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Now that you're hopefully hungry for some Wendy's, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.479 we hope you are hungry for some Hoops Talk too. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.720 Here's our new episode. The seventy six ers are back 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.680 from a week on the West Coast. No doubt they 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.880 can tued emergence of Shake Milton remained a major story. 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:11.600 Shake Milton Steals and I'm jab Shailers rates Begs In 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.520 LA ninety seven five, The fanatics Divin Gibbons rejoins the 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.399 pod and we'll talk about mister thirty nine points and 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.520 other takeaways from the team's trip on this episode of 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:27.120 the broadcast. Once up out there are seventy six Ers 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.400 pod people. Hope you're doing all rights. I'm Brian Seltzer. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.479 Thank you very much as always for checking out the podcast. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.120 Sixers are back in Camden after a week or so 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.120 on the road, and now after four games in the 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.480 Golden State, they're looking forward to a four game homestand 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.960 and hopefully looking to get back on track. We'll bring 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.600 on divine givens in just a moment or a minder 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.680 that to subscribe to the podcast, you can search our 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:57.080 feed wherever you get your podcasts, whether it's Spotify, Apple Podcasts, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:01.360 Google Podcasts, Pandora, Stitcher, tune in, SoundCloud, wherever it is. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.520 Just type in seventy Sixers podcast or Sixers Podcast Network 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.640 and that you take you to our feet. Please do 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:13.440 subscribe today. So the grand plan for this episode of 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.960 the podcast was to do it live, so to speak, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.560 at the fifth annual Sixers Youth Foundation Gala, which was 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.880 supposed to be held in South Philadelphia on Monday, March ninth. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.440 Like many of the things involving our regular routines and 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.680 daily lives these days. The Youth Foundation Gala was affected 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.880 and postponed as a result of the increased focus on 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:43.000 public health surrounding the coronavirus and especially as it concerns 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.639 amateur and professional sports teams and players, and the advisement 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.320 that leagues are getting from public health officials as to 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.680 how to exercise best practices in terms of health caution 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.959 these days. So the Sixers Youth Foundation Gala, it was postponed, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.480 owned it will be rescheduled. But as we welcome Devon 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.840 Givens back to the podcast, we still wanted to spend 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.520 a portion of this episode of the pot embracing the 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.680 philanthropic spirit of what we were going to do with 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.400 the episode at the Sixers Youth Foundation Gala, and that 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.920 was to promote a handful of the many great items 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.760 available as part of the Sixers Youth Foundation Silent online auction. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.720 You can go to Sixers Youth Foundation dot org until 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:31.520 Wednesday night, March the eleventh, at ten pm Eastern to 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.360 bid on a bunch of fantastic items that Devon and 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.560 I are going to talk about over the course of 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:42.720 the podcast. All Right, without further ado, mister Givens takeaways 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.080 from you, Why don't we start here from the seventy 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.160 six ers one and three road trip? Your thoughts, well, 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.320 I think the one thing that we did learn is 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.320 it is time to see Shake Milton in the regular 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.000 rotation in some way, shape or form. For Brett Brown 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.119 in the seventy six is with the uncertainty right now 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.720 of the of Ben Simmons and even Josh Richardson due 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.720 to the contusion to the nose and the protocol for 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.440 the concussion that he suffered on the road in that 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.960 Clipper game. The way that Shake Milton performed in the 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.520 thirty nine point performance against the Los Angeles Clippers a 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.520 different game against the Lakers because so much attention was 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.640 paid to him after that performance against the Clippers. He 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.480 really did show out well against both the Kings and 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.880 the Golden State Warriors, and back to back games to 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.599 close out that four game West Coast trip. So despite 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.360 the one in three record, you certainly want something better, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.000 hopefully a split tough loss to Golden State on Saturday 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.600 evening at the new Chase Center in San Francisco. But 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.480 Shake Milton has shown you so many different things, from 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.800 the ability to shoot the basketball, which was part of 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.840 his scattering report coming out of SMU, handling the point 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:52.160 guard duties, handling defenses, outside of, of course, the Los 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.480 Angeles Laker game where most of the focus was on him, 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.880 and I'm sure there were some different things also with 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.320 the scattering report and both the Kings and the Warriors game, 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.679 but really showing himself well as a starting point guard 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.760 in this league, a rotational player that you would think, 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.880 at least for the remainder of the season, with the 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.679 eighteen games remaining for this campaign, that he has proven 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.600 to be worthy of the minutes that Brett Brown will 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.839 likely give him going forward. What do you remember hearing 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.080 about Shake Devine when the Sixers drafted him. I always 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.320 felt like they were really high on him, and if 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.640 it hadn't been for the injury he suffered in his 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.560 junior season at SMU, I mean, I think people were 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.520 talking about him like he could have been first round 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.039 worthy talent. Absolutely that was the talk at the time. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.640 He was a late first round pick who could probably 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.200 push himself up a little bit higher in the first 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.080 round in that particular draft. But the injury happened at SMU, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.520 he ultimately fell deep into the second round a little 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.479 bit surprising there too as well. So it's because I 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.520 thought that he would still find himself in those early 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.960 high parts of the second round where people take those 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.440 gambles on guys that they feel like are still late, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.320 late first round picks, someone that they can develop, been 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.400 put into maybe their G league system, and ultimately evolved 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.920 into the player that were starting to see late into 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.000 his second year of his career. But that was really 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.760 it for me that he was able to fall. The 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.040 Sixes were did enough of a good job in terms 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.880 of scouting him, lucky enough again that he fell so 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:22.560 deep in the fifties to acquire him and seeing him 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.039 up close and with the ability to come in although 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.599 one of the other things being a slight frame, could 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.839 he handle the contact and the rigors of the NBA 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.919 because his body is still developing as a player overall, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.839 but skill wise, he had so many things that lends 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.480 to success in the NBA. Shake Milton has started the 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.039 last seven games for the seventy six ers, and since 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.400 Ben Simmons went out early against the Milwaukee Bucks. In 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.600 that second game back from the All Star break, Shake 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.359 had seven points in his first start against Atlanta, but 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.359 then some of the numbers since then have just been awesome. 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.599 The twenty point game against Cleveland, he had nineteen against 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.799 the nick when he went five for five from outside 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:03.880 the arc, as we talked about right from the jump, 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.360 the thirty nine point game against the Clippers, twenty points 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.280 in the win versus Sacramento. During the last six games, 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.720 d shake averaging just under twenty one points per game, 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:18.320 shooting almost sixty five percent from three point territory, four assists. 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.360 I mean, that's just outstanding stuff. Twenty two three pointers 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.480 on thirty four attempts during that stretch. I mean, he 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.720 is really I think even emerging into that much more 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.160 than what the Sixers probably could have hoped too, because 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.880 he just, you know, he seems to take everything in stride. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.880 I remember that when we spoke before the Lakers game 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.760 in Philly, which was a game that he started, A 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.680 big question was, you know, he had to fill in 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.360 that game because Josh Richardson didn't play. Would he be rattled, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.560 would he be phased? I mean, aside from the first 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.680 two minutes in that game, Like, I feel he has 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.520 been as cool of a customer as you could have expected. Absolutely, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.320 And you talk about the of course the Laker game 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.679 and how well he performed in that one here and 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.360 even though the numbers weren't high, he looked comfortable on 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.920 the floor. And I think one also another takeaway that 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.120 I take from all of which you just read out 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.320 and what we have witnessed with the time out there 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:07.880 in the floor, it just seems self that it just 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.880 looks real. It looks like he belongs out there. And 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:12.920 we're not gonna say he's gonna shoot sixty five percent 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.960 going forward, because that's just ridiculous, But that just goes 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.560 to show that there was something there in terms of 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.480 an outside shooter with what he has been able to 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.360 do on what is Kate's capable of doing. And that 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.440 twenty point performance against the Cleveland Cavaliers, if you remember, 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.800 another disappointing loss on the road for the team, but 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.560 a bright spot was shake Milton, who never let up, 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.920 who kept pushing, who kept fighting to the very end, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.800 and ended up with a team high twenty points in 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.360 that loss to the Cleveland Cavalier. So something to build 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.680 off of it, and there was something that they saw 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:44.800 from the time he was with the Blue Coach last 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.360 year in the G League system rewarding him from taking 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.719 his two way contract away and giving him an NBA contract, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.520 And as it has taken a while, While it has 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.280 taken a while for him to get to this spot, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.960 it's a good time and they need him. They need 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.679 him most at this time right now to really get 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.520 into the groove that he is in because of the 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.760 uncertainty of both Richardson and Senmens with his injuries, and 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.199 he has been a very bright spot for this team 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.160 so far. Ay bring up a good point. I mean, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.040 he has been through a lot, don't you think. Yeah, 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.120 broke in hand, the injuries that he suffered in and 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.360 out of the lineup, going back and forth between Delaware 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:26.480 and Philadelphia, other players maybe getting some minutes before him 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.040 where I'm sure he felt he was always ready to go. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.480 And I remember a conversation you and I had with 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.000 himselves last season before one of the games where we 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.640 spoke to him for one of our shows, and he 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.760 just still bringing with that confidence, never let his head down, 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.320 didn't feel sorry for himself, just said he was going 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.720 to continue to work, continue to do the work that 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.760 he needs to do with the player of development, coaches 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.080 and trying to find his way on the floor and 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.240 be ready when his number is called, and his number 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.240 is being called right now, and he's answered the bell 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.040 every now and then, we solicit your feedback some comments 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.600 on our old social channels. Divins at devon G nine 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.880 seventy five. I'm at Brian Seltzer on Twitter also Seltzer 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.559 six or snaps on Instagram. On Instagram, Divina throw out there, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.920 you know, just what did people think of Shakes road 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:16.600 trip and at B B B N N thirty two 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:23.200 just had one simple word in all caps, epic nous, epicness. Okay, 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.079 I didn't expect that one, but I'm sure Shake Milton 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.000 would be excited to hear that one while you While 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.240 you guys were in Los Angeles, he was able to 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.040 go on the jump, and everyone in the NBA circles 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.280 were talking about his performance against the Los Angeles Clippers, 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.400 and I'm sure between he, his family and even the 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.079 Sixes organization felt like that was an ethic performance that 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.120 he put forth on that Sunday afternoon, that game one 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.360 and the one thirty six one thirty loss to the 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.480 Los Angeles Clippers. So that's a good word. I didn't 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.760 expect that one right away, but I'll take it. I 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.520 think epicness can certainly apply to the Clippers game. I mean, 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.680 how you scored thirty nine points Sunday afternoon National TVU, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.679 tying NBA record for thirteen consecutive made three pointers of 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.079 her parts of three games. That's epic. I think it 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.600 would have been almost impossible for anyone to have epic 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.199 four for four on a road trip like that. But 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.600 the good news was I mean, I really do feel 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.920 like he backed it up. I mean, you said, yeah, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.280 when Lebron James is marking you the next time out 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.440 against the Lakers, you've arrived at a different place. But 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.600 he had the great game against Sacramento, solid performance against 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.000 the Golden State Warriors. And for Shake, I think this 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.400 is the most important thing is just continuing to string 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.000 together good performances. He's now reached double figures in six 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:40.720 straight starts. On Twitter at six Ers FGSN Lindell Whirling 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.439 seventy six Ers fangirl during the game on last Sunday, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.280 she chimed in saying watching Shake was electrifying. That only 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.000 because he plays soho well, but because he has a spark. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.200 He had fun and it showed. I think especially during 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.400 this time right now in the seventy six or shorthanded, 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.480 they're trying to stockpile as many wins as they can 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.319 to get into the top four, where yeah, you need 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.760 spark guys, you need guys who are out there playing loose, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.080 because I think that for better or worse. Regardless of 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.720 how the Sixers turned out in terms of wins and 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.960 losses on that road trip, I did feel like for 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.600 the most part they played loose, free, upbeat, energetic style. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.800 He definitely looked like he provided a spark to the 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.760 team when needed. He was very confident with the shots 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.520 that he was taking, didn't seem I thought itself was 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.320 one of the most important things to be rattled at all, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.960 even when Lebron James was on him. The best part 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.800 about that is just being smart. I'm not going to 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.960 attack Lebron James and bast spots what I don't need 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.280 him too, because that's the utmost respect and all. I 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.680 also thought in the Clipper game in the second half 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.480 started the third quarter, really the utmost respect was when 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.440 they decided, all right, we've had enough. As good as 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.040 Patrick Beverley is, he was in foul trouble in that 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.760 particular game, Paul, George, that's your guy right there now, 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.960 so you go out there again. And while but George 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.080 didn't a decent job in the third quarter, I thought 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.040 shake Milton responded to your point about the Lebron James factor. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.120 Thought of responded in the fourth quarter by putting up 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.160 some good numbers, trying to surge on and put put 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:03.839 the six is back in the position to win. It 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.360 only lost by six in that game. But a lot 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.240 of it had to do with what he was able 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:12.000 to do, figuring out things out of the locker room, 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:13.720 out of the time I was going into the fourth 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.920 quarter that needed to be done. It was unafraid of 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.680 taking the big shots in the big moments, and I 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.560 just felt like he was never rushed, was poised with 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.680 what he was doing, and that carried over and even 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.680 though the numbers didn't say so in the Los Angeles 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.360 Lakers game, let's just say three of the four games 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.920 in that West Coast trip, he was in very very 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.240 very good control of what he wanted to do, both 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.360 with the basketball and away from the basketball, looking poised. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.760 I totally agree with you that he is regardless of 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.960 what happens whenever Ben Simmons returns and Josh Richardson is back. 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.400 Shake has established himself as a rotation caliber player, But 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.240 where do you think he might fit in presume the 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.000 seventy six ers at some point before the end of 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:59.319 the regular season regained full health. If they regained full health, 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.240 celton y'all hope they do getting ready for the postseason. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:03.760 You want to see them at their best. They've had 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.440 issues over the past two seasons where one thing or 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:10.400 another with Indeed and his health and Simmons and some things, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.000 some small things. I think he's earned the right down 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.520 the stretch. As our last tweeter just spoke about the 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.360 fact that he's electrifying and doing the things that he's doing, 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:25.680 interjecting that extra kind of push within the lineup that 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.920 he deserves to be a starter for the remainder of 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.000 the season, just to provide something totally different, a second 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.760 and third ball handler on the floor with Simmons and Richardson. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.120 The ability to shoot the way that he's doing once again, 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.720 not at a sixty five percent clip, but that just 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.160 goes to show that it may not be a fluke 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.800 and he can shoot the basketball. So I believe he 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.960 should be in the starting line for the remainder of 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.000 the eighteen games and when the full health hopefully returns 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.640 for the seventy six Ers, stay there. If you bring 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.280 out Horford off the bench, it doesn't matter if Shakers 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.840 in there for the closing minutes. If it regards to defense, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.720 al Horford can still be out there in the closing lineup. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.400 But to start the games off, get off to a 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.680 really good start. It will allow your defense to take 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.040 you home later. Ron, Shake Milton. I believe it deserves 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.560 to be in the starting lineup. Shake Milton. A great 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.120 storyline for the seventy six ers during the four game 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.520 road trip out West. Another storyline was that the team 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.320 got some decent contributions from the two relative newcomers, Glenn 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.840 Robinson the third and Alec Burks. We'll talk about that 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.920 in just a second, but divid, I'm gonna hit up 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.920 auction item number one that perhaps might intrigue the people 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.640 out there, depending on what tax bracket you're in. All right, 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.960 let's do it. There is the Allen iverson meet and Greek. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.880 But first let's just throw this out there. How do 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.160 you bid on items in the silent auction? You go 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.040 to Sixers Youth Foundation dot Org. At the top of 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.120 the page, there's a tab gala. Then go to the 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.920 drop down menu click on Silent Auction. That will take 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.120 you to the Silent Auction website and item number one 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.280 O one right there at the top is an Alan 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.640 Iverson Meet and Greet experience. Your chance to eat seventy 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.440 six Ers Hall of Famer Alan Iverson at a home game. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.120 The package includes a meet and greet with Alan Iverson, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:10.280 photo opportunity with AI, four tickets to a mutually agreed 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.920 upon twenty twenty twenty twenty one seventy six Ers regular 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:19.000 season home game. I mean that should be pretty cool, right, 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.480 that should be pretty cool. Do I get to meet 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.600 and greet Alan Iverson as well? You could if you 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.200 are so too right willing to part ways with the 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.720 amount of shekels that it were required to have a 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.680 meet and greet with Alan Iverson. But I mean, seriously, 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.640 like when you think of athletes present and pass at 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.440 least in Philadelphia sports history, that you could have like 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:44.080 an unfiltered conversation