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. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers and Minnesota Timberwolves entered the evening as two
Speaker 1: of the final three unbeaten teams in the NBA, each
Speaker 1: at three and ozh. The Sixers knock off the Wolves
Speaker 1: one seventeen, first team to reach four wins in the
Speaker 1: league this season. I'm Brian Selzer. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: This is our postgame coverage. The Sixers get a really
Speaker 1: balanced physical performance from top to bottom. They imposed their
Speaker 1: will even before the incident between Joel Embiad and Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns with five minutes gone by in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: They were balanced, they were tenacious, physical, They set the
Speaker 1: tone and they saw it through to the finish. Eighteen points,
Speaker 1: nine rebounds for Tobias Harris, twelve points, sixteen boards for
Speaker 1: Al Horford to go with four assists. He was great,
Speaker 1: sixteen and seven for Ben Simmons, Josh Richardson with twelve
Speaker 1: points behind two three pointers, seventeen for fur Con Cork
Speaker 1: Miles off the bench also some good bench performances from
Speaker 1: AATI stable. He had nine points and again four steals
Speaker 1: for the second straight game. Eight points and eleven rebounds
Speaker 1: for James. And it's the third Did I not mentioned? I? Yes,
Speaker 1: that man, that very big man, Joel Embiid nineteen points,
Speaker 1: five rebounds, seven to fourteen and just twenty minutes of activity.
Speaker 1: He was ejected along with Towns my third quarter. Brett
Speaker 1: brownis at the podium right now. It's just first glance,
Speaker 1: my my, my most immediate memory. That's how I remembered
Speaker 1: it right now. It's not how do you want it
Speaker 1: to happen? But is this the type of moment, type
Speaker 1: of really yellow team together seeing Ben and the other
Speaker 1: teammates kind of come back a mouth. Listen they they
Speaker 1: hear me. If you went into our practice facility, we
Speaker 1: talk about it's a creed, it's a Philly hard, it's
Speaker 1: Philly edge, and is an authenticity. It's real and somewhere
Speaker 1: every time we can, we like to point to example, Yep,
Speaker 1: like this is Philly hard. Yep, that thing had an edge.
Speaker 1: This is real. There is a spirit amongst that team
Speaker 1: that's authentic. And I think that you could pick a
Speaker 1: few buckets to put that incident in and the team
Speaker 1: responding as they did. It is Philadelphia, and uh life
Speaker 1: moves on. It's part of it. Coach, I asked you
Speaker 1: before the game about assessing the defense and offense with
Speaker 1: the big lineups early on tonight, you said, you great
Speaker 1: the offense to see before the game he has come
Speaker 1: out of excuse me, you came out and dropped I
Speaker 1: think one hundred seventeen points. How do you feel now?
Speaker 1: I feel better because I think that the ball moved.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't really purposefully call a bunch of
Speaker 1: plays until the end. I wanted them to figure it out.
Speaker 1: The the the turnover abundance still is haunting. You're not
Speaker 1: going to do anything that matters unless you fix that.
Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. Now, that's the bad news. The
Speaker 1: good news was a transition defense after the turnovers was exceptional.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they had twelve points on you know,
Speaker 1: twenty two turner, which is a very tiny relative number
Speaker 1: for that volume. And so it starts with, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to help out two all stars Ben and Joel.
Speaker 1: With this mission to try to reduce turnovers, you're going
Speaker 1: to see that there are many other participants in this
Speaker 1: ugly category that we need to fix. And if you
Speaker 1: remove that. I give our offensive thumbs up about thirty
Speaker 1: second chance points over sixteen offensive. See that to me,
Speaker 1: there's two areas that is the game. If you look
Speaker 1: at up points after we turn them over, you know
Speaker 1: which I think is is twenty nine And then to
Speaker 1: your point, the thirty points on second chance points. When
Speaker 1: you talk about how do you utilize height, how do
Speaker 1: you exploit size? You know, it's part of the sort
Speaker 1: of smashmall bullyball thing we're trying to get better at.
Speaker 1: And that thirty point crashing the boards and twenty nine points,
Speaker 1: I think it was on you know, taking advantage of
Speaker 1: how we turned them over. You'd have a hard time
Speaker 1: going someplace else when you talk about significant stats that
Speaker 1: helped us win. As Brett Brown said at his very
Speaker 1: first media availability of the fall Back in September more
Speaker 1: than a month ago, he wants the seventy sixers to
Speaker 1: play a smash mouth style on offense and bullieball on defense.
