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Speaker 3: Welcome through the Center. Another edition of Sixers in sixty
Speaker 3: another one that takes place before a seventy six Ers
Speaker 3: home game against the Cavaliers with their ten and three record.
Speaker 3: I'm Matt Murphy along with my co seventy six Ers
Speaker 3: insider Lauren Rosen, and we'd be remiss to start the
Speaker 3: show without a big happy.
Speaker 4: Birthday wish too, Miss Rosie, Happy birthday, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Feel it's overshadowed by Thanksgiving at all.
Speaker 5: I've felt that way a little bit my whole life,
Speaker 5: but as I get older, I don't love my birthday.
Speaker 5: So thrilled to be able to do it here doing
Speaker 5: what I love, watching the team I love, and chatting
Speaker 5: with you.
Speaker 4: This is great.
Speaker 3: I'd rather be the red court again for the end
Speaker 3: season tournament down below, with the blue streak down the
Speaker 3: middle of the Navy Blue and the NBA Cup trophies
Speaker 3: at mid court. With the seven to six. It's the
Speaker 3: final game of group play for the Sixers. It's warm
Speaker 3: ups for that as we speak here. And it's a
Speaker 3: beautiful day for your birthday in Philadelphia at perfect weather, sunny,
Speaker 3: sixty five degrees. Hidding, it was pouring rain all day
Speaker 3: and pretty dreary around these parts.
Speaker 5: Listen, I am a rain person myself, not to overshare
Speaker 5: with the audience, but.
Speaker 2: I love rain. It was a great day.
Speaker 5: I got to hang with my friends and now I
Speaker 5: get to watch the Sixers.
Speaker 2: I can't complain.
Speaker 3: Well, we've got a loaded show today that includes a
Speaker 3: sit down with Robert Covington of the seventy six Ers,
Speaker 3: rejoining his old teams, the seventy six Ers he started
Speaker 3: a few games. Nick Batoom has been back in the
Speaker 3: lineup more recently. They had a very successful road trip
Speaker 3: the team that will touch on any of our play.
Speaker 3: Interviews are available on the seventy six Ers Insiders podcast.
Speaker 3: And it's also a loaded broadcast area here tonight. There's
Speaker 3: various radio crews and TV crews, and there's us sitting
Speaker 3: in the Sixers radio location and kind of in the
Speaker 3: row behind Kate Scott and the Sixers and Allah and
Speaker 3: the Sixers TV crew. Kate's chatting with Mark Questerscher of
Speaker 3: ESPN Radio, who will join us later on in the show.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to talking to Mark as well again
Speaker 3: seventy six Ers Insiders podcasts for any interviews throughout the season,
Speaker 3: as we'll hear from players pretty frequently on Sixers in
Speaker 3: sixty and it should be a good game. Not that
Speaker 3: we preview too much because this lives on after the fact,
Speaker 3: but let's let's rewind a little bit first before getting
Speaker 3: into Robert Covington in the first segment, Lauren, because we'll
Speaker 3: talk more in depth about these games, but at surface level.
Speaker 3: At the surface level, Nick Nurse, the Sixers head coach,
Speaker 3: who will also speak later in this shows, he says,
Speaker 3: the thing they were most pleased with is going out
Speaker 3: and getting the two wins, but they also learned a
Speaker 3: lot about themselves, and that's what this part of the
Speaker 3: NBA season is all about. Rotations, playing opponents that have
Speaker 3: different strengths, and they've got two of those coming up
Speaker 3: in Cleveland and Minnesota that are bigger than some of
Speaker 3: these smaller teams. But two and zero road trip can't
Speaker 3: complain a quick trip, and heck, of.
Speaker 2: A back to back now coming up for this team.
Speaker 5: As you mentioned, the last of the pool play in
Speaker 5: the N Season Tournament tonight against the Cleveland Cavaliers and
Speaker 5: then tomorrow to one of the best in the West
Speaker 5: and a couple.
Speaker 2: Familiar faces, Matt Murphy.
Speaker 5: We're seeing George Niang tonight, We're seeing Shake Milton tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: So an awesome opportunity for the Sixers to see some
Speaker 5: of their old pals and hopefully get a couple more
Speaker 5: big wins.
Speaker 3: Two and one in pool play will give the the
Speaker 3: ist N Season Tournament primer for the pregame audience tonight.
Speaker 3: At this point on the podfeed, you may or may
Speaker 3: not already know the sixers fate in the N Season Tournament.
Speaker 3: They cannot, though be eliminated from contention. They can't clinch
Speaker 3: either in East Group A. Indiana because they're two to
Speaker 3: zero with a game on Tuesday's slate also can clinch
Speaker 3: with a win as they hold the head to head
Speaker 3: over the Sixers. But the Sixers, if they take care
Speaker 3: of Cleveland, will be three to one, and there's a
Speaker 3: wildcard spot in each conference, which is an intriguing thing.
Speaker 3: How have you thought that the end of games have
Speaker 3: been as a fan, as someone who covers this sport.
Speaker 3: When point differential matters.
Speaker 2: It was really interesting, Matt.
