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Speaker 1: mail Bag talking about the seventy Sixers MVP candidate, from
Speaker 1: how well you think he's been playing to some of
Speaker 1: your favorite moves it is. Hey, Brian and Lauren just
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you how pumped I am about watching
Speaker 1: these seventy sixers playing and be a beast of the
Speaker 1: East Man. I am feeling it. And an important follow up,
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Speaker 1: got a little bit of a breather over the weekend
Speaker 1: and unheard of back to back nights without seventy Sixers basketball.
Speaker 1: I felt, Lauren Rosen, I needed it, but yet I
Speaker 1: yearn for seventy six ers basketball now and a monster
Speaker 1: a week another one awaits the number one team in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. Yeah, I mean this schedule Selts is crazy.
Speaker 1: You and I talk about it. We hear the players
Speaker 1: talk about it really frequently. I'm thrilled for the team
Speaker 1: that they are as healthy as they are at this point,
Speaker 1: given what the schedule has looked like. It was nice
Speaker 1: to have two days off. It's nice to have a
Speaker 1: team that's winning. I mean, imagine doing what we do
Speaker 1: for a team that's struggling this year. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: still playing as many games and to be we have
Speaker 1: the privilege of taking dubs almost every night and getting
Speaker 1: to react to those. I just can't really imagine how
Speaker 1: tough it's got to be on players and fan bases
Speaker 1: and staff for teams that are struggling right now. This
Speaker 1: has been a really crazy, crazy year. But all that
Speaker 1: being said, looking forward to another exciting week of six
Speaker 1: Ers basketball. Now we have you, Remember, Lauren Rosen, some
Speaker 1: of us you're on mail bag Monday did live through
Speaker 1: seasons such as the ones that you are referring to.
Speaker 1: Not all of us could drop in for a playoff
Speaker 1: season and keep a street going every year that person's
Speaker 1: been employed. Maybe I'm maybe I'm the secret Sauce Celts.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't all those years of struggle. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was adding me to the fold. It's strange because in
Speaker 1: some ways friends of mine asked me that they're like, well,
Speaker 1: how does this compare it to the ten win season,
Speaker 1: which was my first season, And in some ways that
Speaker 1: was a simpler time. It was in some ways not
Speaker 1: as much fun, more simpler. But now it's like, as
Speaker 1: you said, every game for the most part has a
Speaker 1: positive storyline. And it's just funny to me because last
Speaker 1: we saw the seventy six Ers, it was Friday, great
Speaker 1: win over the LA Clippers, and it was to me
Speaker 1: very interesting to juxtaposition that with the previous Friday, which
Speaker 1: when the Sixers suffered a really bad loss against the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans. I feel like I say this cliche
Speaker 1: a lot. It was something that Brett Brown talked about
Speaker 1: a lot when he was here. A week is a
Speaker 1: long time in the NBA. You can feel like forever.
Speaker 1: I mean, who was even thinking about that Pelicans game
Speaker 1: after the Sixers dusted off the Clippers for their fourth
Speaker 1: consecutive victory. Yeah, it's certainly not Doc Rivers. Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: was really willing to move on quickly after that difficult
Speaker 1: loss that was now a little over a week ago,
Speaker 1: and as were the players, and since then it's been
Speaker 1: pedal to the metal. They've nached some really impressive victories.
Speaker 1: So good to know that that sort of short term
Speaker 1: memory that players and coaches always talk about is something
Speaker 1: that this team has been able to tap into, and
Speaker 1: they certainly need to given what the schedule has looked like.
Speaker 1: Really cool to see them rebound from a tough loss
Speaker 1: in a very solid week that proceeded it. It is
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Speaker 1: six Ers start another big week this week Golden State
Speaker 1: Warriors and Steph Who's going Bananas? Lately? Warriors have been
Speaker 1: on a tear. They're coming off the loss, but they've
Speaker 1: been playing really well before that. Phoenix Suns. I cannot
Speaker 1: wait for this game on Wednesday night. Number two team
Speaker 1: in the West, not too far off the pace for
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz then a back to back, well, the
Speaker 1: end of a back to back starting Thursday, but beginning
Speaker 1: a two game series on the road against the three
Speaker 1: seed Milwaukee Bucks. Eastern Conference is getting interesting. Larn four
Speaker 1: through seven. There's some interesting stuff happening there right now.
