Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind. They'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy six ers previous game.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a valid question how much stock to
Speaker 1: put in preseason performance, But all we have to go
Speaker 1: on right now is present and current data, and in
Speaker 1: the case of the seventy six ers, it's pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: They improved to four and oh pulling away from the
Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons down the stretch one oh six to eighty
Speaker 1: six behind a strong showing in the second half to
Speaker 1: put Detroit away. I'm Brian Seltzer. Our postgame coverage underway
Speaker 1: from down here at the Center. Bring on Tom McGinnis
Speaker 1: in a moment. We hope to hear from Brett Brown
Speaker 1: as well. We'll give you some highlights and the final
Speaker 1: box score. Two. Joel Embiid was at his best in
Speaker 1: three preseason games so far. Twenty four points. Went on
Speaker 1: the attack early, pretty smooth from the field, got some
Speaker 1: mid range jumpers to go down early. He got to
Speaker 1: the free throw line again eight times, had all eight
Speaker 1: of his shots eight rebounds in twenty two minutes. Think
Speaker 1: that based on this performance by Joel and b tonight,
Speaker 1: very reassuring that he is headed in the right direction
Speaker 1: going into next Wednesday's regular season opener. Ben Simmons and
Speaker 1: al Horford, two regular starters, did not play tonight. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons had a little bit of back tightness and the
Speaker 1: Sixers held him out. Al Horford didn't play tonight because
Speaker 1: of Rasso. In their place, the Sixers went with Matisse,
Speaker 1: Stybel and fur Concorkmas. I thought both those guys had
Speaker 1: some really good nights. I mean Matisse right now. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to overreact to what you
Speaker 1: see in exhibition games. But in my opinion, Matisse has
Speaker 1: shown enough good things consistently now three times against NBA
Speaker 1: competition where there's reason enough to be excited. He had
Speaker 1: seven points, knocked down a three pointer. But where your
Speaker 1: eyes really light up is seeing the four steals, the
Speaker 1: two block shots, the six rebounds, and beyond that. Just
Speaker 1: watch these games, listen to them. He is all over
Speaker 1: the place, tenacious, a maniac on the defensive end of
Speaker 1: the court, causing havoc, creating deflections, taking the ball away,
Speaker 1: forcing turnovers. More good stuff from Atise. And as for Corkms,
Speaker 1: the Sixers have been giving him some opportunities. He knows
Speaker 1: his top priority is to make shots. Hit two three pointers.
Speaker 1: Tonight finished with ten points, four rebounds. He was plus twelve.
Speaker 1: That was a team high. Encouraging signs from fur Con
Speaker 1: Cork Mos Tobias Harris hitting some tough shots. He finished
Speaker 1: with ten points, five rebounds, and twenty four minutes. Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson ran the point in the starting role for the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers with Ben Simmons out. He looked good again
Speaker 1: with eleven points, six assists and five boards. Thirteen points
Speaker 1: off the bench for Norvelle Peal plus five block shots
Speaker 1: and four rebounds. Playing the entire fourth quarter, it was
Speaker 1: fun to watch seventy sixers down Detroit one oh six
Speaker 1: to eighty six, an under convincing preseason victory. We go
Speaker 1: to Tom McGinnis now, who had the call of tonight's
Speaker 1: action down here at the center. Seventy sixers unbeaten four
Speaker 1: preseason games. You know the time, I'm trying to reconcile
Speaker 1: with myself. You know, what do you make of preseason evidence?
Speaker 1: And it's probably a question that you can only best
Speaker 1: answer once the games begin to count and you have hindsight.
Speaker 1: But seeing what we're seeing. I mean, this is just
Speaker 1: more good stuff from the six. I hate to keep
Speaker 1: going back to that refrain, but that's the evidence we
Speaker 1: answer so far. No particularly four player like thy Ball,
Speaker 1: who is never playing in the NBA. And again he
Speaker 1: stated that he feels comfortable and clearly so. But you know,
Speaker 1: like the more and more he can get his legs
Speaker 1: sort of speak underneath them, the better it's going to
Speaker 1: be when the actual season rolls around, because it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be perfect. You know, he's going to have his
Speaker 1: ups and downs, as any first year player would be.
Speaker 1: But the thing that at least individually, and you spoke
Speaker 1: about him, so I'll address that first. But he makes
Speaker 1: it look so easy, like oh, like he got Kannard
Speaker 1: got around him at one point and maybe he wasn't
Speaker 1: even guarding him, but he ran from behind him, just
Speaker 1: blocked it. Like oh that's an easy play to make,
Speaker 1: or just it's clear, like you know you've heard the
Speaker 1: phrase act like you've been here before. It's to him,
Speaker 1: it's just like it's just a simple defensive play. He
Speaker 1: gets run down, you know he does. He has and
Speaker 1: I try to work this out of him when we
Speaker 1: talked to him last week. A lot of it's intuitive,
Speaker 1: and he was a little maybe hesitant. He didn't want to,
Speaker 1: I think maybe self congratulate. But that's what it appears
Speaker 1: to me, that it's just something he's done for his
Speaker 1: basketball career, and he's been doing it even at this level.
