Sixers blown out by short-handed Pacers in embarrassing loss | PHLY Sixers
Did Ricky Council just earn a few minutes on Saturday against the Denver Nuggets yes he did yes he did in the blowout we in dire straights if that’s the first place you’re going you know we are man welcome to the phly 6ers postgame show here alongside my partners
Derek bidner Kyle newbeck I’m Devon given Bri producing all of you in the chat we appreciate it after an ugly one in indiaan and Sixers get rocked tonight the score wasn’t even as close as as it appeared at the end as they get done in tonight 134 122 we’ll get into all of
The uh all of whatever happened in this one against the Indiana Pacers no Tyrese halberton no Tobias Harris Marcus Mars Robert Covington DeAnthony Melton and the Sixers get destroyed in this one Derek this one was uh not fun not fun at all no that one sucked that one really I
Have never heard you guys Saturday I have never heard Kyle more animated during a game than that one he was screaming pretty much the entire second half and deservedly so you know you can look down and you’ll see like 31 from Joe on 20 shots or you know 22 points
From Tyrese neither of them were particularly good either we can pick apart their games I’m sure we will at various points then you look at who they were missing obviously Tobias was out Melton was out some other you know broadcast will bring up like Mo Boma out that didn’t really impact the game
Robert Covington as Kyle mentioned as was going on wasn’t really in the rotation either so when you look at it and the Pacers missing Halbert and the Pacers without halberton have been real bad this year I think they’re negative six net rating without him on the floor
Plus six with him on the court so they have that’s a huge loss for them to come out there and just feel like they the Sixers were a team without any kind of energy in a game where they the the Pacers were missing the the guy who
Really drives all of their offense it was a just just shitty it was shitty we have people asking if Derek got hair plugs that’s where we’re at with uh that’s where we’re at with this game that’s why you took off on your birthday huh that was if I got hair plugg is this
What I would pick really come on now credit come on chill Guy come on chill guy that’s not a very chill question first but we did get a good one asking if we were meeting with hoe first Tim K that’s a great question cuz yes we were we were talking about what’s going
On do we have to make some changes on the sixes no all right so here’s where I want to start I don’t really care about losses in January generally no there are these games that are going to happen throughout the course of a long season like especially when you’re coming off
Of a six-game winning streak like they’re not going to last forever right like and there’s a version of tonight’s game where we walk into walk in here and are like it was a make or Miss League type of night Pacers got hot Sixers couldn’t hit anything all that and
That’s true to certain degrees right like they couldn’t hit anything Maxi was 0 for a billion in the first half from three the Pacers get rolling all that to me what made me so mad which is why Derek brought up that I was yelling for like half of the game were all the
Stupid mistakes they made all the silly that they did throughout the night just like not rotating and not getting back after a May Basket like the lwh hanging fruit that was there that what drives you especially crazy is like look this is Indiana has the most distinct
Identity of any single team in the NBA when the Pacers are on the schedule I don’t care if halberton obviously halberton is important to how good they can be but they play the same way no matter who’s on the floor and to walk into this game and to be completely
Unprepared for hey Miles Turner is going to run after a basket hey Andrew nard Aaron n Smith Benedict Matthew all these guys are going to tear up the floor every single chance they get and you have to match their Pace if it would if the bottom would have fallen out in the
Second half if we could have said hey look these guys are tired they’re playing a short rotation there guys playing tonight that frankly don’t play that many minutes that often and eventually Indiana wore him down with this style that’s another thing what they did tonight was they never showed
Up they they just never they did not care and like guys like Kelly UB who I’m sure we can pick him apart for 5 to 10 minutes by himself Kelly UB is staring at like buddy heeled wide open in the trail spot for a three and two seconds
After he catches it is like oh hey now might be the time that I have to rotate over and try to contest the shot and there’s just all kinds of like that all goddamn night for every guy on the team including Joel embiid like rebound opportunities fall to him he just not
Even sticking his hands up to go get him he’s just hoping that a Act of God is going to move the ball into his hands like that’s the stuff that I can’t take that’s what would drive me nuts if I’m Nick nurse or members of the coaching
Staff because yeah you might have lost this game anyway but it shouldn’t have been a you know 20 point plus lead going into the fourth quarter where it’s garbage time for the entire quarter no and you could feel it early on in the first first half especially in the first
Quarter with the way things were going where it just simply did not they did not look like themselves and often times we see these games where you look at your the team that you’re watching the team that you’re covering and you say okay these guys are taking the opponent
