Who stuck out? -- 0m12s
On first glance you have to mention Jerami, I think that physically, along with some stats and most importantly really his spirit, he lives well, he represents himself in the program well, and there's a physical side of it that you just sort of fall in love with. His body you can see blossoming. I think that his versatility gets you excited. I think that the improvement that a lot of people have made, JaKarr being another one. To look at the multiple positions that he's played, and he too comes with a tremendous spirit, he's got a bounce. You're not going to find a more personable, together team that had only 18 wins, I don't think any that I have been a part of that has experienced losing at that volume. Those two stand out. You can tell a story about others, but those two on first glance stand out. 

On draft day last year being a gut punch with them not playing. Getting to accountability stage. How sure is he that that's going to be the case next year -- 1m20s
I'm not sure of much, except the things that I see clearly going in the direction that we had hoped. I get flashbacks of when I first met everybody here, and was introduced, and we talked about the pain of losing is real. the pain of a rebuild is real. the city's patiences vs tolerance is real. To quantify when is it all going to happen, that's the most consistent, frequent question that I get, I'm going to end this year where I started when we all met is I feel the values in all of those things that you've heard me talk about ad nauseum. We have moved forward. I feel so positive about the culture that we're building. As a coach you're always asking yourself 'What sword are you prepared to fall on.' And we talked about the values of sports science and development, off the court. We talked about playing defense, on the court. We talked about the need to be able to, you have to coach your best players. You have to be able to say 'That's just not good enough'. And the rest of the group has to understand that this is our culture, which is really behavior. It's a shared value of behaviors. And what does it all mean? The question that you asked is never ending in my own mind. the timeline of when all of that happens, I'm not too sure. But I feel like we're moving in the direction that I said you would.

3m20s -- sick of losing
It's true. That's the only reason you play sport. I think, I think that the boldness, and I've said this before, and as I ended it it resonates even stronger to me, the boldness that our owners have shown in letting us have the patience that we have to have, everybody has to understand that. To move it forward, we need needle movers. We need talent. When do you overreact? When do you blink, and just feel like enough's enough? And we have to do it now? That's when dangerous things happen. For our owners to let us go at this pace, we think it's a very strong, deliberate practice, pace, showing obviously a lot of patience, which dances into tolerance. That if that's what the guidelines are saying, if that's what the level of players that we're able to get are telling us, because we'll move forward as the players help us, the talent level. It comes with development, it comes with the draft, it might come with free agents. To quantify the wins, that now that is just unacceptable for next year, I'm not going there. We're going to talk about not blinking. We're going to talk about not skipping steps, and panicking. And knocking out good days where they all add up. That's all I know. I'm privileged to have seen 5 championships. I've seen what it takes. And I want to share as much as I can, with the city, with the people that pay me, my players, and that comes with a lot of patience, and luck, at times. And so this timeline that a lot of people want to know about is really hard. 

5m25s -- Ish and Thomas Robinspn
I get close to all of my guys. I'm not the person that's ultimately going to sign checks. I will say from the time that I had, let's start with Ish. He comes with a personality. He is a point guard. I think that his better days are ahead of him. right now he's a poor free throw shooter, he's a poor three point shooter. I think that we can grow that. I think the development areas with Luc Mbah a Moute, who's made more three's this year than he shot his whole career. jerami grant I think took 20 three's in college. i feel like i have a hell of a staff. i think that they're runs are on the board. I feel like his needs, can he shoot a free throw? can he make a 3? I think that we can nail. I think that we can help him there. I think Thomas' raw energy, he's a beast, he's all balled up in this aggressive young man that's trying to find his way into the nba, and so i see potential growth there too. what that means for either of them, it's not my place to comment now. 

6m42s -- On Noel's progression after sitting out a year and applying it to Noel.
I say this with respect. Nerlens, when he first came out, caught me off guard because he was way behind what I thought he was going to be. Physically, mentally, skill package wise, all of it. It was slow. Hands, the whole thing. What I misjudged is the fact that when you don't play basketball for that long of a time, and you feel a little bit the weight of the city and expectation, it's a collision to speed up your head, to speed up the game, in an environment that's unforgiving, the nba. we saw him blossom. we just saw a confidence level merge with a skill package, and an athleticism, and a caring player, that you said 'Okay, pretty impressive.' I think that with joel, we're going to see a similar thing. I think that we can't get our expectations and hopes up early. i'm not going to. i think that playing those two together, there are challenges there, and we're going to have to be patient again in growing those two together. I think that this experience with Joel will help him, and I too have learned a lot. I feel like the main words you want to hear me say is we have to be a little bit patient I think when he comes back in.

