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Speaker 2: The Great Kate Scott joining us on Sixers in sixty
Speaker 2: Voice of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers and Kate of course.
Speaker 2: Just past the midpoint of this season, long a five
Speaker 2: game road trip, the team severely shorthanded struggling thus far
Speaker 2: in terms of wins and losses, but we're learning things.
Speaker 2: What have you learned about the team on the trip
Speaker 2: so far?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're learning that Pat Bev is playing like a
Speaker 3: rookie out of Arkansas. We're learning that when Paul Reid
Speaker 3: gets as many minutes as I'm sure every NBA player
Speaker 3: would like to get, he can step up and show out.
Speaker 3: I think it's been great to see. You know, Nick
Speaker 3: mention it before the game in Portland. He was hoping
Speaker 3: actually to get Kelly some more minutes on this road
Speaker 3: trip to try to help him refine that rhythm that
Speaker 3: we all saw at the beginning of the season because
Speaker 3: he was such a key piece of the Sixers fantastic start.
Speaker 3: I know it's easy for us all to forget because
Speaker 3: it's been a number of months now, but Kelly has
Speaker 3: looked good the last couple of games despite the end results.
Speaker 3: So now it's how do you take those individual efforts
Speaker 3: and put them into what really matters, which is getting
Speaker 3: back into the win column, hopefully before we get back
Speaker 3: home to Philly.
Speaker 2: And we got to talk about the team performance in
Speaker 2: the Denver game, right, that's a day where you think
Speaker 2: you're at least going to have the defending MVP in
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid, and the guys find out, just as we
Speaker 2: did twenty twenty five minutes before the game, that they'd
Speaker 2: be on their own. Paul Reid was going to have
Speaker 2: to step in in a very big way against a
Speaker 2: very good, if not one of the best big men
Speaker 2: to ever play the game. And Nikola jokicin did a
Speaker 2: really good job.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: So, when you think back.
Speaker 2: To that Denver game, the spirit that they showed, the
Speaker 2: collective effort, the leadership from Pat Beverly, what are you
Speaker 2: gonna remember most about about that contest?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all of those things. I mean, this is the
Speaker 3: defending NBA champion. You're playing them on their home floor
Speaker 3: on national television. This is a huge game, and you
Speaker 3: find out I don't even think it was twenty five before.
Speaker 3: I think it was fifteen before the game. You know,
Speaker 3: Joe wanted to go, but the training staff said, Joe, April,
Speaker 3: May and June is what matters. We have to hold
Speaker 3: you out. And somehow, despite all that adversity, these guys
Speaker 3: figured out a way to come out and they got
Speaker 3: punched in the mouth. I mean, Jamal Murray hit three
Speaker 3: quick threes, and they did not let them knock them
Speaker 3: off their rhythm or their focus and their fight. And
Speaker 3: I think that the thing the Sixers need to do
Speaker 3: somehow is to flush this Portland game and figure out
Speaker 3: a way to get back to that because they showed
Speaker 3: everybody in the NBA, not just themselves, they showed everybody
Speaker 3: something that day with the performances as you mentioned of
Speaker 3: Paul of Marcus Morrisenior Kelly had a great first half,
Speaker 3: and all the guys coming off the bench too. Daniel
Speaker 3: House made some big place for Concork.
Speaker 5: Bond's hit a.
Speaker 3: Huge three in the fourth quarter to keep that game closed.
Speaker 3: So again we talked about it earlier in the season.
Speaker 3: It's easy to forget because the Sixers have dropped a
Speaker 3: few now, but this is a really deep team, and
Speaker 3: when they have a couple of the best players in
Speaker 3: the NBA, the All Star starter in Joel Embiid and
Speaker 3: hopefully an All Star reserve and Tyreese Maxi back, and
Speaker 3: again Debias was still he was off in Portland because
Speaker 3: he was just coming back and he's been really sick.
Speaker 5: So once those.
Speaker 3: Guys come back, we have to remember the depth that
Speaker 3: these guys are providing and hopefully they can find a
Speaker 3: way to get something positive going at the end this
Speaker 3: road trip as we head back home to Philly.
Speaker 2: Lauren ros In back with the voice of the seventy
Speaker 2: six Ers Kate Scott on Sixers and sixty and the
Speaker 2: seventy six Ers Insiders podcast. You mentioned Joel Embiid, Tyres Maxey,
Speaker 2: Tobias Harris, Kelly Uber said something interesting prior to the
Speaker 2: Portland game. What's it like to try to cover for
Speaker 2: eighty points as a unit? Well, you mentioned Joel Embiid
Speaker 2: wanted to go against Denver, Tyres Maxie also wanted to
Speaker 2: go against Denver dealing with that ankle sprain. But because
Speaker 2: we haven't chatted with you in a while on this platform,
Speaker 2: what's it been like to watch Tyres Maxie's first All
Speaker 2: Star season?
