Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy six ers previous game,
Speaker 1: thirteen point nine seconds to go in regulation, the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers getting three pivotal steals from Ben Simmons to set
Speaker 1: themselves up for a one nineteen one sixteen victory to
Speaker 1: improve to nine and oh here at the center, I'm
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer will join a progress right now. Head coach
Speaker 1: Brett brown a ton is that like, do you look
Speaker 1: at a game like that and go to him and say,
Speaker 1: this is the Ben Simmons we need every night? You
Speaker 1: know how I have been on since we have brought
Speaker 1: him into the program. He's finishing is still always on
Speaker 1: my mind, you know. And what he does and we're
Speaker 1: not talking about dunks. It's that like little three foot
Speaker 1: thing that we're talking about, and he has to get
Speaker 1: better at it, that gather step where he's going one
Speaker 1: extra step or he's going one extra dribble and not
Speaker 1: being bumped off his driving line and you know, more
Speaker 1: fading and more straight line through people. Jannis like, I
Speaker 1: thought he was really good doing that tonight and the
Speaker 1: seven free throws that he shot and he made them all.
Speaker 1: He looked confident doing that. I think there is progressive
Speaker 1: growth in that area. To your point of going body
Speaker 1: body ball and inviting that physical, physical sort of style
Speaker 1: to get way more free throws for Joel to go
Speaker 1: fifteen for fifteen from the foula and not just it's
Speaker 1: a night. I think after he had the three night
Speaker 1: in Toronto, he had fourteen attempts. The next night, I
Speaker 1: think he had thirteen to night after that. Yeah, say
Speaker 1: about that, Um, it's a mentality. You know that that
Speaker 1: is a that is a disposition. That is a mentality
Speaker 1: to me more than a stat And the fact that
Speaker 1: we shot forty free throws last night with your thirty
Speaker 1: six tonight, I like both of those things, and it's
Speaker 1: you feel like him a lot more when you make them.
Speaker 1: But Joe LMB to your point that that is a statement.
Speaker 1: It is a mentality, and you know, none of us
Speaker 1: can underestimate the hurt he fell after the Toronto game
Speaker 1: where he felt like he let us down, and we
Speaker 1: have seen him respond. Think of mentalities of a tobias.
Speaker 1: We feel like he's becoming to come become more of
Speaker 1: a score as mentality every time he touches the ball
Speaker 1: is kind of can become more a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a score a little bit lately. I think so,
Speaker 1: and I hope so, because that's what we have. You know,
Speaker 1: I have preached you all and certainly to him. I
Speaker 1: want him to find the rim and and scora is
Speaker 1: a score. It's not JJ reddick always it's driving. It's
Speaker 1: like even the play we come down and I could
Speaker 1: have called a time. Oh we had a play and
Speaker 1: we wanted to run a turn on and get Joe
Speaker 1: the ball, and we made a sloppy pass, you know,
Speaker 1: Tobias into Joe got stolen, but he came straight back out.
Speaker 1: Ben gets a steel. He's on, you know, a straight
Speaker 1: line drive and ends up with just a smart, strong
Speaker 1: finish and whether it's a rise up, pull up long too,
Speaker 1: a catch shot three something off, a catch goo go
Speaker 1: catch to the rim. As I just explained, h we
Speaker 1: need him to score like I want him to think
Speaker 1: like a scorer. And uh, I think that he is.
Speaker 1: I also think that he's improved tremendously defensively. Couple, what
Speaker 1: have you noticed how he's improved. He's very he's very prideful,
Speaker 1: you know, Like I tell anybody to listen in the
Speaker 1: locker room coaching staff, you don't just dust off scores.
Speaker 1: It has to be to me some level of paint.
Speaker 1: We're not just like it's okay, it's okay in trading
Speaker 1: basket mentality. That's not how I see the world. And
Speaker 1: I can see in his face like he wants to
Speaker 1: get better. He's a prideful person. I forget sometimes really
Speaker 1: how young he is, you know, a young twenty six
Speaker 1: years old. Think of his upside like he we all
Speaker 1: sort of look at him as you know, he's arrived
Speaker 1: and here he is by any standard internationally, domestically, whatever,
Speaker 1: basketball wise, he is just scratching the surface. And because
Speaker 1: he's got character and he is an athlete that can
Speaker 1: point to defense. And I think that with him, I
Speaker 1: see that he cares. That's the hell of a starting point.
