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Speaker 1: posts Sixers win reaction. I'm Lauren Rosen. Matt Murphy is here.
Speaker 1: The seventy Sixers get it done and they're a last
Speaker 1: one ahead of the All Star Break. Six double figure performances.
Speaker 1: Matt Murphy, Good morning. How good did it feel to
Speaker 1: get that win last night? They were able to stop
Speaker 1: Cleveland's seven game winning shriek in the process, one eighteen,
Speaker 1: one twelve for their fourth straight win, meaning the Sixers
Speaker 1: a good way to go into the break. A really
Speaker 1: strong first half, another really strong shooting performance from this
Speaker 1: Sixers team. They came out really hot out of the gates,
Speaker 1: especially from three. James Harden had a big first quarter.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid hit a very impressive milestone. So they end up,
Speaker 1: you know, holding on against one of the other top
Speaker 1: contenders in the East, and it was a good way
Speaker 1: to go into the break. And a lot happened early
Speaker 1: in the game. Joel Embied becomes the fastest Sixer to
Speaker 1: ever reach the ten thousand career point threshold. He surpassed
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson for the fastest to do. So we'll hear
Speaker 1: from Joel about hitting that milestone in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. But as always, let's start with some notables
Speaker 1: from the box score. If you guys hear anything that
Speaker 1: you want us to dive into as I go through this,
Speaker 1: please submit again if you're listening live, a comment or
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Speaker 1: So quickly through the box score, Joel Embied leads the
Speaker 1: way once again. He continues to be one of the
Speaker 1: league's leading scorers. Twenty nine points, fourteen rebounds, five assists,
Speaker 1: two steals and a block. He shot eleven for twelve,
Speaker 1: but from the free throw line nine for twenty one
Speaker 1: overall in thirty nine minutes of play. Like we said,
Speaker 1: all five starters finished in double figures plus Tyrese Maxie
Speaker 1: James Harden nineteen points, four rebounds, twelve assists, a steel
Speaker 1: and a block. D'y Anthony Melton seventeen points, two rebounds,
Speaker 1: four assists. He shot very well four for eight overall,
Speaker 1: seven for seven from the line, more free throws than
Speaker 1: usual for Dy Anthony Melton last night, and some big
Speaker 1: ones down the stretch when it got close. Thirteen points
Speaker 1: for Tobias Harris plus two rebounds and two steals, ten
Speaker 1: points for PJ Tucker plus three rebounds and a steel.
Speaker 1: PJ and to Bias both very efficient from the field.
Speaker 1: PJ four for five, to Bias five for eight. To
Speaker 1: Bias shot three for four from deep. PJ shot two
Speaker 1: for two from deep. Tyrese Maxie LEDs a bench once again,
Speaker 1: sixteen points, two rebounds, two assists. He shot six for
Speaker 1: twelve from the field, two for four from three in
Speaker 1: his twenty eight minutes of play. A good night for
Speaker 1: the team, especially in the first half. Again, got a
Speaker 1: little closer than they wanted it too in the second
Speaker 1: half of Matt Murphy. When you look at the team stats,
Speaker 1: what sort of stands out to you on this one? Well, quickly,
Speaker 1: on the milestone for Joel Embiid hitting ten thousand points,
Speaker 1: you mentioned he did so faster than Allen iverson the
Speaker 1: fastest sixer of all time to do so. To reach
Speaker 1: ten thousand, it was three hundred and seventy three games
Speaker 1: four Mbid three hundred and seventy eight for iverson. Surprisingly
Speaker 1: when it comes to the box score. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you want to let us know what your favorite
Speaker 1: moment of the sixer season prior to the All Star
Speaker 1: break was, please send us a tweet, click on the
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Speaker 1: us directly, and we'll read some of those. But as
Speaker 1: do that as we continue to break down the box
Speaker 1: score and move along here with our reaction. But surprisingly, Lauren,
Speaker 1: my box score takeaway is going to be an individual
Speaker 1: rather than a team stat. I think it is the
Speaker 1: seventeen points for de Anthony Melton to get back on
Speaker 1: track heading into the break. He it was a lot
Speaker 1: of games before the break, and that's something that not
Speaker 1: only Doc Rivers has talked about, but the players and
Speaker 1: players from other teams, coaches from other teams playing not
Speaker 1: just half of your season, but really a lot of
Speaker 1: your season before getting a few days off. And with Melton,
Speaker 1: he has had such strong stretches this year, but he's
Speaker 1: also had tough defensive assignments throughout the year. So for
Speaker 1: him to come away feeling good about his offense as
Speaker 1: well and hit some clutch free throws down the stretch.
