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Speaker 1: get underway. Matt Murphy is here with me. Matt, good morning.
Speaker 1: How was your late night viewing experience last night? Shout
Speaker 1: out to all the real ones that stayed up late
Speaker 1: to watch that game. It was good. Hello Lauren, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us from the West Coast. It is morning
Speaker 1: for you, it's afternoon for me. It's late at night
Speaker 1: for anyone listening from Perth, Australia. I believe just after
Speaker 1: midnight for them. So we know we have a lot
Speaker 1: of Australian listeners. I don't know how many are with
Speaker 1: us live today, but if you can't make these live,
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Speaker 1: Sixers are forty five and twenty seven now after a
Speaker 1: one twenty six one twenty one road win over the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and they got the job done. They had a bigger
Speaker 1: lead in the first half or heading into halftime and
Speaker 1: ultimately closed it out. Four twenty point scorers, and we
Speaker 1: can jump into the box score some standout performers all around,
Speaker 1: and then we could take questions as well. But four
Speaker 1: twenty point scorers on each team, but Joel Embiid had
Speaker 1: a game high with thirty points. Matt, it feels like
Speaker 1: we've talked about it quite a few times at this point,
Speaker 1: but Joel Embiads somehow continues to put together a quiet
Speaker 1: thirty and ten outing, a quiet forty and twelve outing,
Speaker 1: a quiet twenty seven and seventeen outing. It's been so
Speaker 1: interesting to watch the way that he's been able to
Speaker 1: be so dominant in such a I don't want to say,
Speaker 1: like demure, but in like a non I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's so interesting to see him be as dominant as
Speaker 1: he's been while still getting his teammates involved. I think
Speaker 1: that that's how I would describe what I saw last
Speaker 1: night against the Los Angeles Lakers. And as we jump
Speaker 1: into the box score, please send your questions and your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Send who has stood up to you over the last
Speaker 1: few games, whose numbers stand out to you. As I
Speaker 1: go through the box score, send me a DM. My
Speaker 1: dms are a little bit short today, so I'd love
Speaker 1: to see some more from those of you that are here.
Speaker 1: So without further ado, I will jump into the box score,
Speaker 1: and you guys will tell me what stands out. Joel
Speaker 1: Embiide leads away four the seventy six ers once again,
Speaker 1: thirty points, ten rebounds, three assists, three steals, three blocks.
Speaker 1: There were four matt as you said, twenty plus points
Speaker 1: scorers in last night's outing, James Harden twenty four points,
Speaker 1: seven rebounds, seven assists, Tyrese Maxie twenty one points, five rebounds,
Speaker 1: seven assists and a steal, Tobias Harris twenty points, seven rebounds,
Speaker 1: five assists, And then you go to the bench who
Speaker 1: also which also had a productive evening nine points apiece
Speaker 1: for DeAndre Jordan and George Niang. DeAndre finished with nine
Speaker 1: points and seven rebounds. George finished with nine points, a rebound,
Speaker 1: and two assists, six from fur Concorkmas, three from Shake
Speaker 1: Milton from Matise Thyble, plus a couple of steals and
Speaker 1: a block for that fifth starter in Matise. Overall, Matt
Speaker 1: lost a little bit of momentum down the stretch, but
Speaker 1: then held the Lakers off for a win. And a
Speaker 1: win is a win. So what did you most enjoy
Speaker 1: about this one? Well, some of the numbers that stood
Speaker 1: out to me, I actually tweeted some. I wasn't trying
Speaker 1: to encroach on your underrated Sixers stats tweet, But some
Speaker 1: of the things that stood out to me. Limiting themselves
Speaker 1: to seven turnovers is good. Tobias Harris being a game
Speaker 1: high plus twenty thought he really impacted things. James Harden
Speaker 1: sixteen third quarter points and then mbiads stat line overall,
Speaker 1: So the thirty ten well a game with at least
Speaker 1: thirty ten three steals in three blocks. It's only the
Speaker 1: second time that he's done that in his career, and
Speaker 1: it was his first time this season. Only Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: and Nicole Yokich have been other NBA players to do that.
