Wow Wow, Wow, wow wow ninety seven seventy eight over who the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio for the seventy Sixers. That is not a misprint. That is not a misannouncement or mispronunciation of anything. The seventy Sixers roll past Brett Brown's old team, knocking him off by nineteen points in a game that you could certainly make the case was not even that close. Brian Seltzer with you
from Sixers dot com. We are expecting to hear from the head coach, Brett Brown, back in San Antonio for the fifth time since leaving the Spurs bench back in twenty thirteen, guiding the Sixers to just their second win against the Spurs since nineteen eighty six, the largest road victory for the Sixers in San Antonio in franchise history, and fittingly for a guy in Brett Brown who has preached nothing but defense and development over the course of
the last four plus seasons. That's how the Sixers got it done tonight. They jumped out to a twenty to nine lead, They led by nineteen at the half, They went up by twenty five midway through the third quarter, all while stifling the Spurs. Did the Spurs miss some open shots early? Yes to the sixers credit they pounced Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, Dario Schartz, Timo Taylor, while Cabrough all fantastic. Let's get to Brett Brown right now. After
the ninety seven seventy eight win. You know, if you cannot turn it over, you know they get out an open court. There are a lot of threes generated through the turnover and just generally, you know, trying not to put them in the bonus until as late as possible. I thought that guys were really good at that. After all the years of struggling against the Spurs, How did you guys do what you did this season against them? I think we played good defense. So I think our
first half defense was excellent. I think that when they started to make a mini run, and I felt like they did it twice in the second half, we responded primarily through like the turnova stuff in the foul stuff. We a little you know, mini meltdown in the third period with some crazy turnovers, but buying large. I thought our defense was the thing that stood out most to me. Can't you just talk about the balance. It was like, you know, there wasn't one guy who just I mean,
they all had a pretty good games. But you know what I mean, it was like a balance today. I mean it was. And I thought our bench, you know, was good. I thought that just enough, the bench was really good. I think that the the single turnover really which was late off the bench. You know, Larry had had a late turnover. We were solid from that perspective. Um you look at the numbers. You know, Ben was what ten for eleven from the field and at times
was just dominant. And I thought Joe had a good game. I thought Joe had a solid game, and so did the starting five. It's hard, like you say, to annoy anybody. I think it was a fantastic team effort. We stayed focused throughout all forty eight minutes and did an excellent job of defending them this first quarter of the season low of any points. What was that game? Play? One instant? A nice game. I mean, we have the luxury without length that we switch a lot, and you know, can
you guard the first dribble? Because when you switch, you're at times disadvantage with guys that can play downhill. And I thought that our guys really played lower and slid, slid their feet and showed their hands, and we kept the game in front of us. We really did a good job of not getting beat on the first dribble.
And I think that the defensive league because we have that type of length that if you can do that and keep the game in front of you, you really get a chance to be an E leage defensive team. And when you have Joel and be behind you, it even gives you a greater chance. Yeah. No, and so all that equaled, like that type of low number that they scored. How did rebounding factor into all of it? You finish, got to finish the play, you know, that
is the the end of the Creb cycle. You know, like you do whatever you do, you got to do to get back and do whatever you gotta do a defensive possession, but you got to finish it and then the cycle starts again. Sorry, everybody's excited to us. Well, if only the postgame press conference could have gone as smoothly as the seventy sixers performance tonight. Honey, you let the head coach give an explanation to a question. Come on,
because the rebounding was huge in this game. The Sixers totally dominant on the glass plus fourteen plus seven on the offensive boards, one part of a big win in San Antonio tonight. Ben Simmons twenty one, five and seven, Joel Embiid eighteen and fourteen to go with three assists, charch with fifteen. The Sixers suffocating defensively against the San Antonio Spurs. They finished three to twenty four from outside the arc and just shot forty percent overall at eight
and T center. With the seventy Sixers win for the second time and just also for the third time overall going back to nineteen eighty six. Seventy Sixers now are twenty four and twenty one on the season. A big win in Texas tonight. We'll get into it more with Tom McGinnis on the other side. It's a postgame showing the Sixers rat Network seventy Sixers top with the San Antonio Spurs tonight at eighteen T Center ninety seven to seventy eight. Tom McGinnis had the call of this one tonight. Tom.
It seemed to start with a great collective defensive effort and Ben Simmons just going right at the Spurs. They had no answer for him this evening. Absolutely and the fact that he went ten of eleven is absolutely remarkable. But as I said, the Sixers, not only they were switching, as Coach Brown alluded to, but they seem to have everything covered like they were cutting guys off the baseline. If a guy got into the lane, there were two
defenders there. They had deflections and tips and runouts. And the rebound advantage was fifteen I guess, yeah, fifteen fifty for the Sixers, thirty five for the Spurs. And that's what Coach Brown said. That's how it ends. You can do a good job defensively, but you gotta punctuated with a stop. Here comes coach back out onto the floor. I think he's going to visit with a number of folks that he knew here, in fact, some of his friends, one of his sons, Sam's friends. I believe he's got
a man new Jenoble jersey for me. He just handed to him, nice touch, and he's you can just tell he's very happy. He was much contained and professional as he always is in that press conference. But you know he has to be really excited and to be able to get on that plane and be with his coaches and his team as he flies to Oklahoma here with arguably the best victory since he's become the Sixers coach.
