Speaker 1: Brett Brown has undoubtedly been the steadiest face of the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers franchise the past five seasons. As he gets
Speaker 1: ready to head into a sixth his team is surrounded
Speaker 1: by more talent, more hype, and more attention than ever before.
Speaker 1: You cannot connect the dots of culture and impatience. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Culture cannot exist with impatience. Coming up, we've
Speaker 1: got a preseason sit down with the head coach himself
Speaker 1: from Markel folks. It's clear he feels good about himself.
Speaker 1: I think one out of he's put in the work
Speaker 1: to his own renowned pregame running routine and get out
Speaker 1: and have fresh interests me a lot quiz and as
Speaker 1: I get older, I feel like I needed even more.
Speaker 1: We cover some good ground, focusing on a lot of
Speaker 1: the cultural elements that have helped trigger the Sixers turner
Speaker 1: Brett Brown on this episode of the broadcasts. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: very excited to have an interview with Brett Brown on
Speaker 1: this episode of the podcast. Before we get to that,
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Speaker 1: will take you to our spots. It is amazing that
Speaker 1: we are I mean, really, all things consider, it is
Speaker 1: pretty amazing that we are talking about Brett Brown being
Speaker 1: on the cusp of his sixth season with the seventy Sixers.
Speaker 1: Everyone knew that when Brown was hired back in August
Speaker 1: of twenty thirteen, there was a view for the long
Speaker 1: game that was involved. But for everything that Brown has
Speaker 1: battled and endured here, he is I think one hundred
Speaker 1: percent totally deserving of the opportunity that's in front of him,
Speaker 1: which is to have the legit chance to coach the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers to not just one, but perhaps multiple and
Speaker 1: a perfect world championship runs. No doubt about it. He's
Speaker 1: earned it. And there has been so much more than
Speaker 1: just x's and oh's that have gone into the last
Speaker 1: five seasons for Brett Brown, and those are going to
Speaker 1: be some of the things that you'll hear us talk
Speaker 1: about over the course of this conversation, which we had
Speaker 1: the chance to record right after the Sixers preseason opener
Speaker 1: against Melbourne United. Here it is we have the great
Speaker 1: privilege and fortune of being able to talk about a
Speaker 1: preseason game being in the book seventy six Ers First
Speaker 1: Games against Melbourne United. What were some of your general
Speaker 1: takeaways from exhibition game number one? I mean just from
Speaker 1: the big pitch of personally to play against the team
Speaker 1: that I used to coach with and to have several
Speaker 1: of the coaching staff and a few of the players
Speaker 1: the coaches that I've coached, whether it's out the London
Speaker 1: Olympic Games or junior basketball when they're fifteen years old.
Speaker 1: They reminded me of when I took him out to
Speaker 1: dinner the night before. The connection that I have had
Speaker 1: personally with the Australian basketball fraternity, the city of Melbourne,
Speaker 1: the fact that we have Ben Simmons, you know, our
Speaker 1: starting point got Australian, Jonah Bolden, you know, somebody that
Speaker 1: we drafted and is not in the program Australian. And
Speaker 1: you just can't make that stuff up. And so that
Speaker 1: that in itself was a unique environment, stuff that is
Speaker 1: incredibly rare. That opportunity was very rare to then go
Speaker 1: play your first game and watch a new team, you know, play,
Speaker 1: and watch Marquel play and watch you know, Mike Muscala
Speaker 1: come in, say, and play in front of our fans
Speaker 1: against a team that I used to coach. It was
Speaker 1: a good night, you know, a good start to what
Speaker 1: is always a long season. But I would have left
Speaker 1: feeling like a defense really has a chance, I think
Speaker 1: to be elite, and I get really excited watching Marquel
Speaker 1: folks play. Follow up on some of that stuff in
Speaker 1: a bit. But it's interesting because, especially now with changes
Speaker 1: that were made a couple of years ago, preseason schedules
Speaker 1: trimmed down to four games, where you guys actually have
Speaker 1: more practice sessions than you do actual games. So when
Speaker 1: you guys make evaluations on anything pretending to the team,
Speaker 1: how does weight get distributed to what you're seeing in
Speaker 1: practice versus what you might see in a glimpse in
Speaker 1: a game. I have said publicly, and I'll say it
Speaker 1: now again that the gym is going to speak to me.
