WEBVTT - Dancing Sixers Sweep Weekend Back-to-Back 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.480 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:10.520 Search seventy Sixers Insiders wherever you get your podcasts day 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:24.799 everybody enough, yeah seventy six us. All righty, good morning, everybody. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.320 Welcome into another post Sixers win Twitter spaces. Anytime we 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.200 can do these on back to back days means that 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.080 something is going well. If you're new here, now is 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.040 your opportunity to send us your questions, your comments. I 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.800 see a lot of regulars in the chat this morning, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.360 so I'm calling on you regulars to challenge yourselves to 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.760 ask a new question. Click on my icon Matt and 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.280 devonor here you can click on their icons. Send a 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.919 DM telling us what you liked most about the Sixers 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:56.160 win over the Calves, about the Sixers clinching a playoff appearance, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.600 about the road ahead. The regular season is nearly complete, 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.240 just four games left and then the playoffs will begin 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.560 and the Sixers will be there for the fifth consecutive year. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.800 So send us your questions, Send us your thoughts, as always, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.520 will run through the box Score, will take questions. I 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.000 can't wait to hear what Davon and Matt thought of 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.920 last nights when, but please send us questions. We're a 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.840 little bit behind on questions this morning, and like I 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.840 said yesterday, I totally get it. Eighty two games is 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:27.920 a lot of games, and we have had quite a 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.280 few Twitter spaces, if I'm not wrong, We've had at 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.880 least forty eight of them as of this morning, so 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.319 I know there's not that many questions left to be asked. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.240 But I think when Joel Embide plays the way that 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.160 he did last night, when the team plays the way 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.000 that it did during their day game on Saturday, there's 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.559 a lot to discuss. So even if it's just sending 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.600 your favorite thing that you've seen, something you're interested in, 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:53.480 concerned about, excited about, please send us those thoughts because 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.520 that way we can spend the next forty five minutes 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.040 or so talking about whatever you the like to talk about. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.560 So I'm seeing some questions in I really appreciate it. 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.440 If you're thinking about sending one and you haven't yet, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.680 now is the time to dive in and do so. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:14.560 Matt Devon, good morning, how are we? Hey? Good morning, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.639 Good morning, Lauren, Good morning Devon? Or should I say 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.120 what's up? Miss Rosen? To keep it for consistency's sake. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.240 Channeling my honor, Tyrese Maxie again, I got to keep 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.280 that going. So what's up, miss Rosen, what's up? Devon? 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.560 Back on sixer spaces after a win, goodwin on the 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.600 second night of a back to back Divon. They came 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.040 out with some energy, especially in the second half, to 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.200 close out a roadwin, got the job done. I was 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.639 really impressed with just the effort on the glass and 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.040 we can get into all of this, but they got 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.240 They got it done in Cleveland against the team that's 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.160 going to be in the playoff mix. So kept things 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.480 rolling and we're back. Good morning, guys. Yeah, it was. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.280 It was a really good win last night, a tough 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.639 road win, a playoff atmosphere, it seemed like. And speaking 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.799 to Tom Againnis and Lauren you were there, he said, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.280 it was really really the crowd was really into it 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.079 and to see them I have an opportunity to pull 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:10.959 that one out the way that they did, it was 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.880 really good to see that. Knowing that again, this is 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.720 a type of type of performance that you're going to 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.880 have to win that way sometimes in the postseason, so 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.040 good to see them get that one done. Two game 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.200 winning street start this three game road trip off the 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:29.200 right way, no doubt about it. This, of course, the 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.280 last road trip in the regular season for the seventy sixers. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.080 They're on they've won their first that was in Cleveland 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.839 last night. The team now in beautiful Indianapolis to play 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.880 again tomorrow night against the Indiana Pacers, the penultimate matchup 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.480 between the Pacers, who we'll visit the Sixers this weekend 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.200 and then travel to Toronto for the final road game 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.080 of the regular season. So the Sixers will look to 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.360 keep a good thing going. But this back to back 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.280 perhaps dare say their best basketball yet as a unit, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.560 and of course I'm talking about the post James Harden 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.920 six and the group that has expressed how badly they 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:07.160 want to figure out how to play together efficiently, effectively, dominantly. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.160 But in a short period of time, I think that 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.040 between last nights of victory over the Calves, which by 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.640 the way, was they come from behind victory, and that 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.000 dominant second half against the Charlotte Hornets, this is the 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.839 best that this group has looked and there cannot be 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.880 a better time to figure stuff out. And of course 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.080 there's still things to work on. The guys have expressed 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.520 a few areas of focus postgame after both wins, but 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.120 it does feel like they're at their best right now. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:38.800 Matt devon any thoughts before we dive into the box score, Well, 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:43.960 I wanted to get more from Cleveland on site in Cleveland, Lauren, 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:48.640 what was the talk postgame? What were the themes? And 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.520 as we've already kind of discussed the playoff atmosphere and 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.760 if you want to throw anything in about that, but 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.440 how about the postgame atmosphere too? Yeah. Sure, shout out 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.080 to that Cleveland crowd. They know their basketball, they love 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.799 their basketball. It was packed in there. It was loud 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.479 in there. Not quite as loud as a Sixers game, 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.000 there's no such thing. But it was cool to be 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.800 in that sort of playoff environment, a crowd that was 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.920 really engaged in everything that was happening, and a team 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.840 obviously that was really engaged to cover that twelve point 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.880 deficit and come back for the victory. And postgame, Matt, 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.320 I gotta be honest, it was all about Joel Embid. Joel, 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:30.240 of course, last night, finished with forty four points, seventeen rebounds, 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.919 three assists, and five blocks. More on that and on 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.599 the company that he keeps with that stat line in 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.440 a little bit but his teammates talking about Joel's MVP case, 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:43.240 Joel talking about his own MVP case, and we should 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.960 add the caveat there that Joel feels, if it happens, 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.520 it happens. His priority is finding ways to win games 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.279 with this team, as has been the case all season long. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.600 He knows he doesn't have control over whether or not 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.200 he wins the MVP award. He does have control over 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.120 how well this team is able to do and how 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.640 far they're able to go. But that being said, DeAndre Jordan, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.160 George Niang, James Harden, Doc Rivers all sort of made 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.840 the case for why Joel has got to be the 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.160 MVP this season post game, and I think that that 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.400 was nice and well deserved and unprompted in a lot 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:18.880 of cases. He was just so dominant that fourth quarter. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.080 I don't know if I've seen a better Joel Embiid 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.200 than he looked on those back to back to back 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.839 to back possessions. And then of course to see him emote, 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.440 to see him really excited and invested in getting this victory, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.920 in being a fourth quarter closer, for me, Joel had 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.560 to be the top story, and he clearly was. For 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.680 his teammates as well. Yeah, and I also like the 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.919 defensive play that he had with the five blocks and 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.880 no doctor. Rivers alluded to it last night after the game, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.960 but they were getting to the painted area, you know 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.240 quite a bit, Dearis Garland is fantastic at that. He 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.240 sets up his players nicely and gets guys some good 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.480 looks and close they just have to make them if 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.800 they can get him by Joel and bad and he 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:04.359 made sure that he denied them those few times and 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.680 emphatically a couple of those blocks there. So not only offensively, 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.600 where of course that stands out, and you're right, Lauren, 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.920 in the offensive end, those three straight possessions where he 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.840 was fantastic and working that pick and roll, like we 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:22.720 all discussed on Sunday before the game last night, he 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.040 and James Harden have that pick and roll down less 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.000 efforts that he has, well, less energy that he has 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.200 to use because of course of what James Harden does 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:33.800 to set him up. But then he can use that 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.520 energy again on the defensive end to help of course 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.800 keep those guys from scoring the opposition and to put 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.400 up those numbers offensively and then come back defensively and 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.120 also help out and then show that emotion. I love 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.480 when he shows that emotion because he doesn't do it often. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.240 When he does it, he does it at the time 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.400 where there's a big run at some point in the game, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.640 or when there's a close out for the end of 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.600 the game, and I do love to see that. I 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:05.360 love that type of performance from him. I hear you, Divon, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.200 I'm with you. I love what you said about his 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.760 showing emotion because he doesn't just do it. There's sort 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.160 of a Joel embiade to George Niang spectrum of showing emotion. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.800 George Niang will show emotion for anything, and it's why 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.200 people love him, it's why his teammates love him, and 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.720 it's part of what makes him such an effective basketball player. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.360 But Joel Embid is on the opposite end of the spectrum. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.480 Joel can drop fifty with a stone face, and so 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.360 to see him emote, to see him care and play 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.640 with that amount of heart in a regular season game 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.920 against a team that, by the way, they had already 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.320 won three against in a come from behind situation on 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.240 the second night of a back to back, it was 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.400 really good to see. It was a reminder of how 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.680 much Joel does care or even if he doesn't emote 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.200 in the way that George Niang does, but really cool 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.600 to see him rewarded for what he was able to do. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.319 I want to go ahead and jump into the box score. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.120 I'm seeing a lot of questions dive in. I'm seeing 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.319 a lot of questions come in. So we are going 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.280 to dive into those questions because to share them with Matt, 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.320 with Devon. But let's do the box score first. As always, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.480 if anything stands out as I go through this box score, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.960 I know Joel will. But if there's anybody else that 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.000 you want to talk about, please send us a DM 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.760 or comment on the Sixers space thread to let us 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.440 know where you'd like the conversation to head. So, without 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.400 further ado, Joel Embi led the way forty four points, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.439 seventeen rebounds, three assists, one steel, five blocks. Joel started 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.080 slow from the field, but finished shooting twelve for twenty six, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.600 three for six from three, and seventeen four twenty from 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.120 the line. More on that, of course, in a little bit. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.400 James Harden not just his second triple double as a 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.199 seventy six or twenty one points, ten rebounds, ten assists, 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.120 He also had a more difficult shooting night from the 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.240 field four for thirteen, but again found ways to get 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.520 it done in other places, which is what great players 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.120 do when they're not super duper feeling it from the floor. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.160 He was also eleven for twelve from the free throw line. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.640 Tyrese Maxie and Tobias Harris at eleven points apiece. Tobias 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.200 also had five rebounds, three assists, and a block. Tyrese 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.920 had three assists and a steal. Matisse thyble. Again, stat 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.040 line doesn't always tell the whole story with Matisse, who 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.160 finished with four points, two rebounds, three assists, two steals, 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.480 and two blocks. But perhaps one of the most, if 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.800 not the most important plays of the game, Let's go 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.280 one of the most Let's go one of the most 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.800 important plays of the game. Stealing the inbounds. See a 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.800 couple or right off the inbound, seeing a couple questions 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.040 about that, we will get there. George Yang a bench 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.160 high eight points. He finished at a team high tied 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:37.520 with Joel Embiid plus sixteen plus five rebounds. DeAndre Jordan 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.840 finished with six points and four rebounds. Let's see Shake 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.720 Milton four points, Stanny Green three points, everybody contributed in 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.480 this one, and again the seventy six ers had a 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.120 great third quarter. That's two in as many games. A 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.560 thirty two twenty five swing in that third quarter that 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.920 ultimately was enough to sort of tip the scales, and 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:02.440 then that dominant fourth quarter perform by Joel Embiid sealed 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.560 the deal. So, Matt Davon, what stands out before we 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:10.280 we dive into these questions, I'm gonna repeat myself about 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.199 rebounding and effort on the glass. It's a quick point here, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.160 but they win the rebounding battle. Both teams were on 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:18.800 the second night of a back to back, but I 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.040 thought in the second half the offensive rebound and the 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.880 offensive rebounding and the second chance points. So they finished 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.280 with twelve offensive rebounds and sixteen second chance points. I 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:33.960 know Kate Scott said it on the telecast, and she 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.880 and Allah pointed it out in the game. So I'm 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.520 gonna go with that, not an individual statistic because Embiid 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.880 has most of those covered, but a team statistic. What 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.679 about you, Devon what stands out from the stats? Yeah, 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.600 I'm going to more team as well. When we talk 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.360 about the discrepancy and free throws again, and it was 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.880 something that the Sixers desperately needed because it did seem 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.240 early that Cleveland had that energy, and we saw that 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.840 as a result of just paying attention to how the 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.400 game was playing out, but as the game played along, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.520 knowing that in beating Harden both get to the foul 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.679 line the way that the game ultimately ended up, they 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.959 needed every bit of those foul shots and to know 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.080 that you can have your two stars as they do 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.400 with em beating hard and shoot over eighty percent and 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.760 close to ninety for James Harden. It's a weapon that 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.079 they have that they can use and look, the league 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.400 may not like it. That may be others who fans 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.640 or executives and coaches and players who may not like it. Well, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.120 my things always stopped fattling them and they would love 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.360 those calls if they were on their end, and it 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.079 is a weapon that they are able to