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Speaker 1: good morning, How are we doing great? One sixteen one
Speaker 1: oh eight win over the Dallas Mavericks. Lauren Rosen always
Speaker 1: great to be with you and everyone who is listening
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Speaker 1: it was win number fifty. It was game number seventy
Speaker 1: six for the seventy Sixers, and it's the first time
Speaker 1: they've won fifty through the first seventy six games of
Speaker 1: a season since two thousand, two thousand and one, and
Speaker 1: we all remember what happened in that season and what
Speaker 1: those playoffs were like. So I'm not saying, but I
Speaker 1: am saying it's a historic fiftieth win or the first
Speaker 1: time in sometime that they've won fifty through this many games. Matt.
Speaker 1: You absolutely love to see it on a night where
Speaker 1: the Sixers actually didn't really have it going the way
Speaker 1: that they wanted to, being able to come out a
Speaker 1: half time and figure it out down the stretch against
Speaker 1: a good Dallas Mavericks team that has been struggling lately,
Speaker 1: but of course has some weapons that are hard to
Speaker 1: miss when you play against that team. So good to
Speaker 1: see the Sixers figure it out in James and Joel's
Speaker 1: first game back. Joel, of course only missed the one game,
Speaker 1: but James has missed a few, so good to see
Speaker 1: them find their rhythm together, big bench contributions. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and jump straight into the box score. Now
Speaker 1: I see the number of engagements rising in that bottom
Speaker 1: right hand corner. You can hit that purple button and
Speaker 1: let us know what stands out to you. As I
Speaker 1: go through the box score, Matt will give you a takeaway.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Tyrese Maxie. We will also get out
Speaker 1: of here after that. So the box score last night
Speaker 1: one sixteen, one oh eight win for the seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: Matt set it their fiftieth win of the season. Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid led the way for the team once again twenty
Speaker 1: five points, nine rebounds, three assists, a steal and a block.
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxie twenty two points, four rebounds, four assists, two steals.
Speaker 1: James Harden a fifteen point twelve assist double double plus
Speaker 1: four rebounds and three steals. Tobias Harris finished with thirteen points,
Speaker 1: four rebounds, two assists, and to steal. George Niang and d'
Speaker 1: anthony Melton had great nights coming off the bench. Seventeen
Speaker 1: for d' anthony on five for six shooting from three
Speaker 1: point range. George had fourteen he made four threes. D'y
Speaker 1: anthony also had six rebounds last night, which is the
Speaker 1: second most rebounds on the team, tied with PJ. Tucker,
Speaker 1: behind Joel Embiid and Matt. It was a good night
Speaker 1: overall for a balanced performance, a good bench performance. Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers talked about the struggling bench on the road and
Speaker 1: attributed it to the fact that a lot of them
Speaker 1: were playing in the starting lineup and weren't able to
Speaker 1: play their traditional roles. So good to see the bench
Speaker 1: proved doc right when they were able to get back
Speaker 1: into their usual groupings last night. What was your biggest takeaway,
Speaker 1: Matt honorable mention the Niang and Melton combo three point
Speaker 1: shooting off the bench, because when you go nine for
Speaker 1: thirteen as a duo, that certainly bears mention, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned it. I will repeat it here. But my primary
Speaker 1: takeaway when we talk about the box score from this
Speaker 1: Sixers MAVs game is you've alluded to the rebounding or
Speaker 1: you talked about the rebounding, but I'm going to take
Speaker 1: it a step further with Melton talk about offensive rebounding
Speaker 1: and how the Sixers had twenty five second chance points.
Speaker 1: Dallas only had eight, by the way, but d' Anthony
Speaker 1: Melton is a guard and he had four offensive rebounds,
Speaker 1: and Paul Reid had three offensive rebounds. So that's a
Speaker 1: hustle stat and it's a skill and Paul Reid is
Speaker 1: really really good at it, and so is d Anthony Melton.
Speaker 1: He's got super long arms. You can see that when
Speaker 1: he comes away with steals on the defensive end. But
Speaker 1: those two guys crashing the glass is eye opening Melton
Speaker 1: and Read in particular, and it was on display against
Speaker 1: the Mavericks. Big time contributions across the board. Paul Reid,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, was my walk off last night. Good
Speaker 1: to see him happy and in good spirits. Matt, I
Speaker 1: agree with you. Love both of your takeaways, love the
Speaker 1: production from the bench. If you don't have anything else
Speaker 1: that you want to talk about from the box score,
Speaker 1: I think we can go ahead and hear Tyrese Maxie.
