Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers Podcast network
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Speaker 1: season is whole NATO's first with the seventy Sixers and
Speaker 1: his role as specialized, but that hasn't stopped him from
Speaker 1: enjoying his time with the team. We know how crude
Speaker 1: we are, the way we stick together. There's something something
Speaker 1: spect show on that team beyond basketball. Nato is a
Speaker 1: multifaceted guy. He's got a variety of interests and he's
Speaker 1: kept busy during the NBA suspension. I'm doing more of
Speaker 1: the things that I could n't doing during the season.
Speaker 1: With the season set to restart, NATO's eager to get
Speaker 1: back on the floor and contribute to the Sixers title
Speaker 1: hunt anyway he can. I'm excited about when we get
Speaker 1: back to play. I don't know how it's gonna be,
Speaker 1: when it's gonna be, but something that I look forward to.
Speaker 1: This is posted up with how ould Nato? Welcome to
Speaker 1: the final installment of Post It Up, presented by Caesar's Online,
Speaker 1: our mini cast series here on the broadcast that's been
Speaker 1: checking in on the seventy Sixers during the hiatus I'm
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer. We hope you've enjoyed the first eight episodes
Speaker 1: and have the same experience here with episode nine. When
Speaker 1: Hoole Nato signed with the seventy six ers over the summer,
Speaker 1: he was confident that some of his best basketball was
Speaker 1: ahead of him. I think I can bring spacing. I
Speaker 1: can shoot the bow from the outside, and I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna be that's gonna be a thing, probably the
Speaker 1: biggest thing for me and this team, and I'm just
Speaker 1: excited to start working. Prior to the COVID nineteen pandemic
Speaker 1: putting the NBA on pause, Nato had appeared in forty
Speaker 1: nine to the six or sixty five games, averaging four
Speaker 1: and a half points and one and a half assists
Speaker 1: in eleven and a half minutes. Not only has the
Speaker 1: twenty eight year old been reliable ball handler, he shot
Speaker 1: the ball respectably two His three point percentage of thirty
Speaker 1: nine and a half ranks among the best marks of
Speaker 1: his career, and like any good vet, Nato has proven
Speaker 1: reliable and called upon. Take, for instance, the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers last second come from behind victory against the Portland
Speaker 1: Trailblazers in November Nato was instrumental in the comeback charge.
Speaker 1: Nato with the ball how on a drive off the
Speaker 1: Classes got what a shot? How no No puts it
Speaker 1: up and the Sixers help once again crept with it
Speaker 1: bread and it probable layup as good. Nato was shown
Speaker 1: that an extended action he can fill the cup up
Speaker 1: a bit as well. He went for nineteen points back
Speaker 1: in January against Golden State and right before the Sixers
Speaker 1: final game prior to the league shutdown. He reached double
Speaker 1: figures in back to back appearances. Every time I'm on
Speaker 1: the bench, I'm kind of mentally ready and mentally in
Speaker 1: the game. So if I have a shot, I try
Speaker 1: to take it, no matter what, you know, even if
Speaker 1: I'm not warm enough or if I'm not in the
Speaker 1: hiding of the game. I just tried to be aggressive
Speaker 1: and he turned out pretty well. Sometimes to me during
Speaker 1: this season, the approach paid off. Over the last three
Speaker 1: and a half months, Nato has split time between Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and Salt Lake City, where he spent the first four
Speaker 1: seasons of his NBA career. Nato is originally from Brazil.
Speaker 1: He grew up in a city about three hundred miles
Speaker 1: north of riodition Arrow. After the season came to a halt,
Speaker 1: Nato kicked the tires on going back home, but circumstances
Speaker 1: didn't permit. Regardless of where he's been the past four months,
Speaker 1: communication with his six Ers teammates has been constant, especially
Speaker 1: with busy new twin dad Kyle O Quinn. Like Nato
Speaker 1: a season vat when I was in Fieling and he
Speaker 1: was in Feeling. We FaceTime every day. The fourteen days
Speaker 1: of quarantine, I talked to him like basically every day.
Speaker 1: I saw him changing diapers with his babies. So it's
Speaker 1: been it's been fun. We have another group chat that
Speaker 1: we talked with Matisse and Tobias. I think we started
Speaker 1: one day we went to grab some wine. We started
Speaker 1: this group chat just organizing. We we talked a couple
Speaker 1: of times, but it's hard to stay in touch with
Speaker 1: everybody and talking to everybody. But the group chat is
Speaker 1: there and we've been we've been using it a lot.
