Should 76ers president Daryl Morey make a trade? Are they still ahead of the Pacers talent-wise?

Should 76ers president Daryl Morey make a trade? Are they still ahead of the Pacers talent-wise?

Is it time for the 76ers to make a move we’ll talk about that and more next on locked on 76ers you are locked on 76ers your daily Philadelphia 76ers podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every Day thanks for making locked on 76 is your first listen every day we are free and available wherever you get your podcast and on YouTube part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time download the game time app

Create an account and use the code locked on for 20% off your first purchase all I’m Keith pompe along with my rightand man John Mitchell what’s up Mitch how you doing bro rightand man POS pans in the house what’s up man how you doing Keith good I’m good I’m

Good yeah I hear that a minute old school MC I didn’t hear I didn’t hear that in a minute but look man we got a lot to talk about today um a lot of good stuff La yesterday well it’s been a deal that’s been in the work for a couple days um

But yesterday it became official the Indiana Pacers acquired Pascal cakam as the headliner of the deal um and the word is I guess we got to figure out if they’re do the Sixers have to make a move now because you see what New York did now now you see what the Pacers are

Doing and then also in the second segment we got to talk about let’s see if they do make a move um the de Jon Murray what about him he’s a guy guy that name keeps floating around is he a good fit with the Sixers so that’s a guy

That we can uh talk about and then the third segment you know just a state of the 76ers but Mitch what’s your thoughts on Pascal seaka going to the Indiana Pacers because now they have halberton Pascal seak and they have an elite rim protector as well on that team so what’s

Your thoughts on this moveie you know I I like it a lot for Indiana you know um you know you’re moving on from guys like uh Bruce Brown Jordan NOA um but you’re adding you know you’re adding an Allstar you’re adding a guy who gives you 22.2 points per game 6.3

Boards and 4.9 assists and you’re adding him to a guy who you know many people saying you know Halbert Miles Turner that’s that’s a nice three it’s a nice three as it relates to the 76ers I still think they’re below the 76ers I really do I think they’re

Heading the right direction because it sounds like cakam is going to um sign extension there I mean early indications that’s going to happen but again it’s early you never know um the Jimmy Butler was gonna sign an extension yeah yeah in these parts we’ve heard that before you

Know until the ink is dry on the paper we really don’t know but I do think that this you know I think that the 76ers are are still in that Elite C that Elite conversation with the Boston Celtics uh the way they’re playing uh when they had

Their full compliment of players and the Milwaukee Bucks so I think um you know if you’re Indiana Pacers fan I mean I just like what they’re doing you know I I like what I like the direction the Pacers are going I think it makes them a better offensive team and they’re

Already the top scoring team in the league if I’m not mistaken you know so it it it just it just makes them um better uh does it put pressure on the 76ers to make a trade s just can’t operate on they can’t respond to a trade

And say we need to do something because a team that by most indications is below us made a move now I will say uh when when we started looking at the 76ers and their their flexibility and ability to make a trade I looked at uh Toronto I

Wanted I want to poach somebody off of that roster whether it was OG or whether it was Pascal those were the two guys at the very top of my list that I thought would be the complimentary players to what the 76ers have right now and unfortunately for the 76ers they’re gone

So you know we’ll have to sit back I I don’t I don’t think you know all of a sudden you you know you wake up early in the morning now and say we must do something they have the flexibility to do something um but one thing that you

Know we’ve as we have been critical of the play of Tobias Harris one day he’s here one day he’s not over the last three weeks three and a half weeks we can’t say that about Mr Harris you know he has been stepping in and has you know

I know people going to say well you know we’ve seen this from Tobias before but you know you’re seeing under a different coach you’re seeing it under in under a new philosophy um with Nick nurse and uh you know let’s be quite honest you know you thought when Tobias came here having

Played with doy was going to be more than he was was and he wasn’t but Nick nurse right now he really looks good he looks comfortable um so I I don’t think this move forces their hand um but there are some players out there that can help them you know there

Are some players out there you know let’s let’s let’s look at that Chicago Bulls roster let’s look at the you know like we said Deontay Murray there’s some players there that can help them yeah yeah I mean there there are there are um the thing is one thing that you you said

That is true and really um damn bro just one well one messing but but the one the one thing that you said that makes a lot of sense and is uh a lot of times you know you look at the Sixers and and you look at teams and they see teams who are

