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Speaker 1: Here's our new episode. The seventy six ers are back
Speaker 1: from a week on the West Coast. No doubt they
Speaker 1: can tued emergence of Shake Milton remained a major story.
Speaker 1: Shake Milton Steals and I'm jab Shailers rates Begs In
Speaker 1: LA ninety seven five, The fanatics Divin Gibbons rejoins the
Speaker 1: pod and we'll talk about mister thirty nine points and
Speaker 1: other takeaways from the team's trip on this episode of
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Speaker 1: Sixers are back in Camden after a week or so
Speaker 1: on the road, and now after four games in the
Speaker 1: Golden State, they're looking forward to a four game homestand
Speaker 1: and hopefully looking to get back on track. We'll bring
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Speaker 1: subscribe today. So the grand plan for this episode of
Speaker 1: the podcast was to do it live, so to speak,
Speaker 1: at the fifth annual Sixers Youth Foundation Gala, which was
Speaker 1: supposed to be held in South Philadelphia on Monday, March ninth.
Speaker 1: Like many of the things involving our regular routines and
Speaker 1: daily lives these days. The Youth Foundation Gala was affected
Speaker 1: and postponed as a result of the increased focus on
Speaker 1: public health surrounding the coronavirus and especially as it concerns
Speaker 1: amateur and professional sports teams and players, and the advisement
Speaker 1: that leagues are getting from public health officials as to
Speaker 1: how to exercise best practices in terms of health caution
Speaker 1: these days. So the Sixers Youth Foundation Gala, it was postponed,
Speaker 1: owned it will be rescheduled. But as we welcome Devon
Speaker 1: Givens back to the podcast, we still wanted to spend
Speaker 1: a portion of this episode of the pot embracing the
Speaker 1: philanthropic spirit of what we were going to do with
Speaker 1: the episode at the Sixers Youth Foundation Gala, and that
Speaker 1: was to promote a handful of the many great items
Speaker 1: available as part of the Sixers Youth Foundation Silent online auction.
Speaker 1: You can go to Sixers Youth Foundation dot org until
Speaker 1: Wednesday night, March the eleventh, at ten pm Eastern to
Speaker 1: bid on a bunch of fantastic items that Devon and
Speaker 1: I are going to talk about over the course of
Speaker 1: the podcast. All Right, without further ado, mister Givens takeaways
Speaker 1: from you, Why don't we start here from the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers one and three road trip? Your thoughts, well,
Speaker 1: I think the one thing that we did learn is
Speaker 1: it is time to see Shake Milton in the regular
Speaker 1: rotation in some way, shape or form. For Brett Brown
Speaker 1: in the seventy six is with the uncertainty right now
Speaker 1: of the of Ben Simmons and even Josh Richardson due
Speaker 1: to the contusion to the nose and the protocol for
Speaker 1: the concussion that he suffered on the road in that
Speaker 1: Clipper game. The way that Shake Milton performed in the
Speaker 1: thirty nine point performance against the Los Angeles Clippers a
Speaker 1: different game against the Lakers because so much attention was
Speaker 1: paid to him after that performance against the Clippers. He
Speaker 1: really did show out well against both the Kings and
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, and back to back games to
Speaker 1: close out that four game West Coast trip. So despite
Speaker 1: the one in three record, you certainly want something better,
Speaker 1: hopefully a split tough loss to Golden State on Saturday
Speaker 1: evening at the new Chase Center in San Francisco. But
Speaker 1: Shake Milton has shown you so many different things, from
Speaker 1: the ability to shoot the basketball, which was part of
Speaker 1: his scattering report coming out of SMU, handling the point
Speaker 1: guard duties, handling defenses, outside of, of course, the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Laker game where most of the focus was on him,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure there were some different things also with
Speaker 1: the scattering report and both the Kings and the Warriors game,
Speaker 1: but really showing himself well as a starting point guard
Speaker 1: in this league, a rotational player that you would think,
Speaker 1: at least for the remainder of the season, with the
Speaker 1: eighteen games remaining for this campaign, that he has proven
Speaker 1: to be worthy of the minutes that Brett Brown will
Speaker 1: likely give him going forward. What do you remember hearing
Speaker 1: about Shake Devine when the Sixers drafted him. I always
Speaker 1: felt like they were really high on him, and if
Speaker 1: it hadn't been for the injury he suffered in his
Speaker 1: junior season at SMU, I mean, I think people were
Speaker 1: talking about him like he could have been first round
Speaker 1: worthy talent. Absolutely that was the talk at the time.