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, kid man, I understand why he wasn't an
Speaker 3: All Star starter, but I was really hoping that he
Speaker 3: would somehow shoot off the voting in the last couple
Speaker 3: of days. But as he has said about his partner
Speaker 3: in crime, Joel emb this year, that we can't take
Speaker 3: this for granted and that we have to enjoy the
Speaker 3: incredible things that he is making look normal day. I
Speaker 3: think we can say the same thing about our twenty
Speaker 3: three year old Tyres MAXI some of his circus shots,
Speaker 3: the way he just levitates in the air, the maximum
Speaker 3: matrix as I've taken it to Colin. Then, I know
Speaker 3: you kids don't know what that means, but I know
Speaker 3: you old heads are not on your head and saying, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's got a little Keanu in him. But the leap
Speaker 3: he is taking this year is just the beginning. And
Speaker 3: I know we thought last year is just the beginning,
Speaker 3: but this is truly just the beginning of what I
Speaker 3: hope will be a long and extremely successful career for Tyres,
Speaker 3: not just in the NBA, but also in Philly.
Speaker 2: Road trip now shifting to the Bay Area. You a
Speaker 2: Bay Area girl yourself, So let's talk personal for a second. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not your first time returning to the Bay as
Speaker 2: the voice of the seventy six ers. But how does
Speaker 2: it feel to go back into that building among.
Speaker 5: Those people, be in those streets.
Speaker 2: What's it like to return for you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really special. Yeah, last year was my first
Speaker 3: first time back and it was more emotional than I
Speaker 3: could have imagined, which makes sense if you're a faster
Speaker 3: processer than me.
Speaker 5: I'm really slow.
Speaker 3: I would have realized, hey, you're seeing the people that
Speaker 3: helped you get to where you are. You spent twenty
Speaker 3: years here in the Bay. You wouldn't be in Philly
Speaker 3: without all the jobs you worked and the things you
Speaker 3: learned and the people that you met, people who challenged
Speaker 3: you and critiqued you and helped you get to the point.
Speaker 2: You are now.
Speaker 5: But I didn't realize that.
Speaker 3: So last year was it was a lot, It was overwhelming.
Speaker 3: So I'm really looking forward to being back this year
Speaker 3: because one we don't have the game.
Speaker 5: It's a national exclusive.
Speaker 2: You get to be a Sixers fan, So I get
Speaker 2: to be a Sixers fan.
Speaker 5: I already have my Sixers that he picked out.
Speaker 3: I'm taking my best friend of the game, and I
Speaker 3: get to see a lot of folks during the game
Speaker 3: without that pressure of it's great to see you all,
Speaker 3: but I need to, you know, be prepping, And it's
Speaker 3: going to be great to get to again see those
Speaker 3: people and look them in the eyes and say thank
Speaker 3: you for helping me get here, because I don't I
Speaker 3: don't know if people who don't work in this industry
Speaker 3: realize how many people help you get to where you are,
Speaker 3: and that is camera operators and stage managers and statisticians
Speaker 3: like yeah, Alla and I are the ones on the
Speaker 3: radio or on the television. You and Matt Murphy and
Speaker 3: Tom mcguinnis. You know, people see the voices and the
Speaker 3: faces of a team, but there's so many people behind
Speaker 3: the scenes who I've worked with since I was twenty
Speaker 3: one years old and now you're girls forty, so it's
Speaker 3: been a while. I've gotten to know a lot of people.
Speaker 3: So I'm very excited to get back and very excited
Speaker 3: to see how again this underman Sixers team can do
Speaker 3: against a Warrior's team that isn't the same team they
Speaker 3: were for the decade I was covering the Warriors in
Speaker 3: the Bay Area, so I'm excited to see how the
Speaker 3: Sixers can maybe punch back in the Bay.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Pat Beverley playing like his younger self on
Speaker 2: this road trip, Steph Curry. You mentioned the Warriors not
Speaker 2: exactly what they once were, but Steph Curry looking just
Speaker 2: as he once did, averaging over twenty seven points a game.
Speaker 5: And Here's where I'm going with this.