Below them right go ahead and make a move and then you think that I got to hurry up and make a move right you got to ask yourself that those teams that those mov make them better than the Sixers in regards to winning a a series

Right I do like Pascal seak I like him a lot I think that he’s also a player you know that the Sixers would you know probably go after in free agency right right I I don’t know if they were willing enough to to lock them in for a

Maximum salary though that that he required to get right so the one thing is you got to be careful at times where you react just because because someone who might be the 16 six seed and you guys are the third are making a move now right if if it’s the Milwaukee Bucks

Saying hey I gotta I’m making a move the Boston Celtics making a move then you’re like well look if I’m trying to keep up I I I can’t right now if if you’re Daryl M like you said we talked about Tobias Harris you said Tobias Harris has been

Playing out of his mind lately and you know and what I mean by out of his mind it doesn’t always have to be scoring 30 something points like had 32 37 but then the next night he was a quality Defender then then last the last

Game he was uh you know he he he he covered Nicole yic and the and then in the in the second half he scored 14 of his 24 points right right so when you see a guy like that he’s helping but the thing is the thing is with the 76ers

That gets me is while all these teams are acqu iring these players that’s going to impact and they acquiring them with the hope of resigning them this Summer the Sixers are the only becoming one of the the best destination spots because they’re going to be the ones who

Have the most cap space they already do have the most cap space now you can look at it and say well the players that you wanted other people are taking them so maybe you need to make a move but realistically if the players that if if they’re going to be the one destination

With the most cap space then do you really need to rush and make a move you know what I mean like if if it ain’t Championship or bust yeah and I don’t think it’s gonna be a championship if it’s not Championship AB bust you got to

Be careful who you bring in here I mean you just have to because because like the thing is unless you just trying to give up some draft picks or or TR somebody out now you know I don’t know if you want to give up all those assets for that right

Now I just don’t I don’t but yeah there’s a player that dejonte Murray who name keeps popping up he’s an intriguing player and I is a guy that I think that we should talk about when we get back from talking about prize picks look y’all prize pick is the largest daily

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Telling you I’m telling you do it today people definitely do it today so Mitch why you like Deontay Murray so much bro let’s just tell me why tell me why you don’t know he’s the point guard one of the point guards they got two of them one of the point guard for the

Atlanta Hawks why you like him so much yeah I like him I like his length I like his athleticism I like the fact that he gives you another score uh I I really like the fact that he’s been for the better part of his career very good

Defender um you know I like the fact that you can shuttle him on the ball and off the ball uh and and I like the fact that he can you know the 76 is three-point shooting has been so so this season I think you bring him in here you got

Another guy who can be a marksman from outside um and and he he just gives you another body I I you know I think he and Tyrese can can play off each other well um it gives you more versatility because you can put either one of those guys on

The point you can put either one of those guys on off and and I know it’s position this basketball we’ve almost pretty much lost any much of a distinction between the point as long as you’re not turning the ball over in today’s game and you know and getting

Assists kind of lost that distinction between point guard and offg guard but I just like him I I think he gives you a solid player who you know is going to show up and score a guy who’s going to show up and defend and you know his

Contract is is is manageable for what the 76ers are trying to do I mean a lot of people are comparing you know him to Zack LaVine who’s got you know a much larger contract and more out of control uh contract so I I think there’s

A lot to like about him and and I think that um I think that Nick Nick nurse will will insert him in into the rotation uh I I think he’ll fit well I think he’ll fit well and he gives him a guy another very reliable guy now again

I’m not saying you go out and pull the trigger on it again this is where we have to look at uh Daryl mury he’s got to be judicious in whatever he does um but yeah he’s a guy I think he’s nothing but an asset for the 76ers and I I don’t know you

Know that it will you have to break the bank in order to get him you know you know it may cost some assets I’m sure obviously yeah and and I got a couple concerns like I mean I get it like right now his name is one of the top ones and

And let’s let’s be be real like Maxi they’ve been having Maxi play off the ball lately they have like you know people I mean you know some people may may get tricked a little bit by what they see like he starts out but you know they got these lineups with him and Pat

Be in there yeah Pat be’s handling the ball that was a time where they were running the offense through Tobias right I mean we talking about recently so there’s a lot of things that’s going on right my thing is is is kind of like and Deon is a point guard right but the

Thing that gets me is I I got a little concerns a little bit and and I think the Jon is a good player but when he was traded from the the Spurs like we talked about him being an all defensive player he got traded for the Spurs after he a

