Who’s in Sixers’ opening night rotation? & HUGE Jared McCain injury update

Who’s in Sixers’ opening night rotation? & HUGE Jared McCain injury update

Get [Music] out. [Music] [Music] Oh, look who we have in the chat to start things off right away. Kyle, one of your favorites, one of my goats, Wilfford Brimley in the chat today. Wilfford, your work in The Thing by John Carpenter. Absolutely legendary. So, we had it. Come on. Yeah. A legend like Wilfr Grimley in the chat. Forget the Sixers. We’re talking John Carpenter all day long. You got to start the show off with that. Welcome to the BHLY Sixers podcast live from the Expinity Lounge where we got Wilfred Brimley in the chat. The legend Derek Kyle. I’m Devon Bree is the president of basketball operations and all of you in the chat. Folks, we’re exactly one week away from the start of the Sixers basketball season when they take on Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics. Who will be in the Sixers starting lineup and the rotation on that Wednesday night? We’re going to put it all together here for you today. Plus, a Jared McCain update. We have some media basketball conversation to get to later in the show. And as always, news and notes. Everybody, good to be with you on a Wednesday here as we have to get started with the latest and the greatest in diabetes. All right. Well, let’s get to uh everything that we wanted to talk about today. We’ll get to Jared McCain in a little bit, but we wanted to start off with, as many were asking in the chat yesterday, Coleman Pototts comes to mind immediately asking what our starting five would be for opening night. So you ask, we bring it to the table the very next day on the show and we’re doing that here today. So Bri asked us to give our starting five and she wanted to put together the graphic to make sure we had our starting five in the mix of who we believe will be available for opening night specifically. Not game two, not game three, not game four, just against the Boston Celtics one week from today. Not not all of that. Exactly. 1 2 3 4 5ifth. All right. Who Bri do we all have for this? Do we have some surprises perhaps? Do we have do we have some regular like Oh, Tyrese Maxi, VJ Edgecomb, Kelly Ubé. Joel Embiid, and the fifth one, two, three, four, five, fifth is the one that’s the question for this afternoon. You went very bold. You went very bold. I went with Dominic Barlo for game one and and Derek went with Quinton Grimes. Let’s start with Derek. Um number one, we all agreed on on Joel Embiid. Uh what what is it from Sunday to yesterday’s practice and even today where you were again you and Kyle were there today. What is it with Joel Embiid and then get to your fifth starter? Well, he’s been playing basketball consistently for weeks and weeks and weeks. That’s the rest of the show, everybody. I mean, look, we’ve been talking about this all the time. like he has been there’s been no report of setbacks, no days off, no anything that would indicate that he has, you know, tried to increase his participation level. You see how I danced around that rword? Increase his participation level and there’s been no indication of any kind of a setback. We got unlimited dollars, man. Look, I don’t want to waste a dollar. You’re good. You’re good. There’s I’m just saying there’s got to be another way to refer to it that is not saying the R word. It’s a good point. It’s a good point. It’s a good point. I’m going to bring it up every time. What the Nick say yesterday? Threshold. threshold threshold checking boxes. Uh no, but I mean at this point there would have to be a setback. They cannot come out here next Wednesday and be like, “Look, it’s just not part of the plan. He’s not not there yet.” Like he has been a regular part of practice, a regular part of the scrimmages. He looks like he is ready to play basketball. If he’s not, we need to know why. I have no reason to believe he won’t be in that that lineup on opening night. All right. Why is Quinton Grimes you fifth? because he’s one of the five best basketball players on it. Correct. Um, in part really it came down to me of and this is kind of like a little bit of what I think Nick do, but also a little bit what I would do. I’ve said time and time again VJ’s going to start I need Quinton shooting on there. To me, the last spot came down to do I believe that Paul George is going to be ready. I’m not there yet. I’m getting closer to being there. I’m not there yet. So, since I’m not there yet, who’s the most logical? It came down to players like Barlo, like Walker. Fortunately, Watford’s not going to be ready either, or just play Kelly as a small ball. And I just kind of went with Kelly because again, I think he is what the versatility of his defense, the fact that Nick trusts him, the fact that Kelly, I think, probably wants to start and would value starting. And he’s probably going to be the one to get the assignment of Jaylen Brown opening night where you go from that on down to the other perimeter players, Derrick White, Pton Pritchard, Anthony Simons, etc. Yeah. And part of it just like if Paul George is out, I think those are your five best basketball players and five most versatile basketball players. And as as much as you would want more size and maybe like someone like Barlo who can give you a little bit about little bit of that rebounding, who can really cover ground and maybe play Nick Nurse’s scheme defensively. Fundamentally, I just think Grimes and Ubé are your better basketball players. So, I’m putting them on the floor to start and going from there. Like I said, my real where I really debated was is Paul George going to be ready? Kyle, you felt Paul George might be ready to have him in your starting five. Yeah. So, the more we’ve seen of him after these practices, the more I’m just looking at it like he can play basketball right now. like no, there’s nothing that I see in these one-on-one sessions. And then once he moves on to like Paul George individual workout that we’re seeing him go through, looks like he’s in good shape. He’s got the the sleeve compression type sleeve on his knee. He’s playing He went from what was it yesterday or two days ago that they said? I think it was yesterday. Yesterday they said he was reintroduced at practice, right? today already they’re like he played full court three on three and that was like one of their big things and this was live like it was contact it was live action as close as you can get contact out there playing Joel Embiid was in that as well and you look at it and you say he’s doing that and you compare that to Trendan Watford was also reintroduced into team activities Trendan Watford as far as we know was not playing full court threeon-ree right and if we stick with the theme of we believe with Joel Embiid they’ve been trying to slow play things a little bit right like he’s been going through all five on five a lot of team activities but they’re not they’re not necessarily advertising it or they did not until the last let’s say week and a half or so say like like start dropping hints hey Joel could be available on opening night and they are not there with Paul in terms of what they’re saying publicly but if you’re just trying to follow the breadcrumbs it seems like he is maybe a little closer than they are letting on. And so I’m taking the leap to say he could be available on night one. Not that he will be available, but if we’re Look, we’re it’s a prediction. Who cares? It is. He’s hitting all these checking the boxes. There’s