Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network
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Speaker 1: seventy Sixers are wrapping up a long road trip with
Speaker 1: a matchup against the best team in the NBA, the
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz. We'll talk about what will take for the
Speaker 1: squad to head back home on a good note. We
Speaker 1: also check in on how Joel Ebid, Ben Simmons, and
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris are doing with their All Star bids and spoiler,
Speaker 1: we think they're doing pretty well. Your DMS, your calls,
Speaker 1: we do it every week right here on Mailbag Monday.
Speaker 1: We've had mighty Mailbag Monday's Lauren Rosen, I would say
Speaker 1: the first almost two months of the season. But we're
Speaker 1: going to try and do this week is have a
Speaker 1: no melodrama Mailbag Monday, just given the circumstances as of
Speaker 1: late surrounding the team two losses in the middle of
Speaker 1: this four game road trip which wraps up later Monday
Speaker 1: nights against the best team in the NBA right now,
Speaker 1: these surging Utah Jazz. But I think before we dive
Speaker 1: into the mail bag, who knows what We're going to
Speaker 1: open up let's take a moment for perspective, peace, calm, serenity,
Speaker 1: because I'm going to pull up the standings, and the
Speaker 1: standings tell me the Sixers are eighteen and nine. That's
Speaker 1: the best record in the Eastern Conference. And I also
Speaker 1: see the number two in the GB column for the
Speaker 1: second place team, Milwaukee Bucks, which means two games behind
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers. I'm okay with that. I think things
Speaker 1: are still fine. As the meme says, yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Seltz, and I think, look, it would have
Speaker 1: been great to win these last two games in Phoenix
Speaker 1: and in Portland. They were both winnable games. The team
Speaker 1: was in the game the whole time. It's not like
Speaker 1: they got rocked in either game. They're pretty clear reasons
Speaker 1: why why things went the way that they did. So
Speaker 1: I would be it doesn't have the same ring to
Speaker 1: it as a mellow mail bag Monday. But I would say,
Speaker 1: let's not overreact mail bag Monday. This happens. The team
Speaker 1: is missing Shake Milton, who's one of their top offensive weapons.
Speaker 1: There's just there's a lot going on right now. I
Speaker 1: think everybody can just like take a beat, take a breath.
Speaker 1: This is still the best team in the East that is,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, at least in the first few months,
Speaker 1: over performing from where we thought they might be at
Speaker 1: this point. I think, listen, this is just my opinion,
Speaker 1: only me speaking here. Philadelphia were a town, we love
Speaker 1: the Eagles, We are passionate about football. There's sixteen games
Speaker 1: in football this season, there's seventeen. There's seventy two games
Speaker 1: in basketball. So while we may want to turn to
Speaker 1: our natural football routing instincts and ride the highs and
Speaker 1: lows of every single game, which is fun, which is
Speaker 1: what you should totally do, I think what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do here is like, right, like you said, let's
Speaker 1: take a step back. If things continue, if we're looking
Speaker 1: at a second straight mail mellow mail bag Monday this
Speaker 1: time next week, maybe that's a different story. But one
Speaker 1: week in the NBA, if you go through a rut,
Speaker 1: it could feel like you're stuck in something and you
Speaker 1: can't get out. But then you get to the next
Speaker 1: week and things could be totally different. So I'm kind
Speaker 1: of viewing these two games in particular It's Portland and
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns as real opportunities to zoom in and
Speaker 1: try and learn some more about the Sixers, like how
Speaker 1: can we fact find use these road games as a
Speaker 1: fact finding mission to see where the seventy Sixers might
Speaker 1: need to shore some things up. Listen, first of all,
Speaker 1: Portland and Phoenix two quality teams. I think one thing
Speaker 1: that stands out to me is perhaps the Sixers. And
Speaker 1: it's a tough balance because Joe has been so excellent,
Speaker 1: but the volume of three point attempts for the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers is one thing that I look at that has
Speaker 1: been an area at least the last two games that
Speaker 1: have stood out to me. Despite the six Er shooting
Speaker 1: the ball well from three and efficiently, where with more attempts,
Speaker 1: perhaps that could counteract what some of the opposing teams
Speaker 1: have done with the volume of three pointers that they've
Speaker 1: knocked down, certainly, and I think that the team has
Speaker 1: seen those statistics. Doc Rivers has seen those statistics. And
Speaker 1: there are guys like Tobias Harris who were shooting more threes,
Speaker 1: higher volume of threes earlier in the season, and he's
Speaker 1: probably been told that it's time to let's crank it
Speaker 1: back up again, and he's probably said, let's do it.
