Rewind vs. Indiana Pacers - 11/30/19

Brian Seltzer will join a progress right now. Head coach Brett brown a ton is that like, do you look at a game like that and go to him and say, this is the Ben Simmons we need every night? You know how I have been on since we have brought him into the program. He's finishing is still always on my mind, you know. And what he does and we're

not talking about dunks. It's that like little three foot thing that we're talking about, and he has to get better at it, that gather step where he's going one extra step or he's going one extra dribble and not being bumped off his driving line and you know, more fading and more straight line through people. Jannis like, I thought he was really good doing that tonight and the seven free throws that he shot and he made them all. He looked confident doing that. I think there is progressive

growth in that area. To your point of going body body ball and inviting that physical, physical sort of style to get way more free throws for Joel to go fifteen for fifteen from the foula and not just it's a night. I think after he had the three night in Toronto, he had fourteen attempts. The next night, I think he had thirteen to night after that. Yeah, say about that, Um, it's a mentality. You know that that

is a that is a disposition. That is a mentality to me more than a stat And the fact that we shot forty free throws last night with your thirty six tonight, I like both of those things, and it's you feel like him a lot more when you make them. But Joe LMB to your point that that is a statement. It is a mentality, and you know, none of us can underestimate the hurt he fell after the Toronto game where he felt like he let us down, and we have seen him respond. Think of mentalities of a tobias.

We feel like he's becoming to come become more of a score as mentality every time he touches the ball is kind of can become more a little bit more of a score a little bit lately. I think so, and I hope so, because that's what we have. You know, I have preached you all and certainly to him. I want him to find the rim and and scora is a score. It's not JJ reddick always it's driving. It's like even the play we come down and I could

have called a time. Oh we had a play and we wanted to run a turn on and get Joe the ball, and we made a sloppy pass, you know, Tobias into Joe got stolen, but he came straight back out. Ben gets a steel. He's on, you know, a straight line drive and ends up with just a smart, strong finish and whether it's a rise up, pull up long too, a catch shot three something off, a catch goo go catch to the rim. As I just explained, h we need him to score like I want him to think

like a scorer. And uh, I think that he is. I also think that he's improved tremendously defensively. Couple, what have you noticed how he's improved. He's very he's very prideful, you know, Like I tell anybody to listen in the locker room coaching staff, you don't just dust off scores. It has to be to me some level of paint. We're not just like it's okay, it's okay in trading basket mentality. That's not how I see the world. And I can see in his face like he wants to

get better. He's a prideful person. I forget sometimes really how young he is, you know, a young twenty six years old. Think of his upside like he we all sort of look at him as you know, he's arrived and here he is by any standard internationally, domestically, whatever, basketball wise, he is just scratching the surface. And because he's got character and he is an athlete that can point to defense. And I think that with him, I see that he cares. That's the hell of a starting point.

And then he's got the other characteristics that I think can make him an elite defensive player. Seventy Sixers head coach Bret Brown following a hard fought one nineteen one sixteen victory over the Indiana Pacers, we joined bretton progress.

What you did not hear was him praising Ben Simmons as an elite defender, saying that tonight's performance, with three of simmons four steals coming in the final thirteen point nine seconds of regulation after the Sixers trailed by a point, he felt like that was all league level defense from Ben Simmons, who Brett is set at times in the past he thinks is capable of being a candidate for Defensive Player of the Year in the NBA. There was

so much that Ben Simmons did tonight. He guarded guards, he guarded centers, he guarded wings, and most important of all, he came up at the absolute most important points of the game to get this win for the seventy Sixers and keep them undefeated at home. With thirteen seconds to go, Simmons steals the ball from t J. Warren, feeds to Bias Harris for a running dunk. Seventy Sixers take the

one fifteen one fourteen lead. Jeremy Lamb, then victim of Ben Simmons, Simmons stole the sideline inbounds pass the Pacers were forced to foul to Bias Harris ghost the line knocks down both of his free throws. Seventy Sixers take the lead one seventeen one fourteen with five point one seconds to go, Malcolm Brogden goes back, knocks down two freebees. One point game. Pacers have to foul and beat ghosts the line. He sinks two of his own to make

it one nineteen one sixteen. With two point eight seconds left, Indiana tried to desperately heave the ball down the floor and who was it none other than Ben Simmons to leap up and steal the pass to secure the seventy six ers fourteenth win of the season and their ninth here in South Philadelphia in nine tries. Tom McGinnis called a really entertaining one tonight. Sixteen lead changes only sixteen

along with fourteen ties. It felt like, Tommy, you live and breathe every one of those in a game like this against some really good competition. Ben Simmons, For all the talk there is about Ben Simmons, that defense that he showed in the clutch got the Sixers to win. Yeah, that was great, And just in general to your point about the game, that was a great game, really exciting.

I mean, a lot of intense turnarounds and they had the lead for a lot of the fourth quarter and just exciting play Star play by Ebad and to your point, Ben Simmons able to come up with those steals that helped to seal the deally at fifteen points, thirteen assists.