still a week in between games now where he could very well be available. And he’s Look, Paul George has been in the league long enough that if he doesn’t play in the preseason, they’re not going to be like, “Oh, well, he certainly can’t start on opening night, right?” If they feel good about where his body is, if they feel good about just he has again gone up the ramp, he’s checked the boxes, he’s hit all the thresholds, hell yeah, whatever it might be, why wouldn’t you throw him out there, right? As long as there is nothing healthwise that is holding him back, you have every reason in the world to say, Paul George, your time is now. Right? I honestly think so. All of us have VJ in this lineup, right? I do think one of the interesting decisions had Quinton Grimes come back earlier, I think that was probably a real pivot point, right? So, we all at this point have heard Nick Nurse say BJ Edgecom and Maxi, we want them to get as many minutes together as possible. He started alongside Maxi in every game or scrimmage that they’ve played so far. I do think to Derek’s point about the five best basketball players thing, Quinton Grimes is better than BJ Edgecomb right now, right? If you’re saying opening night the most important thing is get your five best players on the floor. Quinton Grimes should be in that lineup and he was not in my five that I put out there. That’s not because I think he deserves to come off the bench. It’s just listening to what the team is saying and expecting like, hey, they also need help off the bench, right? They need guys who can dribble. They need someone who can run the offense. I think Quinton Grimes can do that job. But I’m getting into La La Land with the Sixers, I guess, at this point is what I’m trying to tell you with all the Joel optimism now feeling pretty good about Paul George. Like, it’s a weird place to be after the season and the summer, but no, here I am. And it was like Paul was the one that I was sitting here before the show debating. Like, I was really close to putting him in there. I need like one more good practice. Maybe tomorrow he’s playing a little five on five. One more good piece of good news. Uh, and I think I might put him in there as well. So, it does feel like they are trying to take the approach this year of underpromising and overd delivering. So, who knows how close Paul George might actually be, but it is I mean it’s getting like we thought he could miss a decent chunk of time to start the year. He should be back pretty soon. Yeah. Well, the threeon-ree part is important because that’s just about the conditioning at that point since he hasn’t been able to do all the things in camp with with with which everyone else was able to do, play those games in Abu Dhabi and certainly the last game on Friday and coming back now. Look, he may not be able to play on Friday for the preseason game, but the most important checkpoint will be just him simply being ready to go on opening night against the Boston Celtics. So with that, this conditioning, getting the threeon-ree runs, he’s a veteran as Kyle said, and with that, he knows how to pace himself in the NBA game as well. So if you have those players out there, whether it’s Grimes or or someone else uh that I I mentioned Barlo, so I’ll just give my reason for Barlo in a second, but he if he’s playing out there with Maxi and Embiid, most importantly, he can pace himself with those two out there on the floor. And then if he has Edgecomb and Quinton Grimes as well, he doesn’t have to go out there and drop 20. It can just happen within the flow of the game. It’s not a must for him to do so. So hitting these checkpoints one week away and if he’s good to go after these conditioning sessions that they have and the other things that we don’t see because it is behind closed doors before they open the doors for the media, that will be a big plus, a huge plus for the Sixers on opening night. The reason why I went with Barllo was just simply he’s not one of their best players, but he’s been one of their best players in the preseason in training camp and they are going to need rebounding help out there on the floor for that starting unit. Could he give you that and provide that off the bench? Absolutely. Especially with the rotations being done quickly if there’s a 7minute mark where someone’s coming off the floor. If Paul George does start, he still may be a little winded even though he had this conditioning that he’s doing now. He might need a quicker hook than somebody else. Barlo might be the first guy off the bench to provide that four those four minutes for him. But in the event that that is not the case, I went with him because he is the one that’s going to help crash the glass. The ball just finds him when it comes to those things that are the intangibles of helping you win basketball games from rebounding, getting on the floor for those 50/50 balls, that extra hustle play, the just the effort that we always discuss that others don’t do. He clearly does that. And it’s not just rewarding him because the reward with him being in the top eight rotation in general in game number one. This is more of we need somebody out there to help Joel Embiid on the glass. Kelly Ubé will crash the boards and Tyrese Maxi will help out from the perimeter as well. VJ Edgecom seems like he’s one that will also dig in and help out in those areas as well. But the one sure thing that you know is that Barlo will do that. How much will you get of those results? don’t know yet because we haven’t seen him in a regular season setting in the Sixers uniform with this particular group. But that is the reason why I went with Barlo in the starting five for those reasons because of all the intangibles that you need from that fifth starter that’s not looking for plays to be called for him, that’s not looking for the basketball. He’s just out there to help make winning plays. And that’s why I chose Barlo. So, let me ask you guys a question. We all also included Ubé, right? All of us apparently feel relatively confident that he’s going to be in that group. Did we have our reservations about that? I think in terms of how we would set up the team. Did you have any hesitation throwing him in there or are we convinced that he’s like locked in at least as a opening night starter? I’ve been locked in on it as we’ve discussed this in a lot of different variations because of players in and out especially when McCain went down and we were unsure of Grimes. I’ve kept him in there because he is arguably their best perimeter defender. You need someone in the in today’s NBA to check the best guy on the opposite side. And I think for right now, opening night, as you said, day one, he is the one. I want him on Jaylen Brown, not VJ Edgecomb or not Quinton Grimes. If I have Kelly Ubé, that’s why I kept him there. He’s played decently enough in the po in the preseason where I still felt comfortable for him to be able to do that stuff. And also the Grimes piece, Jared McCain is not there. You need somebody to be able to score the basketball coming off the bench to provide that punch. And for at least game one, maybe even just the first two games, first three games, I think he can come in and do that. So I keep Kelly Ubé to be able to uh pick up that assignment of Jaylen Brown night one. let’s say Miles Bridges or Brandon Miller night two, that type of that type of uh mindset for me when it comes to Kelly Ubé. What about you, Derek? So, I have real reservations about starting him next to VJ, uh