Speaker 1: You got the Hawks, Celtics, Knicks all playing well. Miami's
Speaker 1: touch and go, Charlotte's up and down. It's competitive on
Speaker 1: both sides. When you look at the West, like, nobody
Speaker 1: wants to run into the Lakers in the latter part
Speaker 1: of that bracket, in the bottom part of their bracket.
Speaker 1: And it's always great to have the one seed, to
Speaker 1: have the two seed, but when good teams are hanging
Speaker 1: around six, seven, eight, it's it's gonna be spicy. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. And I've enjoyed watching it shake out
Speaker 1: that Heat Nets game. I don't all the days have
Speaker 1: run together for me. I believe it was last night.
Speaker 1: I believe that was Sunday when I was watching it.
Speaker 1: That was a heck of a game. Bam Adebayo hitting
Speaker 1: that game winner. Of course, the current two seed, where
Speaker 1: are the Where are the heat right now? Are they? Seven?
Speaker 1: So cool to see the Heat beat the Nets? Obviously,
Speaker 1: some notable absences on that Nets squad, but it's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, any team can beat any other team on
Speaker 1: any night, regardless of who's available and who's not. And
Speaker 1: it's going to be a really interesting playoffs for sure.
Speaker 1: Mail bag opening in a moment. Do you want to
Speaker 1: touch upon the Clippers game real quick? Just to get
Speaker 1: your thoughts Laurn, We went in depth about the Nets game,
Speaker 1: what it meant, what it didn't mean on the Friday
Speaker 1: deep dive with the Von Givens Clippers game, Lauren I
Speaker 1: felt was a little bit more of a true test,
Speaker 1: whereas the game on Wednesday Listen Sixers got up big
Speaker 1: twenty two points against the Nets fourth quarter when Brooklyn
Speaker 1: only played one of its three big stars. For the
Speaker 1: Sixers and the Clippers alike, I thought it was more
Speaker 1: even ground. The playing field was more level and comparable
Speaker 1: in that game on Friday because there was no Kawai,
Speaker 1: no Sergebacano, Pat Beverley for the Clippers. Seventy Sixers were
Speaker 1: missing Tobias Harris and Seth Curry, so each team was
Speaker 1: missing some key members, the most important one, you can
Speaker 1: make the case, belong to the Clippers, but still hard
Speaker 1: fought game, seventy Sixers were able to grind it out
Speaker 1: of the three point win one oh six one h three.
Speaker 1: I liked it. Yeah, no Dwight Howard either, So interesting
Speaker 1: to see how the team would compensate for those minutes
Speaker 1: when Joel was off the floor and managed to find
Speaker 1: a way to figure it out. Obviously, you hope you
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs with both of those two available
Speaker 1: to cover the full game's worth of minutes. But interesting
Speaker 1: to see Ben Simmons get good work in Mike Scott.
Speaker 1: Anthony Tolliver had some minutes as a bigger man out there.
Speaker 1: Cool to see him get activated for the first time
Speaker 1: in a while. I agree. I think the absences on
Speaker 1: both sides made for a more level playing field, and
Speaker 1: it felt like we're really getting to assess both teams
Speaker 1: at a similar strength. Even though they weren't at full strength,
Speaker 1: they were at a similar strength for sure. Listen, Paul
Speaker 1: George is awesome. You will hear no Paul George Slanner
Speaker 1: from me thought he played a great game. Love the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers defense down the stretch. He was not
Speaker 1: even close to where the ball was going on that
Speaker 1: final inbounds play. Morris had to take the shot. Paul
Speaker 1: was able to then fight for a rebound, but Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons had him pinned against the sideline. He couldn't even
Speaker 1: really be used as a decoy as much in that
Speaker 1: play because he just didn't have the room to operate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the screenshot of where the ball was versus where Paul
Speaker 1: was and watching how that play unfolded, I think was
Speaker 1: helpful in the Ben Simmons Defensive Player of the Year case.
Speaker 1: That is ever building for our guy, very legitimate and
Speaker 1: valid defensive player of the year case. I'm with it
Speaker 1: all right, it is time let us go to the
Speaker 1: one and only mail bag on this Monday. You have
Speaker 1: one new message. Let us go to the pod line
Speaker 1: right away. Hey, Brian and Lauren just wanted to tell
Speaker 1: you how pumped I am about watching these seventy sixers playing.
Speaker 1: You know, we still got the MVP in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and embed and be the beast of the East Man.
