Speaker 1: Season against the Detroit Piston. His domination by the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers one fourteen seventy eight to take care of their
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference rivals, the second largest margin of victory in
Speaker 1: the Brett Brown era for the Sixers man. This was
Speaker 1: quite the effort by the squad. Tonight they fell behind
Speaker 1: two nothing, ripped off fifteen in a row, and from
Speaker 1: there Ben Simmons and his teammates took over. Let's join
Speaker 1: Brett Brown right now. I don't know. I think some
Speaker 1: of it needs to be associated with his confidence going
Speaker 1: to the line. I think that, you know, when people
Speaker 1: aren't confident shooting free throws, it can't help, but drip
Speaker 1: feed into, you know, your aggression on trying to get there.
Speaker 1: And I think like, the better he feels about his
Speaker 1: free throw, the more physical he's going to play. And
Speaker 1: I thought I thought that at the start he was
Speaker 1: on a mission. He physically it was as impressed as
Speaker 1: I've seenium, you know, going into bodies and inviting contact
Speaker 1: and uh, he really came out and sort of set
Speaker 1: the set the tempo. Rough go there a while back
Speaker 1: and now you won five or the last six. It's
Speaker 1: this team hitting it stride or is this just flip
Speaker 1: here or what he feels if you're right where you
Speaker 1: have to be down. I think none of us can
Speaker 1: underestimate the importance with any team, I'm sure, but because
Speaker 1: this is our team, like we feel it more of health.
Speaker 1: You know, you take Reddick out of this for a
Speaker 1: few games, or Covington out for three games, or t
Speaker 1: j Osarich or Joel we don't have the luxury of
Speaker 1: looking down the bench and looking at a bunch of
Speaker 1: senior players veteran players. It's not it's not the stage
Speaker 1: that we are at right now. And so when you
Speaker 1: have those types of injuries by the masses, you're vulnerable,
Speaker 1: and it's the NBA and you're kind of a five
Speaker 1: hundred team to begin with, and it's just it's it's
Speaker 1: it's the world we live in right now. If we're
Speaker 1: all realistic, you know, you always got to do is
Speaker 1: just look at other teams. And I think that when
Speaker 1: we're healthy and we we can continue to stay healthy,
Speaker 1: then you can truly talk about getting into a rhythm
Speaker 1: me subbing at them playing it. You can feel it,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I think tonight was a good
Speaker 1: example to your point that we played pretty good bad
Speaker 1: team basketball. We really did play good team basketball. How
Speaker 1: valuable it would be now, Gallows, a week off, I mean,
Speaker 1: how valuable is not going to be for that healthy
Speaker 1: I think it is valuable. You know, yesterday we all
Speaker 1: wake up and h we we we gave them the
Speaker 1: day off, and that is rare in the NBA, and
Speaker 1: because of snow and obvious driving conditions, we gave them
Speaker 1: a day off and we sort of had mobile recovery
Speaker 1: sessions with people who go find Joel of his apartment
Speaker 1: and so on, and everybody still got their treatment and recovery,
Speaker 1: but nobody came in and we have been on a
Speaker 1: very aggressive pace. We do see daylight with some days off.
Speaker 1: For me, it's an opportunity to like clean up, refine
Speaker 1: more than ad It's it's more shrink for me at
Speaker 1: this stage and try to be good at fewer things
Speaker 1: and look at that. UM, I feel like I got
Speaker 1: clear understanding what this team really needs to focus on
Speaker 1: to move forward. But I see the daylight and you know,
Speaker 1: time off in that regard. Seventy six Ers head coach
Speaker 1: Brett Brown one fourteen to seventy eight, the final score
Speaker 1: second largest margin of victory and the Brett Brown era
Speaker 1: Sixers beat the Dallas Mavericks by forty two last March,
Speaker 1: you might remember, felt like a long time ago because
Speaker 1: the Sixers starters did not have to play the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Think of that dovetelling on Brett Brown's and marks about
Speaker 1: the amount of rest players can get. I mean that
Speaker 1: is huge with the next game not coming until next
Speaker 1: Thursday in London. But yeah, Ben simmons amazingly dominant start
Speaker 1: feels like maybe last year, you know, a lifetime ago.
Speaker 1: He was phenomenal, hitting his first five shots in the night.
