Trade Talk With Devon

Fortunate to add Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson the Third. They're going to boost us offensively and defensively. I'm looking forward to getting them here. Who are Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson the Third and how might they be able to help the Sixers. We'll talk about that with Devon Gibbons on this episode of the broadcast. What's going on out there? Seventy Sixers? Pod people, you know, it is always great to podcast who will never take that opportunity

for granted. It is especially great to podcast following a victory, and man, were the Sixers overdue for a dub in the worst way. On Friday when they played the Memphis Grizzlies at the Center. The good news was the seventy Sixers came out on top one nineteen one oh seven after that winless four game road trip. Ben Simmons was the beast. So Ben Simmons with a wake up call for the grizz right Domlae with a right hand slam. Furky was feeling it. Here's cork Boss for another three

and he thrills it. The fans rising as one, They're feeling it. By the end of the evening, all was right with the world. Josh Richardson back for the first time in seven games, and hey, Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson the third weren't even in uniform yet, and those two gents will be the focus of this podcast with the von Givens, which we'll get underway in just a moment. But before we start, we usually like to take this opportunity to remind you to subscribe to our podcast feed.

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to our feeds. So this was the second straight NBA trade deadline where I would presume the majority of you hard working seventy six Ers fans out there who were just looking for an easy, uninterrupted night's worth of sleep, could have very well been awoken by the buzz or a ding of a cell phone and you look down and you see on your screen and alert coming from none other than ESPN's Adrian Wodronowski's rage just happened since we'd come on the air, What do you got for us?

Philadelphia has bolstered their bench Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson from Golden State on their way to the Sixers for three future second round picks. There was a lot of pressure on the Sixers to get some more shooting, some more scoring. That was indeed the news that Woade reported a little bit after midnight Eastern early Thursday morning, about fifteen hours before the three pm trade deadline, that the seventy Sixers would be getting from the Golden State Warriors

Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson. The third the news became official a little bit after seven o'clock on Thursday night, and then on Friday down at the Center before the seventy six Ers tipped off in what would be a win over the Memphis Grizzlies. Sixers general manager Elton Brand met with the media and shared his thoughts on the acquisitions. Pages of shooting, Did you talk specifically about Glenn and dolg and Lye there's still sets match here, Yeah, Glenn.

I'll start with Glenn Robinson, the third um. Of course, the shooting, we mentioned that, but you know, defensively, he's guarded the best players. I know, it's career year and the team he was on wasn't having a great year. But he will play dum for us at an extremely high level, and he can shoot the ball. And then he's young and kind of fits our plans. Alec Burks. You know, just the other day I watched him score

thirty on the road. So when I was able to get him elite score, leite talent, can get to the foul line, can finish, and he can play defense also, So you know, being able to add those two, I think it gave us the boosts will need to, you know, make a run before all star break and make a run before the playoffs after that. Clearly Elton Brand believing that Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson the third two veterans who can help the seventy sixers right now and moving

forward on both ends of the floor. When we need some straight shooting analysis. There is no one who we turn to other than this man. It is. It's great to have him on the pod from ninety seven five to the the Fanatic. You hear him in the evenings, you hear him in the post, to hear him essentially all the time on ninety seven five to the Fanatic, the station where you can hear all seventy Sixers games as well.

De why don't we start here? Surprised or not surprised that the Sixers ended up making a move, No, I'm not surprised at all. Just understanding where the team is as of right now and some of the issues that they may have had a little bit over the course of the last few weeks where they've struggled, specifically on the road and scoring off the bench. I thought that that would be the focus and seeing what they were able to do with the acquisition of Alec Berks and

Glenn Robinson. The third that they had a focus on that exactly, which was again to help voice both of the bench and see what they can get in terms of scoring, some more ball handling, some more outside shooting, athleticism if you will to go with this team off the bench, because as much as Quirk mis and thy Will have done well on the perimeter, you know you've had your struggles, if you will, with Mike Scott, James Ennis, and a few others where this was probably a necessary

thing for them to go out there and do. Being as one of these championship contenders, you know at times you have to go and take a shot when it comes to certain things. And Elton Brand in the front office, they did that in the off season with the acquisition of Josh Richardson and Al Horford, bringing back to Bias Harris, and over the last couple of all seasons they've done the exact same thing by making the trade deadline moves, the buyout period, all of that to help this team

push to where they need to be. Not only do we have those standards for the team and the expectations, but we know that the same can be said for the organization. So I was not surprised at all based off of where they are currently in the Eastern Conference. If Elton has shown anything over the course of his time as a general manager, I think it's that he's willing to not operate conservatively. He's willing to try and

constantly find opportunities to make some tweaks and changes. Now, last year we saw twice two really big changes were made when the team went out and got Jimmy Butler in November and then made the trade with the La Clippers for Tobias Harris, Boban and Mike Scott this year.

