Tobias Harris, Kelly Oubre spark Sixers road win vs. Mavericks

Tobias Harris, Kelly Oubre spark Sixers road win vs. Mavericks

Well if we’re going to be in here on a Sunday when it’s beautiful outside in Philadelphia you might as well man welcome to the BH Sixers postgame show here see we’re teammates we know how we the Synergy is there we know he knows how finish my sentence Kyle newbeck with

Devon Givens here Briana producing and you talking about a huge win here on the road for the Sixers over the Dallas Mavericks 120 116 a lot of big performances from players that we talked about pregame if you missed our pregame we highlighted not Kelly UB but we highlighted everyone else and we forgot

About him I forgot about him and he came out listen we forgot about him in the first half to so played huge huge down the last 16 minutes of the second half from the last three minutes of the four minutes of the third and the final 12

All 12 minutes in the fourth quarter Kelly UB was phenomenal during that 16-minute stretch we’ll get into him we’ll talk about tyres Maxi how he got things ignited in that first quarter but they changed their defense a little bit he had a little knock to the head as

Well which changed how he played in the tactic game there a number of players did things in this one had their hand in this including Nick nurse for the job that he did we’ll talk about it all with you the Sixers now pi picking up win

Number 35 on the season 35 and 25 they back to 10 games over 500 and staying right there with the New York Knicks in the fourth spot in the Eastern Conference but as we get started and we hang out with you here on this Sunday I

Got to go to Kyle and get Kyle your thoughts on how this one played out what was the uh the entire what were your overall thoughts on this one of why they got this W well so you brought up a bunch of different guys in your opening

Stanza over there I I would say the point that is being made by you bringing all those guys up in the the times of the game is that they had answers for every time the game situation change right go down 11 nothing and you know we’re predicting

Double digit losses before the game like hey everybody go outside enjoy your Sunday etc etc and so you’re looking at it and saying all right this one might get away from them great response early that is sparked by Tyrese maxi and some of the best speed changing acceleration deceleration that we’ve

Seen from him all year and then Dallas says hey we’re gonna try to take him away we’re gonna hedge we’re GNA double we’re gonna get the ball out of his hands and in the second quarter Debi Harris steps up and he gets going he gets some shots to go down make some

Plays in transition and then hits some mid post jumpers he gets to I think he got to what like 14 at halftime after frankly a start that it looked like it was going to be a long day for him so you get the halftime and you’re up and

Then the Good Vibes are rolling well then Tyrese Maxi gets hurt in the third quarter even as the the aggressive defense is being played and it’s like okay now you’re down him Kyle Lowry can’t hit water from a boat today what do you do and Kelly UB steps forward and

It just felt like every time something was going wrong or somebody came out that they got a lift and and they got a spark and some of that was because they did the hard work they did the early work they they made the defensive rotations guys got their hands on ball

Guys are attacking offensive rebounds defensive rebounds and doing the little things that we preach on the show all the time and Dallas put the fear of God in them at the end right because end of the day they still had Luca donic and Kyrie Irving and those guys are two of

The best difficult shot makers in the league but I think this is more what I would have hoped for what the F base what a hoped for when Joelle went down with an injury like it it was a team that felt like they had an identity they

Had cohesiveness and maybe some of this is just they’re getting more minutes together and Nick nurse is stumbling into things lineup combinations starting Kyle Lowry which will get to him at some point but it was the first time like they won the other night against Charlotte I still wouldn’t say it was a

Great performance overall this is a game where it was like that’s a team team that actually has some real chemistry to fall back on and an understanding of how to play together and how to benefit from one another like when you have Kelly UB out there in the second half I think he

Ended up with like four assists in this game and we call him a black hole all the time that’s been his reputation as a player for most of his career so to see him break off of that to see him buy into this and to create this environment

That a bunch of different guys get the double digits and impact the game that’s what you wanted to see when Joel went down this is unlike the Charlotte game to me you point to this game and say this is a performance you can build on

You go into the film room and say this is Sixers basketball this is how you have to play uh three assists in the second half to your point two in the fourth quarter and two in the uh and one in a third for Kelly UB I I I’ll point

Out a few things that also stood out to me ky’s abs absolutely right the 110 start by Dallas we’re sitting there looking at each other and saying all right this one might be an ugly another ugly Sunday afternoon game like we saw against Milwaukee where quite honestly

It just wasn’t a good game and it showed itself so the 110 start so I give credit right there to Nick Nur for calling that timeout I mean you have to call the timeout because they just hit a three-pointer to go up 11 come out of it

And gone down 20 exactly what what did they do they go on like a 130 run if I’m not mistaken I put it in my notes of what they did where they got right back into it with a 1 15 run uh to to do what

