Speaker 1: This is seventy Sixers. Rewind time now to listen back
Speaker 1: to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. Houston
Speaker 1: Rockets may very well have had James Harden, the rating
Speaker 1: MVP leading scorer in the NBA. Seventy Sixers had an
Speaker 1: all around unstoppable force tonight, and his name is Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1: All he needed was twenty six and a half minutes
Speaker 1: to go for thirty two points, fourteen rebounds, to assist,
Speaker 1: two steals, three block shots in a plus twenty one
Speaker 1: rating as the seventy Sixers roll past Houston one twenty
Speaker 1: one to ninety three. I'm Brian Seltz from Sixers dot Com.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from Tom McGinnis in a moment. We
Speaker 1: hope to hear from some of the players and participants
Speaker 1: in tonight's game, none bigger than Joel Embiid. If you
Speaker 1: caught a portion of Brett Brown's postgame press conference with
Speaker 1: Tom a few minutes earlier saying nope when asked do
Speaker 1: you think Joel gets enough love? Paraphrasing the question in
Speaker 1: the MVP conversation, and Brett swiftly said nope, and tonight
Speaker 1: was a great example of just how good the big
Speaker 1: man is and how vital he is to this team.
Speaker 1: There was no one on the Rockets who could stop him.
Speaker 1: Sixers tried to establish him early. They went after the NA,
Speaker 1: got him to foul trouble. James Harden had to help
Speaker 1: a little bit. He dealt with foul Isshues tonight there
Speaker 1: was no answer. The Rockets had to start James and
Speaker 1: Is the third to begin the second half. PJ. Tucker
Speaker 1: played a little bit down inside, couldn't handle Himbiid had
Speaker 1: to go back to n NA. Still no match for Joel.
Speaker 1: This was just one of those games where I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: thirty two and fourteen is wholly impressive, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. But there have been other games where Joel
Speaker 1: has put up larger numbers both in points and rebounding
Speaker 1: in other areas, but not nearly the impact in presence
Speaker 1: that he had in tonight's game. They just there was
Speaker 1: no answer that Houston had for the seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: big man Joel embid tonight. The other story is to
Speaker 1: go on down the list, Corey Brewer getting the start
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Butler are at with a wrist injury tonight
Speaker 1: so Brett Brown went to Corey Brewer on a hunch
Speaker 1: and believe it or not, hey, the head coach may
Speaker 1: know a thing or two. Right. Brewer an excellent choice
Speaker 1: to fill and he played thirty three minutes almost tonight
Speaker 1: eleven points five or ten from the field plus seventeen
Speaker 1: three rebounds, two blocks, two steals and assist. But more
Speaker 1: than that, just a boatload of energy. He was fantastic
Speaker 1: with his intangibles tonight, blocking shots, getting involved, mixing things
Speaker 1: up with James Harden. He was phenomenal. Ben Simmons nine
Speaker 1: point six rebounds, six assists, Landry sham At eighteen off
Speaker 1: the bench. T J McConnell huge as well with a dozen.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can hear from Ben Simmons right now,
Speaker 1: who I believe is at the postgame podium, and I
Speaker 1: think he's one of those guys he's always talking, he's
Speaker 1: always positive, and his energy level is always up there.