Wouldn't you agree, Brian? You know what that was the one of the leadens on the Sixers dot com postgame article. It's it's the signature win. And not just because it came in San Antonio at least, this is my view on it. It's because of the way the win happened. I mean, what have we heard Brett Brown talk about
since day one? It's been about defense building This around defense and the development of really prime young talent, and all that came together tonight against the Spurs team that of course you got a respect but with some guys getting a little bit older, and you just you know, you think what this could lead to and perhaps what this could represent maybe if things work out in the Sixers favored down the road, well absolutely, and you know
you're trying to build on this. This will be something that you remember, just as some of those tough losses that will remember that where games slipped away for the Sixers. They're all part of this season, but they're playing at a higher level than they have at any other point, certainly in the Brett Brown here as well, they have better players and now to win ten out of thirteen.
And to me, like if you listen to that press conference and you passed through his language in vocabulary, Brett Brown used the phrase many run by the Spurs or many meltdown by the sixers, And in the past, let's be honest, there have been some huge meltdowns and some huge runs by the opposition. So that's the whole thing.
Like teams are going to score, but their runs are like four in a row or six in a row, and that's nothing compared to fourteen oh runs where you know they're right back where the opposition has taken the lead.
But no, no question about it. And coach doesn't really talk about it that much, but he did after the Chicago game, and that is they had to go through a lot of pain over these last four seasons and now they're they're gaining some of the pleasure with the bright talent and the you know, the unbelievable abilities of Simmons and beat and don't count out Dario. He's been so good in all of this that Timo tama Wawa
was stepped in. It was just an incredible victory keyed by the defense, but just an overall tremendous performance and an awesome win for the Sixers in San Antonio with a rock and postgame concert taking place as the backdrop. It was in San Antonio. I'm gonna ask you one more time before we wrap this up. Ninety seven seventy eight Sixers win at the Spurs. Maybe not ask you something, just gonna put something out there and we'll have you respond.
I mean, the Sixers, they've gone on this really nice stretch towards the end of this month. That's now ten out of their last thirteen, but especially this week. They've been doing it without JJ Reddick, without Jared Bayliss there t J McConnell missed a game. Yet the defense, that's right, of course, Yeah, absolutely false too, And I mean the defense has been what it's been, and they've been knocking
down three pointers pretty consistently too, without question. And one thing on the flip side of this is that Luawa was playing and the way he played an he had a couple of threes and he did okay, but he had some fouls put the Memphis game and the game against Milwaukee. I mean, what we've always said about other teams when they play their younger players that they fill in like the San Antonio's team, it really bolsters that
person's confidence and helps the overall team. Like let's say down the stretcher if the Sixers get into the playoffs in playoff games where Luah knows and has the confidence that he can deliver whether he's a starter or coming off the bench, and it's really the whole essence of team. You know, like you said, they're missing key performers and primeter players in Bayliss and Reddick, but they're getting it done now. Justin Anderson is back and he played well.
He had two clutch plays and you know he's a very good athlete. He had some plays at the rim. And Cub didn't have his greatest game here tonight. He had seven points, but again he still brings it defensively. And you're having two and three guys with big games and then multiple solid performances up and down the line, all with everybody contributing defensively. A long ways to go for the seventy Sixers in this season, but as you talk about, a lot tom Plane rides after wins like
this certainly enjoyable. So go have an enjoyable rest of the evening in a big back Brian good night from San Antonio. A great win for the seventy Sixers in the Alamos City ninety seven seventy eight were following the Sixers win. Tom McGinnis had a chance to catch up with one of the players afterwards. Ben Simmons and Joelle and Beat are Independence Blue Cross players of the game Independence Blue Cross Live Fearless and learn more at ibx
dot com. So we're awaiting, one of the Sixers says, they walked back to their dressing room San Antonio with a season those seventy eight points back on December thirty if they had seventy nine against Detroit. Great win for the Sixers, arguably the best of the year, and it's now twenty four and twenty one for the Sixers on the year. As I mentioned San Antonio thirty two and nineteen and by far one of the best defensive performances
of the Sixers the season. Dario had fifteen points, Tim and Taylor wild Caberreo two threes, ten points, Justin Anderson had twelve, Robert Covington seven, t J five points, four assists and three rebounds. As the Sixers prevail ninety seven to seventy eight. Low scoring fourth quarter. San Antonio outscored the Sixers in the final frame seventeen to sixteen. And now we're with us. Who's there with us outside the Sixers locker room? Hello? Hello, Hi, who's this Simmons Ben,
It's Tom. Congratulations, great win, start to finish, dominance. You must be really happy with the way this one win. Oh, definitely. I think we played really well listening to instructions and I followed through and played great defense. You were again very assertive from the very jump. With the first basket of the game, you had that runout jam and you just I don't know if it was the size against Murray or whatever, but you really were embolded the night
against the Spurs. Definitely, I think you know, I'm a good friend of Jontay so Toy's mind going against him, and he's a great young player, a lot of talent. But I love competing against the team who's coached very well by Pop. And how about your defense. You had thirteen points for them in the first quarter, a season low seventy eight for the game. Lloyd Pearce and you're coaching staff and you guys have to be really tickled with how you played at that end. Definitely, I think
we had a great scouting report. Everyone listened, great attention on the court, and we definitely followed through with the instructions that were given. At the risk of overstating the obviously, then we'll let you go after this. But do you feel this momentum You've not won ten of your last thirteen games, best stretched other season for your team. Definitely, I think we're getting a lot better. You know, we have a lot of improvement that we knew to make,
but we're going in the right direction. Ben, congratulations, Thanks, Thank you. Ben Simmons from just outside the Sixers locker room twenty one point seven assist, five rebounds. How about this, Ben Simmons in thirty four minutes went ten of eleven from the field. Sixers win ninety seven, seventy eight