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of things that we can look
Speaker 1: at that happened in the last two games that I
Speaker 1: would imagine the team is going to adjust right away.
Speaker 1: Danny Green after Saturday's game said that every team needs
Speaker 1: wake up calls, and I think that this was an
Speaker 1: example of Okay, we're not quite where we want to
Speaker 1: be yet, which is something that the team knew. But
Speaker 1: I think sometimes it takes a little bit of adversity
Speaker 1: to really check in to where they can improve. And
Speaker 1: I believe that they'll use these next few games now
Speaker 1: we're getting close to that All Star break, but at
Speaker 1: least a few quality opportunities to adjust some of the
Speaker 1: weaknesses that they've found on this road trip. And the
Speaker 1: other side of the coin, Larne is there's something going
Speaker 1: on at the seventy six ers absolutely zero control over.
Speaker 1: It's that Shake Milton is dealing with an ankle sprain,
Speaker 1: and that takes fourteen points off your bench, a guy
Speaker 1: who's shot really well all over the court and has
Speaker 1: been playing increasingly better defense as well. Yes, indeed, I
Speaker 1: think that Shake's absence, especially from that bench unit that
Speaker 1: really did look pretty good, pretty solid, had a lot
Speaker 1: of strengths early in the season, is missing him, and
Speaker 1: I think that that's okay. He was the most productive
Speaker 1: scorer coming off the bench, not only on this team,
Speaker 1: one of the most productive scorers in this league coming
Speaker 1: off the bench, so naturally when he has to step aside,
Speaker 1: it makes sense that their productivity might struggle a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I know they'll be excited to get shake back
Speaker 1: in the lineup and then something that I'm excited about
Speaker 1: later on tonight, Lauren, the seventy Sixers have a great
Speaker 1: opportunity where they can rebound, and they're going up against
Speaker 1: the number one team in the NBA, the Utah Jazz,
Speaker 1: and that presents an opportunity to bounce back and come
Speaker 1: back home with a split, which would be nothing to
Speaker 1: turn your nose up at. It would be a shame
Speaker 1: to beat the best team in the league right now
Speaker 1: and have to also take home two losses against teams
Speaker 1: that aren't necessarily the best in the league. But I
Speaker 1: do think the Sixers have a really good fighting chance
Speaker 1: against the Jazz tonight. The Jazz won seventh straight, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that the Sixers are going to give
Speaker 1: them their eighth. Ben Simmons after Saturday's game talked about
Speaker 1: the fact that the Sixers need to now get used
Speaker 1: to being the best in their conference and understand that
Speaker 1: teams are going to bring their best punch to face
Speaker 1: the Sixers on a nightly basis. And then he said
Speaker 1: that he is looking forward to seeing another best team
Speaker 1: in their conference because he believes that they will bring
Speaker 1: their best punch. And he said that they have to
Speaker 1: start bringing that best punch every single night. But I
Speaker 1: do think Monday is going to be a really cool
Speaker 1: opportunity for two teams to really dial in and bring
Speaker 1: their best and see what happens. Let us do it
Speaker 1: on this mail bag Monday. Open it up. You have
Speaker 1: one new message. Hey guys, this is Dan. I was
Speaker 1: wondering what your take is on Shake Milton's injury how
Speaker 1: that has affected the team. Thanks a lot, timely question
Speaker 1: right off the bat, Shake Milton's injury, how it will
Speaker 1: affect the seventy sixers. I think we just touched upon
Speaker 1: that a little bit. We've seen it in the last
Speaker 1: two games and obviously removes fourteen points per game from
Speaker 1: your bench, which has really helped the seventy sixers. I
Speaker 1: think anyone who's watched this year has seen just how
Speaker 1: vital shakes offensive threat has been for the sixers, and
Speaker 1: it tightens up the rotation, takes away a key body.
