WEBVTT - Robert Covington and ESPN's Marc Kestecher 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.080 I'm Tari's Mexi and you're listening to the seventy six 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:04.720 Ers Insider's podcast. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.920 This podcast is part of the seventy six Ers Podcast Network, 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:09.680 presented by Stern and Cohen Law. 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:16.520 Search seventy six Ers Insiders wherever you get your podcasts, 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:22.720 Welcome through the Center. Another edition of Sixers in sixty 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.360 another one that takes place before a seventy six Ers 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:32.559 home game against the Cavaliers with their ten and three record. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.920 I'm Matt Murphy along with my co seventy six Ers 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.680 insider Lauren Rosen, and we'd be remiss to start the 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.440 show without a big happy. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.720 Birthday wish too, Miss Rosie, Happy birthday, Thank you so much. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.080 Feel it's overshadowed by Thanksgiving at all. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.320 I've felt that way a little bit my whole life, 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.320 but as I get older, I don't love my birthday. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.440 So thrilled to be able to do it here doing 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.120 what I love, watching the team I love, and chatting 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:02.400 with you. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:03.720 This is great. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.480 I'd rather be the red court again for the end 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.039 season tournament down below, with the blue streak down the 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.160 middle of the Navy Blue and the NBA Cup trophies 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.920 at mid court. With the seven to six. It's the 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:20.039 final game of group play for the Sixers. It's warm 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.960 ups for that as we speak here. And it's a 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.160 beautiful day for your birthday in Philadelphia at perfect weather, sunny, 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.759 sixty five degrees. Hidding, it was pouring rain all day 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.640 and pretty dreary around these parts. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.760 Listen, I am a rain person myself, not to overshare 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:34.920 with the audience, but. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.680 I love rain. It was a great day. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.760 I got to hang with my friends and now I 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:39.759 get to watch the Sixers. 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:40.480 I can't complain. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.760 Well, we've got a loaded show today that includes a 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:49.200 sit down with Robert Covington of the seventy six Ers, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.280 rejoining his old teams, the seventy six Ers he started 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.480 a few games. Nick Batoom has been back in the 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.200 lineup more recently. They had a very successful road trip 0:01:58.240 --> 0:01:59.960 the team that will touch on any of our play. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:05.320 Interviews are available on the seventy six Ers Insiders podcast. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.640 And it's also a loaded broadcast area here tonight. There's 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:14.239 various radio crews and TV crews, and there's us sitting 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.560 in the Sixers radio location and kind of in the 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.280 row behind Kate Scott and the Sixers and Allah and 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.400 the Sixers TV crew. Kate's chatting with Mark Questerscher of 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.160 ESPN Radio, who will join us later on in the show. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:32.080 I'm looking forward to talking to Mark as well again 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:37.320 seventy six Ers Insiders podcasts for any interviews throughout the season, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:41.320 as we'll hear from players pretty frequently on Sixers in 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.600 sixty and it should be a good game. Not that 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.600 we preview too much because this lives on after the fact, 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.200 but let's let's rewind a little bit first before getting 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:58.600 into Robert Covington in the first segment, Lauren, because we'll 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.400 talk more in depth about these games, but at surface level. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.639 At the surface level, Nick Nurse, the Sixers head coach, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.680 who will also speak later in this shows, he says, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.960 the thing they were most pleased with is going out 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.680 and getting the two wins, but they also learned a 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.919 lot about themselves, and that's what this part of the 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:20.720 NBA season is all about. Rotations, playing opponents that have 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.760 different strengths, and they've got two of those coming up 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.040 in Cleveland and Minnesota that are bigger than some of 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.320 these smaller teams. But two and zero road trip can't 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:29.960 complain a quick trip, and heck, of. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.080 A back to back now coming up for this team. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.640 As you mentioned, the last of the pool play in 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.560 the N Season Tournament tonight against the Cleveland Cavaliers and 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.880 then tomorrow to one of the best in the West 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:41.520 and a couple. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.680 Familiar faces, Matt Murphy. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.600 We're seeing George Niang tonight, We're seeing Shake Milton tomorrow night. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.120 So an awesome opportunity for the Sixers to see some 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.200 of their old pals and hopefully get a couple more 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:53.800 big wins. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.240 Two and one in pool play will give the the 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:03.400 ist N Season Tournament primer for the pregame audience tonight. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.920 At this point on the podfeed, you may or may 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:10.560 not already know the sixers fate in the N Season Tournament. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:15.800 They cannot, though be eliminated from contention. They can't clinch 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:20.160 either in East Group A. Indiana because they're two to 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:24.640 zero with a game on Tuesday's slate also can clinch 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.160 with a win as they hold the head to head 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.560 over the Sixers. But the Sixers, if they take care 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.800 of Cleveland, will be three to one, and there's a 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.360 wildcard spot in each conference, which is an intriguing thing. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.039 How have you thought that the end of games have 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.400 been as a fan, as someone who covers this sport. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.720 When point differential matters. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:46.960 It was really interesting, Matt. 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.600 The first night of pool play, we were in Detroit 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.080 and the Sixers were all sort of getting up to 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.719 speed about how the pool play is going to work, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.920 where the margins of victory are going to matter most, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.920 and Joe Ellenbiid was the one who I really knew 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.279 these rules, and Matt, you'll remember, towards the end of 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.720 that game, he actually threw up a three that wouldn't 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.520 go on to count, but some people didn't love that right, 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.360 And as is customary in the NBA, when a team 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.520 is about to win, they don't usually add insult to injury. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.599 They don't keep shooting as. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.000 The final buzzer is coming if you have at least 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.760 a significant lead at that point. 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:23.240 But Joel kept shooting. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:28.560 He wanted to strengthen that potential point differential down the road. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.440 So interesting to see the way that it started that night, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.039 and then as we've watched in the subsequent games, as 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.440 the team has continued to sort of power through these 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.680 fourth quarters, you'll hear from Nick Nurson a little bit, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.800 but he was asked about it pregame talking about the 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:42.200 fact that. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:43.919 He expects tonight, even though it's the front end of 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.280 a back to back, that this is a team that's going. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.640 To fight till the end and try to strengthen their 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.599 point differential as much as they can, despite having a 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.839 flight tonight and a big game against Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.040 Right. I don't want this to be dated, but. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.359 It's an interesting contrast at the end of a game, 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.320 balancing rest for the second end of the back to 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.640 back with winning by as many points as you can 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:11.320 possibly win by. Because I didn't I alluded to it, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.640 but the first time breakers head to head and then 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.200 in the race for the one wild card in each conference, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.520 it's point differential, which as of through Monday and entering Tuesday, 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.159 the Sixers or plus twelve in point differential. But Joel 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.400 Embiid's had four games through the first thirteen where he's 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:26.880 rested the entire fourth quarter. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.000 That's exactly what I was going to say, and so 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.400 impressive by the way for the Sixers two again as 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.800 of Tuesday, sit at ten and three, with so much 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.200 rest for Joel Embiid down the stretch. We've of course 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.480 been introduced to fourth quarter Maxie in the process, a 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.880 name that his teammates have given him and he, at 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.680 least on the floor, has certainly accepted, especially when it 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.640 comes to giving Joel Embiid again the raining MVP, still 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.599 leaving the NBA in scoring despite the fact that he's 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.400 not playing in a lot of these fourth quarters. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:56.599 Some really impressive stuff. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.320 But perhaps in these in season tournament games we'll see 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.360 a little bit of different strategy from the Sixers down 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.320 the stretch. Of course, hopefully they'll be winning it that point. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.640 Robert Covington, Mark Kesterischer, and Nick Nurse all coming up 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:13.000 in this show, I promise. But before we get to that, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.040 you mentioned fourth quarter Maxi. There has been some incredible 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.400 tyrese Maxie stats that have come out this week that 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.320 I don't want to wait any longer to dive into 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.640 because they are fascinating. If you look at Maxi and 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:30.080 Embid by quarter through November twentieth, Embiid leads the NBA 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.160 in first quarter scoring ten point three and Maxi's fingerprints 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.000 are all over the second quarter well. Embiid the third 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.760 quarter as well, twelve point four points per game average 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.160 in the third, but Maxie's scoring and three pointers by quarter. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.880 Fascinating and when we look at those second and fourth quarters, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.280 it's something that we've talked about quite a bit, right, Matt, 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.920 because in the more traditional rotations that the Sixers have 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.120 developed again in this early phase of the season, Tyrese 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.280 Maxie starts the second and fourth quarters alongside Tobias Harris 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.480 and a benchline sometimes including d Anthony Melton. But that's 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.520 traditionally when Joel Embiide is getting that rest that he needs. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.480 So to see Tyrese Maxi not only excelling in this 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.240 role for the first time this season as a primary 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.240 ball handler, well, rather not the first time, but the 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.800 first time that he's been given the keys, let's say, 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.720 to the team in those moments, not just to do 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:23.200 a great job for the Sixers and among his counterparts 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.280 that he's playing on the floor with, but to do 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.160 better than anyone in the NBA in the second quarter, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:29.920 and then of course to come back in the fourth 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.720 quarter and develop that reputation for fourth quarter Maxie. I mean, 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.960 he just continues to reach every benchmark that's set for him. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:37.680 Sky's the limit for Tyrese Maxie. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.560 You mentioned it in case you're trying to share this 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.920 stat with your friends. Shout out to stat muse on 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.319 Twitter or x talking about the fact that Tyrese Maxi 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.600 is the NBA's leading scorer in the second quarter, averaging 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.600 nine point five points per second quarter, and also leading 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.640 three pointers or no, rather sorry second in three pointers. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.160 Per qu No, No, that's second quarter three pointers. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:00.000 That's what I thought. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.200 Okay, so second quarter three pointers is obviously helping him 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.000 get to that nine point five points per second quarter mark, 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.080 but the second quarter three point leader in the entire. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:15.000 NBA nineteen Tyrese Maxi nineteen eighty entering Tuesday. And it's 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.640 confusing because it lists Steph Curry with nineteen. I thought 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.960 it's it looks like it's tied for first, but it 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.160 means that Curry has nineteen in the first. Maxi has 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.840 nineteen threes in the second, Curry twenty one in the third, 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.640 and LaMelo ball twenty and fourth quarters this year. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.280 I would venture to guess so that Tyre's Maxie is 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.160 hot on LaMelo balls heels in that fourth quarter, and 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.640 looking forward to seeing how fourth quarter Maxi continues to 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.160 evolve as the season goes along. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.760 You mentioned following stat Muse follow at Lauren m Rosen. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.520 It's her birthday today. Follow at Lauren m Rosen on 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:49.040 social media. I'm that Underscore Murphy zero four. We are 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.320 the seventy six ers insiders. This is six Ers in sixty, 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.079 which is Tuesday nights here on ninety seven to five 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.760 the Fanatic and it just so happens back to back 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:04.080 weeks game night in South Philadelphia. Without further ado, though, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.800 let's toss it to a sit down with Robert Covington 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.439 of the seventy six or some really good stuff in here. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.840 We talked about the Thanksgiving holiday, and at first I 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.760 wasn't sure if he wasn't a big Thanksgiving guy, but 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:16.840 he definitely. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.720 Is and very appreciative to the true cooks in the 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.520 kitchen of Thanksgiving. It was awesome to get to know 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.080 Robert Covington a little bit better. Hear about his family 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.880 history here, about the bosses in. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.520 The kitchen, and his pet snakes and. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:30.160 His pet snakes. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.560 This interview has everything, Matt. I'm not going to spoil 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:33.160 it any further. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.280 Robert Covington, I know we spoke right when the trade happened, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.360 you and I, but since then, how has the full 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.839 adjustment been as it's been getting going on and off 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.880 the court back in Philadelphia. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:44.920 It's been great. 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.280 You know, like I said, off the court, stuff is 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.520 hand to I'm moving my home today, ingrats. Actually I 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.880 google my keys and everything about they go next fifteen minutes, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.880 go go close. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:58.120 On my house. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.760 And you know, everything else is working in itself. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.880 Getting all my stuff moved in from LA that'll be at. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.400 The end of the month, getting my daughter down here, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:13.320 my dogs, my reptiles, like just my family, like everyone 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:17.880 just selling here and like I said, we're all gonna 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.120 it's all coming together pretty well. 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:21.559 It's slowed down a lot. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.440 How many dogs at this point? How many reptiles? 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:30.199 I have three dogs, three monstars, I got four snakes, 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.599 three lepard get goos, that's about it. I got a 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.880 fish tank that's getting about thirty five fish for my daughter, 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:45.280 but really thirty three. But they have babies, so that's awesome. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.360 You said keys to the house, but keys to the 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.400 ten and three start for the sixers. What do you 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:50.160 think those have been? 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:50.760 Man? 