Mailbag Monday | CC Stops By, Maxey's Momentum

better than to them all on a beat. What's up everyone, It's me Christian Crosby. I cannot wait for my first Mailbag Monday, so check it out. Mailbag Monday returns Lauren Rosen, coming off of a so much bumpy week relative to all things seventy Sixers this season. I need some energy right off the bats. I can't dabble and get caught up in the past. I need to be positive, looking forward to moving to the present, and for that, I

think we need to bring on a special guest. When it comes to positivity, there's only one person who can really channel that and bring it to us. Yeah, so I'm not gonna lie to you. Tough week in Sixers Land, but maybe never a better time to bring on this specific guest. We couldn't have planned it better. You know him from going to seventy six Ers games season after season. You hear him now doing everything from his own music to chatting you up in the arena. The one and

only channel or positivity himself, Christian Crosby, Christian, what's up? Man? Wow? I gotta say the introduction here is just amazing. I don't I do not deserve such an introduction, but thank you so much for having me. What's up? Y'all? This is not the time to be mired down in negativity. We have to keep looking forward. Guys are gonna be healthy, the team's gonna be back at full strength. Everything will

be right with the world. I agree. I mean, it was a tough week, but we got to remind ourselves this has been an amazing year. Like it's been an amazing year. We've we've been fairly spoiled as six Ers fans this year, which I see this as a positive thing for for it to only be a couple of games and we're feeling the way we're feeling. I don't. That's only because we've been doing so well. So I agree.

I'm here to bring the energy. Let's get some smiles going, shake it off, Let's have a good time, and let's talk. What's up, y'all. Let's go because you were here for the true heart of the process era, the ten win seasons, the eighteen wins, the seventeen wins. This is thirty nine and twenty one. Let's keep the big picture in perspective, right, I mean, I totally agree, and I remember those years. Honestly, I'll never forget them. There was one game I'll never

forget that I worked. I think there was only about six thousand people in the arena, and so to just see everything heightened and to see the level of basketball that this team is playing. Honestly, look, I couldn't be happier as a Sixers fan. If you're not happy, I don't want to talk to you. There's no reason to

be mad right now. Seriously, I love it. I do want to talk to you a little bit about what we've seen this season, and especially the vibes in the building as of late, which has been so nice to see fans return. But before we get too far away from our intro. Lauren would probably pick up on this because I make her listen to every episode of mail Bag Monday that our theme song for this episode was Difference.

It's gonna stay different. Why not make it strong? Right? Yes? Scrong, Yes, No, Honestly, it's an honor for you guys to put my song strong as an intro. That's probably like the cool one of the coolest things that have happened with me and the Sixers, Like, come on, I made a song and you guys are using it. That's It's an honor, guys. I really appreciate it. I want your honest take, though. What do you guys think, because we haven't talked about this,

give me your honest take on the music. Lauren and Brian, what do you think? I'll give you my take first. Christian, I am a fan especially of this song because you and I talk and I do give you some evaluations. This one I really I ride with the first time I listened to it, I remember I called you and I was like, Christian, this one's a good one. I like this one. And then seeing the guys warm up to this song specifically, I know that's been special for you.

I'd love to hear, Christian, what was it like the first time you saw the Sixers in layup lines warming up to your music? I mean, it's it's a really strange feeling, like I was a fan in the moment, just watching my favorite athletes in the world warming up to a song that I made, and knowing that the Sixers made it all happen. To feel the support not only from the organization but also the team, you know, I got a little terry eyed. I'm not gonna lie.

