Speaker 1: This is the Summer Sixers mini series in the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers podcast network. I'm Matt Murphy and on this episode,
Speaker 1: I catch up with second year Sixers Tyrese, Maxie and
Speaker 1: Paul Read. All right, let's get started. We are recording
Speaker 1: this between Summer League games one and two. What's the
Speaker 1: experience like for you guys, now that you've had a
Speaker 1: little bit more time to reflect back on the first game,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Paul first, and then Tyrese on the
Speaker 1: Summer League experience. It's been great, you know, meeting new
Speaker 1: people again, chance to share the court with the great Tyrese,
Speaker 1: Maxie and Isaiah Joe. You know, it's been It's been
Speaker 1: a great experience. You know, it's just as working on
Speaker 1: our chemistry right day together. It's great. And Tyrese, Paul
Speaker 1: shouted you out during his media available after the first game,
Speaker 1: or was it vice versa who shouted out who first?
Speaker 1: I forget who went first? He went first? And then
Speaker 1: you didn't return the favor. Well, technically they didn't say
Speaker 1: anything about it. But it's okay. I'm about to get
Speaker 1: him right now. Don't worry about it. Go ahead, I'll
Speaker 1: give you the floor talk about Paul so um like
Speaker 1: he just like Paul was saying, like he's just great
Speaker 1: to you know, finally get out the mud and no, no, no,
Speaker 1: but seriously, it's been great. You know, the energy has
Speaker 1: been amazing. M Yeah, I mean, Paul has been great.
Speaker 1: His energy is always high, and he's always trying to learn.
Speaker 1: Everybody here is just trying to learn, and we're just
Speaker 1: trying to make the best of the situation. I was
Speaker 1: trying to make this Paul's first interview in a long
Speaker 1: time where we don't talk about out the Mud, but
Speaker 1: you brought it up right away, so we're cool. On
Speaker 1: the most recent episode of this show, Isaiah Joe told
Speaker 1: our Lauren Rosen about a group chat. So what type
Speaker 1: of text are you guys? Plus Isaiah, if you group
Speaker 1: him in when you're texting each other, who's who's the
Speaker 1: most active, who's the one that's sending the funny videos? Tyrese,
Speaker 1: you can lead us off and then we'll see if
Speaker 1: Paul has anything else to add. Well. During the year,
Speaker 1: we were all rookie, so I kind of, I mean,
Speaker 1: we kind of just created a group chat just in case,
Speaker 1: you know, we had to do some type of rookie
Speaker 1: duties or uh, you know, at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: we were all freaked out because we had to go
Speaker 1: get Chick fil A and Popeyees, so we had to
Speaker 1: coordinate who was getting what, who's you know, trying not
Speaker 1: to mess up the order, and it just kind of
Speaker 1: went from there. I mean I remember what we were
Speaker 1: not to eat just us. What was the Indiana? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in Indiana, I texted and I was like, man, let's
Speaker 1: you know, let's go do something just the rooks. You know, well,
Speaker 1: if every time we're good to either do something, it's
Speaker 1: always with the vets and something like that. So it's
Speaker 1: been great. So nobody's really a bad Texter. Paul uh
Speaker 1: cup Cup. No boy will be kind of slow texting
Speaker 1: some time. I'm gonna keep you the book. Tyrese Maxe.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he'll probably like na see nae, not see your boy.
Speaker 1: Text in terms. It's all good though, sometimes like that
Speaker 1: and probably big time because he MVP, so he just
Speaker 1: don't respond. You look at it reading just going by
Speaker 1: his business league g league MVP Paul Reid. But for
Speaker 1: both of you guys, starting with Tyrese, how does it
Speaker 1: feel not to be an NBA rookie anymore. Isaiah was
Speaker 1: saying that it's just gonna be nice not to be
Speaker 1: called rooke anymore. I mean, yeah, I already know when
Speaker 1: we go to training camp, they're probably gonna call us
Speaker 1: rookie to the first game, they said, So, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's cool. And it was a great experience first year.
Speaker 1: You know, we had great vets, extremely good vets, still
Speaker 1: great vets, and they really just helped us every single day,
Speaker 1: um get better and better and you know, help us
Speaker 1: throughout the season. Speaking of like the food order and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, Paul, that was the first thing that
Speaker 1: you said in your end of season interview when they
Speaker 1: asked you about what you'll remember from your rookie year.
