Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Wow,
Speaker 1: where to start? Man? You know I could come out
Speaker 1: and really give you my super hyped up announcer broadcaster
Speaker 1: boys and go crazy and talk with loud volume about
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons in the seventy sixers. If you've been found
Speaker 1: this game, you know you know what happened tonight. It
Speaker 1: was beyond lopsided. It was beyond a beatdown. The seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers flat out destroyed the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: was as big a part of it as anyone. It
Speaker 1: was a performance to remember. The seventy Sixers were missing
Speaker 1: two of their starters, Joel Embiad, an All Star and
Speaker 1: an All League candidate, and Josh Richardson Ben Simmons, who
Speaker 1: after Thursday's game, a disappointing six point loss at Washington,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons came out and said, we gotta stay focused.
Speaker 1: We can't take any opponent lightly. We gotta do better,
Speaker 1: and you know what there could be. Leadership isn't just
Speaker 1: you know, like saying those things. It's not simply coming
Speaker 1: out and getting your team off on a good note,
Speaker 1: so to speak. You know, you come out and you
Speaker 1: swing the friggin wrecking ball. And Ben Simmons not only
Speaker 1: did that, he took glee in it. You know, he
Speaker 1: and the Sixers picked up in a full court press
Speaker 1: right out of the halftime break. They were up by
Speaker 1: a franchise record forty one points at the half. And
Speaker 1: for as much as Ben Simmons drove to the lane
Speaker 1: at will, scored at the rim with ease, knock down,
Speaker 1: a corner three point, all that great stuff and route
Speaker 1: to a career high thirty four points, he set the
Speaker 1: tone defensively as well, and on both ends of the
Speaker 1: court tonight, Ben Simmons was one of the best NBA
Speaker 1: players in a game. In this isolated moment, you'll see
Speaker 1: it was just that type of night. It was crazy
Speaker 1: thirty four points for him. He missed only two of
Speaker 1: his fourteen shots. He hit a three his only attempt
Speaker 1: from outside the arc, nine of twelve from the free
Speaker 1: throw line, seven assists plus thirty two in twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Mike Scott, let's talk about the man, Mike Scott. The
Speaker 1: hive buzzing twenty one points. Mike Scott matched his field
Speaker 1: goal total in less than one half of action tonight
Speaker 1: than he had the previous eight games. Mike Scott, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you heard his postgame interview with Tom, he knows
Speaker 1: he was off and he couldn't essentially thrown in the
Speaker 1: ocean tonight. It was a wide, vast look at the
Speaker 1: open sea. He was nine for twelve, three to five
Speaker 1: from the perimeter, six rebounds, great stuff from Mike Scott,
Speaker 1: fifteen points from Tobias Harris. Trey Burke came off the
Speaker 1: bench for twenty one points, ten points for Kyle O'Quinn
Speaker 1: to go with eleven rebounds. And now the Sixers they
Speaker 1: had going tonight. They took advantage of a week opponent
Speaker 1: that had lost eleven out of twelve games. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, you have lopsided games in the NBA every night,
Speaker 1: you don't always see something like this. The seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: they were up by fifty three at one point on
Speaker 1: the way to a one forty one ninety four victory.
Speaker 1: They said, a franchise record for a half timely they
Speaker 1: were up forty one seventy seven to thirty six. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons set the tone the seventy Sixers followed suit one
Speaker 1: forty one to ninety four. The seventy Sixers ree cavoc
Speaker 1: and level the Cleveland Cavaliers. They improved to sixteen and seven,
Speaker 1: a very nice bounce back win. Brian seltered down here
Speaker 1: in South Philly. Tom McGinnis had the call. Tom, it
Speaker 1: was clear early there was forced from the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: and there was no resistance from the Cavaliers, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers just feasted without doubt. And I'm not a big
Speaker 1: fan of the phrase downhill, but that's how Ben Simmons played,
Speaker 1: and they had Once he broke through the initial line
Speaker 1: of coverage, which oftentimes was top of the key or
Speaker 1: even fill line, the pickup point, he just burst right
Speaker 1: through and nobody was back there and he just dominated.
Speaker 1: So he was so good. I mean, you look at
Speaker 1: and then you add like you said Mike Scott. But
Speaker 1: even Netto and Burke, like that trio of guards they
Speaker 1: combined for eight steals, they had like sixty three points
Speaker 1: and they just dominated Cleveland. So but Ben Simmons that
Speaker 1: first half ten of eleven twenty six points, that is
Speaker 1: as good a performance that we've seen, I mean, for
Speaker 1: sure in his career, he had a career height thirty
Speaker 1: four in total. But that's the number one pick in
Speaker 1: the NBA draft, the Rookie of the Year, the All Star.
