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Speaker 1: sixers GC wherever you get your pods. Hey, what's going
Speaker 1: on everybody? This is Jeff Turrell, This is Steves. This
Speaker 1: is the seventy Sixers Gaming Club Podcast. Today we got
Speaker 1: Screaty on the podcast with us. Excited to have him
Speaker 1: back on here. Hey, how don't tell everybody what your nucula?
Speaker 1: At least ready? Well, what I've been up to is
Speaker 1: pretty much the same thing every day, which is scrimmaging, sleeping, eat, scrimmage,
Speaker 1: sleeping eat. Schedule doesn't change, just a little bit more
Speaker 1: scramms to day, a little bit less another day, but
Speaker 1: we're always getting better, so as y'all can see. In
Speaker 1: our last game versus two Wolves, we fought. It was
Speaker 1: a great series. I felt like we should have won,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. I feel like we're back.
Speaker 1: That's good. And we'll talk about that series here a
Speaker 1: little more more so here in a minute, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about just an update on our team and stuff.
Speaker 1: Trying to get the chat pulled up, I see that
Speaker 1: there's already some comments in there. If you guys want
Speaker 1: to write those comments again, I got it pulled up
Speaker 1: and it will I'll be able to read them. So
Speaker 1: if you guys have any questions or anything you want
Speaker 1: us to talk about, just go ahead and write them
Speaker 1: in the chat. First off, let's do a little recap
Speaker 1: of you know, the first two weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: Obviously started out the season with a tough week with
Speaker 1: the Raptors and the Hornets. UM, definitely some things that
Speaker 1: we struggled with the first week, Uh turnovers, UM, defense
Speaker 1: wasn't wasn't too great, and uh, you know the next
Speaker 1: the following week, we we had the Warriors and the
Speaker 1: Tea Wolfs, and uh, I think against the Warriors we
Speaker 1: showed signs of us getting better. Um, we started out
Speaker 1: really well and then um it just sindt translate through
Speaker 1: a whole game, and then uh we had a rematch
Speaker 1: with the t Wos, the finals rematch and game one,
Speaker 1: I think we we kept it, we kept it close,
Speaker 1: we we did some things, some good things, and then
Speaker 1: game two we we felt like ourselves again, UM, not
Speaker 1: only because we won, but I mean we were communicating,
Speaker 1: we had drive, we had passion, and it was something
Speaker 1: that it was good to hear on the mic. Obviously
Speaker 1: I can't be down there with them, but you can hear.
Speaker 1: You can hear them, and you could tell that there
Speaker 1: there was a row of motion and they were they
Speaker 1: were locked in. And I think game three they were
Speaker 1: like that as well. They played great. UM. We made
Speaker 1: a lot of adjustments UM from previous games with I mean,
Speaker 1: I think our turnovers were kept down low. I think
Speaker 1: we shot fairly well, UM. And I think with the ball, UH,
Speaker 1: Screttie showed how good and how how good he can be,
Speaker 1: UM and how much he's improved from the offseason as
Speaker 1: being a secondary ball handler, and we just have to
Speaker 1: get a little more consistency out of that. And Uh,
Speaker 1: he's working and he's getting better. So I'm definitely excited
Speaker 1: for that, UM. And if you guys have a take
Speaker 1: on it, go ahead season, take on it, Take on
Speaker 1: the series. Yeah, I felt like, um, I definitely played
Speaker 1: better than previous games. Uh think I had like twenty
Speaker 1: game almost and it obviously helped us because the scores
Speaker 1: was a little bit closer. So I feel like with
Speaker 1: me being more aggressive, I don't a build that I
Speaker 1: can like score, feel like it takes a lot of
Speaker 1: weight off Radiant and the team. Yeah. Uh, for what,
Speaker 1: I guess the chat that watches the ur two K
Speaker 1: League games, you guys can tell that there's things in
Speaker 1: the league build that are a little discouraging, like things like,
Speaker 1: you know, anybody can get ripped at any moment, and
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, we weren't adjusting to that. Well, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we have one of the best point guards
Speaker 1: in the world and him he likes to dribly, likes
Speaker 1: to cook up, and that's how he's been for the
Speaker 1: past two seasons. So like it was tough blaming him
Speaker 1: in the beginning for like those turnovers because as a
Speaker 1: point guard in two K, you know, that's something that
Speaker 1: you've been used to your whole life, being one of
Speaker 1: the best drivelers in the world, being able to shoot
Speaker 1: very well, and uh, you know, just losing the ball
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It's very frustrating, and that's how we
Speaker 1: developed a lot of turnovers. And like I said, that's
Speaker 1: not completely his fault, but it's just like we took
Speaker 1: a little longer than other teams took to adjust to that,
Speaker 1: and I think now we're adjusting really well. The like
Speaker 1: the Warriors game, I know we had a few tune
Speaker 1: our turnovers, but nothing crazy. And then t Bowls game,
Speaker 1: we really limited our turnovers and that's why it was
Speaker 1: such a good series. And so yeah, we're getting better
Speaker 1: every week. But now it's getting to the point where,
Speaker 1: you know, we really got to lock in and start
Speaker 1: just taking out teams left and right and just start
Speaker 1: getting the street going. But yeah, I was proud of
Speaker 1: our team. Obviously not the outcome we wanted in Game three,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know with our first four games, like
Speaker 1: take out the first two games because those ones, you know,
Speaker 1: we got blown out. But if we were playing like
Speaker 1: how we just played the other night, like those first
Speaker 1: four games are such good teams that any team could
Speaker 1: win that. Like, if we were to play those four
Speaker 1: teams again right now, it could go either way and
Speaker 1: you could easily be four and oh you could be
Speaker 1: two and two, you can be O and four like
Speaker 1: it can just happen in this league, and that's what
Speaker 1: makes this league so compared. I have been so much
Speaker 1: fun to play with. Definitely, Dirk said, what is it
Speaker 1: like having a start like this? Since you guys haven't
Speaker 1: experienced this in the first two seasons, I'll start. I
Speaker 1: think it gives us a new challenge. We start out
Speaker 1: every year so far with the tip off tournament. We
Speaker 1: win it, and we've never really we've had adversity. We've
Speaker 1: had like things in the season, like we'll go through
Speaker 1: a patch every year where we struggle a couple of games.