Speaker 1: I am feeling it. As far as Joel's healthy, we
Speaker 1: can win this. Not only that, but we got George
Speaker 1: Hill reportably coming back in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling real good. Let's go Sixers. Great enthusiasm right
Speaker 1: off the bat. How do you get in touch on
Speaker 1: the pod line two five four zero three seven six
Speaker 1: three seven two five four zero three pods you call
Speaker 1: you win some swag, We send it out to you, Lauren.
Speaker 1: Hard to argue with any seventy sixers fan feeling good
Speaker 1: when the Beast is out there and playing the way
Speaker 1: that he is. I like that, the m Beast of
Speaker 1: the East. That's nice, the MVPD. There's a lot going
Speaker 1: on here. I'm a big fan of all the all
Speaker 1: the little I don't want to say pet names because
Speaker 1: that doesn't really seem to apply to a man that's
Speaker 1: as large and dominant as Joel. But I like these nicknames.
Speaker 1: Let's go nickname for our guy. Really really good to
Speaker 1: see that the fans are seeing what we see. He
Speaker 1: has just been so dominant. Great to see him come
Speaker 1: back from injury and continue to dominate. I think I
Speaker 1: say this every time we talk sels, but he clearly
Speaker 1: was doing everything he could to stay in shape even
Speaker 1: though he was out with that knee injury, and as
Speaker 1: we all know, a lower extremity injury, it's challenging to
Speaker 1: get your cardio in. It's challenging to stay in shape
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with that type of injury. Doesn't really
Speaker 1: seem like Joel had problems with that, and I think
Speaker 1: he deserves a lot of credit for staying as ready
Speaker 1: and coming back as strong as he has. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do a little mailbag Monday tease here and see that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have more nickname talk a little bit later
Speaker 1: on in the podcast. But yeah, speaking of Joel Embi nicknames,
Speaker 1: I think I'm a fan of Embast. I believe that's
Speaker 1: my favorite. Our guy, Anthony Gargano on ninety seven five
Speaker 1: The Fanatic. He is beating the Embast drum on his
Speaker 1: midday radio show from ten to two on The Fanatic.
Speaker 1: I like it. It rolls off the tongue for me,
Speaker 1: easier than m vbad. Well, that one just like looks
Speaker 1: nice when you write it. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think you really have to say it. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's nice in a tweet. Em V p ii D.
Speaker 1: It works when you write it. When you say it,
Speaker 1: it's not as catchy. I'm good. I'm good with m Beast.
Speaker 1: Let's run some numbers for Joel Embid going into Monday's
Speaker 1: game against the Golden State Warriors, first seventy six or
Speaker 1: with at least thirty five points in three straight games
Speaker 1: since Alan Iverson in two thousand and six, first seventy
Speaker 1: six or with at least thirty six points and seven
Speaker 1: rebounds in three straight games since Charles Barkley in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: He is on one right now. He is playing so well,
Speaker 1: shooting over fifty percent or at fifty percent in three
Speaker 1: out of his last four games, and doing a whole
Speaker 1: heck of a lot of everything. He's been excellent, excellent
Speaker 1: on both ends. I don't think we talk about that enough,
Speaker 1: especially when you talk about potential MVP candidates. The way
Speaker 1: that he completely dictates the way that the opposing offense
Speaker 1: has to run their game is unbelievable when you put
Speaker 1: that side by side with the offensive numbers he's putting up.
Speaker 1: We talk a lot about defensive numbers when we talk
Speaker 1: about Ben Simmons Defensive Player of the Year case. Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert obviously has great defensive numbers. The statistics are there,
Speaker 1: but when you look at the way that Joel forces
Speaker 1: other teams to play, I would argue that his impact
Speaker 1: on that end is perhaps bigger than maybe anyone else
Speaker 1: is in the league, but certainly big enough that it
Speaker 1: deserves a lot of credit when we talk about what
Speaker 1: he's been able to do this year. I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I just because I think it helps my sanity. I
Speaker 1: don't dive too deep into sports talk radio in season
Speaker 1: just because we got a lot of seventy six er
Speaker 1: stuff going on. There's really only so much that my
Speaker 1: brain can take. But I listened a lot on Thursday
Speaker 1: after the win over Brooklyn, and I heard Tim Legler
Speaker 1: on the Fanatic Tim Legler, of course from ESPN. One
Speaker 1: of the things he has a nickname for James Harden.
