Speaker 1: Two days away from the twenty eighteen NBA Draft, and
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers bringing back two prospects for visit number
Speaker 1: two at their training complex in camp To New Jersey
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Kevin Knox coming back for a solo session
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, and Zayer Smith out of Texas Tech,
Speaker 1: will be part of another six man workout group earlier
Speaker 1: in the morning. Brian Seltzer welcoming you back to another
Speaker 1: draft edition of the podcast. Really looking forward to hearing
Speaker 1: from our guest on this edition of the podcast, none
Speaker 1: other than NBC Sports Philadelphia seventy Sixers analyst Alla Ablinabby
Speaker 1: haven't heard his voice and about what is it now?
Speaker 1: A month's time or more, and it's a very welcoming,
Speaker 1: excellent voice to hear, as we've come to know over
Speaker 1: the last couple of seasons. Olive, of course, before he
Speaker 1: started doing Sixers games full time, was a college basketball
Speaker 1: analyst for CBS Sports Network. He still does a couple
Speaker 1: of games here and there, so I thought, why not
Speaker 1: reach out to him get his perspective on things about
Speaker 1: the Sixers and the draft. Before you bring in Allah,
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Speaker 1: Whatever the occasion, it is always excellent to be connecting
Speaker 1: with this man that we have on the line. Ala Abdelnaby,
Speaker 1: what's up man? How you doing great? Brian, good to
Speaker 1: be with you. Is always always fun to talk basketball
Speaker 1: with you, my friend. Listen, we're gonna get into some
Speaker 1: of the stuff related to the draft, but we actually
Speaker 1: haven't spoken since the last game you Zoo and Molly
Speaker 1: worked for NBC Sports Philadelphia, which was the end of
Speaker 1: the first round for the seventy sixers against the Miami Heat.
Speaker 1: So I almost feel like there wasn't complete closure to
Speaker 1: the season that we did not get to hear and
Speaker 1: Allah Abdelnaby take opinion, thought, perspective, insight on how everything
Speaker 1: shook out against the Boston Celtics. So before we die
Speaker 1: even to the draft, would you think of about how
Speaker 1: the second round went well? I think the trick is
Speaker 1: to look past the disappointment that you feel when you
Speaker 1: get eliminated and you get sent home. And I think
Speaker 1: there's obviously, you know, a lot of disappointment losing to
Speaker 1: the Celtics rightfully so, but I don't think for a
Speaker 1: second that it should take away from anything that that
Speaker 1: the Sittures did as a team as an organization this year,
Speaker 1: with the fifty plus wins, with the way they conducted
Speaker 1: themselves down the stretch of the regular season, playing about
Speaker 1: as good as basketball as anybody on the planet was
Speaker 1: playing at the time. So there was a lot of
Speaker 1: positive and I don't forget the ten, ten, and seventy
Speaker 1: two seasons. It's still in my rearview mirror where I
Speaker 1: can see it. And so when you think about that
Speaker 1: season and you think about what we saw last year,
Speaker 1: the progress has been stunning and it was just a
Speaker 1: far part. It was a fun thing to be a
Speaker 1: part of it, and I felt it was also a
Speaker 1: privilege to be a part of it, get to watch
Speaker 1: some really high level basketball and watch this team come
Speaker 1: together as a unit. The Sixers exceeded expectations. That's a
Speaker 1: fair statement to make you think absolutely. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: if you would have told me we would have gone
Speaker 1: over the fifty mark as far as wins are concerned
Speaker 1: in October, I would have looked at you and said,
Speaker 1: you know, probably, why don't you just tamper that down.