For granted and for whatever reason they did that because halberton probably out but as both Kyle and dererk have talked about and Kyle alluding to the pace of what Indiana likes to do we already know it’s not going to change they just went through a stretch with tyres halberton
Out because of his hamstring which he missed the game tonight for but they were out without him before they still played the same way they did not result in all wins of course but they have a a Hall of Fame coach who’s going to have his team ready every single night and
They have enough athletes on the floor on their team to do exactly what they prepare for going into training camp knowing that they’re going to have to outrun outwork out hustle the opponent and they got the Sixers really good tonight and I I would imagine too knowing that they beat them earlier in
The season in their when they split the games here in their their uh home and Home Series that they had that they felt like they can run and they can see some warts there in the Sixers defense and and do what they need to do and then you
Have the Tobias Harris Factor not being available same thing for DeAnthony Melton short-handed as they were that they were going to do exactly what they did you saw it from very early on and it just went throughout the game and as we were watching it and we started looking
At each other at first we didn’t even have to yell we would just start laughing because the rotations were so bad that how did this how did you not know where you were going in this Zone how are you bumping into each other like The Three Stooges out there on the floor
As if you have not practiced how to prepare and play in the zone how did you not know on the left side of the floor that hey you shade over in this particular place because I have to pick up this man in this area and do this
Part in a Zone which is we all know how to play a Zone but that that was that’s where you saw it and at some how to play it is literally in the name you defend the zone you defend you defend the zone and and again it just became comical at
Some point because as much as we’ll give them the credit for the six game winning streak certainly after the 70-point game not overreacting to this loss it’s as Kyle said it’s the things that happened in the loss it’s the things that Nick nurse and the coaching staff are going
To have to say hey when we look back at this film if they don’t burn it these are the little mistakes that we have to correct here because we cannot have these things happening later on in April and May when it really really matters we’ve seen them do it before should not
Have happened again this way tonight losing is losing losing this way is why we come out here and laugh and then scream and yell and all of that allinone yeah and two quick points because I feel like we’re probably going to get to the role players pretty quickly here first
Of all Maxi’s defense was atrocious like they were running small small pick and roll all night and Maxi miscommunicated each and every one of those switches sometimes he he switched when he should shouldn’t have sometimes he he tried to help and recover when he needed to switch his communication his decision-
Making was atrocious defensively that goes beyond just the physical mismatches that he has on a night night basis this is like bad version because Indiana plays a lot of little guards so it was not exactly like they’re not an overwhelming size team it was just all miscommunications and poor decision-
Making on this one he was real bad and Joel’s effort on the glass was just unacceptable for the Pacers end up with 12 offensive rebounds on you know they had a 12 to six offensive rebounding Edge in this one despite fact they missed fewer shots in the Sixers the
Rebounding just wasn’t good enough and Joel especially in that third quarter and he didn’t play in fourth especially in the third quarter was just nowhere near good enough it was flat footed the entire night 55 to 31 the defensive uh I mean the rebounding separation there
Between the two teams and that that just that’s just obviously the Pacers were going to get a lot of rebounds because the Sixers couldn’t hit all night so there few more opportunities to pull those down but the the bigger issue was to your point and derk’s you can’t stand
There flat footed and watch as guys are crashing hard and attacking the ball in the air honestly like you brought up Joel rightly Derek the one that stuck out to me I think there was one in the third quarter that it went over Joel and it was coming toward FK and FK like
Ducked at the rebound and like somebody came over the top of him as he’s ducking to grab the rebound so it was uh that’s about a summary of the the rebounding component of the game I would say if there’s anything that we’re going to say hey this might be an actual problem
Coming out of this game it is the rebounding because it’s been more of a trend lately they have absolutely been going in the wrong direction there after starting the year off strong and you bringing up Joelle makes me want to say like look it has to start with him right
Like didn’t have a rebounding problem the other night against San Antonio because he went and he attacked the glass and that was on both ends like that was a rare really great offensive rebounding game for Joel as well and I’m not asking him to be a you know Dennis
Rodman Kenneth fared guy who’s like all they do is rebounding and that’s their Elite skill although that’s that’s selling Dennis Rodman short comparing him to no he was an incredible defensive incredible defensive player obviously but it has to start with Joelle and then look we have a I think Devon in the chat
Was that who it was that had the the Super Chat that said the Toby haters will never admit we needed him tonight and look I I think they felt that on several levels right like not in the rebounding Department because I actually think Tobias is one of the weaker
