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Speaker 1: As the seventy Sixers head west, they will do so
Speaker 1: buoyed by a needed home victory on Thursday against Atlantic
Speaker 1: Division rival the New York Knicks. We bring it now
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Speaker 1: busy newsweek to say the least if we shall review.
Speaker 1: Saturday in Milwaukee, Ben Simmons leaves early in the first
Speaker 1: quarter with a back injury. Then Monday a new high
Speaker 1: literally and emotionally as Joel Embiid goes crazy for forty
Speaker 1: nine points. Wednesday, Embiad was then forced to leave the
Speaker 1: game against the Cavaliers early at the end of the
Speaker 1: first quarter due to a left shoulder sprain. And finally
Speaker 1: on Thursday, you get the victory over the Knicks and
Speaker 1: also news that Joel is going to be reevaluated in
Speaker 1: a week, which all things considered, is pretty encouraging. But
Speaker 1: that's a lot, a lot to wrap your head around.
Speaker 1: There was a lot that happened this week, ebbs and flows,
Speaker 1: highs and lows. I think luckily Thursday night was a
Speaker 1: bit of a highlight. Loved to see a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that may not always be the prime performers really
Speaker 1: stepping in and stepping up in a big way. And
Speaker 1: it felt like a good way or the best way
Speaker 1: we could have to set out on a difficult road trip, yes,
Speaker 1: especially one that starts against too really challenging opponents in
Speaker 1: the La Clippers on Sunday afternoon, and then Lebron and
Speaker 1: the Lakers on Tuesday. Lakers as of the recording this
Speaker 1: pod number one of the West Clippers, six and a
Speaker 1: half games behind them for third place, so a really
Speaker 1: difficult start. Indeed, you would figure to the road trip.
Speaker 1: And I think there is something too that bouncing back
Speaker 1: quick after a tough loss in Cleveland on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: You were there for that game and then quickly putting
Speaker 1: that in the rear view. And there were certainly guys
Speaker 1: who stepped up who may not be in prime roles
Speaker 1: all the time, but then Tobias and Al were excellent
Speaker 1: and they needed to have a strong showing. And I
Speaker 1: think we don't give enough credit to Tobias for a
Speaker 1: lot of things, but I think specifically his ability to
Speaker 1: take over a game is something that obviously, when you
Speaker 1: play on a team with Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: those opportunities might not always be there. But it felt
Speaker 1: like from the opening tip Tobias was a man on
Speaker 1: a mission. Fourteen points in the first quarter alone and
Speaker 1: just had this. Coach Brown always talks about maniacal competitiveness,
Speaker 1: and that those were the words that I was thinking
Speaker 1: of while watching him in that first quarter, because you
Speaker 1: could tell after Cleveland that none of them were happy
Speaker 1: with what had gone down, and they were able to
Speaker 1: quickly take that and channel that and turn it into
Speaker 1: a much better performance less than twenty four hours later.
Speaker 1: It was interesting. I think the first question of the
Speaker 1: press conference that Brett got before Thursday's game against the
Speaker 1: Knicks was something to the effect of, do you feel
Speaker 1: like it's necessary to sit down with Tobias and with
Speaker 1: al and talk to them coming off of a game
Speaker 1: like Wednesday? And Brett said, the second game of back
Speaker 1: to back, haven't had a chance to speak with him yet,
Speaker 1: but I will talk with the team. We didn't know
Speaker 1: the details necessarily what happened after that. But the other
Speaker 1: part of it is is like, I don't even know
Speaker 1: if it's necessary that he would have had to have
Speaker 1: had a talk with guys like Tobias and all who
Speaker 1: have been around forever, because the way that Tobias in
Speaker 1: particular came out and started that game against New York.
