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Speaker 3: Tuesday nights on ninety seven to five, the fanatic Matt
Speaker 3: Murphy and Nick Stauskis is back. The former Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 3: six er, the NBA veteran Nick Stauskis joins us again tonight.
Speaker 3: Lauren Rosen will be along with us as well in
Speaker 3: the second segment. But welcome back, Nick. Excited to talk
Speaker 3: more seventy six ers basketball with you.
Speaker 4: It's always a good day talking Sixers basketball with you. Matt.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you having me on again.
Speaker 3: We have one of your old friends, one of your
Speaker 3: old teammates, Robert. He sat down with Lauren at the
Speaker 3: most recent practice to chat. That's coming up in just
Speaker 3: a moment. Any player interviews from this show that fans
Speaker 3: want to listen to available at the seventy six Ers
Speaker 3: Insiders podcast. In addition to Robert Covington, we have our
Speaker 3: fanatic basketball insider tonight, Connor Thomas. Be sure to follow
Speaker 3: everybody on the various social media platforms. You're more of
Speaker 3: an Instagram guy, Nick, Nick saskis eleven on Instagram.
Speaker 5: I'm an Instagram guy, but I'm I gotta activate my
Speaker 5: Twitter again, so you know, maybe I'll get active on Twitter,
Speaker 5: start interacting with the fans again. It's been a while.
Speaker 5: It's been a couple of years for me, so it'd
Speaker 5: be nice to get back on.
Speaker 3: Are you a threads guy?
Speaker 4: Yet?
Speaker 5: I don't even know what threads is? Unfortunately? Does that
Speaker 5: mean I'm old if I don't know what?
Speaker 3: It's like Twitter? But it's Instagram's version, so it's like
Speaker 3: a news feed. And I have a question from someone
Speaker 3: on there that for you, from someone on there, that
Speaker 3: we'll do in a second. But the latest with the
Speaker 3: seventy six Ers is that they've been off for a
Speaker 3: couple of days, and we were saying it's you were
Speaker 3: saying it's kind of like the All Star break as
Speaker 3: a result of the n season Tournament, a rare four
Speaker 3: days off in the NBA. They're looking to bounce back
Speaker 3: when they return to action in DC on Wednesday night
Speaker 3: from two losses last week in New Orleans and in Boston,
Speaker 3: but then four days off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's nice, you know, this is I guess one
Speaker 5: of the positives of not making the Ncason Tournament. Gives
Speaker 5: you a chance to rest, get your guys back in
Speaker 5: the lineup. Obviously, you know Tyrese and Joelle, you know
Speaker 5: out with the illness. You know, I'd like to see
Speaker 5: them back on the court. But it's a nice little
Speaker 5: reset button kind of at the quarter way mark of
Speaker 5: the season. And I'm sure a lot of teams are
Speaker 5: really trying to use this week as as positively as possible,
Speaker 5: just trying to get their guys healthy again.
Speaker 3: So no Embiid in either of those games, the Pelicans
Speaker 3: or the Celtics. No Embiid or Maxi Orbitoom or House
Speaker 3: and the list went on and on against Boston. But
Speaker 3: get this about the month of November, for the duo
Speaker 3: of Embiid and Maxie, they had This is from Justin
Speaker 3: kobatco from statitudes. In the month of November, Embiid and
Speaker 3: Maxi each scored at least twenty five points in the
Speaker 3: same game eight times, which was a franchise broke a
Speaker 3: franchise record which was seven in a month shared by
Speaker 3: Wilt and Hal Greer in nineteen sixty six and Billy
Speaker 3: Cunningham and Archie Clark in nineteen sixty nine. So like,
Speaker 3: you cannot understate how important it is to have them
Speaker 3: in the lineup, and still they almost beat Boston, which
Speaker 3: we will talk about a lot throughout tonight's show. The
Speaker 3: question that was posed to you from Threads came from
Speaker 3: an account called bme Podcast. They said, what do you
Speaker 3: think Embiid and Maxie would say has been the key
Speaker 3: to the early success with a new coach. So I
Speaker 3: don't want you to speak for them, and we'll try
Speaker 3: to ask that question to them. But new coach and
Speaker 3: Nick Nurse, and they're off to a start where the
Speaker 3: month of November saw them score twenty five plus each
Speaker 3: in eight games together.
Speaker 5: Well, I think I think the offense that they're running,
Speaker 5: it's it's pretty pretty free flowing. Everyone's been touching the ball.
Speaker 5: There's been a lot of ball movement, player movement, and
Speaker 5: as we talked about last week, there is specifically the
Speaker 5: two man game between MB and MAXI has been super
Speaker 5: effective and they've just kind of had this chemistry that
Speaker 5: you can't help but notice when you watch them. And
Speaker 5: obviously it doesn't hurt that two of them are are
Speaker 5: some of the more talented players that this league has
Speaker 5: right now, so.
Speaker 4: You know, it's been good to see.
Speaker 5: It's been good to see that work very early on
Speaker 5: with the coach, and to be honest, that's probably one
Speaker 5: of my biggest surprises of the years with all the
Speaker 5: changes with the coach and with hardened out is how
Speaker 5: seamlessly this offense has kind of just come together. And
Speaker 5: I believe they're second in the league and offensive raiding
Speaker 5: behind the Pacers, who are just on fire right now.
Speaker 5: But that's something that I felt would maybe come a
Speaker 5: little bit later in the season as they played more
Speaker 5: games together. So that's been a huge surprised for me,
Speaker 5: is just how comfortable everyone's looked.
Speaker 3: And you were hoping for them to get that defensive
Speaker 3: rating number up because the offense being second, But you're curious,
Speaker 3: I know you've said you're curious to see where that
Speaker 3: defensive rating number will land or stay throughout the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean yeah, especially these last two games. I
Speaker 5: would say the defense without Joel looks significantly different because
Speaker 5: there's not that paint protection. You know, I noticed that
Speaker 5: a lot against specifically the Pelicans, you know, with Zion
Speaker 5: and Valentoun is kind of getting whatever they wanted at
Speaker 5: the rim. But you know, once you get them back
Speaker 5: in the lineup and you know, everyone starts playing together
Speaker 5: a little bit more, you get Kelly back in the lineup,
Speaker 5: those are things that you know, maybe this team can
Speaker 5: work work out some of the kinks and kind of
Speaker 5: lock up on the defensive end, because if they become
Speaker 5: a top ten defensive team and then you're scoring at
Speaker 5: the rate that they are, they actually have a chance.