Speaker 1: Last year, I remember we were four and four at
Speaker 1: one point. We finished the season eleven and five. We're
Speaker 1: very capable of going out and I truly believe this
Speaker 1: of going out and you know, going on a big streak.
Speaker 1: Our team's still the same guys, still the We're the
Speaker 1: same seventy six ers that could be three and one
Speaker 1: right now or four and oh. Um. We have to
Speaker 1: continue to make adjustments. We have to continue to keep
Speaker 1: our mindset correct and just stay positive and I think
Speaker 1: we'll be fine. Um. We're excited for the challenge. I think,
Speaker 1: UM everybody here is excited to bounce back. And I
Speaker 1: always tell our guys like, at the end of this season,
Speaker 1: we're gonna look back at this and it's going to
Speaker 1: be a defining moment for us. Whether it's good or bad,
Speaker 1: it's going to define us in some way. So we're
Speaker 1: just excited for the challenge. And if you guys want
Speaker 1: to touch on it, yeah, I think there's more factors
Speaker 1: that play into this obviously, Like when we would go
Speaker 1: through our our slumps last year, I was more just
Speaker 1: like on us just strictly that, Like, there's obviously a
Speaker 1: couple more factors. Now there's you know, the quarantine and
Speaker 1: remote play and a bunch of things, and it's no
Speaker 1: excuses like we should be able to you know, adjust well.
Speaker 1: But even the teams that are winning right now, like
Speaker 1: even the you know, Raptors, I know they're you know,
Speaker 1: they're still going through it. Like every everybody has their
Speaker 1: their issues right now with what's going on with playing
Speaker 1: from home or just being in the house all day
Speaker 1: every day. Um. I know, I just saw a couple
Speaker 1: of people tweet out today like that, you know, it's
Speaker 1: really getting to them. Um. So it's like those are
Speaker 1: other factors that are playing into this as well, and
Speaker 1: through all that, you know, not seeing your family being
Speaker 1: secluded in your own house, like being in your own
Speaker 1: room all day, like stuff like that, like and then
Speaker 1: going and just playing the same game and then wake
Speaker 1: up the next day and kind of like what Scretti said,
Speaker 1: you wake up, scrim eat, go to sleep, wake up
Speaker 1: scrim eat, go to sleep. That's kind of what it
Speaker 1: is right now. And so at times it's it's hard
Speaker 1: to you know, to just really focus on what you
Speaker 1: need to focus on. But it is what it is.
Speaker 1: It's what we got to do. Um. But not only
Speaker 1: are like we're alling four and and like we're going through.
Speaker 1: But no, we're not any different than the teams that are,
Speaker 1: like I said, that are winning there. Everybody's going through
Speaker 1: right now. And I know, you know, Scretti can touch
Speaker 1: on it a little bit, um, but yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna touch on about us starting on four again. Like
Speaker 1: this is definitely a challenge we haven't faced before. But
Speaker 1: I feel like, um, right now, we're in a tough
Speaker 1: spot because we can only afford maybe two three laws
Speaker 1: or so we have to really lock in. And we
Speaker 1: was in the same situation last year, like Ty said,
Speaker 1: when we were forming four, and we have went on
Speaker 1: like a six game winning streak. So I feel like
Speaker 1: it's very tough right now, but I feel like we
Speaker 1: can get through it. We could easily go five and
Speaker 1: know in these next five, no, not to the teams
Speaker 1: we face, but I feel like we're getting our groove back.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I definitely miss home, miss my mom, miss family,
Speaker 1: feel like everybody does. But it is what it is,
Speaker 1: and I'll get to see him when I can. The
Speaker 1: other thing that's like weird about, like obviously this season
Speaker 1: with remote player is that when we went on like
Speaker 1: our streets every year the first two seasons, you play
Speaker 1: these teams obviously in New York, and you play them,
Speaker 1: you strike, and you strike fast like we would play
Speaker 1: them in like first quarter, by the second quarter up
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty, and it's kind of like their the opportunity
Speaker 1: from the team we played, just like their chance already slipped.
Speaker 1: Where It's like. Another thing that sucks about remote play
Speaker 1: sometimes is with best of three series is let's say,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it worked in our benefit. The
Speaker 1: other day we lost first game to Teobles, when we
Speaker 1: came back and beat them game two. But like, you know,
Speaker 1: we could go out there win game one and then
Speaker 1: you could lose the next two games, where it's like
Speaker 1: one of the that's why, that's what's so challenging about it.
Speaker 1: But it's like, if you're the better team, you should
Speaker 1: win the best of three series. But I've always liked
Speaker 1: the feeling, the reason why I like New York and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Even though some like tournaments,
Speaker 1: I always feel like when money's on the line, like
Speaker 1: the tournaments, I feel like those should always be like
Speaker 1: best of threes because like, you know, that's money right there.
Speaker 1: Regular season games have always like, you know, one game,
Speaker 1: let's see what happens, and and I think that's that's
Speaker 1: where a lot of sparks I come from. You don't
Speaker 1: you won't really see too many upsets, like there were
Speaker 1: upsets last year because you know, it's one game series.
Speaker 1: In regular season, there's not too many upsets because of
Speaker 1: a team like shocks you or like comes out with
Speaker 1: a surprising lineup. Game one, you just adjust. Game two,
Speaker 1: You'll be fine, Okay, win that, and now it's win
Speaker 1: game three and get us out of here. Um. So
Speaker 1: it's just it's definitely different I wouldn't say I like
Speaker 1: it or dislike it. It's just it's a it's a
Speaker 1: more different feeling. And now knowing that, you know, we're
Speaker 1: trying to go on a streak. Now we're trying to
Speaker 1: make some stuff shake. And now it's like it's not
Speaker 1: just one game every time, it's we gotta win two,
Speaker 1: or we gotta win you know, the game two in three,
Speaker 1: or we gotta win one and two like you know.
