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TABLE TALK: The Sixers Are Bringing The Vibes! · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome to Table Talk here at the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: You've got a great discussion coming to you here on
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  Speaker 1: Table Talk. We got one of our good friends to
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  Speaker 1: get into this Philadelphia seventy six ers early season. What
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  Speaker 1: we have been seeing from this team, which has been
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  Speaker 1: pretty spectacular so far in my opinion, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: We got our friend Sean Bernard. Buddy, how you doing man, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: doing well, daff Always appreciative of you having me on.
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  Speaker 3: And it feels a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Better to be in good spirits about this Sixers team.
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  Speaker 4: We've kind of pushed through some tough times last year,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm happy to be spreading the positive vibes.
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  Speaker 1: All over absolutely, And I gotta tell you too, like
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  Speaker 1: the vibes and the offseason not all that great. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I had you on the show. We were trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep things optimistic. You know what we were gonna be
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  Speaker 1: seeing early this season. What VJ edgecumb was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: doing tyres maxiy was he still gonna be able to
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  Speaker 1: develop what happens with Joe Ellenbian. We're certainly gonna be
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  Speaker 1: getting into that right now on this particular discussion.
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  Speaker 2: But man like it.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's amazing where the vibes are, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna actually end our conversation.
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  Speaker 2: So let's just I'll stop.
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  Speaker 1: I'll stop with my nonsense here, because this team right
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  Speaker 1: out of the gate, just I believe showed a ton
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  Speaker 1: of resiliency sean their first two games, they're down by
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  Speaker 1: double digits in the fourth quarter, they come back to
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  Speaker 1: win both games. So I'm wondering, just to start us
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  Speaker 1: off here, should we be really looking at this Sixers
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  Speaker 1: team as one that could be one of the most
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  Speaker 1: resilient NBA teams right out of the gate here?
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's certainly showing the early signs of that, as
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  Speaker 4: you mentioned, coming back from double digit a double digit
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  Speaker 4: deficit in both games to pick up victories here. And
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  Speaker 4: I think it was important for this team to come
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  Speaker 4: out of the gates hot this year for a lot
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  Speaker 4: of reasons. Obviously wins and losses matter to get the
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  Speaker 4: fan base bought back in and just inside that locker
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  Speaker 4: room for this team having a feeling of we can
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  Speaker 4: produce wins, we can run with the best teams in
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  Speaker 4: the NBA if everything clicks right, and that's what's being
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  Speaker 4: put on display right now.
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  Speaker 2: The number one thing that has.
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  Speaker 4: Stood out has been the resiliency, the effort level, the
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  Speaker 4: level of competitiveness, and then, to be honest, that's been
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  Speaker 4: something that has been missing on some past iterations of
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  Speaker 4: the Sixers team. I think about James Harden, Joel Abeed
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  Speaker 4: sort of lumbering around Game seven as Jason Tatmams dropping
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  Speaker 4: fifty one in the World Fargo Center there to send
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  Speaker 4: him home in Game seven.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the feeling I get about the Sixer team.
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  Speaker 4: It feels like they care, feels like they compete, and
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  Speaker 4: they're not gonna wave that way flag until the clock
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  Speaker 4: heads zero.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely great vibes right from the start.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna get into those vibes a little bit a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later, but we certainly have to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the one player and the one talent on this team
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  Speaker 1: that is so very exciting, and that is VJ. Edgecomb
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  Speaker 1: His presence on the court. My goodness, he has been electric.
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  Speaker 1: Sean and my co host Eric this past week on
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  Speaker 1: the show, he was kind. He was kind of comparing VJ.
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  Speaker 1: Edgecumb to d Wade actually, but even better in terms
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  Speaker 1: of his offensive presence and his aggressiveness. So I'm wondering,
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  Speaker 1: let's start talking about VJ.
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  Speaker 2: Edgecumb here.
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  Speaker 1: Get your thoughts on you know, this very early start
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  Speaker 1: to his career in the NBA and what we've seen
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  Speaker 1: from him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's incredible, man, that you can't ask for a
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  Speaker 4: much better start than what he's put on display. The
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  Speaker 4: number one thing that stood out with me with him
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  Speaker 4: is he's just fearless that he does not share at
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  Speaker 4: the moment, and whether that means rising up and trying
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  Speaker 4: to dunk on two guys or whether that means taking
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  Speaker 4: a three point at a big moment in a game.
