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Speaker 1: and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. First, and
Speaker 1: most importantly live NBA seventy Sixers basketball was back, and
Speaker 1: in their scrimmage opener, the first of three down Orlando,
Speaker 1: the Sixers got a victory at the ESPN Wide World
Speaker 1: of Sports Complex ninety to eighty three over the Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Selzer. Let's join right now via zoom. Head
Speaker 1: coach of the Sixers, Brett Brown. You got a team
Speaker 1: of nine and assists in only one term, and so
Speaker 1: you know you start seeing how does that look? Um,
Speaker 1: you know in a you know, i'll be a preseason
Speaker 1: sort of scrimmage game. Howard Zell look, you know, how
Speaker 1: to shake look at one, how to all and Joe
Speaker 1: looked together playing those types of things. I thought with Geeson, carryo,
Speaker 1: thank you all right. Next we're going to go to Keith.
Speaker 1: It was up Bright you said, dcent carry over. But
Speaker 1: the thing that really stuck out to me that there
Speaker 1: was no hesitation in his shot. And I know, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to make a big deal out of that,
Speaker 1: but to me, it looked good. It was no hesitation.
Speaker 1: They left him open. He did what he's supposed to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what, Keith, And I'm pulling my mask
Speaker 1: down to say this me and sort of the big deal.
Speaker 1: I stand by that, but I'm with you. I get
Speaker 1: excited and as I said this yesterday or two days,
Speaker 1: but whatever it was, it's the paradigm shift, it's the spirit.
Speaker 1: He doesn't flinch. So the sport told him, I'm hoping
Speaker 1: nobody's guarding me, shoot it, and he did. And I
Speaker 1: agree with you. There wasn't any hesitation on what's next?
Speaker 1: What decision do I have to make now? And when
Speaker 1: you look at how he played the point forward a
Speaker 1: huge me power forward. Was that like what you were
Speaker 1: expecting from day one? Like, Okay, he's gonna be were
Speaker 1: taking him off the ball, but he's still gonna be
Speaker 1: a primary ball carrier so to speak. It is and
Speaker 1: I can almost simplify it like this, on any miss shot,
Speaker 1: I want then with the ball. Anytime THEA position team
Speaker 1: misses and we're running, I want Ben Simmons with the
Speaker 1: ball and letting him get to the rim and dunk
Speaker 1: or finding other shooters. It's really that clean and that
Speaker 1: simple on made baskets. When it's a little bit slower
Speaker 1: and say Joel takes it out, I want them taking
Speaker 1: off and letting him, you know, maybe get something cheap
Speaker 1: over the top, or circleing back and playing at that
Speaker 1: elbow area where it's hard to sag. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's one dribble at the rim. And that's the world
Speaker 1: that I envisage when we make that change from you,
Speaker 1: you know, dribble it up the floor as the primary
Speaker 1: ball carrier, always against five waiting defensive players in a
Speaker 1: make world, in an Abyss world, him off the ball
Speaker 1: is how I see it, just as I said it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, you wants Cathy next, We're gonna go to
Speaker 1: tam Boon tips right, Just in general with that overall
Speaker 1: group at the beginning of the game, I was curious
Speaker 1: what your thoughts were in a few minutes that you
Speaker 1: saw and is that kind of the way that Alan
Speaker 1: Jowell were together. Is that kind of what we can
Speaker 1: expect to see still kind of in that you know,
Speaker 1: end of the quarter beginning in the quarter periods going forward,
Speaker 1: I think it's got its best chance him to probably
Speaker 1: be seen in the periods that you just said. I still,
Speaker 1: you know, like I think that those two guys in
Speaker 1: the places that we had, I still am a fan of.
