WEBVTT - The BroadCast | What Have We Learned? 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers Podcast Network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.400 search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. After 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.680 a couple of weeks inside the bubble, we finally have 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.279 some real live NBA basketball. That means we'll have a 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.599 lot of good things to say about Ben Simmons, who 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.239 looked great just about everywhere the Sixers put him on 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.800 the course, Simmons knocked it away, Paul turns it over, 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.280 Richardson lobs at Simmons on the one hand, left hand 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.400 laff up, and good good play by the Sixers Simmons 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.880 at both ends of the floor can't even done. From 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.720 Ben Simmons to Tobias Harris, we discuss our biggest takeaways, 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.960 plus some thoughts on other key members of the rotation 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.159 who have been playing well. The teenth Bible with a 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.239 major move and slam. Well done by the rookie for 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.200 his first who. I'm Lauren Rosen, I'm Devon Givens, I'm 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.080 Brian Seltzer and this is the broadcast from the seventy 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:59.960 Sixers Podcast Network. We saw it. It happened. They cannot 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.720 take two seventy six or scrimmage games away from us, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.160 and all at all guys, I thought it was pretty 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.959 promising early stages, yes, but what wasn't like about seeing 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.760 some seventy six or scrimmage basketball over the weekend. It 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.080 was fantastic. It was great to see basketball back out 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.240 there on the floor, great to see that the team 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:26.280 seemed like they had their chemistry, and albeit a scrimmage game. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.440 With that being said, with the way that they performed, 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.480 and we'll get into all of that, it seemed like 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.080 they were in sync with a loud and things that 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.959 they did on Friday definitely in sync. I think coming 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.800 into this we knew it could sort of go one 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.600 or two ways. Either they were going to look rusty 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.120 and like they hadn't played in a while and that 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.920 maybe they were making too many changes, or things were 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.840 gonna click. It was gonna be exciting, and luckily we 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:49.880 ended up with the ladder. So I was happy to 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.040 see that it did look like they were in sync, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:53.840 and it looked like they were having fun, which means 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.000 a lot to me as a viewer, Like you don't 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.080 want them to look like they're like barely making it 0:01:58.120 --> 0:01:59.960 through out there, but they really look like they're having fun, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.920 and so I'm excited about that we're going to get 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.840 into the nitty gritty of what we saw. But you 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.400 just mentioned Lauren as a viewer key phrase about those 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.280 two scrimmages. What'd you think of the presentation of what 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.960 we saw. I thought it was really cool. I liked 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:16.519 it more than I thought I was going to. I 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.360 didn't know how much I was going to miss the crowd, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.840 but to be honest, the lighting in there is spectacular. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.280 It really looks like a TV studio that they're playing 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.919 basketball in because obviously they tailored this just for basketball 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.760 on TV. So from a quality perspective, the quality was high. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.400 It was really easy to see everything. I don't love 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.720 all the innovative camera angles. I find them a little 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.120 bit disorienting, but maybe that just makes me old school. Overall, 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.600 I thought it was a really good viewing experience. I 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.040 thought the way that you can see them on the bench, 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:49.840 the way that you can see the coaches interacting, was 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.280 really interesting and I'm excited to keep watching basketball like that. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.680 I really liked the way it looked. I like the 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.919 ca I disagree, Lauren. I did like the cameraing was 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.840 I like where they went with it and the lighting. 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.560 I agree with you on It was very easy for 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.560 me too as a viewer, as you guys are mentioning, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.040 very easy to follow, and the one aspect with the lighting, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.559 of course, it had a kind of a world games 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.160 feel when the teams go to these different countries and 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.440 all and they play these games. It had that kind 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.959 of feel to me, and I was really into it overall, 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.760 and it was great to watch. It was good to 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.040 see it back out there. It was good to see 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.000 the touches of the floor that were out there as well, 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.800 and the spacing of the players on the bench, whatever 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.120 you want to call it. It was interesting to see 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.000 that as well. They gotta love that if I were 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:41.760 a player on the bench or a coach or a 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.520 staff member who sits on the sideline, you get six 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.400 feet worth a breathing room that's entirely new real estate 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.800 compared to what you'd have in a normal NBA game. Sure, sure, 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.280 absolutely the other thing, two guys, And I'm sure you 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.880 noticed that. How many times have we seen and maybe 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.280 this will be something that they adjust now later on 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.880 And you kind of not because you