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  Speaker 2: There, he's just ready for it.
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  Speaker 4: Like mentally he's there at twenty years old, which does
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  Speaker 4: not happen. It's also really uncommon for a player of
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  Speaker 4: his skill set, which is essentially a high level athlete
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  Speaker 4: guy that is, you know, it's going to be that
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  Speaker 4: kind of his defining immediately upon walking into the NBA NBA.
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  Speaker 4: He's in probably the top ten percent stile of athletes
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  Speaker 4: in this league, which is the best of the best.
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  Speaker 4: But typically with those kind of guys, you don't really
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  Speaker 4: get the basketball field that he's already showing, just making
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  Speaker 4: connective passes, getting rebounds, And I love how active he is.
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  Speaker 4: It feels like he's always itching to what more can
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  Speaker 4: I do? Can I help out and box out here?
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  Speaker 4: Can I make a week's side of rotation here?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 4: What can I do at all moments to help impact
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  Speaker 4: this team? And I really do believe that the ceiling
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  Speaker 4: is even higher than I initially believed with him.
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  Speaker 3: It's really exciting what he means to this sixth game.
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  Speaker 4: And I think we're gonna be talking about this being
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  Speaker 4: the best backcourt in the entire NBA and not too
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  Speaker 4: far down the line.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I mean, I can't if that narrative starts,
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  Speaker 1: Holy cow, it's gonna be hard to quell the vibes.
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  Speaker 2: Really, it's gonna be really hard.
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  Speaker 1: But look, as much as we have loved seeing him
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  Speaker 1: thus far, and right now as we're recording this, they
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  Speaker 1: are playing the magic and we're kind of right in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the game here halftime is like almost
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  Speaker 1: upon us here. But I guess to follow up on
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  Speaker 1: vj Edge come here, Sean.
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  Speaker 2: He's a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: He's not perfect by any stretch. You know, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to see some mistakes happening here and there. Where
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  Speaker 1: does VJA so far from what you have seen? Where
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  Speaker 1: does he need to work on his game or where
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  Speaker 1: would you like to see him work on his game more?
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  Speaker 1: As he's progressing here?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean to be honest, he's been exceeding my
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  Speaker 4: expectations in just about every single category. I can kind
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  Speaker 4: of throw it in to start here. I also think
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  Speaker 4: it's really telling, like the trust that Nick Nurse is
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  Speaker 4: showing off the bat here that leading into today's games.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sure these stats will shake up after all
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  Speaker 4: the matchups to go down, but he was tied for
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  Speaker 4: third in the league in minutes played per game here,
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  Speaker 4: which is nuts for a rookie to he's going there.
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  Speaker 4: He's also like trusting him to run the offense at
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  Speaker 4: a much higher than I expected, particularly when you have
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  Speaker 4: guys like Quinton Grimes who's here for the second half
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  Speaker 4: of the year, like Tyrese Maxi. We still have veteran
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  Speaker 4: sitting on the bench who had not touched the floor
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  Speaker 4: this year, such as Kyle Lowry like that, And I
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  Speaker 4: also want to always bring up the Jad mccainne still
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  Speaker 4: lurking in the background. Here is a guy that is
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  Speaker 4: to be an impact player on this team in the
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  Speaker 4: pretty near future that his cast has just been taken
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  Speaker 4: off and is making his strives to return. But as
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  Speaker 4: far as Bja overall, I think he, like I don't
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  Speaker 4: really have a specific.
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  Speaker 3: Improvement area right now.
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  Speaker 4: He's just been great across the board the way that
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  Speaker 4: I did not think was possible.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I'm looking at this team and there
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be some guys who are gonna be coming
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  Speaker 1: back to the court, Like you mentioned Jared McCain We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get to Paul George in a bit as well.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like I don't want any mojo getting
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  Speaker 1: screwed up right now with some of these guys coming back,
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  Speaker 1: and not that it will by any stretch of the imagination.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's also important that we talk about
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  Speaker 1: what we have also seen from Joel Embiid too, because
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for years and years and years, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: arguably one of the best athletes in the city of
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia and somebody who just a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 1: was the MVP of this league. And it really does
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  Speaker 1: appear sean as though the torch has really been passed
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  Speaker 1: to this new generation of Sixers players, as Embiid is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, missing tonight's game from you know what, he's
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  Speaker 1: missing tonight's game from a load management injury management standpoint?
