Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers Podcast network
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Speaker 1: is our final mailbag before the All Star break. So
Speaker 1: we ask you, the great seventy sixers fans out there,
Speaker 1: what was your favorite moment from the first half. We'll
Speaker 1: share responses, Plus we check in on the state of
Speaker 1: the team, Ben and Joel's chemistry, Isaiah, Joe with the Bluecoat,
Speaker 1: and more, your voicemails, your dms, and a chance to
Speaker 1: win swag. Every week we do it right here on
Speaker 1: Mailbag Monday. Somehow we are already at this point. It
Speaker 1: is the final Mailbag Monday before the twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: All Star Break. I for one, Lauren Rosen, I'm just
Speaker 1: appreciative that we've made it this far, about two and
Speaker 1: a half months worth of quality engagement with our great
Speaker 1: loyal supporters, listeners and tremendous sixerspans out there. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it really does feel like we're getting more and worse
Speaker 1: missions every week. So as always, thank you guys so
Speaker 1: much for what you contribute, even when we don't get
Speaker 1: to everything. Personally, I really like to just hear what
Speaker 1: you guys are thinking. About the type of questions that
Speaker 1: you're asking yourselves, because that helps me inform like the
Speaker 1: content that we do on other platforms, because Seltz and
Speaker 1: I do the pregame show and I write about the
Speaker 1: games and like, it's very helpful for me to hear
Speaker 1: what people want to hear because then I can do
Speaker 1: more of that. So thank you as always for the
Speaker 1: feedback and for the questions. We appreciate them. Our job
Speaker 1: literally is to cover the seventy six ers, but fundamentally,
Speaker 1: our gig is all about serving you out there, the people.
Speaker 1: We are here to inform and try to expose you
Speaker 1: to new things. So yeah, the feedback has been awesome.
Speaker 1: We love it. For me, Lauren, this has been one
Speaker 1: of the most fun things that we've introduced and rolled
Speaker 1: out this season. And if anyone is a first time
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Speaker 1: been debating Lauren whether or not it might be worth
Speaker 1: the thirty second sweaty palms scramble to convert my locked
Speaker 1: personal on ig at Brian Seltzer to my professional and
Speaker 1: do away with the at Seltzer six or snaps handle.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know my opinion. I like continuity on
Speaker 1: both platforms. If I had the luxury of even having
Speaker 1: Lauren Rosen with no m in it, I would certainly
Speaker 1: be using it everywhere. So because you have Brian Seltzer,
Speaker 1: I would use it. That's my two cents. The current
Speaker 1: at Brian Selzer account is locked because it's just a
Speaker 1: dump of kid content, you know, That's what it is,
Speaker 1: and no one no one needs to see her here
Speaker 1: or watch that I love the kid content. But anyway, yes,
Speaker 1: I say do it. Why not? Okay, that might be
Speaker 1: an All Star Break activity for me. Put it in
Speaker 1: the calendar. Listen. I think there's one thing that I
Speaker 1: would say I need to change about the Mailbag, and
Speaker 1: that is this is the third straight week that we're
Speaker 1: taping after a loss. Come on, we need some win Sixers.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not expecting the six Ers to win
Speaker 1: all the games, but at least on a Saturday or
Speaker 1: Sunday before the mail Bag it helps. I do think
Speaker 1: that's funny. This team is twenty two and twelve, there's
Speaker 1: still the head of the East, but it does feel
Speaker 1: like we only tape the day after losses. So let's
Speaker 1: just try to make sure we remember, as we always
Speaker 1: try to do on this pod, that we're zooming out,
Speaker 1: we're remembering this is still a team that's leading the
Speaker 1: East and they won this week outside of the loss
Speaker 1: that we're coming off the heels of that, as they
Speaker 1: all admitted, wasn't their best outing. I'll say this though,
Speaker 1: to the credit of the populace out there, the feedback
Speaker 1: the responses have been very good for this week. A
Speaker 1: nice wide swath and diverse collection of submissions and inquiries.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to get to the mail bag and
Speaker 1: with that, let us open it up. You have one
Speaker 1: new message Court Kuba on Twitter will tip us off.
Speaker 1: He says, do we think Doc has been trying to
Speaker 1: get Ben Simmons to be more aggressive even with Joel
Speaker 1: on the floor? And do we think Simmons might start
Speaker 1: perhaps this is a question asked following the way that
Speaker 1: the game against the Cavaliers ended. Do we think Simmons
Speaker 1: might start taking more threes by the time the playoffs start?