Speaker 5: That's my opinion. They actually have a chance in the East.
Speaker 5: So you got to be able to get stops though.
Speaker 3: And for anyone who doesn't know, rating just means points
Speaker 3: scored or points allowed per one hundred possession. So the
Speaker 3: Sixers are second in offensive rating as we speak here
Speaker 3: on December fifth, and part of the reason for that
Speaker 3: has been Robert Covington, who were about to hear from
Speaker 3: and he had eighteen points, though on the offensive end
Speaker 3: against the Celtics, made three threes. Four of his five
Speaker 3: steals were in the first half against the Celtics, and
Speaker 3: the Sixers as a team had a season high with
Speaker 3: sixteen steals. And just checking the rankings for deflections, he's
Speaker 3: second Covington in the NBA deflections per thirty six right now,
Speaker 3: six point three behind another of your former teammates in
Speaker 3: Gary Payton, the second in Golden State with six point six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what makes cub so valuable.
Speaker 5: You know, he can go out there and potentially not
Speaker 5: even shoot the ball well and still have an enormous
Speaker 5: impact on the game. Just disrupting things on the defensive
Speaker 5: end as something that he takes pride in and something
Speaker 5: that he's built his whole career off of. So you know,
Speaker 5: you're glad to see him being able to kind of
Speaker 5: transfer that skull immediately into the lineup. You know, having
Speaker 5: not gone a training camp with the team, I'm sure
Speaker 5: a lot of this is, you know, new defensive terms,
Speaker 5: new defensive schemes being thrown.
Speaker 4: At him, and he looks comfortable out there.
Speaker 3: Matt Murphy and Nick Stauskis here on Sixers in sixty
Speaker 3: Lauren Rosen is joining us later on in the show,
Speaker 3: Connor Thomas joining us as our fanatic basketball insider. Before that.
Speaker 3: By the way, Paul Reid is tied for fifth in
Speaker 3: deflections per thirty six with four point seven. After practice
Speaker 3: today Tuesday, Covington said that he modeled some of his
Speaker 3: game after model some of his game after his favorite
Speaker 3: player growing up, Scottie Pippen, So you could see shades
Speaker 3: of that in his play on the defensive end, in
Speaker 3: the way that he hustles. And then after he spoke
Speaker 3: to the media, he sat down with Sixers team reporter
Speaker 3: Lauren Rosen and here's their conversation.
Speaker 2: Robert Covington back with us on Sixers in sixty and
Speaker 2: tonight we have one of our new co hosts with us,
Speaker 2: Nick Stauskis. I would love to hear what it was
Speaker 2: like to play with him years ago during the process.
Speaker 4: Sauce sauce, sauce, Krispy Yo. Man, he's he's been. He's amazing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: I love playing with Nick, and then having him and
Speaker 6: TJ mcconnagell on the same team was a hilarious, hilarious encounter.
Speaker 6: I've seen many of We've had a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Like what one thing I can say is I love
Speaker 6: Nick's work at you know, I love nicks work at it.
Speaker 6: He put so much time into working out, you know,
Speaker 6: in the gym, doing the little things and just kind
Speaker 6: of being the best player he could be.
Speaker 4: You know, he really took his job seriously.
Speaker 6: He really had a lot a lot to his game.
Speaker 6: And I love watching Nick play. You know, you never
Speaker 6: knew what Nick had up his sleeve when he was
Speaker 6: you know, had the ball in his hands and.
Speaker 4: Could shoot like lights out, lights out.
Speaker 6: And we used to have a lot of battles, a
Speaker 6: lot of fun, a lot of battles. And one thing
Speaker 6: about you know, we made it very competitive, you know,
Speaker 6: and listen to them guys like off the court, they
Speaker 6: had a lot of fun. They had a lot of fun,
Speaker 6: and I love being around them.
Speaker 2: We just saw TJ McConnell a couple of weeks back,
Speaker 2: but not just Nick, not just TJ. What's it like
Speaker 2: to to have memories from your youth in the NBA
Speaker 2: and then share that today with guys that are doing broadcasting,
Speaker 2: that are still playing, that are playing overseas, Like you
Speaker 2: guys go in all these different directions. What's it like
Speaker 2: whenever you do cross paths?
Speaker 4: Man, it's great.
Speaker 6: You know, I've I've had many battles of them with
Speaker 6: a lot of people that you know, some are heavy sale,
Speaker 6: some still in the league thriving, you know, like like
Speaker 6: them guys have you know, made a great career out
Speaker 6: of you know, the time that they had and you
Speaker 6: know TJ, you know, still doing his thing. You know,
Speaker 6: Nick has always been a funny guy. He said that
Speaker 6: when time when whenever he was done, like he would
Speaker 6: potentially you know, going to broadcasting. So you know, listen
Speaker 6: seeing that he's you know taking that transition, it's amazing.
Speaker 4: Like you said, he always talked.
Speaker 6: About like he was going to be a good a
Speaker 6: guy that could do that, and that's something that he was.
Speaker 6: He was passionate about, you know, outside of basketball. And
Speaker 6: one thing I could say, like I said, I keep
Speaker 6: in flying, Like I love Nick's work ethic, you know,
Speaker 6: on and off the court.
Speaker 4: You know, so as much.
Speaker 6: As he put into the basketball court and pretty sure
Speaker 6: he puts you know at his job eaching every day.
Speaker 6: So you know, seeing them guys, everyone take different transitions.
Speaker 6: Like everyone of course, you know, wants to have that
Speaker 6: long career, you know in NBA. But at the same time,
Speaker 6: we all go different paths, and you know, what can
Speaker 6: we we can we make the best of our situations,
Speaker 6: and you know that's the main thing, Like, no matter what,
Speaker 6: can we make the best of our situations.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, he's done a great job with us so far.
Speaker 2: As he dips his toe into broadcasting, Nick Stauskiss has
Speaker 2: Robert Covington as we continue on six ers and sixty
Speaker 2: and look ahead. We've talked a lot about the n
Speaker 2: Season tournament and this week what it ended up meeting
Speaker 2: for you guys is four days off, which is super rare.
Speaker 2: So a couple off days and a couple of practice
Speaker 2: days and then a couple opponents that aren't necessarily at
Speaker 2: the top of your respective bracket. Right, So what can
Speaker 2: you guys take advantage of when you're handed a week
Speaker 2: like this at it's part of.
