Speaker 1: Another fan base that loves me. Uh, Philadelphia, Let's dissect
Speaker 1: the little news. It's tough out here on the streets
Speaker 1: right now for a Philadelphia seventy six Ers fan. Are
Speaker 1: you guys sitting down? Are you going to be shocked
Speaker 1: when you hear the latest from Sixer Land. Keith Pompey
Speaker 1: of The Inquirer cannot speak to his legitimacy, as we know,
Speaker 1: everyone is under scrutiny right now when the Warriors media exists,
Speaker 1: but he drops some fascinating and frankly unbelievable news. I
Speaker 1: had to literally read it multiple times in order to
Speaker 1: really allowed to seep into my soul. Basically, everyone but
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid and James Hardener are on the trade block. Everyone,
Speaker 1: literally everyone. I don't understand. I don't understand. This is
Speaker 1: the team that people told me was a monster. This
Speaker 1: is the team that people told me had enough wing depth,
Speaker 1: had enough shooting. Joel Embiid MVP level, Everything moves around him.
Speaker 1: You signed Tobias Harris, you got Danny Green, You've got
Speaker 1: Mattis Stible as a as a defender on the perimeter.
Speaker 1: I was told this was a championship ship roster for
Speaker 1: the last three years, they were just getting bad luck.
Speaker 1: So imagine my surprise to read the Sixers realize, quote
Speaker 1: realize that their current roster is not suited to win
Speaker 1: an NBA championship. They're determined to upgrade it with established
Speaker 1: players that can help propel them. I am stunned. I
Speaker 1: how could that possibly how how could they possibly come
Speaker 1: to this conclusion. Philly fans have attacked me for years
Speaker 1: now over this exact thing that the ownership. I need
Speaker 1: to get paid. I need to get paid to tell
Speaker 1: hard truths to franchises such as the Sixers, because this
Speaker 1: would have been a lot easier three years ago to do.
Speaker 1: This would have been a lot easier when he didn't
Speaker 1: pay Tobias Harris and he had Jimmy Butler. I tell
Speaker 1: you that twenty nineteen would have been just the year
Speaker 1: to start thinking about tinkering with your roster, like I
Speaker 1: don't know. I had pointed out timidly, having a point
Speaker 1: guard who doesn't shoot probably not the best idea. That
Speaker 1: was right, I pointed out, putting one hundred and seventeen
Speaker 1: percent of your offense on the back of a center
Speaker 1: who has a litany of injury concerns and issues and history, knees,
Speaker 1: chronic knee issues, back issues, orbital things happening, ankles, backs,
Speaker 1: all those things. Maybe not the best idea. He falls
Speaker 1: like every other possession. Maybe maybe you want to get
Speaker 1: him some help the trading, I said, Maybe trading two
Speaker 1: first round picks for a guy who forced his way
Speaker 1: out of a place just twelve months ago, only to
Speaker 1: force his way out of another place in that twelve
Speaker 1: month period, while he's still fat and lost his explosiveness
Speaker 1: and wants fifty million dollars a year. By the way,
Speaker 1: maybe just maybe won't work either. Hell hell, I even
Speaker 1: pointed out that maybe just maybe paying Tobias Harris more
Speaker 1: than Luka Doncic isn't a sound financial strategy. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I am absolutely baffled. The Philly thinks that their roster
Speaker 1: has to be significantly upgraded in order to build and
Speaker 1: compete for a chip. M Pay is now reporting as
Speaker 1: of today this is the news of the day that
Speaker 1: the Sixers are interested. I read it multiple times. The
Speaker 1: Sixers are currently interested in trading. Get this list. Tobias Harris, Matisse,
Speaker 1: Thibel Ferkman, Cork Moss, Shaikh, Milton, Danny Green, and now
Speaker 1: even the number twenty three pick in this year's draft,
Speaker 1: because why the hell not, let's trade everyone. That is,
Speaker 1: literally every person on the roster. Don't know what to
Speaker 1: say about that winter in the summertime for Anthony da
Speaker 1: it's what that is, he said, summer in the wintertime.
Speaker 1: It's winter in the summertime for my man. Ad Well,
Speaker 1: it only took twenty four hours for the entire internet
Speaker 1: to shame Anthony Davis into touching a basketball again, if
Speaker 1: you didn't know earlier in this week, which went viral
Speaker 1: because it was an accidental Instagram video where Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: admitted I haven't touched a basketball, not shot a basketball.