In the aftermath some of the moves that were made during the offseason and the commitments that the seventy sixers made, this kind of seemed like it had to be a situation where Elton made a move around the margins, right, Like I just thought, for everything that was going on around the team leading up the trade deadline, it really would have taken something substantially dramatic for a blockbuster to

go down. I think that that's exactly where Elton brand was and just tinkering around the edges to make sure that they fill out the rest of the roster the depth overall. If you Will and looking at where Brett Brown is going to have his rotation as we get closer to the postseason, the end of the regular season, when you get to the postseason, the playoffs, we all know that the rotation is going to shorten out a little bit. So that's something that they wanted to make

sure that they were able to shore up. You already have Mike Scott playing the amount of minutes that he does in the regular rotation, minutes Stybel the same thing, Shake Milton starting to come on a little bit. You needed to have a little bit extra coming off the bench to give teams a different look, a different type of approach when we got we get to that point of the season, regular season and of course the playoffs.

So I totally agree. I did not expect any type of blockbuster after what they did in the off season. It doesn't even date back to Jimmy Butler and to buyas Harris, Mike Scott, and Boban It's about right now where you look at what they did in the off season by again bringing back Harris, acquiring Horford and Richardson, those were the blockbusters that they had to do. Now it was about simply going out there and shoring up

the rest of the roster. You mentioned the rotation, whether it's for the immediate future right now, in the middle of the regular season, or looking farther down the road towards the playoffs, how do you think that's going to shake out. Let's get into that, because obviously, now based on some of the corresponding moves the Sixers have made, Trey Burke was waived, Jonah Bolden was released as well James and it's the third sent to the Orlando Magic

for a future second round pick. And it's the third. However, really the only player of that three player group that you could say falls in line of the batch of minutes that could go towards a player like let's say, Alec Burke's or a Glenn Robinson the third and also at that wing shooting guards spot behind Josh Richardson, there's guys like Furkon, Corkmasmatist, Stable Shake Milton, all of whom it seems like the Sixers want to see more of. So where do you see perhaps some of these new

players fitting in. Yeah, and that's that's a great question. I'm glad you asked that one, because when you do look at that and we see how things are starting to play out. I think Brett Brown is going to tinker a little bit and see which works the best. Right, So, when you have the struggles that you maybe have had in the past and the postseason with the skill guys where specialty players, let's say for kN korkmis as a while, they're still trying to as Brett Brown likes to say,

grow a shooter. They also want him to do a few other things put the ball on the floor. But he struggles a little bit defensively. Where in this instant when they do have a certain matchup that they have and a certain lineup that they may want but still need that shooting out there, maybe Brown decides, you know what, we know Matis Steibel can play the defensive side, but offensively he might struggle just a little bit. It's the postseason.

This is something totally new for him. It's a it's a physical game, not to say that he can't play in it, but still learning as a rookie where you might be able to throw in Glenn Robinson the third because he is a similar size, has similar length, and the athleticism to keep up with a specific player just because of his overall attributes as a player at standing at six five sixty six as Glenn Robinson. So I think that that's where Brett Brown would try to figure

those things out along the way, thinking offense defense. While I may be more focused on the defense, I'm still not losing much, but I still have something in Glenn Robinson shooting a career high from behind the three point line and give you that defensive presence that is still needed out there. Whereas for Kan Korkmas, the leading of three point maker for the seventy six ers, may struggle a bit on the defensive end. So I think that

that's where it will go. Shake Milton the same thing while he's playing well, Will Brett Brown trust someone like Alec Burks in his spot instead of giving those minutes to shake Milton? And it could be who the opponent is. It could be who is opposite them in that particular lineup for the opposition where Brown might decide to go that route. We know it's going to be shortened. You know Mike Scott is going to be in there. You assume Burkes and Robinson are going to be in there.