Speaker 1: So yep. So we have a question from Milo. He said,
Speaker 1: what's it like compared to playing what's on the line, like,
Speaker 1: compared to playing at NYC uh scared if you want
Speaker 1: to take that. Yeah, definitely, Oh, big difference, big difference,
Speaker 1: especially for the rookies. Um not being on stage. It's
Speaker 1: definitely tough because when you go on that run and
Speaker 1: you get to yell with the other team, it rattles
Speaker 1: them a little bit. So now we're like, we can't
Speaker 1: we can't do that. We can only get energy from
Speaker 1: each other and our coach. So it's like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's it's very different and it's like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not really with the vibes I want
Speaker 1: to be. I want to be back on stage so bad.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's it's not bad to say. I think
Speaker 1: people are like scared to say, like on you know,
Speaker 1: Twitter or I guess on a podcast or on a
Speaker 1: stream that that they're not really fans of the remote play,
Speaker 1: Like nobody really is, honestly, it's just what we have
Speaker 1: to do. And does it give us more opportunities as
Speaker 1: a league for expanding, Like have we been on ESPN
Speaker 1: two and uh us versus the Wizards? We were on
Speaker 1: a NBC Philly Like that's awesome, that's great, um, and
Speaker 1: it does tremendous things for our brand. But we're a team,
Speaker 1: like it's it's no shock that we're a team that
Speaker 1: under the bright lights, like we show up and we
Speaker 1: always have and uh and that's where we want to be.
Speaker 1: It's always fun. It's a different atmosphere. It's our it's
Speaker 1: our way of having our own business trip. And sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, when we go down we're in a teamhouse
Speaker 1: and we go down to the basement to play, it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like a business trip. And you know, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of things that you can try to do to
Speaker 1: change that, but you'll never get that exact same feeling
Speaker 1: of walking down those stairs in New York and you
Speaker 1: know Scott Cole or Dirk is calling, you know here coming,
Speaker 1: you know, the boys from Philly like seventy six years
Speaker 1: g see, and we're wearing our jerseys and you know
Speaker 1: Scretty has his hood up and everybody's locked in and
Speaker 1: you lock eyes with the other team and you start,
Speaker 1: you know, talking a little trash and like that's where
Speaker 1: you give him that moment and you can't really have
Speaker 1: that right now. It's no excuse for why we're oping four.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, something we still do with this do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just different. Yeah for us. Danny said, do you
Speaker 1: guys need me on top of the stairs to fist
Speaker 1: pump y'all? See, like things like that. That's something that
Speaker 1: we always are used to. I'm used to, you know,
Speaker 1: getting we all we're all used to. You know. Once
Speaker 1: we get there, we instantly go up in to the
Speaker 1: locker room and you start shooting around, shoot around, and
Speaker 1: then you walk around for a little bit, maybe catch
Speaker 1: some of the games that if we didn't have the
Speaker 1: first game, you know, we're watching and just kind of
Speaker 1: just sitting there getting your mind right, and you know,
Speaker 1: obviously the fans. That's like the next biggest thing. You have,
Speaker 1: the fans that are around you that are going crazy.
Speaker 1: And I don't think a moment will ever be like
Speaker 1: those playoff moments last season where like the fans, our
Speaker 1: fans from Philly like took a bus up and we're
Speaker 1: going crazy the whole time, and and having the feeling
Speaker 1: now to where you know, I have my own beliefs.
Speaker 1: Everybody has our own beliefs what's going to happen this season.
Speaker 1: But not being able to see fans as often like that,
Speaker 1: that kind of sucks because I know what kind of
Speaker 1: impacts every Sixers do you see has brought to this league,
Speaker 1: And I know what we do for fans, Like you know,
Speaker 1: people have always come up to me and said, we'd
Speaker 1: love watching the Sixers. I know, even though we're owing four,
Speaker 1: people still love watching us because at any moment, we
Speaker 1: can make something happen and that's what's always been special
Speaker 1: about our team. But yeah, it's it is weird getting
Speaker 1: away from the routine of being in New York. Definitely. Uh,
Speaker 1: Mama Scrat said, I miss you two son um is
Speaker 1: it Audio Hodio? He said, Uh? Any build changes being
Speaker 1: made Uh, we're we're laughing some stuff. We're always yeah,
Speaker 1: we're always gonna go over some stuff. But yeah, like
Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're not gonna tell if we're gonna
Speaker 1: yea U, we're gonna do that or up. But um,
Speaker 1: sports Stein said, did did you get figured? Did you
Speaker 1: get figured? I guess what what you're trying to say is,
Speaker 1: did you guys figure out something? Game two versus the
Speaker 1: t Wolves. Um. I don't think our problem is figuring
Speaker 1: out other teams. I think it's figuring out our team. Um.
Speaker 1: And I think we're getting there, um, just as you
Speaker 1: can see from week one to our last game, Like
Speaker 1: we're figuring out ourselves, and like what works for us,
Speaker 1: and the biggest thing is not whatever other team does,
Speaker 1: it's what we do. And like we limit turnovers that
Speaker 1: closes the margin. We hit more open shots that closes
Speaker 1: the margin. We talk consistently on defense that gives up
Speaker 1: like airs on defense given the other other team wide
Speaker 1: open shots, and we're closing the margin. We're figuring it out. Um.
Speaker 1: As these guys said, like it is a lot different
Speaker 1: playing at your house, um, remotely than it is in
Speaker 1: the studio. Like it's just different and that's not an excuse.
Speaker 1: It's a huge adjustment for our team. We have had
Speaker 1: two great seasons doing something consistently, Like we have stuff
Speaker 1: that we've done consistently for two seasons and you know,
Speaker 1: like something we build our team around too. We build
Speaker 1: our team around experience. We have no rookies on our team.