They did to get back into it five six to make it 1311 and then they scored that 15 to give it 15 runs so credit to Nick nurse there for whatever he said in that timeout he called the timeout because he had to but it was whatever he said in

That timeout to get them going number two I just thought after that that was three minutes into the game they played inspired basketball yes they had an identity of what they wanted to do so we know what the lineup looked like with Kyle lry starting moamba as well but

They came out inspired after that to go on that 1 15 run spearheaded by Tyrese Maxi and before that three minute play that three-minute run by Dallas the timeout from Nick Nur Tyrese Maxi was allowing everyone else to take the shots and get going we see the stars let the

Complimentary players the other players get going first where the star player gets going a little bit thereafter he did that and once that timeout happened he was the one that ignited things and SP that no more and turned it up and with as Kyle was talking about the way

That he was using his speed downhill it was for me the dribble combinations the counters to the moves that he had length on him with Dereck Jones Jr and how he was attacking him setting him up to have him lean just enough to keep that to

Keep him off balance to use that speed with his strong hand by the way to get to the basket scoop finish and not pick up the basketball keep the dribble alive to get to the basket and finish so that was that then you had the other extra things that were happening with the

Plays that they were doing the extra pass from Kyrie from Kelly UB leate as he had it going scoring he makes that extra pass that key bounce pass to Nick Batum in the corner wide open for a three-pointer and then another one later that’s in the opposite absolutely and

Nick Batum had missed a three-pointer two three-pointers that were wide open so a great connected pass as you like to call it to him right there where he already had the the the the uh hot hand going with the scoring he did that great offensive rebound from Nick Batum they

Wind up not scoring but they got the rebound great offensive rebound from Tobias Harris after a missed they didn’t score there but keeping them off the defensive glass to give them another 14 seconds to run off the clock to try to get a shot and get things going great

Five fivepoint stretch from Buddy heel when they needed Five Points from him after he struggled here tonight they got something out of everybody it might not have been a lot out of everybody that’s something out of everybody they just did so many things and to your point also

While I don’t run off each name as we will talk about them over this postgame show the fact that they had one turnover at halftime to get them into it three turnovers almost by the end of the third quarter because they were protecting the basketball and allowing themselves to

Get good shots on this afternoon just a phenomenal I saw someone asked was this the best win of the season it’s up there because they’ve had some really good ones where we’ve talked about it after like Cleveland great win on the road before the allar Dallas needs right like

That’s a crowded Western Conference playoff picture like we said before the game Devon they’re one and three over the last four coming into this game and so Dallas is coming in saying we need this one we got to get the ship on the right track here so to come in and outplay

Them for most of that game cuz CU that there was nothing fluky about it right they created good shots they played good defensively like Dallas give them credit continued to battle Until the End made a bunch of tough threes and Luca and Kyrie did their thing like Kyrie still ends up

With 285 and four Luca scraped a triple double at the end with 38 11 and 10 on good efficiency like those guys had good games dere Jones could not miss did not miss he had one miss on the and you still beat that and you still beat that

Basketball yeah goodn that’s a good win and when we talked about it coming into it defense optional for the 76ers they play good defense tonight there’s nothing you can do about a triple double LCA Don you live with those threes as they were going and they was knocking him

Down I’m looking at K like you live with those because that has to happen it was similar it was Josh Green in the first one but the Sixers had an answer for it tonight versus I mean this afternoon versus what they didn’t have in that game in Philadelphia on February 5th the

The role play hit the shots you had good counters and you had everybody doing something to help pick up this Victory on the road again as we set both teams with 34 wins trying to position themselves in their respective conferences to stay in the spot yes keep

Away from Golden State stay with the Knicks for the Sixers hold off the Indiana Pacers right there or the Miami Heat and the Sixers came out and did just that in a tough environment against a team that again needed this one as much as you did but but you came up with

The win Nick nurse did a really good job out coaching Jason kid in this one your stars did what your stars did Luca donic Kyrie Irving Tyrese Maxi and then your role players stepped up in a big big way so I do want to focus on on Maxi for a

Second like as you brought up Devon first few minutes of the game deferring a little bit letting other guys and great sign of the progression he’s made as a leader and the star of a team to say I don’t have time to wait now like

It’s 11 nothing I don’t have the time to wait until the second quarter until the third quarter to really start hunting my shot if I don’t go get it right now they could we could be in a hole and it’s 20 to5 and it’s 30 to 12 and whatever it

Turns into I got to go get mine now and to recognize that is really important for him in this role it’s important for him when he’s the second guy to dwell in Beads number one but this is part of the maturation process of of being a star