Season after he led the league in Stills Allstar year right he he was a point guard started all 28 games as he moved off the ball here but he led the league in Stills the Spurs traded him got all those draft picks for him and now two years later Atlanta is

Considering getting rid of him so to me that’s a little bit of a concern to me you know I mean just like two years later you trying to get rid of them and then when I was down there a couple weeks ago I spoke to reporters who I

Have the utmost respect for and I’m like well what’s the deal why isn’t it working out right saying he’s a black hole like around he’s a black hole they feel like they feel like when he gets the ball he’s like trying to score he’s trying to do this he’s trying to do that

Now you can argue yes they got him playing off the ball now so he he can he that’s his job to attack and to score but they they believe that the offense runs a whole lot better when he’s off the floor and is um and you know is Trey

Young running the team right yeah so that now again maybe it’s just a a bad fit thing but also key also just um it’s also Atlanta it’s also Atlanta thing things more often than not just don’t they’re kind of like there with the Washington Wizards man things more often

Than not things just don’t go right with that organization yeah yeah and that could be it that could be it but the thing is you know if if he comes here he got to realize that you gota realize that you know it’s straight this is Joel Team bro

Like you know I mean it’s straight Joel’s team and again like you said it could be the Atlanta thing but to me it’s just weird now again it is like the the the Hawks look crazy like you know like okay so you gave up they don’t have

Any draft picks right right they don’t have any because they gave them up so now you going to trade them so whoever you trade them to the save face you got to get some great draft picks and you gotta get something in return you know know what I’m saying right so so that’s

Where we are because it look right about now like they look like suckers because they look because they got had and then not only that the one team that wants them back is the Spurs after you gave the Spurs all these draft right right it’s uh and this is after we

Spent two decades luding the Spurs for their front office Acumen so it’s you know things come full circle but I I do think if if if the jonty Murray comes here um being second fiddle to Trey young is one thing um I I think sometimes players kind of fall in line

And recognize when you get when you when you get to you know Philadelphia where they’ve got one of you know got they’ve got by a mile the leading MVP candidate I think he would fall in line I think it’s a better situation for him you know and we know how temperamental these

Guys are we do know that this is the of all the North American professional sports leagues we do know that the NBA is far away made up of the most temperamental players uh in professional sports but I do think that um he he will

Fall in line here I I think he would be a nice asset for them yeah I mean he probably will I mean he probably but I I’m just got I just to me that’s just a little red flag that’s like but you got to do your Intel

But my thing is they you know they do need a point guard they do I mean Pat bab is playing playing great but as far as we need you talk about somebody you need for the playoffs right you need somebody that’s gonna be able to knock down shot somebody that’s going to play

You know Pat Bev is like what the Sixers are doing right now is and I I can Nick nurse he has Pat beb shooting he has him doing this doing that he’s getting them ready for the playoffs because teams are going to give Pat these open shots and he’s GNA have to be

Able to knock him down right and so far he has been and in past he didn’t shoot as much but in the postseason you needed them to shoot and it didn’t really work out at all times but but um yeah you know it’s it’s great for the Sixers

We’ll see we’ll see if if this the Dante Murray thing will be but it’s funny because you know it wasn’t supposed to be about the jont Murray it’s supposed to be like this uh trade about the Zack LaVine about the OG Oobi the uh the Pascal seaks and so you know Zach it

Just seems like people are shying away from him a little bit the other two guys were traded already so you know it just seems like I don’t I would hate to see the Sixers to make a move just for the sake of making a move if I don’t see

Because I don’t know man I mean I’m just ask you this does dejon Murray added to the Sixers mix Propel the 76ers over the Boston Celtics who’s still here is Tobias still here uh let’s see I I guess I mean let’s say yeah okay let let’s just say if Tobias is

Here and I mean they always did I think it puts them right eye level with that um I do if Tobias is here um and and and unfortunately with the 76ers um X Factor number two is is joelle’s Health you know actually that’s X Factor number one do as I’ve been

Saying do do they arrive at May with him you know healthy you know without without swelling in a knee um a sprained ankle a broken orbital bone do they arrive at the playoffs with him ready to be I mean best player he’s unquestionably the best player in the

World during the regular season right now but but that that’s and it’s crazy to say but that’s irrelevant you know he has to do something in the postseason you know it’s been since 2000 once they gotten past the second around um the MVP is is is nothing to me um and I think