Speaker 1: We build our team around people that have been in
Speaker 1: that moment that we know, like when they're on like
Speaker 1: the stage, they can they can. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think a team would have ever expected, you know, drafting
Speaker 1: somebody who it's like, Okay, this guy probably performs best
Speaker 1: when he's on stage. This guy probably performs best when
Speaker 1: he's you know, behind his monitor at home by himself.
Speaker 1: Like who would have thought that, you know, drafting that
Speaker 1: person right there might have been the answer this year
Speaker 1: like that. That's a frustrating, yeah, and it's something we're
Speaker 1: going to get through and we're adjusting, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're excited to we're excited to go out this week
Speaker 1: and play. I know all of them are. I know
Speaker 1: myself as well as you know, the people supporting us
Speaker 1: are excited for us to turn this ship around. And uh,
Speaker 1: we have every intention of doing that. Um. Another question
Speaker 1: from verse, He said, do you guys truly think being
Speaker 1: on stage makes a huge difference, because I believe the
Speaker 1: better team will still execute for the most part. I'll
Speaker 1: answer this one to start out. I believe that it's
Speaker 1: two separate things. Um. It's just like if you're going
Speaker 1: to play, Like think about going to play a college
Speaker 1: basketball game and you have all those fans there, you
Speaker 1: have you have a routine like that you've always had,
Speaker 1: say you play at the University of Kentucky, and they're
Speaker 1: sold out every night and they are used to that environment.
Speaker 1: They feed off their energy from their fans, and that
Speaker 1: does play a role in sports. I feel like we're
Speaker 1: not taking it to that extreme, but like we do
Speaker 1: feel like there's a difference, and there is, Like some
Speaker 1: people don't perform the same in a game than they
Speaker 1: do in practice. I played college basketball and I had
Speaker 1: teammates that were unbelievable shooting in practice. They were they
Speaker 1: were they were dogs. There were some dogs and shoot
Speaker 1: shoot around workouts like they were just knocking everything down.
Speaker 1: But it's a different environment when it matters and there's
Speaker 1: people there. It's not shooting you know, by yourself and
Speaker 1: in the comfort of your your own home or your
Speaker 1: own gym. It's it's just different. So I do believe
Speaker 1: that's completely different. Um Steeves. Have you tested all the
Speaker 1: center builds, Milo, Yeah, I've seen most of them. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the same as the past two seasons.
Speaker 1: You know, there's two builds that are solid that you
Speaker 1: could win a game with, and I'd say, honestly, the
Speaker 1: other ones you'd have to really play perfect to help
Speaker 1: like win. Um there's they made one center build that's
Speaker 1: very dominant, and they made another one that could hold
Speaker 1: its ground, and then the rest are kind of like whoa,
Speaker 1: U're not terrible builds, they're just you would have to
Speaker 1: run some like weird offenses with it. Like you know,
Speaker 1: they have like post playmakers and stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of like we're running five out like with
Speaker 1: a post scoring like center, like kind of like last
Speaker 1: year that people had at the four UM and like
Speaker 1: that only takes you so far, especially in this league
Speaker 1: build with how momentum base everything is. But to answer
Speaker 1: your question, yeah, I've looked at them and it played
Speaker 1: on a couple of them, and there's only about two
Speaker 1: that I feel like out of the it was an eight. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: two out of the eight that are like solid that
Speaker 1: could win you a game. Mama Scratch said, how does
Speaker 1: Tucker and User fit fit the Vets. I'll answer that
Speaker 1: all with them, Like I think they've been great. I
Speaker 1: think they both are adjusting obviously, Like it's a little
Speaker 1: different like coming into a teamhouse with guys that have
Speaker 1: been here for you know, some two years and some
Speaker 1: for for three years. Um, obviously, like their bond is
Speaker 1: a lot deeper. But we've welcome in like their our own,
Speaker 1: you know, like like they've been here. There's no weird
Speaker 1: like vibes or anything like that. Everybody gets along. I
Speaker 1: think the adjustment like for them, honestly, was more so
Speaker 1: not leaving the house, like we haven't got to leave
Speaker 1: the house or you know, we haven't got they haven't
Speaker 1: got to go see Philly, they haven't got to go
Speaker 1: to a game. So like that's stuff last year that
Speaker 1: like really helped bring our team like together more. You know,
Speaker 1: like I remember the first week we got here, the
Speaker 1: second week we got here, or second week we got here,
Speaker 1: everybody was here. We were gonna go to a top
Speaker 1: golf and like stuff like that like helps bring teams together.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this doesn't like we're all in the house,
Speaker 1: so it's like brought us together, but like they're not
Speaker 1: getting to experience like outside of the house. So like
Speaker 1: when you're kind of like just trapped to an extent,
Speaker 1: and uh, that's nobody's fault. It's just like what COVID's
Speaker 1: brought to everybody. So I think like for our team,
Speaker 1: like myself, like having to see kids, haven't got to
Speaker 1: see family. All these guys haven't got to see their family.
Speaker 1: But our teams a little bit different because we have
Speaker 1: guys that have kids. We got bread that's got through,
Speaker 1: we got radiance, got one and one on the way
Speaker 1: that's due you know, anytime now. So it's it's definitely
Speaker 1: affecting us and it's definitely bringing Um it's more than
Speaker 1: just two K. Like we're we're we're getting through it
Speaker 1: and we're we're pushing as as much as we can,
Speaker 1: and uh, we also have life to deal with two
Speaker 1: and it's just something that we're all trying to adjust through.
