Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network
Speaker 1: Search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. I
Speaker 1: will say I'm a good guy, you know, I hope
Speaker 1: and why it thinks the same way which I think
Speaker 1: sometimes like I'm sold between you know, for example, during
Speaker 1: the game days, you know, I just wake up from
Speaker 1: the net and then I'm thinking like vituals I need
Speaker 1: to put on. I see black white, you know, I
Speaker 1: see green and yellow, and then I'm just thinking like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's eliminate black and white, and then there's just like
Speaker 1: green and yellow. And then again I'm thinking, like fifty
Speaker 1: more minutes to any more minutes? You know, which one?
Speaker 1: Which one? Which one. That's the thing which I don't
Speaker 1: like about myself. Before Hoops went on hiatus, there was
Speaker 1: no gray area. Furkon cork Mose was exceeding expectations and
Speaker 1: doing so exponentially. I had like a lot of off
Speaker 1: sudden nowns with the Sixers. This yeries like my I
Speaker 1: will say, breakout season. I'm really I'm really happy about
Speaker 1: the situation right now. And Furkn had every reason to
Speaker 1: feel happy. In his third year, the two thousand and
Speaker 1: sixteen twenty sixth overall pick was posting the best numbers
Speaker 1: of his career, nearly ten points in twenty two minutes
Speaker 1: per game while shooting just under forty percent from deep.
Speaker 1: That mark was tops on the seventy sixers at the
Speaker 1: time the season halted because of the coronavirus outbreak. Cork
Speaker 1: Moses one hundred twenty six three pointers, nearly double the
Speaker 1: total from his first two seasons, also led the team
Speaker 1: from the game winner in Portland cork plase for three
Speaker 1: Yes wow, furkon cork Mas his biggest moment as a
Speaker 1: sixer to the four point play Fannie flop against the
Speaker 1: Bucks on Christmas. Here's furkn again one more time. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's knocked out by Joannis firk on Klarkmos. He's out
Speaker 1: of his fine quarkmos with a holiday present kaupo Quorkmons
Speaker 1: certainly earned himself a prominent role in the Sixers rotation,
Speaker 1: both as a sixth man and a spot starter. At
Speaker 1: the still pretty young age of twenty two, he figures
Speaker 1: to have plenty more to give, with plenty of time
Speaker 1: to continue growing. What's Up seventy six Ers pod people
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer checking in if you haven't had the chance
Speaker 1: over the past couple of months to check out the
Speaker 1: new behind the scenes video series we launched this season
Speaker 1: from Studio seventy six. It's called Here They Come, presented
Speaker 1: by Geico, and selfishly highly recommend you checking it out.
Speaker 1: Our latest episode profiles furkon Quorkmas and the chain of
Speaker 1: events that brought him to such a promising stage of
Speaker 1: his professional journey. You can watch the video on our YouTube, IGTV,
Speaker 1: and social media channels, and of course on sixers dot
Speaker 1: com and the Sixers app. So I got thinking, why
Speaker 1: not whenever a video for the Here They Come series
Speaker 1: comes out we do a companion audio edition on the podcast.
Speaker 1: The title of the mini series here on the pod
Speaker 1: feed is going to sound the same as the video
Speaker 1: series Here They Come, just spelled a little different the
Speaker 1: other here get it a little tongue in cheek, but
Speaker 1: thought that it would work without further ado. An audio
Speaker 1: diary from fur concork Mase about how hard work, persistence
Speaker 1: and confidence have all converged to catapult him to where
Speaker 1: he is right now. I'm just trying to be like
Speaker 1: so perfect, you know, out of ten I want to
Speaker 1: be ten. I mean, my dad, he was the same way.
Speaker 1: You know, he was too much like he just wanted
Speaker 1: to be perfect on everything. He just wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure it looks good, it looks perfect. I think that's
Speaker 1: the habit which I got from my dad when I
Speaker 1: was nine years old to play basketball with the school team.
Speaker 1: And then I was not thinking about like to be
Speaker 1: an NBA player, to be in a puddle. And then
Speaker 1: when I turned fifteen, I started to work with the
Speaker 1: agent and then uh he took me to the FS
Speaker 1: and then I become a professional basketball player. And then
Speaker 1: the people started talking about NBA. You can be an NBA.
Speaker 1: You know, you can be an NBA player. You have potential.
Speaker 1: Still I was like, I don't know what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 1: you know, I was still trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1: School or basketball, you know, because it's really hard to do. Uh,
Speaker 1: school and the basketball at the same time. For people
Speaker 1: in the US who are or anywhere else around the world,
Speaker 1: we're watching this. If you might not know you so well,
Speaker 1: what can you tell us about yourself? I love basketball.
