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Speaker 1: Highlights and analysis from the seventy Sixers, previous game, seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers power pass these san Antonio Spurs one fifteen
Speaker 1: to one oh four. Down here at the center. I'm
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer Sixers with win number ten on the year.
Speaker 1: They're third in the row and they remain perfect here
Speaker 1: on the home floor. That is a good thing now,
Speaker 1: six and oh balanced night overall, I thought every time
Speaker 1: san Antonio tried to make a move on the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: even when they got the lead down to a point
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, the Sixers they were steady. They
Speaker 1: ratcheted up their defensive intensity, and then their offense, which
Speaker 1: was great throughout the night, took over and re established
Speaker 1: a lead. All five starters in double figures plus James
Speaker 1: Entis the third off the bench, Tobias harris Man was
Speaker 1: he smooth tonight, ten of sixteen from the field, three
Speaker 1: of five outside the arc, but a lot of hard
Speaker 1: driving scores on the interior. He was plus eighteen and
Speaker 1: thirty four minutes, twenty one points, fourteen rebounds for Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid seventeen points, for fur Con Corkmas filling in in
Speaker 1: a starting role for a second straight game. Fur Con
Speaker 1: Man just to think, I know, we've talked about it
Speaker 1: a lot. It felt like at the end of last year,
Speaker 1: this was a guy who was not going to be
Speaker 1: back here. And yeah, he's still relatively young and growing
Speaker 1: and working through some things in real time game experience.
Speaker 1: But we're only a month into the season and to
Speaker 1: see what fur Con has done, I mean, tonight was
Speaker 1: a great example of what he can be when he
Speaker 1: is on and I thought he played well on both
Speaker 1: ends of the floor relatively speaking, but seventeen points for
Speaker 1: him four to seven from outside the r great stuff
Speaker 1: from fur Con. Ben Simmons' first triple double of the
Speaker 1: year for a second game in row. He ties the
Speaker 1: season high with thirteen assists. He also with ten points
Speaker 1: and ten rebounds. Al Horford solid all around with eighteen,
Speaker 1: nine and six, and then as I said, James and
Speaker 1: is the third off the bench with teen I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like, especially these first two games of the
Speaker 1: homestand between tonight and Wednesday's win over the Knicks, you
Speaker 1: have guys, you know, you have your starters doing their thing,
Speaker 1: but without Josh richardson guys from the bench, the typical
Speaker 1: bench course, stepping up. You know, I put fur Con
Speaker 1: in that category. Mike Scott on Wednesday, James that it's
Speaker 1: the third with three straight games and double figures. And
Speaker 1: the Sixers they shoot just under fifty two percent for
Speaker 1: the game. They knocked down ten to twenty six from
Speaker 1: outside the arc. They crushed the Spurs and the glass
Speaker 1: fifty one to thirty two. Big turning point was as
Speaker 1: I said, in the third quarter, Spurs went on a
Speaker 1: run of eleven to two. They narrowed the gap to
Speaker 1: seventy four seventy three, but the Sixers, keyed by their defense,
Speaker 1: responded with nine straight points to get it back to
Speaker 1: eighty three seventy three at ten point lead. Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: you know, he started the game eight for eight. Sixers
Speaker 1: led by seven after three, and they were able to
Speaker 1: do enough to keep the Spurs at Bay tonight. We're
Speaker 1: open here from seventy six Ers head coach Brett Brown.
Speaker 1: In a few moments after a seventy six Ers win
Speaker 1: one fifteen, one oh four over the Spurs down here
Speaker 1: at the center, Tom McGinnis rejoins us from down here
Speaker 1: at the center, and I thought this was a good
Speaker 1: one time tonight. I know you said at one point,
Speaker 1: I totally agreed. You know, it's like nothing comes easy
Speaker 1: for this team, it seems. But whenever the Spurs threatened tonight,
Speaker 1: you know, the Sixers just seemed to fire up that
Speaker 1: defensive intensity a little bit more. And that was a
Speaker 1: theme throughout the night, some good defense leading to timely offense.
