Posted Up! | Matisse Thybulle

just that. Once the season began, the rookie rewarded his club's faith right away, as in first game, right away, the more the kid played, the brighter He's shot. Three balls. Shot here, He's done it again. The rookies on fire. Footistible has arrived rupt Seattle the Philly. He's part of man. With the NBA's returned to play looking more and more likely, there will be no better time than the playoffs for

Thiable to put his skill set to use. I hope that when this is also and done, we're all healthy and safe, and that we can get back on the court and start playing basketball. Head. This is posted up with Matisse Styble. Welcome to the latest installment of Post It Up presented by Caesar's Online, a mini cast series here on the broadcast checking in on the seventy six ers during the hiatus, with new episodes debuting each week. I'm Brian Seltzer. It's kind of ironic, isn't it that?

For as well as Matisse, Thybile played for five months before the NBA's hiatus. His biggest breakout moment yet came a day after the season was suspended, in the form of a social media video that lasted about as long as it takes for Matis to strip an aponent of the ball then run it back the other way for a dunk. So, now the NBA seasons and we've been advised to self coining ourselves. The only logical things for me to do at this point is start making TikTok's.

Let's face it, we couldn't totally ignore the TikTok. Then Thibile really became a viral TikTok sensation overnight. His first post that you just heard was on March twelfth, the day after the season was stopped. It showed a sequence of creative cutaways transitioning between various rooms and his apartment shot on a selfie video and it got four hundred fifty fourth thousand views. Thibles made him modest fifteen TikTok videos in all, and they've surpassed six and a half

million plays. It's insane. I don't know. I think people think it's more serious, and it is like, I'm just as bored as everyone else, but like for some reason, my outlet was creating stupid videos in my apartment. Needless to say, Thible has gotten a lot of attention for his visionary TikTok work, so much so that it's kind of like, hold up a minute, let's not forget the guy appears to be pretty darn good at what the

Sixers need him to do. His defensive rating of just over one hundred three and a half ranked second on the team behind Joel Embiid, and he leads all first year players in the NBA with eighty steels. His two sixteals for thirty six minutes is on pace for the second best rookie mark in league history. So yeah, the former NCAA Defensive Player of the Year has delivered as advertised and done a steady job riding the proverbial rookie

wave as well. There would be games I'm like I'm here, I'm like, everyone's gonna know this name, and then there'll be other games where I'm like, I don't know if I belong here, Like these guys are pretty good, and it was just like trying to find that balance and then ultimately just seeing how like where it really was, because with this game, with the season how long indes, there's a lot of highs and there's a lot of lows, and finding that middle ground and not being thrown off

too much was what I had to learn to do. It never hurts to be surrounded by talent, and Thible knows the seventy six Ers have a considerable amount of that, but simply chalking up thible success to everyone else sells them short. Three of the Sixers starters, Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons and Josh Richardson are at their statistical defensive best when Thible's also on the court. He'd find you the first two gentlemen we named right there are all stars. Simmons,

of course, is his own rare defensive specimen. To be guarded by six ten that moves faster than most guards is not fun. I mean, he's also so strong I mean, he's he's one of those freaks where it's like he's the perfect athletes. He's tall, he's athletic, and he's strong, and it's like when you have that sort of combination is really hard. Hard for the opposition, yes, but now when you're a running mate for a phenome like Simmons on the opposite end of the floor. Thible credit Simmons

for creating opportunities someone who demands so much attention. It opens up shooters like me. And when he has the ball, there's five guys I have to add their eyes on them worried about him. It makes a lot of our jobs off the ball a lot easier. To add some context to thible scoring this season, Simmons has assisted on nearly a third of his field goals, and over fifty five percent of Thible's points have come on catch and shoot baskets, something of course that Simmons has had a

hand in as well. He's been great, you know, he's willing to learn. Everyone has that kind of rookie bump, as they say, but I haven't really noticed a huge bump with him. I think he's been very solid overall, and he's gotten a lot better, and his confidence is just getting better and better. Defensively, his confidence is there. He knows he's one of the best defenders in the NBA.

Some heady praise. It's telling how much guys and the Sixers have genuinely taken the Thibal and when out of their way quickly earlier on in the season to make him feel part of the team. Tobias Harris has been the main mentor other bets like Mike Scott and Kylo Quinn never miss a chance to bust Thibals chops. Harris gets some looks into ko how many biscuits this guy got? Six? Nobody? But guess what, the Internet will make sure those two dubious words six biscuits will forever live on as part

of bibles like see Anybody Want to Bite? That incident, which happened over the winter captures an endearing dichotomy in Thible's DNA. He's really really bright, curious and self aware. But then these other times when he comes off a little aloof and hilariously goofy. Given how mature, thoughtful and worldly Thible is, it's easy to forget he only turned twenty three in March. I think more than anything, I've

just learned. I've had to learn how to adapt to being like an NBA player and like a celebrity to some people. That's been weird for me because I've always I've never been that at any stage in my career, and I've never viewed myself that way. I still don't view myself that way, but now it's like accepting that, like, Okay, there are some people who actually think of me in this light, and how can I use that to help inspire influence. If you've read up on Thible, you know

he's got layers. Yes, it's basketball first and foremost, but there's also his family, his friends, photography, the perseverance that's defined him since he lost his mother to cancer, and recently, in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, he's been vocal and speaking out against racial injustice. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Thible's kept busy in the past three months.

He'll meditate early in the morning, then spend time either researching something that interests him or catching up with friends. His afternoons are dedicated to more intensive fiscal activity, and I like the people have to do the same exact thing. Every day like I need variation. It's like within each category there's probably like three or four things I could do. Some days, I'll go for a walk instead of going exercising,

or not even go for a while. Somebody's I might just do a couple of push ups, or like a yoga classes, I can do like a stretching class instead of like a full flow yoga. So it varies sooner rather than later. It seems like Thible we'll be channeling all of his energies towards hoops again, perhaps more so than ever before, given the reported nature of the NBA's return to play plan. The seventy sixers will try to make a sprint to the finish. Consider Thible eager and ready.

I think, honestly might anything just being a play basketball together. I get back out there and get that feel, that chemistry, that flow going that we had because we were doing a pretty good job and we're having a lot of fun doing it, and just that just have that feeling day. This has been posted up with Matisse Thible presented by Caesar's A nine. Be sure to look for Lauren Rosen's article about Matisse that's also part of our post. It

up hiatus content series. You can find it on our social channels, on the seventy six ers app or at sixers dot com. Thanks to Lauren and Kristen Crosby for their help of producing this episode. Our music is courtesy of Universal Production Music and the YouTube Audio Library. Next time we'll post up with shake Milk is when people walk outside and you know, take a deep breath and get some fresh shairs. It's like the same thing walking in the gym and just you know, just smelling hard work.

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