Speaker 1: So what advice would you give or have you already
Speaker 1: given to the current rookies about just stepping into different
Speaker 1: things like that, like rookie duties of delivering team meals
Speaker 1: and all that. You gotta do it. You got to.
Speaker 1: You gotta do your rookie duties with pride and passion.
Speaker 1: You know it's gonna come back to you. We was blessed.
Speaker 1: We had great events. They looked out for us a lot,
Speaker 1: especially me Um, and you know it just came back around,
Speaker 1: so I was always happy to do stuff on Doc.
Speaker 1: Rivers called you guys, the both of you the two
Speaker 1: hardest working young guys that he thinks he's had in
Speaker 1: his whole coaching career. What does that mean to you?
Speaker 1: I mean, be gonna give him a championship good I'll
Speaker 1: say that means like I really appreciate it for that.
Speaker 1: I mean, me and Paul was like it was like
Speaker 1: a race to the gym every single morning, but shooting
Speaker 1: around practice anything. I mean, days he beat me there,
Speaker 1: days I'll beat him there. Days we get there at
Speaker 1: the same time fighting him with basketbare want to get
Speaker 1: to and I think that just is a test of money.
Speaker 1: So I work ethic and that we want to give
Speaker 1: it U Like I've always been saying, the whole obviously
Speaker 1: one percent better every single day. And h I really
Speaker 1: appreciate his work ethic. I mean for someone like myself
Speaker 1: who works extremely hard, to see someone grinding to be
Speaker 1: the best they could possibly be, and then for him
Speaker 1: to go and when um, you know, MVP in the
Speaker 1: G League and dominate really rookid MVP defense like that,
Speaker 1: that was just amazing to see, an amazing to watch
Speaker 1: when you say one percent better, where is that for you?
Speaker 1: I know you've talked about you both have talked a
Speaker 1: lot about goals in summer league and in the off season.
Speaker 1: But for any listeners out there who haven't heard the
Speaker 1: areas of focus for you both, where are you looking
Speaker 1: to improve going into next season? I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: get better at you know, a little bit better than everything.
Speaker 1: Of course, one of my main focuses is the paying
Speaker 1: attention to details as far as uh, let's say, watching film,
Speaker 1: knowing different guys Tennessee's on the defensive end, knowing where
Speaker 1: people people won't like the ball, where people want to
Speaker 1: be successful in the scoring areas when I'm running the
Speaker 1: team and just knocking down open shots, creating off to dribble,
Speaker 1: creating off the balance for my teammates and myself, and
Speaker 1: just getting just getting better every single day. Continue to
Speaker 1: continue to be a spun soaking up different information from
Speaker 1: whether it's the coaching staff, whether it's our vets, whether
Speaker 1: it's people like Paul Reid. You know, and he worked
Speaker 1: streaming hard, so I mean if he tells me something
Speaker 1: or he has a peon on something, I trying to
Speaker 1: buy by that I was looking to improving. Was our passing,
Speaker 1: you know, being my teammates open um or not even
Speaker 1: just getting them open, just on them. When let's say
Speaker 1: I get the offensive rebound passions out, knocking out and
Speaker 1: open shots, and you know, making the correct reads our
Speaker 1: offense um that a help the team. And then defensively,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to guard the perimeter guards and
Speaker 1: and the bigs. This man like super versatile. So that's
Speaker 1: those areas I'm trying to improve. One Summer League question
Speaker 1: before we get to our final couple with this team, Paul,
Speaker 1: you said the goal is a championship, and you don't
Speaker 1: think this Summer League team should should lose any of
Speaker 1: these games. Obviously it's only a handful of games. But
Speaker 1: what makes this such a good group? I've made this
Speaker 1: such a good group. It's a it's a combination of things.
Speaker 1: First of all, we have a great coach of stuff,
Speaker 1: coaches stuff that's on. Then we have great players. You know,
Speaker 1: every day we kind of practice and we work hard
Speaker 1: as we can for everybody, the whole team. And we
Speaker 1: have some guys that are familiar with each other, me Tires,
Speaker 1: took Asai. You know, we played together, so we have
Speaker 1: that chemistry, and I think I would take us far
Speaker 1: and the Summer League the guys that were in the
Speaker 1: G League. So back to you, Paul, coming up one
Speaker 1: game short. It's kind of a similar setting to Summer League.
