Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network
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Speaker 1: was Daryl Morey's first draft for the seventy Sixers and
Speaker 1: it did not disappoint. We all came together as a
Speaker 1: new executive team and dock myself, Elton and all the
Speaker 1: key editions in a very short window that made it
Speaker 1: it's super intense from draft picks. It is kind of
Speaker 1: crazy enough being a teammate of Vin tim Is now
Speaker 1: just after seeing him in the gym in a shop
Speaker 1: grinding all summer to trade acquisitions getting seth you know
Speaker 1: you can argue for him as the best shooter in
Speaker 1: the NBA Draft Night twenty twenty had it all tons
Speaker 1: of prep going to this to be ready for every
Speaker 1: scenario that comes up. Very excited about the picks and
Speaker 1: the fit with the roster. Here for more Tyrese, Maxie
Speaker 1: and Isaiah Joe as Lauren Rosen and I react to
Speaker 1: a wild day on this draft recap edition of the broadcast.
Speaker 1: It might be two thirty eight in the morning in
Speaker 1: the East Coast back here in Philadelphia, the seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers twenty twenty Draft Train continues to chug on along.
Speaker 1: Lauren Rosen twenty twenty speaks for itself seventy six or
Speaker 1: is twenty twenty Draft Night change a pace? I liked it.
Speaker 1: What a day from sort of start to finish. This
Speaker 1: was one of the more exciting drafts, at least for
Speaker 1: a team that I've been with personally, that I've ever had.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I guess starting the night with five picks,
Speaker 1: you knew it was going to be interesting, and everything
Speaker 1: that happened from the moment we were on the clock
Speaker 1: was really cool. Like you said, two thirty in the morning,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if I should brush my teeth or
Speaker 1: off coffee before we did this, so I did both. Now,
Speaker 1: in full disclosure, it's two thirty eight in the morning
Speaker 1: for some of us, but not all of us. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: you want to shame me on the podcast, you have
Speaker 1: to do. There's no shame. No, there's no shame. I
Speaker 1: just think that facts need to be acknowledged. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's still late in Houston, Texas. Yes, it's only one
Speaker 1: forty in the morning. Here caught just an important distinction,
Speaker 1: but we felt like it was important. It was our
Speaker 1: podcasting duty to have a fresh episode out as fast
Speaker 1: as we could on the heels of a huge night
Speaker 1: for the seventy sixers. Most things we can discuss something
Speaker 1: we may not fully be able to discuss until something's happened.
Speaker 1: But all in all, the vibes were great. I was
Speaker 1: really lucky I got to be at the training complex
Speaker 1: on draft night and overall, just great fresh energy in
Speaker 1: the building. I think everyone rightfully walked out of the
Speaker 1: war room at the end of the night with pats
Speaker 1: on the back, a little dabs, even with face masks on,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. It was some really good energy
Speaker 1: because it was a successful, productive night, Laren for the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers. Not only did they get talent in the draft,
Speaker 1: they got talent through trade, they got talent with value,
Speaker 1: and they got talent that is going to help them
Speaker 1: get to a place they want to be this year
Speaker 1: by changing the dynamic of the roster, which by the
Speaker 1: end of the night you could tell what the mission was,
Speaker 1: and the roster looks different and noticeably different before free
Speaker 1: agency even starts, And by the time free agency starts,
Speaker 1: it's going to be time to start training camp. This
Speaker 1: whole thing, like I can't wrap my head around how
Speaker 1: quickly it's all going. But today was a good place
Speaker 1: to start because I feel like, even if this isn't
Speaker 1: the full final iteration of this twenty twenty one season roster,
Speaker 1: we have a better idea of what it's going to
Speaker 1: look like and who might be key in the starting lineup,
Speaker 1: in the rotation. It is cool to see the way
Speaker 1: that the team has kind of changed since when we
Speaker 1: woke up. I suppose yesterday morning, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: It was evident by the end of everything, the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers wanted shooting. They want to be able to space