Didn't shoot it well, and I think Coach Brown was talking about finishing Ben was four or thirteen, missed some shots right at the rim, but great contributions from Tobias and early in the game all and of course Ennis played most of the fourth quarter and he stepped up big, so really excited. The numbers were incredible. Both teams shot the ball well. I mean, you'd never know that this was the second night of a back to back relative

to how the team shot. Eleven made threes for the Sixers, and to me, anytime this year the Sixers get double figures in threes, that that's a really workable, good number for the Sixers, and they shot it well from deep. Just an overall a real exciting game here tonight against Indiana seventy sixers edge. The Pacers won nineteen to one. Sixteen down here at the center Joel and bid. Tim seems to be rounding into form about a month five

weeks or so into the season. Thirty two points, eleven rebounds, and fifteen for fifteen from the free throw line. Yeah, and obviously he's a tough cover for the opposition based on his you know, varied ways of scoring. But one of the big things he does is he gets the opposition. He gets a lot of calls, but he's drawing fouls and again your point earlier thirty two free throws coming into the game in the last two games and tonight fifteen and he made them all. That's telling. He got

sa bonus out of the game. He got Turner and early foul difficulty. Miles Turner ended up with five fouls, and you know, relative to Turner and be like Miles Turner never got into the rhythm of the game. He was one of their leading scorers last night. He had just three here tonight because he was back and forth in the lineup because every time he came in and beat got him into a foul predicament. So no, Joel has really done well. And again you know, handling the traps.

You didn't see as much of that tonight. But he's getting the ball out quicker and Morris succinctly and another great rebounding night at double double, which as I believe now is tenth or was eleventh on the year, and he was very impressive in this win. Seventy Sixers overcome

the Pacers one nineteen to one sixteen. They have the day off tomorrow and then they have the Utah Jazz, a team that beat them by two last month in Salt Lake City here at the Center on Monday, I mean, tom we're now rounding into the second full month the season. What do you think things? As we usually talked very micro after these games, but you know, you round the corner,

you got some tough games coming up. But you know, here the Sixers are there fourteen and six on the custom of potentially being ten and oh here at home, what do you think we've seen so far? Well, as you say, to your point, you're nearing a quarter pole of the season. Brett Brown liked to cut the season into thirds. But you know you're near the twenty twenty one game mark and that's a fourth of the season.

And clearly at home they've had the ability to come from behind and protect their home court, winning nine in a row. You know, they win in Portland. You could argue that they probably shouldn't have won that game. The last second or two seconds to go the Shop by Cork Mos but should have won in Denver, should have won in Oklahoma City, and then probably should have won

in Toronto. And you take two out of those three games, and the Sixers are sixteen and four, and you're talking about them, you know, just like everybody talked about them in July. So I think night's like tonight, even without Josh.

And again that's another part of this. So they've played twenty games, and less than half of them in games where they've had their starters, whether it's for load management within Bead or Horford, or you know a little bit of an here or there for Josh Richardson, who's now missed his fourth and a half game. So that that continuity and that deal, whether it's the starters get to play more and more. But now you're seeing the resiliency. And again with any good team, you're seeing multiple players

step up at any given time. In a game like tonight, Horford fifteen points, three threes in the first half, six field goals didn't seem like a big factor in the game, but look at that fifteen points and Beat and Simmons, you know, being all stars stepping up and carrying the little Tobias Harris being relentless rebounding the ball pretty well overall over seven plus rebounds per game, and for that position and that size he should be. So you're getting

that production off the bench with Ennis. You've seen some great moments from five ball ups and downs from Mike Scott so far, Trey Burke and Netto have done a nice job. So you know, really to be eight games over five hundred at this stage in the season, that's tracking for fifty plus wins again, and for that to be the case in the third acutive season, whether the Sixers end up with the number one seed or not,

will We'll see. But the biggest thing is you want to get through the you know, the season with home court advantage in the first round and just continue to track and stay healthy Knockwood and begin to figure some things out. The defense has been dominant. I know this is kind of free ring thinking, but these are all the things that come to mind, and so far, so good. Certainly some hiccups along the way, but there are going

to be ups and downs. And now you come in and this Utah Utah has always been a tough opponent. Mitchell I thought Mitchell got into the paint a lot Ricky Rubio, not Rubio, but the way that Utah attack to paint against the Sixers that hurt them out in

