Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind to listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Joel
Speaker 1: Embead was indeed back. The seventy Sixers felt it, and
Speaker 1: boy the Atlanta Hawks shorted too. Seventy Sixers get a
Speaker 1: great win at State Farm Arena and Atlanta one oh
Speaker 1: five one oh three behind dwell embiads thirty six points,
Speaker 1: thirteen rebounds, five dimes, and three steals, and the Sixers
Speaker 1: are now the last unbeaten team in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Seltzer, and this I believe is Brett Brown. Um.
Speaker 1: You know he he started the game so well. We
Speaker 1: needed to find Nanco because what was the adjustment that
Speaker 1: you guys made. You were down early in the first
Speaker 1: half of you were able to kind of get it
Speaker 1: closer at the custom to halfwards adjustments you make really
Speaker 1: just trying to do what we said we were going
Speaker 1: to do better. And it starts with, you know, pick
Speaker 1: and roll d offense with Trey. It starts with pickup points?
Speaker 1: How far up the quote we want to try to
Speaker 1: impose our will. It starts with what do you want
Speaker 1: to do? You know, defending like sad out of bounds defense,
Speaker 1: making it difficult to find stuff easy. We tried to
Speaker 1: stalk Trey. We tried to, you know, just make his
Speaker 1: life sort of a war of attrition, if you will.
Speaker 1: And I give Atlanta credit. I think that Lloyd does
Speaker 1: a great job with them, and the kids respond to Lloyd,
Speaker 1: and I give them credit. They played very well. Three
Speaker 1: point shooting was a struggle again the night. Was that
Speaker 1: just missing good looks or was some of the offense
Speaker 1: not being run the right way? It was probably not many,
Speaker 1: but there would have been, say a handful you you
Speaker 1: you wish you could have back, Not so much because
Speaker 1: they were they were forced threes, just they were probably
Speaker 1: for me too early in o'clock, and we didn't sort of,
Speaker 1: you know, test sort of the waters with Joel enough.
Speaker 1: I think that when you do throw it into Joel,
Speaker 1: they do a good job of double teaming him. At
Speaker 1: that point you're going to have to make threes. But
Speaker 1: early in the clock there were probably a few you
Speaker 1: wished you wished you head back. Other than that, I
Speaker 1: think we took the one shots that the game told
Speaker 1: us to take. Joe got double pretty heavily out. How
Speaker 1: do you think he handled that. UM, I think he
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job. Like his turnovers, I think
Speaker 1: he ended up with seven M. It would it might
Speaker 1: not reflect my opinion that I think he did quite well.
Speaker 1: I think I think in general, you know, him trying
Speaker 1: to find people and us trying to space and in
Speaker 1: places that he knew where resultlets were was decent. It's
Speaker 1: still a work in progress. UM, But I think by
Speaker 1: and large, I thought he did a good job of
Speaker 1: trying to get the ball deep and responded to his
Speaker 1: double teams better. I wouldn't say it's an A, but
Speaker 1: it's not a not a C. Seventy sixers start a
Speaker 1: season three and ozho for the first time since that man.
Speaker 1: Brett Brown was in his first week as a head coach.
Speaker 1: Nice win at State Farm Arena for the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers one oh five, one h three. Joel embiid thirty
Speaker 1: six points, thirteen rebounds, five dimes, and three steals in
Speaker 1: thirty two minutes, twelve of nineteen from the field. He
Speaker 1: was ten for ten from the free throw line, including
Speaker 1: a four for four effort from the stripe in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. He scored eleven of his thirty six points
Speaker 1: in the fourth and you, of course go straight to
Speaker 1: the plays that won the game, which were those two
Speaker 1: free throws with Embiid at the line for the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: putting them in front with five point three seconds to go.