Speaker 1: I still believe in it. You know, I think there
Speaker 1: are some games this year I get talking about the
Speaker 1: Clipper game, probably at times too much, but receive that
Speaker 1: high load that interaction earned that time we been talking
Speaker 1: about seems to be for me the best flow to
Speaker 1: find those two. And I thought to your first part
Speaker 1: of the question of you know, how did everybody kind
Speaker 1: of look playing? I just felt like they all looked
Speaker 1: you know, everybody kind of did something quite well. If
Speaker 1: you looked at our assistant turnovers. I think there were
Speaker 1: some positive things there. But the Joel Al thing, I
Speaker 1: think that period of the game is fair to talk about.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown from Orlando after the
Speaker 1: Sixers knock off the Memphis Grizzlies by the score of
Speaker 1: ninety to eighty three in their first scrimmage showing of three,
Speaker 1: They've got another one on Sunday afternoon against Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: thunder then play the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday before starting
Speaker 1: seating play. As for takeaways from this one, I don't
Speaker 1: know about anyone else out there. My view coming into
Speaker 1: this one today was like, Okay, it's a scrimmage game.
Speaker 1: First opportunity for the Sixers to take on someone other
Speaker 1: themselves after holding practices for the better part of the
Speaker 1: last three weeks to a month, and just see how
Speaker 1: they handled things. Would they look functional, would they look organized?
Speaker 1: How is their spirit? Did they seem physically fit? Did
Speaker 1: they take their first competitive setting seriously? And I think
Speaker 1: based upon the way the first half went, especially from
Speaker 1: what we saw in a great finish the first quarter
Speaker 1: and strong showing the second quarter, I think you can
Speaker 1: absolutely say the answer to some of those questions is yes,
Speaker 1: the Sixers took it seriously. They seemed focused. At the
Speaker 1: outset of the game. They opened things up to a
Speaker 1: twenty nine point lead. And I tweeted this at halftime
Speaker 1: or the middle stage of this scrimmage, it was like
Speaker 1: the Sixers. The Grizzlies looked like they hadn't played in
Speaker 1: four months. The Sixers looked at worse, like they hadn't
Speaker 1: played in about four days. And that was with a
Speaker 1: lot of personnel changes that the Sixers were experimenting with
Speaker 1: throughout this scrimmage. Today, those personnel changes, I think you'd
Speaker 1: say have merit based upon one scrimmage shake. Milton certainly
Speaker 1: held his own. Ben Sims played extremely well. He finished
Speaker 1: with nine points, nine assists, three steals in twenty two
Speaker 1: minutes of action. Tobias Harris a double double with fifteen
Speaker 1: points and ten rebounds. Joel only played thirteen minutes on
Speaker 1: the first half. He put up ten points, six rebounds,
Speaker 1: and he knocked down two of his fourth three pointers.
Speaker 1: So the Sixers, they had various times looked that they
Speaker 1: were playing loose, playing free. The ball moved at times,
Speaker 1: we saw some spacing. I thought it was all good stuff.
Speaker 1: And like Brett Brown was talking about, the defense, especially
Speaker 1: in the first half, was certainly something that helped the Sixers.
Speaker 1: They held the Grizzlies to just ten field goals made
Speaker 1: and shooting twenty eight and a half percent from the field.
Speaker 1: They forced fourteen turnovers and outscored the Grizzlies nineteen to six,
Speaker 1: punishing Memphis on those turnovers. So a lot of good
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers in their first foray into competitive basketball.
Speaker 1: Action since the season was suspended back on March eleventh,
Speaker 1: with the ninety eighty three win over the Memphis Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: Good stuff from Tobias Harris, good stuff from Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: and Joel Embiid. Ben Simmons knocking down that catch and
Speaker 1: shoot corner three in the third quarter, one of two
Speaker 1: three point attempts he took, perhaps upstage, some may say,
Speaker 1: by big man Norvelle Pell who, on a broken play
Speaker 1: scooted back into the corner and knocked down a three
Speaker 1: pointer of his own. Two of the highlights from today's scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis called it all, Tom, How did it go
Speaker 1: for you today? What was this like? It went? Okay?
Speaker 1: It's a little unusual to not like hear the game.
Speaker 1: I heard the sound effects, but there is a little
Speaker 1: bit of a studio aspect of it, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Where you're not Let's put it this way.
