Speaker 1: Never the T shirts draped over every single seat in
Speaker 1: the building. There are Australian flags and beat piet In
Speaker 1: contests from four and twenty, but no doubt the best
Speaker 1: way to feel a sense of Australian pride on this
Speaker 1: night seeing what the Native Sun did against these Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons was just that good. Nineteen point seventeen rebounds
Speaker 1: and fourteen assists, a fantastic triple double, his fifth on
Speaker 1: the air, guiding the Sixers to a needed welcome to
Speaker 1: bounce back victory one fifteen to one to one over
Speaker 1: these Chicago Bulls. Sixers, with a ninth win in twelve tries,
Speaker 1: will join Brett Brown in progress right now. And I
Speaker 1: think it's defensively. I think it's always easier. And this
Speaker 1: sounds kind of funny. You have a better chance of
Speaker 1: playing NBA defense if you get on the same page
Speaker 1: and you understand the rules, then you do scoring. It's
Speaker 1: hard to score. You have a better chance of playing defense.
Speaker 1: And I think that with Joel and the improvement and
Speaker 1: understanding of what our team rules are and the guys
Speaker 1: buying into that and trying to move us forward and
Speaker 1: never letting us go. We talk about it, we show it.
Speaker 1: We have internal goals and we admit like we have
Speaker 1: a better chance of playing NBA defense than we do
Speaker 1: being the Golden State Warriors. And I think that that's
Speaker 1: kicking in. I think with third or fourth in the
Speaker 1: NBA defensively, I'm proud of our defense. And tonight, with
Speaker 1: the exception of a few plays in the last period,
Speaker 1: some open threes, I thought we did it again because
Speaker 1: it's Australian Heritage Night. Aside from the Australian Heritage Night,
Speaker 1: I think the pace of the game. I think because
Speaker 1: he rebounded before. I think it was before this game
Speaker 1: we talked about, you know, free throws. I think how
Speaker 1: Ward ask me about free throws and I flipped it
Speaker 1: quickly to rebounding, and he rebounded, and he instigated a
Speaker 1: lot himself. He's able to control stuff when he rebounds.
Speaker 1: He can rebound and take off. And I still think
Speaker 1: that that is the hardest thing to guard. You know,
Speaker 1: back in the day you'd see Charles Barkley do that
Speaker 1: in rebounding and lead a break. It's hard to defend that.
Speaker 1: With the exception maybe of the high kickout, the high outlet,
Speaker 1: that's maybe the second most effective way. You'd seem Irvin
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson do it all the time. And I thought
Speaker 1: in the first half there was a lot of like
Speaker 1: what we call dribble out backdowns where he was out
Speaker 1: there was nobody ahead of him. He would turn and
Speaker 1: you know, play and he'd find other people on the
Speaker 1: other side of the floor or spin off and finish himself.
Speaker 1: And I think that the style of the game, him rebounding,
Speaker 1: it allowed him to put his thumbprint on this game
Speaker 1: in a big way. Early said stars weren't our stars.
Speaker 1: How did you feel about you know, Joel and Dario
Speaker 1: put in that they were really good tonight, and they
Speaker 1: were really good in the areas that we needed them
Speaker 1: to be, you know, like let's go to the rebounding
Speaker 1: with Ben and him pushing the pace. I thought it
Speaker 1: was Joel's best game passing out of the post. You know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna look at a statue and I don't even
Speaker 1: know what the assists will say, but the fact is
Speaker 1: he quartered back the gym and it's the hockey assist.
Speaker 1: The assist that leads to the assist assist type stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'll shoot has made shots and it's it's it's
Speaker 1: one of the greatest challenges to have somebody as skilled
Speaker 1: as Joel is Um, you know, play with that poise
Speaker 1: and know where his floor spots are, and we spaced well,
Speaker 1: I think almost perfectly most possessions he had. Let the
Speaker 1: gym get settled. He wasn't rushing things, and there was
Speaker 1: a poise on how he quarterback the gym. That was
Speaker 1: just just extremely important. If you look back at the
Speaker 1: volume of threes, we had sixteen of them, I'm guessing
Speaker 1: half of them were out of post passes initiated mostly
Speaker 1: by him. And then you get to Dario. You know Dario,
Speaker 1: when you look at his numbers and you know he's
Speaker 1: plus thirty one, it's really a huge number in twenty
Speaker 1: eight minutes. Those three were excellent. More significant maybe to
Speaker 1: have this kind of a game for those three on
Speaker 1: the night when they were all named the rising Stars.