Speaker 1: And then he's got the other characteristics that I think
Speaker 1: can make him an elite defensive player. Seventy Sixers head
Speaker 1: coach Bret Brown following a hard fought one nineteen one
Speaker 1: sixteen victory over the Indiana Pacers, we joined bretton progress.
Speaker 1: What you did not hear was him praising Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: as an elite defender, saying that tonight's performance, with three
Speaker 1: of simmons four steals coming in the final thirteen point
Speaker 1: nine seconds of regulation after the Sixers trailed by a point,
Speaker 1: he felt like that was all league level defense from
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, who Brett is set at times in the
Speaker 1: past he thinks is capable of being a candidate for
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year in the NBA. There was
Speaker 1: so much that Ben Simmons did tonight. He guarded guards,
Speaker 1: he guarded centers, he guarded wings, and most important of all,
Speaker 1: he came up at the absolute most important points of
Speaker 1: the game to get this win for the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: and keep them undefeated at home. With thirteen seconds to go,
Speaker 1: Simmons steals the ball from t J. Warren, feeds to
Speaker 1: Bias Harris for a running dunk. Seventy Sixers take the
Speaker 1: one fifteen one fourteen lead. Jeremy Lamb, then victim of
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, Simmons stole the sideline inbounds pass the Pacers
Speaker 1: were forced to foul to Bias Harris ghost the line
Speaker 1: knocks down both of his free throws. Seventy Sixers take
Speaker 1: the lead one seventeen one fourteen with five point one
Speaker 1: seconds to go, Malcolm Brogden goes back, knocks down two freebees.
Speaker 1: One point game. Pacers have to foul and beat ghosts
Speaker 1: the line. He sinks two of his own to make
Speaker 1: it one nineteen one sixteen. With two point eight seconds left,
Speaker 1: Indiana tried to desperately heave the ball down the floor
Speaker 1: and who was it none other than Ben Simmons to
Speaker 1: leap up and steal the pass to secure the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers fourteenth win of the season and their ninth
Speaker 1: here in South Philadelphia in nine tries. Tom McGinnis called
Speaker 1: a really entertaining one tonight. Sixteen lead changes only sixteen
Speaker 1: along with fourteen ties. It felt like, Tommy, you live
Speaker 1: and breathe every one of those in a game like
Speaker 1: this against some really good competition. Ben Simmons, For all
Speaker 1: the talk there is about Ben Simmons, that defense that
Speaker 1: he showed in the clutch got the Sixers to win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was great, And just in general to your point
Speaker 1: about the game, that was a great game, really exciting.
Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of intense turnarounds and they had
Speaker 1: the lead for a lot of the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: just exciting play Star play by Ebad and to your point,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons able to come up with those steals that
Speaker 1: helped to seal the deally at fifteen points, thirteen assists.
Speaker 1: Didn't shoot it well, and I think Coach Brown was
Speaker 1: talking about finishing Ben was four or thirteen, missed some
Speaker 1: shots right at the rim, but great contributions from Tobias
Speaker 1: and early in the game all and of course Ennis
Speaker 1: played most of the fourth quarter and he stepped up big,
Speaker 1: so really excited. The numbers were incredible. Both teams shot
Speaker 1: the ball well. I mean, you'd never know that this
Speaker 1: was the second night of a back to back relative
Speaker 1: to how the team shot. Eleven made threes for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: and to me, anytime this year the Sixers get double
Speaker 1: figures in threes, that that's a really workable, good number
Speaker 1: for the Sixers, and they shot it well from deep.
Speaker 1: Just an overall a real exciting game here tonight against
Speaker 1: Indiana seventy sixers edge. The Pacers won nineteen to one.
Speaker 1: Sixteen down here at the center Joel and bid. Tim
Speaker 1: seems to be rounding into form about a month five
Speaker 1: weeks or so into the season. Thirty two points, eleven rebounds,
Speaker 1: and fifteen for fifteen from the free throw line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and obviously he's a tough cover for the opposition based
Speaker 1: on his you know, varied ways of scoring. But one
Speaker 1: of the big things he does is he gets the opposition.
