Speaker 1: The seventy Sixers are playoff bound, that much we know.
Speaker 1: Thanks to a big win of Milwaukee Bucks, the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers clinches a playoff spot. Sixers chemistry starting to fire
Speaker 1: on all cylinders. We'll examine a signature performance of the
Speaker 1: season and what it represents, plus a sit down with
Speaker 1: one of the Sixers two way contract players who's been
Speaker 1: on a tear lately with the Delaware Bluecoats. I feel
Speaker 1: like I've just developed all parts of my game, shooting, passing,
Speaker 1: playmaking defensively as well. There's been a huge jump for me.
Speaker 1: Rookie Shake Milton is going to join us on this
Speaker 1: episode of the broadcast. How you doing out there, seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers Pie people. Great to be speaking with you on
Speaker 1: the heels of a big time win for the Sixers
Speaker 1: against Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday at Fiserve Forum, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers not done yet in terms of significant matchups on
Speaker 1: the schedule this week. They obviously have the Charlotte Hornets
Speaker 1: in a game on Tuesday, and then they'll complete the
Speaker 1: back to back at home on Wednesday with the fourth
Speaker 1: and final regular season confrontation against the our rival Boston Celtics,
Speaker 1: setting up real nice and then after that, what's going
Speaker 1: to be ten games to go following the Celtics game.
Speaker 1: Amazing that we are already on that deep point of
Speaker 1: the season for this year. But the Sixers, as mentioned,
Speaker 1: they are in the playoffs. That was what the outcome
Speaker 1: was of their whin against the Bucks on Sunday, combined
Speaker 1: with a loss by the Charlotte Hornets suffered at Miami.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that Bucks game in a little bit
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Speaker 1: What a way it was to start the week. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers the number three seed in the Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: and the Milwaukee Bucks, the one seed in the East
Speaker 1: and the best team by record in the NBA Fiser
Speaker 1: Forum on ESPN, on ABC the Sunday Showcase, and it
Speaker 1: was clear very quickly the seventy Sixers came ready to
Speaker 1: play up top. Jannis driving on Joel domalancats inside of
Speaker 1: the B block of Sixers ball been on the run
Speaker 1: to JJ right side running three ball got it j
Speaker 1: j running That not a game to get to heat up,
Speaker 1: say for a couple of brief back and forth minutes
Speaker 1: early in the second quarter. The Sixers never trailed the Bucks.
Speaker 1: They were the ones in control throughout, looking every bit
Speaker 1: the more confident in sync Claude it'd be when it
Speaker 1: puts it off to no rebounds flave by seventh and
Speaker 1: a foul, Ben jumps up over and through Chris Middleton.
Speaker 1: We're here to compete, you know, we can compete with
Speaker 1: the best. We have an amazing team, and I think
Speaker 1: EB has done a great job of putting us all together.
Speaker 1: Obviously Coachy Brown and coaches after doing a good job.
Speaker 1: So it's fun. Fun. It certainly seemed to be something
Speaker 1: the Sixers had no shortage of having. On Sunday, they
Speaker 1: extended their winning streak to a season high tying fourth
Speaker 1: game in a row. They dealt the Bucks just their
Speaker 1: sixth home loss of the season, and the Sixers maintained
Speaker 1: to hold on third place in the Eastern Conference standings.
Speaker 1: No performance on Sunday was bigger than that of the
Speaker 1: Big Man. Now the monif wing one on one with
Speaker 1: the Dennick Cooper crosses them over down the night, puts
Speaker 1: up off balance, shop for the base like Ribby good
Speaker 1: put front ribbon and trickles and three to shoot Dwells
Speaker 1: back on. Lopez puts it up up big Man when
Speaker 1: a feathery touch cops it drives it off. That was
Speaker 1: baked head, improbable shot by Bed. But time to Joel.
Speaker 1: He's gonna shoot the three d Joel a Bed gives
Speaker 1: the Sixers of what twenty grade? What sixty league? And
Speaker 1: he parts in the crowd. Yeah. Joel Embiide a total
Speaker 1: monster against Milwaukee. He was magnificent. His competitive spirit was
Speaker 1: full throttle. Forty points, fifteen rebounds, six assists against the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Forty fifteen and six, not against the lack luster opponent,
Speaker 1: not against a pretty good opponent, not even one of
Speaker 1: the elite opponents in the NBA, the best team with
Speaker 1: the highest rated defense. Amazing. Yeah, Jannison and a coupo.