Speaker 1: That's the first I've heard that. Yeah, no, that's that's
Speaker 1: very appropriate. Was that before the game? You know, isn't
Speaker 1: it funny like we're all isn't that's great? Though? That's great?
Speaker 1: Like he connect the dots a little bit of Sigmund
Speaker 1: Freud might It was sure they had to feel good
Speaker 1: mentality you know, look what Joe did in Boston when
Speaker 1: he was named the Star. To like, it's just human nature.
Speaker 1: And I see all the time with these young guys.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm reaching a little bit, but you know, they
Speaker 1: weigh the hearts on the sleeve. We're trying to get
Speaker 1: them older. You know. We still, you know, make some mistakes.
Speaker 1: You just scratch your head. But I thought I turnovers
Speaker 1: to night would better. You know, I think that we
Speaker 1: ended up with fifteen. We still you know that volume
Speaker 1: of assists. Thirty one is a big number. But guys
Speaker 1: were good tonight. We responded from a disappointing loss in
Speaker 1: Memphis the way the way that I had hoped. Good
Speaker 1: words from seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown one fifteen
Speaker 1: one to one, the Sixers over the Chicago Bulls. That
Speaker 1: got off to a great start tonight, their defense leading
Speaker 1: the way. In addition to Ben Simmons nineteen points, seventeen rebounds,
Speaker 1: fourteen assists. According the Great Website Basketball Reference, no other
Speaker 1: Sixer not named Wilt Chamberlain has ever hit those splits
Speaker 1: in a single game, just the second rookies Simmons ever
Speaker 1: to post those marks in a single game. He was fantastic,
Speaker 1: and yeah, the Sixers knocked him down from outside the
Speaker 1: arc like thrown into the ocean, sixteen to thirty two
Speaker 1: from deep, while these Chicago Bulls were eleven to thirty seven,
Speaker 1: but not even nearly up to that point. Through three
Speaker 1: quarters of play, dwell Embiid with twenty two points, five
Speaker 1: rebounds and three assists, Dario Charch with twenty one points
Speaker 1: and ten rebounds, his second straight twenty and ten game,
Speaker 1: sixteen for Robert Covington, a dozen for Timo Taylor, while
Speaker 1: Cabero and twelve for Justin Anderson, matching a season high
Speaker 1: and as a Brett Brown spoke about it in his
Speaker 1: postgame press conference. The trio of young players Embiid, Simmons
Speaker 1: and Charts who are nominated to the Mountain Duke Kick
Speaker 1: Start Rising Stars Challenge about an hour before tip off tonight,
Speaker 1: they came out and delivered this evening as the Sixers
Speaker 1: win for the ninth time in twelve games, one fifteen
Speaker 1: one to one over the Bulls. Tom McGinnis is standing
Speaker 1: by and we'll speak with him next here on the
Speaker 1: postgame show on the Sixers Rating Network. Seventy Sixers making
Speaker 1: a pitch stop in South Philanelphia before setting out for
Speaker 1: a four game road trip that is going to take
Speaker 1: them to Texas, to Oklahoma, to Wisconsin to the Empire States.
Speaker 1: And they made good on this game tonight, one fifteen,
Speaker 1: one to one over the Chicago Ols. Tom McGinnis called
Speaker 1: this one, and it's good to talk to him as always,
Speaker 1: particularly so after a win, even more especially so given
Speaker 1: a night like this. Let's just start with the native
Speaker 1: son who did his country and continent proud nineteen seventeen
Speaker 1: and fourteen. Heay stuff from Ben Simmons. Oh, he was
Speaker 1: fired up on Australian Heritage Night. He really came out
Speaker 1: rebounding the ball well, eleven rebounds in the opening quarter,
Speaker 1: very aggressive and just an easy for him triple double.