Rebounders on the team for his position but when you see Tyrese Maxi getting trapped past half court in those bench minutes without Joel embiid all that’s being communicated to you by the Pacers is we don’t respect anybody else that’s on the floor with this guy and if we can
Fluster him get it out of his hands force him into a bad decision that is a way Superior option to try and defend him straight up and look even on that individual play it worked brilliantly Maxi threw it directly out of bounds that’s not all his fault but I do think
To his point Tobias was definitely missed tonight and when you don’t have enough guys who can self-create and in tobias’s case go down to the mid post and in the middle of a run hit a shot to you know calm everybody down then ends up being a pretty important thing over
The course of 48 minutes yeah and the going back to the offensive rebounding the Pacers collected 34.1% of their offensive rebounding opportunities the Sixers 13.5% so they got their asses kicked on both ends in that regard uh I do think Joel will give like when we get
To the playoff off I think Joel will give Better Effort every night every playoff game I expect better effort than what he gave you tonight that will solve some of it but to your point you just have so many weak rebounders for your position where he’s got to be a monster
Just to keep them competitive uh it does reveal a little bit of a weakness on the squad yeah it does and when we say the Tobias part A lot of times we just make the fun but it’s more of just him having him out there whatever it was going to
Be it was going to be but having him out there when Maxi had that he couldn’t really see over to of the defense so he had to contort his body away away from the defender around him to try to bounce pass it to to get it over to whoever the
Other Outlet would have been and it just went out of bounds because no one was there and it was crazy to see it play out that way but that’s what happens as Kyle said they just didn’t trust whoever was out there with him to even handle the basketball up and down the lineup
Not enough effort and not enough just good overall play from from these guys tonight and this this is what you get and sometimes you get this now 29 and 14 on the season he ends up with his 30 which meant nothing Maxi didn’t have it tonight from the outside oh we were
Laughing about the 30 in the middle of the third quarter like it’s not not dire enough that we’re I’m going to go on a whole tie raade like we did with the 310 thing but there was definitely a point where Devon you and I are sitting there
Talking like he none of these guys should be in the game like they haven’t earned the right to continue playing this and that was like halfway through the third it was like yeah we were yelling for empty the bench to all that at that point not because like it had
Nothing to do with the stats or anything else it’s like look it’s the effort if guys are just standing here like this waiting for the ball if guys aren’t rotating guys are doing this put guys in who might do that who might give you a spark you’re already down you know 20 25
Points at that point the worst thing that could happen is that you lose worse the best thing that could happen which is what we saw a little bit in the fourth quarter although too little too late those guys gave them some energy they got the game a little bit closer
For a little I think it only ended up being what like a 11 Point 12 point Los 12 loss and that’s not really telling of what ultimately happened in that game but would have liked to maybe see them try that out sooner but I understand why they didn’t because when that was
Happening when they did make that run towards the end SE yakum was still out there on the floor nard was on the floor yeah uh TJ McConnell was out there on the floor so they had some of their players still on the floor during that time and probably to get SE yakum that
Triple double also but they were out there and and those guys played hard and we’ll get to them we we’ll talk about what the uh the guys who did give some sort of effort we’ll tell you about them maybe it’s time for you to start investing in that Ricky council card fol
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Me a bagel right now but they pretty much had the zero tonight the way the Sixers played tonight but some of the other guys played pretty well and towards the end we were look we were mostly looking forward to talking about these guys this Turk and Ricky Council
Coming in and I guess yeah I mean I was excited watching it just it it was a breath of fresh air at that point and I will say like I meme about it a little bit on Twitter I give Ricky Council Credit especially because he came and
You could see the tools popped right like he’s driving and he’s you know using his shoulder to wall guys off drawing fouls hit a catch and shoot three which is a massive massive deal for him uh my guy Turk unfortunately you know a little bit of a tougher run but
Couple nice passes some nice pocket passes in the pick and roll I think even a couple of those that were turnovers on that he threw good passes and Paul Reed either did not catch the ball or one of them he caught it and didn’t keep the
Ball high and got ripped on it so I I don’t put those on Turk but he could not throw the ball in the ocean tonight so unfortunately as someone who’s endorsed him for the shooting and scoring stuff when you airball multiple threes and you know it’s a little tough to get I didn’t
Mind though just because the of course the idea not just the three-point the outside shooting but even driving to the basket getting few block Isaiah Jackson had a pretty nice block because it was too easy but the mindset was right attack just do what you can to get some points on the board
