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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Murphy. The Sixers now twenty eight and nineteen.
Speaker 1: After beating the New Orleans Pelicans in Philadelphia one seventeen,
Speaker 1: one oh seven on Tuesday Night, another huge game from
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid Tobias Harris as well those two forty two
Speaker 1: for Embiid thirty three for Harris, combining for seventy five
Speaker 1: points in the ten point win over the Pelicans to
Speaker 1: kick off a straight of five straight games on home court.
Speaker 1: Lauren will get into a lot on this show, but
Speaker 1: as always to the listeners, we want to remind you
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Speaker 1: Good morning to anyone else on the East Coast like
Speaker 1: me and Lauren. Good morning to you, Lauren Rosen, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Spaces. Good morning Matt Murphy. Thank you to
Speaker 1: everybody that's sending questions. I actually have quite a few already.
Speaker 1: Keep them coming, please, please, please, there's some overlap. Try
Speaker 1: to get creative today. If the Sixers keep winning and
Speaker 1: Joel keeps playing this way, we've got to get pretty
Speaker 1: creative on these spaces. Good morning, Matt. Always a pleasure
Speaker 1: to do this with you. You welcome the East Coast listeners.
Speaker 1: I'm going to welcome everybody that's listening. Over the last
Speaker 1: few spaces. We've had tons of Australian presence, lots of
Speaker 1: Turkish presence, lots of UK presence. Nairobi has been here
Speaker 1: multiple times. We had a listener from Cameroon last time.
Speaker 1: So really excited about everybody that's in here. And if
Speaker 1: I haven't shouted out where you're from, I apologize. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'll try to do it more like what I just
Speaker 1: did now shout out people from last time. But yeah, Matt,
Speaker 1: you you mentioned it. I think we can dive straight in.
Speaker 1: Joel embiad obviously the headliner last night. He finished with
Speaker 1: forty two points, fourteen rebounds, four assists, and four blocks.
Speaker 1: Who was twelve for twenty four from the field, eighteen
Speaker 1: for twenty from the free throw line twenty free throw
Speaker 1: attempts Last night for Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris hits a
Speaker 1: new season high was previously thirty two points. He had
Speaker 1: thirty three points, eleven rebounds, two assists, a steal, and
Speaker 1: two blocks to Bias an extremely efficient evening thirteen for
Speaker 1: nineteen from the field, perfect three for three from deep,
Speaker 1: perfect four for four from the charity stripe. And then
Speaker 1: we move into some of the other contributors. Tyrese Maxie
Speaker 1: ten points, three rebounds, five assists for Concorkmas, who started
Speaker 1: once again in the absence once again of Seth Curry,
Speaker 1: Danny Green Shake Milton for Con finishes with thirteen points,
Speaker 1: three rebounds, two assists, and a block. Matisse's Bible makes
Speaker 1: his return after almost two weeks away due to that
Speaker 1: right shoulder sprain. He finishes with three points, four rebounds,
Speaker 1: three assists, two steals and a block. Really got his
Speaker 1: footing in the second half, as did most of the team.
Speaker 1: Matt you and I discussed it postgame, but it was
Speaker 1: a tale of two halves for the seventy Sixers, who
Speaker 1: came out of the break on a mission led by
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. More on that in just a second. But
Speaker 1: a thirty six twenty eight advantage in the third quarter
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers and a thirty one twenty one
Speaker 1: advantage in the fourth quarter. Impressive stuff from the Sixers
Speaker 1: in the second half after not doing quite what they
Speaker 1: wanted to in the first. Matt where would you like
Speaker 1: to dive in? First? Couple of things to add here. One,
Speaker 1: thank you for welcoming our listeners from around the world.
Speaker 1: As we know, we love when you let us know
Speaker 1: where you are listening from. I say good morning to
Speaker 1: the East Coast a lot of the time because I
Speaker 1: know that's where we are, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: say good morning to everyone if it doesn't apply to them.
Speaker 1: But in some cases it's very early in the morning,
Speaker 1: so it might work for people everywhere in some cases.
Speaker 1: But another thing, as you went through the stats, trying
Speaker 1: a new feature here on Sixers Spaces, and this is
Speaker 1: not great for our podcast audience. So we can read
Speaker 1: some of these stats throughout as well. But anyone who's
Speaker 1: in here, these are available as podcasts after the fact
Speaker 1: on demand search seventy six Ers Insiders. But if you're
Speaker 1: in here live on spaces check out the top of
Speaker 1: the space. You can share tweets, Lauren. You just go
Speaker 1: as if you were going to embed it and you
Speaker 1: can share it straight to the space. So we can
Speaker 1: sort through some of Joel's stats and notable most notable stats,
Speaker 1: I shared one from the Sixers account making history one
Speaker 1: game at a time. Joel embiid twenty five plus points
Speaker 1: joins Alan Iverson is the only seventy Sixers ever to
Speaker 1: score twenty five plus in at least fifteen straight games.
Speaker 1: And then I also did one from Sixer Stats that
Speaker 1: it was Joel's fourth straight game with at least thirty
Speaker 1: eight and twelve per stat Head. He's the first Sixers
Speaker 1: player ever to do so in at least four straight
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain did so in three games
Speaker 1: in a row on three occasions. Shout out to Sixers Stats.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the Sixers PR team, Rob King and
Speaker 1: his whole crew as well, because I saw Rob in here.
