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Speaker 1: and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. It would
Speaker 1: have been nice to see a dominant start to this
Speaker 1: afternoon scrimmage sustained with a win. In the end, that
Speaker 1: was not the case, as the Oklahoma City Thunder knocked
Speaker 1: off the seventy Sixers one O two to ninety seven.
Speaker 1: But when the game was in the balance quote unquote,
Speaker 1: if you can even say that about an NBA scrimmage game,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers had their way. In particular, the starting unit,
Speaker 1: highlighted by Ben Simmons fourteen points, eleven rebounds, nine assists.
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson had a really strong day. Al Horford with
Speaker 1: some really good stuff, and release of Joel Embide who
Speaker 1: didn't play due to tightness in his right calf, finishing
Speaker 1: with thirteen points, nine rebounds, hitting four threes, and Shake
Speaker 1: Milton in double figures with eleven points. Alec Burke's off
Speaker 1: the bench with thirteen I'm Brian Seltzer. Our postgame coverages
Speaker 1: underway and we'll join in progress. Brett Brown, it's today
Speaker 1: three point shooting aside. What stood out to you the
Speaker 1: most just he had a spirit about him, playing like
Speaker 1: he had a confidence playing, He was communicative on defense, playing,
Speaker 1: he played. He really played like he came in. It's
Speaker 1: true he paid attention to his three point shots that
Speaker 1: stand out the most. But I thought overall he was
Speaker 1: a great voice behind all the things we would do.
Speaker 1: It was really good at the time. Thank you all right,
Speaker 1: Next we got Rich Hoffman, Hey, Brett. Unlike the other game,
Speaker 1: it felt like this there was kind of a little
Speaker 1: more broken offensively. There were like fast breaks. It seemed
Speaker 1: like Ben was not kind of in the static four
Speaker 1: spot after made field goals. Maybe it's because you're playing
Speaker 1: good defense. What did you think of you know, how
Speaker 1: he was used today. It seemed like there were a
Speaker 1: lot of like picking rolls on one side of the
Speaker 1: floor for him. Like what did you think in general
Speaker 1: of his offensive game? I thought he was really good.
Speaker 1: I'm not some of the things you're saying, I'm not
Speaker 1: either remembering or I don't agree with you. Like he
Speaker 1: was want to assist away from a triple double? Um
Speaker 1: he uh, he played I think one possession with the
Speaker 1: ball or two where we played a pick and roll
Speaker 1: with him in firk. I think, like I say, to
Speaker 1: play twenty whatever. It was five minutes and he want
Speaker 1: to assist away from a triple double? Is was? I
Speaker 1: was happy with it. I thought, I thought that he
Speaker 1: was pretty pretty good. I do want to use him
Speaker 1: more in some screen setting, as we've all talked about
Speaker 1: at nauseum, But in general, I thought I thought he
Speaker 1: was okay. I didn't see it like you saw it, Um.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I saw what you just said.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Keith next. It's bread after after two games,
Speaker 1: what what's your evaluation of Shake and and what would
Speaker 1: you like to see him do more of? I think, um,
Speaker 1: today was a great day in relation to how I
Speaker 1: think teams are going to play him. They're gonna jump him,
Speaker 1: they're gonna spin him, they're gonna crawl into him, they're
Speaker 1: gonna whack him when they can, And the physicality of
Speaker 1: today I thought equals what you'd see from you know,
Speaker 1: the Celtics or Toronto as an example. And and and
Speaker 1: I think like he's he's coming around. From that perspective,
Speaker 1: dealing with the physicality of things and still getting us
Speaker 1: into things. I think, well, uh, and he's going to
Speaker 1: have to um to be the sort of starting point guard,
Speaker 1: you know, with the team that's pretty good. There's a
Speaker 1: held a lot of responsibility in that role. And I
Speaker 1: don't think like he's sped up in his mind. Um.
Speaker 1: For him not to be sped up in his game
Speaker 1: because of Prussia is is something that I was impressed
Speaker 1: with tonight. I do think there were times to the
Speaker 1: third period that they jumped us without you know, some
Speaker 1: of our key people in the game. That hurt us.
