WEBVTT - Embiid and Harris Put 75 on Pelicans, Lakers Up Next 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.920 This podcast is part of the seventy six Ers podcast 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.960 network search seventy six Ers Insiders wherever you get your 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:26.480 podcasts day everybody, Yeah, seventy six All right, we're going 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.440 for it. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome everyone. Welcome to another Sixers 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.280 Twitter spaces. Following a seventy Sixers win with Lauren Rosen, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.120 I'm Matt Murphy. The Sixers now twenty eight and nineteen. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.320 After beating the New Orleans Pelicans in Philadelphia one seventeen, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.120 one oh seven on Tuesday Night, another huge game from 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.160 Joel Embiid Tobias Harris as well those two forty two 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.800 for Embiid thirty three for Harris, combining for seventy five 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.000 points in the ten point win over the Pelicans to 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.800 kick off a straight of five straight games on home court. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.640 Lauren will get into a lot on this show, but 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.880 as always to the listeners, we want to remind you 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.280 to click on our icons at the top send us 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.600 a DM with a question, thought, comment anything. I guess 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.720 thought and comment might be the same thing, but if 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.640 you have a question, a specific thing you want to 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.640 talk about, let us know. You can DM us, you 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.679 can tweet to us and we'll get into it today. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.920 Good morning to anyone else on the East Coast like 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.319 me and Lauren. Good morning to you, Lauren Rosen, Welcome 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.720 back to Spaces. Good morning Matt Murphy. Thank you to 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.240 everybody that's sending questions. I actually have quite a few already. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.720 Keep them coming, please, please, please, there's some overlap. Try 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.320 to get creative today. If the Sixers keep winning and 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.120 Joel keeps playing this way, we've got to get pretty 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.200 creative on these spaces. Good morning, Matt. Always a pleasure 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.640 to do this with you. You welcome the East Coast listeners. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.600 I'm going to welcome everybody that's listening. Over the last 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.560 few spaces. We've had tons of Australian presence, lots of 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.560 Turkish presence, lots of UK presence. Nairobi has been here 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.400 multiple times. We had a listener from Cameroon last time. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.880 So really excited about everybody that's in here. And if 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.040 I haven't shouted out where you're from, I apologize. Maybe 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:10.240 I'll try to do it more like what I just 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.320 did now shout out people from last time. But yeah, Matt, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.000 you you mentioned it. I think we can dive straight in. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.800 Joel embiad obviously the headliner last night. He finished with 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:24.120 forty two points, fourteen rebounds, four assists, and four blocks. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.000 Who was twelve for twenty four from the field, eighteen 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.639 for twenty from the free throw line twenty free throw 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.760 attempts Last night for Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris hits a 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.240 new season high was previously thirty two points. He had 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.400 thirty three points, eleven rebounds, two assists, a steal, and 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.320 two blocks to Bias an extremely efficient evening thirteen for 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.239 nineteen from the field, perfect three for three from deep, 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.440 perfect four for four from the charity stripe. And then 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.560 we move into some of the other contributors. Tyrese Maxie 0:02:55.639 --> 0:03:00.240 ten points, three rebounds, five assists for Concorkmas, who started 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.400 once again in the absence once again of Seth Curry, 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.520 Danny Green Shake Milton for Con finishes with thirteen points, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.680 three rebounds, two assists, and a block. Matisse's Bible makes 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.080 his return after almost two weeks away due to that 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.160 right shoulder sprain. He finishes with three points, four rebounds, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.040 three assists, two steals and a block. Really got his 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.240 footing in the second half, as did most of the team. 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.480 Matt you and I discussed it postgame, but it was 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.880 a tale of two halves for the seventy Sixers, who 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.960 came out of the break on a mission led by 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.240 Joel Embiid. More on that in just a second. But 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.560 a thirty six twenty eight advantage in the third quarter 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.240 for the seventy Sixers and a thirty one twenty one 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.520 advantage in the fourth quarter. Impressive stuff from the Sixers 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.840 in the second half after not doing quite what they 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.520 wanted to in the first. Matt where would you like 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.760 to dive in? First? Couple of things to add here. One, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.280 thank you for welcoming our listeners from around the world. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.200 As we know, we love when you let us know 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.000 where you are listening from. I say good morning to 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:03.560 the East Coast a lot of the time because I 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.040 know that's where we are, and I don't want to 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.119 say good morning to everyone if it doesn't apply to them. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.080 But in some cases it's very early in the morning, 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.720 so it might work for people everywhere in some cases. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.320 But another thing, as you went through the stats, trying 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.919 a new feature here on Sixers Spaces, and this is 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.679 not great for our podcast audience. So we can read 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.000 some of these stats throughout as well. But anyone who's 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.119 in here, these are available as podcasts after the fact 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.240 on demand search seventy six Ers Insiders. But if you're 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.520 in here live on spaces check out the top of 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.400 the space. You can share tweets, Lauren. You just go 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.520 as if you were going to embed it and you 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.080 can share it straight to the space. So we can 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:50.680 sort through some of Joel's stats and notable most notable stats, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.560 I shared one from the Sixers account making history one 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.480 game at a time. Joel embiid twenty five plus points 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.640 joins Alan Iverson is the only seventy Sixers ever to 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.480 score twenty five plus in at least fifteen straight games. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.000 And then I also did one from Sixer Stats that 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.320 it was Joel's fourth straight game with at least thirty 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.159 eight and twelve per stat Head. He's the first Sixers 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.799 player ever to do so in at least four straight 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.080 Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain did so in three games 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.520 in a row on three occasions. Shout out to Sixers Stats. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.400 Shout out to the Sixers PR team, Rob King and 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.520 his whole crew as well, because I saw Rob in here. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.960 But pretty cool feature if you're in here live with us. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.599 That changes the game because we've tried to share things 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.880 many a time in these Twitter spaces, and I feel 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.400 like I'm sort of directing traffic without a GPS when 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.440 I tell you guys to go to different accounts. But 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.600 awesome find there, Matt Murphy, and I think if you're down, Matt, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.800 I want to dive straight into some of these questions 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.440 because I think they lead us where we were headed. Anyway, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:53.520 a lot of chatter about joelmbad four MVP, so I 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.400 think we should start there. Doug asks, is Joel getting 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.239 enough attention for MVP? I know you had a similar question, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.920 so we can shout out whoever submitted that, and it's 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.240 a good one. I do think that. A couple weeks 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.400 ago the answer was no. In no scenario was Joel 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:14.080 getting enough MVP attention. But his case is gathering steam 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.880 for sure. So as we look around the league, as 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.080 we look around the commentary, there have been plenty of 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.200 statsworth highlighting, but one that I've been following, and stat 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.160 muse tipped me off a few games ago, and now 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.920 it's something that I've been following along. But Joel Embiide 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.560 in the year twenty twenty two scoring more points than 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.640 minutes played on a very consistent basis. So, for example, 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.839 he's done it in five consecutive games. Last night forty 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.480 two points in thirty three minutes against the Spurs, thirty 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.120 eight points in thirty one minutes, against the Clippers forty 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.400 points in thirty six minutes, perhaps the biggest margin of all, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.800 against the Magic fifty points in twenty seven minutes, and 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.559 against the Wizards thirty two points in twenty nine minutes. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.839 That's five games in a row in which he is 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:02.440 scoring more points than minutes. That is difficult to do, Matt. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.560 When you look at the stats that are going into 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.400 building Joel's MVP case, what stands out most to you? 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:15.000 Mustapha says, greetings from Belgium, So greetings. We appreciate anyone 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.880 letting us know where they're listening from. What stands out 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.360 to me? I know you like the minutes played one 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.320 like you just went through. As far as I know, 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.960 stat Muse is going to keep Joel as their profile 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.000 picture until he has a game where he doesn't score 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.800 more points than minutes played. So he that is that 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.400 streak is still going among the many Joel various stat 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.320 streaks that he's got going on. I just thought it 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.480 was interesting looking at when we talk about the MVP 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:49.240 and we talk about where he ranks league wide. The 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.560 message that you were referring to earlier came in earlier. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.920 Dan got in early. You can send it if it's 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.360 something you think of during a Sixers game and you 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.480 know we're going to talk the next day. Hit your 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.600 questions in this one was this morning, prior to us starting. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.320 Dan wanted to bring up Joel in the MVP race 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:12.520 and national recognition and even recognition locally and him living 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.440 up to that. So I was just looking at the 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.720 league leaders and the official leaders. I thought it was 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.760 interesting that all three of these guys have played thirty 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:27.600 six games. Durant, Lebron, and Joel through thirty six games. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.160 Points per game is not an end all, be all 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.719 to anything, but they're all averaging right around twenty nine 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.080 points per game in thirty six games. Each of these 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.880 three players Durant twenty nine point three points per game, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.760 Lebron James twenty nine point one points per game, Joel 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:49.080 Embiid twenty nine points per game. Even interesting because the 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.319 Lakers are the next opponent for the Philadelphia seventy six Ers, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.840 the second of five straight games at home Thursday night 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:02.640 in Philadelphia, seven thirty Eastern time. I'm start and two 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.520 of the best players, two of the faces of the NBA, 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:11.000 Lebron and Joel What I'm trying, Hey, it's Joe Conklin 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.400 joined me for Conklin's comedy. 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Must be the twenty one roller game Public Gamble, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.360 and that's one that I think we'll get into a 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.040 little bit more towards the end of the space, but 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.240 I know that's a game that lots of sixer stans 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.280 have had circled on their calendars since the schedule came out, 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.160 So looking forward to that one. On Thursday, and this, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.120 of course an opportunity for the Sixers to improve upon 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.080 their home record. The Sixers quickly have become one of 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.319 the best, if not the best, road team in the NBA. That, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.560 of course, could be partially due to the fact that 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.480 the beginning of their schedule was rather road heavy. But 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.400 now an opportunity, Matt, like you said, five in a 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.520 row at home to increase their wind total and get 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.079 more comfortable playing at home in front of their home crowd, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.560 which by the way, has been excellent lately and over 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.360 the last few games. Let's get into a couple more questions, Matt, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.720 I wasn't expecting to get here this quickly, but I 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.360 think it's certainly worth noting. I'm getting a lot of 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.800 fur con corkmas questions. Sixers Portugal shouts out fur coon. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.440 Gina shouts out fur coon. Four tying let's see I 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:35.679 want I don't want to, I don't want to read 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.880 this incorrectly, but tying Hollis Thompson for eighth all time 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:45.280 on the Sixers three pointers made leader tally scoreboard, leader 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.640 tally scoreboard. That can't be what it's actually called, but 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.120 all time leaders from three four seventy six Ers. Furkon 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.280 Coorkmas ties for eighth with Hollis Thompson. Those ahead of 0:10:55.400 --> 0:11:00.600 Furcon only include Lou Williams, JJ Reddick, Hershey hawkins On, Dala, 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.640 Kyle Korver, Robert Covington, and Alan Iverson. And that's something 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.880 that I don't think people think about as much as 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.560 maybe we should be giving furk a little bit of credit. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.520 He of course has played his whole career with the Sixers, 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.080 so a lot of years played. But the guys ahead 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.920 of him, with the exception of JJ Reddick, have also 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.959 all played at least five years with the seventy Sixers, 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.800 so cool to see Furkon reach that total. He was 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.040 aware that he had reached that new milestone post game, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.599 and he, of course, being the good teammate that he is, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.800 alluded to the fact that as long as it means 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:32.640 that he's helping the team win, he is happy. But 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.760 it is good to be a part of the history 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.199 books in Philadelphia. Exciting for Firkon, who has over time 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.200 started to say in media availabilities over and over and 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.200 over again that he considers Philadelphia his home and he's 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.920 really happy to have built his career here so I 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.000 see all of your messages about firkon there actually a 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.880 few more and I'll try to shout you guys all out. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.000 But yes, a cool opportunity and a milestone for Firk, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.400 who's now put together a couple really solid performances this week. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.360 As I had the tweet ready to go, should he 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:08.520 have passed Hollis Thompson on the list, But I was 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.640 gonna wait. I wasn't going to tweet that he was 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.360 tied with Hollis Thompson on the all time threes list 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.600 for the Sixers. I waited until Joel moved into tenth 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:23.199 place and secured the position alone. I don't know, but 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.000 some people beat me to it with the tying. But 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.880 pretty cool and he did talk about it afterwards. So 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:35.000 good to see that happened last night. Getting some shots 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.199 up again. If you're just joining us and you haven't 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.240 been on sixer spaces before, send us your questions. You 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.280 can click on our icons at the top send us 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.400 a DM whatever you want to talk about, any topic 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.440 or question coming off in this particular episode, a one 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.960 seventeen one oh seven win for the Sixers over the Pelicans. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.880 We can dive back into questions in a moment Lauren, 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.240 I wanted to talk about well at halftime because it 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.360 wasn't the best of first halfs for the Sixers against 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.600 New Orleans and Joel the Leader has been a theme 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.480 of our conversations this year, and it was something that 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.880 he did again last night at the break was apparently, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.880 go around and encourage the guys and you can get 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.720 into exactly what we know as much as we know, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:29.040 was said, and the theme of what his messaging was 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.560 last night. Yeah, we've talked about it a lot. If 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.720 you've been with us all season long. This is something 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.920 a benchmark that Joel set for himself ahead of the season, 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.200 before we knew that he was actually going to level 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.480 up on his existing MVP play from last season. The 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.320 numbers suggest that he is in fact better than he 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.240 was last year as the MVP runner up, But the 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.600 goal that he stept for himself was to be a 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.920 better leader, a more vocal leader, someone that took a 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.480 more active role in his teammates lives. And it doesn't 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.200 feel like we can get through a single Twitter space 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.360 without talking about tangible ways in which he has grown, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.079 in which we as people that are more media adjacent 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.640 have been able to see despite not being behind closed 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.240 doors with this team, so worth noting that everything we 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.240 hear about is probably only a fraction of what Joel 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.199 has been able to do with this group. I'm talking 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.240 about Joel challenging Tyrese Maxie to shoot more threes and 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.080 Tyrese hitting a career high in the next game. I'm 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.120 talking about Joel challenging Matisse Thybo, both of these publicly 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.800 in media availabilities to do the same shoot more threes. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.720 Matise takes the most threes he's taken in this season. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.680 Immediately following that challenge, and then last night we saw 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.520 it again. Doc Rivers said that at halftime, Joel came 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.240 in and he raised his hand as the person who 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.800 needed to be better. Doc said that Joel said that 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.080 he wanted to level up on defense in the second half, 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.080 bring a new level of intensity, and he did exactly 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.040 that coming into the second half. We talked about the 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.840 deficit that they were able to build over the Pelicans 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.520 in the third and fourth quarters last night, and that 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.760 all do in part to Joel and be its willingness 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.560 to his hand, take accountability, to take responsibility and then 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.520 level up in the second half, so Doc Rivers told 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.480 that story postgame, Matt, I know it's stuck with you, 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.440 it's stuck with me. People talking about it in the 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.400 comments as well, and we've talked about all the tangible 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.040 ways that Joel has improved this season that do show 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.520 up on the stat sheet. I believe that his biggest 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.640 improvement this season perhaps shows up nowhere on the stat sheet, 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.240 but everywhere in the game, and last night was no exception. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.000 There is too much on the stat sheet. I'm trying 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.240 to pin some tweets to this space at the top. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.040 If you're in here live, there's just far too many 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:35.880 options for Joel embiid stats and streaks. It it's actually overwhelming. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.760 Doc Rivers postgame sort of kept it simple and called 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.040 him a great player and described it that way. And 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:46.480 I loved the revelation that Joel at halftime said, it's 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.920 on me. It's on me. I've got to play better defense, 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.000 like we just said. And then fur Con cork Maas 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.000 had a good one about Joel too. He did I'm 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.360 going to pull it up because I don't want to 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.920 paraphrase for Con, who manages has managed to have more 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:04.280 than a few excellent one liners this season. But I 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.400 asked Ferk on what it was like to be Joel 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.680 Embiad's teammate last night that, of course, if you listen 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.120 to my questions, which you shouldn't be listening too closely, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.280 but one of my favorite questions to ask. So if 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.240 I sound like a broken record, it's only because it 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.520 yields good answer. So I asked Fark about being Joel's 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.720 teammate last night, and he said, simply, quote, overall, I 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.640 think they couldn't guard him. You don't have to be 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.600 so smart to say that. Loved Ferk's short, to the 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.560 point answer about what Joel was able to do, especially 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.280 in the second half. We've seen it time and time again, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.600 but teams having a tremendous level of difficulty guarding Joel Embiid, 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.560 especially down the stretch when Joel takes over. We saw 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:45.520 it in Houston a couple weeks ago. Matisse Thybel said 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.840 the same thing. We've heard it from Tyrese Maxie, and 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.760 the general theme is that these sixers are wondering what 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.920 it's like to game plan against Joel Embiid and being 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.800 really happy that they don't have to game plan against 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.680 Joel Embiid. In their words, it's much easier to be 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.120 Joel's teammate than to not be Joel's teammate, and we've 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:05.919 seen that over and over and over again throughout this 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:10.080 historic stretch. I added a couple more tweets to the top. 