Speaker 1: I come into the season, certainly with preconceived ideas, and
Speaker 1: you're talking about a practice gym. Yeah, I am. I
Speaker 1: think the gym is going to speak to me in practice,
Speaker 1: and you know you're gonna feel things, you're gonna see things,
Speaker 1: and you have to come into it with a mind.
Speaker 1: I think where you take your preconceived ideas where I'm
Speaker 1: going to grow him, I'm going to play him. I
Speaker 1: think these two guys can coexist. Well, I can run
Speaker 1: this play for you know whomever, those types of some
Speaker 1: of the odds, and then the gym speaks to the
Speaker 1: coach and the coaching staff, and always somebody stands out,
Speaker 1: somebody disappoints, something doesn't feel right that you thought was
Speaker 1: going to feel right over the summer. And so the
Speaker 1: gym speaks to me, and by and large, I like
Speaker 1: to reward what I see and deviate from my preconceived ideas.
Speaker 1: That's competition. Competition needs to be rewarded, or to me,
Speaker 1: it's when stuff starts to unravel. And so the environment
Speaker 1: that we have to be able to do that is small.
Speaker 1: There aren't many opportunities in the NBA life where you
Speaker 1: can have multiple practices or multiple preseason games and then
Speaker 1: deliver a team to opening Night against the Celtics. You've
Speaker 1: got to have some you know, quick decisions and justification
Speaker 1: of why you're doing stuff. In my mind where ultimately
Speaker 1: I want to get to a as much as I
Speaker 1: cannot rhythm to how I sub this team play. This
Speaker 1: team called plays for this team, etc. But practice is
Speaker 1: the starting point for the base of those decisions. There's
Speaker 1: a lot that we could talk about in respect to
Speaker 1: Marquelle faults, but in the limited time we have, you
Speaker 1: said something going to that first game against Melbourne and
Speaker 1: a really elaborate answer about the decision to start him
Speaker 1: and bring JJ Reddick off the bench, and it sounded like,
Speaker 1: as much as anything, we know what he can do offensively,
Speaker 1: but the defensive part of what you saw from Marquel
Speaker 1: that was something that stuck out in your mind. Can
Speaker 1: you give us some more details on what you observed
Speaker 1: at the end of last year with him defensively and
Speaker 1: then what he's shown up to this point that made
Speaker 1: you feel like that was the appropriate decision to make.
Speaker 1: I first think that he is a willing defender. It's
Speaker 1: not pulling teeth. The NBA defense is incredibly different than
Speaker 1: anything he experienced in college or DeMatha or in high school.
Speaker 1: And so it starts with like, are you a willing participant?
Speaker 1: Are you a willing defensive player? Will you let me
Speaker 1: coach you defensively? And he will? And yes he can,
Speaker 1: and yes he does, and take that mentality and then
Speaker 1: you like Drake his body in his length, his wingspan,
Speaker 1: and his height into that formula, and I think he's
Speaker 1: got a chance to be so much better than others
Speaker 1: might have thought pre draft. You know, they was known
Speaker 1: more of a sort of a water bug type, you know, elusive,
Speaker 1: open court, get wherever he wants to go, big wiggle,
Speaker 1: big game, you know, type of player. And I'm seeing
Speaker 1: something that can be transferred defensively as much as all
Speaker 1: those other notions that people had, you know, when they
Speaker 1: decided he was going to be the first player chosen
Speaker 1: in the NBA draft. And that's what I liked the most.