Speaker 1: He finished with nineteen points, and he in particular set
Speaker 1: the tone for the seventy sixers dominant downhill, relentless attack
Speaker 1: on the pistons. There was no resistance that Detroit showed defensively,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers were out for blood. Nineteen points for
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons tonight, nine of thirteen from the field, four boards,
Speaker 1: nine assists. He accounted for thirty between his field goals
Speaker 1: and assists of the seventy sixers first sixty two points
Speaker 1: they scored by the half, twenty three for Joel emb
Speaker 1: to go along with nine rebounds, twenty one for JJ Reddick,
Speaker 1: Dario Sharks with eleven and Robert Covington with eleven of
Speaker 1: his points in the third quarter as well. Tom McGinnis
Speaker 1: is still here. He is standing by and we'll get
Speaker 1: to him next. It's the postgame show on the Sixers
Speaker 1: Radio network, all seventy sixers on a Friday night in
Speaker 1: South Philadelphia in a major way one fourteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1: The final score. Brian Selt you with you from Sixer
Speaker 1: dot com. Tom McGinnis is rejoining us now. Not a
Speaker 1: bad way to get things done tonight. Tom. A lot
Speaker 1: to talk about, but let's begin with the man who
Speaker 1: set the tone, Ben Simmons. We saw it late. We
Speaker 1: talked about this before the game in the fourth quarters
Speaker 1: at Phoenix and then again Wednesday versus San Antonio. But
Speaker 1: he was all revved up to start tonight's game. No right,
Speaker 1: It just shows you like how good he's been and
Speaker 1: the potential is scary good. He was awesome here tonight
Speaker 1: and I try to delve into that a little bit
Speaker 1: with him. A great opportunity for us. We had a
Speaker 1: post game which we really appreciate. But Avery Bradley's a
Speaker 1: great perimeter defender and he closes out, he presses up
Speaker 1: on Ben defensively and not allow guys do that. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of teams strategize that way. They typically play
Speaker 1: off of him, and Bradley picks him up and pressures him,
Speaker 1: and Ben Simmons said, okay, I got it. And then
Speaker 1: one time he picked it up, which I thought was smart.
Speaker 1: You don't have to fight it or prove yourself. But
Speaker 1: he went right at him. And then Bradley's six two, right,
Speaker 1: but Ben is six ten, especially when he extends with
Speaker 1: that arm, and he was aggressive. He got right to
Speaker 1: the rack. I mean, Brett Brown was stipulating pregame Brian
Speaker 1: with us as we heard in the medium availability that
Speaker 1: that four by four restricted area, that little oval in Lemaine.
Speaker 1: He calls that at the rim and when you're Simmons,
Speaker 1: that's about as close as you have to get with
Speaker 1: that great reach. And he was all over the place
Speaker 1: at five for five to start the game, and that
Speaker 1: set a tone and both and then Joel was involved
Speaker 1: and Ben had four assists while racking up those double
Speaker 1: figures in points and just absolutely to me, I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, he's had triple doubles, but certainly that chunk
Speaker 1: was the best he's played since he's been pro He
Speaker 1: was responsible for thirty of the sixers sixty two points
Speaker 1: in the first half between his scoring and his assists.
Speaker 1: And you know, some fans may wonder, well, why don't
Speaker 1: we see that from Simmons more often? Just the aggressiveness
Speaker 1: of seriveness, and that might be part of his evolution.
Speaker 1: But one thing's for sure. I think through three months
Speaker 1: you can tell when he feels like he has a
Speaker 1: matchup that he can win, there he goes for it.
Speaker 1: And guess what, you might see more of it more
Speaker 1: often because it's worked, as you said, over the last
Speaker 1: two fourth quarters and both in Phoenix and against the
Speaker 1: Spurs here on Wednesday tonight, right out of the gate.
Speaker 1: And the thing about it is when you're a ball
Speaker 1: handler and you're a facilitator, you know, you don't always
Speaker 1: have to get to the rim. You just get in there.
Speaker 1: They have to come over and give help and boom,
Speaker 1: there you go. There's an opening on the past. Somebody's
Speaker 1: got to be open. And when you've got options in
Speaker 1: terms of Covington on the perimeter and JJ again, oftentimes
Speaker 1: it's the space they create because they are beyond the arc.