use. They 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.439 continue to make those free throws and it is a big, 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.680 big reason as to why they win a lot of 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.240 those games, and that showed in yesterday's game against the 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.720 Cavs as well. I saw what you guys saw. Thank 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.920 you as always for diving a little bit deeper into 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.200 the box. Score. I want to go ahead and go 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.720 into some questions and get to as many of them 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.440 as we possibly can. And I thought that, let's see, 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.080 here's where I wanted to start. I thought that Emily 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.920 had an interesting point about DeAndre Jordan, and I know 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.600 that Sixers Twitter is having quite the discourse about backup 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.360 center minutes for the seventy sixers, But Emily says, DeAndre 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.319 Jordan has looked over the last few games much better. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.280 What's the most important thing for he and the bench 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.680 to focus on come playoff time? And I think that 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.320 now is an appropriate opportunity to talk about what he 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.199 was able to do last night. DeAndre Jordan, of course, 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.760 a veteran in this league, knows where to be, knows 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.880 what to do. Finishes with six points and four rebounds, 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:38.000 and it's very comfortable in that supporting role. He played 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.040 just ten minutes. He was three for three from the field, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:41.920 and after the game he talked about the fact that 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.640 he knew his job was always going to be to 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.200 play somewhere between ten and fifteen minutes to back up 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.760 the big fella, Joel Embiid, an MVP candidate, and make 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.400 sure that he does everything he can do to protect 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.600 the work that Joel has done. So, in my opinion, 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.120 that's all you can ask from someone again, perfect from 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.280 the field, crashing the boards, being big, doing what he 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.880 needs to do, and then keeping the proper mindset so 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.400 when you ask what does he need to do headed 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.960 into the playoffs, to me, it's just keep that mindset 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.160 and keep that productivity, don't make don't make mistakes when 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.360 you can avoid them. And Joel, of course, then proceeded 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.120 to credit DeAndre for what he's been able to do. So, 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.400 Matt Devon, what did you see out of him over 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.240 the last couple of games. He's looking a little bit 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.840 more comfortable out there. He and Tobias Harris have some 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.880 really cool lob chemistry, and I think it's been cool 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.720 to see the way that he's come in so late 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.040 to this team and figure out a way to make 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.280 his mark and be, in my opinion, very effective over 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:42.720 the last few games. Well, Lauren, your MBA hotel WiFi 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.720 was at least giving me some issues there a little bit, 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.120 but we made out most of what you were saying. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.760 But as you travel around the NBA circuit, sometimes I 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.480 don't know the WiFi. Let me, let me do some 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.640 fancy footwork while you while you respond to what you did, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:01.080 hear of what I said, and I'll be right back. No, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.920 I know we were. We were talking about DeAndre Jordan 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.040 and the minutes that he's giving the Sixers and the lab, 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:12.360 the lab threat, the alley oop, reverse all oops against 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.960 the Hornets, Harris on the ability to lob the ball 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.640 to DeAndre, all notable things from the past two games, 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:24.080 the weekend games Charlotte and then at Cleveland. And it's 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.480 something that we talked about with Devon yesterday, and Devon, 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.200 for anyone who wasn't here yesterday, I thought you made 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:34.080 a really good point about Tobias Harris as a passer 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.520 in these situations. I think it would be worth just 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.320 reminding people of that point you made in the in 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.080 the last spaces. Sure, so we saw it a few 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.480 times against the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday afternoon, but we 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.200 had seen it prior to that and a few of 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.920 the other games, and we had an opportunity once again 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.320 last night to see that connection, whatever it is. My 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.800 main point was James Harden shake Milton, in my opinion, 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.320 were the two best lab throwers on the team. And 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.800 you need those at times, you always, of course want 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.480 to have some athletic people who can finish those pleas 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.720 and Tobias Harris has surprised me with his passing in 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.920 the chemistry the connection that he and DeAndre Jordan have 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.200 put together in a short time here. But let's not 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.080 to forget the fact that they did play with one 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.680 another in la when they were both part of the 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.960 Clippers while Tobias Harris was there, So it's something that 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:26.880 may have been there before that we didn't pay much 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.520 attention to in the year's past because we didn't see 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.120 the Clippers as much with Tobias Harris. But now that 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:38.040 they are back together, just getting refamiliarizing themselves with one 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.200 another on that end and being able to connect that way, 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.240 