Speaker 1: Even before the incident in the third quarter with Immedan Towns,
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers were competing with that Philly hard, Philly edge,
Speaker 1: Philly real mindset for the night they commanded the glass.
Speaker 1: They were plus twenty two on the boards. They outscored
Speaker 1: Minnesota sixty to forty two in the paint, thirty to
Speaker 1: four on second chances, and, as Brand was alluding to,
Speaker 1: despite both teams turning the ball over twenty two times,
Speaker 1: not the most comfortable amounts, the Sixers were the more
Speaker 1: opportunistic of the two groups, outscoring the Timberwolves on turnovers
Speaker 1: twenty nine to twelve the Sixers. They were balanced from
Speaker 1: top to bottom, six players finishing in double figures. Thought
Speaker 1: fur Concorkmaz had a really nice effort off the bench,
Speaker 1: James Ennis the third as well. Al Horford was great
Speaker 1: as the seventy Sixers hold the Timberwolves to under forty
Speaker 1: percent shooting and under thirty percent from outside the ark. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the Sixers got off to a really good start with
Speaker 1: their perimeter offense, and that helped them build up a
Speaker 1: twenty five point lead in tonight's first half on the
Speaker 1: way to a one seventeen ninety five win and the
Speaker 1: end result. As I mentioned at the top, the Sixers
Speaker 1: are the first team to four wins in the entire NBA.
Speaker 1: They're also one of two unbeaten teams left with San
Speaker 1: Antonio being the other. They played the La Clippers tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: The Sixers first to four wins, first four and ohs
Speaker 1: start to a season since two thousand and two thousand
Speaker 1: and one. They knock off the Wolves one seventeen ninety
Speaker 1: five seventy Sixers in a wild night down here at
Speaker 1: the Center. Nineteen points five rebounds for Joel Embiid before
Speaker 1: he and Karl Anthony Towns, the two All Stars were
Speaker 1: rejected early on in the third quarter. But I thought
Speaker 1: a lot of other guys had no worthy performances. Al
Speaker 1: Horford terrific throughout the evening doing a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: He was plus twenty six and Ferd con Corkmas had
Speaker 1: seventeen points off the bench. We'll go to Tom McGinnis
Speaker 1: right now, who had the call this one tonight, And
Speaker 1: hey Tom, that was there was something in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: And listen, I mean Joel Embiid. There there are three
Speaker 1: atrics to him. You know. I guess showman his way
Speaker 1: that you could describe him. But I think the SoundBite
Speaker 1: for me that I'll take away was simply that I'm
Speaker 1: built for this city. And you know what he has
Speaker 1: got the town rapped around his fingers. He has the
Speaker 1: pulse of the town. He knows the heartbeat of the city,
Speaker 1: and that moment when he walked off the floor, regardless
Speaker 1: of what you thought or what still might be to
Speaker 1: come after the since in tonight, I mean it was theater. Well,
Speaker 1: he was shadow boxing and he was playing to the crowd.
Speaker 1: And then his press conference comments where those similar of
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali and so he definitely was doing it. Where
Speaker 1: in the other hand, we understand that Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 1: All he would say, and he repeated it like five
Speaker 1: times in a row. It was competitive. He was channeling
Speaker 1: his inner emotions. So again, big picture, you don't like
Speaker 1: to see this kind of thing between two star players.
Speaker 1: Let's say Towns connects on that punch, then it's a
Speaker 1: it's a much it's not as jovial. Then it's a
Speaker 1: real mean, that was a serious situation. Let's not kid ourselves.
Speaker 1: And if that punch lands, it's even more serious. It's
Speaker 1: really you know, it's something that's talked about with in
Speaker 1: a whole different lights. So the game I thought, got
Speaker 1: a little ratty after that. They did not have a rhythm.