Speaker 1: But do you have anything else? Statistically? There's a few
Speaker 1: questions and comments that I want to get to because
Speaker 1: there was the game, there's the new locker room, there's
Speaker 1: there's a handful of topics. There's the G League playoffs
Speaker 1: that we can do. But I think hearing from Tyrese
Speaker 1: Maxie post game as we compile all of those things
Speaker 1: would be a great step forward. Alrighty, here is Tyrese
Speaker 1: Maxie immediately post game last night. I think our defense
Speaker 1: has started. The second half was huge. I think we
Speaker 1: kind of got into the ball, trying to force them
Speaker 1: into shots that we wanted them to take and not
Speaker 1: shots that they wanted to take. And that was effective.
Speaker 1: We got and ran, got a couple of easy baskets
Speaker 1: in once we Saturday, and I think it was good.
Speaker 1: It's hard, you know, to find rhythm again. James been
Speaker 1: out I think four games, maybe think Setly missed the
Speaker 1: last game, so I was, you know, first time playing
Speaker 1: with each other and since I don't know, since he
Speaker 1: was here last time. So it happens number of games
Speaker 1: this year as the team make do that again. You
Speaker 1: didn't get in comment. Yeah, it does go. It's a
Speaker 1: confidence of that. Of course, we don't want to get
Speaker 1: down early. But we have the the chemistry and we
Speaker 1: have the communication level that we know that will be okay.
Speaker 1: We know that we're gonna be able to fight and
Speaker 1: be resilient, and we have multiple guys on our team
Speaker 1: that can help us win games. And shout out to
Speaker 1: George and Melt tonight who came off the bench and
Speaker 1: hit up big threes and played really well and we
Speaker 1: needed that lift. Your friends friend, Yeah, he balls tonight.
Speaker 1: He balls to Night. But I told him before the game,
Speaker 1: you know, he was kind of down from the last game.
Speaker 1: We told him how a bounce back game. Um, and
Speaker 1: he did good. And I take no credit for that.
Speaker 1: He was just bothering man the rebounds that he got
Speaker 1: laid in that game offensively. Um, I'm sitting on the
Speaker 1: corner looking at him jumping. I'm like, bro, he was
Speaker 1: you should just dunk it. He was all the way
Speaker 1: up there. But you know, but we appreciate him. He's
Speaker 1: been great. You get I guess for about used to
Speaker 1: help is what is that process? Like the miss do
Speaker 1: the game where you guys the chemistry all season, but
Speaker 1: still like about, there's kind of affirmation process everybody that's
Speaker 1: the boss about rhythm. It's about rhythm. So like James
Speaker 1: has to get his rhythm back because he missed hiring
Speaker 1: many games he missed, Joe missed the last game. So
Speaker 1: now you have Joe having to get his rhythm back
Speaker 1: from missing one game, and you got James from missing
Speaker 1: five games. Now they each individually had to get their
Speaker 1: rhythm back. But then now both of them in the
Speaker 1: pick and roll and the two man gamet gotta get
Speaker 1: their rhythm back, which makes all follow us on the
Speaker 1: quarterbatta get our rhythm back together. So it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard, but uh, you know, if anybody can do it,
Speaker 1: they can do it, and we can do it as
Speaker 1: a team getting a lot of reps. What second unit
Speaker 1: guys just hear what if you learn about the keys
Speaker 1: for you and that's problem. Yeah, if I'm out there
Speaker 1: with a second unit, for the most part of what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do is get into the paint and
Speaker 1: create for myself, to create for others. I think that
Speaker 1: went well for us tonight. We kind of opened up
Speaker 1: the floor. M I drove down. Sometimes it's not even me,
Speaker 1: you know, past making the lab is me drawn to
Speaker 1: shooting a lab, missing it and then period or you
Speaker 1: know them. You often's rebound opportunities. But that's unit that
Speaker 1: we just trying to play fast. You try to play
Speaker 1: a little bit faster, play a little bit more pace,
Speaker 1: and then get stops and run. Tyrese Maxie immediately following
Speaker 1: last night's win, seven games in a row with twenty
Speaker 1: plus points for Tyrese, that's a new career high streak
Speaker 1: for such games and it's just been great to see
Speaker 1: him thriving in every scenario he's been put in as