Speaker 1: That's probably not realistic for this season. I would have
Speaker 1: thought perhaps that was something that the Sixers would have
Speaker 1: been able to accomplish in the years moving forward. But
Speaker 1: that being said, it just speeds up the progress that
Speaker 1: much more because right now the Sixers have even more
Speaker 1: to build up. When you broke into the league with
Speaker 1: the Trailblazers back and the heyday of that franchise in
Speaker 1: the early nineteen nineties, you were thrust in the midst
Speaker 1: of a situation. You've talked about this a lot in
Speaker 1: the past, where that was a team competing at a
Speaker 1: high level. Do you think there is something too the
Speaker 1: stance that if you're a young player, it takes going
Speaker 1: through the playoffs the postseason to really get a feel
Speaker 1: for what it's like, what it demands. Absolutely, it's a
Speaker 1: great point you make, because the regular season is one thing,
Speaker 1: and success in the regular season deserves a lot of
Speaker 1: attention and credit and you should be lauded for it.
Speaker 1: But I think it's a different beast when you get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, and I know that having gone through
Speaker 1: it myself as a player, you just the game gets
Speaker 1: taken to another level. You hear the phrase money time,
Speaker 1: where it's you know, applied to the baseball playoffs, the
Speaker 1: same thing in the NBA. I think reputations are made
Speaker 1: in the playoffs individually and collectively, and I think the
Speaker 1: Sixers comported themselves really well as far as a team
Speaker 1: that hadn't been in the playoffs for a while, had
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that were going through it for
Speaker 1: the first time and trying to find their way through
Speaker 1: the difficulty of the NBA playoff season and finding some
Speaker 1: success being able to navigate through that that there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be said for that, and the Sixers have
Speaker 1: a lot to be proud of. But again it should
Speaker 1: only encourage them because I think it's something where you
Speaker 1: learn about how far you can go, and you you
Speaker 1: get knocked down a little bit, and then it makes
Speaker 1: you want to go a little further, and hopefully that's
Speaker 1: the fire that's burning between inside of each and every player.
Speaker 1: Because there's a lot more to do. From the fan perspective,
Speaker 1: it might be understandable for someone to say, well, you know,
Speaker 1: the Sixers went on this great run and who knocked
Speaker 1: them out a division rival, the Celtics, And oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, their timeline looks like it's pretty similar right
Speaker 1: now to where the Sixers are in terms of having
Speaker 1: a youthful core and what they might be able to add.
Speaker 1: But from this standpoint, from the coverage standpoint a member
Speaker 1: of the media, I think it's an awesome storyline where
Speaker 1: you have these two long time rivals. I think it's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it that we're going to get a
Speaker 1: big time revivalry of it, and you got these young
Speaker 1: players in the thick of it that foreseeably could be
Speaker 1: duking it out for years to come. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: agree with you, and listen, having played for both organizations
Speaker 1: and more in that jersey for both teams, they're both
Speaker 1: proud teams, both teams with proud, long histories that they
Speaker 1: like to draw upon and rightfully so it's still a
Speaker 1: big treat. You know this from knowing me over the
Speaker 1: years when Doctor Jays in the building, when any of
Speaker 1: the old seventy Sixers are around, because there's a source
Speaker 1: of pride there, and the Celtics are the same way.
Speaker 1: And now to see the modern versions of those teams
Speaker 1: playing at a high level, how could you not love that?
Speaker 1: How could you not be caught up in the fun
Speaker 1: because of what the history has shown us in the past.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of like a history is prologue
Speaker 1: while it's the same idea, and that it promises the future.