Speaker 1: He was a late first round pick who could probably
Speaker 1: push himself up a little bit higher in the first
Speaker 1: round in that particular draft. But the injury happened at SMU,
Speaker 1: he ultimately fell deep into the second round a little
Speaker 1: bit surprising there too as well. So it's because I
Speaker 1: thought that he would still find himself in those early
Speaker 1: high parts of the second round where people take those
Speaker 1: gambles on guys that they feel like are still late,
Speaker 1: late first round picks, someone that they can develop, been
Speaker 1: put into maybe their G league system, and ultimately evolved
Speaker 1: into the player that were starting to see late into
Speaker 1: his second year of his career. But that was really
Speaker 1: it for me that he was able to fall. The
Speaker 1: Sixes were did enough of a good job in terms
Speaker 1: of scouting him, lucky enough again that he fell so
Speaker 1: deep in the fifties to acquire him and seeing him
Speaker 1: up close and with the ability to come in although
Speaker 1: one of the other things being a slight frame, could
Speaker 1: he handle the contact and the rigors of the NBA
Speaker 1: because his body is still developing as a player overall,
Speaker 1: but skill wise, he had so many things that lends
Speaker 1: to success in the NBA. Shake Milton has started the
Speaker 1: last seven games for the seventy six ers, and since
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons went out early against the Milwaukee Bucks. In
Speaker 1: that second game back from the All Star break, Shake
Speaker 1: had seven points in his first start against Atlanta, but
Speaker 1: then some of the numbers since then have just been awesome.
Speaker 1: The twenty point game against Cleveland, he had nineteen against
Speaker 1: the nick when he went five for five from outside
Speaker 1: the arc, as we talked about right from the jump,
Speaker 1: the thirty nine point game against the Clippers, twenty points
Speaker 1: in the win versus Sacramento. During the last six games,
Speaker 1: d shake averaging just under twenty one points per game,
Speaker 1: shooting almost sixty five percent from three point territory, four assists.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just outstanding stuff. Twenty two three pointers
Speaker 1: on thirty four attempts during that stretch. I mean, he
Speaker 1: is really I think even emerging into that much more
Speaker 1: than what the Sixers probably could have hoped too, because
Speaker 1: he just, you know, he seems to take everything in stride.
Speaker 1: I remember that when we spoke before the Lakers game
Speaker 1: in Philly, which was a game that he started, A
Speaker 1: big question was, you know, he had to fill in
Speaker 1: that game because Josh Richardson didn't play. Would he be rattled,
Speaker 1: would he be phased? I mean, aside from the first
Speaker 1: two minutes in that game, Like, I feel he has
Speaker 1: been as cool of a customer as you could have expected. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And you talk about the of course the Laker game
Speaker 1: and how well he performed in that one here and
Speaker 1: even though the numbers weren't high, he looked comfortable on
Speaker 1: the floor. And I think one also another takeaway that
Speaker 1: I take from all of which you just read out
Speaker 1: and what we have witnessed with the time out there
Speaker 1: in the floor, it just seems self that it just
Speaker 1: looks real. It looks like he belongs out there. And
Speaker 1: we're not gonna say he's gonna shoot sixty five percent
Speaker 1: going forward, because that's just ridiculous, But that just goes
Speaker 1: to show that there was something there in terms of
Speaker 1: an outside shooter with what he has been able to
Speaker 1: do on what is Kate's capable of doing. And that
Speaker 1: twenty point performance against the Cleveland Cavaliers, if you remember,
Speaker 1: another disappointing loss on the road for the team, but
Speaker 1: a bright spot was shake Milton, who never let up,
Speaker 1: who kept pushing, who kept fighting to the very end,
Speaker 1: and ended up with a team high twenty points in
Speaker 1: that loss to the Cleveland Cavalier. So something to build
Speaker 1: off of it, and there was something that they saw
Speaker 1: from the time he was with the Blue Coach last
Speaker 1: year in the G League system rewarding him from taking
Speaker 1: his two way contract away and giving him an NBA contract,
Speaker 1: And as it has taken a while, While it has
Speaker 1: taken a while for him to get to this spot,
Speaker 1: it's a good time and they need him. They need
Speaker 1: him most at this time right now to really get
Speaker 1: into the groove that he is in because of the
Speaker 1: uncertainty of both Richardson and Senmens with his injuries, and
Speaker 1: he has been a very bright spot for this team
Speaker 1: so far. Ay bring up a good point. I mean,
Speaker 1: he has been through a lot, don't you think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: broke in hand, the injuries that he suffered in and
Speaker 1: out of the lineup, going back and forth between Delaware
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia, other players maybe getting some minutes before him
Speaker 1: where I'm sure he felt he was always ready to go.