Speaker 1: the floor on offense and build things around. They're two
Speaker 1: young cornerstones in All Stars to Ellenbiid and Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Tyrese Maxie, We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Isaiah Joe and Paul Reid and Seth Curry. But
Speaker 1: to me, Lauren, one of the most fascinating things of
Speaker 1: the whole entire deal was that there was a front
Speaker 1: office with star power. Darryl Moorey hasn't even been on
Speaker 1: the job for three weeks. You couple him with the
Speaker 1: likes of Elton Brand and some other new executives not
Speaker 1: to get too too granular just yet. But there were
Speaker 1: a lot of new pieces in the front office, with
Speaker 1: some parts that remained from last season as well, and
Speaker 1: they were able to come together and have I think,
Speaker 1: by all accounts, if you would ask anyone who files
Speaker 1: the league a really successful and good night, it was intense,
Speaker 1: mostly because we all came together as a new executive
Speaker 1: team and DOC myself, Elton and all the key editions
Speaker 1: in a very short window, so that made it it's
Speaker 1: super intense. I think, you know, merging, you know, merging
Speaker 1: these multiple perspectives. I strongly believe the best decisions are
Speaker 1: made when multiple people, multiple experts come together and work
Speaker 1: together to make a decision. And you know, that was
Speaker 1: a big part of the night. Other than that, like
Speaker 1: it was just a lot of work. I mean, COVID
Speaker 1: is tough, we're all dealing with it. But honestly that
Speaker 1: that was a sidelight. You know, we were so focused
Speaker 1: that we didn't notice it well, And they've been saying
Speaker 1: it all week, right, the folks that we've gotten to
Speaker 1: speak to have discussed the fact that it seems like
Speaker 1: despite the newness among DOC rivers, Daryl Morey, prosper Carengua
Speaker 1: Peter didnw This is a new squad, and there's some
Speaker 1: people that are that are holdovers, people that are veterans
Speaker 1: of the seventy six organization. But something that they've all
Speaker 1: said is that they feel very comfortable with each other.
Speaker 1: They've been challenging each other. They've had really productive conversations.
Speaker 1: And I guess when you're able to challenge each other
Speaker 1: quickly and honestly and start to gel and build that
Speaker 1: kind of chemistry as an office, you can do some
Speaker 1: pretty cool things pretty quickly. For me, Lauren, I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: Going into the night, I kind of wondered whether or
Speaker 1: not we would even see the seventy sixers pick at
Speaker 1: number twenty one in the first round, and how they
Speaker 1: were going to make use of all five picks that
Speaker 1: they had. But as we saw the first round emerge
Speaker 1: and unfold, there was that run of some prospects with
Speaker 1: great shooting ability in the mid teens. Then we saw
Speaker 1: some bigs go and then you got to a point
Speaker 1: where around seventeen or eighteen when you were like, all right,
Speaker 1: there's going to be a couple of guys who could
Speaker 1: be great fits for the seventy six ers at twenty one.
Speaker 1: If they ended up staying there, then they pluck a
Speaker 1: guy like Tyrese Maxew's got a terrific pedigree at number
Speaker 1: twenty one, a guy who I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people might have put inside the top twenty, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers got him at twenty one. Well, one of those
Speaker 1: guys that would have put him inside the top twenty
Speaker 1: is Darryl Moorey himself, who when he spoke at the
Speaker 1: end of the night, he was probably as tired, if
Speaker 1: not touch more tired than we are now, but he
Speaker 1: said that he's a guy that you could have gotten
Speaker 1: in the lottery, that maybe he expected to go in
Speaker 1: the lottery, and the fact that he was available at
Speaker 1: twenty one was a deal and probably a pleasure to
Speaker 1: be able to bring someone in with that much talent,
Speaker 1: Like you said, pedigree. He's someone that has the stamp
Speaker 1: of approval from one of his teammates now, Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: who he worked out with in LA and Lebron James
Speaker 1: as well. So anytime you've worked with those two prior
Speaker 1: to entering the league, you're going to have an advantage.
