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Speaker 2: Welcome in Serious Sixers in sixty Halloween edition Here in
Speaker 2: the studio with Lauren Rosen. I'm Matt Murphy. A fun,
Speaker 2: jam packed Halloween edition of Sixers in sixty, our weekly
Speaker 2: show here on the Fanatic, Excited to be with everyone.
Speaker 2: Anything happen overnight?
Speaker 3: Lauren, Well, Happy Halloween to you too.
Speaker 1: Matt Murphy as d Anthony Melton, will describe it moments
Speaker 1: from now. In an exclusive interview for six Ers and sixty,
Speaker 1: It's spooky season and it's not what you think. He's
Speaker 1: talking about the role that Tyrese Maxey has assumed this
Speaker 1: season and enhanced role obviously with today's report events that
Speaker 1: trade has not officially gone through yet, but whether whether
Speaker 1: or not Tyrese continues in his in his current role
Speaker 1: which seems like a weather or not an or not.
Speaker 1: D Anthony Melton says, he's gone so good. It's about
Speaker 1: to be spooky season, and I agree, Matt Murphy.
Speaker 2: This is our second edition of Sixers and sixty for
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty three to twenty four NBA season, and
Speaker 2: it's Tuesdays in this time slot from six to seven pm.
Speaker 2: If the Sixers have a seven thirty game on a Tuesday,
Speaker 2: for example, this show is expected to air from six
Speaker 2: thirty to about seven to twenty leading into pregame on
Speaker 2: the here on the Sixers Radio network. And as Lauren
Speaker 2: just said, we have an exclusive interview coming up next
Speaker 2: with de Anthony Melton and another one with his backcourt
Speaker 2: mate and the Eastern Conference Player of the week, Tyrese
Speaker 2: Maxi of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers, who start the
Speaker 2: campaign two and one. We will get into what has
Speaker 2: impressed us most thus far with our fanatic basket ball
Speaker 2: insider Connor Thomas tonight. But Lauren, this is a team
Speaker 2: that obviously a crazy day, but it was a crazy
Speaker 2: off season, crazy summer, and they had some doubters, which
Speaker 2: Tobias Harris touched on this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I figured that he was sort of the best
Speaker 1: one to describe what the last weeks and months for
Speaker 1: this team have been like. Considering the fact that though
Speaker 1: he's in his fifth and a half season with the team,
Speaker 1: he is one of the longest tenured Sixers of course
Speaker 1: behind for concork Mas and Joelle Embiid, but he's seen
Speaker 1: a lot in his time here, and when he speaks,
Speaker 1: he usually does so with authority. So after the Sixers'
Speaker 1: second win of the year and second win in as
Speaker 1: many nights on Sunday night against the Portland Trailblazers, Tobias
Speaker 1: was asked what it looked like for this team to
Speaker 1: go into a season with so many question marks, not
Speaker 1: knowing who the starting lineup was going to be, who
Speaker 1: was going to be at camp, who wasn't, And Tobias said,
Speaker 1: flat out, we never had any question marks. Have a
Speaker 1: heck of a team, and I think they showed that
Speaker 1: in Games one through three. Of course that narrow loss
Speaker 1: to the Milwaukee Bucks. This is a team that feels
Speaker 1: like they should be three and oh right now, and
Speaker 1: with today's events, obviously they're going to go full steam
Speaker 1: ahead with the group that got them to this place
Speaker 1: where they could be three and oh. Two of the
Speaker 1: top ten easily scorers in the NBA right now on
Speaker 1: this team. Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the
Speaker 1: first time, Tyrese Maxi with the ball in his hands
Speaker 1: more officially than it ever has been looking dominant.
Speaker 3: And he's a huge part of why Tobias says that
Speaker 3: in the locker room they never had question marks.
Speaker 2: It has been awesome to watch Tyrese Maxi paired in
Speaker 2: the backcourt with the Anthony Melton, who will hear from
Speaker 2: in a chat next and we will later in the
Speaker 2: show talk with Connor Thomas about that James Harden trade
Speaker 2: that we've been alluding to, and we'll also touch on
Speaker 2: the upcoming schedule because in our maiden voyage last Tuesday
Speaker 2: of six Ers in sixty for the new season, I
Speaker 2: talked about how it was a fun start to the season,
Speaker 2: but maybe I I kind of regret saying that because
Speaker 2: it was an odd weekend back to back that they
Speaker 2: took care of business and impressive, impressive fashion in Toronto
Speaker 2: and then home against Portland. So an impressive two and
Speaker 2: one start for the Philadelphia seventy six ers. And let's
Speaker 2: jump into my chat with Sixers guard the Anthony Melton.
Speaker 2: Here with the Anthony Melton coming off the Portland game,
Speaker 2: two and one start to the season, it's the early going.
Speaker 2: We were looking at the box score with Tyrese Maxi
Speaker 2: and we're talking about his ten rebounds your eight assist
Speaker 2: it's kind of bragging about having more rebounds than you,
Speaker 2: but you had more assists. So what are your thoughts
Speaker 2: on how the box score shook down?
Speaker 4: I think exactly how you said it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I was bragging up bout my eight assists
Speaker 5: and I was Diamon out there, and of course he's.
Speaker 4: Trying to what help me with his rebound.
Speaker 5: But when I saw him like have like I think
Speaker 5: like six six sevenound, I said, okay, you might go
Speaker 5: to get ten out there. They say I'm trying to.
Speaker 5: So I mean, I think it's a testament to him
Speaker 5: that he just showing, you know, he's trying to expand
Speaker 5: his game every which way, and for me too, trying
Speaker 5: to expand my game.
Speaker 2: You mentioned to Lauren in your walk off interview after
Speaker 2: the game that you worked on playmaking this summer. What
Speaker 2: goes into working on What did you do to work
Speaker 2: on it?
Speaker 5: Just bar handling, bar handling, coming off pick and rolls,
Speaker 5: understanding reads, being a pass with both hands. I think
Speaker 5: that's definitely emphasis, you know, finding people understanding offense.
Speaker 2: And we're speaking here on Halloween days. So now moving
Speaker 2: forward with you and Tyrese, MAXI solidified as the six
Speaker 2: series starting backcourt. He just got named Eastern Conference Player
Speaker 2: of the Week thirty six and six averages. What gives
Speaker 2: you confidence in him?