Speaker 6: The season, rest and recovery. Like you said, it's rare
Speaker 6: that you get four days off. If I think last
Speaker 6: time what happened was maybe in maybe in La l
Speaker 6: last year, think that the most we had was three
Speaker 6: days off in between. But like I said, just rest,
Speaker 6: you know, being being a veteran guy. You know that
Speaker 6: that time period, it's w It's never happened in the
Speaker 6: middle of the season and the ord the beginning of
Speaker 6: the season, So you know, having that is is really
Speaker 6: only you know, like I said, the best the best
Speaker 6: for us, Like you get guys trying to recover, reset
Speaker 6: and you know, just take care of your bodies and
Speaker 6: do a little thing, you know, kind of reset and
Speaker 6: everything for us. So like I said, of course we
Speaker 6: get we would love to be in the e s
Speaker 6: En season tournament. But like you said, the the days,
Speaker 6: you know, it it a.
Speaker 4: It adds up for us.
Speaker 6: Like you said, you got guys that you know, took
Speaker 6: full advantage of the the couple days off, and like
Speaker 6: I said, we had a couple of days to you know,
Speaker 6: get up in down and kind of work on things
Speaker 6: that you know, we messed up on like in games.
Speaker 4: The last few couple of games.
Speaker 2: A couple of your teammates have called the last couple
Speaker 2: days of practice spirited, among other words, peel back the
Speaker 2: curtain a little bit for folks that don't get to
Speaker 2: see what it looks like when.
Speaker 4: You guys practice.
Speaker 2: How would you describe the vibes of a practice with
Speaker 2: this team.
Speaker 6: Man, it's been a macclant like the competitiveness off the charts.
Speaker 6: You got so many different guys that you know, can
Speaker 6: really succeed at you know, playing playing really well and
Speaker 6: doing it. Didn't live things. So you know, the last
Speaker 6: few days, like I said, we got after it and
Speaker 6: you know it was that good look.
Speaker 4: Reset that oh okay, let's get after you.
Speaker 6: Like of course we battle with everybody else, but you know,
Speaker 6: getting after each other a little bit, you know, making
Speaker 6: it super competitive. We got everybody juices from. You know,
Speaker 6: it was well, it was. It was one of those
Speaker 6: practices where like I said, we had a lot going
Speaker 6: and we worked a lot, you know, tuned up for
Speaker 6: fine things and at the end of the day, like
Speaker 6: I said, it's just getting better and you know the
Speaker 6: little things you know, as a know, that's what makes
Speaker 6: the difference in games.
Speaker 2: Robert Covington, thanks as always for joining us on six
Speaker 2: ers and sixty. Good luck this week.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Robert Covington, always eager to sit down and stay awhile
Speaker 3: even after the interview. And thanks to Lauren Rosen. We'll
Speaker 3: hear from her in just a little bit here on
Speaker 3: sixers and sixty and thanks to of course Robert Covington,
Speaker 3: Matt Murphy, Nick Stauskas, and we're joined by Connor Thomas
Speaker 3: back in the studio on sixers and sixty and Nick,
Speaker 3: you got to hear from your your old teammate there
Speaker 3: in Covington, and the next step will be getting you
Speaker 3: guys to talk to each other.
Speaker 4: I thank for this show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can definitely reminisce on a lot of good times.
Speaker 5: I appreciate all the love from cove He's a pros pro.
Speaker 5: You know, he was one of the guys that you know,
Speaker 5: pushed me to get better every day and practice, so
Speaker 5: you know, those those words mean a lot to me.
Speaker 5: But he's you know, just from listening to him speed,
Speaker 5: he's he's a well spoken guy and clearly you know
Speaker 5: from the jump of his career he's taken things very
Speaker 5: seriously and he's put himself He's worked his way into
Speaker 5: this position now where you know he's a consistent role
Speaker 5: player on any team you put him on. So I'm
Speaker 5: super happy for him, and I'm sure he'll continue to
Speaker 5: prove people wrong.
Speaker 3: Covington part of a Sixers team that, as we speak,
Speaker 3: is one game away from that twenty game mark at
Speaker 3: twelve and seven overall and trying to snap a two
Speaker 3: game losing streak from those road games that we've discussed,
Speaker 3: But as we bring Connor Thomas in, because it's that
Speaker 3: near quarter pole of the NBA season, I wanted to
Speaker 3: get everybody's biggest sixers surprise from the first quarter of
Speaker 3: the season. And it doesn't have to be anything any
Speaker 3: player or something like that. It could really be anything. Mine,
Speaker 3: in fact, is not a player, but Connor, you're batting
Speaker 3: lead off here. Your biggest sixers surprise from the first
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen games of the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 8: Honestly, when I looked at the James Harden move, and
Speaker 8: I know how the city feels about Harden now and
Speaker 8: how that all went down, and people were happy to
Speaker 8: see the trad happened. But the next step was how
Speaker 8: do you find someone to facilitate the offense? Like, whatever
Speaker 8: you say about Harden, he led the league and assists
Speaker 8: last year and he's a veteran at facilitating the ball
Speaker 8: to where it needs to go. Sometimes he handles it
Speaker 8: a little too much, in my opinion, But the point is,
Speaker 8: I thought the turnovers were going to go up with
Speaker 8: a young player like Maxi, and Doc Rivers always told
Speaker 8: us max he's a good guard. He's not a true
Speaker 8: point guard in this league yet. And the Sixers to
Speaker 8: this point, they're eleventh in the NBA thirteen point six
Speaker 8: turnovers per game. Last year they finished eleventh in the
Speaker 8: NBA thirteen point five turnovers per game, so they're right
Speaker 8: on that mark. And to have that without Harden and
Speaker 8: Maxi stepping in taking care of the basketball was something
Speaker 8: that honestly, it was a great surprise for the first.
Speaker 4: Quarter of the year.
Speaker 3: Next ascas your turn.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just piggybacking off of that. For me.
Speaker 5: As I mentioned earlier, I think the biggest surprise is
Speaker 5: just how seamlessly the offense has transitioned with a new
Speaker 5: coach and a new player in Maxi taking over the reins.
Speaker 4: You know, obviously Maxi was a part of the.