Speaker 1: I can't say this definitely, uh. And I am part
Speaker 1: of the very very big team for Europe. They're very
Speaker 1: big team. I am round of this game's part of
Speaker 1: the In the Europe, the things are like working differently
Speaker 1: than the here. So I said, Okay, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: like a really good basketball player. Uh this is gonna
Speaker 1: be my job for like a lot of years maybe.
Speaker 1: And then I start to feel like, uh, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do this. And then I moved to the United States.
Speaker 1: I started to play for the Sixers. Dreams comes true,
Speaker 1: you know. With the twenty sixth pick in the twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen NBA Draft, the Philadelphia seventy six Ers select fur
Speaker 1: Con cork Mass from Turkey. He last played for Anna.
Speaker 1: When I first started to play basketball, I was taller
Speaker 1: than everybody on my class. So that's why my coach,
Speaker 1: my first coach, he wanted me to play basketball. I
Speaker 1: was really big soccer guy, you know, typical turksh guy.
Speaker 1: And then I was growing up, I was really playing soccer.
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about basketball, like my family is same.
Speaker 1: We were just all about soccer. And then my coach
Speaker 1: he wanted me to be a basketball player. And then
Speaker 1: I said, okay, let's try. Why not, you know, and
Speaker 1: then the teams changed quickly and then I started to
Speaker 1: get moving all around. You know teams, different clubs, different schools,
Speaker 1: and then here I am now Courtmas's first season as
Speaker 1: a pro was two thirteen. He played for a club
Speaker 1: team in his hometown of Pakirkoy, a coastal neighborhood in Istanbul.
Speaker 1: He moved on to Fess the following year, then eventually
Speaker 1: started splitting time between there and another domestic team in
Speaker 1: the Turkish Basketball super League. He was drafted by the
Speaker 1: six or twenty sixth overall in two thousand sixteen, and
Speaker 1: a year later made his anticipated debut with the organization
Speaker 1: at summer. It's really tough for the young guy who
Speaker 1: doesn't really know the life, you know, who doesn't really
Speaker 1: know what's going on. For me, the life is not
Speaker 1: just basketball. It looks like basketball, but outside of the basketball,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff going on. First of all,
Speaker 1: when I moved to the States from Turkey, there was
Speaker 1: a lot of like difference which I faced, which I
Speaker 1: need to face. The culture, you know, language, a lot
Speaker 1: of different things. But this is the part of the
Speaker 1: being a successful or not. If you can get this challenge,
Speaker 1: if you can accept this challenge, so you will be
Speaker 1: different than the other players, than the other person. So
Speaker 1: that's how I look at the life. Of course, you
Speaker 1: miss your home. You know, my first year I was
Speaker 1: missing the foods, friends, family, But in my third year,
Speaker 1: I miss more like friends, family because you can get
Speaker 1: some taste off the foods here, which is like in
Speaker 1: Turkish restaurants. Okay, it doesn't still give you the same
Speaker 1: taste as Turkey, but end of to day, your family,
Speaker 1: your friends comes first. What is it? What is it
Speaker 1: called Turkish stuffy? It's good, but we need to make
Speaker 1: it warm a little bit, one to ten, probably like two.
Speaker 1: I know it's a really low low rate. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Do you consider yourself a funny guy? I mean in Turkish? Definitely? Yeah.
Speaker 1: In Turkish I would say I'm so funny. In English
Speaker 1: sometimes still like I'm getting hard time to be funny,
Speaker 1: but everybody say I'm a funny guy. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: I feel like the teammates they speak of you as
Speaker 1: if you are pretty funny dude. They do, they do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't say I'm a funny guy, but
Speaker 1: imagine me in Turkish every time I'm telling them, like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm funny in English right now, but imagine me in
Speaker 1: Turkish too, how funny? I will say I'm a good guy.
Speaker 1: I hope why the thinks the same way which I
Speaker 1: think sometimes like I'm so between, you know, for example,
Speaker 1: during the game days, you know, I just wake up
Speaker 1: from the net and then I'm thinking, like vitrus, I
Speaker 1: need to put on I see black white, you know,
Speaker 1: I see green and yellow, and then I'm just thinking like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's eliminate black again white, and then there's just like
Speaker 1: green and yellow, and then again I'm thinking, like fifty
Speaker 1: more minutes to any more minutes? You know, which one?
Speaker 1: Che which one? That's the thing which I don't like
Speaker 1: about myself. At the end of his second season with
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers, court Moss was ready to say goodbye,
Speaker 1: and he practically did during his exit interview press conference
Speaker 1: the morning after the Sixers were eliminated from the second
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs by the Toronto Raptors. Where do
Speaker 1: you go from here? What do you foresee and what
Speaker 1: are you looking for? Here? Is not just organization for me.
