Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. It
Speaker 1: is nice to be talking about a win following a
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers game. That is for sure, one nineteen one
Speaker 1: oh seven to seventy Sixers route the Memphis Grizzlies, a
Speaker 1: game in which the Sixers led by as many as
Speaker 1: thirty three points as the seventy Sixers snap out of
Speaker 1: their four game losing streak in dominant fashion. This is
Speaker 1: precisely what the seventy Sixers needed tonight. You could feel
Speaker 1: it from the outset and perhaps not so surprisingly that
Speaker 1: the Sixers back at home, they had a different type
Speaker 1: of energy about them, a different type of demeanor about them.
Speaker 1: That's not to excuse the struggles of this team on
Speaker 1: the road, you know what. The circumstances called for a
Speaker 1: victory in the most dire of ways, and it just
Speaker 1: so happened that a three game homestands started tonight and
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers took advantage against yes, a young Memphis
Speaker 1: Grizzlies team, but also a Grizzlies team that had been
Speaker 1: great as of late. They were thirteen and three coming
Speaker 1: into Tonight's game. Over the last sixteen, Ben Simmons I
Speaker 1: thought was a huge tone setter tonight twenty two points,
Speaker 1: ten assists, nine to fourteen from the field, hit four
Speaker 1: of his five free throws. Equally, if not more important,
Speaker 1: was the defense he helped provide on Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year front runner Jean Morant. Morant held to fifteen points,
Speaker 1: four of twelve from the field, seven of nine from
Speaker 1: the free throw line. So yeah, Morant got to the line,
Speaker 1: but John Morant didn't do much in terms of his shooting.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons helping apply some of the pressure The Sixers
Speaker 1: defensively overall really effective, holding the Grizzlies to under forty
Speaker 1: one percent, shooting just five of twenty one from three
Speaker 1: point territory. And on the opposite end of the floor,
Speaker 1: this Sixer's offense, which in its last four road games
Speaker 1: in particular on this previous trip, really had problems with
Speaker 1: spacing the floor creating some room to operate for guys,
Speaker 1: and the roster who liked to get down loan inside
Speaker 1: also struggled to hit their three pointers consistently. Tonight, it
Speaker 1: was an entirely different deal. The Sixers collectively converted fifty
Speaker 1: three and a half percent of their field goal opportunities
Speaker 1: fourteen of twenty five. That's better than fifty five percent
Speaker 1: from outside the arc. That a major factor in tonight's
Speaker 1: one nineteen one oh seven win. Also encouraging. In addition
Speaker 1: to the victory, Joel Embiid he did not play in
Speaker 1: the second half. That, of course, was not encouraging. But
Speaker 1: the encouraging part was that the Sixers figured out how
Speaker 1: to adapt with Adam. They went back to that up tempo,
Speaker 1: speedy style of play. They were able to get out
Speaker 1: and run space the floor for their perimeter shooters, and
Speaker 1: those shooters, namely fur Con Quorkmis, they were there to capitalize.
Speaker 1: Quorkmis with thirty four points, as you heard if you
Speaker 1: were following along, obviously a career high for the Turk
Speaker 1: thirteen of seventeen. Overall, it's amazing that he even missed
Speaker 1: four shots seven of nine from the perimeter, Furkon becoming
Speaker 1: just the thirteenth player in franchise history to hit seven
Speaker 1: three pointers in the game and the second youngest of
Speaker 1: all time to get at least seven threes. Now we're
Speaker 1: gonna go to Brett Brown post game I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's human nature. Sadly, I hear your question, and
Speaker 1: it's the great challenge coaches go through. You know, if
Speaker 1: if teams always let their offense dictate their defense, it
Speaker 1: means they're really not that good of a team and
Speaker 1: they're not going to be playing that long. And that
Speaker 1: is the challenge, and the connection is real. It's a
Speaker 1: human nature thing as i've as I see it, and
Speaker 1: that's the challenge that you have to navigate through. You've
Speaker 1: got to continue to coach. It's easy to play defense
Speaker 1: when you're happy in scorn and people get touches. It's
Speaker 1: harder when you got to grind things out. But grinding
Speaker 1: things out equals May and June, you know, late April,
Speaker 1: and that that's the mission that I am on as
Speaker 1: it relates to stuff going on on the road with us.