Speaker 1: The Sixers survive a desperation three point he from Vince
Speaker 1: Carter at the buzzer, a really nice play. The Sixers
Speaker 1: drew up after Atlanta tied the score at one oh
Speaker 1: three one oh three with seven point four seconds to go,
Speaker 1: Ben simmons inbounded the ball up top to Al Horford,
Speaker 1: who then threw it inside to Embad and Embid was
Speaker 1: fouled by John Collins went to the line where he
Speaker 1: was able to put the game away. But such a
Speaker 1: terrific luxury, not only to have him bead back out
Speaker 1: there he of course missed Saturday's game with the right
Speaker 1: ankle sprain, but to have a man of that size, strength, physicality,
Speaker 1: versatility who's also able to go to the line and
Speaker 1: hit his free throws ten for ten, huge, vital, pivotal,
Speaker 1: how everyone to describe it. In the Sixers win tonight,
Speaker 1: Sixers had to battlesome adversity. They lost Mike Scott early
Speaker 1: in the game due to a flagrant two. That man
Speaker 1: he was ejected from the contest, so they were shorthanded
Speaker 1: one from that standpoint, and then Shake Milton hyper extended
Speaker 1: his knee. He had nine points in twelve minutes. He
Speaker 1: did not return, So the Sixers were a little bit
Speaker 1: hamstrung from there, so to speak in terms of their depth,
Speaker 1: but they were able to fight their way through it.
Speaker 1: The Sixers on this road trip at Detroit and at Atlanta,
Speaker 1: they were able to grind ou out wins in the
Speaker 1: second half, showing some resiliency, and tonight they did it
Speaker 1: with Joel embiad back in the lineup fourteen points and
Speaker 1: five rebounds to go with three assists and a bunch
Speaker 1: of deflections for Josh Richardson, he also had three blocked shots.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons finished with thirteen point six rebounds, six assists,
Speaker 1: and thirteen four Tobias Harris Harris also with five boards
Speaker 1: and five dimes. Seventy Sixers went in Atlanta one oh five,
Speaker 1: one oh three. The two teams entered the night with
Speaker 1: a pair of wins in their first two games. Now
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers are the last undefeated team in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference at three and oh seventy six Ers overcome
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks one oh five, one oh three. Joel
Speaker 1: Embid thirty six points thirteen rebounds. His free throws with
Speaker 1: five point three seconds to go in regulation sealed the
Speaker 1: game for the seventy sixers. I'm Brian Selzer. Tom McGinnis
Speaker 1: was at State Farm Arena tonight. Certainly nice time to
Speaker 1: have the big man back in the mix, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. It just shows what a matchup nightmare he
Speaker 1: is for the opposition. And you know, Alex Lenz certainly
Speaker 1: has the size, but he got an early foul difficulty.
Speaker 1: They don't know that he has the mobility. And then
Speaker 1: they had a much undersized John Collins on him and
Speaker 1: they were trying to double him, and just Joel was
Speaker 1: just too good. And it's just amazing that Donkey had
Speaker 1: and some of the plays he makes, you know with
Speaker 1: his feet that it's just again like it's incredible to
Speaker 1: see a guy of that size but to have that
Speaker 1: agility and the side step defenders and still had the
Speaker 1: finesse and a touch around the basket to score the ball.
Speaker 1: And then as you say, to go to the line
Speaker 1: and be so dependable and perfect at the line and
Speaker 1: in fact, to make two free throws to win the
Speaker 1: game is a huge advantage for the Sixers one O five,
Speaker 1: one or three Sixers win it. A game time in
Speaker 1: which the Atlanta Hawks they raced out to an early start.
Speaker 1: Trey Young in particular, had the seventy Sixers on their heels.
Speaker 1: He scored eleven points in the first I believe it
Speaker 1: was six to seven minutes of regulation, and then after
Speaker 1: the Sixers brought m Matis stayble, I kind of thought
Speaker 1: he threw Young off a little bit, made him more uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and from there the Sixers for the most part seemed
Speaker 1: to have him under wraps for the rest of the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Ben in the end did a good job on
Speaker 1: him too, So I guess you'd have to really almost
Speaker 1: get a coach's perspective, because I thought it must have
Speaker 1: been the defense. But I just thought his mindset change
Speaker 1: in terms of like I said, he did take those
Speaker 1: runners where he gets a little bit ahead of the
Speaker 1: defender and gets to the file line, and again it's
Speaker 1: like a running fifteen foot lay up a floater and
Speaker 1: missed some of those, but he was really looking to
Speaker 1: facilitate more down the stretch when early in the game.
