WEBVTT - INSTANT REACTION! | Recapping the 2021 NBA Draft 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.320 Search seventy Sixers podcast Wherever you get your Pods. The 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.800 seventy Sixers used all three of their draft picks, Lauren Rosen, 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.080 Are you surprised? I wouldn't say I'm surprised. I think 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:18.560 anytime you go into a draft night, I've done a 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.960 few drafts in my day. Actually, now that we've gotten 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.239 to this point, you have to be prepared for all 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.360 sorts of outcomes, and one of the outcomes that I 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.160 prepared for was the Sixers making all three of their picks, 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:32.240 getting guys they're excited about. And that is exactly what happened. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.040 It was a relatively active night for the seventy sixers. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.760 With the twenty eighth pick in the two twenty one 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:44.240 NBA Draft, the Philadelphia seventy Sixers select Jaden Springer. I'm 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:49.080 Brian Seltzer, Jaden's Springer out of Tennessee, the Sixers top selection. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.760 They also targeted size with two picks late in the 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.880 second round. That's episopt with another easy finish. Charles Bassett 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.959 look at them, extremely mobile. It guess what he'll be done? 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.880 He gets you unbelievable brown protection. We break down the 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.520 Sixers twenty twenty one draft night on this Instant Reaction 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:14.280 pod seventy Sixers podcast Network and Why Don't Learn. We 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.280 begin with a SoundBite that I shall queue up for 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.840 us all to listen to. Here we go for the 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:25.720 President of Basketball Operations, Darryl Moorey, after the draft went final. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.920 I view the draft as just the really important blocking 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.760 and tackling that you do if you're going to have 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.200 a consistent winner like we plan to have here in Philly. 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.120 And look, it goes into a lot of the little 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:42.440 things that an NBA staff does, obviously, and players do 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.039 with offseason work, working on skills. These are the things 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.480 that note you know, don't pay off right away, but 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.560 over time they become really important. They make you more 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:56.040 flexible in free agency because you know, you have you know, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.680 Maxie coming along, like because Maxie, you know, showed us 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.880 so much year one. Now now you can use your 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.880 free agent dollars other places and uh, you know, give 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.600 him a real shot. So it's it's really important and 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.800 subtle and pushes you forward and you have to you 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.080 have to do you have to do well. And hopefully 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.520 we've we're going to continue to do that. We'll start 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.480 wide Lauren Rosen with this dissection of the draft that 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.880 I would say is a sound bite with some substance, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.960 a true look into the mind, a sharp mind of 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.000 Darryl Moorey going into his philosophy about the draft. And 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.560 I like that he harkened back to Tyrese That's exactly 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.320 how you and I started out our night on our 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.560 pre draft show. This is a team that's had a 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.320 lot of success drafting in the twenties, drafting in the forties, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.560 drafting in the fifties, and Darrel of course hopes to 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.080 continue that trend that the Sixers started before he arrived, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.200 and he continued as he arrived, and based on the 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.840 way that he spoke afterwards, it seems he's really confident 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.799 that that trend is going to continue, but also that 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.760 he's appreciative of those that have helped him continue that. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.600 We're gonna play some more sound from Daryl Morey as 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.359 this edition of the pod goes along, But I think 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:11.000 my main takeaway was the Sixers had a plan, a 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.799 solid plan going into draft night, one plan that they 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.399 thought would pan out, and the night did kind of 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.440 go that way for the Sixers. They wanted to possibly 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.160 address a two way backcourt player in the first round. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.200 They felt like there were some talent to be had 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.600 in terms of good potential for bigs later on in 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.000 the draft and earlier in the day. The day started 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:32.880 with us learning that Daryl Morey made a move to 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.880 acquire an additional pick, pick number fifty three, from the 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.839 New Orleans Pelicans, and the Sixers were able to get 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.200 some prospects that I think fit the molda what they 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.240 were looking for and what they were able to pick 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:49.480 up in Jaden's springer and also Philip Petrosev and Charles 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:54.720 Bassey well and guys that check very different boxes, right, 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.360 Even the two front court guys that they chose have 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.320 a lot of differences, And I like, I hope that 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.480 I'm not spoiling a quote that you've chosen for later 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.960 on in this podcast. But Daryl was a very matter 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.200 of fact about the front court depth. It's an issue 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.960 that Doc Rivers raised during the playoffs and Daryl wanted 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.200 to address immediately, and when he was asked about it, 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.360 he addressed it immediately. He said, there you go, boom depth, 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.680 and he's right, giving some options a growing Paul Reid 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.880 adds to that depth, and of course that group is 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.960 headlined by perhaps the best front court player in the league. 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.000 Really cool to see what's going to go on there 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.919 with Joel sort of becoming the veteran of the group, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.800 going to be really interesting to see him continue to 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.560 grow as a leader and maybe as the leader of 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.279 that group. That's sound bite, Lauren, not in fact, one 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.919 of the handful on my list, but it was a 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:49.520 great one. Daryl. Even then, yes, even at one twenty 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.360 six in the morning on Friday, after not just a 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.919 long day, but probably long days, weeks and months of 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.719 prepping for this draft, still very lucid, very eloquent, and insightful. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.920 Let's start with Jaden Springer, the number twenty eight overall 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.600 pick in this year's draft. I kind of think, Lauren, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.560 the phrase oh so many years young is cliched when 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.520 we say, oh, that person's oh so many years young 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.679 or whatever. But Jade Springer really is eighteen years young. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.239 He's young. He's gonna turn nineteen on September twenty fifth, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:28.159 but still I'm thirty six. That's a baby. I'll be honest, 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.600 I think you consider me a baby. But I looked 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.800 at a two thousand and two birthday, and I was like, 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.080 oh man, I'm getting up there at this point. We're 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.000 gonna have a guy play who was born in two 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.400 thousand and two. But yeah, so young, and as Darrell said, 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.440 established himself in college at that young age. So it 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.960 feels that the sky is the limit. It feels that 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.839 the ceiling is really high. And I know it's a 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.880 group that's looking forward to welcoming Springer into the into 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.680 the roster, into the potential summer league, which I think 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.320 we might touch on at the end of this at 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.520 some point. But gonna be cool to see him continue 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.640 his growth, which has already obviously come a really long 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.840 way in a short amount of time. As a seventy 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:13.560 six er, Springer played twenty five games for Tennessee last season, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.760 average twelve and a half points, three and a half boards, 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.880 three assists per game. He shot forty three and a 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.600 half percent from three, eighty one percent from the line, 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.760 and just over forty six and a half percent from 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.560 the field overall. Limited sample size from three. If anyone 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.200 out there has not done their homework yet on Springer 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.560 and you want to learn more, Lauren wrote a great 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.600 recap about that. Some quick facts on Springer. What was 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.919 your biggest takeaway? It was the most interesting nugget that 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.520 you mind and uncovered. I would not call it a 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:47.960 feature by any means an article. I think even that 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.400 might be generous. We called it quick facts, That's exactly 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.720 what it is. But my favorite quick fact, perhaps one 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.359 that I didn't realize until we started doing our research 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.560 on mister Jaden Springer, is that his dad, Ry Springer, 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.440 who was an All American at Iona College, also was 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.839 drafted by the seventy six ers. We love a nugget 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.320 like that. Yes, we really really cool, really cool. So 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.520 awesome to see that it's in the family. Really looking 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.680 forward to getting to meet him and speak with him 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.840 in the coming days. Jaden coming from a family, as 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:21.280 Lauren said, with voluminous basketball pedigree, not just his dad, 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.480 but his brothers played in college as well and Iona 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.360 and Army. So great pedigree from Jaden Springer, who is 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.600 bidding to become perhaps the most successful Springer of the 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.320 bunch in the NBA. Darryl Morey likes the young man. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.160 Jaden's really exciting boy. I know JMS get killed for 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.560 talking about upside, but he's not nineteen, yet you know 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:48.760 already already a productive player at Tennessee. We feel good 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.679 about his ability to be a three and D player 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.720 in this league. We all know how valuable they are. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.400 There was a top high school recruit position where you 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.680 could see a path to him potentially getting on the floor. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.760 Usually it takes a rookie more than a year, but 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.080 you never know. Sounds like Lauren. Lots of people bullish 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.840 and convinced that the defense of Springer could cut it 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.440 at the NBA level. Something that was raised in Morey's 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.000 press conference after the draft was the volume of threes 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:21.600 that Springer took in his single season at Tennessee. Last 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.880 year he shot only forty six threes. He made twenty. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.120 Then that's pretty darn good. But that was something that 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.200 Daryl Morey seemed comfortable with. He seemed to be okay 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.200 based on other things that the Sixers were looking at 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.760 and making their evaluation. Well, and if we're honest, it 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.120 doesn't feel and Daryl talked about this, that they're going 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.760 to be relying on him for heavy productivity, at least 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.400 not in his rookie season. And of course looked at 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.720 Tyres Maxie, someone that they didn't expect to rely on 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.920 as much as they did. That certainly doesn't mean that 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.720 Jaden's not going to find a way to make a 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.400 big impact, but good to know that he can shoot 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.720 at the clip that he shot at in college. Perhaps 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.120 eventually ramp up to a bigger role, to a larger 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.680 sort of three and D role with an NBA team, 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.600 but a lot of potential there and some time to grow. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.080 I liked that Daryl didn't seem to be putting any 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.760 pressure on him to come in and take control of 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.480 the offense or anything like that at such a young 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.400 age on such a good team. Yeah, Daryl really made 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.120 it sound like the case of Tyrese Maxie and what 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.319 Tyrese was able to do, particularly in the postseason, perhaps 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.719 within the context of a team like the seventy six ers, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.959 where they at where they're at with their timeline an exception, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:32.280 not the expectation or the rule. But yeah, bullish, very bullish. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.600 It sounded like he and the scouting staff were on 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.840 Springer and one of the things that Darryl talked about 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.720 as far as projecting at the three point shooting of Springer, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.200 I think two things tell me, Lauren, if I'm not 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:49.439 remembering this right that they felt projected well was that 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.400 Springer has good touch in their mind around the rim, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.720 and that he can shoot his free throws pretty well. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.640 He shot eighty one percent last year. But Daryl, I think, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.199 was saying that there were other signs, things like at 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.000 that would point to the three point shooting at some 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.040 point down the road coming along and being effective at 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.880 the NBA level for Springer. Well, first of all, I 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.800 don't know if I'm the one you want correcting you 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.880 if you're wrong at three am. I'm not necessarily going 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.720 to be able to do that. But what I can 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.880 do is add to what you said. We haven't really 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.400 talked about his defense yet, and that of course is 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.120 sort of what he's become known for it and going 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.560 to be cool to see the Sixers add a really 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.359 young defender to an existing core of really strong defenders. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.560 Seems like he's going to have some pretty solid role 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.440 models as he moves forward in his NBA career, and 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.719 a young core two laren that could be developing in 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.480 the seventy Sixers backcourt. Going it to that notion that 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.280 Darrel was talking about of the draft being a building 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.760 block for a sustaining winning for a franchise. You have 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.439 someone like Maxi Isaiah Joe who everyone thinks has some promise. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.720 Obviously there's someone like a Shake Milton in the fold 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.199 right now. And then you add Jaden Springer to the mix, 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:01.120 and the seventy sixers working on a perhaps young backcourt 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.720 group that they're looking to develop, no doubt about it, 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.240 some really exciting guys across the roster. That's something that 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.160 I was able to speak with Darryl Moury about it. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.120 It's pretty rare, he says, to have a really good 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.760 group of established veterans being pushed by a really promising 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.040 group of youngsters. He says, a lot of teams have 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.680 one but not the other. They have the established veterans, 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.079 they have the all Stars, but they don't have the 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.360 youngsters to push them. Or they're just a team of 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.480 youngsters that don't have a lot to look up to. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.840 And this team, no matter how it is composed when 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.520 the regular season begins, certainly does check both of those boxes. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.319 We said part one. Phase one of the seventy six 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.000 ers draft plan on Thursday was to hopefully get a 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.480 two way guard in the first round. Checkbox next to 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.000 that and then in the second round, the mission was 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:49.760 to acquire some frontcourt depth and young talents. We thought 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.960 the depth that the big spot was really really strong 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.360 this year. We had a group of bigs we thought 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.520 could make it to that the early fifties, we thought 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.840 there'd be a strong non big. That sort of rough 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.080 plan played out. It doesn't always so, but it did. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.920 Tonight really learned for the first time, at least in 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.280 my time doing this, being with the seventy sixers and 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:15.520 covering the draft, a mostly predictable, nothing totally out of 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.600 left field draft night, which in some ways may not 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.160 be someone's cup of tea, But I'll be honest with you, 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.000 I was ready for it. I was ready for a 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:28.560 more plain Jane draft night. And being on the ground, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.320 it was a very calm, collected, streamlined draft night, and 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.839 it felt nice to get some normalcy, just sort of 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.480 aside from basketball, Aside from what went down in terms 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.160 of picks, in terms of moves. It was awesome to 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.199 have a traditional draft night. It feels like nature might 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.199 be healing a little bit. Yes, yes, indeed so about 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.040 the two bigs that the seventy sixers acquired in the 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.480 second round pick number fifty, which the Sixers got in 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.440 a deal with the Knicks was Philip PETROSEV six eleven, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.040 two thirty five. Perhaps as far as how his game 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.280 might translate to the NBA, more of a stretch four, 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.080 small ball five than a traditional center, but he played 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.280 two really strong years Ekenzaga. He was the conference player 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.160 of the Year his second season, he averaged seventeen and 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.480 a half points eight rebounds per game. But then he 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.400 went overseas and he played in the Adriatic League in Serbia. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.840 He was the MVP there last year, average twenty one 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.040 points per game. And he played for the team megal X. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.320 I think it's called actually something else now, but it 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.760 was at one point megal X, and that was the 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.680 team that Timo tay lewhile Cabaret played for Nicola Yokich 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:39.679 Zubats from the Clippers. So he got some good pro 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:43.839 experience under his bill. Go. Yes, all of a sudden, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.320 I'm such a connoisseur of international basketball. I feel really 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.600 good about this. Yeah, love love love to see that 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.600 he comes from a pedigree like that, and of course 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.880 having that college experience at a high level as well, 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.120 going to be really cool to see how he confused 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:00.760 the different types of experience, the perspectives he's gathered in 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.440 still a very young career, and is able to translate 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.400 that into pro basketball in the US eventually. And what 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.560 I like is that he played at a winning program 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:12.080 in Gonzaga, surrounded by some players that had pro potential 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.560 and went on to playing the pros like ruy Achimura. 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.760 As far as what Daryl Morey said after the draft 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.480 on Thursday, he acknowledged that this might not be an 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.280 immediate contributor for the seventy six ers here in the 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.520 United States. TBD on that, But like what we've seen 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.480 in the past, thinking back to guys like I think 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:35.840 this is the case. I mean, it feels like it's 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.520 really long ago. But fur Con and I can't even 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.800 I actually can't remember if Dario played in Summer League 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.480 before he played here. I don't think he did. But anyhow, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.800 it's not uncommon for a European player that was drafted 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.240 to come playing Summer League, go back Overseas, finish out 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.760 whatever their arrangement is there, and then come back to 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.560 the United States to the NBA to latter points, So 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:00.400 maybe we see that from Petro Sev and of course 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.240 grew into a little bit of a Summer League legend, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.600 and you never know. Summer League is, of course salts 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.920 where legends are made. And here we go, getting ready 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.080 for another Summer League in which Darryl Moorey did say 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.680 that he anticipates all three of these new sixers being 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.800 able to play. Of course, you never know what could happen, 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.680 especially when you're dealing with folks overseas. But we'll be 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.640 exciting to get to see these draft picks in a 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.680 little over a week playing live ball. It's awesome, fantastic. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.760 I've not done much advanced scouting for the seventy six 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.120 Summer League team as far as draft talent they acquired, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.440 anything like that. But of what I have seen, the 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.960 most footage I've looked at is of Charles Bassie and 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:48.360 I like it. Energetic, feisty, super speedy rim runner. I've 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.840 heard an elite shot blocker as well, just to give 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.360 the people in the background. I just got home, so 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.120 I have not looked at any film yet. I literally 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.400 am car to pod right now, but I'm looking forward 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.520 to pour in over some film. What did you see 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.800 when you checked him out? Just a high energy guy, 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.080 guy that runs end to end and as a great 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:13.200 presence around the rim. The Hilltoppers found him for I'm 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.880 not it's it's three o'clock saws. They found him at 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.400 the old top of the hill. They found him for 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.600 the lab a lot. He was able to get behind defenses, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.480 finished strong at the rim. Shot blocker, rebounder last year 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.160 seventeen and a half points, eleven and a half rebounds. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:32.480 Has some stretch, big potential. Definitely more of a NBA 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:37.840 five for sure type presence, at least at this stage 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.000 of the game, it would seem. But yeah, three years 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.480 of NCAA experience under his belt at Western Kentucky. It's 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.880 gonna turn twenty one in October. Got a really massive wingspan. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.240 I like it. I like it. I like the I 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:53.760 like the top of the hill punt. I gotta be 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.240 honest with you. I think some of the best jokes, 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.560 the best corny humor comes between the hours of like 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.280 three and five in the morning. As you know, I'm 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.520 not gonna subjects the pod listeners to my joke that 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.960 I had yesterday around the same time. Maybe one day, 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:08.959 but yeah, great humor in the middle of the night. 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.000 I was all about it. I think when you look 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.000 at the draft haul, the three selections for the seventy 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.120 Sixers in total, it's a nice profile for this group. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.160 You have two way potential in the back court, You've 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:27.920 got a stretch ish big in petrosev and then you 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:32.840 got you know, some five potential with some energy at Bassie. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.800 I'm all about it. I agree with you. Cool to 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.159 see three players with some distinct skill sets bringing different 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.080 things to the table, as was the case with three 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.920 from last season, and it'll be cool to see if 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.920 they see a similar progression in their respective rookie years. 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.400 I'm also pumped that Summer League is back this year 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.280 and we will be seeing it in not too long. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.080 The Sixers are actually going to take their Summer League 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.119 team out to Las Vegas a couple of days ahead 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.679 of time. I would be surprised if they were the 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.399 only team to do that. I would expect a handful 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:03.880 of teams to do this. Have a mini camp out 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.480 there in Vegas, which the Sixers have done in the past, 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.200 and then they start playing the games on August ninth. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.840 They have four games plus one if they don't make 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.640 it to the championship final, so that should be great. Hopefully, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.120 we see all these draft picks out there in Las Vegas. 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.879 One thing though, alarmed before we wrap this up, because 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.840 we're gonna hear from a lot of these prospects in 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.800 the days to come. We got some insight, we got 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.560 some news, a little bit of an update about at 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.080 update from Daryl Morey about the main big fella, the 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.280 MVP candidate. Let's hear about it. Joel Embiad update. Joel 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.080 has been in the gym. He was in the gym 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.480 today working on his game. He has a plan with 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.399 our medical staff and we feel good about it and 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.840 we are not concerned about him medically at all. Great. Great. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.240 I think that if you're a seventy sixers fan, that's 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.359 the update you won. He's a man with a plan, 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.240 He's Joel Ebiad. I'm sorry, that's I gotta I'll see 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.320 myself out. And you know what, though, I know that 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.480 part of him being in the gym maybe to make 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:09.679 sure everything's cool with the meniscus and all that. But 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.320 I love hearing that Joel embiads in the gym for 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.159 whatever reason. That's great. I can envision something in my 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.560 mind right now, the facility, the training complex and Camden 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.000 Joel and bad checking in. To me, that's a good thing. 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.000 It's poetic. On draft day, a lot of guys are 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.119 out of market, understandably, a lot of guys are not 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.640 from Philadelphia. But do you know that Joel is still 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.159 around and still putting in work on such a big 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.240 day when other things are sort of a buzz at 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.120 the complex, the complex feels more like the complex when 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.639 Joel Embiad is there putting up shots, and on Draft 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:44.600 Day he was It's almost time time. That's sacred thing 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.760 we call rest. We know, Lauren, you're not getting much 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:49.600 of that these days. You are on the beat following 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:54.800 Matisse Thyble with great expertise in his Olympic metal pursuits. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.399 We also had a long day on Draft Day. I 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.560 gotta say the picks they say exciting. My highlight was 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.520 helping Tyrese Maxie opened his ears to the world of 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:09.280 Twitter spaces. To me, that was a lot of fun. 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.399 That is a good tease for those of you listening. 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:13.879 Seltz and I are gonna be doing a little bit 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.760 more Twitter spaces action now we have to twitter. This 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:22.560 was validation of that and the tease is as follows. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.359 You never know who's going to log on If Seltz 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.359 and I aren't enough for you, I guess I understand. 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.639 But you never know who's going to drop in. It's 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:31.199 kind of like the comedy seller in New York. You 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.200 know how sometimes like really good comics just sort of 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.760 show up unannounced. Well, Tyrese Maxie did that on Twitter 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.359 spaces tonight with me in Seltz and it was a 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.840 lot of fun to hear some of his draft memories, 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:45.679 learned some insights that he had playing against Springer in AAU. 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.399 He had some strong impressions, some positive impressions of his 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.120 new teammates. So you never know who's going to log 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.520 on to Twitter spaces when you see that notification, make 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.280 sure you're there because they're not recorded. It's gone, it's 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.000 out into the abyss. And if you weren't there listening 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:03.960