Speaker 2: Okay, Scott, thanks for bearing with me joined us on
Speaker 2: this show last week, and he said that Tyrese Maxie
Speaker 2: reminds him of a young Steph Curry, not just with
Speaker 2: the scoring, not just with the assists, with his attitude,
Speaker 2: with his work ethic, with his baby faced assassin ability.
Speaker 2: So you've covered Steph Curry, You've now covered Tyrese Maxey.
Speaker 5: Do you see what Rico Heines sees?
Speaker 3: I mean, you and I have been talking about this
Speaker 3: behind the scenes for a couple of years, but I
Speaker 3: haven't wanted to bring it to the airwaves because I
Speaker 3: haven't wanted to put any pressure on Tyree's right soon, but.
Speaker 2: Only because they will be in the same building, whether
Speaker 2: or not, of course Tyres is able to suit up.
Speaker 2: What do you see commonality wise between the two of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and that was a great interview with Rico,
Speaker 3: by the way, miss Rosen, and I think I think
Speaker 3: mister Hines was spot on because there are so many similarities,
Speaker 3: not just with as you mentioned, the way he plays
Speaker 3: on the floor, but there is such joy that both
Speaker 3: of them carry themselves with the way that Tyree has
Speaker 3: immersed himself in the community in Philly and in Kentucky
Speaker 3: and in South Garland, Texas, the way that he realizes
Speaker 3: the platform he has already at such a young age,
Speaker 3: with which a lot of players don't do, which Steph
Speaker 3: did in the Bay. And also people forget because Steph
Speaker 3: is now an on teenth time All Star and he's
Speaker 3: at the tail end of his career. They forget that
Speaker 3: it took him a while to get going, he was
Speaker 3: dealing with ankle injuries. Should we keep Monte Ellis, should
Speaker 3: we keep Stephan Curry? All the stuff that tyres has
Speaker 3: had to do with the first few years. So that
Speaker 3: is yet another reason that I am seeing some parallels
Speaker 3: between them. So yeah, I hope we get to see
Speaker 3: tyresee But even if we don't at Golden State, the
Speaker 3: future is very bright for him because a lot of
Speaker 3: shades of Stephan Curry.
Speaker 2: In my eyes, the future bright indeed for Tyrese Maxi,
Speaker 2: but also for you, Kate Scott. We're so lucky and
Speaker 2: blessed to have you. I'm blessed to call you a friends.
Speaker 3: Here's the twenty but great to be on with you tonight,
Speaker 3: Go Sixers, Thanks Kate.
Speaker 1: A homecoming for Kate Scott, Thanks to Kate. Thanks to
Speaker 1: Lauren Rosen. Welcome back. This is Sixers in sixty Matt
Speaker 1: Murphy with former seventy six er Nick Stauskiss. Good stuff there.
Speaker 1: The Sixers not only play the Warriors on the road,
Speaker 1: but they also host the Warriors in the not so
Speaker 1: distant future, not this coming Wednesday, the thirty first, but
Speaker 1: the following Wednesday in Philadelphia, the third of a three
Speaker 1: game homestand after this season long five game road trip
Speaker 1: for the currently twenty nine and sixteen Philadelphia seventy six Ers.
Speaker 1: Now Nick, we started to get into the All Star
Speaker 1: conversation in the first segment, which I think can be
Speaker 1: continued here because Tyrese Maxi remains out with this ankle
Speaker 1: injury for the Sixers, but the head coaches will soon
Speaker 1: their votes will soon be revealed, and the All Star reserves,
Speaker 1: seven for each conference will be announced. Maxi was pushing
Speaker 1: the trying to be a starter, but Haliburton and Dame
Speaker 1: Ian Lillard will start in the East. So we went
Speaker 1: through our reserves, which for all of us in the
Speaker 1: first segment included Tyrese Maxi to make his first All
Speaker 1: Star appearance the All Star weekend the sixteenth through the
Speaker 1: eighteenth in Indianapolis. The game on Sunday February eighteenth. But
Speaker 1: just for anyone who missed it, give your seven reserves
Speaker 1: for the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4: I have Maxi Brunson, Trey Young, Donovan Mitchell, Jalen Brown,
Speaker 4: Jimmy Butler, and Julius Randall those are my See you.