Show the coaching staff yeah that why while you are still trying to show that hey maybe we might be able to get in a few of these games here from time to time but yeah play loose play freely go out there and and do your thing and see
What happens so it was it was good to see Turk out there there you as you guys know I like Ricky Council maybe a little bit more than most I don’t know if this is this is not sustainable but he has some good plays tonight it was just fun
To sit there after watching three quarters of terrible basketball to see the effort from them as they were trying to do anything they could to turn it into a positive for for the Sixers tonight and and they did that I mean we saw them put the ball on the floor get
To the basket the shot still looks a little funky while they’re working on it but funky doing some heavy LIF thing there even at the free throw line and he’s standing there and a lot of guys do it but you know he has the two feet right
Next to each other at the free throw line and like all right I wonder if they try I guess he wasn’t comfortable to space it a little bit to have one foot in front of the other at the free throw line it just looks off but it’s probably
Not who he’s going to be and he’s just going to be someone they asked to throw go get some stops run the floor fill the lane lobs back door if he ever gets any minutes that way but tonight for them something to to stand out on yeah I mean
Look I think both of those guys you’re rarely going to see them again like we’ll talk about this game and it was fun and entertaining but like they played because the six were missing five players and because of the 10 players they had available half of them weren’t
Giving effort anyway so they had to bring somebody in at the end see if they could get a little bit of you know life in them uh and and just give them a chance to play at this level is a you know sort of reward for the work they’ve
Been putting in but neither of them are ready like that shot for Ricky is still I think far I know he made one today but I it’s still far away um physically Turk is not ready he weighs 110 lbs I’m exaggerating a little bit but not nearly
As much should from the looks of him anyway and like learning to get that shot over length and over NBA speed is something he’s going to have to still work on but it was nice to see him sort of come in I did enjoy actually watching
Turk run that pick and roll and and give those passes to diving big men uh that is a part of his game that I know he comment on over the summer and early on in this show but it was nice to see that his shot was a little bit off today but
That’s all right I believe in the shot long term um but once again little doing some heavy little bit off but I think they are both intriguing prospects but you’re don’t like pencil either of them into the rotation at all this year or next probably so I think that’s probably
Enough with Turk and Ricky talk if I had to guess I think my big concern coming out of that game truthfully is is Joelle gonna be healthy because because I can’t deal with that talk I can’t deal with that listen man one I just want Joel to be healthy because the team’s more
Interesting team is better when he’s healthy it’s better to watch all of us want that like regardless of you guys on the other side being maniacal fans and me being trying to be zen master or whatever over here I still want a good product to watch right like we all want
A good product to watch so Joelle banging knes in was at the second quarter that that happened Jo banging knes in the second quarter I’d argue is the biggest story of the game now he was able to Shake It Off and play but I think there was a clear dip in his
Effort after that now you don’t want to say that’s a direct correlation right like the game got away from them so he was clearly there was he reached a point where he said uh I’m not getting after it anymore and whether that’s rebounding frankly there was not really even an
Eort from him to go and get the ball a lot of the time he didn’t get his first shot attempt in that third quarter until I think like five or six minutes into the quarter which that’s just Preposterous to me that that could happen I feel like I have a Stephen A
Smith a parody Stephen A Smith tweet in my head whenever I hear the word Preposterous that now that’s going to eat up my brain but to Derek’s point that he was alluding to I cannot deal with him missing the Denver game in Denver I it’s he has missed it for
Genuine reasons over the years it’s been another disingenous thing but for my own personal sanity having to hear from people all the time Joel I really hope that you’re healthy out there brother because I don’t want to hear it I know you don’t want to hear it for another
Consecutive year if you don’t make it to Denver yeah when as soon as it happened that was the first thing you brought up watching all the people comment in the chat they’re also along the same line of you can’t really take it you don’t want
To have to deal with it now he he he did stay in the game he he played he finished out the third quarter and got his 31 he also sat on the bench laughing it up with his teammates as they kind of settled in and understood what the night
Was so we’ll see but no I I agree with you I I don’t want to hear it because you know that’s the first thing that’s going to happen it’s a nationally televised game people going to talk about him once again not going to Denver and and being
Afraid to play against Nicole joic once again now yic got poked in the eye tonight and had to go to the locker room we have to keep an eye on whether he plays so maybe he’ll base his decision on playing if if joic is playing or not
