Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, They'll listen back on press conferences,
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Speaker 1: him home. In another win for the Philadelphia seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: to begin this three game homestand one nine Sixers fend
Speaker 1: off the New York Knicks. Hey doon, I'm Brian Selter
Speaker 1: down here at this center. Seventy Sixers, down by as
Speaker 1: much as seventeen points late in the third quarter, manage
Speaker 1: to find a way their defense lockdown. I thought Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons was great in getting his group rolling, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers then went on a twenty three to five run
Speaker 1: to take a lead in the fourth quarter. And even
Speaker 1: though New York managed to keep it close and they
Speaker 1: hung around and they put up a fight against the Sixers,
Speaker 1: the Sixers got a nice timely three pointer from Mike
Speaker 1: Scott to make it ninety three ninety down the stretch
Speaker 1: and they never look back from there. Sixers improved to
Speaker 1: nine and five with the win tonight. They remain perfect
Speaker 1: at home. They are five and oh on the year.
Speaker 1: The Sixers one of three teams in the NBA to
Speaker 1: stay perfect at home. And yeah, Ben Simmons played forty
Speaker 1: one almost forty two minutes. Tonight finished with eighteen points,
Speaker 1: season high, thirteen assists, seven rebounds, just one turnover. He
Speaker 1: was plus ten for the Sixers that was tied for
Speaker 1: high among the starters along with Joel Embiid. He was
Speaker 1: great and getting the Sixers going, giving them a spark
Speaker 1: when they needed because the Sixers, they were down seventy
Speaker 1: seven to sixty middle of the third quarter and you're
Speaker 1: looking around, it's like someone's got to step up, Someone's
Speaker 1: got to give this team a needed timely boost, and
Speaker 1: in the case of tonight's game, that was Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid twenty three points, twelve rebounds, five assists, two
Speaker 1: block shots. Did have a scary turnover late in the
Speaker 1: game that Julius Randall was able to pry away, but
Speaker 1: thanks to some really weird shot selection from Marcus Morris
Speaker 1: Senior in the closing moments of the game, the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers survived, got stops they needed to, and then were
Speaker 1: able to score on the other end. But for the
Speaker 1: most part tonight, the Knicks did not have an answer
Speaker 1: for Joel Embiid, and he was able to get to
Speaker 1: the free throw line that helped the Sixers. As of late,
Speaker 1: the Sixers weren't getting the line frequently. Joel Embiid helped
Speaker 1: the team do that tonight. He was eight of twelve
Speaker 1: from the stripe despite going seven of nineteen from the
Speaker 1: field and one of seven from three. But the one
Speaker 1: three pointer Joel Embiid did hit got the Sixers right
Speaker 1: in the good spot in the fourth quarter, so that
Speaker 1: was nice to see as well. Tobias Harris with fourteen,
Speaker 1: Al Horford with seven, fur Concork Moss filling in for
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson tonight in a starting role, only played sixteen
Speaker 1: minutes finish with two points. But yeah, let's talk about
Speaker 1: Mike Scott twelve points all on his four three pointers,
Speaker 1: four rebounds, and he was a good defensive presence when
Speaker 1: the Sixers needed him and they were locking down the
Speaker 1: second half. Eleven points for James and as the third
Speaker 1: off the bench, Shake Milton six points seven formatistible. And
Speaker 1: you know who else was important in the seventy six
Speaker 1: has come back cause that would be Trey Burke who
Speaker 1: had nine points. He was plus four in fourteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Trey Burke came in in the second half, played alongside
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, and there seemed to be a pretty good
Speaker 1: chemistry there. Burke with a big steal to set up
Speaker 1: an allub lib to Ben Simmons, drove to the basket himself,
Speaker 1: then came up with another steal. Very good job by
Speaker 1: Trey Burke in tonight's game in the seventy six ers
Speaker 1: one oh nine, one o four victory. I'm Brian Seltzer
Speaker 1: right now. A little bit of Brett Brown postgame courtesy
Speaker 1: of NBC Sports Philadelphia. We were searching for sure. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like we had a hard time guarding them. They
Speaker 1: were making shots and you know, you're looking down the bench,
Speaker 1: and we tried you know, Firk, and we tried shake
Speaker 1: you know, Montis were trying to grow, and we ended up,
Speaker 1: you know, leaning on Trey Burke as a two somebody
Speaker 1: that could do some stuff off a live ball. And
Speaker 1: I thought his intensity changed the pay, the speed, the
Speaker 1: the energy in the gym, and uh, you know ended
Speaker 1: up going with Mike Uh probably a little bit more
Speaker 1: than all down the stretch. Um played Ben more than
Speaker 1: I normally would want to to pace him out. But yes,
Speaker 1: we we were searching for a while. I was speak
Speaker 1: of Ben lug and looked at speak to tonight, thought
Speaker 1: the leadership in the hustle, and he's just real emotional
Speaker 1: out there. He was the bell ringer. And you know,
Speaker 1: you could have gone a few places and thought there
Speaker 1: was some candidates that should warrant consideration. But I thought
Speaker 1: Ben's intensity, defensive intensity was as good as it's been. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that him in his leadership, you know, sort
Speaker 1: of controlling the game and and giving him the freedom
Speaker 1: to make play calls after free throws as an example,
Speaker 1: and him doing a great job of being smart of
Speaker 1: what that looked like. I thought he was outstanding with
Speaker 1: his his his presence. I really thought he's helped change
Speaker 1: the whole landscape, especially in the second half. Before the
Speaker 1: game you talked about your page. I would think you
Speaker 1: had to be happy with what you got tonight. They
Speaker 1: really made some big plays. We searched, you know, to
Speaker 1: Tom's question, I kept searching trying to find something. I
Speaker 1: went away. We tried Firk, I went away from him,
Speaker 1: you know, we tried shake. I went away from him.