It felt really good. It's just one of those things where it's confirmation, like just do what makes you happy, have fun with it, and you never know what can happen with it. You know, you never know where it's going to take you. And with this, I was just doing music fun and to see it be received so well and supported is like, come on, I couldn't ask

for a better scenario. So the genesis of all this for making Strong Now our theme song here on Mailbag Monday was a Louren I've been talking about how do we figure out ways to bring a more direct connection to some of the people out there into the pod. One of the thoughts you've kicked around, is for our open music, do we try and find a local artist

whose songs that we can use? And then it was like, well, hold on, wait a second, there's a local artist then at thirty six zero one who we see and hear from and love every single game. And my first season with the Sixers was the ten win season, so that was twenty fifteen sixteen. Like you, Christian, there's just some things when you live through it, you can't forget. You don't forget a ten win season, for better or for worse. And I feel like that was right before the Christian

Crosby explosion happened. You know, we had lived life nice. We now have this music career. How did all that come together? Where did that start from? How did you go from in arena host only to now a guy who's just like you know, you have your your fingers on the pulse of everything. You're involved in a little bit of everything. You know. What's what's crazy is I really do have to credit the Sixers organization UM for

much of my success. Honestly, Like from working with the Sixers number one, I fell in love with entrepreneurship and it was through working with the Sixers and working with different entrepreneurs and different businesses through being in the game presentation department that I started to realize, I really like this. I like I like people that are are doing their own businesses. And I would book, um, you know, different halftime acts and this and that, and I just started

to get curious um. And so it opened my eyes to a whole other world. M starting out as a dunker off the trampoline, I never envisioned myself being a guy who sat at a desk and did any type of job. I always wanted to be an entertainer. So the Sixers giving me that opportunity to sharpen my tools and enhance my skills in a way that I never envisioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. And then being on the court in front of all

these people for years and years. You meet season ticket holders, you meet different celebrities, you meet different athletes, And what this does is it gives you an opportunity to build different brands and do different opportunities and be able to do it at a level where you can find success. And so all of that has come from working with the Sixers, and so My biggest thing is just being curious. I was always curious. I always wanted to learn more.

I always wanted to experience more. And this is where I've landed. It's been a it's been a journey. It's been really fun. And I think what I about everything that I'm doing currently is that I am still with the Sixers, and I am still tied to the Sixers, And on top of that, the Sixers are supporting me. The Sixers support me would live lick nice. The Sixers are now supporting my music, Like, what are we talking about?

That's insane, that doesn't even make sense. So, as a real genuine Sixers fan growing up in this area, I am literally living out what you would call a dream, and hopefully I'm just getting started. But I do have to credit the Sixers. We have to give the Sixers their credit for the support. I could not be more more grateful for it, to be honest. Well that's beautiful, Christian. It has been a pleasure to watch you grow, to

watch you do all sorts of different things. I'm so proud of you as a friend, and I'm so glad that you got to come share this with us today. Christian, I have a question for you. Okay, are you in a hurry? I am not in a hurry at all. Am I talking really fast? No, not at all. So this would be the part where Selton I usually do our mailbag Monday. People submit questions. Obviously this was a little bit of a more difficult week to get positivity

in the mailbag. But if you have a few minutes, do you want to stay on and answer our mail back questions with us? I would love to. Let's go. I have a few minutes. I have a lot of minutes for you, guys, whatever you want to do, let's go. You have one new message without further ado. Now that he is in, let us give an official mailbag Monday. Welcome to the masses, love him Christian Crosby. He is in for the duration of this episode. Mailbag Monday. Hawes

it work. Perhaps many of you know, perhaps some of you don't. For the uninitiated, we take your mentions and dms on social and respond to what is our favorite mode of communication, your voicemails on the podline two five four zero three seven six three seven, each and every Monday. It's this simple. You send it in, we respond, and if you call the new stipulation is automatically, you call, you get some free swag and some march. We try to do that here, Chris. We try to reward the

people for engaging with us. I love it, Brian, Lauren, thank you for having me. I'm excited about this a little nervous, but let's do it all right. Let's start it off, Lena say, let's start off easy. But perhaps the timing of this makes it not so easy. The week that was, Lauren, I usually do a quick debrief on the week that was before we get into the listener questions and comments. Different type of week for the seventy sixers, they did not happen to win a game

that has been rare this year. But listen, I think we can keep it simple. There are a lot of important guys who weren't playing basketball in all those games for the Sixers. I agree. I mean, look, my phone got hit up a lot. You know, as Philly fans, everyone just wants to talk. They want to talk about every game. They want to analyze every moment, every play, every up, every down. I get it. I'm a Sixer. Span sometimes I fall guilty of it too. My phone

blew up, But at the end of the day, Brian Lauren. Look, we're fine. We all know why things went the way they went. It's nothing to freak out about. I'm feeling good, actually, like it's Monday. I'm feeling really good. And I think any Philly fan who's been following this season should feel good as well. Like we're good. Everyone relaxed. I need the text messages to slow down a little bit. It's Monday, Let's get over it, let's move on. We're gonna be fine.