Speaker 1: So those are the things that stood out to me
Speaker 1: statistically or a little bit beyond the box score as well. Also,
Speaker 1: the bench minutes were kind of spread around, they went
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper. Everybody on the bench played double
Speaker 1: digit minutes. The fewest was Danny Green with eleven, the
Speaker 1: most was Shake Milton with twenty. George Yang had a
Speaker 1: bunch of threes that were important early in the game.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan ended up racking up nine points and seven
Speaker 1: rebounds for con Korkmas had six points. So balanced bench
Speaker 1: minutes or distribution of those minutes, and then the four
Speaker 1: twenty point scorers in the starting lineup, that is some
Speaker 1: of what stood out to me. What was the what
Speaker 1: was the vibe like on site? Lauren? It was it
Speaker 1: was good to see you out there doing your thing.
Speaker 1: What was crypto dot Com arena like, and I know
Speaker 1: there were some MVP chants for Joel in another visiting
Speaker 1: building or road building. So what was it like at
Speaker 1: the game? Well, look, there were plenty of sixerspans in
Speaker 1: the house, which has become pretty much the standard this
Speaker 1: season as his team travels from city to city. Of course,
Speaker 1: good to see so many sixerspans on the West Coast
Speaker 1: in a building where there's some history, of course, but yeah,
Speaker 1: lots of sixerspans. And then it felt, honestly to me
Speaker 1: that there were some neutrals in the building that were
Speaker 1: won over by the end of the night because of
Speaker 1: the sort of aggressiveness of the cheers for sixers buckets
Speaker 1: at the beginning versus at the end. The MVP chance
Speaker 1: we heard them lightly at the beginning, with Joel at
Speaker 1: the line from the sixerspans in the building, but as
Speaker 1: the night went along, they did seem to get louder,
Speaker 1: and it felt as though the building really started to
Speaker 1: embrace Joel Embiid. And then of course the building also
Speaker 1: started to embrace one Tyrese Maxie, who we have not
Speaker 1: really discussed yet. And I see all of your questions
Speaker 1: about Tyrese, but he talked about postgame the way that
Speaker 1: last season he didn't really have much of an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play heavy minutes against the Lakers. He was really
Speaker 1: excited to come in and have his sort of first
Speaker 1: big moment in a big building against a big team
Speaker 1: and help get a big win for his team. His
Speaker 1: parents were in the front row, which he also discussed postgame,
Speaker 1: so really really cool quotes from Tyrese which I have
Speaker 1: not transcribed yet but I will later in the day,
Speaker 1: just to make sure you guys see what he said
Speaker 1: about his parents and his journey to this point. So
Speaker 1: of course there was a star studded event. Little Dickie
Speaker 1: was there, so shout out to the Sixers fans and
Speaker 1: well Matt Ruther. There was another and look, I haven't
Speaker 1: watched all of It's always sunny, but I know some
Speaker 1: key cast members and it's always sunny. We're there last night.
Speaker 1: They were really excited. There's a tweet on the Sixers
Speaker 1: page if you want to go check it out of
Speaker 1: the two of them reacting to I believe it was
Speaker 1: the final or a big allue. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter, I think is a play featured
Speaker 1: in that clip. But look lots of stars in the building,
Speaker 1: lots of Sixers fans in the building, good energy throughout
Speaker 1: the evening, and then of course to get the win
Speaker 1: on the road. Always exciting for those Sixers fans that
Speaker 1: either traveled to far distance or waited a long time
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Speaker 1: I just shared the tweet at the top of the space.
Speaker 1: It was the Alleu. You caught my lob Thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the alley from Joel to Matisse. Very late.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry about that. I just played the sound in
Speaker 1: my headphones at the same time, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if I cut out or whatever, but no, you're good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what a shot by our teammate Nina Raspa right with
Speaker 1: the with the zoom in after the play, So check
Speaker 1: that out at the top. But I guess that's something
Speaker 1: you always expect when you play the Lakers or the Clippers,
Speaker 1: and they'll be back there against the Clippers on Friday.
Speaker 1: But it was a good way to start the road trip.