Speaker 1: The Sixers had built up a big enough lead, but
Speaker 1: then you know, the Sixers played at the end, and
Speaker 1: that's how they've won these four games, and that is
Speaker 1: they've played right down to the stretch with Harris and
Speaker 1: Horford and Simmons and Richardson still making plays, and obviously
Speaker 1: Monday Duell with the file shots in the big production
Speaker 1: points wise in the win over Atlanta. But do you
Speaker 1: mention four oh, it's the first time since two thousand
Speaker 1: and two thousand and one, if memory serves, ten straight
Speaker 1: wins for the Sixers to begin that season, and it
Speaker 1: obviously it led to an Eastern Conference championship at a
Speaker 1: birth in the finals and a long way to go,
Speaker 1: but a great start for the Sixers. And I thought
Speaker 1: was sixty two points in the first half. This was
Speaker 1: the best they'd played offense. Will be heard coach moments earlier,
Speaker 1: seeing the offense has been a C minus so far. Tonight,
Speaker 1: I thought they did a much better job in that
Speaker 1: and they got again big contributions from multiple players, including
Speaker 1: Cork Mois, who had his best game of the year.
Speaker 1: Sixers over the Minnesota Timberwolves one seventeen to ninety five.
Speaker 1: Al Horford, Tom was forced into an even larger role
Speaker 1: tonight after Joel Embiid's ejection. Al's been great. I think,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you've seen it so far, but
Speaker 1: just little things. I mean, one player that stands out
Speaker 1: to me was how he set up for a con
Speaker 1: corkmis for a dunk, just a terrific pass after collecting
Speaker 1: an offensive rebound. It's a possession like that where he's
Speaker 1: able to help space the floor, create an extra opportunity
Speaker 1: and then make a beautiful paths that results in a
Speaker 1: really nice finish. But he did a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything tonight. No, he really did, and I mean he
Speaker 1: knows the game. He thinks the game, and like you said,
Speaker 1: that's beautiful basketball when you get a backside cut and
Speaker 1: a dunk by fur Con and all set up by Horford.
Speaker 1: Harris had a hand in that play, but mostly all Ill.
Speaker 1: And there were times in the game where he was,
Speaker 1: you know, not really scoring the ball, but he rebounded
Speaker 1: consistently throughout the game. And then you know, for a
Speaker 1: big guy, he's sometimes when you look in there he's
Speaker 1: listening at six nine, he seems undersized, but he's so
Speaker 1: accustomed to being in the pain. He's got tremendous footwork,
Speaker 1: and when he gets into the lane off that left
Speaker 1: block and turns over the left shoulder with that right
Speaker 1: hand jump hook. He's money, and he knows where he
Speaker 1: wants to get those shots from, and he's done it
Speaker 1: consistently throughout his career, and he makes plays. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's a heavy ball player with veteran poise, and you're right,
Speaker 1: he has been terrific throughout. And I thought more than
Speaker 1: anything Saturday in Detroit and now we've seen a three
Speaker 1: games in a row, Sixers top of the tea Wolves
Speaker 1: one seventeen ninety five, the first NBA team to four wins,
Speaker 1: and as Tom said, first four and starts since two thousand,
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, we've been going back to the
Speaker 1: idea of the offense being behind the defense and needing
Speaker 1: to catch up. You certainly would have every reason to
Speaker 1: believe that it will. But I think even in this
Speaker 1: first week time, it's now been a full week. We
Speaker 1: were here last Wednesday when the Sixers beat the Celtics.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're seeing things that, given the overall talent
Speaker 1: the Sixers have that are going to help them win
Speaker 1: basketball games, that might be enough to help them win
Speaker 1: basketball games. Listen, they had eleven extra shots then the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves, they outrebounded them by ten and they were
Speaker 1: thirty to four on second chance points. I mean, these
Speaker 1: are things that with the way they played defense and
Speaker 1: their size and their length, I mean, that's a winning
Speaker 1: attribute in combination for this team. Right, if you were
Speaker 1: to ask any coach off the bat, you know what
Speaker 1: would you like to build on, they would say defense
Speaker 1: and rebounding. Now, obviously you have to score the ball,
Speaker 1: but there's gonna be nights that certain guys have off
Speaker 1: nights offensively. But if you can hang your hat on
Speaker 1: those two elements that you know you're gonna grind it
Speaker 1: out defensively and continue to hit the glass. And with
