WEBVTT - Philadelphia Faith For A Broken Process

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<v Speaker 1>No no, not come home, no no, come home, come home,

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<v Speaker 1>come home.

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<v Speaker 2>On this episode of the Heat Check, it's the seventy

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<v Speaker 2>six ers episode that I need to do. I have

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<v Speaker 2>to do. It's my boo trous to stinks. All the

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<v Speaker 2>Sixers fans hate me. It's okay, Like I get it.

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<v Speaker 2>I've said some mean things. I've neglected talking about you

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<v Speaker 2>guys all season. Forgive me. You guys have been irrelevant.

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<v Speaker 2>Forgive me. What a way though? To start the new

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<v Speaker 2>year off? I said I would be nicer, But sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>kindness it doesn't always feel like will they say? If uh,

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<v Speaker 2>if everything was dripped in gold, baby, how would we

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<v Speaker 2>ever grow? You know what I mean? Like we can't

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<v Speaker 2>just just can't be all peas and cares all the time.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes kind comes in the form of a stick stick

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<v Speaker 2>stick stick. That's me, your accountability partner. Sixers fans. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>make a therapy group. Go ahead, Brock, Let's drop the beach.

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<v Speaker 2>Sorry about lake drop. When snow happens in Washington, DC,

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<v Speaker 2>the world loses their minds. I don't think we were

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<v Speaker 2>ready for it, truthfully, like our city was not ready

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<v Speaker 2>for snow. I am. I'm gonna confess something. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>to myself, maybe I wouldn't confess this because it's egregious.

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<v Speaker 2>But I told someone we got two feet of snow,

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<v Speaker 2>and I sent a photo to them. They're from Minnesota.

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<v Speaker 2>It was four inches. I mean, men, man love me, right, man,

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<v Speaker 2>love me only I could confuse four inches for two feet,

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<v Speaker 2>if you know. You know. So that's why we didn't

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<v Speaker 2>record on a Monday, because the world lost their fucking mind,

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<v Speaker 2>because everybody in this city confuses four inches for two feet.

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<v Speaker 2>Like we had people stuck on ninety five still it's

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<v Speaker 2>like literally they're still struggling, you know, like the world

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<v Speaker 2>was not ready for the snowstorm, and like we're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>get to the episode, but listen, it was sixty five

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<v Speaker 2>on New Year's Day. The next day it was twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five and two feet of snow, you know what I mean.

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<v Speaker 2>I still haven't gotten my car out from the side

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<v Speaker 2>street that it's on, so folks. Anyway, And then on Sunday,

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<v Speaker 2>I did go on a podcast, the Rights to Rickey

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<v Speaker 2>Sanchez and talked about Philly. It's a Philly podcast, probably

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<v Speaker 2>the top Philly podcast in the country, hosted by my Guy,

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<v Speaker 2>The Men and the Myth Philadelphia legend Spike Eskin, the

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<v Speaker 2>son of Howard Eskin, and we went in detail about

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<v Speaker 2>Joel Embiid. We talked about, of course Ben Simmons, the

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<v Speaker 2>future of this team, the future of the franchise. So

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<v Speaker 2>wherever you can find your podcast, go and check that

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<v Speaker 2>episode out. I also talked about why I left Barstool.

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<v Speaker 2>I talked about my origin story. It was not just

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<v Speaker 2>a Philadelphia conversation. It was a life conversation. But the

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<v Speaker 2>prep for that, because you never know what people are

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<v Speaker 2>gonna ask you. The prep for that got me thinking

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<v Speaker 2>about Philly, and it got me interested, got me listen.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you have my full attention, Philly. Yeah. So now

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<v Speaker 2>we decided to turn that prep that I did not

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<v Speaker 2>need into this Sixers episode. Well, I didn't expect it

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<v Speaker 2>to be a personal question, but like here we are.

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<v Speaker 2>So my new year's resolution was to be nicer. So

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<v Speaker 2>let's look first and foremost about what's good about the

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<v Speaker 2>Sixers this year before I get into what the dumpster

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<v Speaker 2>fire of this team has been just this year, but

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<v Speaker 2>for the last eight like this team, the process has

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<v Speaker 2>been a joke. I think you guys know that, Like

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not just trolling, Like the process has been a disappointment.

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<v Speaker 2>So let's go into what you guys are doing well.

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<v Speaker 2>First and foremost. The team is currently twenty and sixteen,

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<v Speaker 2>and the truth is it could be so much worse.

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<v Speaker 2>And Beid has been gone, Your star center has been gone.

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<v Speaker 2>The player that you've built your entire franchise around multiple

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<v Speaker 2>times has been gone with COVID for a solid month.

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<v Speaker 2>Tobias has been garbage. He's been stealing money, and of

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<v Speaker 2>course you've had this drama surrounding Ben Simmons looming over

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<v Speaker 2>this franchise like a gray dark cloud to the point

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<v Speaker 2>where people can't even practice because he's like a distraction.

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<v Speaker 2>There's like news reports all time about this. He's been

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<v Speaker 2>mia outside that one practice. Considering everything, six in the

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<v Speaker 2>East isn't so bad, Cheer up Sixer fans. Like you

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<v Speaker 2>thought you were gonna be the two or three seed

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<v Speaker 2>in the East, which was an un we'll call it

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<v Speaker 2>an unrealistic expectation. Like I said, I called you a

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<v Speaker 2>six seed preseason. That was one of the only right

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<v Speaker 2>things I got correct in the East. Uh, but you

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<v Speaker 2>could be Orlando, Like you could be completely down in

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<v Speaker 2>the dumps when your star center literally thought he might die.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what we said. I thought I might die, so

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<v Speaker 2>less dissect some of the reasons from a basketball perspective

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<v Speaker 2>that this franchise hasn't Turtle Turtle yet. You are a

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<v Speaker 2>decent three point shooting team, even with Tobias having a

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<v Speaker 2>down year. You're third in the league and turnover percentage

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<v Speaker 2>twelve point three times per game, and a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>that is due to your guy Tyree Maxie, who we're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna talk about in this He is literally helping you.

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<v Speaker 2>He's keeping the ball from turning over. Without Maxi on

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<v Speaker 2>the floor, you are twenty seventh in the league at

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<v Speaker 2>turnover percentage. So it's really just him ballin', really just

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<v Speaker 2>him becoming a true point guard, a real facilitator, a

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<v Speaker 2>true floor general. And you're also leading the league in

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<v Speaker 2>free throw percentage eighty plus percent. But mostly the reason

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<v Speaker 2>that you're overperforming, which I think is what you're doing.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think Philly fans will like me saying that,

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<v Speaker 2>but that's what you're doing. Role players have become stars

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<v Speaker 2>someone and exceeded at the least exceeded expectations at least

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<v Speaker 2>for nearly the first half of the season. So let's

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<v Speaker 2>talk about the number one reason why, which has been

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<v Speaker 2>Tyrese Maxey number one bright spot all year. He's gone

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<v Speaker 2>from six man off the bench to having an all

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<v Speaker 2>star like season. I'm not sure now at this point

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<v Speaker 2>if Rich Paul would want to trade him. Like rich

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<v Speaker 2>Pass said, when when Ben Simmons goes Tyreee, Maxi will

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<v Speaker 2>also go. Those are both Rich Paul clients. It appears

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<v Speaker 2>that this fit is working beautifully. He's averaging almost seventeen

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<v Speaker 2>points per game, three and a half rebounds, four and

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<v Speaker 2>a half assists, and putting up like outside of those numbers,

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<v Speaker 2>he's putting up huge numbers in important games, like he

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<v Speaker 2>did against Brooklyn. You won against Brooklyn with all their

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<v Speaker 2>pieces outside of Kyrie in Brooklyn after just losing to

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<v Speaker 2>them a couple of nights ago. Another thing Maxi has

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<v Speaker 2>improved on, you know, I'd say is underrated is his defense.