Speaker 1: He calls him Amelia Earhart because he just disappears in
Speaker 1: big games. I thought that was that was a little intense,
Speaker 1: but hey, a case to be made. He's Tim Leisler,
Speaker 1: and I'm just me. But the whole point of me
Speaker 1: bringing that up is one, I think it's funny, and
Speaker 1: two Joel I know he doesn't have any experience in
Speaker 1: the postseason beyond the second round, but I don't think
Speaker 1: that we can say Joel disappears in big games. I
Speaker 1: think that in these nationally televised games. I just I
Speaker 1: cannot think of a situation where there's been a big
Speaker 1: regular season game or a big postseason game so far
Speaker 1: where you could really say Ebid has disappeared. I think
Speaker 1: that if he has not performed up to what our
Speaker 1: typical level of expectation is, it's because you can recognize
Speaker 1: a team like the Toronto Raptors is sending everyone at
Speaker 1: him and making life difficult for him, and it's something
Speaker 1: that he's had to adjust to, and he's doing that.
Speaker 1: But I think I don't know, Joe just seems to
Speaker 1: have it. He seems to rise to the occasion because,
Speaker 1: if anything, he's just getting the line and knocking down
Speaker 1: free throws. Well. Joel talked about it on Zach Lowe's
Speaker 1: podcast last week, the way that Toronto has historically defended
Speaker 1: him with two three defenders the whole team. We saw
Speaker 1: it a lot against the Clippers this season. Joel says
Speaker 1: that he feels more comfortable in those situations based on
Speaker 1: what his options have become when he passes out of
Speaker 1: those double teams, out of those triple teams, when your
Speaker 1: options are Danny Greene and Seth Curry and Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmon, like the group now for Concorkma's Shake Milton
Speaker 1: in some lineups, he has a lot of options that
Speaker 1: make him confident to pass out of those double teams.
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing him do that in the
Speaker 1: playoffs because those guys that I just mentioned, especially the shooters,
Speaker 1: will be primed for that moment. They'll be ready to
Speaker 1: take big shots in the playoffs. They're guys that are
Speaker 1: are everyone I mentioned on that list except for I
Speaker 1: guess for Con and Shake are playoff tested and end
Speaker 1: of season tested. They know how to take those big shots.
Speaker 1: They know how to be ready to do so. I
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing how they all show up together
Speaker 1: in that situation that you mentioned with Joel in double
Speaker 1: and triple teams when the playoffs come around. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be pretty dangerous. This is going to
Speaker 1: be a somewhat Joe centric mailbag. Monday we met. You
Speaker 1: can get in touch with us on the podline. Another
Speaker 1: way to get in touch, there's our weekly question on
Speaker 1: at sixers on Instagram story. You have one new message
Speaker 1: as we go, rapid fire. Now the question this week
Speaker 1: your favorite Joel embiid moved. We got a very nice
Speaker 1: broad range of responses. Let us start LNG with this.
Speaker 1: Reese Bao says that nasty fade away. So a great
Speaker 1: example of that against the Clippers when he was doubled
Speaker 1: late hit to go ahead shot to make it ninety
Speaker 1: two ninety one, Joel doubled, fade an up, side up
Speaker 1: and good great touch. Man. The Sixers have the lea.
Speaker 1: Let's just look at the fade away because I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different ways that Joe sets it up.
Speaker 1: And when the people submitted their responses on IGS, they
Speaker 1: talked about, well, it could have been a pump fake
Speaker 1: to a fade away. Stuff like that. The fade away
Speaker 1: in general has unlocked a lot for Joel Embid. I agree,
Speaker 1: and it's one of the areas that he's expressed that
Speaker 1: he's looked forward to unlocking. He's talked about wanting to
Speaker 1: open up his offensive game, and I think that's one
Speaker 1: of the biggest places that we've seen this season. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of the fade away, and it's one
Speaker 1: of those plays we talk a lot about Seltz, the
Speaker 1: way that he plays so unlike a seven footer, the
Speaker 1: soft touch, the easy movement, almost Dirk esque. That was
Speaker 1: another big guy that could just do graceful stuff. You
Speaker 1: don't expect Joel to be as graceful as he is.