Speaker 5: The first night of pool play, we were in Detroit
Speaker 5: and the Sixers were all sort of getting up to
Speaker 5: speed about how the pool play is going to work,
Speaker 5: where the margins of victory are going to matter most,
Speaker 5: and Joe Ellenbiid was the one who I really knew
Speaker 5: these rules, and Matt, you'll remember, towards the end of
Speaker 5: that game, he actually threw up a three that wouldn't
Speaker 5: go on to count, but some people didn't love that right,
Speaker 5: And as is customary in the NBA, when a team
Speaker 5: is about to win, they don't usually add insult to injury.
Speaker 2: They don't keep shooting as.
Speaker 5: The final buzzer is coming if you have at least
Speaker 5: a significant lead at that point.
Speaker 2: But Joel kept shooting.
Speaker 5: He wanted to strengthen that potential point differential down the road.
Speaker 5: So interesting to see the way that it started that night,
Speaker 5: and then as we've watched in the subsequent games, as
Speaker 5: the team has continued to sort of power through these
Speaker 5: fourth quarters, you'll hear from Nick Nurson a little bit,
Speaker 5: but he was asked about it pregame talking about the
Speaker 5: fact that.
Speaker 2: He expects tonight, even though it's the front end of
Speaker 2: a back to back, that this is a team that's going.
Speaker 5: To fight till the end and try to strengthen their
Speaker 5: point differential as much as they can, despite having a
Speaker 5: flight tonight and a big game against Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: Right. I don't want this to be dated, but.
Speaker 3: It's an interesting contrast at the end of a game,
Speaker 3: balancing rest for the second end of the back to
Speaker 3: back with winning by as many points as you can
Speaker 3: possibly win by. Because I didn't I alluded to it,
Speaker 3: but the first time breakers head to head and then
Speaker 3: in the race for the one wild card in each conference,
Speaker 3: it's point differential, which as of through Monday and entering Tuesday,
Speaker 3: the Sixers or plus twelve in point differential. But Joel
Speaker 3: Embiid's had four games through the first thirteen where he's
Speaker 3: rested the entire fourth quarter.
Speaker 5: That's exactly what I was going to say, and so
Speaker 5: impressive by the way for the Sixers two again as
Speaker 5: of Tuesday, sit at ten and three, with so much
Speaker 5: rest for Joel Embiid down the stretch. We've of course
Speaker 5: been introduced to fourth quarter Maxie in the process, a
Speaker 5: name that his teammates have given him and he, at
Speaker 5: least on the floor, has certainly accepted, especially when it
Speaker 5: comes to giving Joel Embiid again the raining MVP, still
Speaker 5: leaving the NBA in scoring despite the fact that he's
Speaker 5: not playing in a lot of these fourth quarters.
Speaker 2: Some really impressive stuff.
Speaker 5: But perhaps in these in season tournament games we'll see
Speaker 5: a little bit of different strategy from the Sixers down
Speaker 5: the stretch. Of course, hopefully they'll be winning it that point.
Speaker 3: Robert Covington, Mark Kesterischer, and Nick Nurse all coming up
Speaker 3: in this show, I promise. But before we get to that,
Speaker 3: you mentioned fourth quarter Maxi. There has been some incredible
Speaker 3: tyrese Maxie stats that have come out this week that
Speaker 3: I don't want to wait any longer to dive into
Speaker 3: because they are fascinating. If you look at Maxi and
Speaker 3: Embid by quarter through November twentieth, Embiid leads the NBA
Speaker 3: in first quarter scoring ten point three and Maxi's fingerprints
Speaker 3: are all over the second quarter well. Embiid the third
Speaker 3: quarter as well, twelve point four points per game average
Speaker 3: in the third, but Maxie's scoring and three pointers by quarter.
Speaker 5: Fascinating and when we look at those second and fourth quarters,
Speaker 5: it's something that we've talked about quite a bit, right, Matt,
Speaker 5: because in the more traditional rotations that the Sixers have
Speaker 5: developed again in this early phase of the season, Tyrese
Speaker 5: Maxie starts the second and fourth quarters alongside Tobias Harris
Speaker 5: and a benchline sometimes including d Anthony Melton. But that's
Speaker 5: traditionally when Joel Embiide is getting that rest that he needs.
Speaker 5: So to see Tyrese Maxi not only excelling in this
Speaker 5: role for the first time this season as a primary
Speaker 5: ball handler, well, rather not the first time, but the
Speaker 5: first time that he's been given the keys, let's say,
Speaker 5: to the team in those moments, not just to do
Speaker 5: a great job for the Sixers and among his counterparts
Speaker 5: that he's playing on the floor with, but to do
Speaker 5: better than anyone in the NBA in the second quarter,
Speaker 5: and then of course to come back in the fourth
Speaker 5: quarter and develop that reputation for fourth quarter Maxie. I mean,
Speaker 5: he just continues to reach every benchmark that's set for him.
Speaker 2: Sky's the limit for Tyrese Maxie.
Speaker 5: You mentioned it in case you're trying to share this
Speaker 5: stat with your friends. Shout out to stat muse on
Speaker 5: Twitter or x talking about the fact that Tyrese Maxi
Speaker 5: is the NBA's leading scorer in the second quarter, averaging
Speaker 5: nine point five points per second quarter, and also leading
Speaker 5: three pointers or no, rather sorry second in three pointers.