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  Speaker 1: How do you envision Joel Embiid's role on this team
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  Speaker 1: throughout this season? I guess from an overall perspective because
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  Speaker 1: I remember seeing a social post from you where you
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  Speaker 1: were ranking some NBA players and I think Embiid might
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  Speaker 1: have been like a top six if I'm not mistaken, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about himbid? From an overall perspective,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, can he really do that? Can he be
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  Speaker 1: like a top six NBA player here? And where do
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  Speaker 1: you really see his role from what we've seen thus far?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And for that list in your referencing there, I
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  Speaker 4: kind of went with my direction there is this is
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  Speaker 4: a guy who we've seen done it, and I do
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  Speaker 4: think that has been written off a little bit prematurely
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  Speaker 4: here for sure that obviously he's been on a strict
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  Speaker 4: minutes limit he's played twenty minutes in the game, and
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  Speaker 4: it's been very different across those two games there. I
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  Speaker 4: think we all forget a little bit that less than
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  Speaker 4: two calendar years ago, this dude was a universal top
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  Speaker 4: five player in basketball, and it has been helped it's
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  Speaker 4: gotten the way now. Granted, we know kind of what
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  Speaker 4: happens with big guys when there are lower leg issues
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  Speaker 4: that the track record is not great there, but I
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  Speaker 4: gave him a little bit more of the benefit of
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  Speaker 4: the doubt, and I think he's getting nationally there and
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  Speaker 4: decided I would rather rock with a guy that I've
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  Speaker 4: seen do it than somebody taking a leap for that
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  Speaker 4: type of list there. But as far as embiads outlook
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  Speaker 4: for the season overall, I mean, the first game was
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  Speaker 4: really concerning to me from the standpoint of I was
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  Speaker 4: pretty impressed with that final preseason game that he did play,
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  Speaker 4: but I did think he was moving well there against
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  Speaker 4: the Timberwolves, and obviously was the third stringer in his preseason,
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  Speaker 4: but just his movement up and down the court was
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  Speaker 4: really encouraging to me. Then in Game one this year,
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  Speaker 4: did not look the same, but he was sort of
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  Speaker 4: lumbering around No. One to County nothing like that, and
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  Speaker 4: that's when the red flag started to raise with you.
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  Speaker 1: Even from a rebound perspective too. I wanted to throw
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  Speaker 1: that in there because like that, I mean, that's look, yes,
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  Speaker 1: this is basketball and a critically important part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: But when you have somebody like Embiid with his size
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  Speaker 1: where he needs to be underneath the rim. It was
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  Speaker 1: really concerning that first game of the season just in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the lack of rebounding ability.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you're one hundred percent right there, and that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be something that they're going to kind of have
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  Speaker 4: to combat for the rest of his career. Is pairing
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  Speaker 4: him in a little different way than it has been
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  Speaker 4: the case for most of this but I was encouraged
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  Speaker 4: by the second game of him looking a bit closer
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  Speaker 4: to more like himself. There's still a work in progress
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  Speaker 4: as far as his impact around the rim. I think
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  Speaker 4: defensively there's going to have to be some conversations, but
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  Speaker 4: the dude's working back from two surgeries in the span
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  Speaker 4: of eighteen months. I do like that there is a
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  Speaker 4: concrete plan from the Sixers organization like I've seen it.
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  Speaker 4: Even a little bit of criticism for him not playing
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  Speaker 4: against the magic there. There is always the MB beating
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  Speaker 4: up on bad teams, merchant accusations on the internet there.
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  Speaker 4: But I think it makes a lot of sense for
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  Speaker 4: him to play Saturday, rest Sunday, Monday, play Tuesday and
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  Speaker 4: rest Wednesday, Thursday, and then play Friday. So it does
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  Speaker 4: feel like there is a plan in place for it.