Speaker 1: he has all season long. Matt, I know you wanted
Speaker 1: to jump into the comments. Go ahead. Yeah. So, first
Speaker 1: of all, when Tyrese responded to you in that clip,
Speaker 1: the questions are of course a little bit harder to
Speaker 1: hear because we are off mic during those moments and
Speaker 1: when the players at the podium, But you asked about
Speaker 1: Anthony Melton, and that was who Tyrese was saying was
Speaker 1: balling against the Mavericks. And when he mentioned in his
Speaker 1: first answer Maxie talking about the first few minutes of
Speaker 1: the third quarter coming out of the locker room, and
Speaker 1: they actually they recorded three rather impressive steals within the
Speaker 1: first five minutes of the second half, trailing Dallas in
Speaker 1: this game, and obviously part of the comeback effort was
Speaker 1: fueled by defense. And speaking of locker room, they moved
Speaker 1: into their new locker room at the Center officially, and
Speaker 1: I did share the locker room reveal video in the
Speaker 1: space here for the live listeners if anyone hasn't seen
Speaker 1: that video yet. But a really nice space. Mainly there's
Speaker 1: not a big column in the middle of the room
Speaker 1: anymore that everyone used to walk around. It's a very
Speaker 1: modern looking circular locker room that has a very modern
Speaker 1: yeah feel to it, Lauren, I was very impressed, and
Speaker 1: it's good on the Sixers front office and staff to
Speaker 1: make sure the guys are comfortable heading into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: a new space for them to get ready in. It
Speaker 1: was nice and it was, like you said, Matt, nice
Speaker 1: to watch them get excited about their new space. You
Speaker 1: said it coming during the playoffs. There are so many
Speaker 1: people behind the scenes that made that possible on the
Speaker 1: Sixers side, So shout out to all of them, of course,
Speaker 1: and some renovations in coming for next season two, so
Speaker 1: that's an exciting little thing to keep an eye on, Matt.
Speaker 1: Any other questions that you want to answer or folks
Speaker 1: you want to shout out before we sort of look ahead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are questions, and there's a lot of comments about
Speaker 1: the Big Niang Theory with yourself and George Niang, so
Speaker 1: I think we've got to get to that as well,
Speaker 1: talking about the latest and greatest episode of the Big
Speaker 1: Niang Theory. Because multiple guests joining you and George in
Speaker 1: Kate Scott and Shake Milton, there was I think, so
Speaker 1: we hit the locker room somebody mentioned that and then okay,
Speaker 1: so John says it's Phillies Opening Day. Why are you
Speaker 1: doing this today while we cover the Sixers, but appreciate
Speaker 1: the shout out. We can give a shout out to
Speaker 1: the Phillies. Their run baseball opening Day is always fun.
Speaker 1: Their run to the World Series was phenomenal. But we
Speaker 1: can lift all teams in the city of Philadelphia because
Speaker 1: an important stretch for the Sixers and getting in here
Speaker 1: to talk after their comeback win against Dallas and their
Speaker 1: back home after being on the road so much this
Speaker 1: month of March. Let's see what else we've got Going
Speaker 1: to the comments, Genie has to give a shout out
Speaker 1: to Paul Reid. He's still honing his skills and he
Speaker 1: isn't perfect, but his heart and hustle are unmatched once
Speaker 1: he gets onto the floor. Anything to add, Lauren, You
Speaker 1: had another walk off interview with Paul and he's just
Speaker 1: so down to earth and fun to listen to and
Speaker 1: so much gratitude. He plays with a lot of gratitude
Speaker 1: for every minute, every opportunity that he's given. Immediately postgame
Speaker 1: said he was thrilled to get the win. He was
Speaker 1: thrilled even more to be part of the win with
Speaker 1: some minutes and then of course thrilled for his twenty
Speaker 1: twenty draft classmate Tyrese Maxie, who he says he is
Speaker 1: no longer surprised to see thriving on the level that
Speaker 1: he has lately. You mentioned the Big Niang Theory with
Speaker 1: George Niang. The latest episode is out featuring Kate Scott,
Speaker 1: play by play announcer for the Philadelphia seventy six ers,
Speaker 1: and guard Shake Milton. That one came together pretty organically. Actually,
Speaker 1: we knew we wanted to highlight Kate during Women's History Month.
