WEBVTT - Mailbag Monday | Examining the 76ers' Depth 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:08.480 search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. The 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.399 seventy Sixers haven't played a game at full strength since 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.720 the All Star break, but guess what, they don't seem 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.440 to care. Here's a steel by Green. Danny Green's got 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:21.680 my taste la play Yeah two damn time out. Gag. 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.439 This doesn't bo this is Philly. This team just keeps 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.680 getting it done. There's six and one in the second 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.880 half of this season and are tied for the most 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.239 wins in the league. Bild has the seventh footer on 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.040 him and he takes them all the way to the 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.920 cup for two. Did you see the left handed reverse 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:41.479 layup using Narrima's protection. Oh my goodness. We focus on 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.479 the Sixers depth and respond to your calls, DMS and 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:48.120 mentions right here, as we always do. On mail Bag Monday, 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.120 we got a street going on for the second Monday 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.360 in a row. We can say, Lauren Rosen, this is 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:04.280 a Victor mail Bag Monday. It's the morning after. My 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.199 brain's a little bit foggy because it was a later 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.720 game that expected on Sunday at the Garden. But I 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.920 am still trying to piece together how in the heck 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.759 did the seventy sixers pull out that one o one, 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.120 one hundred overtime dub against the Knicks. Well, Celts, I 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.919 look at the Sixers through similar lenses. We talk about 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.640 sort of who pays the bills on these podcasts, and 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.600 so I'm always prone to look for the positives. But 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.600 you say, how did they pull out the victory? I 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.800 gotta say, how did they have to pull out the 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.960 victory the way that they did? There were just a 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.240 few things that didn't have to happen. And that's what 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.040 Doc said afterwards, that's what Danny said, That's what Tobias said. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:40.520 That was the general vibe. But a win is a 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.800 win when I look at it, it's sort of like, Okay, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:44.679 let's cut down on a couple of those sort of 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.200 egregious errors that you might not make ever again in 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.520 the rest of the season, and then it's a more traditional, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.800 close but not as wacky victory that was a little 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.200 bit too wacky for my taste and too wacky for 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.480 their tastes as well. Clearly, when Matissa's three pointer went 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.960 down to get a four point game eighty six eighty 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.960 two with under two minutes to go. I thought, listen, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.760 if Matisse, with all due respect to his offensive game, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:12.040 if Matisse is knocking down a potential dagger, three sixers 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.760 are in good shape, that was not the case. I 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.440 do think that we all sort of breathe the sigh 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.480 of relief that three seemed like clockwise and momentum wise 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.120 and possessions left wise, that that was going to be 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.000 the end. That was not the end. You got to 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.400 feel for Tobias Harris on those free throws where he 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.239 had the opportunity to ice the game to Bias is 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.840 not someone that usually makes excuses. So if he says 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.320 after the game that his hand was really hurting and 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.880 that he was genuinely having a really hard time putting 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.639 those shots up, I totally believe him, and he must 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.079 be just kicking himself that it could have ended there 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.760 and it just didn't. So good for him for making 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.000 sure that he made that right at the line at 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.040 the end of overtime. Then Danny Green, coming right out 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.119 of the gate an ot bang answered the Burks three 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.120 with one comes back down another go ahead three, answering 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:02.400 another Alec Burke's bucket. That speaks to vet value right there. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.359 He was tremendous for sure. Selton, you mentioned Danny and 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.280 Matisse as guys that had sort of the big shots 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.440 down the stretch, at least from the field, absent Tobias 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.280 Harris's free throws at the end of overtime. But I 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.240 think it's interesting when you look back over the game 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.040 since the All Star Break, almost every sixer, if not 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.119 every sixer that's played rotation basketball since the break, has 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.359 had a really big, meaningful moment at some point along 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.520 the road. These guys have all stepped up really on 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.720 both ends of the floor to make these victories happen. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.800 For concorcmus is the one I'm thinking of, and he 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.119 had a big moment and sadly it wasn't in a win. 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.000 But everybody that's played has really proved that they can 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.320 make things happen late in games, and I think that 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.000 that's really exciting that Danny and Matisse were the ones 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.120 that were able to take everybody home last night on 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.560 the offensive end. And I did think it was fitting 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.680 that there we were with five point three seconds left, 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.520 moments after Tobias Harris hit a three over Julius Randall. 