Speaker 1: The first time thirteen tries get it done against the
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs, their first victory versus the Spurs since
Speaker 1: February the eleven, two thousand and eleven. Tonight, defeating the
Speaker 1: perennial Western Conference title contenders by the final tally of
Speaker 1: one twelve to one ZO six Brian Seltzer with you
Speaker 1: from six ers dot com. We are standing by and
Speaker 1: awaiting the postgame press conference of the victorious head coach
Speaker 1: Brett Brown, Ben Simmons, Big Finish, Joel and be at
Speaker 1: a late edition, but great, here's Brett Brown and progress
Speaker 1: everything I know, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Speaker 1: And you know, you pivot out of that when it
Speaker 1: gets to like the game time decision. It is that.
Speaker 1: And it's happened quite a bit, you know in Toronto,
Speaker 1: you know, you learn he's going to play or not tonight.
Speaker 1: There was nothing in my mind that suggested he was
Speaker 1: going to play based on the swelling in his hand
Speaker 1: and what we saw at practice. He went out and
Speaker 1: had a good warm up. Then he felt quite good
Speaker 1: about himself and with about thirty five, you know, fifty
Speaker 1: or thirty six minutes on the clock, I meet the
Speaker 1: team at thirty five. It was announced to us that
Speaker 1: he felt good enough to play, and I think to
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid's complete credit. You know, he came in and
Speaker 1: he surprised me. He actually made some shots, and if
Speaker 1: you saw the swelling in his hand, you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: thought that would have been the impact. He would have
Speaker 1: blocked shots, he would have rebound, he would have been
Speaker 1: physical defensively, but he actually still had some finesse and
Speaker 1: touched to his shot with his swollen right hand. But
Speaker 1: it happened quick. It was completely unexpected, and I give
Speaker 1: him a lot of credit for playing through complete pain
Speaker 1: and trying to play in front of the Philadelphia fans
Speaker 1: and help his teammates. That's a gutsy effort. Mentioned that
Speaker 1: JJ made like thirty five seconds stuff, and he've also
Speaker 1: mentioned before just how forty his movement is within your offense. Well,
Speaker 1: what did you see on that play? That A lot
Speaker 1: of it great? A little sliver there firstself. I mean,
Speaker 1: we we've been living in this kind of look all year.
Speaker 1: When it gets down to we call it crunch time offense.
Speaker 1: And usually you know, what about four minutes on a clock.
Speaker 1: I do some stuff with with j J and Joel
Speaker 1: and Ben and stack up you know, CoV and Diary
Speaker 1: on the other side, and just we have different looks
Speaker 1: and reads out of that. And uh, you know he could.
Speaker 1: He commands so much attention and he's really as effective
Speaker 1: a screener as we have because his man doesn't leave
Speaker 1: and oftentimes, you know, it frees up Ben for straight
Speaker 1: line drives and that play, that situation, that environment you're
Speaker 1: speaking about, was born out of that type of look.
Speaker 1: You mentioned how he would just say, you know him
Speaker 1: really big. You know. One of the challenges that we
Speaker 1: talked with the team about is we felt if we
Speaker 1: could have an advantage on the free throw line, free
Speaker 1: throw attempts and now let's going to make them, and
Speaker 1: if we could come in and win the turnover battle,
Speaker 1: that we would put ourselves in a position to win.
Speaker 1: If we didn't do that, we felt we can show
Speaker 1: all the tape we want, we can call whatever play
Speaker 1: we want, it's not going to matter. And we did
Speaker 1: win the turnover battle, and we did win the free
Speaker 1: throw battle. And I think to your point, the thing
Speaker 1: that always attracted me with Ben Simmons is when you
Speaker 1: went to his LSU numbers. You know, he shot ten
Speaker 1: free throws a game. That's a big number in a
Speaker 1: forty minute game, and tonight when you look down, you
Speaker 1: know he shot fifteen free throws. That in itself is
Speaker 1: a huge win for me. Where he gets back to
Speaker 1: the line, it's a mentality more than it is a skill.