Speaker 1: Both those two guys, Covington and Reddick. You have to
Speaker 1: honor that. By the way, there's embat so uh yeah, no, Ben,
Speaker 1: And again just to back up and kind of reiterate
Speaker 1: what coach was saying, it's all also, you'd think you'd
Speaker 1: have to discern based on his comfortable he's getting more
Speaker 1: and more comfortable and confident at the line. He went
Speaker 1: ten for fifteen, So he's going to invite that contact
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get fouls, and he's he's not afraid
Speaker 1: to play through contact. That's what he did here tonight.
Speaker 1: There was one time where you're it didn't seem there,
Speaker 1: and he just blew through everybody. His strength in the athleticism,
Speaker 1: he's just an incredible athlete, just amazing, and he just dominated.
Speaker 1: It's it's like you know that phrase, I'd pay money
Speaker 1: to see him. Well, they're coming out and droves to
Speaker 1: see Simmons and beat in this sixers. He's that kind
Speaker 1: of talent. Sixers over the Pistons one fourteen to seventy eight. Sixers.
Speaker 1: Defense was great in tonight's game, and they did this
Speaker 1: against one of the better defensive units in the entire league.
Speaker 1: And this gives you some momentum. And you're talking about
Speaker 1: what type of spot do you want to be in?
Speaker 1: Playing the Boston Celtics next Thursday, which could go to
Speaker 1: thirty two and ten already into the second half of
Speaker 1: their season tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves. All right, so
Speaker 1: here you go and fully healthy. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: back at what happened in December. You can't discount that
Speaker 1: factor now. And the Sixers have played well against Boston,
Speaker 1: they just haven't finished the game. I thought here in
Speaker 1: the first matchup between the two teams, it was the
Speaker 1: home opener, and the Sixers were hyped. They had too
Speaker 1: many turnovers, they fouled too much. Boston ended up winning
Speaker 1: that game, but that that game was there for the taking.
Speaker 1: And then up there the Sixers played solid, they just
Speaker 1: didn't finish it out. To me, Boston with Kyrie is fantastic,
Speaker 1: but it's their defense that really stands out. And you know,
Speaker 1: the two young players. Jalen Brown is coming to his
Speaker 1: own tatum as I think, been better than anybody could
Speaker 1: have expected. The fact that he's right there. He has
Speaker 1: been leading the league in three point shooting. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he still holds that spot, but you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're really good and but as you say, the
Speaker 1: Sixers are probably playing I would say maybe even though
Speaker 1: they were at one point four games over five hundred,
Speaker 1: I would certainly this is one of their best. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're because they've developed even more over the course of
Speaker 1: these weeks and months. This is probably easily arguable that
Speaker 1: their best basketball the way they've played, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have some time leading up to kind of get ready.
Speaker 1: They're confident. It's a close group. They're getting closer to
Speaker 1: full health, certainly as soon as Markel gets back. So
Speaker 1: it should be a good matchup. And at some point
Speaker 1: you have to start beating the Boston Celtics and Toronto,
Speaker 1: who they'll play here a week from Monday, because those
Speaker 1: are the top two teams in the division. They did
Speaker 1: it last year with ten wins in January, and hopefully
Speaker 1: this will be that kind of month that can catapult
Speaker 1: the Sixers forward in the final months of the season.
Speaker 1: Excited to go overseas. Yeah, it should be fun, and
Speaker 1: as Brett Brown said, you know, it's not just a
Speaker 1: basketball game. It is a trip with the Sixers team
Speaker 1: and the Sixers organization. Their families are going to be
Speaker 1: with them, There's some sponsors going on the trip. It's
Speaker 1: NBA London and the NBA does a terrific job with
Speaker 1: every single special event. It ought to be fun. We'll
Speaker 1: be there, Brian with Sixers dot Com. There'll be some
Speaker 1: special functions. I know there's going to be a community
Speaker 1: service event with Crystal Palace and a number of different things.
Speaker 1: I think there's a trip to Kensington Palace. So it's cool.
Speaker 1: And London is certainly unique. There's so much history and
Speaker 1: having been to Europe multiple times, you know, we and
Speaker 1: this is great to with the length. But over there
Speaker 1: something's nine hundred years old. Here it's two hundred's good,
Speaker 1: but the history in Europe is just astounding. So it'll
Speaker 1: be a great trip and we look forward to being
Speaker 1: on it with you and doing the best we can
Speaker 1: in covering it for our fans back here in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: We will be on the air three o'clock Eastern time.