Speaker 1: I liked his defense, like we're all gonna remember him shooting,
Speaker 1: and it's true and he hit some timely shots. But
Speaker 1: I think that when when you take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into the tapes as we have, and you know, you
Speaker 1: come back from the road playing against East Royalty in
Speaker 1: the three teams the last three games that we saw
Speaker 1: people that used to pick on him, don't pick on
Speaker 1: him as much, And people that like put him in
Speaker 1: pick and rolls don't do it as much. Or trying
Speaker 1: to pick on him and pin down walk away wide
Speaker 1: type angles, coming off screens, off ball stuff, don't pick
Speaker 1: on him as much. And when they try to, I
Speaker 1: think that he slid on leveling people, moving his feet,
Speaker 1: showing his hands, chesting all that, you know, defensive scheme
Speaker 1: technique stuff. Of course, his scoring was needed. I thought
Speaker 1: that his teammates Ben especially did a good job finding him,
Speaker 1: But I thought holistically he was pretty good. Tonight, seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers head coach Brett Brown after ten nights victory
Speaker 1: one nineteen one oh seven over the Memphis Grizzlies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, at the beginning of the night, who
Speaker 1: knew what we were going to see from the Sixers
Speaker 1: based on how things had gone over the previous four games.
Speaker 1: Brett Brown said he wanted to see a maniacal level
Speaker 1: of competitiveness from his team, and that's what they came
Speaker 1: out and gave him. And the fan base, which you
Speaker 1: might be able to hear in the background cheering loudly,
Speaker 1: there's maybe about five to, you know, six or seven
Speaker 1: or so dozen fans seated just below us, right off
Speaker 1: the court. Those are the proud card carrying members of
Speaker 1: the Mike Scott Hive out in full force, and their guy,
Speaker 1: Mike just made his way out of the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: locker room to hang with the hive for a little bits.
Speaker 1: Mike Scott tonight knocking down a three point. He also
Speaker 1: had five rebounds and twelve minutes off the bench for
Speaker 1: the Sixers in their twelve point win over Memphis. The
Speaker 1: Sixers led by as many as thirty three points in
Speaker 1: this one. Fur Con Corkma is a new career hive
Speaker 1: thirty four, twenty two points, ten assists for Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: twenty one point, six rebounds, and five assists for Tobias Harris.
Speaker 1: As Simmons and the Sixers contained John Morant for four
Speaker 1: for twelve shooting and fifteen points overall. A most welcomed drubbing,
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis of this Memphis Grizzlies team, wouldn't you say? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And like I said, the Sixers kind of needed somebody
Speaker 1: to step up, and it was obviously furkn with a
Speaker 1: career night just because it was a really late night
Speaker 1: last night. And you needed a jolt, and they got
Speaker 1: it from Quark Mos and what a night shooting the ball.
Speaker 1: Just incredible, And you know he has shown that he
Speaker 1: and that That's what I was going to say, exactly
Speaker 1: what Brett Brown was talking about, because you know, with
Speaker 1: somebody like him, you know, they teams who tended to
Speaker 1: go at him a lot. And obviously if you're if
Speaker 1: you're on an island defensively and can't hold your own,
Speaker 1: you're not going to be able to stay in the game.
Speaker 1: So credit the fir Con. He's gotten stronger, he's gotten better.
Speaker 1: I think, like as Brett Brown was talking about tactically defensively,
Speaker 1: where he's able the guard and the guys he's assigned
Speaker 1: to guard and keep him in front and do so
Speaker 1: without fouling. And that's important because you're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to play twenty five minutes or so if
Speaker 1: you can't stay out there because of your defensive a
Speaker 1: lack of defensive prowess. So he did a great job
Speaker 1: and then Harris had a you know, Tobias, we kind
Speaker 1: of take for granted, twenty points here, twenty points there.