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<v Speaker 2>He's no I mean, he's no Drew Holliday, But against Harden,

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<v Speaker 2>you got Harden to turn the ball over six times

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<v Speaker 2>in that game, Like he put up numbers, but he's

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<v Speaker 2>gonna put up numbers on anybody like That's like when

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<v Speaker 2>you guard Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant is gonna put up numbers,

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<v Speaker 2>but his on the ball defense is improved. He's pressing

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<v Speaker 2>the hell lot of guys. He's getting them to commit mistakes,

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<v Speaker 2>and that's important. Offensively, Maxi has been impressive too. I

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<v Speaker 2>had twenty six players who finished with at least two

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<v Speaker 2>hundred possessions as a pick and roll ball handler this season.

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<v Speaker 2>Maxy is where Maxi is fifth in scoring efficiency, behind

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<v Speaker 2>Donovan Mitchell, Steph Curry, Zach Lavine, and Trey Young. Excuse me, sir, sir,

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<v Speaker 2>that is a fucking baller move. That is according to

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<v Speaker 2>Synergy Sports, he is ahead of Chris Paul DeMar Derozen

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<v Speaker 2>and Jaw. He's ahead of those guys. That is surprising.

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<v Speaker 2>I would say, I don't think people would put Maxie

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<v Speaker 2>in the conversation there in terms of like pick and

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<v Speaker 2>roll ball handler, but Jesus Christ, wow, like that's important.

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<v Speaker 2>He's got wheels, he's got touch around the rim, He's

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<v Speaker 2>potent in a two man game with Joe ellen b

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<v Speaker 2>pick your poison, and he's become a real aggressive scoring threat.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think the thing that people have been knocking

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<v Speaker 2>him on for so long is that Maxi's too hesitant.

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<v Speaker 2>Maxi wants to pass the ball too much. Maxi's not

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<v Speaker 2>a dog. MAXI now is taking important shots in important moments,

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<v Speaker 2>and he knows when to pass and when to fucking shoot,

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<v Speaker 2>and that is what you need. Seth Curry. He's a

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<v Speaker 2>little shrimp, we know that. But the bright span spot

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<v Speaker 2>for Philly two has been him in this two man

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<v Speaker 2>game with Joe LMB. He's a bad defender. We know

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<v Speaker 2>that he's little, he's too little, but and he's a chucker.

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<v Speaker 2>But he is legitimately shooting fifty percent as a pick

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<v Speaker 2>and roll ball handler. And he's a pick and roll

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<v Speaker 2>ballhandled like thirty percent of the time. That's up a

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<v Speaker 2>solid six percent, which is a meaningful number from last year.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's talk about my man, George Yang. This dude is

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<v Speaker 2>I thought it was gorgee. First of all, I just

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<v Speaker 2>want to tell myself again because that's what I do.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm accountable too myself and to the fans. I got

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<v Speaker 2>him confused with gorge y Jang Gorge Yang Like, I okay,

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<v Speaker 2>George Nang, I'm confused. But anyway, he is a dog

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<v Speaker 2>six seven power forward, perfect fit, shooting forty percent from three,

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<v Speaker 2>Like what fours? Do you know? That aren't stars that

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<v Speaker 2>are shooting at this clip, and he's shooting eight per

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<v Speaker 2>thirty six. He's shooting six of them joints a night

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<v Speaker 2>at forty sixty seven. Dog and irritant. He's got the

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<v Speaker 2>aggressive nature of like in terms of being an irritant

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<v Speaker 2>like a Patrick Beverley or Joel Embiid. But he's just

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<v Speaker 2>like making a couple like I don't even know what

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<v Speaker 2>he's making, but it's not law. He could be one

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<v Speaker 2>of the more underrated signings this year for the Sixers,

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<v Speaker 2>and like, you can tell he's good on this team

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<v Speaker 2>because I thought about scenarios where, for example, like someone

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<v Speaker 2>like Boston would want someone to space the floor, which

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<v Speaker 2>is what you need for Joel Embiid, which is what

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<v Speaker 2>you also need for Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown, and

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<v Speaker 2>Sixer fans in my mentions like, nah, nah, we'll keep

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<v Speaker 2>We'll keep Nang. He's been he's ours, that's how you know.

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<v Speaker 2>And six Ers fans will turn on you if you're

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<v Speaker 2>no good. They're like, no, no, we're keeping Nang. He's

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<v Speaker 2>been a piece, and he's been I would say, the

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<v Speaker 2>only real bright spot as a power forward in this

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<v Speaker 2>role since like Irion Iliasova like since that anyway, Cork

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<v Speaker 2>Boss is always good. He's shooting. His shooting's dipped a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit. He's slid under thirty from three now, but

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<v Speaker 2>he's like he's been good earlier in the season. He's

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<v Speaker 2>been a bright spot, hitting threes in crucial moments. Of course,

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<v Speaker 2>Joel Embiid has been out with covid, so Andre Drummond

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<v Speaker 2>tremendous in his absence, rebounding Shake Milton has missed time,

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<v Speaker 2>but he's been pretty good. Isaiah Joe another little bright spot,

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<v Speaker 2>put up eighteen and twenty one minutes against the Rockets,

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<v Speaker 2>And you know, he's just a little baby. He's just

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<v Speaker 2>still coming along in his own and now it's time

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<v Speaker 2>and now it's time. It's time and time. The bad,

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<v Speaker 2>the ugly. The Ben Simmons situation is not ideal, I

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<v Speaker 2>would say, but but it's not the only problem. Let's

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<v Speaker 2>talk about the bigger issue. The bigger issue is an

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<v Speaker 2>asset on your squad who's a net negative like Ben

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<v Speaker 2>Simmons is a net positive trade asset. It just is

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<v Speaker 2>the case. Unfortunately to me, Like I don't think I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>of course he is, but like he's just toxic, but

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<v Speaker 2>like Tobia's hairs, actually is a net negative. You have

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<v Speaker 2>to package picks with his contract to move him. He's

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<v Speaker 2>stealing money right now. He's stealing. He's making Check's notes

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<v Speaker 2>thirty two point seven four million dollars this year. Is

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<v Speaker 2>he worth that? I'd say no, I'd say sixers. Fans

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<v Speaker 2>would say no as well, Like he's a Doc River,

