Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network
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Speaker 1: it comes to the seventy Sixers, so much talk has
Speaker 1: been about the starting five and its potential and performance,
Speaker 1: but if the season were to resume, the team will
Speaker 1: likely need to boost from its bench to get to
Speaker 1: where it wants to go. That means someone like Mike
Speaker 1: Scott needs to be in the mix. Mike Scott right
Speaker 1: down Food Street with a right hand yare there's Scott?
Speaker 1: He has been on fire? Scott another greet, this time
Speaker 1: a year ago. Scott was fresh off a strong debut
Speaker 1: campaign with the Sixers. He was one of the club's
Speaker 1: top preserves and swiftly cemented his status as a fan favorite.
Speaker 1: Doing a dirty work and do every little thing and energy.
Speaker 1: I think that's a little fan of life. For much
Speaker 1: of this season, Scott was working hard to find his stroke,
Speaker 1: and right before the hiatus hit it finally seemed to
Speaker 1: be rounding back into form. I felt like that West
Speaker 1: Coast trip. You know, he's going into the right direction.
Speaker 1: This is Posted Up with Mike Scott. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: latest installment of Post It Up. Presented by Caesar's Online,
Speaker 1: a mini cast series here on the broadcast checking in
Speaker 1: on the seventy six ers during the hiatus, with new
Speaker 1: episodes debuting each week. I'm Brian Selzer. If I told
Speaker 1: you that during a recent Zoom interview, a seventy sixer
Speaker 1: popped up on the screen in a lounge chair in
Speaker 1: his man cave, wearing a crushed red designer bathrobe with
Speaker 1: a frame scarface movie poster in the background. Who would
Speaker 1: you guess it might be? Oh, this old game. It's
Speaker 1: a little it's a little fascacchi rold. My fiance got
Speaker 1: it from me from Christmas, so you know, of course
Speaker 1: it was Mike Scott. Who else a luxury designer robe
Speaker 1: and scarface memorabilia is totally the Mike Scott mood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm always quarantine, so this I live like this regularly. Besides,
Speaker 1: when they going to the gym traveling, I I like
Speaker 1: to stand the house so distance right up my alley.
Speaker 1: All things considered, Scott hasn't been in Philadelphia long, still
Speaker 1: he feels like a fixture. The thirty one year old
Speaker 1: is acquired at the two nineteen trade deadline, coming to
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers from the ELI Clippers in the debaias
Speaker 1: Harris deal. He then went on to put up some
Speaker 1: of the best shooting numbers of his career. Among his highlights,
Speaker 1: he clinched a playoff game that set the Sixers up
Speaker 1: for an opening round series win against Brooklyn. May get
Speaker 1: it to him beat, indeed, can't handle it, tell you
Speaker 1: from Scott his biggest Sixer, and over the summer he
Speaker 1: had a run for the ages, from engaging with fans
Speaker 1: non stop on social to serving up free mister Softie
Speaker 1: at the Art Museum steps after signing his new contract.
Speaker 1: Scott may proudly hail from the che Speak region of Virginia,
Speaker 1: the seven five seven, as he calls it. But the
Speaker 1: guy is totally cut from Philadelphia's cloth. I think they
Speaker 1: see that. You know, I'm a regular person. I just
Speaker 1: played basketball. Just keep it honest, be real, stay genuine.
Speaker 1: I don't know, just be yourself. I think people can
Speaker 1: relate to that. Even though Scott played a couple dozen
Speaker 1: games with the six Ers last season, he was one
Speaker 1: of just a handful of guys who was back this year.
Speaker 1: Yet a few quality showings in the fall before his
Speaker 1: minutes began to ebb and flow. Part of that had
Speaker 1: to do with the rotation, and part of it had
Speaker 1: to do with injuries to other players. A third factor
Speaker 1: in the equation was Scott's production. I'm passionate about you
Speaker 1: know your craft, you work on your game. You want
Speaker 1: to see the results. I know people are you know
Speaker 1: you gotta stayed. Of course, this is a marathon. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know all that, but when you work on the
Speaker 1: shots the way you do, you wanted to see the results.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be in a slump. You're not
Speaker 1: trying to go out getty miss shot. So very frustrating,
Speaker 1: very very frustrating. Scott's been in the league long enough
Speaker 1: eight years now. If he's learned anything it's that the
Speaker 1: work can't waiver. I've been doing my regular routine, you know,
Speaker 1: with some stuff up, no when I'm working out, But
Speaker 1: you know, for the most part, I was, you know,
Speaker 1: continued to get my work, you know, off days, optional shooting,
Speaker 1: still shooting, you know, coming back and shooting at night.
Speaker 1: Following last year's trade, Scott finished the season shooting at
Speaker 1: a forty one percent clip from beyond the arc. It
Speaker 1: was his highest mark ever Heading into the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: All Star Break, Scott's three point percentage was hovering just
Speaker 1: over thirty four. Sometimes to do that. I mean when
Speaker 1: I was with the Wizards one month, I was shooting
Speaker 1: like seventy percent. It was crazy, Like it was. It
Speaker 1: was crazy, and I come miss, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It was like one whole month I was shooting like
Speaker 1: fifty four percent from three, like sixty eight seventy percent
Speaker 1: from field goal, Like it was crazy. I come miss.
