Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, They listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers get past the Atlanta Hawks one twenty nine to
Speaker 1: one twelve, here at home. Joel Embiid fantastic a career
Speaker 1: night behind forty nine points. He was outstanding from start
Speaker 1: to finish, the highest scoring total in a game for
Speaker 1: a seventy Sixer since all the way back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and five. Were you alive then? Maybe so, maybe not,
Speaker 1: but Alan Iverson against the Atlanta Hawks ironically scored fifty
Speaker 1: three points back in two thousand and five on December
Speaker 1: the twenty third. But tonight, Joel Embiid was everything the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers needed and then some. You can't overlook a
Speaker 1: twenty five point performance from Tobias Harris as the Sixers
Speaker 1: in their first game without all star Ben Simmons for
Speaker 1: who knows how long, get the job done behind a
Speaker 1: close out fourth quarter, winning one twenty nine to one twelve.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Selzer. We expect to hear from Brett Brown
Speaker 1: in just a short moment. Yes, the Sixers needed a
Speaker 1: victory tonight, no question about it. It It was a tough
Speaker 1: lost Saturday against the Milwaukee Bucks, but you take that,
Speaker 1: you combine it with the news or not news of
Speaker 1: what Ben Simmons' status is going to be beyond tonight.
Speaker 1: No one knows yet he was after tonight, and just
Speaker 1: the Sixers needed something positive to try and build upon
Speaker 1: going into a back to back at Cleveland Wednesday, back
Speaker 1: home here against the New York Knicks on Thursday before
Speaker 1: two days off and the start of a difficult West
Speaker 1: Coast trip that begins with games against the Clippers and
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Yeah, the Sixers needed some good juju. They
Speaker 1: got great Joejoe tonight forty nine points, seventeen of twenty
Speaker 1: four from the field. He knocked down a three pointer
Speaker 1: to put him over the top for his career high,
Speaker 1: fourteen of fifteen from the free throw line. Just amazing
Speaker 1: numbers for him from the stripe, fourteen boards, three assists,
Speaker 1: three steals, and a block shot, and the Sixers to
Speaker 1: a needed victory. We know the Sixers have been different
Speaker 1: at home than they have been on the road. You
Speaker 1: absolutely want to see quality games on the road, but
Speaker 1: just looking at Joel's last two home games, I mean
Speaker 1: these numbers are outrageous. Take the game against the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets last Thursday and tonight's game against the Atlanta Hawks,
Speaker 1: and he has scored a combined eighty eight points, thirty
Speaker 1: two of thirty four from the free throw line. Think
Speaker 1: about that, thirty rebounds. Those are numbers that you can
Speaker 1: win with. Sixers answered the call tonight. They were taking
Speaker 1: a buy committee approach. With Ben Simmons out, they had
Speaker 1: the lead dog and Joel emb to Bias Harris helped
Speaker 1: get the Sixers off to a great start in their
Speaker 1: forty one point first quarter. He scored ten points before
Speaker 1: he subbed out for the first time on the way
Speaker 1: to a twenty five point scoring game. And then as
Speaker 1: far as what the Sixers did without Simmons tonight, who
Speaker 1: initiated who handled the ball? I mean they did go
Speaker 1: buy committee, Shake Milton with a team high six assists,
Speaker 1: Al Horford with five dimes, to Bias Harris with four
Speaker 1: helpers as well. And we saw Josh Richardson at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game and in crunch time. For the
Speaker 1: most part, he would be the first primary ball hander
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. Then there were times when it was
Speaker 1: Shake Milton taking on that role for the Sixers while
Speaker 1: playing alongside Josh Richardson a lot of instances in which
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris brought the ball up. In the third quarter,
Speaker 1: there was a stretch where Alec Burks was given the duty.
Speaker 1: So the Sixers tonight trying to feel some things out
Speaker 1: in the absence of Ben Simmons. But the biggest thing
Speaker 1: they did they fed their other all star, the big man,
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. He did not disappoint. He lived in the
Speaker 1: paint virtually the entire night, and he dominated the Atlanta Hawks,
Speaker 1: finished with a flurry of dunks and a three pointer.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the type of four performance that
Speaker 1: backs up comments like I'm the best player in the world.
Speaker 1: Joel Embid certainly played like that tonight. Behind his forty
Speaker 1: nine points, a new career high. Trey Young twenty eight
Speaker 1: points for him down Dre Hunter with twenty two, John
Speaker 1: Collins with twenty one for the Atlanta Hawks. But in
Speaker 1: the big picture, the seventy Sixers they survived a somewhat
Speaker 1: shaky third quarter. They allowed forty points the Atlanta Hawks,
Speaker 1: but they closed things down late the defense stepped up.
Speaker 1: The Sixers had scored the Hawks thirty eight twenty in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter on the way to a very needed win.