Speaker 1: I thought James Ennis came in and played well and
Speaker 1: hit some big shots when we needed and then you know,
Speaker 1: as I said, you end up going to a point
Speaker 1: guard and you know, a scoring point guard like like
Speaker 1: Trey is and treating him like AI, you know, like
Speaker 1: let him just kind of run off the ball and
Speaker 1: looping him up and giving him the all and putting
Speaker 1: him in pick and rolls, and you know, I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought he was really good. But the iterations to
Speaker 1: get to that, we're frustrating. That was a key sequence
Speaker 1: in tonight's game, and a key roll of the dice
Speaker 1: by Brett Brownigo with Trey Burke. He, along with Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: a big reason why the seventy Sixers found an extra
Speaker 1: gear lockdown defensively, got things going on the other end,
Speaker 1: and managed to pull off a win tonight over the
Speaker 1: next one on nine one o four, despite trailing by
Speaker 1: as much as seventeen points worth the Sixers, that's how
Speaker 1: much they were down by. In the third quarter, Sixers
Speaker 1: improved to nine and five. They stay unbeaten at home,
Speaker 1: five and oz down here at the center, and they're
Speaker 1: going to be here for a minute. Big second half
Speaker 1: from these seventy Sixers, especially a big answer in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, out scoring the next by ten to overcome
Speaker 1: a seventeen point deficit in tonight twenty nine one O
Speaker 1: four win. I'm Brian Seltzer, seventy six ers, now nine
Speaker 1: and five on the year. Tom mc ginnis, I point too,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about you. Maybe I'll steal some thunder.
Speaker 1: I point to a Ben Simmons reverse jam, followed by
Speaker 1: immediately on the next next trip down the floor, Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons sideline steal that resulted in another Sixers basket and
Speaker 1: then Trey Burroke helping things Along that point, the intensity
Speaker 1: of the game seemed to change with the Sixers down fifteen,
Speaker 1: and from there you got to give the squad credit.
Speaker 1: They locked down defensively, which then led to more opportunities
Speaker 1: in the offensive end. Well, you're point in the right direction,
Speaker 1: and if I'm not mistaken during that span describing it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, Simmons and then you think you're sif Well,
Speaker 1: he's actually had a hand and every single basketing assisted
Speaker 1: on that one at Burke with a cross court skip.
Speaker 1: And that's Coach's point where he really locked down defensively
Speaker 1: and helped out and had a like a never say
Speaker 1: die attitude that helped the Sixers, you know, catapult from
Speaker 1: seventeen down. It was seventy seven to sixty and the
Speaker 1: Sixers outscored them forty nine to whatever it was, twenty something.
Speaker 1: That courtesy of Mike Nataro, who's driving home right now.
Speaker 1: Jerry Monzo, of course provides great stats for TV and
Speaker 1: slides us a nugget every now and then too, But
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, Simmons was big. And then I
Speaker 1: go back to a comment and a question made after
Speaker 1: the game Tuesday when the Sixers were most recently home
Speaker 1: and they came from behind, holding Cleveland off the board
Speaker 1: for the last three and a half plus minutes, and
Speaker 1: that is somebody said to coach, you know, you feel
Speaker 1: like you're playing with fire and he said a blowtorch.
Speaker 1: And that is, you know, with the opposing team taking
Speaker 1: these huge leads, it's not a formula for perfection. And
Speaker 1: you have the Sixers are still five and out a
Speaker 1: home five and oh at home. But you know you've
Speaker 1: got to you've gotta play better, and you know they
Speaker 1: had difficulty guarding at times, and you've got to give
Speaker 1: it the Knicks credit. And again the Knicks, you know
Speaker 1: that that was a ball club that you seem like
Speaker 1: they're they're a little better than one and seven on
Speaker 1: the road now, but most importantly, the Sixers got a victory.