Speaker 1: That the three game road trip that we'll see them
Speaker 1: play the Clippers and then the Phoenix Suns on Sunday
Speaker 1: as well. I think it's a good time to dive
Speaker 1: into some questions, have some questions about Tobias Harden. Gina says,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about fur Coon shocker coming from Gina,
Speaker 1: but it's so great to see him getting back into
Speaker 1: his groove and even when he's not shooting, his confidence
Speaker 1: moving the ball and playing defense is back. That goes
Speaker 1: to the point that I said Lauren about how fur
Speaker 1: Coon played fourteen minutes and those bench minutes were kind
Speaker 1: of evenly distributed and going three for four posting six points.
Speaker 1: It was a balanced bench effort and it does feel
Speaker 1: like firkon his groove back a little bit, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers coaching staff goes back to him for a second
Speaker 1: straight game. Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, Firkon led the
Speaker 1: team in plus minus against the Miami Heat just a
Speaker 1: couple of nights ago, and then a bench high plus
Speaker 1: fifteen in last night's victory. And Firkon is someone who's
Speaker 1: talked about confidence and needing to see shots go in
Speaker 1: and needing to keep putting them up. He works his
Speaker 1: tail off, and so it's been really good to see
Speaker 1: him over the last couple of games sort of emerge
Speaker 1: from what's been a difficult stretch for him. He's talked
Speaker 1: about it and succeed in some big moments. He got
Speaker 1: credit from a lot of his teammates following Following every game,
Speaker 1: some top performers addressed the media. Last night, it was
Speaker 1: Tobias Joel Tyrese and James Harden, and they gave a
Speaker 1: lot of credits to Firkon for hitting a big three late.
Speaker 1: Because it's it's one thing to perform well when your
Speaker 1: team is up, it's another to perform well when your
Speaker 1: team really needs you to help get up. And so
Speaker 1: Furkon's late three was really impressive. To me and two
Speaker 1: thousand points. Gina added that as well. Furkon Corkmas reaching
Speaker 1: two thousand career MBA points, Look, that's huge. I mean
Speaker 1: these milestones throughout a regular season. They pop up on
Speaker 1: your stats feed or whatever. But imagine being anyone who
Speaker 1: becomes an MBA player and scores. You think back to
Speaker 1: like high school players reaching the one thousand point milestone.
Speaker 1: To score one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, ten thousand,
Speaker 1: whatever it is MBA points. It's cool to see. So
Speaker 1: Furkon reached two thousand last night against the Lakers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely awesome stuff from furk who continues to also rise
Speaker 1: in the ranks in all time threes for a sixer,
Speaker 1: which we love to see. He's someone that again has worked,
Speaker 1: he has worked really hard. He's played his whole career
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. He considers Philadelphia at home, and so his
Speaker 1: teammates I think are the best indicators that when Furkon succeeds,
Speaker 1: there are so many smiles on the bench and everybody's excited.
Speaker 1: They've really embraced his success lately, and I think that
Speaker 1: that speaks volumes. Matt. I want to go to extreme
Speaker 1: who says, what's your take on Maxie's huge improvement over
Speaker 1: the season, And it's something that I feel like we
Speaker 1: talk about almost every time that we do a Twitter
Speaker 1: space at this point. But it was pretty incredible to
Speaker 1: be in a building of folks that don't watch Tyrese
Speaker 1: Maxie every night and sort of gauge their reactions and
Speaker 1: watch sort of these wide eyed looks people who haven't
Speaker 1: seen Tyrese play in person before, other members of the
Speaker 1: media that were really impressed by what he was able
Speaker 1: to do last night. And it's something that we of
Speaker 1: course know because we watch him every day, but to
Speaker 1: watch other people experience what Tyrese has been doing for
Speaker 1: the first time, I thought was really cool, and I
Speaker 1: asked Doc Rivers about it pregame. He talked about the
Speaker 1: way where Tyrese has improved the most, of course, is
Speaker 1: sort of in his shot and he used to put
Speaker 1: up mostly floaters. Now he's finishing at the rim. Now
Speaker 1: he's making lots of threes. And then, of course, the
Speaker 1: second part that Doc talked about is just Tyrese's confidence
Speaker 1: and the way that he was always making shots in
Speaker 1: practice throughout his rookie season, but then he'd go into
Speaker 1: the game and he'd struggle, and Doc said that the
Speaker 1: competence thing was absolutely key for Tyrese. He's playing with
Speaker 1: a ton of confidence right now and those shots are
Speaker 1: going in. So it was cool to hear Doc talk
Speaker 1: about Tyrese's progression pregame and then watch Tyrese do exactly
Speaker 1: what Doc had been talking about in the game, and
Speaker 1: of course we're accustomed to seeing that now. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a surprise to see him do so. But everything that
Speaker 1: everyone has said about Tyrese Maxie is true and on
Speaker 1: full display. It's been really, really awesome to watch him succeed.