Speaker 1: And this was one where as cliche as it may sound,
Speaker 1: everyone pitched him to get the job done. Well stand by,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from you in a second. But now, courtesy
Speaker 1: of our pals at NBC Sports Philadelphia, we'll go to
Speaker 1: Brett Brown. And it started to move in that direction,
Speaker 1: but I really never felt comfortable. You know, the run
Speaker 1: that you're speaking about, I kind of remember it, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it had the impact that you capitalized
Speaker 1: and we took off from there. It was a game
Speaker 1: for the large majority of the game. Has really made
Speaker 1: a lot of big plays on both that's little floor.
Speaker 1: How do you feel like his defense is really coming
Speaker 1: along toward I think I think he's moving completely in
Speaker 1: the right in the right direction. We talk lots about
Speaker 1: um two things just like that maniacal competitive effort, you know,
Speaker 1: as a team not to bias, and he always brings it.
Speaker 1: He's an incredibly prideful defensive player. Then it gets down
Speaker 1: into kind of the the the sophisticated part of defensive
Speaker 1: game plan, you know, knowing you personnel, what's what are
Speaker 1: we doing on Demorrow? What are we doing on DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Patty Mills in the game? Are we going to try
Speaker 1: to blitz him? It's it's multi layed from a from
Speaker 1: a scouting perspective, and so then you combine that effort
Speaker 1: and that competitive drive which he has with the the
Speaker 1: intellect of a game plan, and the two collide and
Speaker 1: produced team defense. And I think that he's doing really well.
Speaker 1: Um morphing into like a holistic defensive player. He should
Speaker 1: be inflected. He he did. I was glad that we
Speaker 1: didn't play him as many minutes as we normally do. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that I don't even know why I'm saying this.
Speaker 1: It felt like that, like I thought that he was steady, Yeah,
Speaker 1: nice and steady. I agree. Found trouble in that second
Speaker 1: in our quarter pretty early in the quarter, al and
Speaker 1: Fan seemed to have stepped up and taken control of
Speaker 1: the game. Is that what Al's really here for? For
Speaker 1: those kind of moments, I think, I think, uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll say, of course, but it's hard to do that.
Speaker 1: And he did do that. He was our bell ringer tonight, Al,
Speaker 1: or if it was our bell ringer tonight. I thought
Speaker 1: that that he bounced back from some games that like
Speaker 1: he's he probably doesn't feel like he had some of
Speaker 1: his best games, and he's to me, he's always had
Speaker 1: like an amazing kind of presence despite what this stat
Speaker 1: sheet says, and tonight he maintained like that leadership in
Speaker 1: toughness and veteran and produced on a stat sheet and
Speaker 1: you know, we win. So for him, it's a really
Speaker 1: good night. And yes, like that's what we're hoping when
Speaker 1: you go sign out. Horford seventy Sixers top of the
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs one fifteen one O four on Brian Selzer.
Speaker 1: That was Brett Brown. Courtesy of NBC Sports Philadelphia. Tom,
Speaker 1: what's tod that to you? Well? I thought the Sixers
Speaker 1: now again, they maintained a seven point lead after one.
Speaker 1: Both teams scored thirty points in the second. It was
Speaker 1: seven at the half. Both teams scored twenty eight in
Speaker 1: the third, seven and the fourth. San Antonio hung around.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of times it got down to five.
Speaker 1: As you said earlier, it got down to one in
Speaker 1: the third, and the Sixers responded to the challenge. I
Speaker 1: mean de Rosen he had it going late in the game.
Speaker 1: Earlier it was Rudy Gay and LaMarcus Aldridge. But Harris
Speaker 1: played well and his coach was just saying Al Horford
Speaker 1: had one of his best all the round game for
Speaker 1: the Sixers in bid to your point early eight for eight.
Speaker 1: He was very effective and after the Sixers defense was solid.
Speaker 1: They shoot fifty two percent from the field of sixers,
Speaker 1: they make ten threes, and they met the challenge and
Speaker 1: they kept San Antonio team struggling at Bay. They fourced
Speaker 1: them into their eighth straight laws and the Sixers remain
Speaker 1: undefeated at home. Great home victory here tonight for the
Speaker 1: ball club over the Spurs. Tobias Harris with twenty six points,
Speaker 1: six rebounds, four assists. It is amazing time. And you know,
Speaker 1: the more you file the NBA, you probably get a
Speaker 1: field for this how long a week can feel like
Speaker 1: because you come back to last Friday in Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: and Tobias. You know, he had the performance in double
Speaker 1: overtime was a loss where you're like, Okay, maybe he's
Speaker 1: starting to emerge from what was only a two game
Speaker 1: stretch that felt like a slump was forever. And here's
Speaker 1: Tobias and three out of his last four games with
Speaker 1: over twenty points and there was nothing that he couldn't
Speaker 1: do on the offensive end tonight. No, you're right, and
Speaker 1: you know you speak to being the longer year around
Speaker 1: the NBA. You realize how many games there are in
Speaker 1: a week. There's fifteen or sixteen games in a month,
Speaker 1: and over the over time, the law of averages, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll speak to a guy's performance, in other words, a guy.