Speaker 1: He had it with like nine minutes to go in
Speaker 1: the third quarter. Terrific game all over for Simmons. He
Speaker 1: knew he was going to play a lot, but coach
Speaker 1: Brett Brown talked about that even with the media pregame,
Speaker 1: and you know he mentioned that the Ben, with the
Speaker 1: absence of t J McConnell, played nearly thirty eight minutes
Speaker 1: and was just great from start to finish. Simmons nearly
Speaker 1: had the triple double through two quarters of play, and
Speaker 1: he wasted all of forty nine seconds to get it
Speaker 1: in the third quarter on a pair of Robert Covington
Speaker 1: three pointers. But this was some emblematic that guys like
Speaker 1: Simmons and Embad in particular Sarch was great. He had
Speaker 1: a twenty and ten game against Memphis on Monday, but
Speaker 1: in particular Simmons and ebiads stepping up, bouncing back, and
Speaker 1: the Sixers along with him after that lost Monday, and
Speaker 1: Joel to me, it's at one point I mentioned, you know,
Speaker 1: it was kind of neat that the Sixers did not
Speaker 1: have to depend on him to have a monster game.
Speaker 1: And then in the end he ended up with twenty
Speaker 1: two points, and I thought he did have a couple
Speaker 1: of turnovers, but I thought he did a really good
Speaker 1: job of moving the ball off the block. The Bulls
Speaker 1: were doubling him at times on the catch, but more
Speaker 1: times off the dribble. In other words, when he would
Speaker 1: catch it and put his head down to dribble, that's
Speaker 1: when they came and he was able to get it
Speaker 1: out to the wing or sometimes from the top. And then,
Speaker 1: as is the case with fluid offensive squads, it wasn't
Speaker 1: that first pass, but sometimes the second and third pass
Speaker 1: where they would swing swing it to the open guy,
Speaker 1: and they did a really good job of Louhiawa and
Speaker 1: Covington ended up with four threes, and for Lo Whiwa,
Speaker 1: most of them came in the second half, whereas when
Speaker 1: he started the first two times where JJ it was
Speaker 1: in the particularly in Memphis the first quarter, and even
Speaker 1: though over the weekend against Milwaukee and Dario a little
Speaker 1: photo op. He's right in the midst of dozens of
Speaker 1: fans out at center court here as we speak post game,
Speaker 1: and you're almost you know, except not expecting. But Dario's
Speaker 1: numbers have been so great, particularly against Chicago in the
Speaker 1: last three matchups. You mentioned the game he headed Memphez
Speaker 1: and he has been really steady and successful for the
Speaker 1: sixers of late sixers over the balls one fifteen, one
Speaker 1: on one and just a final point on Joel and Bead.
Speaker 1: You look down at the statuet Tom and it says
Speaker 1: three in the assist column. It was interesting because Brick
Speaker 1: Brown said afterwards he thought this might have been Ebad's
Speaker 1: best passing game. Out of the post. I would have
Speaker 1: put him down for just gut feel like five or
Speaker 1: six times tonight I did seem like he was really
Speaker 1: active recognizing those double teams. Well he was, and that's
Speaker 1: what I was just saying. Though it wasn't all these
Speaker 1: times the scoring past, but he helped to precipitate it
Speaker 1: by getting the ball out of there. You know, you
Speaker 1: have to make teams pay, particularly when he's down low.
Speaker 1: If you're going to double there, then somebody's got to
Speaker 1: be opened on the opposite side of the floor, on
Speaker 1: the perimeter. And that's what the Sixers did. And that's
Speaker 1: what when you know the whole Brett Brown offensive system
Speaker 1: and so many offensive styles in the NBA now are
Speaker 1: predicated on the perimeter, and the Sixers lead and pace,
Speaker 1: they're right up there and assists and passes. But if
Speaker 1: you're going to have a big guy and use him well,
Speaker 1: then you're going to have to make them pay and
Speaker 1: use that whole inside out combination. And tonight they did
Speaker 1: it about as well as they've done it all year long.
