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Speaker 1: day Everybody, Yeah, seventy six Hello Lauren Rosen, Let's get
Speaker 1: started today on this Sixers Twitter spaces. Coming off a
Speaker 1: big game to say the least for Joel and beat
Speaker 1: a career high tying fifty points for Joel in the
Speaker 1: Wednesday night game for the Sixers against the Orlando Magic,
Speaker 1: a home game in Philadelphia. They improved to twenty six
Speaker 1: and eighteen with a one twenty three, one ten win
Speaker 1: over the Magic. I'm Matt Murphy joined by Lauren Rosen.
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Speaker 1: For everyone on the East Coast, good morning to them,
Speaker 1: Good morning to you. So impressive. We have to spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time on joelmbed because he played twenty
Speaker 1: seven minutes and three seconds and had fifty points and
Speaker 1: twelve rebounds. Absolutely. We witnessed history last night. Matt Murphy,
Speaker 1: what's going on, everybody, Good morning, Welcome into another edition
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Speaker 1: we've got to jump into Joel embids his story evening
Speaker 1: last night, Matt, I had the pleasure. We don't always
Speaker 1: get to do this, but last night I had the
Speaker 1: pleasure of sitting next to you during the game, and
Speaker 1: I think that it was really cool. Midway through the
Speaker 1: third I want to say, towards the end of the
Speaker 1: third that you and I sort of looked at each
Speaker 1: other and we were like, Okay, this is historic. We're
Speaker 1: watching something that's truly unreal, one of the greats, and
Speaker 1: we're going to dive into quotes for sure, But Joel
Speaker 1: last night or I guess I'll allude to one early,
Speaker 1: but Tyrese Maxie said after the game that prior to
Speaker 1: the game, he asked Joel if he was going to
Speaker 1: be Shack or Dirk last night, and Joel said, I'm
Speaker 1: just going to be Joel, And I think that's a
Speaker 1: really good way to describe what we were able to
Speaker 1: see and what happened next. Matt, you said it, fifty points,
Speaker 1: twelve rebounds, to assists, a steal in, three blocks in
Speaker 1: just twenty seven minutes. Fifty points in twenty seven minutes.
Speaker 1: We'll get to why that's historic in a minute as well.
Speaker 1: Seventeen for twenty three from the field, fifteen for seventeen
Speaker 1: from the free throw line, and you know he wanted
Speaker 1: that sixteenth one. It would have made his career high
Speaker 1: fifty one points. Joel talked about it after the game.
Speaker 1: He said that he put a little too much pressure
Speaker 1: on that last free throw and then of course went
Speaker 1: to the bench with around even fifty points. Matt, what
Speaker 1: were your I don't want to say emotions, but what
Speaker 1: were your immediate feelings watching Joel Embiid and what he
Speaker 1: was able to do last night? It was breathtaking. I
Speaker 1: would say at the end of that answer that at
Speaker 1: the end of that answer that Joel gave about playing
Speaker 1: on whether he was going to be Dirk or Kobe
Speaker 1: or MJ whoever. He ended it by saying, I was
Speaker 1: okay tonight, and that's sort of I mean Joel kind
Speaker 1: of even when he makes a joke, he delivers it
Speaker 1: like that. And it was just an incredible performance. You
Speaker 1: gave the numbers. We'll get to some of the other
Speaker 1: stuff in the box score, but largely the box score
Speaker 1: is Joel Embiid from the game against the Magic. He
Speaker 1: gave the shooting totals. His free throw numbers were more
Speaker 1: than the Magic. As a team, they were twelve of
Speaker 1: sixteen from the line. Joel with the fifteen of seventeen,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he gets to fifty and he has the
Speaker 1: second free throw for fifty one and he doesn't make it.
Speaker 1: He goes out. We know he's a soccer fan, and
Speaker 1: it's sort of like a soccer sendoff. He's such a showman.
Speaker 1: It's a privilege to watch him. Cover him in the building.
Speaker 1: Definitely wanted to set a new career high from what
Speaker 1: it looked like. But another fifty point game in a
Speaker 1: double double effort for Joel the first time he said
Speaker 1: he wanted to stop at fifty, and they put him
Speaker 1: back in the game so that he could get to
Speaker 1: fifty and get out, and he immediately looked to score
Speaker 1: or get to the line. He hits the mark and
Speaker 1: he scores fifty of the sixers one twenty three in
Speaker 1: the game. How about the first and third quarters? You
Speaker 1: talk about us taking the game in and looking at
Speaker 1: each other. In the third, he scored twenty plus in
Speaker 1: the first. Well, he scored twenty in the first, twenty
Speaker 1: three in the third. The bulk of his scoring, he
Speaker 1: really just took over, got anything he wanted and it
Speaker 1: never even felt like he broke a sweat. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously he's a big guy, he works hard, but it
Speaker 1: came so effortlessly to him, as it so often does,
Speaker 1: and to do it in twenty seven minutes of game
Speaker 1: play was phenomenal. It was effortless, and the first and
Speaker 1: third quarters were incredible. Yeah. I say this with complete seriousness.
Speaker 1: Last night's fifty point performance from Joel Embiid was light
Speaker 1: work for the man, Like you said, twenty seven minutes.