Speaker 1: But pretty cool feature if you're in here live with us.
Speaker 1: That changes the game because we've tried to share things
Speaker 1: many a time in these Twitter spaces, and I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm sort of directing traffic without a GPS when
Speaker 1: I tell you guys to go to different accounts. But
Speaker 1: awesome find there, Matt Murphy, and I think if you're down, Matt,
Speaker 1: I want to dive straight into some of these questions
Speaker 1: because I think they lead us where we were headed. Anyway,
Speaker 1: a lot of chatter about joelmbad four MVP, so I
Speaker 1: think we should start there. Doug asks, is Joel getting
Speaker 1: enough attention for MVP? I know you had a similar question,
Speaker 1: so we can shout out whoever submitted that, and it's
Speaker 1: a good one. I do think that. A couple weeks
Speaker 1: ago the answer was no. In no scenario was Joel
Speaker 1: getting enough MVP attention. But his case is gathering steam
Speaker 1: for sure. So as we look around the league, as
Speaker 1: we look around the commentary, there have been plenty of
Speaker 1: statsworth highlighting, but one that I've been following, and stat
Speaker 1: muse tipped me off a few games ago, and now
Speaker 1: it's something that I've been following along. But Joel Embiide
Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty two scoring more points than
Speaker 1: minutes played on a very consistent basis. So, for example,
Speaker 1: he's done it in five consecutive games. Last night forty
Speaker 1: two points in thirty three minutes against the Spurs, thirty
Speaker 1: eight points in thirty one minutes, against the Clippers forty
Speaker 1: points in thirty six minutes, perhaps the biggest margin of all,
Speaker 1: against the Magic fifty points in twenty seven minutes, and
Speaker 1: against the Wizards thirty two points in twenty nine minutes.
Speaker 1: That's five games in a row in which he is
Speaker 1: scoring more points than minutes. That is difficult to do, Matt.
Speaker 1: When you look at the stats that are going into
Speaker 1: building Joel's MVP case, what stands out most to you?
Speaker 1: Mustapha says, greetings from Belgium, So greetings. We appreciate anyone
Speaker 1: letting us know where they're listening from. What stands out
Speaker 1: to me? I know you like the minutes played one
Speaker 1: like you just went through. As far as I know,
Speaker 1: stat Muse is going to keep Joel as their profile
Speaker 1: picture until he has a game where he doesn't score
Speaker 1: more points than minutes played. So he that is that
Speaker 1: streak is still going among the many Joel various stat
Speaker 1: streaks that he's got going on. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was interesting looking at when we talk about the MVP
Speaker 1: and we talk about where he ranks league wide. The
Speaker 1: message that you were referring to earlier came in earlier.
Speaker 1: Dan got in early. You can send it if it's
Speaker 1: something you think of during a Sixers game and you
Speaker 1: know we're going to talk the next day. Hit your
Speaker 1: questions in this one was this morning, prior to us starting.
Speaker 1: Dan wanted to bring up Joel in the MVP race
Speaker 1: and national recognition and even recognition locally and him living
Speaker 1: up to that. So I was just looking at the
Speaker 1: league leaders and the official leaders. I thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting that all three of these guys have played thirty
Speaker 1: six games. Durant, Lebron, and Joel through thirty six games.
Speaker 1: Points per game is not an end all, be all
Speaker 1: to anything, but they're all averaging right around twenty nine
Speaker 1: points per game in thirty six games. Each of these
Speaker 1: three players Durant twenty nine point three points per game,
Speaker 1: Lebron James twenty nine point one points per game, Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid twenty nine points per game. Even interesting because the
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Speaker 1: and that's one that I think we'll get into a
Speaker 1: little bit more towards the end of the space, but
Speaker 1: I know that's a game that lots of sixer stans
Speaker 1: have had circled on their calendars since the schedule came out,
Speaker 1: So looking forward to that one. On Thursday, and this,
Speaker 1: of course an opportunity for the Sixers to improve upon
Speaker 1: their home record. The Sixers quickly have become one of
Speaker 1: the best, if not the best, road team in the NBA. That,
Speaker 1: of course, could be partially due to the fact that
Speaker 1: the beginning of their schedule was rather road heavy. But
Speaker 1: now an opportunity, Matt, like you said, five in a
Speaker 1: row at home to increase their wind total and get
Speaker 1: more comfortable playing at home in front of their home crowd,
Speaker 1: which by the way, has been excellent lately and over
Speaker 1: the last few games. Let's get into a couple more questions, Matt,
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting to get here this quickly, but I
Speaker 1: think it's certainly worth noting. I'm getting a lot of
Speaker 1: fur con corkmas questions. Sixers Portugal shouts out fur coon.