Speaker 1: And what we've seen as far as little glimpses so
Speaker 1: far of the little rivalry that's budding. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be excited about it. It's going to be
Speaker 1: fun because I think right now, whoever is looking over
Speaker 1: the other person's shoulder, both teams will be pretty close
Speaker 1: to each other. As if an eighty two plus game workload,
Speaker 1: we're not enough for you between the months of October,
Speaker 1: April and to May. Inevitably, it seems like if I'm
Speaker 1: sitting at home on an off night and I turn
Speaker 1: on the television and I scroll through once twice, maybe
Speaker 1: three times, their pops allah Alblnaby doing a game for
Speaker 1: CBS Sports Network something like that. On the college level,
Speaker 1: how much fun do you still have keeping tabs in
Speaker 1: that area of the sport. I love it because it
Speaker 1: helps me do my job with the Sixers too. You've
Speaker 1: heard me over the years, and I know our listeners
Speaker 1: and our viewers have heard me over the years, you know,
Speaker 1: HARKing back to guys in their careers in college and
Speaker 1: what they were doing, and what their scouting report was
Speaker 1: coming out of college, and how far they've progressed. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to know any of that stuff if
Speaker 1: I didn't have the collegiate background. So I'm grateful. Listen,
Speaker 1: we know what it's like in our business when the
Speaker 1: phone rings. One you're grateful, and two you answer with
Speaker 1: a yes, regardless of what they ask you to do.
Speaker 1: So from my standpoint, I'm just grateful that the phone
Speaker 1: keeps ringing and I get to be around kids, whether
Speaker 1: it's the seventy six ers twenty year olds or it's
Speaker 1: some of the collegiate eighteen and nineteen year olds. Either way,
Speaker 1: I'm a lucky dude. What are you making this year's
Speaker 1: draft class? I think it's deep. I think there's there's
Speaker 1: a couple of diamonds in the rough there that I
Speaker 1: think may catch some people by surprise. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about the seventy sixers picking at tenth. Would you like
Speaker 1: to pick earlier? Of course you'd like to pick earlier,
Speaker 1: but I think that there could be some talent there.
Speaker 1: I'm also hearing things about the sixers wanting to move
Speaker 1: and use that pick maybe to lure someone else here
Speaker 1: or to move up in the draft. So that's I
Speaker 1: find that interesting too. But I think if the Sixers
Speaker 1: were to stand pat at ten, I think that some
Speaker 1: potential talent there, because I think I do think that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent coming out of college this year.
Speaker 1: If you're a fan, you gotta love to hear something
Speaker 1: like what Brett Brown said the other week. We plan
Speaker 1: to be bold, We plan to be aggressive. Essentially said,
Speaker 1: if there's a chance to do something that we really
Speaker 1: believe in and it requires some strength and fortitude, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go out and do it. And listen, with a
Speaker 1: tenth of the stake of the draft is what the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers hold. They have plenty of assets, they do.
Speaker 1: And I love the way Brett phrases that because it's
Speaker 1: how they play too, the bold and they're aggressive, and
Speaker 1: I think that'll attract guys. You know, you heard. We
Speaker 1: heard guys like Marco Belinelli, JJ Reddick, veterans who have
Speaker 1: been around the league and played for a number of
Speaker 1: different teams, and both of them, throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this past season, talked about a number of times talked
Speaker 1: about how much fun they're having out there, how much
Speaker 1: fun they enjoy playing, whether it's with Joel, whether it's
Speaker 1: with Ben, or whether it's just a collective unit in
Speaker 1: the way Brett Brown likes to play. So I think
Speaker 1: that the league, being a small league that gets around
Speaker 1: people notice that people hear what guys like JJ Reddick
Speaker 1: and Marco Belinelli say, and they and they figure when
Speaker 1: it's their time to decide where they're going, Hey, maybe
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is a destination I might consider. Because of all
Speaker 1: those factors we just talked about, it's a lot different
Speaker 1: than it was three years ago. And I think Brett
Speaker 1: Brown and his boldness, if you will, in the organization's
Speaker 1: boldness has a lot to do with it. In your
Speaker 1: three now plus years getting to know him, just what
Speaker 1: would you say, gives him the strength of leadership that
Speaker 1: he has, especially now as he guides the Sixers through
Speaker 1: this transition period. Well, I listen, I played for a
Speaker 1: great coach and coach k and the best part about
Speaker 1: him was his communications. You always knew where you stood
Speaker 1: in his eyes, what he needed to work on it.