Speaker 1: Shout out to stat News. That's an account we draw
Speaker 1: on often on Twitter, but stat Muse says that the
Speaker 1: most minutes per game in any NBA game. There's a
Speaker 1: list of nine players. They include Will Chamberlain, Clay Thompson,
Speaker 1: James Harden, Kobe Bryant, Sorry I lost my spot, Malone,
Speaker 1: Kobe again, Gurbon, and Joel Mbat eight one point eight
Speaker 1: five points per minute in an NBA game. That's a
Speaker 1: historic number. It matches Carl Malone sixty one points in
Speaker 1: thirty three minutes. But Matt, I mean, come on, I
Speaker 1: don't know what else we can say about what Joel
Speaker 1: was able to do last night. Because I don't really
Speaker 1: know what else we can say about what Joel was
Speaker 1: able to do last night. You guys are in here
Speaker 1: in high numbers. I'm watching how many people are coming
Speaker 1: and going. But the DM numbers are a little bit
Speaker 1: lower this morning. And maybe it's because there's only one
Speaker 1: topic to talk about. But I still want to hear
Speaker 1: what you guys have to say. So if you don't
Speaker 1: mind hit my face in this chat, send me a DM.
Speaker 1: Tell me what the most impressive thing you saw from
Speaker 1: Joel was last night. What Joel means to you in
Speaker 1: your life right now? It seems like he means a
Speaker 1: lot to a lot of folks. You can send a
Speaker 1: message to me or to Matt ask us about Joel.
Speaker 1: Tell us your thoughts. It doesn't even have to be
Speaker 1: a question. We just want to hear your thoughts. This
Speaker 1: at the top of every show. But imagine that you're
Speaker 1: listening to a podcast. At the beginning of the podcast,
Speaker 1: you're hoping that the hosts are going to talk about
Speaker 1: something specific, something you're passionate about. This is your chance
Speaker 1: to just make that happen. So speak that into existence
Speaker 1: in our DMS. Let us know what you want to
Speaker 1: talk about when it comes to Joel, his teammates and beyond.
Speaker 1: We would really appreciate your thoughts and feedback because we
Speaker 1: do this for you. Matt, Let's keep talking about Joel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is an easy one. When we say send us
Speaker 1: a question or a comment by with a direct message
Speaker 1: clicking on our avatars, just send us a Joel comment
Speaker 1: for now. I mean, if most of you, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: watch the game or at the very least the highlights,
Speaker 1: you can stay with us here on Twitter spaces and
Speaker 1: sort of minimize it. Listen. You can go to the
Speaker 1: at sixers feed, look around, refresh on what happened last night.
Speaker 1: The fifty point game for Joel Embad as the Sixers
Speaker 1: on the season improved to twenty six and eighteen. But
Speaker 1: if you want to send us a thought about Joel
Speaker 1: and Bead, please do by sending us a shining example.
Speaker 1: Matt from too, I do too, Okay, if I have
Speaker 1: an example, it's from Magic Johnson, who tweeted this late
Speaker 1: last night quote. The MBA should be talking more about
Speaker 1: MBAD in MVP conversations period, So it could be as
Speaker 1: simple as that. You could send us a thought like
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson tweeted, no doubt. Mustafa says, not a question,
Speaker 1: just here to say I love Joel Embiid. This can
Speaker 1: be just sort of like an I love Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: focus group, support group, a bunch of people that have
Speaker 1: something in common. Jordan says, can we can we rename
Speaker 1: the team to the Philadelphia Joel embiads. I don't think
Speaker 1: it has the same ring to it as the ten, nine,
Speaker 1: eight seventy sixers. I'm a big fan of the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers team name, but this is the enthusiasm that we're
Speaker 1: looking for. Matt. Yeah, we just got a question from
Speaker 1: b who says, can you describe the atmosphere in the
Speaker 1: building had goose bumps watching it on a screen, especially
Speaker 1: when interrupted after his side step three, And I was
Speaker 1: going to bring that up to you, Lauren. That was
Speaker 1: probably around the time you're talking about where we recognized
Speaker 1: really what was going on. He's had so many great games,
Speaker 1: but we knew in the third that this was near
Speaker 1: the top, if not at the top. And his only
Speaker 1: three of the game, he only took four. He was
Speaker 1: getting everything. I don't even want to say easy, because
Speaker 1: it's not like he camped out and dunked everything. He's
Speaker 1: been hitting so many elbow jump shots, fadeaway jump shots.
Speaker 1: His skills are just incredible. We know this. But his
Speaker 1: only three of the game came in the final minute
Speaker 1: of the third quarter, and it was a sort of
Speaker 1: a step back straightaway three that he had missed a
Speaker 1: couple and just missed a couple threes earlier in the game.