Speaker 1: And I remember a conversation you and I had with
Speaker 1: himselves last season before one of the games where we
Speaker 1: spoke to him for one of our shows, and he
Speaker 1: just still bringing with that confidence, never let his head down,
Speaker 1: didn't feel sorry for himself, just said he was going
Speaker 1: to continue to work, continue to do the work that
Speaker 1: he needs to do with the player of development, coaches
Speaker 1: and trying to find his way on the floor and
Speaker 1: be ready when his number is called, and his number
Speaker 1: is being called right now, and he's answered the bell
Speaker 1: every now and then, we solicit your feedback some comments
Speaker 1: on our old social channels. Divins at devon G nine
Speaker 1: seventy five. I'm at Brian Seltzer on Twitter also Seltzer
Speaker 1: six or snaps on Instagram. On Instagram, Divina throw out there,
Speaker 1: you know, just what did people think of Shakes road
Speaker 1: trip and at B B B N N thirty two
Speaker 1: just had one simple word in all caps, epic nous, epicness. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't expect that one, but I'm sure Shake Milton
Speaker 1: would be excited to hear that one while you While
Speaker 1: you guys were in Los Angeles, he was able to
Speaker 1: go on the jump, and everyone in the NBA circles
Speaker 1: were talking about his performance against the Los Angeles Clippers,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure between he, his family and even the
Speaker 1: Sixes organization felt like that was an ethic performance that
Speaker 1: he put forth on that Sunday afternoon, that game one
Speaker 1: and the one thirty six one thirty loss to the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Clippers. So that's a good word. I didn't
Speaker 1: expect that one right away, but I'll take it. I
Speaker 1: think epicness can certainly apply to the Clippers game. I mean,
Speaker 1: how you scored thirty nine points Sunday afternoon National TVU,
Speaker 1: tying NBA record for thirteen consecutive made three pointers of
Speaker 1: her parts of three games. That's epic. I think it
Speaker 1: would have been almost impossible for anyone to have epic
Speaker 1: four for four on a road trip like that. But
Speaker 1: the good news was I mean, I really do feel
Speaker 1: like he backed it up. I mean, you said, yeah,
Speaker 1: when Lebron James is marking you the next time out
Speaker 1: against the Lakers, you've arrived at a different place. But
Speaker 1: he had the great game against Sacramento, solid performance against
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. And for Shake, I think this
Speaker 1: is the most important thing is just continuing to string
Speaker 1: together good performances. He's now reached double figures in six
Speaker 1: straight starts. On Twitter at six Ers FGSN Lindell Whirling
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers fangirl during the game on last Sunday,
Speaker 1: she chimed in saying watching Shake was electrifying. That only
Speaker 1: because he plays soho well, but because he has a spark.
Speaker 1: He had fun and it showed. I think especially during
Speaker 1: this time right now in the seventy six or shorthanded,
Speaker 1: they're trying to stockpile as many wins as they can
Speaker 1: to get into the top four, where yeah, you need
Speaker 1: spark guys, you need guys who are out there playing loose,
Speaker 1: because I think that for better or worse. Regardless of
Speaker 1: how the Sixers turned out in terms of wins and
Speaker 1: losses on that road trip, I did feel like for
Speaker 1: the most part they played loose, free, upbeat, energetic style.
Speaker 1: He definitely looked like he provided a spark to the
Speaker 1: team when needed. He was very confident with the shots
Speaker 1: that he was taking, didn't seem I thought itself was
Speaker 1: one of the most important things to be rattled at all,
Speaker 1: even when Lebron James was on him. The best part
Speaker 1: about that is just being smart. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: attack Lebron James and bast spots what I don't need
Speaker 1: him too, because that's the utmost respect and all. I
Speaker 1: also thought in the Clipper game in the second half
Speaker 1: started the third quarter, really the utmost respect was when
Speaker 1: they decided, all right, we've had enough. As good as
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverley is, he was in foul trouble in that
Speaker 1: particular game, Paul, George, that's your guy right there now,
Speaker 1: so you go out there again. And while but George
Speaker 1: didn't a decent job in the third quarter, I thought
Speaker 1: shake Milton responded to your point about the Lebron James factor.
Speaker 1: Thought of responded in the fourth quarter by putting up
Speaker 1: some good numbers, trying to surge on and put put
Speaker 1: the six is back in the position to win. It
Speaker 1: only lost by six in that game. But a lot
Speaker 1: of it had to do with what he was able
Speaker 1: to do, figuring out things out of the locker room,
Speaker 1: out of the time I was going into the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter that needed to be done. It was unafraid of
Speaker 1: taking the big shots in the big moments, and I
Speaker 1: just felt like he was never rushed, was poised with
Speaker 1: what he was doing, and that carried over and even
Speaker 1: though the numbers didn't say so in the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Lakers game, let's just say three of the four games
Speaker 1: in that West Coast trip, he was in very very
Speaker 1: very good control of what he wanted to do, both
Speaker 1: with the basketball and away from the basketball, looking poised.
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you that he is regardless of
Speaker 1: what happens whenever Ben Simmons returns and Josh Richardson is back.
Speaker 1: Shake has established himself as a rotation caliber player, But
Speaker 1: where do you think he might fit in presume the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers at some point before the end of
Speaker 1: the regular season regained full health. If they regained full health,
Speaker 1: celton y'all hope they do getting ready for the postseason.
Speaker 1: You want to see them at their best. They've had
Speaker 1: issues over the past two seasons where one thing or
Speaker 1: another with Indeed and his health and Simmons and some things,
Speaker 1: some small things. I think he's earned the right down
Speaker 1: the stretch. As our last tweeter just spoke about the
Speaker 1: fact that he's electrifying and doing the things that he's doing,
Speaker 1: interjecting that extra kind of push within the lineup that
Speaker 1: he deserves to be a starter for the remainder of
Speaker 1: the season, just to provide something totally different, a second
Speaker 1: and third ball handler on the floor with Simmons and Richardson.