Speaker 1: Shake actually volunteered to come on and join talking about
Speaker 1: some of the inspirations that he's had in his life
Speaker 1: during and for Women's History Months. So Shake talked about
Speaker 1: Serena Williams, he talked about Angela Davis, he talked about
Speaker 1: his mother. Kate also talked about her mother and her upbringing.
Speaker 1: So if you guys haven't checked out The Big Niang
Speaker 1: Theory with George Niang, search for that wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcast. We'd love to hear your feedback and would
Speaker 1: love to hear who you guys want to see George
Speaker 1: interview next. We have a lot of fun with those,
Speaker 1: So Matt appreciate the shout up appreciate, got a comment
Speaker 1: from Rebecca, got a comment from Jay Smooth both about
Speaker 1: the Big Niang theory. So thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your comments and for your support. Matt, I want to pivot.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to talk about Wait, wait, no pivot, no pivot,
Speaker 1: triple threat, don't pivot, don't pass it, don't shoot it.
Speaker 1: We'll pass it to me. I wanted to read Mary's
Speaker 1: comment about the Big Niang theory because Mary said earlier
Speaker 1: comment not question. Thanks to Miss Lauren Rosen, Miss Kate
Speaker 1: Scott at Sniper Shake and at George Niang twenty for
Speaker 1: keeping it real on the Roadie loved your brutally honest
Speaker 1: discussion of women in sports being overlooked and overcoming fear
Speaker 1: on the latest Big Niang theory. Oh that's such a
Speaker 1: good one. Thank you so much, Mary, and thank you
Speaker 1: Matt for drawing attention to that. And then Winona kind
Speaker 1: of echoed some stuff we've already talked about. But I
Speaker 1: just wanted to thank Winona for being here again. Winona said,
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of bball Paul. His commitment to his
Speaker 1: game is showing. He was on fire on the glass.
Speaker 1: That new locker room is fire I love how the
Speaker 1: team is finding the way to win. You can see
Speaker 1: their defense change and they stay with it. So some
Speaker 1: things we've already touched on, but we're in agreement on.
Speaker 1: I love to see it. Matt Murphy, I'm forcing the
Speaker 1: pivot now. Tell us about the Bluecoats this afternoon. Police. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this will be dated. Should I make a playoff
Speaker 1: prediction for the podcast listeners after the game has already happened? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess if you're a sixers in Bluecoats fan, you're
Speaker 1: hoping that they're now preparing for a Sunday Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: Finals game in the G League. If you're not listening
Speaker 1: prior to four pm on Thursday, which is their Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference semi final against the Wizard's affiliate, the Capitol City
Speaker 1: Go Go. It's single elimination, it's one game playoff games
Speaker 1: in the g until the finals, which the Bluecoats have
Speaker 1: been in each of the last two years. It's best
Speaker 1: of three in the G League finals. They're looking to
Speaker 1: get to the top of the mountain this year. And
Speaker 1: as we were talking here today in the eleven o'clock
Speaker 1: hour on the March thirtieth, ahead of their game, Jaden Springer,
Speaker 1: who practiced with them yesterday, was with the Sixers, was
Speaker 1: assigned back to the Bluecoats in all likelihood to play
Speaker 1: in the playoff game, where he thrived as a rookie
Speaker 1: in the playoffs last year on the way to the finals.
Speaker 1: So best of luck to the Blue Coats. Hopefully they're
Speaker 1: gaming up for another game if anyone's listening over the
Speaker 1: weekend here, but playoff time in the G League. Their
Speaker 1: season ends a little bit before the NBA season does,
Speaker 1: so best of luck to the Sixers G League affiliate.
Speaker 1: That game for the live listeners is on National TV
Speaker 1: at four pm Eastern on ESPN two. I know I
Speaker 1: will be watching for those of you who don't know.