Speaker 1: I was like, listen, you don't need to tell me
Speaker 1: what I already know. I'm just going to go out
Speaker 1: there and try and take care of business. Essentially, he
Speaker 1: just gets it. He knows he knows that a he's
Speaker 1: under a bit of pressure, a lot of scrutiny given
Speaker 1: his role, but he's responding to it and just a
Speaker 1: very mature again to quote Brett Brown once again, he's
Speaker 1: a very prideful and you could tell that this game
Speaker 1: and performing well really meant something to him, and he
Speaker 1: was able to go out there and put his money
Speaker 1: where his mouth is and do everything that we needed
Speaker 1: him to do at a very high level. And I
Speaker 1: think Tobias is the next person that people will look
Speaker 1: to now that Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid are going
Speaker 1: to be out for at least a week together. We
Speaker 1: know that Ben's going to be reevaluated in two weeks,
Speaker 1: and listen, I think that Tobias is always realistic about
Speaker 1: this being a team that is going to be driven
Speaker 1: by Ben and Joel. A few weeks ago, he said
Speaker 1: something to the effect of and a paraphrase, and we're
Speaker 1: going to go as far as those two take us.
Speaker 1: But now this is a situation in which the circumstances
Speaker 1: demand that he probably take on more, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that he's afraid of that. Like, he certainly has
Speaker 1: leadership DNA in him and in addition to talking the
Speaker 1: talk to come out and produce the way he did,
Speaker 1: I think underscores that for sure, And if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: this trip to LA will be his first time revisiting
Speaker 1: the Clippers since he joined the Sixers. Last time we
Speaker 1: played the Clippers, obviously we were fully loaded, had all
Speaker 1: of our guys available, but I remember Tobias having a
Speaker 1: similar level of conviction in that game. Ended up with
Speaker 1: seventeen points, twelve rebounds, played aggressively, and you have to
Speaker 1: imagine that. Obviously, playing on the road is a challenge,
Speaker 1: playing without two all stars as a challenge, But for him,
Speaker 1: I think we might be able to see that same
Speaker 1: kind of energy that he's brought last night and the
Speaker 1: last time on Thursday night and the last time we
Speaker 1: played the Clippers on Sunday, And hopefully we can gain
Speaker 1: as much ground as we can on that visit Al Horford.
Speaker 1: We know that he's had a lot to adjust to
Speaker 1: this season. Thursday's game, to me was vintage Al Horford.
Speaker 1: Fifteen points, nine assists, that was the season high, seven rebounds,
Speaker 1: flirting with a triple double. Offense was able to go
Speaker 1: through him a little bit more. He was able to
Speaker 1: quote unquote quarterback the gym a little bit more, playing
Speaker 1: full time in the five spot, and for me, that's
Speaker 1: something that I'm looking forward to seeing for however long
Speaker 1: Joel Ebid is out, for what type of rhythm can
Speaker 1: Al get into, perhaps playing at a spot that he's
Speaker 1: more familiar with Now. Long term, you have to figure
Speaker 1: things out when Joel gets back, But at least for
Speaker 1: the short term, listen, here's a guy who is a
Speaker 1: very strong track record who can fill in for you,
Speaker 1: and I think that Thursday was a good sign to
Speaker 1: see him possibly get going in the right direction. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean, silver linings are going to be few and
Speaker 1: far to come by when you talk about being down
Speaker 1: your two best players. But it does feel like with
Speaker 1: this West Coast road trip for guys like to Bias
Speaker 1: and Al who will fit in in a very big
Speaker 1: way when the playoffs come around, these are valuable opportunities
Speaker 1: for them to get more minutes, to really not necessarily
Speaker 1: more minutes, but to have a higher usage during those
Speaker 1: minutes and really figure themselves out a little bit having
Speaker 1: the ball in their hands a little more. Quarterbacking the
Speaker 1: gym a little more. It seems like maybe that's the
Speaker 1: small silver lining here is that those guys are going
Speaker 1: to have an opportunity to shine and get comfortable before
Speaker 1: the playoffs roll around. I was kind of surprised by
Speaker 1: this was as it seemed more and more likely that
Speaker 1: Horford might have a shot at a triple double in
Speaker 1: the next game. I looked up, thanks to the exceptional
Speaker 1: Basketball Reference Player Index tool, how many triple doubles Horford
Speaker 1: tad in his career. I was a little bit surprised
Speaker 1: that he only has two. Is that true? It is
Speaker 1: a true statement. If I'm remembering what the results were
Speaker 1: of that query, I would have thought probably six seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to think, I mean, and last night he
Speaker 1: did it rather effortlessly. Yeah, I was hoping that he
Speaker 1: would get there, but obviously that's not necessarily the priority.