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, I've always had confidence in Tire's
Speaker 5: you know, from the time I got here, just you know,
Speaker 5: from our workouts and stuff. I mean, you know, and
Speaker 5: for Halloween's sake, you know, it's gonna get real spooky
Speaker 5: out here now, So you know, I think he's excited.
Speaker 4: I'm excited, and we're all excited. So let's just get
Speaker 4: to it.
Speaker 2: Ending with this, what are your top three Halloween candies
Speaker 2: and your bottom three Halloween candies?
Speaker 4: Top three is Snickers Kick Cat. That's that's that's tough.
Speaker 4: That's tough. Actually I'm gonna go four because, like, you.
Speaker 5: Know what I mean, Snickers, Cat, Twigs and Reces because
Speaker 5: I can't leave I can't leave Twigs and Reces out,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But Snickers and Cat have to be in cut, no one,
Speaker 4: I can't. That's the thing.
Speaker 5: Okay, bottom four, I mean bottom three definitely get a
Speaker 5: core one. I don't know who eats those. You gotta
Speaker 5: be criminals to eat those. But other than that, I
Speaker 5: don't know any like whoppers. Fire whoppers are fire fire
Speaker 5: roleses fire too.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, then what else is it that?
Speaker 1: I like?
Speaker 4: The sour ones?
Speaker 2: All sour candy, sour straws.
Speaker 4: They're not that sod, but like the sour You know
Speaker 4: that those circle ones.
Speaker 6: What are they?
Speaker 2: Are they called war warheads?
Speaker 4: Are the warheads? Yeah? Those bottom three?
Speaker 2: All right, there you have it with the Anthony Milton.
Speaker 4: Thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 2: I don't think I should have let the Anthony Melton
Speaker 2: off the hook picking four top Halloween candies.
Speaker 3: Gotta go. None of those are even that good.
Speaker 2: It was Snickers, Twigs, Reese's and Connor.
Speaker 7: Can you pick us up? Kick Cassy.
Speaker 2: We welcome Connor Thomas as this week's fanatic basketball insider.
Speaker 2: I just said, okay, and he's like, it's got to
Speaker 2: be four one. I can't get rid of any of them,
Speaker 2: so I think I should have asked him to get
Speaker 2: rid of one.
Speaker 7: But that's okay.
Speaker 1: We got to make tough decisions sometimes as adults, and
Speaker 1: de Anthony proved incapable, and that's disappointing.
Speaker 2: As I mentioned earlier, and as we talked about earlier,
Speaker 2: Tyrese Maxi joins us later on here on six Ers
Speaker 2: in sixty and we asked the same question of him,
Speaker 2: and he if you thought d Anthony Melton carried on
Speaker 2: a little bit about candy, Tyresee might have talked twice
Speaker 2: as long about his top and bottom candies.
Speaker 1: He thought long and hard and de Anthony's top candy
Speaker 1: all has some stuff in common, like they're all found
Speaker 1: on the same shelf with the vending machine, if you will.
Speaker 1: And his bottom candy all also had some things in common.
Speaker 3: Tyree's much more varied.
Speaker 1: There's a variety of palette choices in his top and bottom.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm glad we've teased that now at length.
Speaker 2: And these interviews from our show here will be available
Speaker 2: on the seventy six Ers Insiders podcast as well. But
Speaker 2: thanks to the Anthony Melton for joining us, and again
Speaker 2: Tyrese MAXI coming up right now. It's Connor Thomas, our
Speaker 2: fanatic basketball insider, and we won't talk only about candy.
Speaker 2: We will talk about the Sixers. Because overnight, in the
Speaker 2: wee hours of the night two o'clock in the morning
Speaker 2: or so, per ESPN's Adrian wold Schnarowski, a reported trade
Speaker 2: went down involving James Harden, PJ. Tucker, and Philip Patrushev
Speaker 2: going to the LA Clippers. And what is being reported
Speaker 2: is the return is Marcus Morris, Robert Covington, Nick batoum
Speaker 2: kJ Martin, a bunch of picks I'm gonna rattle off
Speaker 2: here twenty twenty eight unprotected first round pick, two second
Speaker 2: round picks, twenty twenty nine pick swap, and an additional
Speaker 2: first round pick from the Oklahoma City Thunder. Connor, thanks
Speaker 2: for joining us, and what was your initial reaction and
Speaker 2: where are you at now as the day has played out?
Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks for having me, guys. I mean my initial reaction.
Speaker 8: I woke up at like ten am. My phone was
Speaker 8: blowing up. I thought I had some emergency going on.
Speaker 8: It was crazy to see the hour of it and
Speaker 8: to wake up to that news.
Speaker 7: It was awesome. I love the return.
Speaker 8: I thought this was going to be much more like
Speaker 8: the Ben Simmons situation and that it was going to
Speaker 8: be a long road throughout the season to try and
Speaker 8: find a trade, especially because we heard that the Clippers
Speaker 8: were stepping away for the foreseeable future just like a
Speaker 8: week ago, and now the trade gets done. I didn't
Speaker 8: think that you were going to get this many picks
Speaker 8: back in my wildest dreams, and this gives you the
Speaker 8: versatility to make other moves.
Speaker 7: That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 8: Like this had to We knew James Harden was not
Speaker 8: going to bring back a return that was going to
Speaker 8: turn you into contender, but he could bring back enough
Speaker 8: of a return you could turn that into a potential
Speaker 8: return for a contender. So this was a good first
Speaker 8: step on a two step journey. And I'm glad that
Speaker 8: you don't have the distraction anymore of the questions about
Speaker 8: it and the conversation surrounding it. This couldn't have gotten
Speaker 8: done at a better time and for a better return.
Speaker 7: I love it.
Speaker 2: The man of the week is Tyrese Maxi, and I
Speaker 2: think the way that he started the season made this.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to speak for the front office or
Speaker 2: the staff, but for in the minds of the fans,
Speaker 2: it made this easier on them because he's the player
Speaker 2: of the week. He averaged thirty points and he really,
Speaker 2: as he says, left no doubt this week with where
Speaker 2: his game is at and how he can run this team. Lauren,
Speaker 2: you talk about the ball being in his hands, and
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse talks about his shooting and his speed, and
Speaker 2: they're running an offense that has more player movement and
Speaker 2: ball movement and different types of offensive looks. So I
Speaker 2: think the MAXI factor is at the top of the
Speaker 2: list reaction wise to the trade, no.
Speaker 3: Doubt about it.