Speaker 1: You want to go first? You're gonna like my answer,
Speaker 1: selts I think I anytime this topic comes up, I
Speaker 1: sort of take a page out of Doc Rivers book.
Speaker 1: And when Doc is asked about this type of thing,
Speaker 1: he says he loves how aggressive Ben is. He loves
Speaker 1: what he does on both ends of the floor, and
Speaker 1: that we spend too much time talking about what he
Speaker 1: doesn't do. Did I did my eyebrows go up when
Speaker 1: I saw him pull up for that three late and
Speaker 1: and have it go in with confidence. That was great
Speaker 1: to see. Love that for him. But I'm not someone
Speaker 1: that's going to be out here demanding more from Ben.
Speaker 1: I like the way that Doc has said, Look, you're
Speaker 1: great at a lot of things. Lean into that. Other
Speaker 1: stuff will come if you want it to. And I'm
Speaker 1: okay with that, and I think maybe it's working. I think,
Speaker 1: first and foremost, yes, I love the way that not
Speaker 1: just for Ben Simmons, Doc, I think that's been one
Speaker 1: of the biggest strengths of his so far. He has
Speaker 1: been empowering each of these players to be essentially the
Speaker 1: best versions of themselves and then putting it on him.
Speaker 1: And this isn't to say anything about how things went
Speaker 1: years past, but I think Doc is really embracing this,
Speaker 1: putting it on himself to find ways to accentuate and
Speaker 1: maximize the best of what each of these players can offer.
Speaker 1: So do I think that we're going to see Ben
Speaker 1: starting to take more threes by playoff time? I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it will be a consistent part of his game.
Speaker 1: Would I expect to see him take a couple more
Speaker 1: threes in the second half of the season and not
Speaker 1: take none? Yeah, I mean, I think it'll just happen
Speaker 1: kind of like it has sporadically throughout the first half.
Speaker 1: But the biggest part of that question that Court asked
Speaker 1: was has Doc been trying to get Simmons to be
Speaker 1: more aggressive even with Joel on the floor, Absolutely, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and Doc has said as much publicly, and
Speaker 1: some of the Ducks said before the game against the Cavaliers,
Speaker 1: he was asked about Ben and Joel and their chemistry,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was really great to hear it
Speaker 1: comes straight from the head coach, but saying how much
Speaker 1: the Sixers are focusing every day on creating driving lanes
Speaker 1: and floor space to maximize the ability for Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: and Joel Embiid to be out there and do their
Speaker 1: thing allow the way the Sixers did it going back
Speaker 1: two and three seasons ago. I am with that for sure. Seltz.
Speaker 1: I think there's just been so much chatter about how
Speaker 1: Ben and Joel should play together, and I like the
Speaker 1: fact that this year Doc just wants them to both
Speaker 1: be their best at the same time, to coexist, to
Speaker 1: help each other be their best. No one needs to
Speaker 1: take a back seat here, and that's something that's been
Speaker 1: really clear in these teams. Best wins is how well
Speaker 1: the two of them can thrive together at the same
Speaker 1: time or off the court, like if one of them's
Speaker 1: out there, they can thrive. Both of them are out there,
Speaker 1: they can thrive, and that's what Doc wants. He wants
Speaker 1: them to be their best. He wants them to lead
Speaker 1: into their skill sets and help and to help one
Speaker 1: another do that as well. And I think we've seen it.
Speaker 1: Something we talked about on the Friday Deep Dive, which
Speaker 1: we do every Friday with the von Givens from ninety
Speaker 1: seven five the fanatic was the number is a pairing
Speaker 1: that Ben and Joel have put up this season. Right now,
Speaker 1: going into Monday's game against Indie, they're just under a
Speaker 1: fourteen net rating for the lineups in which the two
Speaker 1: of them play together. What I should have looked up
Speaker 1: and what I will look up at some point is
Speaker 1: really look at Lauren their offensive rating together compared to
Speaker 1: previous seasons. This season's been around one nineteen, which is
Speaker 1: obviously really good. But last year, for comparison's sake, by
Speaker 1: the time Simmons and Joe had played around eight hundred
Speaker 1: minutes together right now they're at almost seven hundred, their
Speaker 1: net rating was less than one. So to make a
Speaker 1: leap of roughly fourteen and a category just speaks to
Speaker 1: how affected the two of them have been this year.
Speaker 1: So Court Kuba, thank you very much for that. On Twitter.