Speaker 1: Um Versus said, do you guys feel like the current
Speaker 1: league build fits the play style for the seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: G See, Um, I'll starting that one feel like, no
Speaker 1: matter what the league bild is, we have good enough
Speaker 1: players to adjust to it. So right now, at the beginning,
Speaker 1: you could say it's not fifth fur play style, but
Speaker 1: by the end of the season, you're gonna regret I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say you were gonna regret it, but you're
Speaker 1: gonna feel like, Okay, they adjusted, they adapted. They have
Speaker 1: good enough players, so maybe this is the play style
Speaker 1: for them or they just got used to it. So
Speaker 1: either way we have to get used to it because
Speaker 1: it's not going to change much. Yeah. I can go
Speaker 1: either way with that. I mean at the beginning, like
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, it's a game where if you're a
Speaker 1: defensive player and you spam a lot and you try
Speaker 1: to get steals more times than not, the league bill
Speaker 1: is gonna give it to you. So does that play
Speaker 1: against something like Radiant, Yeah, of course, Like you know,
Speaker 1: people have just come up to Radio spam on him
Speaker 1: and make him drop the ball times in a row
Speaker 1: like that doesn't really play into our favor obviously. Can
Speaker 1: we adjust to it? Yes. In the past two seasons
Speaker 1: that we've played, we start off great. There's a patch
Speaker 1: usually mid season we are slow out the gate. After
Speaker 1: that patch and then we figure it out. We figured
Speaker 1: it out every year so far. Is this one taken
Speaker 1: a little longer? Yeah? Do I wish it took this long? No,
Speaker 1: but you know we're owing for it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Can't go back and go you know, get other go
Speaker 1: back and play those teams again and told maybe like
Speaker 1: a tournament or playoff something like that. So you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta handle what's in front of you right now.
Speaker 1: And we got a couple more teams to play for
Speaker 1: remote play until we figure out what's going on with
Speaker 1: the league after that. But you know, it's a just
Speaker 1: or you know, get left behind, and I don't really
Speaker 1: feel like we want to get left behind right now. Yep.
Speaker 1: And that they touched on it perfect there. I do
Speaker 1: want to go back versus to the question you asked,
Speaker 1: because I did leave this out and I saw that
Speaker 1: Hodio wrote it. Another huge difference with like playing remotely
Speaker 1: and then playing in the studio is is land, And yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't get talked about a lot, but like everybody's
Speaker 1: connection is obviously different and it's a huge, it's huge,
Speaker 1: and that that's that's something that changes stuff too, Like
Speaker 1: we're there's times like we go down there and we
Speaker 1: we have what we're supposed to have. We have like
Speaker 1: six hundred you know download, and there's times we go
Speaker 1: down there and we have five and four upload. Um,
Speaker 1: So the inconsistency there is tough. But like I said,
Speaker 1: everybody's going through these things. It's not just us, it's everybody.
Speaker 1: So like, yeah, that's another thing, like why we miss
Speaker 1: the studio as well, because it's all an even playing field.
Speaker 1: It's all everybody's on the same thing, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just and that's for anybody. So that's another reason
Speaker 1: I definitely think the studio helps out. It's on. Um.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, ZDS, what is it like when you're in
Speaker 1: the zone, how often does that happen? When I'm in
Speaker 1: the zone, I'm calling for the rock, but uh, it happens.
Speaker 1: It happens when I'm when I get like when I
Speaker 1: get going early, it'll start flowing. And uh, as you
Speaker 1: can see in the t Wool series, Uh, I think
Speaker 1: I had six points going into the half of Game
Speaker 1: two and I ended with twenty five and Radiance start
Speaker 1: getting me the ball to close the game out. So
Speaker 1: I feel like when I'm in the zone and radiance
Speaker 1: trusting me. Then that's when I know I have to
Speaker 1: go get a bucket or make the right read. And
Speaker 1: I feel like I worked on that this whole offseason,
Speaker 1: so why not put it to use in the in
Speaker 1: the league. Definitely, Um, what's what's the best moment in
Speaker 1: seventy six ers GC history? I'll let Screaty start out
Speaker 1: with us. I want to hear what you gotta say.
Speaker 1: Favorite moment has to be Game four of the finals.
Speaker 1: We were down two one, and we were down in
Speaker 1: the We might have been down in a fourth quarter
Speaker 1: or the third quarter, and uh, I got switched on
Speaker 1: the bear and he went five out and I blocked it.
Speaker 1: That's I remember, and then think to play. Before that,
Speaker 1: I hit a heavy shout out to the two k guds.
Speaker 1: They were with me. They were with me on that game.
Speaker 1: They wanted to see a Game five bad But yeah,
Speaker 1: Game four was definitely the greatest moment when we were
Speaker 1: down and we just had to keep fighting and we
Speaker 1: had to force the game Five's very moment. Favorite moment
Speaker 1: and there's too many. I've been here a long time.
Speaker 1: The first tip off that was a good time. The
Speaker 1: second tip off the championship is good too. But the
Speaker 1: I think one of my favorite times was Celtics Season two.
Speaker 1: We played the Celtics in the semifinals and if we
Speaker 1: wouldn't that we go to the finals and you know,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, every everything's running through your head. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: one series away. And then you know, we beat them
Speaker 1: pretty I don't want to say easily. You know, they're
Speaker 1: a good team. We respect them, but we were we
Speaker 1: were doing well against them. Game one we beat him,
Speaker 1: and then game two, you know, for what you guys
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm just gonna say a Game two, we
Speaker 1: had a wayside and that's where we just knew. And
Speaker 1: so you know, Radiant told me that he wanted me
Speaker 1: to go a low block because he wanted to just
Speaker 1: five out him. And so, you know, I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: smiling a little bit, just just watching a movie. I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, having a great time, and I see
Speaker 1: our crowd going nuts behind us, the crowd that came
Speaker 1: up from Philly, and you know, they're having a great
Speaker 1: time as well, just seeing Radiant just like cook people up.