Speaker 1: That was like the shot for me. It's like, you're
Speaker 1: gonna add three to this scoring total. That was one
Speaker 1: of the moments of the game in the building. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was going to sit that moment as well as
Speaker 1: shout out to be aka Patty Mills, Goat, we appreciate
Speaker 1: you tuning in from far far away. Yes, I can
Speaker 1: describe the atmosphere in the building. It was loud. People
Speaker 1: were in awe. Matt. At one point, you and I
Speaker 1: were talking about when Joel came back in and everyone
Speaker 1: in the building had at that point gotten up to
Speaker 1: speed about the fact that he was so close to
Speaker 1: hitting a new career high or tying his career high,
Speaker 1: and everybody pulled out their phones. And I don't love
Speaker 1: that personally. We're getting into my personal ideology. I prefer
Speaker 1: people to sort of like I love just witnessing things,
Speaker 1: and I wish that we could all be more present
Speaker 1: in life in general in twenty twenty two. But I
Speaker 1: think when everybody in the building pulls out their phone
Speaker 1: and starts recording something, you know that it's a moment
Speaker 1: like that is an indicator in twenty twenty two of
Speaker 1: when something is important and something is wild and something
Speaker 1: is historic. Everybody pulled out their phone on that first
Speaker 1: possession when he came back in with the opportunity to
Speaker 1: tire or go ahead of his career high, and it
Speaker 1: was cool to watch everybody sort of realize something, realized
Speaker 1: what they were witnessed, saying collectively there was a feeling
Speaker 1: of community surrounded around Joel and what he was doing
Speaker 1: out there, and yeah, of course that side step three.
Speaker 1: You and I looked at each other, and my personal reaction,
Speaker 1: I just shook my head because I just was sort
Speaker 1: of in disbelief but in total belief at the same time,
Speaker 1: like when you know that someone can do something that
Speaker 1: it continues to impress in surprise and floor you. That's
Speaker 1: where I was. I was just shaking my head in
Speaker 1: all I disagree with you on the phone thing. For
Speaker 1: what it's worth, that's okay. I mean, look, I get
Speaker 1: it as like something that it marks a moment in
Speaker 1: time and it's an indicator that something important and cool
Speaker 1: is going on. So it was cool to see. But
Speaker 1: I also do feel in general that as a society
Speaker 1: we could have a little bit more fun together, being
Speaker 1: a little bit more present together. But again that's not
Speaker 1: what we're here to talk about. If you pull if
Speaker 1: you pull the phone up, just make sure you're you're
Speaker 1: watching it with your with your eyes in the building,
Speaker 1: correct and correct. Then you have the keepsake on your phone.
Speaker 1: It's the It's the best of both worlds. And it
Speaker 1: was cool to look around because we were on the
Speaker 1: far side behind the far basket, so you could kind
Speaker 1: of just see the entire place pointed the other way
Speaker 1: with number twenty one at the line. And I mean,
Speaker 1: just to remind everyone, according to the Elias Sports Bureau,
Speaker 1: twenty seven minutes in three seconds fewest minutes played in
Speaker 1: a fifty point ten rebound game in the shot clock era,
Speaker 1: which is nineteen fifty four fifty five. Basically, I mean
Speaker 1: NBA history like doing that in twenty seven minutes of play,
Speaker 1: and we were sort of denied a Joel embiid crowd
Speaker 1: moment in him not getting to fifty on a jumper
Speaker 1: and instead being fouled and going to the line. But
Speaker 1: that gave everyone a moment to collect themselves and film
Speaker 1: it or whatever they want to do and just kind
Speaker 1: of feel it. But if he got it on a
Speaker 1: jump shot or anything else on a made bucket, he
Speaker 1: would have done either the letty here or run over
Speaker 1: to the sideline type thing. So we didn't see that,
Speaker 1: but it was awesome. Nonetheless, I'm sorry, Hey, it's Joe
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Speaker 1: interact and engage and let us know what you're thinking.
Speaker 1: So I want to read through just a few of
Speaker 1: them at because it appears that everybody is on the
Speaker 1: same page. Chuck from West Philly said the process from
Speaker 1: Cameroon is clearly the best big in the league. I
Speaker 1: was at home and screaming at the top of my
Speaker 1: lungs hashtag play the Sixers song. Orlando says, I feel
Speaker 1: like he has been a terrific player lately and with
Speaker 1: his career high fifty points, he's going to do that again.
Speaker 1: He is unstoppable. He is an inspiration to many people.
Speaker 1: That last part something that we don't talk about enough
Speaker 1: when it comes to Joel because he's a little bit
Speaker 1: more soft spoken, he's a little bit more private. But
Speaker 1: when we talk about the journey of this man's life,
Speaker 1: it truly, truly is incredible, Mustapha says, And we can
Speaker 1: do we can talk more about that for sure, if
Speaker 1: that's something you guys are interested in. Mustapha says, I
Speaker 1: wake up at nights just to watch Joel parentheses and
Speaker 1: a little bit tyrese. I would love to hear where
Speaker 1: you're watching from. Something we've learned in these Twitter spaces
Speaker 1: is obviously, we love being able to connect with our
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and Greater Philadelphia community on a daily basis here
Speaker 1: in Philly, where Matt and I are both based. But
Speaker 1: it's become very clear that folks that turn into Twitter spaces,
Speaker 1: tune into Twitter spaces, are often from Europe. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of Furcon fans that are in here. We
Speaker 1: have fans from Africa that are in here, someone from
Speaker 1: Nairobi last time, someone from Cameroon a few times ago,
Speaker 1: and then a ton of people from Australia tune into
Speaker 1: these lots of folks from Perth. So shout out to
Speaker 1: everybody that's doing this internationally. Feels like a good time
Speaker 1: to say if you guys prefer us fake time. We
Speaker 1: don't want you to have to wake up in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night to watch Joel and to listen
Speaker 1: to us. So that's always feedback that we're looking for.