Speaker 1: That is incredible that that was one of the best
Speaker 1: performances in any half by any player. I gotta go. Ever,
Speaker 1: I mean certainly that I can think of. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's Curry and Harden and like those. How about this
Speaker 1: for a sixer in recent years. I mean to play
Speaker 1: it safe, but that that was just dominant. He was,
Speaker 1: without question a shining star in pro basketball tonight. I
Speaker 1: mean the offense at one point, and it wasn't after
Speaker 1: too long, is essentially like, let's just throw the ball,
Speaker 1: the ball to Band above the twenty eight foot line,
Speaker 1: let him load up and rip the heart out of Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of what it was. By far,
Speaker 1: the best player in the game on the court, he
Speaker 1: knew it, everybody knew it, and he put his inprint.
Speaker 1: What I thought was so neat when he made that three,
Speaker 1: his second ever career three point field goal, and the
Speaker 1: crowd was buzzing, and then shortly they're after the Sixers
Speaker 1: got the ball, and I believe it was Trey Burke
Speaker 1: lobbed it up there and Ben dunked it, and so
Speaker 1: he had five points in a row, and the crowd
Speaker 1: never stopped after the initial the three point field goal,
Speaker 1: which came in the corner by the Cleveland bench, and
Speaker 1: so it was like a forty second standing ovation of
Speaker 1: just electricity. And then you know, when he checked out,
Speaker 1: it was the same thing. So that is an appreciation
Speaker 1: of a dominant athlete playing on a stage. Before tonight
Speaker 1: hear in front of nearly twenty one thousand fans. That
Speaker 1: was just incredible. Seventy Sixers defeat the Cavaliers one forty
Speaker 1: one to ninety four. Ben Simmons with twenty six of
Speaker 1: his career high thirty four points in tonight's first half. Defensively,
Speaker 1: he was a big part in setting the tone as well.
Speaker 1: He blocked I mean, he was only given two block
Speaker 1: shots in the game. I thought he probably had like
Speaker 1: what four? I thought for sure. Yeah, so he was
Speaker 1: all over the place early on in that respect. And
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if this is over exaggerating
Speaker 1: it or high perbalizing it, but it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: Ben came out after the game. It wasn't like he
Speaker 1: was lighting you know, going at anyone. But he was like,
Speaker 1: that's we can't overlook opponents following the Washington loss. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't just he knocked down a few baskets to
Speaker 1: get the seventy sixers started tonight. He pretty much put
Speaker 1: the team on his back. He said let's go. And
Speaker 1: you know that's a sign of leadership, and that's something
Speaker 1: Ben's been talking about, going back to the way last
Speaker 1: season ended. Absolutely and you know, coach Brown was asked
Speaker 1: and addressed it following the game about more space without
Speaker 1: em beating there and playing at a faster style, a
Speaker 1: faster pace, and that suits Simmons and that was evident tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just was there, was driving lanes and
Speaker 1: he flew around in there, got everybody else involved. And
Speaker 1: again you remember two the Sixers missed their first seven threes.
Speaker 1: So even though they're winning ten, they're nothing fourteen to four.
Speaker 1: Like one of the comments at the time is it
Speaker 1: looks like it could be worse, and you could see
Speaker 1: they were headed toward a lopsided victorim and it was
Speaker 1: already trending that way Cleveland played. They'd only scored eighty
Speaker 1: seven points last night, they'd lost five point five games
Speaker 1: in a row, eleven out of twelve, and then right
Speaker 1: after that oh for seven start led by Furcon and
Speaker 1: Mike Scott, the Sixers made seven of their next eight threes,
Speaker 1: and after leading thirty six to eighteen after one, they
Speaker 1: had a forty one point second quarter and the game
Speaker 1: was just a blowout thereafter. So Ben led the way,
Speaker 1: but everybody else played well. Simmons twenty six minutes, thirty
Speaker 1: four points, And to Coach Brown's point about tomorrow, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're ever going to play a back to back,
Speaker 1: this is the recipe you'd like for night number one,
Speaker 1: and is twenty two minutes for Tobias, around twenty minutes
Speaker 1: for al who knows what the status of richardson Or
Speaker 1: and Bid will be tomorrow night. But regardless, when you
Speaker 1: play like this and it oozes confidence where you're playing
Speaker 1: two nights in a row through three nights in a row,
Speaker 1: these guys will be wanting to get back out there
Speaker 1: and wanting to right or wrong with how the game
Speaker 1: ended two weeks ago in Toronto and obviously still the
Speaker 1: residual carryover of how that playoff series ended last year
Speaker 1: in the spring in Canada, Mike Scott twenty one points
Speaker 1: off the bench in the seventy six or one one
Speaker 1: ninety four win. And that's the thing Tom Brett Brown
Speaker 1: always likes to say, the regular season the NBA is
Speaker 1: all about how you back it up. And this one
Speaker 1: is on the proverbial doorstep quick against Toronto. Well absolutely,
Speaker 1: and again you know, so you have to kind of
Speaker 1: you know these games and a victory like this is great,
Speaker 1: you let it sink in for a couple of ways
Speaker 1: they should be able to enjoy these are It's not
Speaker 1: easy to do this in terms of, you know, rack
Speaker 1: up one hundred and forty one points, have a fifty
Speaker 1: three point lead. But then you know, when you wake up,
Speaker 1: you know, then you start already you start thinking about
Speaker 1: the Raptors, and you think about the game planning, executing,
Speaker 1: and you know the intensity because Toronto's getting the performance.
