This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network Search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. I will say I'm a good guy, you know, I hope and why it thinks the same way which I think sometimes like I'm sold between you know, for example, during the game days, you know, I just wake up from the net and then I'm thinking like vituals I need
to put on. I see black white, you know, I see green and yellow, and then I'm just thinking like, okay, let's eliminate black and white, and then there's just like green and yellow. And then again I'm thinking, like fifty more minutes to any more minutes? You know, which one? Which one? Which one. That's the thing which I don't like about myself. Before Hoops went on hiatus, there was no gray area. Furkon cork Mose was exceeding expectations and doing so exponentially. I had like a lot of off
sudden nowns with the Sixers. This yeries like my I will say, breakout season. I'm really I'm really happy about the situation right now. And Furkn had every reason to feel happy. In his third year, the two thousand and sixteen twenty sixth overall pick was posting the best numbers of his career, nearly ten points in twenty two minutes per game while shooting just under forty percent from deep. That mark was tops on the seventy sixers at the
time the season halted because of the coronavirus outbreak. Cork Moses one hundred twenty six three pointers, nearly double the total from his first two seasons, also led the team from the game winner in Portland cork plase for three Yes wow, furkon cork Mas his biggest moment as a sixer to the four point play Fannie flop against the Bucks on Christmas. Here's furkn again one more time. Oh yeah,
he's knocked out by Joannis firk on Klarkmos. He's out of his fine quarkmos with a holiday present kaupo Quorkmons certainly earned himself a prominent role in the Sixers rotation, both as a sixth man and a spot starter. At the still pretty young age of twenty two, he figures to have plenty more to give, with plenty of time
to continue growing. What's Up seventy six Ers pod people Brian Seltzer checking in if you haven't had the chance over the past couple of months to check out the new behind the scenes video series we launched this season from Studio seventy six. It's called Here They Come, presented by Geico, and selfishly highly recommend you checking it out. Our latest episode profiles furkon Quorkmas and the chain of events that brought him to such a promising stage of
his professional journey. You can watch the video on our YouTube, IGTV, and social media channels, and of course on sixers dot com and the Sixers app. So I got thinking, why not whenever a video for the Here They Come series comes out we do a companion audio edition on the podcast. The title of the mini series here on the pod feed is going to sound the same as the video series Here They Come, just spelled a little different the other here get it a little tongue in cheek, but
thought that it would work without further ado. An audio diary from fur concork Mase about how hard work, persistence and confidence have all converged to catapult him to where he is right now. I'm just trying to be like so perfect, you know, out of ten I want to be ten. I mean, my dad, he was the same way. You know, he was too much like he just wanted to be perfect on everything. He just wanted to make
sure it looks good, it looks perfect. I think that's the habit which I got from my dad when I was nine years old to play basketball with the school team. And then I was not thinking about like to be an NBA player, to be in a puddle. And then when I turned fifteen, I started to work with the agent and then uh he took me to the FS and then I become a professional basketball player. And then the people started talking about NBA. You can be an NBA.
You know, you can be an NBA player. You have potential. Still I was like, I don't know what I'm gonna do, you know, I was still trying to figure that out. School or basketball, you know, because it's really hard to do. Uh, school and the basketball at the same time. For people in the US who are or anywhere else around the world, we're watching this. If you might not know you so well, what can you tell us about yourself? I love basketball. I can't say this definitely, uh. And I am part
of the very very big team for Europe. They're very big team. I am round of this game's part of the In the Europe, the things are like working differently than the here. So I said, Okay, I'm gonna be like a really good basketball player. Uh this is gonna be my job for like a lot of years maybe. And then I start to feel like, uh, okay, I'm gonna do this. And then I moved to the United States. I started to play for the Sixers. Dreams comes true,
you know. With the twenty sixth pick in the twenty sixteen NBA Draft, the Philadelphia seventy six Ers select fur Con cork Mass from Turkey. He last played for Anna. When I first started to play basketball, I was taller than everybody on my class. So that's why my coach, my first coach, he wanted me to play basketball. I was really big soccer guy, you know, typical turksh guy. And then I was growing up, I was really playing soccer. I didn't know anything about basketball, like my family is same.
We were just all about soccer. And then my coach he wanted me to be a basketball player. And then I said, okay, let's try. Why not, you know, and then the teams changed quickly and then I started to get moving all around. You know teams, different clubs, different schools, and then here I am now Courtmas's first season as a pro was two thirteen. He played for a club team in his hometown of Pakirkoy, a coastal neighborhood in Istanbul.