Speaker 1: That is sort of a way that I can get
Speaker 1: around not picking a team stat that by highlighting the
Speaker 1: free throw shooting, and he definitely contributed to that. They
Speaker 1: only missed two as a team twenty seven. For twenty nine,
Speaker 1: he made all seven of his like we talked about,
Speaker 1: and they were big ones down the stretch to put
Speaker 1: the finishing touches on it. So I come away looking
Speaker 1: at d' anthony Melton on the box score and feeling
Speaker 1: good about that. We can hear from D'Anthony Melton himself.
Speaker 1: In the morning, I talked to Tyrese Maxie in our
Speaker 1: Courtside comparison series present it by Nerd Wallet. Tyrese said
Speaker 1: about the teams starting one and four this season, again
Speaker 1: as we sort of do a little retrospective on the
Speaker 1: first chunk of the regular season, Tyrese in the morning said,
Speaker 1: I'm proud. I always talk about how we started out
Speaker 1: one and four and everybody was writing us off. We
Speaker 1: stayed resilient, we stuck together, and now we're here. Then,
Speaker 1: sure enough they get the victory last night to rise
Speaker 1: to thirty eight wins on the season. After that one
Speaker 1: and four start, d' anthony Melton discussed it coming off
Speaker 1: the court, So let's hear from d' anthony d' anthony Melton.
Speaker 1: You guys letting get a little closer than you wanted
Speaker 1: it too. But you've talked all season about wanting to
Speaker 1: figure out ways to win. How did you guys figured
Speaker 1: it out down the stretch tonight? We just executed. I
Speaker 1: think we got stops late. We hear free though, So
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing. You know, the team
Speaker 1: like that, every quick explosive and yeah, so he's got
Speaker 1: to keep, you know, maintaining with them. Last game ahead
Speaker 1: of the All Star break. You guys started this season
Speaker 1: one and four. You've talked about it a lot. You
Speaker 1: go into the break thirty eight and nineteen. What is
Speaker 1: working for you guys and how much have you made
Speaker 1: over these last couple of months. Man, we're just playing together.
Speaker 1: I think we realize what kind of team we have,
Speaker 1: you know, guys, coaches, staff and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: we just utilized in it. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that can killed people in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 1: So we just got to keep fighting and keep going
Speaker 1: and play defense. So ellenbiad led the way sort of
Speaker 1: across the board. For you guys tonight, it's your first
Speaker 1: season with him. What's it like to be Joellenbiad's teammate
Speaker 1: when he plays this way? It's just so dominant. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody in the league can really, you know,
Speaker 1: stop him. All I can do is hope to contain
Speaker 1: him sending double teams to triple a team. So you know,
Speaker 1: he's getting open shots for guys like me, Joyce tires
Speaker 1: everybody really, so he's just you know, he's been a
Speaker 1: team player. Anthony, thank you, Go get some rest. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers was funny last night after the game, Matt
Speaker 1: talking about how they got to win. He said it
Speaker 1: was really good when the clock ran out. He said
Speaker 1: that he felt the All Star breaks sort of started
Speaker 1: a little bit for his team at halftime after that
Speaker 1: excellent first half, and guys liked Anthony Melton have certainly
Speaker 1: earned the right to a few days off their feet. Matt,
Speaker 1: I know we're going to hear from Tyrese, from Joel,
Speaker 1: but thoughts on Dy, Anthony or anyone else on this
Speaker 1: box score before we hear from those guys. I had
Speaker 1: mentioned Harden earlier his first quarter was actually eight points
Speaker 1: and eight assists. It seems like Cleveland has been prone
Speaker 1: to some slow starts in there, not only the last
Speaker 1: game against the Sixers in Philadelphia, but even a couple
Speaker 1: more leading into the All Star breaks. So the Sixers
Speaker 1: were able to come out and build up enough of
Speaker 1: a lead to maintain and they shot seven for eight
Speaker 1: in the first quarter. Yeah, I was gonna say, some options, Lauren,
Speaker 1: that we can consider throughout for first half moments. We've
Speaker 1: talked a lot about Joel's fifty point games against Utah
