Back with another check-in with our good friend from All-City NBA podcast and ESPN Tim Legler.

Tim, good to see you as always, man.

Good to see you guys, man.

Big time a year right now, right?

Everything, all the stakes are raised.

Everything feels a little bit more heightened right now.

Yeah, so exactly where I wanted to start with you just because of where they are and how the Eastern

Conference is so bunched up as far as down by five on down, especially with the teams behind

the Sixers and the play in, really surging. And they're going through their injuries and trying

to stay afloat with these final 20, 20 games, just under 20 games now for the season.

And when you're a player and you see the injuries hit you the way that the Sixers have had to deal with,

with both Embed, illness with Kelly Ubre, a scary fall for Vijay,

hopefully it's not anything too bad for him.

But how do you try to maintain and keep your head when it's Tyrese

Maxie and with all due respect, everyone else, and just trying to stay and hold off those other

teams? It's tough. I mean, it's, you know, when you go through this situation and I recall

being on teams when I was in the league that you go through stretches like this, it is very difficult. And you know, you're hoping you could hang your hat on a different way to win. Like if you could just win games defensively, you know, with your toughness on the glass, like just competing because you're just not going to have consistent offensive performances. It's very difficult to go through it. Now, the light at the end of the tunnel is, you know, you expect guys to come back, right? The cavalry is going to come and you're going to ease some of this burden on Tyrese maxi. Because I'm very worried right now about his burden and just he looks a little bit worn down. And, you know, the shots he has to take, the amount of offense he has to create, you can just see it in his efficiency.

He's a very efficient player for a guard, his size,

that takes a lot of jump shots.

There aren't a lot of guys historically that have been

Tyrese Maxy's size that shoot as many perimeter shots

as he does that have efficiency numbers like him.

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