Speaker 1: He put up big numbers two fifty two, sixteen and seven.
Speaker 1: Totally get that and acknowledge it. But in the first half,
Speaker 1: Ebid did a really solid job as the primary defender
Speaker 1: on Yannis, making things uncomfortable for the freak and throwing
Speaker 1: the Bucks offense out of rhythm. With Embad leading the way,
Speaker 1: the message was sent, no doubt about it. We had
Speaker 1: to lie make a statement. We had to get this
Speaker 1: way to see where we are a demoment, and everybody
Speaker 1: stepped up a statement showing indeed one thirty one twenty
Speaker 1: five the final score, and I actually thought it was
Speaker 1: a game that didn't feel quite as close as perhaps
Speaker 1: the final score suggested. But there was something else in
Speaker 1: Beid would say moments later that resonated just as Lad
Speaker 1: he told reporters were still learning how to play with
Speaker 1: each other. That's only the seventh game we played together.
Speaker 1: We got a long way to go, and Beads, referring
Speaker 1: to the number of games that the current starting lineup
Speaker 1: in particular has played, that of course would be Embid Simmons,
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick and newcomers this season Jimmy Butler and Tobias Harris.
Speaker 1: And given how little time the group has had together,
Speaker 1: you'd have to think embiad is right in his statement
Speaker 1: and what he was saying. The chemistry can only get better.
Speaker 1: But in the here and now, it's also worth noting
Speaker 1: this and bead Simmons, Reddick, Butler and Harris. They've combined
Speaker 1: for the tenth best net rating of five man lineups
Speaker 1: that have played at least one hundred and fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Here's Harris, Jimmy Parler, tough three by foler is good
Speaker 1: nails and triple. If that's what they've managed to do
Speaker 1: with virtually no practice time at all, imagine what we
Speaker 1: might see from them. The more rep stay gain and
Speaker 1: the more important the games are come scary. There were
Speaker 1: so much that they should be proud of and excited about.
Speaker 1: We had only played six games. Now you think of
Speaker 1: that number, truly, think about that number. We played six
Speaker 1: games with each other, and now we've played seven to
Speaker 1: go and play against, you know, one of the more
Speaker 1: consistent teams in the league, the best defensive team in
Speaker 1: the NBA, and to try to learn and grow our
Speaker 1: team and move it forward. You know there's some talent
Speaker 1: in that role out about it, but there's no right
Speaker 1: to have like a fluid side and a chemistry and
Speaker 1: a symmetry. They have no right to have that, you know,
Speaker 1: not to anybody's faultics up to calendar and so growing
Speaker 1: that and being excited about that and trying to polish
Speaker 1: it up before the playoffs begin is a goal. Ultimately.
Speaker 1: The point we're trying to make here is this. Ever
Speaker 1: since Brown took over as head coach in August twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: he's demanded a certain style of play. You could probably
Speaker 1: recite it by road by bal pace, space defense, but
Speaker 1: more than that, from a holistic standpoint, Brown has wanted
Speaker 1: his system to be capable of absorbing talent. How many
Speaker 1: times have we heard Brett Brown say that over the
Speaker 1: years when the team was going through struggles building itself up.
Speaker 1: We're trying to build a system that can absorb talent,
Speaker 1: either through the draft, free agency, or by trade. And
Speaker 1: this season in particular, the mechanism of absorbing talent was
Speaker 1: trades with Minnesota for Jimmy Butler, with the LA Clippers
Speaker 1: for Tobias Harris, right now, we're seeing that philosophy at
Speaker 1: work with seventy six Ers three point up. All right.
Speaker 1: So after Milwaukee and that win on Sunday, another big
Speaker 1: test looms in bosson Wednesday at the Center. You cannot
Speaker 1: forget the Charlotte Hornets game at Spectrum Center on Tuesday
Speaker 1: against a Hornet squad that is fighting for dear life
Speaker 1: to get into the playoff picture. As we shift scenes
Speaker 1: a bit, in Wilmington, Delaware, the Bluecoats are wrapping up
Speaker 1: their inaugural season in terms of that name in the
Speaker 1: NBA G League, and one of the Sixers draft picks
Speaker 1: has been tearing it up, Jake Milton, trying to give
Speaker 1: the Bluecoats the lead and one for Shake Milton. We'll
Speaker 1: hear from Shake Milton, the fifty fourth pick in this
Speaker 1: past year's draft out of SMU next. But before we
Speaker 1: hear from Shake, I wanted to talk about some things
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Speaker 1: one last thing about the kids. If you have not
Speaker 1: yet been down to Wilmington, Delaware, I could not recommend
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Speaker 1: seventy six Ers Field House, and a high energy G
Speaker 1: League team in the Bluecoats to go along with it.