Speaker 1: He looked unstoppable, like a guy who was averaging thirty
Speaker 1: eight plus points per game. And then he you know,
Speaker 1: he went to the corners a couple of times with
Speaker 1: lenn and DeAndre Hunter. So yeah, you have to credit
Speaker 1: the Sixers. And then again point I may where Atlanta
Speaker 1: scored forty points in the first quarter, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: just Trey Young, but it was Collins. He opened the
Speaker 1: game with a wide open three, he had their first five,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. But then they only scored thirty
Speaker 1: eight points in the entire second half. So again, turnovers
Speaker 1: were a big thing. I mean, both teams lost a
Speaker 1: number of opportunities with twenty plus turnovers. But yeah, Young
Speaker 1: is he's a handful, and I thought he was going
Speaker 1: to dominate the game nineteen. You know, he was on
Speaker 1: target for another potentially forty point night, but the Sixers
Speaker 1: were able to do a good job and swarm a
Speaker 1: little a little bit and slow him down. You know, Tom,
Speaker 1: I don't want to you know, it's three games and
Speaker 1: perhaps put an unfair amount if you can even call
Speaker 1: this praise on a young guy like Matisse Staibel, but
Speaker 1: it's to me, it's so amazing that. It's like these
Speaker 1: teams maybe they just have to to sense what he's
Speaker 1: doing defensively first, Like he comes in there immediately and
Speaker 1: he causes disruption and have it. Can are you seeing
Speaker 1: that way a and can you remember the last time
Speaker 1: you saw someone quite like that just jump into the
Speaker 1: mix and have that type of impact so quickly. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: not necessarily, you know, defensively and not at that age.
Speaker 1: And then like tonight, you know he was Coach Brown
Speaker 1: told him shooting. This is what he told the media pregame,
Speaker 1: so you know, he told the Matistas and that his
Speaker 1: shoot open threes. Take every open three, and he made
Speaker 1: two of them. And now he just gets a lot
Speaker 1: of he gets his hands on a lot of balls.
Speaker 1: He's you know, really everything we've talked about since he
Speaker 1: started playing in the preseason, even in the summer league,
Speaker 1: and that's what he came build as. And you know
Speaker 1: that you'll back over the years, Bruce Bowen certainly comes
Speaker 1: to mind, going way back. You know, like the Bucks
Speaker 1: had a player from years ago, Andre rob His name
Speaker 1: escapes me, but the same that that just totally reeks
Speaker 1: ha it. Gary Payton was certainly scot They Pippen, some
Speaker 1: of these guys with you know, some of the best
Speaker 1: defensive pedigrees you could ever think of. And this batist
Speaker 1: comes in and he just he's able to do things
Speaker 1: like that tip ball. He busted up a pick and
Speaker 1: roll and led to a runout for Ben and you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's there's so many things to it where he
Speaker 1: doesn't allow a team to get in their offense, or
Speaker 1: he makes a guy take more difficult contested shots. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a proven fact that percentages go down with contested shots.
Speaker 1: Coach Pierce was talking about that from their end, but
Speaker 1: that holds true at every level. And Thieble just, you know,
Speaker 1: in multiple ways effects how the Sixers are able to
Speaker 1: guard because of his ability. Six Ers over Atlanta one
Speaker 1: oh five, one h three, dwell and be thirty six
Speaker 1: and thirteen and now Tom This sets up another intriguing
Speaker 1: first week matchup against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Center
Speaker 1: seven o'clock, final game for the seventy sixers before they
Speaker 1: set out on a four game early early season Western
Speaker 1: Conference road trip. T Wolves are three and out and
Speaker 1: they're not playing until Wednesday. Now, they've been really good.
Speaker 1: I mean, these two young players in terms of Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns and Wiggins, and you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: people have been kind of piling on Wiggins a little bit,
Speaker 1: and that for him was a big moment. I believe
Speaker 1: it was last night where he had three threes in
Speaker 1: a row and he's got all kinds of talent, and Towns,
Speaker 1: from what you can sense early on, is playing, you
Speaker 1: know in the MVP conversation with how well he's played.