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.920 You know, the way that we fit in so well here, 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:58.760 the way that Reese, Joel Tobias like them guys have 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.480 really the melt have really led us you know, since 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.400 the trade, we really have a lot of pieces that 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.040 you know, came and fit in. You know, the guys 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.840 that was here pb the house, Paul read all them 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.600 guys like we came in and complimented really well. You know, 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.240 we we're guys that we really can come in and 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.080 you know, just we can fit in, Like it's not 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.360 too much that we can split to that par and 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.360 do that would throw others off. Like, we come in, 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.440 we fit the system well, and like I said, the 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.079 system has been really great to us so far. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.280 Joel Embiid six thirty ten games, but he's also averaging 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.200 six assists. So the six thirty ten games is the 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.760 most in the league right now at this point. But 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.480 with the playmaking, what have you noticed about Embiid's game. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:42.160 The patience. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.520 You know, I've watched Joe from Afar from a very 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.000 long time since I've left, you know, I've been saying 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.800 I've been saying a lot about Joe and the things 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.440 that he's able to do, the way that he's transformed himself, 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.560 the way he's inserted his dominance on the game. You know, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.520 it's just amazing that, you know, the things that he 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.160 said when I was here that he spoken to fruition and. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.240 He's done it. Like I said, he's done it. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.120 The only thing that is waiting is, you know, to 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.080 be up there like with the rest of them guys 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:11.720 up there. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:14.800 That with those teams. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.760 That's the only thing we waiting on now, and we 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.160 have the opportunity to do that here for. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.720 The radio audience, we're looking up at the banners here 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.800 in the practice facility. Matt Murphy and Robert Covington b 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.600 N Season Tournament. You all have been asked a lot 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.120 about it, But where do you see potential in it? 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.319 It's a it's a It reminds me of the euro League, 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.400 and I think the excitement behind it has, you know, 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.240 added a little a lot more to the game. You know, 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.520 it's something different, Like it's the NBA is trying to 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:53.240 find ways to keep keep adding some newness to the game. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.360 And I think it's it's a good idea. 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.320 I think it's it's something that you know, can definitely 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.720 be expanded, you know, in the future. Like I said, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.920 at first, it's like understanding how it's gonna work, But 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.280 now that you actually see it, it's like, okay, like 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.920 now we understand. Now we understand a little better about 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.000 what the wh I did, because at first was completely 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.080 confused about how it's gonna work. But now we see 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.400 how it's how it's gonna work, I mean, how it 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.120 does work. So it's exciting to be a part of 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.320 something like that and just going up and performing. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:22.880 I think some people are hating on it, but it's 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.720 gonna take time. It takes time for anything, for anything 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.880 to take off. And there's already people who like it 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.800 in the first season, so we'll see about that. Closing 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:35.000 with this rank the Thanksgiving foods in order of preference. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.800 Man, you can't make me do that, all right. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.000 You don't have a favorite, Listen, My favorite is my 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.440 two plates to sit in front of me while I'm eating, 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:54.160 and anything on it. No, I got yams, macaroni, cheese, dressing, turkey, 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:59.320 I got potatoes, I got uh what else? 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:02.360 Some greens? 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:03.120 Mmm? 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.520 Some are missing? Yeah, cranberry sauce on addressing. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:10.640 Are you the chef? 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.480 No, not at all. I stay furtherest away from you. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:14.120 Yeah. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:14.720 I know. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.880 I know where I'm good at, and I know what 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.800 I don't need to be And when Thanksgiving food stay 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:21.480 out of the kitchen. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:28.720 That's Mom's Grandma's aunties. That's who. That's why. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.440 Any kitchen and if you come in there and mess 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.040 up something, you know what's gonna happen. Get out of 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:34.600 my kitchen. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.800 There you go. Thank you man, I appreciate it. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.320 Nora, have you suffered a work injury, you need a 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:46.280 lawyer called Stern and Cohen Workers Compensation Lawyers. Sterncohenlaw dot com. 