Speaker 1: that size advantage, you figure the Sixers are going to
Speaker 1: be one of, if not the top rebounding team in
Speaker 1: the entire league this year. That's huge. And then going
Speaker 1: back to the offense, Brian I thought it was telling
Speaker 1: what coach Brown said there, and it may not have
Speaker 1: gotten a whole lot of notice, but he said where
Speaker 1: he didn't call out of place. He let the Sixers
Speaker 1: kind of play and free flow. And look, they produced
Speaker 1: sixty two points at the half, their best half of
Speaker 1: the year. So that's interesting to see that the team
Speaker 1: kind of just went out there and use their intuitive
Speaker 1: basketball knowledge to create for one another, and they went
Speaker 1: to Joel a lot obviously, So nice victory here tonight,
Speaker 1: a big You know, we came into the game talking
Speaker 1: about undefeated for the second consecutive game, and the Sixers
Speaker 1: really made this no contest with the way they blew
Speaker 1: out Minnesota. Seventy Sixers defeat Minnesota one, seventeen ninety five,
Speaker 1: now four straight games against the Western Conference. Portland had
Speaker 1: a terrific run last year. Phoenix appears to be improved
Speaker 1: with a guy like Devin Booker, who knows what typing
Speaker 1: game you can get, especially on the road. And then
Speaker 1: you've got the Utah Jazz with Mike Conley in the
Speaker 1: mix and Denver and you could Sammy provided full health
Speaker 1: the matchup of the two guys people leave were the
Speaker 1: top big men in the game in Yokich and Joel
Speaker 1: absolutely and Portland's out in Oklahoma. They're up one late
Speaker 1: in that game, but no doubt, tough trip and you
Speaker 1: know think, oh, okay, well Phoenix, well, like you say,
Speaker 1: not necessarily, Monnie Williams has really got them playing well
Speaker 1: and they've responded to the absence of Eton with that
Speaker 1: twenty five game suspension here at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: And obviously Portland has been a difficult place for the
Speaker 1: Sixers over the years, and you know they're hurting with
Speaker 1: their bigs. Nurkicch is still out now, Zach Collins is hurt,
Speaker 1: but they still have Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum. So hey,
Speaker 1: if the Sixers come back eight, no, will really have
Speaker 1: something to talk about. Because Utah another very difficult place
Speaker 1: to play, and as you say, Conley in their quarterback,
Speaker 1: in their offense, and Denver's one of the best teams
Speaker 1: in the NBA. So so far, so good, but a
Speaker 1: great opportunity, a great test early road trip for the
Speaker 1: Sixers out west, and it should be interesting as we
Speaker 1: tip off at ten o'clock on Saturday night from the
Speaker 1: Rose Guard. All righty Tom, talked to you at that
Speaker 1: point in time. Good night, Thanks. Seventy Sixers beat the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves by the final score of one seventeen to
Speaker 1: ninety five. Will hit some highlights coming up. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: a brief stop in South Philadelphia before setting back out
Speaker 1: on the road. This weekend to open up a four
Speaker 1: game a Western Conference road trip. The task tonight hosting
Speaker 1: another unbeaten team and trying to stay perfect on Brian
Speaker 1: Seltzer let us get to the highlights. Seventy sixers game
Speaker 1: for the season, hosting the Minnesota Timberwolves. Early on it
Speaker 1: was clear Joel Embiid was a sizeable advantage for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Beat against Kyle's Jeb step by Joe upbaked by a
Speaker 1: beat on Tiles, powers spits, get to run and plays
Speaker 1: it up. He pulled out everything that get just say
Speaker 1: him to score on t Towns. It was interesting because
Speaker 1: it was Towns who guarded Embiid for most of the
Speaker 1: time the two shared the floor, but on the opposite
Speaker 1: end of the court, the Sixers went with the likes
Speaker 1: of Horford, Ben Simmons, Tobias Harris even a bit and
Speaker 1: let Joel and bad drift outside the pain and playmate defensively.
Speaker 1: It was a strategy that for the most part work
Speaker 1: that bucket made it six to three to seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers would calf off the first quarter courtesy of Jay Rinch,
Speaker 1: a defensive laps at Minnesota knocks down to three five
Speaker 1: seconds to go, on the opening quarter Richardson with a
Speaker 1: pull up eighteen quarter bucket. Towns was there thirty two
Speaker 1: twenty four, seventy six ers after one fur con. Corkmas
Speaker 1: played an important role in tonight's game, Covington from well
Speaker 1: beyond the yard way off to the right. He shot
Speaker 1: it from Delaware County and he missed it the Bucks County.