Speaker 1: November Charlotte in December. The Utah statline was crazy and
Speaker 1: worth repeating. Fifty nine points, eleven rebounds, eight assists, seven
Speaker 1: block shots, some highlight worthy defensive plays to save that game,
Speaker 1: like the celebrations he had in those moments with his
Speaker 1: son Arthur, and then the Denver game more recently, almost
Speaker 1: fifty in a really big spotlight forty seven points, eighteen rebounds,
Speaker 1: five assists, three steals and two blocks, a big time
Speaker 1: dagger late in that game, and the moment of James
Speaker 1: Harden jumping on mbads back. Some of those things stick
Speaker 1: with me. I know. We did get a message from
Speaker 1: Mary saying that her favorite moment was Shake's half court
Speaker 1: shot at the Knicks on Christmas Day, which for an
Speaker 1: individual play has to rank up there. But just some
Speaker 1: options as we continue to move along, not totally getting
Speaker 1: off of the Cleveland game, but just those thoughts going
Speaker 1: through my head. And if anyone else wants to chime in,
Speaker 1: please do Yeah, Matt, I can go ahead and give
Speaker 1: mine Marcus. Marcus and I share the same, the same
Speaker 1: memorable moment from the first chunk of the season. He said,
Speaker 1: speaking of starting one in four, how about Tyrese Maxie
Speaker 1: to get the second win when he scored like crazy
Speaker 1: in Toronto. That's one that I've talked about this season already,
Speaker 1: but I'll go ahead and recycle it and echo Marcus's thoughts.
Speaker 1: That one, of course, was back in October. We've heard
Speaker 1: it a lot. They started one and four in order
Speaker 1: to get to two and four. It took a heck
Speaker 1: of a performance from Tyrese Maxie on a career night
Speaker 1: in Toronto. Was the second of two games in Toronto,
Speaker 1: and Tyrese finished with a whopping forty four points eight rebounds.
Speaker 1: Eight rebounds stands out in that line. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I had fully processed that one before forty four points,
Speaker 1: eight rebounds, four assists, and a steal. He shot fifteen
Speaker 1: for twenty on the night. He made nine threes and
Speaker 1: nine for twelve from three, and of course made his
Speaker 1: first seven and five for six from the free throw
Speaker 1: line in forty minutes of play. And in hindsight, tyres
Speaker 1: has talked about that game as really an opportunity for
Speaker 1: him to say, you know what, the team really needs
Speaker 1: me here, No Joel that night, the team needs me
Speaker 1: to help figure out how to start getting some wins.
Speaker 1: And cool to see a then twenty one year old
Speaker 1: figure it out for his crew. So Marcus thinks for
Speaker 1: the answer, we're going to go through some more. But
Speaker 1: on the topic of both Joel and Tyrese, Matt, I
Speaker 1: think let's just hear from the two of them right now.
Speaker 1: So here's Joel and Tyrese. Last night. For some context,
Speaker 1: Tyrese was doing media at his locker. The guys sort
Speaker 1: of can choose their own adventure after games when asked
Speaker 1: to speak to the media. Sometimes they come to the podium,
Speaker 1: sometimes they speak at their locker. Last night a celebratory
Speaker 1: environment form not only winning the game but getting to
Speaker 1: the All Star Break, Tyrese was going to talk to
Speaker 1: the media at his locker. Joel came over in the
Speaker 1: Big Energy Chain, which of course is won by the
Speaker 1: sixer that does the best job during the postgame lift.
Speaker 1: Joel last night was the postgame lift champ, so he
Speaker 1: came over in the Big Energy Chain, plopped himself down
Speaker 1: next to Tyrese, and they did media together. So I'll
Speaker 1: let you guys listen to the two of them going
Speaker 1: back and forth. There's a funny moment where they sort
Speaker 1: of do impressions of each other. If it's confusing at all,
Speaker 1: we can we can explain it afterwards, but I think
Speaker 1: it's going to speak for itself. Take a listen to
Speaker 1: Joel and Tyrese together postgame. Uh, you never know, just
Speaker 1: like you said, you know, as a game of once,
Speaker 1: that should pretty good team over there. Um. You know
Speaker 1: that going game, you know, a lot of teams troubles um,
Speaker 1: you know, and that second half of the season then
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Obviously we knew that we're gonna make of one.