Speaker 1: And that mentality of him attacking the basket and going
Speaker 1: to the free throw line then growing the confidence that
Speaker 1: you're referring to, that's a hell of a package and
Speaker 1: it starts with getting there. Pop founder seventy Sixers head
Speaker 1: coach Brett Brown some of his thoughts after tonight's one
Speaker 1: twelve on OH six victory over the San Antonio Spurs,
Speaker 1: the first for the Sixers over San Antonio since February
Speaker 1: of two thousand and eleven. Ben Simmons a team high
Speaker 1: twenty six points, ten to fifteen from the foul line.
Speaker 1: He had his last three from the stripe, four of
Speaker 1: his last five, and they had big dunk off the
Speaker 1: sideline out of bounds player to give the Sixers a
Speaker 1: comfortable margin at one ten, one o four in the
Speaker 1: final minutes. Joel Ebiad was a question mark right up
Speaker 1: until game time. Twenty one points, eleven rebounds, four assistant
Speaker 1: four blocks, twenty points for JJ Reddick. Tom McGinnis is
Speaker 1: standing bible here from him. Next, this is the post
Speaker 1: game showing the Sixers Raider Network. Seventy sixers can cross
Speaker 1: this awful list of things to do with the Brett
Speaker 1: Brown tenure a victory over the San Antonio Spurs one
Speaker 1: twelve to twent oh sixth the final from down here
Speaker 1: at the center, Brian Sell to with you from Sixers
Speaker 1: dot com. Joellenbad a gutsy effort, Brett Brown said, and
Speaker 1: hard to fault that description embad was listed in Brett
Speaker 1: Brown's words, it's very doubtful. About an hour and a
Speaker 1: half before tipoff tonight, he was able to get out
Speaker 1: there and gave the Sixers monumental contributions. At twenty one
Speaker 1: points and eleven rebounds were bringing Tom mcguinnis, Tom, we
Speaker 1: saw some balance again from the Sixers for a second
Speaker 1: straight game. Wait, one little nugget. When I was a
Speaker 1: journalism student in college, we had to learn all the
Speaker 1: different for lack of a better fraid, gradiations of the
Speaker 1: hospital jargon right like that, I don't remember. There's doubtful,
Speaker 1: very doubtful question. That's Jane and the NBA's definitely has
Speaker 1: you know, there's probable, but just kind of funny because
Speaker 1: everybody thought that he wasn't gonna play, but I get
Speaker 1: a kick out a very is as a that's a
Speaker 1: new level of concern, and it seems like based on
Speaker 1: what we've seen for the first two and a half months.
Speaker 1: And this is not anything scientific or that we know
Speaker 1: for fact, but if Joel goes out there and he
Speaker 1: tests things and he's feeling good, there's a level of
Speaker 1: trust that's built up. And Brett Brown, as he said,
Speaker 1: cross his heart, you know, all the way to the end,
Speaker 1: he didn't think he was gonna have him beat tonight,
Speaker 1: and you have to think that that in some ways
Speaker 1: set the tone for the Sixers tonight. His desire to
Speaker 1: come out there and play and Simmons was really big
Speaker 1: and setting the theme of aggression early on and then
Speaker 1: closing it out absolutely. We watched Brian we were doing
Speaker 1: that pregame hit that we do for the JumboTron here
Speaker 1: in arena, and Dwayne Jones has done such a great
Speaker 1: job working with Joel. Chris Babcock is part of the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, works with Joel exhaustively as well, and Joel
Speaker 1: look really good, you know, moving the ball and getting baskets.