Speaker 1: His mentality. He combined that with his body and he
Speaker 1: knows that's where I see the world. That's where I've
Speaker 1: bread is butted from a defensive perspective, and you throw
Speaker 1: that into a mix in the length with Joel and
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons and Cub and Dario as an example of
Speaker 1: a group that I started, that's a long team. You know,
Speaker 1: you start measuring finger tip to finger tip with their
Speaker 1: wingspans and stretching them out. I think somebody said they
Speaker 1: got to know almost thirty five feet, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of length, and that part of the game, that part
Speaker 1: of him excites me. Was there any point last year
Speaker 1: when you wondered, questioned if he perhaps just from a
Speaker 1: mental unconfident standpoint, would be able to get back to
Speaker 1: what seems like a really good and healthy place that
Speaker 1: he's in right now. I think we'd all be lying
Speaker 1: if we, you know, didn't wonder like, where will this
Speaker 1: end up? I've always felt like he was going to
Speaker 1: end up being fine. How soon I didn't know. And
Speaker 1: the work that he put in this summer, and the
Speaker 1: man out was that he put in in one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand shots. They say, you know, he shot
Speaker 1: this summer, and so that deliberate practice all day, every
Speaker 1: day from June, July and August. It's clear he feels
Speaker 1: good about himself. I think born out of he's invested time,
Speaker 1: he's put in the work, and for him to come
Speaker 1: back and do some of the things that I've seen
Speaker 1: this year, if anything, shows how confident he is, like
Speaker 1: he really is not shying away from anything, not shots,
Speaker 1: not a foul shot, not a free throw line, not anything.
Speaker 1: And I think that that mindset that I see excites
Speaker 1: me as much as you know, him making some free
Speaker 1: throws or making some pull up jump shots. I like
Speaker 1: his mindset because he's not backing down from many of
Speaker 1: these environments. Do you think having fun, which it seems
Speaker 1: like he's doing, and trusting the network of people around him.
Speaker 1: I mean, are those two factors, from what you've seen
Speaker 1: over the course of your career day as big as
Speaker 1: anything to unlocking what someone might have within himself. I
Speaker 1: think it is that for all of us. I don't
Speaker 1: care how old you are, and anytime you can come
Speaker 1: into a system and a program and a family where
Speaker 1: you feel respected, you know, you feel um, that you're
Speaker 1: part of something that's you know, a little bit bigger
Speaker 1: than you, that it has clear cut rules. It's not um,
Speaker 1: you know, anything that can be sort of taken for granted.
Speaker 1: It's to be respected. The environment, the role protected U
Speaker 1: that is to the environment that we've tried to create
Speaker 1: since we've all been together. And I think that that
Speaker 1: Marquel coming in at this stage of all of us,
Speaker 1: after six years, he's coming into a very I think,
Speaker 1: a competitive, caring environment that I think can assist him
Speaker 1: as he moves through the NBA at a very young age.
Speaker 1: This is gonna say, I'm really really lazy, but I've
Speaker 1: been ramping my brain. We've we've had about a week
Speaker 1: and a half worth of media sessions, and I feel
Speaker 1: like there's been so much that's been asked about Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons and Joe ellen Bead and what's next for them.
Speaker 1: Are there things that like we as the media aren't
Speaker 1: asking that that you're reviewing is really important? Things to
Speaker 1: Joe Allen, Ben, that you think might be under the
Speaker 1: radar that are important and critical to the next steps
Speaker 1: that they're taking. What are some of those things? And
Speaker 1: your I mean, the main thing is the growth of
Speaker 1: those few that you've mentioned to me as leaders. And
Speaker 1: you know, I can get into coach speak and talk
Speaker 1: to you about, you know, putting them in more pick
Speaker 1: and rolls. I can get into defensive coach speak where
Speaker 1: we can talk about how well we switch or keeping
Speaker 1: Joel at the rim. I can do that, and it's
Speaker 1: all true. But what immediately comes to my mind is
Speaker 1: the notion of growing leaders and everybody leads in different ways,
Speaker 1: continuing to remind them that this is the a city,
Speaker 1: this is the program, and help me, help you, help me,
Speaker 1: help you down deep. I know that everybody wants to
Speaker 1: be coached, everybody wants discipline, everybody wants some level of
Speaker 1: law and order and to to to build offense around
Speaker 1: program in a good way and let them lead from
Speaker 1: those sort of parameters and embrace the city, and embrace
Speaker 1: the new guys coming into the team, and find ways
Speaker 1: to you attract free agents and have it be a
Speaker 1: desirable destination. It's all there. We get everything, you know,
Speaker 1: an unbelievable city and incredible practice, facility of growing program,
Speaker 1: a clear cut way how we want to play the sport,
Speaker 1: offensive defensive style of play. I think that the culture
Speaker 1: that we're building is something that is attractive and real
Speaker 1: and all those types of things. Other things that interest
Speaker 1: me the most when you talk about the growth and
Speaker 1: development of those two. Is it something that the media,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know how you couched your question.
