Speaker 1: This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers Podcast network
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Speaker 1: seventy sixers are back at home this week and looking
Speaker 1: to get back on track. There's one guy right now
Speaker 1: who's in the midst of a great stretch. Here's under
Speaker 1: Hand Scoop Ontario. Well done by Hi Reese Maxie. We
Speaker 1: react to your thoughts about the re emergence of Tyrese
Speaker 1: Maxie plus a special guest. I'm going strong, got it together,
Speaker 1: I'm going overrong. Hey wait, I'm going strong as even
Speaker 1: better than to them all on a beat. What's up everyone,
Speaker 1: It's me Christian Crosby. I cannot wait for my first
Speaker 1: Mailbag Monday, so check it out. Mailbag Monday returns Lauren Rosen,
Speaker 1: coming off of a so much bumpy week relative to
Speaker 1: all things seventy Sixers this season. I need some energy
Speaker 1: right off the bats. I can't dabble and get caught
Speaker 1: up in the past. I need to be positive, looking
Speaker 1: forward to moving to the present, and for that, I
Speaker 1: think we need to bring on a special guest. When
Speaker 1: it comes to positivity, there's only one person who can
Speaker 1: really channel that and bring it to us. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you. Tough week in Sixers Land,
Speaker 1: but maybe never a better time to bring on this
Speaker 1: specific guest. We couldn't have planned it better. You know
Speaker 1: him from going to seventy six Ers games season after season.
Speaker 1: You hear him now doing everything from his own music
Speaker 1: to chatting you up in the arena. The one and
Speaker 1: only channel or positivity himself, Christian Crosby, Christian, what's up? Man? Wow?
Speaker 1: I gotta say the introduction here is just amazing. I
Speaker 1: don't I do not deserve such an introduction, but thank
Speaker 1: you so much for having me. What's up? Y'all? This
Speaker 1: is not the time to be mired down in negativity.
Speaker 1: We have to keep looking forward. Guys are gonna be healthy,
Speaker 1: the team's gonna be back at full strength. Everything will
Speaker 1: be right with the world. I agree. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was a tough week, but we got to remind ourselves
Speaker 1: this has been an amazing year. Like it's been an
Speaker 1: amazing year. We've we've been fairly spoiled as six Ers
Speaker 1: fans this year, which I see this as a positive
Speaker 1: thing for for it to only be a couple of
Speaker 1: games and we're feeling the way we're feeling. I don't.
Speaker 1: That's only because we've been doing so well. So I agree.
Speaker 1: I'm here to bring the energy. Let's get some smiles going,
Speaker 1: shake it off, Let's have a good time, and let's talk.
Speaker 1: What's up, y'all. Let's go because you were here for
Speaker 1: the true heart of the process era, the ten win seasons,
Speaker 1: the eighteen wins, the seventeen wins. This is thirty nine
Speaker 1: and twenty one. Let's keep the big picture in perspective, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I totally agree, and I remember those years. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget them. There was one game I'll never
Speaker 1: forget that I worked. I think there was only about
Speaker 1: six thousand people in the arena, and so to just
Speaker 1: see everything heightened and to see the level of basketball
Speaker 1: that this team is playing. Honestly, look, I couldn't be
Speaker 1: happier as a Sixers fan. If you're not happy, I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk to you. There's no reason to
Speaker 1: be mad right now. Seriously, I love it. I do
Speaker 1: want to talk to you a little bit about what
Speaker 1: we've seen this season, and especially the vibes in the
Speaker 1: building as of late, which has been so nice to
Speaker 1: see fans return. But before we get too far away
Speaker 1: from our intro. Lauren would probably pick up on this
Speaker 1: because I make her listen to every episode of mail
Speaker 1: Bag Monday that our theme song for this episode was Difference.
Speaker 1: It's gonna stay different. Why not make it strong? Right? Yes? Scrong, Yes, No, Honestly,
Speaker 1: it's an honor for you guys to put my song
Speaker 1: strong as an intro. That's probably like the cool one
Speaker 1: of the coolest things that have happened with me and
Speaker 1: the Sixers, Like, come on, I made a song and
Speaker 1: you guys are using it. That's It's an honor, guys.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. I want your honest take, though.
Speaker 1: What do you guys think, because we haven't talked about this,
Speaker 1: give me your honest take on the music. Lauren and Brian,
Speaker 1: what do you think? I'll give you my take first. Christian,
Speaker 1: I am a fan especially of this song because you
Speaker 1: and I talk and I do give you some evaluations.