Speaker 1: So and that's part of what it's based on. But
Speaker 1: if you listen to him beat after the game in Phoenix,
Speaker 1: he was quoting he wants to be a warrior. He
Speaker 1: wants to play him he's been out so much so
Speaker 1: he's he wants to push through. And you know, I
Speaker 1: guess if he could close his fist and as they said,
Speaker 1: if it wasn't going to hurt him anymore. But obviously
Speaker 1: a great effort and certainly I would think helped the Sixers,
Speaker 1: as you say, energize them. And you're right, Simmons was
Speaker 1: very aggressive early on, and there was a stretch there
Speaker 1: down in the end of the game. Brand he scored
Speaker 1: eight of the Sixers ten points. He had eleven points
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter Ben Simmons and as a group
Speaker 1: the Sixers made eight of their nine free throws to
Speaker 1: close it out. So again it was a struggle early on,
Speaker 1: one of ten from the field early in the fourth,
Speaker 1: but finished strong, kept the Spurs at Bay, got some
Speaker 1: stops able to keep them off the glass at the end.
Speaker 1: All Dridges Mills were just terrific in the fourth for
Speaker 1: them and a great, long time needed victory for the
Speaker 1: Sixers against the Spurs, and just before he moved on
Speaker 1: from Simmons after this one twelve on sixth victory. I
Speaker 1: mean there was a moment there with about three minutes
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes ago when Gregg Popovitch and
Speaker 1: the Spurs started to intentionally fall him and it was
Speaker 1: a stretch. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think he
Speaker 1: went one for four or he missed three in a row,
Speaker 1: and then he finished things off by hitting four of
Speaker 1: his last five from the line. Absolutely, and he had
Speaker 1: that big play where he got the ball down low
Speaker 1: and made the shot was called a goalten on LaMarcus Aldridge.
Speaker 1: He was fouled and he made that. That was a
Speaker 1: big secret. That's part of that eight of ten that
Speaker 1: we talked about. And you're right, I mean that exactly
Speaker 1: one of the times was exactly two thirty nine to
Speaker 1: go and Pombovich was on the sideline. Like I said,
Speaker 1: at that point, it looked like he was out there
Speaker 1: guarding the way he was jumping around, he was really
Speaker 1: trying to get Burton's out the foul ben. And again
Speaker 1: I don't think Brett Brown's taking him out there Brett Brown,
Speaker 1: he wants this to be part of the learning curve.
Speaker 1: And Simmons celebrity made ten out of fifteen. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you would take that, and so credit to
Speaker 1: him and a great job for the Sixers. Rennick had
Speaker 1: a huge field goal. Joel, even though he didn't score
Speaker 1: big down the stretch, was big throughout the game and
Speaker 1: a nice win, albeit against the Spurs team that was
Speaker 1: resting a number of players. But the Sixers have got
Speaker 1: to get back on track here at home. They're getting
Speaker 1: better near five hundred overall, near five hundred at home,
Speaker 1: and let's face it, based on how they played for
Speaker 1: a major chunk of December. To have now won three
Speaker 1: games in a row and four their last five against
Speaker 1: a Detroit team coming up on Friday, they've already beaten twice.
Speaker 1: Great opportunity to get right back in the mixed in
Speaker 1: the East and to finish the thing up. If you're
Speaker 1: a Sixers fan out there or someone who's a rooting
Speaker 1: interest in this team, you don't care who the Spurs
Speaker 1: had out tonight, because too long ago, this time last week,
Speaker 1: the Sixers were stuck in that one and nine stretch.
Speaker 1: Now Here they are when you peel things back and
Speaker 1: step back. They've won three in a row and four
Speaker 1: out of their last five, and they have these next
Speaker 1: really big tests coming up between the Pistons number four
Speaker 1: in the East, and then you got Boston in London,
Speaker 1: Toronto on MLK Day and then up to Boston within
Speaker 1: about two weeks. Absolutely Celtics leading eighty one sixty eight
Speaker 1: over Cleveland tonight in a matchup between the top two teams,
Speaker 1: and these tonight in Boston. But first things first, it's
Speaker 1: that Detroit game. And even though the Pistons are well
Speaker 1: ahead of the Sixers in the conference standings, if you
Speaker 1: win that game, you win the season series against them.