Speaker 1: And all I'm thinking is like, oh my gosh, like
Speaker 1: all this work in the past two seasons, all you know,
Speaker 1: all the work we put in the off season to
Speaker 1: get better, and like we're really about to go to
Speaker 1: the dance and and like that's where I was like,
Speaker 1: this is, you know, something special and you know we
Speaker 1: have something special here and I think that's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be one of my favorite moments. There's a million others. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I said, winning the tip off, and you know
Speaker 1: there's a special moment with like bread and me where
Speaker 1: after the after the second tip off, you know, he
Speaker 1: came out to me and me and him like hugged
Speaker 1: because like I told him when he got drafted here
Speaker 1: that if he did his job and you know, you
Speaker 1: play your role right, like we're gonna win you a
Speaker 1: lot of money, man. And instantly right out the gate,
Speaker 1: you know, we won the big prize, which is always nice,
Speaker 1: but there's plenty there's moments off the court that, like
Speaker 1: us just being together are like some really good moments
Speaker 1: for us. Um. But yeah, I think mine was that
Speaker 1: same series. But it was the first game and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys remember this, but at halftime
Speaker 1: we were down against the Celtics and it was like
Speaker 1: it was just like we weren't really locked in, Like
Speaker 1: how how I like us like talking energy and all that.
Speaker 1: And if you guys remember our fans showed up at
Speaker 1: halftime and we came out that third quarter and we
Speaker 1: just went crazy. It was just nuts. And like that
Speaker 1: moment right there, like I knew that moment, like we
Speaker 1: were gonna win the series that third quarter. I like,
Speaker 1: our guys are just they were up yelling, they were
Speaker 1: talking on defense, they were they were trusting each other,
Speaker 1: and like, right there, I knew that the series was over.
Speaker 1: And it just took our fans walking in to the
Speaker 1: to the arena, yelling and banging on stuff. I remember
Speaker 1: Jason Williams with the big rocky gloves or whatever. It
Speaker 1: was just it was a it was a cool moment. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So for those of you that asked if it's different
Speaker 1: remote playing stage, it's completely different. And fans are in there.
Speaker 1: There's no better feeling than that. And then you know,
Speaker 1: the fans that come up and talk to you, get
Speaker 1: kids that come up and talk to you after the
Speaker 1: games and stuff like. That's that's what you get into
Speaker 1: this business for. It's the fans. Yeah, it's a it's
Speaker 1: definitely a it's it's a huge difference. It's a huge
Speaker 1: difference and like definitely hope we can we can get
Speaker 1: back into the studio and get the season going. Uh
Speaker 1: Sports said, I'm confident you guys because of Steve Stone,
Speaker 1: that dude is ready for blood fellows. Hattie said, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, guys would be through in one or maybe
Speaker 1: even four enough. It was Land. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna say that. Like the teams that
Speaker 1: beat us right now, they're I mean, they're they were
Speaker 1: better than us, Like those nights, those nights we played,
Speaker 1: they were better than us. And I'm never gonna take
Speaker 1: anything away from like those teams beating us. Do I
Speaker 1: would I ever be like I would take that team.
Speaker 1: I'd rather be with that team than our team. No,
Speaker 1: like never, I love our guys. I think we have
Speaker 1: I think still our record doesn't define us at all
Speaker 1: and it's not going to and uh, I just think
Speaker 1: it's something that we're gonna get through. But those teams
Speaker 1: are definitely like they are who who they're moving, who
Speaker 1: they're showing they are, They're they're good teams. Um, let's see,
Speaker 1: Danny said, laugh out loud a wayside. But Land hard, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's were just like old baby, here we go.
Speaker 1: Versus said, my favorite moment, stop cussing. That's a legendary history.
Speaker 1: Tell us, Uh, tell us what it's like at the
Speaker 1: team house? Uh, you got yeah. Um, Like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: the teamhouse is like scrimmage. Everybody meet down to basement.
Speaker 1: Certain time we scram Then sometimes we all chill in
Speaker 1: the basement. Uh. Some play Call of Duty, war Zone
Speaker 1: or my team. Some go to their room and then
Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. We're gonna text in the chat
Speaker 1: does anybody want to go get food? Anybody hungry? And
Speaker 1: then so that's it. The vibes are great in the house.
Speaker 1: Everybody like gets along with each other. We talk, we
Speaker 1: watch film, we all we do all the little things
Speaker 1: that a team is supposed to do in the teamhouse.
Speaker 1: Like we all get along with each other. That's the
Speaker 1: big part for me. Yeah, I think going to get
Speaker 1: foods like the only time, like we're like get a refreshment.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I know, that's like how
Speaker 1: life is right now, but it's like that's some of
Speaker 1: my favorite parts of the days when well, one I
Speaker 1: like food, but the other one is like we're just
Speaker 1: getting out of the house. And getting some fresh air.
Speaker 1: And it's a lot different than like last year, Like
Speaker 1: we got to go sit down somewhere. Like I would
Speaker 1: text Seas randomly last year and be like, dude, you
Speaker 1: want to you want to go to Texas Roadhouse, so
Speaker 1: like and like just get out, and like you can't
Speaker 1: really do that right now, and it's just it's tough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is the first season. It happens every season,
Speaker 1: but this is the first time, like it's really really
Speaker 1: hit especially this early for those of you don't know, Like, yes,
Speaker 1: we're two weeks in, but Jeff and I have been
Speaker 1: in Philly for a while now before like the rest
Speaker 1: of the team, So this stuff hits like really hard
Speaker 1: with me because like when we're on our own, like
Speaker 1: like Trady something, we're all together, it's great and you know,
Speaker 1: there's good vibes that the team. Everybody likes everybody, and
Speaker 1: that's how it's always been. There's never been any you know,
Speaker 1: negative sort of like impacts with players and each other.
Speaker 1: Do we get an arguments and heated moments, yeah, but
Speaker 1: like I mean that's what teammates do, that's what brothers do.