Speaker 1: This one I really I ride with the first time
Speaker 1: I listened to it, I remember I called you and
Speaker 1: I was like, Christian, this one's a good one. I
Speaker 1: like this one. And then seeing the guys warm up
Speaker 1: to this song specifically, I know that's been special for you.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear, Christian, what was it like the
Speaker 1: first time you saw the Sixers in layup lines warming
Speaker 1: up to your music? I mean, it's it's a really
Speaker 1: strange feeling, like I was a fan in the moment,
Speaker 1: just watching my favorite athletes in the world warming up
Speaker 1: to a song that I made, and knowing that the
Speaker 1: Sixers made it all happen. To feel the support not
Speaker 1: only from the organization but also the team, you know,
Speaker 1: I got a little terry eyed. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: It felt really good. It's just one of those things
Speaker 1: where it's confirmation, like just do what makes you happy,
Speaker 1: have fun with it, and you never know what can
Speaker 1: happen with it. You know, you never know where it's
Speaker 1: going to take you. And with this, I was just
Speaker 1: doing music fun and to see it be received so
Speaker 1: well and supported is like, come on, I couldn't ask
Speaker 1: for a better scenario. So the genesis of all this
Speaker 1: for making Strong Now our theme song here on Mailbag
Speaker 1: Monday was a Louren I've been talking about how do
Speaker 1: we figure out ways to bring a more direct connection
Speaker 1: to some of the people out there into the pod.
Speaker 1: One of the thoughts you've kicked around, is for our
Speaker 1: open music, do we try and find a local artist
Speaker 1: whose songs that we can use? And then it was like, well,
Speaker 1: hold on, wait a second, there's a local artist then
Speaker 1: at thirty six zero one who we see and hear
Speaker 1: from and love every single game. And my first season
Speaker 1: with the Sixers was the ten win season, so that
Speaker 1: was twenty fifteen sixteen. Like you, Christian, there's just some
Speaker 1: things when you live through it, you can't forget. You
Speaker 1: don't forget a ten win season, for better or for worse.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that was right before the Christian
Speaker 1: Crosby explosion happened. You know, we had lived life nice.
Speaker 1: We now have this music career. How did all that
Speaker 1: come together? Where did that start from? How did you
Speaker 1: go from in arena host only to now a guy
Speaker 1: who's just like you know, you have your your fingers
Speaker 1: on the pulse of everything. You're involved in a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything. You know. What's what's crazy is I
Speaker 1: really do have to credit the Sixers organization UM for
Speaker 1: much of my success. Honestly, Like from working with the
Speaker 1: Sixers number one, I fell in love with entrepreneurship and
Speaker 1: it was through working with the Sixers and working with
Speaker 1: different entrepreneurs and different businesses through being in the game
Speaker 1: presentation department that I started to realize, I really like this.
Speaker 1: I like I like people that are are doing their
Speaker 1: own businesses. And I would book, um, you know, different
Speaker 1: halftime acts and this and that, and I just started
Speaker 1: to get curious um. And so it opened my eyes
Speaker 1: to a whole other world. M starting out as a
Speaker 1: dunker off the trampoline, I never envisioned myself being a
Speaker 1: guy who sat at a desk and did any type
Speaker 1: of job. I always wanted to be an entertainer. So
Speaker 1: the Sixers giving me that opportunity to sharpen my tools
Speaker 1: and enhance my skills in a way that I never
Speaker 1: envisioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Speaker 1: And then being on the court in front of all
Speaker 1: these people for years and years. You meet season ticket holders,
Speaker 1: you meet different celebrities, you meet different athletes, And what
Speaker 1: this does is it gives you an opportunity to build
Speaker 1: different brands and do different opportunities and be able to
Speaker 1: do it at a level where you can find success.
Speaker 1: And so all of that has come from working with
Speaker 1: the Sixers, and so My biggest thing is just being curious.
Speaker 1: I was always curious. I always wanted to learn more.
Speaker 1: I always wanted to experience more. And this is where
Speaker 1: I've landed. It's been a it's been a journey. It's
Speaker 1: been really fun. And I think what I about everything
Speaker 1: that I'm doing currently is that I am still with
Speaker 1: the Sixers, and I am still tied to the Sixers,
Speaker 1: And on top of that, the Sixers are supporting me.
Speaker 1: The Sixers support me would live lick nice. The Sixers
Speaker 1: are now supporting my music, Like, what are we talking about?
Speaker 1: That's insane, that doesn't even make sense. So, as a
Speaker 1: real genuine Sixers fan growing up in this area, I
Speaker 1: am literally living out what you would call a dream,
Speaker 1: and hopefully I'm just getting started. But I do have
Speaker 1: to credit the Sixers. We have to give the Sixers
Speaker 1: their credit for the support. I could not be more
Speaker 1: more grateful for it, to be honest. Well that's beautiful, Christian.
Speaker 1: It has been a pleasure to watch you grow, to
Speaker 1: watch you do all sorts of different things. I'm so
Speaker 1: proud of you as a friend, and I'm so glad
Speaker 1: that you got to come share this with us today. Christian,
Speaker 1: I have a question for you. Okay, are you in
Speaker 1: a hurry? I am not in a hurry at all.
Speaker 1: Am I talking really fast? No, not at all. So
Speaker 1: this would be the part where Selton I usually do
Speaker 1: our mailbag Monday. People submit questions. Obviously this was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a more difficult week to get positivity
Speaker 1: in the mailbag. But if you have a few minutes,
Speaker 1: do you want to stay on and answer our mail
Speaker 1: back questions with us? I would love to. Let's go.
Speaker 1: I have a few minutes. I have a lot of
Speaker 1: minutes for you, guys, whatever you want to do, let's go.