Speaker 1: Went guard heavy. The competition among the guards in the
Speaker 1: East was thick. We've been talking about this on Sixers
Speaker 1: and sixty which for anyone out there who is new
Speaker 1: Tuesday nights on the Fanatic ninety seventy five The Fanatics
Speaker 1: six pm to seven pm. Now next show will actually
Speaker 1: be Monday because of a Flyers game on Tuesday. It'll
Speaker 1: be before the Sixers Mavericks game live from the Wells
Speaker 1: Fargo Center, but typically Tuesday night. And you can also
Speaker 1: hear interviews like the one between Lauren and Kate Scott
Speaker 1: on the seventy six Ers Insiders podcast. But we've been
Speaker 1: talking for weeks, if not multiple months now about Maxie
Speaker 1: and which guards he could possibly beat out. Now, Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard made the starting lineup for the East despite not
Speaker 1: ranking in the top two among guards in any of
Speaker 1: the three categories. And for anyone who doesn't know, it's
Speaker 1: the fan vote is fifty percent, and then of the
Speaker 1: starting lineup, and then twenty five percent media members and
Speaker 1: twenty five percent players. What do you think it says
Speaker 1: that Tyrese Maxi finished second in the player vote.
Speaker 5: It just shows the amount of respect that he has
Speaker 5: league wide.
Speaker 4: And those are the guys that are competing against him
Speaker 4: on a night to night basis. Those are the guys
Speaker 4: that are getting fifty balls put on their head from Maxi.
Speaker 4: So they've seen it firsthand how talented he is. They've
Speaker 4: seen it firsthand, the work ethic, the drive, they've seen
Speaker 4: the leadership growth, They've seen all those things, and that's
Speaker 4: why he receives those votes. Now, you know, Damian Damian Lillard.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, let's let's not get
Speaker 4: it twisted. The guy is a Hall of Famer. He's
Speaker 4: an incredible basketball player. To this day, He's probably the
Speaker 4: best player that I've ever played with. He's unbelievable. But
Speaker 4: if we're talking about just this season, who is more
Speaker 4: deserving I would I would go with Maxie. You know,
Speaker 4: I just think he's having a spectacular season. But you know,
Speaker 4: like we said, it's a very competitive landscape for the
Speaker 4: Eastern guards, and so no matter which way you slice it,
Speaker 4: someone's going to be feeling like they're left out.
Speaker 1: Tyres Maxie here on January thirtieth, is averaging twenty five
Speaker 1: point seven points per game, which is fifteenth in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid is averaging thirty six points, which continues to
Speaker 1: lead the entire NBA. He's one coming off multiple score
Speaker 1: titles in addition to the MVP Award. But Embid with
Speaker 1: thirty six eleven and six nearly six assists per game,
Speaker 1: Maxi with twenty five point seven points, ranking fifteenth in
Speaker 1: the league, which is better than Dame just looking at
Speaker 1: the raw scoring number twenty five point one points for Dame.
Speaker 1: Both of those guards play with other worldly players in
Speaker 1: Embiid and Yiannis. But Dame is an All Star starter
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference and Nick Stauskas you mentioned playing
Speaker 1: with him. So in Portland. Milwaukee will go to Portland
Speaker 1: this week. They actually play a day from now as
Speaker 1: we speak, and it's Dame's first game back in Portland.
Speaker 1: What do you expect that to be?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: I expect a big tribute and I would like to
Speaker 4: think of very warm welcome from the fans. I know,
Speaker 4: maybe things didn't quite end the way he wanted it
Speaker 4: to and maybe the way the fans wanted it to.
Speaker 4: But the impact that he's had on that city and
Speaker 4: that organization is undeniable. And you just look back at
Speaker 4: the performances that he had in big games, the game
Speaker 4: winners and the playoffs, regular season, growing, you know, coming
Speaker 4: from a kid to growing into a man raising his
Speaker 4: family there, I think it'll be nothing but love, and
Speaker 4: I think it'll be an emotional game for Damien, to
Speaker 4: say the least.
Speaker 5: But sure, at the end of the day, all he's
Speaker 5: going to want to do is win the game.
Speaker 4: You know, he's a competitive dude, and he's going to
Speaker 4: want to go out there and and and win. So
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to seeing what that game looks like.
Speaker 1: Continuing our all start discussion here for a little we're
Speaker 1: also going to get into some trivia later on, which
Speaker 1: I've been telling you that we're going to work some
Speaker 1: NBA trivia in and I think you've got a knack
Speaker 1: for it, not just because you played, but you're a
Speaker 1: fan of the game. You're you're online, you see these
Speaker 1: stats posted all the time. I think you'll fare pretty well.