Speaker 3: Per qu No, No, that's second quarter three pointers.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought.
Speaker 5: Okay, so second quarter three pointers is obviously helping him
Speaker 5: get to that nine point five points per second quarter mark,
Speaker 5: but the second quarter three point leader in the entire.
Speaker 3: NBA nineteen Tyrese Maxi nineteen eighty entering Tuesday. And it's
Speaker 3: confusing because it lists Steph Curry with nineteen. I thought
Speaker 3: it's it looks like it's tied for first, but it
Speaker 3: means that Curry has nineteen in the first. Maxi has
Speaker 3: nineteen threes in the second, Curry twenty one in the third,
Speaker 3: and LaMelo ball twenty and fourth quarters this year.
Speaker 5: I would venture to guess so that Tyre's Maxie is
Speaker 5: hot on LaMelo balls heels in that fourth quarter, and
Speaker 5: looking forward to seeing how fourth quarter Maxi continues to
Speaker 5: evolve as the season goes along.
Speaker 3: You mentioned following stat Muse follow at Lauren m Rosen.
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Speaker 3: social media. I'm that Underscore Murphy zero four. We are
Speaker 3: the seventy six ers insiders. This is six Ers in sixty,
Speaker 3: which is Tuesday nights here on ninety seven to five
Speaker 3: the Fanatic and it just so happens back to back
Speaker 3: weeks game night in South Philadelphia. Without further ado, though,
Speaker 3: let's toss it to a sit down with Robert Covington
Speaker 3: of the seventy six or some really good stuff in here.
Speaker 3: We talked about the Thanksgiving holiday, and at first I
Speaker 3: wasn't sure if he wasn't a big Thanksgiving guy, but
Speaker 3: he definitely.
Speaker 5: Is and very appreciative to the true cooks in the
Speaker 5: kitchen of Thanksgiving. It was awesome to get to know
Speaker 5: Robert Covington a little bit better. Hear about his family
Speaker 5: history here, about the bosses in.
Speaker 4: The kitchen, and his pet snakes and.
Speaker 2: His pet snakes.
Speaker 5: This interview has everything, Matt. I'm not going to spoil
Speaker 5: it any further.
Speaker 3: Robert Covington, I know we spoke right when the trade happened,
Speaker 3: you and I, but since then, how has the full
Speaker 3: adjustment been as it's been getting going on and off
Speaker 3: the court back in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6: It's been great.
Speaker 7: You know, like I said, off the court, stuff is
Speaker 7: hand to I'm moving my home today, ingrats. Actually I
Speaker 7: google my keys and everything about they go next fifteen minutes,
Speaker 7: go go close.
Speaker 8: On my house.
Speaker 7: And you know, everything else is working in itself.
Speaker 6: Getting all my stuff moved in from LA that'll be at.
Speaker 7: The end of the month, getting my daughter down here,
Speaker 7: my dogs, my reptiles, like just my family, like everyone
Speaker 7: just selling here and like I said, we're all gonna
Speaker 7: it's all coming together pretty well.
Speaker 6: It's slowed down a lot.
Speaker 4: How many dogs at this point? How many reptiles?
Speaker 7: I have three dogs, three monstars, I got four snakes,
Speaker 7: three lepard get goos, that's about it. I got a
Speaker 7: fish tank that's getting about thirty five fish for my daughter,
Speaker 7: but really thirty three. But they have babies, so that's awesome.
Speaker 3: You said keys to the house, but keys to the
Speaker 3: ten and three start for the sixers. What do you
Speaker 3: think those have been?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 7: You know, the way that we fit in so well here,
Speaker 7: the way that Reese, Joel Tobias like them guys have
Speaker 7: really the melt have really led us you know, since
Speaker 7: the trade, we really have a lot of pieces that
Speaker 7: you know, came and fit in. You know, the guys
Speaker 7: that was here pb the house, Paul read all them
Speaker 7: guys like we came in and complimented really well. You know,
Speaker 7: we we're guys that we really can come in and
Speaker 7: you know, just we can fit in, Like it's not
Speaker 7: too much that we can split to that par and
Speaker 7: do that would throw others off. Like, we come in,
Speaker 7: we fit the system well, and like I said, the
Speaker 7: system has been really great to us so far.
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid six thirty ten games, but he's also averaging
Speaker 3: six assists. So the six thirty ten games is the
Speaker 3: most in the league right now at this point. But
Speaker 3: with the playmaking, what have you noticed about Embiid's game.
Speaker 6: The patience.
Speaker 7: You know, I've watched Joe from Afar from a very
Speaker 7: long time since I've left, you know, I've been saying
Speaker 7: I've been saying a lot about Joe and the things
Speaker 7: that he's able to do, the way that he's transformed himself,
Speaker 7: the way he's inserted his dominance on the game. You know,
Speaker 7: it's just amazing that, you know, the things that he
Speaker 7: said when I was here that he spoken to fruition and.
Speaker 6: He's done it. Like I said, he's done it.
Speaker 7: The only thing that is waiting is, you know, to
Speaker 7: be up there like with the rest of them guys
Speaker 7: up there.
Speaker 6: That with those teams.
Speaker 7: That's the only thing we waiting on now, and we
Speaker 7: have the opportunity to do that here for.