which I have said before. And if Paul is ready, I think there’s a real question. Um I guess I’ll throw it back at you guys a little bit. If Paul is ready day one, where do you think Nick goes and where would you guys go? Because I would if if that’s the case, if he’s healthy, he’s it’ll be the lineup I threw out or I think it’ll be the lineup I threw out there, which is Ubé, VJ, Maxi. Okay. George, Embiid. I just think is that what you would do? I agree. I would play the three guards, right? I want Quinton Grimes in the starting five. I He’s You were 100% right. He’s one of their best five players. He defends, he shoots, he can attack off the dribble. He is the type of player that you want in a starting lineup and playing as many minutes as possible. I do think though that Nurse and to some extent, rightfully so, values that Kelly can be. You’re the number one option defender on this team. And so that takes pressure off of Paul. Paul can be in his, you know, weak side rotation help defense type of role. It takes a bit of pressure off of VJ, right? That means VJ does not necessarily have to defend true threes. Like you can put VJ on whoever the best backcourt player is for the other team. So he could be the point of attack guy. He might be a two guard. Whoever it might be like I think Nurse will look at it that way. I think based on Ubé being in the starting lineup constantly being someone that Nurse leans on. That’s how I think he sees it. It’s not what I would do because I do think this team’s identity will largely be forged around multi-guard looks, right? Like that’s that’s the reality of the roster. And I would rather I would rather go to it sooner. I’d rather open games that way. I’d rather be more of a hey, you’re more like last year’s Pacers, right? You’re going to play smaller guys, but smaller athletic guys, right? VJ and Quinton are 6’4, 6’5, good size, sort of switchable between different positions, and just try to make as good of an offense as you can. But I think nurse goes uber and I think you can certainly justify it. There are reasons to do it, but I wouldn’t set it up that way. Pretty good options for the Sixers to start things off on opening night. We’ll hear from the head coach and what he had to say about the preseason game as well and what that might look like. The final tuneup on Friday when they host the Minnesota Timberwolves. We’ll do it all, hanging out with you. 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I’m going to probably have to wait till I don’t know, probably Friday morning to know what what it’s all going to look like and then start penciling it out there. But I think that’s the general thought of of let’s get the guys that are that you know some of them are going to have probably shorter runways than others for the game Friday, but as long get them together as much as we can. All right, that is head coach Nick Nurse postpractice talking to the assembled media. Welcome back to the PHLY Sixers podcast here. Make sure you hit that like button. Yes, we see it, Bri. We see Nucks there. We didn’t even ask and we got a lot of likes already. We appreciate it. Make sure you hit that like button for us here on the show. Kyle, that was another little wrinkle that we just did not know that this was might be the with this being the final tuneup before the start of the regular season. You might try to throw everybody out there. It sort of sounds closer to a dress rehearsal game. And frankly, it probably should be, right? because compared to other teams around the league, they have spent very few meaningful minutes on the floor together throughout the preseason. There are some big caveats there. They haven’t really had the choice when it comes to a couple of these guys, Joel Embiid, Paul George. They’re working back slowly. And so once those two guys are out, once Jared McCain is injured, Quinton Grimes in a contract stalemate while they’re over in Abu Dhabi, you can’t really put together a real rotation. But because of that, that means that Friday has some weight behind it, right? What does a rotation for the healthy or healthyish Sixers look like? Who starts? Who’s coming off the bench? Who is being staggered? Right? That’s always one of the biggest questions, right? As much as the starting lineup matters, it’s the combinations, right? Yep. Who is Joel Embiid playing with? Like, who is his featured partner, featured player? Who is Tyrese Maxi playing with? What is the identity of that group? how many young guys are you putting in each of these different lineups? So, a lot of things left to be learned that we frankly just couldn’t learn in those first three games of the preseason. And so, I think from what we’ve heard from Nick Nurse, I think the fans at home, the people watching, listening, I would look at Friday as like you can read a decent amount into that game as long as it’s not a last minute, hey, four and five guys are scratched, right? If this team has most people available and you see different lineups out there, I would expect them to see that same type of lineup in rotation next Wednesday against Boston. Yeah. No, and look, all this like if you have Joel Embiid playing, if you have Quinton Grimes playing, then you should try to make it look relatively normal because this is your last tuneup and you really haven’t had a chance to try any lineup combinations. And that’s disappointing. It’s a little bit expected because this isn’t our first rodeo with Joel Embiid. We don’t expect him to play much in the preseason, but with Paul out, with Quinton out too, it’s only heightened that, you know, I do it is even like the Kelly VJ combination that we were talking about earlier, I would have loved to have seen some of these in practice before the regular season started because I’m kind of like with Kyle, I care about combinations more than I care about almost anything else. Like we talk about having a scoreer come off the bench. I’m not too worried about that because you can just stagger it so you can make sure you always have a scoreer. What you have to make sure is when you start the game, the combinations that you have and the skill sets you have on the floor work well together because that is going to play first of all, it’s going to play, you know, two seven-minute runs pretty much every game and it’s going to go against the other team’s best lineups, you have to have that locked down and I feel like there’s a lot of uncertainty and if this is a chance where Joel Embiid is actually ready to play basketball and you’re comfortable with him playing basketball and Quinton Grimes is ready to go and doesn’t really have a huge minutes restrictions, you’ve got to at least get some data before the games really start mattering. Big time turn of events though because we were talking about this and we were saying you know what there’s no shot we see him in the preseason. H still skeptical. Still skeptical. Yeah. But we’re talking about it now just because of him bringing it up the head coach where even that wouldn’t have been on the table at all for us to even be having this conversation of could we see him against the Timberwolves on Friday and we would have laughed at the the whole idea any Exactly. Yeah. But now as I saw I think it was Theo saying, “Man, if Joelle plays on Friday and it’s just them just seeing him out there just like when we were at the open practice that people seeing him. Forget the fact normally it’s the they’re up close and they can see him.” No, it’s just the fact that they saw him