And this is why we had you on this specific episode. I don't have any unique takes really here. For me. This is a keep it in perspective type of week worth noting. Yes, four losses in a row, all without Ben Simmons. If you ever needed evidence of how important he is to this team, just look at this week. Beyond that, other players, other all stars in and out of the lineup, no fur con for a lot of the time that the team played this week, and a

really difficult doc. Rivers was willing to call it a type of schedule bloss and I'm willing to agree with him, especially with first one in Milwaukee and then the second one obviously deeply shorthanded against a team that didn't even have to submit an injury report. Cells I forgot kind of that that was an option. I thought that the Bucks were late to submit their injury reports this week. Really they just didn't have anyone on it. And that's a jarring thing to see when you're missing both of

your all stars. So I'm willing to just sort of pack it up, put it in a box, keep it moving. The Sixers have a pretty weak strength of schedule for the rest of the way and hopefully they can capitalize on it starting tonight. And look, they're back home for three straight. That is a great thing always for this team. We know how good they've been at home, and I do think that right Ben Simmons extremely talented player, We know that. And specific to the three opponents the Sixers play,

they obviously played two games against Milwaukee. There was a key player on each of those teams. Golden State I would say Steph Phoenix, Devin Booker probably or Chris Paul depending on how you wanted to do it. And then Milwaukee Janis who Ben Simmons probably, all things considered, would have been the number one guy on defensively, So I think there was a lot going on, and I am hardened to hear. It always helps to keep things in perspective.

It's been a long season, and I think at some point too, it's inevitable with all the things that are going on for this particular year, with health and safety protocols, guys and in in and out of the lineups, you're gonna hit a bump in the road. I think the Sixers hit theres and I personally feel like there's enough evidence out there and body of work to suggest that once they get back healthy, things should be good. I was

just gonna say, look, this is basketball. No team wins every game, and there's always there's always a part of the season when this happens to a team, every single team in the league. So this is ours and like we're back home. We do play much better at home, and uh yeah, that's all I have to say about it. And I think, honestly, like I think sometimes us Philly fans like, well, we don't have much to say. We just we just start saying anything, and it's really that simple,

Like we lost, we lost consecutive games. We're back home, and that's the story. Like let's just that's it, and I'm willing to just point out a couple of silver linings. I think when Steph Curry plays the way he did, I don't think that any team can can really beat that. That sort of felt like a basketball god's momentum, And regardless of who was available, I think that's how that one was going to go. Selzie brought up an interesting point when we look at what Matisse Bible did to

Devin Booker against the Suns. I mean, if Ben had played, we might not have had that experience of understanding just how lethal Matisse can be against a smaller guard like Devin Booker. And then when you go to Milwaukee and you're as shorthanded as you were, at least you got the reps in. I don't know good to see Tobias Harris. At least he came back right. He needs to be back in the lineup. So I'm willing to look at little silver linings from each of the losses and keep

it moving. The only linings we do here on mail Bag Monday, Gosh Darnett our silver so let us start to dip into the mail bag. You have one new meth our weekly Sunday Sticker question on the at sixers Instagram story feed was big week for Tyrese Maxie. What did you think, really, guys? I felt like Tyres was terrific stepping up in extra minutes this past week. Let us run you some of his numbers in the last

four games. He's averaged twelve and a half point shot around forty three percent from the field, knockdown a couple threes to assist per game. Just all around energy from this young rookie out of the University of Kentucky. On Instagram, Donning dot Jack says, how did Tyres play like an absolute goat? Okay, coming right out of the gate with

some fire, that's a that's a statement. Yeah. During the games, I'm up on the stage with Squad seven six Every time Maxie scores, we always say to the Maxie, like we say to them, like you know, to the max We say to the Maxi and we all go crazy. Well, you love Maxio. I never forget the first game I watched him playing. This dude was super finessy and super aggressive, like down low. I was like, who the heck is this guy? I love this kid? Yeah, this kid is

on fire. We're I think we're all throwing the goat term out there a little loosely, but you know what, it's Maxie. Let him have it. I'm cool. I'm cool with that. That's that's that's my take on Maxi right there. Let's give him all the confidence he needs to keep this juice going. I'm loving the energy, I'm loving the confidence. Even when he makes mistakes, you don't see his demeanor change.