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<v Speaker 2>a favorite. The only reason that they picked him up

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<v Speaker 2>and kept him and didn't trade him is because of

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<v Speaker 2>I believe his relationship with Doc Rivers, like the fact

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<v Speaker 2>that he's on this team and that him and Ben

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<v Speaker 2>are on this team over Jimmy Butler is just a crime.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a crime to me. And he's the most inefficient

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<v Speaker 2>player on this team. Gross he passes up open threes.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, you can't have you're one of your highest

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<v Speaker 2>paid guys being an indeficient, like the most inefficient on

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<v Speaker 2>your team. Like, you just can't. It's not fucking Carmelo

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<v Speaker 2>Anthony in two thousand and three. I'm sorry, Like this

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<v Speaker 2>is not the league that we're in anymore. He passes

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<v Speaker 2>up open threes consistently and shoes worst tooths unopen twos.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll call it closed twos, disrupting spacing for Joel, which

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<v Speaker 2>is exactly the opposite of what you need. This isn't

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<v Speaker 2>the LA Lakers here right like this is We're not

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<v Speaker 2>gonna just like do the wrong things consistently around Lebron,

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<v Speaker 2>James and Joel and be like, no, he's not making

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<v Speaker 2>his teammates better, like I said, he's stealing money, like

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<v Speaker 2>forty percent from three last year and below thirty percent

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<v Speaker 2>from three this year. Why is that is? Because he

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't get a bunch of open looks because of Ben Simmons.

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<v Speaker 2>He's not just standing there in the corner when people

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<v Speaker 2>collapse on Ben going to the rack and like passing out,

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<v Speaker 2>kicking out, like he's just who's doing that for him?

0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.560
<v Speaker 2>No one, not Tyree Maxey. Tyree Maxey apparently doesn't love

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<v Speaker 2>Tobias Harris getting he's not getting open looks. The team

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<v Speaker 2>defense of this team is atrocious. They are twentieth in

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<v Speaker 2>the defensive rating and last year they were in number

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<v Speaker 2>two in defensive rating. Yes, a lot of that has

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<v Speaker 2>to do with Ben, but you also do have Clamps

0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:44.280
<v Speaker 2>and matist Saibel, who you know isn't that much. I mean,

0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.640
<v Speaker 2>he's worse, but he's not that much worse to go

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<v Speaker 2>from second to twentieth. They're dead last in the league

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<v Speaker 2>in rebounds. They are getting absolutely, they're dead last in

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<v Speaker 2>the league in rebounds, dead last, dead last. That's below Portland,

0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.680
<v Speaker 2>that's below Portland. I'm just saying this multiple times. You're

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<v Speaker 2>your podcast isn't skipping. I'm telling you this for effect.

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<v Speaker 2>That's disgusting. That's disgusting. You're getting destroyed. And you have

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<v Speaker 2>Andre Drummond. So I don't know, I don't know. This

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<v Speaker 2>is why this team is twenty seventh in second second

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<v Speaker 2>chance points, just behind the Hornets, Kings and Raptors. Like

0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.120
<v Speaker 2>you are allowing teams to feast in second chance points.

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<v Speaker 2>Putback's galore. Uh, the three point shooting is bad, Like

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<v Speaker 2>this is the whole entire game plan for surrounding Joel embiid. Shooters, shooters, shooters.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the reason the Ben's not working. Shooter shooters. At

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<v Speaker 2>the moment, the Sixers are twenty seventh in the league

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<v Speaker 2>in three point attempts thirty one and a half per game.

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<v Speaker 2>That's not ideal. Fourteenth in percentage at thirty five point one.

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<v Speaker 2>So too often the Sixers, like I've said, Tobias Harris,

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<v Speaker 2>like they're just turning down open looks from deep and

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<v Speaker 2>then they just take tougher shots for less points. Tell

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<v Speaker 2>me why that's a good idea. Philadelphia needs to start

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<v Speaker 2>firing away like their name is the Boston Celtics, like

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<v Speaker 2>where you shoot fifty of them a game. Like you

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<v Speaker 2>have shooters, like I just said George nang Let him

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<v Speaker 2>shoot ten of those joints tonight. Don't act like you

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<v Speaker 2>don't know who George Nang is. Don't do that. Don't

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<v Speaker 2>do that. Google him, don't do that. Also, passing the

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<v Speaker 2>ball is really not great either. The team is twenty

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<v Speaker 2>fifth and assists per game n Ia and g Yeah,

0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.760
<v Speaker 2>twenty fifth and assists per game. You've seen him before,

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<v Speaker 2>which reflects a young point guard who isn't getting and

0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.000
<v Speaker 2>beat the ball. And there's no swing swing swing, it's

0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.760
<v Speaker 2>two man game. Brick or make right Maxi for all

0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.760
<v Speaker 2>his positives averages less than five assists a game. You

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<v Speaker 2>should probably get five assists just throwing the ball to

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<v Speaker 2>Joel Embiid in the blocks early in the shot clock.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what you need to do, and that's why this

0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.480
<v Speaker 2>team is in the middle of the road. Thirteenth in pace.

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<v Speaker 2>Scoring is down from last year. They've gone from one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and thirteen points per game last year to one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and six per game. I know you have nine

0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:11.240
<v Speaker 2>games without Joel Embiid, However it's not ideal, it's not great.

0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.520
<v Speaker 2>And then, of course the drama surrounding the team with

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<v Speaker 2>Ben Simmons. We don't need to get into the background

0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.280
<v Speaker 2>of that. We've already done it so many other times

0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.800
<v Speaker 2>and other people have as well. But what we will

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<v Speaker 2>look to do is look at the fallout from this.

0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.520
<v Speaker 2>There are two ask questions, two questions that we should

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<v Speaker 2>be asking now. Should Doc Rivers be on the hot

0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.120
<v Speaker 2>seat and should Darrol Morey be on the hot seat?

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<v Speaker 2>The Sixers just beat the Nets in Brooklyn without Doc Rivers.

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<v Speaker 2>Doc Rivers, you can't ask Doc. If you're Doc Rivers

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<v Speaker 2>and you blew the game as usually as your coach,

0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.080
<v Speaker 2>and they ask you whether Ben Simmons is the is

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<v Speaker 2>the point guard on a championship roster? You should say,

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<v Speaker 2>can I phone a front like I need to ask

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<v Speaker 2>my g what he thinks? Because I need to ask

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<v Speaker 2>our ownership group what they think I should say, because

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<v Speaker 2>or say yes, just lie you lie all the time.

0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.960
<v Speaker 2>These coaches lie every day. It's ingrained in their DNA.

0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.520
<v Speaker 2>When you are on the back end of a disappointing

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<v Speaker 2>loss to the Atlanta Hawks, which you didn't think was

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<v Speaker 2>gonna happen, and they ask you these questions, you just

0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.880
<v Speaker 2>lie because if you want to move him. We've talked

0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.840
<v Speaker 2>about this before. If you want to move someone, you

0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.160
<v Speaker 2>don't decrease their value. If you're, you know, a stockholder

0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:39.560
<v Speaker 2>of would just say Pfizer. You don't say like, oh, well,

0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.000
<v Speaker 2>COVID's going away. You know, COVID doesn't exist anymore, or

0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.600
<v Speaker 2>you know, if you're that's a bad example. But you

0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.719
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm trying to say, you just can't artificially.