Speaker 1: And again, anytime you'll win and have things to pick
Speaker 1: up and fix a little bit, it's never a bad thing.
Speaker 1: And now you come into you know, a team in
Speaker 1: San Antonio struggling. I can't believe that they're in the
Speaker 1: bottom of their division. They lost again the night allowing
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty eight points down in Washington and
Speaker 1: then not to get too far ahead, but the game
Speaker 1: against Miami, so big weekend. Here is the Sixers with
Speaker 1: these home games and trying to make hay because you
Speaker 1: look out and Toronto wins again. Boston's did a big
Speaker 1: ball game tonight with the Clippers. Milwaukee wins again. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it's early, but if the goal coming in
Speaker 1: was to have the best record in the East, well
Speaker 1: you got to make it up to do and you
Speaker 1: can't slip up against a team like New York at home,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers didn't. Seventy six Ers top of the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks one o nine to one oh four.
Speaker 1: Mike Scott Tom I thought for the first month of
Speaker 1: the season, had a game here and there, but relatively
Speaker 1: fitting in blending in playing his role. No real standout performance.
Speaker 1: I think tonight's game was one where he really put
Speaker 1: his stamp on it. Yeah, no doubt about it. And boy,
Speaker 1: he does the threes are his deal. He certainly can
Speaker 1: add more. He gives toughness and sometimes in tonight's case,
Speaker 1: a little too much with bang In and Niela Keno.
Speaker 1: When Joel was shooting that three, Thank goodness that three
Speaker 1: by and B went in. That was a huge shot.
Speaker 1: Joel's only three. The Sixers took a seven point lead
Speaker 1: with that make. But if that's a second earlier, if
Speaker 1: he's already knocking into that player at that point, that
Speaker 1: three comes off the board and it's a different scenario
Speaker 1: down the stretch. But so that was a mistake. But
Speaker 1: the three point shooting, I mean, there stands still threes.
Speaker 1: I mean that one he shot. I made the joke
Speaker 1: that he stepped off the curb out an FDR park
Speaker 1: and just nailed it. That was a thirty footer. It's
Speaker 1: surprised everybody in the gym, including his own teammates. It's
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he just iron the iron and
Speaker 1: just nails a deep triple. So to have four in
Speaker 1: a game leading to what was I believe eleven for
Speaker 1: the Sixers and at one point in the fourth four
Speaker 1: to the the Sixers four out of eight from three. That's
Speaker 1: how you win the game, I mean, that's how you
Speaker 1: come back. And no, he was great. And you know
Speaker 1: there's been times where cork Mos has been in there,
Speaker 1: or maybe even Thyble or different players, but tonight and
Speaker 1: Ennis was really good again here tonight with double figures eleven,
Speaker 1: particularly in the first half. But tonight was Mike Scott.
Speaker 1: He was a sixth man off the bench in this
Speaker 1: one six Ers over the next one on nine one
Speaker 1: oh four. Also want to give a little spotlight shout
Speaker 1: out to Trey Burke. It was interesting the way Brett
Speaker 1: Brown used him. But tonight, even going back and revisiting
Speaker 1: a theme from the preseason when the backup primary secondary
Speaker 1: ball handling duties were a big area focus would be
Speaker 1: Trey Burke would be a whole Nato. Brett Brown has
Speaker 1: been consistent in saying different players for different situations, and
Speaker 1: this was a spot tonight where it seemed like it
Speaker 1: lent itself to Trey Burke bringing him in and not
Speaker 1: even in a primary ball handling role. Right. And one
Speaker 1: thing I like about Brett Brown is he's not married
Speaker 1: to something like he was going with Josh Richardson in
Speaker 1: that role in the preseason and yet and that's certainly
Speaker 1: a great option to have, but obviously Josh didn't play tonight.
Speaker 1: This was in response to another topic earlier tonight in
Speaker 1: the pregame press conference, when Coach was asked about the
Speaker 1: coach's challenge right now he doesn't like it, which he said,
Speaker 1: you know, look, I hope my mind changed, but right
Speaker 1: now I don't like it. Point is like with his
Speaker 1: backup point guard thing, as you say, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: different opportunities, and tonight Trey Burke, and it wasn't. I
Speaker 1: believe he only played fourteen minutes. And it's not like
Speaker 1: he had twenty points. He had somewhere around nine, I
Speaker 1: think with those late free throws. But to Coach Brown's point,
Speaker 1: he changed the dynamic. He was aggressive, he was challenging,
Speaker 1: he held his own on defense, and that helped the
Speaker 1: Sixers kind of get over the hump. And he was
Speaker 1: out there during key stretches. So as I said, when
Speaker 1: they signed this guy that you know, again he's had
Speaker 1: forty points in an NBA game. There's gonna be a
Speaker 1: time where he has ten or twelve points in a
Speaker 1: pivotal point in a quarter or in a game, and
Speaker 1: tonight the numbers don't necessarily speak that he had, you know,
Speaker 1: like I say, twenty points, but he had a key
Speaker 1: role in this game. And sometimes you need somebody being aggressive.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he handles it too much, sometimes he goes too
Speaker 1: much one on one. But there are elements of his
Speaker 1: game that can put you over the hump, and I
Speaker 1: thought tonight was one of those instances. Alrighty, Tom McGinnis,
Speaker 1: great call, tonight, would play some highlights in a moment.