Speaker 1: And that play that you talked about at the end
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter against the Clippers, that was that
Speaker 1: was sort of the first thing I thought of. He
Speaker 1: manages to get through people, right, but then the finish
Speaker 1: is so graceful and so delightful to watch esthetically. You know,
Speaker 1: Ecan Rhodes says, pump fake fade away. No doubt Joel
Speaker 1: can set up that lethal jumper with a pump here
Speaker 1: and there. The heavy move as well, just all part
Speaker 1: of the Joel embiid jump shot package. Waddell twelve Underscore
Speaker 1: Josh Underscore two on Instagram says the fake shot on
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan and then Joel dunked it against the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets last week. Jap step by Joel a faked dribble
Speaker 1: movement little name Bam with a two hand jamp. With
Speaker 1: the fake he got DeAndre Jordan off balance a power
Speaker 1: dribble and a two hand stump. That was a favorite
Speaker 1: move of yours, Lauren that you and Divone both highlighted
Speaker 1: on the Friday Deep Dive. Yeah. I love seeing him
Speaker 1: play against guys like DeAndre Jordan DJ obviously has a
Speaker 1: very storied and well earned good reputation in this league.
Speaker 1: But I think what we learn when Joel plays against
Speaker 1: guys like that, maybe they can give him some trouble,
Speaker 1: but they can't hold him down for the whole game.
Speaker 1: And I think that play sort of was satisfying to watch,
Speaker 1: satisfying for Joel to get one on someone that's been
Speaker 1: a pretty good opponent of his over the years. No
Speaker 1: doubt about harp PM twenty twelve euro step fire emojis,
Speaker 1: three of them, chance for a two for one AM.
Speaker 1: It's unfair if there's any doubt about why people have
Speaker 1: this individual in a conversation for the MVP. There is
Speaker 1: nothing that he can't do. The eurostep is classic, you
Speaker 1: could I think Joel has been around long enough where
Speaker 1: you can say vintage Joel Embiid. It was something that
Speaker 1: we've seen evolve more and more of over the years.
Speaker 1: I feel like this past week, what were there at
Speaker 1: least at least two noteworthy euro steps? There might have
Speaker 1: been three. There's one against Dallas, he had kind of
Speaker 1: SloMo one in tight against the Clippers. Can't remember if
Speaker 1: there was one against Brooklyn. There were at least two
Speaker 1: um and and something that I think about or I
Speaker 1: remember thinking about earlier this week. The Joel eurostep just
Speaker 1: takes up so much more space than another smaller like
Speaker 1: it sounds silly, but especially when he's coming down the lane,
Speaker 1: like the amount of space that he covers in the eurostep,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful to watch and it's funny to watch the
Speaker 1: rest of the It's like the Party of the Red
Speaker 1: Sea sort of when he comes straight down the lane
Speaker 1: and takes up all that space. Another one where he
Speaker 1: just looks more graceful than you think he should be
Speaker 1: able to based on his physical attributes. I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of that one as well. And going back and prepping
Speaker 1: for this segment of the show, I've forgotten about the
Speaker 1: clip that we heard that we just heard him against
Speaker 1: the Bulls. It was like a full length of the
Speaker 1: floor into the eurostep and you can just hear how
Speaker 1: we left the guys in ESPN totally floored by him
Speaker 1: being able to put together and whole entire sequence. Crazy
Speaker 1: niche dot Carmy says, and yes, this is also part
Speaker 1: of the signature Joel Embiid package of moves. The dream
Speaker 1: Shake is unnguardable. How do you stop the Joel dream shake?
Speaker 1: You don't right exactly. I like that one too. I
Speaker 1: like how much I feel like six Ers fans. I'm
Speaker 1: constantly reminded how well they pay attention, how closely they're
Speaker 1: watching the game, how many things that they can teach me.
Speaker 1: I think that other fan bases you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: always get this type of minutia, these details. And there's
Speaker 1: of course tons of fans that are watching with this
Speaker 1: level of acute detail that aren't calling in. I suggest
Speaker 1: that they do call in in the future. But really
Speaker 1: cool to hear, to hear that the fans are watching
Speaker 1: as closely as we ourselves. Teleopa said the dream shake
Speaker 1: on Lebron All Star Weekend. Let's listen back on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a couple of years ago, and that's what
Speaker 1: All Stars for, you know. And and Lebron was pressed
Speaker 1: up on him going back and watching that, and Joel
Speaker 1: just hit him with the shake. It's great. It makes
Speaker 1: me bummed that we didn't get to see Joel and
Speaker 1: this year's All Star Game. But I do think that
Speaker 1: it's not a hot take to suggest that there are
Speaker 1: many more Joel and beat All Star appearances in our
Speaker 1: future viewing situations, no doubt. Our question for our weekly
Speaker 1: Instagram post for the mail Bag was your favorite Joel
Speaker 1: move this season? Some people dug a little bit deeper
Speaker 1: back in time, but this one was from this season.