He moved on to Fess the following year, then eventually started splitting time between there and another domestic team in the Turkish Basketball super League. He was drafted by the six or twenty sixth overall in two thousand sixteen, and a year later made his anticipated debut with the organization at summer. It's really tough for the young guy who doesn't really know the life, you know, who doesn't really know what's going on. For me, the life is not
just basketball. It looks like basketball, but outside of the basketball, there's a lot of stuff going on. First of all, when I moved to the States from Turkey, there was a lot of like difference which I faced, which I need to face. The culture, you know, language, a lot of different things. But this is the part of the being a successful or not. If you can get this challenge, if you can accept this challenge, so you will be different than the other players, than the other person. So
that's how I look at the life. Of course, you miss your home. You know, my first year I was missing the foods, friends, family, But in my third year, I miss more like friends, family because you can get some taste off the foods here, which is like in Turkish restaurants. Okay, it doesn't still give you the same taste as Turkey, but end of to day, your family, your friends comes first. What is it? What is it
called Turkish stuffy? It's good, but we need to make it warm a little bit, one to ten, probably like two. I know it's a really low low rate. Thank you. Do you consider yourself a funny guy? I mean in Turkish? Definitely? Yeah. In Turkish I would say I'm so funny. In English sometimes still like I'm getting hard time to be funny, but everybody say I'm a funny guy. I'm gonna say I feel like the teammates they speak of you as if you are pretty funny dude. They do, they do.
I mean, I can't say I'm a funny guy, but imagine me in Turkish every time I'm telling them, like, okay, I'm funny in English right now, but imagine me in Turkish too, how funny? I will say I'm a good guy.
I hope why the thinks the same way which I think sometimes like I'm so between, you know, for example, during the game days, you know, I just wake up from the net and then I'm thinking, like vitrus, I need to put on I see black white, you know, I see green and yellow, and then I'm just thinking like, okay, let's eliminate black again white, and then there's just like green and yellow, and then again I'm thinking, like fifty more minutes to any more minutes? You know, which one?
Che which one? That's the thing which I don't like about myself. At the end of his second season with the seventy sixers, court Moss was ready to say goodbye, and he practically did during his exit interview press conference the morning after the Sixers were eliminated from the second round of the playoffs by the Toronto Raptors. Where do you go from here? What do you foresee and what are you looking for? Here? Is not just organization for me.
Here is the basketball culture for me. The free agency coming out right now. I'm really confidence about it, so I know I will get the opportunity, but I don't know where I'm going to end up end of last year, you know, the organization didn't become my option, and then there was a lot of things was like going on. When the free agency starts, I was not thinking coming
back here. You know, when you guy used to to your home, to the people here, to your teammates, it's hard to say goodbye, you know, it's every time hard to say goodbye because you never know what's going to happen. I just wanted to make sure like I'm good with everybody, you know, they're good with me. And then the things works differently, you know than I expected. After a couple of days from the free agency, we just got a call from the organization, from the Sixers, which makes me
really happy. I was shocked, you know. First when I heard that from my agent, I was like really like I couldn't like believe it because in my mind, if you ask me what's gonna happen during the free agency, I was just gonna say, I'm not gonna be back in Philly. That's the only thing I could say on that time. I was not really prepared for that a that time. That was the best option for me, you know, to come here. I saw the roster, I saw the stuff again and then I knew the expectation from here,
and then I thought I could make it. And then that was my biggest point nine team for this year. A preseason conversation with Brett Brown set the town for Kind had a training camp at a crowded competition among his fellow wings, but he was focused. I will start from the beginning of the season. I met with the coach, Brett Brown. When we had the meeting, he was just straight up to me, and then he said, if you just make the trees and then play defense, you will
be on the court. You know. He said that from my eyes, all of you guys in the same level, just it's up to you to get the jersey yet the minutes, you know. And then I was really appreciated, and then I started to feel like why not. Why I'm not that guy? You know, I accept the challenge. I just wanted to get to jersey. I just wanted to get the minutes. I need to grow a bomber and really like somebody's gonna emerge with you, like lightning in a bottle. They can come in and go bam
bam bam and make a three. And why not furk After I saw his interview. He just said I wanted to grow a bumbler, and then I said, why not not to be me? You know because in our team uniates shooting, you know, and then I know the organization, under the chemistry, you know, I know the expectation. I told I can handle it. And then the things out of booked out. Pork Boss, quick cat shot free is good.
You expect them all to go in. Pork Boss with it, doblet ain Kark Boss, Oh yeah, a right hat jam bitch, Furk God, cork Boss take it over and Billy park Boss has it, shoots it three balls. That's good, Perk God Corkbos banks the three. He struggled this after dude, look for the third straight game he comes up large Furk you know, continues to not play afraid and take big shots. He's always kind of had that in a confidence where he's not afraid of the moment. For me,
I was playing basketball since nine years old. I play a lot of games with the national team, my X club FS. So there was a lot of like crucial moments, you know, crucial shots which I made, which I missed. But I really agree that, like I don't really afraid of the moments because at the end of today, someone needs to take the shots or someone needs to make the decision. So it doesn't matter what you do at the end of it, you just need to make the decision.