Speaker 1: Talk to you on Friday. All right, good night, Brian,
Speaker 1: Thank you. Seventy sixers commit a season low ten turnovers
Speaker 1: in tonight's game and beat the Knicks one O nine,
Speaker 1: one O four. The aforementioned radio calls from the one
Speaker 1: and only Tom McGinnis. Oh wait, the opener of what
Speaker 1: is up to this point a season high three game
Speaker 1: homestand for the seventy sixers against the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Seltzer down here at the center, and here's
Speaker 1: how this one sounded. Courtesy of the one and only
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis. Seventy Sixers fell behind early looking to gain ground.
Speaker 1: This gromatic sequence went down side out, Harris will it
Speaker 1: bound and here's a shot by Ben. The crowd loves it.
Speaker 1: A three by Ben Simmons on the catch, the crowd rising.
Speaker 1: He had that three of the preseason, but that is
Speaker 1: his first NBA career three and the crowd loves it.
Speaker 1: It did happen quickly, but it was real. It was spectacular,
Speaker 1: a regular season three pointer from two nineteen All star
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, and there was no doubt about it. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers and the Knicks very closely engaged early on, the
Speaker 1: Sixers only up by two after a quarter twenty seven
Speaker 1: twenty five. Things got more back and forth. In the
Speaker 1: second period. The Knicks used a fourteen to four run
Speaker 1: to take a three point lead. Seventy Sixers had to
Speaker 1: creep back into it. Simmons with it, makes a move
Speaker 1: on more spin's baseline, comes back to the pass in
Speaker 1: tight quarters to shake and Milton scores it. Bilton was
Speaker 1: kind of following Simmons and they're thinking about the rebound,
Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, he got it and
Speaker 1: scored it. The heck of a catch, and now the
Speaker 1: Sixers down by four. Yeah, shake Milton gave the Sixers
Speaker 1: a little shot in the arm that made it forty
Speaker 1: three to thirty nine. But in the final minutes of
Speaker 1: the first half, it was the seventy Sixers reclaiming the lead.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons with its seventy seconds to go up top
Speaker 1: to bias three ball bucket, eight straight by the Sixers,
Speaker 1: and it's fifty three forty nine, one minute to go
Speaker 1: and the seventy sixers lead, and it would be fifty
Speaker 1: three fifty one and intermission. In the third quarter, that's
Speaker 1: when things got really out of hand the Knicks. They
Speaker 1: went on a seventeen nothing run, actually getting back to
Speaker 1: their final basket of the first half. The Sixers playing
Speaker 1: the catchup game. This was James Empson, Ben Simmons on
Speaker 1: the move to the corner and it's fakes. Now shoots
Speaker 1: at three and it's n it's knocking down a tray
Speaker 1: and another dish by Ben Simmons is ninth assists and
Speaker 1: James and it's the third is second three. It's a
Speaker 1: five boy game and a ten oh run. Then in
Speaker 1: the fourth more from Joel and b Sixers steal the ball.
Speaker 1: Simmons mix the steel. Joel has it in the lay
Speaker 1: cops in Chaptain. Oh yeah, tied at eighty two. Joel
Speaker 1: and Be two hands slam time out of New York.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons acrossmitcourt going five on four the Scott for three.
Speaker 1: It's good? Are you Kenny Be? Bike Scott with a
Speaker 1: pull up tray ninety nine ninety five. Here is the
Speaker 1: Sixers the chance to win the game. Fifty five seconds
Speaker 1: to go to bias to Joel it bad for three.
Speaker 1: It's top ed a dagger from the top Joel a bed.
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers a strong comeback in the second half,
Speaker 1: and they ultimately knock off the Knicks one on nine,
Speaker 1: one O four to improve to nine and five on
Speaker 1: the season. And five and oh down here at the
Speaker 1: center twenty three from him, B twelve on the glass
Speaker 1: for him, five assists as well eighteen points, thirteen assists
Speaker 1: and seven boards for Ben Simmons. Up next for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: they have the San Antonio Spurs on Friday. In a
Speaker 1: clock we will hit the air with our pregame coverage
Speaker 1: at that point in time. One final time. The final
Speaker 1: scores seventy six Ers one on nine, the Knicks one
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