Speaker 1: We've got all types of categories coming up to it's
Speaker 1: the end of the show, but just to reiterate some
Speaker 1: of this All Star stuff, so the reserves will be
Speaker 1: the first of February on Thursday, as chosen by the
Speaker 1: head coaches. In between that and the All Star weekend
Speaker 1: is the NBA trade deadline on Thursday, February eighth, and
Speaker 1: then the starting lineup includes the two Bucks, Damian Lillard
Speaker 1: and Giannasidita Kumbo with the hometown player Tyrese hallibur and
Speaker 1: the Pacers are the All Star host, Jason Tatum and
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. So Embiid starts in the East. Quick side
Speaker 1: note is they went back to East West and not
Speaker 1: the draft, which I like. The draft was like a
Speaker 1: made for TV type thing. There are captains still the
Speaker 1: leading vote getters by the fans, I'm assuming, but it's
Speaker 1: East versus West again. And I know they'll never do
Speaker 1: this because they make money off of the different uniforms.
Speaker 1: But I loved when the teams the players got to
Speaker 1: wear their home or away colored team uniform.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 4: You're talking about early two thousand's back when you know
Speaker 4: AI was wearing the Sixers jersey, Vince Carter was wearing
Speaker 4: the Raptors jersey. T Mac was out there with the
Speaker 4: the you know, the retro magic jersey.
Speaker 5: Those were those are some good days.
Speaker 4: And that was back when the All Star Game was
Speaker 4: a show but also quite competitive and you would maybe
Speaker 4: see a little bit more highlights in the first quarter,
Speaker 4: second quarter, but the majority of that second half was
Speaker 4: guys really competing and going head to head. And I
Speaker 4: think that's what the fans have missed most about the
Speaker 4: All Star Game in recent years.
Speaker 5: Not that it's not entertaining.
Speaker 4: I think it still is very entertaining, but you want
Speaker 4: to see some sort of competitiveness at the end of
Speaker 4: the day. And I think the league's getting creative. They've
Speaker 4: tried to do a bunch of different things, but I
Speaker 4: think I don't know what the real answer is at
Speaker 4: the end of the day.
Speaker 5: You know, we talked about it off the air.
Speaker 4: You can't really throw money at them to make it
Speaker 4: more competitive.
Speaker 1: Well, or the end season tournament, yeah, but beg to differ.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the nd season tournament is different because you're a
Speaker 4: lot of guys that's life changing money. But for a
Speaker 4: lot of these All Stars, if you say, hey, winning
Speaker 4: team or like winning team gets five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they are the highest paid guys.
Speaker 4: Those guys are making forty million per year. That's not
Speaker 4: really even a huge dent in their in their in
Speaker 4: their bank account.
Speaker 5: So I don't know. It's a tough one.
Speaker 1: Make the winning conference have home court in the NBA.
Speaker 5: Finals, so we're going to MLB here.
Speaker 1: You're not a fan, it's too much. You think that
Speaker 1: sort of discredits the whole body of work from the
Speaker 1: entire season. But it would make for a better game.
Speaker 4: It would make for a better game, but it would
Speaker 4: definitely be unfair to a team like the Warriors in
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen when they which year was it? What they
Speaker 4: were in seventy three games? And then if the East wins,
Speaker 4: you're kind of like, oh, that's tough luck.
Speaker 5: Tough luck.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it could make it competitive but also a
Speaker 4: little bit unfair to team.
Speaker 5: So I'm sure they're I'm sure they're.
Speaker 4: Adam Silver does a great job of getting creative with things,
Speaker 4: so I'm sure they're continuing to evaluate their options with
Speaker 4: making it the most entertaining game possible.
Speaker 1: You know what else it would do. It would have
Speaker 1: the head coaches spending a lot more time on these
Speaker 1: reserve picks because right, every team is different, whether how
Speaker 1: much time the head coach is spending on or if
Speaker 1: he's delegating it to someone else on his staff to
Speaker 1: make these selections. But if home court was on the
Speaker 1: line for the NBA Finals for your conference, they would
Speaker 1: be scouring over the film and the lineup possibilities. And
Speaker 1: that's where like other team type of players like a
Speaker 1: Drew Holliday we were discussing earlier a little bit comes
Speaker 1: in would come into play a little bit more. It
Speaker 1: is speaking of Adam Silver back to the classic format.
Speaker 1: He came out basically in the fall and said, we're
Speaker 1: going back to the basics. In Indiana's like this basketball state,
Speaker 1: that's the host city. We're going to pick the teams.
Speaker 1: We're going to run four twelve minute quarters instead of
Speaker 1: doing the elam ending type stuff and the and the
Speaker 1: target scores and right, all that type of thing. But
Speaker 1: does that make the basketball inherently better? I don't, because
Speaker 1: the incentive is not necessarily there.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll see much different than the alley
Speaker 1: oops and the long threes that were traditionally used to right.