Player like yes you are the point guard you are someone who needs to get other guys going but also you are the best player that is available for this team right now and when the team’s about to go off a cliff whether that’s the opening three minutes whether that’s a

Stretch in the third quarter they look to you to say hey Tyrese what are we doing what are you doing and so Tyrese to put together that type of first quarter and essentially save the game from going off the rails and completely changed The Narrative of this game

That’s incredible and and like look you brought it up earlier when they tried to single cover him on the perimeter they could not guard him I mean they’re throwing Derek Jones Jr has limitations offensively but he’s a good athlete long and throw a lot at you he’s

Going right by him Dante exom his reason that he’s still in the league and still an NBA rotation guy defense is defense and Tyrese hit him with a nasty crossover step back combo sent him to the shadow realm hit that step back three he had it all working man and like

Look we talk about Tyrese’s speed but I said the deceleration earlier because it’s important for him to mix speeds and so that if you’re going 100 miles an hour all the time when you’re as fast as him you’re going to get some wins out of that right but it’s that ability to play

Start stop start stop start stop like we watch it with Andre Miller way back in the day where he’s nowhere near the athlete Max he was but he knew that that was baked into his game and so he had a great understanding I mean Luca is the

Best present day example right he’s not the greatest athlete in the world by any stretch but he’s got such a great understanding of his body and his footwork and his timing and so watching Maxi hit the brakes and then explode past guys like he’s really figuring out

The deeper he gets into his career yeah he can hit you in transition at full speed at 100 miles an hour but he can also come to a dead stop then get to his floater and hit an easy six to eight footer if he just takes a moment and

Collects himself so thought it was a great display of leadership from him and I think look not the defensive performance that he had against you know Boston earlier in the week and what have you but I still think there was an early transition possession that you and I

Talked about might have gotten away with the foul on but the effort is there the rotations are there he’s been a better low man when he needs to do that and tag the roller and pick and rolls so lots of little stuff adding up on defense and

You know the offense is what it is Dallas had to change their entire setup their entire defense because of him getting going early and that’s a testament to him in a big way he was seven for 10 in the first quarter for the points that we talk about he didn’t

Shoot the basketball until 7 minutes and 31 seconds and he made that basket and he kept going and he did not stop he put that pressure on them and turned that around down by the 11 points that we talk about the Sixers were up 10 after

The first quarter because of what he did and changing that entire complexion of how he would went after and again the start stop like we said earlier the counters that he had there and when you talk about that understanding when to go 100 and then pull it back to about 85

Just like that yeah that’s hard the guy in the prime that that I would talk about that would do that in his prime and was very successful was Russell Westbrook oh yeah he goes ball to the wall every time right but he knew when to stop and have that little step back

And that’s why that mid-range jumper for him because that was what the game was not necessarily three-pointers yet was so money when he would hit that 15ot jump shot because no one could stop him going and they had to respect that speed and when we discussed Tyrese Maxi and

Him also saying let me incorporate it’s not a bad analytical shot when you have a guy who can gets to the basket the way that he does and then shoot 40% from three to incorporate that mid-range jumper because it’s such a weapon when we say three levels that’s all three

Levels for Tyrese Maxi the way that he does it and he did that in that first quarter to really get it going yes he got fouled a few more times where even hu Brown was like yeah he’s got a right to have a beef right now Hub doesn’t

Like guys politic him he’s like he’s got a Cas he got fouled right yeah so he had a case there and he was phenomenal in that first one again didn’t shoot the basketball into 731 in that first quarter and after that again did not let up whatsoever phenomenal work by him he

Did finish with 24 on the on the afternoon but that was because he had to come out during that short time because of the little knock to the head when he came back in he still looked like you know he wasn’t moving his like him his normal self but he was drawing that

Attention and as a decoy still did his job out there on the floor because he hit Nick Batum in the middle of the floor for some extra passes from Batum to others to get those shots Kelly UB Tyre Tobias Harris Etc to make it work

That like that so as as off as he looked once he came back into the game in the fourth quarter still his presence out there on the floor was just as important as they continued to keep it going in the fourth quarter you know whose presence is getting us excited Devon

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All right man still a lot to get to here on this one but let’s get to a couple of super chats before we jump into some more of these individual performances like Paul Reed and others who had a really good game let’s start off with Mr

Rudy Pooh says Kelly UB is my goat Mr Rudy poo is he now now we have to get into an individual performance well and valos also added on said yes Rudy Pooh go Kelly so we had a lot of Kelly UB enthusiasm in the super chats today so

Great time to get into look I I’ll be transparent I said it in my recap when Tyrese goes down had the head Thing Mark of fourth quarter Theon it’s your time Tobias it’s your time buddy and I was like pretending to be Kelly UB I was