Speaker 3: The radio audience, we're looking up at the banners here
Speaker 3: in the practice facility. Matt Murphy and Robert Covington b
Speaker 3: N Season Tournament. You all have been asked a lot
Speaker 3: about it, But where do you see potential in it?
Speaker 7: It's a it's a It reminds me of the euro League,
Speaker 7: and I think the excitement behind it has, you know,
Speaker 7: added a little a lot more to the game. You know,
Speaker 7: it's something different, Like it's the NBA is trying to
Speaker 7: find ways to keep keep adding some newness to the game.
Speaker 6: And I think it's it's a good idea.
Speaker 7: I think it's it's something that you know, can definitely
Speaker 7: be expanded, you know, in the future. Like I said,
Speaker 7: at first, it's like understanding how it's gonna work, But
Speaker 7: now that you actually see it, it's like, okay, like
Speaker 7: now we understand. Now we understand a little better about
Speaker 7: what the wh I did, because at first was completely
Speaker 7: confused about how it's gonna work. But now we see
Speaker 7: how it's how it's gonna work, I mean, how it
Speaker 7: does work. So it's exciting to be a part of
Speaker 7: something like that and just going up and performing.
Speaker 3: I think some people are hating on it, but it's
Speaker 3: gonna take time. It takes time for anything, for anything
Speaker 3: to take off. And there's already people who like it
Speaker 3: in the first season, so we'll see about that. Closing
Speaker 3: with this rank the Thanksgiving foods in order of preference.
Speaker 6: Man, you can't make me do that, all right.
Speaker 7: You don't have a favorite, Listen, My favorite is my
Speaker 7: two plates to sit in front of me while I'm eating,
Speaker 7: and anything on it. No, I got yams, macaroni, cheese, dressing, turkey,
Speaker 7: I got potatoes, I got uh what else?
Speaker 6: Some greens?
Speaker 8: Mmm?
Speaker 6: Some are missing? Yeah, cranberry sauce on addressing.
Speaker 4: Are you the chef?
Speaker 6: No, not at all. I stay furtherest away from you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 7: I know where I'm good at, and I know what
Speaker 7: I don't need to be And when Thanksgiving food stay
Speaker 7: out of the kitchen.
Speaker 6: That's Mom's Grandma's aunties. That's who. That's why.
Speaker 7: Any kitchen and if you come in there and mess
Speaker 7: up something, you know what's gonna happen. Get out of
Speaker 7: my kitchen.
Speaker 4: There you go. Thank you man, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: company's bell. Go Sixers. Thanks again to Robert Covington for
Speaker 3: sitting down with us. I'm Matt Murphy along with Lauren
Speaker 3: Rose in the seventy six there's Insiders here on sixers
Speaker 3: in sixty Live from the Arena, and Lauren was questioning
Speaker 3: my my journalism skills for not asking about dessert with
Speaker 3: mister Covington.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was just you know, hard out not really.
Speaker 5: We were right there to talk about pie. Matt Murphy,
Speaker 5: your Thanksgiving pie of choice, quick go apple, apple, No
Speaker 5: sweet potato.
Speaker 3: I don't like sweet potatoes or pumpkin.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 5: I'm a cherry pie girly myself. I mean, I don't
Speaker 5: discriminate between any type of pie. I'll be honest, I'll
Speaker 5: do sweet potato, I'll do apple.
Speaker 4: And because it's your birthdays, is like what type of cake?
Speaker 2: Chocolate cake?
Speaker 4: Like just a good plain chocolate cake.
Speaker 5: I like like a yellow inside, like a yellow cake
Speaker 5: with like a thick chocolate frosting. Enough about me, I'm
Speaker 5: a big fun betty guy, but fun Betty.
Speaker 3: To illustrate how much of a heart out we did
Speaker 3: not have with Robert Covington. He he actually stayed after
Speaker 3: and face timed his mom to ask about the caramel
Speaker 3: cake that they've had for his entire life.
Speaker 5: So there's our answer to how he follows up those
Speaker 5: two plates times potentially two right, So those four plates
Speaker 5: are followed up with dessert, a caramel cake, and he's
Speaker 5: going to give us the exact name of what the
Speaker 5: cake is where it comes from, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3: His mother was upset about being put on the spot,
Speaker 3: for sure, but.
Speaker 5: Lovely to see and Matt speaking of things that are
Speaker 5: lovely to see, really cool to see George Nia and
Speaker 5: getting loose down there. Weird to see him in different colors,
Speaker 5: of course, but he was so beloved here. And of
Speaker 5: course he and I shared a podcast and a lot
Speaker 5: of laughs. I'm so grateful for the role that George
Speaker 5: has played in my career, and of course hope that
Speaker 5: he has a great game tonight, but not too much
Speaker 5: too good.
Speaker 3: He's going on too great a twelve point game. This
Speaker 3: is a Cavs team that is entering off a win
Speaker 3: over the defending champion Nuggets, and their broadcast crew was
Speaker 3: saying maybe that was their best performance of the season.