Speaker 5: Team before, but it's just a big responsibility, like you
Speaker 5: said to you know, be given the ball and say hey,
Speaker 5: you're going to run our team now. And he's looked
Speaker 5: very comfortable doing that. The whole offense in general, obviously
Speaker 5: they're super efficient, so I didn't expect that to click
Speaker 5: as early on in the season, and that's probably been
Speaker 5: the biggest surprise for me.
Speaker 3: And how much kind of Embiid's passing factoring into that
Speaker 3: when we talk about turnover numbers and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: because Embiid went from career average of three point six
Speaker 3: assists to six point six right now, and of course
Speaker 3: without Harden there were assists to be had, but I
Speaker 3: think it's still is impressive that he's able to make
Speaker 3: these passes because if there are assists to be had,
Speaker 3: you forget that he's seven foot tall and can still
Speaker 3: execute it at this level. So his assists have skyrocketed
Speaker 3: under Nick Nurse.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's huge, and I think part of that is
Speaker 8: Nick Nurse was one of those coaches that always kind
Speaker 8: of had the secret key to defending EMBID and I
Speaker 8: thought coming into this season having Nick Nurse in house,
Speaker 8: now there might be a slight improvement to a Beads
Speaker 8: game because how much better could he get raining MVP
Speaker 8: led the league in scoring two years, but clearly it
Speaker 8: was creating opportunities for him to pass the ball, and
Speaker 8: he's done a great job of elevating his game in
Speaker 8: that space. I mean, every year it seems like this
Speaker 8: guy adds something to his game that no one thought
Speaker 8: was coming. And this is just another asset that he
Speaker 8: can have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think we talked about it last week,
Speaker 5: the fact that Joelle just seems to be thinking the
Speaker 5: game at a different level.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: You know, he's a physical presence to be dealt with,
Speaker 5: and he has the skill and whatnot. But I think
Speaker 5: this is the year where he's also added that intellectual
Speaker 5: part of it, where he's smart and he's calculated about
Speaker 5: his decisions, and he knows where the double team's going
Speaker 5: to come from, he knows where the weaksideh rotation is
Speaker 5: going to come from, and so now he's thinking about
Speaker 5: that play before it even happens, and he's able to
Speaker 5: make those reads that maybe he wouldn't make a year ago.
Speaker 4: So that's been impressive to watch.
Speaker 3: I have my pick for a Sixer surprise in just
Speaker 3: a second. Lauren will have hers later in the show.
Speaker 3: But while you're kind enough to join us ahead of
Speaker 3: Philly Sports tonight on the station later on until ten pm.
Speaker 3: Kelly oubres return is a big storyline as we speak
Speaker 3: for this Sixers team. So how are you feeling about
Speaker 3: him coming back into the fold?
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what if he hadn't been injured, he
Speaker 8: would have been the surprise of the first quarter of
Speaker 8: the season because you bring him in and the average
Speaker 8: over twenty down to Charlotte last year. But it was Charlotte,
Speaker 8: Let's be honest. He had a lot of opportunity down
Speaker 8: there to create scoring chances, but we didn't know how
Speaker 8: he was going to transition to a team with a
Speaker 8: star and embiid a player in Maxi. He's been a
Speaker 8: revelation when he's been on the floor, so I'm really
Speaker 8: excited to see what he brings back. And if he's
Speaker 8: starting lineup at a guy like Nick batoumb goes to
Speaker 8: the bench, but your bench unit gets better. So he
Speaker 8: just makes the whole engine run smoother when he's out there,
Speaker 8: and it's a great thing for the Sixers to finally
Speaker 8: have him back.
Speaker 5: Also another guy who could just really shoot it, and
Speaker 5: he's the guy that can get hot quickly. I think
Speaker 5: of the twelve games he's played this year, five of
Speaker 5: them he's had at least three threes.
Speaker 4: Two times he's been.
Speaker 5: Five for six from Three's just another weapon out there
Speaker 5: that can space the floor, can create a shot on
Speaker 5: his own. And you talk about this offense being number
Speaker 5: two in the league, and you're missing a guy like
Speaker 5: that who can put up twenty thirty on any given night.
Speaker 4: So the sky's the limit for this team offensively.
Speaker 3: Sixteen point three points per game, thirty eight percent from three,
Speaker 3: and that actually dipped a little bit in his last
Speaker 3: few games before leaving the lineup, but beginning of November
Speaker 3: against Toronto and Phoenix, he had twenty plus points in
Speaker 3: both those games, five for six from three against Toronto,
Speaker 3: three of seven against Phoenix, But that boosted the three
Speaker 3: point percentage and it came down a little bit. But
Speaker 3: an important player coming back for the Sixers. I believe
Speaker 3: they said he's expected to come off the bench right
Speaker 3: when he rejoins the team. But then who knows what
Speaker 3: the starting lineup the Sixers have options. And as we
Speaker 3: wind down with our first segment here on six Ers
Speaker 3: and sixty, am I saying the word tournament wrong when
Speaker 3: it comes to the NBA in season tournament because Covington,
Speaker 3: Lauren Rosen, you all apparently say tournament.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Maddie, it's tournament. Now you're the guy running the
Speaker 8: show here Tonight's you can say it outever you like.
Speaker 8: Tournament will take off your lead. But I feel like
Speaker 8: that's just adding the extra syllable in there for no reason.
Speaker 4: I'm a tournament.
Speaker 3: What do they do in Canada.
Speaker 5: It's definitely tournament and they would laugh at tournament in
Speaker 5: Canada they would be like, that's not real English.
Speaker 4: So but the o's in there.
Speaker 8: So if I feel like it makes sense phonetically, it's
Speaker 8: just no one says it that way.
Speaker 4: It's more I feel like it's like a New York thing, like.
Speaker 3: Maybe, yeah, I did go to college in New York.
Speaker 4: That might have been it.
Speaker 3: That could have factored in and got to the point.
Speaker 3: I've had to say it a lot this year, the
Speaker 3: first year the NBA in season tournament. Maybe I'll change
Speaker 3: it right now on the fly.
Speaker 4: We got them to flip.
Speaker 5: Nick, you gotta you gotta go on natur you gotta
Speaker 5: do whatever your whatever your mind and body's telling you, don't.
Speaker 4: Don't change anything for us, Matt.
Speaker 3: I'll spend some deep time in thought. But Connor Thomas,
Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 4: Thanks for having me. Guys.
Speaker 3: We'll have Lauren Rosen, Sixers team reporter joining us on
Speaker 3: the other side and more with former Sixer Nick Stauskas.