Speaker 1: With the four steals and the blocks, very impressive and
Speaker 1: you know, like you say this preseason, but what I
Speaker 1: like is not only have the Sixers starters had their moments.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's been Harris not particularly tonight, and Joel was
Speaker 1: by far the best that he's been and he had
Speaker 1: a great touch, and we can get into that in
Speaker 1: a moment, but it's when the reserves get in there,
Speaker 1: and tonight they outscored them by ten in the last
Speaker 1: seven minutes of the game. It was eighty six seventy six,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers outscored him twenty to ten down the stretch.
Speaker 1: And again it's their deep reserves against your third team.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, you're trying to get guys confidence
Speaker 1: and prove that they can play and take advantage of opportunity,
Speaker 1: and a lot of different guys have done that multiple times.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers knock off Detroit one oh six eighty six
Speaker 1: down here at the center there a four oh on
Speaker 1: the preseason. What'd you think, Tom, of Josh Richardson getting
Speaker 1: the primary ball handling responsibilities once again? You know, I
Speaker 1: thought he looked good, you know, I mean, he looked very,
Speaker 1: very confident. He's definitely, you know, like a strong ball
Speaker 1: handler where you're not gonna harass him and force him
Speaker 1: to He gets to his spots and get you into
Speaker 1: the offense. He's able to initiate the offense. And again
Speaker 1: part of it too with the Sixers, like, yes, you
Speaker 1: if you don't get something going, you throw it back
Speaker 1: to him. But a lot of you have multiple ball
Speaker 1: handers with them, so it's not like back in the
Speaker 1: day when you had Maurice Cheeks bringing it up and
Speaker 1: getting every half court set up that way. That's that's
Speaker 1: not how it works anymore. You get a lot of
Speaker 1: action on the perimeter with dribble handoffs that don't involve
Speaker 1: necessarily the point guard. But Richardson has proven more than
Speaker 1: capable in the last two games, and I think the
Speaker 1: Sixers knew that, and Brett Brown kind of gave himself
Speaker 1: of a blueprint going forward that he's going to be
Speaker 1: able to do that, and again, I think maybe the
Speaker 1: number one characteristic you get out of Richardson at both
Speaker 1: ends of the floors, he's rugged, he's gonna play tough,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get it done no matter what it
Speaker 1: looks like. And he did that again the night Sixer
Speaker 1: is beat Detroit one oh six eighty six. There a
Speaker 1: record of the preseason staying perfect at four. And oh,
Speaker 1: I don't think Joe Ellenbiid in any way, shape or
Speaker 1: form needs a good preseason game to reassure anyone out
Speaker 1: there that he's capable of doing what he's shown himself
Speaker 1: to do in the regular season. However, that being said,
Speaker 1: it was really nice to see this type of game tonight.
Speaker 1: Not to say anything about his first two preseason games,
Speaker 1: but he was in rhythm early. The Sixers went to
Speaker 1: him right off the jump and that seemed to unlock
Speaker 1: him for his best preseason game right and you know,
Speaker 1: he was able to catch the ball down on the
Speaker 1: left block, which is as Brett Brown likes to call
Speaker 1: in many different ways, the honey spot. That's where he
Speaker 1: really that's his spot and what he does more than
Speaker 1: anything from there as he draws fouls and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, God forbid that you're a defender that can't
Speaker 1: stop him, and that unfortunately for them. That's what Thonmaker
Speaker 1: was tonight. Even when Wood came in there. Joel is
Speaker 1: gonna take you to the cleaners. He's gonna draw fouls
Speaker 1: and then to me and you know at some point,
Speaker 1: you know, because he's he's very good down there on
Speaker 1: that block and that is where you want to get
Speaker 1: the tallest, most talented player of the ball. But his
Speaker 1: to me where I think, and again this is only
Speaker 1: my opinion, when he faces up at like seventeen feet
Speaker 1: at the elbow and with that touch, which is what
Speaker 1: he displayed here tonight, I believe he was like four
Speaker 1: of six on those those types of shots because he's
Speaker 1: got the footwork, he's able to elevate, he's got great
Speaker 1: up bakes, and he just and then guys know that
Speaker 1: he could put it on the deck and take it
Speaker 1: to the basket. He's unstoppable when he shoots that seventeen
Speaker 1: foot feathery jump shot. And then he got to the line,
Speaker 1: I believe he made his first eight free throws. And
Speaker 1: that's just at the offensive ent, and he's a huge
Speaker 1: factor at the other end, clearing boards and really creating
Speaker 1: havoc being that rim protector that the Sixers want to
Speaker 1: key their whole defensive off of Sixers over Detroit one
Speaker 1: oh six to eighty six. Tom McGinnis, a final happy
Speaker 1: birthday wish to you. Seventy Sixers. Get hey, it's a win,
Speaker 1: a preseason win, any type of win, mark the occasion,
Speaker 1: fitting style. We will talk to you on Friday, final
Speaker 1: preseason game. Mercifully. Let's go right yep, good night, bub
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers get a win in their fourth preseason game.