Speaker 1: Gina shouts out fur coon. Four tying let's see I
Speaker 1: want I don't want to, I don't want to read
Speaker 1: this incorrectly, but tying Hollis Thompson for eighth all time
Speaker 1: on the Sixers three pointers made leader tally scoreboard, leader
Speaker 1: tally scoreboard. That can't be what it's actually called, but
Speaker 1: all time leaders from three four seventy six Ers. Furkon
Speaker 1: Coorkmas ties for eighth with Hollis Thompson. Those ahead of
Speaker 1: Furcon only include Lou Williams, JJ Reddick, Hershey hawkins On, Dala,
Speaker 1: Kyle Korver, Robert Covington, and Alan Iverson. And that's something
Speaker 1: that I don't think people think about as much as
Speaker 1: maybe we should be giving furk a little bit of credit.
Speaker 1: He of course has played his whole career with the Sixers,
Speaker 1: so a lot of years played. But the guys ahead
Speaker 1: of him, with the exception of JJ Reddick, have also
Speaker 1: all played at least five years with the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: so cool to see Furkon reach that total. He was
Speaker 1: aware that he had reached that new milestone post game,
Speaker 1: and he, of course, being the good teammate that he is,
Speaker 1: alluded to the fact that as long as it means
Speaker 1: that he's helping the team win, he is happy. But
Speaker 1: it is good to be a part of the history
Speaker 1: books in Philadelphia. Exciting for Firkon, who has over time
Speaker 1: started to say in media availabilities over and over and
Speaker 1: over again that he considers Philadelphia his home and he's
Speaker 1: really happy to have built his career here so I
Speaker 1: see all of your messages about firkon there actually a
Speaker 1: few more and I'll try to shout you guys all out.
Speaker 1: But yes, a cool opportunity and a milestone for Firk,
Speaker 1: who's now put together a couple really solid performances this week.
Speaker 1: As I had the tweet ready to go, should he
Speaker 1: have passed Hollis Thompson on the list, But I was
Speaker 1: gonna wait. I wasn't going to tweet that he was
Speaker 1: tied with Hollis Thompson on the all time threes list
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. I waited until Joel moved into tenth
Speaker 1: place and secured the position alone. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: some people beat me to it with the tying. But
Speaker 1: pretty cool and he did talk about it afterwards. So
Speaker 1: good to see that happened last night. Getting some shots
Speaker 1: up again. If you're just joining us and you haven't
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Speaker 1: or question coming off in this particular episode, a one
Speaker 1: seventeen one oh seven win for the Sixers over the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: We can dive back into questions in a moment Lauren,
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about well at halftime because it
Speaker 1: wasn't the best of first halfs for the Sixers against
Speaker 1: New Orleans and Joel the Leader has been a theme
Speaker 1: of our conversations this year, and it was something that
Speaker 1: he did again last night at the break was apparently,
Speaker 1: go around and encourage the guys and you can get
Speaker 1: into exactly what we know as much as we know,
Speaker 1: was said, and the theme of what his messaging was
Speaker 1: last night. Yeah, we've talked about it a lot. If
Speaker 1: you've been with us all season long. This is something
Speaker 1: a benchmark that Joel set for himself ahead of the season,
Speaker 1: before we knew that he was actually going to level
Speaker 1: up on his existing MVP play from last season. The
Speaker 1: numbers suggest that he is in fact better than he
Speaker 1: was last year as the MVP runner up, But the
Speaker 1: goal that he stept for himself was to be a
Speaker 1: better leader, a more vocal leader, someone that took a
Speaker 1: more active role in his teammates lives. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like we can get through a single Twitter space
Speaker 1: without talking about tangible ways in which he has grown,
Speaker 1: in which we as people that are more media adjacent
Speaker 1: have been able to see despite not being behind closed
Speaker 1: doors with this team, so worth noting that everything we
Speaker 1: hear about is probably only a fraction of what Joel
Speaker 1: has been able to do with this group. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Joel challenging Tyrese Maxie to shoot more threes and
Speaker 1: Tyrese hitting a career high in the next game. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Joel challenging Matisse Thybo, both of these publicly
Speaker 1: in media availabilities to do the same shoot more threes.
Speaker 1: Matise takes the most threes he's taken in this season.
Speaker 1: Immediately following that challenge, and then last night we saw
Speaker 1: it again. Doc Rivers said that at halftime, Joel came
Speaker 1: in and he raised his hand as the person who
Speaker 1: needed to be better. Doc said that Joel said that
Speaker 1: he wanted to level up on defense in the second half,
Speaker 1: bring a new level of intensity, and he did exactly
Speaker 1: that coming into the second half. We talked about the
Speaker 1: deficit that they were able to build over the Pelicans
Speaker 1: in the third and fourth quarters last night, and that
Speaker 1: all do in part to Joel and be its willingness
Speaker 1: to his hand, take accountability, to take responsibility and then
Speaker 1: level up in the second half, so Doc Rivers told
Speaker 1: that story postgame, Matt, I know it's stuck with you,
Speaker 1: it's stuck with me. People talking about it in the
Speaker 1: comments as well, and we've talked about all the tangible
Speaker 1: ways that Joel has improved this season that do show
Speaker 1: up on the stat sheet. I believe that his biggest
Speaker 1: improvement this season perhaps shows up nowhere on the stat sheet,
Speaker 1: but everywhere in the game, and last night was no exception.
Speaker 1: There is too much on the stat sheet. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to pin some tweets to this space at the top.