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.720 After Randall hit a single joint three over him the 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.720 corner to send the game overtime. There was the loose 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.240 ball foul Randall to shove in the back of Tobias. 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.280 Tobias goes to the line five point three seconds left, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.120 he knocks down the free throws because I think, you 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.880 know what, his offensive game was not the type of 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.400 offensive game we've come to expect from Tobias this year. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.600 The three turnovers in the final minutes of the game, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:20.840 it was like, I'm not saying it was just on him. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:22.760 It seemed like he and Ben were not on the 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.400 same page, and it was just like, what the heck 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.680 is going on with that? But for him to hang 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.240 in there, I thought he did play as good a 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.719 defense as he could have on Randall pretty much throughout 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.479 the night. Made it tough for him. That was a 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.279 great shot that Randall made to send the game to overtime. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.200 I thought it was nice for Tobias to be there 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.040 at the end and clinch the win for sure. I mean, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.159 he's found ways to make it happen in tight games 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.760 twice this week against the same team, but all season long, 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.359 he's found ways to win tight games, to make it 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.080 happen when it matters most so props to Tobias for 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.520 stepping up. I mean, I can't imagine a more nerve 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.400 racking way to try to win a game then at 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.800 the line in overtime. I mean, that's just a lot 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:04.480 of crush yourselves fittingly and talking about fitting themes, the 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.920 theme for this episode of mail Bag Monday is going 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.640 to be how are you feeling? Primarily the primary theme. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.440 We're going to touch some of the topics, but we 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:12.960 really wanted to zero in on in this what we 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.479 put on the at Sixers ig story sticker on Sunday. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.480 We do that every week to call out a question 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.200 for your responses for every mail Bag Monday is how 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.960 do you feel about the seventy sixers depth heading into 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.160 this stretch of the season based on how the team 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:27.719 has come out of the All Star breaks. We're gonna 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:29.800 run through some of those responses, but I thought that 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.680 it was timely the way the game went down on 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.400 Sunday for that to be our main focus point for 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.159 this week, because not only do you have Matise doing 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:41.320 some good stuff and obviously Danny Green, but I think 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.960 shake Milton, just based upon the game going into overtime, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:45.760 if the game and ended regulation. I think a lot 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.680 more people would have been talking about Shake Milton and 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.960 the boost he gave the Sixers with his twenty one points. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.120 So yeah, I thought it was a great another great 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.920 effort in a testament to the seventy sixers. Six and 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:00.719 one now without stretches of both Joel Embiid and Simmons 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:04.240 since the All Star break, and noteworthy, the team has 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.680 only lost once since Tobias Harris was not named an 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.719 All Star in twenty twenty one. These are facts, and 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.919 it was closed. These are facts. We cannot dispute them. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:15.920 We can also not dispute the ways that you can 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.080 get in touch with us for mail Bag Monday each week. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.680 We already reference one way every Sunday on at Sexers 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.719 on their Instagram story, look for the mail Bag Monday 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.360 question respond and we'll start running through some of those. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.680 We get a ton of responses through that. We can't 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.640 get them all, literally, like a couple hundred. 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We're here 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:09.880 for you. If you stayed up last night to watch 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.160 that game, I mean, my goodness, that was really something. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.840 All right with that, let us open up the mail 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:23.520 bag talking about the seventy sixers depth. You have one 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.880 new message. Yes, the Sixers with the most wins in 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.200 the NBA since the All Star Break with six of them. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.320 The bench has been a big part of that. We 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.080 asked you what encourages you the most about the seventy 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:39.320 sixers depth Daddy Underscore bills on Instagram. Seventy sixers winning 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.400 without key players. This team is tough. I agree. Listen 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.800 to me. The bottom line is this, I don't care 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.280 how the Sixers and winning games. Just win as much 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.880 as you can, right now without Choellenbiid, they were without 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.800 Ben Simmons, without one of the best shooters in the league, 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.320 Seth Curry. They've got the Gnats and the Bucks right 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.880 on their heels. They're playing Lauren. I think like they 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.320 really do want that number one seed. I just think 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.080 that's talk that they throw out there. Yeah, they certainly are. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.320 They're winning winnable games, and they're also winning losable games. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.120 You have to think about the fact that this team 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.760 is built around Joel Embiid and he has not been 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.080 available over these last few games where the Sixers have 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.760 found ways to win. It doesn't matter if the wins 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.960 are pretty like you said, but I think the more 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.400 losable games you can win. And keep in mind, this 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.640 is a team that's now above five hundred on the road, 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.680 So as they head into a few more road games, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.320 let's give them a little bit of space to maybe 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.520 struggle a little bit. Maybe they won't. I think it's 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.800 been really interesting to watch them sort of exceed expectations 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.000 without Joel, without Ben, without Seth, without any combination of 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.800 those three, because we've seen all the combinations of without 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.720 those three guys, who, like we said yesterday, are three 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:49.560 of the four primary offensive options for this team, and 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.720 they're finding ways to get wins even if they're not pretty. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.240 They're still wins and I'm down with them. Nuggie Underscore 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.439 Fresh It's encouraging to see that Sixers can still win 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.120 games without Embiid or Simmons. They play well as a 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.080 team all Caps and team. Yeah. I think from me, Lauren, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.679 to speak to your point, I'm done even thinking about 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.160 the well they can't win on the I was done 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:10.920 with it they can't win on the road thing a 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.079 while ago, but I'm also now done with it. They 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.520 can't find ways to win without Ben and Joel. I 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.520 think if we get later into the year, right we 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.880 know Doc Rivers said as much. To get to where 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.400 they want to go, they got to have their best players. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.280 But I think that for right now, they've shown that 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.880 they can tread water in the regular season. They have 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:31.720 enough talents. Nate Underscore Dog three gs for seven on Instagram. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.040 The versatility and how quickly players can adapt to different 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.679 roles and being very efficient, I would say yes. Eighteenth 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.320 different starting lineup used by Doc Rivers on Sunday against 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.120 the Knicks. The seventy Sixers have played what forty three games. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.120 I mean that is an ever changing ecosystem, and yes, 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.959 the Sixers have adapted. I think that's a great point. Well, 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.079 they're really playing as a team, and I love that 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.000 the fans have sort of started to recognize what they've 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.720 been at least telling us in media, but also showing 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.240 us on the core. This is a team that's developed 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.480 a winning culture and they're willing to do whatever it takes. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.760 Nobody cares who starts, who comes off the bench. That's 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.520 become something that's genuinely very clear. Doc Rivers told us 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.240 he sort of tells the guys right before the game 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.320 who's going to be starting. He doesn't do say anything extra, 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.160 he doesn't ask for anything extra, because the guys understand that, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.720 regardless of where they're playing or who they're playing with, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.040 the goal is to win. Tobias Harris has actually set 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.320 it a couple games in a row now that he 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.520 really believes in the system that the team has created, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.240 and clearly his teammates believe in it as well. He says, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.720 they've built a winning culture and we're now starting to 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.800 see that culture seep into let's say, any lineup that 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.960 the team throws out there move it on. You have 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.080 one new message. What encourages you about the seventy six 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.640 ers depth Scott underscore w lufc. I don't know how 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:51.719 to pronounce that, says Matisse, Thybal's efficiency batist thible. I'll 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.440 be honest. I don't like making bold proclamations, but so far, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.000 when I go back to my sneaky second half of 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.680 the season prediction I did through out there, I would 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.959 expect Ematise to knocked down a couple more threes. Hey, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.000 our man is doing it, Matisse against the Knicks, two 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.000 for five from three. He is now ten for nineteen 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.000 from the outside since the All Star break, and perhaps 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.520 even more than that, he kept on firing after an 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.160 early miss Lauren in Sunday's game against the Knicks, and 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.400 the ball found him in the final minutes and eat 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.160 a big one, as we said, to make it a 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.680 four point game. Yeah. To me, the willingness to take 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.200 that late shot is maybe the most important of all 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.360 because he has struggled offensively this season because he has 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.840 been prone to defer to his teammates, which makes sense 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.160 when your teammates are Seth Curry and Tobias Harris and 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.480 Shake Milton when those are your options, it makes sense 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.640 that you might not want to be selfish with the basketball. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.160 But to see him take that confidence, take that shot 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.720 and have it go in, I think is really huge. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.840 And I'm glad that he kept shooting after having a 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.080 little bit of a tough stretch because that confidence can 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.000 be really key or really detrimental for a young player. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.640 So to see him keep going and then to see 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.320 him keep it up on the defensive end two, which 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.800 is where he makes his money, incredible. It's been really 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.480 awesome to see him come back from the break the 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.080 way that he has. I mean, the blocks of Matisse. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.439 I know we always talk about his steels and his ballhawking, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.240 some of these blocks the last couple of games have 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.760 been off the charts. I mean, I'm thinking, I think 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.280 we're probably both thinking of Darren Fox that block from behind, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.160 and then he saved his own block and got it 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.240 to a teammate. And I think that that sort of 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.360 getting it back to a teammate was luck because he 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.680 was lucky that his teammates were behind him where that 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.280 pass was. But the instincts. Doc Rivers was asked about 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:32.640 that play and called him inspector gadgets. It's really funny 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.360 to see the way that Doc has has started admiring 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.120 Matis's game, and the way that Matis is finding new 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.400 things to do, new things to add it does seem 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.640 like he's continuing to get better, which is cool. Did 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.840 you get the Inspector gadget reference? Sort of? I was 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.840 down with it, but were you familiar with inspector gadget. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.000 I'm asking you this. You get a little bit younger 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.120 than I am, and I just I was curious if 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.559 the masses understood the reference. I understood the reference. It's 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.480 not the one that I would have jumped to immediately, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.920 but I understood it. Once he said it, I had 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.360 a chuckle and I admired the little spinney like I 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.760 could see it in my head. I understand, love it, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.160 love it. Sticking with our igs, roll call, you have 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:17.080 one new message, Nolan J forty five. I feel that 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.679 seeing Tobias playing such good basketball shows that the Sixers 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.600 have more than just two stars. Listen. I don't think 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.520 you can make I don't think it's any coincidence. Why 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.320 don't I say this that Tobias in two games against 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:33.120 the Knicks has played particularly aggressive and I know that 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.080 it wasn't the cleanest game for him on Sunday, but 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.520 you could tell that he did have a little bit 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.839 extra to him. I think in both those games against 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.600 the Knicks, I mean no doubt about it. He says 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.320 that he takes these things personally. He's the one that's 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.520 he's said it, so I don't have a problem echoing 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.080 what he's said. I think at the end of the day, 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.319 his teammates have also expressed the fact that if Tobias 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.600 was putting up is putting up the numbers that he 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.839 is as maybe a third option on this team, a 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.400 second or a third option on this team, he would 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.640 be putting up better numbers as a primary option on 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:07.600 another team, like, for example, a Julius Randall type of player. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.400 And I think that Tobias knows that, and I think 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.959 he goes into matchups understanding that he has an opportunity 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.959 to prove who really is the best player. And I 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.720 think that this week has shown us despite the struggles 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.960 from the second matchup between the two teams, we got 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.560 a few voicemails we gotta get to you have one 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.520 new message. Two voicemails that came in building on that 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.400 theme Tobias Harris appreciation for him. We got these that 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.160 rolled in Lauren after the first game against the Knicks 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.560 last Tuesday, the I'm an All Star proclamation game from 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.160 Tobias Harris. As you put that game away, let's roll 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:47.200 the tape. Hey, I'll tell you what. Watching tonight, Tobias 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.040 Harris sent a message to the league and especially the 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:54.400 Julius Randall. He should have been an All Star, not Randall. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.480 The way this team is playing right now, he's gonna 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:02.120 lead this team to high place along with Ben and Joe. Well, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:07.720 thank height, Yes, love that reading the matchup. Within the matchup, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.600 Tobias should have been an All Star ahead of Julius Randall. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.880 And yeah, I think that along with Ben and Joel, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.000 he does have the opportunity to lead the seventy six 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.360 ers on a long, healthy run. I think, especially when 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.040 you look at the way he's been playing late in 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.480 games and again there we're coming off of what was 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.000 not the prettiest win. We know this, but he still 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.960 was able to get to the line and make the 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.479 win happen in a very high pressure situation in overtime 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.920 on the second night of a back to back, when 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.040 he had been struggling when he had just missed a 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.120 pair of free throws. And I think that that's really impressive. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.880 It speaks to his mental strength. And then when we 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.560 talk about his physical strength and the way that his 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.800 game has grown, we've seen that in fourth quarters and 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.080 in overtime periods all season long. It's been really cool 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.920 to watch his evolution. It's been really cool to watch 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.120 him and become a primary option in crunch time. It's 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.280 been really cool to watch Tobias Harris this year. Some 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.200 more love for Tobias on the podline. Yeah, I'm watching 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.320 The Dark Night right now, because that's how Tobias has 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.720 has been playing. He's playing like The Dark Night. He 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.680 is an all Star. Billy knows he's an all Star. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.600 He doesn't have to prove anything to anybody. Just know 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.360 we level and he's all, fuck you, we come up 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.840 with a chip, let's go sixers. Tobias has kind of 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.400 become a bucket. I think, Lauren, when the man shoots 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:27.360 the basketball at any level, I'm expecting it more often 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.720 than not to go in. And I think that's sort 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.920 of the ultimate intangible test, Right when it leaves someone's hand, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.280 do you think it's going in yes or no. To me, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.760 it's almost always yes with Tobias, and especially honestly late 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.400 in games. Late in games, I feel very at peace 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.440 when the ball is in his hands. And I don't 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.360 know that that's a quality that he's always had, or 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.120 in fairness, that he's always had an opportunity to develop, 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.480 and this year he has had the opportunity to develop 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.800 as a closer, and he's done it pretty brilliantly. Tobias 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.880 is a starter. We're talking about depth. Death can be 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:03.480 found all around. You have one new message Ethan Sip 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.840 on Instagram. What does he love about the seventy six 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:11.800 ers depth Shake Darum Milton. I like that twist on 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:16.760 Shake's nickname, Shake de room Milton. That's funny. I gave him. 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.120 I gave him the Shake Curry tag last night when 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.679 he took that really depthy three. That was something that 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.440 Shake has been shooting well from three since we've known 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.680 him and his entire career, but really taking a few 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.800 feet back from the line and just going for it 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.240 and seeing it go in with confidence like that was 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.480 a little bit Curry esque to me. I was really 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.840 impressed with Shake's confidence over the last couple of games. 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.800 Another player that has struggled a little bit over the 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.080 few games before that and has found a way to 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:46.160 continue shooting with confidence, playing with confidence, and it paid 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.359 dividends in this back to back. It's funny because on 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.960 March first, he had the big game against Indian the 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.320 seventy six ers win, he dropped twenty six, and the 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.840 same date that he went for thirty nine against Doc 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.639 and the Clippers last year. And then right like you 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.440 just said a little bit, Wyatt for shake a couple 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.280 single digit games coming back from the All Star break 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.359 against the Spurs in the first game against the Knicks, 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.080 and you're kind of thinking, you know, maybe shakes do 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.920 for a bounce back a couple of games, and lo 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:13.600 and behold, it could not have come in a better 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.840 time because without Seth Curry, the need for Shake and 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.960 what he does and what he brings that much more important. 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.280 And here he's been the last two games. He's combined 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.199 for forty nine points, get into the foul line, and 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.159 he shot eighteen for thirty two from the field and 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.880 two for five on threes. Really impressive stuff and always 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.080 excited to see a young player that really puts in 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.600 the work and really puts in the time you have 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.680 one new message being into wind down the mail bag. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:45.480 Sammy Saheen Underscore loves fur cons confidence. Yes, I think 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.880 that fur Coon's confidence has been on full display these 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.680 last couple games. The world is a better place when 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.000 we have a fur con core Cupas who is firing 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.800 on all cylinders and confident. His efficiency has gone up 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.040 a bit. And even though he didn't, you know, win 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.880 the game against the Bucks a few games ago, loved 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.400 seeing him knock down that corner three to help send 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.639 the game to ot And he just plays with so 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.800 much joy celts. When Furkon is doing well, you can tell. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:14.920