Speaker 1: I actually had the chance to go down there on
Speaker 1: Monday to see the Bluecoats take on the Canton Charge.
Speaker 1: Game got off to a little bit of a ragged
Speaker 1: and slow start, but down the stretch, one dude in
Speaker 1: particular gave the Blue Coats a fighting chance from overcoming
Speaker 1: a twenty five point deficit, and that would be none
Speaker 1: other than Shake Milton. Shake Milton was the fifty fourth
Speaker 1: pick in this past year's draft. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of draft experts thought that he perhaps could have gone
Speaker 1: higher in the draft had it not been for an
Speaker 1: injury that cut short his junior campaign at SMU after
Speaker 1: twenty two games, but he finished with twenty six points overall,
Speaker 1: shot four of eight from outside the arc. His fourth
Speaker 1: quarter was tremendous. He scored eighteen points on six for
Speaker 1: nine shooting. All four of his threes came in the
Speaker 1: final period. He had a great, great game. At the
Speaker 1: beginning of this week, Shake was number three in the
Speaker 1: G League and scoring it just under twenty five points
Speaker 1: per game, and before the Blue Coats tipped off against
Speaker 1: the Canton Charge, I had a chance to sit down
Speaker 1: with Shake Milton and talk about his first season as
Speaker 1: a pro shake. I feel like we've seen you at
Speaker 1: various stages across the season, whether it's been up with
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers doing your thing with the Delaware
Speaker 1: Blue Coats. Bring us up to speed. How do you
Speaker 1: think things have been going in your first year as
Speaker 1: a pro? I feel like things have gone really well.
Speaker 1: One of the things I wanted to accomplish my first
Speaker 1: year of being a professional is just to become all
Speaker 1: around better player, and I feel like i've I've done that.
Speaker 1: Hasn't been easy, but there's been ups and downs, but
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I expected coming into this, so
Speaker 1: I'm happy with where I'm at. How do you manage
Speaker 1: the ups and downs? You've been injured at times, but
Speaker 1: you know this recent situation and you've come back and
Speaker 1: seems like you've been playing really strong since your return.
Speaker 1: I think you just have to be level headed. It's
Speaker 1: about having the right people around you, people that keep
Speaker 1: you focused. And I mean, as long as you know
Speaker 1: the reason why that you know that you're doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing, You're knowing your why. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: you can keep it all in perspective and it makes
Speaker 1: it easy. Have you always been like that? You've been
Speaker 1: able to channel some inner level headedness and keep your
Speaker 1: mind focused along that track. I think it's just kind
Speaker 1: of my personality. I'm not I never get too high,
Speaker 1: I never get too low. So yeah, and I mean
Speaker 1: the people I've had around me, I've been really good
Speaker 1: about keeping me level headed too and helping me out
Speaker 1: with that aspect. So it hasn't really been too difficult.
Speaker 1: When you look back to, let's say the fall, when
Speaker 1: training camp first came together and you were working your
Speaker 1: way towards the season, where do you think the biggest
Speaker 1: strides you've made have been in your overall development, Because
Speaker 1: that's really what this year has been about, right develop it.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've just developed all parts of my game, shooting, passing,
Speaker 1: playmaking defensively as well. It's been a huge jump for me.
Speaker 1: I feel like just everywhere I've just tried to level up,
Speaker 1: and I feel like the coaches have done a really
Speaker 1: good job of kind of helping me do that, especially
Speaker 1: since I kind of had to learn on the fly.
Speaker 1: I was I was hurt most of the preseason, so
Speaker 1: I really didn't get a chance to work on my
Speaker 1: game too much. I kind of just hit the ground running,
Speaker 1: So I feel like I did pretty well, you know,
Speaker 1: coming from that were concerned at any point that you
Speaker 1: might be behind the eight ball because of some of
Speaker 1: the time you missed. Nah, I mean once I started
Speaker 1: to get a rhythm back for the game of basketball
Speaker 1: and just you know, get to play more and more.
