This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods. When it comes to the seventy Sixers, so much talk has been about the starting five and its potential and performance, but if the season were to resume, the team will likely need to boost from its bench to get to where it wants to go. That means someone like Mike Scott needs to be in the mix. Mike Scott right down Food Street with a right hand yare there's Scott?
He has been on fire? Scott another greet, this time a year ago. Scott was fresh off a strong debut campaign with the Sixers. He was one of the club's top preserves and swiftly cemented his status as a fan favorite. Doing a dirty work and do every little thing and energy. I think that's a little fan of life. For much of this season, Scott was working hard to find his stroke, and right before the hiatus hit it finally seemed to be rounding back into form. I felt like that West
Coast trip. You know, he's going into the right direction. This is Posted Up with Mike Scott. 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 Selzer. If I told you that during a recent Zoom interview, a seventy sixer popped up on the screen in a lounge chair in his man cave, wearing a crushed red designer bathrobe with
a frame scarface movie poster in the background. Who would you guess it might be? Oh, this old game. It's a little it's a little fascacchi rold. My fiance got it from me from Christmas, so you know, of course it was Mike Scott. Who else a luxury designer robe and scarface memorabilia is totally the Mike Scott mood. Yeah, I'm always quarantine, so this I live like this regularly. Besides, when they going to the gym traveling, I I like to stand the house so distance right up my alley.
All things considered, Scott hasn't been in Philadelphia long, still he feels like a fixture. The thirty one year old is acquired at the two nineteen trade deadline, coming to the seventy Sixers from the ELI Clippers in the debaias Harris deal. He then went on to put up some of the best shooting numbers of his career. Among his highlights, he clinched a playoff game that set the Sixers up
for an opening round series win against Brooklyn. May get it to him beat, indeed, can't handle it, tell you from Scott his biggest Sixer, and over the summer he had a run for the ages, from engaging with fans non stop on social to serving up free mister Softie at the Art Museum steps after signing his new contract. Scott may proudly hail from the che Speak region of Virginia, the seven five seven, as he calls it. But the guy is totally cut from Philadelphia's cloth. I think they
see that. You know, I'm a regular person. I just played basketball. Just keep it honest, be real, stay genuine. I don't know, just be yourself. I think people can relate to that. Even though Scott played a couple dozen games with the six Ers last season, he was one of just a handful of guys who was back this year. Yet a few quality showings in the fall before his minutes began to ebb and flow. Part of that had to do with the rotation, and part of it had
to do with injuries to other players. A third factor in the equation was Scott's production. I'm passionate about you know your craft, you work on your game. You want to see the results. I know people are you know you gotta stayed. Of course, this is a marathon. Yes, I know all that, but when you work on the shots the way you do, you wanted to see the results. You don't want to be in a slump. You're not trying to go out getty miss shot. So very frustrating,
very very frustrating. Scott's been in the league long enough eight years now. If he's learned anything it's that the work can't waiver. I've been doing my regular routine, you know, with some stuff up, no when I'm working out, But you know, for the most part, I was, you know, continued to get my work, you know, off days, optional shooting, still shooting, you know, coming back and shooting at night. Following last year's trade, Scott finished the season shooting at
a forty one percent clip from beyond the arc. It was his highest mark ever Heading into the twenty twenty All Star Break, Scott's three point percentage was hovering just over thirty four. Sometimes to do that. I mean when I was with the Wizards one month, I was shooting like seventy percent. It was crazy, Like it was. It was crazy, and I come miss, you know what I'm saying. It was like one whole month I was shooting like fifty four percent from three, like sixty eight seventy percent
from field goal, Like it was crazy. I come miss. And then you have sometimes where you might go to three you know too much. You can't hit it, like you can't hit the shot that you want to. You know what I'm saying, that you want to make can't feel sorry for yourself. Better keep hooping, you know. So Scott continued to grind and wouldn't you know that keep hooping mantra proved to be self fulfilling. When the calendar
flipped to March, Scott flipped a switch. With the Sixers shorthanded out in California, he was thrust into a modified role. Both his playing time and his output went up. He was playing small ball, especially with me at the five, which I like it. You know, I really got to hit my man. Make sure I'm you know, getting rebounds or you know, being early for my defensive stuff. But yeah, like I was getting into a groove. Man. In his final five appearances before the suspension of the NBA season,
Scott went ten for nineteen from deep. That was a good feeling. Oh yeah, because I am. I didn't shoot the ball like I wanted to the whole Like the whole year. People was telling me, you know, you know, shots going to you know, the averages are going to average up, they're going to come back. You do, no worry about it, keep shooting. I felt like that West Coast shot. You know, I was going into the right direction, just in time, cruelly for the season to be put
on pause. But based on the sounds of it, the stoppage of play hasn't dampened Mike Scott's spirits. He's apparently become a de facto mayor of sorts on the Sixers team Zoom calls, or at the very least, taking on a court jester type role. Mike is really funny. We'll definitely get it going. Mike Scott likes sometimes like good good jokes. Scott has set the tone for these zooms with his backgrounds and has been known to use Matisse Thible for inspiration. Mike Scott put a picture of him
and Batis shopping, which is pretty funny. It's just funny to see people mess around and like try to get acclimated with an half a format of calling each other. And what was the background question in this particular instance, a photo of Thible outside the Flight club sneaker store in Manhattan, crouched down, very serious, in a full fledged Mike Scott pose. Yes, sir, my boy creased up his Air Forces rookie, you know how like when a Homer sins when he used to joke Mark when yeah, but no, no.
Matis is a great man and he's young. He's just funny. He's very sarcastic, dry humor, which I that's what I was really love about him. He's talent, great thing about him. Smart and he you know, he wants to learn. But yeah, man, whether he's busting a teammates chops or crashing a season ticket holder's wedding, Scott is this very genuine man of the people, authentic side of his personality. It's part of the reason why he connected so quickly with the city.
The Hive. Obviously is a testament to Scott's popularity. He's got old fans, he's got young fans, and fans everywhere in between. Hi Scott and I miss you play. Oh dope, that's dope that now I appreciate that. Man. Appreciate that a man, so it might love the kids, you know, I love the kids. So you know, anytime you know, kids show love bagging, that means a lot to him. For the better part of the hiatus, Scott's been quarantining with his family, making the most of what he calls
get back time. That means lots of hangs with his kids, Jeremiah who's four, and Nori who's two, doing everything from playing with them to helping prepare their homework assignments. As for the state and fate of the NBA season, like the rest of us, Scott is waiting to find out hopefully. You know, guys are trying to stay in shape or you know those limited priory you know the basketball work, but you know, keeping themselves from shape, but getting back together.
Everyone should be healthy and you know, try to make a run at this time if it does, to see they do put something together. Not for that we can take advantage of this time, and you know he's some special. This has been posted up with Mike Scott, presented by Caesar's Online. Be sure to check out Lauren Rosen's article about Mike that's also part of our Posted Up Hiatus content series. Thanks to Lauren, Christian Crosby, and Taylor Moyer for the help producing this episode. Our music is courtesy
IF Universal Production Music and the YouTube Audio Library. Next time we'll post up with Matis Thiebel. When I first got to Philly, people recognize me. I hadn't even put on a Philadelphia seventy Sixers jersey and people were recognizing it. I was like, this is crazy, and then it just got bigger and bigger from there. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thanks for listening. If be sure to search seventy six Ers podcast Network wherever you get your pods and leave us
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