0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:53.000
<v Speaker 2>It's like Elon Musk consistently says things to bring down Tesla.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know why, but he does. He just does.

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<v Speaker 2>That's like basically what Doc Rivers did. And this guy

0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.040
<v Speaker 2>Dan Burke who's taking over for Doc when Doc has COVID.

0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:08.359
<v Speaker 2>When Doc has COVID, he actually calls plays, he calls timeouts,

0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.359
<v Speaker 2>And that was the game that they ended up winning

0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.920
<v Speaker 2>against Brooklyn. Doc wasn't coaching that game. Folks, Like this

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<v Speaker 2>is like when very similar to like when Lloyd Pierce,

0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.880
<v Speaker 2>head coach of the Atlanta Hawks, went on paternity leave

0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.000
<v Speaker 2>and the trash ass Atlanta Hawks went on a tear

0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.680
<v Speaker 2>and you're like, hmm, maybe just maybe the roster's better

0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.120
<v Speaker 2>than we think it is, and maybe this coach has

0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.080
<v Speaker 2>got to go, and he did go, and then all

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<v Speaker 2>of a sudden, the Atlanta Hawks ended up in the

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<v Speaker 2>Eastern Conference Finals. The mismanaging of the rotation really is

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<v Speaker 2>a symptom of the problem plaguing Doc Rivers, which is

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<v Speaker 2>just he's stubborn and he lacks creativity, and he's resting

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<v Speaker 2>on one championship largely created by Tom Tippodau just truth,

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<v Speaker 2>just the truth bomb, and like it comes from it

0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.760
<v Speaker 2>comes out in late in games when he just doesn't

0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:06.320
<v Speaker 2>draw up place, just doesn't come up with ways to

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<v Speaker 2>get players and stagger their minutes, and guys like Joel

0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.200
<v Speaker 2>Embiid are ending up being gassed. And the elephant in

0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.920
<v Speaker 2>the room, of course is Ben Simmons. But rather then

0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.639
<v Speaker 2>to recap the drama, and also Daryl Moury can't be

0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.800
<v Speaker 2>asking for the moon, for Darryl, for everybody, for Ben Simmons,

0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:25.960
<v Speaker 2>Like you can't be like I want a top top

0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.360
<v Speaker 2>twenty five player and also five draft picks. You are

0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:32.960
<v Speaker 2>you were delusional and I think, like I said before,

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<v Speaker 2>if you can't move Ben with Daryl Moury at the Helm,

0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.040
<v Speaker 2>then Daryl Moury shouldn't be at the Helm. Ben. There's

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<v Speaker 2>some trade ideas floated around here. They are a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of These are just a few that are just coming

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<v Speaker 2>out over the weekend. Philadelphia seventy six ers receive Evan

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<v Speaker 2>four Cambell Walker, Obi toppin New York Knick's twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 2>two first round pick unprotected, which is probably gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>tasty because they are looking not good twenty twenty three

0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.399
<v Speaker 2>first round pick. Maybe a swap more favorable to Philly

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<v Speaker 2>New York knicks twenty twenty four first round pick top

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<v Speaker 2>ten protected or the twenty twenty five first round pick

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<v Speaker 2>unprotected if they end up getting a top ten pick

0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.439
<v Speaker 2>New York Knicks twenty twenty six first round pick swap.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's one deal. I don't hate that deal. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't love that deal either. I don't think they need

0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:29.800
<v Speaker 2>Kemba Walker Listen four first rounders Fournier net negative, Kemba

0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.120
<v Speaker 2>Walker net negative, Obie Topping nice young piece. Don't think Evan.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think my man Darryl Moorey is gonna go

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<v Speaker 2>for that one. Here's another deal. Sixers get Carris Lavert

0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:43.600
<v Speaker 2>Norm is a three team deal. Sixers get Carris Lavert, Norm, Powell,

0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:49.000
<v Speaker 2>Larry Nas Junior Pacers get c J. McCollum, Nicer, Little

0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:54.240
<v Speaker 2>Cody Zeller, Portland's twenty twenty four first round pick, lottery

0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:58.120
<v Speaker 2>protected twenty twenty second twenty twenty two second round pick

0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.560
<v Speaker 2>from Portland Trailbaz get Ben Simmons, Miles Turner, Danny Green.

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<v Speaker 2>Do not hate that whatsoever. But with the Sixers in

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<v Speaker 2>sixth place currently, let's just be real. They're ceiling's probably

0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:19.880
<v Speaker 2>fourth ceiling, absolute ceiling, and they're not a real contender.

0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.080
<v Speaker 2>And I think they know that, which means another year

0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:26.920
<v Speaker 2>wasted of Joel Embiid's prime. And the man has a

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<v Speaker 2>million injury, million injuries and a history as long as

0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:36.520
<v Speaker 2>a CBS receipt and like so long, and like truthfully,

0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:40.560
<v Speaker 2>I ask Spike on this podcast and I was like, Yo,

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<v Speaker 2>what do you think is the future? And he goes,

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<v Speaker 2>if they can't get a real player for Ben, there's

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<v Speaker 2>a real chance a non zero, and it's actually a

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<v Speaker 2>likelihood that Joel mb will not be on the team

0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.560
<v Speaker 2>in two years from now. He will be somewhere else.

0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.480
<v Speaker 2>That is the man who's grown up in Philly with

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<v Speaker 2>a father, who's been talking about Philly for a fuck

0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:05.640
<v Speaker 2>load of time, like many many years, tapped into what's happening,

0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:09.120
<v Speaker 2>and he believes there is a real scenario where Joe

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<v Speaker 2>l Embiid will not be in Philadelphia, which means that

0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:18.480
<v Speaker 2>the process starts again, folks, And that means this franchise

0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:22.639
<v Speaker 2>is at a crossroads. Gotta be tough for Sixers fans.

0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:27.439
<v Speaker 2>Couldn't happen to a nicer fan base, a more humble

0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:35.520
<v Speaker 2>fan base, a sweeter fan base. So yeah, I hate

0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:41.160
<v Speaker 2>to say it, but there's more Sixers uh pain to come,

0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:46.360
<v Speaker 2>more Sixers drama to come. This is just the dude,

0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:52.320
<v Speaker 2>But I couldn't hear at a Wayne first class just

0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:57.560
<v Speaker 2>a good light, my whole night long look back on

0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:01.680
<v Speaker 2>my life and my life gone. Where did I go wrong?

0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:04.920
<v Speaker 2>Where did I go wrong? Where did I go wrong?

0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:11.040
<v Speaker 2>Speaking of systemic failures, where did we go wrong? And

0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:14.960
<v Speaker 2>the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. I don't know that there's

0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:21.080
<v Speaker 2>anything more exemplary of this issue than my man, Mark

0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:27.159
<v Speaker 2>hel Foltz. Yeah, do you remember Mark kel Foltz If

0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:31.199
<v Speaker 2>you're a Sixers fans, for sure, the rest of NBA,

0:24:31.560 --> 0:24:34.720
<v Speaker 2>especially casual fans, he was a blip in the radar.