Speaker 1: Prior to the game, as I was getting ready and
Speaker 1: going over the notes and whenever, and I was watching
Speaker 1: the Sixers warm up, you know, you're like, oh so
Speaker 1: far away, and then when you put the headset on,
Speaker 1: you heard like Ben dribble the ball and the guys
Speaker 1: that made it like, oh, now you're sort of in there.
Speaker 1: So it was totally fine, though, Like this is absolutely
Speaker 1: as best as one could imagine for these circumstances where
Speaker 1: you're not calling the game there and then calling a
Speaker 1: game where there's no fans and just because there's no
Speaker 1: feeling like being here in this arena with this group
Speaker 1: of fans of Philadelphia fans, and I'd like to use
Speaker 1: the phrase rising as one because that's what happens as
Speaker 1: they meet the moment with the passion and the energy
Speaker 1: that a telltale phase of a game. There's nothing like.
Speaker 1: That's why we come to live events. That's what makes
Speaker 1: it so neat. So that obviously for now is not
Speaker 1: the case, but it's certainly you know, I think this
Speaker 1: is gonna work, but I think we're gonna be okay, Brian,
Speaker 1: awesome sounded great as the six Ers beat the Memphis
Speaker 1: Grizzlies ninety to eighty three times. Do you think they
Speaker 1: came out with some purpose? Obviously in the early going
Speaker 1: they were still trying to sort some things out, but
Speaker 1: there were times in that first half when the team
Speaker 1: looked really together all things considered. Yeah, I think their
Speaker 1: defense kind of set the stage as they were shaky
Speaker 1: a little bit early on from the field, a couple
Speaker 1: turnovers and to lead to be expected. Actually you kind
Speaker 1: of wanted to see that a little bit, just because
Speaker 1: you don't want them to be clicking on all cylinders.
Speaker 1: In a scrimmage game, every guy had a misstep here
Speaker 1: or there, but defensively they collectively, like there were many
Speaker 1: times where Ben cut off Jaren Jackson and then Jackson
Speaker 1: to turn and Tobias would be there or Al Horford
Speaker 1: would be there, and so that's you know, when the
Speaker 1: Sixers say they're built for the playoffs, and you know,
Speaker 1: coach answers, well, what does that mean? How is that?
Speaker 1: So part of it is the length, the height, and
Speaker 1: at the athleticism of the defense, and then different guys
Speaker 1: got going on offense. And then when you look at
Speaker 1: the score sheet and everybody but Howell scored, I thought
Speaker 1: everybody had some really nice moments in there. Tobias was steady,
Speaker 1: Joel was certainly good. Early on, Ben had gotten not
Speaker 1: a dominant game just because it was a shortened stint,
Speaker 1: but rebounding and athletically and shake, you know, shake it okays,
Speaker 1: not like standout or anything, but I thought Furkon looked good,
Speaker 1: Mattis had his moments, So all in all, certainly, I
Speaker 1: think good for the Sixers to feel, you know, like
Speaker 1: there's definitely room for improvement and the competition is going
Speaker 1: to step up a little bit with the thunder. But
Speaker 1: then you know, then again, you got the game Tuesday
Speaker 1: against Dallas and then a day or two to get
Speaker 1: ready for Indiana. So all said and done, pretty good
Speaker 1: work all all told. Today. Understandably, Tom, one of the
Speaker 1: main storylines coming into today's scrimmage was shake Milton being
Speaker 1: on the ball, Ben Simmons playing more at the four,
Speaker 1: and one thing that Ben talked about over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks was, regardless of where you put him,
Speaker 1: whether it's an offense or on defense, he believes that
Speaker 1: he's a playmaker and that he's got a high enough
Speaker 1: IQ to make things happen. You look at his final
Speaker 1: line and that certainly bears things out. I mean, he
Speaker 1: had nine assists, still playing in a new, reconfigured, rethought role,
Speaker 1: and if you listen to today's game or you watch it,
Speaker 1: you could see that he was still certainly able to
Speaker 1: make things happen in the offensive end, regardless of if
Speaker 1: he was the one bringing the ball up or playing
Speaker 1: out of the high post or anything like that. Without doubt.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a very physically gifted player who's gonna
Speaker 1: attack and be aggressive at all times. And you know,
Speaker 1: as coach said, there's so many instances in which it's
Speaker 1: a free flowing dynamic, you know, transition where whomever's got
Speaker 1: the ball and you want it to be in his
Speaker 1: hands that Simmons is going to be able to get
Speaker 1: after it. No, there's other situations where Shake Milton is
Speaker 1: going to play the point guard and bring it up,
Speaker 1: but no, Ben is definitely going to look to attack
Speaker 1: and get to the rim. And you know, he finishes
Speaker 1: with the best of me. He had a couple of
Speaker 1: areas that one ball got stuck between the basket and
Speaker 1: the iron, But he's gonna be just fine. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be dominant, you know, like he I think
Speaker 1: this break helped a lot of different players across the NBA,
Speaker 1: but maybe none more so than Ben Simmons of the Sixers.