Speaker 1: If you're in here live, there's just far too many
Speaker 1: options for Joel embiid stats and streaks. It it's actually overwhelming.
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers postgame sort of kept it simple and called
Speaker 1: him a great player and described it that way. And
Speaker 1: I loved the revelation that Joel at halftime said, it's
Speaker 1: on me. It's on me. I've got to play better defense,
Speaker 1: like we just said. And then fur Con cork Maas
Speaker 1: had a good one about Joel too. He did I'm
Speaker 1: going to pull it up because I don't want to
Speaker 1: paraphrase for Con, who manages has managed to have more
Speaker 1: than a few excellent one liners this season. But I
Speaker 1: asked Ferk on what it was like to be Joel
Speaker 1: Embiad's teammate last night that, of course, if you listen
Speaker 1: to my questions, which you shouldn't be listening too closely,
Speaker 1: but one of my favorite questions to ask. So if
Speaker 1: I sound like a broken record, it's only because it
Speaker 1: yields good answer. So I asked Fark about being Joel's
Speaker 1: teammate last night, and he said, simply, quote, overall, I
Speaker 1: think they couldn't guard him. You don't have to be
Speaker 1: so smart to say that. Loved Ferk's short, to the
Speaker 1: point answer about what Joel was able to do, especially
Speaker 1: in the second half. We've seen it time and time again,
Speaker 1: but teams having a tremendous level of difficulty guarding Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: especially down the stretch when Joel takes over. We saw
Speaker 1: it in Houston a couple weeks ago. Matisse Thybel said
Speaker 1: the same thing. We've heard it from Tyrese Maxie, and
Speaker 1: the general theme is that these sixers are wondering what
Speaker 1: it's like to game plan against Joel Embiid and being
Speaker 1: really happy that they don't have to game plan against
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. In their words, it's much easier to be
Speaker 1: Joel's teammate than to not be Joel's teammate, and we've
Speaker 1: seen that over and over and over again throughout this
Speaker 1: historic stretch. I added a couple more tweets to the top.
Speaker 1: If you're on spaces. You can see them on at
Speaker 1: six or stats if you're listening on demand and you
Speaker 1: want to if you haven't already seen a lot of
Speaker 1: the Joel tweets about where he ranks in this stretch
Speaker 1: of games scoring wise double double wise, thirty plus forty
Speaker 1: plus all of that. Some that I picked out six
Speaker 1: forty ten games leads the NBA, the thirty five and
Speaker 1: ten and four straight games as well. Game on a
Speaker 1: game by game basis, just looking at last night's box score,
Speaker 1: four blocks stood out to me. Eighteen made free throws
Speaker 1: on twenty attempts. We can delve back into questions as well,
Speaker 1: but I in that Furkon Corkmas quote Lauren, I every
Speaker 1: time Furkon has recently, he's mentioned Joel not rushing, and
Speaker 1: I think that's evident in the passing. If Joel's improved
Speaker 1: passing and playmaking is a theme of the season, fur
Speaker 1: Con twice now has mentioned last night he said he
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. Whenever he has the bullet, feels
Speaker 1: like he knows what he's doing. He doesn't rush, He
Speaker 1: reads the game, he reads the floor. And that was
Speaker 1: right after he talked about how New Orleans couldn't guard
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. But it really does look like the game
Speaker 1: is in slow motion for Joel a lot of the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the assisting numbers is something that we don't talk about,
Speaker 1: probably nearly enough, I think, because we're so taken by
Speaker 1: the double doubles by forty two and fourteen, thirty eight
Speaker 1: and twelve, forty and thirteen, fifty and twelve. Those are
Speaker 1: just his last four performances alone. But worth noting that
Speaker 1: in those performances four assists, six assists, six assists, two assists,
Speaker 1: go back a couple of games to Boston six assists
Speaker 1: versus San Antonio, seven assists versus Houston, six assist Houston
Speaker 1: the first time in his triple double ten assists. So
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, Matt, totally agree with burkon
Speaker 1: that that's an area that Joel has certainly grown. Slowing
Speaker 1: it down, not panicking, not rushing when the double comes
Speaker 1: anticipating the doubles and then getting craftily out of them.
Speaker 1: We've seen it time and time again this season, and that,
Speaker 1: of course is something that's making Joel truly impossible to
Speaker 1: prepare for, because if you're going to fail at doubling,
Speaker 1: you can triple, but then you're dealing with some really
Speaker 1: solid sixers options around the perimeter for Joel to feed
Speaker 1: out too. And when he's feeding out as well as
Speaker 1: he has been over the last few games, he remains
Speaker 1: again unstoppable. Someone that we actually haven't talked about yet
Speaker 1: that I want to turn our attention to. Got this
Speaker 1: question from Mary and from Lennox, but asking about Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris big night last night certainly worth noting. Tobias hits
Speaker 1: a new season high thirty three points, eleven rebounds, two assists,
Speaker 1: a steal, and two blocks. Again we mentioned it already,
Speaker 1: but thirteen for team for nineteen from the field, three
Speaker 1: for three from deep, four for four from the free
Speaker 1: throw line. Tobias Harris perhaps his most productive evening, but
Speaker 1: one of his most efficient evenings as well. Good to
Speaker 1: see him finding that type of rhythm and being giving
Speaker 1: that level of impact on both the offensive end and
Speaker 1: the defensive end. Matt, what did you like most about
Speaker 1: Tobias's performance? I thought this goes hand in hand with
Speaker 1: the end of that Joel discussion a minute ago, and
Speaker 1: I was about to bring it up season high from
Speaker 1: Tobias and Joel's handling of double teams because late in
Speaker 1: the game, Joel has been turning up in the second
Speaker 1: half and fourth quarters and all of that. But Tobias
Speaker 1: was perfect from three in the game. He ends up
Speaker 1: three for three. I lost my box score, but yes,
Speaker 1: Tobias ends up three for three from deep, and one
Speaker 1: was very clutch and it was Joel catching it on
Speaker 1: the right block. Are they gonna double? Are they gonna double?