Speaker 1: Is it something that they speak about or you know,
Speaker 1: haven't really discussed Maybe as much as I think they could,
Speaker 1: I don't really can't. I think that it is something
Speaker 1: for me that that interests me, maybe more than anything,
Speaker 1: all these foundational elements of a sustained successful program, something
Speaker 1: that you've had handed over the parts of the last
Speaker 1: six years. There probably was no one better to steward
Speaker 1: this team during the offseason months than yourself. I don't
Speaker 1: know if relief is the right word, but are you
Speaker 1: very much eager to be just focused back on coaching
Speaker 1: at this point that that is really your day to
Speaker 1: day at this stage of the season. You can use relief.
Speaker 1: It's relief the apokay, So are you relief to just
Speaker 1: get back. I wanted nothing to do with with, you know,
Speaker 1: the continuation of a general manager role of responsibilities, because
Speaker 1: I know that that for me, I can't do both.
Speaker 1: You know, I do not want to have that type
Speaker 1: of bandwidth or multitasking. I want to coach basketball. And
Speaker 1: to look back, the sumone was very unusual. It completely
Speaker 1: changed the rhythm beat of a coach's like mentality and
Speaker 1: normal calendar lifestyle with your family, and it changed. It
Speaker 1: was different for me that some of them, more so
Speaker 1: than any I think coaching year I've ever had. And
Speaker 1: so to look in the rearview mirror now and and
Speaker 1: end up where we have ended up with Elton Brand
Speaker 1: as that general manager and the growth of Alex Rucker
Speaker 1: and the empowerment in the office of Ned Cohen and
Speaker 1: you know, pivot and Mark evershly out into more of
Speaker 1: a role that that I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: amazing at with trying to help us, you know, identify
Speaker 1: and obviously still draft and all those things, but dig
Speaker 1: into like how we building our program and free agents
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and connecting with the team that
Speaker 1: we have now on the court, those four I'm fans of,
Speaker 1: and to end up as we've ended up, to drive
Speaker 1: into this office and see those people running our organization
Speaker 1: and to have the support of owners and Josh and Blitz,
Speaker 1: Josh Harrison, David Blitzer. We're in a good place. We're
Speaker 1: in a really good place with people that are competent
Speaker 1: in can and understand the history of what we've all
Speaker 1: been through and the culture that we're trying to continue
Speaker 1: to grow. I'm thrilled we've ended up where we've ended up.
Speaker 1: And as far as my role in it, you just
Speaker 1: trying to help the team and help the organization in
Speaker 1: that three month window, and I hope that I did that.
Speaker 1: People might say, well, this is a really easy question
Speaker 1: for the digital reporter who's employed by the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers to ask. But you just mentioned the patience factor
Speaker 1: of ownership, and that's not something you look at any
Speaker 1: professional sport and you really don't see that a lot.
Speaker 1: How much do you think that just you having time,
Speaker 1: how much more has that allowed you and this organization
Speaker 1: to do and accomplish. I mean, you cannot connect the
Speaker 1: dots of culture and impatience. It does, it doesn't, It
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Culture cannot exist with impatience, especially when you
Speaker 1: dismantle the program and try to build it back up
Speaker 1: as we have. And there is a routine that we
Speaker 1: all seek. Everybody wants the comfort of a of a
Speaker 1: routine of familiarity doesn't mean the complacency. And so to
Speaker 1: try to grow habits and in a comfort level of
Speaker 1: how we work and where do I park and there's
Speaker 1: my locker, and you know, here's the style of play,
Speaker 1: and here's some of the familiarities. Who are the players
Speaker 1: that we're running in corporate knowledge and continuation like that matters,
Speaker 1: and so you don't just click your heels and like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's let's you know, we have a culture and here
Speaker 1: takes time. And any team that I've ever studied or
Speaker 1: been a part of this won championships has that. That's
Speaker 1: the only reason I do my job is we want
Speaker 1: to win a championship and bring a championship here to
Speaker 1: the city of Philadelphia, and you know, it can't happen
Speaker 1: in my estimation, my opinion, unless you have a base
Speaker 1: of culture. And to Josh Harris and David Blitz's credit,
Speaker 1: you know, we've been quite linear on how we've tried
Speaker 1: to grow this and how we see the world, how
Speaker 1: we signed contracts and have thoughtfully trying to build the team.