Speaker 1: I think Brett's the same way, even more so because
Speaker 1: now you've got guys, and you've got to worry about
Speaker 1: egos even more than you on the collegiate level, and
Speaker 1: you got to worry about getting all the different guys
Speaker 1: in the locker rooms and their egos and their agendas
Speaker 1: all on the same page. And I think that UM
Speaker 1: in itself at times goes unnoticed because you just figure, well,
Speaker 1: how hard is it to field five guys out there
Speaker 1: and call subs Well, it's a lot harder than than
Speaker 1: than than someone on the surface would would would see.
Speaker 1: And I think that's something that UM, I think goes
Speaker 1: a long way. He's really really good at. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's really really good at communicating with us when we
Speaker 1: talk to him UM, and when we asked him questions,
Speaker 1: and when he's forthcoming, it's enlightening. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the same thing when when when you see how he
Speaker 1: deals with his players. That's another thing that I think
Speaker 1: makes Philadelphia an attractive destination. I gotta say, I think
Speaker 1: one of the more entertaining, at least for me, parts
Speaker 1: of this pre draft period is getting to listen to
Speaker 1: your fellow Duke Blue Devil brethren ellen Brand, get in
Speaker 1: front of the mic and get some FaceTime, which I
Speaker 1: know he's not seeking, but it's been great to hear
Speaker 1: his personnel insights and just how much more comfortable he seems.
Speaker 1: Not that he was lacking for confidence this time last
Speaker 1: year when he was about to go in to his
Speaker 1: first season as a G League general manager, But no,
Speaker 1: I've been loving hearing what he's got to say, and
Speaker 1: it seems like he really has the pulse on what's
Speaker 1: going on. And I thought he brought up an interesting
Speaker 1: point on Monday that right now it sounds like the
Speaker 1: conversation with the Sixers very much as revolving around fit
Speaker 1: versus potential and going back to let's say the Sixers
Speaker 1: stay at ten. That type of debate, to me at least,
Speaker 1: seems like it gets thrust in the forefront when you're
Speaker 1: at a spot like that, and especially when you take
Speaker 1: into account the dynamic of the seventy six ers roster
Speaker 1: and how minutes might not quite be readily available, you
Speaker 1: would presume at the start of next season, well, listen,
Speaker 1: you're gonna want a guy who is gonna want to
Speaker 1: come in and accept his role, whatever role that may be.
Speaker 1: And at times, because of the guys that we already
Speaker 1: have and potentially you may bring in You may not
Speaker 1: have to do the same thing you did in college.
Speaker 1: You may have to adjust. You know, I remember going
Speaker 1: to the Portland team and realizing all of a sudden
Speaker 1: that Klyd Drexa didn't need twenty points out of me
Speaker 1: at night. It's the same thing here. Brett Brown and
Speaker 1: Joel Embiide and Ben Simmons may not need twenty points
Speaker 1: a night out of the number ten pick whoever he
Speaker 1: may be. But he may have to learn how to defend.
Speaker 1: He may have to learn how to defend guys he's
Speaker 1: never covered before, because defense is a pillar of what
Speaker 1: Brett Brown wants to do. So I think you know
Speaker 1: the fit part. I understand because it's all about character.
Speaker 1: And listen, I think character is an overlooked quality as well.
Speaker 1: A lot of people will tell you when you've got
Speaker 1: people of character, you've got people you can depend on.
Speaker 1: Not trying to imply it. The seventy six ers might
Speaker 1: favor one of these guys over another. But if we
Speaker 1: zero in on the wing position and I throw out
Speaker 1: names that you like Kevin Knox, Miles Bridges and mcale Bridges,
Speaker 1: and I'll catch that by saying, no particular order, what's
Speaker 1: a thumbnail sketch they would give. Of those three guys. Well, listen, Knox.
Speaker 1: I like um and from what I hear, he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's gone up the draft board and his ability. I
Speaker 1: like the his ability to put the ball on the floor.