Speaker 1: It was all about you know, uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: sustaining then you know how we were gonna stop him. Man.
Speaker 1: Uh we made uh, we got the stops one we
Speaker 1: needed them so well. In the first half of the season,
Speaker 1: Terrise had his first injury as a pro, He came back,
Speaker 1: he learned to play multiple roles. You've been his sort
Speaker 1: of biggest cheerleader since day one. So what do you
Speaker 1: make of the way he's battled through adversity this season?
Speaker 1: H Okay, that's a good answer question. No, But I
Speaker 1: mean that was that was his first time, you know,
Speaker 1: going through an injury. Uh, for someone that had been
Speaker 1: through a few, um, usual shows our tough is um
Speaker 1: not just you know, physically, but mentally to be able
Speaker 1: to come back and lose your spot in the starting
Speaker 1: line up and you know, having to come up the
Speaker 1: bench and adjust, um. You know, he just shows you
Speaker 1: that he's in for the right reasons, which used to win.
Speaker 1: And that's what we need about to be on the
Speaker 1: same page, no matter what was, you know, playing or
Speaker 1: not or we just need that about to be bought
Speaker 1: in praise. Joel is playing in his third consecutive MVP
Speaker 1: caliber season. What's it been like to share all three
Speaker 1: of those with him? Call? Nah? Uh? Joel is going Joe, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's funny to y'a all the time. I
Speaker 1: try to take it for granted because some of the
Speaker 1: things that he does on the basketball court or you know,
Speaker 1: I've never seen before. And for him to do it
Speaker 1: at his size and his speed and do it at
Speaker 1: the high level that he does that every single night. Um,
Speaker 1: it's remarkable and we're gonna need him. And like he said,
Speaker 1: you know when the keys to this year is just
Speaker 1: staying healthy him everybody. You know, if you can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: I feel like this team has a really good chance
Speaker 1: in skys limit. Follow up on the milestone, Joel, how
Speaker 1: how impressive do you think it is that you you
Speaker 1: edged Ai who was obviously a ball dominant garden scorer. Um,
Speaker 1: it's great, Um, you know, just like you said, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm extremely lucky. Um. But then again, I put in
Speaker 1: a lot of water to be, you know, and to
Speaker 1: be able to put myself in those positions no matter
Speaker 1: what it is on the floor, to be able to
Speaker 1: make something happen. Uh, streaming lucky. But then again I
Speaker 1: also put in the war so I'm just playing. Uh
Speaker 1: he contributes to winning. Uh, you know, you know, just playing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how much you score, you know, as
Speaker 1: long as you win, that's what matters is giving you
Speaker 1: a lot some good minutes off the bench. It's what
Speaker 1: do you make of his play for you guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's doing what we need him to do. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: playing hard, you know, being actively offensively and defensively, offensively,
Speaker 1: setting screens, getting a supper sis fancy. We sure to
Speaker 1: be as as as aggressive as possible. Uh, obviously got
Speaker 1: a you know, stop falling, stop being a hacker. But
Speaker 1: but no, but he's been you can see the last
Speaker 1: few games. He's one of the reasons why you know,
Speaker 1: we've been able to you know, get this lease on
Speaker 1: and keep them. Joel very complimentary there of both of
Speaker 1: his teammates from that twenty twenty draft class in Tyrese
Speaker 1: Maxie and Paul Reid, who of course gave some big
Speaker 1: minutes a last night, Matt. Any any thoughts on that
Speaker 1: little exchange. Uh, Tyrese not caring in Joel voice, it
Speaker 1: was funny. I mean, to further paint the picture, there
Speaker 1: were like thirty people gathered around Joel, Embiid and James
Speaker 1: are in Tyrese Maxie at the lockers, in the locker room.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're at the podium like like you said, and
Speaker 1: then throughout because most of the are a lot of
Speaker 1: the questions the end, we're geared towards and bad. Maxie
Speaker 1: was kind of regretting and vocally expressing that he it
Speaker 1: was a bad idea to do a combined media session
Speaker 1: with MBID because then he got, you know, caught up
Speaker 1: in it for maybe longer than it would have been
Speaker 1: if they were going individually. But I wanted to add
Speaker 1: that it seemed like in the arena when they showed
Speaker 1: when they made the announcement about Joel hitting ten thousand
Speaker 1: points that during timeouts the team is locked in on
Speaker 1: what the coaches are saying, but sometimes they pay a
Speaker 1: little extra attention to those types of announcements. And even
Speaker 1: the staff everyone was looking at the video board and
Speaker 1: congratulating MBAID, and they looked to be locked in on
Speaker 1: that like it was. Obviously it's an impressive thing to reach,
Speaker 1: and I think everybody stopped for a minute and really
Speaker 1: took in what that meant to do to hit ten
Speaker 1: thousand in five fewer games than Al and I person
Speaker 1: and really what Joe ell Embiad has done to this
Speaker 1: point in his career, and he's still got a lot
Speaker 1: of career to go. But it was something where everyone
Speaker 1: seemed to really soak it in. I'm sure you felt
Speaker 1: kind of the same way. Yeah, it was. It was awesome,
Speaker 1: and it always cool to see the teammates embracing one another.