Speaker 1: Here is the basketball culture for me. The free agency
Speaker 1: coming out right now. I'm really confidence about it, so
Speaker 1: I know I will get the opportunity, but I don't
Speaker 1: know where I'm going to end up end of last year,
Speaker 1: you know, the organization didn't become my option, and then
Speaker 1: there was a lot of things was like going on.
Speaker 1: When the free agency starts, I was not thinking coming
Speaker 1: back here. You know, when you guy used to to
Speaker 1: your home, to the people here, to your teammates, it's
Speaker 1: hard to say goodbye, you know, it's every time hard
Speaker 1: to say goodbye because you never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure like I'm good with everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, they're good with me. And then the things
Speaker 1: works differently, you know than I expected. After a couple
Speaker 1: of days from the free agency, we just got a
Speaker 1: call from the organization, from the Sixers, which makes me
Speaker 1: really happy. I was shocked, you know. First when I
Speaker 1: heard that from my agent, I was like really like
Speaker 1: I couldn't like believe it because in my mind, if
Speaker 1: you ask me what's gonna happen during the free agency,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I'm not gonna be back
Speaker 1: in Philly. That's the only thing I could say on
Speaker 1: that time. I was not really prepared for that a
Speaker 1: that time. That was the best option for me, you know,
Speaker 1: to come here. I saw the roster, I saw the
Speaker 1: stuff again and then I knew the expectation from here,
Speaker 1: and then I thought I could make it. And then
Speaker 1: that was my biggest point nine team for this year.
Speaker 1: A preseason conversation with Brett Brown set the town for
Speaker 1: Kind had a training camp at a crowded competition among
Speaker 1: his fellow wings, but he was focused. I will start
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the season. I met with the coach,
Speaker 1: Brett Brown. When we had the meeting, he was just
Speaker 1: straight up to me, and then he said, if you
Speaker 1: just make the trees and then play defense, you will
Speaker 1: be on the court. You know. He said that from
Speaker 1: my eyes, all of you guys in the same level,
Speaker 1: just it's up to you to get the jersey yet
Speaker 1: the minutes, you know. And then I was really appreciated,
Speaker 1: and then I started to feel like why not. Why
Speaker 1: I'm not that guy? You know, I accept the challenge.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to get to jersey. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to get the minutes. I need to grow a bomber
Speaker 1: and really like somebody's gonna emerge with you, like lightning
Speaker 1: in a bottle. They can come in and go bam
Speaker 1: bam bam and make a three. And why not furk
Speaker 1: After I saw his interview. He just said I wanted
Speaker 1: to grow a bumbler, and then I said, why not
Speaker 1: not to be me? You know because in our team
Speaker 1: uniates shooting, you know, and then I know the organization,
Speaker 1: under the chemistry, you know, I know the expectation. I
Speaker 1: told I can handle it. And then the things out
Speaker 1: of booked out. Pork Boss, quick cat shot free is good.
Speaker 1: You expect them all to go in. Pork Boss with it,
Speaker 1: doblet ain Kark Boss, Oh yeah, a right hat jam bitch,
Speaker 1: Furk God, cork Boss take it over and Billy park
Speaker 1: Boss has it, shoots it three balls. That's good, Perk
Speaker 1: God Corkbos banks the three. He struggled this after dude,
Speaker 1: look for the third straight game he comes up large
Speaker 1: Furk you know, continues to not play afraid and take
Speaker 1: big shots. He's always kind of had that in a
Speaker 1: confidence where he's not afraid of the moment. For me,
Speaker 1: I was playing basketball since nine years old. I play
Speaker 1: a lot of games with the national team, my X
Speaker 1: club FS. So there was a lot of like crucial moments,
Speaker 1: you know, crucial shots which I made, which I missed.
Speaker 1: But I really agree that, like I don't really afraid
Speaker 1: of the moments because at the end of today, someone
Speaker 1: needs to take the shots or someone needs to make
Speaker 1: the decision. So it doesn't matter what you do at
Speaker 1: the end of it, you just need to make the decision.
Speaker 1: This is also about the life you know you are.
Speaker 1: Sometimes either you need to go from the right or
Speaker 1: you need to go from the left. It's all about
Speaker 1: your decision. And then that's what I told during the games,
Speaker 1: and then I'm just trying to be calm during the
Speaker 1: last couple of minutes of the games. For me, it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter what the score is. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: do my decision. I'm just gonna let it go. I'm
Speaker 1: really happy this year because I just I just said,
Speaker 1: like we are coming here to play basketball. Doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how good player you was at sixteen, eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: It's really matter how good player you are right now.