Speaker 1: And one of the ways for the Sixers to get
Speaker 1: back amongst the top eight is to beat the teams
Speaker 1: ahead of them, to beat the Washington's, to beat New York,
Speaker 1: to beat you know, all these teams in the mix
Speaker 1: that have you know, around eighteen nineteen wins like that,
Speaker 1: and that's how you make up a whole game, right there.
Speaker 1: So playing good basketball, looking to continue that against Drummond
Speaker 1: and Detroit. They've had success, another great ground on hand.
Speaker 1: It should be an exciting night. Find your tickets at
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Speaker 1: has called it Tom enjoy the nights, all right, be
Speaker 1: safe and some of those highlight calls that Tom delivered
Speaker 1: tonight's your way, they are a common in just a
Speaker 1: matter of moments because the postgame showing the Sixers Raider
Speaker 1: Network seventy Sixers step up on the court for the
Speaker 1: first time in two eighteen, an opportunity to start fresh
Speaker 1: and a new in particular in their rivalry series with
Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs have dictated this series
Speaker 1: for quite some time, both here in South Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: in Texas, but the Sixers would be trying to capitalize
Speaker 1: on a night that the Spurs were without some key players.
Speaker 1: A key player was available for the Sixers, Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1: Another one was two at Ben Simmons, and both of
Speaker 1: them were involved in getting the Sixers off to a
Speaker 1: strong start. Time and throws it away another flip flop
Speaker 1: of turnovers, TJ to Ben Simmons down to night sim
Speaker 1: of the Robert Tom hupping good. Ben Simmons with a
Speaker 1: fantastic food He's three of five. TJ drops it off
Speaker 1: and the Spurs have taken another time out. He heard
Speaker 1: the whistle in the background. Greg Popmitch not happy with
Speaker 1: the way things began, but all things considered for him
Speaker 1: in the Spurs it was only a twenty seven twenty
Speaker 1: two game in favor of the Sixers. After twelve minutes
Speaker 1: of play, the Sixers would open things up in quarter
Speaker 1: number two. Dario scharge doing some really positive work. Amir
Speaker 1: Johnson back out to Simmons. The clock is at eight.
Speaker 1: Dario shoots it over gassault and that's good charge from range.
Speaker 1: His second trade Dario with eight. He and Rehnick of
Speaker 1: goodbuying for twenty and if yet it beat twenty eight
Speaker 1: of the Sixers forty five high scoring first half, Sixers
Speaker 1: lead by a dozen. They were up forty five to
Speaker 1: thirty three. Their march would be sixty to forty nine
Speaker 1: going into intermission, and at the outset of the third
Speaker 1: quarter of the Sixers open things up to a game
Speaker 1: high sixteen point lead, and they were trying to nurse
Speaker 1: the double figure thing for as long as they could.
Speaker 1: Dario with it in the lane, back out to Simmons
Speaker 1: and now allob to Joel and Elliot Chap Burt Bead.
Speaker 1: He frows it down on Burnton's and a great beat
Speaker 1: by Simmons and a foul on the Spurs. If beat
Speaker 1: sent a screen around the foul line area and then
Speaker 1: a reverse pivot actually got a screen by redneck. He
Speaker 1: runs down there and catches it a straight line cut
Speaker 1: into the basket and Simmons of the recognition up top
Speaker 1: and if you drop someone into the center, so I
Speaker 1: do a doe context for what it beat status was
Speaker 1: or wasn't going into tonight's game. There was absolutely no
Speaker 1: way you could really tell aside from a few moments.
Speaker 1: And he was feeling any effects in that spreen right
Speaker 1: and he had four blocks in the opening quarter, and
Speaker 1: he was more than willing to go in side tonight,
Speaker 1: as he displayed on that sequence. But things would change
Speaker 1: as Patty Mills would get going for the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 1: They cut the depsit down to four eighty eight eighty
Speaker 1: four going into the fourth Sixers offense stalled a bit
Speaker 1: at the outset of the frame. The Spurs got into
Speaker 1: within the possession ninety three ninety Ben Simmons with an answer, Well,
Speaker 1: Dariol Hill score Dario on the lane, Dariel double Dario
Speaker 1: off to the near side, cross scorts get billis downlow,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons fakes on one man goes up, Patty puts
Speaker 1: it in. Ben Simmons downlong against their two bigs per
Speaker 1: times at Aldridge and Simmons with a much needed bill goal.