in his uniform and playing with no big giant brace on his knee and he looked fine and he looked pretty good and it get just brings the excitement back. So with that, that is pretty cool. I mean, I don’t expect even if Paul George plays on opening night, I’d be really surprised if he played on Friday night. But the Embiid part of it, that piece is really intriguing to find out now that we he said he’s going to wait till Nick Nurse said Friday morning and we’ll figure it out. I’m right there with you, Nick. Except for I’m not the head coach, but I can’t wait to see if it is in fact Joel Embiid getting the call. I’m going to go out on a limb. I don’t think Friday morning will be the first time Nick actually thinks about this. He’s telling us, don’t ask him about this tomorrow. I told you all I’m thinking about it Friday morning. He’s also saying I think he also has been effectively traumatized the way we all have dealing with all these injuries over the years where he doesn’t want to say something on Wednesday there’s any kind of issue on Thursday and then it’s like well you lied to us Nick. So I I can understand and appreciate the cautious approach that he’s taking. But the other piece too is outside of the MB part when we discuss that it sounds like Quinton Grimes will most likely play. Both Grimes said it and of course Nur me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me mentioned it yesterday postpractice and hearing what nurse had to say about everybody being available. That’s the other part. We’ve seen Tyrese Maxi and VJ Edgecomb out there with other guards because of the three guard lineup idea, but it has never been the real three guard lineup because Grimes wasn’t there. McCain unavailable because of the injury. Now we’ll get to see that on Friday and that’s another big piece. Yeah. Uh there are a lot of balls in the air right now. Actually, one of my as we talk about the rotation some, I do think if Kelly Ubé, for example, was not starting, he does fit into kind of the vision I would have for what is the identity of that second group where it’s going to be a Dembona. You’re going to have potentially Quinton Grimes in that group. You’re going to have VJ staggering with Maxi more than likely, right? You can get a lot of athletes on the floor and you can run up and down. you get stops, a Dem is blocking shots, and then it’s just guys, you know, filling lanes. And so, there are some interesting wrinkles or looks within the rotation that I’ve wanted to see that we just have not gotten a chance to. And I hope that that starts on Friday. I hope that it does because that that would be the biggest disappointment after all this. I get it’ll just be the final preseason game and who cares, but it would suck to get to all this buildup and like, hey, all these guys might play and then we get the like nine nine name eight name inactive list at like 2:00 p.m. on Friday would be a big anvil on top of our heads and at that point I’d just have to call myself WY Coyote and be like, how did I fall for it again? But I’m hoping that’s not the case. You mentioned not caring about the scoring off the bench because it is staggering though. But when you do look at a lot of the a lot of the winning lineups around the NBA, I’ll say for the teams that advance in the postseason, a lot of them are featured though with a guy that starts that off. Not that you can’t stagger, but it starts off as that six-man that comes in and gives the punch. Sure. Sometimes sometimes that’s because that six-man is defensively challenged and you don’t want to put him out there at the starting lineups. want to bring him in there when you can dictate the matchups a little more. Uh, a lot of times what I look at is versatility and a lot of times the scores, the the real electric scores, uh, there tends to be if you like you have six good scorers, one of them can be a huge defensive liability. And those defensive liabilities, I think it just makes more sense to bring off of the bench because like I said, you can pick when you bring them in. You can pick the matchups they’re going against. You can find someone to hide them on. So if you got someone who’s really talented as a scorer, but you don’t know what to do with them defensively, starting lineup’s tough, they’re going to get picked on. bring him off the bench. I think that’s where it goes along. So like McCain might be a sixman just for that reason. But with the Grimes piece because you look at him more of as a two-way guy that can defend, hold his own, you’re comfortable with him being Yeah. Right. Yep. Okay. Yeah. How about you? Like Lou Will, perfect example of a historical six-man because you can dictate when he comes in. Yeah. Like look, I think part of the the logic behind Grimes not starting is after last year, what we saw at the end of last year. I feel better about, hey, because McCain is not there and because I don’t want to see the Guy Lowry of the world on the floor. He’s someone I feel good about as a shot creator, right? That he’s coming in and like, not that he is a quote unquote point guard, right? I I don’t think any of us view him as that. He can ball handle, but he can handle if he’s bringing the ball up the floor, if he’s getting you into your sets to and especially like a lot of those will probably be if he’s on the floor as the lead guard, Joel Embiid will probably be on the floor, right? And you play through him. I feel pretty good about him in that spot compared to when he arrived here that was more like the book on him was yeah, he probably thinks he’s a little bit little too good of a shot creator compared to what his skill set is. But he proved that perception, I think, pretty wrong during the final couple months of the year. So, while McCain is out, while they’re trying to figure that out, I think him in that off thebench guard role makes a lot of sense. Again, I still want him ultimately in that starting lineup. And I I’m always more pro staggering and just like, hey, this guy comes out five minute mark, this guy comes out at the 10 minute mark, and you can figure it out that way. But they got some when they are healthy, they have some different looks they can tinker with. And it it it’ll be nice to bring in players off the bench that have real juice, right? Like McCain as a a bench guard. You get rid of Maxi, like Maxi hits the bench and you’re like, I don’t have to chase this guy around. Oh, here comes Jared McCain hitting threes off of screens and doing what he does. Like that’s a nice luxury for this team to have for sure. You mentioned Jared McCain. Jared McCain mentioned some things today to the media post practice. We’re going to hear from the secondyear man who is itching to get back on the floor after sustaining the UCL injury to his shooting hand. And when will that be? He’ll give us a bit of an update when we get back right here. Final pause of the show. We’ll also maybe round out the rotation for the start of game one of what that might look like when we go. Can they go nine deep, 10 deep for Nick Nurse against the Boston Celtics? talk about that media conversation against pros. We’ll get into that. Not in this lifetime. News and notes as well right here. Final pause on the PHLY Sixers podcast. Whatever the moment, it’s never ordinary at Bet 365. Derek, would Bet365 put together a a prop bet for media versus Sixers coaches? Well, they won’t cuz it’s never going to happen. Well, if they did, Bet 365 would be the place to be. Also, since we are a week away from the Sixers starting the season, but 6 days away from the start of the official NBA season when they tip off on Tuesday night, I’m looking at some of these NBA championship odds. And your basketball team is plus 3500 right now, tied with Atlanta, but in front of Detroit and Boston and Milwaukee as well. The Joel Embiid Buzz may be picking up some steam. 