Speaker 1: There's been no shortage of that all season long with
Speaker 1: this crew. Looking ahead, Matt Murphy is going to be
Speaker 1: on the ground at All Star this weekend, and I
Speaker 1: know we've talked to talk about Joe all embead on
Speaker 1: this episode already, but I want to hear a little
Speaker 1: bit about Mac McClung. Matt Murphy of course wrote an
Speaker 1: awesome feature on sixers dot com about Mac McClung, the
Speaker 1: Sixers new two way signee. He will also be participating, well,
Speaker 1: he'll be participating in a variety of events this weekend,
Speaker 1: but headlined of course by the dump contest. Matt, what
Speaker 1: can you tell the squad about Mac McClung. I've got
Speaker 1: some Mac McClung notes for sure. Before I get to them,
Speaker 1: I did want to mention a question from b Walds
Speaker 1: who said thoughts on Pj's defensive work. And I've mentioned
Speaker 1: the Nuggets game already that Joel Embiid, you know, was
Speaker 1: the standout player and that one against Yoki and the
Speaker 1: Nuggets in that afternoon game to win seven straight at
Speaker 1: the time. But PJ. Tucker and the adjustment that the
Speaker 1: coaching staff made and him guarding Yokich on some critical plays,
Speaker 1: especially in the second half. That's the game I think
Speaker 1: you point to from the first half with PJ. Tucker
Speaker 1: and the work that he's done defensively. And then throughout
Speaker 1: the season we have heard his teammates and his coaches
Speaker 1: and his head coach, Doc Rivers talk about just his
Speaker 1: voice and how important it is to this defense. There's
Speaker 1: been some micd up clips, there's been all this stuff
Speaker 1: out there. He is really just like the captain of
Speaker 1: this defense, and he knows where everyone should be and
Speaker 1: he tells them and I think it's maybe something that
Speaker 1: can't be talked about enough. But yes, All Star Weekend
Speaker 1: will not only feature obviously Joel Embiad was voted in.
Speaker 1: James Harden unfortunately was not voted in as a starter
Speaker 1: or reserve. The rosters kind of still in flux, but
Speaker 1: at this point as we talk on Thursday morning, but
Speaker 1: it will also feature a new sixer who is Mac McClung.
Speaker 1: He was signed to a two way deal recently and
Speaker 1: he was playing with the Bluecoats all season. It's his
Speaker 1: second professional season. He's a Gate City, a proud Gate City,
Speaker 1: Virginia native, and he's been having a big time season
Speaker 1: for the Bluecoats. Their season was split between the Showcase Cup.
Speaker 1: If anyone has any specific questions about Mac or what
Speaker 1: I've seen, please click on my icon and send me
Speaker 1: a message or a tweet. But the G League season
Speaker 1: being the Showcase Cup and the regular season, his three
Speaker 1: point shooting is probably the thing that stands out to
Speaker 1: me the most. Since the regular season has started, he's
Speaker 1: thirty nine for seventy eight in eighteen games, eighteen regular
Speaker 1: season games, fifty percent from three point range. He's known
Speaker 1: as a big time scorer. He's known as someone with highlight,
Speaker 1: real dunks, and he's been on people's radar because of
Speaker 1: YouTube and in these mixtapes that have been out there
Speaker 1: since he was a high school player. But now the
Speaker 1: shooting is there. He is just flat out someone who's
Speaker 1: going to hustle and try to help the Bluecoats win games.