Speaker 3: I'm Matt Murphy and this is Sixers and sixty Welcome
Speaker 3: back to U Sixers in sixty Tuesday nights live on
Speaker 3: ninety seven to five The Fanatic. I'm Matt Murphy along
Speaker 3: with NBA veteran Nick Stauskis, former Process seventy sixer, and
Speaker 3: we will be joined by Lauren Rosen. Sixers team reporter
Speaker 3: Lauren Rosen as the team heads out on another for
Speaker 3: another road game in the nation's capital on Wednesday night,
Speaker 3: the sixth. As we're chatting on this week's edition, the
Speaker 3: schedule does look pretty favorable for these Philadelphia seventy six
Speaker 3: ers coming off these four days off. We'll get into
Speaker 3: the upcoming schedule. We'll go around the NBA talk more
Speaker 3: in season tournament. There's some silver linings that both you
Speaker 3: and Lauren want want to discuss. We'll talk to her
Speaker 3: a little bit more about Kelly Oubre's return and just
Speaker 3: do our normal road check in as well. But before
Speaker 3: we do that, I wanted to get my surprise of
Speaker 3: the first twenty games in here about rebounding. This is
Speaker 3: the six team that's looked pretty good on the glass
Speaker 3: so far, and it's a it's a give and a
Speaker 3: take with transition defense, and Nick Nurse spoke about that
Speaker 3: at practice this week about how they're pleased with the rebounding,
Speaker 3: but about that give and take with transition defense.
Speaker 7: You know, we start to look at some of that
Speaker 7: stuff a little bit more in depth, and see, you know,
Speaker 7: we had some discussions on on are rebounding today, right,
Speaker 7: it's obviously been a huge positive. We've had some discussion
Speaker 7: on a transition defense, right, right, that's that that's been
Speaker 7: a little bit, you know, something.
Speaker 9: We could improve on.
Speaker 7: And then you know, you got to be weighing that
Speaker 7: stuff out right. You know, the are the rebounds, are
Speaker 7: the offensive rebounds and the opportunities we're getting from that
Speaker 7: out weighing well some of the defensive transition stuff.
Speaker 9: We're giving up, right, And that's not that easy to
Speaker 9: do sometimes because it feels really awful once somebody leaks
Speaker 9: out and they throw one on zero and lay it
Speaker 9: in and then you look down and say, oh, my goodness,
Speaker 9: we've got twenty six points on offensive remouse tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty six is more than two, right.
Speaker 7: Even if he feels really bad right in the moment,
Speaker 7: feeling really bad, So you gotta be careful I analyze
Speaker 7: some of the stuff, so we've didn't go through some
Speaker 7: of that yet.
Speaker 3: The seventy six Ers are number six, number six in
Speaker 3: rebounding percentage rebound rate, however, you want to refer to
Speaker 3: it number five in offensive rebounding rate after being number
Speaker 3: nineteen overall last season, Nick, what are your thoughts on
Speaker 3: what coach Neurs had to say about rebounding versus getting
Speaker 3: back in the point disparity and how you'll take the
Speaker 3: points you get from crashing the glass.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think you always want to have
Speaker 5: at least at least one or two guys, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of when that shot goes up on the offensive end,
Speaker 5: you want to have at least you know, whether it's
Speaker 5: Maxi or Melting or whoever, kind of making their way
Speaker 5: back as protection. But you know, especially with the Sixers
Speaker 5: lineup right now, you know you have guys like Marcus Morris,
Speaker 5: you you know, Robert Covington, Batoom, all guys that have
Speaker 5: length and can can hit the offensive glass. I mean,
Speaker 5: it kind of makes sense that you're gonna want to
Speaker 5: send as many guys as you can to try to
Speaker 5: get some of those extra points. And yeah, sometimes it
Speaker 5: might lead to easy, fast break points. But clearly they've
Speaker 5: shown that at this point they can they can rebound
Speaker 5: on the offensive end at a high level, and if
Speaker 5: that's going to lead to extra points, you know, maybe
Speaker 5: that has something to do with with them having such
Speaker 5: a good rating on the offensive end.
Speaker 3: Matt Murphy and Nick stauskis so pleased to be joined
Speaker 3: on sixers and sixty by Lauren Rosen for a road
Speaker 3: check in again from d C where Kelly Oubre is
Speaker 3: expected to return to the lineup and at practice. Lauren,
Speaker 3: you had the chance to ask Kelly on Monday about
Speaker 3: Tyrese Maxi mentioning him follow showing his fifty point game
Speaker 3: this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 8: Matt?
Speaker 1: I love the road check in, Happy to be with
Speaker 1: you and Nick, and yes, you're right talking to Kelly
Speaker 1: Ubra the first time he's addressed media since he went
Speaker 1: out with that fractured rib a few weeks back. And
Speaker 1: the day after, of course, was Tyree Snaxy's fifty point
Speaker 1: career high performance against the Indiana Pacers, and immediately following
Speaker 1: the game, he told Karen Hatcher of NBCSP that he
Speaker 1: did it for Kelly Ubray, that it was all for Kelly,
Speaker 1: and I asked Kelly what it felt like to be
Speaker 1: watching that from home, and he got a little vulnerable
Speaker 1: with us. He let us know that it was a
Speaker 1: really special moment. He was obviously emotional about what had
Speaker 1: happened in his own life and was expressed that he
Speaker 1: had a lot of gratitude that he was able to
Speaker 1: walk away from that situation and that his injuries weren't
Speaker 1: worse of course than hearing Tyree's dedicate that game to
Speaker 1: Kelly certainly made him emotional. He said he went up
Speaker 1: stares away from his family so he could shed a
Speaker 1: quick tear and field gratitude for that moment in terms
Speaker 1: of his health and being part of Tyrese's journey. So
Speaker 1: cool to know that he was watching that night and
Speaker 1: that that shout out from Tyree's meant a lottomen.
Speaker 3: Great stuff for sure. And Lauren, what is your surprise
Speaker 3: or biggest takeaway from the first quarter of the NBA
Speaker 3: season when it comes to these sixers?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Listen, I've gotten into a little bit
Speaker 1: of trouble in some chat columns or whatever comment sections
Speaker 1: that I'm not supposed to read about the idea that
Speaker 1: people have doubted Tyrese MAXI in the past, right, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about sixess fands, so let's make that very clear.