8m25s -- playing best ball before all-star break.
I actually looked at it as a positive in that my staff, all of us, we can move people forward. i think if we can hold onto a group for a while, we can move them forward. we saw dividends from holding onto a group, especially defensively. I also saw that after we made the trade, we experienced some pain for a while and then we were able to move that next waive forward. Then the season ended and I shuffled Nerlens around to a 4 to test that and we learned from that experience too. I think the hit, it was a hit, but i don't necessarily look at it as a negative thing. I feel like we all learned how to handle a roster that, let's face it, it's going to have some fluid aspects again next year. i said last night, we don't want to become pregnant with players that just aren't needle movers, people that can move us forward. I expect some level of volatility next year. We inch along and we keep identifying these players that can grow with us. 

Core, like Nerlens and Joel, leaving in free agency if they continue to lose -- 9m48s
i really don't. your point is fair, maybe it should require more thought. and i've thought about it a little bit. i'm going on my gut that if we can build this thing through, i'm calling it care and communication. this is always about relationships. i think that that rules the day. i think that if you can care for their development, and talk about things that can move them forward, even with their family, or their game, i think that that's going to hold a lot, and they're going to want to be a part of it. I feel like when you talk to people like Kevin Durant or Russell Westbrook, and you learn, and you listen, that there's a lot of truth that they share, echoing words that I just said. Although that reality is maybe not that far away, it's not something that keeps me up at night. 

11m00s -- Was last night a demarcation line in the path the Sixers puruse. 
Is your question am I glad that game is over? Because I could say hell yes. 
I hadn't really looked at it like that. I said it candidly last night, I'm glad the season is over. I say it more with the spirit of I can't wait for the summer. everybody knows i'm the son of a coach. And we all remember when we'd get out of school, and it was june, and you just dove into the summer stuff. I have a chance to speak to our season ticket holders before every game, and I heard myself last night talking about 'Think about it. It's April. And then we have May. And then we have June. And then we have July. And then we have AUGUST. And then we really have September. Think of the months that I've just laid out and the opportunity that we have to develop our guys. Where in any other profession can you leave your job for 6 months, almost, and have a chance to improve. And have somebody care for you, and put you on a roadmap that's real. The end of the season, no doubt, I'm personally happy that the season is over, but I also see it as a way to dive into the summer. I love the summer. And we have sold it hard, and talked to our guys hard, about the opportunity that they have, and the responsibility that they have, to improve. 

May 18th. Everybody will be coming back a little bit sooner, but that's kind of a delineated date. As a group we talk a lot about it. Funny enough it was one of the last things said out of our locker room last night: let's get going.

About Joel's work ethic -- 12m2s
There were times that I wasn't happy, and it's been well documented. go back to where I started, if you can't coach your best players, I call it buying time and dying. You have nothing. I think that my experience in this first year where, Joel and I tell my guys, you want me to coach you. You want to show up on time. you want to do the right thing. we want to act the right way. And like all young players, Nerlens was no different, other young players are the same, you go through heartache. And you go through things that you have to stand up and say that's not part of our culture. That's just normal, with any young player. Joel was a part of that. And then, all of a sudden, as the season has unfolded, and you start attaining wait goals, and interestingly like Nerlens it's correlated to when they can play. Put a poor person in a canoe and don't give them a fishing rod, it's probabily frustrating. Here we are, and he starts going to the court, and his world changes. It makes sense. He's got a spirit again. It's a little bit easier. So I don't begrudge Joel or Nerlens for any of it. They're 20 year olds, and it's my job to coach them, and build a culture. That's what we experienced this year, and we'll be better off for it, like we saw with Nerlens, when he's actually a playing member of the Philadelphia 76ers. 

About if he realized he'd get flak for letting young players draw up plays -- 15m6s
First, I didn't realize that. Second, I don't care. 

We used to do it often in San Antonio. And I learned from Pop. To be able to give our players the opportunity to talk to their teammates, you should have seen the engagement that the teammates have with fellow teammates. And, truthfully, they ran some good plays. I will take some of those and build on them for next year. It's not a gimmick. It's not to cheapen our game. It's not to belittle the environment that we were in last night. I saw it as an opportunity for players to talk to players, and I would do it again if I had the chance. 