Like it’s my time Kelly Uber and I said nope and we started laughing like it’s GNA happen in a bad way and he went out there and shook off what up to that point had been a horrific offensive performance mostly a horrific three-point shooting performance and

Attack the rim as well as he has all season first bucket was a dunk Basel the Baseline dunk hit a bunch of tough shots from you know 6 to8 feet where those are deceptively tough where I know he’s tall and athletic and whatever and it’s only

Six to eight feet away but when you’re leaning and you’re falling away and you’re not moving toward the basket on the shot those are far from guarantees and look Kelly saw he still took some threes and he made an important one at the end of that big run but Kelly

Understood at a certain Point like the three-point shot is not going down I got to get to the basket and I think we probably both agree Devon his best work all season has been going to the rent and taking guys when he got like Luca donic on him out on the perimeter that

Was he’s out just going right by him even on his weekend he was going right and that’s the mentality that he’s got to show and he’s and we said it throughout the game even as he’s missing shots I don’t think there there might have been like one

Maybe two threes where I was like all right Kelly you got to reel it in a little bit everything else was mostly flow of the offense balls moving around the perimeter Kelly UB type shots like I’ll take those a 100 times I’ll also take them and live with them specifically

Because he’s making good basketball plays right like he goes on that long run and he might have had a shaky play or two in the fourth quarter but for the most part he’s reading the floor his head is up he’s looking for his teammates and so I don’t I don’t mind

Living with some herob ball if you can also use your ball handling if you can also use your scoring gravity to set other guys up like that has always been the missing piece for Kelly yeah he can go get his own but everybody else is just cut off they’re isolated and that

Leads to bad team offense if he plays good team offense like that I’m cool letting him cook and like part of the move of him to the bench in the first first place is because Nick wants him to juice up the bench to give them more

Creation when they you know they have to sub off Tyrese Maxi when they sub off buddy heeld and so he took to that in a big way tonight I don’t know if this is just a one-off performance or maybe the start of something good for him but he

Did just about everything you could asked him for in the second half and and kudos to him for that eight points in that final four minutes of the third when Tyrese Maxi was out that’s what you look for you needed you needed that to come from somewhere and yes I did as

Kyle said look to Buddy Hill and Tobias Harris this is your moment to keep this thing going because they were winning no it was Kelly UB and then he had the 11 in the fourth quarter playing all 12 minutes so he played 16 consecutive minutes to close out the game of this

Contest and we also had a moment there where he was shooting shots and we were like oh here we go Kelly UB is saying Nick nurse this is my time but that was the time where he was missing when guys were out on and that was his first

Substitution early on in the game and it was like uhoh this is bad this can’t this can’t be good yeah but it was good later on because it’s exactly what they needed they needed that mentality when when Kyle is talking about UB driving to the basket and I saw someone put it in

The chat there also saying that Kelly UB down the stretch here has been really while he’s been struggling from the field his driving to the basket though is what he’s been doing and I don’t mind when he tries to posterize somebody because he is driving very very he’s

Attacking the basket hard yeah and when you have shot blockers there you have to go with Force he’s trying to hammer it home and not get it blocked so I don’t mind that strong and wrong baby that’s it strong and wrong I’m not mad at that

But to this afternoon as he really got it going with those final 16 minutes specifically in that in that stretch from the four minutes and then the first two to three minutes of the fourth quarter where again Tyrese Maxi was out there but he wasn’t really out there

Playing like Tyrese Maxi he was more of a decoy he was he got an n one to start things off Tobias Harris had an n one to start things off in that after they had that official review in that first 30 seconds once they got the the the game

Going again and they started to score points on the board again those two and ones Kelly UB was one of them so he still that 11 of their 14 points was oh pardon me 11 of their 17 points was him because it was another assisted one in

That third quarter at the end that was Nick Batum in the corner 4 three courtesy of Kelly UB who drew that double team and then again Tobias Harris getting his three on that and one Kelly UB his and one he was really really good there in in that during that stretch and

He was really good so if this is something that Nick nurse was looking for which we talked about him going back to the bench to give them that offensive Punch coming off the pine there that is good you’re not going to get 21 you may

Not even get a a run of 11 in one quarter but if you can get his 14 points on average over the course of however many minutes he plays along the four quarters of a game then that this is really what they needed so hopefully this gets him going uh same thing as

They get ready for the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night this is the type of play that they need and it wasn’t just that it was the passing it was the rebounding he was taking rebounds away from guys in traffic because why in the past the opponent has been the one coming in and

Sneaking and taking the rebound away he even had a bad one where Tobias Harris had it he knocked it out of bounds but you like the opport you know he’s the opportunistic way of him thinking I got to go in here and get this rebound sometimes it’s bad today was more good