This is also about the life you know you are. Sometimes either you need to go from the right or you need to go from the left. It's all about your decision. And then that's what I told during the games, and then I'm just trying to be calm during the last couple of minutes of the games. For me, it doesn't really matter what the score is. I'm just gonna do my decision. I'm just gonna let it go. I'm really happy this year because I just I just said,
like we are coming here to play basketball. Doesn't matter how good player you was at sixteen, eighteen years old. It's really matter how good player you are right now. So that's the team on my mind. You know, I don't want to think about what happened in the past. I just learned from there and then I just want to keep moving forward. Right now, I'm in the good hands, you know, I'm playing good basketball here and then I'm
in the really good successful team. I'm really proud of to be here, you know, after like a couple of hard years for me, a feeling that no doubt is beyond well deserved. That's the first installment of our Here They Come mini series, which will be piggybacking off of the outstanding Here They Come behind the Scenes video series from Studio seventy six. Again definitely encourage you to check
out the latest episode of the video series. It is a phenomenal feature on fur Con, produced by the exceptional Alex Nolan. Watched on any of our social channels or on our YouTube page plus sixers dot com or the Sixers app. Before we part ways for this episode of the podcast, definitely want to get to some of your thoughts, comments and opinions about Furcon, and we'll do that in a moment, but first this FYI right now, given what's going on in the world, and it's definitely nothing to
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get a free honey butter chicken biscuit. That is tough to beat you up for this. Wendy's okay able at participating US locations. You know, during this hiatus in the NBA right now, I've been doing some introspective thinking about the state of our podcast feed, and I've come to realize I've been thinking about this for a while that I tend to live on a one way street. There's not enough two way engagement on the pod feed. We've
tried some different stuff in the past. For any of you out there who have been listening for this long, you might remember a few years ago we did our best to set up a voicemail box. I kind of didn't like the way it worked out. We are going to bring it back. By the way, if you go to anchor dot fm slash seventy six ers, you can leave voicemail comments there. So I'm going to try to
dip into that a little bit more. But also I'm just going to be trying to throw out more on the old social media sphere at Brian Seltzer on Twitter at Seltzer six, or snaps on the gram thoughts at random times or in advance of a podcast taping about that topic, just to get a sense of what you're thinking and work those comments into the pod. But at some point when there is basketball again, there will be
incentive for you to engage and give comments. We will be giving you something in return, aside from just a very much heartfelt and appreciative plug here on the pod. But ahead of this episode of the podcast, I asked the question, what are you most impressed about introspective furkon cork Cross this season this year. Got a couple replies, I'm going to run through right now. Thank you. Kristen Loft, As she says his confidence, I truly believe that's what
has helped him elevate his game. There's no doubt. I think it's also about his mindset where he's like, and he talked about this, it's like, I'm not going to have any fear. I'm going to step up own this opportunity. Be aggressive and go for it, and clearly that's paid major dividends. Tommy Buckland also said has much improved confidence. Could not agree more. Nick Cowboys six chimed in on Instagram saying what's improved the most about Furkon Cork miles
this year? His ability to shoot off screens definitely has been effective in that area. There have been times WHERETT Brown has even said it's like the Sixers have put Furkon in JJ Reddick style packages, and furk has replicated the function that JJ Reddick had with the seventy sixers in their offense the past two years. So yes, I agree with Nick Cowboys six. Dave mulhern says, what's improved the most about Furkon quirk Mas this year? Love Furck's
effort on defense. Guys do get past him at times. You can tell his effort is always one hundred percent there. Yes, and Dave also said you can tell other guys and the team are so excited for him on a big nights. Agreed. I would add to that, I feel like guys are just excited for Furkon in general. He is a really beloved person inside the locker room. He's got this quirky, endearing sense of humor that guys seem to really respond to.
On top of all that he's put in the work, and he has seen it translate to the court while filling a big role for the seventy Sixers this season. Fingers crossed, we are hoping that at some point in time we'll get to see Furcon CORKMS in the seventy six Ers back out there in a season that is an extension of two nineteen two and twenty so he can close out what has been just a great year so far. That'll do it for this episode of the podcast.
Thanks for the peeps who sent in comments that I read, and also to those people who submitted comments even if I did not read them. A couple more shout outs Producer editor of Studio seventy six Alex Nolan, awesome job on the Furkon CORKMS. Piece music credits for this episode, Universal Production Music, the YouTube Audio Library, and Warner Chappelle. I'm Brian Selzer. You can follow me on Twitter at
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