Speaker 1: You have one new message without further ado. Now that
Speaker 1: he is in, let us give an official mailbag Monday.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the masses, love him Christian Crosby. He is
Speaker 1: in for the duration of this episode. Mailbag Monday. Hawes
Speaker 1: it work. Perhaps many of you know, perhaps some of
Speaker 1: you don't. For the uninitiated, we take your mentions and
Speaker 1: dms on social and respond to what is our favorite
Speaker 1: mode of communication, your voicemails on the podline two five
Speaker 1: four zero three seven six three seven, each and every Monday.
Speaker 1: It's this simple. You send it in, we respond, and
Speaker 1: if you call the new stipulation is automatically, you call,
Speaker 1: you get some free swag and some march. We try
Speaker 1: to do that here, Chris. We try to reward the
Speaker 1: people for engaging with us. I love it, Brian, Lauren,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. I'm excited about this a
Speaker 1: little nervous, but let's do it all right. Let's start
Speaker 1: it off, Lena say, let's start off easy. But perhaps
Speaker 1: the timing of this makes it not so easy. The
Speaker 1: week that was, Lauren, I usually do a quick debrief
Speaker 1: on the week that was before we get into the
Speaker 1: listener questions and comments. Different type of week for the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers, they did not happen to win a game
Speaker 1: that has been rare this year. But listen, I think
Speaker 1: we can keep it simple. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: important guys who weren't playing basketball in all those games
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. I agree. I mean, look, my phone
Speaker 1: got hit up a lot. You know, as Philly fans,
Speaker 1: everyone just wants to talk. They want to talk about
Speaker 1: every game. They want to analyze every moment, every play,
Speaker 1: every up, every down. I get it. I'm a Sixer.
Speaker 1: Span sometimes I fall guilty of it too. My phone
Speaker 1: blew up, But at the end of the day, Brian Lauren. Look,
Speaker 1: we're fine. We all know why things went the way
Speaker 1: they went. It's nothing to freak out about. I'm feeling good, actually,
Speaker 1: like it's Monday. I'm feeling really good. And I think
Speaker 1: any Philly fan who's been following this season should feel
Speaker 1: good as well. Like we're good. Everyone relaxed. I need
Speaker 1: the text messages to slow down a little bit. It's Monday,
Speaker 1: Let's get over it, let's move on. We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: And this is why we had you on this specific episode.
Speaker 1: I don't have any unique takes really here. For me.
Speaker 1: This is a keep it in perspective type of week
Speaker 1: worth noting. Yes, four losses in a row, all without
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. If you ever needed evidence of how important
Speaker 1: he is to this team, just look at this week.
Speaker 1: Beyond that, other players, other all stars in and out
Speaker 1: of the lineup, no fur con for a lot of
Speaker 1: the time that the team played this week, and a
Speaker 1: really difficult doc. Rivers was willing to call it a
Speaker 1: type of schedule bloss and I'm willing to agree with him,
Speaker 1: especially with first one in Milwaukee and then the second
Speaker 1: one obviously deeply shorthanded against a team that didn't even
Speaker 1: have to submit an injury report. Cells I forgot kind
Speaker 1: of that that was an option. I thought that the
Speaker 1: Bucks were late to submit their injury reports this week.
Speaker 1: Really they just didn't have anyone on it. And that's
Speaker 1: a jarring thing to see when you're missing both of
Speaker 1: your all stars. So I'm willing to just sort of
Speaker 1: pack it up, put it in a box, keep it moving.
Speaker 1: The Sixers have a pretty weak strength of schedule for
Speaker 1: the rest of the way and hopefully they can capitalize
Speaker 1: on it starting tonight. And look, they're back home for
Speaker 1: three straight. That is a great thing always for this team.
Speaker 1: We know how good they've been at home, and I
Speaker 1: do think that right Ben Simmons extremely talented player, We
Speaker 1: know that. And specific to the three opponents the Sixers play,
Speaker 1: they obviously played two games against Milwaukee. There was a
Speaker 1: key player on each of those teams. Golden State I
Speaker 1: would say Steph Phoenix, Devin Booker probably or Chris Paul
Speaker 1: depending on how you wanted to do it. And then
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Janis who Ben Simmons probably, all things considered, would
Speaker 1: have been the number one guy on defensively, So I
Speaker 1: think there was a lot going on, and I am
Speaker 1: hardened to hear. It always helps to keep things in perspective.
Speaker 1: It's been a long season, and I think at some
Speaker 1: point too, it's inevitable with all the things that are
Speaker 1: going on for this particular year, with health and safety protocols,
Speaker 1: guys and in in and out of the lineups, you're gonna
Speaker 1: hit a bump in the road. I think the Sixers
Speaker 1: hit theres and I personally feel like there's enough evidence
Speaker 1: out there and body of work to suggest that once
Speaker 1: they get back healthy, things should be good. I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say, look, this is basketball. No team wins
Speaker 1: every game, and there's always there's always a part of
Speaker 1: the season when this happens to a team, every single
Speaker 1: team in the league. So this is ours and like
Speaker 1: we're back home. We do play much better at home,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, that's all I have to say about it.