Speaker 1: Let us know where you're listening from. Matt, what do
Speaker 1: you think about about any of those that I that
Speaker 1: I just read out. I think that today is a
Speaker 1: double vote day for the NBA, so you can vote
Speaker 1: for Joel if you I mean, you can continue voting
Speaker 1: for Joel to make his fifth straight NBA All Star Game,
Speaker 1: which is going to be played in Cleveland. You can
Speaker 1: vote online at MBA dot com in the NBA app.
Speaker 1: You can also do it right here on Twitter. So
Speaker 1: this is the description I'm seeing. Tweet, retweet, or reply
Speaker 1: with a hashtag of a seventy six ers players first
Speaker 1: and last name, for example, hashtag Joel Embiid or their
Speaker 1: Twitter handle at Joel Embiid along with this hashtag hashtag
Speaker 1: MBA All Star. Each tweet may include only one player's
Speaker 1: name or handle. Fans may vote for up to ten
Speaker 1: players per day, so make sure you keep supporting Joel
Speaker 1: as we talk about him by voting for him to
Speaker 1: be in the NBA All Star Game or just the
Speaker 1: Sixers last week retreat. Yeah, there you go, Matt, I
Speaker 1: gave all that other stuff. You don't. It's it's a
Speaker 1: lot easier. Just retweet the last Yeah, they all count
Speaker 1: the same. I'm going to do it right now again.
Speaker 1: You don't have to leave a space, you don't have
Speaker 1: to stop talking on his face to go and retweet
Speaker 1: to vote for Joel Embiid. The votes count as to today.
Speaker 1: Shout out to our social team for turning around some
Speaker 1: really cool content waking us up on a high note. Matt,
Speaker 1: I wanted to turn into one more GM because this
Speaker 1: is Jordan who's answered multiple questions since we started, and
Speaker 1: so I need to give shouts to Jordan. Jordan said,
Speaker 1: just seeing Joel Embiid hit a side step three like
Speaker 1: it's nothing feels illegal to watch. Last night, I was
Speaker 1: working on finishing a presentation and Joel was so good
Speaker 1: that I dropped it just to watch his greatness. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people probably did, and then George
Speaker 1: and Ads. I was watching at one am from Manchester, England,
Speaker 1: internally screaming from my bedroom, trying not to wake up
Speaker 1: my entire house. When Joel hit that side step three,
Speaker 1: that's the analysis that we need. Jordan, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for listening. Thank you to listening from Manchester. I've
Speaker 1: never been to Manchester. I'm dying to go to Europe.
Speaker 1: We haven't been able to travel in so long. But
Speaker 1: shout out to you for staying up, for fighting the
Speaker 1: good fight, cheering for the home team from far away.
Speaker 1: This is so awesome to hear, and that is awesome
Speaker 1: to hear. Joel is a transcendent talent. I'm so happy that,
Speaker 1: wherever you are in the world, however you took in
Speaker 1: the game, that we were all able to witness this performance.
Speaker 1: He's the heartbeat of the franchise, the fifty point game,
Speaker 1: the Sixers win. They're at home a bunch in the
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks. That last night was the start
Speaker 1: of the continuation of seven of eight at home, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to see Joel beat a lot in person.
Speaker 1: We can touch on the box score a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Keep the questions, comments and bead stuff coming by clicking
Speaker 1: on our avatars and sending us a DM myself or
Speaker 1: Lauren or both of us tweet to us whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do. We usually touch on the box score
Speaker 1: a little bit. We can talk about some quotes, because Lauren,
Speaker 1: there's more more quotes that came out of postgame that
Speaker 1: I definitely want to get to. The other players for
Speaker 1: the Sixers, Tobias had twenty one and Tyrese Maxi had fourteen.
Speaker 1: George Niang had ten off the bench in the win.
Speaker 1: And this all relates to Joel Embiid because his passing
Speaker 1: has been great for much of the year, and I
Speaker 1: thought his passing was really good. He scores twenty three
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, but he was making he always
Speaker 1: makes the right plays, and Doc Rivers talked about this
Speaker 1: afterwards too. We can include that in our conversation. But
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, I thought he was really doing
Speaker 1: a nice job of finding his teammates as well, And
Speaker 1: that sounds weird to say in a quarter where one
Speaker 1: of his two twenty plus point quarters, but he found
Speaker 1: furkon Corkmas with a really nice pass, and he also
Speaker 1: gave one of Tobias Harris, who who finished with a
Speaker 1: nice and one. And they were doubling most of the time.
Speaker 1: Anytime they didn't Joel took the likes of Robin Lopez
Speaker 1: or made a shot over him. But he wasn't camped
Speaker 1: out on the block. He was scoring from everywhere, and
Speaker 1: when it called for a pass, he was passing the
Speaker 1: ball and he had a couple nice ones in the third. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about I'm going to fuse everything you just
Speaker 1: said there and go in a certain direction. I hope
Speaker 1: you'll all come with me. Let's talk about what Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers said postgame. And this is a sentiment that Joel's
Speaker 1: teammates have expressed, but Joel and Joel has expressed. But
Speaker 1: Doc I think says it with the most authority. He
Speaker 1: said that before this season he and Joel talked about
Speaker 1: leadership and how Joel was going to do a better
Speaker 1: job of being a a vocal leader and be getting
Speaker 1: his teammates involved. Joel then talked about it as well.