Speaker 1: Zaide Dalal on Twitter, I'm sorry if I didn't pronounce
Speaker 1: that correctly. Thoughts on the energy the team played with
Speaker 1: against the Cavaliers seemed like we had a couple of
Speaker 1: those games this season. What are we missing to get
Speaker 1: the energy ramped up during the game. I will say
Speaker 1: I thought, personally, larned that that was the only game
Speaker 1: the Sixers energy was like that this year. I think
Speaker 1: going back to earlier this season when the roster wasn't
Speaker 1: at full strength. I mean, you think about maybe a
Speaker 1: game like Memphis, you could explain and rationalize and understand
Speaker 1: that because the Sixers didn't have their full compliment of
Speaker 1: weapons at their disposal. I just thought Saturday personally, and
Speaker 1: I think that the guy said this Doc Rivers didn't
Speaker 1: hold any punches after the game. Just didn't have the
Speaker 1: requisite sense of urgency or perhaps seriousness going into that
Speaker 1: game on Saturday and they got caught, which I think,
Speaker 1: not to make an excuse it's going to sound like it,
Speaker 1: I do feel like that's a reality, even for really
Speaker 1: good teams over a long seventy two game season. I
Speaker 1: have two thoughts on the matter, So it's the first one.
Speaker 1: This morning, I was listening to Ramona Shelburn and Zach
Speaker 1: low on a low post and they were talking about
Speaker 1: the Lakers, who have had a little bit of a
Speaker 1: skid lately. Anthony Davis is hurt, they've lost a couple
Speaker 1: of games to maybe opponents that they shouldn't have lost
Speaker 1: two talking about their loss against the Wizards that was
Speaker 1: not a very cute one. And something that Ramona said
Speaker 1: is that it's kind of that time of the year
Speaker 1: and good teams are gonna sleep on bad teams sometimes
Speaker 1: and they're not going to be able to bring the
Speaker 1: energy every night. But that doesn't mean that the Lakers
Speaker 1: aren't one of the best teams in the West. Just
Speaker 1: because they're struggling right now doesn't mean the Sixers aren't
Speaker 1: still the best team in the East because they had
Speaker 1: one tough game. So hearing her, someone who's covered great
Speaker 1: teams for a long time, say it that way, and
Speaker 1: hearing Zach Lowe agree made me think, Okay, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: it is just that time of the season. I'm not
Speaker 1: used to covering a team that's really competing at the
Speaker 1: top at a high level year after year. This is
Speaker 1: new for the Sixers, and so it's interesting to hear
Speaker 1: her talk about it that way. So don't overreact. That's
Speaker 1: my thing number one and my thing number two. Celts
Speaker 1: I said this to you during the game. This is
Speaker 1: a team that's won so many close games, and I
Speaker 1: do think that they have a little bit of confidence,
Speaker 1: a little bit of swagger about the fact that they
Speaker 1: can pull it out at the end, which in a
Speaker 1: lot of cases is a great thing. But if you
Speaker 1: relax too much and rely on the fact that you
Speaker 1: think you can turn it out at the end, you're
Speaker 1: gonna end up having problems. And like you said, they
Speaker 1: got caught. But I am going to hold onto the
Speaker 1: fact that we have seen this team take over in
Speaker 1: the second half and the fourth quarter, Joel Embiid making
Speaker 1: it happen, and they really almost did. Joel's last shot
Speaker 1: of regulation goes in and it's a win, and we're
Speaker 1: talking about, Wow, they really eat that one out despite
Speaker 1: the off night. So I do think looking at the
Speaker 1: fact that they could have made it happen and they
Speaker 1: were that close despite being as maybe relaxed as they were,
Speaker 1: is kind of a good thing. It's kind of cool
Speaker 1: that you can have an off night and really not
Speaker 1: activate until late in the game and then still hang again.
Speaker 1: Not something you want to keep doing, but it's it's
Speaker 1: weirdly a little cool to know that this is a
Speaker 1: team that can be down fifteen and still never really
Speaker 1: be out of the game. You know. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: for me, the biggest part of this is just don't
Speaker 1: let it happen again. You know that one of those
Speaker 1: situations where let's not see it happen. Where not to
Speaker 1: imply the third quarter or fourth quarter against Cleveland was
Speaker 1: the best version of the Sixers we've seen, but I
Speaker 1: feel like everyone would agree that if the Sixers played
Speaker 1: like they did in the second half in the first
Speaker 1: still might not have been their best, but it certainly
Speaker 1: would have been enough. You're gonna have games. What comes
Speaker 1: to mind first for me, most recently laaren Is first
Speaker 1: night against Toronto in Tampa a few weeks back. Shots
Speaker 1: weren't falling, Sixers were playing hard. Not your night. That
Speaker 1: happens over the course of a season, but just you know,
Speaker 1: take care of the intangibles, all that stuff, and then
Speaker 1: things you know, in the long run I think will
Speaker 1: ultimately break the Sixers way. So on that note, we
Speaker 1: put Saturday's game against Cleveland. We're going to bury it,
Speaker 1: deepen the time capsule, pile the sand on, get your
Speaker 1: shovel and put it away. Feel that we got now
Speaker 1: you have one new message, Jessica Town on Twitter, Isaiah
Speaker 1: Joe and my opinion shows the most promise of helping
Speaker 1: the Sixers in what they need the most right now.