Speaker 1: And that all came obviously after he had already built
Speaker 1: up a pretty pristine reputation as an exciting prospect. So
Speaker 1: all across the board, I think everybody's really excited to
Speaker 1: get Tyrese into Philadelphia. And I like Daryl, like you
Speaker 1: felt around eighteen nineteen, there were some really good players
Speaker 1: on the board, so it felt like by the I'm
Speaker 1: twenty one rolled around, you couldn't really go wrong, and
Speaker 1: clearly the Sixers didn't. We're excited to have such a
Speaker 1: blue chip prospect there top ten in high school. I
Speaker 1: like guards, you can guard multiple positions, and he can
Speaker 1: do that. Doc really wants to get out in transition.
Speaker 1: That's a big goal of coach Yager as well, and
Speaker 1: Tyrese has a history of that. People have sort of
Speaker 1: fixated on his shooting, but the reality is two things.
Speaker 1: One that you know, we do a lot of things
Speaker 1: to try and we're look at mechanics, look at look
Speaker 1: at other measurables to see how they're shooting the pros
Speaker 1: and we're optimistic on his shooting. And then the overall
Speaker 1: package outside of that, you know, we think, you know,
Speaker 1: he's just a guy you get in the lottery, and
Speaker 1: to get him at twenty one, where with at a
Speaker 1: position of need, we're very excited about tyrese at Kentucky
Speaker 1: for his freshman year last season, played in thirty one games,
Speaker 1: fourteen points, four and a half rebounds, three assists. He
Speaker 1: also averaged around to steal per game forty two and
Speaker 1: a half percent from the field thirty percent from three.
Speaker 1: He is learned what appears to be a physical specimen,
Speaker 1: a beast, a guy who is strong, who can get
Speaker 1: around the rim and do some physical things, and that
Speaker 1: could be one of his great attributes coming in. And
Speaker 1: it was also interesting to hear Daryl Morey talk about
Speaker 1: the three point shooting and how the Sixers don't feel
Speaker 1: that the percentage that was attached to Maxie's name in
Speaker 1: college is what's ultimately going to translate at the NBA level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I was going to add. That was
Speaker 1: something that Darryl drew attention to in his press conference
Speaker 1: that they didn't feel like that thirty percent number was
Speaker 1: necessarily indicative of his potential from deep. You have to
Speaker 1: keep in mind, these guys came off maybe the most
Speaker 1: unconventional college basketball season ever. The sample size is a
Speaker 1: little smaller, the situations were really different, especially once we
Speaker 1: were in prime pandemic season in March. So I hope
Speaker 1: that their eye for his shooting is correct. But like
Speaker 1: you said, we found other shooters tonight, veterans and rookies alike,
Speaker 1: So if that's something that they're optimistic about when it
Speaker 1: comes to Maxie's game, it does appear that they didn't
Speaker 1: go wrong in terms of any shooting opportunity in all
Speaker 1: of today's acquisitions. Another part of this acquisition that really
Speaker 1: excites me is he is a guy who, as we discussed,
Speaker 1: was projected to go high. Maybe some people had him
Speaker 1: as a lottery pick. But now he's coming to a
Speaker 1: team where he's not going to be asked to be
Speaker 1: the guy. They will have a defined role for him
Speaker 1: with other established players, remove some pressure from him, play
Speaker 1: to his strengths, accentuate all the good that he can
Speaker 1: do in his first year, and see where it goes
Speaker 1: from there. Yes, there was shooting that the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers added on Draft night. Will get into that in
Speaker 1: a moment. But before we close the book on talking
Speaker 1: about Maxie, you got a chance to sit in on
Speaker 1: his media availability and listen. He was gushing, gushing on
Speaker 1: the ESPN hit he did with Malika Andrews. I loved
Speaker 1: how he closed his interview by saying, Philadelphia, you're not
Speaker 1: going to regret this. But he's also got some superstar ties.
Speaker 1: It is kind of crazy enough being a teammate a
Speaker 1: been s is now just after seeing him in the gym,
Speaker 1: in the shop, grinding all summer, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: a dream coming true. And I really appreciate guys like
Speaker 1: him and Lebron. You know, they've just been telling me
Speaker 1: to stay with it, keep grinding, and stay who I
Speaker 1: am man, keep our personality and just because you know
Speaker 1: you get drafted, that's not the end. That's not the
Speaker 1: that's not what you know, the end goal. And that's
Speaker 1: just as stepped in the building block and we're working.