Speaker 3: So that is how they enter this matchup with the
Speaker 3: seventy six Ers. If you're just joining us, we've got
Speaker 3: ESPN's Marc Questerscher coming up, as well as seventy six
Speaker 3: Ers head coach Nick Nurse and the Sixers coming off
Speaker 3: the Atlanta Brooklyn road trip. Two scrappy teams. They may
Speaker 3: be playing teams. There's a lot of season left to unfold,
Speaker 3: but the Sixers took care of business against teams and
Speaker 3: they showed some lineup flexibility on the trip.
Speaker 5: Yep, it was cool to see in Atlanta and Matt
Speaker 5: this is something we actually just spoke about prior to
Speaker 5: the Comington interview.
Speaker 2: But if you're just joining us, the extreme.
Speaker 5: Prowess, let's say that Tyrese Maxie has shown in the
Speaker 5: second and fourth quarters, largely due in part to the
Speaker 5: fact that he's been taking short breaks in the first
Speaker 5: and third quarters, right. But in Atlanta, the Sixers were
Speaker 5: looking to gain separation in that third quarter, and there
Speaker 5: was a group that included Tyrese. Minutes five, four, and
Speaker 5: three came and went, and Tyrese was looking great out there,
Speaker 5: scoring at a high clip and owning that unit, and
Speaker 5: it was cool to see Nick Nurse say, you know what,
Speaker 5: this second fourth, Tyree's thing is working out really well.
Speaker 5: But what we're going to do is leave him in,
Speaker 5: let him keep running the floor, let him keep running
Speaker 5: this group and being successful, and then see what happens in.
Speaker 2: The fourth quarter.
Speaker 5: That fourth quarter led to some awesome Tobias Harris minutes
Speaker 5: as he led that mostly bench unit alongside the Anthony
Speaker 5: Melton without Tyrese Maxie, and they were able to get
Speaker 5: that win. But cool to see Nick Nurse showing a
Speaker 5: willingness to be really flexible with his lineups, with his rotations,
Speaker 5: even when it comes to things that have been working
Speaker 5: really well, like Tyrese's staggering out.
Speaker 2: On the floor.
Speaker 5: So cool to see that lineup flexibility in Atlanta led,
Speaker 5: of course to a win, another big win over the
Speaker 5: Brooklyn Nets came next, and now the Sixers will look
Speaker 5: to go three and one in the N Seasoned Tournament
Speaker 5: and ride some momentum that they've built up certainly throughout
Speaker 5: the season thus far.
Speaker 3: Chatting between the Cleveland and Minnesota back to back ahead
Speaker 3: of both games, and then Oklahoma City and then the
Speaker 3: Lakers come to town as well. That's the upcoming schedule
Speaker 3: for these Sixers when they play at home in the
Speaker 3: N Season Tournament. It's been presented by Chick fil A,
Speaker 3: so full game brickin for Chicken contest if the opponent
Speaker 3: misses two free throws on a trip to the line.
Speaker 3: And another thing that I wanted to talk about is
Speaker 3: court side comparisons presented by nerd Wallet because I'm watching
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid warm up with Sixers Assistant Player develop Assistant
Speaker 3: coach Player Development coach Jason Love, who also trains or
Speaker 3: works out with Tyrese Maxi before games, and some really
Speaker 3: good content on the Sixers social media channels. The full
Speaker 3: video featuring you and Tyrese Maxey court side Comparisons presented
Speaker 3: by Nerdwalid available on the Sixers YouTube channel, and Maxie
Speaker 3: practices shooting over Jason Love, who's six ' ten six ' eleven.
Speaker 5: Yep, as a result of getting his shot blocked by
Speaker 5: Robert Williams a couple of years back, or rather I
Speaker 5: believe it was at the beginning of last season. But
Speaker 5: Tyrese has added something new to his pregame warm up
Speaker 5: routine in the last year or so. Jason Love, who
Speaker 5: you usually trains alongside Joel and b The two of
Speaker 5: them have been working out together for a really long
Speaker 5: time and have an awesome relationship. Jason Love comes out
Speaker 5: early to work out with Tyrese Maxi towards the end
Speaker 5: of his pregame routine, serving as the big as you said,
Speaker 5: he's six ' ten six eleven, a really big guy.
Speaker 5: Tyres smaller by NBA standards, but wants to make sure.
Speaker 2: That he can shoot over anybody right.
Speaker 5: So in that court Side Comparison is the most recent
Speaker 5: episode that's available on YouTube, we talked about shooting over
Speaker 5: Christops Porzingis against the Boston Celtics a couple weeks back,
Speaker 5: and the way that bigger guys are scared rather of
Speaker 5: Tyree's ability to drive to the rim, so they give
Speaker 5: him a little bit more space and Tyrese wants to
Speaker 5: be really intentional about shooting from wherever they leave him
Speaker 5: and Jason love someone that has been able to help
Speaker 5: him grow that skill among the many skills that Tyrese
Speaker 5: has grown in a big way this season. But yeah,
Speaker 5: if you want to get to know him a little better,
Speaker 5: get to see the game the way he sees the game.
Speaker 5: We've broke down some highlights as well, so make sure.
Speaker 2: You check that out.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite pieces of content, maybe my favorite
Speaker 3: piece of content that you've ever done.
Speaker 4: Oh god, not hyperbole.
Speaker 5: Wow, Matt Murphy, thank you so much. Well, I hope
Speaker 5: that people agree. We always want feedback, so let us
Speaker 5: know Tyrese is going to return. These Courtside Comparisons is
Speaker 5: a series again if you're just joining us, available on.