love the photos 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.560 and a video they're taken from on the baseline and 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.240 things of that nature. The spacing that they don't have 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.720 to worry about from the court side seats and the 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.680 baseline when they land from some acrobatic move that they 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:21.200 do not much worry, right, guys, of the bracing of 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.120 people underneath to catch themselves and try to avoid any 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.680 type of injury. I thought that for everything that they 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:33.159 could reasonably control, NBA did as what by all accounts 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.360 inside the bubble, it seems like it's been the case consistently, 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.479 they did an awesome job. I thought, whether I was 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.720 listening to t MAC on the radio on the Fanatic, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.839 or I was watching parts of the game with zoo 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.480 Ala and Serena, the sound mix was totally unnoticeable. I 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.359 don't think you could really tell that much of a difference, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.400 with the exception of courses you guys have pointed out 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.359 the obvious, which is that there were no fans, and 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.160 that's something that you just can't have right now. So 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.680 that's beyond the NBA's control. But for everything that was 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.680 within their power to control, I thought they did a 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.040 really really good job. In the seventy sixers, as we 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.599 start our deep dive for this edition of the broadcast, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.240 I also thought did a really really good job in 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.080 their first two scrimmage games. Can we agree that the 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.040 second scrimmage against the Oklahoma City Thunder, we're only really 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.839 counting the first three periods of that before the Sixers 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.039 rested their starters, or is that a naive way to 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.880 look at this? I mean, to me, I would have 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.400 loved to see our reserves be able to pull it 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.080 out at the end. But I agree with you. I 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.080 think realistically, what we're looking for in these scrimmages is 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.200 how the starters do together, and then how the primary 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.640 rotation looks, and so far in both when they're working 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.000 with those key contributors. Let's say they've played really, really 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.799 well and at the end of the day, the reserves 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.880 that were playing at the end of the Okay See game, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.560 even though it didn't end the way we wanted it too, 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.440 necessarily they got good experience that maybe they wouldn't have 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.560 gotten otherwise towards the end of the season. The way 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.599 we had these mid season scrimmages, you will. I agree 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.479 with you. I think realistically we can look at the 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.520 first seven out of eight quarters and call it a 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:10.479 win overall. Absolutely agree with you both. You definitely focus 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.839 on those first three quarters of the Oklahoma City game 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.800 and the win. You always want to come away with 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.719 the w just because of morale. You walk away with 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.080 the win and with those players that are trying to 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.640 maybe find themselves in the playoff rotation once things get 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.120 underway for the postseason, of course, they want to go 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.120 out there and perform weather and show their teammates, show 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.960 their coaches that they can close out a game, especially 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.720 with the big league like they had. But for what 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.839 we saw from the regular group, if you will, I 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.719 thought they did a fantastic job in their first showing 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.520 together since they returned to the floors. Very very encouraging 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.480 to see them play the way that they have played 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.800 being away from each other for so long. I definitely 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:57.080 walk away from that second scrimmage with the Thunder and say, 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.719 the first three quarters and starters and the big reserves 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.000 right there that we think we believe will be in 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:07.760 the rotation certainly showed themselves well. Big picture, when we 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.960 step back and look at some of the main themes 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.720 surrounding the Sixers, what were the two things that Brett 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.840 Brown talked about before the team even left for Orlando, Florida. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.080 Would the team come back with a solid fitness base 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.360 and with a team play together, with a spirit, camaraderiechemistry, 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.160 whatever you wanna call it. I don't know what the 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:27.880 other twenty one teams in the bubble did, but I 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.400 feel totally confident in saying that. However, the seventy sixers 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.520 spent their time on their own and then together before 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.600 going inside the bubble. They came back fit, ready to play, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.920 taking it very serious and for as much as you 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.040 can come out with purpose in a scrimmage, I think 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.320 they did it. It It seemed like they were really in 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.840 lockstep with one another for as much as they could be. Suordan. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.160 A lot of times you have to worry about the conditioning, 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.360 as Brett Brown was talking about with the fitness basin. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:00.680 So far through these eight quarters it had everything seems 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.640 to be to be fine. Now you have to worry 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.480 about the little knick knacks like Glenn Robinson the third 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.880 picked up how Unto as well, and even Joel and 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.240 Be with the cash strain. But so far nothing to 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.160 really hold your breath with in terms of how this 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.920 team looks coming back. As you pointed out, Sos in 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.320 the conditioning that they are getting ready for back in 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.760 basketball Sheep so good showing, and you hope that that 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:29.440 just maintains and they're able to collect their basketball breaths 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.480 as they go along through the final scrimmage, the eight games, 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.400 steating games, and then certainly a long run in the 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.040 postseason as well. Guys, I think we may have set 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.120 some sort of record for Sixers related content within the 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.400 last forty eight hours that we've gone like eight and 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.720 a half minutes without referencing the name Ben Simmons at all. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.240 He has been so off the charts. I think everyone 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.080 has been able to see what he's been doing so well. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.800 But I mean, listen, eighteen assists over two scrimmage games 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.560 in about fifty minutes worth of action. He's not even 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.440 on the ball. I think that whole experiment it certainly 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.240 has legs. We don't know how far it's going to go, 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:10.880 or how it could play in a seating game or 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.920 playoff situation, but at the very least, it looks as 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.240 if there is no reason to abandon ship on the 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.120 Ben Simmons playing off the ball and Shake Milton having 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.720 the opportunity to bring it up and initiate I'm with you, Salts. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.400 It feels like such a win win for everybody involved, 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.440 so maybe a win win win, win win. He looks 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.440 really good, like he said, on both sides of the ball. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.400 He flirted with triple doubles in both outings in which 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.640 he played less than thirty minutes. So that's an accomplishment 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.160 no matter what. And correct me if I'm wrong here, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.440 but to me at least, it felt like he was 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.280 the best player on the floor in both games. And 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.800 these aren't necessarily teams that they're going to play against 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.160 unless they meet either of them in the finals down 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.120 the road, but these were still quality opponents. And Ben 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.080 came out there, looked like he hadn't missed a step, 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.760 looked like he hadn't been injured, looked like he wasn't 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.559 playing in a different role he had been playing previously. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.360 He was so good, And I'm worried about other teams 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:05.880 that now are going to have to deal with Ben 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.960 Simmons as we continue. The one thing that I kept 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.560 saying when we talked about this potential change that was 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.920 made by coach Brett Brown and moving Ben Simmons was 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.120 He's too good for the ball not to find him, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.800 and the ball found him. And when the ball found him, 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.880 he did what he does. He played basketball, and the 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.120 instinctual nature of his game is to look for others 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.680 as well, and he did that. And the fact that 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.320 he had what nine assists at halftime in game one, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.000 scrimmage number one was amazing. And as you said, it, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.760 guys that he didn't even have the ball, primarily in 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.920 transition of course. And I'll even highlight the one where 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.719 he was playing Jaren Jackson Junior trying to front him 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.920 on the post, and they tried to go high low 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.920 with Jaren Jackson Junior through the past and instead of 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.240 Benson is knocking it away, he snatches it out of 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.800 the air, right snatches it out of the air, pushes 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.560 the brake, draws the attention of the defense right around 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.880 the free throw line, extended area. Fur Concords goes to 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:08.319 the right corner, quick pass, knockdown three, none, let's move on, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.760 let's go to the other way. That's the type of impact. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.280 That's what he does when he's on the floor. That's 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.040 what makes him special when he is just in sync. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.720 As we've been talking about with his overall basketball game, 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.439 there was the allue blob to Tobias Harris and the 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.880 first scrimmage One of my favorite plays from the second 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.640 scrimmage against the thunder was I think Tobias Harris was 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.040 bringing the ball up. This might have been in the 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.720 second quarter, and Ben was playing off on the wing, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.160 and he saw Chris Paul up around the free throw line, 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.480 and he pointed right at Chris Paul, with Tobias having 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.520 the ball in his hands, as if to say, get 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.040 me the ball so I can go right at Chris 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.439 Paul and create that mismatch. He did, and then he 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.400 made a terrific left handed pass to Josh Richardson, who 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.360 made a great cut to get to the basket and score. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.800 This all goes back to that notion of the IQ 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.800 of Ben Simmons, the vision now almost being used in 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.439 a different way in that situation. Talking about the OKC 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.800 situation scenario, he was seeing the play on fold a 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.200 few steps ahead, he realized where he could create an 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.719 opportunity for a mismatch, and then he delivered. Like he is. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.640 To go back to what we've been talking about, he 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.480 is a play maker, and I don't want to overreact 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.719 too much two scrimmages, but I also don't want to 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.480 undersell us. Seeing evidence of some of the things that 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.920 Brett Brown and Ben Simmons and other members of the 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.000 Sixers have been talking about. I think, Davon you said it. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:26.920 The way he's able to get out in transition, the 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.800 fact that he's still going to be doing that even 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.040 if he's not the so called primary ball handler, he's 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.240 still going to have those opportunities to get out on 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.319 the break and finish himself or find someone. I remember 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.320 at the beginning of the hiatus, we had the opportunity 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.640 to interview most of or all of our players actually 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:44.600 to check in on them and see how what they 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.160 thought about the beating of the season, And one of 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.440 the moments that you made me think of was Matisse 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.719 Thybel discussed the fact that Ben has this ability to 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.560 create looks or finish looks in a matter of whatever, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.920 one two seconds before the other team's defense can even 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.199 get set, and Matifs called it deflating for other teams. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.200 And I think seeing that multiple times now in the scrimmage, 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.960 even when he's not in his former role, is potentially 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.040 really deflating for other teams moving forward. He gets up 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.520 the court and four steps, so you know, for him 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.640 to be able to do that at six ten the 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.960 way he moves, and when we talk about the fitness 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.679 base in the conditioning, that was number one for me 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.200 when it came to a player in the seventy sixes 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.560 that I was not worried about, and that was Ben Simmons. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.880 So the energy is there, the IQ celts as you mentioned, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.360 and Lauren, just to point out again the fact that 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.959 he just finds as you mentioned with Matisse saying that 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.959 he just finds everyone, and it is deflating when you 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.040 feel like you're doing everything right. And then Ben Simmons 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.280 kinds of breaks all of that, breaks all of that 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.760 up and turns it into something of a positive. For 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.840 the seventy sixes, I thought he was tremendous. He assist numbers, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.679 the flirting with the triple doubles, and scrimmage games less 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.959 than on to thirty minutes, really good start in the 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.960 return in the bubble Shakemail against the Memphis Grizzlies six points, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.520 a rebound, three assists against the thunder eleven points, four boards, 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.160 two dimes. Isn't wrong to look at Shake's roll this way. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.679 Obviously he's got to make some shots to make the 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.440 whole thing work, but in terms of what he's doing 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.439 on the ball, just kind of keep the ship running 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:22.160 and not do anything to compromise whatever advantages the Sixers 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.400 might be able to create. Am I wrong at looking 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.960 at in that prism? I agree with you play within yourself. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.920 Play within yourself too to help the team. Shots will 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.600 come because you have people who will draw attention to 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.840 themselves like Simmons and and b and the ball will 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:38.880 find you, especially when you are shooting at a very 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.880 high clip like he was before the season went on pause. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.360 Now coming back and still being able to shoot the 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.160 basketball so far in these two scrimmages where he looks 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.280 confident to get out there the same way that you 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.560 hear guys just talking about him being out there where 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.120 he looks like he belongs in that starting group with 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:59.640 those players that they go on a potential championship run. Absolutely, 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.840 so I totally agree with you one hundred percent that 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.040 I just play within yourself, don't play out of the system. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:09.840 And has never been indication of Shake Milton being that 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.760 type of player anyway, so this is not surprising. I 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.720 don't expect it to be the thirty nine point performance. Again, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.600 if it does come, that will be a bonus for them, 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.080 But just run the team, hit your open shots, play 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.280 smart basketball, protect the basketball, and the job will be 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.600 done by Shake Milton that way, I will say that, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.880 for as much as we talk about his calm, cool 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.320 and even killed demeanor, which he does have when he 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.560 gets out there, at least what I've seen so far 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.400 in Orlando, there's an aggressiveness to him. I mean, Chris 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.840 Paul is no real slash as a defender, and Shake 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.240 went right at him a couple of times. Absolutely, I 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.760 think we've talked about it on the podcast. But he's 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.320 not afraid of any situation. And I think that that's 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.680 such a big part of why he's found the success 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.520 that he's found so quickly. He wasn't scared when he 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.560 spent time in the G League. He wasn't scared when 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.320 he was filling in for Ben Simmons, and he's not 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.280 scared play alongside Ben Simmons. And if he can keep 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.240 that spirit all the way through these seating games and 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.320 the playoffs, AND's something Brett Brown has talked about. He 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.240 can keep the spirit that he currently has, Sky's the 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.360 limit for Shake another young man worthy of discussion, most 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:18.280 certainly for the seventy sixers. Matisse Thyble Gosh Darnett NBA 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.720 dot com. You usually track deflection numbers in your hustlebox score, 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.520 but you haven't had them to the first two scrimmage games. 