Speaker 1: Here comes the New Orleans players player, I should say,
Speaker 1: the second player and Joel perfect timing out to Tobias
Speaker 1: rhythm three and they It wasn't just Joel taking over
Speaker 1: down the stretch against New Orleans. Tobias had an important
Speaker 1: and one. He had a very important three finishes with
Speaker 1: thirty three points, so he played a game high thirty
Speaker 1: nine minutes and eight seconds. Eleven rebounds were big as well.
Speaker 1: Second straight double double. Cannot credit him enough for his
Speaker 1: performance last night. They needed Joel and Tobias, and they
Speaker 1: shouldered quite the scoring load at seventy five points, forty two,
Speaker 1: and thirty three respectively. That play stood out to me,
Speaker 1: the catch on the double team on Joel and the
Speaker 1: catch and shoot three for Harris on the right wing
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Another stat worth noting for Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris hitting that thirty point thirty plus point ted plus
Speaker 1: rebound double double for the ninth time in his career,
Speaker 1: and those thirty and ten double doubles space pretty evenly
Speaker 1: as his career. Tobias still young, but has had a
Speaker 1: long and decorated career in this league, so so good
Speaker 1: to see him finding rhythm. Joell and Tobias, both, by
Speaker 1: the way, we should add, spent a good chunk of
Speaker 1: this season out due to health and safety protocols, and
Speaker 1: both have discussed where the challenges have been coming back.
Speaker 1: So really really wonderful and heartening and relieving to see
Speaker 1: both of them playing at such a high level after
Speaker 1: going through what was certainly a pretty difficult experience. Matt,
Speaker 1: we haven't talked about the bench last night, of course,
Speaker 1: Stars one A and one B were Tobias Harris and
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid reversed that Joel Embiid and Tobias Harris, but
Speaker 1: both truly wonderful. We haven't talked about George Niang. Six points,
Speaker 1: six assists for George Niang last night, six points, three
Speaker 1: assists for Isaiah Joe last night, four points, five rebounds
Speaker 1: for Andre Drummond. Charlie Brown Junior did not play the
Speaker 1: minutes that we've been We had seen him play Whilematis's
Speaker 1: Bible was out, but he got into the game as well,
Speaker 1: very briefly. That rounds out the entirety of the box
Speaker 1: score for the Sixers, But good to see some unexpected
Speaker 1: bench contributions. I'm talking about six assists from George Niang.
Speaker 1: Cool to see him get that side of his game going.
Speaker 1: That's something that he's talked about quite a bit this season,
Speaker 1: is relishing the opportunity to be more than just a
Speaker 1: three point shooter, and of course we know that he's
Speaker 1: an excellent one, but cool to see him developing some
Speaker 1: new skills and getting to flex those muscles as well.
Speaker 1: That was a career high assist total for Niang. Six
Speaker 1: assists in twenty two minutes off the Sixers bench. Six
Speaker 1: points one for three from three Tyrese Maxie was the
Speaker 1: fourth player for the Sixers in double figures with ten
Speaker 1: also had five assists. As I set up a Tyrese stat,
Speaker 1: we can both kind of sort through some upcoming questions
Speaker 1: here on Sixer spaces. Click on our avatars, Mine, Lawrence
Speaker 1: both send us a DM to keep this conversation going
Speaker 1: with whatever you want to talk about here on spaces
Speaker 1: to us as well. We'll sort through those. But get
Speaker 1: ready for this, Lauren. This is I noticed it last
Speaker 1: night pregame. Did you see I have a stat to
Speaker 1: support this, But did you see Tyrese running around the
Speaker 1: court right before tip off? Sprinting? So I see him
Speaker 1: doing jitterbug running around stuff frequently, but I didn't see
Speaker 1: this one. Tell me more so. He zoomed out onto
Speaker 1: the court, grabbed the ball from the ref just to
Speaker 1: bounce at once. I think, flipped it right back to
Speaker 1: the reff but was sprinting so fast. And I think
Speaker 1: of Matisse Thible when I think of miles ran in
Speaker 1: an NBA game. I find that really interesting. But in
Speaker 1: my research it actually proved out to be that Tyrese
Speaker 1: Maxie is second in the NBA right now in miles
Speaker 1: per game. Two point seven six miles. Fred van Vleet
Speaker 1: averages two point eight seven miles per game, and it
Speaker 1: just made me laugh seeing Tyrese before the game even started,
Speaker 1: running full speed cross court to grab the ball. I
Speaker 1: think the fans sitting courtside opposite the benches were all
Speaker 1: laughing and probably taking photos and videos. And then when
Speaker 1: the game starts, especially in the offensive end, he's always
Speaker 1: moving almost I mean two point seven six miles per game,
Speaker 1: second in the league. He did have a huge three
Speaker 1: from the parking lot at the end of the game
Speaker 1: to put the finishing touches on it, too, but he's
Speaker 1: always moving, picking it up and letting it fly. That
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite shots of the night for Shure. Honestly,
Speaker 1: come for the Joel and Bead stats, but stay for
Speaker 1: stats like that in Twitter spaces or on seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers insiders wherever you're listening, Matt, that is an awesome one.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing. I mean, I think largely probably
Speaker 1: due in part to the heavy minutes that Tyrese has
Speaker 1: been playing this season. He of course has more opportunity
Speaker 1: to rack up mileage due to those heavy minutes, but
Speaker 1: I completely see how that could be possible, and I
Speaker 1: love the energy that he's well to bring from start
Speaker 1: to finish despite really getting some cardio done out there.