0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:38.440
<v Speaker 2>He was a quick little number one overall consensus piece.

0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:43.000
<v Speaker 2>Was he consensus because the Boston Celtics didn't think so?

0:24:44.359 --> 0:24:46.679
<v Speaker 2>And he got lost in the shuffle, which is wild

0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:51.480
<v Speaker 2>considering number one pick in the twenty twenty seventeen draft.

0:24:52.160 --> 0:24:55.240
<v Speaker 2>And that was the guy the key cogged, the piece

0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:58.399
<v Speaker 2>that the Sixers were waiting for in the process to

0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:01.639
<v Speaker 2>put it all together this we need a point guard.

0:25:01.920 --> 0:25:05.280
<v Speaker 2>They can score, they can be the floor general, like

0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:12.080
<v Speaker 2>a lesser version of Damian Lillard, some taller but just lesser.

0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:15.320
<v Speaker 2>He could shoot at the time, he could distribute at

0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:18.680
<v Speaker 2>the time, and he was the man, what do I

0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:20.800
<v Speaker 2>need Jason Tatum for? They already have a wing, right,

0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:23.440
<v Speaker 2>they already have wings. They need a point guard. And

0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:27.160
<v Speaker 2>that was Mark kel Folds. And that seems pretty insane

0:25:27.240 --> 0:25:32.159
<v Speaker 2>to say in hindsight, because he entered the NBA with

0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:37.440
<v Speaker 2>a decent shot and then all of a sudden, maybe

0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:41.000
<v Speaker 2>it's broke as hell. Maybe it really smells broken jumper.

0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:47.040
<v Speaker 2>Broken jumper. He went from being able to shoot well,

0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:49.720
<v Speaker 2>Like if you look at his YouTube film which I

0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:53.679
<v Speaker 2>did at Washington, you dubbed Huk the Fuskies as an

0:25:53.760 --> 0:25:57.520
<v Speaker 2>organ duc fan. That's a non sequitur. But all of

0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:01.960
<v Speaker 2>a sudden it just busted, just gone, just not being

0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:04.040
<v Speaker 2>able to shoot at all, like just to push shot.

0:26:04.119 --> 0:26:07.400
<v Speaker 2>It was like his elbow was broken. And then being

0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:09.640
<v Speaker 2>the number one pick, it was under a microscope. What's

0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:12.520
<v Speaker 2>wrong with markkel Fultz? What's happening with the shot? Nobody

0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:17.760
<v Speaker 2>that I remember has had their jump shot dissected more

0:26:17.880 --> 0:26:21.199
<v Speaker 2>by people have never played basketball in their life more

0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:24.320
<v Speaker 2>than markkel Folts. Like, we're all just like, maybe it's

0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:28.920
<v Speaker 2>the elbow, Maybe he shoots with the wrong hand. What's

0:26:28.960 --> 0:26:31.720
<v Speaker 2>going on? Is there something wrong with his shoulder? And

0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:35.520
<v Speaker 2>there's like hundreds and hundreds of articles about this, and

0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:41.399
<v Speaker 2>the Sixers are scrambling now. They're hiring coaches and developers

0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:49.400
<v Speaker 2>and scientists and like algorithms specialists just to fix markel

0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:54.520
<v Speaker 2>Foltz's jump shot. Yeah, interior designers, literally everyone under the

0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:57.440
<v Speaker 2>sun who has any bit of creativity to be able

0:26:57.480 --> 0:27:02.440
<v Speaker 2>to fix him and it was how ugly did it get?

0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:05.560
<v Speaker 2>You might ask, well, it got the ugliest. The lowest

0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:09.160
<v Speaker 2>it got was when he double clutched a free throw

0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:13.360
<v Speaker 2>in twenty eighteen. It was like, it was like when

0:27:13.440 --> 0:27:19.159
<v Speaker 2>your your your PlayStation or your Nintendo freezes like and

0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:21.560
<v Speaker 2>then it jumps forward again. That was him, and it

0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:25.760
<v Speaker 2>led to many articles everywhere about like he has broken, broken,

0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:29.680
<v Speaker 2>broken es be Nation wrote this, mark al Foltz's broken

0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:32.439
<v Speaker 2>jump shot hitting all time low when he double clutched

0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:35.520
<v Speaker 2>a free throw that you guessed it didn't go in

0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:39.359
<v Speaker 2>the way he catapult pullted the ball off of an

0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:43.160
<v Speaker 2>extended pause, resembled a player who grew eighteen inches overnight

0:27:43.200 --> 0:27:45.920
<v Speaker 2>and is just figuring out how to play basketball in

0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:51.680
<v Speaker 2>a new body. And then, of course social media took hold,

0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:56.000
<v Speaker 2>caught flame hoops hype. Alex Kennedy reported within minutes of

0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:59.600
<v Speaker 2>that free throw that trainer Drew Hanlin and Folts were

0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:05.240
<v Speaker 2>current not on speaking terms, and we're no longer yeah

0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:12.479
<v Speaker 2>working together. Handling then denied the report, which, let's be honest,

0:28:13.160 --> 0:28:16.280
<v Speaker 2>was a lie. After the game, then Folts gave his

0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:19.600
<v Speaker 2>own breakdown of what was happening. Hey, I mean the

0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:23.320
<v Speaker 2>ball just lies slipped out of my hand, he said,

0:28:24.119 --> 0:28:26.600
<v Speaker 2>the ball just slipped out of my hand. No, biggie,

0:28:27.320 --> 0:28:28.480
<v Speaker 2>I just had to do what I had to do

0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:32.440
<v Speaker 2>to regather the ball. And I'm not really worried about it.

0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:35.000
<v Speaker 2>I work on my game. The ball just happened to slip,

0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:41.480
<v Speaker 2>That's what happened. Yeah, it didn't. It didn't slip. It

0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:43.720
<v Speaker 2>didn't look like it slipped. Because people were zooming in

0:28:43.960 --> 0:28:47.960
<v Speaker 2>and rewinding and like keeping it everywhere in sight. You

0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:51.680
<v Speaker 2>got to see every angle, and you know what sucks

0:28:51.920 --> 0:28:55.880
<v Speaker 2>that every bit of your shot all of a sudden

0:28:56.240 --> 0:29:03.840
<v Speaker 2>being critiqued, analyzed, and numerous conspiracy theories developed about how

0:29:04.000 --> 0:29:12.080
<v Speaker 2>you went from this yes to that boo. That's what

0:29:12.160 --> 0:29:15.120
<v Speaker 2>it was, is like, get this guy the fuck out here.

0:29:15.360 --> 0:29:20.400
<v Speaker 2>The Sixers then, because they're a trash franchise. Truthfully, in

0:29:20.600 --> 0:29:25.120
<v Speaker 2>many ways, that's the hedge in many ways, got tired

0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:29.000
<v Speaker 2>of trying to fix them, and as a final gesture

0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:33.600
<v Speaker 2>of surrender, they shipped them off to Orlando for my

0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:38.840
<v Speaker 2>man Jonathan Simmons and a bag of chips. And the

0:29:39.440 --> 0:29:42.800
<v Speaker 2>chips were probably the more valuable part of that trade.