Speaker 1: He comes off of an evening where he scored fifty
Speaker 1: twelve to one three in twenty seven minutes and credits
Speaker 1: his teammates. Joel has really become a vocal and inspiring
Speaker 1: leader for this group, and like you said, it's showing
Speaker 1: up on the floor. He's not a good stats, bad
Speaker 1: team guy. He's a good stats, good team guy. He
Speaker 1: comes out there, he goes fifty and twelve and make
Speaker 1: sure that he gets his teammates involved. Make sure that
Speaker 1: his teammates are involved enough and hot enough that he
Speaker 1: only has to play those twenty seven minutes. Keep in mind,
Speaker 1: the Sixers one into halftime down in this game. They
Speaker 1: came out of halftime on a tear. They all got involved.
Speaker 1: They did it together such that Joel was able to
Speaker 1: sit very shortly after the team was down. If you
Speaker 1: had told Joel at halftime that he was going to
Speaker 1: be able to sit in most of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Joel would have believed you. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: everybody would have believed you, just because of how it
Speaker 1: distinct that turnaround was. So let's shout out a few
Speaker 1: of those teammates that Joel did such a good job
Speaker 1: of getting involved. In a little bit more depth. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Tobias Harris twenty one points, four rebounds, four assists
Speaker 1: to steals plus nineteen to buy shot, eight for thirteen
Speaker 1: from the field, four for five from the free throw line.
Speaker 1: Super efficient night for Tobias Harris in his thirty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxie fourteen points, three rebounds, two assists, and a steal.
Speaker 1: Tyrese six for ten from the field, two for three
Speaker 1: from three. If you ask Joel, he probably wants Tyrise
Speaker 1: to shoot more than three three's on a given night,
Speaker 1: but two for three obviously a great way to do it.
Speaker 1: You mentioned George Niang ten points, three rebounds, three assists. George,
Speaker 1: of course turns and talks a little bit after each
Speaker 1: of his both of his three pointers to whoever's behind him.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. It's hard to believe George talking
Speaker 1: to the crowd. And Andre Drummond, let's shout out Andre
Speaker 1: Drummond holding it down with Joel off the floor nine points,
Speaker 1: five rebounds, two steals, two blocks, Drummond four for eight
Speaker 1: from the field. And then for Concorkma's eight points, six rebounds,
Speaker 1: a team high five assists. So a few little baby stats.
Speaker 1: If you guys follow me, you know that I like
Speaker 1: to do this, but I like to sort of dive
Speaker 1: a little deeper into the stat sheet. Not as deep
Speaker 1: as true statisticians are able to, but I like to
Speaker 1: dive a little deeper into the statuet after every win,
Speaker 1: while we're waiting for media to start, and Matt, if
Speaker 1: you want to dive into any of these that I'm
Speaker 1: about to read, you let me know which one. But
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that we went over a
Speaker 1: few extra things beyond Joel's performance. We talked about the
Speaker 1: shooting efficiency from Harris and Maxie, but Seth Curry eight
Speaker 1: rebounds for con Korkmas five assists, and Furkon does that
Speaker 1: in twenty three minutes. Burkon also plus fifteen. I think
Speaker 1: is worth noting the bench up and down a little
Speaker 1: bit last night, but Furkon did a really good job
Speaker 1: in his twenty three minutes, three for five from the field,
Speaker 1: and then the third quarter score. I also wanted to
Speaker 1: look at forty seven twenty three Sixers. That was the
Speaker 1: quarter that made all the difference and sealed it for good.
Speaker 1: I want to touch on that third quarter because when
Speaker 1: Joel's going well, it's good for everybody involved. It really
Speaker 1: opens things up. That's a season high for a quarter
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. With forty seven points in the third.
Speaker 1: You said it they trailed at halftime. They actually trailed
Speaker 1: by ten points at halftime. The Sixers, in large part
Speaker 1: due to Joel embiid score seventy six points in the
Speaker 1: second half. Joel his second twenty plus point quarter was
Speaker 1: the third quarter with twenty three. You ran through the
Speaker 1: Sixers stats, plenty of underrated things there. Good things happen
Speaker 1: when Joel draws so much attention. Even Isaiah Joe's loan
Speaker 1: three was the result of Joel and the defense just
Speaker 1: having to scramble around Joel Embiid and the shooters know that,
Speaker 1: and they're ready to go Isaiah Joe and the third.
Speaker 1: I thought, if you can find that play where Isaiah
Speaker 1: hits the three, it was all to do with Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1: And I actually talked to Isaiah yesterday morning at shoot around,
Speaker 1: asked him about Embiid, asked him about this video that's
Speaker 1: going around of Joel side by side comparison, well out
Speaker 1: side by side, but one video showing different moves he's
Speaker 1: doing compared to Michael Joe and Kobe Bryant, and Isaiah said,
Speaker 1: it's legendary the things that he does on the court.