Speaker 1: They remain undefeated on the exhibition slate, one oh six
Speaker 1: to eighty six. My name is Brian Selzer. Time for
Speaker 1: us now to listen back to highlights called by the
Speaker 1: birthday boy, mister Tom McGinnis. One of the storylines for tonight,
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson starting at point guard because Ben Simmons sat
Speaker 1: out with some tightness in his back. Jay rich operating
Speaker 1: the controls real well, and he showed his toughness and
Speaker 1: gotten the scoring act too. He'll buy Richardson. Sixers on
Speaker 1: the move, Jameson, Richardsons in on Woods up at what
Speaker 1: a drive by h Richardson put the Sixes up by
Speaker 1: ten twenty at eighteen. It was a pretty competitive first half.
Speaker 1: Del and bad made sure the Sixers stayed in control
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, six Ers going to a beat
Speaker 1: in the high post seventeen beat straight away, up, faked
Speaker 1: jab step and step back shot good so. With Richardson
Speaker 1: is starting at the one spot for the seventy Sixers tonight,
Speaker 1: that opened up his place at the two, which meant
Speaker 1: Matisse Thible was bumped up from the bench into the
Speaker 1: starting lineup, and Thible, as he has done throughout the preseason,
Speaker 1: continued to make the most of his opportunities. Baseline feels
Speaker 1: him back out and drows it Dualquin when turn goes
Speaker 1: a Thible for the jam nicely doug backcut by batist
Speaker 1: Thibal for the score at forty thirty six in favor
Speaker 1: of the seventy six or Sixers led fifty one forty
Speaker 1: seven at the break. In the third quarter, they started
Speaker 1: to pull away more from Jay rich drud said playing
Speaker 1: at point guard role drives it on Galloway and jams
Speaker 1: and Josh Ruchardson right down the shoot well him up
Speaker 1: hand a jam sixty eight sixty two. The seventy sixers
Speaker 1: were in the driver's seat going to the fourth. Don't
Speaker 1: tell that to Norbelle Pell. If you follow the Blue
Speaker 1: Coats last year in the G League, you know how
Speaker 1: intense this guy is at the rim on both ends
Speaker 1: of the court. He was unstoppable. Fool gets it again.
Speaker 1: He's twisting it up up the glass. But that's so good.
Speaker 1: He does get the everybody he bats at Durbell and
Speaker 1: Pell with another slap and a foul. On Detroit, Norvel
Speaker 1: Pell is great. Thirteen points, five block shots in all
Speaker 1: twelve minutes of the fourth quarter. He was a forrest.
Speaker 1: Detroit had no answer for seventy Sixers beat the Pistons
Speaker 1: by twenty one oh six eighty six. Defense excellent again
Speaker 1: held the Pistons to thirty two and a half percent
Speaker 1: from the field, six of twenty six from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: The rebounding tremendous for the Sixers. They were plus twenty
Speaker 1: on the glass, plus eight in terms of offensive rebounds
Speaker 1: twenty four points for Joel and Bid to go with
Speaker 1: eight rebounds twenty four points, his best total of the preseason.
Speaker 1: Get this, He's now twenty five for twenty six from
Speaker 1: the free throw line in just three preseason game thirteen
Speaker 1: for pel off the bench, eleven for Josh Richardson to
Speaker 1: go with six assists and five rebounds. Batistible in his
Speaker 1: first preseason start with seven points, six rebounds, four steals
Speaker 1: and two block shots. Ten apiece for fur Con Corkmas
Speaker 1: and Tobias Harris. Shake Milton I thought had a pretty
Speaker 1: nice game. He had six points, but what won't show
Speaker 1: up in the box score the defense he played while
Speaker 1: he was out there. He was good. And Kyle O'Quinn
Speaker 1: continues at least for me to impress. Eleven rebounds, five
Speaker 1: assists and a couple of block shots for the veteran
Speaker 1: big man in thirteen minutes. All right, So the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers hoay put a rap on the preseason coming up
Speaker 1: on Friday, they have the Washington Wizards at seven o'clock
Speaker 1: and then only five days from that until the regular
Speaker 1: season opener. Hallelujah, one final time. The final score. The
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers stay perfect through four preseason games with
Speaker 1: a one oh six eighty six win over the Detroit Pristons.
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