Speaker 1: It's not just one of the biggest stories in Sixers twitterland,
Speaker 1: it's becoming a pretty big story in the NBA universe.
Speaker 1: So I think it's worth discussing it really is. I'm
Speaker 1: going to quickly use this space as a chance to
Speaker 1: plug a quick hitting seventy Sixers Insiders special edition that
Speaker 1: came out yesterday. Look, you don't need that much time
Speaker 1: to listen to this podcast. It's not an overwhelming task.
Speaker 1: It's quick hitting questions with both Tyrese Maxie and George Niang,
Speaker 1: two fan favorites, and it's not really x's and O's
Speaker 1: type questions. It's some fun stuff. So if you get
Speaker 1: a chance, the same feed that you might find these
Speaker 1: shows in if you don't strictly listen to them live
Speaker 1: on Twitter spaces seventy Sixers Insiders it went up yesterday.
Speaker 1: I asked Tyrese how he would describe the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one twenty two Philadelphia seventy six Ers. He said, determined
Speaker 1: Winona says, I felt like Tobias had a good showing
Speaker 1: defensively and made great decisions quickly. I will add some
Speaker 1: words from head coach Doc Rivers, who said postgame Tobias
Speaker 1: was great. Tonight was phenomenal. It was great. We had
Speaker 1: a talk the other day just about letting it come.
Speaker 1: If you did it come off of those guys, you're
Speaker 1: going to get a lot, And I thought he did
Speaker 1: that tonight. Then to Bias later on said talked about opportunities,
Speaker 1: staying ready for them, being patient and quote defending my
Speaker 1: tail off and making the right plays offensively to have
Speaker 1: even more flow throughout the game. Flow as a word
Speaker 1: that you hear Tobias Harris say a lot. Lauren, you
Speaker 1: were in the room and Doc also talked about the
Speaker 1: offense and how they scored one hundred and twenty six points,
Speaker 1: shot over fifty percent as a team, but said quote,
Speaker 1: I thought we weren't very good offensively, which is amazing
Speaker 1: when you think about it, like how good we should
Speaker 1: be and can be. And that was sort of a
Speaker 1: theme that I gathered last night from the team. They
Speaker 1: know there's a lot more to give, and Joel Embiad
Speaker 1: even talked championship after the game. Yeah, yeah, for sure, Matt.
Speaker 1: And interestingly, we've talked actually a lot about efficiency with
Speaker 1: this team. They've had some really efficient evenings in the
Speaker 1: last month or so, let's say, but five or fifteen
Speaker 1: for to buy overall, an efficient night, but still not
Speaker 1: what he's usually up to. Again, Joel Embiid can do
Speaker 1: better than eleven for a nineteen. We've seen Tyreees do
Speaker 1: better than eight for fourteen. We've seen James do better
Speaker 1: than seven for eighteen. We've seen Matisses do better than
Speaker 1: two for five. So I think overall, like you said,
Speaker 1: still shot over fifty percent from the floor, Still found
Speaker 1: what they were looking for overall, and like Doc said,
Speaker 1: scored one hundred and twenty six points, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: what we've seen from them in the past, and so
Speaker 1: I think if this is sort of a starting point
Speaker 1: and this is sort of a baseline, there are some
Speaker 1: scary things to come from this team offensively, which is
Speaker 1: still just getting to know one another. And that's what
Speaker 1: Joe Well had to say. He said, if they play
Speaker 1: things correctly, they're going to win a championship. But they
Speaker 1: can win a championship if they do things right. And
Speaker 1: I think last night, despite the victory, they didn't all
Speaker 1: feel that everything was done right. They feel that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of improvement left to be had in these
Speaker 1: next ten or so games and then in a few
Speaker 1: days hopefully between the end of the season and the postseason.