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  Speaker 4: I think the reality is there will be nights where
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  Speaker 4: we get a little bit of a throwback Jowell and
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  Speaker 4: b performance, but it is no longer live and die
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  Speaker 4: with where Joel Andbid takes you. That this team has
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  Speaker 4: other ways that they can win. They have other styles
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  Speaker 4: of basketball that they can play, and I think that
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  Speaker 4: should be looked at as a positive.
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  Speaker 1: That's a fantastic point. It's a great point as we
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break here and when we get back,
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  Speaker 1: got more Sixers talk coming your way. All right, We
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  Speaker 1: glad to hear you getting back into it there, because
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  Speaker 1: I truly enjoyed listening to you guys, but specifically when
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  Speaker 1: i'd be picking my daughters up during the winter season
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  Speaker 1: from their ski from their ski club at school. I love,
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  Speaker 1: I love listening to you guys, it was. It was
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  Speaker 1: perfect somehow.
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  Speaker 2: For the facts. Appreciate that. Yes, I meant absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Well, look, I want to get into the quote
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  Speaker 1: other guy, the older guy on this team, who we're
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  Speaker 1: just not talking a lot about because he hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: on the court and we're not one hundred percent shore
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  Speaker 1: when he's gonna get back on the court, and that's
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  Speaker 1: Paul George and US fans. You know what our expectations
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  Speaker 1: should be in terms of his contributions this season, and
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  Speaker 1: once he's able to get back on the court, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how I'm wondering, from what we've seen thus far, the
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  Speaker 1: good stuff we have seen thus far, and we've seen
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  Speaker 1: a decent amount of it, how does this team alter
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  Speaker 1: itself once Paul George comes back from his injury And
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  Speaker 1: is that alteration gonna be a good thing or could
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  Speaker 1: it potentially be a negative thing? Here, Sean, what are
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do think it's gonna be a good thing,
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  Speaker 3: to be perfully honest, And.
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  Speaker 4: There is no doubt that he did not live up
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  Speaker 4: to the max contract expectations that he did have last year,
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  Speaker 4: and I think it's fair to assess that he may
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  Speaker 4: very well never reach quite those heights there. But I
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  Speaker 4: do think we're watching the start of the six or
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  Speaker 4: season that I'm gonna I feel a whole lot better
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  Speaker 4: if they're kicking out to the corner and it's Paul
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  Speaker 4: George taking a three point rather than Dominic Barlow or
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  Speaker 4: Kelly Eubray.
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  Speaker 3: Even in that case.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think there was a lot of uncharacteristic
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  Speaker 4: stuff from George. I think it's gonna be nice that
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  Speaker 4: he's looked at to fit in rather than be the
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  Speaker 4: guy and how the season will play off. And I
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  Speaker 4: do think that this is happening at a pretty rapid
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  Speaker 4: rate here that he's already returned to five on five practice,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we're that far from him rejoining this team.
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  Speaker 4: And another kind of critique of Paul George throughout his career,
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  Speaker 4: he's been a little bit against being labeled of power
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  Speaker 4: forward or playing the fourth five about being pretty open
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  Speaker 4: to that during Six's media day.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's an encouraging sign.
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  Speaker 4: So he may not be the max contract guy that
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  Speaker 4: he was built out to be, but I don't think
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  Speaker 4: he can be a very valuable role in this current
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  Speaker 4: Sixers team and fit into stylistically the way they want
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  Speaker 4: to play.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, it's gonna be positive vibes here on
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  Speaker 1: out for us as we talk about this team, because
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  Speaker 1: like we've seen some surprises for sure, and again only
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  Speaker 1: as of us recording this, only two full games being
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  Speaker 1: played at this point, two and a half games being played.
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering which player on this team, Yes, of course
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  Speaker 1: it's early team.
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  Speaker 2: Which player has really.
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  Speaker 1: Been a surprise when you look at what they've done
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  Speaker 1: so far on the court and why Yeah, for.
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  Speaker 4: Me, it's definitely Dominic Barlow in this category here, and
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  Speaker 4: it is unfortunate that he's picked up a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of injury himself, a laceration they're calling it, which it
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  Speaker 4: required some sort of procedure, with like a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more of a clear update from the Sixers overall what's
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  Speaker 4: going on there. He has ruled out for today and tomorrow,
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  Speaker 4: but he was the guy that got the start, start
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  Speaker 4: in both the opening two games, and I think that
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  Speaker 4: speaks a lot about the belief in Nick Nurse to
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  Speaker 4: give a guy that's on a two way contractor that
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  Speaker 4: has a fifty game limit at the NBA level and
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  Speaker 4: expected to play some time with the Blue Coats that
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  Speaker 4: he said no, that dude gives us the best chance
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  Speaker 4: to win right now, and that's the decision that Nurse made.