Did Pop every do it with guys that had never played a game in the NBA? -- 15m58s
I don't remember. And I will tell you what was interesting, becuase like all of us, when somebody gives you a stage you're either nervous, you're trying to figure it all out. Joel Embiid wanted that board the whole night. He had a lot to say, and drew it well, and articulated it well. I thought that it was a good, healthy experience. I'd do it again. 

Are you worried he might take your job -- 16m27s
I'll tell you what, Isaiah Canaan probably had the play of the night. He's the one that I might, quietly, ask for more help with ATO's. 

What's your biggest need going into next season -- 16m38s
I want desperately to say we have to improve our offense, becuase it stands out statistically. But in my heart of hearts I know we have to build on our defense. That's who we are. Imagine Nerlens and Joel behind the scenes in rim protection. It's easy to go to any part of our offense and say we need some help. I think that the challenge of playing Nerlens and Joel is ever present. The spacing, you hear me talk all the time about pace, space, and pass, I think it's the 3 cornerstones to building any successful offense. Offense is going to be a real concern, but I can't get tricked. This thing will always be about defense, and especially in this city.

How concerned was he with Embiid's foot injury -- 17m25s
I mean, it's a real concern. It's always a concern. I attribute it directly to his weight. We talk about diet all the time. I think that we can point to many players that when weight becomes a real factor, that the pounding, 82 games, rim to rim, takes its toll. He has been fantastic on understanding that. Through my voice it's been delivered almost as a fear. It should scare the hell out of him. This is his future. He's obviously a big part of what we're doing. So that education with all of our young guys, on all of it, is important, and I think that with him it's really important to lose weight. 

On if they'd draft another big man -- 18m38s
Like we've said, or I've said it, I think that you have to take the best player when that time comes. If it gets a little bit murky, and it's not a clearly defined best player, then perhaps you can get more need based. If that's the way it shakes out, then I'll coach it, and we'll find a way to make it work. How can you walk away from the best player? 

What's the goal for next season -- 19m13s
You're not going to like my answer. Everybody wants to hear a quantity on wins. I feel like it's one in the same. To just keep moving us forward. If you were to come to our practices, and you were to see how I feel most comfortable designing my staff. I have somebody that's helping me with defense, with offense, with analytics, with shooting, with big men, with video, with special teams, I can go on and on. I've designed it like an NFL staff. The infrastructure, and how I navigate, and move, for me works. I did it in the olympic games, I've done it here. It works for me. I'm thrilled with that part of it. Each of those people will come, and I'll speak to them in our own exit interviews to talk about how we can do those things better. I'm thrilled with the development, as we've talked about. I'm thrilled about all the sports science stuff as we know. I can't wait for the summer to take it further and give more specific examples, I have none. I think that we just have to keep focused, and not blink, and move along as we said we were going to. I feel like if we can do that then next year again will be a step forward. I'm trying to build something that's hard. It's not a video game, this is the N.B.A. And we better be smart, and we better be deliberate, and we're going to need some luck, we understand that, but we're going at a real patient pace, and make sure that we don't skip steps. 

How he divides his time between gym and draft -- 20m45s
Involved in it all. We have kind of a consistent monday call, sometiems we see it through and sometimes we don't, where Sam, Josh, David, the owners, me, get on a phone and we talk. We communicate all the time. I'm with them. They're with me, and we're doing this together. The process of identifying players, who do we draft, how do we do it, that is a shared conversation behind closed doors. It's not always pretty, it's not always pleasant, but it's real. Just like where I used to come from. You walk out of there and we're unified once again. That whole thing will keep on moving as it relates to studying the draft, and draft night.

On Sunday I'm going to Istanbul, Turkey to spend a week with Dario and watch him. I'll come back and immerse myself in studying the draft and trying to identify people, especially with the second round, that interests me more than where the ping pong ball kind of dictates. The ping pong ball night is probably my only nervous night. I'm okay most nights, but ping pong ball night is not one of my favorites. I get really nervous. We look forward to that, and we'll move on with the development and the direction of the players, whether they're here or someplace else, all of those things will dominate up until draft night. 

2nd round interesting him because he can find diamond in rough -- 22m28s
I feel like it's Sam's strength. I think that he has shown that. With what he saw in KJ, with what he saw in Jerami. We hit payday years ago with Manu. It's kind of unfair to use that as an example, but it's true, he was there. I think you can make money in the 2nd round. I think that you can find players, and I'm backing Sam Hinkie and his group to drape his analytics and thoughts on all of that and try to uncover some more players. Even if it's a single, a keeper out of those 2nd round picks.