Speaker 1: He gets a lot of calls, but he's drawing fouls
Speaker 1: and again your point earlier thirty two free throws coming
Speaker 1: into the game in the last two games and tonight
Speaker 1: fifteen and he made them all. That's telling. He got
Speaker 1: sa bonus out of the game. He got Turner and
Speaker 1: early foul difficulty. Miles Turner ended up with five fouls,
Speaker 1: and you know, relative to Turner and be like Miles
Speaker 1: Turner never got into the rhythm of the game. He
Speaker 1: was one of their leading scorers last night. He had
Speaker 1: just three here tonight because he was back and forth
Speaker 1: in the lineup because every time he came in and
Speaker 1: beat got him into a foul predicament. So no, Joel
Speaker 1: has really done well. And again you know, handling the traps.
Speaker 1: You didn't see as much of that tonight. But he's
Speaker 1: getting the ball out quicker and Morris succinctly and another
Speaker 1: great rebounding night at double double, which as I believe
Speaker 1: now is tenth or was eleventh on the year, and
Speaker 1: he was very impressive in this win. Seventy Sixers overcome
Speaker 1: the Pacers one nineteen to one sixteen. They have the
Speaker 1: day off tomorrow and then they have the Utah Jazz,
Speaker 1: a team that beat them by two last month in
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City here at the Center on Monday, I mean,
Speaker 1: tom we're now rounding into the second full month the season.
Speaker 1: What do you think things? As we usually talked very
Speaker 1: micro after these games, but you know, you round the corner,
Speaker 1: you got some tough games coming up. But you know,
Speaker 1: here the Sixers are there fourteen and six on the
Speaker 1: custom of potentially being ten and oh here at home,
Speaker 1: what do you think we've seen so far? Well, as
Speaker 1: you say, to your point, you're nearing a quarter pole
Speaker 1: of the season. Brett Brown liked to cut the season
Speaker 1: into thirds. But you know you're near the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one game mark and that's a fourth of the season.
Speaker 1: And clearly at home they've had the ability to come
Speaker 1: from behind and protect their home court, winning nine in
Speaker 1: a row. You know, they win in Portland. You could
Speaker 1: argue that they probably shouldn't have won that game. The
Speaker 1: last second or two seconds to go the Shop by
Speaker 1: Cork Mos but should have won in Denver, should have
Speaker 1: won in Oklahoma City, and then probably should have won
Speaker 1: in Toronto. And you take two out of those three games,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers are sixteen and four, and you're talking
Speaker 1: about them, you know, just like everybody talked about them
Speaker 1: in July. So I think night's like tonight, even without Josh.
Speaker 1: And again that's another part of this. So they've played
Speaker 1: twenty games, and less than half of them in games
Speaker 1: where they've had their starters, whether it's for load management
Speaker 1: within Bead or Horford, or you know a little bit
Speaker 1: of an here or there for Josh Richardson, who's now
Speaker 1: missed his fourth and a half game. So that that
Speaker 1: continuity and that deal, whether it's the starters get to
Speaker 1: play more and more. But now you're seeing the resiliency.
Speaker 1: And again with any good team, you're seeing multiple players
Speaker 1: step up at any given time. In a game like tonight,
Speaker 1: Horford fifteen points, three threes in the first half, six
Speaker 1: field goals didn't seem like a big factor in the game,
Speaker 1: but look at that fifteen points and Beat and Simmons,
Speaker 1: you know, being all stars stepping up and carrying the
Speaker 1: little Tobias Harris being relentless rebounding the ball pretty well
Speaker 1: overall over seven plus rebounds per game, and for that
Speaker 1: position and that size he should be. So you're getting
Speaker 1: that production off the bench with Ennis. You've seen some
Speaker 1: great moments from five ball ups and downs from Mike
Speaker 1: Scott so far, Trey Burke and Netto have done a
Speaker 1: nice job. So you know, really to be eight games
Speaker 1: over five hundred at this stage in the season, that's
Speaker 1: tracking for fifty plus wins again, and for that to
Speaker 1: be the case in the third acutive season, whether the
Speaker 1: Sixers end up with the number one seed or not,
Speaker 1: will We'll see. But the biggest thing is you want
Speaker 1: to get through the you know, the season with home
Speaker 1: court advantage in the first round and just continue to
Speaker 1: track and stay healthy Knockwood and begin to figure some
Speaker 1: things out. The defense has been dominant. I know this
Speaker 1: is kind of free ring thinking, but these are all
Speaker 1: the things that come to mind, and so far, so good.