Love that guy. Double digits in all four of course, again four losses, but four straight games and double figures for Tyrese. He's someone who has prided himself and staying ready all season, and then this week he was able to prove that he really did stay ready, and he's improved in a lot of ways. Selta and I have talked about. We think he's put on a little bit of weight too, so he's clearly been putting in the

work behind the scenes as well. Cool to see him succeed and capitalize on on what was a difficult week. George Keane underscores zero seven said, I think he's playing with confidence and a straight up balling. Yes, would agree with that. Lucas dot Reich's thirty nine says, how is Tyrese Maxie playing good? Because Ben Simmons is out and it's good we can see what our point guard can do. Listen. I think that's a valid point this stage of the year.

I think we've all seen, like we were just talking about what the seventy sixers can do while they're at full strength right now. Probably can't hurt for Doc Rivers and the coaching staff to be able to have the chance to do a little bit more fact finding about guys as they're trying to formulate what the rotation could look like in the postseason once the regular season ends. Tyrese Maxie is making the most of these minutes. Larn't

no doubt about it. Again, Like I can't say enough how impressive he's been all season in terms of just staying ready. Doc Rivers has had so many great options to go to all season long that a lot of the times it's meant that one of those options wasn't Tyrese. And now that he is an option, he's really stepped up to the plate. He's put in the work and now it's showing, and you love to see that for

a young player. Seltz and I Christian talk a lot about how it's challenging for young players to come into good teams because the Sixers are such a good team that Tyrese isn't going to have the touches, the minutes, the opportunities to make mistakes that he would have had on a team that was maybe losing more games where he maybe could have started. We talked about this with Matisse Thybel last year too. There's there's not a big margin for error when you're a young guy on a

good team. So to see Tyrese find a way to make that work anyway, I think might be the most impressive thing of all. I think this is you see this in a lot of the elite teams when the coach's job is just that much harder when literally you just have access to supreme talent that's on the bench, that's young um that may not even have experience, but is ready to just come onto the court and spark

off like MAXI does. Um. It's for me, like as as a fan to see to see us have a guy like that in our in our in our back I don't even want to say backpocket, but for us to just have a guy like that on our squad, um, I think we had the jackpot. We couldn't be. We couldn't We couldn't be in a better position with a guy like that. I trust him. I would trust him with the ball in his hand at the end of the game to score or to get to the line. I would trust Maxie with that. And how often can

we say that about about our newer guys? So that that just says a lot about how he's been playing, and he's you know, he's just one of those guys who's fun to watch, even like when you see him making mistakes or when you see coach coaching him, it's just a pleasure to see it. He's just so much fun to watch. So big up some MAXIEO to the Maxie. I love that. I feel like that could even become a chance. Maybe maybe I'm wrong on this, but it could be like to the Maxie Yes, no, maybe not.

Oh Ryan again, I don't know. We've got to get you back in the arena set. With talent like that, you could have a whole new role. Give me a megaphone and some sixers sticks, air sticks, thundersticks. We can get something popping. Hop on the Maxi taxi that might be on fire. We're on fire. Get the graphic up on the center screen scoreboard. Bloom when he has a big basket or something like that. Come on, Yeah, the cartoon of tyres waving out the window of the taxes.