Speaker 1: The other two, the Bridges guys, I've gotten a chance
Speaker 1: to see them a lot. And Miles Bridges for Michigan
Speaker 1: State's a little bit more beefier. He's a little bit
Speaker 1: more athletic than the Villanova Bridges, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: he can shoot it a little bit, put the ball
Speaker 1: on the floor. He has learned to play facing the basket.
Speaker 1: He came out of high school, the one in Michigan State,
Speaker 1: Miles Bridges, he came out being predominantly back to the
Speaker 1: basket burley kind of player. And now all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you see him now starting to play more face up.
Speaker 1: And then the Bridges and the Michael Bridges out of Villanova.
Speaker 1: I like him because I think he's closer to what
Speaker 1: Brett Brown wants. Defensively, I think Miles Bridges has a
Speaker 1: little bit more defensive work on the defensive end to do,
Speaker 1: because I think he's had to. However, just the physical
Speaker 1: the physical guys in the big ten. Now on this level,
Speaker 1: you mentioned there being a swing, he's going to be
Speaker 1: out under perimeter a lot more so. I think that's
Speaker 1: the adjustment that a guy like Miles Bridges has more
Speaker 1: to make than a Michael Bridges. I think Michael Bridges
Speaker 1: is a perhaps in that regard, a better fit. But
Speaker 1: I don't think you can lose a lot because I
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna ask a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: when they come into this team and play whatever role
Speaker 1: in whatever minutes they get. So I think whatever whatever
Speaker 1: guy you get, I think he's going to have to
Speaker 1: embrace his role. And I think it starts on the
Speaker 1: defensive end. Would you think that after the big man position,
Speaker 1: whether it's a power for or center in this draft,
Speaker 1: wing is where there's the next quality of depth closer
Speaker 1: towards the top. I do. I think there's a number
Speaker 1: of different guys um that play both ends of the floor,
Speaker 1: you know, that play and transition, and I think the
Speaker 1: Sixers need that. I think we talked about the ultimate
Speaker 1: swing guy, if you will, for I guess about a
Speaker 1: year and a half now, noticing that that's something that
Speaker 1: the Sixers could use there's a few of those out there,
Speaker 1: but again, let's not expect him to come in and
Speaker 1: be incredibly productive NBA players their first year. What we
Speaker 1: saw from Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid, those guys are outliers,
Speaker 1: not the norm. I have to ask you about some
Speaker 1: of the men who held from your own pedigree. Dan
Speaker 1: In Durham at North Carolina, Marvin Bagley seems like it
Speaker 1: would be surprising if he did not go in the
Speaker 1: top three. But Wendell Carter, he seems to be floating
Speaker 1: around that seven ten eleven range. What do you like
Speaker 1: about Wendell Carter, Well, what I like is he's added
Speaker 1: stuff to his game. You know. He first of all,
Speaker 1: he's one of these guys that rebounds with two hands
Speaker 1: and everything's above the rim. He plays big, That's the
Speaker 1: first thing I like about him. He's got long arms,
Speaker 1: he's got great reach. The old phrase wingspan comes in
Speaker 1: with him. He's got he's quick off the ground. Um.
Speaker 1: He's not an overwhelming athlete like a bag leap, but
Speaker 1: he's a good athlete. UM. I like it because every
Speaker 1: time he gets the ball around the rim, he also
Speaker 1: just tries to dunk it. Um. He's there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of finesse in his game. But that being said,
Speaker 1: um towards the other stretches in the season where I
Speaker 1: saw him shoot a couple of threes at a decent clip,
Speaker 1: because I think he realizes that he's going to happen
Speaker 1: to the way the game has played at this level,
Speaker 1: add that to his game game. So that's what I
Speaker 1: mean about him getting better. I think he's one of
Speaker 1: these young kids. From what I understand, he's a he's
Speaker 1: a gym rat. He likes likes to work on his game.
Speaker 1: So that's something that's going to bode well for him,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider he's got a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do and we haven't gotten to college for one year.