Speaker 1: I've been putting in this work and this is for
Speaker 1: you know, December twenty second, you know, when we step
Speaker 1: on the court to compete against other teams. Well, we
Speaker 1: talked about those superstars in Ben Simmons and Lebron James,
Speaker 1: who obviously gave their stamp of approval maybe while they
Speaker 1: were working out together, but then tonight on Twitter verse
Speaker 1: as well. But I like what you said about the
Speaker 1: emotion that he showed. Obviously this was a super unconventional
Speaker 1: draft night, but in a lot of situations, maybe it
Speaker 1: made the whole thing a little bit more real, a
Speaker 1: little bit more raw. The way we got to see
Speaker 1: them interacting with their families, I thought was really special,
Speaker 1: especially with a guy like Tyrese who had a very
Speaker 1: emotional reaction and just on a human level. I have
Speaker 1: to give props to someone that's willing to show their
Speaker 1: emotions and willing to show how much this moment means
Speaker 1: to them. I found it really special to be able
Speaker 1: to watch his reaction. And then by the time he
Speaker 1: got into the zoom, like you said, I was on there,
Speaker 1: and he was just exuberant. He was so excited. He
Speaker 1: clearly is chomping at the bit ready to get to Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and it seemed like he was still sort of basking
Speaker 1: in the afterglow of it all as he should. As
Speaker 1: the timeline of the night win Tyrese Maxie acquired. I
Speaker 1: think it was a little bit before ten o'clock, not
Speaker 1: too long after that, on the phone some notifications there
Speaker 1: were indicators that something was coming, which was ultimately confirmed.
Speaker 1: Seventy six ers acquiring Seth Curry from the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson going to Dallas in the trade. We thank
Speaker 1: you Josh Richardson. Loved him as a human, he was
Speaker 1: terrific all around, great guy, enjoyed being around him last year.
Speaker 1: I know you had a very similar experience as large.
Speaker 1: But Seth freaking Curry man coming in with the three
Speaker 1: point clip that he's shot at over the last two years,
Speaker 1: better than forty five percent from three. He's hit over
Speaker 1: one hundred ten threes in each of his last three seasons.
Speaker 1: Really a meteoric rise in the NBA level between Dallas
Speaker 1: and Portland over parts of the last three seasons. What
Speaker 1: a get, What a get? Indeed, And if I may,
Speaker 1: just before we jump all the way in with Seth Curry,
Speaker 1: I want to reiterate what you said about Josh Richardson.
Speaker 1: What a phenomenal individual, such a pleasure to work with
Speaker 1: from day one. We see a lot of players come
Speaker 1: and go, but he's someone that really left an impression.
Speaker 1: So the MAVs have a super high character, really funny,
Speaker 1: really interesting individual and I'll definitely miss seeing Josh in
Speaker 1: the locker room. I know if he's not listening to this,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to make sure I showered him
Speaker 1: with a little bit of praise and positivity because he
Speaker 1: was an absolute pleasure to be around, was kind to
Speaker 1: everybody from top to bottom, and I just really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: We'll look forward to seeing him as an opponent. Wish
Speaker 1: him all the best. Like you said, Seth Curry seems
Speaker 1: like a wonderful fit for this team for many reasons.
Speaker 1: Obviously on court you listed some of those stats. He
Speaker 1: is a great shooter, he comes from a pedigree, a lineage,
Speaker 1: if you will, of great shooters, and he's someone who's
Speaker 1: deal honestly makes a lot of sense for this team.