Speaker 1: Now wait, yeah, and his figures crossed. I love it.
Speaker 1: You're doing a great job. Thank you. Brian's day. All right,
Speaker 1: stay warm one fourteen seventy eight six Ers over the
Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons will here about it with Thomas Calls coming
Speaker 1: up on the other side. It's the postgame show on
Speaker 1: the Sixers Rate A Network seventy Sixers and the Detroit
Speaker 1: Pistons at the center. Third matchup at a four on
Speaker 1: the season, Sixers won the first two, trying to make
Speaker 1: it three in a row tonight and fourth in a
Speaker 1: row on their currents a winning streak. Detroit score the
Speaker 1: first basket of the night, Tobias Harris, and you're thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: could their best player, or at least one of them
Speaker 1: get going well. Any concerns were quickly quickly puts the
Speaker 1: rest as the Sixers are ripped off fifteen straight layup
Speaker 1: touched by a bead. Here comes Darry on the run
Speaker 1: to Simmons. Simmons has got numbers, turns on the Jets,
Speaker 1: puts them behind the back and now on the back down.
Speaker 1: Here's Darry with the cut and a layup, and now
Speaker 1: Detroit Yes, Dan no, and they're gonna call time out.
Speaker 1: He should have heated the advice of earlier thirteen to
Speaker 1: two Sixers, putting it out the best stench. I want
Speaker 1: to make it freeze up against this ball club from
Speaker 1: the Motor City, and it would grow to a fifteen
Speaker 1: to two lead before Harris and the Pistons would score again,
Speaker 1: but there was no stopping the seventy Sixers and Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons in particular. Amir Johnson there he's in for Joel.
Speaker 1: Here's Ben with a spin move. Simmons with a bank
Speaker 1: h got and he was fouled. Simmons is putting on
Speaker 1: a show. He's five for five whirling scoring and now
Speaker 1: go into the line for what could be the three
Speaker 1: point play. Simmons outside right spins on Bradley, the secondary
Speaker 1: defender came over and is Smith and Ben able to
Speaker 1: get the role. He's got ten points. It would be
Speaker 1: eleven by the time he's subbed out moments later, and
Speaker 1: it would only be a thirty two to fifteen Sixers
Speaker 1: lead after twelve minutes of action. They scored the final
Speaker 1: three points in the first quarter and that was eight
Speaker 1: three cursor to a thirteen nothing run and to begin
Speaker 1: at the second. So think about that, a fifteen zipspurt
Speaker 1: pretty much to begin the game, and then thirteen in
Speaker 1: a row between the end of the first and started
Speaker 1: the second. It was capped off by this Joel out
Speaker 1: top against drumming, drumming with that one foul too well
Speaker 1: turns the corner shows it come back on the right
Speaker 1: hand hook up and good Joella beat This is how
Speaker 1: he doesn't and he's got nine. The Sixers are leading
Speaker 1: forty two to fifteen. Oh my, a twenty seven point lead.
Speaker 1: I think you could safely say that Joel Embad has
Speaker 1: gone three for three against Andre Drummond and the Pistons
Speaker 1: this season. He was spectacular. Ben Simmons in company. Whether
Speaker 1: Ben was scoring directly or spreading the wealth around, they
Speaker 1: just could not be knocked off their rhythm. In the
Speaker 1: first half. A brutal drive a mere Johnson of the rebound,
Speaker 1: he crashes into the lower part of the stanchion and
Speaker 1: here's Simmons. The Paylers three ball from the corner. Bang,
Speaker 1: it's good. Payless puts it in. Simmons another dish, his sixth,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers are leading fifty two to twenty one. Timeout, Detroit.
Speaker 1: They can't get enough timeouts, the Sixers out of the routing.
Speaker 1: Indeed they were. Simmons had a ton of highlights tonight,
Speaker 1: but this was arguably one of the highlights of the highlights.
Speaker 1: Then the first half, Avery Brownlee the left side, Harris
Speaker 1: that passes behind him, Simmons goes for this deal. Simmons
Speaker 1: knocks it away, Simmons has the ball. Simmons is the play.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, two hand. Brown down Ben Simmons and he
Speaker 1: flexes for the crown. Wow. What quickness and anticipation and
Speaker 1: the ability to keep the ball in play. And once
Speaker 1: he gathered in it on the fire sideline by the
Speaker 1: Sixers bench, he comes in and jams it with two hands.
