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Speaker 1: this time a year ago, the seventy Sixers were close,
Speaker 1: just days away from getting their gay Boston is going
Speaker 1: to be selecting for the Sixers. Here Batistible from the
Speaker 1: University of Washington. The Sixers front office was sold on
Speaker 1: Batistible heading into the two nineteen draft, when they had
Speaker 1: the chance to move up and snag him. They did
Speaker 1: just that. Once the season began, the rookie rewarded his
Speaker 1: club's faith right away, as in first game, right away,
Speaker 1: the more the kid played, the brighter He's shot. Three balls.
Speaker 1: Shot here, He's done it again. The rookies on fire.
Speaker 1: Footistible has arrived rupt Seattle the Philly. He's part of man.
Speaker 1: With the NBA's returned to play looking more and more likely,
Speaker 1: there will be no better time than the playoffs for
Speaker 1: Thiable to put his skill set to use. I hope
Speaker 1: that when this is also and done, we're all healthy
Speaker 1: and safe, and that we can get back on the
Speaker 1: court and start playing basketball. Head. This is posted up
Speaker 1: with Matisse Styble. Welcome to the latest installment of Post
Speaker 1: It Up presented by Caesar's Online, a mini cast series
Speaker 1: here on the broadcast checking in on the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers during the hiatus, with new episodes debuting each week.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Seltzer. It's kind of ironic, isn't it that?
Speaker 1: For as well as Matisse, Thybile played for five months
Speaker 1: before the NBA's hiatus. His biggest breakout moment yet came
Speaker 1: a day after the season was suspended, in the form
Speaker 1: of a social media video that lasted about as long
Speaker 1: as it takes for Matis to strip an aponent of
Speaker 1: the ball then run it back the other way for
Speaker 1: a dunk. So, now the NBA seasons and we've been
Speaker 1: advised to self coining ourselves. The only logical things for
Speaker 1: me to do at this point is start making TikTok's.
Speaker 1: Let's face it, we couldn't totally ignore the TikTok. Then
Speaker 1: Thibile really became a viral TikTok sensation overnight. His first
Speaker 1: post that you just heard was on March twelfth, the
Speaker 1: day after the season was stopped. It showed a sequence
Speaker 1: of creative cutaways transitioning between various rooms and his apartment
Speaker 1: shot on a selfie video and it got four hundred
Speaker 1: fifty fourth thousand views. Thibles made him modest fifteen TikTok
Speaker 1: videos in all, and they've surpassed six and a half
Speaker 1: million plays. It's insane. I don't know. I think people
Speaker 1: think it's more serious, and it is like, I'm just
Speaker 1: as bored as everyone else, but like for some reason,
Speaker 1: my outlet was creating stupid videos in my apartment. Needless
Speaker 1: to say, Thible has gotten a lot of attention for
Speaker 1: his visionary TikTok work, so much so that it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, hold up a minute, let's not forget the
Speaker 1: guy appears to be pretty darn good at what the
Speaker 1: Sixers need him to do. His defensive rating of just
Speaker 1: over one hundred three and a half ranked second on
Speaker 1: the team behind Joel Embiid, and he leads all first
Speaker 1: year players in the NBA with eighty steels. His two
Speaker 1: sixteals for thirty six minutes is on pace for the
Speaker 1: second best rookie mark in league history. So yeah, the
Speaker 1: former NCAA Defensive Player of the Year has delivered as
Speaker 1: advertised and done a steady job riding the proverbial rookie
Speaker 1: wave as well. There would be games I'm like I'm here,
Speaker 1: I'm like, everyone's gonna know this name, and then there'll
Speaker 1: be other games where I'm like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I belong here, Like these guys are pretty good, and
Speaker 1: it was just like trying to find that balance and
Speaker 1: then ultimately just seeing how like where it really was,
Speaker 1: because with this game, with the season how long indes,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of highs and there's a lot of lows,
Speaker 1: and finding that middle ground and not being thrown off
Speaker 1: too much was what I had to learn to do.
Speaker 1: It never hurts to be surrounded by talent, and Thible
Speaker 1: knows the seventy six Ers have a considerable amount of that,
Speaker 1: but simply chalking up thible success to everyone else sells
Speaker 1: them short. Three of the Sixers starters, Joel Embiid, Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons and Josh Richardson are at their statistical defensive best
Speaker 1: when Thible's also on the court. He'd find you the
Speaker 1: first two gentlemen we named right there are all stars. Simmons,
Speaker 1: of course, is his own rare defensive specimen. To be
Speaker 1: guarded by six ten that moves faster than most guards
Speaker 1: is not fun. I mean, he's also so strong I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's one of those freaks where it's like he's
Speaker 1: the perfect athletes. He's tall, he's athletic, and he's strong,
Speaker 1: and it's like when you have that sort of combination
Speaker 1: is really hard. Hard for the opposition, yes, but now
Speaker 1: when you're a running mate for a phenome like Simmons
Speaker 1: on the opposite end of the floor. Thible credit Simmons
Speaker 1: for creating opportunities someone who demands so much attention. It
Speaker 1: opens up shooters like me. And when he has the ball,
Speaker 1: there's five guys I have to add their eyes on
Speaker 1: them worried about him. It makes a lot of our
Speaker 1: jobs off the ball a lot easier. To add some
Speaker 1: context to thible scoring this season, Simmons has assisted on
Speaker 1: nearly a third of his field goals, and over fifty
Speaker 1: five percent of Thible's points have come on catch and
Speaker 1: shoot baskets, something of course that Simmons has had a
Speaker 1: hand in as well. He's been great, you know, he's
Speaker 1: willing to learn. Everyone has that kind of rookie bump,
Speaker 1: as they say, but I haven't really noticed a huge
Speaker 1: bump with him. I think he's been very solid overall,
Speaker 1: and he's gotten a lot better, and his confidence is
Speaker 1: just getting better and better. Defensively, his confidence is there.