Speaker 1: I haven't touched a basketball since April. Excuse me, what April?
Speaker 1: That's two months from now, that's two months ago. That is,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, alarming for me, that's alarming. Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith had a and JJ Reddick had a spirited discussion
Speaker 1: about it, and somehow both managed to be wrong at
Speaker 1: the same damn time. Play a little bit of that
Speaker 1: for the people.
Speaker 2: This dude shot eighteen from three point rates. And you're
Speaker 2: gonna tell me that after you missed the playoffs, you
Speaker 2: missed the play in with Lebron James as your teammate,
Speaker 2: and you don't work on and you're not working on
Speaker 2: your shooting. Used to be shooting every day. Used to
Speaker 2: be shooting your kids playing round. You used to be
Speaker 2: shooting urf basketball. Used to be shooting the garbage kids
Speaker 2: you usued to be shooting at you. Used to go
Speaker 2: to the restvoir and throw the damn seat and in
Speaker 2: the garbage. I don't give a deal what it is
Speaker 2: hedohold Molly. Last point before Mary goes. Anthony Davis went
Speaker 2: Healthy is a top seven player on the planet. I
Speaker 2: want him to know. That's how I think about him.
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis is big time. Went healthy, But there is
Speaker 2: no getting around how glaringly absent his perimeter shooting was
Speaker 2: this past season.
Speaker 1: Paus pause pause, posse pause pause. That's a lot, that
Speaker 1: is what. This is a very keen trick that stephen
Speaker 1: A does. He over exaggerates on the positive to make
Speaker 1: an equally outlandish comment on the negative. I know your tricks.
Speaker 1: I do these things. He's not a top seven player
Speaker 1: in the league right now. He's not better than Luca,
Speaker 1: he's not better than Tatum, He's not better than Lebron
Speaker 1: He's not better than jaw, He's not better than KD.
Speaker 1: He's not better than Yannis. He's not better than probably
Speaker 1: even Jay Lebron, not Jokic, not Mbat. You're not even
Speaker 1: a top ten player. You're not even probably a top
Speaker 1: fifteen player. If I really had to do some analysis
Speaker 1: on this, So then what did JJ Reddicks say. JJ
Speaker 1: Reddicks said, Hey, steven A, this is normal. This is
Speaker 1: totally normal. I myself went sometimes two months without shooting
Speaker 1: in the offseason. JJ Reddick forty three point shooter, and
Speaker 1: frankly so does Steph. Guess what Anthony Davis is not
Speaker 1: Steph Curry. Anthony Davis is not JJ Reddick Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: To get to an elite shooting level, let me just
Speaker 1: put it this way. You need to put up shots.
Speaker 1: Practice makes perfect. Yes, Anthony Davis struggles with being healthy,
Speaker 1: but you don't have to get up. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about dribble dribble pull up. I'm talking about working on form.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about things that you can do wow in
Speaker 1: the midst of training. Get your body right. Secondarily, JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick and Steph Curry have long seasons. Anthony Davis has
Speaker 1: barely played this year. What are we talking about? Also,
Speaker 1: when your reputation is that your your work ethic is
Speaker 1: in question, multiple people that I've talked to inside of
Speaker 1: the league have said Anthony Davis has been lazy since
Speaker 1: high school. Anthony Davis has been a top talent since
Speaker 1: he was probably twelve years old, and as a big man.
Speaker 1: Big men on their own have a reputation of not
Speaker 1: being as hardworking because the game comes to them easier
Speaker 1: because of their height advantage early on in their life,
Speaker 1: and also the fact that they are pushed into the
Speaker 1: game in ways that little guys are not. Even if
Speaker 1: you don't love basketball, if you're about to be seven
Speaker 1: feet tall, you sir, my son, my dad, you are
Speaker 1: playing basketball. So Anthony Davis reputation for not being a
Speaker 1: hard worker, reputation for slacking in terms of his training regimen.
Speaker 1: Do I think Anthony Davis is getting it in PT
Speaker 1: and putting in three four hours of PET to get
Speaker 1: his ankle right so that he doesn't become what do
Speaker 1: they call him? Glass of bones and skin of paper?
Speaker 1: What is it? What is it they call him? Anyway?