And that’s what you needed because he wasn’t just settling for shots when the ball swung to him there was one where swung to him on the wing and they were passing the ball and we were like no Kelly because it looked like he was going to shoot it over some some long

Arms there and he said no I’m going to be patient made the extra pass and they got a good look out of it so some really good stuff from him again in this one one more Super Chat before we get to our other uh thing that we need to share

With everybody and that is from Davon AKA school boy beat saying here great w only only criticism here from nurses you know look too long to the timeout or the subs when the offense went stale and Maxi needs to stop the uh Harden bring the P bring the

Ball up pass at 16 there was at the end they got way too slow the league is that bad with with that in general so it’s not just Maxi it’s the league but I I get you to your point I definitely agree with the sentiment Davon I I want they

Got away with one before we step away to talk about our our wonderful friends I I do want to say so the UB stuff to me what’s important too on the other side of it like we’re talking about him being unselfish and Team friendly basketball

All that they also looked to him once he got rolling like this is a the the team around him was smart enough to recognize hey Kelly’s got a gun let’s keep getting him the ball and that’s what I mean when I say KY Lowry yes and that’s what I

Mean when I say they showed cohesion and chemistry because we sit here and we see some of the reactions to Kelly playing right by from his teammates there are games when he frustrates the out of not just me not just Devon not just Derek but guys

Who were on that floor and on the bench with him and I think it’s a great lesson for all those guys for Kelly but also his teammates like just Empower each other right like if you make good basketball plays they will come back to you like Paul Reed has learned that

Lesson I think the last couple couple of games where yes he took a trail three tonight the huie brown I think nearly put him in an early grave but other than that Paul Reed’s game was attack the offensive boards try to score around the basket make the extra pass get a guy

Better shot there’s a Kyle Lowry play where I think it was right at the start of tobias’s run tonight in the second quarter Kyle Lowry had like a decent look at a three takes one dribble dumps it off to Tobias he gets like a 10-footer and that’s the start of like a

10 or 12 point run for Tobias so these guys doing the little things making the extra pass to so many open threes and buckets for guys who were struggling at the time or on the other side of it or cooking it just the level of trust shown

Was far far far better than we’ve seen in any game in recent weeks I think you give basically everybody credit there certainly to nurse certainly to Lowry with his difference making in the lineup I just those things are all really important to me as someone who like gets

In the weeds with this team and the league at large like that’s the stuff that when you get into the playoffs when you’re in a tight round two series making that one extra pass that split-second decision to either take a contested shot or try to get a pass

Through to somebody in traffic that can be the difference between winning a game or not and so it’s really nice to see these guys building something without Joel there to basically be the human superhero to carry them through these games and that’s where the trust comes

In as we talk about it because we mentioned it earlier but just want to bring it up one more time and that is the fact that they ended up overall with nine turnovers on the afternoon but in the first half just one turnover and they were protecting the basketball

Giving themselves an opportunity and that was after Dallas turned the ball over 11 times leading to 14 points for the Sixers so the Sixers didn’t give Dallas any points off the turnovers in the first half and then even after three quarters they ended up with five okay it

Was going to happen at some point they end up with nine still in single digits but it didn’t hurt them uh in the long run and that was where the trust goes not a lot of individual stuff the ball snapping swinging finding the open man

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Couple super chats I want to hit real quick we have a few first we got one because I know you won’t say it from Kaio crazy who says just because my Uncle D is the man my nephew man there you go nephew nephew Kai That’s Right

Kai his brother called me right when the game ended to check in you guys doing it you guys doing a post game right so khen then he hit us up my niece she also jumps in Kylie so thank you appreciate it man thank you very much and we got a

Let’s see this is the 10th Super Chat on a stream from play byplay with JJ I want to shout him out we did meet him the other night he says saw you guys at Chicken and the Egg the other night awesome win awesome job as always Toby stealing that rebound from donic was

Beautiful and you and we had a big reaction to that exact play y was it like three minutes left or so yeah and we probably it’s a good segue into talking about Tobias right like the scoring is great and again some of the offense we saw one of my favorite plays

Of the game was they got Tobias the ball on the post on the Block he gets doubled he waits it out buddy who we both agreed struggled for a lot of that game timely cut quick pass Kyle Lowry Wing three like that’s how easy it should be

They have offensive Talent on this team and when they they trust each other they move the ball and they space the floor properly which I will say about Kyle Lowry men understands where to be on a basketball floor and he understands where everybody else needs to be to

Probably an annoying degree cuz he is yelling and screaming and pointing and doing all kinds of stuff I love that about him I don’t know if everybody on his team loves it over time he’s competitive but you know it does come from a good place and so Tobias continued with something I