Speaker 1: Michael Porter the most intriguing prospect in this draft to you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but his back worries me, you know, And Um, I
Speaker 1: think that's the issue. Is it's the unknown, right Um,
Speaker 1: and if if if it's become an issue at an
Speaker 1: early age. You know, the back situation has a word
Speaker 1: that gets applied to a degenerative or which means it
Speaker 1: doesn't get better, it steadily gets worse. And that means
Speaker 1: that he's going to have to stay on it, stay flexible.
Speaker 1: He's gonna need a lot of close attention on it.
Speaker 1: And you just wonder, you know, is somebody that young
Speaker 1: that going to be that mature and that diligent about
Speaker 1: keeping after his back and staying healthy. It's a risk.
Speaker 1: But can he play. Absolutely he can play. But again,
Speaker 1: the back is a little bit different and it's a
Speaker 1: little more worrisome than other parts of the body. Where
Speaker 1: would you expect Rayson Allen to go in terms of
Speaker 1: range of the draft. I wouldn't expect him to go
Speaker 1: before twenty, you know, but I have heard, you know,
Speaker 1: he's had really good workouts, and from what I know
Speaker 1: about him, the first thing I always tell people is,
Speaker 1: you know, he's more athletic than you think he's. You know,
Speaker 1: he's obviously from what I understand, his vertical leap had impressed,
Speaker 1: his speed impressed, his lateral movement impressed. I know Danny
Speaker 1: Ainge and Boston loves him. So again, I don't expect
Speaker 1: him to go high. I don't expect him to be
Speaker 1: a lottery pick, but I expect him to come in.
Speaker 1: They'll struggle a little bit initially with the physicality, but
Speaker 1: I think once he gets a little stronger. I think
Speaker 1: Grayson is going to be a good pro for about
Speaker 1: a good eight to ten years. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you've ever gotten a sense of this, but with your
Speaker 1: connections between both the nc double A and the NBA,
Speaker 1: do you have any idea of just how frequently NBA
Speaker 1: personnel people are on the phone with college coaches, whether
Speaker 1: it's a head coach or an assistant this time of year,
Speaker 1: preceding the height of the draft period, just trying to
Speaker 1: get more intel. Is that a regular thing, Listen, I
Speaker 1: think they do a lot more than that, brother. I
Speaker 1: think people they send people to your family and friends
Speaker 1: and they ask about you. I've had you heard stories
Speaker 1: about they'll send people to your teachers to ask you
Speaker 1: to what kind of worker you are. There's a lot
Speaker 1: more involved. Yeah, I would definitely say, Brian, that they're talking,
Speaker 1: that's at the very least talking to their college coaches,
Speaker 1: and hopefully their college coaches are giving them, you know,
Speaker 1: the truth, you know whether or not the players got
Speaker 1: some shortcomings, because let's face it, they all got some shortcomings.
Speaker 1: But again, also the college coach is gonna be defending
Speaker 1: his player to talk about his upside. You mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: the idea of there being some diamond in the rough
Speaker 1: type prospects in this draft. There any names of guys
Speaker 1: that you've seen over your travels or just have enjoyed
Speaker 1: watching this season that that you think are at a
Speaker 1: good level to possibly step in phil role do something
Speaker 1: on a roster. I think Trey Young at Oklahoma is
Speaker 1: a guy that he may not have been crushing it
Speaker 1: during these these workouts, but I like his physical package.
Speaker 1: The only knock on him, if I was going to
Speaker 1: critique his game, he's a little small and his shot
Speaker 1: selection isn't that great. But it was also I had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with the situation he was in
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma where he was the guy who basically had
Speaker 1: to do almost everything. But I like his speed and
Speaker 1: the way the game's played now. He's got good enough handle.
Speaker 1: If he can navigate through a pick and roll situation,
Speaker 1: he's going to be a handful. How many first rounders
Speaker 1: do you think Ville Nova gets on draft night? Who?