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.520 The consultation is always free. They will ring the insurance 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:55.000 company's bell. Go Sixers. Thanks again to Robert Covington for 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.120 sitting down with us. I'm Matt Murphy along with Lauren 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.800 Rose in the seventy six there's Insiders here on sixers 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:07.920 in sixty Live from the Arena, and Lauren was questioning 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.960 my my journalism skills for not asking about dessert with 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:11.800 mister Covington. 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:17.760 I mean, it was just you know, hard out not really. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.400 We were right there to talk about pie. Matt Murphy, 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.720 your Thanksgiving pie of choice, quick go apple, apple, No 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:25.440 sweet potato. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.760 I don't like sweet potatoes or pumpkin. 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:28.480 That's fair. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.400 I'm a cherry pie girly myself. I mean, I don't 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.080 discriminate between any type of pie. I'll be honest, I'll 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:35.960 do sweet potato, I'll do apple. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.320 And because it's your birthdays, is like what type of cake? 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:41.040 Chocolate cake? 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.840 Like just a good plain chocolate cake. 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.040 I like like a yellow inside, like a yellow cake 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.240 with like a thick chocolate frosting. Enough about me, I'm 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.200 a big fun betty guy, but fun Betty. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.560 To illustrate how much of a heart out we did 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.680 not have with Robert Covington. He he actually stayed after 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.000 and face timed his mom to ask about the caramel 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.160 cake that they've had for his entire life. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.760 So there's our answer to how he follows up those 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:12.440 two plates times potentially two right, So those four plates 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.080 are followed up with dessert, a caramel cake, and he's 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.840 going to give us the exact name of what the 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.919 cake is where it comes from, so stay tuned for that. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.800 His mother was upset about being put on the spot, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:25.400 for sure, but. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.160 Lovely to see and Matt speaking of things that are 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.520 lovely to see, really cool to see George Nia and 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:34.000 getting loose down there. Weird to see him in different colors, 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.639 of course, but he was so beloved here. And of 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.920 course he and I shared a podcast and a lot 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.359 of laughs. I'm so grateful for the role that George 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.520 has played in my career, and of course hope that 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:45.560 he has a great game tonight, but not too much 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:45.959 too good. 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.600 He's going on too great a twelve point game. This 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.640 is a Cavs team that is entering off a win 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.159 over the defending champion Nuggets, and their broadcast crew was 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.800 saying maybe that was their best performance of the season. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.919 So that is how they enter this matchup with the 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.199 seventy six Ers. If you're just joining us, we've got 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:08.560 ESPN's Marc Questerscher coming up, as well as seventy six 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:13.400 Ers head coach Nick Nurse and the Sixers coming off 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.680 the Atlanta Brooklyn road trip. Two scrappy teams. They may 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.919 be playing teams. There's a lot of season left to unfold, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:24.000 but the Sixers took care of business against teams and 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.040 they showed some lineup flexibility on the trip. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.840 Yep, it was cool to see in Atlanta and Matt 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.399 this is something we actually just spoke about prior to 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:33.240 the Comington interview. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.359 But if you're just joining us, the extreme. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.040 Prowess, let's say that Tyrese Maxie has shown in the 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.280 second and fourth quarters, largely due in part to the 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.760 fact that he's been taking short breaks in the first 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.480 and third quarters, right. But in Atlanta, the Sixers were 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.280 looking to gain separation in that third quarter, and there 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.639 was a group that included Tyrese. Minutes five, four, and 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.320 three came and went, and Tyrese was looking great out there, 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.320 scoring at a high clip and owning that unit, and 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.320 it was cool to see Nick Nurse say, you know what, 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.120 this second fourth, Tyree's thing is working out really well. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:05.480 But what we're going to do is leave him in, 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:07.800 let him keep running the floor, let him keep running 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.600 this group and being successful, and then see what happens in. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:12.120 The fourth quarter. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.800 That fourth quarter led to some awesome Tobias Harris minutes 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.000 as he led that mostly bench unit alongside the Anthony 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.680 Melton without Tyrese Maxie, and they were able to get 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.439 that win. But cool to see Nick Nurse showing a 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.560 willingness to be really flexible with his lineups, with his rotations, 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.439 even when it comes to things that have been working 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.920 really well, like Tyrese's staggering out. 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:31.280 On the floor. 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.640 So cool to see that lineup flexibility in Atlanta led, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.119 of course to a win, another big win over the 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.960 Brooklyn Nets came next, and now the Sixers will look 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.760