Speaker 1: Sixers fans have been with Tyreese from the beginning, but
Speaker 1: around the league, on national programming, in national columns, people
Speaker 1: have asked questions about what Tyreese is going to be
Speaker 1: able to do every year. His first year when, of course,
Speaker 1: he fell to twenty one, probably because that he didn't
Speaker 1: play in the tournament. I was lit name for the
Speaker 1: previous segment, and I agree his lack of opportunity to
Speaker 1: play in the tournament is probably why he was able
Speaker 1: to fall to twenty one and become a seventy sixer.
Speaker 1: But ever since, people wondered if he was going to
Speaker 1: be able to shoot. People wondered if he was going
Speaker 1: to be able to be a primary option alongside Joel Ebid.
Speaker 1: In his second year when the team was without Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: then how would he work with James Harden? And this
Speaker 1: year how would he work without James Harden. He silenced doubters.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised at all to see him succeeding in
Speaker 1: this way. He's in the NBA right now, twenty seven
Speaker 1: points per game, is good for thirteenth, the thirteenth highest
Speaker 1: scoring player in the NBA right now, fourteenth among all
Speaker 1: assisters in the NBA, averaging six point seven assists per
Speaker 1: game and turning the ball over remarkably little. But my
Speaker 1: surprise is not is his leadership, the way that he's
Speaker 1: grown as a vocal sort of force for this team.
Speaker 1: And he's in his fourth season and just three years
Speaker 1: ago Joelle Lead was his VET Tobias Harris with his vet.
Speaker 1: These are guys that he has looked up to, that
Speaker 1: he has respected, and Nick Nurse came in at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season and asked him to let me
Speaker 1: oversimplify what happened, but asking to boss them around. Right,
Speaker 1: we've all been a new jobs. We've all been on
Speaker 1: teams where there are people you look up to, and
Speaker 1: to flip the script and how those people you look
Speaker 1: up to be the people that you're telling what to
Speaker 1: do is not an easy thing to do. And it's
Speaker 1: been really cool to watch the way that he's sort
Speaker 1: of embraced that challenge. Starting in practice, there were some
Speaker 1: practices where Nick explained that he was stepping back and
Speaker 1: purposefully being silent in order to encourage Tyree's to run
Speaker 1: the gym, and then watching that translate on the court,
Speaker 1: watching the way that Tobias and Joel have embraced Tyree's
Speaker 1: as their leader to the script is flipping for Tyres,
Speaker 1: but it's also flipping for the veterans, and they've embraced
Speaker 1: it in turns. So his voice, his communication, his ability
Speaker 1: to quarterback the gym, to quote one of Niksdauskiss's old coaches,
Speaker 1: has been really really cool to watch it, and I
Speaker 1: can only imagine that he's going to continue to.
Speaker 3: Grow in that area very well put. But if you're
Speaker 3: using the word surprise and MAXI with his leadership, does
Speaker 3: that mean you or I'll pose this to Nick, does
Speaker 3: that mean Lauren was doubting Tyrese Maxie, she's surprised by
Speaker 3: his leadership.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: Not surprised, not surprised, impressed, and maybe surprised by how
Speaker 1: quickly he's developed into that role. That I will say,
Speaker 1: because I think that was that was a tall ask
Speaker 1: for a young player, especially in the situation, this specific situation,
Speaker 1: asking him to be that focal leader. Watching Nick make
Speaker 1: that ask and then watching Tyrre's embrace it, I did
Speaker 1: find it a little surprising in a very impressive way.
Speaker 3: Fair and with him out of the lineup in Boston
Speaker 3: the last game before this show, when they fought very hard,
Speaker 3: it revealed some of more of the depth of this
Speaker 3: seventy six ers team, including Pat bev Patrick Beverly, who
Speaker 3: is a veteran with Maxi on this Sixers team and
Speaker 3: a mentor to him, one of the vets that that
Speaker 3: Maxie can look towards try to emulate when it comes
Speaker 3: to that leadership. But with these depth revelations, in a
Speaker 3: game that they really thought, Nick Beverly went for game
Speaker 3: highs in the main categories twenty six points, eight rebounds,
Speaker 3: seven assists. He really stepped up against the Celtics, even
Speaker 3: though they fell six points short, they were without five
Speaker 3: rotation players, including Mbat and Maxi.
Speaker 5: Yeah this I mean, first of all, that's a game
Speaker 5: that I felt like they played well enough to win,
Speaker 5: which is that's a tough environment. You know, on the
Speaker 5: road in Boston, a lot of your best guys are down.
Speaker 5: It's you know, to even have a chance to win
Speaker 5: that game says a lot about the guys who showed
Speaker 5: up and were healthy.
Speaker 4: But the silver lining of those games.
Speaker 5: In my opinion is that it gives the chance for
Speaker 5: these role players, you know, to go out and play
Speaker 5: more freely, and not only that, but show your coaching
Speaker 5: staff what you're capable of doing on a night to
Speaker 5: night basis when you're given those opportunities. And so Patrick
Speaker 5: pat Bev as we call him, you know, he he
Speaker 5: completely took a of those. And look, he's a vet
Speaker 5: in this league. He's been around on numerous teams. He's
Speaker 5: played with a lot of really great players. So there's
Speaker 5: no doubt in my mind that if you take away
Speaker 5: some of that scoring in Maxi and embiid and you
Speaker 5: give him those opportunities, like he's no scrub.
Speaker 4: This guy can score.
Speaker 5: At an elite level, and you know, to see him
Speaker 5: do it on the road and that kind of environment
Speaker 5: is good. It's a confidence booster for these guys. And
Speaker 5: even you go down the you go down the sheet
Speaker 5: and you look at Paul Reid and you know Mobomba,
Speaker 5: you know all guys that received a little bit more minutes,
Speaker 5: a little bit more opportunity, and they made their presence
Speaker 5: felt in that game and moving forward, that's something that
Speaker 5: they can build off of as a confidence booster.
Speaker 3: Speaking of confidence boosters, Beverly before the Lakers game was saying,
Speaker 3: it's something as simple as Nick Nurse, And he said
Speaker 3: another coach came up to him in the practice gym
Speaker 3: and said, we need you to start taking more threes
Speaker 3: and making more threes. And then he went out against
Speaker 3: the Lakers and since then he's had a good stretch.
Speaker 3: But just a coach saying that helped him.