Speaker 1: Why is he the one sent to the GILEA? Do
Speaker 1: you think there's a corresponding move. I don't view this
Speaker 1: as a negative thing at all in the least. I
Speaker 1: felt like, I'm not sure if that's what Jessica contended
Speaker 1: with her question, but this isn't a bad thing. I'll
Speaker 1: start with that and then I'll follow up Lauren based
Speaker 1: on whatever takes, thoughts, opinions you have on this. I
Speaker 1: think I've just become resident let's not overreact person on
Speaker 1: this podcast. I'd like to remind folks that Isaiah is
Speaker 1: going to join the G League bubble that is going
Speaker 1: to end rather soon during a time where the team
Speaker 1: is about to have a break. So really he's just
Speaker 1: gonna go get reps. He's going to get more minutes
Speaker 1: than he was getting with the Sixers. This is a
Speaker 1: good thing. It means that he's going to have more
Speaker 1: opportunities to sharpen his craft so that when he comes
Speaker 1: back up this is a rostered player. When he comes
Speaker 1: back up to the sixers, he just has more reps.
Speaker 1: His feet are more under him. I don't see this
Speaker 1: being a bad thing in any way, to put in
Speaker 1: time during what is a break for most of his
Speaker 1: teammates outside of Ben and Joel. Of course, I say
Speaker 1: props to him for going down there, getting some minutes in,
Speaker 1: getting some run in. Good for him, for the team
Speaker 1: for having an option like that for him. I think
Speaker 1: this is a great thing, and it happens every season.
Speaker 1: I want to remind fans that every season, players towards
Speaker 1: the bottom of the roster go down to the G
Speaker 1: League to get reps. It's just what happens. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that anything crazy is happening. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: the walls are coming down on anyone on this team.
Speaker 1: It's a good thing. I think to me, the takeaway
Speaker 1: should be they want him to get reps. That's why
Speaker 1: this is happening, and that is a positive sign for
Speaker 1: Isaiah Joe. If you listen to anything that Doc has
Speaker 1: said about Isaiah most recently within the past couple of
Speaker 1: weeks when he's gotten some more minutes. I think they
Speaker 1: really love Isaiah. They feel like he can defend. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we know what he can do shooting the ball. We
Speaker 1: saw a couple of games back in January when he
Speaker 1: reached double figures when the seventy Sixers had so many
Speaker 1: players out due to health and safety protocols. To me,
Speaker 1: this is all good. They want Isaiah Joe to help
Speaker 1: the Blue Coats down to the bubble a because I
Speaker 1: think they feel the Blue Coats have a chance to
Speaker 1: make a rundown there, as we saw when they got
Speaker 1: off to that seven and oz start. And I think
Speaker 1: they want to keep Isaiah fresh. If he's up with
Speaker 1: the Sixers, he might get playing time I'm here and there,
Speaker 1: But will a few minutes at the end of a
Speaker 1: game or spot duty at the NBA level help him
Speaker 1: as much as just staying fresh, keeping his legs underneath him,
Speaker 1: and then who knows, who knows what the Sixers do
Speaker 1: with him in the second half of the season. So
Speaker 1: to me, I would say, if you love Isaiah Joe
Speaker 1: and you think he's got great potential, this move, to
Speaker 1: me signals. The Sixers feel the exact same thing and
Speaker 1: they want him fresh. And I would add that if
Speaker 1: you love Isaiah Joe, watch the Coats because they've played
Speaker 1: some really good games down in the bubble. And if
Speaker 1: you're missing your Sixers, they're about to have a full
Speaker 1: week off. Check out that, check out that d ETV broadcast,
Speaker 1: that Facebook live so you can tune into your Blue Coats.
