Lightning Strikes for the Sixers...

Lightning strike twice for the Sixers plus we got another round of play in the game titled What's today's dumb Joel Embiid trade scenario being thrown out there by writers that are alleged basketball insiders? What's happening everybody Christian Pedersen back another episode of Sixers Digest the show where Sean and I Bring you daily videos on the Sixers. Sean does it at three times speed. I do it at 0.3 speed Nonetheless, we find a middle ground to help you guys all figure out the content that you want What's going on if you want to like subscribe comment share follow all those other buttons always much appreciated Saw some comments yesterday saying that I was hating on LeBron previous to this just want to clarify I don't know the dude. I don't hate the dude. I don't love the dude as far as I can tell He's not a murderer. He's not on the Epstein list and he's never been bad to his wife or kids So as far as I know the only anti LeBron I've ever been doing is the cheering part I'm stoked to have him as part of Philly and I hope you are all as well first one to talk about today is the latest in the series of basketball insiders trying to just drum up clickbait and figure out things with which they can Pass the time and I feel it is not only my sacred duty as a Sixers youtuber to bring you these ideas But it's also like there will eventually be one out there that I guess the whole of the room will decide Oh, yes, that's the deal that I could take the Jalen Duran as a return plus Duncan Robinson and a 2032 first-round pick. So what is that trading for like a nine-year-old right now? But sending a bead and a second round pick to the Sixers Clippers get Gary Harris Roberts rap Rockets Wow wolf. I don't know why I just mixed the Rockets and the Raptors to be the Rapids, but they get Torian Prince your thoughts Jalen Duran, I actually talked about him in yesterday's episode of me not being scared of the Pistons because he faded so horrendously in the the playoffs I'm out on this deal. I think it means the process. I think it means the dude I also kind of think that we owe it to MB to not dump him and Then go on and immediately win a championship just that feels disingenuous After all that he has sacrificed like dudes literally lost organs in the pursuit of trying to get us to a championship So I'm here for it Like to talk about it that wise but I'm not here for it in the sense of trying to Get rid of him just for the sake of like contract and injuries Like let's let's roll the ball out and play with this next thing I wanted to ask is do you think about lightning hitting twice? This is just either this is a nothing burger story But this is either a complete nothing or a serious omen and that is KCP and his wife Were signing the lease for their penthouse which stoked dude Loved that you found a nice place to live here in the city But they got hit by lightning like as they were in the building signing it Don't know what that means. It It means that this is the depths of the offseason and that there is occasionally Absolutely nothing to talk about. So you've got to talk about KCP's house getting hit by lightning or this is a Electric start to the year for him and means nothing but good. Let me know what you think. Next thing I got on the rundown is this story from Yahoo and They are saying that LeBron James might potentially for the first time ever not average 20 points per game and I Dug into the article a little bit and the main rationale provided here was that LeBron is say that he's gonna be more of a field general and assists and There's so many other dynamic scores and there's only one ball So he is at risk of not scoring 20 again to that. I would ask Three let's call it three questions. First one is Yahoo Sports Are you saying that our boy? Sean is wrong because Sean's prediction was that LeBron is gonna edge out 20.2 points per season also at the same time. They'll be able to lead the NBA in assists per game. I would also say is 20 points. I mean, maybe maybe it's wrong of me to ask is 20 points hard to get Hard to score any buckets in the NBA, but is 20 points really that hard for LeBron to get? Even with everybody else involved in this equation given that It's not us that we're not in a scenario Where LeBron is the only functionary of this offense to run the point? like yes, he's potentially gonna lead in assists or have a huge blossoming year in that direction of Stats but I also think that there will be times where eventually He'll maybe he'll get like a quiet 20 and not necessarily be out there Averaging these huge nights, but I just don't see LeBron averaging like nine points a game if he if he ends up averaging like 18.7 or 19.3 or something like that feels like super splitty hairs all around him up to 20 in like that You know the brownie points that we award on this show, but I I just don't see it being that big Let me say it this way, I'm stumbling all over my words if LeBron doesn't score 20 a game this season I feel like it's him choosing not to rather than him being prevented from doing so by the Team not being able to deliver him those opportunities Next one that I saw to close out for the day. Is this again? Yahoo! Sports, maybe I'm giving them way too much credit for being basketball knowers, but they broke down LeBron's first season with all of his teams and how he did and Maybe it's apples to oranges comparing how LeBron was in 2010 2011 because That's been a minute. But nonetheless there are some interesting I think Consistencies through these three eras of him showing up to new teams that are nonetheless worth studying he Starting at 9 and 8 then figured it out and goes nuts on a 12 game winning streak runs through the Eastern Conference and then ends up running into Dirk I don't want to project out any sort of the championship nonsense because that's a long ways from where we're at right now I'm more interested in that 9 and 8 start and then a 12 game winning streak Given that I had talked about I talked about the first 10 games already this season But called it kind of like just an arbitrarily round number so this is for 17 games before it finally clicked and then it really really clicked and That's something that I just I think we're gonna really be watching for there Maybe it's gonna be literally one possession one game one weekend one back-to-back But it does sort of feel like there's gonna be something where this team noticeably clicks somewhere between those 10 and 20 games the 2014-15 Season when he heads back to the Cavs I kid you not this statistically very weird and I don't know the likelihood of this happening but a another kind of rocky start going 19 and 20, but then a 12 game winning streak to Close it out and go to the finals What are the likelihood so maybe we are in for at some point a 12 game winning streak this season? I would wonder if that is It just LeBron's secret sauce is let's let's mess around Let's figure this out and then rattle off 12 games. But nonetheless another one. We're like Setting up. I'm setting us up for even with the highest of expectations. There's probably gonna be some Let's call it at the very least a learning curve out the gate I would hope that at this point in LeBron's career Being the veteran statesman that he is and has Composed and driven and focused as he is plus the surrounding pieces of talent not being as like, you know That Cavs one was that was upstart Kyrie and Kevin love and some other like Richard Jefferson type pieces Is the you know going on to like the Lakers? Era for him in terms of the more recent ones Like the expectations have been high everywhere LeBron is gone But they have not been as surrounded by other generational pieces as he is right now So I would hope that maybe instead of 17 or 40 games to figure it out It is let's call it under 20 to really write the ship. No 12 game winning streak Available to talk about in this third one, which I would have just been like whoa that truly is insane but nonetheless a Season that Had some some, you know issues coming together initially this one off the rails Because of some injuries and things falling apart that were kind of outside of the LeBron's like on-court impact But I think it gives me a really interesting consistent sample size a this is a two-year thing of LeBron's so Almost thinking that like next year is Going to somehow be better than this year Just kind of given where we're at in terms of like historically LeBron has these you know Gelling and growing and learning issues initially out the gate then that second year is just absolutely out there nuking people But for the here and now it does seem like let's let's for right now on Sixers digest Let's say we are setting the bar at 15 games into the season We're gonna know what this is gonna look like and maybe we all hit our Hit our lick and have another 12 game winning streak. That's what I've got for you on today's episode Let me know what you think like subscribe comment share follow all those other you to be buttons until next time We'll talk to you guys