Speaker 1: You know, the draft is always a challenge. Sometimes you'd
Speaker 1: get it right, sometimes you don't. And I just think
Speaker 1: that there's a very disciplined approach and how we tried
Speaker 1: to grow it. And it's probably as grateful an area
Speaker 1: that we're talking about for me that then our owners
Speaker 1: have stayed focused on the discipline you have to have
Speaker 1: if you really want to end up at some point
Speaker 1: with the championship. I can turn myself pretty likely because
Speaker 1: I get some glimpses and insights into the different cultural
Speaker 1: touch points that you guys have built. And one thing
Speaker 1: is just the messaging around the training complex of the
Speaker 1: Philly Hard Philly Edge Philly Reel. Can you tell us
Speaker 1: where the inspiration for that message and came from? Was
Speaker 1: it based on if you think are certain examples of
Speaker 1: players who have passed through this team of the course
Speaker 1: of its history. Where did that come from? I mean
Speaker 1: it was it was they allowed me to do this,
Speaker 1: and so these are my words, and it's just words
Speaker 1: that I use all the time. It's how I speak
Speaker 1: to my staff, to the play this to the media.
Speaker 1: And again to Josh and Dave David Blitz's credit, they
Speaker 1: allowed me to signage up the building and really give
Speaker 1: thought to how we message the building and how I
Speaker 1: speak to the team can be displayed in the building
Speaker 1: and if you came into a film session. It features
Speaker 1: on all of our films and in the past, and
Speaker 1: we will continue to do this this year. I will,
Speaker 1: you know, go to Joel as an example. What's Philly
Speaker 1: hard mean to you? You know, Hey Ben, what's Philly
Speaker 1: edge mean to you? Marquel? What's Philly real? Like? What's authentic?
Speaker 1: What's real to you? And I think that those words
Speaker 1: mirror the city, like I want to play to the
Speaker 1: spirit of the city, our style of playing, how I
Speaker 1: try to act, you know, as the head coach and
Speaker 1: speak to my team. I hope those three words mean something.
Speaker 1: If you walked around a building, you would see, you know,
Speaker 1: Allen iverson stepping over somebody on a hard You got
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, you know, into the whole edge. There's a
Speaker 1: picture of him with a rebound. You can see there's
Speaker 1: an edge to you know, his style of playing who
Speaker 1: he is. And then there's like this authenticity a reel
Speaker 1: with Julius Irvin, you know, walking down I think it's
Speaker 1: Broad Street and looking like dark only could look like
Speaker 1: and you know, the authenticity. And we could have chose
Speaker 1: that word, but we went real, you know, I could
Speaker 1: I could have chose attitude. We could have gone to
Speaker 1: some other words, but we went Philly hard, Philly edge,
Speaker 1: and Philly real. And that's how I see our program.
Speaker 1: That's how I see in the city. You know, I
Speaker 1: think it replicates the characteristics of the city of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Continuing along the cultural touch point lines. The day that
Speaker 1: we're recording this year a family day, so we see
Speaker 1: the families of everyone coming in through here. There's I
Speaker 1: think there's Hey, well there's at least hey, I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's hay rides, but there's moon bounces. There's
Speaker 1: catering spread set up to bring everyone together like that
Speaker 1: before the season starts. How does that help the vibe
Speaker 1: or had a team. I mean, there are there are
Speaker 1: six things that we've started since we've all been together,
Speaker 1: and this is one of them. You mentioned coach to coaches,
Speaker 1: you know, that's one of six. Here here's the second
Speaker 1: of six things that, as I said at the beginning,
Speaker 1: can live through the ages. It doesn't matter who the
Speaker 1: GM is, who the coaches, they are things that can
Speaker 1: live through the ages. That's how you form a culture.