Speaker 1: Siaka is in the MVP conversation. He's only getting better
Speaker 1: and was a dominant performer last year, particularly in the
Speaker 1: playoffs against the Sixers. And then you look at van
Speaker 1: Fleet and Powell and those guys. They didn't hurt the
Speaker 1: Sixers at all in the playoffs last year, and yet
Speaker 1: right after that series they took off and they've been
Speaker 1: they've been playing the best basketball of their careers. And
Speaker 1: remember too that Kyle nor Ibaka played in that game
Speaker 1: when the Sixers played in Toronto. Kyle was out with
Speaker 1: a thumb and I believe Ibaka had an ankle. And
Speaker 1: I think they're both back. They've dropped two games. The
Speaker 1: two teams are tied now in the standings in terms
Speaker 1: of in the Atlantic Division and in the East. So
Speaker 1: and again, overall Toronto was dominated the Sixers, not just
Speaker 1: winning the playoff series, but in the regular season. It's
Speaker 1: been very hard up there. What is it now, thirteen
Speaker 1: straight losses like that in Canada and then overall and
Speaker 1: so you know, if you're gonna get to where you
Speaker 1: want to go to, there's teams you have to overtake,
Speaker 1: and one of them is the world champion to runt directors.
Speaker 1: Alrighty tom again, so we'll speak with you tomorrow six
Speaker 1: o'clock start all right, good night. Thanks seventy Sixers over
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers one one ninety four. They set a
Speaker 1: franchise record, leading by forty one points at the half.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons was a huge part of it, and we'll
Speaker 1: hear some of those highlights seventy Sixers Cleveland Cavaliers, the
Speaker 1: way both teams have been playing as of late. If
Speaker 1: you're the type of person who wanted to forecast and prognosticate,
Speaker 1: you probably listen for just being honest, would have pointed
Speaker 1: in the seventy Sixers direction. But could you have possibly
Speaker 1: envisioned this what we saw in fold tonight down here
Speaker 1: at the center. N Simmons was not pleased with the
Speaker 1: way the seventy Sixers himself included played in the Lost
Speaker 1: Thursday at Washington, Well, very quickly, the All Star went
Speaker 1: about writing some of the wrong and now they lose love.
Speaker 1: And he shoots at three long, no good. Thompson keeps
Speaker 1: till alive. Yet he austen there and here's a runout
Speaker 1: for Simmons. He'll get a jab. So the ball pop
Speaker 1: free at mid court with cork Mas and Simmons and
Speaker 1: Burkon threw it ahead to Ben and Simmons rocks the
Speaker 1: rim with a powerful left hand Slayer Simmons Donna drive
Speaker 1: Simmons down the lane, left hand laff up and good
Speaker 1: time out. Cavaliers eight seven. Ben Simmons driving and scoring
Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna pick up the slack with no
Speaker 1: one beat. He's got six. He's three for three and
Speaker 1: that was merely the beginning. Ben Simmons scoring eight of
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers first ten points in tonight's game. Now
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a lot of Ben Simmons highlights, thrust
Speaker 1: of the way, with the exception of this one, because
Speaker 1: we've got to give a little love to our man
Speaker 1: who is the curator of the hive. Pitched back the
Speaker 1: left side Scott and he shoots for three. And it's
Speaker 1: in Mike Scott where the quick catch the release laser,
Speaker 1: put yours on the release and Netta with a good feed.
Speaker 1: Now Mike five in a row. He's four of six.