Speaker 1: It's a shame about Brunson, isn't it? Because he gets
Speaker 1: knocked for his lack of size, But they don't measure
Speaker 1: his heart right, and they don't and there is no
Speaker 1: instrument to measure that unfortunately for the NBA combines. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say too, but I think they deserve more
Speaker 1: than that. It's crazy because when you go back and
Speaker 1: look at what he's done, and I wasn't fully aware
Speaker 1: of this in the past, but just recently trying to
Speaker 1: catch up on him, he really has just been outstanding
Speaker 1: at every level, whether it was USA Basketball, high school
Speaker 1: in Illinois, then obviously what he did with the Wildcats.
Speaker 1: Like you said earlier, it's like intangibles that that's gotta
Speaker 1: you think count for some part of the profile. He's
Speaker 1: just someone who has succeeded so far at every level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know what his problem is. He doesn't
Speaker 1: fit the mold of the other sub six footers. When
Speaker 1: you think of someone who's a sub six footer, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to have lightning quick speed, and I think
Speaker 1: that may be something that I don't know if they
Speaker 1: deem him quick enough the NBA scouts, but it seems
Speaker 1: like his height is a detriment and they're not finding
Speaker 1: any I guess positive qualities to kind of make up
Speaker 1: for it. You know, I'm thinking immediately of like a
Speaker 1: mugsy Bogues or Michael Adams going way back, those guys
Speaker 1: were lightning quick to compensate for their size, and maybe
Speaker 1: they just don't think Jalen has the prerequisite quickness. But again,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go back to his heart and knowing
Speaker 1: and seeing how he's played and the fact that he's
Speaker 1: won and made every team he's been on better. I
Speaker 1: don't know why you wouldn't want to give that a look.
Speaker 1: As we begin to wrap things up, the news of
Speaker 1: Tuesday is that the Sixers are bringing back knocks for
Speaker 1: a second workout. This time it's going to be a
Speaker 1: solo workout, and Texas tech Zaire Smith is going to
Speaker 1: be back for a second six man workout. How much
Speaker 1: would you make of that? Well, see, having gone through
Speaker 1: it myself and not getting drafted by any of the
Speaker 1: teams I worked out for, and then not getting drafted
Speaker 1: by teams that would tell me that they were going
Speaker 1: to draft me the day of the draft. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to believe anymore, Brian. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. I don't know if it necessarily
Speaker 1: means anything. I know it's not a bad thing. I
Speaker 1: know the fact that you know, as long as they
Speaker 1: don't come in for that second workout and have a
Speaker 1: worse workout than they did in the first one. Then
Speaker 1: I know, potentially for them it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1: But the fact that other teams are asking about you
Speaker 1: and want to see more that can't hurt. How much
Speaker 1: football are you watching these days? Let's put it this way.
Speaker 1: There's not much of anything else going out. The World
Speaker 1: Cup has completely taken over this household. Each plays tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty posed, that's right. Big game versus Russia, that's right.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to contain myself now, all righty man, Well,
Speaker 1: the knowledge always much appreciated. We must wish you in
Speaker 1: advance a happy birthday. Hopefully you enjoy it coming up
Speaker 1: in a few weeks, and it is great hearing from
Speaker 1: you during the time of the year where we don't
Speaker 1: get to connect and touch base as much. So thanks
Speaker 1: so much for the time, man, Thanks for the time
Speaker 1: to be with you, and also I want to wish
Speaker 1: you the very best to everyone at home. Have a
Speaker 1: wonderful summer, my man. Yeah, big birthday coming up for
Speaker 1: Allah in a few days. Always excellent to here Allah's insights.
Speaker 1: Appreciate him taking the time before he was getting ready
Speaker 1: to get out of town for a little bits. Thank
Speaker 1: you as always for listening and we'll have more draft
Speaker 1: coverage on the podcast and this week rolls On, A'll
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