in
Speaker 1: sports and stuff, then it becomes really hard because you
Speaker 1: don't want to miss those. You know, you miss a
Speaker 1: lot being a pro athlete and your kids growing up,
Speaker 1: you really do miss a lot. But when you come home,
Speaker 1: you have to spend time. Man. I one thing you
Speaker 1: learn with kids you can go over thirty, don't care.
Speaker 1: They just want to see your pops. And that's what
Speaker 1: makes it so special. Part of my mindset this year
Speaker 1: is also because of him, uh you know, just being
Speaker 1: a dad. You know, I just wanted to kind of
Speaker 1: I just wanted him to kind of see that, you know,
Speaker 1: his dad, his dad was I guess pretty good, you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, I want to win. I want to
Speaker 1: win MVPs, I want to win tie, I want to
Speaker 1: win championships. Uh. You so I just wanted him to
Speaker 1: see his dad at his best. So that's part of
Speaker 1: the reason why you know, this ship. You know, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to go out and just dominate every single
Speaker 1: minute I'm on the floor, and you know, just to like,
Speaker 1: just to make him proud. Joel says he doesn't want
Speaker 1: Author to be a basketball player. Maybe soccer sound familiar.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing Joe's father wanted for him. What
Speaker 1: Joe does ultimate League one Author to know is how
Speaker 1: much of an inspiration he is. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have the possession of me not walking hard or not
Speaker 1: playing hard, but I do. I try my best man.
Speaker 1: Before the bubble, while I was in the I was
Speaker 1: in the gym every single day for the other two
Speaker 1: months too, just trying to stay right there. I just
Speaker 1: like to be private, but you know, I owe to
Speaker 1: the city the championship, and that's why I keep walking
Speaker 1: so hard that because I need to make it happen.
Speaker 1: You know, that's why I was brought here. I really
Speaker 1: need to make it happen. I don't think we ever
Speaker 1: know anyone's ceiling that's gonna come from within. But as
Speaker 1: good as he is, there's a higher ceiling for him.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that. And if he reaches that,
Speaker 1: goodbye League. If there's a higher place that he can go,
Speaker 1: and I believe there is, then watch out. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be amazing to watch once again, Luke and Bob Mute.
Speaker 1: I'm personally not surprised, you know, going back to like
Speaker 1: the day when I first met him playing basketball and
Speaker 1: stuff that he was doing for someone who's just been
Speaker 1: playing for six months was unbelievable. He's just like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm like the kids will be playing for years. It's
Speaker 1: just good to see that everything aligned and that he's
Speaker 1: just kind of like going through his journey. I was
Speaker 1: just I was just a vessel. I mean, the Lord
Speaker 1: used me to, you know, get him where he needed
Speaker 1: to be. So I was just I'm just blessing and
Speaker 1: honor to being part of the journey. Joel says his
Speaker 1: life is like a movie. He knows something when he
Speaker 1: sees it. The perfect finish is obvious, and take it
Speaker 1: from me, there's no better feeling than a championship, especially
Speaker 1: a championship in Philadelphia. It's crazy. Let's been no where.
Speaker 1: Everything that has Sampson Covid good seemed to be changing
Speaker 1: me playing at this level with women, and we've got
Speaker 1: to use jo for challenge to win the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Like everything he's just happening so fast. And I've said
Speaker 1: it before in my life. He's like a movie, like
Speaker 1: he's just everything after the year Age just happened me
Speaker 1: so fast and possibly great ending of the store will
Speaker 1: be to win the whole thing. Inside the Process is
Speaker 1: a production of Studio seventy six and the seventy Sixers
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Speaker 1: is obviously having an incredible season, and we felt like
Speaker 1: we really wanted to dive deeper into how everything has
Speaker 1: come together for him at this particular moment of his
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