Speaker 1: The ability to shoot the way that he's doing once again,
Speaker 1: not at a sixty five percent clip, but that just
Speaker 1: goes to show that it may not be a fluke
Speaker 1: and he can shoot the basketball. So I believe he
Speaker 1: should be in the starting line for the remainder of
Speaker 1: the eighteen games and when the full health hopefully returns
Speaker 1: for the seventy six Ers, stay there. If you bring
Speaker 1: out Horford off the bench, it doesn't matter if Shakers
Speaker 1: in there for the closing minutes. If it regards to defense,
Speaker 1: al Horford can still be out there in the closing lineup.
Speaker 1: But to start the games off, get off to a
Speaker 1: really good start. It will allow your defense to take
Speaker 1: you home later. Ron, Shake Milton. I believe it deserves
Speaker 1: to be in the starting lineup. Shake Milton. A great
Speaker 1: storyline for the seventy six ers during the four game
Speaker 1: road trip out West. Another storyline was that the team
Speaker 1: got some decent contributions from the two relative newcomers, Glenn
Speaker 1: Robinson the third and Alec Burks. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in just a second, but divid, I'm gonna hit up
Speaker 1: auction item number one that perhaps might intrigue the people
Speaker 1: out there, depending on what tax bracket you're in. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do it. There is the Allen iverson meet and Greek.
Speaker 1: But first let's just throw this out there. How do
Speaker 1: you bid on items in the silent auction? You go
Speaker 1: to Sixers Youth Foundation dot Org. At the top of
Speaker 1: the page, there's a tab gala. Then go to the
Speaker 1: drop down menu click on Silent Auction. That will take
Speaker 1: you to the Silent Auction website and item number one
Speaker 1: O one right there at the top is an Alan
Speaker 1: Iverson Meet and Greet experience. Your chance to eat seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers Hall of Famer Alan Iverson at a home game.
Speaker 1: The package includes a meet and greet with Alan Iverson,
Speaker 1: photo opportunity with AI, four tickets to a mutually agreed
Speaker 1: upon twenty twenty twenty twenty one seventy six Ers regular
Speaker 1: season home game. I mean that should be pretty cool, right,
Speaker 1: that should be pretty cool. Do I get to meet
Speaker 1: and greet Alan Iverson as well? You could if you
Speaker 1: are so too right willing to part ways with the
Speaker 1: amount of shekels that it were required to have a
Speaker 1: meet and greet with Alan Iverson. But I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: like when you think of athletes present and pass at
Speaker 1: least in Philadelphia sports history, that you could have like
Speaker 1: an unfiltered conversation or night with and night could be
Speaker 1: an all uncompassing type praise. I mean, Alan Iverson's got
Speaker 1: to be the top of the list, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would think so. The way he makes fans feel whenever
Speaker 1: he's interacts with them one on one, and the certainly
Speaker 1: when we see him in the center during these games,
Speaker 1: I would think that he would be at the top
Speaker 1: of most people's list. A genuine guy, someone who still
Speaker 1: pays close attention to the seventy sixers, and you can
Speaker 1: have that conversation with him. That would be an ideal
Speaker 1: meet and Greek for myself. Yes, all right, So once
Speaker 1: again Sixers Youth Foundation dot Org. Go to the gallatab
Speaker 1: click silent auction and you can bid on item number
Speaker 1: one on one in addition to many other items and
Speaker 1: oudem one on one as a meet and greet with
Speaker 1: Alan iverson silent Auction ends at ten o'clock Eastern on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday night. All right, we talked a bit about
Speaker 1: Shake Milton. Want to now shift the folks to the
Speaker 1: chat divan to the two guys the Sixers picked up
Speaker 1: from the team they played last on the road trip.
Speaker 1: That would be the Golden State Warriors, and the two
Speaker 1: players would be Glenn Robinson the third and Alec Burks.
Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson the third, he had a great showing against
Speaker 1: the Lakers, scoring twenty five points in that game and
Speaker 1: was relatively solid on the road trip. Had a fifteen
Speaker 1: point performance against Golden State and then Alec Burks. Each
Speaker 1: of the four games and the road trip he scored
Speaker 1: in double figures aside from the Lakers game, shot the
Speaker 1: ball relatively well from three point territory to decently rebanden
Speaker 1: the ball. Let's do a touch base about a month
Speaker 1: into these guys being on the seventy six ers, where
Speaker 1: do you see their presence being felt the most? Basically
Speaker 1: still trying to find their way. They are firmly in
Speaker 1: the rotation because what they bring offensively and defensively, for
Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson, the outside shooting, the slashing and cutting and
Speaker 1: the wing defense. And for Alec Burks the one on
Speaker 1: one ability to get to the basket and finished at
Speaker 1: the room with contact and even his passing ability or
Speaker 1: shooting from the perimeter. Both players provide something and that's
Speaker 1: why Elton Brand decided to go out there and acquire
Speaker 1: both in that deal with the Golden State Wars and
Speaker 1: you started to see a little bit more being away
Speaker 1: from Philadelphia, having the time to be with your teammates,
Speaker 1: get a little more comfortable, getting a little more comfortable
Speaker 1: with the system overall and knowing that you're going to
Speaker 1: get some time out there on the floor. That's key
Speaker 1: for a lot of players, as we know, to just
Speaker 1: know that their number is going to be called, know
Speaker 1: that they're needed, and a better understanding of what you're
Speaker 1: doing when you're out there on the floor definitely helps
Speaker 1: with their confidence in their psyche overall what they're doing.
Speaker 1: So showed out very well and hopefully that's something that
Speaker 1: can carry over for the remainder of the regular season
Speaker 1: heading into the playoffs. Listen, and even though the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers lost that game to the Lakers last week, I
Speaker 1: thought one of the biggest things was that Robinson Third
Speaker 1: finally had like a breakout game where he saw shots
Speaker 1: go down. He knocked down ten of his fifteen field
Speaker 1: goal attempts, three for five from outside the arc. And
Speaker 1: while there's still ways to go, the hope is, of
Speaker 1: course that this is something that he can build upon.
Speaker 1: Like you were talking about that confidence, but maybe sometimes
Speaker 1: that's what it takes new guy, new setting, trying to
Speaker 1: figure out his role in everything, and it could just
Speaker 1: take hopefully a performance like that to recalibrate some things
Speaker 1: and get them going, and you're right, followed it up
Speaker 1: with another good performance against his former team, the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors, carry that over into the final eighteen, and
Speaker 1: then you really have something in terms of someone who
Speaker 1: can come in from multiple players and play positions from two,
Speaker 1: three to four depending on what Brett Brown would like
Speaker 1: to do in a small ball situation. And yes, twenty
Speaker 1: five points against the Los Angeles Lakers, looking very confident.
Speaker 1: Now starting to see him get his footing with the
Speaker 1: team and again just just pushing, hissing, putting his best
Speaker 1: foot forward and getting into the right situation overall on
Speaker 1: the floor and being a positive instead of a negative
Speaker 1: for the team. Burks to me, seems like a guy
Speaker 1: who definitely doesn't lack for confidence, you know, not at all,
Speaker 1: not at all. And there was one game where I
Speaker 1: thought he got a little. It was actually the Clippers
Speaker 1: game early on when the seventy sixers were on their
Speaker 1: run shooting a very high percentage from the floor. The
Speaker 1: reserves came in, Alec Burks being one of them, and
Speaker 1: I actually thought four minute there he took some ill
Speaker 1: advised shots and just because the things that were going
Speaker 1: the way that they were going, he felt like, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm in my group. This is my type
Speaker 1: of game. I'm gonna do exactly what they've been doing
Speaker 1: out here. And he missed a few, and then Clippers
Speaker 1: were allowed to make their run and close the gap
Speaker 1: a little bit as we got into the halftime. And
Speaker 1: after that he settled down a little bit and he
Speaker 1: was a key part to the second half for the team.
Speaker 1: But after that, between the Lakers and the Kings and
Speaker 1: even the Warriors game, you saw what we saw from
Speaker 1: Alec Brooks while he was a member of the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors, where he averages a career high sixteen points.
Speaker 1: It was very steady, very under control, some good looks,
Speaker 1: some good shots, some big shots for the seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: and I look forward to see what else he has
Speaker 1: with his team going down the stretch. Well, listen, if
Speaker 1: it's a lightning in the bottle type presence that the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers were hoping to get and Alec Burks, I
Speaker 1: think that goes back to what you were saying. Sometimes
Speaker 1: there might be a willingness to shoot factor and could
Speaker 1: have worked against you maybe, but other times the hope
Speaker 1: is is that there's enough in there where it lends
Speaker 1: itself to a productive and good situation where, especially in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you need a game or just a big performance.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many times do we see me that
Speaker 1: some guy catches fire in a can turn certainly game around,
Speaker 1: even extreme sense a series. Yeah, absolutely, twenty five against
Speaker 1: for Glenn Robinson. Can you do that in a big
Speaker 1: game where it means a lot for this team going forward? Maybe?
Speaker 1: And you just flash back to the Lakers game, the
Speaker 1: same thing with Alec Burks where he was able to
Speaker 1: pick up the slack for the team in certain certain
Speaker 1: times when it called for him to absolutely do that.