Speaker 1: Matt Murphy a play by play voice of the Delaware
Speaker 1: blue Coats all season long and has done such an
Speaker 1: incredible job covering them and keeping you guys looped in
Speaker 1: as well. We'll hope to see Jayden today. We'll hope
Speaker 1: that this lives on after our recording and into the
Speaker 1: podcast sphere after a Bluecoats win. But in any haste,
Speaker 1: of great season for the blue Coats, great to see
Speaker 1: them fighting in the playoffs again, Lauren, I empathize with
Speaker 1: our friend Kate Scott though, because it's the Bluecoats had
Speaker 1: a first round by and now all of a sudden
Speaker 1: it's it's national TV only. I will not be on
Speaker 1: the call this afternoon for the second round, but I
Speaker 1: feel the pain of so many local NBA announcers once
Speaker 1: their team gets through the first round and they no
Speaker 1: longer gets a broadcast. I know, well, Matt, we know
Speaker 1: you're going to be on many national broadcasts for many
Speaker 1: years to come. So patience, patience remains of virtue. Speaking
Speaker 1: of patience, Sixers fans looking ahead to the playoffs, there's
Speaker 1: about a week and a half left of regular season
Speaker 1: play and then another week of play in tournament play
Speaker 1: before we can officially tip off the playoffs. The six Ers,
Speaker 1: of course, have already clinched a spot. They hold the
Speaker 1: number three seed now a couple of games back from
Speaker 1: the number two Celtics, a couple of games ahead of
Speaker 1: the number four Calves, so looking pretty settled into that
Speaker 1: three spot, but of course, still plenty of time to
Speaker 1: move around in their six remaining games, which are as
Speaker 1: follows hosting the Toronto Raptors Tomorrow night Friday night, depending
Speaker 1: on when you're listening. At seven pm Eastern, and then
Speaker 1: they head back to Milwaukee, whereas you'll remember their last
Speaker 1: win in Milwaukee perhaps one of their most if not
Speaker 1: most impressive wins of this season a few weeks back
Speaker 1: at Fiser Forum. So that'll be on Sunday evening. Then
Speaker 1: they return home to play Boston and Miami. Then they
Speaker 1: head back out on the road to close their season
Speaker 1: on the road the regular season. That is at Atlanta
Speaker 1: and at Brooklyn on April seventh and ninth. The playing
Speaker 1: tournament comes after the playoffs to begin after that, Matt Murphy,
Speaker 1: anything that you're particularly looking forward to in that slate
Speaker 1: as we wrap this one up. Yeah, some big matchups
Speaker 1: both home and road. But it's good to have some
Speaker 1: home games mixed in after that month of March that
Speaker 1: everyone talked about leading up to it, during it, and
Speaker 1: now through it with mostly road games. There was a
Speaker 1: tweet from LaToya earlier that said three point shooting kept
Speaker 1: the team in the game last night. Great atmosphere in
Speaker 1: the building, and that continues into this Toronto game, which
Speaker 1: is home Friday at seven. Like you said, NBC Sports
Speaker 1: Philly ninety seven five the Fanatic, they're five hundred. Their
Speaker 1: record right now at thirty eight and thirty eight as
Speaker 1: we speak, we know Tyrese Maxie has had one of
Speaker 1: his biggest games of his career or some of if
Speaker 1: you include the playoffs against the Toronto Raptors. And he
Speaker 1: has been shooting it quite well in the month of
Speaker 1: March fifty one percent from three point range in his
Speaker 1: sixteen games thus far. That's top five in the NBA
Speaker 1: for those with enough attempts. And you talk to him
Speaker 1: recently on the road about how well he's been shooting
Speaker 1: it away from home, but overall he's looking to keep
Speaker 1: that number above fifty from three some home games now involved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been pretty phenomenal. Forty six point six percent from
Speaker 1: three on the road this season, forty two point seven
Speaker 1: percent from three overall this season. And remember that's a
Speaker 1: lot of that considers getting in and out of rhythm.
Speaker 1: Of course, missing six weeks due to injury, going to
Speaker 1: the bench, coming back into the starting lineup, and managing
Speaker 1: to continue improving from three all the while he's been
Speaker 1: doing it his whole career. Big games you mentioned it
Speaker 1: against the Toronto Raptors. Has Tyrese Maxie had over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years so looking forward to tomorrow night
Speaker 1: and beyond. If you're listening on the seventy six Ers
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