Speaker 1: Well and speaking of LaMarcus Aldridge, he was a huge
Speaker 1: factor and helping the Spurs take the lead twice in
Speaker 1: the final minutes the fourth including one oh three to
Speaker 1: one oh one. With two and a half minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons was found intentionally knocked down both three throws,
Speaker 1: then a big play and review that was upheld. In
Speaker 1: this one, Simmons drew a foul and roots the rack.
Speaker 1: There was a goaltending call that was upheld that made
Speaker 1: it one oh six one h three six or JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick big basket forty five seconds ago sixes by two.
Speaker 1: Simmons up to Joel and beat holding it at the
Speaker 1: top of the arc hesitating, doesn't where to go with it.
Speaker 1: He looks back door to Reddick. JJ shoots it up
Speaker 1: at the J. J Reddick scars thirty six seconds to
Speaker 1: go sixes by four. Reddick delivers little left wing one
Speaker 1: o eight one oh four sixers gotta stop. They've been
Speaker 1: awesome and inbound plays this season. And here was a
Speaker 1: huge and bead will screen for Covington and Reddick Simmons
Speaker 1: to Covington down low man the Spurs double Robert coming.
Speaker 1: Then he goes to bed first lap and the Sixers
Speaker 1: are gonna beat the Spurs. Great feed by coming toon
Speaker 1: Simmons with the stuff. He's been really good in the fourth,
Speaker 1: and yes he was, and yes the seventy Sixers did
Speaker 1: beat the San Antonio Spurs. As we get in the
Speaker 1: final box scores, six Ers forty five percent even from
Speaker 1: the field, the Spurs a touch under forty five percent
Speaker 1: for the evening six or seven of twenty two from
Speaker 1: outside the arc San Antonio. Eight of twenty five Sixers
Speaker 1: got to the free throw line. That was nice to see,
Speaker 1: thirty three of forty three, outscoring the Spurs by thirteen
Speaker 1: from the stripe on twenty more attempts. That was vital
Speaker 1: Sixers plus two on the glass. They committed just thirteen
Speaker 1: turnovers to San Antonio sixteen, but twenty three points was
Speaker 1: what the Sixers scored off of turns in tonight's game.
Speaker 1: Individual notes, Ben Simmons a game high time twenty six,
Speaker 1: Patty Mills also at twenty six, but we're focusing on
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons the Sixers postgame show. After all, he was
Speaker 1: eight of eighteen from the field, but howbout this ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen from the free throw line, including his last
Speaker 1: three and four out of his last five. He had
Speaker 1: five boards, four assists, three steals on the night. Joel
Speaker 1: embiid Gutsie, as Brett Brown said, twenty one points, eleven rebounds,
Speaker 1: four assists, all four of his block shots in the
Speaker 1: opening quarter. He was a plus sixteen for the game,
Speaker 1: and Dario Scharch plus nineteen overall with fifteen points two
Speaker 1: three pointers. He had seven rebounds and an assist, helping
Speaker 1: balance things after the Sixers. Jj Reddick with twenty points
Speaker 1: as well, three lead changes, six ties tonight in a
Speaker 1: two hour, seventeen minute game. Another sellout crowd down here
Speaker 1: at the Center. Twenty thousand, six hundred and forty two.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much to those who attended, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers will have another tough test another top ranked team
Speaker 1: in the East coming up on Friday at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: The Detroit Pistons and the Sixers had the Pistons numbers
Speaker 1: so far this season two and Oho versus Detroit halfway
Speaker 1: through their four game season series. Tip off time at
Speaker 1: seven o'clock. Coverage on some of our sixers rated network
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