The Kings scored 42 points in the second quarter, and if you didn’t know, that isn’t exactly a small amount. Luckily for the Sixers, Brett Brown has been around the NBA long enough to be perfectly aware of how much scoring that is, and it really sounds like he chewed out his troops at halftime. Here’s what Ish Smith had to say about the scene in the locker room: “Coach was like, ‘That’s not the culture we’re trying to build here.’ He said, ‘Whether you’re playing for me now or later or whatever it is, that’s not how we’re going to do it. While you’re here, we’re going to play it this way.’” Suffice it to say, Brown’s message got through to his team. Smith and the bench (and later the starting lineup) frolicked against the Kings’ lackadaisical defense in the second half, and that was that. The Sixers held off a late Sactown charge and DeMarcus Cousins’ monster night was all for naught.
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