Speaker 1: But what does it mean is that guys on the
Speaker 1: bench to get more opportunities right now, to get increased
Speaker 1: minutes and listen, we might not see the returns on
Speaker 1: that immediately today, but in the long run, you hope
Speaker 1: that that can help and benefit them. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: forget how productive Shake is for that bench. Not only
Speaker 1: is he their scoring leader, but he is there, let's say,
Speaker 1: like spiritual leader. He's the one that sort of sets
Speaker 1: the tone for them, that keeps everybody involved. He's running
Speaker 1: the offense most of the time in an all bench unit,
Speaker 1: so more opportunity for Tyrese Maxie while he's away, which
Speaker 1: is always something that's a pleasure to see. But keep
Speaker 1: in mind, Shake being out of that second unit really
Speaker 1: does make a bigger dent than maybe people are giving
Speaker 1: it credit for. Plus Mike Scott coming back from missing
Speaker 1: three weeks thirteen games, expect him to get a little
Speaker 1: bit better than what we saw from Saturday's game, as
Speaker 1: he was probably put into a situation where he was
Speaker 1: playing maybe more minutes than he expected to in his
Speaker 1: first game back. So yes, the bench hasn't had a
Speaker 1: great week, but there are pretty tangible reasons why, and
Speaker 1: I believe that they're going to figure out how to
Speaker 1: write that ship. And what you said, Laren about Mike Scott,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking at, is that, hopefully, perhaps by
Speaker 1: the end of this week, he'll get his game legs
Speaker 1: back underneath him. Listen, four weeks to miss that's a
Speaker 1: considerable period of time. But Mike's a veteran, we know
Speaker 1: what he can bring to the table. It definitely fills
Speaker 1: an area of depth that Doc Rivers has talked about
Speaker 1: in the past. So I'm looking at Mike Scott and
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing him get back into a
Speaker 1: rhythm and a groove, hopefully and not too long a
Speaker 1: period of time. You have one new message. Personally, I
Speaker 1: think everyone in the country should believe the Joel and
Speaker 1: Beach be an All Star because I personally think he's
Speaker 1: playing an MVP caliber level. Now on to Ben Simmon,
Speaker 1: the Tobias hair. Ben is he just said the other
Speaker 1: day he believes he's one of the best defensive players
Speaker 1: in the league. I think that's accurate. He's a huge
Speaker 1: defensive president, he's a great playmaker, As for Tobias, you
Speaker 1: put him in an ISO, He's gonna score for you.
Speaker 1: Good defender too, great shooter is shooting numbers this season.
Speaker 1: Percentages from a field, from three, and from free throw
Speaker 1: been great. He's averaging over twenty points a game. And
Speaker 1: this is not being the first option on the team.
Speaker 1: He's doing all this. He's clutch. All three of them
Speaker 1: should be in the All Star Game. Another voicemail, Dylan
Speaker 1: giving us an opportunity to shift gears on our theme
Speaker 1: of discussion so far, reminding us that yes, All Star
Speaker 1: voting is still going on, and we have three seventy
Speaker 1: sixers that we need to send to the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: Of course there's Dwell and Bid who's been doing great
Speaker 1: in the voting. Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris. Put all the
Speaker 1: muscle of your fandom behind those two guys and rack
Speaker 1: up those vote counts to try and get them to
Speaker 1: the All Star Game. And I think this voicemail, Lauren
Speaker 1: was all encompassing shouting out all of those three candidates.