Speaker 1: So you just love to see it and you hope
Speaker 1: that everything plays out the way it should with these
Speaker 1: guys now within the rotation. Someone who loved talking about
Speaker 1: those performances, especially that of Glenn Robinson. The third against
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Speaker 1: you get from number one eighteen, the Tom again his experience,
Speaker 1: Your chance to spend a game with our guy T Mac.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? No, we aren't. This is the
Speaker 1: real deal. Meet and greet with t Mac for a
Speaker 1: game next season. Take two guests to sit with Tom
Speaker 1: for a quarter to watch him call a game, and
Speaker 1: that is certainly an experience in and of itself. Tom
Speaker 1: will then record a personalized voicemail. Who wouldn't want that?
Speaker 1: And you also have the chance to watch pregame warmups
Speaker 1: just like Tom does, sit in courtside before the game.
Speaker 1: You get two tickets to a mutually agreed upon seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers home game in the twenty twenty twenty twenty one season.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing I think a lot of people can
Speaker 1: agree the like listening to Tom call seventy Sixers game
Speaker 1: on the radio. But I think that even the enthusiasm
Speaker 1: you hear on the air undersells the enthusiasm that he
Speaker 1: brings with his mannerisms in person. When you actually get
Speaker 1: to watch him call a game, you have no idea
Speaker 1: what you are in store for. Go out there and
Speaker 1: did on this one, because as you just pointed out,
Speaker 1: it's a little business leading. You can hear it, you
Speaker 1: feel it through the radio. Well, when you are there,
Speaker 1: you actually want to just go and grab a uniform
Speaker 1: and run on the floor yourself the way Tom presents
Speaker 1: the game. So this is a great one. And I
Speaker 1: might actually on the side, but still have to put
Speaker 1: up some money ask him to record something for me
Speaker 1: as well. Right Who knew that that was even something
Speaker 1: that Team Mac was offering. I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I know the cats out of the bag. We might
Speaker 1: have to hit him up for a few personal favors,
Speaker 1: how about that? All right? That side of number one
Speaker 1: eighteen the time againis experience for the Sixers Youth Foundation
Speaker 1: GALLA Silent Auction going until ten on Wednesday night six
Speaker 1: Ers Youth Foundation dot org. Click the gal tab and
Speaker 1: then Silent Auction. Before we wrap this episode of the
Speaker 1: Pot Up, Devon want to hit a couple grab bag
Speaker 1: mixed bag topics that we saw emerge from the road trip.
Speaker 1: Al Horford devon doing some pretty good things in the
Speaker 1: games in the seventy sixers were on the road. He
Speaker 1: had twenty two and ten against the Warriors and the
Speaker 1: loss on satur the game before that against the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 1: He was like the driving force, the anchor, the catalyst
Speaker 1: to what the seventy sixers are doing on offense. Plus
Speaker 1: forty one in thirty six minutes. That's a little bit
Speaker 1: of an insane number that you probably wouldn't anticipate someone
Speaker 1: getting game in and game out, But that game, to me,
Speaker 1: that was like the vintage Al Horford type performance eighteen
Speaker 1: eight six, promoting ball movement and just being a well
Speaker 1: rounded anchor for the team. Oh, you used my word.
Speaker 1: I was going to say anchor as well, and we
Speaker 1: think alike, and that's why we always do these the
Speaker 1: plus forty one and I'm not being on the plus minus,
Speaker 1: but when something jumps off the page the way it does,
Speaker 1: that clearly means that person was doing something very well
Speaker 1: to the tune of a plus forty one with the
Speaker 1: eighteen eight and six, and you're right, that is a
Speaker 1: vintage out Hoor for performance, and even in another game.
Speaker 1: I believe he had fifteen seven and seven in another game,
Speaker 1: and that's said, man, see, that's an out hoord for performance.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to give you twenty seven to thirty
Speaker 1: to really have an impact on the game. It's the
Speaker 1: solid defense, it is to communicating on defense. It's the
Speaker 1: passing that he's doing. It's the screen setting that he
Speaker 1: employs out there on the floor to allow things to happen,
Speaker 1: not only for himself but for his teammates. And he
Speaker 1: played very well. The question is going forward, as you
Speaker 1: asked me a little bit earlier, the question you throw
Speaker 1: out about what the role is for Shake Milton, does
Speaker 1: he stay and starting lineup? Is he coming off the bench?