Speaker 1: Nobody else in the league can do. That He's going
Speaker 1: to go down in history as one of the best
Speaker 1: of all time. And against the magic. A few hours later,
Speaker 1: Joel posts a fifty twelve three block line on seventeen
Speaker 1: of twenty three shooting, made fifteen of seventeen free throws
Speaker 1: in twenty seven minutes, an efficient fifty piece in twenty
Speaker 1: seven minutes of play, and he really opened things up
Speaker 1: for his teammates, especially in the third quarter. One of
Speaker 1: those teammates was Tyrese Maxie getting loose for three and Lauren,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you even heard this yet, but
Speaker 1: the radio post game, so players get picked for different
Speaker 1: postgame interviews, and Joel was of course going to speak
Speaker 1: on TV after his fifty point game. Tyrese was chosen
Speaker 1: for radio to speak with the radio voice of the Sixers,
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis on the seventy Sixers Radio Network, and they
Speaker 1: go over to the scores table, put the headset on
Speaker 1: and Tyrese was talking to Joel, and we kind of
Speaker 1: saw it in person, but Tyrese actually pulled Joel over
Speaker 1: and Joel put the radio headset on, said hello to Tom.
Speaker 1: Tom congratulated him on the performance, and that was it,
Speaker 1: and then Tyrese was interviewed. But it was so funny
Speaker 1: because Tyrese wasn't talking right away and Tom was about
Speaker 1: to start the interview and Tyrese said, Joel had like
Speaker 1: eighty points tonight, don't you want to talk to him?
Speaker 1: And Tom was saying he's doing TV, and Tyrese was like, no,
Speaker 1: I'll get I'm gonna starts screaming Joel's name. He's like, Joel, Joel, Joel,
Speaker 1: come over here. And Joel eventually, like two minutes later,
Speaker 1: comes over and puts the headset on, and it's Tom
Speaker 1: saying congratulations on the fifty point game, and Joel's like,
Speaker 1: thank you very much and gives the headset back to Tyrese. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: The two of them, their relationship, their chemistry, their big
Speaker 1: brother little brother relationship that we've been watching this year,
Speaker 1: maybe one of my favorite plotlines. We talk about this
Speaker 1: a lot, but I love to watch sort of the
Speaker 1: interpersonal dynamics out there on the court and the way
Speaker 1: that Joel has has really taken Tyrese under his wing,
Speaker 1: I think has been really special. And of course we
Speaker 1: talked about a few weeks ago, Joel and Tyrese doing
Speaker 1: media together, Joel rather telling Tyrese that Tyrese was trash
Speaker 1: and challenging Tyrese to be better to shoot more threes
Speaker 1: than of course, Tyrese comes out the next game and
Speaker 1: makes a career high five threes on eight attempts. And then,
Speaker 1: of course Tyrese has a couple of weeks away due
Speaker 1: to health and safety protocols, but comes back looking strong
Speaker 1: and Joel being so supportive. Joel of course knows what
Speaker 1: it was like to take time off due to those
Speaker 1: health and safety protocols, and now watching the two of
Speaker 1: them succeed together, watching Joel sort of congratulate and promote Tyrese.
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds silly, but even just on Instagram,
Speaker 1: the way that Joel is giving shout outs to Tyrese,
Speaker 1: and then the way that Tyrese is taking his moment
Speaker 1: with Tom to share it with Joel, that's been something
Speaker 1: really special to watch and I think will continue to
Speaker 1: unfold in a special way. Matt, I want to shout
Speaker 1: out a couple more people in my DMS because we
Speaker 1: had we started having the international conversation and our world
Speaker 1: just got a little bigger. This one's from Carol. Carol says, Hey, Lauren,
Speaker 1: it's Carol from Nairobi. I'm listening. This is this time.
Speaker 1: This time is great for me because it's close to
Speaker 1: five PM now, I missed watching the game live Darnett
Speaker 1: and watch the highlights of Joel's career night. He's the
Speaker 1: big beast of the East and all of the NBA
Speaker 1: actually period. That is what I like to hear. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter where you're living right now, what part of
Speaker 1: the world you're in, or what time of day it is.
Speaker 1: It's very clear who the beast of the East and
Speaker 1: the beast of the NBA is. It's Joel Embiid. And
Speaker 1: then a second one, Matt that I wanted to read.
Speaker 1: This one's from Mohammed who says, hello, my Philly family.
Speaker 1: I live in Nigeria and due to the variation in
Speaker 1: time zone, I stay up. I stay up till midnight
Speaker 1: to watch every Philadelphia basketball game. It shows how much
Speaker 1: I love this franchise. Yes, that is clear about Joel.
Speaker 1: We're experiencing so much greatness and he's only going to
Speaker 1: get better because he doesn't stop putting in work. I
Speaker 1: occasionally feel bad for opponents having to guard Joel. Mohammed,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening from Nigeria. We love to hear it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean it's really really that's sort of something.
Speaker 1: When I interviewed mattis Saibel court side after the Houston game,
Speaker 1: and Matisse said what Mohammed said? He said, he said,
Speaker 1: I feel bad for opponents that have to play against
Speaker 1: Joel and beat Mattis said, it's so much easier to
Speaker 1: be Joel and Bead's teammate than to not be Joel
Speaker 1: Ebead's teammate. And it sounds so simple, but Mohammed and
Speaker 1: Matisse agree it is really hard to prepare for Joel Ebead.