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Create an account, redeem code PHY for $20 off. Swipe, tap, ticket, go. Download the Game Time app today. What time is it, Devon? Game time. But it’s all part of the process. I just got to continue to trust that it happens for a reason. It sucks cuz I feel like I was right there, so close to being back, and then just another setback, but I’m always going to stay grounded, stay grat, stay with gratitude. Um, but yeah, just been doing simple stuff. So, I can’t really do too much with it on with the brace on, but u moving at the same timeline as they said and uh we’ll see where it goes. I guess what is the next step for you in terms of what they told you with the rehab? Yeah, next step. I think I think I’m being reevaluated in like two weeks now. So, I’ll get this off and then I’ll have like a a playing brace and then just start, you know, passing, dribbling, just doing all the steps for that and then we’ll see from there what what they when they let me play. Jeremy McCain postpractice first time speaking to the media since having that surgery. Yep. And uh you were there, you asked the question and what uh he he seems like the normal Jared McCain that he always is. He look he was pretty open about it was very tough for him having climbed all the way back from the meniscus injury. Feels like he’s through that. He’s passed it and then on a sort of freak play this happens. he gets the news and he was very upset about it and he used the word the line at one point it was life keeps throwing haymakers at him I believe was the phrasing but you guys can see it in the video and we could hear it being there he’s still got a big smile on his face still pretty positive I would say very positive certainly compared to the people who are sitting here on this stage in front of you but yeah so Jared’s about two weeks away freaking sunshine what are you talking about man he’s about two weeks away from moving away from more of that I don’t know it’s like what would you call it like a hard brace we would say to a playing brace I don’t think it should be that long after that some of that will just be getting adjusted and you know learning how to play with that in the the short term but he has apparently been in the gym working a lot on the lower body making sure his knee is good and getting his conditioning working. Nick Nurse complimented him and said like look Jared is here to make no excuses, right? This is not something that he has used to woe is me and I’m not going to show up and do my work. And so he’s the type of kid who will respond to this the right way, has responded to this the right way. So it sounds to us like he’s on the right track. It’s just the time has to pass. You have to hit the the check all the boxes, go up that ramp, as they say, throw the dollar in the jar. But, uh, everything is sounding pretty good for Jer McCain. Cannot expedite a recovery timeline. Yeah. Just trying to get one more. Brett Brown isn’t in there. No, I he he seems like he is taking it well. Like Nick Nurse mentioned that like he gets in there pretty early and somehow Jared McCain’s still getting in there beforehand, doing everything with his left hand, doing what he can do to try to do any kind of basketball drills and you just got to wait for it to heal and get the cast off. Uh, you know, it’s not something where I think if we said this before and I hate saying it, but it’s like if there’s anyone who’s going to be like, “Man, this sucks.” And then the next day wake up and have the right attitude and get right back into work. It’s Jared. He’ll he’ll be fine. So when the Sixers gave out the uh update, well Jeremy Kane actually told us when he was super, you know, feeling feeling good after his surgery. And feeling good is right laying in that bed. It was October 1st when the Sixers gave the official medical update on Jared McCain. So if we would just simply go from the 1st to the 1st, he’s going to miss five games starting with the season opener, Charlotte, Orlando, Washington, and then Boston once again. November 1, they’re off. they play the second and which will be away at Brooklyn. That would be November 2nd. So that’s right around that that four-week timeline that we’re speaking of. So he may not miss a lot of time if all things goes well and he would be right back in the mix pretty quickly to help his team. And that that’s pretty good all things considered because we were talking four to six, six to eight and it looks like he got the better end of it with with this particular injury and how how bad it was or or how bad it wasn’t. Yeah. I mean, we’ll ultimately have to wait and see if he does end up on the front end of that timeline with getting back out on the floor, right? Because Jared even joked about it a little bit. He said, you know, I think I’m in good shape, right? I think I’m in game shape. And then you go out there and you play in a game and you’re like, “Oh god, I’m not in game shape.” That’s it’s an experience that basically every athlete in every sport goes through. And so, we’ll see if he’s there physically with the limitations he has. The good thing about it being a hand, right, is he can still get out there and run. The cardio should not suffer too too bad. So, I don’t know. I I don’t want to speculate too much on, hey, maybe he’ll be there right at that four-week mark, but I think I feel pretty good about saying this is not going to be a prolonged thing. Maybe he misses the the opening stretch of games, but hopefully not a whole lot more than that. Theo got excited and says low key those opening five games we can go four and one. Well listen if they have Joel last year it was one and four wasn’t it? It was one and four. Settle after last year I settle for three and two. If you’re above 500 I they’ll feel like they won the damn championship. Two 20 whatever. You’re two tough teams because you play Boston twice. Two Boston one home one away and Orlando at home and then you have Charlotte and Washington in there in those five. And you got to win those two. You got And you you got to win those two and you have to split with Boston and and there you go. So there’s that. All right. Real quick, the rotation since we’ve talked about all that. What’s the 910 right now for you? Uh to start off if we gave I sent Bri. I don’t know if Bri made any kind of graphic for the full rotation. Oh, see I’m I’m the special. Yeah, you are special. I’m the overachiever for once in my damn life. So my to remind everyone my starting five was being ambitious and throwing Paul George out there assuming he might be available was Joel Embiid, Paul George, UB, Edgecomb, Maxi. I think there are four guys that I’m like they’re going to play. Quinton Grimes, Adona, Justin Edwards, and Dominic Barlo is the guy right now for me. Now would Barlo be there if not for this Watford injury? I would say probably not. And is Jabari Walker a potential guy to play? I think yes. But right now, if you’re just looking at front court player who has shown the most, who as Devon talked about earlier in the show, fills a role that they need as like a dirty work rebounding guy. Dominic Barlo has been that