Brought up on the postgame show the other day where as part of his conversation with Joel Joel stressed to him like control the things you can control backto back games where we’re watching Tobias go after the ball for rebounds you know he only ends up having five rebounds tonight but the one

Offensive rebound he got was a big one that’s in a high leverage moment in this game and aside from a play that you and I both rolled our eyes at in the first half I thought he was at least like he did what we were talking about pregame they’re hitting bodies they’re boxing

Guys out Dallas I think had 12 offensive rebounds to Phillies 13 so it’s a very even battle there despite the fact that the Sixers have struggled as a rebounding team for quite a while and now they’re playing a multiple six- foot guards starting lineup so there could be

Big trouble there so Tobias is part of the solution there I mean across the board everybody’s pitching in there was one guy Nick Batum that gets double digit rebounds everyone else is just kind of scrapping and clawing for what they can get so Tobias was a big help

There as well as the scoring and we love to see that because that’s as infuriating for me as anything with the shot and the offense is the rebounding he started 1 for four in the first quarter and in those minutes we were sitting there and there was some typical

Tobias stuff that we’re like okay here we go here we are right now and this is tough this is what the afternoon is going to be like he didn’t let that stop him he started getting going he had two points in that first quarter he started

Getting going in that second and he had 12 points in that second quarter and they needed every bit of it because of how the defense did in fact change against Tyrese Maxi and so with that Maxi missed in the early part of the second quarter because he played the

Entire first that’s just the nature of what Nick nurse likes to do with maxi since embiid has been out where he plays the entire 12 those were Joel embiid’s minutes before where Maxi would come out around the seven minute Mark now it’s Maxi playing the entire 12 you needed

Somebody else to carry that responsibility and Tobias Harris did that not only when Maxi was out of the game but when Maxi returned in that second quarter and he had some big shots he finally as we were watching it we were saying here goes the Tobias stuff we mentioned getting those smaller guys

On him on the low block including Luca donic he made some bad decisions in that first quarter of not attacking them when he had the advantage there with them back to the basket and exploiting that mismatch in terms of the size right second quarter it happened but it was

The first quarter as we talked about it hu Brown was saying the same thing get after it while you’re down there and then he started to do it he gave him the credit for it and that’s what we wanted to see and then he kept going and he did

Not stop so that’s where it’s encouraging as we get ready for another game of the stretch where we discuss it all the time two week stretch Tobias Harris is going to be really good then he’s going to have a two and a half three we stretch where he’s not really

Good maybe this is the start of that stretch of a string of games and they can use it right now with 22 games remaining after 60 in the books now at 35 and 25 if we look at more of the numbers I mean KY Derek was talking

About the eight and the 23 and then maybe trying to steal maybe two or three of that five there you know the goal is still maybe get mid 40s to stay in that top six because Brooklyn when they had six seed last year was at 46 so if the

Sixers can do that and Tobias Harris can keep this level of play going that might be something that will be that will be something beneficial to this basketball team as that number two guy so I’m also I want to give a shout out to him I did

Mention his name already to Kyle lry who in spite of the fact that if you look at the stats it seems like he had a horrible game right he’s one for nine he’s a minus s so he’s the only starter with a negative plus minus but I thought

That game showed every reason why you wanted to get him at the deadline why you’re comfortable trading Patrick Beverly because again we talked about the the relocation the moving guys around the the little defensive plays so the low man rot we talked about his hands throughout the game Deon like

Getting his hands on a deflection or jarring a ball Loose as somebody is getting close to the basket just generally making things tough like he only ended up having a steel in the Box Score I think they’re probably two or three other possessions where if he didn’t directly create a turnover he was

Involved in a possession going to complete hell for Dallas and I do think it shows too like this is not an indictment of Maxi who we talked about was great and changed Dallas’s whole defense it shows what happens when you put another guy who can play make and

Beat Closeouts and run the offense next to him on the perimeter because he doesn’t have to be you know the constant I’m doing everything type guy Lowry being on the floor allows the Sixers to put Maxi in off ball actions as well like coming off of a screen and then

Teams have a a tough decision there like do you close out hard on him as he turns the corner on the screen because if you do he might go right by you and get to the basket so Lowry also being that guy in four on threes is really helpful

Because when they hedge against Tyrese all of a sudden low now has an advantage that frankly he’s not creating that at his age he can’t move like that anymore but if you set it up for him where he’s already in the fouron three he’s going to make the right decision get to the

Right spot unfortunately that layup that he missed in in the fourth quarter is one of the most insane layup misses that I can remember I have a theory on that because you were like yo I have a theory he’s old actually my theory is different because he didn’t they just parted once