Speaker 1: So Minnesota has not done a lot of things in
Speaker 1: recent years, but they've all had the Sixers and the Wolves.
Speaker 1: It's been closed for a little while and it should
Speaker 1: be an excellent matchup within b. Towns has been in
Speaker 1: foul difficulty at times against the Sixers, but that should
Speaker 1: be you know, when your team, the Sixers is this good,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of marquee matchups because like I said before,
Speaker 1: the Sixers are no longer the hunters. They are a
Speaker 1: little bit, but they're the hunted and that they're expected
Speaker 1: to be good and so far they have been good.
Speaker 1: And to come home this is almost like a road game,
Speaker 1: even it will be in front of the Sixers great
Speaker 1: crowd that obviously it will be a factor, but just
Speaker 1: in that they've been on the road and they're coming
Speaker 1: home late to night and a quick turnaround with that
Speaker 1: game Wednesday and then and then going right back out.
Speaker 1: But markie matchup, it'll be nice. I don't think Covington
Speaker 1: has played. He was out quite a bit last year
Speaker 1: with that knee, but it'll be It'll be a good matchup,
Speaker 1: to be sure, and for the Sixers again to win games.
Speaker 1: But then they had things to work on and clean
Speaker 1: up is you know, early in the season is understandable.
Speaker 1: But they can play a much more efficient game and
Speaker 1: hopefully they'll get to toward that goal and toward that
Speaker 1: end with another win on Wednesday night. Alrighty Tom, thanks
Speaker 1: so much, all right, but thank you Joel emb doing
Speaker 1: a ton tonight from a monstrous shimmy inducing, posterizing jam
Speaker 1: On John Collins to the two free throws at five
Speaker 1: point three seconds left to put the seventy sixers over
Speaker 1: the top. He was great, and we'll hear some highlights.
Speaker 1: One oh five, one h three Sixers win in Atlanta
Speaker 1: day stay perfect now three and oh Rolling into Wednesday's
Speaker 1: game against Minnesota, Joel Embiad was back and he was spectacular.
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers down the Atlanta Hawks one oh five,
Speaker 1: one oh three, perfect on their two game road trip,
Speaker 1: perfect on the season. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thanks for hanging
Speaker 1: out late with us. Let us get to some highlights.
Speaker 1: Early on, Ben Simmons helping these seventy sixers keep pace
Speaker 1: with Atlanta, and Beat at the Phi light, holds his pivot,
Speaker 1: it circles back out. He's going to go one on
Speaker 1: one with DeAndre Hunter, spins, loses his balance, goes between
Speaker 1: his legs. Simmons with their verse lamp up and good
Speaker 1: and Beat may have gotten away with a walk, but
Speaker 1: he ends up getting the ball to Ben Simmons and
Speaker 1: Simmons going left the right full of lay up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Atlanta got off to a quick start behind Trey Young.
Speaker 1: Matt cut the Sixers deficit to two thirteen to eleven,
Speaker 1: but Young and Atlanta would build the lead as large
Speaker 1: as thirteen points in the first quarter. They led it
Speaker 1: by the score of forty to thirty one after one.
Speaker 1: In the second, the seventy Sixers made some inroads and
Speaker 1: Joel Embiad really started to get into a rhythm. Richards
Speaker 1: team in the lane from Simmons off balance. It ain't
Speaker 1: no good that in a round and Beat gets it
Speaker 1: a beat with smaller players a round and put it
Speaker 1: up an in so Joella Beat coming to live from
Speaker 1: the Sixers, his fourth field goal, third rebound. He's got
Speaker 1: ten points scoring the first half as the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: trailed sixty five sixty three at the break, and the
Speaker 1: third quarter things began to tighten up a bit. Al
Speaker 1: Horford with a very important insurance generating bucket. Timmons drives
Speaker 1: on DeAndre Hunter, cut off cross court, skip to al Horford.
Speaker 1: He'll shoot for three and that's good. So the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers get the long wall. Good movement of that basketball
Speaker 1: with Simmons and Feat actually had a hand in the play,
Speaker 1: and al Horford gets his first field goal of the game,
Speaker 1: and that made it seventy three to sixty nine the Sixers.