guy, right? So, there was no one else that I could look at on the roster, the available roster anyway, that I was like, you’re going to stretch this into a 10-man rotation. Normally on night one, I’d say you’re playing 10 and maybe if PG plays, they will play 10 just because like I would imagine he’ll be limited in minutes in the early part of the season, but those were the nine and specifically the four Grimes, Bona, Edwards, Barlo that I said I I think they’ll play night one. How about you? So I had Maxi, VJ Grimes, UB, and Embiid. I’m assuming that Paul George is not ready to go on opening night. Uh so I will start off with Kyle L. No, I’m just kidding. Oh god. I wanted I wanted to like have Kyle in my starting five just to get a jump scare from Kyle out of it. Uh I would look Bona as the backup. Uh Edwards, Barlo, and probably Walker as my ninth man, but I’m not 100% in love with it. Uh, ideally Paul George comes in and you’re playing a nine-man rotation and see which one of Barlo and Walker win that sort of role uh and go from there. So I had I had the same uh no Paul George in mind because if so he would be starting and B Maxi Ure Edgecom Barlo that’s the starting five Grimes Bona Edwards and Walker was the ninth. If George plays then maybe that changes and Walker maybe on the back end maybe he gets in for some situational minutes. None of us said Andre Drummond at all. And it’s not even to be the primary backup. We just didn’t say him to get any minutes. Yeah. If Joel’s not playing, you only need one backup will play. But yeah, you only need one. Bona appears to be clearly ahead of him. Yeah. So that’s the nine or 10, which Thank you, Nick. Yeah, thank you. I was very skeptical that would happen. So that was from right from the rip, too. Right there. There there has been no doubt Bona has started over Andre in every game and there has really been no drama surrounding that as far as we can tell or thank you Drummond because simply maybe he just wasn’t good enough and he Nick Nurse I’m not going to thank a player for not being good enough to start over over here thanking him for being thank you for being washed in that case if that if that is in fact the case we do want to tell you about make sure you go and uh subscribe and become a member of the supporters club. Everybody, if you see that SC by the names there in the chat and you’re wondering what is that? Why do I not have an SC next to my name? Well, you got to be a part of the supporters club. We have started that rolling that out last month. Two tiers. We have $4.99 and $14.99. And with your membership, you get unique behind thescenes footage each week. We have done ours twice already. All the other beats have done theirs as well. So, please go sign up. 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I’m not saying that the black jerseys have caused all of this. I’m just saying that we can’t prove that they didn’t cause all this. Maybe where the black jersey you shouldn’t have made the fake black jersey boat house row so bad. Well, that’s a everyone knows that’s a fact. That doesn’t have anything to do with these black jerseys. at leth anniversary and it’s a nice round number and whatever, but go buy our black Sixers t-shirt at at uh store.allcityetwork.com to get your Sixers theme 20201 logo t-shirt to get ready for the games as well. Make sure you go check that out once again at the phyocker.com. All right, optimism for the Sixers. Yes, the arrow is pointing up. Derek had no optimism when I asked him about the odds from Bet 365 for the Sixers media versus the Sixers coaching staff. That is because the Boston Celtics, it’s normally the Boston Celtics media versus the Boston Celtics media. And I think they eventually did that yesterday. That’s what they showed up at the facility for as far as I did yesterday. However, Joe Mazoula decided the maniac that he is, you guys are going against our coaching staff this season to start the year off. And boy, did it get pretty ugly because I think the first score didn’t come till 28-2, I believe it was. And here comes the final shot, final make for Celtics coaches. As you all see the score, 57 to 44. That was a rain maker, too, from about 40 feet from the logo. I don’t even know who shot that one, but it didn’t matter. It’s just It’s the Celtics coaches. They blew out the media. Not surprising. Derek gave the odds just like I don’t million. I don’t even know what it was like a plus a million with the odds. So, I wanted to ask you guys, how would the Sixers collective media, not PHLY, just us three and Rich, us four and Bri, us five, the collection of media from all around. What would the uh number look like? This was brought up. This was actually brought up today at practice. We’re talking about it with Nick. Do we got like Mark Jackson? Can we recruit Mark Jackson? He’s media. They have players in Boston. They didn’t use them. Well, they should have. They lost 57 to4. I’m not following their lead. No offense because I think Eddie House does television for them. Um, they have plays. I mean, Scalabbrini, Scalabbrini is there. They they they didn’t use. So, I would say I agree with you with Mark Jackson in the cheat code there. Get Allah in there, get his eyes on the interior. 100% that. See, but here’s the thing, right? If you’re taking actual basketball players out of it, it would be a massacre. And I bring this up on the I bring this up on the show in other ways, right? Like I I’ve relayed the story. I grew up my neighbors as a kid were the Carol brothers. So Pat played on the St. Joe’s team with Jir Nelson. Matt was one of the only 2000 point scorers in Pennsylvania high school history. Played at Notre Dame, played for the Bobcats, the Spurs, couple teams, and was just like a, you know, like back of the rotation type player at his peak, right? and you put that guy or either of those guys on a court with regular people and Matt Harold is Michael Jordan essentially, right? Is like what he looks like. Or like you’d see examples of DeAndre Jordan is basically running dunk man in the NBA and you put him in a gym in a pickup game and he’s taking like 17 foot mid-range pull-ups and cashing out on them, right? And so the level at which NBA players is at is impossible for people to fathom. But even still as like assistant coaches, right? Like a bunch of those guys played in the NBA, right? Like Phil Pressie was in the NBA because he would pick up full court and play defense, right? And could hit threes and could hit threes. And they went into a game against people who are like I don’t I can’t speak to the relative athleticism of the Celtics beat, right? But these people are just like they’re like normal people, right? They’re just like nor like maybe they’re athletes, but they’re athletes relative to a normal person off the street playing against people who every single day of their professional lives are training with preparing professional players to play basketball. So, the craziest thing I saw coming out of this Celtics media thing was and Adam Mahrez at our Denver site. I saw some Clippers media members. Adam was like se nuggets media by seven and a half or I was you have to be insane to believe you you have no concept of how bad of a drubbing you would get at the hands of these people and anyone who believes otherwise is totally delusion you’re not getting two dribbles off against if they don’t want you to score you are not scoring you are not at their level there are like some rare exceptions right like there are media members of like