Speaker 1: The more confident I felt, and you know, the better
Speaker 1: I felt upon my game. It's easy to see your
Speaker 1: scoring numbers and your averages as far as things that
Speaker 1: jump out at the time that we're recording this year
Speaker 1: number three in the G League. I think in scoring
Speaker 1: what has allowed you to be effective at getting the
Speaker 1: ball in the basket at this level. I think my
Speaker 1: teammates they do a really good job of giving me
Speaker 1: the ball and then giving me confidence well to go
Speaker 1: and make plays and and do what I do. And
Speaker 1: I think it ultimately allows me to, you know, get
Speaker 1: them involved as well, because I don't want to be
Speaker 1: a selfish player, so um, I think, you know, the
Speaker 1: confidence that they give me allows me to go out
Speaker 1: there and do what I do. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: this is you know, some things have been I don't
Speaker 1: want to say easier, but if things come to you
Speaker 1: more quickly than you might have expected at this level,
Speaker 1: like was there? You know, it's I feel like every
Speaker 1: player's answer is different. But you know, are there numbers
Speaker 1: that you have in mind, like you know, tangible stats.
Speaker 1: You went into this season saying like, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to do this offensively, I would like to be this
Speaker 1: type of player defensively. No, I didn't. I didn't really
Speaker 1: set any number goals or number like goals number wise
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I just kind of wanted to
Speaker 1: judge myself just the way that I felt, um, the
Speaker 1: way that I was able to compete against others on
Speaker 1: the floor, and I feel pretty good about it. When
Speaker 1: it comes to scoring or having the basketball in your hands,
Speaker 1: there's a lot more than just I would think getting
Speaker 1: the ball into the basket decision making wise, Have you
Speaker 1: been challenged this season to look at what you do
Speaker 1: when the balls in your hands, the type of decisions,
Speaker 1: the reads you make, that sort of thing. Um, I
Speaker 1: would say yes, but I've always been challenged to do that.
Speaker 1: This wasn't my first time. You know, they have me
Speaker 1: playing some point guard now with this. I've been playing
Speaker 1: point guard my whole life, so it's kind of been
Speaker 1: the same reads, but just fine tuning it and and
Speaker 1: getting better, and you know you're limiting the mistakes more
Speaker 1: and more as you go and as you learn. When
Speaker 1: you hear about I don't want to say I think
Speaker 1: minor league is the wrong context for it. I used
Speaker 1: to do. I used to work in minor league baseball,
Speaker 1: So I think when I think of the G League,
Speaker 1: I think back at that time in my life. You know,
Speaker 1: we'd go on long bus trips and there would be
Speaker 1: times when the bus stalls out in the middle of
Speaker 1: your trip, and you know it's scorching hot out and
Speaker 1: you gotta wait a couple of hours with the bus
Speaker 1: to be fixed. What are some stories. Tell me some
Speaker 1: stories about being in a developmental league. I've got to
Speaker 1: think that there's probably some fun, crazy type situations that
Speaker 1: you guys have found yourself in this year. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't remember where we were at, but I
Speaker 1: remember remember we had played a game, and we had
Speaker 1: a game the next day, I think, and we were
Speaker 1: stuck at the hotel because of the weather, and they
Speaker 1: had a bus come to get us and it broke down,
Speaker 1: and so we were sitting there waiting at the hotel
Speaker 1: and then had another bus coming to get us. And
Speaker 1: that broke down as well, and they had another bus
Speaker 1: coming that woman also broke down. So I think it
Speaker 1: was we didn't ended up getting in until it was
Speaker 1: super duper late, and then we had to wake up
Speaker 1: the next morning and play another game. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that just comes where it kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of a basketball you know, you kind of just
Speaker 1: lace them up and go. And in some ways, I
Speaker 1: think that's that's got to be a neat part of it.