Speaker 1: They almost scored over the weekend, or between Saturday and
Speaker 1: Monday as we're talking now, they almost scored three hundred
Speaker 1: points in two wins, and they're up like twenty points
Speaker 1: late in the second win and he dove on the
Speaker 1: sideline to save the ball with four minutes left in
Speaker 1: the game, up by twenty. They scored two hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety six points in these two games, absolutely dominated. Absolutely
Speaker 1: did not have to dive and save a ball. But
Speaker 1: I think when he puts that Sixers uniform on and
Speaker 1: he gets a chance to make his debut in front
Speaker 1: of Sixers fans, they're going to see that type of
Speaker 1: grit and determination from Mac McClung. And first we'll see
Speaker 1: it on the national stage that is NBA All Star Weekend.
Speaker 1: He's got an event every day. He's got the Rising
Speaker 1: Stars Game on Friday night, he's got the Dunk Contest
Speaker 1: on Saturday night, and the G League All Star Game
Speaker 1: also known as the Next Up Game on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: So you'll see a lot of Mac McClung. He has
Speaker 1: a history of dunk contests. He actually went back and
Speaker 1: forth as a high school player against Kevin Porter junior
Speaker 1: now of the Houston Rockets, and they did two or
Speaker 1: three dunk contests where they were finalists and McClung won
Speaker 1: two out of his three before even entering college. And
Speaker 1: there's a couple of notable things he did in high
Speaker 1: school that I want to get to as well. But
Speaker 1: I feel like I went pretty deep there on McClung.
Speaker 1: You asked for it, Lauren, you gave me the runway.
Speaker 1: I will sort and see if anyone has any additional
Speaker 1: questions before getting to those records he broke in high school.
Speaker 1: But he's a really fun player. He's six foot two
Speaker 1: and he'll be sporting a Sixers jersey at these events,
Speaker 1: the dunk contest, all of it. He's absolutely going to
Speaker 1: put on a show. He does it every game in
Speaker 1: layup lines and with his in game dunks. But it
Speaker 1: will be good to see him. Congratulations to him the
Speaker 1: twenty ninth G League call up of the season. So far,
Speaker 1: he's played two NBA games, one for the Bulls one
Speaker 1: for the Lakers last year. Now it's about trying to stick.
Speaker 1: These guys fight through the grind of the G League
Speaker 1: and are trying to stay on NBA teams. And it's
Speaker 1: not a ten day contract for him, it's a two
Speaker 1: way contract, so we'll see if he can indeed stick
Speaker 1: in the NBA. That's what everyone's goal is. Yeah, Matt,
Speaker 1: I don't have questions, and so as we begin to
Speaker 1: wrap this one up, if you want to get some
Speaker 1: last questions in at the buzzer, we are happy to
Speaker 1: answer them. But I'd love to hear your last takes
Speaker 1: on Mac any other background you want to give us
Speaker 1: those high school records again, if you guys aren't aware.
Speaker 1: Matt is also the voice of the Delaware Bluecoats, so
Speaker 1: for all those G League call ups he mentioned the
Speaker 1: twenty nine this season thus far, he's one of the
Speaker 1: foremost experts in the field, So cool to hear him
Speaker 1: talk about his guy Mac and looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: your coverage of him in Salt Lake City this week.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Jaden's Springer as well, because it hasn't
Speaker 1: been the lineup all year in Delaware, but the last
Speaker 1: stretch of games the Bluecoats are playing really well. Their
Speaker 1: second in the East six or third in the East
Speaker 1: at the NBA level, so both teams having success. But
Speaker 1: Springer and McClung, that duo has been amazing lately, and
Speaker 1: Springer had a thirty point game, a twenty two point
Speaker 1: game on Saturday and Monday, and that the two things
Speaker 1: I wanted to add about McClung are sixers related as well.
Speaker 1: Not only did he break in high school. People know
Speaker 1: this stuff, but it sometimes gets confused in the shuffle.
Speaker 1: He's not the all time leader in Virginia state history
Speaker 1: scoring anymore for his career, but he did break at
Speaker 1: the time Alan Iverson's Virginia single season scoring record as
Speaker 1: a senior. So AI had the record when McClung was
Speaker 1: a senior at Gate City. He scored one thousand, one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three points to surpass Allen Iverson. So
Speaker 1: like MBIID doing so to ten thousand points in a
Speaker 1: sixers uniform, mac McClung surpassed Iverson for the sing will
Speaker 1: season record in Virginia state high school history. As a
Speaker 1: senior and then former sixer JJ Reddick had scored forty
Speaker 1: three points in the state championship in Virginia in two
Speaker 1: thousand and two, and McClung scored forty seven to claim
Speaker 1: that record to help his high school to the state championship.