It’s it’s nothing to 76ers fans at this point yeah yeah yeah yeah well see we’ll see we’ll see but listen man we got to talk about this overall uh when we looked at it and I’m glad we talked about um where they are right now because I want to talk about the state

Of this team like what’s your I mean they’re about ready to hit the that you know the halfway mark um I just want to know what what’s your overall impressions of this team you know when we get back but right now I want to talk to you about game time right you know

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Deal it’s a great deal but you know what another deal is another great deal is Mitch to what’s that if for people who like that locked on um 247 streaming channel lockon has launched the first ever National Sports 247 streaming Channel on YouTube YouTu locked on sports today is here for you

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I’m giving the Sixers the benefit of the doubt this year and I hope that I don’t get burnt right and and the reason why I’m saying this is because the regular for my covering Sixers for this decade um plus the reg I found out that the regular season means nothing nothing nothing the

Sixers especially over the last several years the Sixers are the one of the winningest teams regular season teams in the NBA yet they can’t get out of the second round right right the first round is like yeah it’s easy to win when you’re a

A top team but if but if you can’t get out of the second round it doesn’t mean anything right this one particular year I’m paying attention like and I’m giving them a benefit of that why because they got new players they also have a new coach so if

It was Doc Rivers or if it was Brett Brown and and no offense to them but I was like look man I’ve seen this before like just get out the second for Nick nurse I’m giving them a benefit of the doubt I’m giving them benefit out but to be honest with you

Mitch I don’t know how good this team is because it comes all the way down to what happens in the playoffs right in your opinion what’s your impressions of this team when they’re fully healthy man that’s you know I think um I think when you’re fully healthy when

When Kelly U is out there and and and fully operational and adjusted to what they’re doing because I still think they’re making adjustments with with the new pieces trying to make them fit um I I I have them firmly planted among the top three uh I I could

See I could see I could see them being better than Milwaukee I think Boston I think Boston is is clearly the bar in the Eastern Conference and um and but we also know that Milwaukee is going if you know get better later on in this season they’ll be playing better because they

They they’ve got veterans they’ve got Superstars they’ve got two superstars uh but from where we thought this team was going to be at the start of the season when we you had the James Harden thing hanging over their head to where they are now to seeing you know

Different guys stepping to see Tobias playing at a high level over the last three and a half weeks um you know to see uh you know you know Nick baton fing being the glue piece they uh I I think they’re better than they were last year I think they’re

Better than they were last year I don’t know that that guarantees them getting out of the second round as they’re presently constructed um but they’re but they’re better than they were last year and I wasn’t expecting them you know I mean people a lot of people before season

We’re expecting this to be some sort of a swan song for this version of 76ers and falling back to mediocrity but um they’re good and and we’re going to find out a lot about them on this upcoming road trip um because it’s with the trade deadline approaching and them having a

Place you know to play at places like uh you know Denver um you know back to back to start the to start the road trip uh we we’ll find we’ll know a lot more about them um but they are they good enough to get past the second round yes

They are yeah yes they are what give you the confidence for that though man am I buying the Fool’s Gold of Jo you tell me am I buying into the Fool’s Gold of Joel embid Health his health is his wealth I I think I’m giving him the benefit of the

Doubt I’m giving them you know the fact that they’re resting him in these fourth quarters in many of these meaningless games you know that he’ll be healthy when the playoffs begin uh and also um you know Maxi has has has embraced the role of of of a legitimate number two

Player here you know he um I like the number two this year better than I like last year’s number two as good as J as great as James Harden’s career has been whenever whenever the lights have gone bright James Harden has gone into Invisible Man

Mode and I don’t think I I don’t think as young as Maxi is while he’s untested unproven we don’t know what his playoff medal is I think that when I I I just sense that there’s more of a dog more of a fighter in him than there than there

Is than there was in James Harden yeah yeah yeah um wow yeah you know the funny thing I will say this about James though like I wrote a a column shortly after the trade saying how yeah the Sixers one yeah I mean I still think think got

But James has been playing well but again James is another dude who plays well in the regular season so we’ll go we find that out we’ll figure he’s playing with some dogs now where he can clearly say you Paul George you do your thing yeah Kawai you do your thing and I

Just fit in and hit these threes yeah he don’t do anything yeah just don’t ask me just don’t ask me to carry you now that’s a whole different matter he crazy he crazy but look y’all we want to thank y’all for listening um to locked on and

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