Speaker 4: And I think at the end of the day, they
Speaker 4: implemented all these you know, real changes and target scores,
Speaker 4: and I think maybe for some fans I could have
Speaker 4: been confusing, or you know, if they weren't following.
Speaker 5: They turn on the game and they go, oh, you know,
Speaker 5: what's going.
Speaker 4: On with this target score? And I think maybe there's
Speaker 4: some confusion from the fans from that perspective. So I
Speaker 4: am a fan of seeing the game return to a
Speaker 4: traditional format.
Speaker 1: The more we talk about what the fans would want
Speaker 1: and make for the best product, the more I regret
Speaker 1: leaving Trey Young off.
Speaker 4: Ooh, okay, solid, let me hear this list, because I
Speaker 4: just said, put some respect on Trey Young.
Speaker 1: You came out of the gates pro Trey Young was
Speaker 1: the first player, and of course we're how I couched
Speaker 1: all of this for tonight's show was Tyrese Maxey has
Speaker 1: to be in there. He has to represent the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers alongside Joel Embiid. We will find out in
Speaker 1: a few short days. Hopefully nothing crazy happens and the
Speaker 1: coaches don't make a mistake and leave Tyrese Maxey out
Speaker 1: of the All Star Game. But other than Tyrese Maxey,
Speaker 1: you were quick to the tray Young, and the selections
Speaker 1: will be two backcourt players, three front court players, and
Speaker 1: two wild card picks regardless of position. Jalen Brunson had
Speaker 1: a strong case, as strong of a case as anyone
Speaker 1: to be in as a guard. He and Tyrese Maxey
Speaker 1: are my immediate backcourt picks. Three front court players. I
Speaker 1: went with multiple Celtics, just like we talked about in
Speaker 1: the last segment. I have Jalen Brown, Kristaps Porzingis, and
Speaker 1: I picked Julius Randall who's out with a shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: so if he needs a replacement, Paolo Bancaro, from a
Speaker 1: fan perspective, to me, fits that star power, rising star,
Speaker 1: social media age, catching these lobs. He has Team USA
Speaker 1: experience already. I know the Magic have faded a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I went with Palo as like a definitely in
Speaker 1: front court player if Randall's out. Donovan Mitchell made it
Speaker 1: as a wild card for me, essentially over Trey Young.
Speaker 1: Between Donovan Mitchell and Trey Young, I went Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 1: but I could be could be swayed, and also we
Speaker 1: have no power in this, so it's gonna be whatever
Speaker 1: the coaches do. But do the coaches end up picking
Speaker 1: a Trey Young over over at Donovan Mitchell because it
Speaker 1: seems like Brunson and Maxi would be no brainers for
Speaker 1: the NBA head coaches based on what they've done to
Speaker 1: their teams this year's been in and out of the lineup.
Speaker 1: Trey Young is a polarizing player with drawing the foul
Speaker 1: calls and stuff that might rub some coaches right the
Speaker 1: wrong way. So if you think about who's picking, it
Speaker 1: comes down to I don't know if both of them
Speaker 1: get in, like your scenario, because there are so many
Speaker 1: other wild card players to consider here. I have Pascal
Speaker 1: Siakam in the conversation Bam at a bio in the
Speaker 1: con Did you have Bam?
Speaker 5: I did not have Bam, but I had Jimmy. I
Speaker 5: had Jimmy Butler in there.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler mckel Bridges, Yeah, could make a case. Scottie
Speaker 1: Barnes in Toronto is probably further down the list. But
Speaker 1: Trey Young versus Mitchell could come down to one or
Speaker 1: the other. I don't Maybe they both get in and
Speaker 1: it's a super guard heavy Eastern Conference, but I had
Speaker 1: Young out and I had Donovan Mitchell and Patlow. If
Speaker 1: Randall's in as the other wild card or Pascal Siakam,
Speaker 1: if Julius Randall's out.
Speaker 4: If Trey Young does not make the All Star Game,
Speaker 4: I would love to know if there's ever been a
Speaker 4: player to average twenty seven and eleven and not make it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good question, but it's it's not all
Speaker 1: about stat but the All Star Game that's so high
Speaker 1: scoring that that's such a strong argument for him diving
Speaker 1: people up and scoring so much. But we shall see.