Drafting 1st rounders that don't play -- 23m13s
You know what's funny though is we do this all together. It's the truth. And I remember it like it was yesterday walking into the room and saying, because I was thrilled. I wanted Joel Embiid the whole time. I'm looking at it, and when the injury happened I said 'oh my, he's going to fall. He's going to fall'. And we ended up getting him. And then the Dario stuff you end up studying that, and you go into a room and you undestand the rules, but you also understand, and people have to hear this, what's best for the club? What's best for the program and the future. Forget us for a second, if you really try to be a big boy here, we think it's him. He's a hell of a player. And maybe because other people might be intimidated about that duration, maybe we shouldn't. If we're really true to our word on trying to grow something and show the level of patience that we're displaying. If it happens again, I won't lie that you're going to bite your lip, but I think in years to come, not so far away, that we'll look back and say that that was a smart move. I do admit, in my own contract negotations when you're deciding to come, nobody explained to me fully that for a few years you might not have your draft picks, but I just am so proud of my staff, I really have great respect for my staff. I'm so proud of what we can do that others just don't know about. And I know even here in an interview it's hard to sort of feel it, even though we've spoke all year, because you sort of live around your win/loss record. We're moving in the right direction. 

on What he'd say to fans who want to win now -- 25m6s
I hope they see what we talk about with our defense. I hope they see what we see, we led the NBA in being down 15 points, we came back and won games more than any team in the NBA. Maybe we tied with Golden State the best team. We had a 4th period defense that was #1 in the NBA. We went from 27th to tied with 12th. Slightly ahead of Chicago, a little bit behind the Clippers. I hope that people looking at they are playing their hearts out. It will translate into winning. I hope they see some level of patience that will ultimately produce things that will come our way that are good. Nothing is build easily. I think that if we're all real, and you understand how do you do anything well, not much happens quickly. I hope they see that too. I will say this, we appreciate the city. I speak to the season ticket holders before every single game that I've coached here. I go out, it's part of my job, I enjoy it, it's the true beat on the street, you get a pulse of the city. Yesterday I'm running around, I take a run before every one of my games, 5 people stop me, one drove alongside of me for probably 3 or 400 yards telling me how to coach, and who we should draft, I pass a bunch of school kids that want to know 'are you drafting so and so in the first round', or people saying that they're with you. I'm kind of floored at how great the city has been when you go to the supermarket or you go for a run. we get that different between patience and tolerance, but to date, we thank them. We appreciate the city.

On whether Sam gets the same reaction. -- 26m59s
I think that's unfair to Sam. I do this with him. Brett Brown's not looking for pity, here I am, and we're going to do this all together. You get it right or you don't. I'm so convinced that we are on the right track. You sleep at night, you go to bed feeling that you're doing the right thing. You're moving forward. I hope that the city sees me in partnership with him.

On his next contract -- 27m48s
I feel that my approach is one of trying to be grateful for the job, and have a partnership with the people that pay me. I will back myself, and I feel that I will be fine, and I hope that I can deliver on the things that I've said. You just feel an amazing opportunity to come into a city like Philadelphia and have a chance to put an imprint on a program, and do it the right way. I can't say strongly enough that we're all going to walk away and your'e going to watch the playoffs and you're going to see something that isn't the regular season. It's a different sport. And I want my guys to study it, and understand that. My vision of how I want to help build this is only based around how do you play in May and June. That's all I care about. That's why I'm here. That responsibility, and the lessens that I've been privileged to be a part of, you just feel the responsibility to deliver on those. Wherever it takes me it takes me, and that's my strategy.

How do you move forward with 6 new guys -- 29m18s
Slowly. You do. You move it slowly. And you just have to stay on path. what does that end up meaning, I don't know. But I feel, and I hope that others can see it too, that you said it. It's like right before the all-star break, you can feel it. We're going someplace. We took a hit with the trade, and this and that, and then we got another group and we moved it a little bit ahead. I hope that if we can have something that's stable, and consistent, that we are going to be able to talk a little bit easier at this time next year. There will be volatility, there has to be, you're not going to find 15 guys that are ours forever, and so you just hope that number shrinks. I feel like if we can get those draft picks, and then our first round guy, and who knows, there are other things probability wise that don't favor us, but maybe there will be more draft picks coming in that first round, then you have a chance to build something. It's always about consistency, for the fans too, they want to identify with a core group, and that no doubt is my goal.