Speaker 1: But in general, I think Shake has handled that extended
Speaker 1: defense and overall physicality the pressure quite well. What's the
Speaker 1: status of Glenn? I mean, I know the other two
Speaker 1: guys are day to day. What's the status with Glenn Robins?
Speaker 1: In the third he has a he had a hip pointer.
Speaker 1: We took him out. I was told to take him
Speaker 1: all because of that. Nothing. I guess that's serious. But
Speaker 1: I think he's been playing really well. I've been happy
Speaker 1: with him all over the place. He had great practice
Speaker 1: sessions as well. If you're the Magic of Zoom. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers head coach Brett Brown after a one h two
Speaker 1: ninety seven lost this afternoon for the Sixers in their
Speaker 1: second scrimmage, this one against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now
Speaker 1: do not let the final score get you down. The
Speaker 1: Sixers rested all of their top players essentially in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and that was the difference making spot of
Speaker 1: the game, where the Thunder outscored the Sixers thirty two
Speaker 1: to sixteen. When this game was competitive and the top
Speaker 1: players were all out there as far as those who
Speaker 1: were available for both sides today, seventy Sixers were locked in.
Speaker 1: They shook off a bit of a bumpy start thanks
Speaker 1: to three straight threes made by Al Horford to shoot
Speaker 1: them into the lead, and they really didn't look back
Speaker 1: from there. The Sixers led thirty one to twenty six
Speaker 1: after a quarter. They outscored the Thunder twenty four eighteen
Speaker 1: in the second period, and their lead ballooned as large
Speaker 1: as twenty four points at one point in today's game.
Speaker 1: At the top, you heard me mentioned some of the
Speaker 1: key performers for the seventy Sixers. Ben Simmons in twenty
Speaker 1: six and a half minutes, again flirting with a triple
Speaker 1: double like he did on Friday against the Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: This time, he was just one assist, Shy, no three
Speaker 1: pointers attempted. Josh Richardson had a very strong showing with
Speaker 1: ten points. Shake Milton, as Brett Brown was just talking about,
Speaker 1: handled some of the physicality of Oklahoma City Thunder well,
Speaker 1: and I actually thought that from the get go when
Speaker 1: he was being defended by Chris Paul and some of
Speaker 1: the other tough physical guards for the Thunder, Shake was
Speaker 1: kind of taking that aggression too. OKC did a really
Speaker 1: nice job getting into the paint and helping generate ball
Speaker 1: movement and open looks in space for the seventy sixers.
Speaker 1: On the offensive end of the floor, Sixers hit fifteen
Speaker 1: thirty pointers. That was a big reason why they were
Speaker 1: able to get by today. Off the bench, Alec Burks
Speaker 1: was very productive with thirteen points. He had three of
Speaker 1: those threes, and Matisse Thible a defensive menace once again,
Speaker 1: just looking so sharp on that end of the floor.
Speaker 1: He was credited with two steals. Can't wait to see
Speaker 1: the official deflection numbers for him. He was all over
Speaker 1: the place doing so much that doesn't show up in
Speaker 1: a box score. To make the seventy sixers be in
Speaker 1: position for a good showing today. Again, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: looking at the first three quarters of this scrimmage, not
Speaker 1: so much to the fourth quarter when the starters didn't play.
Speaker 1: Al Horford appearing spry. I mean, this is the thing,
Speaker 1: the big takeaway from this one. Joel and b didn't play,
Speaker 1: and you have an all start backing him up, and
Speaker 1: there was no apparent drop off at least in this
Speaker 1: particular matchup between what the seventy Sixers were able to
Speaker 1: do on the defensive end. Right, Al's not going to
Speaker 1: give you the same rim protection that Joel does, But
Speaker 1: that opened the opportunity for Norvelle Pell to come in
Speaker 1: off the bench and really give the Sixers a strong
Speaker 1: presence defensively at the Ramby had four block shots, six
Speaker 1: rebounds and six points. He looked very functional out there
Speaker 1: and perhaps a little bit even more composed than what
Speaker 1: we last saw from Norville before the hiatus happened back
Speaker 1: in March. Seventy Sixers lose this scrimmage one ninety seven
Speaker 1: for me, totally encouraged after two scrimmages by what the
Speaker 1: Sixers have shown. That was based on what we saw
Speaker 1: mostly in the first half, but also through the three
Speaker 1: quarters in this game today where all the Sixers top players,
Speaker 1: if you will, we're out there on the court and
Speaker 1: not resting like they did in the fourth when this
Speaker 1: one was still a competitive game. The top players out there,
Speaker 1: the Sixers acquitted themselves. Well, at least that's what I think.