Speaker 1: So thank you for sharing that. That might be my
Speaker 1: favorite stat that I've heard on a Twitter space this season.
Speaker 1: What else do we have for questions and topics to
Speaker 1: get into today? I'm going to look at the timeline
Speaker 1: and see if any tweets coming came in. But how
Speaker 1: about message wise? I'm getting some comments about Tobias Harris
Speaker 1: looking like Jake Cole. That's not something we've discussed on
Speaker 1: Twitter spaces before, but can confirm they do certainly look alike.
Speaker 1: We've Tobias us it's been forced to answer questions about
Speaker 1: that in the past. I only shouted out because I
Speaker 1: got two distinct, two separate questions about Tobias Harris and
Speaker 1: Jay Cole, who, contrary to popular belief popular belief, have
Speaker 1: been in the same room at the same time. I
Speaker 1: think that's a pretty popular tweet that they haven't seen
Speaker 1: them in the same room at the same time. But
Speaker 1: I believe that they have been, and I can look
Speaker 1: up I can look up some receipts for that as well. Matt.
Speaker 1: We can turn towards the Lakers. Jonathan asks how well
Speaker 1: can Ebide perform against the Lakers with ads return as
Speaker 1: the Lakers come to town. It's a great question. You
Speaker 1: and I talked about this last night, and my take
Speaker 1: on Sixers Lakers is that, for whatever reason, the Sixers
Speaker 1: appear to be an underdog when a team like the
Speaker 1: Lakers come to town. But this season, the Sixers have
Speaker 1: been the superior team. You don't have to look too
Speaker 1: hard to see that the Sixers are twenty eight and nineteen,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are twenty four and twenty four. The Sixers,
Speaker 1: of course struggling a little bit more at home, but
Speaker 1: the Lakers only nine and twelve away from their crypto
Speaker 1: dot com arena, we should say, so. I look forward
Speaker 1: to seeing how these teams clash because the Sixers, who
Speaker 1: have proven to be at least on the statue, the
Speaker 1: better team this season, still going into a game against
Speaker 1: a Lebron James, against a Russell Westbrook, against and Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: regardless of how well those guys have been playing and
Speaker 1: for how long as a little bit of an underdog.
Speaker 1: So I look forward to watching that dynamic play out
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. I like that take, and right it's
Speaker 1: always a showdown when it's the Los Angeles Lakers who
Speaker 1: just beat the Brooklyn Nets in Brooklyn, but Durant's hurt,
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving doesn't play in home games. James Harden had
Speaker 1: a triple double, but Lebron had a big game thirty
Speaker 1: plus in a win over Brooklyn. Lakers have kind of
Speaker 1: been up and down. One of the stats that I
Speaker 1: shared from at Sixers Stats at the top of this
Speaker 1: spaces for the podcast audience includes current Laker Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: Over the last four games, Joel Embiad has totaled one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy points and fifty one rebounds since the
Speaker 1: seventy six seventy seven merger. The only other players to
Speaker 1: post one seventy plus points and fifty plus rebounds over
Speaker 1: a four game span are Russell Westbrook, Moses Malone twice
Speaker 1: and that's it and beat In. Wilt Chamberlain are the
Speaker 1: only Sixers players ever to do so, so I guess
Speaker 1: will as well, but Russell Westbrook in the Lakers and
Speaker 1: Lebron and Anthony Davis is back. They beat Brooklyn one
Speaker 1: oh six ninety six on the same night, So last night,
Speaker 1: if you're listening on time Tuesday night, they lost. They've
Speaker 1: pretty much been alternating wins and losses, and they are
Speaker 1: currently eighth in the West as of Wednesday morning twenty
Speaker 1: four and twenty four, while the Sixers are sixth in
Speaker 1: the East at twenty eight and nineteen. But in the East,
Speaker 1: the top six teams are only separated by two games,
Speaker 1: which is something I keep coming back to, how tight
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference standings are. And even though this is
Speaker 1: East versus West, the energy in the building is going
Speaker 1: to be great. It's going to be high between Sixers
Speaker 1: and Lakers on Thursday night. I can't wait to experience it.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to looking forward to that one as well.