Speaker 1: At least for me personally, I find myself getting so
Speaker 1: caught up into the whole thought process of what is
Speaker 1: this going to mean? Now that he's playing here versus there,
Speaker 1: that I forget that had the season not been suspended,
Speaker 1: he might not have been back out there at all.
Speaker 1: And that's certainly not to say that everything that's gone
Speaker 1: on the last four months was worth that cost that
Speaker 1: it was for Ben Simmons to be back, but that's
Speaker 1: you know, I just keep losing track of the fact
Speaker 1: that he probably there's a good chance he might not
Speaker 1: have played again, at least in the regular season and
Speaker 1: the season not stopped, because the game's just come fast
Speaker 1: and furious, and you know, I'll never forget how much
Speaker 1: painting was in in Milwaukee. You know, he basically just
Speaker 1: played five minutes and ten games after that All Star
Speaker 1: break or in that time frame, and you know, and hey,
Speaker 1: I've had that, you know, not an elite athlete did,
Speaker 1: but that nerve and pingement thing, that is just a stopper.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. And so yeah, when he went down in Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: that was really really tough, and to watch him be
Speaker 1: on that plane and whatever as we did coming back
Speaker 1: late night from Wisconsin after that game. But the Bucks
Speaker 1: really difficult. And and that's what I mean, like certain
Speaker 1: there were certain a lotments during the hiatus about who
Speaker 1: could get treatment and who could be at a facility
Speaker 1: and whatever, and so he was clearly getting physical therapy.
Speaker 1: But then you know, part of that obviously is you know,
Speaker 1: getting back in the throws and getting back in shape
Speaker 1: and whatnot. And you know, I would think at some
Speaker 1: point he started to get his feetback underneath them and
Speaker 1: he started to shoot the ball a little bit. And
Speaker 1: then you know, we also those pictures and those videos
Speaker 1: of his workouts, and you know, he's also he's a
Speaker 1: young man. He just had another birthday, but you know,
Speaker 1: just growing and getting stronger and developing, and it's all
Speaker 1: coming together for one of the preeminent athletic talents and
Speaker 1: players in our league. And Ben Simmons great stuff this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis talked to you just before high noon on
Speaker 1: Sunday when the seventy Sixers take on the Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: Thunder All right, thanks Brian, seventy six ers basketball in
Speaker 1: a scrimmage back on the radio. Amazing, Hey, it was
Speaker 1: gonna be a good day if that was the only
Speaker 1: thing that came from it. The Sixers also got to
Speaker 1: win when they played Memphis Grizzlies, and the first of
Speaker 1: three scrimmages down in Orlando. The big subplot coming into
Speaker 1: this scrimmage schedule, Shake Milton primary on ball handler for
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers, Ben Simmons going to the four. Shake
Speaker 1: Milton getting involved early and good defense there. So the
Speaker 1: Sixers turn it over, but so do Memphis, and now
Speaker 1: the sixers of the ball out to shake right side
Speaker 1: three ball got the seventh sixers from the fowl area
Speaker 1: to shake Milton and with exactly six minutes ago, that
Speaker 1: ties the score at eight. Seventy Sixers would start to
Speaker 1: take off from there. Joel M. Bead leaving his early
Speaker 1: imprint on this one. Memphis misses sixers of the ball
Speaker 1: in beat for three and that's good. So these seventy
Speaker 1: sixers two three one by shake Milton, they go from
Speaker 1: down eight to two to leading by five, now thirteen
Speaker 1: to eight and be picked and popped his way throughout
Speaker 1: that first half. As the seventy sixers wide in their lead.