Speaker 1: So that's the team on my mind. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to think about what happened in the past.
Speaker 1: I just learned from there and then I just want
Speaker 1: to keep moving forward. Right now, I'm in the good hands,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm playing good basketball here and then I'm
Speaker 1: in the really good successful team. I'm really proud of
Speaker 1: to be here, you know, after like a couple of
Speaker 1: hard years for me, a feeling that no doubt is
Speaker 1: beyond well deserved. That's the first installment of our Here
Speaker 1: They Come mini series, which will be piggybacking off of
Speaker 1: the outstanding Here They Come behind the Scenes video series
Speaker 1: from Studio seventy six. Again definitely encourage you to check
Speaker 1: out the latest episode of the video series. It is
Speaker 1: a phenomenal feature on fur Con, produced by the exceptional
Speaker 1: Alex Nolan. Watched on any of our social channels or
Speaker 1: on our YouTube page plus sixers dot com or the
Speaker 1: Sixers app. Before we part ways for this episode of
Speaker 1: the podcast, definitely want to get to some of your thoughts,
Speaker 1: comments and opinions about Furcon, and we'll do that in
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Speaker 1: NBA right now, I've been doing some introspective thinking about
Speaker 1: the state of our podcast feed, and I've come to
Speaker 1: realize I've been thinking about this for a while that
Speaker 1: I tend to live on a one way street. There's
Speaker 1: not enough two way engagement on the pod feed. We've
Speaker 1: tried some different stuff in the past. For any of
Speaker 1: you out there who have been listening for this long,
Speaker 1: you might remember a few years ago we did our
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Speaker 1: some point when there is basketball again, there will be
Speaker 1: incentive for you to engage and give comments. We will
Speaker 1: be giving you something in return, aside from just a
Speaker 1: very much heartfelt and appreciative plug here on the pod.
Speaker 1: But ahead of this episode of the podcast, I asked
Speaker 1: the question, what are you most impressed about introspective furkon
Speaker 1: cork Cross this season this year. Got a couple replies,
Speaker 1: I'm going to run through right now. Thank you. Kristen Loft,
Speaker 1: As she says his confidence, I truly believe that's what
Speaker 1: has helped him elevate his game. There's no doubt. I
Speaker 1: think it's also about his mindset where he's like, and
Speaker 1: he talked about this, it's like, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: have any fear. I'm going to step up own this opportunity.
Speaker 1: Be aggressive and go for it, and clearly that's paid
Speaker 1: major dividends. Tommy Buckland also said has much improved confidence.
Speaker 1: Could not agree more. Nick Cowboys six chimed in on
Speaker 1: Instagram saying what's improved the most about Furkon Cork miles
Speaker 1: this year? His ability to shoot off screens definitely has
Speaker 1: been effective in that area. There have been times WHERETT
Speaker 1: Brown has even said it's like the Sixers have put
Speaker 1: Furkon in JJ Reddick style packages, and furk has replicated
Speaker 1: the function that JJ Reddick had with the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: in their offense the past two years. So yes, I
Speaker 1: agree with Nick Cowboys six. Dave mulhern says, what's improved
Speaker 1: the most about Furkon quirk Mas this year? Love Furck's
Speaker 1: effort on defense. Guys do get past him at times.
Speaker 1: You can tell his effort is always one hundred percent there. Yes,
Speaker 1: and Dave also said you can tell other guys and
Speaker 1: the team are so excited for him on a big nights. Agreed.
Speaker 1: I would add to that, I feel like guys are
Speaker 1: just excited for Furkon in general. He is a really
Speaker 1: beloved person inside the locker room. He's got this quirky,
Speaker 1: endearing sense of humor that guys seem to really respond to.
Speaker 1: On top of all that he's put in the work,
Speaker 1: and he has seen it translate to the court while
Speaker 1: filling a big role for the seventy Sixers this season.
Speaker 1: Fingers crossed, we are hoping that at some point in
Speaker 1: time we'll get to see Furcon CORKMS in the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers back out there in a season that is
Speaker 1: an extension of two nineteen two and twenty so he
Speaker 1: can close out what has been just a great year
Speaker 1: so far. That'll do it for this episode of the podcast.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the peeps who sent in comments that I read,
Speaker 1: and also to those people who submitted comments even if
Speaker 1: I did not read them. A couple more shout outs
Speaker 1: Producer editor of Studio seventy six Alex Nolan, awesome job
Speaker 1: on the Furkon CORKMS. Piece music credits for this episode,
Speaker 1: Universal Production Music, the YouTube Audio Library, and Warner Chappelle.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Selzer. You can follow me on Twitter at
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