It's just like going across the video board. I don't know, guys. Yeah, we gotta have Derek Hayes on the podcast. We're gonna make that happen. That's a good idea and then we can take credit for it. And when it becomes like the next like Mike Scott high type thing. Hop it hop in the Maxi taxi. There's it's a it's a it's an Excel. There's plenty of space. Bring your friends. I want to maxie. I want three percent of all sales of the teachers. Negotiate those deals. Yes, the Maxi taxi. Yes,

there's something to that. We're gonna circle back on that. Definitely something sad. All right to the podline we go for the first time on this edition of mail Bag Monday. You have one new message being a fan thinks from Vermont, huge Sixers fan calling about tire use Maxiet Guys, just

a little energy, Guys, are Bunny out there? You know I've been watching him from the start of the season, and when he was getting brought up in all the trade talks, I cannot stand it because there's something about it, like the guy could score. He's proven that just he flies out there, and I feel like he opens up so much space and he's just kind of a fun guy to watch, whether he's putting up two points or thirty points. He's just always buzzing around and flying around

out there. Kind of had a pleasure to watch the semi eyes. Not s how many other Sixers fans feel, but I'm a huge Maxie fan, and I think it's the sky's the limit for him. Those are my two cents from just a Sixers fan watching here and get Overmont. First of all, love Vermont. How can he not love Vermont? Left to hear from seventy six Ers fans all over, And I think maybe after Christian Sam might get a back seat a bucket seat in the Maxie Tage Christial

ride Shotgun Sam can have a bucket seat. I actually really love this Maxi taxi thing. I think it's gonna work. I think that's the one that's gonna stick for sure. I don't mind taking that, like the back middle seat, that's just like no one really wants it. But my legs are so short that, like, I could deal with it if it means I get to ride in the Maxi taxi. Like, I'll sit back middle that. That's totally fine. Also, guys,

I've never been to Vermont. I think I need to go to Vermont and hang out with some Sixers fans. I love that. I love that he's from Vermont and he's a Sixers fan there. I love that. I love everything about that. That's so cool. That guy sound cool. I want to talk to that guy more about sports. Another great thing about Vermont read some seventy six Ers fans. We love that. Yeah, I totally second everything he said. Um, he clearly is paying attention to Maxie. He's not wrong.

I think I think that's the thing too. He Tyrese does things that for the way he plays that other guys in this roster won't quite do. He has that ability to be really bouncy, break you down in the half court. Obviously, the floater is his go to move. It's a real weapon. We've seen that and what I hope to see over the final couple weeks of the regular season, and maybe if Tyrese gets some time in the postseason. Is what other elements to his offensive game

can he start to put together. I think that's one of the next steps going into year number two. Well, you love to see how much more confident and Seltz, you and I talked about this. I believe on one of our pregame shows, how much more confident Tyrese is shooting the three. That's something that Doc Rivers has expressed he wants him to do. He's taking more, he's making more. Interestingly enough, in the team's last appearance over five from three.

But to me, I'm okay with that. The fact that he took five in a game where the team was so shorthanded and they were relying on him to create or to find his own shot. I'm impressed with the fact that he was willing to take to take five even if he wasn't going to make him Shooters got to keep shooting. I love the confidence. I love that that I believe might be the most threes he's taken. I'm gonna check really fast as a sixer. No, he okay, fine, he took six. He took six in January. He took

eight in that game against Denver. But five is the most he's taken recently, and to see that he's more willing from deep, I think it is impressive and it was good to see the first Milwaukee game he was two for four for another number that I'm fine with him taking in a shorthanded situation. So cool that he's adding that because, like you said, we're used to the floater, We're used to him getting all the way to the rim. Cool to see him get confident from deep as well.

He just has a lot of potential. I agree. I'm honestly excited to see the growth of his defense too, because I think he's he has the capability. If he's able to tap into that more on the defensive side, I think he's going to be a threat. He He's the type of guy who's gonna get like a ton of steals in the game once he figures that side of his game out. So I'm excited to see that that part of his game grow. I'm seeing it grow

as we speak. But I think he's really gonna start really going to start standing out when he grows in that way as well. Christian Crosby breaking it down, folks, this is what Mailbag Monday is all about. As we go back to our Instagram sticker question of the week, Tyrese Maxe had a big week. What do you think of how he's playing? You have one new message t underscored, Jordan underscore and underscores CC. He's playing strong. He really wants it. He's going to be a star if he