Speaker 1: And I think, honestly, like I think sometimes us Philly
Speaker 1: fans like, well, we don't have much to say. We
Speaker 1: just we just start saying anything, and it's really that simple,
Speaker 1: Like we lost, we lost consecutive games. We're back home,
Speaker 1: and that's the story. Like let's just that's it, and
Speaker 1: I'm willing to just point out a couple of silver linings.
Speaker 1: I think when Steph Curry plays the way he did,
Speaker 1: I don't think that any team can can really beat that.
Speaker 1: That sort of felt like a basketball god's momentum, And
Speaker 1: regardless of who was available, I think that's how that
Speaker 1: one was going to go. Selzie brought up an interesting
Speaker 1: point when we look at what Matisse Bible did to
Speaker 1: Devin Booker against the Suns. I mean, if Ben had played,
Speaker 1: we might not have had that experience of understanding just
Speaker 1: how lethal Matisse can be against a smaller guard like
Speaker 1: Devin Booker. And then when you go to Milwaukee and
Speaker 1: you're as shorthanded as you were, at least you got
Speaker 1: the reps in. I don't know good to see Tobias Harris.
Speaker 1: At least he came back right. He needs to be
Speaker 1: back in the lineup. So I'm willing to look at
Speaker 1: little silver linings from each of the losses and keep
Speaker 1: it moving. The only linings we do here on mail
Speaker 1: Bag Monday, Gosh Darnett our silver so let us start
Speaker 1: to dip into the mail bag. You have one new
Speaker 1: meth our weekly Sunday Sticker question on the at sixers
Speaker 1: Instagram story feed was big week for Tyrese Maxie. What
Speaker 1: did you think, really, guys? I felt like Tyres was
Speaker 1: terrific stepping up in extra minutes this past week. Let
Speaker 1: us run you some of his numbers in the last
Speaker 1: four games. He's averaged twelve and a half point shot
Speaker 1: around forty three percent from the field, knockdown a couple
Speaker 1: threes to assist per game. Just all around energy from
Speaker 1: this young rookie out of the University of Kentucky. On Instagram,
Speaker 1: Donning dot Jack says, how did Tyres play like an
Speaker 1: absolute goat? Okay, coming right out of the gate with
Speaker 1: some fire, that's a that's a statement. Yeah. During the games,
Speaker 1: I'm up on the stage with Squad seven six Every
Speaker 1: time Maxie scores, we always say to the Maxie, like
Speaker 1: we say to them, like you know, to the max
Speaker 1: We say to the Maxi and we all go crazy. Well,
Speaker 1: you love Maxio. I never forget the first game I
Speaker 1: watched him playing. This dude was super finessy and super aggressive,
Speaker 1: like down low. I was like, who the heck is
Speaker 1: this guy? I love this kid? Yeah, this kid is
Speaker 1: on fire. We're I think we're all throwing the goat
Speaker 1: term out there a little loosely, but you know what,
Speaker 1: it's Maxie. Let him have it. I'm cool. I'm cool
Speaker 1: with that. That's that's that's my take on Maxi right there.
Speaker 1: Let's give him all the confidence he needs to keep
Speaker 1: this juice going. I'm loving the energy, I'm loving the confidence.
Speaker 1: Even when he makes mistakes, you don't see his demeanor change.
Speaker 1: Love that guy. Double digits in all four of course,
Speaker 1: again four losses, but four straight games and double figures
Speaker 1: for Tyrese. He's someone who has prided himself and staying
Speaker 1: ready all season, and then this week he was able
Speaker 1: to prove that he really did stay ready, and he's
Speaker 1: improved in a lot of ways. Selta and I have
Speaker 1: talked about. We think he's put on a little bit
Speaker 1: of weight too, so he's clearly been putting in the
Speaker 1: work behind the scenes as well. Cool to see him
Speaker 1: succeed and capitalize on on what was a difficult week.
Speaker 1: George Keane underscores zero seven said, I think he's playing
Speaker 1: with confidence and a straight up balling. Yes, would agree
Speaker 1: with that. Lucas dot Reich's thirty nine says, how is
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxie playing good? Because Ben Simmons is out and
Speaker 1: it's good we can see what our point guard can do. Listen.
Speaker 1: I think that's a valid point this stage of the year.
Speaker 1: I think we've all seen, like we were just talking
Speaker 1: about what the seventy sixers can do while they're at
Speaker 1: full strength right now. Probably can't hurt for Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff to be able to have the
Speaker 1: chance to do a little bit more fact finding about
Speaker 1: guys as they're trying to formulate what the rotation could
Speaker 1: look like in the postseason once the regular season ends.
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxie is making the most of these minutes. Larn't
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Again, Like I can't say enough
Speaker 1: how impressive he's been all season in terms of just
Speaker 1: staying ready. Doc Rivers has had so many great options
Speaker 1: to go to all season long that a lot of
Speaker 1: the times it's meant that one of those options wasn't Tyrese.