Speaker 1: They would trim the margin down to a point going
Speaker 1: into the fourth. Joel and Beat tied it up early.
Speaker 1: Richardson has it to the corner to Bias open threef
Speaker 1: from there, ribbing off no good. Simmons taps it all
Speaker 1: the way back out top to Joel It Beat from
Speaker 1: deep and it's good and three from out front Joella
Speaker 1: Beat Tights the game at eighty five. Big bucket for
Speaker 1: the big man, but he was not done. The seventy
Speaker 1: six was fell behind ninety eight to ninety with about
Speaker 1: five minutes ago. That's when the defense really tightened up
Speaker 1: and Joel Embiid he put together a string of six
Speaker 1: straight points capped off by this. Joel does have it
Speaker 1: against Alex led the buckbo and eighth to shoot dribble
Speaker 1: book baseline spins back middle through a double team puppet
Speaker 1: in at Joel Embiad has been at a one point game.
Speaker 1: He went right through that trap, powered through with a
Speaker 1: right hand shot thirty four point four a beat, and
Speaker 1: that made it a ninety eight ninety nine game in
Speaker 1: favor of Atlanta. The Hawks would get a little bit
Speaker 1: back on a few free throws to make it one
Speaker 1: hundred two at ninety nine, but then the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: took the lead at one o one to one hundred
Speaker 1: with two minutes to go. They got a few stops
Speaker 1: and Joel Embiid was doing some things in terms of
Speaker 1: occupying attention and Tobias Harris was able to show off
Speaker 1: his physical prowess. Harris on the drive cut off by
Speaker 1: runs five to shoot. Tobias is gonna have to do
Speaker 1: it himself. He fakes, he turns, he jumps A that's good,
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris. With forty two seconds to go, what's the
Speaker 1: Sixers up by three, one oh three, one hundred. The
Speaker 1: Hawks got a free throw from Trey Young with eight
Speaker 1: point four seconds left to make it one with three
Speaker 1: one oh one. He then missed his second and John
Speaker 1: Collins tipped it into tied at one h three. Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid with free throws with five point three seconds to go,
Speaker 1: and the seventy Sixers would win after Vince hart Carter
Speaker 1: missed a desperation heave as time expired. Final notes from
Speaker 1: the final stat sheet. Seventy Sixers shoot forty two percent,
Speaker 1: Atlanta just under forty three percent. Six Ers eleven three
Speaker 1: pointers compared to nine for Atlanta. Sixers one twenty five
Speaker 1: of twenty seven from the free throw line. The Hawks
Speaker 1: were twenty two of thirty two. The Sixers were plus
Speaker 1: four on the glass thirty six points thirteen rebounds for
Speaker 1: Joel Ebid to go with five assists and three steals
Speaker 1: in thirty two minutes. He was twelve of nineteen from
Speaker 1: the field, ten of ten from the free throw line,
Speaker 1: fourteen points for Josh Richardson to go with five rebounds
Speaker 1: and three assists, thirteen points for Tobias Harris and Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons apiece, but Toby with a really huge midpost turnaround
Speaker 1: jumper to give the Sixers that three point lead in
Speaker 1: the final minute of play. Ben Simmons also had six
Speaker 1: or rebounds and six assists, batistible with eight points off
Speaker 1: the bench, He had four steals and two blocked shots.
Speaker 1: He now has eight steals through his first three games.
Speaker 1: He's the first seventy sixer ever since steals were started
Speaker 1: to be recorded as a stat to post multiple steals
Speaker 1: in the first three games of his career. Nine for
Speaker 1: Shake Milton off the bench before he left the game
Speaker 1: early with a hyper extended knee. John Collins with sixteen
Speaker 1: for Atlanta, twenty five for Trey Young. Seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: win at one oh five one oh three to the
Speaker 1: last undefeated team in the Eastern Conference at three and oh.
Speaker 1: They host the also three and oh Minnesota Timberwolves on
Speaker 1: Wednesday night at seven o'clock. Final game in South Philadelphia
Speaker 1: four the seventy Sixers before they play four in the
Speaker 1: road against the Western Conference seventy six Ers one oh
Speaker 1: five and the Atlanta Hawks one oh three. You've been
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