Speaker 1: And listen, I think that focusing in really on Ben
Speaker 1: and Tobias. Some great points that Dylan made. Defense by Ben,
Speaker 1: just look at what he did in the second half
Speaker 1: against Damian Lillard, and then Tobias Harris evolving his game
Speaker 1: and being so clutch certainly, and I think, look, it's
Speaker 1: hard to get three players into an All Star Game,
Speaker 1: but you've heard all three of them say that if
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity to get three players in, it's because
Speaker 1: you're leading your conference. And the Sixers are not only
Speaker 1: leading the conference, but they have been for a while,
Speaker 1: and I think that the All Star Game is an
Speaker 1: opportunity to give those guys respect that are making those
Speaker 1: wins happen. People will have things to say about the
Speaker 1: statistical difference between let's say Ben and Tobias and maybe
Speaker 1: the best players on lesser teams in the Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: who might have a better shot at getting into the
Speaker 1: All Star Game, But I personally would argue that the
Speaker 1: teams that are doing the best work, that are leading
Speaker 1: the conference are the best teams, and the guys that
Speaker 1: are making that happen, even if their numbers aren't as
Speaker 1: flashy as leaders on lesser teams, deserve a chance to
Speaker 1: play in the All Star Game. So I'm biased. People
Speaker 1: who listen know how I feel, but I do think
Speaker 1: it would be great if we could sort of show
Speaker 1: up and show out for those two guys, assuming that
Speaker 1: Joel is already already a sure thing also of the Dylan,
Speaker 1: clearly an avid consumer of seventy sixers content, brought up
Speaker 1: the bite that Ben Simmons had after the game against Portland.
Speaker 1: I believe it was the other day, that he believes
Speaker 1: he's the best defender in the NBA. I thought that
Speaker 1: was great to hear Ben say that and own that
Speaker 1: and speak confidently about a statement that I'm not sure
Speaker 1: he's wrong about. I mean, there's certainly an argument to
Speaker 1: be made that he's the best defender in this league.
Speaker 1: Nobody likes when Ben Simmons switches onto them. You see
Speaker 1: a change in the way that offensive players have to
Speaker 1: protect the ball and play when Ben Simmons is their defender.
Speaker 1: I can't necessarily definitively name someone that is a better
Speaker 1: defender than Ben. And I think what you said about
Speaker 1: confidence is really huge. If he's willing to make that
Speaker 1: type of statement, he knows he needs to back it
Speaker 1: up now on the court. And I like the fact
Speaker 1: that he's set that goal for himself and that he
Speaker 1: sees himself as someone who can stop really anyone in
Speaker 1: this league. It's it's a special thing. Could we possibly
Speaker 1: see three of at least the five, perhaps most impactful
Speaker 1: defenders on the court at the same time Monday night
Speaker 1: in the entire NBA. Definitely would we put those three guys, Ben,
Speaker 1: Joe and Rudy in that category three the five most impactful.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying best, I'm just saying maybe effective impactful
Speaker 1: defenders in the entire league. Absolutely. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: close to me those I mean, I guess Rudy and
Speaker 1: Joel can't both be First Team All Defense in the
Speaker 1: current setup, but I would. I would definitely put those
Speaker 1: three in the top five. Yeah, I like it. One
Speaker 1: of the subplots for a big Best in the East
Speaker 1: verse Best in the West matchup on Monday. Thank you
Speaker 1: Dylan for that. Voicemilk, you have one new message. We're
Speaker 1: gonna run through. A couple Instagram submissions on a similar
Speaker 1: topic about the seventy Sixers and their three potential All Stars,
Speaker 1: Matthew Lowenstein says best record in the East if the
Speaker 1: Nets Big Three at sixteen and twelve or All Stars
Speaker 1: Sixers Big three are to the transitive property of All
Speaker 1: Star candidacy. I like it. I like that argument as well.
