00:00You know, I want to go to the Sixers here,
00:01and traditionally you would try to go to the big numbers offensively,
00:05but J-Way, how shocked are you with those numbers there
00:09when you're saying points allowed and defensive rating?
00:13I mean, they're 8-1 right now.
00:15I mean, the offense is like okay, you know, maybe two below okay,
00:19but it's really been a defensive effort.
00:22Is that a good sign this year on what you're seeing
00:24on what they're doing with the effort on that side of the basketball floor?
00:28Yes, I thought that that is what was probably the most important thing to me
00:33is their defense.
00:35Now, obviously, Joel Embiid, we talked about this, I think, last week.
00:37Joel Embiid losing weight looks so much better,
00:41but they got guys who can defend.
00:44Vijay Ascom can defend.
00:45Jalen Brown can defend.
00:47LeBron may not be the defensive player that he was,
00:51but he's smart and he's cerebral and he plays angles,
00:55and I think that's something that's important.
00:57You know, look at Dean Wade is an underrated defender.
01:00Anthony Simons, for his size as a guard, is a big guard.
01:03KCP has been doing it for a long time,
01:06and that's how Nick Nurse kind of won his championship with Toronto
01:09was with Kawhi Leonard and guys that really could defend like crazy.
01:13So if they defend at this level and they stay healthy, yeah, like, this is the best.
01:21I said this before.
01:22Big Seals, we talked about this in the summer.
01:24I said this was the best team since the faux, faux, faux Sixers, the 83 Sixers.
01:30This is the best team they've got.
01:32They just got to stay healthy, and what I think is amazing is even though they only had, I think,
01:3923 assists on 39 field goals last night, I still don't think they're playing a lot of iso ball.
01:44I see the ball moving.
01:47Jalen Brown, who is a notorious over-dribbler, is more of a catch-and-shoot guy.
01:52They're playing as well as advertised.
01:56Big Seals, they got to keep it up, and if they play like this,
01:59it could be good times in Philadelphia come June.
02:03You know, I love comparing players, and I love getting where people can get an idea of what you're looking
02:09at
02:10with a player, man, this Maxie kid, you tell me if this is, like, off-base here.
02:14He's like a cross between Dwayne Wade and a Donovan Mitchell.
02:18That's kind of what he reminds me of.
02:21Am I off the reservation when I make that comparison?
02:25No.
02:26No, I think he's dynamic.
02:28If you want to just go to a point guard spot, he's a little bit of a bigger version of
02:32Isaiah Thomas.
02:33I mean, he's shifty.
02:35He's quicker than Isaiah.
02:37Can get to the basket.
02:38You want someone older, you may go with, like, a tiny Archibald, if you want to go older, right?
02:43But his ability to shoot, score really, really good.
02:48Big Seals, they're having fun down there in the Illinois Duff.
02:51May not be the Eagles, may not be the Flyers, but they're getting something good out of the Sixers right
02:55now.