Speaker 1: Certainly some hiccups along the way, but there are going
Speaker 1: to be ups and downs. And now you come in
Speaker 1: and this Utah Utah has always been a tough opponent.
Speaker 1: Mitchell I thought Mitchell got into the paint a lot
Speaker 1: Ricky Rubio, not Rubio, but the way that Utah attack
Speaker 1: to paint against the Sixers that hurt them out in
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. And then Sixers are gonna have to
Speaker 1: do something with that defensively because that it was almost
Speaker 1: like they went paint to great and that was part
Speaker 1: of the formula when they did beat the Sixers earlier
Speaker 1: this season out in Salt Lake seventy Sixers beat the
Speaker 1: Pacers one nineteen one sixteen. Always great thoughts and perspective
Speaker 1: postgame from Tom McGinnis. Tom will talk on Monday, thank you,
Speaker 1: good night. Seventy Sixers get thirty two and eleven from
Speaker 1: Jowell Embiad Who's fifteen for fifteen performance in the free
Speaker 1: throw line tonight at the center big in the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers victory over Indie Ben Simmons fifteen points, thirteen assists,
Speaker 1: six rebounds, four steals, three of them coming in the
Speaker 1: final thirteen point nine seconds of regulation after the Sixers
Speaker 1: fell behind by point and desperately needed a stop. Twenty
Speaker 1: two for Tobias Harris, fifteen for Al Horford and a
Speaker 1: dozen for fur Concorkmas James and it's the third with
Speaker 1: nine off the bench, as the seventy Sixers improved to
Speaker 1: nine and oz down here at the center. Here's how
Speaker 1: it sounded, courtesy of the one and only Tom McGinnis
Speaker 1: on the Sixers radio network. Al Horford back after getting
Speaker 1: some rest last night in New York City and he
Speaker 1: helped give the seventy Sixers an early boost. Here comes
Speaker 1: sevens in the night. Back out the big Al three
Speaker 1: ball by Horford is good. Horford knocks it down and
Speaker 1: the Sixers with eight in a row and time out Indiana.
Speaker 1: The Sixers they're back in fill anywhere. They're unbeating one
Speaker 1: the year. Indeed they were. They stretched the run to
Speaker 1: ten straight points and take control early. Seventy Sixers would
Speaker 1: enjoy their highest scoring first quarter of the season, leading
Speaker 1: thirty eight to twenty nine after one. In the second
Speaker 1: quarter of the Sixers widen the gap, expanding their lead
Speaker 1: to a dozen. Ben driving on Rodden on the backdown
Speaker 1: ten to shoot, still backing with the right hand, dribble turns,
Speaker 1: jump tads fires it in. Ben Simmons fall away jumper
Speaker 1: eight three foot five and the Sixers fifty Indiana thirty eight. Well,
Speaker 1: the Sixers would stretch their lead to fifteen points with
Speaker 1: five minutes to go in the first half fifty five forty,
Speaker 1: but from there Indiana turned the game around, capitalizing on
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers mistakes and turnovers, the Pacers ending the first
Speaker 1: half on a twenty five to ten run. It was
Speaker 1: all tied up at sixty five going into the break,
Speaker 1: and the third quarter of the battle is on seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers turning the big man and Simmons has it down low,
Speaker 1: spins kickout Joel. He drives out Si bonas side steps
Speaker 1: one man, scoops it off the glass right five miles turner.