But we just don’t want to hear it and we know that the others were legit when he did not play he had legit reasons why he did not play we don’t really know what happened with his knee look it looked like it buckled a little bit when he
Landed and it bothered him enough to sit on that floor for that short amount of Time come back in and finish the game out great that he didn’t have to play in the fourth quarter and not leave it up to the you know the coach based on them
Being closer in the game but I don’t want to hear it either I I I just don’t because that’s going to be the narrative and once again nationally televised game Sixers go out there and they get rocked joic goes for another triple double and they’re going to say d embiid is scared
Of playing Nicole yic and that’s why he shouldn’t have the MVP it’s it just would allow a lot of people to say things that they’re already saying at a much louder volume and more frequently so I just hope Joe is healthy full stop for a million
Reasons but also because as a fan of basetball I want to see him and joic play again like they only get to play twice a year and we’ve gotten Max once a year for quite a long time so that’s all I had to say on that we’ll see what
Happens Ash did want to jump in and say 26 and seven now with embid had to keep it real he said he had to keep it real and then he then he jumped right back and said good night so that means he can’t take it he can’t take it so he’s
Said good night just just go to he just still almost a 65 win Pace by the way their record with Joel this season so pretty good I mean heck 29 and 14 they still 15 games over 500 with all him missing games Harris Melton missing games and and of course Covington and
Mars missing games from time to time so many players that have not played they’re still 15 games over 500 and they do this on the night where you just wanted to see if they can keep this going keep that streak running seven game winning streak Boston blows out
Miami um you you had Denver getting rocked by New York tonight who’s playing very well they blow out Denver 12284 joic missed that time and never returned to the game so I’d imagine that was a part of it so would have liked to have seen them take this one Pacers win
The season series and then that’s going to have people also talking about just flashing back since this I think this is the last game between them and the Pacers win the season series 2 to1 if this is a playoff opponent there are a lot of sixer fans
That are going to be worried because of the way that they play the pace adding SE yakum Tyrese halberton being a part obviously the head of the snake there with the Indiana Pacers this is going to be something that six fans will remember once we get to the spring in the
Postseason of how they play is this something that you’re going to have to be concerned about in the first or second round matchup against this Indiana Pacer team that can run you off the floor and sting you and especially if you get stung in the second round by
This group we know what the chatter is going to be about and rightfully so if they were to do that so would would like to see a much better effort we’ve seen them win without a full deck of cards on the floor and they needed to give a much
Much better effort and we hope embid is healthy enough to go on Saturday and by the way you’re naming some Eastern Conference teams there I would say like when the Sixers have the Sixers have continually Advanced out of the first round with Joel embiid and that’s been
All well and good we accept that as like that’s an automatic it’s a lot tougher bottom of the East this year I think than in some others like I don’t see a 2022 Toronto Raptors team at least in the top eight right now right like the Knicks have been I think they’re like
11- two now since the OG trade they’ve been very good the Cavs just lost their most recent game but we’re on an eight game win streak before that the Pacers I think the Sixers should beat them in a series generally I think they should beat all these teams in a series
For that matter but the Pacers are a weird team that’s going to be you know the the style Clash is real there then you have Miami as well like no there there’s going to be one playoff team that’s me and that’s going to be who Boston plays every the the seven
Remaining teams are going to be good teams I agree yeah so it’s definitely something to be aware of I would I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the first round matchup would dictate how I would go about the trade deadline but I think when you combine what I think will
Be an overall tougher first round series on average with what we we probably all think they need to advance out of the second let alone Conference Finals win a finals I think there should be some real urgy heading into the deadline you want to get to a couple of these other super
Chats that we had mixed in there we’ll be happy to Baba jumps in and says herb Jones from the Pelicans will be a perfect addition to the team that was because a report came out and said that P the Pelicans were Fielding calls or at least having conversations about herb
Jones I don’t know that to be true have either of you heard anything I wouldn’t I’ve seen some conflicting reporting on it is what I would say I I do agree that if they could get heck yeah him specifically I think he’s very good and slots in as a starter
Basically immediately and is somebody who can grow along like he was an older rookie right if I’m remembering correctly he’s 25 26 so he’s someone that’s probably at the perfect part of the age curve for what they have right now good enough to win now still has