0:29:42.840 --> 0:29:45.200
<v Speaker 2>They were salt and vinegar. If you're wondering what kind

0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:52.640
<v Speaker 2>of chips they traded Jonathan Simmons, Like Jonathan Simmons for

0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:59.400
<v Speaker 2>the number one player in the draft at age twenty one,

0:29:59.720 --> 0:30:02.600
<v Speaker 2>that's how old he was. They got rid of him

0:30:02.640 --> 0:30:06.480
<v Speaker 2>in two years for a guy who's now in China

0:30:07.840 --> 0:30:15.920
<v Speaker 2>playing for the Shang He looms, sir, sir, you made

0:30:16.200 --> 0:30:24.560
<v Speaker 2>that trade, sir, And then two things happened since that

0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:31.720
<v Speaker 2>trade that I personally find fascinating. First of all, as

0:30:31.840 --> 0:30:36.360
<v Speaker 2>it turns out, Markel Foltz was not as broken as

0:30:36.640 --> 0:30:40.640
<v Speaker 2>everyone on the earth thought he was. His first year

0:30:40.680 --> 0:30:44.320
<v Speaker 2>in Orlando, double clutch free throw guy, same guy shot

0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:48.080
<v Speaker 2>forty seven percent from the floor, averaging twelve three and

0:30:48.200 --> 0:30:51.680
<v Speaker 2>five and twenty seven minutes. And at the start of

0:30:51.760 --> 0:30:54.800
<v Speaker 2>last year, before he got his ACL tear, he led

0:30:54.840 --> 0:30:58.080
<v Speaker 2>the Magic to a six and two start on thirteen

0:30:58.480 --> 0:31:03.480
<v Speaker 2>three and five. Shot looked nice again. Then I mention,

0:31:04.080 --> 0:31:07.560
<v Speaker 2>by the way, sir, he's only twenty three years old.

0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:11.840
<v Speaker 2>Right now, he's old at this very second, I'm speaking

0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:15.760
<v Speaker 2>about it. In twenty twenty two, he is twenty three

0:31:15.880 --> 0:31:19.520
<v Speaker 2>years old. Is anyone else fascinated about how they discarded

0:31:19.600 --> 0:31:23.080
<v Speaker 2>him so quickly, like a little piece of trash that

0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:26.000
<v Speaker 2>you didn't spend anything on. You spent the number one

0:31:26.120 --> 0:31:28.400
<v Speaker 2>pick on Marco Folts, and you just got rid of

0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:31.360
<v Speaker 2>him for a guy that's on the shan he loongs,

0:31:31.880 --> 0:31:38.120
<v Speaker 2>loongs Nobody. To me is a bigger symbol of the

0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:43.440
<v Speaker 2>Sixers ineptitude than folks, and it has way less to

0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:46.960
<v Speaker 2>do with him than it does about the Philly brass.

0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:49.640
<v Speaker 2>They are terrible decision maker, so they moved up to

0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:53.560
<v Speaker 2>get him, and they discarded him after thirty three games.

0:31:54.560 --> 0:31:59.320
<v Speaker 2>He was twenty when they traded him, twenty. He couldn't

0:31:59.360 --> 0:32:02.719
<v Speaker 2>even when they traded this guy, they made up their

0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:06.959
<v Speaker 2>mind he's unfixable. And you know how the Sixers fan

0:32:07.040 --> 0:32:12.080
<v Speaker 2>base be when they decide, When they decide to be patient,

0:32:12.280 --> 0:32:14.680
<v Speaker 2>they're patient. They weren't even patient with Joe el Embiid.

0:32:14.680 --> 0:32:17.360
<v Speaker 2>They're like, why isn't this fucking guy playing? Get this

0:32:17.480 --> 0:32:22.560
<v Speaker 2>fucking guy out of here, Joe l Embiid, Come on now,

0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:28.640
<v Speaker 2>an organization that has poor decision making quality to begin with,

0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:31.560
<v Speaker 2>because it wasn't the right pick, like you should not

0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:35.320
<v Speaker 2>have picked Markel Foltz. Do your own research. Don't just

0:32:35.640 --> 0:32:37.880
<v Speaker 2>wait for Bleacher Report to tell you who the number

0:32:37.920 --> 0:32:41.120
<v Speaker 2>one pick is. You know, sometimes I feel that that's

0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:45.480
<v Speaker 2>what's happening these owners. These owners they're they're literally just

0:32:45.720 --> 0:32:49.600
<v Speaker 2>hanging out drinking OJ with the kids and and they

0:32:49.680 --> 0:32:51.440
<v Speaker 2>don't know shit, and they're hanging out with the kids,

0:32:51.480 --> 0:32:55.800
<v Speaker 2>and the kids like, Daddy, are you gonna draft Markel Faults?

0:32:56.080 --> 0:32:59.520
<v Speaker 2>And it's like who's that? And then they read bleach

0:32:59.520 --> 0:33:01.640
<v Speaker 2>your poor and then they talk to their scouts and

0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:07.560
<v Speaker 2>like the GM they're like, I want Faults and they're like, sir, MARKL. Folts,

0:33:07.720 --> 0:33:13.719
<v Speaker 2>isn't the I want MARKL. Folts Because my son today

0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:17.760
<v Speaker 2>on his oculus was telling me about Markel Fulton how

0:33:17.800 --> 0:33:20.000
<v Speaker 2>good he is, and you don't even know, Like that's

0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:23.000
<v Speaker 2>the process that we're talking about. So poor decision making,

0:33:23.080 --> 0:33:28.800
<v Speaker 2>quality ownership that's probably involved way too much a bump

0:33:28.920 --> 0:33:30.959
<v Speaker 2>or two in the road. You start to question your

0:33:31.000 --> 0:33:34.960
<v Speaker 2>own scouting because it wasn't really your scouting. Maybe your

0:33:35.000 --> 0:33:39.719
<v Speaker 2>training department isn't great because you've got injury after injury

0:33:39.760 --> 0:33:43.040
<v Speaker 2>after injury, and that's how you end up with Jonathan

0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:46.880
<v Speaker 2>Simmons who ends up on the Shanghy looms and a bag,

0:33:47.360 --> 0:33:53.080
<v Speaker 2>a small bag of salt and vinegar chips, Jonathan Simmons

0:33:53.120 --> 0:33:56.400
<v Speaker 2>put up sixteen points for the Shanghy Looms. You maybe

0:33:56.440 --> 0:33:58.680
<v Speaker 2>you should should bring him back on a COVID hardship.

0:34:00.240 --> 0:34:05.000
<v Speaker 2>Listen against the Gualong Tigers. What are we talking about here?

