WEBVTT - Mailbag Monday | Your Favorite Joel Embiid Moves 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers Podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.840 search seventy Sixers Podcast wherever you get your pods. It 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.800 was a monster week for Joel Embiid, so not surprisingly, 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:13.280 we're going to spend a lot of time on the 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.760 mail Bag talking about the seventy Sixers MVP candidate, from 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.599 how well you think he's been playing to some of 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.080 your favorite moves it is. Hey, Brian and Lauren just 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.280 wanted to tell you how pumped I am about watching 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.319 these seventy sixers playing and be a beast of the 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.760 East Man. I am feeling it. And an important follow up, 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.559 what should we call work on corkmis fans, You sent 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.960 us submissions and we will deliverate. It's your voice, mails, 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.800 dms and mentions. As always here on mail Bag, Monday 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.800 got a little bit of a breather over the weekend 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:51.080 and unheard of back to back nights without seventy Sixers basketball. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.279 I felt, Lauren Rosen, I needed it, but yet I 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.880 yearn for seventy six ers basketball now and a monster 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.080 a week another one awaits the number one team in 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.279 the Eastern Conference. Yeah, I mean this schedule Selts is crazy. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:06.840 You and I talk about it. We hear the players 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:10.800 talk about it really frequently. I'm thrilled for the team 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.199 that they are as healthy as they are at this point, 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.520 given what the schedule has looked like. It was nice 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.560 to have two days off. It's nice to have a 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.920 team that's winning. I mean, imagine doing what we do 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.760 for a team that's struggling this year. I mean, they're 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.160 still playing as many games and to be we have 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:32.360 the privilege of taking dubs almost every night and getting 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.920 to react to those. I just can't really imagine how 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.040 tough it's got to be on players and fan bases 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.480 and staff for teams that are struggling right now. This 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.600 has been a really crazy, crazy year. But all that 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.560 being said, looking forward to another exciting week of six 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.120 Ers basketball. Now we have you, Remember, Lauren Rosen, some 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.480 of us you're on mail bag Monday did live through 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.120 seasons such as the ones that you are referring to. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.640 Not all of us could drop in for a playoff 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.840 season and keep a street going every year that person's 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.240 been employed. Maybe I'm maybe I'm the secret Sauce Celts. 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.680 Maybe it wasn't all those years of struggle. Maybe it 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.480 was adding me to the fold. It's strange because in 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.000 some ways friends of mine asked me that they're like, well, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.120 how does this compare it to the ten win season, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.560 which was my first season, And in some ways that 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.360 was a simpler time. It was in some ways not 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.760 as much fun, more simpler. But now it's like, as 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.760 you said, every game for the most part has a 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.639 positive storyline. And it's just funny to me because last 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.200 we saw the seventy six Ers, it was Friday, great 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.600 win over the LA Clippers, and it was to me 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.799 very interesting to juxtaposition that with the previous Friday, which 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.799 when the Sixers suffered a really bad loss against the 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.639 New Orleans Pelicans. I feel like I say this cliche 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.480 a lot. It was something that Brett Brown talked about 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.880 a lot when he was here. A week is a 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.360 long time in the NBA. You can feel like forever. 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.440 I mean, who was even thinking about that Pelicans game 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.680 after the Sixers dusted off the Clippers for their fourth 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.600 consecutive victory. Yeah, it's certainly not Doc Rivers. Doc Rivers 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.359 was really willing to move on quickly after that difficult 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.720 loss that was now a little over a week ago, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.880 and as were the players, and since then it's been 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.280 pedal to the metal. They've nached some really impressive victories. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.639 So good to know that that sort of short term 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.120 memory that players and coaches always talk about is something 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.000 that this team has been able to tap into, and 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.000 they certainly need to given what the schedule has looked like. 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.400 Really cool to see them rebound from a tough loss 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:33.079 in a very solid week that proceeded it. It is 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.520 mail Bag Monday. We do it as you may or 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.280 may not be able to guess every Monday. You're on 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.000 the seventy six Ers podcast network main feed. How it works. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.520 You hit Lauren or myself in the mansions with the 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.720 DM or the preferred method the podline two and five 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.280 four zero three seven to six three seven. We're gonna 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.280 open the mail bag up in just a moment. Seventy 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.680 six Ers start another big week this week Golden State 0:03:55.720 --> 0:04:00.680 Warriors and Steph Who's going Bananas? Lately? Warriors have been 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.880 on a tear. They're coming off the loss, but they've 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.240 been playing really well before that. Phoenix Suns. I cannot 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.680 wait for this game on Wednesday night. Number two team 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.920 in the West, not too far off the pace for 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.920 the Utah Jazz then a back to back, well, the 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.440 end of a back to back starting Thursday, but beginning 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.000 a two game series on the road against the three 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:26.080 seed Milwaukee Bucks. Eastern Conference is getting interesting. Larn four 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.400 through seven. There's some interesting stuff happening there right now. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:34.599 You got the Hawks, Celtics, Knicks all playing well. Miami's 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.360 touch and go, Charlotte's up and down. It's competitive on 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.320 both sides. When you look at the West, like, nobody 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:43.880 wants to run into the Lakers in the latter part 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.440 of that bracket, in the bottom part of their bracket. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.479 And it's always great to have the one seed, to 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.039 have the two seed, but when good teams are hanging 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.680 around six, seven, eight, it's it's gonna be spicy. It's 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.320 gonna be interesting. And I've enjoyed watching it shake out 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.440 that Heat Nets game. I don't all the days have 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.520 run together for me. I believe it was last night. 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.480 I believe that was Sunday when I was watching it. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.039 That was a heck of a game. Bam Adebayo hitting 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:12.400 that game winner. Of course, the current two seed, where 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.320 are the Where are the heat right now? Are they? Seven? 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.080 So cool to see the Heat beat the Nets? Obviously, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.880 some notable absences on that Nets squad, but it's true. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.880 I mean, any team can beat any other team on 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.560 any night, regardless of who's available and who's not. And 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.040 it's going to be a really interesting playoffs for sure. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.159 Mail bag opening in a moment. Do you want to 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.320 touch upon the Clippers game real quick? Just to get 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:40.200 your thoughts Laurn, We went in depth about the Nets game, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.840 what it meant, what it didn't mean on the Friday 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.640 deep dive with the Von Givens Clippers game, Lauren I 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.640 felt was a little bit more of a true test, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.520 whereas the game on Wednesday Listen Sixers got up big 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.760 twenty two points against the Nets fourth quarter when Brooklyn 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.080 only played one of its three big stars. For the 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.520 Sixers and the Clippers alike, I thought it was more 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.320 even ground. The playing field was more level and comparable 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.200 in that game on Friday because there was no Kawai, 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.120 no Sergebacano, Pat Beverley for the Clippers. Seventy Sixers were 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.120 missing Tobias Harris and Seth Curry, so each team was 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.160 missing some key members, the most important one, you can 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.839 make the case, belong to the Clippers, but still hard 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.880 fought game, seventy Sixers were able to grind it out 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.840 of the three point win one oh six one h three. 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.280 I liked it. Yeah, no Dwight Howard either, So interesting 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.599 to see how the team would compensate for those minutes 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.280 when Joel was off the floor and managed to find 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.719 a way to figure it out. Obviously, you hope you 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.920 get into the playoffs with both of those two available 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.160 to cover the full game's worth of minutes. But interesting 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.280 to see Ben Simmons get good work in Mike Scott. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.120 Anthony Tolliver had some minutes as a bigger man out there. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.440 Cool to see him get activated for the first time 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.840 in a while. I agree. I think the absences on 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.159 both sides made for a more level playing field, and 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.919 it felt like we're really getting to assess both teams 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.840 at a similar strength. Even though they weren't at full strength, 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.200 they were at a similar strength for sure. Listen, Paul 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.560 George is awesome. You will hear no Paul George Slanner 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.000 from me thought he played a great game. Love the 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.800 seventy six Ers defense down the stretch. He was not 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.720 even close to where the ball was going on that 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.920 final inbounds play. Morris had to take the shot. Paul 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.480 was able to then fight for a rebound, but Ben 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.640 Simmons had him pinned against the sideline. He couldn't even 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.680 really be used as a decoy as much in that 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:32.120 play because he just didn't have the room to operate. Yeah, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.920 the screenshot of where the ball was versus where Paul 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.240 was and watching how that play unfolded, I think was 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.480 helpful in the Ben Simmons Defensive Player of the Year case. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.720 That is ever building for our guy, very legitimate and 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:51.160 valid defensive player of the year case. I'm with it 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.960 all right, it is time let us go to the 0:07:55.000 --> 0:08:01.640 one and only mail bag on this Monday. You have 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.200 one new message. Let us go to the pod line 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.400 right away. Hey, Brian and Lauren just wanted to tell 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.640 you how pumped I am about watching these seventy sixers playing. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.360 You know, we still got the MVP in my opinion, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.960 and embed and be the beast of the East Man. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.960 I am feeling it. As far as Joel's healthy, we 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.280 can win this. Not only that, but we got George 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.920 Hill reportably coming back in the next couple of weeks. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:30.120 I'm feeling real good. Let's go Sixers. Great enthusiasm right 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:31.680 off the bat. How do you get in touch on 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.160 the pod line two five four zero three seven six 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.160 three seven two five four zero three pods you call 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.200 you win some swag, We send it out to you, Lauren. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.000 Hard to argue with any seventy sixers fan feeling good 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.560 when the Beast is out there and playing the way 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.480 that he is. I like that, the m Beast of 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.640 the East. That's nice, the MVPD. There's a lot going 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.120 on here. I'm a big fan of all the all 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.240 the little I don't want to say pet names because 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.080 that doesn't really seem to apply to a man that's 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.640 as large and dominant as Joel. But I like these nicknames. 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.920 Let's go nickname for our guy. Really really good to 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.040 see that the fans are seeing what we see. He 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.320 has just been so dominant. Great to see him come 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.480 back from injury and continue to dominate. I think I 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.480 say this every time we talk sels, but he clearly 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.400 was doing everything he could to stay in shape even 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.439 though he was out with that knee injury, and as 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.640 we all know, a lower extremity injury, it's challenging to 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.760 get your cardio in. It's challenging to stay in shape 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.600 when you're dealing with that type of injury. Doesn't really 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.040 seem like Joel had problems with that, and I think 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.320 he deserves a lot of credit for staying as ready 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.160 and coming back as strong as he has. We're gonna 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.000 do a little mailbag Monday tease here and see that. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.640 We're gonna have more nickname talk a little bit later 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.120 on in the podcast. But yeah, speaking of Joel Embi nicknames, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.800 I think I'm a fan of Embast. I believe that's 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.920 my favorite. Our guy, Anthony Gargano on ninety seven five 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.560 The Fanatic. He is beating the Embast drum on his 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.040 midday radio show from ten to two on The Fanatic. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.280 I like it. It rolls off the tongue for me, 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:10.320 easier than m vbad. Well, that one just like looks 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:11.880 nice when you write it. I don't think. I don't 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.120 think you really have to say it. I think it's 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:19.120 it's nice in a tweet. Em V p ii D. 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:21.720 It works when you write it. When you say it, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.240 it's not as catchy. I'm good. I'm good with m Beast. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.880 Let's run some numbers for Joel Embid going into Monday's 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.599 game against the Golden State Warriors, first seventy six or 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.880 with at least thirty five points in three straight games 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:37.120 since Alan Iverson in two thousand and six, first seventy 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.120 six or with at least thirty six points and seven 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.840 rebounds in three straight games since Charles Barkley in nineteen ninety. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.280 He is on one right now. He is playing so well, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.080 shooting over fifty percent or at fifty percent in three 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.800 out of his last four games, and doing a whole 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.800 heck of a lot of everything. He's been excellent, excellent 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.120 on both ends. I don't think we talk about that enough, 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.200 especially when you talk about potential MVP candidates. The way 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.199 that he completely dictates the way that the opposing offense 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.200 has to run their game is unbelievable when you put 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.199 that side by side with the offensive numbers he's putting up. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.280 We talk a lot about defensive numbers when we talk 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.760 about Ben Simmons Defensive Player of the Year case. Rudy 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.000 Gobert obviously has great defensive numbers. The statistics are there, 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.240 but when you look at the way that Joel forces 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.040 other teams to play, I would argue that his impact 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.840 on that end is perhaps bigger than maybe anyone else 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.319 is in the league, but certainly big enough that it 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.480 deserves a lot of credit when we talk about what 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.800 he's been able to do this year. I'll be honest, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.720 I just because I think it helps my sanity. I 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.480 don't dive too deep into sports talk radio in season 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.640 just because we got a lot of seventy six er 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.480 stuff going on. There's really only so much that my 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.520 brain can take. But I listened a lot on Thursday 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.560 after the win over Brooklyn, and I heard Tim Legler 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.120 on the Fanatic Tim Legler, of course from ESPN. One 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.160 of the things he has a nickname for James Harden. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.600 He calls him Amelia Earhart because he just disappears in 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.520 big games. I thought that was that was a little intense, 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.920 but hey, a case to be made. He's Tim Leisler, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.600 and I'm just me. But the whole point of me 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.640 bringing that up is one, I think it's funny, and 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:24.000 two Joel I know he doesn't have any experience in 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.800 the postseason beyond the second round, but I don't think 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.520 that we can say Joel disappears in big games. I 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.720 think that in these nationally televised games. I just I 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.080 cannot think of a situation where there's been a big 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:41.000 regular season game or a big postseason game so far 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.000 where you could really say Ebid has disappeared. I think 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.760 that if he has not performed up to what our 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.360 typical level of expectation is, it's because you can recognize 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.320 a team like the Toronto Raptors is sending everyone at 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.880 him and making life difficult for him, and it's something 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.720 that he's had to adjust to, and he's doing that. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.120 But I think I don't know, Joe just seems to 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:03.800 have it. He seems to rise to the occasion because, 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:05.600 if anything, he's just getting the line and knocking down 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.360 free throws. Well. Joel talked about it on Zach Lowe's 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.560 podcast last week, the way that Toronto has historically defended 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.440 him with two three defenders the whole team. We saw 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.679 it a lot against the Clippers this season. Joel says 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.920 that he feels more comfortable in those situations based on 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.240 what his options have become when he passes out of 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.880 those double teams, out of those triple teams, when your 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.600 options are Danny Greene and Seth Curry and Tobias Harris, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.520 Ben Simmon, like the group now for Concorkma's Shake Milton 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.280 in some lineups, he has a lot of options that 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.240 make him confident to pass out of those double teams. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.400 I look forward to seeing him do that in the 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.520 playoffs because those guys that I just mentioned, especially the shooters, 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.080 will be primed for that moment. They'll be ready to 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.480 take big shots in the playoffs. They're guys that are 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.839 are everyone I mentioned on that list except for I 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:54.320 guess for Con and Shake are playoff tested and end 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:56.839 of season tested. They know how to take those big shots. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.720 They know how to be ready to do so. I 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.040 look forward to seeing how they all show up together 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.160 in that situation that you mentioned with Joel in double 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.679 and triple teams when the playoffs come around. I think 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.920 it's going to be pretty dangerous. This is going to 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.600 be a somewhat Joe centric mailbag. Monday we met. You 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.720 can get in touch with us on the podline. Another 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.400 way to get in touch, there's our weekly question on 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.240 at sixers on Instagram story. You have one new message 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.000 as we go, rapid fire. Now the question this week 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:31.040 your favorite Joel embiid moved. We got a very nice 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.720 broad range of responses. Let us start LNG with this. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:39.440 Reese Bao says that nasty fade away. So a great 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.160 example of that against the Clippers when he was doubled 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.400 late hit to go ahead shot to make it ninety 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.840 two ninety one, Joel doubled, fade an up, side up 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.680 and good great touch. Man. The Sixers have the lea. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.560 Let's just look at the fade away because I think 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.680 there's a lot of different ways that Joe sets it up. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.960 And when the people submitted their responses on IGS, they 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:59.840 talked about, well, it could have been a pump fake 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.920 to a fade away. Stuff like that. The fade away 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.200 in general has unlocked a lot for Joel Embid. I agree, 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.520 and it's one of the areas that he's expressed that 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.920 he's looked forward to unlocking. He's talked about wanting to 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.960 open up his offensive game, and I think that's one 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.160 of the biggest places that we've seen this season. I'm 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.760 a big fan of the fade away, and it's one 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.080 of those plays we talk a lot about Seltz, the 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.600 way that he plays so unlike a seven footer, the 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.800 soft touch, the easy movement, almost Dirk esque. That was 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.800 another big guy that could just do graceful stuff. You 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.440 don't expect Joel to be as graceful as he is. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.120 And that play that you talked about at the end 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.560 in the fourth quarter against the Clippers, that was that 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.040 was sort of the first thing I thought of. He 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.040 manages to get through people, right, but then the finish 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.280 is so graceful and so delightful to watch esthetically. You know, 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.240 Ecan Rhodes says, pump fake fade away. No doubt Joel 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.360 can set up that lethal jumper with a pump here 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.760 and there. The heavy move as well, just all part 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:04.560 of the Joel embiid jump shot package. Waddell twelve Underscore 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.640 Josh Underscore two on Instagram says the fake shot on 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.640 DeAndre Jordan and then Joel dunked it against the Brooklyn 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.440 Nets last week. Jap step by Joel a faked dribble 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.160 movement little name Bam with a two hand jamp. With 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.680 the fake he got DeAndre Jordan off balance a power 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.640 dribble and a two hand stump. That was a favorite 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.160 move of yours, Lauren that you and Divone both highlighted 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.520 on the Friday Deep Dive. Yeah. I love seeing him 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.760 play against guys like DeAndre Jordan DJ obviously has a 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:37.320 very storied and well earned good reputation in this league. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.800 But I think what we learn when Joel plays against 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.920 guys like that, maybe they can give him some trouble, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.920 but they can't hold him down for the whole game. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.960 And I think that play sort of was satisfying to watch, 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.320 satisfying for Joel to get one on someone that's been 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.040 a pretty good opponent of his over the years. No 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:59.359 doubt about harp PM twenty twelve euro step fire emojis, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.400 three of them, chance for a two for one AM. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.840 It's unfair if there's any doubt about why people have 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.399 this individual in a conversation for the MVP. There is 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.800 nothing that he can't do. The eurostep is classic, you 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.640 could I think Joel has been around long enough where 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.880 you can say vintage Joel Embiid. It was something that 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.879 we've seen evolve more and more of over the years. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.560 I feel like this past week, what were there at 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.320 least at least two noteworthy euro steps? There might have 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.919 been three. There's one against Dallas, he had kind of 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.800 SloMo one in tight against the Clippers. Can't remember if 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.680 there was one against Brooklyn. There were at least two 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.240 um and and something that I think about or I 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.280 remember thinking about earlier this week. The Joel eurostep just 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.959 takes up so much more space than another smaller like 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.520 it sounds silly, but especially when he's coming down the lane, 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:56.159 like the amount of space that he covers in the eurostep, 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.639 it's beautiful to watch and it's funny to watch the 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.480 rest of the It's like the Party of the Red 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.440 Sea sort of when he comes straight down the lane 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.959 and takes up all that space. Another one where he 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.359 just looks more graceful than you think he should be 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:13.280 able to based on his physical attributes. I'm a fan 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.720 of that one as well. And going back and prepping 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:17.879 for this segment of the show, I've forgotten about the 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.320 clip that we heard that we just heard him against 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:21.800 the Bulls. It was like a full length of the 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.720 floor into the eurostep and you can just hear how 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.360 we left the guys in ESPN totally floored by him 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.240 being able to put together and whole entire sequence. Crazy 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.840 niche dot Carmy says, and yes, this is also part 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.440 of the signature Joel Embiid package of moves. The dream 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:44.280 Shake is unnguardable. How do you stop the Joel dream shake? 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:49.280 You don't right exactly. I like that one too. I 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.040 like how much I feel like six Ers fans. I'm 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.280 constantly reminded how well they pay attention, how closely they're 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.000 watching the game, how many things that they can teach me. 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.280 I think that other fan bases you don't. You don't 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.280 always get this type of minutia, these details. And there's 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.520 of course tons of fans that are watching with this 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.640 level of acute detail that aren't calling in. I suggest 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.960 that they do call in in the future. But really 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.040 cool to hear, to hear that the fans are watching 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.040 as closely as we ourselves. Teleopa said the dream shake 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:31.600 on Lebron All Star Weekend. Let's listen back on that. Yeah, 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.480 that was a couple of years ago, and that's what 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.399 All Stars for, you know. And and Lebron was pressed 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.359 up on him going back and watching that, and Joel 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.440 just hit him with the shake. It's great. It makes 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:44.200 me bummed that we didn't get to see Joel and 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:46.520 this year's All Star Game. But I do think that 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.119 it's not a hot take to suggest that there are 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.320 many more Joel and beat All Star appearances in our 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:57.280 future viewing situations, no doubt. Our question for our weekly 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.280 Instagram post for the mail Bag was your favorite Joel 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.639 move this season? Some people dug a little bit deeper 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:05.320 back in time, but this one was from this season. 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.760 Nick underscores Lerno says, when Joel can shoot a three 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.160 at the buzzer against the number one team in the West, 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:15.240 here's MB posting up. He's got Bogdanovitch thinking about a 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:21.480 three there it is. Yes, that is a very specific 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.879 move and shot, but I like it, of course, that 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.760 three pointer to tie the game late against the Jazz 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.080 and an eventual win for the seventy sixers. I think 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.000 I sound like a broken record at this point, but 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.480 just stuff you don't expect a seven foot or to 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.719 be able to do with such ease and grace and confidence. 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:40.879 I mean, nothing highlights that better than the way that 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.040