Speaker 1: But the fact that this is sort of a baseline
Speaker 1: and that there's still so much improvement to be made.
Speaker 1: Of course, the timeline is tight and there's a lot
Speaker 1: to do within that tight timeline. But because the ceiling
Speaker 1: continues to get ire for this group, I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of excitement to be had and I think
Speaker 1: that the guys can derive a lot of confidence from that.
Speaker 1: And that's what we heard from Joel postgame. It's just different.
Speaker 1: Twenty nine point eight points per game, Lebron James did
Speaker 1: not play for the Lakers, who averages thirty points per game.
Speaker 1: That's one two in the scoring title race. Joel just
Speaker 1: below Lebron right now thirty to twenty nine point eight
Speaker 1: points per game. We'll see if not only Joel can
Speaker 1: get an MVP this year, but the scoring title and
Speaker 1: he wants a championship. So there's all these stories that
Speaker 1: are going to be told in the near future or
Speaker 1: we're going to have an answer to in the near future.
Speaker 1: And I'll add that from my vantage point. Last night
Speaker 1: at Crypto dot com arena, there were some young kids
Speaker 1: in Joel en b jerseys that I obviously don't know
Speaker 1: the backstory there, but the enthusiast as of with which
Speaker 1: they watched Joel and bad suggested that maybe it was
Speaker 1: their first time seeing him in a person. There were
Speaker 1: a lot of us and ohs and gasps from these
Speaker 1: little kids that were wearing Joel and Bead jerseys. A
Speaker 1: couple similar gasps for Tyrese Maxie as well. So really
Speaker 1: cool to see what Matt you saw at All Star
Speaker 1: among players and devon what you're talking about with Joel
Speaker 1: able to sort of put the league on notice and
Speaker 1: put the team on his back. And do things he
Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to do through the eyes of some
Speaker 1: young fans, and Joel talked about that at exact Concept
Speaker 1: following the game, and he said that this offseason he
Speaker 1: worked closely with his trainer on the question that has
Speaker 1: circulated sort of in media and in NBA chatter about
Speaker 1: whether or not Joel Ebiad could be the guy on
Speaker 1: a championship team, and Joel said that this offseason was
Speaker 1: about making sure that he could be making sure that
Speaker 1: he could put the team on his back, get his
Speaker 1: teammates involved, be big down the stretch. And I think
Speaker 1: we've seen it over and over again. He's doing things
Speaker 1: that big men can't traditionally do, and I think, to me,
Speaker 1: that's why he can be the guy on any team.
Speaker 1: And I've just really really enjoyed watching his progression on court,
Speaker 1: off court as a player, as a leader. This season
Speaker 1: has been different for Joel Embiid, and it's been absolutely
Speaker 1: awesome to watch. It has been And that's all I've
Speaker 1: got for today. Gina did send another message saying that
Speaker 1: speaking to the league, being aware of Embiad's greatness, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if you caught Embiad on Draymond Green's podcast,
Speaker 1: but Draymond said, in his mind, there's no question he's
Speaker 1: the MVP. Meeting Joel I did not listen to the podcast,
Speaker 1: but I saw some clips from it, and that's just
Speaker 1: another example of the players in the league in their
Speaker 1: respect for Joe LMBIID. But I think that's gonna just
Speaker 1: about do it for us today. Yeah, I'm also ready
Speaker 1: to wrap it up this morning, but as always we
Speaker 1: do these Sixers Twitter spaces after every Sixers win, Sixers
Speaker 1: stay in LA for a couple of days to visit
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Clippers in the same building tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: That's a late one for you on the West Coast,
Speaker 1: or rather for you guys on the East coast, But
Speaker 1: looking forward to hopefully doing this again with you guys
Speaker 1: and recapping on Saturday morning. In the words of Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: the sun is bright, the vibrations are right