Speaker 1: And now that he is an option, he's really stepped
Speaker 1: up to the plate. He's put in the work and
Speaker 1: now it's showing, and you love to see that for
Speaker 1: a young player. Seltz and I Christian talk a lot
Speaker 1: about how it's challenging for young players to come into
Speaker 1: good teams because the Sixers are such a good team
Speaker 1: that Tyrese isn't going to have the touches, the minutes,
Speaker 1: the opportunities to make mistakes that he would have had
Speaker 1: on a team that was maybe losing more games where
Speaker 1: he maybe could have started. We talked about this with
Speaker 1: Matisse Thybel last year too. There's there's not a big
Speaker 1: margin for error when you're a young guy on a
Speaker 1: good team. So to see Tyrese find a way to
Speaker 1: make that work anyway, I think might be the most
Speaker 1: impressive thing of all. I think this is you see
Speaker 1: this in a lot of the elite teams when the
Speaker 1: coach's job is just that much harder when literally you
Speaker 1: just have access to supreme talent that's on the bench,
Speaker 1: that's young um that may not even have experience, but
Speaker 1: is ready to just come onto the court and spark
Speaker 1: off like MAXI does. Um. It's for me, like as
Speaker 1: as a fan to see to see us have a
Speaker 1: guy like that in our in our in our back
Speaker 1: I don't even want to say backpocket, but for us
Speaker 1: to just have a guy like that on our squad, um,
Speaker 1: I think we had the jackpot. We couldn't be. We
Speaker 1: couldn't We couldn't be in a better position with a
Speaker 1: guy like that. I trust him. I would trust him
Speaker 1: with the ball in his hand at the end of
Speaker 1: the game to score or to get to the line.
Speaker 1: I would trust Maxie with that. And how often can
Speaker 1: we say that about about our newer guys? So that
Speaker 1: that just says a lot about how he's been playing,
Speaker 1: and he's you know, he's just one of those guys
Speaker 1: who's fun to watch, even like when you see him
Speaker 1: making mistakes or when you see coach coaching him, it's
Speaker 1: just a pleasure to see it. He's just so much
Speaker 1: fun to watch. So big up some MAXIEO to the Maxie.
Speaker 1: I love that. I feel like that could even become
Speaker 1: a chance. Maybe maybe I'm wrong on this, but it
Speaker 1: could be like to the Maxie Yes, no, maybe not.
Speaker 1: Oh Ryan again, I don't know. We've got to get
Speaker 1: you back in the arena set. With talent like that,
Speaker 1: you could have a whole new role. Give me a
Speaker 1: megaphone and some sixers sticks, air sticks, thundersticks. We can
Speaker 1: get something popping. Hop on the Maxi taxi that might
Speaker 1: be on fire. We're on fire. Get the graphic up
Speaker 1: on the center screen scoreboard. Bloom when he has a
Speaker 1: big basket or something like that. Come on, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: cartoon of tyres waving out the window of the taxes.
Speaker 1: It's just like going across the video board. I don't know, guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta have Derek Hayes on the podcast. We're gonna
Speaker 1: make that happen. That's a good idea and then we
Speaker 1: can take credit for it. And when it becomes like
Speaker 1: the next like Mike Scott high type thing. Hop it
Speaker 1: hop in the Maxi taxi. There's it's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's an Excel. There's plenty of space. Bring your friends.
Speaker 1: I want to maxie. I want three percent of all
Speaker 1: sales of the teachers. Negotiate those deals. Yes, the Maxi taxi. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's something to that. We're gonna circle back on that.
Speaker 1: Definitely something sad. All right to the podline we go
Speaker 1: for the first time on this edition of mail Bag Monday.
Speaker 1: You have one new message being a fan thinks from Vermont,
Speaker 1: huge Sixers fan calling about tire use Maxiet Guys, just
Speaker 1: a little energy, Guys, are Bunny out there? You know
Speaker 1: I've been watching him from the start of the season,
Speaker 1: and when he was getting brought up in all the
Speaker 1: trade talks, I cannot stand it because there's something about it,
Speaker 1: like the guy could score. He's proven that just he
Speaker 1: flies out there, and I feel like he opens up
Speaker 1: so much space and he's just kind of a fun
Speaker 1: guy to watch, whether he's putting up two points or
Speaker 1: thirty points. He's just always buzzing around and flying around
Speaker 1: out there. Kind of had a pleasure to watch the
Speaker 1: semi eyes. Not s how many other Sixers fans feel,
Speaker 1: but I'm a huge Maxie fan, and I think it's
Speaker 1: the sky's the limit for him. Those are my two
Speaker 1: cents from just a Sixers fan watching here and get Overmont.
Speaker 1: First of all, love Vermont. How can he not love Vermont?
Speaker 1: Left to hear from seventy six Ers fans all over,
Speaker 1: And I think maybe after Christian Sam might get a
Speaker 1: back seat a bucket seat in the Maxie Tage Christial
Speaker 1: ride Shotgun Sam can have a bucket seat. I actually
Speaker 1: really love this Maxi taxi thing. I think it's gonna work.
Speaker 1: I think that's the one that's gonna stick for sure.