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.680 If you're on spaces. You can see them on at 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.800 six or stats if you're listening on demand and you 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.679 want to if you haven't already seen a lot of 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:23.560 the Joel tweets about where he ranks in this stretch 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:27.639 of games scoring wise double double wise, thirty plus forty 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:32.399 plus all of that. Some that I picked out six 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:37.040 forty ten games leads the NBA, the thirty five and 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:41.439 ten and four straight games as well. Game on a 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.320 game by game basis, just looking at last night's box score, 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:48.400 four blocks stood out to me. Eighteen made free throws 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:55.080 on twenty attempts. We can delve back into questions as well, 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:59.000 but I in that Furkon Corkmas quote Lauren, I every 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:03.879 time Furkon has recently, he's mentioned Joel not rushing, and 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.320 I think that's evident in the passing. If Joel's improved 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:12.560 passing and playmaking is a theme of the season, fur 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.359 Con twice now has mentioned last night he said he 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.400 knows what he's doing. Whenever he has the bullet, feels 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.040 like he knows what he's doing. He doesn't rush, He 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.320 reads the game, he reads the floor. And that was 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.040 right after he talked about how New Orleans couldn't guard 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.560 Joel Embiid. But it really does look like the game 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.720 is in slow motion for Joel a lot of the time. Yeah, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.200 the assisting numbers is something that we don't talk about, 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.240 probably nearly enough, I think, because we're so taken by 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.960 the double doubles by forty two and fourteen, thirty eight 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.680 and twelve, forty and thirteen, fifty and twelve. Those are 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.720 just his last four performances alone. But worth noting that 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.879 in those performances four assists, six assists, six assists, two assists, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.800 go back a couple of games to Boston six assists 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:00.399 versus San Antonio, seven assists versus Houston, six assist Houston 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.960 the first time in his triple double ten assists. So 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.600 I totally agree with you, Matt, totally agree with burkon 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.080 that that's an area that Joel has certainly grown. Slowing 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.840 it down, not panicking, not rushing when the double comes 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.200 anticipating the doubles and then getting craftily out of them. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.000 We've seen it time and time again this season, and that, 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.720 of course is something that's making Joel truly impossible to 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.720 prepare for, because if you're going to fail at doubling, 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.840 you can triple, but then you're dealing with some really 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.760 solid sixers options around the perimeter for Joel to feed 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:31.680 out too. And when he's feeding out as well as 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.000 he has been over the last few games, he remains 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:38.040 again unstoppable. Someone that we actually haven't talked about yet 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.000 that I want to turn our attention to. Got this 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:46.160 question from Mary and from Lennox, but asking about Tobias 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:50.760 Harris big night last night certainly worth noting. Tobias hits 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:55.240 a new season high thirty three points, eleven rebounds, two assists, 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.439 a steal, and two blocks. Again we mentioned it already, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.600 but thirteen for team for nineteen from the field, three 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.760 for three from deep, four for four from the free 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.159 throw line. Tobias Harris perhaps his most productive evening, but 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.000 one of his most efficient evenings as well. Good to 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:13.320 see him finding that type of rhythm and being giving 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.000 that level of impact on both the offensive end and 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.520 the defensive end. Matt, what did you like most about 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.280 Tobias's performance? I thought this goes hand in hand with 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:26.080 the end of that Joel discussion a minute ago, and 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.080 I was about to bring it up season high from 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:33.679 Tobias and Joel's handling of double teams because late in 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.560 the game, Joel has been turning up in the second 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.879 half and fourth quarters and all of that. But Tobias 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.959 was perfect from three in the game. He ends up 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.920 three for three. I lost my box score, but yes, 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.640 Tobias ends up three for three from deep, and one 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.399 was very clutch and it was Joel catching it on 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.359 the right block. Are they gonna double? Are they gonna double? 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.920 Here comes the New Orleans players player, I should say, 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:05.240 the second player and Joel perfect timing out to Tobias 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:09.400 rhythm three and they It wasn't just Joel taking over 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:13.080 down the stretch against New Orleans. Tobias had an important 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.600 and one. He had a very important three finishes with 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.879 thirty three points, so he played a game high thirty 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:24.120 nine minutes and eight seconds. Eleven rebounds were big as well. 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:27.719 Second straight double double. Cannot credit him enough for his 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.760 performance last night. They needed Joel and Tobias, and they 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.640 shouldered quite the scoring load at seventy five points, forty two, 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.840 and thirty three respectively. That play stood out to me, 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.000 the catch on the double team on Joel and the 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.320 catch and shoot three for Harris on the right wing 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.560 in the fourth quarter. Another stat worth noting for Tobias 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.159 Harris hitting that thirty point thirty plus point ted plus 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.480