0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:10.040
<v Speaker 2>Think about all of this mistakes. There's not just one,

0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:15.880
<v Speaker 2>there's so many. Come on, come on, Jalio okafor you

0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:20.480
<v Speaker 2>trade it away. Mical Bridges on draft night and his

0:34:20.800 --> 0:34:25.960
<v Speaker 2>mom works for the Sixers. This man went to school

0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:30.640
<v Speaker 2>at Villanova, is from Philly. You draft him and then

0:34:31.040 --> 0:34:36.200
<v Speaker 2>fifteen minutes later you trade him back to Markel Fults.

0:34:36.760 --> 0:34:41.120
<v Speaker 2>Apparently it wasn't that Falts's shot was even broken. It's

0:34:41.200 --> 0:34:45.960
<v Speaker 2>that Falts his entire body was broken, as in, his

0:34:46.160 --> 0:34:52.040
<v Speaker 2>shoulder was actually broken and they didn't see it. This

0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:54.839
<v Speaker 2>is the kind of shit. I have things to say

0:34:54.840 --> 0:34:57.400
<v Speaker 2>about CG. McCollum, but it'll come out another time. But

0:34:57.640 --> 0:35:01.160
<v Speaker 2>just know that they didn't diagnose his lung until it

0:35:01.239 --> 0:35:04.880
<v Speaker 2>was almost too late. These people, it's just tremendous the

0:35:05.040 --> 0:35:09.440
<v Speaker 2>level of We're in an elite sport here and the

0:35:09.560 --> 0:35:11.440
<v Speaker 2>things that are happening are not elite, you know what

0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:14.919
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying? Like feeling the pressure of number one going

0:35:15.000 --> 0:35:17.200
<v Speaker 2>number one. Mark kel Folts tried to play through a

0:35:17.400 --> 0:35:22.400
<v Speaker 2>broken scapular a scapular muscle and balance is what they

0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:25.560
<v Speaker 2>called it. This is what he said. You know, people

0:35:25.680 --> 0:35:27.640
<v Speaker 2>just don't know my love for the game. Growing up

0:35:27.680 --> 0:35:29.719
<v Speaker 2>in the area you grow I grew up in. You

0:35:29.800 --> 0:35:32.120
<v Speaker 2>have bumps and bruises, and that's where it becomes a

0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:34.359
<v Speaker 2>business taking care of your body and me being who

0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:36.719
<v Speaker 2>I am, loving the game so much. I feel like

0:35:37.040 --> 0:35:40.160
<v Speaker 2>although my shoulder was messed up, I can hit. My

0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:43.359
<v Speaker 2>shoulder was messed up. I told no one. I told

0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:46.160
<v Speaker 2>no one when they were clowning me. I didn't even say, hey,

0:35:46.400 --> 0:35:48.560
<v Speaker 2>there's something going on on my shoulder. I'm playing through injury.

0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:50.800
<v Speaker 2>That's the kind of baller he is. This is what

0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:52.719
<v Speaker 2>he said. I felt like I can contribute to the

0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:54.440
<v Speaker 2>game and help my team win. So I wanted to

0:35:54.520 --> 0:35:56.279
<v Speaker 2>go out there and just compete and have fun with

0:35:56.360 --> 0:35:59.200
<v Speaker 2>the game. Did you have fun, Mark hel Foltz, Was

0:35:59.280 --> 0:36:03.160
<v Speaker 2>that fun for you? Also? It was my first year,

0:36:03.520 --> 0:36:05.959
<v Speaker 2>and I think I did a poor job of communicating

0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:09.360
<v Speaker 2>to my agent and to my family what I was feeling.

0:36:09.600 --> 0:36:11.400
<v Speaker 2>And instead of just going out there and trying to

0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:15.960
<v Speaker 2>compete without expressing what I was feeling, and all I

0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:19.600
<v Speaker 2>was doing was making it worse. Hell yeah, you were

0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:24.319
<v Speaker 2>literally every thought. Everybody thought you were just a bum?

0:36:24.480 --> 0:36:27.840
<v Speaker 2>Now a bum? How long was this injury a problem,

0:36:27.880 --> 0:36:31.080
<v Speaker 2>you might ask? Turns out pretty much the entire time

0:36:31.120 --> 0:36:37.200
<v Speaker 2>he was in Philly, literally before he even arrived, actually started.

0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:41.440
<v Speaker 2>My shoulder started hurting before training camp my rookie year.

0:36:42.320 --> 0:36:44.279
<v Speaker 2>But I just thought it was for how much work

0:36:44.320 --> 0:36:47.320
<v Speaker 2>I was putting in all those shots, me from shooting

0:36:47.400 --> 0:36:51.520
<v Speaker 2>so much that my shoulder was just sore. Pause, excuse me?

0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:55.160
<v Speaker 2>Where was the training staff in all of this? Sixers?

0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:58.279
<v Speaker 2>They had to have known that something was wrong. You

0:36:58.400 --> 0:37:01.000
<v Speaker 2>saw what his shot looked like. You're watching him like,

0:37:01.080 --> 0:37:04.000
<v Speaker 2>mmm mm mmm, sim's not right here? Mm mmm. I

0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:07.919
<v Speaker 2>can see when my co hosts haven't slept one last

0:37:07.960 --> 0:37:11.080
<v Speaker 2>hour the night before. If Mark l faults my number

0:37:11.120 --> 0:37:13.399
<v Speaker 2>one pick was in the gym and I'm watching, I'm like, hey,

0:37:13.480 --> 0:37:16.759
<v Speaker 2>uh you good cause uh you're a little twist it

0:37:16.880 --> 0:37:21.359
<v Speaker 2>up right now. But no, they tried to force him

0:37:21.680 --> 0:37:26.040
<v Speaker 2>to change his shots in a way that put more

0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:31.759
<v Speaker 2>pressure on his fucking shoulder. Are you kidding me? I've

0:37:31.800 --> 0:37:35.279
<v Speaker 2>been waiting to do this segment for probably two months now.

0:37:36.560 --> 0:37:41.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm incensed. Faults concluded. I tried to work through it.

0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:46.720
<v Speaker 2>I'm in the gym shooting thousands of shots on a broken,

0:37:46.920 --> 0:37:50.239
<v Speaker 2>broken shoulder. I'm trying to shoot through it, and the

0:37:50.320 --> 0:37:54.240
<v Speaker 2>whole time I just made it worse. Is this not heartbreaking?

0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:57.239
<v Speaker 2>But again, the mindset that I had, I'm just trying

0:37:57.280 --> 0:37:59.880
<v Speaker 2>to grind. I'm trying to continue to work through these issues,

0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:05.040
<v Speaker 2>not knowing I'm making it worse. Pause again, training staff,

0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:09.319
<v Speaker 2>that's your job, not his job, to diagnose and put

0:38:09.360 --> 0:38:12.880
<v Speaker 2>together a plan of Hey, don't shoot thousands of these shots.