keeps working hard. Nick Verrel says, love the hard work and hustle. Tyrese deserves the praise he's getting for the great play. Christian. I think that this is something that you can relate to and maybe some people out there can relate to as well. In any walk of life, regardless of what it is you do, you love to see people rewarded for the work. And we know that behind the scenes. Tyrese, he had that huge game against the Nuggets, fell out of the rotation a little bit,

and he was ready a couple of games ago. When Ben Simmons went out, Doctor VS called his number and he stepped in and he's been a contributor. I love that about Coach too, because I consistently see Coach just make the right decisions and there's never a time where I'm questioning the playing time. I feel like he does a great job, Like like you're saying, honoring those wins, um, putting people in when they're when they're heating up, um,

and and giving the time that's deserved. And I think he spreads it out like flawlessly, so UM, I think that definitely speaks to to coach his ability and obviously to see Maxie on the other side of it, um, receiving what he deserves after what he's done. Um, it's it's great. I love it. I love what he's doing. I don't think I think we've made it very clear

how we feel about how this man's been playing. So UM big big shout out to coach for giving him that, because it's hard as a coach to to spread that time around. So to give him that reward, to see him do his thing while Ben's down, Um, it's it's that's that's definitely a win. We can say we've got we got out of this this this stretch all right. One more from our Instagram submissions. You have one new message. First of all, thank you to everyone out there who

submitted on Instagram. We will lizabally get dozens, if not a couple hundred, of your reply so it's hard to sift through all of them, and obviously we don't have enough time to get them all in, but thank you. This one guys did stand out at me felt like we had to get to it. Katie the Library Lady says Tyrese Maxie as he's playing, he's the best. And I'm not just saying that because I was a second grade teacher. Oh love that, right, yo, I love those stories.

We gotta hit her off. We gotta get some second grade Maxie stories out of her. Old I knew when you read her handle, even if she wasn't directly related to somebody, Katie the Library Lady, is that what it was? So that is an elite handle. I already knew I liked her, and then to hear about this connection that is just beautiful warms my heart. Love to hear about people that helped these guys from day one. Sounds like

Katie was in there from the get go. And I will say that Tyres does such an excellent job in media. And when he when he talked to us the first day after the draft, he was so excited he lights up. He clearly had some really good like teachers and like positive influences in his life. Growing up. He presents himself so well, and I wonder if if Katie the Library Lady cut anything. I just want to ask Katie, was he crossing people over in a recess or whatever, because

I would love to hear some stories about that. I want to visual that too, So shout out to Katie. We're gonna have to We're gonna have to flag that handle. Maybe at some point there's a setting, maybe on a slow summer day during the offseason. We got to hit up Katie the Library Lady for some good tyrese Maxie stories. She probably most definitely has a seat in the Maxie Taxi. Shout out to Katie. We gotta do like a like

a Sixers teachers round table. We have some content coming up with a couple other let's say, academic influences in the lives of the Sixers. We got to get them all together for for some sort of offseason round table. There has to be a teacher appreciation day or a month or a week or something like that. Right, let's do it. I would definitely tune into that. Lauren, You're definitely on point with that idea. Did you like that little teaser too about like some young sixer influences coming

up on some content. I was going to ask, but then I felt as though you're trying to promote it and keep it a secret sought. I don't want to blow that, so I'm just gonna be quiet and just be patient and wait to find out what you're talking about. I'll have to wait, but it's gonna be wholesome. I can promise you that, guys. I mean this is we have one more mail back submission to get to before you shut it down. This has been certainly a fun

and enjoyable podcast, but this has been great ideating. We came up with a Maxi Taxi, which it sounds like kind of already existed, and now we have a piece of offseason content that we can do or maybe whenever it is whenever there's teacher appreciation, whether it's day, week, month, or year. We got another idea. We just might have to do this regularly. I'm down for that. Do you know the rates? I'll just get it all aboard the Maxi taxi. Yeah, it's good. This is fun. Guys, Can

I come back again? We got one more to get to. You're not done yet? We got one more. Let's hit it you have one new message tweets by Zoe first time a long time love that thank you tweets by Zoe. What are you most excited about for the playoffs? And certainly I will just say this before I kick it over to you guys. If there's a week in the season that made me start thinking about the playoffs, last week was that week has arrived, Baby, I'm thinking about them.