Speaker 1: That's another thing that Matisse said. Matisse said, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine what goes on in their film sessions when they
Speaker 1: try to decide what to do with Joel. And we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about Mobamba yet. Congratulations of course to Mobamba
Speaker 1: on a career high night last night, but ultimately was
Speaker 1: not able to stop Joel embiad in any way. So
Speaker 1: point made by Matisse, point seconded by Mohammed. Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening from so far away. We appreciate you, and
Speaker 1: really interesting to talk about what it must be like
Speaker 1: to play against Joel and Joel in his caption on Instagram,
Speaker 1: I think he's said he cooked me too about mo Bomba,
Speaker 1: but we know that they have a good friendly relationship.
Speaker 1: But it's one that Joel is always trying to get
Speaker 1: the better of Mo and not let him win the night,
Speaker 1: and even on a career night for Mo with thirty
Speaker 1: two points, Joel goes and gets fifty. Quick standings update
Speaker 1: as we record this on the twentieth of January, the
Speaker 1: day after the win over the Magic the Sixers are
Speaker 1: the fifth seed in the East at twenty six and eighteen,
Speaker 1: two and a half games back, so the Bucks are fourth,
Speaker 1: half game up on the Sixers. The Nets are twenty
Speaker 1: eight and sixteen in third, and then the Heat and
Speaker 1: Bulls are tied a top the Eastern Conference standings right now.
Speaker 1: But when you said Beast of the East, that's what
Speaker 1: I thought about. Roger checks in with me and said,
Speaker 1: I would like to see an in depth documentary covering
Speaker 1: his life in Cameroon, his Cameroonian fans, French being his
Speaker 1: first lie language, etc. Kind of ties into how Joel
Speaker 1: and the Sixers have fans everywhere, but Joel being from Cameroon.
Speaker 1: Last night the Magic Game was the first time that
Speaker 1: he's been introduced, at least as far as I've heard,
Speaker 1: and I'm like ninety nine point nine percent sure it's
Speaker 1: the first time he was introduced as from Cameroon rather
Speaker 1: than from Kansas where he played college ball. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a shift, definitely. I wanted to address that
Speaker 1: though you got you asked about wanting to see an
Speaker 1: in depth documentary, and of course we don't have, like
Speaker 1: we don't have the full, in depth the story of
Speaker 1: Joel and Bead biopic or anything like that quite yet.
Speaker 1: But I will say last year, shout out to our
Speaker 1: amazing digital video team. If you go to the Sixers
Speaker 1: YouTube page, or even if you just search here, they come.
Speaker 1: Go to YouTube search here, they come the process inside
Speaker 1: the mind of Joel and Bead. You get a lot
Speaker 1: of background that maybe you haven't gotten in the past
Speaker 1: about Joel. It's thirteen minutes long. It's a really really
Speaker 1: good watch. Again, I wish that we could drop this
Speaker 1: in the chat, but what I can do is I
Speaker 1: can reply to the Sixers tweet about this space with
Speaker 1: that video, because I think those of you that are
Speaker 1: looking for more about Joel, looking for more of his backstory,
Speaker 1: will really enjoy that. That was of course made last
Speaker 1: year during the run up to his first potential MVP campaign. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he finished second in MVP voting last season. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to go ahead and drop that link. That is
Speaker 1: something Matt and I are going to start wrapping up.
Speaker 1: That is something that we would certainly encourage you guys
Speaker 1: to watch. So if you go to the Sixers page
Speaker 1: and you go to their second most recent tweet about
Speaker 1: this space, I just commented with that link, So go
Speaker 1: check that out and you will definitely enjoy it. Sorry, Matt.
Speaker 1: I just think if people ask and we can produce,
Speaker 1: we gotta do it. Yeah. Shout shout out to Angie,
Speaker 1: a Dominican in here. See that's awesome. We're having so
Speaker 1: many international folks today. Thank you guys for letting us know.
Speaker 1: It warms my heart to hear how many people are
Speaker 1: listening from all over. Sorry, Matt, that was my two
Speaker 1: part tangent. You can go back to where you were.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing the video. No, that's great. I
Speaker 1: think people should spend the day wherever you are consuming
Speaker 1: Joel embiid content. There's never a better There's not a
Speaker 1: better time to do it than right now. After this
Speaker 1: fifty point game, the second fifty point game of his career,
Speaker 1: he ties a career high with fifty on the nose.
Speaker 1: It was a fantastic game. And if you want to
Speaker 1: get your final thoughts in in the last few minutes
Speaker 1: here click on our photos at the top, myself for
Speaker 1: Lauren or both. Send us a DM, send us a tweet,
Speaker 1: let us know what you thought about the game, what
Speaker 1: you want us to close by talking about, and we
Speaker 1: will get suit Lauren the I think I touched on
Speaker 1: the quotes. I wanted to definitely wanted to tell that
Speaker 1: story about Tyrese and Joel post game because if you
Speaker 1: saw the photos on at Sixers with them near each
Speaker 1: other and the headsets involved, that was the situation, is
Speaker 1: that Tyrese pulled his teammate Joel into the postgame radio
Speaker 1: interview with Tom McGinnis, and it was very funny stuff.
Speaker 1: We did touch on it, I believe at the beginning,
Speaker 1: but Tyrese said that he was a fan last night
Speaker 1: and it was amazing to watch Joel. I was messing
Speaker 1: with him before the game, asking who he was going
Speaker 1: to be. I think this quote bears repeating who he
Speaker 1: was going to be tonight, Shack Dirk, and he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be Joel. I was like, Okay, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be Joel then, and that's what he did. He
Speaker 1: was Joel Embiid in the win. It was unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: then Joel I asked Joel about that quote from Tyrese.