Speaker 1: Led by as much as twenty one, let the Hawks
Speaker 1: back in it. They took a three point lead, but
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers, behind Joel Embiid, they emerge as the
Speaker 1: winners at the end of the nights. We're joined by
Speaker 1: Tom mc ginnis now, who had the call of tonight's
Speaker 1: game as we stand by and a wait Brest Brown's
Speaker 1: postgame press conference. You know, Tom, some may say this
Speaker 1: is a show me league the NBA, and Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: came out and showed it tonight. Yeah, he was really good,
Speaker 1: and you know, he kind of got into it a
Speaker 1: little bit with the Wayne Deadman. You could just see
Speaker 1: them chatty and it again. And sometimes Ebide needs something
Speaker 1: to fire him up a little bit, and he excels
Speaker 1: in that environment. Not that the Wayne Deadman was any
Speaker 1: match for Joe at all. And then the ability to
Speaker 1: make the free throws and I mean he's now These
Speaker 1: these games are brushing up with greats in Sixers lore,
Speaker 1: like Dolf Shays and Will Chamberlains. Some of the game numbers.
Speaker 1: Joel with the forty plus points and rebounds, that number
Speaker 1: over ten, So terrific job. And again they needed it,
Speaker 1: you know. And you look at the first and the fourth,
Speaker 1: forty one points for the Sixers in the first and
Speaker 1: thirty eight in the fourth, and that book ended the
Speaker 1: victory as they led by seventeen after one at halftime,
Speaker 1: and in the end they won by seventeen due to
Speaker 1: that strong fourth quarter and the overall play by emb I. Meantime,
Speaker 1: the last two home games for Joel just ridiculous numbers
Speaker 1: that he's put up. Yeah, right, and again he took
Speaker 1: two late threes May one, but most of it is
Speaker 1: done without taking three point shots. And a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, would say that they the Sixers need him
Speaker 1: to be on the block, and he's been dominant in
Speaker 1: that regard. So he really played well, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. They obviously don't win this game without him.
Speaker 1: And then Tobias Harris with a silent twenty five points,
Speaker 1: very consistent four three's. He was hot early, but there
Speaker 1: was nothing silent I thought about his performance in the
Speaker 1: first quarter. He was a real big part and jump
Speaker 1: starting the seventy six ers. And when you take that,
Speaker 1: what Inbi did tonight furkon CORKMS with fifteen points off
Speaker 1: the bench. He had a really key four point play
Speaker 1: at one point to give the Sixers a boost. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the holistic theme that Brett Brown was talking
Speaker 1: about that without Ben Simmons and that type of talent, yes,
Speaker 1: you can look to your embiads and your Harris's, but
Speaker 1: everyone's got to step up, no doubt, and I think
Speaker 1: speaking of Tobias and for that matter, for furkon a
Speaker 1: very aggressive offensive mindset, as did Burs and Robinson when
Speaker 1: they were in there. Sixers beat the Hawks one twenty nine,
Speaker 1: one twelve. We'll go right now to head coach. Brett
Speaker 1: Brown was dominant. He was dominant making his free throws.
Speaker 1: He was dominant as an interior presence. Scoring that volume
Speaker 1: of points at that efficient of a of a of
Speaker 1: a rate is impressive. Like, what do you say? I
Speaker 1: thought the thing that doesn't show up on a statue
Speaker 1: that he did as well as anything, is he handled
Speaker 1: the double teams. You know, whether he passed out of
Speaker 1: it because there was a crowd, whether he went quick
Speaker 1: because the double teams were coming and didn't even get
Speaker 1: himself involved in that. I thought he handled the double
Speaker 1: teams extremely well. What did you see, and you built
Speaker 1: a very nice lead and then it disappeared on you. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: I think that you sat looking at the and ones.
Speaker 1: You know, I think they had five and ones. I
Speaker 1: thought physically, like we we we weren't we weren't there.
Speaker 1: I thought the way we started the third period, I
Speaker 1: called the time out in forty seconds, you know, and
Speaker 1: just sort of like felt we need to to get going,
Speaker 1: like you want to try to put teams down and
Speaker 1: you have a lead as best you can, and it
Speaker 1: is the NBA U there is a little bit of
Speaker 1: human nature in that, that whole equation that I just
Speaker 1: said by in large person, I hate the first three
Speaker 1: minutes of NBA third periods. You know, everybody brother in
Speaker 1: laws each other, and it takes a while to get going.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think that that that team is
Speaker 1: so young and they don't know what they don't know,
Speaker 1: and then they have trade young and like it's got
Speaker 1: it's got to look at the recent performances, you know,
Speaker 1: trades especially, it's dangerous. And I think you know that
Speaker 1: forty point period in the third um was a result
Speaker 1: of that type of attitude and statistic on the end ones.