Speaker 1: It was a very balanced performance and maybe we'll see
Speaker 1: his third triple double in the next couple of weeks. Ben.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, when Ben is on the verge
Speaker 1: of one, like and there's just some guys who are
Speaker 1: like this, there's a loudness to Ben game. Whereas, as
Speaker 1: you put it, al perhaps some more subtleties. You know,
Speaker 1: you look up at the scoreboard and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's he's got like eight assists and you know, six
Speaker 1: boards and double figures scoring. It was sneaky they did
Speaker 1: get They took away a rebound at one point because
Speaker 1: he was closer to it than he ended up that
Speaker 1: he had eight boards midway through the second half, and
Speaker 1: then I guess they gave it to somebody else. And
Speaker 1: it's okay. He was close. He was flirting with a
Speaker 1: triple double, like you said, and that's always something to celebrate.
Speaker 1: That would have been a bummer for the triple double
Speaker 1: to have been registering on the scoreboard only to have
Speaker 1: been taken away. Sure, well, here we are. It was
Speaker 1: good to see though from Al Horford and Tobias Harris alike,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to shake Milton, but I want to
Speaker 1: keep in line of the theme of what will happen
Speaker 1: on the front line without Joel embiad for at least
Speaker 1: the next week. There's obviously Norval Peal. He's been out
Speaker 1: sick the last couple of games. Seemed like before the
Speaker 1: next game he was available, but still maybe not quite
Speaker 1: the energetic Norvelle that we're used to having a round.
Speaker 1: Kyle O Quinn love seeing it. It's awesome, Like he
Speaker 1: is a and you're around you know, he is a
Speaker 1: super dude, big part of the spirit of the team.
Speaker 1: And I'm happy for him now that he's been able
Speaker 1: to get out on the court and produce. And he's
Speaker 1: come up in conversation a few times even before these
Speaker 1: two games, where he's been referred to by other players
Speaker 1: or by his coach as just the ultimate locker room
Speaker 1: guy that really is always supporting his teammates, there for support,
Speaker 1: for a good laugh, just a generally lovely person to
Speaker 1: be around. And so to see him have this opportunity
Speaker 1: to produce at a pretty high level pretty quickly. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had ten rebounds last night, which is nothing to
Speaker 1: look away from. That's incredible. I think it's been great
Speaker 1: to see how much work he's put in on his own,
Speaker 1: as coach Brown said after both games, that he's always
Speaker 1: in the gym, always running drills, even if it's by himself,
Speaker 1: just to make sure his body is ready for opportunities
Speaker 1: like this, and in a back to back, like when
Speaker 1: you haven't been playing NBA minutes multiple weeks at a time,
Speaker 1: and then you have to come into a back to
Speaker 1: back that's a home and road back to back, Like
Speaker 1: that's a lot of stamina that he had to keep
Speaker 1: up and then was able to show off all that
Speaker 1: work he's put in, and it's just something that's really
Speaker 1: nice to see. He hadn't played more than ten minutes
Speaker 1: in a game talking about O'Quinn since January seventeenth against
Speaker 1: the Bulls. He'd only played in two games in between
Speaker 1: then and the Cleveland game on Wednesday. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Sixers lost the game, but in less
Speaker 1: than twelve minutes he had four block shots and it
Speaker 1: was energy. I mean, again, obviously they lost the game,
Speaker 1: but they did bring energy in the second half. I
Speaker 1: think as they were just adjusting to Obviously they came
Speaker 1: into that game thinking they were going to have Joel
Speaker 1: and thinking they were going to run the offense through Joel,
Speaker 1: and I think naturally were a little bit unsure about
Speaker 1: how to move forward without him. But Kyle came in,
Speaker 1: He brought energy. He sort of helped turn that game
Speaker 1: around when they made the run and closed to the
Speaker 1: lead as much as they did. I just thought there
Speaker 1: was a lot to admire about the way he performed
Speaker 1: both nights. We're a big fan of Kyle o quinn
Speaker 1: in terms of seventy sixers content, always gracious with the
Speaker 1: arrival and departure shots, the O'Quinn cap. Yeah, it means
Speaker 1: a little something humorous, just a lovely person to have around,
Speaker 1: and it's it's really nice to get to see him do.