And that's eight. Now what Now, where's the other going to come from. Where's that nine ten? And how will Nato getting those minutes? Now, maybe those backup point guardmentutes when Josh Richardson comes back, they'll slide some of those to shake Milton and or Alec Burks to handle that responsibility to be as well. So Brett Brown has some more things to work with, and I'm curious to see how he ultimately figures those things out, depending on what the matchup is on any given night and in any

given series. Nelson, I think that by the end of the regular season and even when this year ends, I think something that people will be able to step back and look at, we're the minutes that guys like Thyble and Milton and Korkmis got this year and what those younger players were able to do with it, and how that could help the seventy six ers in the future.

But as we've seen the last two years, and as you were just talking about, the playoffs are a totally different deal, and I feel like it can never hurt to have some battle tested guys, some veteran guys who you could call upon if needed. Glenn Robinson the third has been around for a while, someone like Alec Burks, who spent the first handful of his seasons parts of eight years with the Utah Jazz. By the time he

left there, they were back in the playoff picture. He's a guy who's been around, and you know, these are guys who have experienced a little bit more than let's say, the likes of Thible and Quark, Moise and Milton at least relative to the bright spotlight of postseason basketball right right, just being there, and even Glenn Robinson the third I don't want to be wrong, but I want to say that the Indiana Pacers when he was with the Pacers, they made it to the postseason. I'm not sure how

many minutes I'll check on that. I don't want to be wrong on it, but I look at that, and you're right. The battle tested situation. We've seen it plenty of times. When the young players get into that new situation, that new season, as everyone calls itself, and will they be ready for it? Will they prepare for it? Absolutely? Will they be ready for it? The physicality, the different type of speed of the game in the postseason that everyone talks about, how things change, it will certainly help

to have. Of course, Mike Scott there and the starting five, but what about the rest When it comes to Thiable, Corkmis and Milton, it certainly helps to have Burkes and Robinson the third along foot of ride. Right now, the von Gibbons you hang tight. Have to tell the good people out there about a very important date they should

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All Right, divine, getting back to it, when we look at some of the numbers that Robinson the Third and Burkes are putting up with the Golden State Warriors, You've got Robinson averaging just under thirteen points a game, shot forty percent from outside the arc, Burkes sixteen points per game, career high average, obviously playing some of the highest volume minutes of his career, but thirty seven and a half percent from three point territory. And you know, these just

weren't nice percentages. They're shooting at a pretty high volume as well. But obviously the subcontext for this is that Golden State is having a very un Goolden State like season this year, dealing with a lot of injuries. That means different guys than you might have expected at the outset of the year are going to get more minutes.

So how do you reconcile some of the stuff that we've seen, at least on paper from Robinson and Burkes with how Golden State collectively was performing and what that might mean now that obviously the two of these players are going to be in a much different spot with

the seventy six or a team that's battling for contention. Yeah, I would think that just looking at the career numbers Alec Burks, a lot of it was situational injury history with the Utah Jazz where he missed time and Glenn Robinson the third a different path where he had to really work for his and get to where he is now, and he fell into the perfect opportunity with the Golden State Warriors, as you said, a unlike Golden State Warriors type of season with the injuries and all and the

new pieces that they had moving on from certain players that they had an opportunity. And we know a lot of times it says, hey, I'm a bad team. Some people have to put up the numbers. Someone has to do it. Points are gonna go up, someone has to

do it well. High volume of minutes for Alec Burks, as you pointed out, and he responded with those quality numbers just over sixteen points a game, as you mentioned, right around thirty seven percent from behind the three point line, a versatile overall scorer and as well as he has

shot the basketball. So it's I've always liked his game all the way back to Colorado as a collegiate player, because of the way he can handle the ball, his shiftiness at his size, put the ball on the floor, get the certain spots, still elevate sneaky, elevate over people, and finish at the rim very crafty. And now adding this three point three point shot to his game the way that he has so frequently, it just looks good

for the Philadelphia seventy six ers. So a tune up, if you will, with the Golden State Warriors to go out there play those big minutes, have the opportunity to do that. But also know that in the past he was playing as a reserve. He's still a reserve with the Golden State Warriors, but playing as a reserve where his minutes might be down. But understanding here that they

brought him in here for a reason. They brought him in here to put the ball on the floor, to put the ball in the bucket and that's what they need from him. That's what they want from him. A decent defender, not as good as Glenn Robinson the Third, but someone that you feel like you can count on, you don't look to necessarily hide as a defender. And as far as Glenn Robinson the third coming in now a former sixer, you know he was here doing the

early rebuilding stages with the team. Same thing, really just an opportunity, and now that he has the opportunities, both of these players have a chance to play for a playoff team, play meaningful minutes and hopefully carrying over the confidence that they bring with them from the Golden State

Warriors to now when nothing really falls off. Yes, the numbers are going to fall off in terms of points per game because the high value of touches and opportunities that they had there may not present themselves here in Philadelphia. But again, the confidence and understanding that the coach is going to draw things up and call things for them to get them involved where they're not just sitting around running to the corner and not involved in the offense.