Speaker 1: To me, why did you decide to go back to
Speaker 1: the album um for a few reasons, Like I think
Speaker 1: that that when you don't have been you know, you
Speaker 1: start thinking about what are you going to do? When,
Speaker 1: as I admitted at the start, like I look at
Speaker 1: it as an opportunity to grow a group that that
Speaker 1: will be playing when Ben is sitting. Ben's not going
Speaker 1: to play forty eight minutes, and so like when you
Speaker 1: look at a group that could play when Ben's not
Speaker 1: even if he were with us in the game, can
Speaker 1: I grow that environment? Can I have an opportunity to,
Speaker 1: you know, see who might be able to be like
Speaker 1: the backup point guard and another legitimate ball handle up.
Speaker 1: And in that sort of whole design Al came in.
Speaker 1: Was it a portion of can I help like jump
Speaker 1: start him and get him going for a shua? I
Speaker 1: thought that some of his passes tonight were elite, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know how many assists he had, but he
Speaker 1: really I thought, made some adult play, some sophisticated plays,
Speaker 1: And I started him for those reasons. Seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: head coach Brett Brown with some insights and thoughts following
Speaker 1: the Sixers one twenty nine one twelve victory over the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks Joel embead flat aft dominant forty nine points,
Speaker 1: setting a new career high fourteen rebounds in the game
Speaker 1: as well, plus three steals and a block shot. He
Speaker 1: was just so important for the Sixers tonight. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what a leader does. When your team is fa
Speaker 1: racing some adversity. Who knows how long Ben Simmons is
Speaker 1: going to be out for Joel came right out and
Speaker 1: he immediately helped set the tone. He finished with thirteen
Speaker 1: points in the first quarter. Tobias Harris had ten in
Speaker 1: the frame. That was really encouraging to see because, let's
Speaker 1: face it, without Simmons, those are likely going to be
Speaker 1: your top two scoring options that you would think of
Speaker 1: first when you're looking at who's going to score points
Speaker 1: for the seventy six ers with no Ben Simmons. And
Speaker 1: then you know, in bid through the middle stages the game,
Speaker 1: he found his spots. He made some quality plays. But
Speaker 1: I mean it's just in say, twenty two of Embiad's
Speaker 1: points came in the fourth quarter. He was able to
Speaker 1: get to the line for eight free throw attempts during
Speaker 1: that stretch. He also had eight rebounds in the fourth period.
Speaker 1: I mean, how many people tonight in the NBA would
Speaker 1: take a line of twenty two points and eight rebounds.
Speaker 1: Joe did that in less than ten and a half
Speaker 1: minutes in the fourth quarter. I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: type of game I don't know for anyone else out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, would it be hard. Let's face it, You're
Speaker 1: not going to get forty nine and fourteen every night.
Speaker 1: But its performances like these, The way Joel went about
Speaker 1: his business, the way he ran the floor from end
Speaker 1: to end, and how engaged he was. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is the stuff that you're thinking of that when obviously
Speaker 1: Joel has been at his best. It's games like these,
Speaker 1: not not even like the numbers, but the way he
Speaker 1: engaged with the crowd. His energy is enthusiasm. It was
Speaker 1: so needed for the Sixers tonight, and Joel Embiad stepped
Speaker 1: up in a major, major way. Forty nine points, fourteen
Speaker 1: rebounds in bead E leading the seventy sixers. Can't overlook
Speaker 1: fifteen from fur con Quorkmas off the bench, twenty five
Speaker 1: from Tobias Harris. I thought for the Sixers, you know,
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson had a pretty solid game, thirteen points for him,
Speaker 1: He had three assists, six rebounds at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the game and down the stretch in the end, he
Speaker 1: was the one initiating for the Sixers. Listen, it's a
Speaker 1: different role for him. I think that when you ask
Speaker 1: him to take on more of the ball handling responsibilities,
Speaker 1: maybe it takes him out of the rhythm of his
Speaker 1: scoring a little bit. So Richardson he found his spots
Speaker 1: to night as well. And then Shake Milton, the rook
Speaker 1: you know last year now in his second year this season.
Speaker 1: Seven points, six assists, five rebounds. Quality game for Shake Milton.
Speaker 1: Let's now get to some of the highlights called by
Speaker 1: the one and only the radio man and the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers Tom McGinnis. Tobias Harris helped get the Sixers off
Speaker 1: to a great start in a night they began a
Speaker 1: stretch without Ben Simmons. Tobias Harris made both free throws
Speaker 1: sixers by ten Orford to Tobias Harris for three and
Speaker 1: that's good. He's two for two from beyond the yard.