Speaker 1: You know, if a guy's a fifty percent field goal shooter,
Speaker 1: in the end, he'll probably end up making half his shots.
Speaker 1: And that's Harris has proven over the certainly over the
Speaker 1: last few years that he's a scorer. It was a
Speaker 1: difficult stretch. I think you're you're talking to a phase
Speaker 1: that was maybe two or three games where he'd missed
Speaker 1: twenty three threes, and you're right. Tonight the other night
Speaker 1: in Cleveland Sunday, he was ten of twelve from the
Speaker 1: field and tonight he was really good as well, and
Speaker 1: I thought the Sixers did a great job. Simmons was
Speaker 1: really good tonight in many areas with that triple double. Statistically,
Speaker 1: and again to your point, many guys including Nis, Trey
Speaker 1: Burke had some nice moments, Matisse had some good second
Speaker 1: half moments, and Furcon was great tonight as well, where
Speaker 1: multiple players stepped up. You get six guys in double figures,
Speaker 1: and again, over the course of a long forty in
Speaker 1: an NBA game, you're gonna need that. You're gonna need
Speaker 1: guys to carry the ball for a while in bead
Speaker 1: plays what less than twenty eight minutes? You know you
Speaker 1: got to come back tomorrow gets one of the best
Speaker 1: teams in the East in Miami, and another great showdown
Speaker 1: here tomorrow night. Yeah, what are you most looking forward
Speaker 1: to in that? And this one I feel is kind
Speaker 1: of like crept up on me. It's like, oh, Jimmy's
Speaker 1: coming back with the Miami Heat, and the Heat have
Speaker 1: been one of the stronger teams. They went it tonight
Speaker 1: with a record of ten and three, with four consecutive wins.
Speaker 1: Now and Miami is so impressive. It always has been.
Speaker 1: It all goes back to pat Riley. I know he's
Speaker 1: the president of the team, but Spoelstra is basically a
Speaker 1: direct coaching descendant. They've been so good. Look who they're
Speaker 1: doing it with. I mean, they got Myers Leonard starting
Speaker 1: at center. Okay, now again, he's a good, solid player,
Speaker 1: a great young athlete out of Illinois who played to
Speaker 1: Portland Bama. Of bios playing the fourt Kendrick Nunn is
Speaker 1: right up there with John rant for potentially for Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year, and Jimmy Butler's leading them after missing
Speaker 1: the first two games, he's leading the league and steals
Speaker 1: at almost three steals game. I mean, it's amazing that.
Speaker 1: And again there's always teams that step up and surprise,
Speaker 1: and today this year's Miami, you knew they'd be in
Speaker 1: the mix. But as for one of the best records
Speaker 1: in the East, that should be a great game tomorrow.
Speaker 1: They're they're a very tough team. They're disciplined there. Like
Speaker 1: I said, their defense has always been at the core,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers know this is a big game. Certainly
Speaker 1: with Butler coming back, should be Hopefully maybe Josh Richardson
Speaker 1: will be able to go against his old team. He's
Speaker 1: missed the last two games with that hip flexer tightness injury.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you know you want to back it up tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You play back to back home games. You want to
Speaker 1: continue to play well and stay on top of things
Speaker 1: in terms of your record here at home. Should be
Speaker 1: a great game. All righty, Tom McGinnis, we will see
Speaker 1: you right back here on Saturday night. Thank you, Branko night.
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers over the San Antonio Spurs one fifteen
Speaker 1: one four, first time ever under Greg Popovich that the
Speaker 1: Spurs have dropped eight consecutive regular season games. Time you
Speaker 1: had to get to some of Tom McGinnis's highlight calls.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers trailed early on four to two. They would
Speaker 1: trail for just those fifteen seconds of it the entire game.