real hoopers who like can hang a little bit but by and large you are getting absolutely destroyed and there’s nothing wrong with that. You are not a professional basketball player or coach. So I think I can hang a little bit right and I remember playing in charity. You haven’t run in two and a half years my man. What are you talking about? And when I didn’t tear anything I would play in these like local charity like I agree but I would be fine. I would play these local charity games, like celebrity games and all that stuff, and Alvin Williams is on the other side. Doug Overton is on the other side. I can’t dribble against those guys. Yeah. No, you can. And they were retired. Retired. Imagine playing against TJ Deo, Reggie Reading, Tory Murray, and these guys on the Sixers staff trying to dribble against them. It’s going to be very difficult to do. It’s gonna be very difficult. So, you can’t I I I don’t know. Would I be up for it? Would I do it? Hell yeah, I would do it. But will we have a lot of success? I don’t know. It would have to be I don’t think so. The answer is no. No, I agree with you. I don’t think so. I I don’t think so. And it would be fun. It would be interesting. And I’ve played out there and I No, it would be it would be really bad. I agree with you guys. It would be just as bad as 59 to four, 57 to four, whatever. I don’t care how old Sam Cassell is at this point. He is absolutely tearing it up. There’s no chance. Malcolm Brogden just retired from basketball, by the way. Yep. Oh, breaking news. There’s that. The alarms up a roster spot for Landry. Maybe we can add him to the media team. He seems like a guy who if we can get recently retired player Malcolm Brogden on our team, maybe we can score double digit points. All we have to do, guys, just pass the ball. Stop dribbling against everybody. Pass the rock. Well, like look, pass the rock. I brought up Adam just because I saw him say something. There are a lot of other people who were feeling a little too big for their britches yesterday. I like and I love Jay King at the Athletic who was part of the Celtics contingent who played. He played in college, right? And I think he pretty regularly hoops and he went out there and said, “This was the worst day of my life.” Yeah. Basically, that was that’s how bad it was. They the Celtics guys were like diving on the floor for loose balls and you don’t have a chance. Guess what? I try to play against my cousin. He’s really good. It’s not happening, right? It’s not happening. All right, here’s a question. Yeah. Could we get Kyle Lowry on the media team? It’s a fair question because he’s an Amazon Prime. I’ll work on the recruiting the Kyle to Kyle connection. I saw somebody say, “Just make sure he doesn’t watch any clips from this show.” Jir Jir would like destroy you all that Jir would technically be part of their team. I said in the media room, I was like, “All we need is Elton Brand to come down out of the front office because I’m from Derek or I we’re like the tallest members, regular members of the beat, right? So, I’m playing effective center. All I need is Elton Brand to come down and take me in the post one time and that’s a oh my leg, my left leg, I’m out. That’s it. I can’t play anymore.” Tom Jackson’s like, they will be full court pressing. First of all, that court is really big. It’s not going to your normal gym. That is a really big basketball court. And I don’t think a lot of And we don’t have a lot of people who are making NBA 3s either, by the way. Yeah. And I I can make the corn short corner ones in the wing. The top of the key ones are really difficult to to shoot. No, we did cuz we did that when they used to have the media games. Like they used to let us shoot like around the horn style shootout from the corners. I’m like, “Yeah, I got I make two out of four pretty consistently.” You get above the break, it’s like, “Whoa, that’s coming up two foot short.” Yeah, it’s I don’t shoot from that deep. It is not easy to take those shots. All right, Elton Brand putting me through the stench. The first play. Bam. The ringer with that one, man. All right. Uh, let’s get to some news and notes so we can wrap up the show. Of course, roll call. We’re going to have a little bit later, but let’s get to some news and notes. It’s the food edition, everybody. The food edition. Always intrigued. Always intrigued. I’m not sure if the guys have heard about these. Phil Bri, whatever you want to throw up there first, let’s have at it. Oh, Josh Hart, big candy guy. This has already come up in the the New Beck household. So, Josh Hart, for those who have not seen it, Kyle obviously has, don’t know about Derek, maybe not you guys, has become the first ever, as James Edwards covers the Knicks in New York, says first ever chief candy officer for Mike and I. By the way, if you follow Josh Hart, he is a huge Mike and I Knight guy. makes sense here. My question to my family here, chief candy officer, who are you the chief candy officer for? We are big candy. I mean, Josh, like I love Mike. We are here. He stole my job. This is my dream was being the first ever NBA player and also chief candy officer of Mike. So Josh Hart, I’ll see you in hell. It’s Peanut Butter Cups. It’s not even close. handy officer for that one. Are there any things that you’re doing differently in terms of like collaboration cuz you know you have the holiday themed ones, you have you mix it with ice cream, you get those, you get cookies where it’s the chips of Hoy Reese’s cups, all that stuff. Are you doing anything that hasn’t been done? Uh, as a chief candidacy officer, I’d have to think about that. I know they recently just came out with uh what with Oreos they had a mixture in. I will say I always feel like the um holiday ones there’s a better mixture of peanut um they’re the best. You get the Easter one, you get the Christmas tree one. Yeah. So I just get rid of the normal ones. Go all all holiday. All holidays. All right. Just year round. Yep. All right. Kyle, you were Mike, but Josh stole it. Okay. So there are two candidates. Starburst I love and I specifically love the the sour mini Starburst are fire. But the one that is probably most me that I would have less competition for because this is a old man candy. Lemon heads. Oh yeah. Love lemon heads. They destroy my teeth, but I love I’m just like chomping away on those things. I love lemon heads. Lemon heads. You can send me product at any time. I There is no amount of lemon heads you could send me that I would not eat within a week or so. Say that. Send them to Kyle. the chief chief candy officer of lemon heads. Listen, man. Lemon heads when I were younger. Uh the Johnny apple seeds were fantastic when I was younger. Oh, I forgot about those. Johnny Apple Seeds. Uh the Boston baked uh what did they call them? The Boston uh I’m not riding for those. Well, we used to love those. And there were so many other ones that were out there as well. Uh the hot the hot ones that they had, the red hot ones. Those are also great. Bri, what’s yours? You’re the chief candy candy officer for what? I got to go trolley like sour worms. Oh, that’s a great one. Those been my fave for like ever. So, all right. Love that one. My backup was Sour Patch Kids. That would be my number two. The original or Okay. All right. That watermelon stuff. I once bought a customized flavor package of five pounds of Sour Patch Kids that has my name on the box. We used to have a Sonokco down the street that used to be them for a penny each and I would