Speaker 1: But like there's been so many moments now, and I
Speaker 1: know everybody's been going through this, Like this isn't just me,
Speaker 1: So I'm not just calling myself out. But like when
Speaker 1: you're by yourself and you're literally like I said, from
Speaker 1: season one to season two, i'd be thinking about, you know,
Speaker 1: speeding with my family again and seeing them, like how
Speaker 1: I can't wait. But now it's like you think about
Speaker 1: it way more now in the moment that you're in,
Speaker 1: not just because rolling forward, not just because the code's
Speaker 1: like a whole thing, just everything you think about, like
Speaker 1: how bad you want to be with them, like right
Speaker 1: now and how bad like you can't wait, like that
Speaker 1: moment that when you see them, or that off season
Speaker 1: like you always think like for at least me, Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking like when that off season comes around, like
Speaker 1: I can't wait to like you know, cherish my time
Speaker 1: with them a little bit and like really like focusing
Speaker 1: on them because you know they throw so much support
Speaker 1: for you and they know you want to be home
Speaker 1: right now, but you're doing what you can, uh, And
Speaker 1: so I feel like just as of lady, like even
Speaker 1: you know, I know Scretit goes through it a lot,
Speaker 1: mean him talking to him probably closest and you know,
Speaker 1: he always tells me, like how he can't wait to
Speaker 1: be home and stuff like that. But it's just really
Speaker 1: set in. And we're only a week two right now,
Speaker 1: Like how bad we can't wait to like really just
Speaker 1: be with our families again. Yeah, and that's like for
Speaker 1: everybody on our Yeah, so I think it's everybody in
Speaker 1: the league, honest, Yeah, that's everybody. It's just it's different,
Speaker 1: like right now, a lot of people, like if you
Speaker 1: really think about it, a lot of people that you know,
Speaker 1: we're working and like, like one life is normal. They
Speaker 1: get to go home to their families at night, you know,
Speaker 1: they get to do that, but like now is a
Speaker 1: time like where they're with their families all day long.
Speaker 1: Like people are going to be with their kids all
Speaker 1: day long. They're going to be with their families all
Speaker 1: day long, and like for us, it's complete opposite, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's uh, it's tiring, um stressful, it's uh it's
Speaker 1: something new almost every day like that just goes through
Speaker 1: your head and it's mentally draining. But I mean, what
Speaker 1: else can you do? You know, you have to we
Speaker 1: have to just keep pushing through it. And uh, you
Speaker 1: know we're i think we'll. I think we'll We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to stand, you know, strong together. I think that's
Speaker 1: what helps us through it more so is that we
Speaker 1: all are going through it and we're able to talk
Speaker 1: about it. So um yeah, Uh will there ever be
Speaker 1: a two K League player on the cover of two
Speaker 1: K Um? Probably not? Yeah, I would say probably not.
Speaker 1: Definitely not. Yeah. What's going on? Destiny good singing yesterday
Speaker 1: at Walmart? Man? Uh, thanks thanks for tuning in. Uh
Speaker 1: the guy at Walmart. He works at Walmarty. He's a
Speaker 1: big fan. He's the guy Walmart. His name is Destiny. Well,
Speaker 1: that's his that's his name on that's his name. He's cool,
Speaker 1: it's my guy. It's audacity, Um, Mama, skret. Communication is
Speaker 1: key and video and you'all y'all's opinion because people quick
Speaker 1: to say X y Z because it's only video games.
Speaker 1: Nobody really knows. Yeah. The other thing is is like
Speaker 1: to really put in respective for you guys. One thing
Speaker 1: that you give up most in this line of work
Speaker 1: is time. Like you give up so much time with
Speaker 1: like sacrificing, like with your family and stuff like that. Um,
Speaker 1: and you always see like movies and quotes or whatever.
Speaker 1: That the one thing you'll never get back with, you know,
Speaker 1: loved ones, is time like you'll never and you know,
Speaker 1: when you think about it, like I lost my dad
Speaker 1: when I was eighteen years old, and when you really
Speaker 1: think about it, you know there were so many times
Speaker 1: where I could have spent more time with him and
Speaker 1: things like that, which I you know, Um, it's not
Speaker 1: that I like regret anything, but it is true. But
Speaker 1: in this line of work, you give up time, you
Speaker 1: sacrifice time with them, but you do it for a
Speaker 1: bigger picture. I'm not I don't do this because you
Speaker 1: know I love video games, like we already know that.
Speaker 1: I do this because I'm sacrificing my time with them
Speaker 1: to try and prepare us and give us a better future. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think that's for everybody here. Like if I, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't get to see them six months out of
Speaker 1: the year, but down the road and you know, close
Speaker 1: to maybe like four or five years or something like that,
Speaker 1: if we could be set up to where there's you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to be well off. And I know that I,
Speaker 1: you know, put in my work to put us in
Speaker 1: that position and make it to where my mom don't
Speaker 1: doesn't have to work and stuff like that. Anynmore like
Speaker 1: then I'm then I'm good. Uh, Jay will is actually
Speaker 1: in here, said Europe Rocky Gloves and the way it
Speaker 1: can't forget that we miss you, Jason's Yeah, we definitely
Speaker 1: miss you. I hope you're doing well. I hope the
Speaker 1: family's doing well. Man, hope to hope to see you
Speaker 1: against So how do you ell? Sat watching the intro
Speaker 1: to last year's finals, h'us The Wolves part where Seas
Speaker 1: is yelling come on gets me. Man, That all those
Speaker 1: videos puts me through like an emotional roller coaster, Like
Speaker 1: you're so like hype watching them and then like you're
Speaker 1: so sad at the same time. It's just I'm like
Speaker 1: so ready for like the next finals to happen, just
Speaker 1: so they stop posting stuff like I'm so over. Like
Speaker 1: I saw that weird the Game of the Week and
Speaker 1: I was just like I knew they were coming. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, like it's you know, it's awesome playing
Speaker 1: the t woots and we always have a hell series.
Speaker 1: But it's just like, listen, they won, let's just call it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's onto the next Mama Skrett said, who is the
Speaker 1: cook of the house? I would say. You would say
Speaker 1: to me, Jeff, yesterday, I was cooking a steak outside
Speaker 1: and as I'm walking inside, Scrett he's going up the stairs.
Speaker 1: He goes, if you don't eat all that, just bring
Speaker 1: me off a piece, Come knock on my door. He
Speaker 1: didn't bring me. I mean, I ate it all. But
Speaker 1: I would say me, I try. I I always offer
Speaker 1: to give him a piece. I don't used Radiant used
Speaker 1: to cook a little bit. Yeah, and then I think
Speaker 1: bread tries done me down there? Sometimes he tries to.