Speaker 1: Fur Con Corkmas help to get his club under Simmons
Speaker 1: ben with a beautiful spin, dribble back out the fur
Speaker 1: count on the right way, dribbles in the corner. He's
Speaker 1: gonna launch from there for three and it's good. Corkbos
Speaker 1: over to Rosa, another time out taken by Popovich and
Speaker 1: the Spurs. It's a twenty to ten lead by the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Sixers fiery now all Filmder's two threes, eight to twelve
Speaker 1: from the field and eighteen to six spurt. Corkmas had
Speaker 1: it going on early and helped the seventy sixers throughout
Speaker 1: the evening. Sixers in front twenty nine twenty two after
Speaker 1: one quarter of play. James and it's the third. Has
Speaker 1: been having a great stretch of games for the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers and that continue tonight as well. Gorford on an innocent,
Speaker 1: tight space right side pre ball god James Tennis knocks
Speaker 1: it down and it's from Horford. Al Horford kind of
Speaker 1: put it over his right hip and edis able to
Speaker 1: gather it and score it. And now the Sixers five
Speaker 1: first half three pointers and they led by ten fifty
Speaker 1: seven forty seven. That was right after the Spurs were
Speaker 1: nipping and hanging around on the seventy sixers. Heels Sixers
Speaker 1: in the locker room with a fifty nine and fifty
Speaker 1: two lead at the break. Early on in the third,
Speaker 1: the Spurs came rumbling back. They trimmed their deficit to
Speaker 1: a point thanks to an eleven to two runs seventy
Speaker 1: four seventy three. Ben Simmons began to give the sixers
Speaker 1: some insurance. Harris knocked it away. He read it perfectly,
Speaker 1: and now Tobias with a bous to be betting down day.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hey sciss late slab by sevens right run out.
Speaker 1: Harris keyed to play, and that key to a nine
Speaker 1: nothing seventy Sixers spurred to give them an eighty seven
Speaker 1: eighty lead going into the fourth. Again, the Spurs didn't
Speaker 1: entirely go away, but the seventy sixers never relinquished control.
Speaker 1: Batist Stible, benefiting from a runout LaMarcus Aldridge one on
Speaker 1: one with Ben is a drive by Ordrogen Simmons takes
Speaker 1: it away. Sixers ball Ben in the late, Fatiue Tibo
Speaker 1: breaks free and champions Fatiue Tibo puts it in one
Speaker 1: one ninety one. Just like that, the defense ratcheting up
Speaker 1: once again in the seventy sixers capitalizing fur Con cork
Speaker 1: Mas helping polish this one off. Here's a drive by
Speaker 1: de Rosa swatted by Simmons, picked up by Betty Sixers
Speaker 1: with the four on one. Simmons to Harris in the late,
Speaker 1: he's foul that he stars it. Tobias hairs from Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons and Simmons is taking over Simmons with that defense.
Speaker 1: Once again, Harris making the most of it on that
Speaker 1: scoring opportunity, helping send the seventy Sixers to one fifteen
Speaker 1: one oh four. Dub Harris with a team best twenty
Speaker 1: six points, ten of sixteen from the field, three to
Speaker 1: five from outside the arc. He was a game high
Speaker 1: plus eighteen and thirty four minutes of play, twenty one
Speaker 1: and fourteen for Joel Embiad, eighteen points for Al Horford,
Speaker 1: seventeen for fur Con Korkmas, who knocked down four to
Speaker 1: three pointers. Ben Simmons his first triple double of the
Speaker 1: year with ten ten and thirteen thirteen for James Ennis,
Speaker 1: the third off the bench. Six Ers shot fifty one,
Speaker 1: ten of twenty six from outside the arc. They outrebounded
Speaker 1: the Spurs by nineteen and committed fifteen turnovers. In tonight's game,
Speaker 1: Sixers will try to sweep their three game homestand and
Speaker 1: it'll be quite the test. Tomorrow night, the Miami Heat
Speaker 1: will be in town. Jimmy Butler helping Miami in a
Speaker 1: major way against the Chicago Bulls to night. He scored
Speaker 1: twenty seven points, had four steals and seven assists, He
Speaker 1: has been the man for Miami, which is now ten
Speaker 1: and three on the season, and has won four consecutive games,
Speaker 1: one final time. The final score it was the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers one fifteen and the San Antonio Spurs one
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