Speaker 1: And Matt, I know we mentioned it, but worth just
Speaker 1: sort of circling back. That matchup will feature two of
Speaker 1: the league's three leading scorers in Lebarge James, who's averaging
Speaker 1: twenty nine point one points per game man Joell Embid
Speaker 1: who's averaging twenty nine points per game. So always exciting
Speaker 1: to see such a showdown go down under the ceiling
Speaker 1: of the Center. So looking forward to that one one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. Matt, do you have any other questions you
Speaker 1: want to answer? Any other comments? If you haven't sent
Speaker 1: one yet, it's not too late. Send us your Sixers questions,
Speaker 1: your Sixers adjacent questions. Let us know where you're tuning
Speaker 1: in from. That always my favorite thing to track and
Speaker 1: shout out. So if you're tuning in from somewhere that
Speaker 1: we haven't shouted out before, we will always be sure
Speaker 1: to give you that shout out. It doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be somewhere international. We love the international presences, of course,
Speaker 1: but if you're elsewhere in the States or nearby, let
Speaker 1: us know as well. Yes, please do seventy Sixers for
Speaker 1: Life said is Anthony Davis scheduled to play Thursday. We'll
Speaker 1: keep an eye on the status report leading up to
Speaker 1: Thursday night's game between the Sixers and the Lakers. Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis played twenty five minutes in the game against the
Speaker 1: net So I guess the answer is we will see.
Speaker 1: Not sure yet. That stuff not released yet. If you
Speaker 1: do have a question before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: get a thought or a question at the buzzer, as
Speaker 1: we like to say. Lauren, any updates on the Big
Speaker 1: Niang Theory podcast, The Big Niang Theory with George Niang
Speaker 1: and Lauren Rosen. That is a great question, and yes,
Speaker 1: I did actually get a couple of dms for that,
Speaker 1: but I like to save them to the end so
Speaker 1: I don't make everybody suffer through my shameless plugged for
Speaker 1: the Big Kniang Theory. But yes, more episodes are in
Speaker 1: the bank. Yeah, we have two banked episodes. I know
Speaker 1: I gave a little bit of a teaser last time
Speaker 1: about who was coming up next, but I think you
Speaker 1: guys might have zeroed in a little bit too closely
Speaker 1: on a specific six er. What I will say is
Speaker 1: that this sixer in particular plays very good defense. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to sharing these next couple of episodes with you,
Speaker 1: George and I recording again this week a little bit
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Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know, we sort of
Speaker 1: started the Big Niang theory in order for George to
Speaker 1: get to know his teammates better, and we've successfully done
Speaker 1: so in episodes one and two featuring Kon Korkmas and
Speaker 1: tires Maxie, both of whom I've worked with now for
Speaker 1: multiple years, and I learned a lot about during those
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Speaker 1: guys think of this one and new episodes coming I
Speaker 1: promise in the coming days. Love it, Love the update.
Speaker 1: As always, TVD says, Hi from Australia, so we always
Speaker 1: appreciate anyone letting us know where they're at. A lot
Speaker 1: of times it's Australia, but we've had people from all
Speaker 1: over the globe and whenever you feel I could just
Speaker 1: let us know, Lauren anywhere else that you want to go.
Speaker 1: In particular, we did not talk about the bell ringers
Speaker 1: from last night I wanted to show some appreciation for
Speaker 1: the Bluecoats, in particular the three bell ringers Jared Brown, Ridge,
Speaker 1: Heywood high Smith and Braxton Key, the whole squad going
Speaker 1: out on the court, head coach Kobe carl and his
Speaker 1: staff in the building. They enjoyed the game from a suite,
Speaker 1: watching the Sixers beat the Pelicans, but still celebrating that
Speaker 1: NBAG League Winter Showcase Cup. The Bluecoats, the Sixers G
Speaker 1: League affiliate, winning that tournament earlier in the season one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollar prize. Five of their players have been
Speaker 1: called up to the NBA at different points this season,
Speaker 1: including Charlie Brown Junior now on a two way with
Speaker 1: the six and they're in the regular season now. The
Speaker 1: early stages of the G League regular season, they were
Speaker 1: in the building. I think their form on the bell
Speaker 1: ringing needs a little bit of work. I might have
Speaker 1: to talk to them about that. A little bit out
Speaker 1: of rhythm. Was safe to say they were in better
Speaker 1: rhythm in Las Vegas than they wore last night as
Speaker 1: bell ringers. But good to see the Blue Coats get
Speaker 1: some well deserved shides and well deserved love last night
Speaker 1: at the Center. Matt my last question, I guess I
Speaker 1: will pose to you it's Blue Coats related. It comes
Speaker 1: from Raymond, who is here from Kansas City, shout out
Speaker 1: to KC wondering if there's any anticipation of Jaden's Springer
Speaker 1: getting more minutes and growth during this season. This, Matt
Speaker 1: is a theme that we've talked about over the years
Speaker 1: quite a bit. When you come in as a rookie
Speaker 1: onto a really good team that's competing for playoff spots,
Speaker 1: competing for one seeds and two seeds, and deep into
Speaker 1: the season, it's hard for rookies to carve out a hole.