Speaker 2: The Sixers YouTube page.
Speaker 5: Episode one featured d Anthony Melton, Episode two featured Tyrese Maxie.
Speaker 2: We're building a rotation, so both d Anthony and tyres
Speaker 2: will be back.
Speaker 5: So if you have specific performances you want to hear
Speaker 5: us break down together topics that you want to have
Speaker 5: us cover.
Speaker 2: With d Anthony, Tyresse.
Speaker 5: Other guests to be announced in the coming days, they
Speaker 5: will be.
Speaker 2: Back on that program.
Speaker 5: So looking forward to showing you, guys as much as
Speaker 5: you'd like to see.
Speaker 4: Lauren Rosen.
Speaker 3: I'm Matt Murphy, our producer Silvana kelleher engineer Marty Dickerson
Speaker 3: will have an interview on the other side of a
Speaker 3: break with ESPN's Mark Kesterischer.
Speaker 4: This is Sixers in sixty.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Sixers and sixty live from the Wells
Speaker 3: Fargo Center in South Philadelphia. I'm Matt Murphy, so please
Speaker 3: to be joined by ESPN's Mark Kesterscher, who's taking some
Speaker 3: time pregame about to call the game between the Sixers
Speaker 3: and the Cavaliers, but we overlook the bright red in
Speaker 3: season tournament court.
Speaker 4: It's very intriguing for the radio mine it is.
Speaker 9: This is our first in season tournament broadcast for ESPN Radio.
Speaker 9: We'll have the Semis in the finals in Vegas, and
Speaker 9: I've been watching on TV and I have to kind
Speaker 9: of like back away from the TV with these red courts.
Speaker 9: So I was a little worried, and I'm still worried.
Speaker 9: Will I be able to, you know, see numbers on jerseys,
Speaker 9: et cetera, et cetera. But the Great Tom McGuinness has
Speaker 9: assured me that I'll be fine, Tom, and I go
Speaker 9: back to the CBA. Yes, when I was with the
Speaker 9: Albany Patroons, he was with the Lacrosse Catbirds in Wisconsin,
Speaker 9: so I'm sitting in his seat potentially I think this
Speaker 9: might be his headset. And we ran into Kobe Carl
Speaker 9: in the back, who was I think like an eight
Speaker 9: or nine year old ball boy for his dad, George,
Speaker 9: the head coach of the Patroons. My first or second
Speaker 9: year in the CBA. So this is like a big
Speaker 9: full circle day.
Speaker 4: Yees.
Speaker 3: CBA kind of did precede the modern day G League
Speaker 3: formerly the D League, and I call the Sixers G
Speaker 3: League games in Delaware and they won the championship with
Speaker 3: Kobe Carl as their head coach.
Speaker 4: Last season, he gets.
Speaker 3: The promotion through the Sixers bench, so it all really
Speaker 3: comes full circle.
Speaker 4: But I mentioned the word intrigues. What intrigues you as.
Speaker 3: You get set to see this Philadelphia seventy six ers
Speaker 3: team this year?
Speaker 9: I think from the outside seeing the tumultuous nature of
Speaker 9: the offseason and you know, was James Harden going to
Speaker 9: have to stay? When was he going to get shipped out?
Speaker 9: And I kind of lost the big picture on how
Speaker 9: good could this team be there is a new head
Speaker 9: coach coming in, so there's going to be a new system,
Speaker 9: what have you. And so I probably overlooked Philadelphia and
Speaker 9: then here we are today, thirteen games in and they've
Speaker 9: won ten of the thirteen. I should not be surprised
Speaker 9: that Tyrese Maxi has taken it yet another step. Whether
Speaker 9: it's because James not here, he's got the ball in
Speaker 9: his hands, whatever, you know, he's playing an incredible clip.
Speaker 9: And Joel Embiid I know how disappointing it was to
Speaker 9: finally win the MVP and then get bounced out in
Speaker 9: the playoffs and not get past the second round, so
Speaker 9: I'm sure he's got a chip on it. I love
Speaker 9: the way the guys are playing and the development guys
Speaker 9: that are coming up as well. So I know it's early,
Speaker 9: we're not even anywhere near the quarter pole yet, but
Speaker 9: you know, excited from what I've seen on film and
Speaker 9: looking forward to what we see tonight.
Speaker 3: Matt Murphy joined by Marquessischer of ESPN and Mark, You've
Speaker 3: called seven NBA finals.
Speaker 9: Now, Nashal, you know what, Yes, this is my eighth
Speaker 9: year as the lead guy, so seven of them, My goodness,
Speaker 9: I'm getting old.
Speaker 3: And one of those was won by Nick Nurse in
Speaker 3: his first season as a head coach in Toronto in
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. What was it like to be around him
Speaker 3: learn about him during the entirety of a championship run
Speaker 3: a few years back.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we saw him from like the second round on.
Speaker 9: We didn't do this the game seven. Folks in Philly
Speaker 9: don't want to remember Kawhi Leonard and that ball bouncing
Speaker 9: on the rim four times, But we did a couple
Speaker 9: of games in that series. Hube Brown and I did
Speaker 9: the entire Eastern Conference Finals. They were down to nothing,
Speaker 9: and I think what struck me in that series, and
Speaker 9: maybe because it was his first year, was how calm
Speaker 9: he was, how he didn't and you know, necessarily change anything.