Speaker 1: He still has a few years left. It's a team
Speaker 1: friendly deal now for the Sixers, and I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be able to make a lot of impact
Speaker 1: at a good sorry what's the word of looking for.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be able to make a lot of impact
Speaker 1: at the right time when we needed him. And so
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to getting someone that's a veteran,
Speaker 1: someone that fills the holes that this team needs, you
Speaker 1: might not have been able to find someone much better
Speaker 1: than Seth Curry. Having a truly gravity elite shooter really
Speaker 1: changes the dynamic for Ben and Joel and those who've
Speaker 1: watched the Sixers up close and personal, like you have
Speaker 1: longer than me, know that when they've had when when Joe,
Speaker 1: l and Don have had that, it's actually insane. How
Speaker 1: good those how good those lineups and how good those
Speaker 1: teams played, you know, when everyone was healthy. So that
Speaker 1: that was really the theme um for tonight, you know,
Speaker 1: getting getting set. You know you can argue for him
Speaker 1: as the best shooter in the NBA. Um you know
Speaker 1: was you know, it was just really exciting. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: He went undrafted, of course, out of Duke, and the
Speaker 1: thirty year old is now the active leading three point
Speaker 1: shooter among all NBA players. And that speaks to what
Speaker 1: one of the philosophical missions was for this front office
Speaker 1: coming into the night. Get some space on the floor
Speaker 1: through shooting, creates more financial flexibility achieved from this trade.
Speaker 1: And yes, he is the son in law of Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1: He's married to Doc's daughter, Callie. We actually had a
Speaker 1: chance to catch up with Doc as he was leaving
Speaker 1: the war room after the draft on Wednesday night, and
Speaker 1: of course we had to ask him, Hey, how do
Speaker 1: you feel you got your son in law? And he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the deal because he's my son in law.
Speaker 1: But make no mistake, we made this deal because he's
Speaker 1: a great basketball player and you can't dispute that. And
Speaker 1: he can get to the cup, he can fill it up.
Speaker 1: I'm just really excited to see a shooter like this
Speaker 1: on a roster that also features Ben Simmons, Joel Embiad,
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris. Yeah, and it's hard not to touch on
Speaker 1: the family connection. Obviously, it's sort of storytelling gold there.
Speaker 1: But I do appreciate that that was sort of Doc's
Speaker 1: first take that they wanted him because of his skills,
Speaker 1: and come what may, regardless of what the family dynamic
Speaker 1: is going to be, this is someone that they wanted.
Speaker 1: And we have to remember that Doc also coached his
Speaker 1: son Austin in LA, so he has experience balancing work
Speaker 1: and family, church, in state, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: And I think if anyone knows how to handle a
Speaker 1: funny or different or unique dynamic, it's going to be
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers. And I'm excited to see how that all
Speaker 1: plays out. Doc said that he said, I've been down
Speaker 1: a similar road before. I've coached my son, and now
Speaker 1: I'm going to coach my son in law, and you
Speaker 1: know I did ask him. I was like, well, when
Speaker 1: did you start to catch win that this might have
Speaker 1: been a possibility, He said for the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: It was something we were discussing and his daughter, Callie,
Speaker 1: who works in the industry for CIA, the sports and
Speaker 1: entertainment management company, He said, she was like hitting him
Speaker 1: up every day, like where do we stand with this?
Speaker 1: Where do we stand with this? And with all due
Speaker 1: respect to Seth, it sounded like, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to put words in Doc's mouth. The thing that he
Speaker 1: was most excited about was that his two year old
Speaker 1: granddaughter will now be in closer proximity to him. So,
Speaker 1: what a wholesome draft night development, which we're all about
Speaker 1: here at the seventy six ers. We love the wholesome
Speaker 1: content and better yet, if it's good basketball content, this
Speaker 1: is a win win all across the board. And I
Speaker 1: love just a little extra family dynamic coming into this team.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be great. I was really thrilled
Speaker 1: with that move as well, Like we already said, tough
Speaker 1: to lose a great guy like Josh, but also seems
Speaker 1: like we're bringing in a great guy and Josh is
Speaker 1: off to somewhere great. So it kind of feels like
Speaker 1: a win win, win all across the board. All righty,
Speaker 1: let's get back into the draft and some of the guys.
Speaker 1: The seventy sixers acquired Isaiah Joe with pick number forty
Speaker 1: nine out of Arkansas. Spent two years at Arkansas and
Speaker 1: during that time he shot the ball at a great
Speaker 1: clip from outside the arc. Battled a little bit of
Speaker 1: injury last year, but he was a name who was
Speaker 1: associated with the Sixers for a couple of days, a
Speaker 1: little bit of a period in the lead up to
Speaker 1: the draft, and he was right there for him a
Speaker 1: place that I'm not sure if many people thought going
Speaker 1: in in terms of Mox would have thought that Joe
Speaker 1: would have been there at that late stage, But there
Speaker 1: he was. In the seventy sixers got another three point marksman.