Speaker 1: He knows he's one of the best defenders in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Some heady praise. It's telling how much guys and the
Speaker 1: Sixers have genuinely taken the Thibal and when out of
Speaker 1: their way quickly earlier on in the season to make
Speaker 1: him feel part of the team. Tobias Harris has been
Speaker 1: the main mentor other bets like Mike Scott and Kylo
Speaker 1: Quinn never miss a chance to bust Thibals chops. Harris
Speaker 1: gets some looks into ko how many biscuits this guy got? Six? Nobody?
Speaker 1: But guess what, the Internet will make sure those two
Speaker 1: dubious words six biscuits will forever live on as part
Speaker 1: of bibles like see Anybody Want to Bite? That incident,
Speaker 1: which happened over the winter captures an endearing dichotomy in
Speaker 1: Thible's DNA. He's really really bright, curious and self aware.
Speaker 1: But then these other times when he comes off a
Speaker 1: little aloof and hilariously goofy. Given how mature, thoughtful and
Speaker 1: worldly Thible is, it's easy to forget he only turned
Speaker 1: twenty three in March. I think more than anything, I've
Speaker 1: just learned. I've had to learn how to adapt to
Speaker 1: being like an NBA player and like a celebrity to
Speaker 1: some people. That's been weird for me because I've always
Speaker 1: I've never been that at any stage in my career,
Speaker 1: and I've never viewed myself that way. I still don't
Speaker 1: view myself that way, but now it's like accepting that, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there are some people who actually think of me in
Speaker 1: this light, and how can I use that to help
Speaker 1: inspire influence. If you've read up on Thible, you know
Speaker 1: he's got layers. Yes, it's basketball first and foremost, but
Speaker 1: there's also his family, his friends, photography, the perseverance that's
Speaker 1: defined him since he lost his mother to cancer, and recently,
Speaker 1: in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, he's been vocal
Speaker 1: and speaking out against racial injustice. It shouldn't come as
Speaker 1: a surprise that Thible's kept busy in the past three months.
Speaker 1: He'll meditate early in the morning, then spend time either
Speaker 1: researching something that interests him or catching up with friends.
Speaker 1: His afternoons are dedicated to more intensive fiscal activity, and
Speaker 1: I like the people have to do the same exact thing.
Speaker 1: Every day like I need variation. It's like within each
Speaker 1: category there's probably like three or four things I could do.
Speaker 1: Some days, I'll go for a walk instead of going exercising,
Speaker 1: or not even go for a while. Somebody's I might
Speaker 1: just do a couple of push ups, or like a
Speaker 1: yoga classes, I can do like a stretching class instead
Speaker 1: of like a full flow yoga. So it varies sooner
Speaker 1: rather than later. It seems like Thible we'll be channeling
Speaker 1: all of his energies towards hoops again, perhaps more so
Speaker 1: than ever before, given the reported nature of the NBA's
Speaker 1: return to play plan. The seventy sixers will try to
Speaker 1: make a sprint to the finish. Consider Thible eager and ready.
Speaker 1: I think, honestly might anything just being a play basketball together.
Speaker 1: I get back out there and get that feel, that chemistry,
Speaker 1: that flow going that we had because we were doing
Speaker 1: a pretty good job and we're having a lot of
Speaker 1: fun doing it, and just that just have that feeling day.
Speaker 1: This has been posted up with Matisse Thible presented by
Speaker 1: Caesar's A nine. Be sure to look for Lauren Rosen's
Speaker 1: article about Matisse that's also part of our post. It
Speaker 1: up hiatus content series. You can find it on our
Speaker 1: social channels, on the seventy six ers app or at
Speaker 1: sixers dot com. Thanks to Lauren and Kristen Crosby for
Speaker 1: their help of producing this episode. Our music is courtesy
Speaker 1: of Universal Production Music and the YouTube Audio Library. Next
Speaker 1: time we'll post up with shake Milk is when people
Speaker 1: walk outside and you know, take a deep breath and
Speaker 1: get some fresh shairs. It's like the same thing walking
Speaker 1: in the gym and just you know, just smelling hard work.
Speaker 1: You know it's time to really work for what you want.
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