Speaker 1: So beating an Iverson record, beating a JJ Reddick record,
Speaker 1: and now a sixer himself. That's part of the very
Speaker 1: interesting mc McClung story and storylines. Thanks for sharing, Matt,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you. I saw a couple last comments, A
Speaker 1: lot of love for Joel Embiid's fifty nine point performance.
Speaker 1: Thank you to Dean Dean O four O four for
Speaker 1: the fifty nine point performance. Loved seeing Joel jump on
Speaker 1: Joel's or sorry rather, Tyrese jump on Joel's back in
Speaker 1: their new uniforms. That of course was the first night,
Speaker 1: right Matt, of this year's City edition. Brotherly love uniform,
Speaker 1: fifty nine point performance from Joel Embiid, and I think
Speaker 1: that for me, will about do it? Ahead of the
Speaker 1: All Star Break, The Sixers head into the break thirty
Speaker 1: eight and nineteen. They'll be back next week as they
Speaker 1: host the Memphis Grizzlies. The month of March is going
Speaker 1: to be a tough one, Lots and lots of road
Speaker 1: games for the squad in the month of March. They've
Speaker 1: already talked about making sure that they get rest now
Speaker 1: to be able to perform. Then, Matt Murphy, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you have the last word if you want to
Speaker 1: give any last thoughts on the All Star Game and
Speaker 1: break ahead and otherwise, guys, thanks as always for listening.
Speaker 1: To spaces with us for listening on the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: Insiders podcast network. We've got some exciting things to come
Speaker 1: for you guys. We have a one on one or
Speaker 1: two on one rather with Jayleen McDaniels in that seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers Insiders feed right now. So if you're looking for
Speaker 1: Sixers content as you head into your weekend, or you're
Speaker 1: all Star breaks, if you're in the industry, you go
Speaker 1: check that one out. Matt and I had a great
Speaker 1: time doing it, and Matt, I will let you shut
Speaker 1: this one down absolutely. I really enjoyed our conversation with
Speaker 1: Jayalen McDaniels on the seventy Sixers Insiders podcast feed. Please
Speaker 1: check that one out. He had some good stuff about
Speaker 1: what was like to check in for the first time
Speaker 1: in front of the home crowd his second game when
Speaker 1: he made his home debut. I really liked that part.
Speaker 1: And then he told an interesting story at the very
Speaker 1: end about George Niang and meeting George Niang a few
Speaker 1: years back before they would ever become teammates in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: So be on the lookout for that one. By the way,
Speaker 1: my pick for favorite moment of the first part of
Speaker 1: the season prior to the All Star Break is going
Speaker 1: to be the moment when embiad hit the shot against Denver,
Speaker 1: the time out was called and Harden jumped on his back.
Speaker 1: The fifty point performances I think I've picked before for
Speaker 1: something similar, so going with the more recent one end
Speaker 1: of January in that showdown against the Denver Nuggets. But
Speaker 1: that will do it for us again. A sit down
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes sit down with Jalen McDaniels available on
Speaker 1: the seventy six Ers Insiders podcast feed, just like these
Speaker 1: postgame reactions are as well, So whever you get your podcast,
Speaker 1: just search seventy Sixers Insiders, click on the little plus
Speaker 1: sign wherever it might be, and follow the feed and
Speaker 1: you'll get those straight to your phones. So thanks everybody
Speaker 1: for tagging along with us. As always, Lauren Rosen, thank
Speaker 1: you to you everyone. Enjoy the break. I will be
Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City with the covering the Sixers at
Speaker 1: All Star weekends, so be on the lookout for some
Speaker 1: stuff there as well. But we appreciate this support. The
Speaker 1: Sixers at the break their spot in the standings, I said,
Speaker 1: third place, the record thirty eight wins, nineteen losses, They
Speaker 1: head into the break on a four game winning streak
Speaker 1: after the win over Cleveland. Thanks, everybody, will do it
Speaker 1: again soon. Enjoy the All Star Break see ye