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  Speaker 4: But the athleticism absolutely pops. And to your same point
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: about Joelle's sort of lack of verticality and rebounding ability
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: that they're in there, you need a guy like Dominic
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: Barlow who is going to be all effort, all athleticism
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: and will of those do the dirty work for the
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: team here. So I think he's served a very valuable
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: purpose so far, and I think he's going to continue
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: to be a pretty significant part of the Sixers team
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: all season.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: I didn't really plan on asking you about Nick Nurse,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: but you brought Nick Nurse up, and you know, I
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: got to give him a ton of credit, you know,
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: bouncing back from the season that this team had last year,
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: just a complete toilet bowl of a season.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: It was just rough, as we all know.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: I think Nick Nurse deserves some credit right out of
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: the gate here for how he has been that that
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: coaching leader that this team really needs.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: I think would you say.
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: The same, Yeah, absolutely, And I think I was a
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: bit more critical of Nick Nurse than the general consensus
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: for last year. That for sure, he was far from
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: the reason where things went south, and there was spots
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: where it's like, what can he really do based on
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: the players that he does have? But I was a
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: little frustrated personally with it felt like all too often
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: he was sort of throwing his hands up, what do
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: you want me to do with this?
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a guy like.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: Nick Nurse has been branded as this basketball genius, this
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: mad scientist, this excellent nose wizard that can cook together
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: these creative lineups. I didn't see a lot of that
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: last year. So far this season they are playing Nick
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: Nurse basketball that they're forcing turnovers, pushing the pace. There
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: does feel to be a bit of an identity in
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: a way that never kind of landed last year. Yeah,
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: shout out to Nick Naris forgetting the team to buy in.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: I think the product on the floor is sort of
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: speaking to that buy in directly there.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: And I do think he deserves a lot of praise
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: for how the season has started.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: All Right, Well, my friend, before I let you go,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: we've been talking, and you know, talking to getting around
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: to this subject matter of the vibes, and the vibes
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: are certainly high right now for this Sixers team, and
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: it's because we really are. I think seeing that torch
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: being passed, like we talked about earlier, we're actually seeing
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: it happening in motion right now. A lot of us
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: talked over this past offseason and even in the past
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: few years, you know, when we would start to see it,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: We're seeing it. It's being done in such a productive way.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I think, how does this team keep these positive vibes
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: going in the long term for US fans to truly
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: continue to love this team and who they are.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's keep the foot on the gas that the
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: way they are right.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: And I think where this really started to me and
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: what made an impression on me significantly here was Tyrese
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Maxi when he stepped up there at Sixers media day.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: He talked about his goals for the.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Season, and one of the number one things he brought
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: up is setting a stand that he said, when you
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: flip on the Philadelphia seventy six watch them and TV,
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: when you go to a game, that you're gonna know
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: the way they're gonna play, that they're gonna compete until
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: the final whistle. There's going to be a standard of play.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: He is walking the walk with that statement there, and
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: it started with the offseason with him bringing teammates out
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: to his hometown of Texas, flying him at our home
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: state of Texas, bringing them out for training and everything there.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: But I think it starts with that. There is a
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: standard that is set this year that I don't really
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: feel was ever the case. So if this is if
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: the floor for this team is a group of young
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: athletic players that it's gonna compete and give you everything
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: they got, that's a team that I think we all
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: can rock with and get behind.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: So there's a lot more season to kind of sort
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: through how good this team really is, what are the
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: strengths and weaknesses, and how does this stack up around
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: the rest of the NBA. But if that's what we're
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: getting out every night, basis is a team that's gonna
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: compete as hard as they possibly can.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: I can rock with that team right there.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: We all can for sure, folks. He is Sean Bernard again,
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• 17:03
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• 17:05
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• 17:08
  Speaker 1: I'd love to have you back on my friend.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Absolutely appreciate you for having me. Jeth.
• 17:12
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