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis had the call, Tom, how did you see it? Well,
Speaker 1: I thought, you're right, Brian, you know particularly you know
Speaker 1: how they came out after leading by eleven at the half,
Speaker 1: they really played well early in that third quarter and
Speaker 1: just dominated to where they had built up a twenty
Speaker 1: four point lead. And a pivotal point in the game
Speaker 1: was the three point shooting. I mean, the thunder missed
Speaker 1: all eight of their third point or second quarter three
Speaker 1: point attempts at one point. I believe they missed like
Speaker 1: thirteen in a row even into the third, whereas the
Speaker 1: Sixers had double digit made threes at the half, led
Speaker 1: by Horford who had those three threes in the first
Speaker 1: quarter for the Sixers, or certainly in the early minutes
Speaker 1: of the game, and I thought Horford had a lot
Speaker 1: of energy defensively and really helped the Sixers establish that
Speaker 1: dominance that we spoke of earlier, no question about it
Speaker 1: as far as Horford's concerned, And that was one of
Speaker 1: the key questions coming into today is what could the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers get out of vow albeit in a scrimmage
Speaker 1: situation with Joel Embid not playing him doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: the Imbead situation with his right calf is too serious.
Speaker 1: But this underscores the point that they have a player
Speaker 1: of that caliber as your quote unquote back up at
Speaker 1: the five spot. You can just see what Al Horford
Speaker 1: can do and how he's able to make things happen
Speaker 1: on both ends of the court, no doubt, and everybody
Speaker 1: that's ever been around him, that's coached him, including the
Speaker 1: Thunders Billy Donovan, feels like he's going to be a
Speaker 1: great player in the postseason, which he has been throughout
Speaker 1: his career. And the Sixers play a little bit differently
Speaker 1: without him me they really move that ball around, and
Speaker 1: Horford oftentimes lifted out as well. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think the guy that deserves a lot of mentioned here
Speaker 1: in this game, not just Horford, but Simmons. I thought
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons at times was just completely by far the
Speaker 1: best player out in the court. And you know, the
Speaker 1: whole concern about would he pass the ball. He's had
Speaker 1: nine assists in the first two scrimmages. I guess more
Speaker 1: to the point about him shifting roles, it really hasn't
Speaker 1: affected his game at all. If anything, he's become more dominant.
Speaker 1: He's really been aggressive out there. I thought the Bias
Speaker 1: played well. Shake showed a little bit better in this
Speaker 1: game than he did in that Memphis scrimmage. Josh had
Speaker 1: his moments, and again that first unit was really, to
Speaker 1: use the phrase again, dominant. They and they kept Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City off the line in terms of that three point shot.
Speaker 1: And guys like Chris Paul and even Alexander were not
Speaker 1: big factors in this game. Sixers fall to the Thunder
Speaker 1: one O two ninety seven. That's what the final score says.
Speaker 1: But when the starters were out there for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: at least in this game, they grew the lead to
Speaker 1: twenty four. We could probably do a full segment, a
Speaker 1: half hour, an hour, a whole show tom on Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons and the various components of what his positional shift
Speaker 1: has involved and what a commute for the Sixers. Listen,
Speaker 1: his plays spoken for itself. But I think that. Just
Speaker 1: following up on a few other guys. I don't want
Speaker 1: to call them peripheral players for the seventy Sixers, but
Speaker 1: you know, speaking to a guy like al and Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson and Matisse Thible, even these are gonna be key
Speaker 1: players regardless of whether they start finish whatever it is
Speaker 1: for the Sixers as they make this hunt for a championship.