it is as a key play in the game because 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.720 DeAndre Jordan, as we know throughout his career, a lot 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.920 of his work offensively comes off the offensive rebounds, offensive 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.640 glass and his teammates setting him up, and that was 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.720 a lob city back then for a reason, not just 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:59.000 with Blake Griffin, but also with DeAndre Jordan, and he 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:00.720 still has some bounced to him. It may not be 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.160 the Jordan that we saw as an all NBA player 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.760 as a Defensive Player of the Year type of candidate 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.600 in the All Star This is a new version of 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.280 DeAndre Jordan and for Lauren to lay out everything that 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.560 he understands. He's a veteran, he's been around a long time, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.640 so he knows what he needs to do in order 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.000 to make some positive plays and be successful with his team. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.160 And Tobias Harris and he have a really good connection 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.760 on that in Shake Milton as well, as I mentioned, 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.160 So it's good to see that as part of something 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.000 because there will be some times where Tobias is going 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:34.680 to be on the floor with James Harden, and there 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.200 are going to be sometimes where he's got going to 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:37.880 be out there with Maxie or Shake Milton, and James 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.400 Harden's going to be on the bench and he's gonna 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.000 handle and run the initiate the offense and that action 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.400 and if they commit, he knows that he can put 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.320 that ball up anywhere towards the rim and DeAndre Jordan 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.760 will still have the necessary capabilities to go up there 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.280 and get it. And we saw that the last two games. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.919 I would imagine that's something that they keep tucked away 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:58.920 in the event that they have to pull that one 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.720 out once again as they move forward and devon to 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.560 go back to when Lauren was speaking, she said, she 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.479 brought up the clinching the playoffs again, and I just 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.399 wanted to go come back to that for a second 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.080 with you, because you've had these conversations with people on 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:19.560 the radio for many years, podcasts, whatever setting you want 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.840 to say. Five straight years in the playoffs for this organization, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:27.520 it can't be overlooked. It's an impressive feat. No one 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.480 was worried about them clinching. It was just a matter 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.080 of when they would do it. But it's that time 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:37.360 of year when everybody gets excited for a Sixers postseason run, 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.400 and as the regular season winds down, I just wanted 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.320 to make sure that we remind people how special it 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.560 is to, you know, follow this team into the playoffs 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:49.320 for the fifth straight year. It is a special thing. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.640 Once they made it the first time around the seventeen 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.680 eighteen season, and you could see that they had something 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.800 brewing with the team, with the two young players as 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.960 the foundational pieces and then these elect veterans that they 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.560 had added it around them. And now we are in 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.720 year number five where they make it once again and 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.360 we all knew they would get there. We all knew 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.280 that they would get to close to fifty wins once again. 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.280 On the season, it was always when you speak and 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:18.240 just speaking fairly and clearly about what the listeners talk about. 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.119 It's about how far now they don't want it to be. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.360 And I'm sure everyone, the organization, the team, everyone wants 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.959 to make it a step further than they did last season, 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.640 and possibly those two steps further and getting to the ultimate. 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.280 So yeah, it's really good to see again they are 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.879 one of those teams that are good and maybe they 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.000 just overlooked because you expect it like we do here, 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:45.040 expect those high forties, low fifties regular seasons through an 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.320 eighty two game run and last season seventy two games 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.800 with forty nine wins, but just playing some good basketball overall, 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.120 understanding how great Joel Embi it is. There's a lot 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.000 of talk about good and great, and I'm not one 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.760 to throw around great often, but I think it's very 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.119 clear that Joel and beat is a great player in 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.480 the NBA, one of those top five level players. And 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.640 to have him anchoring everything that you do have with 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.879 the team that has now gotten there five consecutive years 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.919 for a postseason run. It is something that is that 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:18.240 is really really special, but it's always it's always, you know, 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:22.200 left a little bit of a damp, damp feeling about 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.480 how things end up, just because there's only one champion 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.280 and you want to see your team get there. So 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.440 let's hope that they can have an extended run. That's 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.640 great to see them once again get that forty eight 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.680 and knock themselves right into the playoffs. Let's see now 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.640 how far things go. Guys, how's my audio sounding at 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.840