Runway in front of him good contract like four for 54 or something along those lines yeah that’s pretty good for him so personally if they could get one of the Pelicans Wings I’d probably prefer Trey Murphy but I think they value him higher than they do herb Jones so that’s
Probably the uh the problem there but yeah I’d be I’d be in on herb Jones for sure yep absolutely Bernard also it’s a mental with UB right now we can get into that P Bev is not the answer Maxi shooting too erratic and concerning hope we don’t see Pacers in the playoffs oh
Bernard yeah so here’s my concern with uberry I agree it’s but it’s the decision making that has been his problem pretty much his entire career like I think some people are looking at it like it’s fine he’s just in the slump he’ll get back whereas I
Kind of look at it like maybe that beginning of the season was a mirage and this is just who he’s been for the rest of his career this is why you know coming into the season Kyle and I were both like well Devon was on his you know
Little getaway Kyle and I were both like hey look minimum contract fine no harm no foul but I don’t trust him because of these reasons these reasons are exactly what you’ve been seeing over the last couple of weeks uh so I am very concerned that he has regressed back to
What his career has been up to this point uh and getting him back to the player he was in the the first couple of months of the Season uh that’s a priority because he has not been good enough and I worry a little bit that the
More you rely on Kelly the less reliable that he becomes and starting is certainly over taxing him and he shouldn’t be in that role but you’ve got so many injuries and Melton’s long-term injures specifically that he has had to step up into a role that I just don’t
Think you can rely on him to fill and that’s like the mountain thing is too PRP right like on the one hand Kelly’s playing too much and you want to you feel like we got to get the Anthony back so we can slock eyes into new roles but
It’s a back injury after last year was plagued with a back injury for DeAnthony so they have they’ve taken the cautious approach which is the right thing to do but I think they’re suffering as a result of that and I wonder if there’s a point where they’re like well we got to
Just we got to let them play we got to let them play and then that ends up DeAnthony is compromised never gets right we’re in the playoffs and he’s just having to play through a back issue and look he’s a streaky shooter on a base level imagine you’re a streaky
Shooter and then you’re carrying around a lumbar spine injury in the playoffs so not loving that and I wish that you know they could just get everybody right as rain but you don’t really have that luxury and frankly that’s part of why teams load up on stars because they just
Are like this guy’s going to play 70 plus games and give me the standard level of production where the role player volatility as we’re seeing with Kelly UB can be all over the place and I wish we hadn’t gotten back to this point it was a fun story to have you know
Locked in Kelly who’s shooting well defending hard bought into what Nick nurse is preaching I think you could almost see like maybe we should not pile too heavily on Kelly because a lot of these things that were like Nick nurse bayan’s thing rebound transition defense things those are all those are two main
Things that when he came in are like we got to fix this we got to be better and over the last I don’t know several weeks to a month they’ve been pretty crappy so it is definitely UB in a big role but certainly not the only culprit he
Certainly doesn’t look like a guy that averaged 20 points no not even close not not even close and it’s concerning now especially when you get to this time of the year with the trade deadline where we talk about these names and who might be available it’s it’s something to
Watch and see see where he fits in and that’s it’s probably as the guys talked about too many minutes out there on the floor and he need needs to be coming off the bench instead of in the start of role especially on a championship contending team he needs to get it he
Needs to get it together because we’re out there looking at him and like what what was he thinking right there I mean it’s hard for us to get in his head and we probably are are are doing that to ourselves terribly for trying to figure
Out what the hell Kelly UB is doing from time to time but yeah I mean we sit there and it’s like what what was that what was he thinking there it’s not again a guy who averaged 20 points in the league consistently playing and attacking and shooting and
Having the confidence on the floor is just not a good look barara also says barbar Carol Devon isn’t concerned with the Knicks said the Knicks would never come to Philly and win if MB plays I don’t know that I ever I’ve ever said that but okay Nicks are tough they look really
Good Kyle just said it 11- two since the ogan noobi trade they look really good beat the crap out of Denver tonight yes they did they they are they are fun and Jaylen Brunson is going to be an Allstar Julius Randle is in the the conversation for another All-Star birth
They have a very good balanced basketball team and that’s even with Mitchell Robinson they’re starting center and that’s with ammo to go and get more guys if they like another I don’t know about high level guy but at least like maybe starter quality six-man quality guy with what they got it just
Depends on how far in they want to go with this team cuz you already seen reports about Quinton Grimes maybe being available some of the others now go and get them because to your point the third star even though the points may not match is maybe anobi so then you go get
