WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 10/1/2018 ~ A Pre-Season Sit Down with Brett Brown 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.400 Brett Brown has undoubtedly been the steadiest face of the 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.680 seventy sixers franchise the past five seasons. As he gets 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.119 ready to head into a sixth his team is surrounded 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.040 by more talent, more hype, and more attention than ever before. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:20.480 You cannot connect the dots of culture and impatience. It 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:25.759 doesn't work. Culture cannot exist with impatience. Coming up, we've 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.960 got a preseason sit down with the head coach himself 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.400 from Markel folks. It's clear he feels good about himself. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.920 I think one out of he's put in the work 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.400 to his own renowned pregame running routine and get out 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.600 and have fresh interests me a lot quiz and as 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.040 I get older, I feel like I needed even more. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.519 We cover some good ground, focusing on a lot of 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.680 the cultural elements that have helped trigger the Sixers turner 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:58.720 Brett Brown on this episode of the broadcasts. Yes, Yes, 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.600 very excited to have an interview with Brett Brown on 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.920 this episode of the podcast. Before we get to that, 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.600 reminders per usual about our feed. If you are not 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.320 yet a subscriber, you can head two of course Apple podcasts, 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.480 Google Play, Stitcher, SoundCloud, tune in any of your other 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:21.080 favorite podcatching platforms type in Sixers podcast Network and that 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.760 will take you to our spots. It is amazing that 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.880 we are I mean, really, all things consider, it is 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.160 pretty amazing that we are talking about Brett Brown being 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.800 on the cusp of his sixth season with the seventy Sixers. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.280 Everyone knew that when Brown was hired back in August 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.679 of twenty thirteen, there was a view for the long 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:45.039 game that was involved. But for everything that Brown has 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.240 battled and endured here, he is I think one hundred 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:54.000 percent totally deserving of the opportunity that's in front of him, 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.760 which is to have the legit chance to coach the 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.720 seventy Sixers to not just one, but perhaps multiple and 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:05.160 a perfect world championship runs. No doubt about it. He's 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.600 earned it. And there has been so much more than 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.880 just x's and oh's that have gone into the last 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.519 five seasons for Brett Brown, and those are going to 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.240 be some of the things that you'll hear us talk 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.720 about over the course of this conversation, which we had 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:23.240 the chance to record right after the Sixers preseason opener 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.120 against Melbourne United. Here it is we have the great 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.600 privilege and fortune of being able to talk about a 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.720 preseason game being in the book seventy six Ers First 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.440 Games against Melbourne United. What were some of your general 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.280 takeaways from exhibition game number one? I mean just from 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:43.600 the big pitch of personally to play against the team 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.920 that I used to coach with and to have several 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.519 of the coaching staff and a few of the players 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.400 the coaches that I've coached, whether it's out the London 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.160 Olympic Games or junior basketball when they're fifteen years old. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.640 They reminded me of when I took him out to 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.160 dinner the night before. The connection that I have had 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:09.200 personally with the Australian basketball fraternity, the city of Melbourne, 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.200 the fact that we have Ben Simmons, you know, our 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.720 starting point got Australian, Jonah Bolden, you know, somebody that 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.280 we drafted and is not in the program Australian. And 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.200 you just can't make that stuff up. And so that 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.520 that in itself was a unique environment, stuff that is 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.480 incredibly rare. That opportunity was very rare to then go 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:35.480 play your first game and watch a new team, you know, play, 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.680 and watch Marquel play and watch you know, Mike Muscala 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.560 come in, say, and play in front of our fans 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.120 against a team that I used to coach. It was 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.440 a good night, you know, a good start to what 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.080 is always a long season. But I would have left 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.080 feeling like a defense really has a chance, I think 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:59.360 to be elite, and I get really excited watching Marquel 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.840 folks play. Follow up on some of that stuff in 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.760 a bit. But it's interesting because, especially now with changes 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.440 that were made a couple of years ago, preseason schedules 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.720 trimmed down to four games, where you guys actually have 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.120 more practice sessions than you do actual games. So when 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.000 you guys make evaluations on anything pretending to the team, 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.760 how does weight get distributed to what you're seeing in 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.280 practice versus what you might see in a glimpse in 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:27.320 a game. I have said publicly, and I'll say it 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.880 now again that the gym is going to speak to me. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:36.000 I come into the season, certainly with preconceived ideas, and 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.640 you're talking about a practice gym. Yeah, I am. I 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.800 think the gym is going to speak to me in practice, 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.239 and you know you're gonna feel things, you're gonna see things, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.320 and you have to come into it with a mind. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:52.360 I think where you take your preconceived ideas where I'm 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.159 going to grow him, I'm going to play him. I 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.839 think these two guys can coexist. Well, I can run 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.560 this play for you know whomever, those types of some 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.279 of the odds, and then the gym speaks to the 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.440 coach and the coaching staff, and always somebody stands out, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.719 somebody disappoints, something doesn't feel right that you thought was 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.120 going to feel right over the summer. And so the 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.400 gym speaks to me, and by and large, I like 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:20.880 to reward what I see and deviate from my preconceived ideas. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.760 That's competition. Competition needs to be rewarded, or to me, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.440 it's when stuff starts to unravel. And so the environment 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.320 that we have to be able to do that is small. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.440 There aren't many opportunities in the NBA life where you 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:39.320 can have multiple practices or multiple preseason games and then 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.400 deliver a team to opening Night against the Celtics. You've 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.880 got to have some you know, quick decisions and justification 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.840 of why you're doing stuff. In my mind where ultimately 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.320 I want to get to a as much as I 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.479 cannot rhythm to how I sub this team play. This 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.880 team called plays for this team, etc. But practice is 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.680 the starting point for the base of those decisions. There's 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.599 a lot that we could talk about in respect to 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.920 Marquelle faults, but in the limited time we have, you 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.520 said something going to that first game against Melbourne and 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.000 a really elaborate answer about the decision to start him 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.560 and bring JJ Reddick off the bench, and it sounded like, 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.760 as much as anything, we know what he can do offensively, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.640 but the defensive part of what you saw from Marquel 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.520 that was something that stuck out in your mind. Can 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.040 you give us some more details on what you observed 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.919 at the end of last year with him defensively and 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.120 then what he's shown up to this point that made 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.120 you feel like that was the appropriate decision to make. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.200 I first think that he is a willing defender. It's 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:41.000 not pulling teeth. The NBA defense is incredibly different than 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.599 anything he experienced in college or DeMatha or in high school. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:50.120 And so it starts with like, are you a willing participant? 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.520 Are you a willing defensive player? Will you let me 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.400 coach you defensively? And he will? And yes he can, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.839 and yes he does, and take that mentality and then 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.760 you like Drake his body in his length, his wingspan, 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.560 and his height into that formula, and I think he's 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.120 got a chance to be so much better than others 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.040 might have thought pre draft. You know, they was known 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.720 more of a sort of a water bug type, you know, elusive, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.400 open court, get wherever he wants to go, big wiggle, 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.800 big game, you know, type of player. And I'm seeing 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.160 something that can be transferred defensively as much as all 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.600 those other notions that people had, you know, when they 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.680 decided he was going to be the first player chosen 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.080 in the NBA draft. And that's what I liked the most. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:45.000 His mentality. He combined that with his body and he 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.160 knows that's where I see the world. That's where I've 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.520 bread is butted from a defensive perspective, and you throw 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.720 that into a mix in the length with Joel and 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.520 Ben Simmons and Cub and Dario as an example of 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.920 a group that I started, that's a long team. You know, 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.880 you start measuring finger tip to finger tip with their 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.200 wingspans and stretching them out. I think somebody said they 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.760 got to know almost thirty five feet, that's a lot 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.080 of length, and that part of the game, that part 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:16.040 of him excites me. Was there any point last year 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.520 when you wondered, questioned if he perhaps just from a 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.960 mental unconfident standpoint, would be able to get back to 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.920 what seems like a really good and healthy place that 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.920 he's in right now. I think we'd all be lying 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.880 if we, you know, didn't wonder like, where will this 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.640 end up? I've always felt like he was going to 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.600 end up being fine. How soon I didn't know. And 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.240 the work that he put in this summer, and the 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.439 man out was that he put in in one hundred 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.880 and fifty thousand shots. They say, you know, he shot 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.840 this summer, and so that deliberate practice all day, every 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:56.760 day from June, July and August. It's clear he feels 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.400 good about himself. I think born out of he's invested time, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.880 he's put in the work, and for him to come 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.960 back and do some of the things that I've seen 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:12.840 this year, if anything, shows how confident he is, like 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.880 he really is not shying away from anything, not shots, 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.160 not a foul shot, not a free throw line, not anything. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.640 And I think that that mindset that I see excites 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.840 me as much as you know, him making some free 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.440 throws or making some pull up jump shots. I like 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.640 his mindset because he's not backing down from many of 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.679 these environments. Do you think having fun, which it seems 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.720 like he's doing, and trusting the network of people around him. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.920 I mean, are those two factors, from what you've seen 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.880 over the course of your career day as big as 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:48.280 anything to unlocking what someone might have within himself. I 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.199 think it is that for all of us. I don't 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.240 care how old you are, and anytime you can come 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.959 into a system and a program and a family where 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:03.160 you feel respected, you know, you feel um, that you're 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.439 part of something that's you know, a little bit bigger 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:10.360 than you, that it has clear cut rules. It's not um, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.280 you know, anything that can be sort of taken for granted. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:20.920 It's to be respected. The environment, the role protected U 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.080 that is to the environment that we've tried to create 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.440 since we've all been together. And I think that that 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.040 Marquel coming in at this stage of all of us, 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.680 after six years, he's coming into a very I think, 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:40.480 a competitive, caring environment that I think can assist him 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.559 as he moves through the NBA at a very young age. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.960 This is gonna say, I'm really really lazy, but I've 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.000 been ramping my brain. We've we've had about a week 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.880 and a half worth of media sessions, and I feel 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.640 like there's been so much that's been asked about Ben 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.040 Simmons and Joe ellen Bead and what's next for them. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.160 Are there things that like we as the media aren't 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.559 asking that that you're reviewing is really important? Things to 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.679 Joe Allen, Ben, that you think might be under the 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.080 radar that are important and critical to the next steps 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.480 that they're taking. What are some of those things? And 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.680 your I mean, the main thing is the growth of 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:17.719 those few that you've mentioned to me as leaders. And 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.200 you know, I can get into coach speak and talk 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.680 to you about, you know, putting them in more pick 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.160 and rolls. I can get into defensive coach speak where 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.120 we can talk about how well we switch or keeping 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.240 Joel at the rim. I can do that, and it's 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.640 all true. But what immediately comes to my mind is 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:39.840 the notion of growing leaders and everybody leads in different ways, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.160 continuing to remind them that this is the a city, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.200 this is the program, and help me, help you, help me, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.760 help you down deep. I know that everybody wants to 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.720 be coached, everybody wants discipline, everybody wants some level of 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.840 law and order and to to to build offense around 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.520 program in a good way and let them lead from 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:07.040 those sort of parameters and embrace the city, and embrace 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.640 the new guys coming into the team, and find ways 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.960 to you attract free agents and have it be a 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:17.280 desirable destination. It's all there. We get everything, you know, 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:21.520 an unbelievable city and incredible practice, facility of growing program, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.440 a clear cut way how we want to play the sport, 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.559 offensive defensive style of play. I think that the culture 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.319 that we're building is something that is attractive and real 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.640 and all those types of things. Other things that interest 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.360 me the most when you talk about the growth and 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.200 development of those two. Is it something that the media, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.400 you know, I don't know how you couched your question. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.840 Is it something that they speak about or you know, 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.080 haven't really discussed Maybe as much as I think they could, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.360 I don't really can't. I think that it is something 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:59.439 for me that that interests me, maybe more than anything, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.240 all these foundational elements of a sustained successful program, something 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.240 that you've had handed over the parts of the last 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.240 six years. There probably was no one better to steward 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:13.120 this team during the offseason months than yourself. I don't 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.640 know if relief is the right word, but are you 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.240 very much eager to be just focused back on coaching 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.120 at this point that that is really your day to 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.120 day at this stage of the season. You can use relief. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.400 It's relief the apokay, So are you relief to just 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:34.360 get back. I wanted nothing to do with with, you know, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:39.559 the continuation of a general manager role of responsibilities, because 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.360 I know that that for me, I can't do both. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.680 You know, I do not want to have that type 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:52.000 of bandwidth or multitasking. I want to coach basketball. And 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.920 to look back, the sumone was very unusual. It completely 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.760 changed the rhythm beat of a coach's like mentality and 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:06.160 normal calendar lifestyle with your family, and it changed. It 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.200 was different for me that some of them, more so 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.559 than any I think coaching year I've ever had. And 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.000 so to look in the rearview mirror now and and 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.360 end up where we have ended up with Elton Brand 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.160 as that general manager and the growth of Alex Rucker 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.680 and the empowerment in the office of Ned Cohen and 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.680 you know, pivot and Mark evershly out into more of 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.360 a role that that I think he's going to be 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.880 amazing at with trying to help us, you know, identify 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.040 and obviously still draft and all those things, but dig 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.800 into like how we building our program and free agents 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.360 and all that stuff, and connecting with the team that 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:45.680 we have now on the court, those four I'm fans of, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.640 and to end up as we've ended up, to drive 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.920 into this office and see those people running our organization 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.120 and to have the support of owners and Josh and Blitz, 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.600 Josh Harrison, David Blitzer. We're in a good place. We're 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.960 in a really good place with people that are competent 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.960 in can and understand the history of what we've all 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.320 been through and the culture that we're trying to continue 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:14.840 to grow. I'm thrilled we've ended up where we've ended up. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.520 And as far as my role in it, you just 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.040 trying to help the team and help the organization in 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.920 that three month window, and I hope that I did that. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.640 People might say, well, this is a really easy question 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.320 for the digital reporter who's employed by the seventy six 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.000 ers to ask. But you just mentioned the patience factor 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.840 of ownership, and that's not something you look at any 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.200 professional sport and you really don't see that a lot. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.000 How much do you think that just you having time, 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.280 how much more has that allowed you and this organization 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.200 to do and accomplish. I mean, you cannot connect the 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:54.800 dots of culture and impatience. It does, it doesn't, It 0:15:54.840 --> 0:16:02.200 doesn't work. Culture cannot exist with impatience, especially when you 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.000 dismantle the program and try to build it back up 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:10.280 as we have. And there is a routine that we 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.960 all seek. Everybody wants the comfort of a of a 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:20.480 routine of familiarity doesn't mean the complacency. And so to 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.320 try to grow habits and in a comfort level of 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.280 how we work and where do I park and there's 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.000 my locker, and you know, here's the style of play, 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:31.920 and here's some of the familiarities. Who are the players 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:36.600 that we're running in corporate knowledge and continuation like that matters, 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.520 and so you don't just click your heels and like, oh, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.600 let's let's you know, we have a culture and here 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.080 takes time. And any team that I've ever studied or 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.800 been a part of this won championships has that. That's 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.400 the only reason I do my job is we want 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.320 to win a championship and bring a championship here to 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:59.520 the city of Philadelphia, and you know, it can't happen 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.720 in my estimation, my opinion, unless you have a base 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:07.720 of culture. And to Josh Harris and David Blitz's credit, 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.960 you know, we've been quite linear on how we've tried 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.359 to grow this and how we see the world, how 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.160 we signed contracts and have thoughtfully trying to build the team. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.600 You know, the draft is always a challenge. Sometimes you'd 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.760 get it right, sometimes you don't. And I just think 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.640 that there's a very disciplined approach and how we tried 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:33.560 to grow it. And it's probably as grateful an area 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.000 that we're talking about for me that then our owners 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:41.320 have stayed focused on the discipline you have to have 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.640 if you really want to end up at some point 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.400 with the championship. I can turn myself pretty likely because 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.920 I get some glimpses and insights into the different cultural 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.920 touch points that you guys have built. And one thing 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.520 is just the messaging around the training complex of the 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:58.159 Philly Hard Philly Edge Philly Reel. Can you tell us 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.879 where the inspiration for that message and came from? Was 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.159 it based on if you think are certain examples of 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.120 players who have passed through this team of the course 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.120 of its history. Where did that come from? I mean 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.919 it was it was they allowed me to do this, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.520 and so these are my words, and it's just words 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.000 that I use all the time. It's how I speak 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.880 to my staff, to the play this to the media. 