Speaker 1: I mean, as we all, we all want to succeed
Speaker 1: in our careers. We all want to feel used and
Speaker 1: feel like we're doing a good job with what we do.
Speaker 1: So it's great to see him get to do that
Speaker 1: because obviously playing basketball is probably more important to him
Speaker 1: than those lovely content moments. Okay, let us now go
Speaker 1: to another really positive topic, and that's Shake Milton Young
Speaker 1: Shaike has been presented with an opportunity and he has
Speaker 1: seized it absolutely. I mean again, it's awful to have
Speaker 1: your all stars out. It's awful to not have Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: but to see a guy like Shake who sort of
Speaker 1: like Kyle, hasn't gotten at least hasn't gotten consistent minutes
Speaker 1: all season, step in in and back to back and
Speaker 1: be super productive both nights. And just the thing is
Speaker 1: with Shake, have you ever seen him rattled at all? No?
Speaker 1: Not really, there was. It's funny, so he started the
Speaker 1: Lakers game, which was the big Saturday primetime game at
Speaker 1: the Center a few weeks back. And that's a big
Speaker 1: spot to be in. You know, you've got the jump
Speaker 1: on court before the game, everyone's watching, You're the biggest
Speaker 1: game in town. And I'm like, a start against the Lakers.
Speaker 1: I mean, that could be an interesting spot to be in.
Speaker 1: I mean, he really hadn't played since before Thanksgiving at
Speaker 1: that stage of the year, and he didn't start, and
Speaker 1: I was like, Yeah, I kind of wonder how this
Speaker 1: is going to go for Shake. And I think he
Speaker 1: might have committed a turnover within the first minute or two,
Speaker 1: but after that he was often sailing. And to your point, no,
Speaker 1: he does not seem phased, seems totally ready. And I
Speaker 1: think this even goes back to last season as well,
Speaker 1: that when he was called upon, good things happened when
Speaker 1: he was out on the court. And to your point
Speaker 1: about Ben Simmons, no, no one wants him out. But
Speaker 1: even if it weren't going to happen immediately, I think
Speaker 1: we are seeing some immediate results. This is going to
Speaker 1: help shake Milton down the road, being able to get
Speaker 1: this extensive amount of run, and his stock has absolutely Risen.
Speaker 1: I mean, you heard Coach Brown talk about him after
Speaker 1: the game about how how can you not go with
Speaker 1: Jake at least for now considering what he's done, especially
Speaker 1: from deep. He took I believe eleven threes in the
Speaker 1: back to back and made nine of them. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously numbers even out eventually, but for now he's the
Speaker 1: hot hand and it really felt like I mean last
Speaker 1: night he literally did not he could not miss from
Speaker 1: deep and had an incredible game. So I think it's
Speaker 1: just again great to see guys that stay ready, stay motivated,
Speaker 1: get out there and get rewarded at a high level.
Speaker 1: Thirty nine points in the back to back between Cleveland
Speaker 1: and the Knicks and nine for eleven from three, he
Speaker 1: rerunds well, he can make good decisions with the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands. Goes back to the development plan that
Speaker 1: the team had in place from last year when he
Speaker 1: was a two way player with the Bluecoats, and has
Speaker 1: improved on defense, which is something that has been brought
Speaker 1: up a lot over the last two nights of media
Speaker 1: just that that's the area that coach says he's seen
Speaker 1: the most improvement from Shake and a team that says
Speaker 1: its identity is all about defense. That's obviously an important thing,
Speaker 1: and he's been able to hold his own. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what vibes you got when Brett Brown was talking
Speaker 1: about contingencies in the aftermath of Ben simmons injury, and
Speaker 1: I want to say this was before the Atlanta game
Speaker 1: on Monday, and I don't think he referred to it
Speaker 1: in terms quite like he did with the wing rotation
Speaker 1: when he used the whole tournament thing. But you know,
Speaker 1: he listed options. He was like, you know, there's shake,
Speaker 1: there's Josh Richardson, there's Alec Burks and all that. And
Speaker 1: it's certainly nice to have had someone step up and
Speaker 1: raised the proverbial hand almost immediately this first week without Simmons,
Speaker 1: Like for as much as his kind of been in
Speaker 1: flux because these injuries as of late, it's nice to
Speaker 1: have some sense of clarity at least at one spot.