Speaker 1: There was a major part of the game, Brian, and
Speaker 1: it almost ended up true in the final analysis, where
Speaker 1: the difference in the game was the number. At one
Speaker 1: point the field goals were exactly the same. The free
Speaker 1: throws were exactly the same. The difference was the Sixers
Speaker 1: had seven more threes. I think in the end they
Speaker 1: may have ended up with five four, But a lot
Speaker 1: of that is based on the passing and moving the
Speaker 1: ball from the inside, particularly down low with Joel to
Speaker 1: the perimeter and getting open looks. So they did a
Speaker 1: good job of that and that I think is hopefully
Speaker 1: something the Sixers can build on and continue to do
Speaker 1: throughout the year. Yeah, the Bulls had six three pointers
Speaker 1: through three quarters. They finished the game with eleven, pretty
Speaker 1: much at a stage in the night when the game
Speaker 1: had been just about put under wraps for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Now this team heads out on the road for the
Speaker 1: next four time again as starting with Friday, stop in
Speaker 1: at San Antonio and then onto Oklahoma City and a
Speaker 1: back to back that ends in where Milwaukee right and
Speaker 1: then they end up going to Brooklyn too. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe it starts a stretch of five games in
Speaker 1: seven days, and it's been a rather busy stretch for
Speaker 1: the Sixers. And you know, you were saying, and we
Speaker 1: were here last week that the Sixers have had the
Speaker 1: most difficult schedule. It's going to get easier, well, not
Speaker 1: right now. Maybe in February, but not right now. In
Speaker 1: San Antonio, they've had some changes. You know, you watched
Speaker 1: their game last night against Cleveland. De Jontay Murray is
Speaker 1: now the point guard, Tony Parker's coming off the bench,
Speaker 1: Kawhi is out. But they've been really good against the Sixers,
Speaker 1: particularly in San Antonio. Obviously the Sixers beat them earlier
Speaker 1: and that would just be a huge game. And then
Speaker 1: Oklahoma they really you knew they were going to turn
Speaker 1: it on when the Sixers had them here. It's great.
Speaker 1: Was it a triple overtime game where the thunder prevailed
Speaker 1: and they were right around five hundred, and now they've
Speaker 1: started to get you over five hundred. Six or seven
Speaker 1: games over five hundred, but very difficult plays to win
Speaker 1: as well. Oklahoma they've dominated the Sixers. And then Milwaukee
Speaker 1: will see what kind of jump they get with the
Speaker 1: new coaches. Joe Prunty has taken over for Jay Kidd.
Speaker 1: We're probably going to see a Deta Coompo who did
Speaker 1: not play here Saturday. And then Brooklyn has played a
Speaker 1: lot better of late. So it's not an easy stretch
Speaker 1: by an by any stretch of the imagination. Excuse the redundancy.
Speaker 1: But one last thing, and I mentioned this in the
Speaker 1: tail end of our regular play by play portion of
Speaker 1: the broadcast, but you know, the more times of Sixers
Speaker 1: because they've built up these leads. I believe this is
Speaker 1: now the fourteenth time they built up a lead of
Speaker 1: over thirteen points in the first thirty six minutes. And
Speaker 1: the more they can manage these leads and learn how
Speaker 1: to play with a big lead and protect the basketball
Speaker 1: and manage their essions, I think it'll behoove them experience
Speaker 1: wise going forward, because you know, when you win the
Speaker 1: game early, you want to be able to close it
Speaker 1: out as well, and that will put them in a
Speaker 1: better place record wise and experience wise for the long haul.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers over these Chicago Bulls one fifteen and one
Speaker 1: on one. Tom mcginna speak to you from the road
Speaker 1: on Friday. Thanks Brian, goodnight. Seventy Sixers ride great efforts
Speaker 1: in particular from Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid and Dario Scharch
Speaker 1: to the finish line toppling the Bulls by fourteen to
Speaker 1: even the season series. One final segment of the postgame
Speaker 1: show is coming up we'll here Tom McGinniss highlights next
Speaker 1: here on the Sixers Radio Network. Seventy Sixers trying to
Speaker 1: rebound following a tough loss on Monday in Memphis. The
Speaker 1: assignment tonight for the second time the season was the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot Com.