0:38:13.080 --> 0:38:16.760
<v Speaker 2>Maybe get yourself into a sling. Oh maybe just me again,

0:38:16.880 --> 0:38:19.120
<v Speaker 2>I'm just young, being selfish. I guess I would call

0:38:19.200 --> 0:38:21.960
<v Speaker 2>it in a sense not understanding my body. And I

0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:23.960
<v Speaker 2>think that was a big part of it. And once again,

0:38:24.360 --> 0:38:28.840
<v Speaker 2>once I communicated, yeah, Mark, I'll pause. You shouldn't have

0:38:29.080 --> 0:38:31.160
<v Speaker 2>to say a word. You can see it in his

0:38:31.320 --> 0:38:36.600
<v Speaker 2>broken fucking jumper, his body. You saw it. He looked,

0:38:37.400 --> 0:38:42.319
<v Speaker 2>he looked, his shoulder was twisted. Turns out he had

0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:49.400
<v Speaker 2>thorscic outlet syndrome. Another thing people don't know. Thoracic outlet

0:38:49.440 --> 0:38:52.560
<v Speaker 2>syndrome is not diagnosed through an MRI or a cat skin.

0:38:53.040 --> 0:38:55.319
<v Speaker 2>It's very hard to diagnose, and it's a big part

0:38:55.360 --> 0:38:57.520
<v Speaker 2>of why in the beginning, he says, I kind of

0:38:57.560 --> 0:39:00.840
<v Speaker 2>thought nothing was going on, and I just thought with

0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:03.200
<v Speaker 2>my shoulder because when I got scans and MRIs, they

0:39:03.239 --> 0:39:05.919
<v Speaker 2>didn't see anything. But I had to just keep going,

0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:08.680
<v Speaker 2>had to just keep shooting. I went from shooting forty

0:39:08.719 --> 0:39:12.560
<v Speaker 2>percent in college to coming into the NBA and now

0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:16.759
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, becoming a meme, becoming a meme. The

0:39:16.920 --> 0:39:20.080
<v Speaker 2>final really good news is that Folts is very close

0:39:20.520 --> 0:39:23.239
<v Speaker 2>to returning from his left knee ACL injury, which is

0:39:23.280 --> 0:39:26.960
<v Speaker 2>what we would call full circle, a moment for us

0:39:27.040 --> 0:39:31.799
<v Speaker 2>to then watch them in his glory and make fun

0:39:31.840 --> 0:39:34.560
<v Speaker 2>of the Sixers once again. Uh. Now that his shoulder

0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:37.040
<v Speaker 2>is one hundred percent, he's feeling good and he's ready

0:39:37.080 --> 0:39:38.400
<v Speaker 2>to get back out of the court. This is what

0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:40.960
<v Speaker 2>he said. I took a big step in this summer.

0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:44.680
<v Speaker 2>We were watching film, understanding the game. It's slowing down

0:39:44.760 --> 0:39:48.320
<v Speaker 2>for me even more. And the latest news is that

0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:53.439
<v Speaker 2>he should make his season debut sometime in January. This month,

0:39:54.000 --> 0:39:56.800
<v Speaker 2>he was cleared to practice on December tenth. You're adding

0:39:57.000 --> 0:40:01.160
<v Speaker 2>Folts to Cole Anthony and Jalen Suggs, all of them

0:40:01.480 --> 0:40:07.040
<v Speaker 2>twenty three years you old or younger, Dinamic. You know

0:40:07.080 --> 0:40:11.560
<v Speaker 2>who could use a dynamic young playmaker on their roster

0:40:11.719 --> 0:40:19.520
<v Speaker 2>right now? My man. The Philadelphia seventy sixers could use one.

0:40:20.280 --> 0:40:23.839
<v Speaker 2>The Boston Celtics, of course, could use one. But all

0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:27.160
<v Speaker 2>of this to say that the dysfunction in Philly has

0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:35.920
<v Speaker 2>been around for so long now, and it's time, baby, increase,

0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:39.320
<v Speaker 2>increase my volume on this. This is me rubbing my

0:40:39.400 --> 0:40:44.560
<v Speaker 2>hands together. Time to clean house. Spike Eskin of Ricky

0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:47.040
<v Speaker 2>of the rights to Ricky Sanchez said on his pod

0:40:47.120 --> 0:40:51.600
<v Speaker 2>that he thinks and bead might go. Before I pulled

0:40:51.680 --> 0:40:54.640
<v Speaker 2>that trigger, I would make sure Daryl Moury and Doc

0:40:54.880 --> 0:40:58.719
<v Speaker 2>God theirs that they got the click click boom. For

0:40:58.840 --> 0:41:02.640
<v Speaker 2>those of you deep in the weeds, remember what Jimmy

0:41:02.719 --> 0:41:07.759
<v Speaker 2>told Nucky on Borderwalk Empire HBO show. You can't be

0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:12.120
<v Speaker 2>a half of a gangster, and you can't do a

0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:15.919
<v Speaker 2>half of a rebuild. You're either all in or you're

0:41:16.120 --> 0:41:19.480
<v Speaker 2>all out. There are no half measures in war, and

0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:21.799
<v Speaker 2>there are no half measures in basketball, which is why

0:41:21.880 --> 0:41:25.680
<v Speaker 2>my Portland Trailblazers will continue to suffer. And all of

0:41:25.800 --> 0:41:30.560
<v Speaker 2>this means will the Philly fans have to trust the

0:41:30.680 --> 0:41:35.240
<v Speaker 2>process all over again? We'll have to see the process

0:41:35.360 --> 0:41:38.320
<v Speaker 2>started in twenty thirteen and being on life support the

0:41:38.360 --> 0:41:40.600
<v Speaker 2>previous two years, sank to the bottom of the deep

0:41:40.600 --> 0:41:43.000
<v Speaker 2>blue sea in Game seven of the Hawks last year

0:41:43.280 --> 0:41:47.080
<v Speaker 2>when Ben Pott passed up and open dunk, choking on

0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:50.640
<v Speaker 2>his meat. And guess what. The team is exactly where

0:41:50.680 --> 0:41:53.720
<v Speaker 2>it was in twenty twelve when the process first began,

0:41:54.080 --> 0:41:58.000
<v Speaker 2>a massively disappointing second round exit. All of that tanking,

0:41:58.160 --> 0:42:02.040
<v Speaker 2>all those high draft picks, that money spent time is

0:42:02.080 --> 0:42:06.839
<v Speaker 2>a flat circle, never getting beyond the second round. The process, folks,

0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:10.040
<v Speaker 2>is dead. I have to say, long live though the

0:42:10.160 --> 0:42:16.279
<v Speaker 2>sequel process Dua duo too and Dose Dua lipa Yes.

0:42:16.560 --> 0:42:20.440
<v Speaker 2>Sequel begins in twenty twenty two, and the big question

0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:24.319
<v Speaker 2>is who on the Sixers team will be around when

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<v Speaker 2>it's over. I'm betting no one unless the entire culture

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<v Speaker 2>change is implemented. Remember this team has really really bad culture.

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<v Speaker 2>That's all the time that we have for the heat check.

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<v Speaker 2>We'll be back Friday morning, early squirrely with a new episode.

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<v Speaker 2>Do not forget to download, subscribe, Tell all your friends

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<v Speaker 2>you can say things mean in the comments. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>really care. Just engage. Just build up that algorithm, baby,

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<v Speaker 2>every damn one of those comments. Just get in there

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