Speaker 1: You know, from what I've seen so far, what'd you
Speaker 1: see as the biggest factors to why you guys were
Speaker 1: able to so easily hand think In terms of defense,
Speaker 1: I think the way we are able to match up
Speaker 1: on teams is different. We're able to switch a lot
Speaker 1: of things. We have a lot of athleticism on the
Speaker 1: floor at you know, most times down the floor. Um,
Speaker 1: but I think just everyone was locked in and no
Speaker 1: one really you know, got side checked into how many
Speaker 1: points James had. Um shout out to a mirror. But
Speaker 1: it was never about you know how many you know,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna get his points and have a
Speaker 1: lot of points of whatever it is. M Man of
Speaker 1: the days. You know how you how you defend the
Speaker 1: whole team. And that's it. From Ben Simmons talking about
Speaker 1: the defense the seventy Sixers provided tonight, holding Houston to
Speaker 1: thirty six percent shooting eleven to forty two. That's only
Speaker 1: twenty six percent from outside the arc, dominating the Rockets
Speaker 1: on the glass to finish plus seventeen ninety three. The
Speaker 1: final scores seventy sixers with their biggest margin of victory
Speaker 1: over the Rockets since nineteen eighty three. Good stuff by
Speaker 1: the Sixers tonight. Great stuff from Tom McGinnis, who at
Speaker 1: the hall of this one this evening. Well, why don't
Speaker 1: we pick up Tom with I was gonna say defense,
Speaker 1: we'll get to that. We'll go more with this, you know, Houston.
Speaker 1: They had James Harden, but the seventy Sixers had I think,
Speaker 1: without question, the more unstoppable force in tonight's game, and
Speaker 1: that was Joel Embi. There was just no answer for
Speaker 1: him from Houston, right and they're they're hurting a little
Speaker 1: bit in that area without Compella, so they start the
Speaker 1: veteran Nanay he was in his seventheen season. He tried
Speaker 1: to be active with his feet and with his hands
Speaker 1: and stay in front of Joelle, but in the end
Speaker 1: he was really no match. He picked up some early files.
Speaker 1: He really only played eight minutes in the game. And
Speaker 1: then they come off the bench with Kenneth Freed, who
Speaker 1: was very similar albeit a little smaller than the Nay,
Speaker 1: and again Joel was able to get the line and
Speaker 1: get into the act quite easily, and he ended up
Speaker 1: with thirty two points for the Sixers and really a
Speaker 1: solid dominant performance with steals and blocks and just putting
Speaker 1: his thumprit on the game. But when you talk of defense,
Speaker 1: like my favorite slice of this game, and there was,
Speaker 1: like I said, some volatile plays, some energetic plays with
Speaker 1: Ebid and hardened, and that was really exciting. But there
Speaker 1: was a point and very very early in the game
Speaker 1: where and Hardened, obviously with a lot of ISOs, has
Speaker 1: possession of the ball quite a bit long time, ten
Speaker 1: to twelve seconds sometimes, and he was paired with Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons and it was to our right, and the crowd
Speaker 1: just sensed it. And you know, there were so many
Speaker 1: There was hundreds of people here early shooting pictures of
Speaker 1: Harden as he warmed up. So they know one of
Speaker 1: the best players, the top scorer, the reigning MVP, is
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. And you know that's the great thing about
Speaker 1: our fans. They're so knowledgeable. But in that moment, they
Speaker 1: roses one and they're like, this is delicious in terms
Speaker 1: of Simmons and Hardened, and I think Ben got to stop.
Speaker 1: But then Jonah Bolden got three blocks on Hardened, five
Speaker 1: total by the Sixers in the first half against them.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, you know, tidy En up with the
Speaker 1: defense and as you mentioned, the energy Corey Brewer. You
Speaker 1: know everyone's been talking about, you know, who are these guys,
Speaker 1: what are the Sixers? Who are they going to get? Well,
Speaker 1: guess what one of them might be? Corey Brewer? Is
Speaker 1: he this year's Bell? And Ellie, I don't know they're
Speaker 1: different players, but he certainly brings some things to the
Speaker 1: table for the Sixers. In again, he's right in the
Speaker 1: midst of his first ten day contract, so we don't
Speaker 1: want to get too far ahead of ourselves. But that
Speaker 1: ability to make a shot, that ability to guard somebody's
Speaker 1: going to fit in the locker room with veteran experience
Speaker 1: and toughness. That was all on display here tonight. And
Speaker 1: as coach Brown said, you know, well deserved for him
Speaker 1: to get ice down and to get rested because he
Speaker 1: was flying around. His timing wasn't quite there, but the
Speaker 1: heart was there, the fight was there, and he really
Speaker 1: put on a very tough, fun energetic performance tonight for
Speaker 1: the Sixers. Seventy six Ers beat the Rockets one twenty
Speaker 1: one to ninety three. They improved to thirty one and
Speaker 1: seventeen on the season. Let's go back to last week's
Speaker 1: game against the Minnesota Timberwolf Sixers three and one. Over
Speaker 1: the course of the four games that have followed, and
Speaker 1: I think Tom the defense has really taken a step
Speaker 1: forward during the stretch. I don't know how you feel
Speaker 1: that well, no doubt about it. And you know the
Speaker 1: success of an NBA defense, or really at any level,
Speaker 1: is the communication and the ability to help one another,
Speaker 1: to be able to have schemes and stay with them.