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:26.720 And again to Josh and Dave David Blitz's credit, they 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.640 allowed me to signage up the building and really give 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.320 thought to how we message the building and how I 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.520 speak to the team can be displayed in the building 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.760 and if you came into a film session. It features 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.960 on all of our films and in the past, and 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.879 we will continue to do this this year. I will, 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.200 you know, go to Joel as an example. What's Philly 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.520 hard mean to you? You know, Hey Ben, what's Philly 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:55.920 edge mean to you? Marquel? What's Philly real? Like? What's authentic? 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.200 What's real to you? And I think that those words 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.439 mirror the city, like I want to play to the 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:07.600 spirit of the city, our style of playing, how I 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.080 try to act, you know, as the head coach and 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:14.000 speak to my team. I hope those three words mean something. 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.080 If you walked around a building, you would see, you know, 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.720 Allen iverson stepping over somebody on a hard You got 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.480 Charles Barkley, you know, into the whole edge. There's a 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.600 picture of him with a rebound. You can see there's 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.200 an edge to you know, his style of playing who 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.680 he is. And then there's like this authenticity a reel 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.360 with Julius Irvin, you know, walking down I think it's 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.719 Broad Street and looking like dark only could look like 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.200 and you know, the authenticity. And we could have chose 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.680 that word, but we went real, you know, I could 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.240 I could have chose attitude. We could have gone to 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.600 some other words, but we went Philly hard, Philly edge, 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.680 and Philly real. And that's how I see our program. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.040 That's how I see in the city. You know, I 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.720 think it replicates the characteristics of the city of Philadelphia. 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.159 Continuing along the cultural touch point lines. The day that 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.400 we're recording this year a family day, so we see 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.480 the families of everyone coming in through here. There's I 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.240 think there's Hey, well there's at least hey, I don't 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:17.919 know if there's hay rides, but there's moon bounces. There's 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:22.000 catering spread set up to bring everyone together like that 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.440 before the season starts. How does that help the vibe 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.240 or had a team. I mean, there are there are 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:31.240 six things that we've started since we've all been together, 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:35.360 and this is one of them. You mentioned coach to coaches, 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.640 you know, that's one of six. Here here's the second 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.000 of six things that, as I said at the beginning, 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.119 can live through the ages. It doesn't matter who the 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.880 GM is, who the coaches, they are things that can 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.840 live through the ages. That's how you form a culture. 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.920 When there's a rhythm to a calendar. There's annual events 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:56.240 that you just never let go of, and you just 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:58.200 keep doing them and doing them better, and all of 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.360 a sudden it's ingrained and how you think and how 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.840 you act and how you welcome, in this case, families, 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:13.639 and this is a fifth annual family day and girlfriends, wives, children, 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:18.320 mums and dad's friends are welcome to the facility on 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:22.960 a day, a special day, a single day. And we 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.199 were lucky to have a fantastic day and to be 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:29.159 able to look out across the river and see the 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.000 skyline of the city of Philadelphia and have this amazing 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:36.200 practice facility, you know, behind it, and to look out 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.240 there and see several hundred people you know, and enjoying 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.199 the day and interacting with each other and meeting people 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.639 that matters to us. And so the Family Day is 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:48.879 an annual event that we started a while ago and 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:53.120 it's continue to grow and we're excited to go down 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.320 in about twenty minutes and get into it. A couple 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:59.679 of mixed bag things before you ramp up. You're a 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:01.800 car share a lot during the summer. You got a 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:03.719 lot to do. Can we talk about your car? Can 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.159 you describe to the people the car you drive? I 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:10.080 envisioned Brett Brown going through the Australian at back terrain. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:15.560 So I am so lucky that we have a relationship 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:20.680 with a fantastic Jeep dealership and so every six months, 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:25.040 you know, I have the opportunity to sort of design 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.680 a car. And the guy that helps me do it, 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:33.679 my good friend Dave. He he's got he's got a 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:37.040 youthful approach to like how he likes to build things, 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:40.560 and oftentimes I've got to tame him down and reminded 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.240 him that I'm you know, I'm fifty seven. I'm the 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.959 head coach big tires and stuff that blinks and you know, 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:49.560 stuff that's a little bit out there isn't my style. 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:54.920 And so somewhere the the the the design of my car, 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.439 you know, is something that I love. It is a 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:00.920 Jeep that I've driven Jeeps for twenty five years, and 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.159 this actually happens to be one of my favorite. I 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:06.160