I look forward again to seeing how Brett Brown incorporates them into it and how they handle their new situation. Someone asked me this the other day after the trade deadline, if I could name five players on the seventy sixers during the final game that Glenn Robinson, the third played here previously, so he ended the twenty fourteen fifteen season with the Sixers. Was Brett Brown's second year? Do you think you can name a handful of guys who were on the team that season and you said this was

the second year? Yeah, fourteen fifteen. If you have to take a crack, let's uh, as many as many guys as you could name who finished the season on the roster that year. I think I got four, yea four players on my own. Hollis Thompson, Yes, Henry Sims, Yes, Tony Rowton, let me check he I don't think he season. Let me I'll i'll fact check that while you continue your car Sameson, Yes, how about he said was issue

on that team? Which was on that team? Great job by you, okay, Is Schmidt, I have to beat you four and go for fifth. I will go with um. Brandon Davies. Oh, that is a great name from the past. Ah. I don't think Brandon Davies was on the roster at the end of that season, Roten was he was hurt at that point. I forgot about that at the end of the end of the season injured. So yeah, I think that's an exciting probably performance by you. Okay, so

there's five right there. All right. I was gonna I was gonna run a few more, but I don't know if they were could No, we can, you can just go ah. I don't think he ended the year with him, No, Casper Ware, No, he didn't end the season with the team. Wow, there's one guy who I thought two guys actually I thought kind of were maybe like year three or four of Brett, But yeah, they were on the fourteen fifteen team. Also Isaiah Cannon. I forgot that he was there that early. Uh,

and Luke Bob as well of course, and Robert Covington absolutely. Yeah, Now with the rockets, how about that? Yeah, look at

that a blast from the past. It is crazy to a like, think of the sixers back at that point in time, but also that here's a guy like Glenn Robinson, the third who came in at the end of that year, spent like two months with the seventy sixers, and he's had enough staying power in the NBA to come full circle in a certain sense and now find himself back with the very same team, obviously at a much different

stage of the franchise's timeline. Yeah, and it's good. It just goes to show how guys just simply persevere over what's going on out there. We know it's a tough business and there are only a certain amount of spots in this great association where you can end up on

a team, and he's worked through it. Nothing was handed to him, and he found an opportunity in Golden State where now he is part of a trade with a playoff contender with the Philadelphia seventy sixers, where they look at him as someone who can come in and give them good minutes, not just for his defense and his athleticism as we may have looked at in the early stages as you said of the rebuild of the Brett Brown era, but now known for his also sells his

outside shooting, where that would not have been something that I would have put a check mark next to his first time around with his team. So it just goes to show to hard work and once again just having an opportunity and working his tailoff to be in a situation like he is now to play for a playoff team here in Philadelphia. Did well ended with this, mister Devane,

Agree or disagree. While these trade deadline moves by the seventy six Ers and Elton brand can certainly figure to help, it seems like I probably will bring in Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson the third. Ultimately, it will come down to the combination of health and the main core that this team was counting on at the beginning of the season to get the group to where it ultimately wants to go. Without question, as you pointed out earlier, it's

great to have these players added to the team. They bring something that was much needed for this basketball team to short things up. But when it's all said and done, I think, no matter if it ends as you pointed out in late May, late June or mid June, that when we look back, we're going to say the core, with the help of everyone else, the core is really what got the team where they ultimately end up at the end of the season. So should be an interesting

ride to see how things go. I'm curious to see how these two new pieces jump in here with the Philadelphia seventy six Ers as we head into the All Star break. Divine Gibbons the Man seven five to the Fanatic in the post after games, Thanks so much, dude. Thank you Devon Gibbons the best. You cannot convince me otherwise, not even close here of nights weekends in the post after all seventy Sixers games on ninety seven five to the fanatic follow on Twitter at Devon g nine seventy five.

We appreciate as always having Divon on the pod. Appreciate you listening as well. Hopefully the Sixers can keep on building some amentum after that win of the Grizzlies. They've got the Bowls and the Clippers before the All Star Game break. And of course you can catch rewind editions of the podcast essentially game recaps the morning after every game right here in our feed. All righty, thanks so much for listening. Talk to you next time. See yeah two