Speaker 1: And some of those guys we just talked about, they
Speaker 1: had pretty good days. I continue to be impressed by
Speaker 1: Matissa's ability to just pick things up on the defensive end,
Speaker 1: and he made things uncomfortable for veteran guards that the
Speaker 1: thunder rolled out there. He definitely did. I mean, he
Speaker 1: really created havoc for Shrewder, knocking the ball away twice
Speaker 1: in succession, getting technical on Shrewder and getting a layup,
Speaker 1: and then staying in front of Chris Paul, which is
Speaker 1: no easy task. I mean, Paul is so so shifty
Speaker 1: with that dribble and just incredible and absolutely and Cork Miles.
Speaker 1: I thought Alec Burke's played well for the Sixers and
Speaker 1: again trying to up the total of those threes, which
Speaker 1: is going to be so instrumental for these role players.
Speaker 1: That you're talking about, including Glenn Robbinson, the third those
Speaker 1: guys are going to have to contribute, because I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of a key stat for the Sixers is
Speaker 1: can they get to twelve or fourteen threes per game?
Speaker 1: And Richardson and Milton and obviously Harris and I said,
Speaker 1: I said before, you know, Joel Embiid hopefully can be
Speaker 1: counted on for you know, one or two threes in
Speaker 1: a game, Mike Scott, So in that second unit, let's
Speaker 1: face it, in this game there were some things that
Speaker 1: they needed to do better. That's how the game slipped away.
Speaker 1: So that'll be you know, obviously teaching points. And again
Speaker 1: this last game is more I think a dress rehearsal.
Speaker 1: This Tuesday scrimmage against Dallas. Prett Brown had stipulated earlier
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to play a lot of the main
Speaker 1: guys big minutes in that game. Who's to say how
Speaker 1: it plays out, but certainly now injuries have crept in
Speaker 1: a tiny little bit. But I think more importantly what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is here you have from you know tomorrow, Monday,
Speaker 1: all the way it'll Saturday, to get ready for that
Speaker 1: ball game. And you know this is actually like more
Speaker 1: practice time than the Sixes would have in a traditional season.
Speaker 1: I mean normally you get like six or seven days
Speaker 1: and you're playing preseason games, even though that's been dressed back.
Speaker 1: So this is an opportunity to kind of tighten things up,
Speaker 1: go over some situational stuff, and really hone in on
Speaker 1: one it's going to take to really come out of
Speaker 1: the gates strong against the Pacers and playing those first
Speaker 1: eight games down there that count. But the last eight
Speaker 1: regular season games of the schedule well put per usual
Speaker 1: by Tom McGinnis. Tom, thanks so much, talk to you
Speaker 1: on Tuesday nights. All right, have a good afternoon. But
Speaker 1: seventy sixers lose to the thunder and scrimmage number two
Speaker 1: one two ninety seven. Listen, if you didn't hear the
Speaker 1: full game, you don't have a chance to watch it.
Speaker 1: Go back watch quarters number one through three, and then
Speaker 1: let's talk about what your eyes are telling you. I
Speaker 1: think the seventy sixers have looked through two scrimmages for
Speaker 1: as much as a team could that's been out of
Speaker 1: action for four months. Like they're taking this seriously. They
Speaker 1: are physically fit and prepared, and that some of their
Speaker 1: top most important players appear ready to go when the
Speaker 1: seating games begin next Saturday against the Indiana Pacers. Sixers
Speaker 1: looking to build off of Friday's victory over the Memphis Grizzlies,
Speaker 1: and after shaking off a bit of a bumpy start,
Speaker 1: Al Horford's starting in the place of Joel Embiid and
Speaker 1: got him going. Tobias gets it in on Galari and
Speaker 1: Adams shoots it from the middle of the money. No
Speaker 1: good fur contaps it Horford for three, and al Horford
Speaker 1: has his third three in the game. Second chance opportunity
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. They've now made four total and they
Speaker 1: lead by four. Third three in a row for al Horford,
Speaker 1: accounting for three straight baskets for the seventy Sixers that
Speaker 1: vaulted them in front for the first time, and it
Speaker 1: was a lead that they were able to maintain and
Speaker 1: build upon. Sixers up thirty one twenty six after a quarter.