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.000 And I suppose if I weren't lazy, I could go 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.120 back and I could chart deflections on my own. But 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.360 I also don't even know if we actually have to 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.400 know the exact number. The I say a lot, right, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.680 a lot, he had a lot, especially in that OKAC game, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.840 that it is Matisse Thible. Can we even say, I 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:46.560 guess we have to kind of say, for a guy 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.520 who has not even completed his first full NBA season, 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.200 vintage Matisse Thible, he was all over the place getting involved, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.040 making things happen, and that certainly is going to be 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:57.640 a huge part of what the Sixers need if they 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.360 want to get to where they want to go. Now 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.280 he has stepped right into the role that he had 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.720 before where he just comes in and if it's not 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.280 offensively like you expect to punch off the bench for 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.280 that type of player, and you look at him the 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:14.600 impact that he does have defensively, it is so impactful 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.959 with what he does stepping on the floor when Ben 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.600 Simmons is already there and quite possible when Josh Richardson 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.240 is out there as well. So you're talking about three 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:25.880 wing defenders that are very, very problematic for the opposition. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:31.000 And the length, the instinctual nature of what he does defensively, 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.119 and the fact that, I mean, we know it's a 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.879 it's an extension of the nineteen twenty campaign and getting 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.760 ready for the twenty playoffs. It's almost like he's right 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.200 coming into his next season. He's not a rookie anymore, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.320 even though they claim him as a rookie because the 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.080 season is extended, it's not a rookie anymore. And he's 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.280 already gained the trust of his teammates. So he just 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.440 out there free flown and playing that defense the way 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.680 he knows how to play defense. He hasn't skipped a 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.760 step la based on his media available since they got 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.720 to Orlando. He would have loved to hear you say 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.680 that he's not a rookie anymore, because I know he's 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.040 still responsible for some rookie duties and he's trying to 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.119 convince everybody, okay, like in terms of the calendar, it 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.960 should be time for me to graduate. But unfortunately it 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.800 looks like he has a little bit of rookie dumb left, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.520 But what you said is correct. He's so disruptive and unafraid. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.360 I think in the first half of this last scrimmage 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.760 against Okase, he had to deal with Chris Paul quite 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.760 a bit, and he didn't give up. He stayed in there, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.000 and then late in the game he played for a 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.080 little bit longer than some of his teammates did and 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.680 ended up on Dennis Shrewder and made his life just 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.560 really difficult. You could tell he was getting frustrated playing 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.239 against Matisse, and having a weapon like that on your 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.119 team is awesome to know you can plug him in 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.440 and he's just going to pester the heck out of 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.200 whoever he's on. Is such a privilege for a team, 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.159 and I think what we saw from him in these 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:54.240 first two scrimmages was really encouraging, and he didn't fall 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:55.879 very much at all, which is one of the bigger 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.800 problems he had in the regular season that Coach Brown 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.200 talked about a lot is limiting his fouls, limiting the 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.440 risks he's taking, And it looks like he's taken those 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.359 notes and applied them and is seeing the benefits. Now, 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:08.600 one thing that I feel like we're not going to 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.520 have any way of being able to quantify or measure. 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.240 It's just going to have to be based on anecdotal cases, 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.520 is how a four month layoff will have affected someone 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.280 like a Matise, Thyble or even I'm going to put 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.760 Alec Burks into this category. Glenn Robinson the third players 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.760 who we can put them in the experiencing something new 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.160 in what was the pre COVID era, but then having 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.040 four months to digest, process mentally kind of what it 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.360 was that you experienced, and then apply at once play resumes. 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.480 Because to me, maybe we can call it the slowdown 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.880 the game factor, because to me, I wonder if it's 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:44.840 going to look like the game slows down from ATIS. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.560