Speaker 1: And bottom line is Sixers fans everywhere would riot if
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxi, and really NBA fans everywhere would be very
Speaker 1: upset if Tyrese Maxie has not included Matt Murphy and
Speaker 1: Nick stauskis the NBA veteran here on Sixers in sixty.
Speaker 1: We've got a little bit more time here again. The
Speaker 1: All Star Game the eighteenth, but the voting comes out
Speaker 1: on February, The coach voting comes out on February first,
Speaker 1: the trade deadline in between on February eighth. The upcoming
Speaker 1: Sixer schedule for the twenty nine and sixteen third place Sixers,
Speaker 1: who are fifth in offense, seventh in defense. Nick It's
Speaker 1: Golden State in Utah and then it's Brooklyn at home,
Speaker 1: the tip off three straight games at home. They also
Speaker 1: play Luca soon in between playing Golden State again. So
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Dallas, Golden State at home after this road trip.
Speaker 1: But the road trip doesn't get any easier with what's
Speaker 1: facing them. So the key is to just get one
Speaker 1: and then at least one to get back in the
Speaker 1: win column. They've lost three straight.
Speaker 5: Right you want to, I think you got.
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously you try to win every single night,
Speaker 4: but winning both of these games to finish out the
Speaker 4: road trip against Golden State and Utah would be huge,
Speaker 4: just because it does feel like the teams slumping a
Speaker 4: little bit and have been bogged down by injuries. But
Speaker 4: Golden State never an easy place to get a win,
Speaker 4: and so at Utah as well. They got a great
Speaker 4: fan base. Place gets pretty loud. They're a middle of
Speaker 4: the pack team right now, but obviously with the Sixers
Speaker 4: being shorthanded, I feel like they are they will have
Speaker 4: to fight and claw their way through the end of
Speaker 4: this road trip. The Golden State team right now, though,
Speaker 4: when I look at them, you know, on a game
Speaker 4: to game basis, I they're still capable, but it's just
Speaker 4: not the same anymore. And it's it really comes down
Speaker 4: to the Splash bros. Like they on any game, they
Speaker 4: could both go for thirty five forty, but they just
Speaker 4: can't carry the same offensive load that they did four
Speaker 4: or five years going.
Speaker 5: And that's okay.
Speaker 4: You know, they're getting older and like Clay's had a
Speaker 4: number of different injuries, but they you know, you take
Speaker 4: away Jordan Poole from that team, and you know, Wiggins
Speaker 4: hasn't quite been the same this year. They just lack
Speaker 4: the scoring, in depth and firepower to really dismantle teams
Speaker 4: the way they used to. And so you know, if
Speaker 4: you're the Sixers, I think you've got to try to
Speaker 4: take advantage of that. And it's not an easy task,
Speaker 4: but got to get one of those wins.
Speaker 1: Here's my own trivia question related to Golden State before
Speaker 1: I have some pre prepared trivia questions from other outlets.
Speaker 1: How many threes do you think Steph Curry, who leads
Speaker 1: the NBA, has made in forty appearances.
Speaker 4: My guess would be, I'm gonna guess that he averages
Speaker 4: like three and a half. Tom I'm gonna guess he
Speaker 4: averages four makes per game. So I'm gonna say once one.
Speaker 5: There'll be one six, one fifty six.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say so, Luka, Doncic is second in the
Speaker 1: NBA with one fifty five. Ooh, Steph Curry has one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven, my goodness, in forty games.
Speaker 4: It's again like you watch the game against the Lakers,
Speaker 4: the double, the double overtime game on over the weekend,
Speaker 4: and he still has it. He could still do it
Speaker 4: better than anyone, but it's just not the same as
Speaker 4: it was six years ago, back when they were a
Speaker 4: seventy three win team. He just can't carry that same
Speaker 4: offensive load night in night out. And same with Clay.
Speaker 4: You know, he's still a great shooter. They just they've
Speaker 4: been they've been playing too many games over too long
Speaker 4: of a period. And again, that's kind of what makes
Speaker 4: you respect the guy like Lebron at the end of
Speaker 4: the day is the longevity and being able to hold
Speaker 4: up that level of play for such.
Speaker 5: A long time. It's not easy.
Speaker 1: Sixers stats wise, outside of the EMBIID and MAXI stats
Speaker 1: that I gave earlier, they've been steadily near the top
Speaker 1: in some of these defensive categories even to this point.
Speaker 1: I mean every week I look for these to change,
Speaker 1: and they really don't. They've they've been first or second
Speaker 1: or in blocks. They've actually risen to fourth per game
Speaker 1: in blocks as a team, but credit the Sixers defense.