Speaker 1: We mentioned it our Eastern Conference Player of the Week,
Speaker 1: his first such nod, but probably many tyres are in
Speaker 1: the early running of the season. Three games down, thirty
Speaker 1: point three points, six point seven rebounds, six point three
Speaker 1: assists per game, and guys, that is comparable to prime
Speaker 1: Steph Curry and I get it, small sample size, just
Speaker 1: three games, but we've been watching Tyrese every day of
Speaker 1: his career, and a small sample size usually grows into
Speaker 1: a staple for this young player. I'll remind you, guys,
Speaker 1: some of Steph's best seasons thirty points, six point seven assists.
Speaker 3: Let's see this.
Speaker 1: Is twenty fifteen sixteen thirty points, five point four rebounds,
Speaker 1: six point seven assists. One of his other great seasons
Speaker 1: thirty two points, five point five rebounds, five point eight assists.
Speaker 1: We're looking at very comparable numbers. It's the early running,
Speaker 1: but if today's events are any indication, he's going to
Speaker 1: continue having opportunities to make more games stack up the
Speaker 1: way that he has in games one through three, and
Speaker 1: I'm so excited.
Speaker 7: Guy, Oh, how could you not be right?
Speaker 8: As the usage thing is so cool to me for
Speaker 8: Tyreeves getting that opportunity because he showed it and flashes
Speaker 8: to start. Then with the Ben Simmons situation, he got
Speaker 8: thrust into that role and then Harden comes in takes
Speaker 8: over obviously as he should with the pedigree he has.
Speaker 8: But now Tyres gets another chance at center stage running
Speaker 8: that being like the king of the back court for
Speaker 8: the Sixers, and I think for a young player who's
Speaker 8: still growing into the type of NBA player he's gonna be,
Speaker 8: this is an awesome thing for the point in his
Speaker 8: career he's at. I hope this sample size is something
Speaker 8: we see like repeated over a numerous amount of games
Speaker 8: this year, and the work ethic speaks for itself.
Speaker 7: With him, it's awesome, it's exciting.
Speaker 2: Even Game one, and Lauren, you will touch on this
Speaker 2: when you and your sit down with him in the
Speaker 2: next segment. But against the Damian Lillard led Milwaukee Bucks,
Speaker 2: he didn't back down and he finished that game with
Speaker 2: over thirty and it wasn't his best game by any means.
Speaker 2: And before that one, he said, it's the battle of
Speaker 2: the number of Zeros on that night in the NBA,
Speaker 2: and he was up to the task from opening night, and.
Speaker 1: Matt, you know, I like to be conservative about about
Speaker 1: that stuff. So as soon as I let that tweet
Speaker 1: fly the Battle of the Zeros, I was like, Ooh.
Speaker 3: I really hope that this is a good battle, Like
Speaker 3: you never know.
Speaker 1: It's Dame's first game, he's such a hallowed player in
Speaker 1: this league.
Speaker 3: It's Tyrese's first game of the season.
Speaker 1: Did I just put too much pressure on someone? Did
Speaker 1: I set him up to fail? No, they went toe
Speaker 1: to toe. Terrese had a slow start and ended up helping,
Speaker 1: if not handling, the Sixers back into that game. And
Speaker 1: then I will say Sunday night in the locker room,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard struggled a little bit that night, and a
Speaker 1: couple players came into the locker room saying, hey, Tyrese,
Speaker 1: did you see the score of what's going on in Milwaukee?
Speaker 1: Because it looks like it's MAXI time. And I thought
Speaker 1: that that was an apt way to describe what's gone
Speaker 1: on in Week one.
Speaker 2: Matt Murphy and Lauren Rosen here with our Fanatic basketball
Speaker 2: insider Connor Thomas on this week's Sixers in sixty Here
Speaker 2: on the Fanatic and Connor. Part of the return includes
Speaker 2: more wing players in this reported trade with for James Harden,
Speaker 2: and it's a lot of depth. And someone like Kelly
Speaker 2: Oubre has been a standout off the Sixers bench already.
Speaker 2: They got him, they picked him up late in the offseason.
Speaker 2: So now with this, you know a ton of wings.
Speaker 2: How do you see that potentially shaking out? Who are
Speaker 2: some guys you're keeping the closest eye on.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I'm really looking at Nick Batoomb, kJ Martin.
Speaker 8: Those are guys that because when you talk about Morris
Speaker 8: and you talk about Roco, now, Roco can play defensively
Speaker 8: really really well for you, and he's got the three ball.
Speaker 8: We know from his time here, and he's developed a
Speaker 8: lot as a player since leaving Philadelphia. We know what
Speaker 8: we're getting with him, so I'm less it's almost like
Speaker 8: I know him, So I'm less excited to watch him
Speaker 8: play than the other guys we haven't seen in the
Speaker 8: Sixers jersey before. But also with Morris, more towards the
Speaker 8: back end of his career. These guys, here's how I
Speaker 8: see these guys playing out right. We know the rotations
Speaker 8: get shorter come playoff time, but we also know that
Speaker 8: with the Sixers, especially with Joel Ebiid and some of
Speaker 8: the other players that they have like Tobias Harris, gets
Speaker 8: a lot of usage. You need to make sure they're
Speaker 8: as well maintained going into the postseason as possible health wise.
Speaker 8: So if some of these guys eventually get moved later
Speaker 8: for a player who can help you, I see them
Speaker 8: as kind of a buffer to get you through the
Speaker 8: regular season.
Speaker 7: With all due respect to those players.
Speaker 8: You need guys that can play competent minutes for this team,
Speaker 8: and I think all those guys can, but you can
Speaker 8: also move them for an individual player who will make
Speaker 8: the rotation shorter come postseason time. It's a stepping stone
Speaker 8: to where you want to be, and I think you've
Speaker 8: got some good quality NBA veterans that can do that
Speaker 8: for you.
Speaker 2: kJ Martin was in the Dunk Contest alongside Mac mcclough,
Speaker 2: a Sixer at the time who won the Dunk Contest,
Speaker 2: but in Salt Lake City last year, kJ Martin was
Speaker 2: part of that field. When it comes to what has
Speaker 2: impressed you the most, Connor with the Sixers start to
Speaker 2: the season, we talked a lot of Maxi. There will
Speaker 2: be more Maxie talk coming up with in the interview
Speaker 2: other than Tyrese. What has impressed you about this team?