Speaker 1: And then you have sometimes where you might go to
Speaker 1: three you know too much. You can't hit it, like
Speaker 1: you can't hit the shot that you want to. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, that you want to make can't
Speaker 1: feel sorry for yourself. Better keep hooping, you know. So
Speaker 1: Scott continued to grind and wouldn't you know that keep
Speaker 1: hooping mantra proved to be self fulfilling. When the calendar
Speaker 1: flipped to March, Scott flipped a switch. With the Sixers
Speaker 1: shorthanded out in California, he was thrust into a modified role.
Speaker 1: Both his playing time and his output went up. He
Speaker 1: was playing small ball, especially with me at the five,
Speaker 1: which I like it. You know, I really got to
Speaker 1: hit my man. Make sure I'm you know, getting rebounds
Speaker 1: or you know, being early for my defensive stuff. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like I was getting into a groove. Man. In his
Speaker 1: final five appearances before the suspension of the NBA season,
Speaker 1: Scott went ten for nineteen from deep. That was a
Speaker 1: good feeling. Oh yeah, because I am. I didn't shoot
Speaker 1: the ball like I wanted to the whole Like the
Speaker 1: whole year. People was telling me, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: shots going to you know, the averages are going to
Speaker 1: average up, they're going to come back. You do, no
Speaker 1: worry about it, keep shooting. I felt like that West
Speaker 1: Coast shot. You know, I was going into the right direction,
Speaker 1: just in time, cruelly for the season to be put
Speaker 1: on pause. But based on the sounds of it, the
Speaker 1: stoppage of play hasn't dampened Mike Scott's spirits. He's apparently
Speaker 1: become a de facto mayor of sorts on the Sixers
Speaker 1: team Zoom calls, or at the very least, taking on
Speaker 1: a court jester type role. Mike is really funny. We'll
Speaker 1: definitely get it going. Mike Scott likes sometimes like good
Speaker 1: good jokes. Scott has set the tone for these zooms
Speaker 1: with his backgrounds and has been known to use Matisse
Speaker 1: Thible for inspiration. Mike Scott put a picture of him
Speaker 1: and Batis shopping, which is pretty funny. It's just funny
Speaker 1: to see people mess around and like try to get
Speaker 1: acclimated with an half a format of calling each other.
Speaker 1: And what was the background question in this particular instance,
Speaker 1: a photo of Thible outside the Flight club sneaker store
Speaker 1: in Manhattan, crouched down, very serious, in a full fledged
Speaker 1: Mike Scott pose. Yes, sir, my boy creased up his
Speaker 1: Air Forces rookie, you know how like when a Homer
Speaker 1: sins when he used to joke Mark when yeah, but no, no.
Speaker 1: Matis is a great man and he's young. He's just funny.
Speaker 1: He's very sarcastic, dry humor, which I that's what I
Speaker 1: was really love about him. He's talent, great thing about him.
Speaker 1: Smart and he you know, he wants to learn. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: whether he's busting a teammates chops or crashing a season
Speaker 1: ticket holder's wedding, Scott is this very genuine man of
Speaker 1: the people, authentic side of his personality. It's part of
Speaker 1: the reason why he connected so quickly with the city.
Speaker 1: The Hive. Obviously is a testament to Scott's popularity. He's
Speaker 1: got old fans, he's got young fans, and fans everywhere
Speaker 1: in between. Hi Scott and I miss you play. Oh dope,
Speaker 1: that's dope that now I appreciate that. Man. Appreciate that
Speaker 1: a man, so it might love the kids, you know,
Speaker 1: I love the kids. So you know, anytime you know,
Speaker 1: kids show love bagging, that means a lot to him.
Speaker 1: For the better part of the hiatus, Scott's been quarantining
Speaker 1: with his family, making the most of what he calls
Speaker 1: get back time. That means lots of hangs with his kids,
Speaker 1: Jeremiah who's four, and Nori who's two, doing everything from
Speaker 1: playing with them to helping prepare their homework assignments. As
Speaker 1: for the state and fate of the NBA season, like
Speaker 1: the rest of us, Scott is waiting to find out hopefully.
Speaker 1: You know, guys are trying to stay in shape or
Speaker 1: you know those limited priory you know the basketball work,
Speaker 1: but you know, keeping themselves from shape, but getting back together.
Speaker 1: Everyone should be healthy and you know, try to make
Speaker 1: a run at this time if it does, to see
Speaker 1: they do put something together. Not for that we can
Speaker 1: take advantage of this time, and you know he's some special.
Speaker 1: This has been posted up with Mike Scott, presented by
Speaker 1: Caesar's Online. Be sure to check out Lauren Rosen's article
Speaker 1: about Mike that's also part of our Posted Up Hiatus
Speaker 1: content series. Thanks to Lauren, Christian Crosby, and Taylor Moyer
Speaker 1: for the help producing this episode. Our music is courtesy
Speaker 1: IF Universal Production Music and the YouTube Audio Library. Next
Speaker 1: time we'll post up with Matis Thiebel. When I first
Speaker 1: got to Philly, people recognize me. I hadn't even put
Speaker 1: on a Philadelphia seventy Sixers jersey and people were recognizing it.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is crazy, and then it just
Speaker 1: got bigger and bigger from there. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. If be sure to search seventy six Ers
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