Speaker 1: And again, the Sixers with their length and their ability
Speaker 1: to switch, as Ben was saying, that they give a
Speaker 1: different look. They give teams different presentations that they don't
Speaker 1: often see. You've got little things like we just talked
Speaker 1: about with Corey Brewer or Jonah Bolden coming into the game.
Speaker 1: And the biggest thing is obviously Joel and they missed
Speaker 1: Jimmy tonight. But Butler is a guy who can really Again,
Speaker 1: it's not like back in the day where you could
Speaker 1: just put a player out on the wing and he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to shut that guy down. It's just
Speaker 1: that's not how the game is officiated anymore. And the
Speaker 1: floor is spread out. It's just different than it was
Speaker 1: back in the day when you could put a Pippin
Speaker 1: or a Peyton or a Rodman or one of these
Speaker 1: legendary defensive players out there and just lock somebody up,
Speaker 1: or a Michael Jordan. But today it's so incumbent upon
Speaker 1: being connected, being tied together defensively, and a Sixers. The
Speaker 1: Sixers are, they're rounding in the form here is we've
Speaker 1: passed the halfway point and they're getting better and better,
Speaker 1: and their metrics show it at that end of the
Speaker 1: floor as well. Sixers beat the Rockets one twenty one
Speaker 1: to ninety three. Going back to that anyone butt theory
Speaker 1: that Brett Brown has, I mean, James Harden, he did
Speaker 1: what he did. But after that, you know, there was
Speaker 1: up until garbage time in the fourth quarter, no one
Speaker 1: else that really hurt the Sixers, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And again Gordon and Tucker and Austin Rivers he had
Speaker 1: an offer. Those are some of the guys that you'd
Speaker 1: like to see for them and traditionally have And again
Speaker 1: they're missing two of their best players in Paul and Capella.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I don't want to think anyway from the
Speaker 1: Sixers because they dominated this game. But the Rockets were
Speaker 1: a little flat tonight. They had that overtime game, they
Speaker 1: actually played later and then traveled here from Texas. They
Speaker 1: had a busy week last week, and it'll be hey
Speaker 1: when the Sixers. Part of what I was thinking, as
Speaker 1: the Sixers were dominating hard and his Sixers have to
Speaker 1: go back down there and it might be a whole
Speaker 1: different ballgame with James Harden, but tonight was a resounding
Speaker 1: thorough victory. Just dominated the Rockets early on. It was close,
Speaker 1: but after that the Sixers totally took him over and
Speaker 1: to win and outscore them by third or holding to
Speaker 1: thirteen and dominate the third twenty nine to thirteen. That
Speaker 1: that really blew the game out of the water after
Speaker 1: leading by fifteen. Great win for the Sixers. Again, didn't
Speaker 1: see it coming. And yet another tough Western Conference game
Speaker 1: here on Wednesday with the Spurs. Another loss from earlier
Speaker 1: the season. Two avenge in that one, but the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers get buck on track tonight after that tough one
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Tom speak with you on Wednesday, all right,
Speaker 1: good night, Thank you Sixers rock the Houston Rockets one
Speaker 1: twenty one to at ninety three. Joelmbe thirty two points,
Speaker 1: fourteen rebounds, three blocks, shots eighteen from Landry Shamon who
Speaker 1: had a really nice game throughout a dozen for t
Speaker 1: J McConnell. Corey Brewer filling in for the injured Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler he was at with a wrist injury. Corey Brewer
Speaker 1: eleven points, a ton of energy, sure hill factor in
Speaker 1: or a highlight segment which is coming up on the
Speaker 1: other side, and then after that we sent it back
Speaker 1: to Devon Gibbons. We'll be hanging in the post up
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Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers playing the second game of a three game
Speaker 1: homestand before a long trip back out west. The mission
Speaker 1: tonight was to bounce back from a tough, stinging loss
Speaker 1: to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday. On Brian Seltz
Speaker 1: from Sixers dot Com, let us get two highlights from
Speaker 1: this evening's entertaining game between the Sixers and the Rockets.