Speaker 1: Glynn Robinson, the third, Alec Briks, so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: What do you do with al Horford after seeing what
Speaker 1: he has done for the team in the absence of
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid on this four game road trips. I'm intrigued
Speaker 1: by that going forward as we get ready to of
Speaker 1: course take on the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday, but also
Speaker 1: just getting a sense of what Brett Brown wants to
Speaker 1: do when in B finally returns to the floor, you
Speaker 1: keep Al Horford on the floor as they power forward,
Speaker 1: or do you now continue to bring him off the
Speaker 1: bench as that five for the second unit? Will the
Speaker 1: best on Twitter set? That was the type of TOURDHRF
Speaker 1: performance we've come to expect, right, right, that's pretty clear
Speaker 1: and yeah, that is something that harkens back to the
Speaker 1: to the prime mode of Al Horford. And listen, I
Speaker 1: think that to your point, Don about where does Al
Speaker 1: Horford end up once the seventy sixers if they're able
Speaker 1: to regain full health before the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I think this is the type of thing that Brett
Speaker 1: Brown was talking about over the course of that four
Speaker 1: game road trip. It's like, even before you get into
Speaker 1: results the team win or lose, the hope is they
Speaker 1: develop something and are able to find tangible takeaways that
Speaker 1: they could then apply to the way the team functions
Speaker 1: when they have a full strength roster. And if one
Speaker 1: of those takeaways is let's take a look at the
Speaker 1: grouping that Al Horford was best with in that game
Speaker 1: against the Sacramento Kings. We see what he did, we
Speaker 1: saw the type of numbers he put up, and then
Speaker 1: that's something that they can mirror in a game or
Speaker 1: simulate when the Sixers are at full strength, Well, then
Speaker 1: all is not lost, you know. I think that speaks
Speaker 1: to the bigger picture for the Sixers. We're looking to
Speaker 1: find and are continuing to try and search for during
Speaker 1: this shorthanded stretch, right and you take away from what
Speaker 1: you can get whatever game it is, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: the opponent. And while where they are still fighting for
Speaker 1: a playoff spot in the Western Conference, they're never going
Speaker 1: to be confused for the Milwaukee Bucks as one of
Speaker 1: the top teams in the NBA. But it was an
Speaker 1: NBA team, an NBA team that's still playing for something,
Speaker 1: and al Horfer went out there to do what he
Speaker 1: needed to do with that unit, that group that you're
Speaker 1: speaking of, and it's something to look back on in
Speaker 1: their film study speak about it. Of course, is one
Speaker 1: of your veteran leaders to see what exactly he can
Speaker 1: do to fit for the remainder of the season. If
Speaker 1: that's the case and it has to go that way.
Speaker 1: Once again, we spoke about it earlier that just because
Speaker 1: he doesn't start doesn't mean he will not be part
Speaker 1: of a closing lineup at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Because he is that crucial, that important to the team's success,
Speaker 1: and especially how the game is being played, What is happening,
Speaker 1: what kind of impact is he having, and what can
Speaker 1: he do to help drive us to a win. So
Speaker 1: it was encouraging to see it. He's had his struggles
Speaker 1: over the past up the weeks which resulted in this
Speaker 1: new new spots for him on the team and let's
Speaker 1: just see though, if they can build off of this
Speaker 1: and maybe find something the right button to push, whether
Speaker 1: it be from game to game or just simply setting
Speaker 1: one place for him within that rotation. Still playing twenty
Speaker 1: five plus minutes which our starter minutes, and seeing how
Speaker 1: he impacts the game. Overall, very good road trip for him.
Speaker 1: You would like the wins to go with it. But
Speaker 1: encouraging from an individual perspective as well. Jaikin went on
Speaker 1: Instagram said, hi at Seltzer six or snaps happy face.
Speaker 1: When I asked, what do we think of Tobias Harris
Speaker 1: picking up his scoring over the last couple of games.
Speaker 1: You had the thirty four point game against the next
Speaker 1: twenty five against the Clippers, twenty eight against Sacramento, twenty
Speaker 1: four against Golden State. Thought he had some timely buckets
Speaker 1: in crunch time against the Warriors, and fortunately the Sixers
Speaker 1: just weren't able to pull out that. When his scoring
Speaker 1: has gone up during a stretched di on which the
Speaker 1: Sixers have been missing three other top players and starters
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, Joe and beating Josh Richardson, how do you
Speaker 1: feel Tobias has been doing? And that is very true.
Speaker 1: He's averaging nineteen points on the season, and he's picked
Speaker 1: up his play something that I have personally been calling
Speaker 1: for for him to give more in the absence of
Speaker 1: in beating Simmons. There's just something a little bit where
Speaker 1: I want more, even when he gives that that twenty
Speaker 1: five and that that twenty three, giving you fourteen rebounds
Speaker 1: and they win against the Sacramento Kings to go along
Speaker 1: with the twenty eight points, fantastic, fair, unfair. There's just
Speaker 1: something about Tobias Harris when no one else is there
Speaker 1: in terms of Simmons and embeat and he's the third scorer,
Speaker 1: the guy you're relying on to put points on the board.
Speaker 1: I can't help myself but want a little bit more
Speaker 1: as good as he has been, something a little bit
Speaker 1: more impactful, impactful that we know led to a w
Speaker 1: for the team when they needed it the most. So
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm being unfair, Hey, I apologize. I think
Speaker 1: I just look at it and say I expect so
Speaker 1: much from him now with being one of the key
Speaker 1: contributors to this basketball team, why I want a little
Speaker 1: bit more from Tobias Hairs as we continue this season.
Speaker 1: I think Tobias would say the same thing. And this
Speaker 1: is not to suggest that he would be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to play in a situation where we don't
Speaker 1: have our two young cornerstones in Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: But he's talked this season about having always wanted to
Speaker 1: be in a situation where he would be called upon
Speaker 1: for scoring in meaningful games, in late game situations, being
Speaker 1: a primary option if need be. So I think that
Speaker 1: that's I think that's what he wants. I continue to
Speaker 1: be impressed at times with how he's able to use
Speaker 1: different parts of his offensive attack to set up others.