Speaker 1: They've fallen to seventh in rating. But there's they're fourth
Speaker 1: in blocks per game at six. They still lead in
Speaker 1: steals per game just under nine a game, and they
Speaker 1: got surpassed by Oklahoma City and deflections the Sixers right
Speaker 1: now sixteen point one deflections per game. They're point one
Speaker 1: behind the Oklahoma City Thunders. So getting Melton back at
Speaker 1: any point will be huge because he's a one point
Speaker 1: six steal per game guy for the Sixers defense.
Speaker 5: Right they've been missing him and that's the.
Speaker 1: One that gets left behind because it's like embiid. Obviously
Speaker 1: now Max he's been out for a couple with the ankle,
Speaker 1: but Melton has missed double digit games now in a row.
Speaker 4: Right he's and that's one of those ones where with
Speaker 4: the with the back, you gotta get it one hundred
Speaker 4: percent before you start trying to fight through it, because
Speaker 4: that's one of the ones that'll continue to linger. And
Speaker 4: better for him to miss the games now and get
Speaker 4: one hundred percent healthy rather than try to fight through it,
Speaker 4: but his presence is missed. And from the start of
Speaker 4: the season I've been saying he's an X factor for
Speaker 4: this team. He's one of the guys I've been looking
Speaker 4: for to break through on the offensive end. You know,
Speaker 4: the numbers haven't quite been what I've wanted them to be,
Speaker 4: but on the defensive end, like you said, with the steals,
Speaker 4: the deflections, we know what he brings to the table.
Speaker 1: And he was at thirty six percent for three career
Speaker 1: thirty seven percent. They as a team, they've really struggled
Speaker 1: in the last five games from three point range, but
Speaker 1: it could just be a lull for them in the
Speaker 1: long season and they could be back on track before
Speaker 1: we know it. Matt Murphy and NBA VET Sixers vet
Speaker 1: Nick stauskis winding down this week on Sixers in sixty.
Speaker 1: We'll have Lauren Rosen back with us again next week
Speaker 1: again a special Monday show before the Sixers Mavericks game,
Speaker 1: live from the Wells Fargo Center. But as promised, our
Speaker 1: trivia courtesy of Basketball Reference Nick and let's see, I
Speaker 1: haven't looked at these yet, but they do trivia Tuesdays
Speaker 1: on Instagram. First question, how many thirty plus point per
Speaker 1: game seasons. Did Michael Jordan have A six, B seven,
Speaker 1: C eight or D nine.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with nine.
Speaker 1: It is eight seasons.
Speaker 4: You forget that he really didn't play. How many seasons
Speaker 4: total did he end up playing it? Because of the
Speaker 4: breaks in between and the retirements, it's not as many
Speaker 4: as you think it it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like eighty five to three, but I
Speaker 1: would have to count the individual seasons. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's exactly. I think it's fifteen. Maybe it appears
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 4: It feels like he played longer than he actually did
Speaker 4: because of those breaks, But I guess eight out of
Speaker 4: fifteen years isn't bad, especially a couple of those being
Speaker 4: with the Wizards when he was in that later stage
Speaker 4: of his career.
Speaker 1: Wilt had seven thirty point per game seasons. Oscar Robertson six,
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson tied with four with a few others.
Speaker 5: And Joe. Where's Joel on this list? Joel has now
Speaker 5: had three?
Speaker 1: It'll be would this be his third?
Speaker 5: This will be? I think this would be his third straight.
Speaker 4: But with thirty six, it's definitely unreal, and it seems
Speaker 4: like he could still do this for a couple more years.
Speaker 5: That's the best part about it.
Speaker 1: All right, final minute to do the last two to
Speaker 1: squeeze these in which Yukon player has the most career
Speaker 1: NBA points A Kemba Walker, B Ray Allen, CE, Rudy
Speaker 1: Gay or D Clifford Robinson. I'm going Ray Allen correct
Speaker 1: twenty four thousand, five hundred and five. And then finally,
Speaker 1: who has the most career points against the Nets? A
Speaker 1: Lebron James, B Michael Jordans, C. Dominique Wilkins or D
Speaker 1: Larry Bird.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Lebron James just because it's incorrect.
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, thanks for playing nexstascas a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: You one for three, Yeah, one for three. I guess
Speaker 4: I'm got Ray Allen. I guess I'm not as good
Speaker 4: as I thought I will. You can bounce back next time,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: For Lauren Roseen, Kate Scott, Nickstauskas, I'm Matt Murphy. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening.