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Speaker 1: can do these on back to back days means that
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Speaker 1: win over the Calves, about the Sixers clinching a playoff appearance,
Speaker 1: about the road ahead. The regular season is nearly complete,
Speaker 1: just four games left and then the playoffs will begin
Speaker 1: and the Sixers will be there for the fifth consecutive year.
Speaker 1: So send us your questions, Send us your thoughts, as always,
Speaker 1: will run through the box Score, will take questions. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear what Davon and Matt thought of
Speaker 1: last nights when, but please send us questions. We're a
Speaker 1: little bit behind on questions this morning, and like I
Speaker 1: said yesterday, I totally get it. Eighty two games is
Speaker 1: a lot of games, and we have had quite a
Speaker 1: few Twitter spaces, if I'm not wrong, We've had at
Speaker 1: least forty eight of them as of this morning, so
Speaker 1: I know there's not that many questions left to be asked.
Speaker 1: But I think when Joel Embide plays the way that
Speaker 1: he did last night, when the team plays the way
Speaker 1: that it did during their day game on Saturday, there's
Speaker 1: a lot to discuss. So even if it's just sending
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Speaker 1: Matt Devon, good morning, how are we? Hey? Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Lauren, Good morning Devon? Or should I say
Speaker 1: what's up? Miss Rosen? To keep it for consistency's sake.
Speaker 1: Channeling my honor, Tyrese Maxie again, I got to keep
Speaker 1: that going. So what's up, miss Rosen, what's up? Devon?
Speaker 1: Back on sixer spaces after a win, goodwin on the
Speaker 1: second night of a back to back Divon. They came
Speaker 1: out with some energy, especially in the second half, to
Speaker 1: close out a roadwin, got the job done. I was
Speaker 1: really impressed with just the effort on the glass and
Speaker 1: we can get into all of this, but they got
Speaker 1: They got it done in Cleveland against the team that's
Speaker 1: going to be in the playoff mix. So kept things
Speaker 1: rolling and we're back. Good morning, guys. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a really good win last night, a tough
Speaker 1: road win, a playoff atmosphere, it seemed like. And speaking
Speaker 1: to Tom Againnis and Lauren you were there, he said,
Speaker 1: it was really really the crowd was really into it
Speaker 1: and to see them I have an opportunity to pull
Speaker 1: that one out the way that they did, it was
Speaker 1: really good to see that. Knowing that again, this is
Speaker 1: a type of type of performance that you're going to
Speaker 1: have to win that way sometimes in the postseason, so
Speaker 1: good to see them get that one done. Two game
Speaker 1: winning street start this three game road trip off the
Speaker 1: right way, no doubt about it. This, of course, the
Speaker 1: last road trip in the regular season for the seventy sixers.
Speaker 1: They're on they've won their first that was in Cleveland
Speaker 1: last night. The team now in beautiful Indianapolis to play
Speaker 1: again tomorrow night against the Indiana Pacers, the penultimate matchup
Speaker 1: between the Pacers, who we'll visit the Sixers this weekend
Speaker 1: and then travel to Toronto for the final road game
Speaker 1: of the regular season. So the Sixers will look to
Speaker 1: keep a good thing going. But this back to back
Speaker 1: perhaps dare say their best basketball yet as a unit,
Speaker 1: and of course I'm talking about the post James Harden
Speaker 1: six and the group that has expressed how badly they
Speaker 1: want to figure out how to play together efficiently, effectively, dominantly.
Speaker 1: But in a short period of time, I think that
Speaker 1: between last nights of victory over the Calves, which by
Speaker 1: the way, was they come from behind victory, and that
Speaker 1: dominant second half against the Charlotte Hornets, this is the
Speaker 1: best that this group has looked and there cannot be
Speaker 1: a better time to figure stuff out. And of course
Speaker 1: there's still things to work on. The guys have expressed
Speaker 1: a few areas of focus postgame after both wins, but
Speaker 1: it does feel like they're at their best right now.
Speaker 1: Matt devon any thoughts before we dive into the box score, Well,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get more from Cleveland on site in Cleveland, Lauren,
Speaker 1: what was the talk postgame? What were the themes? And
Speaker 1: as we've already kind of discussed the playoff atmosphere and
Speaker 1: if you want to throw anything in about that, but
Speaker 1: how about the postgame atmosphere too? Yeah. Sure, shout out
Speaker 1: to that Cleveland crowd. They know their basketball, they love
Speaker 1: their basketball. It was packed in there. It was loud
Speaker 1: in there. Not quite as loud as a Sixers game,
Speaker 1: there's no such thing. But it was cool to be
Speaker 1: in that sort of playoff environment, a crowd that was
Speaker 1: really engaged in everything that was happening, and a team
Speaker 1: obviously that was really engaged to cover that twelve point
Speaker 1: deficit and come back for the victory. And postgame, Matt,
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, it was all about Joel Embid. Joel,
Speaker 1: of course, last night, finished with forty four points, seventeen rebounds,
Speaker 1: three assists, and five blocks. More on that and on
Speaker 1: the company that he keeps with that stat line in
Speaker 1: a little bit but his teammates talking about Joel's MVP case,
Speaker 1: Joel talking about his own MVP case, and we should
Speaker 1: add the caveat there that Joel feels, if it happens,
Speaker 1: it happens. His priority is finding ways to win games
Speaker 1: with this team, as has been the case all season long.
Speaker 1: He knows he doesn't have control over whether or not
Speaker 1: he wins the MVP award. He does have control over
Speaker 1: how well this team is able to do and how
Speaker 1: far they're able to go. But that being said, DeAndre Jordan,
Speaker 1: George Niang, James Harden, Doc Rivers all sort of made
Speaker 1: the case for why Joel has got to be the
Speaker 1: MVP this season post game, and I think that that
Speaker 1: was nice and well deserved and unprompted in a lot
Speaker 1: of cases. He was just so dominant that fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen a better Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: than he looked on those back to back to back
Speaker 1: to back possessions. And then of course to see him emote,
Speaker 1: to see him really excited and invested in getting this victory,
Speaker 1: in being a fourth quarter closer, for me, Joel had
Speaker 1: to be the top story, and he clearly was. For
Speaker 1: his teammates as well. Yeah, and I also like the
Speaker 1: defensive play that he had with the five blocks and
Speaker 1: no doctor. Rivers alluded to it last night after the game,
Speaker 1: but they were getting to the painted area, you know
Speaker 1: quite a bit, Dearis Garland is fantastic at that. He
Speaker 1: sets up his players nicely and gets guys some good
Speaker 1: looks and close they just have to make them if
Speaker 1: they can get him by Joel and bad and he
Speaker 1: made sure that he denied them those few times and
Speaker 1: emphatically a couple of those blocks there. So not only offensively,
Speaker 1: where of course that stands out, and you're right, Lauren,
Speaker 1: in the offensive end, those three straight possessions where he
Speaker 1: was fantastic and working that pick and roll, like we
Speaker 1: all discussed on Sunday before the game last night, he
Speaker 1: and James Harden have that pick and roll down less
Speaker 1: efforts that he has, well, less energy that he has
Speaker 1: to use because of course of what James Harden does
Speaker 1: to set him up. But then he can use that
Speaker 1: energy again on the defensive end to help of course
Speaker 1: keep those guys from scoring the opposition and to put
Speaker 1: up those numbers offensively and then come back defensively and
Speaker 1: also help out and then show that emotion. I love
Speaker 1: when he shows that emotion because he doesn't do it often.
Speaker 1: When he does it, he does it at the time
Speaker 1: where there's a big run at some point in the game,
Speaker 1: or when there's a close out for the end of
Speaker 1: the game, and I do love to see that. I
Speaker 1: love that type of performance from him. I hear you, Divon,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I love what you said about his
Speaker 1: showing emotion because he doesn't just do it. There's sort
Speaker 1: of a Joel embiade to George Niang spectrum of showing emotion.
Speaker 1: George Niang will show emotion for anything, and it's why
Speaker 1: people love him, it's why his teammates love him, and
Speaker 1: it's part of what makes him such an effective basketball player.
Speaker 1: But Joel Embid is on the opposite end of the spectrum.
Speaker 1: Joel can drop fifty with a stone face, and so
Speaker 1: to see him emote, to see him care and play
Speaker 1: with that amount of heart in a regular season game
Speaker 1: against a team that, by the way, they had already
Speaker 1: won three against in a come from behind situation on
Speaker 1: the second night of a back to back, it was
Speaker 1: really good to see. It was a reminder of how
Speaker 1: much Joel does care or even if he doesn't emote
Speaker 1: in the way that George Niang does, but really cool
Speaker 1: to see him rewarded for what he was able to do.
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and jump into the box score.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of questions dive in. I'm seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of questions come in. So we are going
Speaker 1: to dive into those questions because to share them with Matt,
Speaker 1: with Devon. But let's do the box score first. As always,
Speaker 1: if anything stands out as I go through this box score,
Speaker 1: I know Joel will. But if there's anybody else that
Speaker 1: you want to talk about, please send us a DM
Speaker 1: or comment on the Sixers space thread to let us
Speaker 1: know where you'd like the conversation to head. So, without
Speaker 1: further ado, Joel Embi led the way forty four points,
Speaker 1: seventeen rebounds, three assists, one steel, five blocks. Joel started
Speaker 1: slow from the field, but finished shooting twelve for twenty six,
Speaker 1: three for six from three, and seventeen four twenty from
Speaker 1: the line. More on that, of course, in a little bit.
Speaker 1: James Harden not just his second triple double as a
Speaker 1: seventy six or twenty one points, ten rebounds, ten assists,
Speaker 1: He also had a more difficult shooting night from the
Speaker 1: field four for thirteen, but again found ways to get
Speaker 1: it done in other places, which is what great players
Speaker 1: do when they're not super duper feeling it from the floor.
Speaker 1: He was also eleven for twelve from the free throw line.
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxie and Tobias Harris at eleven points apiece. Tobias
Speaker 1: also had five rebounds, three assists, and a block. Tyrese
Speaker 1: had three assists and a steal. Matisse thyble. Again, stat
Speaker 1: line doesn't always tell the whole story with Matisse, who
Speaker 1: finished with four points, two rebounds, three assists, two steals,
Speaker 1: and two blocks. But perhaps one of the most, if
Speaker 1: not the most important plays of the game, Let's go
Speaker 1: one of the most Let's go one of the most
Speaker 1: important plays of the game. Stealing the inbounds. See a
Speaker 1: couple or right off the inbound, seeing a couple questions
Speaker 1: about that, we will get there. George Yang a bench
Speaker 1: high eight points. He finished at a team high tied
Speaker 1: with Joel Embiid plus sixteen plus five rebounds. DeAndre Jordan
Speaker 1: finished with six points and four rebounds. Let's see Shake
Speaker 1: Milton four points, Stanny Green three points, everybody contributed in
Speaker 1: this one, and again the seventy six ers had a
Speaker 1: great third quarter. That's two in as many games. A
Speaker 1: thirty two twenty five swing in that third quarter that
Speaker 1: ultimately was enough to sort of tip the scales, and
Speaker 1: then that dominant fourth quarter perform by Joel Embiid sealed
Speaker 1: the deal. So, Matt Davon, what stands out before we
Speaker 1: we dive into these questions, I'm gonna repeat myself about
Speaker 1: rebounding and effort on the glass. It's a quick point here,
Speaker 1: but they win the rebounding battle. Both teams were on
Speaker 1: the second night of a back to back, but I
Speaker 1: thought in the second half the offensive rebound and the
Speaker 1: offensive rebounding and the second chance points. So they finished
Speaker 1: with twelve offensive rebounds and sixteen second chance points. I
Speaker 1: know Kate Scott said it on the telecast, and she
Speaker 1: and Allah pointed it out in the game. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with that, not an individual statistic because Embiid
Speaker 1: has most of those covered, but a team statistic. What
Speaker 1: about you, Devon what stands out from the stats? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to more team as well. When we talk
Speaker 1: about the discrepancy and free throws again, and it was
Speaker 1: something that the Sixers desperately needed because it did seem
Speaker 1: early that Cleveland had that energy, and we saw that
Speaker 1: as a result of just paying attention to how the
Speaker 1: game was playing out, but as the game played along,
Speaker 1: knowing that in beating Harden both get to the foul
Speaker 1: line the way that the game ultimately ended up, they
Speaker 1: needed every bit of those foul shots and to know
Speaker 1: that you can have your two stars as they do
Speaker 1: with em beating hard and shoot over eighty percent and
Speaker 1: close to ninety for James Harden. It's a weapon that
Speaker 1: they have that they can use and look, the league
Speaker 1: may not like it. That may be others who fans
Speaker 1: or executives and coaches and players who may not like it. Well,
Speaker 1: my things always stopped fattling them and they would love
Speaker 1: those calls if they were on their end, and it
Speaker 1: is a weapon that they are able to use. They
Speaker 1: continue to make those free throws and it is a big,
Speaker 1: big reason as to why they win a lot of
Speaker 1: those games, and that showed in yesterday's game against the
Speaker 1: Cavs as well. I saw what you guys saw. Thank
Speaker 1: you as always for diving a little bit deeper into
Speaker 1: the box. Score. I want to go ahead and go
Speaker 1: into some questions and get to as many of them
Speaker 1: as we possibly can. And I thought that, let's see,
Speaker 1: here's where I wanted to start. I thought that Emily
Speaker 1: had an interesting point about DeAndre Jordan, and I know
Speaker 1: that Sixers Twitter is having quite the discourse about backup
Speaker 1: center minutes for the seventy sixers, But Emily says, DeAndre
Speaker 1: Jordan has looked over the last few games much better.
Speaker 1: What's the most important thing for he and the bench
Speaker 1: to focus on come playoff time? And I think that
Speaker 1: now is an appropriate opportunity to talk about what he
Speaker 1: was able to do last night. DeAndre Jordan, of course,
Speaker 1: a veteran in this league, knows where to be, knows
Speaker 1: what to do. Finishes with six points and four rebounds,
Speaker 1: and it's very comfortable in that supporting role. He played
Speaker 1: just ten minutes. He was three for three from the field,
Speaker 1: and after the game he talked about the fact that
Speaker 1: he knew his job was always going to be to
Speaker 1: play somewhere between ten and fifteen minutes to back up
Speaker 1: the big fella, Joel Embiid, an MVP candidate, and make
Speaker 1: sure that he does everything he can do to protect
Speaker 1: the work that Joel has done. So, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: that's all you can ask from someone again, perfect from
Speaker 1: the field, crashing the boards, being big, doing what he
Speaker 1: needs to do, and then keeping the proper mindset so
Speaker 1: when you ask what does he need to do headed
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, to me, it's just keep that mindset
Speaker 1: and keep that productivity, don't make don't make mistakes when
Speaker 1: you can avoid them. And Joel, of course, then proceeded
Speaker 1: to credit DeAndre for what he's been able to do. So,
Speaker 1: Matt Devon, what did you see out of him over
Speaker 1: the last couple of games. He's looking a little bit
Speaker 1: more comfortable out there. He and Tobias Harris have some
Speaker 1: really cool lob chemistry, and I think it's been cool
Speaker 1: to see the way that he's come in so late
Speaker 1: to this team and figure out a way to make
Speaker 1: his mark and be, in my opinion, very effective over
Speaker 1: the last few games. Well, Lauren, your MBA hotel WiFi
Speaker 1: was at least giving me some issues there a little bit,
Speaker 1: but we made out most of what you were saying.
Speaker 1: But as you travel around the NBA circuit, sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't know the WiFi. Let me, let me do some
Speaker 1: fancy footwork while you while you respond to what you did,
Speaker 1: hear of what I said, and I'll be right back. No,
Speaker 1: I know we were. We were talking about DeAndre Jordan
Speaker 1: and the minutes that he's giving the Sixers and the lab,
Speaker 1: the lab threat, the alley oop, reverse all oops against
Speaker 1: the Hornets, Harris on the ability to lob the ball
Speaker 1: to DeAndre, all notable things from the past two games,
Speaker 1: the weekend games Charlotte and then at Cleveland. And it's
Speaker 1: something that we talked about with Devon yesterday, and Devon,
Speaker 1: for anyone who wasn't here yesterday, I thought you made
Speaker 1: a really good point about Tobias Harris as a passer
Speaker 1: in these situations. I think it would be worth just
Speaker 1: reminding people of that point you made in the in
Speaker 1: the last spaces. Sure, so we saw it a few
Speaker 1: times against the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday afternoon, but we
Speaker 1: had seen it prior to that and a few of
Speaker 1: the other games, and we had an opportunity once again
Speaker 1: last night to see that connection, whatever it is. My
Speaker 1: main point was James Harden shake Milton, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: were the two best lab throwers on the team. And
Speaker 1: you need those at times, you always, of course want
Speaker 1: to have some athletic people who can finish those pleas
Speaker 1: and Tobias Harris has surprised me with his passing in
Speaker 1: the chemistry the connection that he and DeAndre Jordan have
Speaker 1: put together in a short time here. But let's not
Speaker 1: to forget the fact that they did play with one
Speaker 1: another in la when they were both part of the
Speaker 1: Clippers while Tobias Harris was there, So it's something that
Speaker 1: may have been there before that we didn't pay much
Speaker 1: attention to in the year's past because we didn't see
Speaker 1: the Clippers as much with Tobias Harris. But now that
Speaker 1: they are back together, just getting refamiliarizing themselves with one
Speaker 1: another on that end and being able to connect that way,
Speaker 1: it is as a key play in the game because
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan, as we know throughout his career, a lot
Speaker 1: of his work offensively comes off the offensive rebounds, offensive
Speaker 1: glass and his teammates setting him up, and that was
Speaker 1: a lob city back then for a reason, not just
Speaker 1: with Blake Griffin, but also with DeAndre Jordan, and he
Speaker 1: still has some bounced to him. It may not be
Speaker 1: the Jordan that we saw as an all NBA player
Speaker 1: as a Defensive Player of the Year type of candidate
Speaker 1: in the All Star This is a new version of
Speaker 1: DeAndre Jordan and for Lauren to lay out everything that
Speaker 1: he understands. He's a veteran, he's been around a long time,
Speaker 1: so he knows what he needs to do in order
Speaker 1: to make some positive plays and be successful with his team.
Speaker 1: And Tobias Harris and he have a really good connection
Speaker 1: on that in Shake Milton as well, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: So it's good to see that as part of something
Speaker 1: because there will be some times where Tobias is going
Speaker 1: to be on the floor with James Harden, and there
Speaker 1: are going to be sometimes where he's got going to
Speaker 1: be out there with Maxie or Shake Milton, and James
Speaker 1: Harden's going to be on the bench and he's gonna
Speaker 1: handle and run the initiate the offense and that action
Speaker 1: and if they commit, he knows that he can put
Speaker 1: that ball up anywhere towards the rim and DeAndre Jordan
Speaker 1: will still have the necessary capabilities to go up there
Speaker 1: and get it. And we saw that the last two games.
Speaker 1: I would imagine that's something that they keep tucked away
Speaker 1: in the event that they have to pull that one
Speaker 1: out once again as they move forward and devon to
Speaker 1: go back to when Lauren was speaking, she said, she
Speaker 1: brought up the clinching the playoffs again, and I just
Speaker 1: wanted to go come back to that for a second
Speaker 1: with you, because you've had these conversations with people on
Speaker 1: the radio for many years, podcasts, whatever setting you want
Speaker 1: to say. Five straight years in the playoffs for this organization,
Speaker 1: it can't be overlooked. It's an impressive feat. No one
Speaker 1: was worried about them clinching. It was just a matter
Speaker 1: of when they would do it. But it's that time
Speaker 1: of year when everybody gets excited for a Sixers postseason run,
Speaker 1: and as the regular season winds down, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure that we remind people how special it
Speaker 1: is to, you know, follow this team into the playoffs
Speaker 1: for the fifth straight year. It is a special thing.
Speaker 1: Once they made it the first time around the seventeen
Speaker 1: eighteen season, and you could see that they had something
Speaker 1: brewing with the team, with the two young players as
Speaker 1: the foundational pieces and then these elect veterans that they
Speaker 1: had added it around them. And now we are in
Speaker 1: year number five where they make it once again and
Speaker 1: we all knew they would get there. We all knew
Speaker 1: that they would get to close to fifty wins once again.
Speaker 1: On the season, it was always when you speak and
Speaker 1: just speaking fairly and clearly about what the listeners talk about.
Speaker 1: It's about how far now they don't want it to be.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure everyone, the organization, the team, everyone wants
Speaker 1: to make it a step further than they did last season,
Speaker 1: and possibly those two steps further and getting to the ultimate.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's really good to see again they are
Speaker 1: one of those teams that are good and maybe they
Speaker 1: just overlooked because you expect it like we do here,
Speaker 1: expect those high forties, low fifties regular seasons through an
Speaker 1: eighty two game run and last season seventy two games
Speaker 1: with forty nine wins, but just playing some good basketball overall,
Speaker 1: understanding how great Joel Embi it is. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of talk about good and great, and I'm not one
Speaker 1: to throw around great often, but I think it's very
Speaker 1: clear that Joel and beat is a great player in
Speaker 1: the NBA, one of those top five level players. And
Speaker 1: to have him anchoring everything that you do have with
Speaker 1: the team that has now gotten there five consecutive years
Speaker 1: for a postseason run. It is something that is that
Speaker 1: is really really special, but it's always it's always, you know,
Speaker 1: left a little bit of a damp, damp feeling about
Speaker 1: how things end up, just because there's only one champion
Speaker 1: and you want to see your team get there. So
Speaker 1: let's hope that they can have an extended run. That's
Speaker 1: great to see them once again get that forty eight
Speaker 1: and knock themselves right into the playoffs. Let's see now
Speaker 1: how far things go. Guys, how's my audio sounding at
Speaker 1: this point? What do we think? Fantastic? I love to
Speaker 1: hear it now, techno. I want to shout out a
Speaker 1: couple questions and shoutouts for young Matisse thyble, Annie says
Speaker 1: Mathief Steel Bowl. That might be a little bit too far.
Speaker 1: I've got to be honest, but I appreciate the creativity
Speaker 1: at another great game. He keeps leading to great plays.
Speaker 1: I think we should talk about the games sealing. Let's
Speaker 1: say stolen inbounds from from Matisse bible and then the
Speaker 1: heads first of all, the heads up play to be
Speaker 1: able to do that and then pass it up ahead
Speaker 1: to Tobias Harris, who also was paying close attention and
Speaker 1: get that dunk then ended up sealing the deal for
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers to put them up one to
Speaker 1: eleven to one oh six with seven seconds left. And that,
Speaker 1: Matt Murphy, is why matisse bible is so important and
Speaker 1: will continue to be for this team. Even those little plays,
Speaker 1: sometimes they end up changing the game entirely. And so
Speaker 1: I see your shout outs to Matise. I think we
Speaker 1: can give him his flowers now. Matt Devon, what have
Speaker 1: you thought of his play over the last few games
Speaker 1: that you said that was one of the plays of
Speaker 1: the game that was probably don't Can we say it
Speaker 1: was the play of the game, the steal to seal
Speaker 1: the deal. I just don't want to discredit what Joel
Speaker 1: and Bid did in the in the prior six or
Speaker 1: seven minutes, but I think I think it was the
Speaker 1: cherry on top. And yes, if you want to call
Speaker 1: it the play of the game, Joel I think had
Speaker 1: the performance of the game, and it wasn't very close.
Speaker 1: But the play of the game, yeah, might have been
Speaker 1: that stolen inbounds on the road at the end of
Speaker 1: the game. At the end of a back to back,
Speaker 1: these guys are tired at this point and managed to
Speaker 1: get it done. So credit to Matisse, Tible and Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris were being able to get that done when it
Speaker 1: mattered it. It was a very Matisse play. I feel
Speaker 1: like the whole weekend Matisse was falling out of bounds
Speaker 1: and throwing the ball back in and like that's a
Speaker 1: lot of his career. And Maxie had a steal earlier
Speaker 1: in the game that was sort of in a similar fashion,
Speaker 1: but big play. I love the reaction from Joel running
Speaker 1: down floor and throwing his arms up, realizing like the
Speaker 1: lead that it gave them and the chance that it
Speaker 1: gave them to hold on for the road win. Big
Speaker 1: time play from Matisse. I'm looking back through some of
Speaker 1: the at Sixers tweets Lauren and with you on the
Speaker 1: ground in Cleveland, Matisse is kind of in the background here,
Speaker 1: but the Dancing Sixers video when Tobias Harris had the
Speaker 1: goggles out, I just wanted to I have a question
Speaker 1: for you in between all of the questions from the listeners,
Speaker 1: who had the pregame dunk because they were all dancing,
Speaker 1: But I don't see the dunk here. So for the
Speaker 1: Cleveland game, who threw down the pregame dunk in layup lines. Yes,
Speaker 1: so I'll be honest, it was a little bit of
Speaker 1: like a longer pregame dunk than usual, which is why
Speaker 1: you only got the pre pregame dunk celebrations. But it
Speaker 1: was Isaiah Joe who was stretching on the sideline. There's
Speaker 1: there's a group of sixers that actively avoid being chosen
Speaker 1: for the pregame dug Isaiah among those. And so right
Speaker 1: after that dance that you guys saw that, Matt, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you could pop that in the chat,
Speaker 1: Tobias went and made Isaiah stop stretching, gave him the ball,
Speaker 1: got him to come over, and then the rest was history.
Speaker 1: He did make the pregame dunk in fact, but I
Speaker 1: thought that the dancing was especially pronounced yesterday from the
Speaker 1: likes of Danny Green, of Tobias Harris, of Tyres Maxie,
Speaker 1: of Matistible, even George Yang. And so I think it's
Speaker 1: always worth sharing and noting that this is and continues
Speaker 1: to be a group that really enjoys one another and
Speaker 1: finds ways to make games even in the dog days
Speaker 1: of the season. For it, if you're doing it for
Speaker 1: the seventy seventh time, still exciting and fun, and they've
Speaker 1: enjoyed each other from the jump this season, and that
Speaker 1: sort of has been a pleasure to watch as a
Speaker 1: secondary plotline among everything else that's gone on on the court. Yeah,
Speaker 1: dancing sixers is in the chat or it's in the
Speaker 1: space here at the top. I saw in Detroit. I
Speaker 1: saw Tobias actually get selected as the pregame dunker. He
Speaker 1: was looking around and I don't know who determined it.
Speaker 1: I guess it was Danny Green. They ended up deciding
Speaker 1: that Tobias would do that. But that was my question
Speaker 1: for you. I'm sure other people have maybe better questions,
Speaker 1: so we can move on. No, No, Lauren, can any
Speaker 1: of them really dance or did they just bop around
Speaker 1: and just do stuff? Well? They definitely bop around and
Speaker 1: do stuff, that's for sure, And I think that sometimes
Speaker 1: they prioritize, they prioritize they'll they'll choose to bop around
Speaker 1: and do stuff. In the words of Devon Gibbons over dancing,
Speaker 1: Like I think they could dance if they wanted to.
Speaker 1: I'll get I'll give Tyrese Maxie some credit. I think
Speaker 1: he might be the best answer on this team in
Speaker 1: in my opinion, but yeah, this is this is a
Speaker 1: group of guys that understands how to get down. But
Speaker 1: I think they also try to have fun at the
Speaker 1: same time. Fair enough, fair I think James hard we
Speaker 1: can dance. We've seen stuff over the years. Yeah he
Speaker 1: can do that. I give all right, Okay, okay. As
Speaker 1: far as the Natista will steal, just showing his defensive instincts,
Speaker 1: why as a reserve players season ago he was made
Speaker 1: a second team All NBA player. That's what he does.
Speaker 1: I mean, he'll he'll get in foul trouble. He's still
Speaker 1: I guess as far as the officials go, they're still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out certain things of how to call
Speaker 1: because he does do a lot of his work in
Speaker 1: the trail position, whether it's the block or to steal,
Speaker 1: the poke away or the behind the back block there
Speaker 1: for the player. But more often than that, we see
Speaker 1: a lot of really good defensive plays from Nati style
Speaker 1: will from him and that that play there, Yes, the
Speaker 1: more memorable and the more impactful game was Joel Emdeed,
Speaker 1: but that play, you know, it's a team game. I
Speaker 1: think generally Matisse's cutting is something else that's been talked about,
Speaker 1: and last night in particular, maybe even the whole weekend
Speaker 1: kind of sliding underneath and Joel finding Matisse on the
Speaker 1: offensive end. So just Matisse's movement on both ends of
Speaker 1: the floor was really notable in the last couple of games.
Speaker 1: But of course we can talk about his steels and blocks,
Speaker 1: but I think the cutting is something that a lot
Speaker 1: of people have been talking about since the Hardened trade,
Speaker 1: but Joel was the one finding him in a lot
Speaker 1: of these situations on offense in the past couple wins too.
Speaker 1: I think something that we could turn to next is
Speaker 1: a question from Tim who says, in terms of playoff preparations,
Speaker 1: hashtag clinched, what's something aside from wins that we really
Speaker 1: need to see from the team down the home stretch.
Speaker 1: And I think it sort of ties everything that we've
Speaker 1: talked it talked about together Tim's question, and does Matisse
Speaker 1: Thyble of course moved into the starting lineup about halfway
Speaker 1: through this season, just before the acquisition of James Harden,
Speaker 1: who also moved into the starting lineup. So worth noting
Speaker 1: that as Joel and Matise developed their chemistry, like you mentioned, Matt,
Speaker 1: as James develops chemistry with Joel, with tyrese with matise
Speaker 1: with Tobias. That to me is the thing that you
Speaker 1: need to see from the team down the home stretch
Speaker 1: in this final week of regular season play. And I'm
Speaker 1: taking a page out of their own books. They've talked
Speaker 1: about it for the last few weeks, that chemistry, chemistry, chemistry,
Speaker 1: learning to play together, learning each other's spots, adjusting to
Speaker 1: this learning curve is the top priority because the talent
Speaker 1: is there. Now it's about moving as a unit, and
Speaker 1: we've talked about it in little examples. But my answer
Speaker 1: to Tim's question is continuing to just refine that chemistry
Speaker 1: make the most of the four sets of forty eight
Speaker 1: minutes that these guys have before it starts to matter
Speaker 1: a whole lot more. And it might be a little
Speaker 1: bit of a cob bout answer, because chemistry, of course
Speaker 1: is always important, But when you think about the way
Speaker 1: that this team has been constructed and the way that
Speaker 1: it's changed throughout the course of the season, that's my answer.
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Speaker 1: but just make sure they continue to play together. Defense, rebounding,
Speaker 1: and turnovers. Those are the other three factors for me. Defensively,
Speaker 1: you have to try to keep that those numbers down
Speaker 1: and not have to have to score one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty points to win a game just because the other
Speaker 1: team has one hundred nineteen rebounding, because we know what
Speaker 1: it does. Those second chance opportunities have hurt the Sixers
Speaker 1: throughout the season. And also the turnovers. We've seen too
Speaker 1: many times where the turnovers have come into play Layton
Speaker 1: games throughout the game, and it's just something that I
Speaker 1: want to make sure that they clean up before they
Speaker 1: get to the postseason. So things that Lauren, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: We've talked about all season long, and it's just simply
Speaker 1: not a negative. It's just a part of the game
Speaker 1: that we look at that we want to see improve
Speaker 1: as things move forward. We talked about DeAndre Jordan a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. Lauren brings up chemistry heading into the playoffs. Devon,
Speaker 1: you talk about health and other things and turnovers, but
Speaker 1: I think other players on the bench is where I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the end of the regular season and seeing
Speaker 1: what kind of form they head into the playoffs with,
Speaker 1: be it George Niang or Shake, Milton Shake played fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes in the Cleveland game, Danny Green as well, So
Speaker 1: these types of guys. Danny played seventeen, George played twenty two,
Speaker 1: made two of his four three is both of his
Speaker 1: free throws, with the eight points in five rebounds, Seeing
Speaker 1: what kind of form they're shooting, particularly their three point
Speaker 1: shooting is in heading into the first round of the
Speaker 1: playoffs is probably where I'm looking in the last week
Speaker 1: of the regular season, Matt Devon, I am looking forward
Speaker 1: to this next slate, And of course, the strength of
Speaker 1: schedule is something that we've talked about a little bit.
Speaker 1: Not the most strength of schedule in the NBA over
Speaker 1: the next four but still some opportunities to maybe right
Speaker 1: some wrongs, to see some teams that they've seen quite
Speaker 1: a few times already this season. Tomorrow the team plays Indiana,
Speaker 1: then they visit Toronto. They play Indiana again on Saturday
Speaker 1: at home, and Detroit again on Sunday at home. So Toronto,
Speaker 1: of course the only among that group that the Sixers
Speaker 1: could end up seeing down the stretch into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But all good opportunities to continue doing everything that you
Speaker 1: guys have discussed. I think I am mostly ready to
Speaker 1: start looking ahead. But do you guys want to empty
Speaker 1: any of your dns, any questions that you saw that
Speaker 1: you want to get to before we turn the page.
Speaker 1: I'm good to look ahead to the coming games, alrighty,
Speaker 1: Well what are you looking forward to? What are you
Speaker 1: looking ahead to when you think of the last four
Speaker 1: And then of course we're going to get to watch
Speaker 1: another play in tournament, which is very exciting. I loved
Speaker 1: it last season, and then it's off to the races
Speaker 1: for this team. Well, we do have the game times
Speaker 1: now for next week or this weekend coming up, and
Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. One o'clock Saturday, seven o'clock Sunday. Yes,
Speaker 1: indeed it appears. That appears to be true. We love
Speaker 1: to see it one pm, seven pm. It's sort of
Speaker 1: similar to what this team did on it's back to
Speaker 1: back this past weekend. You get a little bit more
Speaker 1: separation between your two games, except for this time they're
Speaker 1: not going to have to travel in between. So I
Speaker 1: like that closer for the seventy six ers. So the
Speaker 1: Toronto game is important because of Lauren. As you mentioned,
Speaker 1: what could happen in the postseason of possible first round matchup,
Speaker 1: second round, however far it goes. So that's important because
Speaker 1: Toronto is well coached. They have the championship pedigree with
Speaker 1: Fred van Blee, ogn and Nobi and Pascal Siako, and
Speaker 1: they pose some threats with the lent that they have
Speaker 1: the young Scottie, having Chris Bouche come off the bench
Speaker 1: and he can rebound the ball as well slight of frame,
Speaker 1: but he just knows he isn't knack for the basketball,
Speaker 1: so he's one that will all pay attention to in
Speaker 1: that game on Thursday. So for me, that's it. And
Speaker 1: also everything that we mentioned about the rebounding, the defense
Speaker 1: and the turnovers protecting the basketball after the season, after
Speaker 1: that seven o'clock game on Sunday, having that week off,
Speaker 1: the preparation and not having to play for a week
Speaker 1: and staying sharp and not losing the focus. Of course,
Speaker 1: the focus will be there with the playoffs starting, but
Speaker 1: we've seen where you come out in game number one,
Speaker 1: and it's a tough game for the home team. So
Speaker 1: I just want to I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: they do those things, and I know Doc Rivers and
Speaker 1: the staff will have them prepared and ready to go.
Speaker 1: It's just one thing that you know you've seen over
Speaker 1: the years, of course, is just watching the basketball as
Speaker 1: long as as long as I have, as long as
Speaker 1: you have, you've seen those slip ups a bit, but
Speaker 1: having the rest number one for their bodies, and then
Speaker 1: just being ready to go right out of the gate
Speaker 1: in that game one against the postseason, postseason opponent. I
Speaker 1: know we'll get there when it's time for round one,
Speaker 1: but that just as you asked the question, that just
Speaker 1: popped in my head and I wanted to get that
Speaker 1: one off my chest. I agree about the Raptors game
Speaker 1: for sure, and just to add to the week off
Speaker 1: before the playoffs, pregame in Detroit a few days ago.
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers said that that's could be considered like another
Speaker 1: training camp, So that's going to be an exciting time. Yes,
Speaker 1: the players will get some rest, but some opportunities to
Speaker 1: game plan and get in the gym, and they're in
Speaker 1: there anyway a lot of the time, but you know,
Speaker 1: formally maybe on certain occasions with that time period between
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season and the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: Doc said, that's going to be like a training camp
Speaker 1: when the regular season raps. So I think everyone's looking
Speaker 1: forward to that for a number of reasons. I look
Speaker 1: forward to it as well. I look forward to doing
Speaker 1: more of these with you guys as we move along.
Speaker 1: The seventy six Ers hold the number four spot in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference right now, but tide record wise with
Speaker 1: the number three Bucks at forty eight and thirty, both
Speaker 1: of those teams just half a game behind the number
Speaker 1: two Boston Celtics at forty nine and thirty, and then
Speaker 1: the Celtics two games back. The Sixers and Bucks two
Speaker 1: and a half games back of the number one Miami Heat,
Speaker 1: who are fifty one and twenty eight, so a very
Speaker 1: crowded field at the top of the Eastern Conference as
Speaker 1: it stands today this morning on Monday, the Bulls hold
Speaker 1: the five, the Raptors at six, the Calves at seven,
Speaker 1: the Hawks at eight, the Hornets at nine, and the
Speaker 1: Nets at ten. So that's the playoff picture as of
Speaker 1: this morning for the Eastern Conference, but that is going
Speaker 1: to change as the days move along. Sometimes the last
Speaker 1: couple weeks of this season feel a little bit for
Speaker 1: not but in this situation, I think the Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: and the next let's say five six days are shaping
Speaker 1: up to be one to remember. So looking forward to
Speaker 1: watching those, looking forward to doing more of these with
Speaker 1: you guys. I wanted to shout out Mike's question real
Speaker 1: quick before we wrap up. Mike said, Sixers fans are
Speaker 1: being fed this week with two back to back wins
Speaker 1: with Spaces and a new episode of The Big Niang Theory.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Matt, Devon and Lauren for all of your
Speaker 1: hard work. Look, if the team is getting it done,
Speaker 1: we get to get it done. So this is exciting
Speaker 1: all around. We appreciate you Mike for always being a
Speaker 1: listener and a question asker. We shout out when Nona
Speaker 1: as well for her questions her support all morning If
Speaker 1: you haven't listened yet, Mike mentioned the new episode of
Speaker 1: The Big Niang Theory. It features Shake Milton. Now would
Speaker 1: be a great time to do so as we start
Speaker 1: to wrap up Twitter spaces. If you're new here, The
Speaker 1: Big Niang Theories George Niang's podcast. He hosts different teammates
Speaker 1: throughout this season and gets to know them on a
Speaker 1: deeper level. And I really enjoyed my conversation or the
Speaker 1: conversation that we got to have with Shake Milton to
Speaker 1: get to know him a little bit better. He's not
Speaker 1: always as forthcoming as some of his teammates are, and
Speaker 1: it was really cool to dive a little deeper get
Speaker 1: to know him a little better. And I can guarantee
Speaker 1: if you listen to the Shake Milton episode, you're going
Speaker 1: to feel a little more connected to him and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be a bigger Shake Milton fan than you are
Speaker 1: right now. So please follow The Big Nang Theory wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts, follow the seventy six Ers Insiders
Speaker 1: podcast feed wherever you get your podcast. Thank you Matt,
Speaker 1: Thank you Devon. We will hope to be back with
Speaker 1: you guys following tomorrow's Pacers game. So that would be
Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. We do these after every Sixers win. We'll
Speaker 1: try to do some in the weekend between the play
Speaker 1: in tournament. The play in tournament week that comes next week,
Speaker 1: and then we'll be back, of course again during the playoffs.
Speaker 1: The seventy six Ers clinch their fifth consecutive playoffs. Joel
Speaker 1: Embiad absolutely phenomenal last night. He's officially played more NBA
Speaker 1: games this season than he has in any other season.
Speaker 1: That also worth celebrating. When you think about Joel Embiad's story,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of good going on right now in
Speaker 1: Sixers Land, and we love sharing it with you. Guys.
Speaker 1: Matt Davon, thank you so much, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you all next time. Blue Coats playoff game Tuesday
Speaker 1: at eight ESPN two. Check him out against the Long
Speaker 1: Island Nets. Great call, gotta do it, thanks guys. See yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you so