Speaker 1: I wish I had come up with it. That feels
Speaker 1: like that feels like a really good way to explain
Speaker 1: what's happening here. It's not necessarily fair for guys that
Speaker 1: have more star power to get into the lead get
Speaker 1: into the game over guys that are winning more, because
Speaker 1: winning is the ultimate test of how good you are
Speaker 1: and how good your team is. I love that. I
Speaker 1: love the transitive property of all stars. I'm gonna maybe
Speaker 1: start using that myself. Listen, we're just here to spread
Speaker 1: things that help the cause. Thank you, Matthew Lowenstein, Alejandro
Speaker 1: SGBO six Joe's MVP Simmons is good on all aspects
Speaker 1: to bias fifty forty ninety potential. I think these are
Speaker 1: all legitimate messaging points, talking points. I'm curious. I need
Speaker 1: to look it up really quickly. Did Tobias get back
Speaker 1: into that ninety range for his free throw shooting? I
Speaker 1: know he was at eighty nine prior to Saturday's game,
Speaker 1: and I'm not exactly sure how many he shots, So
Speaker 1: I'm going to look that up while you talk. Seltz
Speaker 1: four tenths, I got you covered. Podcasting partner four tenths
Speaker 1: of a percentage point off of the fifty one one
Speaker 1: ninety club, so close, and it was such a shame
Speaker 1: to see Seth Curry miss his first free throw of
Speaker 1: the year because he was headed towards the first ever
Speaker 1: fifty fifty one hundred club, which would have just been
Speaker 1: something very special and of course not necessarily something you
Speaker 1: could expect out of anyone. Nobody's perfect, but it is
Speaker 1: crazy to think about how far he got into this
Speaker 1: season without missing a single foul shot. Some more rapid
Speaker 1: fire from Instagram. You can look every Sunday for our
Speaker 1: weekly question on at sixers on Instagram. Just type in
Speaker 1: your response to the sticker on their story and we
Speaker 1: will see them and read through them. On a mail
Speaker 1: bag Monday, forty one dot ed Ben an All Star
Speaker 1: because he does in all caps everything with five exclamation points.
Speaker 1: He does. He does a little bit of everything, a
Speaker 1: lot of it, or everything. It's true, very well, it's true.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't think we already talked about it.
Speaker 1: Is he the best defensive player in the league? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Is he the best two way player in the league? Also,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not sure that someone can be as impactful
Speaker 1: on both ends of the floor outside of maybe Joel
Speaker 1: embiid as Ben Simmons can be in this league. One
Speaker 1: more Instagram rapid fire mailbag submission. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this right. I'm Romeo, I'm Romeo. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but I'm going to read your submission. Tobias
Speaker 1: is averaging twenty on fifty one percent shooting. Come on,
Speaker 1: you can't beat that. In fact, depending on how you
Speaker 1: split up his numbers, you can slice him, indice him
Speaker 1: a little differently. But in one way, if you look
Speaker 1: at his splits in his shooting combos, it's only him
Speaker 1: and Kevin Durant doing one thing. If you split the
Speaker 1: numbers another way, it's only him and Nickela Yokich doing it.
Speaker 1: So versatile is all about Tobias Harris this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got in a deep deep stats dot NBA dot
Speaker 1: com hole the other day and I tweeted out some
Speaker 1: of my findings. But like you said, his numbers are
Speaker 1: comparable to only players like Kevin Durant, like Yokich. There
Speaker 1: was another one where he was he was among just
Speaker 1: Paul George and Chris Middleton. Okay, what do all four
Speaker 1: of those players have in common. They're All Stars, and
Speaker 1: they continue to be All Stars, and they will be
Speaker 1: All Stars this year. So maybe that's the transitive property
Speaker 1: of statistics. We have the transitive property of all stars,
Speaker 1: transitive property of statistics. All signs point to Tobias Harris
Speaker 1: should be an All Star this year, and I really
Speaker 1: hope that he can get in back. It's the voicemail.