or night with and night could be 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.920 an all uncompassing type praise. I mean, Alan Iverson's got 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.760 to be the top of the list, right, Yeah, I 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.560 would think so. The way he makes fans feel whenever 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.360 he's interacts with them one on one, and the certainly 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.400 when we see him in the center during these games, 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.240 I would think that he would be at the top 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.000 of most people's list. A genuine guy, someone who still 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.639 pays close attention to the seventy sixers, and you can 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.760 have that conversation with him. That would be an ideal 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.160 meet and Greek for myself. Yes, all right, So once 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.359 again Sixers Youth Foundation dot Org. Go to the gallatab 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.400 click silent auction and you can bid on item number 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.960 one on one in addition to many other items and 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:23.719 oudem one on one as a meet and greet with 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.840 Alan iverson silent Auction ends at ten o'clock Eastern on 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.400 a Wednesday night. All right, we talked a bit about 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.000 Shake Milton. Want to now shift the folks to the 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.399 chat divan to the two guys the Sixers picked up 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.400 from the team they played last on the road trip. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.040 That would be the Golden State Warriors, and the two 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:43.119 players would be Glenn Robinson the third and Alec Burks. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.479 Glenn Robinson the third, he had a great showing against 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.919 the Lakers, scoring twenty five points in that game and 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.440 was relatively solid on the road trip. Had a fifteen 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.680 point performance against Golden State and then Alec Burks. Each 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.320 of the four games and the road trip he scored 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.040 in double figures aside from the Lakers game, shot the 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.160 ball relatively well from three point territory to decently rebanden 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.680 the ball. Let's do a touch base about a month 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.360 into these guys being on the seventy six ers, where 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.560 do you see their presence being felt the most? Basically 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.040 still trying to find their way. They are firmly in 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.840 the rotation because what they bring offensively and defensively, for 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.320 Glenn Robinson, the outside shooting, the slashing and cutting and 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.160 the wing defense. And for Alec Burks the one on 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.199 one ability to get to the basket and finished at 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.960 the room with contact and even his passing ability or 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.320 shooting from the perimeter. Both players provide something and that's 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.520 why Elton Brand decided to go out there and acquire 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.000 both in that deal with the Golden State Wars and 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.440 you started to see a little bit more being away 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.680 from Philadelphia, having the time to be with your teammates, 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.440 get a little more comfortable, getting a little more comfortable 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.760 with the system overall and knowing that you're going to 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.600 get some time out there on the floor. That's key 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.600 for a lot of players, as we know, to just 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.720 know that their number is going to be called, know 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.480 that they're needed, and a better understanding of what you're 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.320 doing when you're out there on the floor definitely helps 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.920 with their confidence in their psyche overall what they're doing. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.560 So showed out very well and hopefully that's something that 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.040 can carry over for the remainder of the regular season 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.840 heading into the playoffs. Listen, and even though the seventy 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.680 sixers lost that game to the Lakers last week, I 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.320 thought one of the biggest things was that Robinson Third 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.800 finally had like a breakout game where he saw shots 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.119 go down. He knocked down ten of his fifteen field 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.560 goal attempts, three for five from outside the arc. And 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:31.960 while there's still ways to go, the hope is, of 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.480 course that this is something that he can build upon. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.760 Like you were talking about that confidence, but maybe sometimes 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.639 that's what it takes new guy, new setting, trying to 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.320 figure out his role in everything, and it could just 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.320 take hopefully a performance like that to recalibrate some things 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.679 and get them going, and you're right, followed it up 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.439 with another good performance against his former team, the Golden 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.840 State Warriors, carry that over into the final eighteen, and 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.040 then you really have something in terms of someone who 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.360 can come in from multiple players and play positions from two, 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.600 three to four depending on what Brett Brown would like 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.760 to do in a small ball situation. And yes, twenty 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.880 five points against the Los Angeles Lakers, looking very confident. 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:13.719 Now starting to see him get his footing with the 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.600 team and again just just pushing, hissing, putting his best 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.479 foot forward and getting into the right situation overall on 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.679 the floor and being a positive instead of a negative 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:24.920 for the team. Burks to me, seems like a guy 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.000