Speaker 1: He's averaging twenty points per game, and Ben was brilliant
Speaker 1: as well. I thought Ben was literally bound and determined
Speaker 1: from the jump to get into the lane, and they
Speaker 1: did a great job on job Moran. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can see the skill set for Morant with the quickness.
Speaker 1: I mean that was blazing speed at times. But I
Speaker 1: thought Matisse and Ben Simmons did a terrific job. And
Speaker 1: you're really he never really got on track here tonight,
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers by twelve over the Memphis Grizzlies one
Speaker 1: nineteen to one oh seven. Six Ers after leading by
Speaker 1: one time through one quarter of play, really clamped down
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, cut down on their turnovers, and
Speaker 1: opened up things more in the third. They played fast,
Speaker 1: up tempo, speedy running down the floor after Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: went out with his next stiffness at halftime, and it
Speaker 1: was encouraging to see the group once again adapt and
Speaker 1: also they were welcoming back a familiar face, but one
Speaker 1: who hadn't seen in parts of seven games. Josh Richardson, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just real quickly to go back and revisit those numbers.
Speaker 1: So eight turnovers in the first quarter and that match
Speaker 1: just season high for any quarter in terms of turns
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. But then they went out and got
Speaker 1: sixteen assists and only turned it two times over in
Speaker 1: the second and the third, and thirty nine points in
Speaker 1: the third set a record for the third quarter so
Speaker 1: far this year. Sixteen made three or field goals in
Speaker 1: that quarter, and that's what created the separation. And you're right,
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson, he played fifteen minutes, and good for him
Speaker 1: to kind of get back in the groove and again
Speaker 1: timely shooting for the Sixers and again, sometimes a knockout punch.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's in the final two minutes. You know, everyone
Speaker 1: says it's only the last two minutes. Well, tonight it
Speaker 1: was the third quarter, and they created enough separation to
Speaker 1: keep the Grizzlies at bay because you know, Memphis is
Speaker 1: a young team. They're trying to get better. There's more
Speaker 1: at stake here for them than just you know, one
Speaker 1: forty eight minute game. They're trying to improve all the time,
Speaker 1: and they were going to keep playing, and their bench
Speaker 1: actually outplayed their starters tonight. I thought Tyas Jones was
Speaker 1: really good. We saw quite a bit from Brandon Clark,
Speaker 1: but overall, the Sixers with enough and you get Norvelle
Speaker 1: in there, and so now I would think by Sunday,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get Burkes and Robinson into the game, and
Speaker 1: again now Josh back in the mix. You would hope
Speaker 1: and b would be able to get to situated and
Speaker 1: possibly be able to play on Sunday and then two
Speaker 1: big games here, especially after you know a little bit
Speaker 1: of a slump here with the road losses and the
Speaker 1: way the Sixers lost in their most recent road defeats.
Speaker 1: But if you can beat Chicago, and if there's a
Speaker 1: one way you can beat the Clippers to come up
Speaker 1: with a victory and go in with a little momentum
Speaker 1: in the break, that would be huge for this Sixers
Speaker 1: as they cap off this section of the season heading
Speaker 1: into the All Star Break. It's funny how a game
Speaker 1: like this can totally change your outlook and perspective or
Speaker 1: just the way you feel a little bit, because you know,
Speaker 1: two and a half hours ago, it was like, well,
Speaker 1: the Sixers are coming in. What's gonna happen tonight? They've
Speaker 1: dropped four in a row against some quality teams. They've
Speaker 1: got a team that's hot in the building tonight, and
Speaker 1: then right you know, you come out, you have a
Speaker 1: very convincing performance and you just reference the names the
Speaker 1: two new incoming players, and Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson
Speaker 1: the third, and you're like, well, you know they could
Speaker 1: handle team like Memphis tonight as convincingly as they did
Speaker 1: without them. Well, now you think you add some extra
Speaker 1: firepower in there, and it looks like an even deeper
Speaker 1: roster that the Sixers could have, right for sure, And
Speaker 1: like you know, and that's the thing, like Furkon's not
Speaker 1: going away. He's gonna be in the rotation. He's proven
Speaker 1: to be and you need shooters. That's exactly what general
Speaker 1: manager Brand did in terms of going out and getting
Speaker 1: these guys. So you're just adding more to the talent
Speaker 1: based in terms of guys that can knock down shots.