Speaker 9: He felt confident in what they could do. And they
Speaker 9: end up winning four straight going to the championship round.
Speaker 9: You know, obviously took advantage of some amazing, critical unfortunate
Speaker 9: injuries that the Warriors had that year, but they finished
Speaker 9: it off in Oakland, which is not a tough place
Speaker 9: to play. And so I have a lot of memories
Speaker 9: of just Nick Nurse has been around. You know, he's
Speaker 9: been I don't know, it's three continents, coached in England,
Speaker 9: coached in the G League, one just about everywhere. It
Speaker 9: was five years assistant in Toronto, and then comes in
Speaker 9: and commonly wins an NBA championship like it's no big deal.
Speaker 9: So you know, his transition here to Philly should be interesting.
Speaker 9: And I asked him, you know, about a half hour
Speaker 9: ago for our pregame show, just about setting a culture
Speaker 9: because it's only been thirteen games. But he said the
Speaker 9: players have bought in and everything's been seamless, and that
Speaker 9: really shouldn't surprise me based on how he was in Toronto.
Speaker 3: He often says, expect to win. So you see, the
Speaker 3: Sixers are ten and three as we speak right now.
Speaker 4: I know you've got a game.
Speaker 3: To call, So thanks so much for the time. We're
Speaker 3: actually going to toss it too. What Nick Nurse, Thanks
Speaker 3: to Lauren Rose and Marty Dickerson, Silvana Kelleher and Mark
Speaker 3: kester Sher of ESPN. That'll do it for this edition
Speaker 3: of six Ers and sixty. Thanks for listening on Matt
Speaker 3: Murphy here seventy six Ers head coach Nick Nurse.
Speaker 5: Last time we get an in season tournament is a
Speaker 5: must win game.
Speaker 2: Does this qualify again? And how do you compartmentalize a
Speaker 2: game like this?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean for sure.
Speaker 10: I mean if we want to have a chance to
Speaker 10: stay alive, we gotta we gotta get this one and
Speaker 10: and wrap up our pool play here and and probably
Speaker 10: point differential even comes into into play for us, so
Speaker 10: and our and and said it before, But our guys
Speaker 10: are they're interested in in this tournament and they want
Speaker 10: to keep going, so they're they're into it for sure.
Speaker 3: Back tomorrow, if you guys are in a position where
Speaker 3: you're up in the fourth quarter, will you be thinking
Speaker 3: about point differential at that point?
Speaker 10: You will be yes, putting it all on this one.
Speaker 10: You know, my saying right, what is it? What is
Speaker 10: am I saying? Picture Ace and play for Rain, Pray
Speaker 10: for Rain. I always say it wrong too, my saying
Speaker 10: play pray for Raine, Picture Ace and pray for Rain.
Speaker 1: Nick Kelly and you guys sent out something saying he'll
Speaker 1: be re evaluated again in another week. Did he do
Speaker 1: anything today? Any one court work today at all?
Speaker 10: I think that he had one scheduled. I would I
Speaker 10: didn't get the update on that yet though, Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: He was huh around.
Speaker 8: I think it was good.
Speaker 10: He was He was pretty energetic and in good spirits. Yesterday.
Speaker 10: I haven't seen him today. We didn't we didn't do
Speaker 10: anything yet today. Again, we're in a heavy schedule, so
Speaker 10: we had no shoot around or even pregame walk through today,
Speaker 10: So I haven't seen him yet today.
Speaker 1: Nick It said he'll be reevaluating a week. Is there
Speaker 1: a chance that he could play in the week, in
Speaker 1: a week.
Speaker 8: Or working Yeah, there might be a chance.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think we're still Keith at a
Speaker 10: stage where we're not sure how he's going to handle
Speaker 10: the contact part of it, right. I think that's going
Speaker 10: to determine, like if he handles that kind of first
Speaker 10: time out, Okay, I think we're really close to that
Speaker 10: week timeline. If he doesn't, then then we're going to
Speaker 10: be probably pushing some more days on that, hopefully only
Speaker 10: days not weeks on that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Obviously, you know, two games in a row with imposing
Speaker 11: bigs is a plan without knowing what happens to night.
Speaker 8: Is a plan for Joel to play both games right now?
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we're gonna go through the same thing. We're gonna
Speaker 10: go after go after nights and then then reassess everything
Speaker 10: after the game heavy.
Speaker 6: Schedule and the lust an aspect of this game.
Speaker 5: Do you like that there's kind of been added smart
Speaker 5: fire since the games and install schedule act?
Speaker 10: See, Well, I think that these guys are good and
Speaker 10: they're playing well, and I keep saying that I like
Speaker 10: the we need this kind of test, right I think
Speaker 10: that we cantinue to learn a lot about our team,
Speaker 10: and these guys are going to present a whole different
Speaker 10: set of you know, we Again, we've been playing teams
Speaker 10: with like it seemingly four guards and then sub and
Speaker 10: four more in and and lately a lot, so this
Speaker 10: will be different. And and then tomorrow we kind of
Speaker 10: see the similar type of team with with bigs all
Speaker 10: over the place. So just just a really good team,
Speaker 10: really playing well and a good test. And I think
Speaker 10: that's what we need right now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, focused on this kind of a.