Speaker 1: He confirmed that that interaction did, in fact happen, and
Speaker 1: Joel went on to say that he feels he's at
Speaker 1: the point where on any given night, he can be Dirk.
Speaker 1: In any given moment, he can be Shack, he can
Speaker 1: be MJ. He mentioned Kobe, but but he's growing his
Speaker 1: own identity as one of the greats, and it was
Speaker 1: cool to hear him reflect on where he is. But
Speaker 1: I will say I also ask what it's like to
Speaker 1: be mentioned, and he's not the only one that puts
Speaker 1: himself in that category. Joel of course holding himself to
Speaker 1: a high standard, to the standard of the greats, but
Speaker 1: everybody is talking about the way he's playing right now.
Speaker 1: The videos are everywhere of him reproducing things that Dirk,
Speaker 1: that MJ that have been able to do, that Kobe
Speaker 1: has been able to do, and what Shack has been
Speaker 1: able to do. And those highlights remind me of what
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris said after the last Orlandou game. Tobias said
Speaker 1: that Joel is a guard. Joel is a guard in
Speaker 1: a seven footer's body. Is that what he said? He's
Speaker 1: a yeah, he's a guard in a seven footer's body.
Speaker 1: He's able to do things that nobody else is able
Speaker 1: to do, and I've absolutely been It's just been so
Speaker 1: amazing to watch. D Gorman agrees. I've been a Sixers
Speaker 1: fan since I saw Wilt as a child. Joel has
Speaker 1: earned my spot on Mount Rushmore with Wilt to doctor
Speaker 1: j and AI hashtag one, two, three, four, five Sixers.
Speaker 1: That might be my favorite DM of the day. I
Speaker 1: love it. I'm sorting through some messages and there's a
Speaker 1: few things I want to touch on. First of all,
Speaker 1: yo Anne says, asks if we can record these Twitter spaces,
Speaker 1: make them available some more hours after middle afternoons. Fine,
Speaker 1: most of the time for me in France, but I
Speaker 1: assume that for some people it's a bit more complicated
Speaker 1: around the world and it would help. So yes, follow
Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts, follow seventy Sickers Insiders and
Speaker 1: you can listen to these on demand. So appreciate the support.
Speaker 1: What else do we got here? Love seeing Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: succeed and show the world what Sixers fans were already
Speaker 1: aware of that's from MWK, and then Mike D asked
Speaker 1: about Charlie Brown and if I can just wrap up
Speaker 1: with that, Charlie Brown first career sixers start last night,
Speaker 1: the Saint Joe's product, the Philadelphia native. He made his
Speaker 1: first sixers three pointer in the game, and the one
Speaker 1: playoff highlight is he had a nice block in the
Speaker 1: first quarter that led to Joel getting out on the break,
Speaker 1: and we saw more of that last night, Lauren Joel
Speaker 1: embiid on the break, especially early. He was bringing it
Speaker 1: up so much. He could have had more than twenty
Speaker 1: points in the first quarter at times just inbounding the
Speaker 1: ball straight to him, even after an Orlando basket, and
Speaker 1: he cleared out against Robin Lopez late in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: But Charlie Brown had a nice defensive play that led
Speaker 1: to one of Joel's and ones in the fifty point outing.
Speaker 1: So it was cool to see Charlie be introduced as
Speaker 1: a starter in front of the home crown. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: people of course embracing him the home count, hometown kid
Speaker 1: with open arms. As we wrap up, I just want
Speaker 1: to shout out a few dms that we didn't get
Speaker 1: to Angie dm does, Brendan Uncle, Craig Orlando, mwk BLSG,
Speaker 1: and Annie. I'm sorry that we didn't get to those today,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to save them and maybe we can
Speaker 1: refer to them next time. Matt any closing thoughts from you,
Speaker 1: This one has been a pleasure. Another worldly Twitter spaces
Speaker 1: loved whatever you guys want to do during this time.
Speaker 1: It's been awesome to develop a relationship with you guys
Speaker 1: as an audience. Thank you so much. Every time you
Speaker 1: tune in. It brings a smile to my face. Matt
Speaker 1: closing thoughts. Yeah, thanks for listening, and of course throughout
Speaker 1: the season, this week and beyond, there's going to be
Speaker 1: plenty of Joel embiid content and like I said, what
Speaker 1: a time for you to consume it. But also when
Speaker 1: I say Charlie Brown Junior's name, keep an eye out
Speaker 1: wrote about the blue Coats and their number of call
Speaker 1: ups this year, wrote about Charlie Brown being the most
Speaker 1: recent Bluecoats success story. Be on the lookout as soon
Speaker 1: as today for that. Just profiling Delaware blue Coats. The
Speaker 1: Sixers G League affiliate that in a crazy season, their
Speaker 1: players have been earning NBA call ups and some of
Speaker 1: them with the Sixers, like Charlie Brown Junior, So keep
Speaker 1: an eye out for that. Matt. I'll keep an eye out,
Speaker 1: and I hope everybody that's listening will keep an eye
Speaker 1: out as well as guys. As always, thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us Twitter Spaces. We do this after every six
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