Speaker 1: In the second quarter, Tobias Harris was involved. They've got
Speaker 1: the four guys beyond the arc and a tip of
Speaker 1: a steal by five. All good job by Burkes in
Speaker 1: there as well. No look pass it the bias Harris
Speaker 1: gets a slam well done by Simmons, a no look jam.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers really able to get out on the run
Speaker 1: in the closing moments of the opening half. They lad
Speaker 1: fifty four twenty eight at the break. Their lead would
Speaker 1: grow to as large as twenty nine because of this.
Speaker 1: Here Simmons for three and it's good, Ben seventh triple
Speaker 1: knocking it down right front of his bench, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers lead the Grizzlies fifty seven to twenty eight. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons from group five points now for Simmons, Perhaps even
Speaker 1: more important than the basket going in, as Brett Brown
Speaker 1: said in his postgame press conference, the fact that there
Speaker 1: was no hesitation on the attempt of the shot by
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons in the corner that gave the Sixers a
Speaker 1: twenty nine point lead. Memphis would close the gap from there.
Speaker 1: They used a good third quarter they outscored the Sixers
Speaker 1: by sixteen, and they also put the pressure on in
Speaker 1: the fourth to tighten things up. But one more noteworthy
Speaker 1: three pointer to play for you from this one before
Speaker 1: wrapping it up, Dive into a cutting Scott close behind
Speaker 1: his back, missus pell Norvelle into the corner for three,
Speaker 1: and then why Norville Pell With a shot clock winding
Speaker 1: down to the beat on the Sixers sideline leading the cheers,
Speaker 1: Norvelle had to shoot it and he net to three
Speaker 1: from the corner the tenth of the game for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: You pick your favorite flavor. Ben Simmons three, Norville Pell three.
Speaker 1: Tough call, but all good in the Sixers win over
Speaker 1: the Memphis Grizzlies ninety to eighty three. Sixer shot forty
Speaker 1: three percent from the field, ten to thirty from outside
Speaker 1: the arc. They got to the line twelve times and
Speaker 1: made ten of their free throw attempts. They outrebounded the
Speaker 1: grizz by three, and they forced nineteen turnovers thro the Sixers,
Speaker 1: all in the first half, a big reason why they
Speaker 1: were able to establish such a commanding advantage. In today's scrimmage,
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris led the Sixers with fifteen points and ten rebounds.
Speaker 1: He also had two assists in just under twenty three minutes.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons also played twenty three minutes at the four,
Speaker 1: pretty much almost exclusively. Nine points from him, nine, nine assists,
Speaker 1: and seven rebounds plus three steals. Such a versatile line
Speaker 1: from Ben Simmons great to see him back out there.
Speaker 1: Dwell Embiid in just thirteen minutes, ten points, six rebounds.
Speaker 1: He hit two of his three baskets from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: Richardson and Milton finished with six points a piece and
Speaker 1: sharing the team lead in terms of scoring off the bench.
Speaker 1: Alec burks so I thought played pretty well today seven points,
Speaker 1: three rebounds, to assists for him and for Concorkmas who
Speaker 1: had seven points, including one three pointer. All right, that'll
Speaker 1: do it. Seventy six Ers over the Grizzlies ninety two
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