Speaker 1: Ten points. Now five in a row for him, and
Speaker 1: that would mark Tobias Harris's scoring total in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: That put the seventy Sixers up twenty four to eleven.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiad had thirteen in the opening frame. Here's Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson into Joel turns and makes a move on Fernando
Speaker 1: up and under, then turns reverse pivot. Good. It be
Speaker 1: not one, not two, but three different moves and a
Speaker 1: turn around shot is good. But the seventy Sixers in
Speaker 1: front thirty five to eighteen. They would lead forty one
Speaker 1: to twenty four after one quarter of play. In the
Speaker 1: second period, the seventy Sixers kept putting it on the Hawks,
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris capping the scoring in the first half. Milton
Speaker 1: has the ball, Hunter couldn't score it. Here's Shake Dowlo
Speaker 1: Tobias with a jam. Great ball faked by Milton, heat
Speaker 1: trick Tray Young and the Sixers get the slam from
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris. Sixers margin would be sixty nine to fifty
Speaker 1: two at intermission, but in the third quarter things would
Speaker 1: change dramatically. The Hawks began mounting a comeback run. In
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers needed every basket they could get. Joel
Speaker 1: Dribley having a real difficult time, gives it up, gets
Speaker 1: it back, attacks a double team off balance, missed it
Speaker 1: and then tapped it in and at no point was
Speaker 1: that text book perfect, but it went in. The Sixers
Speaker 1: led at that stage eighty four, but the Hawk they
Speaker 1: scored the final eight points of the third quarter to
Speaker 1: take a ninety two ninety one lead into the fourth.
Speaker 1: This half, the Sixers led by as much as twenty one,
Speaker 1: but in the fourth quarter a couple of players came
Speaker 1: the rescue. Tobias Harris was one of them. Beat against
Speaker 1: Fernando Ice on the right side, Shakespeare's baseline turns into
Speaker 1: a trap, picks it up out to Tobias for three,
Speaker 1: and Herder doubled from the strong side and it beat
Speaker 1: kicks it back to Harris and Tobias with his fourth three.
Speaker 1: And that speaks to the ability that Beat had throughout
Speaker 1: the game of recognizing the double team sent Adam and
Speaker 1: capitalizing made shots make those decisions look all that much better.
Speaker 1: Tobias converting there to give the Sixes one oh five
Speaker 1: ninety eight edge. We'll play you some of the final
Speaker 1: plays of Joel Embiad's career high Night, including this basket
Speaker 1: that essentially put the game away. Five is shoot it
Speaker 1: Beat with a three point shot on Collins, and that's
Speaker 1: good whoa if be putting his hand to his ear,
Speaker 1: finishes with the three, fitting for Joel Embiad to have
Speaker 1: that type of moment putting his hand to his ear.
Speaker 1: Allah Allen Iverson as Ebid goes for forty nine points,
Speaker 1: the highest total bias seventy six or in a game
Speaker 1: since Allen Iverson dropped fifty three in Atlanta on December
Speaker 1: twenty third, two thousand and five. Joel Embiid was ten
Speaker 1: years old on that day. All around outstanding and Bid
Speaker 1: just missed seven of his twenty four shots, made his
Speaker 1: third and final three point attempts almost perfect from the line.
Speaker 1: He actually missed his final free throw to finish fourteen
Speaker 1: and fifteen from the line. Yanked down fourteen rebounds, three assists,
Speaker 1: three steals, one block shot forty nine large for the
Speaker 1: big fellow Tobias Harris with twenty five nine to eighteen overall,
Speaker 1: four of six from three, six rebounds, four assists, in
Speaker 1: a block shot fifteen off the bench for for Concork Males.
Speaker 1: He was three of seven from outside the arc. He
Speaker 1: also had six board seven points for Shake Milton that
Speaker 1: a lot of the ball handling tonight. He had six
Speaker 1: times Josh Richardson had thirteen points. He also handled the
Speaker 1: rock as did Harris as I mentioned earlier, seven for
Speaker 1: Alec Burks and six for Glenn Robinson. The third Al
Speaker 1: Horford with seven points, eight rebounds and five assists back
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup with Ben Simmons out. I think
Speaker 1: you step back, you look at a couple of things. Yes,
Speaker 1: the competition was the competition, as we have a shooting
Speaker 1: contest going on postgame here at the center. Opponent was
Speaker 1: the opponent, but the Sixers still beat him. Joel still
Speaker 1: did what he did, and the Sixers they figured out
Speaker 1: a way without Ben Simmons and is just going to
Speaker 1: be what they're going to have to do until we
Speaker 1: find out how long Simmons will be out for. Up
Speaker 1: next for the seventy Sixers the Cleveland Cavaliers that is
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night, and then the New York Knicks too.
Speaker 1: Great opportunities for the Sixers, yes, and back to back,
Speaker 1: but to stockpile wins before setting out for a four
Speaker 1: game West Coast trip starting next Sunday in a matinee
Speaker 1: against the LA Clippers. You've been listening to rewind, look
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