Speaker 1: I don't mind taking that, like the back middle seat,
Speaker 1: that's just like no one really wants it. But my
Speaker 1: legs are so short that, like, I could deal with
Speaker 1: it if it means I get to ride in the
Speaker 1: Maxi taxi. Like, I'll sit back middle that. That's totally fine. Also, guys,
Speaker 1: I've never been to Vermont. I think I need to
Speaker 1: go to Vermont and hang out with some Sixers fans.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that he's from Vermont and
Speaker 1: he's a Sixers fan there. I love that. I love
Speaker 1: everything about that. That's so cool. That guy sound cool.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to that guy more about sports.
Speaker 1: Another great thing about Vermont read some seventy six Ers fans.
Speaker 1: We love that. Yeah, I totally second everything he said. Um,
Speaker 1: he clearly is paying attention to Maxie. He's not wrong.
Speaker 1: I think I think that's the thing too. He Tyrese
Speaker 1: does things that for the way he plays that other
Speaker 1: guys in this roster won't quite do. He has that
Speaker 1: ability to be really bouncy, break you down in the
Speaker 1: half court. Obviously, the floater is his go to move.
Speaker 1: It's a real weapon. We've seen that and what I
Speaker 1: hope to see over the final couple weeks of the
Speaker 1: regular season, and maybe if Tyrese gets some time in
Speaker 1: the postseason. Is what other elements to his offensive game
Speaker 1: can he start to put together. I think that's one
Speaker 1: of the next steps going into year number two. Well,
Speaker 1: you love to see how much more confident and Seltz,
Speaker 1: you and I talked about this. I believe on one
Speaker 1: of our pregame shows, how much more confident Tyrese is
Speaker 1: shooting the three. That's something that Doc Rivers has expressed
Speaker 1: he wants him to do. He's taking more, he's making more.
Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, in the team's last appearance over five from three.
Speaker 1: But to me, I'm okay with that. The fact that
Speaker 1: he took five in a game where the team was
Speaker 1: so shorthanded and they were relying on him to create
Speaker 1: or to find his own shot. I'm impressed with the
Speaker 1: fact that he was willing to take to take five
Speaker 1: even if he wasn't going to make him Shooters got
Speaker 1: to keep shooting. I love the confidence. I love that
Speaker 1: that I believe might be the most threes he's taken.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check really fast as a sixer. No, he okay, fine,
Speaker 1: he took six. He took six in January. He took
Speaker 1: eight in that game against Denver. But five is the
Speaker 1: most he's taken recently, and to see that he's more
Speaker 1: willing from deep, I think it is impressive and it
Speaker 1: was good to see the first Milwaukee game he was
Speaker 1: two for four for another number that I'm fine with
Speaker 1: him taking in a shorthanded situation. So cool that he's
Speaker 1: adding that because, like you said, we're used to the floater,
Speaker 1: We're used to him getting all the way to the rim.
Speaker 1: Cool to see him get confident from deep as well.
Speaker 1: He just has a lot of potential. I agree. I'm
Speaker 1: honestly excited to see the growth of his defense too,
Speaker 1: because I think he's he has the capability. If he's
Speaker 1: able to tap into that more on the defensive side,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a threat. He He's
Speaker 1: the type of guy who's gonna get like a ton
Speaker 1: of steals in the game once he figures that side
Speaker 1: of his game out. So I'm excited to see that
Speaker 1: that part of his game grow. I'm seeing it grow
Speaker 1: as we speak. But I think he's really gonna start
Speaker 1: really going to start standing out when he grows in
Speaker 1: that way as well. Christian Crosby breaking it down, folks,
Speaker 1: this is what Mailbag Monday is all about. As we
Speaker 1: go back to our Instagram sticker question of the week,
Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxe had a big week. What do you think
Speaker 1: of how he's playing? You have one new message t underscored,
Speaker 1: Jordan underscore and underscores CC. He's playing strong. He really
Speaker 1: wants it. He's going to be a star if he
Speaker 1: keeps working hard. Nick Verrel says, love the hard work
Speaker 1: and hustle. Tyrese deserves the praise he's getting for the
Speaker 1: great play. Christian. I think that this is something that
Speaker 1: you can relate to and maybe some people out there
Speaker 1: can relate to as well. In any walk of life,
Speaker 1: regardless of what it is you do, you love to
Speaker 1: see people rewarded for the work. And we know that
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Tyrese, he had that huge game against
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, fell out of the rotation a little bit,
Speaker 1: and he was ready a couple of games ago. When
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons went out, Doctor VS called his number and
Speaker 1: he stepped in and he's been a contributor. I love
Speaker 1: that about Coach too, because I consistently see Coach just
Speaker 1: make the right decisions and there's never a time where
Speaker 1: I'm questioning the playing time. I feel like he does
Speaker 1: a great job, Like like you're saying, honoring those wins, um,
Speaker 1: putting people in when they're when they're heating up, um,
Speaker 1: and and giving the time that's deserved. And I think
Speaker 1: he spreads it out like flawlessly, so UM, I think
Speaker 1: that definitely speaks to to coach his ability and obviously
Speaker 1: to see Maxie on the other side of it, um,
Speaker 1: receiving what he deserves after what he's done. Um, it's
Speaker 1: it's great. I love it. I love what he's doing.