Speaker 1: When there's a rhythm to a calendar. There's annual events
Speaker 1: that you just never let go of, and you just
Speaker 1: keep doing them and doing them better, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden it's ingrained and how you think and how
Speaker 1: you act and how you welcome, in this case, families,
Speaker 1: and this is a fifth annual family day and girlfriends, wives, children,
Speaker 1: mums and dad's friends are welcome to the facility on
Speaker 1: a day, a special day, a single day. And we
Speaker 1: were lucky to have a fantastic day and to be
Speaker 1: able to look out across the river and see the
Speaker 1: skyline of the city of Philadelphia and have this amazing
Speaker 1: practice facility, you know, behind it, and to look out
Speaker 1: there and see several hundred people you know, and enjoying
Speaker 1: the day and interacting with each other and meeting people
Speaker 1: that matters to us. And so the Family Day is
Speaker 1: an annual event that we started a while ago and
Speaker 1: it's continue to grow and we're excited to go down
Speaker 1: in about twenty minutes and get into it. A couple
Speaker 1: of mixed bag things before you ramp up. You're a
Speaker 1: car share a lot during the summer. You got a
Speaker 1: lot to do. Can we talk about your car? Can
Speaker 1: you describe to the people the car you drive? I
Speaker 1: envisioned Brett Brown going through the Australian at back terrain.
Speaker 1: So I am so lucky that we have a relationship
Speaker 1: with a fantastic Jeep dealership and so every six months,
Speaker 1: you know, I have the opportunity to sort of design
Speaker 1: a car. And the guy that helps me do it,
Speaker 1: my good friend Dave. He he's got he's got a
Speaker 1: youthful approach to like how he likes to build things,
Speaker 1: and oftentimes I've got to tame him down and reminded
Speaker 1: him that I'm you know, I'm fifty seven. I'm the
Speaker 1: head coach big tires and stuff that blinks and you know,
Speaker 1: stuff that's a little bit out there isn't my style.
Speaker 1: And so somewhere the the the the design of my car,
Speaker 1: you know, is something that I love. It is a
Speaker 1: Jeep that I've driven Jeeps for twenty five years, and
Speaker 1: this actually happens to be one of my favorite. I
Speaker 1: had a chance this year to take it deep into
Speaker 1: the woods of Maine. It was me, my dog in
Speaker 1: a fishing rod, and off we went. This is true.
Speaker 1: My wife deserves a lot of credit for allowing me
Speaker 1: to take off for a few days. But the Jeep
Speaker 1: is my preferred car. It has been for twenty five
Speaker 1: plus years, and I'm like it. Work with a tremendous
Speaker 1: Jeep dealership to help me craft these types of vehicles
Speaker 1: over the years. Your pregame runs, how does that ritual?
Speaker 1: Where does that bring you? What are some of the
Speaker 1: music artists you listen to? Where does that take of
Speaker 1: your pregame runs? I mean I have run repetitively for
Speaker 1: probably probably eighteen years, like as a habit, you know,
Speaker 1: and just to get out and have fresh air. Interests
Speaker 1: me a lot. It clears my head. I think better.
Speaker 1: I feel like you're not worth less when you started
Speaker 1: getting sort of out of shape a little bit, and
Speaker 1: you know, as I as I get older, I feel
Speaker 1: like I needed even more and weather does not intimidate me.
Speaker 1: We've run in snow and rain and you know, clouds
Speaker 1: and sun. I need fresh air. I really love fresh air.
Speaker 1: And it's it's been a routine of mine for a
Speaker 1: long time, and it's just part of my rhythm to
Speaker 1: my day and my own personal habits that I try
Speaker 1: to stick to. And you do feel at times you
Speaker 1: miss it for whatever reason, and you don't feel as
Speaker 1: as good as you used to when you can knock
Speaker 1: out a good run. I have a more vested interest
Speaker 1: in this next question as a relatively recently meant to father.