Speaker 1: Watch Bebaal Paul, watch Isaiah Joe. I'm gonna be doing it,
Speaker 1: so if anyone wants to watch along with me, just
Speaker 1: let me know. It'll be fun. And the very last
Speaker 1: thing I would say about all this is, let's turn
Speaker 1: back the clock two or three seasons ago. Remember how
Speaker 1: the Sixers would utilize someone like Shake Milton, sending him
Speaker 1: back and forth. And let's look where Shake Milton is
Speaker 1: right now. Bingo voicemail, you have one new message. Hey,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to call all and show some love.
Speaker 1: I really liked the way and the the Sixers started out
Speaker 1: this season. Obviously there were some high expectations coming in
Speaker 1: and they really came out strong. Still some work to
Speaker 1: be done, but I'm really happy with where the team's
Speaker 1: at right now. So definitely have some high hopes of
Speaker 1: moving forward. Let's go Sixers. Very measured voicemail bag message
Speaker 1: right there, Lauren. Yes, they have lived up to expectations,
Speaker 1: I would say, and by the same token, there's more
Speaker 1: to do. We know Doc Rivers has the list somewhere,
Speaker 1: He's got the list. Well, you know, I like to
Speaker 1: remind people of this. I don't think this team has
Speaker 1: just lived up to expectations. I think that at this
Speaker 1: moment in time, this team is continuing to exceed expectations.
Speaker 1: This was a very new group with a very new
Speaker 1: head coach, two new guys in the starting lineup, a
Speaker 1: couple new guys coming in off the bench, and approaching
Speaker 1: the halfway point, they are still leading the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: as they have throughout in pregame chatter. You know I
Speaker 1: love national media. You know I love to listen to podcasts.
Speaker 1: You know I love to watch ESPN. I do it all.
Speaker 1: No one was saying that the Sixers were going to
Speaker 1: lead the East halfway through the season. They said they
Speaker 1: would be in that top group, but not even necessarily
Speaker 1: in those top three or four teams in the East.
Speaker 1: I think expectations were a little bit maybe low for
Speaker 1: this team, so yes, they met expectations, they've exceeded expectations.
Speaker 1: They're headed into the break either the first or second
Speaker 1: team in the Eastern Conference, and I feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about where they're at right now, and I hope that
Speaker 1: the folks that are listening along. Due to one thing
Speaker 1: that stood out to me Lauren after the game on Saturday,
Speaker 1: as far as postgame comments, Joel Embiid, I believe it
Speaker 1: was said that he feels the Sixers should perhaps be
Speaker 1: taking more threes than they are, and I would agree
Speaker 1: with that. I think that's something as we look to
Speaker 1: the second half, if they can find the right balance,
Speaker 1: because we obviously know who the anchor of this team
Speaker 1: is and it's Joe, if they can find the right balance,
Speaker 1: maybe try to get up some more threes. They're a
Speaker 1: pretty good shooting team from beyond the arc and around
Speaker 1: thirty six and a half percent. They're tied for second
Speaker 1: to last in the NBA with the Knicks, just in
Speaker 1: front of the Cavaliers for fewest three point attempts taken
Speaker 1: per one hundred possessions. So I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: matter of the Sixers being necessarily a poor three point
Speaker 1: shooting team. I think they're very, very good. They obviously
Speaker 1: have great threats in the likes of Seth and Tobias
Speaker 1: and Danny and Joel's been on this season. Get a
Speaker 1: few more up, I think that'll help them against some
Speaker 1: of these more potent three point shooting teams. So to me,
Speaker 1: that's one of the bigger things as far as I'd
Speaker 1: just be curious to see if they tried that, if
Speaker 1: they could find a balance to strike out, it would go.
Speaker 1: And I would add, as it pertains to the three
Speaker 1: point shooting conversation, when you look at the three point
Speaker 1: shooters on this team, Seth, not Danny in the list
Speaker 1: that I'm that I'm about to make. But you'll see
Speaker 1: why when you look at Seth, when you look at
Speaker 1: fur Con, when you look at Mike Scott, when you
Speaker 1: look at the guys that you're counting on to shoot threes,
Speaker 1: Shake Milton, they've all missed time lately, and it takes
Speaker 1: a minute for people to get back into rhythm. I
Speaker 1: think the fact that those shooters have been sidelined for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, we're seeing now a little bit of an
Speaker 1: uptick in the way that all of those guys are playing.