Speaker 1: They did, and like you said, they were able to
Speaker 1: swoop him up maybe a little bit later than they expected.
Speaker 1: We've talked about the value that the team gained today.
Speaker 1: It's really incredible when you look at someone like Joe,
Speaker 1: who was very respected among this class. In his most
Speaker 1: recent season at Arkansas, averaged sixteen point nine points, four
Speaker 1: point one rebounds, one point seven assists, one point four steals.
Speaker 1: That steel number gets me excited too, because it seems
Speaker 1: like the guys that we got not only can they
Speaker 1: produce on the offensive end, but they fold into that
Speaker 1: defensive mentality that Doc has been so open about discussing.
Speaker 1: He said today on his ESPN hit that he wants
Speaker 1: to build one of the best defenses in the country,
Speaker 1: and he thinks the offense will come. So it's cool
Speaker 1: to see that that's something that he's been saying when
Speaker 1: he first walked in a couple months ago about the
Speaker 1: existing roster and still continues to apply to these young
Speaker 1: guys that joined the Sixers today. So Isaiah Joe, someone
Speaker 1: like you said, who was in the conversation and now
Speaker 1: is officially in Philadelphia, hit over two hundred three pointers
Speaker 1: in his two years at Arkansas, average just under seventeen
Speaker 1: points per game. Last season, Isaiah Joe a seventy sixer,
Speaker 1: and he spoke on Zoom after getting picked. What I
Speaker 1: bring into a team is my shooting ability, my ability
Speaker 1: to stretch the floor. I can knock it down from
Speaker 1: anywhere at any angle, off the catch, off the dribble.
Speaker 1: I'm a capable ball handler. So if the team needs
Speaker 1: me to bring down bringing the ball down the court
Speaker 1: anytimes I can do that, and my IQ offensively and defensively,
Speaker 1: I feel like my defensive persatility is actually really good.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to sacrifice my body. I'll take a lot
Speaker 1: of charges ievers around two charges of the game at Arkansas,
Speaker 1: and so I'm willing to do that, and I use
Speaker 1: my link to my ability. So I think the main
Speaker 1: thing though, my ability to shoot the ball. And for
Speaker 1: the final pick of the night for the seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers at fifty eight, Paul Reid, three year big man
Speaker 1: out of De Paul. He can score, he can rebound.
Speaker 1: Defense seems to be a strength, and I think it
Speaker 1: looks like he could have been what many people would
Speaker 1: have thought to be one of the more intriguing guys
Speaker 1: in the draft. Seems like there's a lot of upside
Speaker 1: with a guy like Paul Reid. He's someone, like you said,
Speaker 1: and maybe slipped a little bit. Now that's the third
Speaker 1: time we've talked about it in as many picks, someone
Speaker 1: that we might have got a really good value for
Speaker 1: with the fifty eighth pick. But if you want to
Speaker 1: go through his stats in his most recent season, he
Speaker 1: played three seasons at DePaul and most recently average fifteen
Speaker 1: point one points, ten point seven rebounds, one point six assists,
Speaker 1: one point nine steals, and two point six blocks, which
Speaker 1: is impressive considering he's six to nine. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you expect two point six blocks from someone with
Speaker 1: that size, but like you said, he seems like he's
Speaker 1: very versatile, a lot of upside, a lot of impressive
Speaker 1: potential with a guy like Paul Reid, and like we
Speaker 1: started this conversation out with great value with the fifty
Speaker 1: eighth pick. Sure a lot of people have heard of
Speaker 1: John Hollinger, former NBA executive with the Memphis Grizzlies, guru
Speaker 1: for a lot of the metrics that are used to
Speaker 1: more accurately gauge player performance and projected. He had a
Speaker 1: really good article on The Athletic if you just search
Speaker 1: Paul Reid's name and John Hollinger. Going into the draft,
Speaker 1: Hollinger considered him to be a sleeper pick, and this
Speaker 1: article explains why about how some of the numbers for
Speaker 1: Paul Reid, if you dug a little bit deeper, projected
Speaker 1: him as what people would probably view as top twenty