walk in there with like $2 and like count out 200 pieces of Sour Patch Kids. It was awesome. All right, here’s mine just quickly. I’ll just go with the I’m really really All of you know I love candy. You’ve seen it out there. We’ve had them during the shows when we’ve done our watching along. Candy. The only thing I ever see a meat. Yeah, just candy. And I love it. My favorite of all time is just simply original gummy bears. Just a Haribo. You talking about rock out. Yes. The So technically those are gold bears. Yes. I’m not calling them that. I listen, they are gummy bears, but those are they they would make they’d be my third. They’re in the top three for me for sure. Yeah, there used to be some other ones like um I for is it Bratches? I think it’s Bratch’s brand. Those used to be my favorite, but they I guess I’m just jotting all these notes down for when I get you guys big sacks of candy. Discontinued those. Now that’s a sack I’ll display. Oh, that is a sack to display. There you go. All right, so those are my gummy bears. We got We’re running out of time. The other one. And I saw it. Especi Cole, you are. I gotta buy you some of these because Bri, let’s show the family here. The other ones. Have you seen the Arby’s steak nuggets? No. Arby’s steak nuggets are a thing. I’ll try it. I will try it. Those I would try. Someone on TikTok said they taste like squirrel. So, I don’t know if I would try. We’re not getting that Arby’s partnership now. Jesus free. That doesn’t help. I don’t know what squirrel tastes like. You blew it. Breathe. They said it was good. They said it was good. Who says it tastes like squirrel? And then I was like, “It’s good.” I guess people like squirrel. Oh my god. I’m with you, Derek. I would try. My mom My mom used to make u beef cubes when we were younger. Just basically cut up the you know beef cubes and we have it with mashed potatoes or rice or whatever. Yeah, but I would know that those are made out of something I would want to eat. Squirrel. I eat Taco Bell meat. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do. Be careful over there. Oh, that’s right. You still Oh, you got to get that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you got to be careful. Oh, man. Bri, you in Arby’s steak nuggets? I’ll try. I like Arby’s, so sure. Huh? I don’t know. Don’t they have like a chicken sandwich now? Their buffalo chicken sandwich is fire. Interesting. That is what they have. That’s like the best. Okay. I know. It’s like a hot take. On the meme of Damon from uh the Shark Tank. I’m out. 1.3 seconds. That no shot. Not in this lifetime. Theo said raccoon me. Welcome to overtime everyone. For all our fast channel watchers, you can join us at allphy.com. Thank you for watching. Conversation continues. Final one news and knows basketball related. The name is off the board. Russell Westbrook signing with the Sacramento Kings. There’s that. Any surprise there? Change anything for you with the Kings? It does not. No. It makes me feel about exactly the same way I felt about the Kings, which is not good. And that’s not really about Russ. It’s It’s about That roster is It’s not good. It’s And Keegan Murray’s out for what, four to six weeks? The same injury as Jared. So, four to six weeks. And he got hurt later on. So, yep. Absolutely. Well, soon to Keegan Murray. That’s the news and notes everybody. Fun times. raccoon meat. We’re not doing that. But we might try the Arby steak nuggets here on the PHY6’s show with a lot of you out there. Kyle’s out on the RB steak nuggets. All right, let’s get to it. With all due respect, no. Did we talk about the reunion game? Uh, we did we do that yesterday? I don’t think we did anything yesterday because we only did Oh, we did not. I don’t think we talked about the reunion game on January 31st. Oh, well, please let everybody know there’s a reunion game for the 01 team on January 31st. coaches. All right, we talked about it. Yeah. My only comment about that, it’ll be fun. Like having them all in the building will be cool. No, they’re not gonna think they’re just just a reunion. It’s the reunion of all the old players. Oh, okay. So, that’s when everybody comes. Yeah. And the coaches and and just honors everybody. I think my only comment is like clearly they put against Pelicans because you want to sell tickets because that’s a tough game to sell tickets to. Can’t you do it against a team that’s going to stink but was also around and maybe a rival in 2001? like Pacers, they’re not going to have a great year because of the injuries. Raptors, something like that. I would have liked to know one tie. Well, the Raptors that literally didn’t exist in 2001. Raptors is the first black jersey game and it’s the hip-hop reintro. So, I I think they didn’t want to overload on, you know, one of those. It was a pretty good rivalry back then. No. Yeah. Also, even though they’ve probably been way ahead of this in trying to make sure they schedule everything out to get the players in town that are not here, like Aaron McKe’s here, but Jermaine Jones is here, others that are not here scheduling related. Maybe they had to pick that particular day. So, that that might be one thing there. Do we think any team will ever go back to doing a an oldtimers game? Has that ever been a thing in basketball? But it was it used to be a big thing in baseball and now the Yankees are like the only team that does it. The Knicks do something along those lines and they did it just two days ago I think it was where they have they have famous people plus the players. So it could be like uh influencers and local celebrities in New York. But Al Harrington, J.R. Smith, Steve Novak, Tim Thomas. I saw all of them in uniform playing and I I think that’s that’s maybe as close as it’s going to get. So there’s a big in like European soccer for example, they regularly play essentially like their version of that where they bring back a lot of players and that’s when the club team is on international break, they bring all the old heads out of retirement and say go play a charity match which is cool. But I think part of the reason they don’t do these, for example, so the Yankees went six years without playing the game, they still do Oldtimer’s Day. This year was the first time since 2019 that had a game. Mariana Rivera tore his Achilles pen. Yeah, I saw that. So, there’s a good reason that they don’t have the because a lot of these guys too are like Rivera is fairly recently retired compared to some of these guys. I’m I’m imagining like 60-year-old NBA player, former NBA player coming back and just makes it up the court one time and falls over and I think there’s probably good reason. Let him coach the games and maybe do like a three-point shootout some kind. I don’t know. There’s probably something or horse even at halftime. We haven’t done the media thing since like before co Yeah, right. before co Sixers haven’t brought that back yet. I don’t know. It’s It was always fun. All right, let’s get to it. The world famous. We’ll be back tomorrow at 3 PM. Big shows tomorrow. Prediction show. Stay tuned for that one. Ain’t nobody. And I’m including Bri on this. Nobody write those down. Nobody. Yeah. Like Bri won’t show all of them from last year. All right, it’s time for the world famous. It’s the roll call. Thank you everybody for being here. As always, hit that damn like button. We got a good amount of likes, but way more people in the show who could hit that button. It’s so easy. 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