Speaker 1: You have one new message TI. My name is Milton.
Speaker 1: I would just calling to explain why Joe and Tobys
Speaker 1: and Ben should be an All Star. And I'm saying
Speaker 1: that Joe should be a All Star because clearly he's
Speaker 1: been dominanting. He's like the next big man after shock,
Speaker 1: to be dominating the game. It's crazy and the effective
Speaker 1: that he could shoot do everything. You don't even know
Speaker 1: what his next move is going to be. And Tobias
Speaker 1: are his game divorced a lot man, like you know,
Speaker 1: fully need him, Like if he's off, then he really
Speaker 1: brings a lot with the team, and he really been
Speaker 1: sipping up his whole game, and then you need a
Speaker 1: point guard like that. Somebody that sighs is something he's
Speaker 1: been doing. I know everybody was saying neither Shoe, but
Speaker 1: I think he's perfect the way he is. You know,
Speaker 1: he could get in the whole and going the restive.
Speaker 1: He played defense, he played the lead defense, and I
Speaker 1: think I think that's really all the only thing the
Speaker 1: team needs. Those three guys have been on top of
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, the rest of the team
Speaker 1: to give everything that they got. I love that he
Speaker 1: said Ben is perfect the way he is. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure Ben would tell you he's perfect the way he is.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure Doc Rivers would say that, but I
Speaker 1: like to hear a member of the populace projecting that
Speaker 1: sentiment that Ben, you know what, he's pretty damn good
Speaker 1: as he is right now. I'm with it. That's something
Speaker 1: that Doc Rivers has been saying a lot in his media,
Speaker 1: that there is too much focus on what Ben doesn't
Speaker 1: do and not enough focus on what he does do.
Speaker 1: And you and I obviously like to focus on the
Speaker 1: things that he does do, but it's cool to hear
Speaker 1: other people sort of fall in that camp as well.
Speaker 1: We've already talked about him being one of the most
Speaker 1: impactful two way players in this game, and I think
Speaker 1: to say that he's perfect the way he is is
Speaker 1: just that's nice, and we should say that more about that.
Speaker 1: What I'm really interested to see, Lauren, is how simmons
Speaker 1: status among the media and coaches and players will affect
Speaker 1: his All Star voting, because right now we know that
Speaker 1: he's got an uphill climb for the fifty percent share
Speaker 1: from the fan base. And when you look at his numbers,
Speaker 1: this has been well documented. His shooting attempts per game
Speaker 1: down by one per thirty six minutes compared to last year.
Speaker 1: His free throw rate is about the same, His rebounding
Speaker 1: is up per thirty six from last year. The same
Speaker 1: goes for his assists the steals right around the same area. Listen,
Speaker 1: I think that if it's not a coincidence that some
Speaker 1: additional scoring talent comes in on the offensive end, there's
Speaker 1: a new head coach, and the one thing that changes
Speaker 1: is not Ben's defense or his defensive play, it's what's
Speaker 1: happening on the offensive end. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: he's tasked with responsibility of being the primary facilitator for
Speaker 1: this team. To me, that's not surprising. So I think
Speaker 1: at just looking at that number in a vacuum isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily a fair way to analyze or evaluate what Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons is doing in the effect that he's having this year.
Speaker 1: I agree, And when you only evaluate players like Ben offensively,
Speaker 1: you're missing a huge part of the story. The energy
Speaker 1: that it takes to defend the other team's best player
Speaker 1: is so much more energy expended. Like there's no way
Speaker 1: to necessarily track that, but like net net, energy expended
Speaker 1: by the player that's defending the opposing team's best player
Speaker 1: is something that should be taken account into account. On
Speaker 1: the offensive end, when you look at this league's best
Speaker 1: offensive players, they're not wasting the energy that Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: is wasting on defense. In fact, they're usually being hidden
Speaker 1: on defense. So to only look at offensive stats, especially
Speaker 1: this season with the defensive load that Ben has taken on,
Speaker 1: feels a little irresponsible to me. One more, We're going
Speaker 1: back to the Graham. You have one new message, Lauren.