Speaker 1: In quarter number two, Ben Simmons, playing all over the court,
Speaker 1: continue to put his array of skills on display. Here
Speaker 1: comes Simmons against Paul ben in On Adams don't look
Speaker 1: past and a reverse layout by Josh Richardson as Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons avoiding both Paul at Adams and Richardson getting the reverse.
Speaker 1: It's a ten point game. Man Matt pushed the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers lead to double figures at forty eight to thirty eight.
Speaker 1: Both Simmons and Josh Richardson with really strong showings today.
Speaker 1: The seventy Sixers were up at the break against the
Speaker 1: Oklahahoma City Thunder by the score of fifty five to
Speaker 1: forty four. Ben Simmons getting the basket himself in the
Speaker 1: third George guards Shake Built. He's an incredible athlete for
Speaker 1: rookie out of Arizona State. Sixers go Richardson to Simmons,
Speaker 1: Simmons into the lane and getting the basket is Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons along the near side. That time, Richardson and Simmons
Speaker 1: flipped the partnership on that scoring play the Sixers line
Speaker 1: in sixty four fifty one. Their lead would grow into
Speaker 1: the twenties before the third quarter was done. He has
Speaker 1: it on the run against Adams, passes down to shake
Speaker 1: Built in the lane to the Bias on the slam.
Speaker 1: Billy Donovan needs a time out and he'll take it.
Speaker 1: The Sixers lead by twenty one with seven h seven
Speaker 1: to go in the third they are crushing the thunder
Speaker 1: for now convincingly. Seventy two fifty one was the score.
Speaker 1: Then Matisse Thibal with some really good moments defensively and
Speaker 1: he capitalized on those before this one wrapped up today
Speaker 1: and Thible with the steal five on a round one
Speaker 1: man in the lay cruising by Shrewder. Shrewder make an
Speaker 1: effort man or lay baby Dennis Shrewder letting Matisse Stible
Speaker 1: go right by him, and Thible with anteal eighty one
Speaker 1: fifty seven to twenty four point lead the Sixers. Every
Speaker 1: grade seventy sixers play deserves a great time again US
Speaker 1: call that was in sync on that play right there.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers put five players in double figures, including four
Speaker 1: of their starters, in a one O two ninety seven
Speaker 1: loss that was decided when the reserves were in the
Speaker 1: game in the fourth quarter. Six Or shot thirty eight
Speaker 1: percent from the field. They had fifteen threes to Okse's eleven.
Speaker 1: That was a big reason why the Sixers ended up
Speaker 1: on top. The Sixers minus three on the glass. They
Speaker 1: committed eighteen turnovers while forcing sixteen to their own. Their
Speaker 1: top scorer was Ben Simmons, who had fourteen points. He
Speaker 1: was five or ten from the field, did not take
Speaker 1: a three, got to the line seven times, making four
Speaker 1: free throws. He had eleven rebounds that was a game high.
Speaker 1: He also had nine assists that two a game high mark,
Speaker 1: to go along with one steal. He was plus twenty
Speaker 1: one in twenty six minutes thirteen points for Al Horford.
Speaker 1: He was four for five from outside the arc, nine rebounds,
Speaker 1: three assists. He had two steals as well ten for
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson, including one three eleven for Shake Milton, plus
Speaker 1: four rebounds and two assists for Shake thirteen for Alec
Speaker 1: Burke's Off the bench of Matisse Thyble, despite only scoring
Speaker 1: two points, had two rebounds, He had two steals and
Speaker 1: a bunch of deflections that did not show up in
Speaker 1: the box score. Thought Matisse had a really really nice game.
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers now one and one in scrimmage play.
Speaker 1: Their scrimmage schedule wrap up on Tuesday night at eight
Speaker 1: thirty against Luca don Chis, Christaps Porzingis and the Dallas Mavericks,
Speaker 1: and then next Saturday, the seventy sixers opened seeding game
Speaker 1: play against the Indiana Pacers in a battle for what currently,
Speaker 1: right now is the five seed in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: My name's Brian Seltzer, saying so long for now one
Speaker 1: final time. The final score Oklahoma City Thunder, one oh two,
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers ninety seven. You've been listening to Rewind,
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