I don't think you're I don't think you're alone, Celts. I think a lot of people might have started directing their attention down the road over the last couple of weeks. And and for me this might be a little bit of a cop out answer or seemed too simple, But for me, it's got to be about intensity. I mean, I mean, when you think about teams like the Oklahoma City Thunder coming into town, they've they've lost thirteen in

a row. That's one that Sixers should win easily, but it also might be a little bit challenging to get up for. It is not a challenge to get up in the playoffs, whether you're a player, a coach, a fan, a reporter, the playoff intensity is what it's all about for me, and I think because we didn't really have a playoffs or a traditional playoffs last season with the team in the bubble. The year before, of course, ended

in pretty dramatic fashion. I think Sixers fans are hungry for a good playoffs, and I think that the intensity will be there regardless of how many people will be available. I think the intensity will be in the streets, the intensity will be in the building, the intensity will be everywhere. That's what I'm looking forward to. I think at the end of every regular season there's a little bit of a lull because it's sort of like a calm before

the storm type situation. For me. Intensity, I'm really looking forward to it. I am going to say there is one reason that I love the playoffs every single year and it never changes, and that one reason is the competition. Let's be honest, it doesn't matter if you're first seed or eighth seed. When you get to the playoffs, you start hooping on another level and to watch that competition is always so much fun. That is what I'm looking

forward to for my Sixers. I'm looking forward to seeing just the elite level of basketball to be played, and I know that that's what we're going to see and

to Lawrence point too. I feel like just because of the world that we're living in right now and everything that's happened in the last two years, that there is this level of just like calm enjoyment of the season that we're seeing, and it's like this level of anticipation because we're like trying not to jump the gun and get too excited, and we're trying to manage our feelings and emotions and we're holding it. And as soon as playoffs start is going to beloade and so I cannot

wait for that feeling. To Lawrence Point, she nailed it with that competition and the explode ocean of fandom that we have all been holding on two for a long time. So I cannot wait for that. We talked about this at the start. We know how good the Sixers team is when they're fully loaded and ready to go, and we haven't even seen their trade acquisition George Hill formerly brought in the Fold with a healthy roster and squad. So I think there's not a team out there the

Sixers can't beat. They've shown that already in the regular season. Regardless of the final twelve games the team has to get to, we'll just keep thinking about good health, good vibes. And while it seemed like this might have been a little bit of a rough week relatively speaking compared to how the season started, I think everyone knows step back, be confident. When you get the whole squad back together, all the pieces there, I think this thing will be

in good shape. Christian Crosby, go aheadline. I was just gonna say, get the whole squad in the Maxi Taxi. Take a drive straight down Broad Street in the Maxi tax Oh my god, we could. We can make a Maxi Taxi float down Broad Street during the parade. We have to win this thing. Those are the rules. Here's the deal. Maybe no one listens to this podcast. We keep the Maxi Taxi under wraps. Okay, we got to talk to Tyrese. Gotta get the shirts, got to get

the uber or whatever, uh you know, lift integration. We gotta get Greg Pepper with the animation on the scoreboard. Yes, we got about the partnership. That's right. Let's go. Gotta keep the lights on. So let's look. I mean, I know you're doing your thing, but we might need to get you in a higher position in marketing, like just soul marketing, because you seem to have it nailed here. We're mail Bag Monday. That's that's where it all happened. Hey guys, Brian Lauren, thank you guys for having me.

This has been incredible. I hope to come back again. Yes, yes, let us hear it formally. Christian Crosby making an exceptional mail Bag Monday debut, and we appreciate him now giving us our official intro and outro tunes. It's wrong on the pod. Thank you, guys, I appreciate you. Coming up later this week on the seventy six Ers Podcast Network, we're gonna have a new episode of Coach Check with

Matt Murphy. We will have the Friday Deep Dive with Lauren and Devone and myself coming up on Friday, and it's always follow us daily on the Scoops or seventy six Ers Scoop wherever you get your pods. Have a great week.