Speaker 1: Porous defense by Indiana. It beat with five in the
Speaker 1: third seventeen in the game, and the seventy Sixers led
Speaker 1: a seventy two sixty eight fur con cork mose, helping
Speaker 1: give the Sixers a little bit of a nudge going
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter. Well leftenant Ben Simmons from Melbourne,
Speaker 1: Australia at six ten gets a screen by a beat,
Speaker 1: drives a kickout cork boss three ball from out top.
Speaker 1: It's up and good furkon cork boss from sevens and
Speaker 1: the Sixers take today murk with twelve sevens with US
Speaker 1: twelfth and says ninety three ninety two. Philadelphia, Indiana would
Speaker 1: tied up to make it ninety three all going into
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Things really started to heat up from there.
Speaker 1: There were opportunities from both teams it felt like to
Speaker 1: take control of the game, but it remained a neck
Speaker 1: and neck fight to the finish line. The Pacers going
Speaker 1: up three one nine, one oh six with five and
Speaker 1: a half minutes to go on a three pointer from
Speaker 1: Malcolm Bragen. The seventy Sixers hadn't answered back to Harris
Speaker 1: high screen it. Bead screens for Harris. Harris comes off
Speaker 1: shooting three ball up in to Bias. Harris with his
Speaker 1: first tray in the game. Two man game on the
Speaker 1: perimeter in Bead with a pick Harris with the pop
Speaker 1: Sixers and Pacers tied at one o nine. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: would fall behind again, but then tied up on two
Speaker 1: free throws from Bead with two and a half minutes
Speaker 1: to go, one eleven all. The Pacers reclaimed the lead
Speaker 1: at one at thirteen one eleven to seventy Sixers with
Speaker 1: under half a minute to play. Turned to Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: who ratchet it up the deed Simmons steals them all.
Speaker 1: Simmons driving it in the lady goes to Harris. Harris
Speaker 1: puts up Ben Jams and quit. Ten seconds to go,
Speaker 1: Sixers take the lead. Malcolm Brocken threw it right to
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. Simmons drove it down and kicked it off
Speaker 1: to a trailing Harris, and he slams a ball then
Speaker 1: made it one fifteen, one fourteen. After Indie, they scored
Speaker 1: three free throws. After TJ. Warren was fouled on the perimeter,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers got it right back. Ben Simmons then
Speaker 1: stole the ball and the Pacers, ensuing sideline inbounds play.
Speaker 1: Sixers got a couple more free throws from Harris and
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid that kept them in front, and Simmons end
Speaker 1: of the night as time expired by intercepting a desperation
Speaker 1: pass at mid court to clinch the game for the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers. Sixers shot forty nine and a half percent
Speaker 1: from the field, the Pacers fifty five and a half percent,
Speaker 1: eleven three pointers from each team. The Sixers huge from
Speaker 1: the free throw line, where they were thirty two of
Speaker 1: thirty six. Indiana just twenty one of twenty five, while
Speaker 1: I say just twenty one of twenty five. But the
Speaker 1: Sixers given their volume that much stronger in that department.
Speaker 1: Sixers plus one on the glass. Sixers turned Indie over
Speaker 1: twenty times and outscored the Pacers by seven off turnovers,
Speaker 1: so that was a key stat as well. Sixers with
Speaker 1: forty six points in the paint that helped their cause too.
Speaker 1: Thirty two points eleven rebounds for Joel embiid game high
Speaker 1: totals in both categories, twenty two for Tobias Harris, Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons with fifteen points, thirteen assists, six rebounds and four steals.
Speaker 1: Fifteen for Al Horford to go with three rebounds and
Speaker 1: three assists. James and It's the third with nine points
Speaker 1: off the bench plus four rebounds and a couple steals
Speaker 1: of his own. Seventy six Ers have won three in
Speaker 1: a row. They are fourteen and six, and they've also
Speaker 1: won seven out of the last eight games. They remain
Speaker 1: undefeated here at the Center with the record of nine
Speaker 1: and oh. They are one of three unbeaten home teams
Speaker 1: left in the NBA. They have the Utah Jazz coming
Speaker 1: up at seven o'clock on Monday Night one final time.
Speaker 1: The final score was the seventy Sixers one nineteen Indianna
Speaker 1: Pacers one sixteen. You've been listening to rewind, look out
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