Speaker 8: Kelly Oubres looked like the holy grail of what Sixers
Speaker 8: fans have wont it for so long. We've been talking
Speaker 8: about athletic wing who can create their own shot for
Speaker 8: so long, and they've gotten wings that can shoot it.
Speaker 8: They've gotten wings that might be able to get to
Speaker 8: the cup a little bit. But he's looked like the
Speaker 8: full package as far as a guy that can come
Speaker 8: off the bench and create scoring. I mean, we know
Speaker 8: in past year's Tobias Harris has played a lot of
Speaker 8: time with bench players in that type of rotation because
Speaker 8: you need somebody who can score the basketball at that rate.
Speaker 8: And Kelly Ubra has now gotten to a point at
Speaker 8: least through a small sample size where he's looked like
Speaker 8: he's given you that scoring punch off the bench. So
Speaker 8: I've been so impressed with what he's done shortly. I
Speaker 8: know we talked about consistency with him, and that's going
Speaker 8: to be a key. He's got to keep doing it
Speaker 8: and I don't know how realistic that is, but if
Speaker 8: you can get that type of scoring from the bench,
Speaker 8: that's been a big week spot for the Sixers teams
Speaker 8: of the past.
Speaker 7: I love that so.
Speaker 2: Far without even shooting it all that well right as
Speaker 2: well as he can. Yes, Ubra still scoring and leading
Speaker 2: the bench, scoring most nights without making as many threes
Speaker 2: as he's accustomed to making in his career. Again, coming
Speaker 2: off that twenty point season in Charlotte. Talking about Joel
Speaker 2: Embiid though Lauren his approach has been different from what
Speaker 2: we've seen in past seasons.
Speaker 3: It's interesting.
Speaker 1: The first night of training camp, Nick Nurse asked this
Speaker 1: team to keep an open mind, and he's been very
Speaker 1: open about the fact that he wants Joel Embiid to
Speaker 1: try new things, to experiment with things, to fail at things,
Speaker 1: and toss that stuff out to try new things that
Speaker 1: work and keep that in their playoff toolkit.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: I think we really really.
Speaker 1: Saw it on Sunday against Portland and the home opener
Speaker 1: with Joelle's defensive aggression. I want to talk about his
Speaker 1: six blocks. He's leaving the team in blocks again. Early
Speaker 1: days but three blocks per game is exactly what Nick
Speaker 1: Nurse was hoping that Joel would bring in terms of
Speaker 1: intensity on the defensive end. He's been vocal about the
Speaker 1: fact that he wants Joelle just swinging at st The
Speaker 1: more swings you take, the more likely you are to
Speaker 1: hit and hit he did in a really, really big
Speaker 1: way with those six blocks on Sunday. So watching him
Speaker 1: sort of round into form offensively obviously as the three
Speaker 1: games have gone along, I mean, his performance on Sunday
Speaker 1: was quite literally a historic performance.
Speaker 3: Would have loved to see.
Speaker 1: Him go five to five, five, five, not quite not
Speaker 1: quite there, but to see him grab those or swat
Speaker 1: rather those those six blocks and.
Speaker 3: See them come in different ways.
Speaker 1: Seeing him really get after it this early in this
Speaker 1: season on that end of the floor, I know, is
Speaker 1: something that the coaching staff is encouraging and it's awesome
Speaker 1: to see him answering the.
Speaker 2: Call this early early days. But seven assists per game
Speaker 2: as well, he's coming off four point two assists per game,
Speaker 2: and there's more dribble handoffs dhos with Maxie and you
Speaker 2: had a clip of this as well on social media,
Speaker 2: and Nick Nurse has talked about Maxie's speed driving to
Speaker 2: the right, but then his prowess of going to the
Speaker 2: left and shooting. And we've seen that play a few
Speaker 2: times involving the two man game of Embiid and Tyrese
Speaker 2: Maxi and him shooting that three from the left wing.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, the two of them worked out together, Joelle and
Speaker 1: Tyrese over the summer in a pretty significant way compared
Speaker 1: two years past. They worked with Joelle's longtime trainer, Drew
Speaker 1: Hanlin together in LA They've been working together now in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: They're spending time before and after practice shooting on the
Speaker 1: same basket together. That chemistry is something that they built
Speaker 1: in Tyresee's rookie season.
Speaker 3: We talk about that in the interview that's coming up.
Speaker 1: But watching the way that they've gone from sort of
Speaker 1: this big brother little brother relationship to a true partnership
Speaker 1: of two guys that really like each other and really
Speaker 1: respect each other has been such a treat. And I
Speaker 1: think that we're really just getting started. I know I'm
Speaker 1: high on them for Game three, but when you think
Speaker 1: about some iconic duos that we've had in the past,
Speaker 1: all the ingredients are there.
Speaker 3: When you look at tyres.
Speaker 8: And Joel together, I mean they look awesome and the
Speaker 8: Embide thing just real quick, Like, it's so cool to
Speaker 8: have Nick Nurse here because he was a guy when
Speaker 8: he was the head coach of the Raptors that did
Speaker 8: such a good job of taking Joel Embiid out of
Speaker 8: his comfort zone. And when you get a guy like
Speaker 8: that to now tell Imbeide what he was doing against
Speaker 8: him and what he needs to change about his game
Speaker 8: to become even harder to guard, it's a great thing.
Speaker 8: There's an interesting chemistry with this team that's building only
Speaker 8: through three games.
Speaker 7: I can't wait to see it continue to develop.
Speaker 2: Embiid, Maxy and Kelly Ubre as well. Also it Drew Hanlin,
Speaker 2: a guy that works out with him in the offseason,
Speaker 2: so an interesting connection there. Connor favorite Halloween candy. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's races, come on, Like.
Speaker 1: There's top three, bottom three, top three, bottom three, top three.
Speaker 8: I'm going Receas, I'm going kit Kats is a great
Speaker 8: pick and I gotta go to the Nesley crunch bar.
Speaker 8: That one's awesome, big time underrated. The worst milk DoD
Speaker 8: suck candy corn shouldn't even exist. That's basically like eating
Speaker 8: candle wax. And the last one are candy buttons still
Speaker 8: a thing? Do they still make those?
Speaker 6: I think so?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Those are terrible.
Speaker 3: Carry three for three and being bottom three today.
Speaker 2: I would put it in there too, and we'll find
Speaker 2: out if Tyrese Maxy has that. Well, we just found out,
Speaker 2: but I spoiled it.
Speaker 3: I spoiled it.