Speaker 5: You never want to be out there second guessing, Oh,
Speaker 5: do they want me to shoot this?
Speaker 4: Do they not? You know what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 5: Having your coaches kind of reiterate, hey, when you're open,
Speaker 5: we want.
Speaker 4: You shooting this shot. It gives you that confidence that
Speaker 4: they believe in you.
Speaker 5: And just from a basketball perspective, when you're open, as
Speaker 5: any player, you have to shoot the ball.
Speaker 4: Otherwise defenses won't respect you.
Speaker 5: And so it's important that even if you're missing shots,
Speaker 5: you continue to take the right opportunities when they're there,
Speaker 5: because otherwise the defense sky reports will clue into that
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden they're helping off you more,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe doubling Joel or Tyree. So it's important
Speaker 5: for him not only to take those but if you're
Speaker 5: starting to make them like that.
Speaker 4: Obviously that's a bonus.
Speaker 3: And then when all those guys are out of the lineup,
Speaker 3: it just becomes more obvious that he really has to
Speaker 3: take those NBA vet Nick Stauskas, Matt Murphy, and Lauren
Speaker 3: Roseen here on sixers in sixty and the guys were
Speaker 3: out against Boston, Lauren, but they they really showed what
Speaker 3: this year's seventy six ers are all about by fighting
Speaker 3: in that game.
Speaker 4: It was not just Pat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and of course Matt. When you know you're going
Speaker 1: to be without the MVP, the reigning and current NBA
Speaker 1: scoring leader, people are going to have to step up.
Speaker 1: And then when you find out that you're also going
Speaker 1: to be without your point guard, a top fifteen score
Speaker 1: in the NBA, that can be debilitating for a team.
Speaker 1: And understandably so, right that's about sixty almost exactly sixty
Speaker 1: points a night that you're going to have to overcome
Speaker 1: against one of the if not the best teams in
Speaker 1: the league right now. And so to see the way
Speaker 1: that this team took the floor that night, all of
Speaker 1: the double figure performers, including Tobias Harris, Marcus Morris, Senior,
Speaker 1: Paul Reed, Patrick Beverley, the Anthony Melton, Robert Covington, Mobamba,
Speaker 1: those aren't guys that are traditionally relied upon for scoring
Speaker 1: as such a high clip. But to see all of
Speaker 1: them show up and rally, not to be corny, that
Speaker 1: it all goes back to what Nick Nurse asks for
Speaker 1: that they expect to win every game, regardless of where
Speaker 1: they are, who they're with, who they're playing against. And
Speaker 1: to see them come out with the expectation that they
Speaker 1: could win and watch them believe it all the way
Speaker 1: through the end of the game, of course, just shy
Speaker 1: of what would have been a huge upset victory. Matt
Speaker 1: it was. It was cool to see and it's certainly
Speaker 1: heartening if you're a Sixers fan to understand the depths
Speaker 1: of the team that they're going to continue down this stretch.
Speaker 3: With Beverly tied a career high with the twenty six.
Speaker 3: He actually split a pair of free throws down the
Speaker 3: stretch that would have given him a career high. The
Speaker 3: last time he scored twenty six was April second, twenty
Speaker 3: seventeen with the Houston Rockets in Phoenix against the Suns,
Speaker 3: and Lauren, you're joining us from Washington d C, where
Speaker 3: the Wizards are next on the schedule, and the upcoming
Speaker 3: schedule for the Sixers including that game, is Washington on
Speaker 3: December sixth, then Atlanta, then home against Washington, then a
Speaker 3: home and home against the Detroit Pistons, and it goes
Speaker 3: on from there pretty much all the way until the
Speaker 3: Minnesota Timberwolves come to town on December twentieth. But teams
Speaker 3: on paper that the seventy six Ers have either already
Speaker 3: beaten or should be when you look at the standings,
Speaker 3: and it begins with the first of two upcoming games
Speaker 3: against the Wizards, you have.
Speaker 1: Two of the next three games against the currently three
Speaker 1: and sixteen Washington Wizards, who have been struggling quite mightily
Speaker 1: early in the season. And Matt nick Nurse talked about
Speaker 1: it the night that the team was likely eliminated at
Speaker 1: the time from the inn season tournament. This was something
Speaker 1: that they wanted to be a part of. They all
Speaker 1: expressed that they wanted to be in Vegas this week,
Speaker 1: but nick Nurse said that if they weren't going to be,
Speaker 1: they were going to find some silver lining. He wasn't
Speaker 1: sure what they were at the time, but they were
Speaker 1: going to find some silver lining within this week, well,
Speaker 1: four days off Matt, two off days, two practice dates,
Speaker 1: especially when you're dealing with above going around the crew,
Speaker 1: huge silver lining, right. You guys mentioned it at the top.
Speaker 1: I think Nick said it at the top. But then
Speaker 1: a second one, obviously, is that you're going to end
Speaker 1: up with some opponents that aren't necessarily the other teams
Speaker 1: that are excelling the most. Right the teams that are
Speaker 1: moving on, they get two of them advanced last night,
Speaker 1: two more will advance tonight. Are some of the best
Speaker 1: and hottest teams in the NBA right now. Well, the
Speaker 1: Sixers don't have to play any of those teams this week,
Speaker 1: and they should if they can use that to their advantage.
Speaker 1: So that's the second silver lining that this team is
Speaker 1: going to be able to embrace this week, not quite
Speaker 1: having made it to their goal of getting to face.
Speaker 3: Two games added to the schedule. Nick that weren't on
Speaker 3: there until very recently in the Wizard's game and the
Speaker 3: Hawks game. It's a great point from Lauren. I wasn't
Speaker 3: even thinking about the in season tournament like that, with
Speaker 3: how it's eight teams that qualified and those are eight
Speaker 3: of the best teams in the NBA how they're playing
Speaker 3: in their current form and you can't possibly match up
Speaker 3: with them. So the Sixers kind of as like, maybe
Speaker 3: they underachieved in those tournament games, but they are among
Speaker 3: the best teams who did not qualify for the quarterfinals.
Speaker 5: Exactly, and like Lawrence said, it's a really good opportunity
Speaker 5: for them to, you know, take advantage of this schedule
Speaker 5: and look, if you can string together four or five
Speaker 5: wins in a row against teams that you should beat.