Speaker 1: It's hard for them to find a niche on a season,
Speaker 1: on a team like this when they are so good.
Speaker 1: As it relates to Jaden Springer this morning, given the
Speaker 1: news that Jaden has been assigned to the Bluecoats, so
Speaker 1: that of course an opportunity for him to play heavier minutes,
Speaker 1: to get a little bit more burn and to continue growth.
Speaker 1: The Bluecoats model, of course, is one that we know
Speaker 1: works because we've seen how many players have been able
Speaker 1: to come up through that system and find time either
Speaker 1: with the Sixers or with other teams. Sixers players that
Speaker 1: have spent time with the Bluecoats and found ways to
Speaker 1: grow to develop, look at Paul Reid last season. But yeah, Matt,
Speaker 1: your impressions of what's to come for Jaden Springer as
Speaker 1: we start to wrap this one up. Jaden Springer is
Speaker 1: on a nice stretch with the Bluecoats, having not scored
Speaker 1: fewer than twenty points in the new year so far.
Speaker 1: And as of this morning, like you said, Jaden, Charles Bassie,
Speaker 1: they've both been assigned to Delaware and Miles Powell on
Speaker 1: his two way transferred is the correct language there to Delaware.
Speaker 1: Not saying you said anything wrong. I don't think you
Speaker 1: even mentioned Miles, but those three we got an update
Speaker 1: this morning about being available for Bluecoats practice. Yeah, Jaden's
Speaker 1: three point percentage has picked up. He's been in Bluecoats games,
Speaker 1: very good in the mid range, incredibly good. And then
Speaker 1: the number one thing has been the steals that he
Speaker 1: gets in the G League. He's had five steal games,
Speaker 1: He's averaging over two steals per game. So active on defense,
Speaker 1: so good guarding the ball. Really all over defensively, but
Speaker 1: the mid range has stood out. Some athletic dunks off
Speaker 1: steals and the three point number is climbing, So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on Jaden, keep an eye on the Bluecoats.
Speaker 1: They've got some games coming up at home. So if
Speaker 1: you're in the Wilmington area Philadelphia Greater Philadelphia area, head
Speaker 1: to Wilmington, Delaware. Got a few home games coming up
Speaker 1: as soon as this weekend. As we record this on
Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of January. They play Thursday and Friday
Speaker 1: at home. They also play ge League Ignite on Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon at one o'clock. If you can't make it, it's
Speaker 1: going to be on NBA TV at one and I'll
Speaker 1: have the call with d Line them of that game
Speaker 1: on Sunday, So that should be really fun. And we'll
Speaker 1: keep an eye on which sixers are available to the
Speaker 1: Bluecoats for these games coming up. That's all I've got
Speaker 1: on that. Mary appreciate Mary listening as always from Rochester.
Speaker 1: Also wanted to mention Blue Coats bell ringers, so yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, and I want to bring up word alarm,
Speaker 1: but I also don't want anyone to spoil it for me,
Speaker 1: so I've probably already said too much because I haven't
Speaker 1: done today's I know I haven't wordled yet today either.
Speaker 1: Please please, please, don't ruin that for me and my
Speaker 1: mentions right now. Wanted to shout out by you. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry if I didn't say that correctly, but it's one
Speaker 1: forty am Melbourne. Thank you for listening from Melbourne. We
Speaker 1: love our Aussie listeners, and Matt, I think, without without
Speaker 1: any other questions coming in at the buzzer, I think
Speaker 1: I'm okay to wrap this one up. But as we've mentioned,
Speaker 1: the Sixers one game into a five game homestand hopefully
Speaker 1: we can do this four more times before the Sixers
Speaker 1: hit the road again. As always, we do Twitter spaces
Speaker 1: following every Sixers win. You can't catch Matt and myself
Speaker 1: in the morning, and you can always catch these Twitter
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Speaker 1: so make sure you're following seventy six Ers Insiders wherever
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Speaker 1: If you're someone that is listening internationally, as Matt alluded
Speaker 1: to this morning, we know a ton of the listeners
Speaker 1: in here are international and we're so appreciative of that,
Speaker 1: but it means that the timing doesn't always align up
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Speaker 1: wherever you're listening from, basically please follow along there, Matt.
Speaker 1: If you don't have anything else, I am good to
Speaker 1: shut this one down for today. As always, Thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much for listening. Send us your feedback, send
Speaker 1: us your thoughts, what you want to hear, more of,
Speaker 1: what you want, you're less of when in the day
Speaker 1: you'd want to hear it. We're still an experimental in
Speaker 1: an experimental phase with Twitter spaces, so always happy to
Speaker 1: cater to you guys however you want to be catered to,
Speaker 1: send us your feedback. Matt, thank you and I will
Speaker 1: let you shut it down. Good stuff. Thank you so much, Lauren. Lakers, Kings, Grizzlies, Wizards,
Speaker 1: all coming up for the Sixers on their home court.
Speaker 1: We look forward to talking about these games with all
Speaker 1: of you that will do it for this one for
Speaker 1: my partner Lauren Rosen, I'm Matt Murphy. Thanks to everyone
Speaker 1: out there who listened. Thanks as always, for listening. We
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Thanks time,