Speaker 1: But Candy corn if you asked me too, it's six
Speaker 1: for six and being bottom three.
Speaker 3: What a ridiculous excuse.
Speaker 2: For a candy sit down with Tyrese, Maxi and Lauren
Speaker 2: Rosen coming up on the other side, Connor Thomas, thanks
Speaker 2: so much for joining us.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Guys.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to a Halloween edition of Sixers in sixty,
Speaker 2: our weekly Sixers show, Matt Murphy and Lauren Rosen Tuesday nights,
Speaker 2: six to seven o'clock. We hope you'll join us all
Speaker 2: season long. We'll have guests all season long, and a
Speaker 2: lot of times those will be seventy six Ers players themselves.
Speaker 2: We heard from Deanthony Melton, We will hear from Tyrese
Speaker 2: Maxi in just a moment from this morning actually following
Speaker 2: the team's practice. Kind of an odd stretch of the
Speaker 2: schedule after the weekend back to back, which were games
Speaker 2: two and three of the season. It's not often that
Speaker 2: you get three days off between games.
Speaker 1: Three games in four days, three games and four days
Speaker 1: to start the season, and then three days off consecutively,
Speaker 1: like you said, strange, but gave the team an opportunity
Speaker 1: to get some well deserved rest yesterday. A road home
Speaker 1: back to back always a challenge, but particularly when you
Speaker 1: have to clear customs in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: is a road home back to back challenging. And the
Speaker 1: Sixers did that on Saturday night and still came out
Speaker 1: swinging literally on Sunday, talking of course about Joelle's six
Speaker 1: blocks in that one. But yes, well deserved rest. Back
Speaker 1: in practice today, another practice day tomorrow, hopefully featuring some
Speaker 1: new faces for the crew, and then back into competitive
Speaker 1: action on Thursday.
Speaker 3: And this, of course is.
Speaker 1: A season long five game homestand with an extra three
Speaker 1: days of rest, so this is by far the longest
Speaker 1: chunk of time the Sixers are going to be able
Speaker 1: to spend in Philadelphia getting really comfortable with one another
Speaker 1: as the season continues to get off the ground.
Speaker 2: I was very much enjoying Tom mcguinness's description of the
Speaker 2: travel back from Toronto during the last game against Portland
Speaker 2: and terminal A and all that that entailed. It was
Speaker 2: entertaining as always from Tom. And you can listen to
Speaker 2: all Sixers games here on the Sixers Radio Network throughout
Speaker 2: the season. We will talk towards the end of the
Speaker 2: show tonight about what the upcoming schedule looks like because
Speaker 2: for as much as the weekend back to back from
Speaker 2: a logistics standpoint was difficult, Portland at the time hadn't won.
Speaker 2: They have since won, But there are some big name
Speaker 2: opponents coming to Philadelphia in this home heavy month of November,
Speaker 2: which is right around the corner because it is Halloween.
Speaker 2: You talk about being well rested, for those who woke
Speaker 2: up to the trade news, they may not be well
Speaker 2: rested today or this evening, and Adrian wo Wojnarowski from
Speaker 2: ESPN was reporting that James Harden, PJ. Tucker, and Philip
Speaker 2: Patrushev going to the LA Clippers for Marcus Morris, Robert Covington,
Speaker 2: Nick Batoomb, kJ Martin, and a whole lot of draft picks,
Speaker 2: including an unprotected for round pick in twenty twenty eight
Speaker 2: and an additional first round pick from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 2: But we mentioned how much Tyrese Maxi's development plays into
Speaker 2: what now happens. It's been him and de Anthony Melton
Speaker 2: starting in the back court. And something that you asked
Speaker 2: him about, or he has talked about and others have
Speaker 2: talked about is the new coach, Nick Nurse, the impact
Speaker 2: that he's had in giving them confidence, and some of
Speaker 2: that includes awards at practice, which is in Sixers All
Speaker 2: Access on the Sixers YouTube channel.
Speaker 7: Check that out.
Speaker 2: But you can give us a little bit more about
Speaker 2: what they're playing for in practice and when they evaluate
Speaker 2: game tape, what they earn points for and things like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for a visual representation of what I'm about to explain,
Speaker 1: make sure you check out Sixers All Access that's on
Speaker 1: the Sixers YouTube page. A really awesome job from our
Speaker 1: in house producers gathering all that footage at training camp
Speaker 1: and beyond, and Matt, as you alluded to, Nick likes
Speaker 1: to make sure that the team as little ways to
Speaker 1: get extra motivated throughout practice. It's a long season. You
Speaker 1: gotta pepper in ways. I mean, this is true of
Speaker 1: anyone in any job, right. You don't have to be
Speaker 1: a pro basketball player to need things to motivate you
Speaker 1: in the day to day grind of your job.
Speaker 3: It's just facts, no matter what. Right.
Speaker 1: So one of the things that they're doing is having
Speaker 1: little contests within not just games, but practices today for example,
Speaker 1: And the players don't know when practice is going on,
Speaker 1: what exactly is being charted for that day, what exactly
Speaker 1: will be rewarded that day.
Speaker 3: So sometimes it's deflections, it steals its eagles.
Speaker 1: That's a great question, madam. So glad you asked. It's
Speaker 1: exactly what it sounds like. It's when players Nick Nurse
Speaker 1: has emphasized the fact that this is a team that
Speaker 1: has a ton of length, and that's not something that
Speaker 1: we've talked about. Even the guards, a lot of them
Speaker 1: have many wingspans. Absolutely, so this team has been abundant
Speaker 1: in length since its inception in the off season, but
Speaker 1: Nick Nurse encouraging the guys to really show off that
Speaker 1: wings span, show off those wings. Those eagles wings definitely
Speaker 1: a little bit of a nod to the market in
Speaker 1: which Nick is now coaching, right, But an eagle is
Speaker 1: anytime that you're spreading your arms out on defense, right,
Speaker 1: getting back, spreading your arms out, immediately, showing that length
Speaker 1: and literally.
Speaker 2: Rewarded, yes, literally the whole time, run down the court
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: The idea is that you're intimidating the offense. You're dissuading
Speaker 1: them from going at any particular defender on the floor.
Speaker 1: You're making passes a little bit harder. I mean, it
Speaker 1: seems even someone who hasn't played the game like me,
Speaker 1: understands this. It is very simple, right, But not all
Speaker 1: teams are doing it. The Sixers are doing a lot
Speaker 1: of it. So now that we've talked about it, watch
Speaker 1: them on Thursday night. You'll see the eagles abound.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: So sometimes, as Tyrese mentioned, they're tracking eagles. They're tracking deflections,
Speaker 1: they're tracking blocked shots, they're tracking.