Speaker 1: The fact that they're all going to have a bit
Speaker 1: of a break, hopefully come back healthy. Then you'll be
Speaker 1: able to see that productivity that you saw a little
Speaker 1: bit more of at the beginning of the season. I
Speaker 1: don't think that the three point shooting is going to
Speaker 1: be as much of a problem as maybe we're making
Speaker 1: it into, because all those guys have a shot, they've
Speaker 1: just missed some time. And I like that Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: has been very careful about the way that he talks
Speaker 1: about Seth's game, because Seth has been a little bit
Speaker 1: up and down since returning from COVID, but of course
Speaker 1: he has. This man got really sick and had to
Speaker 1: come back and just go back into being an elite athlete.
Speaker 1: That's really hard. I've anyone that's been sick knows how
Speaker 1: hard it is to get back to work. But if
Speaker 1: your job is to be an elite athlete after being sick,
Speaker 1: that's really hard. So patience for Seth, Patience for those
Speaker 1: guys off the bench that have all kind of missed
Speaker 1: a little bit of time due to injuries or due
Speaker 1: to protocols. I'm not super pressed about it right now.
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris another one who's now missed one game, but
Speaker 1: he's dealing with an injury, so it's not necessarily the
Speaker 1: Sixer's fault that their shooters have had some injuries and
Speaker 1: some time away to deal with. Now, I have no
Speaker 1: concerns about Seth Curry whatsoever, and Seth, I try you
Speaker 1: have one new message on Instagram. I hope I pronounced
Speaker 1: this correctly. Thor cl fourteen. We reference vibes asking will
Speaker 1: there ever be a music video of the Sixers pregame
Speaker 1: vibe sessions? What an idea? I think there should be, Celts.
Speaker 1: I think something that we run into pretty frequently is
Speaker 1: copyright issues. The guys listen to popular music when they're
Speaker 1: warming up, and the team isn't necessarily allowed to use
Speaker 1: that exact music to push out of the arena. So
Speaker 1: I think that's something we could run into. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that we can't make some sort of cool compilation.
Speaker 1: I'll put it on my radar. I try to send
Speaker 1: out phone videos at the game that normally wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 1: be effective, but I'm realizing without fans, that's stuff that
Speaker 1: people like to see. So I'm saying it on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I'll keep doing it. I'm gonna try to send one
Speaker 1: out every game, and I will make sure to brainstorm
Speaker 1: away that we could get some sort of compilation going
Speaker 1: because those vibes certainly deserve to be highlighted. The vibe check.
Speaker 1: We know who's beat it, no doubt about it. You
Speaker 1: have one new message, rapid fire to wrap this up.
Speaker 1: We love all the feedback we get for the mailbag
Speaker 1: on the Sixers Sunday sticker asking questions for you to
Speaker 1: submit to. There were a ton of responses. Apologies for
Speaker 1: obviously not being able to get to them all, so
Speaker 1: I tried to group learn a few of them in
Speaker 1: themes and we'll just hit a couple of these topics.
Speaker 1: The question this week was favorite moment from this first
Speaker 1: half of the season. There were a ton The very
Speaker 1: first reply we got, I think, to no surprise, was
Speaker 1: one of the leaders in the pack as far as
Speaker 1: favorite moments amongst the fans, simply dot GERM Tobias for
Speaker 1: the win against the Lakers. That was an awesome moment
Speaker 1: and with it to me, it's either that moment or
Speaker 1: the two three zone comeback the John Cheney matchup zone
Speaker 1: against Indiana. So those are my two favorites. More on
Speaker 1: that to come nice, but yeah, Tobias for the win
Speaker 1: against the Lakers. Win against the top team in the
Speaker 1: NBA at that point in time, they defending champs, and
Speaker 1: a huge moment for Tobias in a national Spotlight game
Speaker 1: to clinch the game winner with a clutch shot. Improve that, yes,
Speaker 1: as I would throw out there, an improved score this
Speaker 1: year and improved timely score this year. Noah dot Stoney
Speaker 1: saying Tobias becoming MJ on the Falloway versus the Lakers.
Speaker 1: So nice to see some love for Tobias Harris. We'll
Speaker 1: underscore raft Joel and beats fade away against the Bulls.
Speaker 1: Of course, as far as favorite moments, highlight signature moments
Speaker 1: from the first half of the season, we got to
Speaker 1: get to the fifty point game. I'm with that as well.
Speaker 1: I think that fifty point game, the fifty piece McNugget
Speaker 1: that Tobias talked about, I was all about that Joel
Speaker 1: embiad performance there. If it's a really good moment so
Speaker 1: far in this young season. Selves. This solicitation for these
Speaker 1: submissions made me appreciate even more what we've gotten to
Speaker 1: see over the last two two and a half three months.
Speaker 1: Because there were a great list of things to select
Speaker 1: from to answer this question. As far as favorite moment
Speaker 1: from the first half, Aaron Griff saying and beats fifty
Speaker 1: piece McNugget game. There were so many replies about Joel
Speaker 1: Embiad's career high fifty spot. Liam Stephen says, Joel pulling
Speaker 1: up to tie the game against the Miami Heat and
Speaker 1: then winning that game in overtime, a game the Sixers
Speaker 1: really had to grind out against a scrappy, shorthanded Miami
Speaker 1: Heat team back in January. Crazy that you say back
Speaker 1: in January, because that game was just a little over
Speaker 1: a month ago, but it feels like a lifetime. This
Speaker 1: year is so weird, But I agree with you. A
Speaker 1: lot of awesome moments and I'm glad we're getting to
Speaker 1: relive them now. Bead with forty five sixteen, four assists,
Speaker 1: five steals, and a block shot in that game against
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat at three point win. Back on January
Speaker 1: the twelfth, we talked about Joel Embiad's career high performances.
Speaker 1: Of course, lots of love on the Graham. As far
Speaker 1: as favorite moments featuring Ben Simmons personal best scoring performance Underscore,
Speaker 1: dot Quill says, Ben Simmons goes for forty two against
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz. Absolute lutely a highlight from the first half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. This team has had some really
Speaker 1: exciting games, even one shorthanded. And remember that dot forty
Speaker 1: two point performance. The team is without Joel Embiid. I'm
Speaker 1: now remembering Tyrese Maxie's thirty nine point performance when the
Speaker 1: team was absent about everybody. There have been some cool
Speaker 1: moments for this team, even in games that didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: end up going their way. Yes, Maxie got some level reach.
Speaker 1: Some of those in second Christopher dot Grima says Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons forty two point game, He's the goat. Chad dot
Speaker 1: Men's one rights. Take that Tyler Johnson dunk, laughing crying emoji.
Speaker 1: That was a great dunk. Ben's had a lot of
Speaker 1: Ben always has great dunks, but the one on Tyler
Speaker 1: Johnson that was pretty excellent. He really does. I'm with
Speaker 1: it as well, all right, underscore Barack five six five.
Speaker 1: The first win against the Boston Celtics, another game that
Speaker 1: felt like a lifetime ago. Joel Embiid had a forty
Speaker 1: two and ten game and that won the Sixers knocked
Speaker 1: off the Celtics back on January twentieth at the Center.
Speaker 1: Anyone against Boston is a good one, agreed. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm just saying I'm just like pumping up these responses.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily have takes for them, but I feel
Speaker 1: all this I feel all this hype. Isabella Irvin underscore
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter comeback against the Pacers. That was her
Speaker 1: favorite moment from the first half. That might have been
Speaker 1: mine as well, so to you, and I talked about
Speaker 1: this with Devon on our Deep Dive podcast. But that
Speaker 1: was a really memorable run there, and really cool to
Speaker 1: see the guys get pumped up about defense because that's
Speaker 1: going to come in handy down the stretch. Yes, Sixers
Speaker 1: had the thirty seven point fourth quarter in that one
Speaker 1: to beat the Pacers one nineteen one ten on January
Speaker 1: thirty first, Tobias went for twenty seven, Ben Simmons had
Speaker 1: twenty one. Great game all around, Brandon underscore. Walter is
Speaker 1: talking about that zone defense come back first the Pacers.
Speaker 1: I think we sometimes lose track of the fact that
Speaker 1: Doc going back to day one, has acknowledged that if
Speaker 1: the Sixers are going to do this thing, this year
Speaker 1: and make a run. It's going to be on the
Speaker 1: back of their defense. That game was a great coaching
Speaker 1: wrinkle phone in by Doc at a timely moment, and
Speaker 1: it really unleashed Matisse in Ben Yeah, Matise with those
Speaker 1: four steals in the fourth quarter, he was really We
Speaker 1: got to see him thrive in his sort of natural environment.
Speaker 1: He's gotten this reputation as a great defender, whether it's
Speaker 1: man or in zone, but we haven't seen a lot
Speaker 1: of zone from him in the NBA, and getting to
Speaker 1: see him really thrive and lead the team through something
Speaker 1: was just a very cool moment all around. Caitlin dot
Speaker 1: Barr again, this is from our Instagram sticker submissions from
Speaker 1: at six ers. Matisse thy Will put in the clamps
Speaker 1: on John Wall, Blake griff and Zach Levine, Lebron, etc, Etc. Etc.
Speaker 1: Her favorite moments from the first half. I'm with that
Speaker 1: as well. Now I'm starting to think I need to
Speaker 1: rethink what my favorite moments are because Matis has had
Speaker 1: some awesome, awesome defenses defensive performances this year. I think
Speaker 1: everyone was really impressed by him as a rookie and
Speaker 1: it was unclear as to how he would level up
Speaker 1: but I think he certainly has. He's become a lot
Speaker 1: more refined. He's done a really good job against some
Speaker 1: really high level players, and I know that the team
Speaker 1: is very grateful to have him. So it's been cool
Speaker 1: to see him grow from a rookie into a really solid,
Speaker 1: meaningful role player for this team. And you mentioned Lauren
Speaker 1: keeping things in the big picture. Let's just go back
Speaker 1: to December, in the first few games of the season,
Speaker 1: of the first couple of weeks, and people were like,
Speaker 1: where's Matise? Is he out of the rotation? Well, he
Speaker 1: started training camp slow because of injury. And here we
Speaker 1: are now at the All Star break and we're talking
Speaker 1: about a guy who clearly is playing some elite defense
Speaker 1: and statistically putting up some of the best numbers in
Speaker 1: the league based on a per thirty six minute basis
Speaker 1: when he's out there defensively. So great shout out by
Speaker 1: Caitlin for Matisse. Best of Furky. I wonder what they're
Speaker 1: going to talk about for their favorite moments from this
Speaker 1: first half of the season. Every time fur coons in
Speaker 1: the game is my favorite moments. Logan Miller three one
Speaker 1: four says Furkon with the backwards dunk, the dunk of
Speaker 1: the year against the Bulls. That was pretty good. Good
Speaker 1: to see Furkon come out of his little baby slump too,
Speaker 1: that he was having. Some of my favorite sectors of
Speaker 1: Sixers Famdom and Sixers Twitter are are the Matisse diehards
Speaker 1: and the Furkon diehards because they ride for their players,
Speaker 1: and I can get behind that. Those are two great guys,
Speaker 1: and when both of them are on, they're pretty electric.
Speaker 1: Funk dot dot Felix. When we found out Maxie was
Speaker 1: pretty good, felt like we got a number one pick
Speaker 1: referencing the thirty nine point game against the Nuggets. Agree
Speaker 1: for me, that was definitely a first half highlight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cool to know that that Tyrese's potential is just I mean,
Speaker 1: the ceiling is so high on that kid. He is wonderful,
Speaker 1: so fun to watch and was cool to see him
Speaker 1: thrive in what was a pretty difficult situation for the
Speaker 1: team as a whole. Frank Thomas thirty one fifty one,
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxe dropping a career high verse the Nuggets. So
Speaker 1: some love for Tyrese in our first half memorable moments,
Speaker 1: And we'll wrap this up with two that are pretty
Speaker 1: similar underscore. Erica Cole says favorite moment of the first
Speaker 1: half of the season bringing Doc Rivers to the team.
Speaker 1: We are on the road to a championship Cup Emoji
Speaker 1: and Jay don't five seeing this new group of players
Speaker 1: and coaches building the chemistry to help us win. I
Speaker 1: think that is right. If you want the under arching
Speaker 1: theme for all of this, would it be overarching? I
Speaker 1: think Arcs don't under The overarching theme for all of
Speaker 1: this in the first half of the season is new
Speaker 1: coach inheriting players who had been here, and the new
Speaker 1: roster pieces gelling together. And like I said earlier in
Speaker 1: this pod, Celts, you might have expected it to take
Speaker 1: a little bit longer for this team to gel, but
Speaker 1: they have come in on a condensed training camp, they
Speaker 1: haven't had many opportunities to really bond due to COVID restrictions,
Speaker 1: and they are winning games more than any other team
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference period. And I think that's really
Speaker 1: cool to see that it's a new team with a
Speaker 1: new coach and new leadership. Things are going pretty well
Speaker 1: pretty early. Phenomenal love the mail bag this week, doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: win or lose the game before they're taping. Great stuff
Speaker 1: by everyone out there. We will notify you look in
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Speaker 1: for a swag bag. Thank you, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for the voicemails, for the dms all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lauren Rosen. Again, programming reminder, we are not
Speaker 1: going to have a mail bag next Monday. We're taking
Speaker 1: Monday the eighth off because it's the All Star break.
Speaker 1: We're back with our next mail bag Monday, maybe perhaps
Speaker 1: with a special guest. Let's hope fingers crossed on the fifteenth.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have a special guest at some point.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but you on the look out
Speaker 1: for that. I'm looking forward to itself, all righty see
Speaker 1: you