WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 01/05/2018 - Rewind vs. Pistons 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.840 Season against the Detroit Piston. His domination by the seventy 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.520 Sixers one fourteen seventy eight to take care of their 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:14.480 Eastern Conference rivals, the second largest margin of victory in 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.520 the Brett Brown era for the Sixers man. This was 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.120 quite the effort by the squad. Tonight they fell behind 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.280 two nothing, ripped off fifteen in a row, and from 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.080 there Ben Simmons and his teammates took over. Let's join 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.080 Brett Brown right now. I don't know. I think some 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.880 of it needs to be associated with his confidence going 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:39.479 to the line. I think that, you know, when people 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:45.400 aren't confident shooting free throws, it can't help, but drip 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.920 feed into, you know, your aggression on trying to get there. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.839 And I think like, the better he feels about his 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.640 free throw, the more physical he's going to play. And 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:00.800 I thought I thought that at the start he was 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.360 on a mission. He physically it was as impressed as 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.560 I've seenium, you know, going into bodies and inviting contact 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.399 and uh, he really came out and sort of set 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.680 the set the tempo. Rough go there a while back 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.400 and now you won five or the last six. It's 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.919 this team hitting it stride or is this just flip 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.040 here or what he feels if you're right where you 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.640 have to be down. I think none of us can 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:32.560 underestimate the importance with any team, I'm sure, but because 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.720 this is our team, like we feel it more of health. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.600 You know, you take Reddick out of this for a 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.240 few games, or Covington out for three games, or t 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:49.040 j Osarich or Joel we don't have the luxury of 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.680 looking down the bench and looking at a bunch of 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:58.240 senior players veteran players. It's not it's not the stage 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.960 that we are at right now. And so when you 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:06.520 have those types of injuries by the masses, you're vulnerable, 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.359 and it's the NBA and you're kind of a five 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.840 hundred team to begin with, and it's just it's it's 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.799 it's the world we live in right now. If we're 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.440 all realistic, you know, you always got to do is 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.320 just look at other teams. And I think that when 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:26.600 we're healthy and we we can continue to stay healthy, 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.640 then you can truly talk about getting into a rhythm 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.560 me subbing at them playing it. You can feel it, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.640 and uh, you know, I think tonight was a good 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.600 example to your point that we played pretty good bad 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.280 team basketball. We really did play good team basketball. How 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.120 valuable it would be now, Gallows, a week off, I mean, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.960 how valuable is not going to be for that healthy 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.040 I think it is valuable. You know, yesterday we all 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.920 wake up and h we we we gave them the 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.400 day off, and that is rare in the NBA, and 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.679 because of snow and obvious driving conditions, we gave them 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.279 a day off and we sort of had mobile recovery 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.560 sessions with people who go find Joel of his apartment 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.160 and so on, and everybody still got their treatment and recovery, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:18.440 but nobody came in and we have been on a 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:23.640 very aggressive pace. We do see daylight with some days off. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:29.399 For me, it's an opportunity to like clean up, refine 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.040 more than ad It's it's more shrink for me at 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.000 this stage and try to be good at fewer things 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.240 and look at that. UM, I feel like I got 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.720 clear understanding what this team really needs to focus on 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:47.600 to move forward. But I see the daylight and you know, 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.680 time off in that regard. Seventy six Ers head coach 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.720 Brett Brown one fourteen to seventy eight, the final score 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.560 second largest margin of victory and the Brett Brown era 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.840 Sixers beat the Dallas Mavericks by forty two last March, 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.480 you might remember, felt like a long time ago because 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.960 the Sixers starters did not have to play the fourth quarter. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.920 Think of that dovetelling on Brett Brown's and marks about 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.680 the amount of rest players can get. I mean that 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.839 is huge with the next game not coming until next 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:19.679 Thursday in London. But yeah, Ben simmons amazingly dominant start 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.280 feels like maybe last year, you know, a lifetime ago. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.280 He was phenomenal, hitting his first five shots in the night. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.720 He finished with nineteen points, and he in particular set 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:34.320 the tone for the seventy sixers dominant downhill, relentless attack 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.240 on the pistons. There was no resistance that Detroit showed defensively, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.320 and the Sixers were out for blood. Nineteen points for 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.599 Ben Simmons tonight, nine of thirteen from the field, four boards, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.880 nine assists. He accounted for thirty between his field goals 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.920 and assists of the seventy sixers first sixty two points 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.560 they scored by the half, twenty three for Joel emb 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.360 to go along with nine rebounds, twenty one for JJ Reddick, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.520 Dario Sharks with eleven and Robert Covington with eleven of 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.440 his points in the third quarter as well. Tom McGinnis 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.840 is still here. He is standing by and we'll get 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.480 to him next. It's the postgame show on the Sixers 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.120 Radio network, all seventy sixers on a Friday night in 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.840 South Philadelphia in a major way one fourteen seventy eight. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.320 The final score. Brian Selt you with you from Sixer 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.560 dot com. Tom McGinnis is rejoining us now. Not a 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.040 bad way to get things done tonight. Tom. A lot 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.000 to talk about, but let's begin with the man who 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.720 set the tone, Ben Simmons. We saw it late. We 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.880 talked about this before the game in the fourth quarters 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.960 at Phoenix and then again Wednesday versus San Antonio. But 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.240 he was all revved up to start tonight's game. No right, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.120 It just shows you like how good he's been and 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.640 the potential is scary good. He was awesome here tonight 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.520 and I try to delve into that a little bit 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.440 with him. A great opportunity for us. We had a 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.640 post game which we really appreciate. But Avery Bradley's a 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.800 great perimeter defender and he closes out, he presses up 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.039 on Ben defensively and not allow guys do that. Not 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.280 a lot of teams strategize that way. They typically play 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.800 off of him, and Bradley picks him up and pressures him, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.840 and Ben Simmons said, okay, I got it. And then 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.760 one time he picked it up, which I thought was smart. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.680 You don't have to fight it or prove yourself. But 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.920 he went right at him. And then Bradley's six two, right, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.840 but Ben is six ten, especially when he extends with 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.479 that arm, and he was aggressive. He got right to 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.480 the rack. I mean, Brett Brown was stipulating pregame Brian 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.039 with us as we heard in the medium availability that 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.599 that four by four restricted area, that little oval in Lemaine. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.080 He calls that at the rim and when you're Simmons, 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.039 that's about as close as you have to get with 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.919 that great reach. And he was all over the place 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.840 at five for five to start the game, and that 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.479 set a tone and both and then Joel was involved 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.239 and Ben had four assists while racking up those double 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.600 figures in points and just absolutely to me, I thought, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.640 you know, he's had triple doubles, but certainly that chunk 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.640 was the best he's played since he's been pro He 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.800 was responsible for thirty of the sixers sixty two points 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.000 in the first half between his scoring and his assists. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.240 And you know, some fans may wonder, well, why don't 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.920 we see that from Simmons more often? Just the aggressiveness 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.360 of seriveness, and that might be part of his evolution. 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.040 But one thing's for sure. I think through three months 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.400 you can tell when he feels like he has a 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.680 matchup that he can win, there he goes for it. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.200 And guess what, you might see more of it more 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.400 often because it's worked, as you said, over the last 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.480 two fourth quarters and both in Phoenix and against the 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.640 Spurs here on Wednesday tonight, right out of the gate. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.760 And the thing about it is when you're a ball 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.239 handler and you're a facilitator, you know, you don't always 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.040 have to get to the rim. You just get in there. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.760 They have to come over and give help and boom, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.800 there you go. There's an opening on the past. Somebody's 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.480 got to be open. And when you've got options in 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.880 terms of Covington on the perimeter and JJ again, oftentimes 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.080 it's the space they create because they are beyond the arc. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.280 Both those two guys, Covington and Reddick. You have to 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.520 honor that. By the way, there's embat so uh yeah, no, Ben, 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.760 And again just to back up and kind of reiterate 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.920 what coach was saying, it's all also, you'd think you'd 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.720 have to discern based on his comfortable he's getting more 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.680 and more comfortable and confident at the line. He went 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.240 ten for fifteen, So he's going to invite that contact 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.080 and he's gonna get fouls, and he's he's not afraid 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.320 to play through contact. That's what he did here tonight. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.400 There was one time where you're it didn't seem there, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.439 and he just blew through everybody. His strength in the athleticism, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.600 he's just an incredible athlete, just amazing, and he just dominated. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.000 It's it's like you know that phrase, I'd pay money 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.160 to see him. Well, they're coming out and droves to 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.120 see Simmons and beat in this sixers. He's that kind 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:53.120 of talent. Sixers over the Pistons one fourteen to seventy eight. Sixers. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.360 Defense was great in tonight's game, and they did this 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.360 against one of the better defensive units in the entire league. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.680 And this gives you some momentum. And you're talking about 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.520 what type of spot do you want to be in? 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.600 Playing the Boston Celtics next Thursday, which could go to 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.440 thirty two and ten already into the second half of 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.760 their season tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves. All right, so 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.240 here you go and fully healthy. I mean, you look 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.000 back at what happened in December. You can't discount that 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.880 factor now. And the Sixers have played well against Boston, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.680 they just haven't finished the game. I thought here in 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.040 the first matchup between the two teams, it was the 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.640 home opener, and the Sixers were hyped. They had too 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.160 many turnovers, they fouled too much. Boston ended up winning 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.160 that game, but that that game was there for the taking. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.960 And then up there the Sixers played solid, they just 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.640 didn't finish it out. To me, Boston with Kyrie is fantastic, 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.840 but it's their defense that really stands out. And you know, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.080 the two young players. Jalen Brown is coming to his 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.440 own tatum as I think, been better than anybody could 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.120 have expected. The fact that he's right there. He has 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.280 been leading the league in three point shooting. I don't 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.360 know if he still holds that spot, but you know, 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.520 they're they're really good and but as you say, the 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.920 Sixers are probably playing I would say maybe even though 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.480 they were at one point four games over five hundred, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.680 I would certainly this is one of their best. Maybe 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.240 they're because they've developed even more over the course of 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.080 these weeks and months. This is probably easily arguable that 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.640 their best basketball the way they've played, and they're gonna 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.320 have some time leading up to kind of get ready. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.040 They're confident. It's a close group. They're getting closer to 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.240 full health, certainly as soon as Markel gets back. So 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.760 it should be a good matchup. And at some point 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.800 you have to start beating the Boston Celtics and Toronto, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.800 who they'll play here a week from Monday, because those 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.240 are the top two teams in the division. They did 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.640 it last year with ten wins in January, and hopefully 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.559 this will be that kind of month that can catapult 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.240 the Sixers forward in the final months of the season. 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.959 Excited to go overseas. Yeah, it should be fun, and 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.720 as Brett Brown said, you know, it's not just a 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.120 basketball game. It is a trip with the Sixers team 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.400 and the Sixers organization. Their families are going to be 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.320 with them, There's some sponsors going on the trip. It's 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.160 NBA London and the NBA does a terrific job with 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.280 every single special event. It ought to be fun. We'll 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.439 be there, Brian with Sixers dot Com. There'll be some 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.760 special functions. I know there's going to be a community 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.600 service event with Crystal Palace and a number of different things. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.920 I think there's a trip to Kensington Palace. So it's cool. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.440 And London is certainly unique. There's so much history and 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.960 having been to Europe multiple times, you know, we and 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.760 this is great to with the length. But over there 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.560 something's nine hundred years old. Here it's two hundred's good, 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.880 but the history in Europe is just astounding. So it'll 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.719 be a great trip and we look forward to being 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.960 on it with you and doing the best we can 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.640 in covering it for our fans back here in Philadelphia. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.040 We will be on the air three o'clock Eastern time. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.080 Now wait, yeah, and his figures crossed. I love it. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.360 You're doing a great job. Thank you. Brian's day. All right, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.600 stay warm one fourteen seventy eight six Ers over the 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.360 Detroit Pistons will here about it with Thomas Calls coming 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.240 up on the other side. It's the postgame show on 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.800 the Sixers Rate A Network seventy Sixers and the Detroit 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.880 Pistons at the center. Third matchup at a four on 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.040 the season, Sixers won the first two, trying to make 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.120 it three in a row tonight and fourth in a 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.160 row on their currents a winning streak. Detroit score the 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.600 first basket of the night, Tobias Harris, and you're thinking, oh, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.440 could their best player, or at least one of them 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.400 get going well. Any concerns were quickly quickly puts the 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.079 rest as the Sixers are ripped off fifteen straight layup 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.400 touched by a bead. Here comes Darry on the run 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.280 to Simmons. Simmons has got numbers, turns on the Jets, 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.400 puts them behind the back and now on the back down. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.880 Here's Darry with the cut and a layup, and now 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:46.680 Detroit Yes, Dan no, and they're gonna call time out. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.360 He should have heated the advice of earlier thirteen to 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.120 two Sixers, putting it out the best stench. I want 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.160 to make it freeze up against this ball club from 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.920 the Motor City, and it would grow to a fifteen 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.760 to two lead before Harris and the Pistons would score again, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.720 but there was no stopping the seventy Sixers and Ben 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.480 Simmons in particular. Amir Johnson there he's in for Joel. 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.360 Here's Ben with a spin move. Simmons with a bank 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.559 h got and he was fouled. Simmons is putting on 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:17.320 a show. He's five for five whirling scoring and now 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.120 go into the line for what could be the three 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:24.400 point play. Simmons outside right spins on Bradley, the secondary 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.880 defender came over and is Smith and Ben able to 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.800 get the role. He's got ten points. It would be 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.559 eleven by the time he's subbed out moments later, and 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.520 it would only be a thirty two to fifteen Sixers 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.520 lead after twelve minutes of action. They scored the final 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.120 three points in the first quarter and that was eight 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.839 three cursor to a thirteen nothing run and to begin 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.679 at the second. So think about that, a fifteen zipspurt 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.040 pretty much to begin the game, and then thirteen in 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:52.800 a row between the end of the first and started 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.920 the second. It was capped off by this Joel out 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.320 top against drumming, drumming with that one foul too well 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.560 turns the corner shows it come back on the right 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.480 hand hook up and good Joella beat This is how 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.320 he doesn't and he's got nine. The Sixers are leading 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:14.360 forty two to fifteen. Oh my, a twenty seven point lead. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.800 I think you could safely say that Joel Embad has 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.120 gone three for three against Andre Drummond and the Pistons 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.320 this season. He was spectacular. Ben Simmons in company. Whether 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.920 Ben was scoring directly or spreading the wealth around, they 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.400 just could not be knocked off their rhythm. In the 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:36.400 first half. A brutal drive a mere Johnson of the rebound, 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.920 he crashes into the lower part of the stanchion and 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.280 here's Simmons. The Paylers three ball from the corner. Bang, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.200 it's good. Payless puts it in. Simmons another dish, his sixth, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:52.040 and the Sixers are leading fifty two to twenty one. Timeout, Detroit. 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:57.440 They can't get enough timeouts, the Sixers out of the routing. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.200 Indeed they were. Simmons had a ton of highlights tonight, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.080 but this was arguably one of the highlights of the highlights. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.760 Then the first half, Avery Brownlee the left side, Harris 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.120 that passes behind him, Simmons goes for this deal. Simmons 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.440 knocks it away, Simmons has the ball. Simmons is the play. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.040 Oh yeah, two hand. Brown down Ben Simmons and he 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.960 flexes for the crown. Wow. What quickness and anticipation and 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.600 the ability to keep the ball in play. And once 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.400 he gathered in it on the fire sideline by the 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.080 Sixers bench, he comes in and jams it with two hands. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:31.960 He's got fifteen sixty two thirty two. Sixers at the break, 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.000 their first time leading by thirty or more at a 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.520 half since January twenty third, two thousand and twelve against 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.840 Washington by the very same score. Third quarter, Sixers continued 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.560 to rack it up. There was a brief spurt about 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.880 three minutes into the third where Brett Brown needed a 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.640 time out. Of the Sixers committed turnovers on three straight possessions, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.440 but flurries from Robert Covington and JJ Reddick and Joel 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.920 Embiid made sure the Sixers would be well in command 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.120 going in the fourth rebound coming down Sixers by thirty four, 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.280 McConnell with the right hand dribble goes to Reddick four 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.360 ten to go. In the third quarter, the Sixers with 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.280 their biggest lead of the year. Here's a long shot 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.200 by coming. Then he's done it again. He did all 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.800 eleven of his points in the third. Seventy Sixers led 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.040 ninety seven sixty one going into the fourth. Reserve time 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.200 in the fourth, and the Sixers coasted to a thirty 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.920 six point margin of victory. Yes, the scoring numbers were 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.200 spectacular collectively and individually, but why don't we start with this. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.320 The Sixers held Detroit to thirty eight percent from the field, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.520 one of the better three point shooting teams in the league, 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.120 just seven of twenty two from outside the arc. The 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:42.880 Sixers with seventeen points scored off of Detroit turnovers. The 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.760 Sixers out rebounded the Pistons by a total of twenty 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.760 one fifty five to thirty four. For the seventy Sixers 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.520 just under forty nine percent from the field, fourteen of 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.840 thirty from outside the arc, twelve and thirteen from the 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.240 free throw line. And they've been doing a better job. Certainly, 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.400 this is not an issue that has been fully resolved, 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.040 but as of late, trend wise a little bit better, 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.760 at least in the number of turnovers going down They 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.000 had fourteen tonight. Joel Embid with twenty three points to 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:13.120 lead all players in tonight's game, so did his nine rebounds. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:17.600 His counterpart Andre Drummond ten points, four of nine from 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:22.439 the field, eight rebounds minus thirty in the game. So yes, again, Ebid, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.920 you can make the case three for three against Drummond 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.960 this season JJ Reddick with twenty one, nine of them 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.840 came in the third quarter. He was six of eleven overall, 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.560 three of eights from outside the ark, and a perfect 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.560 six for six from the free throw line. Ben Simmons 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.720 nineteen points, nine of thirteen from the field, hit his 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.359 first five shots of the night. All of his baskets 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.120 came in the paint. He had four boards and nine 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.120 assists to go along with two steals and two blocks. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.879 Thirteen points for Timotey Lewile Cabreu off the bench, eleven 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.560 apiece for scharch and Covington, And on one side of 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.200 the coin, you could say great that the top rotation 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.760 guys had the chance to rest at the end of 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.840 tonight's game. But for guy like timoth Day Leile Cabret, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.520 having him be a little bit more consistent would not 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.720 hurt the seventy sixers. The hope could be you get 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.600 minutes tonight in extended action and maybe this is something 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.000 in terms of thirteen points three or four from outside 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.800 the arc that TLC can build upon. There was only 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.240 one lead change in tonight's game. It went from to 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.399 ZIP to a four to two in favor of the 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.960 Sixers two hours even on the game clock. A sellout 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:32.200 crowd of twenty thousand, five hundred ninety two always impressive 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:36.000 when the building is at full capacity, especially so on 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.920 the heels of some heavy snow over the last twenty 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.240 four hours. So everyone that came out tonight, big thanks 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.000 to you for that. Seventy six Ers back at five 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.399 hundred nineteen to nineteen with their fourth straight win in 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.399 fifth and four games, fifth in six games, and the 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.840 Detroit Pistons now dropped to twenty and seventeen on the year.