Speaker 1: or first round pick. So I think the Sixers felt like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they got great value with Read at fifty eight, and
Speaker 1: Daryl Morey for the reasons you're about to hear, feels
Speaker 1: like he's a guy who, in the right scenario, which
Speaker 1: obviously deems this to be, could help with Joel when
Speaker 1: he's for the you know, sort of thirteen to fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes when he's off the floor. Paul Reid's a guy
Speaker 1: who can guard multiple and we can play a dynamic,
Speaker 1: up tempo shooting. Good fit with Ben. Obviously they're all rookies,
Speaker 1: so the reality is most rookies take more than a
Speaker 1: year to even contribute. But obviously Joelle and Ben are
Speaker 1: going to be here wrong long time, and we feel
Speaker 1: like all the guys we took are very good fits
Speaker 1: with those guys. So yeah, that Darryl Mooy likes about
Speaker 1: Paul Reid. You know, the pandemic, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: not great things about it. But if you're lucky enough
Speaker 1: to be healthy and have things going well for you
Speaker 1: and you're looking for a diversion, the NBA is providing
Speaker 1: that right now, and in any other year we would
Speaker 1: have the draft, we would have to wait about a
Speaker 1: week and a half for the start of free agency,
Speaker 1: and then after that you'd have to wait probably three
Speaker 1: months ish until you got to see most of your
Speaker 1: new acquisitions in your team's uniform at training camp into
Speaker 1: the preseason. Well, I mean, we're like two and a
Speaker 1: half weeks away from training camp, which again we opened.
Speaker 1: I think this entire pod talking about this, but I
Speaker 1: can't wrap my head around everything that's coming. I was
Speaker 1: impressed that even in the late night high stakes maybe
Speaker 1: like after glow vibe that Daryl had on his press conference,
Speaker 1: that he was already looking ahead to free agency. This
Speaker 1: group is wasting no time. He said. We have a
Speaker 1: plan and we're ready to implement it when it comes
Speaker 1: to free agency. And then obviously at some point we're
Speaker 1: all going to have our Thanksgiving dinners and then turn
Speaker 1: around and be at training camp, which is just insane.
Speaker 1: And like you said, there are a lot more important
Speaker 1: things going on in the world right now. But to
Speaker 1: have this diversion, to have this escape, it is special.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it, and hopefully the NBA will
Speaker 1: continue to do what they've done since March, which is
Speaker 1: keep in mind everything else that's going on in the
Speaker 1: world as they bring the season back, so I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see how it all fits together. Obviously, in the world,
Speaker 1: it seems some things might start to trend upward a
Speaker 1: little bit, and maybe that'll coincide with the start of
Speaker 1: the season. There is a lot coming, and as I
Speaker 1: said to you when we were off air, I feel
Speaker 1: like I've taken the scenic route to a lot of
Speaker 1: my answers tonight, probably based on tiredness and time. But
Speaker 1: this is the perfect example. I'm just going to stop
Speaker 1: talking now. We will leave it at that. There is,
Speaker 1: as they say, more to come, and I think next week,
Speaker 1: I don't want to jump the gun, but I'll do
Speaker 1: a little soft tease. I think we might have to
Speaker 1: meet the prospects week on the podcast next week, but
Speaker 1: of course that could be overlapping with any late breaking,
Speaker 1: instant reaction news to whatever happens in free agency. So
Speaker 1: we expected to be a busy week on the podcast
Speaker 1: next week, maybe even before then. So just you know, subscribe, follow,
Speaker 1: get your notifications when you do so, and yes, we'll
Speaker 1: have lots to talk about, we figure. But hopefully this
Speaker 1: was a coherent production. If you made it all the
Speaker 1: way to this point, listeners, I hope it means you're
Speaker 1: listening in the morning because this is just too late.
Speaker 1: It's time first, sleepy. You deserve some sleep. If you
Speaker 1: go getting all right, we'll talk to next time. See
Speaker 1: it two