Speaker 1: It's they say, like say, it's like bones of bones,
Speaker 1: of glass and skin of paper? I forget, but like
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, I am certain is not getting his body
Speaker 1: right four or five hours a day. I'm certain Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis not shooting from the touching of basketball, not touching,
Speaker 1: not handling, nothing when he struggles with the perimeter. Do
Speaker 1: you have it for me street clothes? Yeah, eighty street
Speaker 1: clothes for sure. When your nickname is street clothes. Because
Speaker 1: you never play basketball, you don't need more time off.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You don't need more time off.
Speaker 1: And this is here's my stephen a move. I love
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis when his game is on, I do. I
Speaker 1: think he's a really good player. I think his confidence
Speaker 1: has diminished as his health has diminished. He's maybe the
Speaker 1: only guy in the NBA who can actually defend Giannis consistently.
Speaker 1: And when he's healthy, I think he's a top fifteen,
Speaker 1: top twenty bucket get her in the league. But the
Speaker 1: key word here, folks, is when when he's healthy, and
Speaker 1: when is not very often. His shooting has gotten worse
Speaker 1: over the past five years. He's gone from a high
Speaker 1: of thirty four percent from three to twenty seventeen to
Speaker 1: eighteen percent from three last year. His free throw percentage
Speaker 1: has fallen from eighty five percent in the bubble to
Speaker 1: seventy one percent last year. So forgive me if I
Speaker 1: say it might be worth touching basketball in the off
Speaker 1: season to get that fat up. And then this jem,
Speaker 1: this gem dropped on Instagram literally twenty four hours later
Speaker 1: from Chris Matthews, a well known shot doctor who goes
Speaker 1: by the name of Lethal Shooter. So he posts this
Speaker 1: on Instagram. It's amazing twenty four hours after. It's like
Speaker 1: on first take and mad Dog's chime in in and
Speaker 1: JJ chaiman in and stuff's happening. Letho Shooter says, great
Speaker 1: workout today getting my brother Anthony Davis ready for next season.
Speaker 1: It's been over in a year and a half since
Speaker 1: we locked in. God is truly good to help others
Speaker 1: master the art of shooting. Brothers for life, stay locked in.
Speaker 1: The post had a photo of them to standing courtside,
Speaker 1: which could have been taking at anytime. Honestly, pause, look
Speaker 1: at this. It's been over a year and a half
Speaker 1: since we locked in. That's a ricochet shot at Anthony Davis. Listen, kid,
Speaker 1: maybe you need to pay me so we can get
Speaker 1: into the gym and your shots can go up. Come
Speaker 1: on now. First of all, I love how the internet
Speaker 1: shamed Ad into putting basketball in his hand again. He
Speaker 1: called up lethal Shooter and he's like, I gotta figure
Speaker 1: this out. This is they're burning me up in the
Speaker 1: streets right now. I don't know what to say. I
Speaker 1: got Rob Planket calling me, I got Genie Buss calling me.
Speaker 1: I got Braun being like, what, you don't touch a
Speaker 1: basketball for two months? What I wish the internet existed
Speaker 1: in like the nineteen twenties, so people would have like
Speaker 1: tracked this and been like, yo, Picasso, haven't seen you
Speaker 1: with my many brushes in your hand? Where's the art at?
Speaker 1: What's happening? First take? Next? Up on, first take? What's happening?
Speaker 1: I saw this Instagram video Picasso mentioned that he hasn't
Speaker 1: touched a paint brush in over three months. You know
Speaker 1: that's very normal, actually, Jean Michel Basquiat, I think he's
Speaker 1: he's done the same thing. You don't know art, You
Speaker 1: don't know how these things work. Jackson Paula doesn't need
Speaker 1: to pick up a paint brush. He goes he has
Speaker 1: to keep his hands sturdy. And then the next day,
Speaker 1: and then the next day, you see like awesome, awesome
Speaker 1: time in the lab ig post of him working on
Speaker 1: musicians with masks. Just Pablo getting the work in with
Speaker 1: the brush, yep, working on my surrealism cubism today, just
Speaker 1: me and and lethal Painter in the lab. Imagine having
Speaker 1: to be shamed by the Internet into playing the sport
Speaker 1: in which you're currently making third five million dollars a
Speaker 1: year to do. Hey, if you're a Laker fan, it
Speaker 1: could be worse. You could have Ben Simmons, who never
Speaker 1: touches the basketball. Literally, I think I saw it on
Speaker 1: Twitter's like Ben Simmons is doing a collab with the Ferrari.
Speaker 1: Somebody quote tweeted, when's he gonna do a collab with
Speaker 1: a basketball? That's all the time that we have for
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