Salt Lake City. And then Sixers are gonna have to do something with that defensively because that it was almost like they went paint to great and that was part of the formula when they did beat the Sixers earlier this season out in Salt Lake seventy Sixers beat the Pacers one nineteen one sixteen. Always great thoughts and perspective postgame from Tom McGinnis. Tom will talk on Monday, thank you,

good night. Seventy Sixers get thirty two and eleven from Jowell Embiad Who's fifteen for fifteen performance in the free throw line tonight at the center big in the seventy sixers victory over Indie Ben Simmons fifteen points, thirteen assists, six rebounds, four steals, three of them coming in the final thirteen point nine seconds of regulation after the Sixers

fell behind by point and desperately needed a stop. Twenty two for Tobias Harris, fifteen for Al Horford and a dozen for fur Concorkmas James and it's the third with nine off the bench, as the seventy Sixers improved to nine and oz down here at the center. Here's how it sounded, courtesy of the one and only Tom McGinnis on the Sixers radio network. Al Horford back after getting some rest last night in New York City and he helped give the seventy Sixers an early boost. Here comes

sevens in the night. Back out the big Al three ball by Horford is good. Horford knocks it down and the Sixers with eight in a row and time out Indiana. The Sixers they're back in fill anywhere. They're unbeating one the year. Indeed they were. They stretched the run to ten straight points and take control early. Seventy Sixers would enjoy their highest scoring first quarter of the season, leading

thirty eight to twenty nine after one. In the second quarter of the Sixers widen the gap, expanding their lead to a dozen. Ben driving on Rodden on the backdown ten to shoot, still backing with the right hand, dribble turns, jump tads fires it in. Ben Simmons fall away jumper

eight three foot five and the Sixers fifty Indiana thirty eight. Well, the Sixers would stretch their lead to fifteen points with five minutes to go in the first half fifty five forty, but from there Indiana turned the game around, capitalizing on seventy Sixers mistakes and turnovers, the Pacers ending the first

half on a twenty five to ten run. It was all tied up at sixty five going into the break, and the third quarter of the battle is on seventy Sixers turning the big man and Simmons has it down low, spins kickout Joel. He drives out Si bonas side steps one man, scoops it off the glass right five miles turner.

Porous defense by Indiana. It beat with five in the third seventeen in the game, and the seventy Sixers led a seventy two sixty eight fur con cork mose, helping give the Sixers a little bit of a nudge going into the fourth quarter. Well leftenant Ben Simmons from Melbourne, Australia at six ten gets a screen by a beat, drives a kickout cork boss three ball from out top. It's up and good furkon cork boss from sevens and the Sixers take today murk with twelve sevens with US

twelfth and says ninety three ninety two. Philadelphia, Indiana would tied up to make it ninety three all going into the fourth quarter. Things really started to heat up from there. There were opportunities from both teams it felt like to take control of the game, but it remained a neck and neck fight to the finish line. The Pacers going up three one nine, one oh six with five and a half minutes to go on a three pointer from Malcolm Bragen. The seventy Sixers hadn't answered back to Harris

high screen it. Bead screens for Harris. Harris comes off shooting three ball up in to Bias. Harris with his first tray in the game. Two man game on the perimeter in Bead with a pick Harris with the pop Sixers and Pacers tied at one o nine. Seventy Sixers would fall behind again, but then tied up on two free throws from Bead with two and a half minutes to go, one eleven all. The Pacers reclaimed the lead at one at thirteen one eleven to seventy Sixers with

under half a minute to play. Turned to Ben Simmons, who ratchet it up the deed Simmons steals them all. Simmons driving it in the lady goes to Harris. Harris puts up Ben Jams and quit. Ten seconds to go, Sixers take the lead. Malcolm Brocken threw it right to Ben Simmons. Simmons drove it down and kicked it off to a trailing Harris, and he slams a ball then made it one fifteen, one fourteen. After Indie, they scored three free throws. After TJ. Warren was fouled on the perimeter,

the seventy Sixers got it right back. Ben Simmons then stole the ball and the Pacers, ensuing sideline inbounds play. Sixers got a couple more free throws from Harris and Joel Embiid that kept them in front, and Simmons end of the night as time expired by intercepting a desperation pass at mid court to clinch the game for the seventy sixers. Sixers shot forty nine and a half percent from the field, the Pacers fifty five and a half percent,

eleven three pointers from each team. The Sixers huge from the free throw line, where they were thirty two of thirty six. Indiana just twenty one of twenty five, while I say just twenty one of twenty five. But the Sixers given their volume that much stronger in that department. Sixers plus one on the glass. Sixers turned Indie over twenty times and outscored the Pacers by seven off turnovers, so that was a key stat as well. Sixers with forty six points in the paint that helped their cause too.

Thirty two points eleven rebounds for Joel embiid game high totals in both categories, twenty two for Tobias Harris, Ben Simmons with fifteen points, thirteen assists, six rebounds and four steals. Fifteen for Al Horford to go with three rebounds and three assists. James and It's the third with nine points off the bench plus four rebounds and a couple steals of his own. Seventy six Ers have won three in a row. They are fourteen and six, and they've also

won seven out of the last eight games. They remain undefeated here at the Center with the record of nine and oh. They are one of three unbeaten home teams left in the NBA. They have the Utah Jazz coming up at seven o'clock on Monday Night one final time. The final score was the seventy Sixers one nineteen Indianna Pacers one sixteen. You've been listening to rewind, look out for fresh episodes the day after every seventy Sixers game this season