Speaker 1: They do? They just cook everything in the O God,
Speaker 1: how long? H So like when we're watching film, we
Speaker 1: don't like most teams, there's not a ton that you
Speaker 1: do that they do. So like we'll watch like a
Speaker 1: game or two and then at times we'll have it
Speaker 1: broken down. I'll just have it all broken down, or
Speaker 1: we'll just watch the full game and stop and go,
Speaker 1: you know, as as we please. Uh. But just depends. Um,
Speaker 1: how does the negative energy roll off your backs? Because
Speaker 1: comments and twitch chat, YouTube chat and what someone should
Speaker 1: have done off? How do you say positive as a team. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you, and that's for a
Speaker 1: mama's screat I'm gonna be honest with you. Like previous years,
Speaker 1: I used to always go back into the Twitch chat
Speaker 1: and see, you know, like what people would write or
Speaker 1: see like what they thought in certain moments. And I
Speaker 1: haven't done that this year, um, and I don't really
Speaker 1: think I'll ever do it again because our team like
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. It doesn't mean anything like,
Speaker 1: It's just people are gonna People are gonna love you
Speaker 1: or haha if you're winning or losing, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about you either way. And at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, to me, like our success or you know,
Speaker 1: our failures isn't defined by somebody's opinion, and we're not.
Speaker 1: We're not. I'm not gonna ever buy into that, and uh,
Speaker 1: I know these guys aren't ever going to either. So
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's just opinions, and uh, we
Speaker 1: don't let it affect us. I see everything all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter a lot, even though you don't see
Speaker 1: me tweeting a lot. I do that for my own
Speaker 1: reasons because I'll probably be the last person ever in
Speaker 1: the two K League ever get caught slipping on something stupid.
Speaker 1: And you know, I pride myself on that I've feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, we've all not only you know me, but
Speaker 1: everybody who's like participating in this Duke k League is
Speaker 1: blessed with this opportunity and you'd be pretty stupid to
Speaker 1: blow that on like social media or just doing something stupid. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if there's things that I got to do for content
Speaker 1: or um, things I'd like to do, like you know,
Speaker 1: this podcast for instance, I'll do that like any day
Speaker 1: of the week. But buying like getting baited into somebody
Speaker 1: tweeting that you know, we're the worst team in the
Speaker 1: league right now, or you know Steeves is playing ass
Speaker 1: like I don't care like they I know what I
Speaker 1: do for this team. I know what I do for
Speaker 1: this league, and then that's all I'm worried about. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, no, no tweet or
Speaker 1: anything like that, it's gonna gonna you know, take away
Speaker 1: what I know my family thinks of me and like
Speaker 1: how proud of they are with me and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So that's just what it is. And that's why tweeting
Speaker 1: this is. Don't get baited and you're doing it definitely. Uh,
Speaker 1: David said, how is everyone's outlook on the season even
Speaker 1: at the current state of the team's record. Honestly think
Speaker 1: our outlooks the same like a lot of season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's two weeks in. I know we're owing four.
Speaker 1: We kind of dug a little bit of a hole.
Speaker 1: But I still feel like we can go win a championship.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that I'd say that if we
Speaker 1: were two and two, one and three four. No, Like,
Speaker 1: I believe in our team, and I believe in like
Speaker 1: the process, and I believe in like what we're capable of,
Speaker 1: and you know, at the end of the year, I'm
Speaker 1: very confident saying we're gonna be there, We're gonna be
Speaker 1: right there, and we're gonna have an opportunity to make
Speaker 1: something happen. And that that's just how I feel what's
Speaker 1: going on Fox H two, K Spartan said war Zone
Speaker 1: kds uh. I'll let Screadie start with his stee two
Speaker 1: point one four, three point five, all right, next question,
Speaker 1: point Katie is a point six. That's a lot point.
Speaker 1: You can look me up. It's not that. My KD
Speaker 1: is a point seven seven. Now I changed my name
Speaker 1: from the White Kite, it's now Ghosts, so nobody knows
Speaker 1: that it's me. I'm Ever since I put ghosts on there,
Speaker 1: I've been getting anywhere from about two three two to
Speaker 1: five thousand damage and seven to eight kills a game.
Speaker 1: We're going up pretty quick. You're tough. Um, I'm definitely tough.
Speaker 1: I take care of the chat for you, for you guys,
Speaker 1: no worries, for real, for real, Mama Skrett, you definitely do.
Speaker 1: You're our You're our biggest fan in the chat. I
Speaker 1: remember last year when I did go in and I
Speaker 1: was I think, I told Scretty, I think you're arguing
Speaker 1: with chin Yeah, And it was the funniest thing in
Speaker 1: the world. It was. We definitely love your support. We
Speaker 1: definitely love it. My favorite thing she's ever did ever
Speaker 1: was I don't know if it's a picture of you
Speaker 1: or a video of you, but remember I used to
Speaker 1: I used to like resay it all the time. She
Speaker 1: used to be like a hoo, do you who? My
Speaker 1: favorite was, oh god, glay picture her voice. That was good.
Speaker 1: Darrow said. Any tip on making the league, Uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: keep grinding. I know, like I know that's easier, like
Speaker 1: it's cliche, it's easier said than done, But just keep pushing,
Speaker 1: keep working on your craft, whatever position you play, and
Speaker 1: then like when the combine comes around hoop like play
Speaker 1: play the game the right way, Uh, do the little
Speaker 1: things and and uh maybe one day your your name
Speaker 1: will get called you know. Um that's it for today
Speaker 1: for us, y'all. Uh, we appreciate everybody coming in. Appreciate
Speaker 1: y'all coming to the podcast a little early. UM, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to talk to you all again next week,
Speaker 1: So we'll talk to you soon. I'll be good guys
Speaker 1: to see y'all. See you m