Speaker 1: Like I remember again going back to minor league baseball,
Speaker 1: where it's like you wouldn't arrive in a city until
Speaker 1: maybe six in the morning, the team got a couple
Speaker 1: hours asleep, and they would call it just show and
Speaker 1: go games where you get to the park just do
Speaker 1: your thing. Is there a simplicity to that sometimes where
Speaker 1: it almost forces you to zero win on the essentials
Speaker 1: of what's necessary, where you know, instead of getting wrapped
Speaker 1: up and like I gotta do this pre game that game,
Speaker 1: it's just focusing on what really is the essence of
Speaker 1: playing the game. Um yeah, I could definitely say that.
Speaker 1: It kind of feels good. I mean, that's why some
Speaker 1: guys my life, having back to back games or a
Speaker 1: lot of games in a row where you don't have
Speaker 1: to even worry about practice or shoot arounds or anything
Speaker 1: like that. You kind of just, you know, lace them
Speaker 1: up and play. And that's kind of the same thing
Speaker 1: you've been doing all the while since you were a
Speaker 1: little kid. So I mean it kind of brings you
Speaker 1: back to that. Before you went on this current tear
Speaker 1: with the Bluecoats and before the injury, you were up
Speaker 1: with the seventy Sixers towards the end of that month
Speaker 1: of January when the team was on a West coast trip.
Speaker 1: Do you find yourself, as a human nature to wonder
Speaker 1: when calls will come, when you'll get called up? Do
Speaker 1: you think about that? How do you handle that part
Speaker 1: of it? I just try not to think about it.
Speaker 1: I just try to keep my mind focused on the
Speaker 1: task at hand and what I'm doing currently. You know,
Speaker 1: when I'm in with the G League team, I try
Speaker 1: to focus strictly on them and you know, who our
Speaker 1: opponent is and what I have to do for us
Speaker 1: to be successful. And then when I'm with the Sixers,
Speaker 1: I try to, you know, switch my mindset and focus
Speaker 1: on the same thing. So I don't try to worry
Speaker 1: about when a call up is coming. I think my
Speaker 1: job is to make it as hard as I can
Speaker 1: on whoever is making that decision to not have me
Speaker 1: up there. So that's just what I try to try
Speaker 1: to do, you know, defensively, offensively, I just try to
Speaker 1: make it hard for them not to have me up there.
Speaker 1: Brett Brown Is said on a couple occasions, especially after
Speaker 1: games you've been up with the seventy six ers, that
Speaker 1: you do things that pop, that stand out that in
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form, there's ways that you're getting noticed.
Speaker 1: How much different is it playing down here versus at
Speaker 1: the NBA level, that sort of thing, and what's the same?
Speaker 1: What are certain things that are normalized? Um, I mean,
Speaker 1: I would probably say the physicality is a little different
Speaker 1: than the NBA. But outside of that, you know, there's
Speaker 1: still there's great talent down here. Everybody plays hard, everybody's
Speaker 1: fighting for the same thing, so of course guys are
Speaker 1: going to be competitive, I mean, and at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it's just basketball, so you kind of
Speaker 1: just it's the same thing you've been doing. You might
Speaker 1: have nerves, you might have jitters, but whenever the ball
Speaker 1: is tossing the air, you know, it's just basketball. When
Speaker 1: you take a look at how the season has gone
Speaker 1: for yourself offensively, we're saying things looking pretty good defensively.
Speaker 1: Tell me where you think your game is at right now? Um,
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel I feel pretty good about it. Um.
Speaker 1: And I feel like the coaches who have been working
Speaker 1: with me have also been doing a good job of
Speaker 1: challenging me to be better in areas and I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to step up to that challenge. And um,
Speaker 1: that's something that I know I can do. So Um,
Speaker 1: it's just about going out there and proving it every night.
Speaker 1: What are the things defensively that you think that you
Speaker 1: need to master? Just being long, continue to use my length, um,
Speaker 1: and just being active at all times. Were you surprised
Speaker 1: when you found out Aamir Johnson was going to come
Speaker 1: down here? Um? I don't know if I was surprised.