Speaker 3: Twenty game mark sort of the first checkpoint do you subscribe?
Speaker 8: Where are we right now?
Speaker 9: This will be four so.
Speaker 3: Another week or so or not so much just because
Speaker 3: of all the union.
Speaker 10: No, I think I think a twenty games is a
Speaker 10: good is a good uh you know, place to kind
Speaker 10: of take a look at where where you are and stuff.
Speaker 10: So we got a few more to go. I mean,
Speaker 10: we've learned a lot about our team. I think we've
Speaker 10: played a pretty good variety of teams. I think we're
Speaker 10: going to see again some more you know, different opponents
Speaker 10: and things like that, which will I think the twenty
Speaker 10: games will be a good place to kind of sit back.
Speaker 8: And see where we are with everything.
Speaker 10: And then I think some of the just some of
Speaker 10: the stats hold up longer better, you know, like things
Speaker 10: you know, like our three point rate that isn't very good,
Speaker 10: and things like, you know, things you can kind of
Speaker 10: see why are they are they staying there? And there's
Speaker 10: our rim rate and free throw rate going to stay
Speaker 10: where it's at. And then the kind of forming your
Speaker 10: identity of who you are, Yeah, and try to start
Speaker 10: fixing some of the things that you want to improve on.
Speaker 11: Yeah, to that point, Nick, you brought up all throughout
Speaker 11: the off season you were prepared to go through growing
Speaker 11: pains with Tyree specifically, and I don't want to change anything.
Speaker 11: You can blame me if I do. Hasn't really happened yet.
Speaker 11: I haven't really had to go through those.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I guess he's really good.
Speaker 10: He's really really good. Is the first first answer, he
Speaker 10: just is he's really really good and and.
Speaker 8: I would I would.
Speaker 10: Say that, you know, he got some he got some
Speaker 10: testing the opening night. That was a tough kind of deal, right,
Speaker 10: And I think I think again, we we got a
Speaker 10: little not maybe not as organized as we wanted to be,
Speaker 10: and things like that. I think those things that's probably
Speaker 10: impressed me that he's getting there with that stuff. There's
Speaker 10: still a long list of things that he's got to
Speaker 10: go up in my opinion, that he's able to go
Speaker 10: up in my opinion, and we'll just keep working on him.
Speaker 10: But I think I think just his sheer sheer approach
Speaker 10: to everything and his talent, man has probably avoided some
Speaker 10: of the growing pains.
Speaker 3: You think his relationship and closeness with Joel and impacts
Speaker 3: kind of his growth recently because it seems like his
Speaker 3: biggest advocate and the guy trying to instill confidence and
Speaker 3: constantly is Joe up.
Speaker 8: I think it certainly helps, right. I think that.
Speaker 10: I think I think Tyree really looks up to him,
Speaker 10: you know, so that when and Joel is you know,
Speaker 10: really taking time to help him, help him see some things,
Speaker 10: talking through some things, I think they're to bias and
Speaker 10: Tyree are close as well, and and I think they
Speaker 10: got a little good, good combination thing going as well,
Speaker 10: and they're working well together.
Speaker 8: So that's three really good dudes, man, you know.
Speaker 10: And they just they just they really want to they
Speaker 10: all want to play good, and they all want to win.
Speaker 8: So it's it's a good start that list you're talking about.
Speaker 5: Maybe what's at the top of it as far as
Speaker 5: the next immediate step you're.
Speaker 10: Willing to share, there's a there's a couple of things
Speaker 10: that are that are that are up there, but I'm
Speaker 10: I'm gonna kind of keep those to myself right now,
Speaker 10: and I'll try to maybe let you know that there
Speaker 10: are ways away yet though, I think, yeah.
Speaker 9: You mentioned Nick Patoon is kind of quickly being a
Speaker 9: bit the blue guy, a little bit of a surprise
Speaker 9: with it all, how seamless he's been.
Speaker 6: Able to just kind of fit in with you guys.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I would say a little bit only because uh,
Speaker 10: I mean, but not totally Okay, Like I I like,
Speaker 10: I've always admired the Toomb's game a lot, and I've
Speaker 10: I've I've.
Speaker 8: Tried to get him before right on my team.
Speaker 10: Just just such a good basketball player, like in so
Speaker 10: many facets. So but he's been really really good, right,
Speaker 10: Like I just I just you know, when you play
Speaker 10: against these guys, you see certain things that that he's
Speaker 10: done in the past, like he was he was absolute
Speaker 10: stopper against.
Speaker 8: One of my guys and Toronto in LA last year.
Speaker 10: Once just absolutely like full court knows to nose, like
Speaker 10: we're you know, it's like you're like Jesus, dude's like
Speaker 10: thirty five years.
Speaker 8: Why old is this guy? Like?
Speaker 10: And he's doing you know, and he's taking that role
Speaker 10: and that basically just tells you that he has the
Speaker 10: ability to do it and he's willing to do anything
Speaker 10: his team needs him to do to win, and I
Speaker 10: think that kind of sums him up.