Speaker 1: I think he has maintained a level of consistency over
Speaker 1: the course of this season that for the most part,
Speaker 1: has been pretty solid. But there's no question that right
Speaker 1: now the Sixers need every bit of him, and then
Speaker 1: under the current set of circumstances. Absolutely, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say it if I didn't think he was capable of
Speaker 1: doing it. And to your point of him agreeing possibly
Speaker 1: with what I said, I feel comfortable with saying it
Speaker 1: because I know he would agree and say the exact
Speaker 1: same thing, that he needs to give more or could
Speaker 1: give more in order to help this team win and
Speaker 1: pick up the necessary wins that they need and try
Speaker 1: to push themselves a little bit higher, push that arrow
Speaker 1: up with their playoff positioning in the Eastern Conference. All right,
Speaker 1: one last auction I don't talk about before you close
Speaker 1: this thing down for the week. I don't number one
Speaker 1: thirty three. Now when it comes to the Sixers Youth
Speaker 1: Foundation gallop, it's not all about seventy sixers items, as
Speaker 1: great as they are. Other sports teams from the city
Speaker 1: lean in to help the cause. Have out field access
Speaker 1: for the Eagles home opener and a twenty twenty how
Speaker 1: about that? Look it's that bad, right, I've never been
Speaker 1: down there, so we might have to I might have
Speaker 1: to read up on this one a little bit more. Selves,
Speaker 1: give us a little more about that. All right, here
Speaker 1: we go, Here we go. We got the experience fit
Speaker 1: for the ultimate Eagles fan. It includes four tickets. Four
Speaker 1: tickets which is great and of itself to the homeowner
Speaker 1: at the Link, pregame field passes and not to be overlooked.
Speaker 1: I think this might be perhaps the most underrated item
Speaker 1: of the whole thing. A parking pass. You need that
Speaker 1: down there on a Sunday. You know, with all due respect,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about jet Row. This is gonna put
Speaker 1: you right at the Link in prime time parking territory.
Speaker 1: And there's also an opportunity for winners of this auction
Speaker 1: item to watch introductions from the Eagles tunnel awesome, and
Speaker 1: an opportunity to watch Doug Peterson's postgame press conference with
Speaker 1: the head coach. That's impressive. You know. So now with
Speaker 1: all these different items that you're sharing for the for
Speaker 1: the foundation, you know the one gift, Jeff that is
Speaker 1: out there with the kid and the calculator. Yes, trying
Speaker 1: to sit there and figure it out. That is me
Speaker 1: right now. I'm trying to figure it out, pressing all
Speaker 1: these number punching these numbers in to see what's going on.
Speaker 1: Great stuff. Six Ers Youth Foundation is a great cause.
Speaker 1: There are plenty of great items up forbid on the
Speaker 1: Silent Auction again. It ends Wednesday night at ten o'clock Eastern.
Speaker 1: Go to six Ers Youth Foundation dot org. Click on
Speaker 1: the Silent Auction tab under the gala icon at the
Speaker 1: top of the page, and that will show you a
Speaker 1: long list of fantastic items that you can bid on. Hey,
Speaker 1: it was certainly a bummer. I think everyone was disappointed
Speaker 1: that the six Or Youth Foundation fifth Annual Gala at
Speaker 1: twenty three hundred Arena in South Philadelphia had to be postponed.
Speaker 1: But listen, bigger picture issues are at play right now
Speaker 1: with the coronavirus, and certainly everyone's taken just the necessary
Speaker 1: precautions that they need. But the gala, all plans and
Speaker 1: intents and purposes is that it will be rescheduled at
Speaker 1: a later date. So we will just do a rain
Speaker 1: check on our live pot recording at that point in time,
Speaker 1: absolutely and look forward to it. All right, Divine, thank
Speaker 1: you very much, my man. We will speak again in
Speaker 1: short order on Wednesday when we have an episode of
Speaker 1: six Ers and sixty on the Sixers Flagship ninety seven
Speaker 1: five the Fanatic before the Sixers take on the Pistons. Yes,
Speaker 1: so hopefully everyone stop by and say hello to us
Speaker 1: on Wednesday evening and our location at the Center that
Speaker 1: night at the Diets and Watson Fanatic Broadcast table is
Speaker 1: behind section one oh seven one oh eight along the
Speaker 1: concourse first level, So please do, as Divin said, swing
Speaker 1: by and say what's up during our hour long six
Speaker 1: ers and sixties show. Thanks as always to Divine for
Speaker 1: spending time on the podcast. And hey, before we wrap
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Speaker 1: for listening to the podcast. We'll do it again next
Speaker 1: week and please do vigilant, aware and healthy take care
Speaker 1: of yourselves out there. Let's see you