Speaker 5: Now with the way the East is now, you're putting
Speaker 5: yourself back in that position where you're fighting for the
Speaker 5: number one spot. And I have a feeling that the
Speaker 5: East is going to be pretty tight all the way
Speaker 5: through this year, and so you're going to need every
Speaker 5: win you can get for, you know, for home court
Speaker 5: advantage come playoff time. So I think it's important to
Speaker 5: not overlook any any opponents at this point of the year.
Speaker 5: You still want to respect everyone, but at the same time,
Speaker 5: you got to if you're the Sixers, you look at
Speaker 5: the schedule and you say, these are games that we
Speaker 5: are going to win, and we must win them in
Speaker 5: order to establish ourselves as one of the elite teams
Speaker 5: in this.
Speaker 3: League, Lauren Rosen, Why do you hate the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 3: is t court?
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is not? And no disrespect,
Speaker 1: because in general I've loved the court and I like
Speaker 1: that you said is to avoid the word tournament. But
Speaker 1: it's fine moving forwards. I like what they did with
Speaker 1: the court. I really like the Sixers court. I know
Speaker 1: that the Sixers court was one of the ones that
Speaker 1: people weren't too sure about universally. I've loved how it's looked.
Speaker 1: But every time I've watched the Pacers on that court,
Speaker 1: my eyes just have a hard time adjusting to it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm getting old or what's happening,
Speaker 1: but when I look at that court, I struggle to
Speaker 1: find the players on it. It might just be the colors,
Speaker 1: it might be my eyes. I think it's a cool
Speaker 1: look objectively, but I find it extremely hard to watch
Speaker 1: basketball on that court. I might be all alone. I
Speaker 1: might be because I liked the courts in general, but
Speaker 1: I didn't like that one.
Speaker 3: Nick and I were discussing that it hasn't forced the
Speaker 3: Pacers to adjust their They're playing great on it, even
Speaker 3: if the fans have to adjust a little. I'm just
Speaker 3: I'm in favor of all the courts. Sports are fun.
Speaker 3: Give me all these crazy looking courts. I as a viewer,
Speaker 3: it's not so bad to the point where I'm like,
Speaker 3: I can't watch this game. And you watched this game
Speaker 3: and it didn't you didn't turn it off because of
Speaker 3: the court.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 4: It was a great game to begin with. I I
Speaker 4: throw enjoyed that.
Speaker 5: And I think Loki Adam Silver, I think, you know,
Speaker 5: he's got to be excited about just the fact that
Speaker 5: we're sitting here talking about it, Like the color of
Speaker 5: the court is engaging conversation, and you know, people are
Speaker 5: tuning into the game saying, oh wait.
Speaker 4: What's going on here? Why is the court this color?
Speaker 5: And it's it's engaging fans in a way that they
Speaker 5: maybe were not engaged before.
Speaker 4: So for him, that's a win.
Speaker 5: And just overall last night, seeing the atmosphere of the
Speaker 5: of that Pacer Celtics game, it did have a playoff
Speaker 5: feel and the Pacers players were hyped, Like when they
Speaker 5: pulled away at the very end, players are running on
Speaker 5: the court, bumping chest, screaming, and you're starting to see
Speaker 5: it it means something to them and they're playing with
Speaker 5: that intensity that you would maybe only see in April
Speaker 5: or May or June. So I think if you're Adam Silver,
Speaker 5: You're you're you're pretty excited that your plans for this
Speaker 5: first year is tier are going.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, they're going.
Speaker 3: Up five hundred K per player to the win team,
Speaker 3: two hundred K for the runner up, one hundred each,
Speaker 3: and then fifty each for quarter finalists. That's the monetary breakdown.
Speaker 3: I feel like it's important to add that in sometimes
Speaker 3: when we're having this discussion, because the players on the
Speaker 3: end of the bench were really celebrating hard on the
Speaker 3: pacers when they were in the clear against Boston the
Speaker 3: game we're referencing, the Indiana Boston quarterfinal ist game. I
Speaker 3: do somewhat disagree with the premise of these games mattering
Speaker 3: more to younger teams that don't have that playoff experience yet,
Speaker 3: because I think they all equally want no matter if
Speaker 3: you were in the playoffs last year or not, and
Speaker 3: competing for Indiana thinks they can compete for an NBA
Speaker 3: championship this year. They also want this trophy and the money.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's there's an extra advantage to being
Speaker 3: a young team without playoff experience trying to get it here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think it's an advantage, but you know,
Speaker 5: I saw a stat on Instagram saying the Pacers have
Speaker 5: ten players this year that are making under three million
Speaker 5: dollars per year year, and so you look at it
Speaker 5: that way and you're like, man, five hundred, they're one
Speaker 5: went away from, you know, playing in that championship game,
Speaker 5: and so that means a lot to those guys like
Speaker 5: that's not just you know, I'm sure with guys like
Speaker 5: Lebron Steph Curry, you know, half a million dollars doesn't
Speaker 5: it really mean the world to them at this point
Speaker 5: of their careers, with with how much wealth they've am masked.
Speaker 5: But for some of these young guys, like this is
Speaker 5: life changing money. And to see that excitement on their
Speaker 5: faces yesterday when when they pulled away in that game,
Speaker 5: it's cool to see, and you know, I'm happy for them.
Speaker 5: Pacers are balling, by the way. They're a fun team
Speaker 5: to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're so fun when they're not playing on that
Speaker 1: one course, I watch them on theak top all the time.
Speaker 1: I just can't look at the bright yellow and the
Speaker 1: bright blue. It's doing something to me.
Speaker 3: I love it. Well, we agree to disagree, Lauren, thank
Speaker 3: you for joining us. Sixers Wizards coming up and then
Speaker 3: the Hawks is the next home game for the Sixers.
Speaker 3: Thanks for chiming in and giving us one of another
Speaker 3: one of your road check.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me, guys. This is
Speaker 1: such a thrill. By the way, to have Nason so regularly.
Speaker 1: I know you guys, if you're listening and you're not
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Speaker 4: Lauren.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you. And by the way, check out the
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Speaker 3: I bet she already knows about it. I guarantee.
Speaker 1: Oh, I've heard it.
Speaker 5: Best Italian, best Italian that I've had. I highly recommend
Speaker 5: if you can, if you can squeeze into a reservation there.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 1: Well we're coming back in not too too long, so
Speaker 1: on one of these trips I'll try it out. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the wreck. I trust your take.
Speaker 3: I got you awesome. Thank you both so much. Thanks
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