Speaker 1: He's got fifteen sixty two thirty two. Sixers at the break,
Speaker 1: their first time leading by thirty or more at a
Speaker 1: half since January twenty third, two thousand and twelve against
Speaker 1: Washington by the very same score. Third quarter, Sixers continued
Speaker 1: to rack it up. There was a brief spurt about
Speaker 1: three minutes into the third where Brett Brown needed a
Speaker 1: time out. Of the Sixers committed turnovers on three straight possessions,
Speaker 1: but flurries from Robert Covington and JJ Reddick and Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid made sure the Sixers would be well in command
Speaker 1: going in the fourth rebound coming down Sixers by thirty four,
Speaker 1: McConnell with the right hand dribble goes to Reddick four
Speaker 1: ten to go. In the third quarter, the Sixers with
Speaker 1: their biggest lead of the year. Here's a long shot
Speaker 1: by coming. Then he's done it again. He did all
Speaker 1: eleven of his points in the third. Seventy Sixers led
Speaker 1: ninety seven sixty one going into the fourth. Reserve time
Speaker 1: in the fourth, and the Sixers coasted to a thirty
Speaker 1: six point margin of victory. Yes, the scoring numbers were
Speaker 1: spectacular collectively and individually, but why don't we start with this.
Speaker 1: The Sixers held Detroit to thirty eight percent from the field,
Speaker 1: one of the better three point shooting teams in the league,
Speaker 1: just seven of twenty two from outside the arc. The
Speaker 1: Sixers with seventeen points scored off of Detroit turnovers. The
Speaker 1: Sixers out rebounded the Pistons by a total of twenty
Speaker 1: one fifty five to thirty four. For the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: just under forty nine percent from the field, fourteen of
Speaker 1: thirty from outside the arc, twelve and thirteen from the
Speaker 1: free throw line. And they've been doing a better job. Certainly,
Speaker 1: this is not an issue that has been fully resolved,
Speaker 1: but as of late, trend wise a little bit better,
Speaker 1: at least in the number of turnovers going down They
Speaker 1: had fourteen tonight. Joel Embid with twenty three points to
Speaker 1: lead all players in tonight's game, so did his nine rebounds.
Speaker 1: His counterpart Andre Drummond ten points, four of nine from
Speaker 1: the field, eight rebounds minus thirty in the game. So yes, again, Ebid,
Speaker 1: you can make the case three for three against Drummond
Speaker 1: this season JJ Reddick with twenty one, nine of them
Speaker 1: came in the third quarter. He was six of eleven overall,
Speaker 1: three of eights from outside the ark, and a perfect
Speaker 1: six for six from the free throw line. Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: nineteen points, nine of thirteen from the field, hit his
Speaker 1: first five shots of the night. All of his baskets
Speaker 1: came in the paint. He had four boards and nine
Speaker 1: assists to go along with two steals and two blocks.
Speaker 1: Thirteen points for Timotey Lewile Cabreu off the bench, eleven
Speaker 1: apiece for scharch and Covington, And on one side of
Speaker 1: the coin, you could say great that the top rotation
Speaker 1: guys had the chance to rest at the end of
Speaker 1: tonight's game. But for guy like timoth Day Leile Cabret,
Speaker 1: having him be a little bit more consistent would not
Speaker 1: hurt the seventy sixers. The hope could be you get
Speaker 1: minutes tonight in extended action and maybe this is something
Speaker 1: in terms of thirteen points three or four from outside
Speaker 1: the arc that TLC can build upon. There was only
Speaker 1: one lead change in tonight's game. It went from to
Speaker 1: ZIP to a four to two in favor of the
Speaker 1: Sixers two hours even on the game clock. A sellout
Speaker 1: crowd of twenty thousand, five hundred ninety two always impressive
Speaker 1: when the building is at full capacity, especially so on
Speaker 1: the heels of some heavy snow over the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. So everyone that came out tonight, big thanks
Speaker 1: to you for that. Seventy six Ers back at five
Speaker 1: hundred nineteen to nineteen with their fourth straight win in
Speaker 1: fifth and four games, fifth in six games, and the
Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons now dropped to twenty and seventeen on the year.