Speaker 1: Nick underscores Lerno says, when Joel can shoot a three
Speaker 1: at the buzzer against the number one team in the West,
Speaker 1: here's MB posting up. He's got Bogdanovitch thinking about a
Speaker 1: three there it is. Yes, that is a very specific
Speaker 1: move and shot, but I like it, of course, that
Speaker 1: three pointer to tie the game late against the Jazz
Speaker 1: and an eventual win for the seventy sixers. I think
Speaker 1: I sound like a broken record at this point, but
Speaker 1: just stuff you don't expect a seven foot or to
Speaker 1: be able to do with such ease and grace and confidence.
Speaker 1: I mean, nothing highlights that better than the way that
Speaker 1: Joel has been able to shoot threes over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years and now doing it in big situations
Speaker 1: and important moments with confidence and seeing its teammates trusting
Speaker 1: him to take and make those shots also really cool.
Speaker 1: There's no one there's no one out there that's jealous.
Speaker 1: That's upset that Joel took the shot. They know that
Speaker 1: he can make the shot, and I think that that's
Speaker 1: a really cool thing to have in your center. Of course,
Speaker 1: we have to get to this one x underscore t
Speaker 1: dot underscore three nine five two. When Joel Embiid air humps,
Speaker 1: it's just efferent bead puts it out of got towns
Speaker 1: leading the wrong way, a lot of contact, and then
Speaker 1: the whistle does come in and count the bucket full
Speaker 1: with a little celebration. Joel Embiid is gonna try to
Speaker 1: troll Carl now and try to get under his skin,
Speaker 1: and this is just a start of it. I call
Speaker 1: it a thrust. I'll be honest with you. I think
Speaker 1: it's more of a thrust. I don't really call it anything.
Speaker 1: I just sort of like laugh and continue on with
Speaker 1: my day. Um. I don't really have any commentary for
Speaker 1: this one. Happy to see Joel happy, That's what I'll say. Great.
Speaker 1: I think that's a nice mature way to look at it.
Speaker 1: I'll give a brief for old history because there was
Speaker 1: the one against the Magic. I think the one against
Speaker 1: the magic on New Year's Eve Day that might have
Speaker 1: been the first somebody's having fun I think in Orlando,
Speaker 1: and it has nothing to do with disney Land. Watch
Speaker 1: this catch it high, keep it high in traffic. They
Speaker 1: can't touch that, the nice little soft touch and the
Speaker 1: shimmy on the floor. And then we saw the one
Speaker 1: against Kat and the Timberwolves. Just a couple noteworthy thrusts.
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna do it once and then
Speaker 1: maybe get a slap on the wrist and never do
Speaker 1: it again. But like, clearly it's like fine, So I'll
Speaker 1: just continue to laugh and continue to move on with
Speaker 1: my day. That's my that's my course of action. The
Speaker 1: great Jeff mcdev member of six Ers Twitter works for
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken the WWE, and you put together
Speaker 1: an incredible montage. I don't know, Lauren, if if I'm
Speaker 1: straying from a what is kosher for a family podcast
Speaker 1: like mail Bag Monday or b your your interests, your
Speaker 1: ability to reference certain things. But back in the day
Speaker 1: when I was watching WW, it wasn't even w was
Speaker 1: WF the Heart of It Degeneration X featuring the likes
Speaker 1: of Triple h H, Sean Michaels. Jeff did a great montage.
Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that. Well, didn't Joel say that
Speaker 1: that's what this is inspired by. Like, hasn't he now
Speaker 1: come out and said that that that's why he does it?
Speaker 1: I believe? So yeah, so okay, that's I think that
Speaker 1: that's kosher because Joel has explained that that's where it
Speaker 1: comes from. Yeah, whatever, that's right, do your thing, Joe whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll leave it. We'll leave it at that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if you can find Jeff mcdev on Twitter, great montage.
Speaker 1: All right, enough of thrusts. One more underscore calling hours
Speaker 1: favorite move Joel embiid when he shifts his fingers in
Speaker 1: a way to tweet some hilarious things. Everyone loves that move.