Speaker 1: I was happy. You know, he's a he's an og Um,
Speaker 1: that's my guy. Um, you know, he's a. He's a
Speaker 1: He's a great player and an even better person. And
Speaker 1: so UM to of him or somebody like him in
Speaker 1: our locker room has been huge. And he rubs off
Speaker 1: on everybody the right way when the focus at this
Speaker 1: level is so much on individual development that is the
Speaker 1: top priority. It seems like, I mean, obviously everyone wants
Speaker 1: to win games. How does that affect the way a
Speaker 1: team interplays with one another, that sort of thing, the dynamics,
Speaker 1: and in some ways, you know, I almost got to
Speaker 1: think like everyone's going through it, everyone's trying to get
Speaker 1: noticed to a certain degree, and in some wady's going
Speaker 1: to even bring you guys together. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think you know, it always goes back to the
Speaker 1: game of basketball. Everybody been playing it since they were
Speaker 1: young or whatever. So I mean, everybody wants to be competitive,
Speaker 1: and everybody wants to win, and so from that aspect,
Speaker 1: I think everybody kind of buys in and that's where
Speaker 1: the team's focuses now, you know, individually, or in practices
Speaker 1: or after you know, you're getting getting up early and
Speaker 1: going and getting your own work in. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: probably more of the player development side, because the coaches
Speaker 1: do a really good job of being available for that too.
Speaker 1: But when you stop on the court as a team
Speaker 1: and you know you got your teammates right next to you,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's mind is focused on winning. No one
Speaker 1: wants to lose. What type of relationship have you developed
Speaker 1: of the course of the season with Zaire, Oh, Zaire,
Speaker 1: that's that's my guy. He's funny. People probably don't realize
Speaker 1: it because he think he's quiet, but he's funny. Um,
Speaker 1: he's in you know, freak of nature, athletic and you know,
Speaker 1: the more he continues to play, the more confidence he's
Speaker 1: gonna get and everybody's just going to start too. Kind
Speaker 1: of player he can really be. Can you give us
Speaker 1: some insights on how he's funny, because right when we
Speaker 1: speak with him, it's very direct, almost like yes sir, no, sir, yes, ma'am,
Speaker 1: no man questions. You know, he gets straight to the
Speaker 1: point and that's it. Yeah, he's uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's it's probably hard to describe. You probably just have
Speaker 1: to be around him to kind of see some of
Speaker 1: the things he does or the way he moves or
Speaker 1: some of the things that he might say. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're around him, you'll probably be laughing, pretty happy
Speaker 1: for him to see him, be able to see through
Speaker 1: what he went through and nat again and stuff. Definitely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I means is crazy, the type of stuff that he's
Speaker 1: been through for him to be able to bounce back
Speaker 1: is is while you know, it just goes to show
Speaker 1: how how strong he is and how strong the team
Speaker 1: that he has around him is. As well. As you
Speaker 1: wrap this up regular season and for the Bluecoats on
Speaker 1: March twenty third, what are you focused on after that?
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll have a chance to be up with
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers working with the big team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where my mind will go. And then also just
Speaker 1: continuing to work on my body and just continuing to
Speaker 1: find him my game. You know, he never really stopped,
Speaker 1: and I gotta think that it For as much as
Speaker 1: you've been able to do and accomplish this season, it's
Speaker 1: almost like, is there a sense within you like it
Speaker 1: just kind of what's the appetite you've gotten to taste
Speaker 1: this year? And then you look forward to next year
Speaker 1: and how things might even be able to build for
Speaker 1: your own game. Yeah. I mean every time you're able
Speaker 1: to go up there and experience being in the NBA
Speaker 1: and with that feels like if it definitely makes you
Speaker 1: hungry and it makes you even more motivated whenever you
Speaker 1: you're down here to you know, prove why you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be Shakenel so much, man, I appreciate it. Appreciate it
Speaker 1: right hearing from Shake Milton then getting his thoughts on
Speaker 1: what his rookie season has been like. And at any
Speaker 1: development league level, I am sure you speak to minor
Speaker 1: league baseball players G league players going to the different
Speaker 1: minor league hockey affiliations, You're going to get crazy stories about,
Speaker 1: you know, buses that break down or planes that are delayed.
Speaker 1: I just want to know if the Blue Coats kept
Speaker 1: using I should have filed this up with Shake, if
Speaker 1: the Blue Coats kept using the same bus company time
Speaker 1: after time that they needed to get to the airport
Speaker 1: as Shake Milton was describing in that story. All right,
Speaker 1: big thanks to Shake Milton for taking the time to
Speaker 1: talk on the podcast on a game day, and thanks
Speaker 1: to you as always for listening. Stay tuned. We'll have
Speaker 1: rewind editions to the podcast coming up with games this week,
Speaker 1: and I'll be back at it with another episode of
Speaker 1: the broadcast here next week. Say