Speaker 1: Sixers lead by a score of thirty one thirteen. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers were in control. They were up thirty six to
Speaker 1: eighteen after a quarter of play. In this second quarter,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, after a bit of a breather he scored
Speaker 1: fourteen points in the first quarter, came back and was
Speaker 1: a force outside left Harris. They go to Simmons against
Speaker 1: Della Modoba, a matchup of the big men from down
Speaker 1: Under and Ben Junes of Fadeaway and in Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: from the left wing, even though he towers over Della Modoba,
Speaker 1: he got it. He's seven of eight Simmons sixteen points,
Speaker 1: and the seventy Sixers had fifty one points before the
Speaker 1: Cavaliers had twenty five. Ben Simmons, what was probably the
Speaker 1: pinnacle and most entertaining exciting point of his game tonight,
Speaker 1: had this sequence as the first half was winding down
Speaker 1: under four minutes to go. Trey Burke cross courts, skipping
Speaker 1: all upside Ben three ball by Ben Simmons is good,
Speaker 1: knocking it down wide open, and Simmons has happened quite
Speaker 1: a night. Nine of ten, twenty one point. Here's another
Speaker 1: steal by the Sixers. Harris to Burke, Lopa Simmons, henty Jamnet.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons is going to town con to Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 1: He's got twenty three points, reminding the Cavaliers of Labron
Speaker 1: James absolutely and the seventy Sixers would get three more
Speaker 1: from Simmons for the first half was done. The Sixers
Speaker 1: led seventy seven thirty six at the break. It was
Speaker 1: the largest lead forty one points in franchise history, second
Speaker 1: largest lead in the entire NBA over the last two seasons,
Speaker 1: seventy seven points scored by the seventy sixers, a record
Speaker 1: here at the Center scored by any team in any
Speaker 1: half since the building opened back in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety seven, Ben Simmons. This his final basket of
Speaker 1: that first hand and now with eight seconds to go,
Speaker 1: Simmons with it against Tristan Thompson on a drive into
Speaker 1: the lank feet away by Ben. It's good Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: Eleven baskets, sixers again up seventy seven, thirty six at intermission.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons a career at night and its handles top
Speaker 1: of the key, wide open eighteen putter back, ribbon off,
Speaker 1: long rebound Tray Burke lid the Simmons and a layoup
Speaker 1: Trey Burke with the ball at the fifteen foot bart
Speaker 1: grows it right to the rim and Simmons is gonna
Speaker 1: finish with thirty four points, backing his career high. It
Speaker 1: was a career high for Ben Simmons. He went twelve
Speaker 1: to fourteen, one for one from three nine to twelve
Speaker 1: from the line, three rebounds, seven assists, two steals, two blocks,
Speaker 1: which I think shortened him by at least two swats.
Speaker 1: He was just all over the court in so many ways.
Speaker 1: He only played twenty five minutes thirty nine seconds. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers went on to win it one forty one ninety four.
Speaker 1: They led by as much as fifty three and at
Speaker 1: Ladies and Gentlemen was a wire to wire win for
Speaker 1: the Sixers. Sixers shot sixty three and a half percent
Speaker 1: from the field, eleven of twenty six that's just under
Speaker 1: forty two and a half from three point territory. They
Speaker 1: had fifty one rebounds to Cleveland's thirty five. They forced
Speaker 1: eighteen turnovers and tied a season low by committing just
Speaker 1: eight themselves after giving the ball away twenty one times,
Speaker 1: which I had to thirty points in Washington's win over
Speaker 1: the Sixers on Thursday, in addition to Simmons great nights
Speaker 1: from Mike Scott, he had twenty one nine to twelve
Speaker 1: from the field, three of five outside the arc, six rebounds.
Speaker 1: His first start filling in a vacancy without Josh Richardson
Speaker 1: and Joel Embid tonight, twenty one points for Trey Burke
Speaker 1: off the bench, nine to twelve for him, as well
Speaker 1: eight assists in four steals. He did not have a
Speaker 1: single turnover. Al Horford eight points, five rebounds, three assists
Speaker 1: to Bias Harris fifteen points, four rebounds, three assists, all
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers tonight as they steamroll the Cavaliers. The Sixers
Speaker 1: outscored Cleveland by thirty eighty two to fifty two in
Speaker 1: the paint and thirty to seven on fast breakpoints. And
Speaker 1: just to wrap up a storyline from the start of
Speaker 1: the game, when Joel bead is not out there, the
Speaker 1: Sixers want to play faster with Al Horford thirty fast
Speaker 1: breakpoints pretty telling of the style of offense Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: was able to bring to the seventy Sixers tonight. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers now sixteen and seven on the season, Cleveland Cavaliers
Speaker 1: five and seventeen. Up next those Toronto Raptors, that is
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, six o'clock. Seventy Sixers will go into the
Speaker 1: game trailing Toronto essentially by a game in the lost
Speaker 1: column in the Eastern Conference standings for fourth place. And
Speaker 1: now for the radio Boys, the seventy six Ers tom
Speaker 1: again us Brian Seltzer sang so long for now one
Speaker 1: final time. The final score it was the seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers one forty one the Cavaliers ninety four. You've been
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