Speaker 1: It's a good one. Thinking outside the box. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you had to give an NBA Twitter MVP, I
Speaker 1: think he'd be top three the way he is for
Speaker 1: the regular MVP award. He's good. He knows what he's doing,
Speaker 1: and that's all I'll say. He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: That's right, he's got he's got his fingers on the pulse.
Speaker 1: In all seriousness, before we close the conversation on Joel
Speaker 1: for this episode, let's let's give them out up. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do this I've got a new
Speaker 1: mixing board toy the great people at Road the Roadcaster.
Speaker 1: We now have this new mixing board that we can
Speaker 1: record with for our podcast. So I'm gonna say, let's
Speaker 1: give Joel Embiid a mighty great resounding round of applause
Speaker 1: for Joel Embiid NBA for the Month of March Community
Speaker 1: Assist Award. Joel Embiid love it that he is recognized
Speaker 1: for that outstanding work being done by Joel in the community. Lauren,
Speaker 1: you wrote the article give us the Rundown. Well, Joel
Speaker 1: has been recognized for something he's been doing for a
Speaker 1: long time, giving back to the community. I mean, we've
Speaker 1: seen it NonStop since the NBA shut down, when he
Speaker 1: donated alongside Sixers managing partner Josh Harris and co managing
Speaker 1: partner David Blitzer, one point three billion dollars to Penn Health. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to mess that up to Penhealth to
Speaker 1: fund antibody testing for frontline workers. We saw it again
Speaker 1: over the holidays when he adopted local families and covered
Speaker 1: their expenses. We saw it again with his All Star
Speaker 1: earnings as he gave back to combating the unhoused, specifically
Speaker 1: specifically unhoused youth in Philadelphia, and it's really cool to
Speaker 1: see him being now recognized by the NBA, who's going
Speaker 1: to donate ten thousand dollars to Covenant House Pennsylvania in
Speaker 1: Joel Empte's honor. So cool to see this happening for
Speaker 1: Joel in a season that he's playing like the MVP
Speaker 1: on the court. He has not slowed down in his
Speaker 1: work off the court, and I find it really inspiring
Speaker 1: and certainly deserving of props. So props to Joel. Absolutely
Speaker 1: talking the walk is Joel emb And this just speaks
Speaker 1: to how much amazing work is being done by all
Speaker 1: the athletes in the NBA month in month out, first
Speaker 1: seventy six or to receive a monthly NBA Cares Community
Speaker 1: Assist Awards since Samuel Dallenbart back in two thy ten.
Speaker 1: And if you follow this team, you know all the
Speaker 1: great work these guys do. So really just telling of
Speaker 1: the impact Joellenbiad was able to make with these contributions.
Speaker 1: We're gonna wrap this episode up of mail Bag Monday
Speaker 1: by going back to the podline. You have one new message.
Speaker 1: You may or may not remember that last week we
Speaker 1: had a stand for fur Coon segments on the podcast.
Speaker 1: We have had some members of the Furkon fan group
Speaker 1: call in. They are here to stump for some of
Speaker 1: their names for the Furkon fan group. Let's hear the
Speaker 1: first one. This is Tygar Pensie call in Tykark twenty
Speaker 1: one on Twitter and regarding the fur Con fan page,
Speaker 1: kind of on here to explain myself. I think my
Speaker 1: official submission was furk heads. That's in really no crazy
Speaker 1: story behind obviously mean. My friends are big fur Con fans.
Speaker 1: Whenever he's no going off or something, we're always texting
Speaker 1: each other, Furky go, furky all this, and I think
Speaker 1: kind of just one day say we're some furk heads.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's the story. Thank you, brother, have a go them, Tyler,
Speaker 1: thank you, furkheads. I dig I think that's quality. I
Speaker 1: think it rolls right off the tongue. I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear that fur Con is the type of player who
Speaker 1: brings bros together. We love hearing that the bro textine
Speaker 1: getting going, celebrating furky love it, bringing joy to group
Speaker 1: texts around the world actually is for concord Man, that's true,
Speaker 1: all right, Tyler, thank you for the submission. Noted one
Speaker 1: more Lauren Brian, Happy Friday. It's Jimmy. Just saw your tweet.
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you again for all
Speaker 1: the awesome gear. Really appreciate that. But it's time to
Speaker 1: talk about the important matter. What's the fur Coons fan
Speaker 1: group be called. Look, I want no credit for what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna propose because I saw him on Twitter. If
Speaker 1: I were to come up with something, they'd be something
Speaker 1: silly like the cork Dorks. But the two that I saw,
Speaker 1: and I wish I knew who it was, i'd give
Speaker 1: them credit. But I saw the fur clan and the orchestra.