He got by there they parted he’s waiting for the contest and he was like oh I am too wide open here not too wide open why I need to blow this layup it was just more of he relaxed and didn’t attack it like he probably would have had some

Contest come his way and I I think that was yes he is old and that’s why he can’t blow by the people like he used to but I thought that with that one he just simply said oh my goodness look how open I am and just blew the layup right there

And very reminiscent of some James Harden I got some PTSD from hard no longer able to get up and go to the you relax and think oh I got this one I can’t believe it I got this one and with that one that’s where it really looked

Like I think it was a six-point lead and they need that to push it to eight after they made it bucket on the other end and it’s like up here it goes right here this is where it changes so really good game and even with the Buddy heel

Looking at 11 points he had the five minute I mean five-point stretch there made three threes KY Lowry played a better game than buddy heel for the totality of watching the game and how it all played out if you didn’t watch the game and you look at the box score you

Were never going to agree with that but I take my word for it if it means anything to you and if not go watch it yourself winning plays from a guy who makes win please to help you win the game profit One Stop you know I wasn’t

Getting on Tobias Harris and saying uh celebrate and stop pissing on Tobias you stop it you know good and where we I see I see no pissing from in the phiy studio not today all right we got get to a couple more Super chats and probably get up out

Of here I would assume uh our guy Al the two minute warning says what’s your comments about what ESPN reported about JoJo was on the court lifting weights that he was lifting before the injury so yeah the I I’m blanking on her name so apologize I apologize to her right now

ESPN sideline reporter today said this during the game that Joe is now able to lift whatever amount of weight he could prior to having the procedure so the translation seems to be that everything is on schedule I continue to say the same thing having talked to Joel having talked to doctors about this

I think it’s probably in the range of six to eight weeks on that return so it’s still going to be couple more here but we are nearing it’s three days from exactly a month from the surgery so I would expect we get some sort of formal update from the Sixers probably end of

The week if I had to guess I don’t think they’ll go right on the month marker but we’ll see uh but I I would say generally no news is good news like if you’re going to hear anything right now it would be oh there’s a setback or oh

There’s this so the fact that we’re hearing very little and Joel is saying I feel good things are moving along and nobody has changed the initial timeline we expected those are all to the good that’s all I got on that and if he can in fact get back later on because things

Are good here no setbacks over the next couple of weeks once we get to the end of the month and they are able to hold up here and stay within that mix of that four five and six seed and not fall below that who knows where things will

Be again because as we talked about you spoken to doctors I spoke to a doctor even last week discussing that if he does in fact come back 15 20 minutes 20 25 minutes they’ll try to ramp them up that way and that’s what they’ll do during that final few games there to get

Him going and if they can do that and win the games before he even gets back and that might even change how they look how to play him in those games knock on wood should he should he in fact return so this Kyle said no news news good news

And the good news right now is that everything sounds on schedule for right now no bad news at at this point and good Synergy here with the super chats we got another one on embiid from Sange thank you Sange who asks or says I should say embiid’s leadership is making

A difference even without him on the floor was a pro press conference on Thursday that seems to have reset the team so we did a whole Deep dive on his presser and what he said I I would say between that between his conversation with Tobias that talk to Tobias directly

About it about how it helped and what they talked about and what have you yes this is so this is why when they go through tough periods of the Season or joelle’s body language is bad or whatever that we sometimes sit here and say joelle’s got to be a leader joelle’s

Got to send the right messages because we can see when he uses his voice when he goes to his guys when he Shields them in different ways when he says hey I got you or hey this is not a big deal he goes to Tobias and says this is only

Seven games his actions his words carry more weight than anybody else in that organization and so it is great when he has that leadership platform and he uses it to go out and say I’m really excited to play with Buddy heel and I’m really excited to play with Kyle Lowry I can

See what they add like yeah it’s just like are stuff but those guys need to hear that stuff that is your leader that is the guy when you get into tough playoff matchups you’re playing the Knicks and the heed and the Pacers and who Cleveland whoever he’s gonna have to

Pull you through the fire from time to time and so it’d be easy for him watching from the sidelines to be grumbling and passive aggressive and oh I was hoping for more than this and so good on him that he’s been a steady voice on the sideline good on him that

He’s seeking out Tobias and saying it’s okay nobody’s dying you’re not a you’re not a Frontline hero you’re just playing basketball like keep the the focus on what you need to focus on and by the time he gets back the team will be in a good place good to see him at practice

Participating however he can being on the bench at the home games whether it’s even in the second half his presence is in the building they know he’s there and he seems to even be on the bench talking to them while they’re sitting there so the spirit right now is

Good it looks really good and when we talk about oh The Vibes are high they at 28 and 13 things look good while they’re losing your best player is still around in the past we haven’t seen the best player in Joel andb around when he’s not