The other guy to slot into that next spot divon chenzo is playing well right now you have a lot of these they look really good right now and they they will be a tough out so Barb I didn’t say that so there there’s that uh we had one more
From our buddy Davon AKA School booy Beast well two more he says uh the minutes are definitely affecting Maxi as well and that’s something we got into I mean we’re right back to the the bad shooting tonight right and I don’t really know it’s cuz a lot
Of these looks are quality looks and we can’t even go to the like oh the pull-up shots on this one because he had some tonight that are wide open Catch and shoot jumpers and he’s got a hit and not only that but like people always go to the legs when a
Shot comes up short did you see the way he exploded the rim some of those times like his legs were fine on the drives and those take a lot of uh energy as well look he just came off a five game stretch where he shot like 46% from
Three out almost 10 per game he struggled into the last three games I think sometimes it just happens I don’t think every time he misses a shot we have to go oh my God are his leg shot yeah that being said like broadly I think he probably plays too many minutes
I’d love it if they got some more ball handing and creation so he didn’t have to play as much but I don’t necessarily think tonight was because of those shot legs I think he maybe just had an off night it happens it does I mean my my my
Show today has been pretty mediocre I think it happens you have an off night you’re good man what happened mediocre would have been an improvement over what the Sixers offered tonight so I I’ll I’ll take the replacement level performance if that’s what you got to
Offer well all right I will say this and maybe not tonight but it happened the starters were announced oh the allar I actually have it all pulled up I figured that’d be we get to that at some point since that game stunk out loud Joel seventh time making the All-Star team
Seventh time being the starter uh they going back to the east West Side of Things No draft and and Joel is going to make his seventh All-Star appearance we all we all know very well deserving and he made it seven so the starters for the East are embiid Giannis
Tatum um Halton of course who should be in there and then Damen Lillard and that’s the one not that he wouldn’t have made it but it certainly maybe puts somebody else in a tough tough spot on the outside looking in as far as guards go when you you talk about Brunson Maxie
And Trey Trey young am I missing anybody else as far as the guards go Mitch those are I mean Mitch Mitchell Mitchell but um he kind of yeah he kind of kind of snuck in there and and and maybe push somebody on the outside looking in well
The vote voting split for the East back court to me is one of the most fascinating vote splits in Allstar history if you look at it so so halberton was one across the board and like that doesn’t surprise me he became the kind of the darling of the league
Early in the year and has been awesome so no issues there Dame finished third in fan voting fourth in player voting fifth in media voting and sort of the key there is that he was consistent whereas like the media had Brunson to fans had Trey young to and players had
Tyrese Max to and the fact there was no consensus there allowed someone like Lillard who’s at least in the top four or five in all of them to sort of jump up and the interesting the most interesting one from a Sixers perspective to me obviously is Maxi
Being two in the player vote and it wasn’t even a particularly close to either he got 131 player votes the next closest guy was Brunson he got 78 so the players showed a ton of love and respect for Maxi which I like look I’m not saying
That the players are better or worse as a voting block than anyone else because people love to on the fans the fans did not try to make the nasis aneta kmo a starter which three different people tried to vote than three different players voted for thanasis to be an
All-Star starter come on which is look that’s a completely separate conversation but Maxi getting that volume of support at his age and you know where he’s at on the curve that’s pretty impressive because for everybody I don’t care if it’s a fan coach media player it always takes some time to
Generate the level of respect to be an All-Star starter like an All-Star period but absolutely to be an All-Star starter so for Tyrese to in the players Minds box out Dame Lillard and Trey young and Jaylen Brunson Donovan Mitchell that’s a big effing deal dude like that’s crazy
To me and that’s something that if he does or doesn’t make the All-Star team aside that’s something he should notice and feel pretty proud of that he had that kind of start to the season you’ve got me wondering now there’s only two anos in the league
Right because Costas I think is now back overseas and the other one has not yet Alex he’s still in college so who who where did the other two come I like obvious got be another like deep bench uh Milwaukee guy right Milwaukee guy that left who still likes him when you
Said three I’m like wait are there four honor koos in the league because that’s the only way he should possibly get three votes listen man that dude is theater I cannot help but when I watch the games I cannot help but to look over there whenever they are down by the
Bucks bench whatever whether it’s a road game or home game I can’t help it I cannot help it I can’t stand them but I can’t help it and it’s ridiculous and I think we’ve all SE have you all seen the um highlight reel quote unquote of of
Thees going around of all his his fun adventures on the floor that guy man I’m just looking at the bu roster trying to speculate who would who would uh it’s got to be an end of bench guy right someone waving and getting giannis’s good side or something he seems like