Speaker 1: Those two are top two. They got to be thrown
Speaker 1: in the ring. Have a go. We guys love hearing
Speaker 1: from Jimmy. Again, we don't always rack back to back
Speaker 1: weeks of the same caller, but in this case, certainly,
Speaker 1: Jimmy leading the charge waving the flag for furkon chorchestra
Speaker 1: is tremendous. Yeah. To me, I think I gotta go
Speaker 1: with the chorchestra. When I first saw it written, I
Speaker 1: didn't like. I didn't get it right away. I had
Speaker 1: to read it out loud, and as soon as I did,
Speaker 1: I was in I think the Corcustra. I think we
Speaker 1: gotta go. I don't know, I'm gonna let I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hear everybody out, but that's gotta be my favorite so far.
Speaker 1: Rob Toth says on Twitter furkus dandies. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a word play there. The furky stands. They stand
Speaker 1: for furkon. Okay, I'm orchestra. I'm still gonna ride for
Speaker 1: the chorchestra. I'm leaning chorchestra. I am leaning chorchestra. I
Speaker 1: think we need to sit on it until next week
Speaker 1: and then maybe consult, maybe consult some other people. See, yeah, okay, tremendous.
Speaker 1: This is what we're all about here. We want to
Speaker 1: bring you. We want to bring communities together, the fur
Speaker 1: com community, the Joel embiad community, seventy six ers community.
Speaker 1: Great mail bag. I thought we got some quality submissions.
Speaker 1: I think the mail bag continues to grow every every week.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed doing this. I'm so glad we are,
Speaker 1: and I can only imagine how popping the mail bag
Speaker 1: is going to be when the playoffs come around. This
Speaker 1: has been great. Seals props to you because the mailbag
Speaker 1: Monday has been your baby. I mean, you have two already.
Speaker 1: It's been your third child, and you've done a great
Speaker 1: job raising this one as you have with your other two.
Speaker 1: This has easily been the toughest of my three children
Speaker 1: to bring along and help mature and grow. Without question.
Speaker 1: We might have to I don't want to get too crazy.
Speaker 1: We might have to up the frequency of the mail
Speaker 1: bag once the playoffs start. I'd be here for it, right.
Speaker 1: We might have to do a a mail bag after dubs.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll think about it, take it all
Speaker 1: to its next stage. You could just like it would
Speaker 1: be hard to explain verbally, but you could just flip
Speaker 1: the MS on mailbag Monday and like spell it with
Speaker 1: is the way that the kids are doing on twitters
Speaker 1: about anything with a W at the beginning, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you win anyway, I'll just stop talking now.
Speaker 1: I just think there's something there not whale bag one day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well no, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, the whale bag.
Speaker 1: We could really call it the whale bag for after wins,
Speaker 1: and then it could be any day, Like we don't
Speaker 1: have to attach the day of the week. I like,
Speaker 1: we got the mail bag and the whale bag, the
Speaker 1: whale bag. Yeah, we might have stumbled onto something. I'm
Speaker 1: not ruling it out. I'm not either, I'm all about it.
Speaker 1: I think I think we just decided anyway. Great mail
Speaker 1: bag add so thank you Selt. Latest round of swag
Speaker 1: bags went out last week. For those of you called in,
Speaker 1: we will be reaching out to you shortly. We appreciate
Speaker 1: it seriously. On a serious note, we love the mail
Speaker 1: bag because it's our way to get in touch with
Speaker 1: you and actually hear from you the fans out there,
Speaker 1: and respond to whatever it is is on your mind.
Speaker 1: So thank you very much. Coming up later this week,
Speaker 1: we will dive deep on Friday with Divine Gibbons. You're
Speaker 1: gonna look out for Cocheck and Tom's Hawks as well,
Speaker 1: and as always, follow and find us on the Scoop.
Speaker 1: Come the playoffs, it's only going to be available on
Speaker 1: the Scoop. The Scoop is only going to be available
Speaker 1: on the Scoop's feed because we've been double dipping on
Speaker 1: both the seventy sixers podcast network feed. In the Scoop
Speaker 1: feed become the playoffs, it's only gonna be on the scoopfeed,
Speaker 1: so follow it. That's all we've got. Lauren, Thank you,
Speaker 1: very much. You see y'all