Speaker 1: No Butler, Yes, Corey Brewer making an impact early on.
Speaker 1: Brewer driving on hard and spins around him and puts
Speaker 1: it him in and take that bearded one. Nice play
Speaker 1: by Corey Brewer and the Sixers lead by two. Cooking
Speaker 1: up something look good early on. Sixty six to four
Speaker 1: was the score at that point for Corey Brewer. He
Speaker 1: in The seventy Sixers would have a high energy approach
Speaker 1: throughout the first quarter, as exhibited by one Joel and
Speaker 1: beat as well. It'd be with it against Kenneth Fari
Speaker 1: makes a move, Joel knocks him down, he ducks underneath
Speaker 1: one man and a foul that's gonna be on Hardened.
Speaker 1: It would be that very well could have been an
Speaker 1: offensive foul. Farreed came over to take the contact part
Speaker 1: of a stretch in which Joel and Being closed out
Speaker 1: the first quarter by scoring the seventy sixers final ten
Speaker 1: points to put the Sixers in front thirty to twenty six,
Speaker 1: and really they would not look back from there. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons helping push the margin into double figures territory. James Harden,
Speaker 1: leaning over the right hand, drew back crosses him over
Speaker 1: in the lane, tries to draw the foul, does not
Speaker 1: and then missed the shot. Got it back. He's blocked
Speaker 1: by Olden for the third time. Ben Simmons in the lake,
Speaker 1: right by Garden. Laugh good head. Ben Simmons runs right
Speaker 1: over the rockets. Oh man, what a play by Simmons.
Speaker 1: That sequence exemplary of the great two way after the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers gave throughout the night. And yeah, Jonah Bolden,
Speaker 1: his length came up big and this one Simmons getting
Speaker 1: the end one, making it forty five to thirty four
Speaker 1: and helping put the seventy Sixers in the driver's seat
Speaker 1: before the first half came to a close. One more
Speaker 1: quality cuts from Corey Brewer. They go right to Harden
Speaker 1: against Corey Brewer, jab steps step back, three long No,
Speaker 1: Simmons tips and Simmons fasten ahead and Brewers getting a slaugh.
Speaker 1: Corey Brewer gets the last laugh, puts it in two
Speaker 1: hand jab Well. The real last laugh went to Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: who's stuffed James Harden on a chase down block. Arguably
Speaker 1: one of the highlights, if not the highlight, of tonight's game.
Speaker 1: Sixers in front at intermission sixty five to fifty. The
Speaker 1: lead Woods swell as the Sixers went on a fourteen
Speaker 1: to two run to open up the third quarter. Sixers
Speaker 1: go to Brewer. Brewer drives on hard hard ol Baby
Speaker 1: had a back off. He didn't want a fifth fouth
Speaker 1: and his old teammate, Corey Brewer cruises in with the
Speaker 1: lay up. Seventy seven fifty two. Sixers kept putting it on.