Speaker 1: I don't think I think we've made it very clear
Speaker 1: how we feel about how this man's been playing. So
Speaker 1: UM big big shout out to coach for giving him that,
Speaker 1: because it's hard as a coach to to spread that
Speaker 1: time around. So to give him that reward, to see
Speaker 1: him do his thing while Ben's down, Um, it's it's
Speaker 1: that's that's definitely a win. We can say we've got
Speaker 1: we got out of this this this stretch all right.
Speaker 1: One more from our Instagram submissions. You have one new message.
Speaker 1: First of all, thank you to everyone out there who
Speaker 1: submitted on Instagram. We will lizabally get dozens, if not
Speaker 1: a couple hundred, of your reply so it's hard to
Speaker 1: sift through all of them, and obviously we don't have
Speaker 1: enough time to get them all in, but thank you.
Speaker 1: This one guys did stand out at me felt like
Speaker 1: we had to get to it. Katie the Library Lady
Speaker 1: says Tyrese Maxie as he's playing, he's the best. And
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying that because I was a second
Speaker 1: grade teacher. Oh love that, right, yo, I love those stories.
Speaker 1: We gotta hit her off. We gotta get some second
Speaker 1: grade Maxie stories out of her. Old I knew when
Speaker 1: you read her handle, even if she wasn't directly related
Speaker 1: to somebody, Katie the Library Lady, is that what it was?
Speaker 1: So that is an elite handle. I already knew I
Speaker 1: liked her, and then to hear about this connection that
Speaker 1: is just beautiful warms my heart. Love to hear about
Speaker 1: people that helped these guys from day one. Sounds like
Speaker 1: Katie was in there from the get go. And I
Speaker 1: will say that Tyres does such an excellent job in media.
Speaker 1: And when he when he talked to us the first
Speaker 1: day after the draft, he was so excited he lights up.
Speaker 1: He clearly had some really good like teachers and like
Speaker 1: positive influences in his life. Growing up. He presents himself
Speaker 1: so well, and I wonder if if Katie the Library
Speaker 1: Lady cut anything. I just want to ask Katie, was
Speaker 1: he crossing people over in a recess or whatever, because
Speaker 1: I would love to hear some stories about that. I
Speaker 1: want to visual that too, So shout out to Katie.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to We're gonna have to flag that handle.
Speaker 1: Maybe at some point there's a setting, maybe on a
Speaker 1: slow summer day during the offseason. We got to hit
Speaker 1: up Katie the Library Lady for some good tyrese Maxie stories.
Speaker 1: She probably most definitely has a seat in the Maxie Taxi.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Katie. We gotta do like a like
Speaker 1: a Sixers teachers round table. We have some content coming
Speaker 1: up with a couple other let's say, academic influences in
Speaker 1: the lives of the Sixers. We got to get them
Speaker 1: all together for for some sort of offseason round table.
Speaker 1: There has to be a teacher appreciation day or a
Speaker 1: month or a week or something like that. Right, let's
Speaker 1: do it. I would definitely tune into that. Lauren, You're
Speaker 1: definitely on point with that idea. Did you like that
Speaker 1: little teaser too about like some young sixer influences coming
Speaker 1: up on some content. I was going to ask, but
Speaker 1: then I felt as though you're trying to promote it
Speaker 1: and keep it a secret sought. I don't want to
Speaker 1: blow that, so I'm just gonna be quiet and just
Speaker 1: be patient and wait to find out what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I'll have to wait, but it's gonna be wholesome. I
Speaker 1: can promise you that, guys. I mean this is we
Speaker 1: have one more mail back submission to get to before
Speaker 1: you shut it down. This has been certainly a fun
Speaker 1: and enjoyable podcast, but this has been great ideating. We
Speaker 1: came up with a Maxi Taxi, which it sounds like
Speaker 1: kind of already existed, and now we have a piece
Speaker 1: of offseason content that we can do or maybe whenever
Speaker 1: it is whenever there's teacher appreciation, whether it's day, week, month,
Speaker 1: or year. We got another idea. We just might have
Speaker 1: to do this regularly. I'm down for that. Do you
Speaker 1: know the rates? I'll just get it all aboard the
Speaker 1: Maxi taxi. Yeah, it's good. This is fun. Guys, Can
Speaker 1: I come back again? We got one more to get to.
Speaker 1: You're not done yet? We got one more. Let's hit
Speaker 1: it you have one new message tweets by Zoe first
Speaker 1: time a long time love that thank you tweets by Zoe.
