WEBVTT - Rewind vs. Detroit Pistons - 10/15/19 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.560 You're listening to rewind. They'll listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:07.160 highlights and analysis from the seventy six ers previous game. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.760 You know, it's a valid question how much stock to 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.200 put in preseason performance, But all we have to go 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.560 on right now is present and current data, and in 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.360 the case of the seventy six ers, it's pretty darn good. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:24.960 They improved to four and oh pulling away from the 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.600 Detroit Pistons down the stretch one oh six to eighty 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.560 six behind a strong showing in the second half to 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.400 put Detroit away. I'm Brian Seltzer. Our postgame coverage underway 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.479 from down here at the Center. Bring on Tom McGinnis 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.200 in a moment. We hope to hear from Brett Brown 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.600 as well. We'll give you some highlights and the final 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.960 box score. Two. Joel Embiid was at his best in 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.080 three preseason games so far. Twenty four points. Went on 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.880 the attack early, pretty smooth from the field, got some 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.200 mid range jumpers to go down early. He got to 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.680 the free throw line again eight times, had all eight 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.200 of his shots eight rebounds in twenty two minutes. Think 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.600 that based on this performance by Joel and b tonight, 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.120 very reassuring that he is headed in the right direction 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:11.000 going into next Wednesday's regular season opener. Ben Simmons and 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.160 al Horford, two regular starters, did not play tonight. Ben 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.440 Simmons had a little bit of back tightness and the 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.280 Sixers held him out. Al Horford didn't play tonight because 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.279 of Rasso. In their place, the Sixers went with Matisse, 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.039 Stybel and fur Concorkmas. I thought both those guys had 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.840 some really good nights. I mean Matisse right now. It's like, 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.680 you know, you don't want to overreact to what you 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.720 see in exhibition games. But in my opinion, Matisse has 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:39.440 shown enough good things consistently now three times against NBA 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:44.560 competition where there's reason enough to be excited. He had 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.600 seven points, knocked down a three pointer. But where your 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.600 eyes really light up is seeing the four steals, the 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.280 two block shots, the six rebounds, and beyond that. Just 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.080 watch these games, listen to them. He is all over 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.600 the place, tenacious, a maniac on the defensive end of 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.400 the court, causing havoc, creating deflections, taking the ball away, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.640 forcing turnovers. More good stuff from Atise. And as for Corkms, 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.840 the Sixers have been giving him some opportunities. He knows 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.120 his top priority is to make shots. Hit two three pointers. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.520 Tonight finished with ten points, four rebounds. He was plus twelve. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.320 That was a team high. Encouraging signs from fur Con 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.400 Cork Mos Tobias Harris hitting some tough shots. He finished 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.600 with ten points, five rebounds, and twenty four minutes. Josh 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.239 Richardson ran the point in the starting role for the 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.760 seventy sixers with Ben Simmons out. He looked good again 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.720 with eleven points, six assists and five boards. Thirteen points 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.720 off the bench for Norvelle Peal plus five block shots 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.120 and four rebounds. Playing the entire fourth quarter, it was 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:50.200 fun to watch seventy sixers down Detroit one oh six 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.760 to eighty six, an under convincing preseason victory. We go 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.400 to Tom McGinnis now, who had the call of tonight's 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.320 action down here at the center. Seventy sixers unbeaten four 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.119 preseason games. You know the time, I'm trying to reconcile 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.920 with myself. You know, what do you make of preseason evidence? 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:08.640 And it's probably a question that you can only best 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.639 answer once the games begin to count and you have hindsight. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.960 But seeing what we're seeing. I mean, this is just 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.639 more good stuff from the six. I hate to keep 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.000 going back to that refrain, but that's the evidence we 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.079 answer so far. No particularly four player like thy Ball, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.840 who is never playing in the NBA. And again he 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.480 stated that he feels comfortable and clearly so. But you know, 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.680 like the more and more he can get his legs 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.760 sort of speak underneath them, the better it's going to 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.679 be when the actual season rolls around, because it's not 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.640 gonna be perfect. You know, he's going to have his 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:38.920 ups and downs, as any first year player would be. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.720 But the thing that at least individually, and you spoke 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.280 about him, so I'll address that first. But he makes 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.680 it look so easy, like oh, like he got Kannard 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.160 got around him at one point and maybe he wasn't 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.400 even guarding him, but he ran from behind him, just 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.800 blocked it. Like oh that's an easy play to make, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.520 or just it's clear, like you know you've heard the 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.280 phrase act like you've been here before. It's to him, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.880 it's just like it's just a simple defensive play. He 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.440 gets run down, you know he does. He has and 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.080 I try to work this out of him when we 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.280 talked to him last week. A lot of it's intuitive, 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.160 and he was a little maybe hesitant. He didn't want to, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.600 I think maybe self congratulate. But that's what it appears 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.080 to me, that it's just something he's done for his 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.480 basketball career, and he's been doing it even at this level. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.279 With the four steals and the blocks, very impressive and 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.520 you know, like you say this preseason, but what I 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.359 like is not only have the Sixers starters had their moments. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.200 Sometimes it's been Harris not particularly tonight, and Joel was 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.200 by far the best that he's been and he had 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:42.760 a great touch, and we can get into that in 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.960 a moment, but it's when the reserves get in there, 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.719 and tonight they outscored them by ten in the last 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.279 seven minutes of the game. It was eighty six seventy six, 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.720 and the Sixers outscored him twenty to ten down the stretch. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.440 And again it's their deep reserves against your third team. 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.160 But you know, again, you're trying to get guys confidence 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.600 and prove that they can play and take advantage of opportunity, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.520 and a lot of different guys have done that multiple times. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.039 Seventy Sixers knock off Detroit one oh six eighty six 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.880 down here at the center there a four oh on 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.920 the preseason. What'd you think, Tom, of Josh Richardson getting 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.080 the primary ball handling responsibilities once again? You know, I 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.400 thought he looked good, you know, I mean, he looked very, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.000 very confident. He's definitely, you know, like a strong ball 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.280 handler where you're not gonna harass him and force him 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.080 to He gets to his spots and get you into 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.159 the offense. He's able to initiate the offense. And again 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.239 part of it too with the Sixers, like, yes, you 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.120 if you don't get something going, you throw it back 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.039 to him. But a lot of you have multiple ball 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.400 handers with them, so it's not like back in the 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.359 day when you had Maurice Cheeks bringing it up and 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.760 getting every half court set up that way. That's that's 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.440 not how it works anymore. You get a lot of 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.920 action on the perimeter with dribble handoffs that don't involve 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.840 necessarily the point guard. But Richardson has proven more than 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.000 capable in the last two games, and I think the 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.000 Sixers knew that, and Brett Brown kind of gave himself 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.640 of a blueprint going forward that he's going to be 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.320 able to do that, and again, I think maybe the 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.920 number one characteristic you get out of Richardson at both 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.640 ends of the floors, he's rugged, he's gonna play tough, 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.200 and he's gonna get it done no matter what it 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.039 looks like. And he did that again the night Sixer 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.560 is beat Detroit one oh six eighty six. There a 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.640 record of the preseason staying perfect at four. And oh, 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.359 I don't think Joe Ellenbiid in any way, shape or 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.440 form needs a good preseason game to reassure anyone out 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:32.360 there that he's capable of doing what he's shown himself 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.640 to do in the regular season. However, that being said, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.120 it was really nice to see this type of game tonight. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.880 Not to say anything about his first two preseason games, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.160 but he was in rhythm early. The Sixers went to 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.480 him right off the jump and that seemed to unlock 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.880 him for his best preseason game right and you know, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.880 he was able to catch the ball down on the 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.120 left block, which is as Brett Brown likes to call 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.320 in many different ways, the honey spot. That's where he 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.200 really that's his spot and what he does more than 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.960 anything from there as he draws fouls and you know, 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.599 you know, God forbid that you're a defender that can't 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.440 stop him, and that unfortunately for them. That's what Thonmaker 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.680 was tonight. Even when Wood came in there. Joel is 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.480 gonna take you to the cleaners. He's gonna draw fouls 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.640 and then to me and you know at some point, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.200 you know, because he's he's very good down there on 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.840 that block and that is where you want to get 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.920 the tallest, most talented player of the ball. But his 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.160 to me where I think, and again this is only 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.200 my opinion, when he faces up at like seventeen feet 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.680 at the elbow and with that touch, which is what 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.240 he displayed here tonight, I believe he was like four 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.880 of six on those those types of shots because he's 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.800 got the footwork, he's able to elevate, he's got great 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.200 up bakes, and he just and then guys know that 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:43.760 he could put it on the deck and take it 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.240 to the basket. He's unstoppable when he shoots that seventeen 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.800 foot feathery jump shot. And then he got to the line, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.280 I believe he made his first eight free throws. And 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.160 that's just at the offensive ent, and he's a huge 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.920 factor at the other end, clearing boards and really creating 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.040 havoc being that rim protector that the Sixers want to 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:05.000 key their whole defensive off of Sixers over Detroit one 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.360 oh six to eighty six. Tom McGinnis, a final happy 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.720 birthday wish to you. Seventy Sixers. Get hey, it's a win, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.080 a preseason win, any type of win, mark the occasion, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.920 fitting style. We will talk to you on Friday, final 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.240 preseason game. Mercifully. Let's go right yep, good night, bub 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.360 Seventy Sixers get a win in their fourth preseason game. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.040 They remain undefeated on the exhibition slate, one oh six 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.680 to eighty six. My name is Brian Selzer. Time for 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.200 us now to listen back to highlights called by the 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.960 birthday boy, mister Tom McGinnis. One of the storylines for tonight, 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.559 Josh Richardson starting at point guard because Ben Simmons sat 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.240 out with some tightness in his back. Jay rich operating 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.480 the controls real well, and he showed his toughness and 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.720 gotten the scoring act too. He'll buy Richardson. Sixers on 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.400 the move, Jameson, Richardsons in on Woods up at what 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.600 a drive by h Richardson put the Sixes up by 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.240 ten twenty at eighteen. It was a pretty competitive first half. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.000 Del and bad made sure the Sixers stayed in control 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:09.880 in the second quarter, six Ers going to a beat 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.000 in the high post seventeen beat straight away, up, faked 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.880 jab step and step back shot good so. With Richardson 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.000 is starting at the one spot for the seventy Sixers tonight, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.160 that opened up his place at the two, which meant 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.400 Matisse Thible was bumped up from the bench into the 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.719 starting lineup, and Thible, as he has done throughout the preseason, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.439 continued to make the most of his opportunities. Baseline feels 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.760 him back out and drows it Dualquin when turn goes 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.640 a Thible for the jam nicely doug backcut by batist 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.040 Thibal for the score at forty thirty six in favor 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.560 of the seventy six or Sixers led fifty one forty 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.679 seven at the break. In the third quarter, they started 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.360 to pull away more from Jay rich drud said playing 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.760 at point guard role drives it on Galloway and jams 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.040 and Josh Ruchardson right down the shoot well him up 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.680 hand a jam sixty eight sixty two. The seventy sixers 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.440 were in the driver's seat going to the fourth. Don't 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.520 tell that to Norbelle Pell. If you follow the Blue 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.280 Coats last year in the G League, you know how 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.199 intense this guy is at the rim on both ends 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.480 of the court. He was unstoppable. Fool gets it again. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.679 He's twisting it up up the glass. But that's so good. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.640 He does get the everybody he bats at Durbell and 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:23.160 Pell with another slap and a foul. On Detroit, Norvel 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.199 Pell is great. Thirteen points, five block shots in all 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.560 twelve minutes of the fourth quarter. He was a forrest. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:34.040 Detroit had no answer for seventy Sixers beat the Pistons 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.439 by twenty one oh six eighty six. Defense excellent again 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.360 held the Pistons to thirty two and a half percent 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.200 from the field, six of twenty six from outside the arc. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.400 The rebounding tremendous for the Sixers. They were plus twenty 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.560 on the glass, plus eight in terms of offensive rebounds 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.280 twenty four points for Joel and Bid to go with 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.800 eight rebounds twenty four points, his best total of the preseason. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.040 Get this, He's now twenty five for twenty six from 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.960 the free throw line in just three preseason game thirteen 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.360 for pel off the bench, eleven for Josh Richardson to 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.360 go with six assists and five rebounds. Batistible in his 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.400 first preseason start with seven points, six rebounds, four steals 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.520 and two block shots. Ten apiece for fur Con Corkmas 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.680 and Tobias Harris. Shake Milton I thought had a pretty 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.439 nice game. He had six points, but what won't show 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.280 up in the box score the defense he played while 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.680 he was out there. He was good. And Kyle O'Quinn 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.040 continues at least for me to impress. Eleven rebounds, five 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.720 assists and a couple of block shots for the veteran 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.640 big man in thirteen minutes. All right, So the seventy 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:36.840 sixers hoay put a rap on the preseason coming up 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.600 on Friday, they have the Washington Wizards at seven o'clock 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.840 and then only five days from that until the regular 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.840 season opener. Hallelujah, one final time. The final score. The 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.959 seventy six Ers stay perfect through four preseason games with 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.120 a one oh six eighty six win over the Detroit Pristons. 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.280 You've been listening to rewind, look out for fresh episodes 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.880 the day after every seventy Sixers game this season.