Speaker 1: These guys are both Burkes and Robinson having good years
Speaker 1: the ball. But the Sixers can take nothing for granted,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Nice win here, going to
Speaker 1: be able to take a breath in a much deserved
Speaker 1: day off tomorrow, but you got to come back and
Speaker 1: be loaded for Barrack. In Chicago with Levine, it's been
Speaker 1: I think the Bulls would have to agree there, it's
Speaker 1: been a little bit of a disappointing year for them.
Speaker 1: It looked like they might be in the mix, but
Speaker 1: you know you can't take anything for granted, and you
Speaker 1: got to slowly climb your way back into that possibility
Speaker 1: of getting a home court advantage because and again you
Speaker 1: watched here tonight, what a deal for the six twenty
Speaker 1: three wins and two losses, So to be able to
Speaker 1: get a first round home court advantage would be enormous.
Speaker 1: And like I said, you just got to incrementally keep
Speaker 1: getting better and better, get healthy, get continuity, find out
Speaker 1: this offensive identity. As you said, they played fast, without
Speaker 1: a beat in the second half, move that ball around,
Speaker 1: hit the threes, and an all around nice victory and
Speaker 1: a much needed win obviously for the Sixers, No dad
Speaker 1: about it, Tom McGinnis, thank you very much. Seventy sixers
Speaker 1: rolled past the Memphis Grizzlies one nineteen, one oh seven.
Speaker 1: Seventy sixers back at home, and you figured that would
Speaker 1: hopefully be a very fortuitous and good thing for the
Speaker 1: team tonight. Indeed it was the Sixers you could tell
Speaker 1: came out right off the jump with a different type
Speaker 1: of demeanor, attitude, energy, and a big part of that
Speaker 1: for the home squad was none other than Joel Embad
Speaker 1: Kyle Anderson was cut off. He kind of double pumped
Speaker 1: to put it softly up and Valentunas tapped it in,
Speaker 1: and now the Grizzlies down by one years A beat
Speaker 1: for gree and that's good. Joella beat from out top,
Speaker 1: knocking down the three point field goal, and Beat had
Speaker 1: ten points, ten rebounds, three assists, two steals in a
Speaker 1: block shot in fifteen minutes in the first half. He
Speaker 1: wouldn't return after that due to next stiffness. At that point,
Speaker 1: the Sixers led by four, twelve to eight. Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: helped cap off the first quarter. A lot of the
Speaker 1: coaches have been wearing Kobe Bryant bottle sneakers. Whoa Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons with a wake up call for the grizz right
Speaker 1: down lay with a right hand slam, Simmons dunk to
Speaker 1: the Sixers lead by four. He was aggressive throughout the evening.
Speaker 1: The seventy six was led by one, twenty six, twenty five.
Speaker 1: After one in the second quarter of the Sixers clamped
Speaker 1: down on defense for con Cork Mos got going and
Speaker 1: things started to open up. As we headed towards the
Speaker 1: half Ben outside left against melt drives baseline cut off
Speaker 1: picks up his dribble cross court skip Horford not a
Speaker 1: furk on another three by cork Boss is good four three,
Speaker 1: sixteen points and Corkbos has looted the Sixers to an
Speaker 1: eight point league and that lead would increase even more
Speaker 1: to fourteen points at intermission fifty eight to forty four.