Speaker 1: Landry Shammon had a really nice night. He was scoring
Speaker 1: both outside and in very versatile but here Shammont for three,
Speaker 1: rising with the pass and Landry Shammon with his second
Speaker 1: tray in the game, McConnell with a dish, Shammont with
Speaker 1: eleven Sixers by twenty five. Again, eighty five to sixty
Speaker 1: was the score. Sixers let at ninety four to sixty
Speaker 1: three at the break. It was the largest deficit of
Speaker 1: the season that Houston has faced after three quarters in
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers largest lead after three fourth quarters. Started
Speaker 1: with a Joel and beat highlight and then he would
Speaker 1: sit pretty much after that. T J. McConnell to Joe,
Speaker 1: Joe fakes drives it, throws up an off balance shot.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, he threw it up backward and then tapped
Speaker 1: in his own miss. That's incredible to see a man
Speaker 1: of that size pull that off. It was like he
Speaker 1: was shooting on a nerf hoop. It b now with
Speaker 1: thirty two and emblematic of the fact that Houston had
Speaker 1: no one there to even come close to stopping or
Speaker 1: slowing down joelmbiad final tonight three Sixers win it. They
Speaker 1: shot just under forty nine percent from the field, held
Speaker 1: Houston to thirty six. Houston shoots more threes than any
Speaker 1: team in the league. They took forty two attempts outside
Speaker 1: the ark tonight, only making eleven, barely over twenty five percent.
Speaker 1: Sixers didn't have a ton of threes. They didn't need
Speaker 1: to rely on it eight three pointers, but they outscored
Speaker 1: Houston fifty six to thirty eight in the paint, and
Speaker 1: they were plus seven from the free throw line on
Speaker 1: seven more attempts. Sixers dominated the glass. They were plus
Speaker 1: seventeen in that area, only thirteen turnovers. That was a
Speaker 1: good step in the right direction for the Sixers as well.
Speaker 1: James Harden had the high scoring total in the game
Speaker 1: with thirty seven, twelve of twenty six from the field,
Speaker 1: six or thirteen outside the Ark only got to the
Speaker 1: line eight times, also six rebounds, three assists, two block shots,
Speaker 1: but six turnovers. The seventy sixers a buy committee approach
Speaker 1: with him, but we saw a lot of Corey Brewer
Speaker 1: on him. Also. Wilson Chandler picked him up. T J
Speaker 1: McConnell of course, Ben Simmons with some spot duty as
Speaker 1: well a group effort, but again for James Harden, they
Speaker 1: kept him to his average at thirty seven points. Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid plus twenty one in the game thirty two points,
Speaker 1: fourteen rebounds, three blocks, shots eighteen Philandry Sham at twelve
Speaker 1: for t J. McConnell. McConnell was another big energy guy
Speaker 1: presence for the Sixers tonight, Corey Brewer with eleven points,
Speaker 1: five of ten from the field. He also had three
Speaker 1: rebounds and assists, two steals and two block shots plus
Speaker 1: seventeen six for JJ Reddick Wilson Chandler was perfect from
Speaker 1: the floor four four one three pointer, fourteen rebounds, three assists,
Speaker 1: nine points plus twenty overall. Ben Simmons nine points, six rebounds,
Speaker 1: six assists, two blocks, but he you know, he was
Speaker 1: not able to put up a high efficiency nine offensively,
Speaker 1: but this was not needed from him. Tonight, seventy six
Speaker 1: ers now thirty one and seventeen with win Rockets or
Speaker 1: twenty six and twenty seventy sixers will look to cap
Speaker 1: the homestand with two wins on Wednesday when they faced
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. Another eight o'clock start time on
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Speaker 1: Yeah that's his name. Back of the studio, Marti Dickerson
Speaker 1: holding things down here. Divon Gibbons is coming back right
Speaker 1: now within the post, get on the phone six one
Speaker 1: zero sixty three, two zero nine to seventy five. Now
Speaker 1: for the radio voice the seventy six ers, Tom McGinnis,
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer saying so long for now one final time.
Speaker 1: The final score seventy six Ers one twenty one the
Speaker 1: Rockets ninety three. Have a great rest of her Monday
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