Speaker 1: And we talk about it all the time. We just
Speaker 1: talked about it with Kyle. Could not happen to just
Speaker 1: a nicer, more pleasant dude. And you love to see
Speaker 1: people that are great off the court get rewarded on
Speaker 1: the court. Do you have any good shake anecdotes during
Speaker 1: the last two years, putting me on the spot a
Speaker 1: little bit. Nothing other than that, he's just always lovely,
Speaker 1: always says hello, always says thank you, just super engaging.
Speaker 1: The man loves Honeygrow. We were able to capture some
Speaker 1: honey Grow content with Shake on our way to Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and seems like there's a burgeoning partnership between Shake and
Speaker 1: honey Grow. So we know he's performing well and maybe
Speaker 1: that's due to him fueling well. Honeygrow does not sponsor
Speaker 1: me to say this, but it is a great It
Speaker 1: is a great restaurant to lots of balanced, healthy options
Speaker 1: and clearly fueling Shake quite well. Do we know what
Speaker 1: he rolls with? Is he a noodle man? Is it
Speaker 1: more saladies? You know? I have not checked. I have
Speaker 1: not checked, but he should have a shake. I think
Speaker 1: that should be like the Shake bowl. Sure there is
Speaker 1: a shake shack at the center, and perhaps it could be.
Speaker 1: I said this after the game last night, and this
Speaker 1: is a tangent, but I think it's worth it. In arena,
Speaker 1: there are these sixer versus sixer opportunities where two sixers
Speaker 1: are challenged to name a certain amount of items. Last
Speaker 1: night it was vegetables. On Thursday night, it was vegetables,
Speaker 1: Shake Milton versus Matisse Thible. Matisse Thible struggled a little
Speaker 1: bit when it came to naming vegetables, but Shake Milton
Speaker 1: was really rattling them off. And to be honest, now
Speaker 1: that I know about his affinity for Honeygrow, I think
Speaker 1: he's just naming all the toppings he gets at Honeygrow.
Speaker 1: And naturally he won the sixer versus sixer battle using
Speaker 1: vegetables that included edamame cilantro. I'm not even sure if
Speaker 1: cilantro is technically a vegetable, but he got credit for it,
Speaker 1: and I believe they have it at Honeygrow. Excellent. Was
Speaker 1: that the story you were looking It's a great anecdote. No,
Speaker 1: look at that. We just rattled off two minutes of
Speaker 1: the podcast talking about Shake Milton and Honeygrow. Two good things.
Speaker 1: The state of California is where the seventy six ers
Speaker 1: are headed. They have four games Clippers Sunday, Lakers Tuesday, Kings,
Speaker 1: Don't Sleep on the Kings Thursday, and then the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors in San Francisco on Saturday. First two games
Speaker 1: probably gonna be tough, difficult challenge. You'll expect a challenge,
Speaker 1: but you'll expect opportunities to learn and to grow as well,
Speaker 1: no matter what happens. I think it's always good to
Speaker 1: play against high level competition. I think they'll go in
Speaker 1: there determined, maybe with a chip on your shoulders, as
Speaker 1: people tend to get when you're facing adversity. You're shorthanded,
Speaker 1: and hopefully there will be some positive lessons learned in
Speaker 1: that first weekend. And you're going on that first weekend,
Speaker 1: So yes, what are you most looking forward to about
Speaker 1: spending time in La Sunshine? Yes, understandable business trip, though
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter where it is. It could be Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: it could be Cleverly Hills. You know we're there to
Speaker 1: take were there to do to content and it's always great.
Speaker 1: I had a great time in Cleveland. I will say
Speaker 1: it was a great city. There's some underrated spots. The
Speaker 1: game obviously didn't go as planned, but I wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: psyched to get to the city and I loved it.
Speaker 1: I'm a big small city gal. I like a small city.