Speaker 1: Without hoops to fill his nights and days, Nato admits
Speaker 1: to going a little bit stir crazy. He found the
Speaker 1: beginning of quarantine particularly challenging, but eventually he fell into
Speaker 1: a routine, one that revolves around a holistic approach. I
Speaker 1: try to get at least two to three hours with
Speaker 1: things that are gonna work my mind or my body.
Speaker 1: So either I have a bike here that I've been
Speaker 1: doing almost every day just to try to stay in shape.
Speaker 1: I'm reading a lot, so I'm trying to keep my
Speaker 1: mind busy with other things other than just movies and TV.
Speaker 1: I've been reading a lot, and then of course Netflix
Speaker 1: and Amazon Prime trying to find new shows to watch.
Speaker 1: Suits Ozarks and of course the viral quarantine hit Tiger
Speaker 1: Can were among the shows Nato benched early on. He's
Speaker 1: also been in the kitchen a bunch. I don't have
Speaker 1: one dish, but I mean my girlfriend gets mad at
Speaker 1: me every time because I just change all the recipes.
Speaker 1: Sometimes come out pretty well, sometimes not there well. But
Speaker 1: I think I like to be diverse in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: you know, try to do um different things. I don't
Speaker 1: have one one thing that I that is my specialty.
Speaker 1: I think I think most of my plates is being
Speaker 1: been pretty good. As anxious as Neto has been to
Speaker 1: ramp up again, he ultimately embraced life at a slower pace.
Speaker 1: It's being okay. I mean, it's been I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of time to talk to my family and like
Speaker 1: being in contact with my friends, which I couldn't do
Speaker 1: during the season because it's so so crazy and takes
Speaker 1: so much time for life, basketball and traveling and all that.
Speaker 1: So um, I think I've been I've been pretty good.
Speaker 1: There's no mistaking that Netto is a mellow show guy,
Speaker 1: but he's also got a low key, serious competitive street
Speaker 1: to him and he can't wait to tap back into that.
Speaker 1: I think competing at games, I think that's what I
Speaker 1: missed the most, you know, because like right here, I
Speaker 1: can go out, i can go run outside, and I'm
Speaker 1: still gonna swear, I'm still gonna get my exercise done.
Speaker 1: But just they compete, and seeing my teammates playing well
Speaker 1: and cheering for them and seeing them cheering for me too,
Speaker 1: I think that's what I missed the most from from basketball.
Speaker 1: By the way, you gotta check out Whole's ignato O eight.
Speaker 1: His latest post is a video of him doing a
Speaker 1: pretty sweet three sixty one handed duncan SloMo on a
Speaker 1: practice court. It's very impressive. Anyhow, back to Hoole the competitor,
Speaker 1: just how much do his juices start flowing when he's
Speaker 1: out there on the floor. Well, he told us this
Speaker 1: story from the seventy six or his March fifth game
Speaker 1: at Sacramento where he exploded for an outrageous fourteen points
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. I remember a guy Understands just
Speaker 1: talking a lot of crap, and he kind of got
Speaker 1: me going too. I think he was like yelling at
Speaker 1: me at the first half where I didn't play pretty well,
Speaker 1: so he was talking a lot, and then I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can see, but after a couple I
Speaker 1: think my second tree I looked at him and he
Speaker 1: was just kind of disappointing we might perform. So that
Speaker 1: was that was pretty good that I got to play
Speaker 1: well on that game, having this guy out there, and
Speaker 1: I think I try to take every little thing as
Speaker 1: motivation and try to guide me going. As Prett Brown
Speaker 1: likes to say, hold Nato is good people. He's a quality,
Speaker 1: dependable point guard who's got solid playoff experience. In other words,
Speaker 1: he's just the type of guy you want in your
Speaker 1: corner when the stakes are at their highest, which is
Speaker 1: going to be the case for Nato in the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers and not too long. The way we stick
Speaker 1: together is something something special. We've had stretches that we
Speaker 1: played great basketball, and I think we lost only two
Speaker 1: games at home, which is impressive, but then on the
Speaker 1: road we lost a lot of games. So I think
Speaker 1: just the way the chief the team doesn't change the
Speaker 1: chemistry and locker room no matter what's going on with
Speaker 1: the results. That's something that that is special for us.
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