Speaker 1: I felt there was no better way to end mail
Speaker 1: Bag Monday than with this submission from mcne eleven. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear some Bozo's reason why they aren't
Speaker 1: all all stars. Referring to Joe, Ben and Tobias Enough said,
Speaker 1: I'm with it. I hope other people are with it
Speaker 1: that have power in these types of decisions. I know
Speaker 1: that the Sixers fans are showing out with the voting.
Speaker 1: Please continue doing so. There are only two days of
Speaker 1: voting remaining today and tomorrow, if I'm not mistaken, and
Speaker 1: then it'll be up to some other folks around the league.
Speaker 1: So hopefully everybody else is sort of looking at it
Speaker 1: as a why shouldn't they If you do, look back
Speaker 1: at teams that have led their conferences, they have historically
Speaker 1: had more than one All Star in the building, if
Speaker 1: not more than two All Stars in the building, and
Speaker 1: hopefully the Sixers can have the same type of success
Speaker 1: this season. You can vote a couple of ways, go
Speaker 1: to NBA dot com, or you can just open up
Speaker 1: the old Twitter hashtag NBA All Star plus the player
Speaker 1: of your choices handle or hashtag their name. I gotta
Speaker 1: walk it back, Lauren, this was not a Mello mail
Speaker 1: bag Monday testament to you. You brought alacrity and energy.
Speaker 1: I think we should have called it. I should have
Speaker 1: led with we're going to make this a no melodrama
Speaker 1: mail bag Monday. I like that, and I think, look,
Speaker 1: the year that we're all having has been rough, to
Speaker 1: say the least, So when you're a member of the
Speaker 1: fan base of the organization of a team that's the
Speaker 1: best in their conference. You've got to celebrate that while
Speaker 1: it's happening. And even if you lose a couple here
Speaker 1: or there, even if you're not your perfect finished product
Speaker 1: one third of the way into the season, that's okay.
Speaker 1: We need to celebrate these victories that we have had.
Speaker 1: We need to celebrate where the Sixers are in the standings.
Speaker 1: And I think I realized that midway through this podcast
Speaker 1: that we can do a little bit more celebrating. Despite
Speaker 1: what maybe the last two games have looked like, this
Speaker 1: is still the best team in the East, and that's
Speaker 1: something that's worth price. Don't let your frustration be born
Speaker 1: out of worry or concern. I think that a month in,
Speaker 1: we know the seventy six Ers have a really good
Speaker 1: shot to when it's all said and done at the
Speaker 1: end of the regular season, be the number one team
Speaker 1: in the Eastern confer I don't think that's far fish
Speaker 1: to say. So, you know, if you're worried about the team,
Speaker 1: if you're like feeling this anxiety, like I would say,
Speaker 1: be confident. I think we've seen that this team has
Speaker 1: when it's fully healthy and it is at its max strength.
Speaker 1: Could be pretty good. Could you use a little bit
Speaker 1: more help with a couple of spaces, Sure, but I
Speaker 1: think they're pretty good. Something I would add, Celts this
Speaker 1: is a group of guys that hold themselves to a
Speaker 1: really high standard and guys that talk a lot about
Speaker 1: accountability and pushing each other and being better and growing.
Speaker 1: This is not a group of guys that has rested
Speaker 1: on their laurels whatsoever this season, even on their biggest
Speaker 1: winning streaks, after their biggest wins, they've talked about wanting
Speaker 1: to get better. So I can tell you for sure
Speaker 1: that the Sixers aren't happy with how the last two
Speaker 1: games went either, and I think that that's a good
Speaker 1: sign for what's going to happen moving forward. We love
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