Speaker 1: Time now for some of our highlight calls courtesy of
Speaker 1: the one, the only, the radio voice of the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis. Ben Simmons was feasting on the glass early
Speaker 1: on in this one, but that didn't mean he could
Speaker 1: not do some scoring on the other end. Bowls now
Speaker 1: down six and here's a jam by Simmons. Oh, with
Speaker 1: authority and confidence, Ben Simmons throwing it down. This was
Speaker 1: one of those nights where if it would be appropriate
Speaker 1: and good radio to play the nine rebounds that Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons had in his first eight minutes of action, we
Speaker 1: would do it. But we'll throw stuff like that in
Speaker 1: there instead. Seventy Sixers with some strong defensive efforts in
Speaker 1: the first quarter of twenty five to sixteen after twelve
Speaker 1: minutes of play, more Ben Simmons on the offensive in
Speaker 1: quarter number two, Sixers by five six fifty to go
Speaker 1: Simmons with its Simmons down the right, jump, hook around
Speaker 1: and good. He got the side rim and puts it in.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons four for nine. He's already got a double double. Indeed,
Speaker 1: he did his nineteen the season, good for fourteenth most
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Now, in some ways, playing back these
Speaker 1: two highlights somewhat of a misrepresentation because maybe you would think, well,
Speaker 1: if you'd tune a much of the game, that this
Speaker 1: was a big scoring knight for Ben Simmons. He was
Speaker 1: only looking at for himself. No incorrect. He was a
Speaker 1: prime facilitator in the first half. He nearly had a
Speaker 1: triple double by the break, but the Sixers had all
Speaker 1: sorts of things open up. Robert Covington he also found
Speaker 1: an opening as well on the move. Here's Simmons a
Speaker 1: lot better jam by Covington, Ben Simmons, Hella you Cam,
Speaker 1: Simmons went one for two from the line, the Bulls
Speaker 1: lose it and then Simmons with a really rifled that
Speaker 1: bull down low and Covington now with five Simmons two
Speaker 1: assists away from a triple double with two twenty five
Speaker 1: to go on the first half, and that was one
Speaker 1: of Ben's best times of the night. Sixers led fifty
Speaker 1: five forty one at the break. Simmons was too assists
Speaker 1: shy of that triple double that Tom alluded to well
Speaker 1: within forty nine seconds of the third quarter, that was
Speaker 1: Matt here's a long shot by Commington. He done it
Speaker 1: again comington in the drought up until Monday, coming back tonight,
Speaker 1: He's got eleven points, including back to back threes, and
Speaker 1: that would give Simmons ten assists, giving him his fifth
Speaker 1: triple double of the season. Six Ers nine and sixty
Speaker 1: two to forty one. Joel Ebad had a big night
Speaker 1: for the Sixers, two rebound Sixers, Simmons with a down
Speaker 1: the near sign lode. Sixers look a lot more poise
Speaker 1: with his big advantage here at home against Chicago. At
Speaker 1: twenty two point lead in bead for three and that's good,
Speaker 1: Joel Eband knocks down to three and Fred Hoytberg says,
Speaker 1: what's going on? That's what you say to yourself when
Speaker 1: your team is down by twenty five points, seventy nine
Speaker 1: fifty four, four minutes twenty seconds to go and the
Speaker 1: third Sixers would lead it comfortably eighty five to sixty
Speaker 1: seven going into the fourth Timmy Taylor while Cabro starting
Speaker 1: in place of JJ Reddick for a third consecutive game,
Speaker 1: and for a third consecutive game, he had the three
Speaker 1: ball going on Joel and bed with it twelve to shoot.
Speaker 1: Poor guards him. Here comes to double. They double on
Speaker 1: the dribble, Sixers swinging to Luilu and that's good again.
Speaker 1: They are literally picking the Bulls apart. Fred Hoyber keeps
Speaker 1: motioning for the Bulls to get going on offense. How
Speaker 1: about defending the arc? Coach Hoyber fourteen threes by the Sixers,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers would deposit two more from deep before
Speaker 1: the night was through. A big subplot in tonight's very
Speaker 1: nice win. Final notts from the final stat sheet seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers shot just under fifty two percent from the field,
Speaker 1: Bulls thirty eight and a half percent six or sixteen
Speaker 1: to thirty two from outside the arc. We referenced this earlier.