Speaker 3: Diving for loose balls.
Speaker 1: Everything is being tracked by this coaching staff and at
Speaker 1: the end of practice there are certain things that are rewarded.
Speaker 1: So following Sunday Night's win, today in practice, the Sixers
Speaker 1: were rewarded for blocks, Joel Embiid with a game high
Speaker 1: six blocks. Tyrese Maxey was rewarded for his ten rebounds.
Speaker 1: And Tyrese has been great all season. He's been great
Speaker 1: for his whole career. But one thing that I didn't
Speaker 1: have on my bingo sheet for Sixers Blazers on Sunday
Speaker 1: night was Tyrese Maxi career high ten rebounds in a
Speaker 1: single game. So Joel and Tyrese were celebrated after practice today.
Speaker 1: They put on these costumes, they get the rocky theme
Speaker 1: song plays and they're given boxing gloves and robes and belts,
Speaker 1: and Joel had a weird hat.
Speaker 3: It was a whole thing. They were happy.
Speaker 1: Look, we're all kids at heart, we all love being competitive,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers, of course, are a heightened version of
Speaker 1: kids at heart that love to be competitive. And we
Speaker 1: get to see that at the end of practice. They
Speaker 1: are competing in these practices. These practices are not easy,
Speaker 1: so to watch them cracksmiles at the end for winning
Speaker 1: these little games within the game.
Speaker 3: It is always a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: You're sit down with Tyrese Maxey is coming right up
Speaker 2: here on Sixers in sixty Matt Murphy with Lauren rose
Speaker 2: in right now. And the difference is that, unlike NBA players,
Speaker 2: you and I, if we were spreading our our Eagles
Speaker 2: wings our wingspan is not as high as our height
Speaker 2: or as tall as our height.
Speaker 1: So theirs is my wingspan least a lot to be desired.
Speaker 1: For those that don't know, I'm five to three on
Speaker 1: my best day and my wingspan doesn't come close to
Speaker 1: that really really high mark. Interesting, but enough about it the
Speaker 1: fact that's what you learn on six ers.
Speaker 2: And second, enough about our playing careers. I think a
Speaker 2: couple of notable stats I want to throw in about
Speaker 2: Maxi before the interview is the nineteen assists to three
Speaker 2: turnovers and the fifty six percent three point percentage fourteen
Speaker 2: of twenty five. Perhaps that is not a surprise, but
Speaker 2: the nineteen assists to three turnovers is perhaps better than
Speaker 2: you could have hoped for him to start through three games,
Speaker 2: and asking.
Speaker 1: Him after the game in Toronto, at that point he
Speaker 1: only had one turnover on the season. I asked him
Speaker 1: what he was proudest of, his scoring, his assisting, or
Speaker 1: his lack of turno and he said that the one
Speaker 1: turnover is actually the only thing that he was upset about.
Speaker 1: So far okay. I said, well, then what are you
Speaker 1: the most proud of? And he said that one turnover
Speaker 1: because protecting the ball is so important. It's something that
Speaker 1: he's been criticized for before, not necessarily a tendency to
Speaker 1: turn the ball over, but whether or not Tyrese Maxi
Speaker 1: at age twenty two, as a fourth year six or
Speaker 1: playing alongside the reigning MVP can do a good enough
Speaker 1: job taking care of distributing and really running the floor
Speaker 1: as a point guard.
Speaker 3: So far, so good. He knows he has a ways
Speaker 3: to grow, right, but we're.
Speaker 1: Seeing it on a game by game level embiid seven assists.
Speaker 2: He's been cutting down on the turnovers a bit as well,
Speaker 2: which is not to be like totally expected with the
Speaker 2: way that Nick Nurse has these guys playing, but we've
Speaker 2: talked a lot about it and now we're going to
Speaker 2: get to at the Eastern Conference Player of the Week
Speaker 2: after averaging thirty six point seven rebounds six point three
Speaker 2: assists per game, Tyrese Maxi chatted with Lauren Rosen this
Speaker 2: morning after practice.
Speaker 1: Hyr Snaxy Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the
Speaker 1: first time. What was your reaction when you heard the
Speaker 1: news who told you my mom.
Speaker 6: My mom told me, I know what she was really
Speaker 6: talking about. But then she was like, it's on Twitter.
Speaker 6: My grandmother knows everything, so she told my mom and
Speaker 6: then my mom told me. So I was just like, okay,
Speaker 6: that's cool. I didn't really know it. No official into
Speaker 6: the sixty star posting. So that's great. Meant it meant
Speaker 6: a lot to me because not because the individual war,
Speaker 6: because we've been winning. You know, that's the only way
Speaker 6: you get those type of wars. Just like Joel Lasher
Speaker 6: gett the MVP. We had the only reason why he
Speaker 6: could get that because we were winning. You know, he
Speaker 6: was helping us win. In so it means we're doing
Speaker 6: something right and I'm happy for it.
Speaker 1: I want to ask about your relationship with Joelle, and
Speaker 1: I want to go back sort of to the beginning.
Speaker 1: True or false that he challenged you to score forty
Speaker 1: points the night that you scored thirty nine points against Denver.
Speaker 6: True. True, He asked me could I score forty and
Speaker 6: I totally yeah, and then you know it happened. I
Speaker 6: think that's just kind of where the relationship began. You know,
Speaker 6: A little big brother, a little brother or whatever you
Speaker 6: want to call it, but I appreciate him because for
Speaker 6: when the MVP, when someone I have a guy that
Speaker 6: Calber has confidence to you to score forty your night
Speaker 6: tip game of your NBA career after you haven't been
Speaker 6: playing really or you played a little bit, but not
Speaker 6: to that caliber caliber. It's great, man, and I appreciate
Speaker 6: of loaning for that.
Speaker 1: And at the time, you were nineteen years old, No, I.
Speaker 6: Had just no twenty years O lordy, you were twenty
Speaker 6: years old. Yeah, I just turned twenty.
Speaker 1: And this is someone who's already in the MVP conversation. Right.