Speaker 1: But how do you keep balance? What would you say
Speaker 1: to people about keeping balanced? It seems like that's something
Speaker 1: that you have. I'm sure it's it's harder at times
Speaker 1: than you make it look, but that seems like something
Speaker 1: you've been able to achieve. I mean, for me, it's
Speaker 1: like I live a very basic life. I and me
Speaker 1: that here in the gym, with my team, or with
Speaker 1: my children and my family, and it's it's how I
Speaker 1: like to live. It's where I feel like I can
Speaker 1: be most productive and you know, fulfilled the things that
Speaker 1: I like doing the most out of life, and it's
Speaker 1: almost that simple. I'm lucky that I have a little
Speaker 1: want to be Philly Street Ball of point Guard four team,
Speaker 1: which keeps me always interested in still coaching basketball. I
Speaker 1: got two beautiful daughters. I have a wife, Anna, that
Speaker 1: I've been with for you know, since she was twenty
Speaker 1: years old, and so I've been married or with her
Speaker 1: for you know, almost twenty eight years. And I met
Speaker 1: her traveling on a great Barrier reef in Australia and
Speaker 1: we've been with each other for a long time. She
Speaker 1: really runs everything I enjoy the She is the sort
Speaker 1: of brains behind a lot of like the domestic stuff,
Speaker 1: and allows me to coach. Come in here and coach
Speaker 1: my team, our team, and that's my world. It's a
Speaker 1: simple world, but it works for me. Last way to
Speaker 1: bring it all full circle, You've built all this stuff,
Speaker 1: the cultural aspects. The team is having success. So now
Speaker 1: with increased scrutiny, attention expectations. I mean, you've lived through
Speaker 1: a franchise that's one multiple titles, how do you preserve that?
Speaker 1: Ask that question differently? So you've been through the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. You have built all of this up,
Speaker 1: the cultural elements, the team is now having success. It
Speaker 1: seems like everything is in a good place with increased
Speaker 1: scrutiny on the team, attention people whose individual prominence might
Speaker 1: be rising. How do you preserve the goodness that you
Speaker 1: and this team have created and making sure that that
Speaker 1: carries through as you guys, how to reach your goal
Speaker 1: of a title. I mean, my answer is quick, and
Speaker 1: it's something that I think entirely that the discipline of
Speaker 1: how we do kind of everything needs to always grow.
Speaker 1: It needs to always have a credible solidarity, It needs
Speaker 1: to be consistent. Oftentimes as success comes in, either from
Speaker 1: a team or individuals, you know, stuff is a tendency
Speaker 1: maybe to get a little bit loose, maybe standards aren't
Speaker 1: as tight. I think the whole opposite. I think now
Speaker 1: is the time that that we just keep things nice
Speaker 1: and tight and real and you know, accountable and down deep,
Speaker 1: I know that that's what our play is need and want,
Speaker 1: you know, And so my mindsets as the coach of
Speaker 1: the team as we start winning games and more expectations,
Speaker 1: is I want to make sure that we keep offense
Speaker 1: around our program and the discipline within the program of
Speaker 1: how we treat people, how we play offense and defense
Speaker 1: and hire and contracts and retain the whole thing where
Speaker 1: there is a very sort of not negotiable, expected fantas
Speaker 1: and respectful way we care for people and we get
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you're gonna win games.
Speaker 1: But it's more to that for me in regards to
Speaker 1: the pitfall. So some of the areas that you're going
Speaker 1: to be aware of as our program grows in stature
Speaker 1: and the individuals within our program, you know, attain more
Speaker 1: notoriety and success and I will help them, but it
Speaker 1: needs to come with with a discipline amongst all of
Speaker 1: us within. I think what's growing to be a special
Speaker 1: lugging who better the breadcram himself to give insight on
Speaker 1: that special feeling that is built around the Sixers And
Speaker 1: so awesome that he has had the chance to see
Speaker 1: this through Brown going into this year the fourth longest
Speaker 1: tenured head coach in the NBA, and that says something
Speaker 1: not just about his persistence, but as he said as well,
Speaker 1: the patients of Sixers ownership to give him a chance
Speaker 1: to build upon and carry out his vision. Huge thanks
Speaker 1: to Brent for taking more than just a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes to talk. Thank you as always for listening. Be
Speaker 1: on the lookout in your feeds. In the coming days.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a couple episodes at least, that's a
Speaker 1: plan to bring to you from China. Big trip for
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers and two games against really intriguing Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks team in Shanghai and then in Shenzen on Friday
Speaker 1: and Monday, respectively. So we'll talk to you from half
Speaker 1: a world away in the South Pacific next time here
Speaker 1: on the broadcast see