Speaker 1: In the third quarter of the seventy sixers, they were
Speaker 1: clicking even though they didn't have Joel and beat out
Speaker 1: there again he didn't return with next stiffness. Batis Stybel
Speaker 1: got the starting nod with his vacated spot talking about
Speaker 1: him beating the third quarter and a Matisse did not disappoint,
Speaker 1: so Bias Harris takes the challenge of Jared Jackson, jumps
Speaker 1: into the Labatis and Thible gets a jam. So Harris
Speaker 1: drew two defenders and Batis Steibel with a well timed
Speaker 1: cut from off the ball from the right perimeter angles
Speaker 1: in the lay catches it and jam. And a little
Speaker 1: bit later on in the third quarter, Thibile showed his
Speaker 1: perimeter stroke. Tea's being blocked it from behind. Thible missus,
Speaker 1: here's Simmons with it. He's got Bible on the right side.
Speaker 1: Thible go with the jam Fatistible with the right hand
Speaker 1: jam and the Sixers are picking apart the Memphis Grizzlies. Well,
Speaker 1: another interior stuff right there by matisse Thible making it
Speaker 1: seventy four fifty one. The Memphis Grizzlies, they took a
Speaker 1: time out and the Sixers they would be well on
Speaker 1: their way to season control of this game. As we
Speaker 1: moved on to the fourth quarter, Memphis made a little
Speaker 1: bit of a run. Al Horford is part of keeping
Speaker 1: the opposition at bay and now Memphis has scored seventeen
Speaker 1: to will last nineteen points in the game. Simmons with
Speaker 1: it out top Horford for three and that's good. Al
Speaker 1: Horford with a triple that re established some order. The
Speaker 1: Sixers back up by twenty one one o two to
Speaker 1: eighty one. We'll leave the last highlight to our guy
Speaker 1: for Quartermas Sivens twenty points, ten assists. Here's Corkbas for
Speaker 1: another three and he thrills it and the fan, the
Speaker 1: fans on the pass over to Corkbos rising as one.
Speaker 1: They're feeling it. The fans were feeling it. Indeed they
Speaker 1: chanted some select fans you heard MVP chants or whenever
Speaker 1: fur Con Corkmas, you know, towed the line late in
Speaker 1: this one tonight. It was a great performance by him.
Speaker 1: He got a standing ovation as he went to and
Speaker 1: then took a seat upon the seventy sixers bench. Late.
Speaker 1: Sixers needed someone to give them a shot in the
Speaker 1: arm between Ben Simmons and fur Con Corkmas in particular,
Speaker 1: that was the antidote for the Sixers tonight. Six Ers
Speaker 1: shot over fifty three percent for the game, fourteen for
Speaker 1: twenty five from outside the arc. They kept Memphis in check,
Speaker 1: shooting under forty one percent from the field in five
Speaker 1: to twenty one from three. The Sixers were plus ten
Speaker 1: on the glass. Overall. They did commit twenty one turnovers,
Speaker 1: but between the second and third quarters when the Sixers
Speaker 1: really he sees control, after committing ten turnovers in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, they cut down on that number and that
Speaker 1: helped them again kind of get in the driver's seat
Speaker 1: of this one tonight. Thirty four points a new career
Speaker 1: high for Corkmas, twenty two points and ten assists for
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, twenty one points, six rebounds five times for
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris, ten points for Al Horford to go with
Speaker 1: eight rebounds and six assists and as I mentioned, ten
Speaker 1: and ten for Joel and beat in fifteen minutes in
Speaker 1: the first half. He went out with next stiffness fifteen
Speaker 1: for John Morant, just four of twelve from the field.
Speaker 1: He did go seven to nine from the line, fourteen
Speaker 1: points for Rionis Valancunis plus ten rebounds. Jaren Jackson Junior
Speaker 1: held to two for nine, shooting six points sixers. With
Speaker 1: the win and their four game losing streak, they're now
Speaker 1: thirty two and twenty one and twenty three and two.
Speaker 1: Here at the Center, Memphis loses for just the fourth
Speaker 1: time in seventeen games. They're twenty six and twenty six overall.
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