Speaker 1: I like a Cleveland, I like a Charlotte, I like
Speaker 1: a Orlando. I don't know what it is. Well, based
Speaker 1: on how the schedule usually goes. You can tackle cities
Speaker 1: like that in about thirty six hours, which is usually
Speaker 1: all we have in a city Los Angeles the exception,
Speaker 1: because you're playing those two teams in consecutive games. I'll
Speaker 1: see this, you know, these regardless of what comes from
Speaker 1: especially the games against the Clippers and the Lakers, these
Speaker 1: are more opportunities to do up close in person fact finding,
Speaker 1: Like regardless of who the seventy six ers put out
Speaker 1: there or what they do, still a chance for Brett
Speaker 1: Brown and the staff whoever else from basketball operations out
Speaker 1: there to see these teams up close in person, do
Speaker 1: some fact finding, get a little bit more hands on intel.
Speaker 1: Who knows when you can see these teams again at
Speaker 1: some point. So there's that. I mean, that was kind
Speaker 1: of the same vibe that Brett had about the game
Speaker 1: against Milwaukee a week and a half ago. Sure, that's
Speaker 1: what I was going to say. You never know when
Speaker 1: you're gonna see these see these teams again, whether it's
Speaker 1: this season, postseason, next season, what have you. And it's
Speaker 1: never a bad thing to play against a guy like
Speaker 1: Lebron James or finals MVP and Kawhi Leonard. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's always there's always going to be things that can
Speaker 1: be learned whether or not you're fully staffed. And while
Speaker 1: the Lakers are rolling, they've won seven in a row
Speaker 1: going into the weekend, Clips have had their ups and
Speaker 1: downs too, they have, I think, honestly, I feel a
Speaker 1: little bit of empathy for the Clippers teams that have
Speaker 1: a really high ceiling, but I've had to deal with
Speaker 1: some adversity along the way this season, so I think
Speaker 1: it's an interesting team to compare to the Sixers, and
Speaker 1: I if it's anything like the first time we played them,
Speaker 1: it'll it'll be entertaining, that's for sure, all right. And
Speaker 1: then the team wraps things up against the Sacramento Kings
Speaker 1: and the Golden State Warriors, neither of whom should be
Speaker 1: slept on. No. No. Kings have had a couple of
Speaker 1: good wins as of late. Golden State certainly in a different,
Speaker 1: different phase, even different or phase, if I can use
Speaker 1: the word different to her than when the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: last saw them at the end of January. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: Sixers have two players who are on Golden State's roster
Speaker 1: at the time, in Glenn Robinson the third and Alec
Speaker 1: Burke's while the Warriors picked up young Andrew Wiggins, so
Speaker 1: he and Steph Curry might be bad. I mean that,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's I don't know what the
Speaker 1: official update is on stuff. I was just looking into
Speaker 1: that actually on the old internet machine. But you can't
Speaker 1: sleep on the Warriors. You just can't. It would be
Speaker 1: silly to do so. They've been one of the best
Speaker 1: and some of their young guys are really exciting, So
Speaker 1: regardless of who they run out there, that's definitely one
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be missed either. If you are a podcast
Speaker 1: listener on the East Coast, do get your rest this week.
Speaker 1: Maybe sleep in a little bit more, take midday nap,
Speaker 1: early evening nap, stap late with your seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: It starts off easy from a viewership standpoint. You got
Speaker 1: a three thirty Eastern game on Sunday against the Clippers,
Speaker 1: but after that two late games. Actually, this is from
Speaker 1: a fan standpoint if you're based in the East in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: could be worse. You've got book ended with reasonable start
Speaker 1: times because the Warriors game is in eight thirty. Game absolutely,
Speaker 1: and that first West Coast swing that they did earlier
Speaker 1: in the season, those were all late so if you
Speaker 1: made it through that, you'll make it through this and
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get some excitement. It seems like we have
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that are really ready to go,
Speaker 1: and if it's anything like Thursday night, it feels like
Speaker 1: there will be more sixers that are ready to perform
Speaker 1: at a high level whenever called upon. Alrighty, Lauren, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Thank you. If you are not yet
Speaker 1: a follower of Laurence on Twitter, you should be at
Speaker 1: Lauren m Rosen doing an awesome job this season covering
Speaker 1: the team. Thanks to her for joining the podcast, and
Speaker 1: thank you as always for listening. We'll be back at
Speaker 1: it next week recapping whatever happens for these seventy six
Speaker 1: ers on this upcoming West Coast road trip. Let's see
Speaker 1: you