Speaker 1: Here's karkball. That's how you do it. Show up Burk
Speaker 1: God three ball, Krkbas Corkmas making it forty six to
Speaker 1: thirty one. Joel Embiad showing his touch to wrap up
Speaker 1: the first hand if b to Sivens Simmons on a
Speaker 1: running start with the couples in the corner of batis
Speaker 1: five to go on the half. If bat for three
Speaker 1: from out of front, it's gone. He nailed the triple.
Speaker 1: Joel mb with two seconds to go, sixers in front
Speaker 1: at the break, sixty two to forty three. Third quarter.
Speaker 1: Five minutes in behind the play, Joel Embiid and Karl
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns tied up. There was an altercation, an incident,
Speaker 1: a lengthy to lay and review, after which it was
Speaker 1: determined that both Joel Embiid and Karl Anthony Towns would
Speaker 1: be leaving the game, but the seventy Sixers played physical
Speaker 1: and tough long before that incident happened, and Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: made sure that style of play continued. Al Horford with
Speaker 1: a hoop that appeared to be blocked after it hit
Speaker 1: the glass. You're Simmons on a jam, dumps in the
Speaker 1: crowd loves that Ben has to hang on the iron
Speaker 1: because Teague was underneath them. That made it seventy nine
Speaker 1: to fifty eight. The Sixers well in control going into
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. We will leave the final highlight for
Speaker 1: Turk or he goes down to Corkmoths and a duck
Speaker 1: by fur Conk big. Al bakes the pass and cork
Speaker 1: mos bakes the Wolves pain. It was a terrific pass
Speaker 1: from al Horford set up by his own offensive rebound.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers coast. They win this one tonight one seventeen
Speaker 1: ninety five. They shot over forty six and a half
Speaker 1: percent from the field, held the Timberwolves under forty percent.
Speaker 1: Six Ers nine to twenty five from three, Minnesota ten
Speaker 1: of thirty five, six Ers twenty two to twenty eighth
Speaker 1: in the line, Minnesota twenty one of twenty eight. The
Speaker 1: Sixers were plus twenty two on the glass each team
Speaker 1: with twenty two turnovers. Sixers outscored the Wolves twenty nine
Speaker 1: to twelve off turnovers, outscored the Wolves sixty to forty
Speaker 1: two in the paint and thirty to four on second
Speaker 1: chance opportunities. Individually, dwell Embiid with a team high nineteen.
Speaker 1: He also had five rebounds in just twenty minutes before
Speaker 1: the ejection. Right behind him to Bias Harris with eighteen points,
Speaker 1: nine rebounds and two assists sixteen for Ben Simmons to
Speaker 1: go with three boards, seven dimes, two steals, and a
Speaker 1: couple block shots. Al Horford with a game high twenty
Speaker 1: six plus twenty six rating, twelve points, sixteen rebounds. Al
Speaker 1: was five or twelve from the field, but such a
Speaker 1: huge part leading the seventy six ers commanding efforts on
Speaker 1: the glass. James and It's the third great off the
Speaker 1: bench with eight points eleven rebounds in just eighteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Batistiable with nine points and four steals, his second straight
Speaker 1: four steal game. According to the Great Website Basketball Reference,
Speaker 1: he has the most steals to start a career in
Speaker 1: four games in seventy six ers franchise history. Now with
Speaker 1: twelve pretty awesome stuff fer Con Corkmas seventeen points, one
Speaker 1: off his career high. He was five to ten overall,
Speaker 1: three for eight from three seventy six was led by
Speaker 1: as much as twenty five an hour four and Ozero.
Speaker 1: First team in the league to four wins, last team
Speaker 1: in the East unbeaten and one of two unbeaten's left overall,
Speaker 1: along with the San Antonio Spurs, four no starts since
Speaker 1: two thousand, two thousand and one. Now they head out west.
Speaker 1: They visit Moda Center and the Portland Trailblazers on Saturday
Speaker 1: night at ten o'clock one final time. The final score
Speaker 1: was the seventy six Ers one seventeen Minnesota Timberwolves ninety five.
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