Playing and that’s a good thing to see right now and if they can again stay within that mix and just be in the playoff playoff push and run and and seating all of that stuff if he comes back it’s just going to give them that

Much more of a lift and any 15 to 20 to 25 minutes of him on the floor makes them that much better and then when you add in the Buddy heel part Kyle Lowry with his voice it makes me think about Jimmy Butler always miked up sing him

You know shoot and take over K always sticks him man and Kyle Lowry is that as well where he may not be the same Kyle Lowry six time Allstar and all that he’s he’s trying to become a two-time NBA champion and he’ll do it however he does

It like he did this afternoon and he’s going to push that guy whatever it takes for whatever it takes to get Joel embiid over that hump and even Tyrese Maxi Tobias Harris as well this is great great win great win on a great Sunday we’re GNA walk out of here into

Some hopefully still nice weather I do want to say before we get out of here I saw the news broke while we were yep here that uh veteran ESPN reporter Chris Morton passed away he’d been battling cancer for a while I saw it came up in the chat I didn’t personally know Mort

But everything I’ve heard from colleagues of ours in the industry he’s like a rock solid standup guy obviously Ultra successful and great at what he did so Thoughts with uh the Mortenson Family all his friends colleagues Etc so was very sad to hear that I think he was

Only 72 so he really fought because as you mentioned been doing this for a while and even when John Clayton surprisingly for a lot of us passed away a couple years ago he was still around to share his thoughts and say what he needed to say about John Clayton and how

Tough it was to lose him Peter King announcing his retirement during the week you see uh Mort in there talking about that that’s one the only things Mort has said in a while I think that’s how much it meant to him yeah and every time I would see Mort I’m like that’s

Great he’s still he’s still kicking and it’s great to see see him out there so I saw the same as as we were talking and it was it was kind of like ah shoulders drop to see Chris Morton when you talk about NFL coverage for ESPN NFL Draft

Coverage for ESPN certainly Adam schfer Mel Kyper all those all those names Chris Mortenson you can’t mention it without him it’s just like a noons like great reporter who’s plugged in everywhere and when I find in this business the the longer you go when people are still not saying bad things

About you that says how you got there right like Chris Morton and treated people the right way clearly to have the reputation that he does so sorry to hear that and sorry to end on a somber note at the end of a victory stream but had

To pay the respects had to pay our respect and Shout them out also wanted to shout out many of our wonderful people who are here with us today and basically always got a lot of super chats today between da Devon the valos what up Davon two-minute warning we had

S we had play byplay with JJ and we had Kai go crazy here and Mr Rudy poo almost forgot about Mr Rudy Pooh it’s a great name but is this it’s a bad name you can make jokes but thank you Rudy Pooh thank you to our super Chatters we also had as always

Money Mah who’s taking once again a beating in the comments he knows what he’s doing we still love you money Mar even if you are trolling the ever loving hell out of everybody we got Jay the jungle we got Rick Morris Brian Knight Remo k a Aon who seen him more in the

Discord recently you guys should get in there I’m telling you Discord I’m in there we got Fusion Sean O’Neal we got Dom g68 Prophet one what up Prophet we got our guy Al the two-minute warning again I’ll give it to you I’ll give it

To him again what up Al we love our guy out we got bootzilla we got ambitious culture films we got brand B got Alex M got John Dickerson I think I saw coach LEL rickets earlier we got Lynch Joe socks all right watch the socks it’s from Cherry Hill waen love y’all love

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Dereck will be here on the next show but I guess no promises when he sees shorts sther he gets the hell out of all week isn’t it and outside of the rain outside of the rain we’re off tomorrow so don’t look for us tomorrow off Monday and then

Two games Tuesday Wednesday back to back so we thank you Briana as always thanks to everybody we see the dings in the chat it’s there for us everybody kison us out on the ding as we get out of here for C I’m Devon thank you Bri have a

Great rest of your sunny Sunday enjoy Monday as well we’ll talk to you on Tuesday post game against the Nets Goodbye like the May

Tobias Harris and Kelly Oubre star for the Sixers as they pick up a HUGE win over Luka Doncic and the Mavericks on the road, 120-116. Harris finished with a team-high 28 points and was terrific down the stretch with a few key buckets. Oubre was held to just two points at the half, but erupted for 19 second half points, including eight in the final four minutes of the third with the 76ers leading by 14 going into the fourth. Big games from Tyrese Maxey (24 points) and Paul Reed (13 and seven boards off the bench) help guide Philadelphia to their 35th win of the season.

Kyle Neubeck and Devon Givens break down the Sixers’ phenomenal road win to begin their two-game trip.

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