Speaker 1: So now we fast forward three years and you guys
Speaker 1: have developed a partnership that's now going to be even
Speaker 1: more sort of in the eyes of everybody, really prominently, right,
Speaker 1: So how do you describe the distance between that night
Speaker 1: when this is someone that you sort of look up
Speaker 1: to and don't really have a relationship with to now
Speaker 1: when you guys have like a true tough partnership in
Speaker 1: this league that people are taking notice of.
Speaker 6: In week one, crazy you know, kind of crazy things
Speaker 6: happen fasten fast like this. My my time here is
Speaker 6: so much has changed so much as we've been through
Speaker 6: a lot, but it's all good, good things. Man. You know,
Speaker 6: it's all positive. There always been positive Organs actually been positive.
Speaker 6: Coaching staff is positive, in the team around, it's pretty positive.
Speaker 6: So when you have that, we have guys that go
Speaker 6: out there and want to compete, it makes it easier.
Speaker 6: It makes it easier. And when you have somebody like
Speaker 6: Joel who believes in you, it makes the game way easier.
Speaker 6: You can go out there, you can play free, you
Speaker 6: play concert and play yourself and play through mistakes.
Speaker 1: Three really strong performances from you so far. In Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: I know you guys felt just short, but you were
Speaker 1: great than in Toronto, where you own some real estate.
Speaker 1: It is my understanding these days, maybe the mayor of Toronto.
Speaker 1: And then at home coming back against Matisstible in the
Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers. What stands out to you so far in
Speaker 1: terms of your three good performances.
Speaker 6: I think that we've had a chance to win every
Speaker 6: single time, you know what I mean. Like, that's the
Speaker 6: like I keep telling, I keep saying that if that's
Speaker 6: the main thing, if whatever I can do to help
Speaker 6: my team be in a position to win games at
Speaker 6: the end, that's that's what makes me happy. First game,
Speaker 6: I feel scoring, not turn the ball over, second game scoring,
Speaker 6: trying to get Joe Well involved, playing defense.
Speaker 1: Hitting shots.
Speaker 6: Last game, shoot, I had ten rebounds for the first
Speaker 6: time in my career. So it's like this, This coaching
Speaker 6: staff has challenged me to do different things and lead,
Speaker 6: and I think that's what I've been trying to do.
Speaker 6: It helped us win games and it's been working out
Speaker 6: so far, so I keep it going.
Speaker 1: Is the rebounding thing and your attention to defense this
Speaker 1: season related because they weren't like fake rebounds, They weren't
Speaker 1: long rebounds to get you out on the break. They
Speaker 1: were real rebounds. Right, Yeah, where's that coming from?
Speaker 6: I don't know. You know. I was telling my dad
Speaker 6: the other day. He was he was committed Joe Will,
Speaker 6: how hard he was going to the glass, how hard
Speaker 6: he was blocking shots. He was asking, like, what do
Speaker 6: you think that that would? I said, you know what, honestly,
Speaker 6: I think it's I think it's Coach Nurse, Like he's
Speaker 6: giving us these awards, given us these congratulations, were going
Speaker 6: to the glass, rebounding it for boxing now, for being
Speaker 6: your Eagles, for being in the help, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying. So it's like we're it's a game within
Speaker 6: the game. So you know what I'm saying. It makes
Speaker 6: guys go out there and compete way harder, and then
Speaker 6: it also makes our team better. So it's like because
Speaker 6: nurses psychologically making us go out there and do different
Speaker 6: things that we maybe haven't done in the past.
Speaker 4: And it's working.
Speaker 1: What makes you proud of a biggest sis night or
Speaker 1: a big rebounding night.
Speaker 6: We don't know, man, Maybe maybe it's six night. I mean,
Speaker 6: my guys are going and guys are making shots and
Speaker 6: we're having fun out there.
Speaker 1: Last question, Three favorite Halloween candies and three least favorite
Speaker 1: Halloween candies.
Speaker 6: Least favorite it's candy corn in there? Can Can that
Speaker 6: be one? Candy corn is one?
Speaker 1: Mmmm?
Speaker 6: Lack of taffy.
Speaker 1: This is least Okay? What flavors specifically the latta.
Speaker 6: The yellow ones yellow, the yellow one. Uh oh God,
Speaker 6: think of another one. I don't like anything dark chocolate.
Speaker 6: Dark chocol's pretty nasty. Milk chocolate is pretty good, but
Speaker 6: dark chocolates pretty disgusting. Favorite Jolly Ranchers flavor green watermelon.
Speaker 6: I like those, those are pretty good.
Speaker 1: Justice for cherry, the best flavor.
Speaker 6: Cherry is good too. Yeah, so jolly ranchers. It's difficult,
Speaker 6: Esius gotta say that.
Speaker 1: Is that like a branding thing or is that like
Speaker 1: an actual thing?
Speaker 6: No, I actually like them. I just don't eat them
Speaker 6: anymore because people always used to give them for my
Speaker 6: birthday and stuff, so I don't eat them like that anymore.
Speaker 6: I'm very self to eat them. And I like, uh,
Speaker 6: those little what they called like sour straws, but they're
Speaker 6: in like the single packages. My mom just brought me
Speaker 6: signed to pass out sour yeah, like sour pastras, but
Speaker 6: they're in a single package thicker. Yeah, exactly exactly. They're
Speaker 6: in a single package. My mom just brought me signed
Speaker 6: to pass out today.
Speaker 1: For I was gonna say, are you going to be entertaining?
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go to the JAS Halloween party and then
Speaker 6: I'll come back and out and it's trigger treaters though,
Speaker 6: have some fun with him, laugh a little bit if
Speaker 6: they come, who knows.
Speaker 1: Well. I hope you have a great time tonight at Halloween.
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxnee, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2: Appreciate y'all. The Joel Embiid Halloween party tonight.
Speaker 1: Sounds like it, but as you pointed out during the break.
Speaker 1: He did indeed entertain trigger treaters. It looks like pre party,
Speaker 1: which you love to see.
Speaker 2: I was wondering about that because I didn't assume the
Speaker 2: party was late at night. But I'm like, who's going
Speaker 2: to be trick or treating at Tyresee's after a party?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I always did to go out earlier and earlier these days.
Speaker 2: By the way, Welcome back to six ers and sixty
Speaker 2: Matt Murphy and Lauren Rosen. Thanks to Tyrese Maxey for
Speaker 2: chatting with us today. With you on Halloween. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I was a little confused with the timeline. I think
Speaker 2: he had it flipped.
Speaker 1: Well, happy to see that Tyrese, who has always been
Speaker 1: since the day he got here.