Speaker 1: What are you most excited about for the playoffs? And
Speaker 1: certainly I will just say this before I kick it
Speaker 1: over to you guys. If there's a week in the
Speaker 1: season that made me start thinking about the playoffs, last
Speaker 1: week was that week has arrived, Baby, I'm thinking about them.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're I don't think you're alone, Celts.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people might have started directing
Speaker 1: their attention down the road over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: And and for me this might be a little bit
Speaker 1: of a cop out answer or seemed too simple, But
Speaker 1: for me, it's got to be about intensity. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, when you think about teams like the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City Thunder coming into town, they've they've lost thirteen in
Speaker 1: a row. That's one that Sixers should win easily, but
Speaker 1: it also might be a little bit challenging to get
Speaker 1: up for. It is not a challenge to get up
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, whether you're a player, a coach, a fan,
Speaker 1: a reporter, the playoff intensity is what it's all about
Speaker 1: for me, and I think because we didn't really have
Speaker 1: a playoffs or a traditional playoffs last season with the
Speaker 1: team in the bubble. The year before, of course, ended
Speaker 1: in pretty dramatic fashion. I think Sixers fans are hungry
Speaker 1: for a good playoffs, and I think that the intensity
Speaker 1: will be there regardless of how many people will be available.
Speaker 1: I think the intensity will be in the streets, the
Speaker 1: intensity will be in the building, the intensity will be everywhere.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking forward to. I think at the
Speaker 1: end of every regular season there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a lull because it's sort of like a calm before
Speaker 1: the storm type situation. For me. Intensity, I'm really looking
Speaker 1: forward to it. I am going to say there is
Speaker 1: one reason that I love the playoffs every single year
Speaker 1: and it never changes, and that one reason is the competition.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, it doesn't matter if you're first seed
Speaker 1: or eighth seed. When you get to the playoffs, you
Speaker 1: start hooping on another level and to watch that competition
Speaker 1: is always so much fun. That is what I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to for my Sixers. I'm looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: just the elite level of basketball to be played, and
Speaker 1: I know that that's what we're going to see and
Speaker 1: to Lawrence point too. I feel like just because of
Speaker 1: the world that we're living in right now and everything
Speaker 1: that's happened in the last two years, that there is
Speaker 1: this level of just like calm enjoyment of the season
Speaker 1: that we're seeing, and it's like this level of anticipation
Speaker 1: because we're like trying not to jump the gun and
Speaker 1: get too excited, and we're trying to manage our feelings
Speaker 1: and emotions and we're holding it. And as soon as
Speaker 1: playoffs start is going to beloade and so I cannot
Speaker 1: wait for that feeling. To Lawrence Point, she nailed it
Speaker 1: with that competition and the explode ocean of fandom that
Speaker 1: we have all been holding on two for a long time.
Speaker 1: So I cannot wait for that. We talked about this
Speaker 1: at the start. We know how good the Sixers team
Speaker 1: is when they're fully loaded and ready to go, and
Speaker 1: we haven't even seen their trade acquisition George Hill formerly
Speaker 1: brought in the Fold with a healthy roster and squad.
Speaker 1: So I think there's not a team out there the
Speaker 1: Sixers can't beat. They've shown that already in the regular season.
Speaker 1: Regardless of the final twelve games the team has to
Speaker 1: get to, we'll just keep thinking about good health, good vibes.
Speaker 1: And while it seemed like this might have been a
Speaker 1: little bit of a rough week relatively speaking compared to
Speaker 1: how the season started, I think everyone knows step back,
Speaker 1: be confident. When you get the whole squad back together,
Speaker 1: all the pieces there, I think this thing will be
Speaker 1: in good shape. Christian Crosby, go aheadline. I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say, get the whole squad in the Maxi Taxi.
Speaker 1: Take a drive straight down Broad Street in the Maxi
Speaker 1: tax Oh my god, we could. We can make a
Speaker 1: Maxi Taxi float down Broad Street during the parade. We
Speaker 1: have to win this thing. Those are the rules. Here's
Speaker 1: the deal. Maybe no one listens to this podcast. We
Speaker 1: keep the Maxi Taxi under wraps. Okay, we got to
Speaker 1: talk to Tyrese. Gotta get the shirts, got to get
Speaker 1: the uber or whatever, uh you know, lift integration. We
Speaker 1: gotta get Greg Pepper with the animation on the scoreboard. Yes,
Speaker 1: we got about the partnership. That's right. Let's go. Gotta
Speaker 1: keep the lights on. So let's look. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know you're doing your thing, but we might need to
Speaker 1: get you in a higher position in marketing, like just
Speaker 1: soul marketing, because you seem to have it nailed here.
Speaker 1: We're mail Bag Monday. That's that's where it all happened.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, Brian Lauren, thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 1: This has been incredible. I hope to come back again. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: let us hear it formally. Christian Crosby making an exceptional
Speaker 1: mail Bag Monday debut, and we appreciate him now giving
Speaker 1: us our official intro and outro tunes. It's wrong on
Speaker 1: the pod. Thank you, guys, I appreciate you. Coming up
Speaker 1: later this week on the seventy six Ers Podcast Network,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a new episode of Coach Check with
Speaker 1: Matt Murphy. We will have the Friday Deep Dive with
Speaker 1: Lauren and Devone and myself coming up on Friday, and
Speaker 1: it's always follow us daily on the Scoops or seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers Scoop wherever you get your pods. Have a
Speaker 1: great week.