Speaker 1: Going into the third quarter, the Sixers had only surrendered
Speaker 1: four three pointers that may could probably to make that
Speaker 1: six and the Bulls would end a finishing with eleven
Speaker 1: but three points. Shooting a major advantage for the Sixers
Speaker 1: in this one tonight, Sixers plus five on the glass.
Speaker 1: They had thirty one assists on forty two made baskets.
Speaker 1: That is pretty good. Only fifteen turnovers okay for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. Individual notes. Sixers were
Speaker 1: led by Joel Embiid, who tied with Bobby Portis for
Speaker 1: the game high and scoring and bead ten of seventeen
Speaker 1: from the field, one of two from three, had five rebounds,
Speaker 1: three assists, and two block shots. It certainly felt like
Speaker 1: he had more assists than just those three. Twenty one
Speaker 1: and ten for Dario Scharch his second straight twenty and
Speaker 1: ten game. Ben Simmons nineteen points, seventeen rebounds, and fourteen assists.
Speaker 1: His seventeen rebounds went off his career high. His five
Speaker 1: triple doubles the most for rookie since Magic Johnson in
Speaker 1: seventy nine eighty. Ben Simmons just the second sixer ever
Speaker 1: now in addition to Wilt Chamberlain, to reach at least
Speaker 1: nineteen points, seventeen rebounds, and fourteen assists in a single game,
Speaker 1: and no other rookie has done that, with the exception
Speaker 1: of Steve Francis for Houston back in two thousand so
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of other good stuff out there
Speaker 1: on the Twitter sphere statistically regarding Simmons tonight, but the
Speaker 1: bottom line is, regardless of whether it was the first
Speaker 1: time this or that or the other thing, he was
Speaker 1: fantastic tonight and helped key the Sixers victory one fifteen,
Speaker 1: one on one over the Bulls. Sixers have now won
Speaker 1: nine to the last twelve, and they improved to twenty
Speaker 1: three and twenty one on the season, while the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bulls dropped to eighteen and thirty, losers of two straight.
Speaker 1: Next up for the seventy Sixers the San Antonio Spurs
Speaker 1: on Friday, a rematch up a game and a series
Speaker 1: that the Sixers got to win in back at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the month. Sixers have had a lengthy drought
Speaker 1: in San Antonio that will look to end on Friday
Speaker 1: at eighteen T Center game time at eight o'clock. Pregame
Speaker 1: coverage on some of our six Ers rated network affiliates
Speaker 1: at seven fifty. Following the Sixers win, Tom McGinnis had
Speaker 1: a chance to catch up with one of the players afterwards, Joel,
Speaker 1: thank you. I don't know what the hesitation was, but
Speaker 1: thank you. We appreciate you coming over. Congratulations, great start
Speaker 1: by Ben, great play overall by your team, and a
Speaker 1: nice win here over Chicago. Your thoughts in general, it's
Speaker 1: a great win, you know. Uh Ben was William gresson tonight.
Speaker 1: You play like a man we need. We're gonna need
Speaker 1: him to pin I got every game, but he was
Speaker 1: a great over them win. We moved the ball and
Speaker 1: we played great decissive the so we gotta keep you
Speaker 1: just gotta keep up. I thought, speaking of moving the ball,
Speaker 1: I thought you did a good job and everybody in general,
Speaker 1: particularly in the middle part of the second half where
Speaker 1: you got those open looks, not necessarily on the first pass,
Speaker 1: but on the second and third pass, where Comington and
Speaker 1: Lewiwa delivered those threes out of those plays. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to double cookle say, man, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna do my job. We're gonna do my
Speaker 1: partner and I'm gonna fast it out. And that's what
Speaker 1: I did tonight, and we gotta win that. I gotta keep.
Speaker 1: I gotta keep the same level of fasting and h
Speaker 1: we're gonna I think we're gonna be fine. Thank you, Joe,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Joel and Beat. His first post game radio interviews,