He’s on a good relationship with Jay Crowder there even though Jay Crowder actually plays when I watch they’re like yeah rubbing shoulders and oh yeah campaign Mar Bo champ is he like a big thanasis guy yeah I don’t I don’t I don’t know but but got three votes
Losing the plot a little bit on that I just the point is more Maxi should feel good about his peers looking at him that way yes absolutely he he didn’t make it because the fans voted him Sixth and that makes sense like fan voting I feel
Like it takes a year or two behind so he gets sort of like the reputation now that reputation will then help him in next year’s voting yeah so that was that was interesting in the front Court Joel starting and he got we’re looking at the breakdown he was second behind Giannis
In media it’s actually third in fan voting Tatum ended up passing him which what we’re learning here is that Philly fans did not do a good job you said it not me don’t get me in trouble and he finished second in player voting and that was fairly close between him and
Giannis Giannis got 196 player votes joal got 193 so Tatum a distant third amongst the players well I mean it should be a fun allstar game in the west it’s Kevin Durant LeBron James in the back court Luca donic along with SH gilis Alexander by the way that’s a big
That’s a big deal no Steph Curry starting in the allstar game like that City that tells you how awesome Shay and Oklahoma City have been this year yeah who’s the big man who’s starting uh it’s joic and Y okay sorry I don’t how did I forget that yic yic sh
Luca LeBron and Kevin Durant LeBron KD yeah I mean that’s a squad right there that is a squad should be fun hopefully Maxi’s there in Indiana where they played tonight for the sight of the All-Star Game in February we see if he’s there pretty good chance that he might
Be there but we’ll see give our thought on that a little bit later Honestly though I think this probably helps Maxi cuz like if if Dame was going to be on that team like the the coaches were going to pick Dame so him getting sort of like that second spot over someone
Like maybe Brunson who maybe certainly played well enough to deserve it uh there’s a chance I could see of a coach picking Maxi over Brunson there was no chance of them picking Maxi over Dame so I think it probably helps his chances and I think Maxi over
Trey if I had to guess that Maxi will get the the nod there because they don’t want to give Trey who’s on a terrible team this year any kind of love if I had to guess yep all right well this was a stinker tonight guys but we made the best of it
Had some fun Ricky Council let’s get him Rick look we all wore matching gray shirt somehow without knowing it and the Sixers somehow let us down I don’t know we we coordinated and everything we have to speak to them and uh get them on the
Same page as us let’s uh say good night to some people you want to say good night to thank you guys for coming through my friends Jay of the Jungle Barbara Carol what’s up bar all love bar hating on Devon but we still love you B
I love she’s not wrong X-Men my guy Al the two-minute warning Liam Liam Stevens Randy Roger Taylor who else we got is that fisa FAA which I wish I could pronounce words like a a person who gets paid to talk for a living money Mar our
Guy Devon given in the chat wow what’s up another rare bozilla profit one Matas Randy I think will was in here earlier Austin Kow was definitely in here Coleman pots you’ve been in here quite a bit that’s listen what’s up col I think I’m done reading names guys
It’s it’s a tough night and it’s a lot it’s a lot of scrolling I think we got to get up on out here guys who are still with us guys and gals especially Barbara can you guys hit that subscribe button for us on the way out and hit that Bell icon
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Out it’ll be a early Saturday evening stream after that game we’re off on Friday folks to of the chat there is yic has been ruled out or is that just speculation uh yeah I’m not gonna we’ll see uh anyway we will see you guys early Saturday night bring your drinks we’ll
Pregame before you guys get to go out and three of us will have some fun after what’s hopefully a good Game like the May
The Philadelphia 76ers had their six game winning streak snapped on Thursday night, suffering a 134-122 loss to the Pacers in Indiana. Joel Embiid finished with 31 and 7 for the Sixers, with Tyrese Maxey adding in 22.
The Sixers’ defense was shredded by the now 25-20 Pacers, who were playing without newly-minted All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton, who missed his third straight game with a hamstring injury.
Derek Bodner, Kyle Neubeck and Devon Givens are in studio to break down the Sixers’ loss, which snapped the Sixers’ six game winning streak.
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The Sixers just loose to the Pacers on their away game
The Sixers still need help, They need a good back up center and more good Shooters Please make some good trade's 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
This just shows we 100% need a trade
At this point we might need to go after Brogdon, Bruce, & Olynyk
All of them
This thumbnail would suggest that phily was at full strength 🤦🏽♂️ no excuses for how they played but Philly was missing 5 players and Indiana 1 am I missing something
Always difficult with my work schedule to show up live to these but I’ve really enjoyed listening to you guys and appreciate all that you do.
this title sucks lmao 1 player missing on a team with a deep ass bench is not so "short-handed" that philly's somehow healthy in comparison
This is why you never trust Philadelphia. They are the true definition of a regular season team….