Speaker 3: Man at the people Halloween no.
Speaker 2: Exception Halloween party for Joel Embiid. I wonder how many
Speaker 2: people will dress up in costume.
Speaker 3: We'll have to wait and see. I wonder. I wonder
Speaker 3: when that some content?
Speaker 2: Yeah from at sixers, right, I think there should be yes.
Speaker 7: Good stuff, good stuff.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Tyrese Maxi for joining us on six ers
Speaker 2: in sixty. His start to the season has been not
Speaker 2: just a story here in Philadelphia, but across the league,
Speaker 2: culminating in the Eastern Conference Player of the Week award,
Speaker 2: and you listen to different shows, you watch different shows,
Speaker 2: it's it is a league wide story right now. And
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse being the new coach and Joel Embiid following
Speaker 2: up his MVP season with a strong start. Somehow they're
Speaker 2: each still managing to get their scoring numbers, which is
Speaker 2: great to see this two man game, but Embiid's doing
Speaker 2: it in a little of a bit of a different
Speaker 2: way as we talked about. But through the first three games,
Speaker 2: is there a moment or something that has stood out
Speaker 2: to you because we've kind of glossed over the games,
Speaker 2: like we've said the record we've given Maxi and embiids
Speaker 2: per game stat, but each of those games told a story.
Speaker 2: They could be three and zero, as some of them
Speaker 2: have said. They come up a point short in the opener,
Speaker 2: which that shouldn't get lost throughout the season. That they
Speaker 2: lost one to eighteen one seventeen to the Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 2: on the opening in the opening game for both teams.
Speaker 2: It was two days after the NBA opened up with
Speaker 2: Opening Night, but they overcame a nineteen point deficit in
Speaker 2: that game and ad Anthony Melton banked three at the end,
Speaker 2: made it just a one point loss in their loan loss.
Speaker 2: So when you kind of look at those games more
Speaker 2: in depth, Lauren, is there is there something that you
Speaker 2: liked that's more of a team observation.
Speaker 1: It's a good question. We've talked about Eagles already on
Speaker 1: this show. Of course, stretching the wingspans and making sure
Speaker 1: that this team is a team that's really hard to
Speaker 1: play against. That was part of Nick Nurse's opening statement,
Speaker 1: which has media.
Speaker 2: Day resulted in a lot of steals and blocked shots.
Speaker 1: Too, kills, blocks and deflections, and what Coachner said at
Speaker 1: the outset of becoming the coach of the team is
Speaker 1: the biggest impact he wanted to make was to make
Speaker 1: sure that when folks leave the arena at the end
Speaker 1: of a Sixers game, win or lose, they feel that
Speaker 1: that team played really hard tonight.
Speaker 3: And I think that you're seeing that, And.
Speaker 1: Of course that's more of a defensive observation, a little
Speaker 1: bit less of a quantitative observation. But how's this for
Speaker 1: quantitative observations, Matt. The offense is working too, It's not
Speaker 1: just a defensive team at this point. The Sixers now
Speaker 1: fourth as of Tuesday, evening fourth in the league in
Speaker 1: field goal percentage. They're sitting at fifty percent from the
Speaker 1: field right now, fourth in the league as well from
Speaker 1: three point percentage from three in three point percentage rather
Speaker 1: forty point seven percent from deep. So we're seeing great
Speaker 1: things on offense. We're seeing great things on defense. Leading
Speaker 1: the league in blocks, not just Joell the team leading
Speaker 1: the lead in the league.
Speaker 2: To have him, but they had seventeen in his six
Speaker 2: block game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, great stuff, great stuff from the team across
Speaker 1: the board. You love to see the team leading the
Speaker 1: league in defensive stats and offensive stuff, making those top
Speaker 1: fives this early in the season, especially in a new system,
Speaker 1: it's foreboding of good things to come. Foreboding feels like
Speaker 1: a Halloween ward. But looking ahead at some good things
Speaker 1: and some scary things for opposing offenses.
Speaker 2: Well, some measuring stick games on the schedule coming up,
Speaker 2: Lauren Rosen, because not quite Toronto on Thursday at seven pm,
Speaker 2: because they just beat them by seven on the road.
Speaker 2: Can't look past to anyone, but we will do that
Speaker 2: for the sake of our sixers and sixty show here
Speaker 2: as we wind down with Saturday, the Phoenix Suns Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: Devin Booker, Bradley Beal big three, but it's really only
Speaker 2: been a big two now, just Durant in their next
Speaker 2: game they will play Tuesday night, and their record will
Speaker 2: be different by the time we next talk to everyone.
Speaker 2: But Bradley Beal has been out with backspasms and he
Speaker 2: continued he remains out, and Devin Booker has since sprained
Speaker 2: his ankle. So the Phoenix Sons, who entering their game
Speaker 2: with San Antonio, are two to one. They'll be without
Speaker 2: two of their big three, but still a tall task
Speaker 2: and will monitor their health all week.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, to close out this long home stand,
Speaker 1: the Sixers will host the Washington Wizards, the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Suns, and maybe the Celtics more so is
Speaker 2: the big measuring stick game, because the Celtics have looked
Speaker 2: very good and you saw them in DC.
Speaker 1: I did see the Wizards and the Celtics play each
Speaker 1: other last night in DC, so.
Speaker 3: A scouting scouting trip, a scouting trip for me.
Speaker 1: The Wizards in rebuild mode, struggling a little bit, but
Speaker 1: trying some new things, some new faces on that team.
Speaker 1: We of course will see them next week, and then
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics. Look, Matt, I'm not gonna lie to you,
Speaker 1: really really good, and of course they outmatch their opponent
Speaker 1: last night significantly, But cool to see those teams face
Speaker 1: off and get a little taste of what's to come
Speaker 1: for these Sixers.
Speaker 2: Raptors Thursday, Suns, Saturday at one, Wizards and Celtics Monday
Speaker 2: and Wednesday on this season long five game Homestand and
Speaker 2: then I want to talk on Sixers and sixty next
Speaker 2: week the N Season Tournament. I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 2: chatting about that. You gotta do it and the courts,
Speaker 2: the colorful courts. I'm all in.
Speaker 3: We love the colorful courts.
Speaker 2: I am all in on the N Season Tournament. But
Speaker 2: that will do it for this week's edition of Sixers
Speaker 2: and sixty for Lauren Rosan on Matt Murphy. Thanks for
Speaker 2: listening to Sixers and sixty.
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