Speaker 1: What's up Sixers fans. No, it's been a tough couple
Speaker 1: of days. Next week wanted to give you the heads
Speaker 1: up we'll have an end of season round table myself,
Speaker 1: Lauren Rose, and Tom McGinnis, perhaps a couple other guests.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, I wanted to make sure you
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Speaker 1: bonus episode recapping Darryl Morey's press conference held Tuesday June
Speaker 1: twenty second at the seventy six Ers training Complex. I'm
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer, and this is the Scoop from the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers Podcast Network, presented by DraftKings for Tuesday June
Speaker 1: twenty second. You know, I mean I think you can.
Speaker 1: I mean we're two days after you can tell it's
Speaker 1: a little ross though. I mean, like, I think you
Speaker 1: replay that game seven a bunch of times and we
Speaker 1: execute better and we win. But look the reality is reality.
Speaker 1: We didn't do it. And frankly, if we're squeaking by
Speaker 1: the second round, that just tells me we're not We're
Speaker 1: unfortunately not good enough probably to win the title. So
Speaker 1: we need we need to get better. But you know,
Speaker 1: that game, that series is still incredibly painful. Daryl Morey,
Speaker 1: The emotions were still fresh forty eight hours later as
Speaker 1: he addressed the media late Tuesday morning. You don't get
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities. I do think we put ourselves
Speaker 1: in a very good opportunity to win the title this year.
Speaker 1: Didn't get it done. Doc did a really good job
Speaker 1: talking to players yesterday and really everybody, and in his
Speaker 1: remarks he challenged all of us to look at each
Speaker 1: of us in our role and how we can do better.
Speaker 1: You know that starts with me, that starts with Elton
Speaker 1: in the front office. It's Doc and his staff and
Speaker 1: each of the players and what they can do better.
Speaker 1: Just a week and a half ago, the Sixers like
Speaker 1: their Eastern Conference semifinal series versus Atlanta two games to one. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: their game seven setback prevented them from advancing more He's
Speaker 1: wrapping up his first season as president of Basketball operations,
Speaker 1: and despite the sixers early exit from the playoffs, he's
Speaker 1: still optimistic. We have a lot to build on. You know,
Speaker 1: we've got a you know, an MVP candidate, we've got
Speaker 1: an All Star. We've got a player who should be
Speaker 1: an All Star. We've got solid vets, we've got young
Speaker 1: players pushing those vets. I had the great fortune to
Speaker 1: work with Red arback in Boston early in my career,
Speaker 1: and you know, he Follis felt strongly that you want
Speaker 1: to have a structure like we have now, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously great top players, great veterans, but you
Speaker 1: also have young players pushing those veterans for time. And
Speaker 1: I think that was a great dynamically of this year.
Speaker 1: There's no question the Sixers had an excellent regular season
Speaker 1: forty nine wins, first time they earned the one seed
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference it's two thousand and one. The
Speaker 1: series with the Hawks, though, was tough. Jowell and beauteous
Speaker 1: battling through his meniscus injury, and there were the turnovers
Speaker 1: in Game seven. Tobias Harris had some ups and downs.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons felt he could have done a lot more.
Speaker 1: We have an extremely good trio. I mean, you don't
Speaker 1: get the one seed without having an extremely strong, you know,
Speaker 1: top end players. In terms of what's the best next step,
Speaker 1: they give us just three tools, see how free agency, trade,
Speaker 1: and draft, and we're going to figure out how to
Speaker 1: make the team better. What's next? That's the obvious question,
Speaker 1: right where do Mori and the Sixers go from here?
Speaker 1: The draft combines happening this week, the draft itself is
Speaker 1: July twenty ninth, and free agency starts August second. Those
Speaker 1: are some of the tent poles that will guide the
Speaker 1: Sixers path and the months ahead. Well, this is a
Speaker 1: really good group that played at a very high level. Obviously,
Speaker 1: part of my job is to self refract. You know,
Speaker 1: read what others are writing because you and you can
Speaker 1: learn from that, and you know a lot of what
Speaker 1: I'm reading, I frankly don't understand, you know, people saying
Speaker 1: the Sixers are in a bad situation. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't choose to come here, doctor doesn't choose to come here.
Speaker 1: If this is a bad situation. I mean, really, twenty
Speaker 1: five or twenty six teams in this league would love
Speaker 1: to be in our our situation. We've got a good foundation.
Speaker 1: We just have to do better. I have to do better.
Speaker 1: Everyone has to do better. That's the bottom line. That's
Speaker 1: the challenge. And I can tell the to everyone in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia that you know, there's gonna be a ton of
Speaker 1: effort up and down from myself of the front office,
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, and the players who are being challenged.
Speaker 1: You know, as we speak in meetings with Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: on how they can get better as well. Borne has
Speaker 1: been running NBA teams for nearly two decades between the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets and now with the Sixers. He knows what
Speaker 1: to look for and expects the Sixers to make their
Speaker 1: most dramatic improvements internally rather than externally. Obviously, we'd love
Speaker 1: to have all stars at every position, right like we
Speaker 1: have to like see what's out there. We can't overreact
Speaker 1: to anything that just happened, but you can also can't underreact.
Speaker 1: If we go in with like we have to do acts,
Speaker 1: I know that doesn't work. You can't go in and
Speaker 1: say well, we need exactly this if you if you
Speaker 1: do that, you'll fail because you need a whole set
Speaker 1: of options and then pick the one that optimizes your championship.
Speaker 1: Ouds and I thought we did a good job not
Speaker 1: great job at doing that last year, and we need
Speaker 1: to do a great job this offseason. During Tuesday Zoom
Speaker 1: with the media from the seventy six Ers training complex
Speaker 1: and Camden or he spoke for nearly forty minutes. He
Speaker 1: said Doc Rivers and his coaching staff did a tremendous
Speaker 1: job this season and called Joel and beat quote the
Speaker 1: heart and soul of the Sixers. I'm Brian Selter and
Speaker 1: that was the scoot from the seventy Sixers Podcast Network
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