Speaker 1: Is that driving you in some of your Delaware Bluecoats
Speaker 1: teammates to get that championship here in Summer League because
Speaker 1: you're playing against a lot of the same players as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, but it's like a different Summer League. It's
Speaker 1: a different vibe for sure, but it's definitely like driving
Speaker 1: us to get championship. You know, came up short last time,
Speaker 1: so right. Obviously, the G League was a bubble season
Speaker 1: with fifteen games, so not the same. But let's talk
Speaker 1: about you both being dog owners and Paul more recently,
Speaker 1: I think I don't know how long you've had your dog, Tyrese,
Speaker 1: but you seem like proud dog owners. So how's that
Speaker 1: going for you, Paul? What kind of puppy is it?
Speaker 1: For those who don't know, I got a pit bull
Speaker 1: mixed with the boxes. How's it going. It's going great, man,
Speaker 1: it's going great. I'm really sad right now. I can't
Speaker 1: he's not here right now with me. In Vegas. Uh,
Speaker 1: you got somebody watching them. They're not feeding him enough.
Speaker 1: You're looking really skinny. I'm really like, I'm worried. But
Speaker 1: you know, I thank you here. He's gonna be all right,
Speaker 1: so you know it's cool. Yeah, you guys will be
Speaker 1: reunited in no time. And what's your dog like, Tyrese,
Speaker 1: I have a cane, course of it's a taliant master. Um.
Speaker 1: My dog right now is in Dallas for my parents. Um,
Speaker 1: they are baby sitting and I call my dog my son.
Speaker 1: So uh, he's great though. You know, he's a great
Speaker 1: emotional support. I mean the season, I mean the NBA.
Speaker 1: It can sometimes be lonely. I mean you travel all
Speaker 1: the time. Um, you're going home at two o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning. Um. Main, God that my uncle lives with me.
Speaker 1: But other than that, you know, my dog keeps me.
Speaker 1: You know, it keeps me happy. The dog's gonna show.
Speaker 1: It doesn't show fair. I mean, it shows you love
Speaker 1: every single time. It doesn't matter what the situation is,
Speaker 1: whether you play good, whether you play terrible, where you
Speaker 1: play great, whether you you know Harry high Low, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. The dog is always going to be there
Speaker 1: for you. And I really appreciate my dog. That's good stuff.
Speaker 1: The final question, it's going to be the same for
Speaker 1: both of you guys, starting with Tyrese. Is there anything
Speaker 1: that you want these Philadelphia fans to know about you
Speaker 1: that's maybe not talked about as much or really at
Speaker 1: all about you as a player or as a person
Speaker 1: or anything. I think one thing I would say is, um,
Speaker 1: while I'm while I'm out in the seat of Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: I always try to try to sign whatever and speak
Speaker 1: and say hello at all times because you know, I
Speaker 1: really appreciate the fans. I mean, the fans have been
Speaker 1: amazing towards Uh I, probably both of us in the
Speaker 1: entire team, and it's just it's just really been a
Speaker 1: dream coming true playing see like Philadelphia where they have
Speaker 1: dreams of aspiration of championship and um, you know, very competitive.
Speaker 1: You know that just drives me to you know, try
Speaker 1: to be successful at another level. Anything you want the
Speaker 1: fans to know, Paul, Uh, you know kind of what
Speaker 1: Charis said, Uh, just that we appreciate your fans so much. Uh.
Speaker 1: They come out every game and you know, support us,
Speaker 1: they want us to win, and you know that's all
Speaker 1: a player could ask for and fance and like in
Speaker 1: the social media, the support is really like we see
Speaker 1: all the support y'all given, and you know, we just
Speaker 1: y'all appreciate it. So, Paul, we talked a few times
Speaker 1: in this type of setting and during the G League
Speaker 1: season we talked about your the growth of your followers.
Speaker 1: I think you're up to twenty five thousand Instagram followers.
Speaker 1: How what did you start at like last year in
Speaker 1: the G League? Where did I started follow before your
Speaker 1: rookie year, because I think that's a huge increase out
Speaker 1: before I got drafted, before you got drafted. I got drafted,
Speaker 1: I think I was that like four thousand, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Twenty thousand. Yeah, but you got all these Tyrese at Kentucky,
Speaker 1: Big Blue Nations got him, so good stuff, guys. That's
Speaker 1: all I got for you, Tyrese, Maxie Paul Read, thanks
Speaker 1: for the time. Appreciate Thanks again to Tyrese and b Ball. Paul.
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