WEBVTT - Playoff Pod: Episode 17 - Round 2 Game 4 Rewind 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.000 This is a playoff edition of seventy Sixers Rewind presented 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.720 by Geico Time Net to listen back to reaction from 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.480 the team's most recent postseason game. You could feel the 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:14.680 tension throughout the afternoon. You could smell the desperation from 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.439 the Toronto Raptors sideline Toronto up against it, did not 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.520 want to be pushed to the brink of elimination, and 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:23.720 they eke out a win at the Center today, one 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:25.840 on one to ninety six. I'm Brian Selzer. This is 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.560 the postgame show seventy Sixers and the Raptors. Hard, hard, 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.680 hard fought game here in Game four in the second round, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.240 eleven ties, ten lead changes, great performances on both ends 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.400 of the floor. Jimmy Butler again terrific, twenty nine points, 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:45.040 eleven rebounds. JJ Reddick was fantastic. But this man, Kawhi 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.040 Leonard is a darn good professional basketball player. Might be 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.040 a Top one player in the NBA the way he's 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.600 going right now, and with the game on the line, 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.360 Leonard stepped up. Jimmy Butler hit this amazing turnaround bank 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.480 shot three as the shot clock was expiring. The seventy 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.040 six Ers up eighty four eighty one about three minutes 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.319 not even into the fourth quarter. From there, Marcus all 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.480 a huge time three pointer and after that Kawhile Leonard 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.120 would score seven of the raptors next ten points, including 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.280 a monster three that made it ninety four to ninety 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.520 with sixty one seconds to go in the game. Thirty 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.000 nine points, fourteen rebounds, five assists for Leonard. He and 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.119 the Raptors survive his seven turnovers out of the fourteen 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.080 in the game that Toronto committed, and Toronto was able 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.320 to do enough in the fourth quarter to pull this 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.320 one out and send the series back to Toronto square 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.800 at two games apiece. Toronto won the fourth quarter twenty 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.680 six to twenty one. The Raptors shot fifty percent in 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.559 the fourth period while the seventy sixers made just five 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.240 and they're twenty one shots, including three of fourteen from 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.560 outside the arc. I thought a really big key to 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.200 this series and you almost want, sorry not the series, 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.000 but two tonight's game, and you almost wonder if this 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.800 would have happened had it not been for Pascal Siakam 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:04.000 not being at one percent. The tandem between Marcasol and 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.600 Sergebaca gave the Raptors some size on the interior that 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.560 they really hadn't displayed. They hadn't gone with that pairing much, 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.880 if at all, to the first three games of the series, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.360 and Toronto had just been crushed by the seventy Sixers 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.120 on the glass in all three games, even game one 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.760 the Sixers lost, and between Gasol and Abaca they were 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.720 able to do some damage on the boards Toronto and 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.840 the Sixers even on the rebounds overall each of forty 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.480 three apiece and the Raptors outscoring the seventy Sixers by 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.600 two on second chance points. And then in the first 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.000 half that Toronto was able to dial up its running game, 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.600 they outscored the seventy Sixers seventeen to ten on fast 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.960 break opportunities. Sixers did key in on that in the 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:47.920 second half, but that was one of the things that 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.680 helped Toronto get out to an early lead, in addition 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:55.440 to their defense seventy sixers falling one on one ninety six. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.320 Let us check in with the podium right now and 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.720 see who is there if something like that were to happen, 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.160 And as much as at least we stepped in and 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.600 took shots tonight, I think I watched a whole bunch 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.920 of ones that I'm gonna keep taking and we gotta 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:12.839 we gotta make more of them. And there's a lot 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.799 of naked threes out there that we didn't hit. And 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:21.079 one of these days we just might coach Bryan Kaprowski 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.760 from Hoopsite. You have, you know, two bigs who can 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.560 both stretch the floor with Surge and Mark. How much 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.919 does that factor the decision to play them again together 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.960 moving forward? Well, I think we probably look at it 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.400 again just because it helped us on the rebounding um. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.400 It does help that they can both make them. It 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.240 was nice to see Mark take them and make a 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.040 couple and kind of keep taking them. Surge hopefully when 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.160 we get back on our own floor'll get dialed in 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:48.880 a little bit. He had a couple of threes that 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.600 he took. I mean, he's he can make those two 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.440 and it'd be nice if he could throw one or 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.960 two in a game too, because again, you know, the 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.760 penetration by whoever is going to draw a lot of help, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.400 as it should, and those guys are kind of safety 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.360 valves out behind the arc, and if they're all alone 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:06.760 out there, we want them to step in and take 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:12.560 them either one of them, yeah, seventy six, or was 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.040 loose of the Toronto Raptors in game four. That was 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.680 Nick Nurse, head coach of Toronto, which one today one 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.400 to ninety six. We're standing by and waiting for Brett Brown, 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.159 who we expect to be at the postgame podium very shortly. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.240 Joel and Bead finished with eleven points, two made shots, 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.000 seven to ten from the line, eight rebounds, seven assists, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.960 two big blocks on Sergebaka, two steals, but just did 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.080 not seem like himself in today's game. And I would 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.720 be stunned if this were not a matter brought up 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.400 with Brett Brown after the game, and we might get 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.359 some more insight onto what the situation with Joel was. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:49.120 Just didn't seem as spry and fresh and sharp as 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.240 he did in that magnificent performance. And he went for 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.279 thirty three and ten plus five blocks in the game 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.840 on Thursday here at the Center. So it's kind of 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.800 like we're starting back at square one in this best 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.920 seven series. Tied up at two apiece, Toronto has home 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.839 court advantage back, with two of the final three being 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:10.520 played at Scotia Bank Arena starting on Tuesday with Game five, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.360 as the Sixers look to a regroup and to take 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.360 control of this series once again. Here's Brett Brown at 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:20.520 the podium, and we missed some free throws, and we 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:25.080 missed some layups, and you give Toronto credit. Their defense 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.120 went up a new new level. And it was a 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.520 close out type of quarter fourth period to go win 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.479 a game, and we went in there. I think it 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.240 was seventy five seventy five at the end of the 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.719 third and we went into a drought. It was probably 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.159 a six minute, six and a half minute drought that 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:50.840 was littered with miss layups, miss free throws, some open threes, 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.720 and sprinkled in with some turnovers. And I give Toronto credit. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:01.560 Brett Center, rond Hector Bso, you know, obviously with one 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.200 day in between each game now the rest of the series, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.039 no one's really one hundred percent. Are you looking at 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.600 anything differently with Joel playing minutes and are you going 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.520 to sort of structure that rotation going forward. I mean, 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.960 it's really just driven out of his health. You know, 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.040 I got a text from him at six twenty am 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.760 this morning telling me like he didn't sleep all night. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.720 He'd really never felt this Polly, and he was unsure coach, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.479 if I'm gonna play, I just want to give you 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.159 a heads up. I'll try lost some of the feed 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.880 right there. Apologies about that. Literally, what happens is someone 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.080 just yanks the chord for the audio out of our board, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.720 and I'm sorry that happened. At a point, I'm sure 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.719 a lot of people, if you're listening, you'd have loved 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.280 to have heard the rest of that answer about the 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.920 interaction between Joel Embiid and Brett Brown. We'll try to 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.160 efforts more of the postgame press conference if we can, 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.400 and certainly relay to any quotes that come from Brett 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.040 or players for what we can follow online. But we 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.280 heard right there it sounded like there was an interaction 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.480 earlier this more between Brett and Joel Embiid where Joel 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.040 wasn't even certain if he was going to play in 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.279 today's game. And no, he did not look right, certainly 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.360 not the type of player we saw on Thursday. Eleven points, 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.000 eight rebounds, did have the seven assists he was also, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.000 I mean, it's such an interesting thing depending on how 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.440 you like to look at your box scores. He was 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.360 plus seventeen for the game in thirty five minutes, the 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.920 most of any player for either the Sixers or the Raptors. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.640 But he did not seem to be the same player 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.920 that we saw on Thursday. And as we found out 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.120 just a moment ago, Brett Brown and part of that 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.760 answer saying that Joel Embiid was not feeling well going 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.480 into today's game. Didn't feel well last night and earlier 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.440 this morning. So the seventy Sixers lose to the Raptors 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.880 one on one ninety six, we got a brand new series. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.679 Seventy six Ers have shown they can win in Toronto. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.680 They're gonna have to do it certainly come Tuesday night 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.360 at Scotia Bank Arena, standing by with Tom mc guinnis. 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.560 We'll talk a little bit more with him next seventy 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.920 six Ers fall in game four one on one ninety six. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.360 Your home is important. That's why Geico helped make it 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.520 easy to save on homeowner's insurance because home is more 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.720 than just a place. 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I'm Brian Selzer, 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.240 Tom mc ginnis rejoining us now. Jimmy Butler Tom twenty nine, 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.120 eleven and four another great game from him. Kawhi Leonard, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.000 we know he's something special thirty nine and fourteen. He 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.840 had help in this game, but when it was on 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.319 the line, and maybe Toronto's season as well, there was 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.080 Kawhi doing his thing, no doubt about it. He drew 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.880 fouls at the end. He made that timely three that 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.920 you gave them the cushion. Danny sealed the deal with 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.760 foul shots down the stretch and he was incredible once 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.520 again with thirty nine points. He was the difference in 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.000 this game. The fact that Ibaka had his best game 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.880 in the series really at both ends of the court, 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.720 not just scoring the ball with a dozen off their bench, 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.080 but rebounding and then defensively doing a good job on 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.600 the beat. He was a big presence. Marc Gasol was good. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.360 I thought Kyle Lowry had a big impact early in 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.400 the game. He could just see he was bound and 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.720 determined to play better. At one stretch early in the game, 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.559 he had five in a row. Brett Brown took a 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.199 time out, the Sixers battled. They were right there. They 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.440 had a chance. They really did. This is like you say, 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.600 you hope they look back on this and they go, oh, wow, 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.840 we could have won that fourth game. But you know, 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.240 if they don't, by some chance, if the Sixers don't 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.600 win this series, they're really going to look back at 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.320 this game because they could have won this game. It 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.360 was hanging there in the balance. The Raptors led throughout 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.319 much of the fourth quarter, but it was tied in 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:57.160 eighty five and Leonard was too much down the stretch. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.960 And again, when the game comes down to those five 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.840 four or five minutes or so and it's tied, execution efficiency, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.600 all of those things are at a paramount, and the 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.480 Sixers just did not have that down the stretch in 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.800 this game that it cost them time. If you're right 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.120 with it, I'm gonna throw it to Brett Brown. We 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.319 might be repeating a portion of what we heard, but 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.160 this is courtesy of NBC Sports Philadelphia. After these six 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.160 ers one one, ninety six, a loss, etc. To his 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.400 complete credit, you know, he just kind of willed his 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:32.160 way through it. And that's a circular way to answer 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.720 you a question. When I get information on how healthy is, 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.080 I can better tell you or answer you a question 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:44.959 as it sits. I appreciate and respect his effort to 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:50.120 get out there and play play for his team. Maybe 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.160 it's in regards to that. I noticed Joel wasn't out 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.400 there for the anthems. Was he dealing with something at 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.679 that point? And John, I don't I would expect that. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.840 I would come copletely expect that to be the reason, 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.920 but I don't know that. And I saw him after 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:09.599 the early dunk. It looked like he grimaced. Was it 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.959 something with his knears backwards? Now it's it's it's a 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:17.920 it's a virus. And you know, all during pregame film 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:23.480 you can hear him sneezing and sneezing and sneezing, and 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.680 you tried to ignore it and like just coached through 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.079 it and show the players the pregame tape. But I'd 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.080 be lying if I were to tell you it wasn't 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.720 completely on my mind as I'm talking to the team, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.000 showing the tape, listening and seeing him all right. That's 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.520 courtesy of NBC Sports Philadelphia. Some of Brett Brown's postgame 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.319 press conference addressing Joel Embiad situation as we bring back 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.760 Tom again us now Tom. It didn't look like Joel 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.240 Embiad was right in this game, but Jimmy Butler listen, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.600 He to a certain degree put the seventy sixers on 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.559 his back once again, and he delivered another strong showing. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.480 He had a double double. He's had four straight games 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.840 at twenty points or more. He makes nine field goals, 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.679 makes three threes, eight free throws. He certainly did. He's 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.679 been more of a primary ball handler for the Sixers 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.199 in this series, playing a lot of pick and roll 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.240 with mb but to your point of bad eleven points, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.439 eight rebounds, seven assists, so he did do a lot 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.560 of other things besides scoring at the rate that we've 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.120 become accustomed to during the season. He was just two 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.000 of seven from the field, and no doubt you could 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.080 tell he was laboring. And now we hear from Brett 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.000 Brown that he was under the weather during the course 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.480 of the day and obviously in this game. And now 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:44.160 the series shifts back to Toronto, and you know, they 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.440 have the momentum that they're going home and they win 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.520 this game, and they have to feel better about how 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.280 they played here in this game. And I think they 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.880 found a little something, although they're still not getting a 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.120 lot from their bench, but I think you can see 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.360 a little bit more from Ibaka and for the Sixers, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.880 a low turnover game, they just didn't shoot the ball 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.880 well and you have to be more efficient, certainly, you 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.679 know in a home playoff game if you expect to win. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.760 Then they were here today. As we heard during a 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.560 portion of Nick Nurse, Toronto's head coach, his press conference, 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.480 he said, maybe someday a few of these three point 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.800 opportunities will go in for the Raptors. They were ten 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.440 for thirty one in today's game. They entered for the 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.600 series under twenty nine percent. Among the adjustments tom that 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.960 Toronto made, I'm not saying in any way it's not 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.480 something the Sixers can address and figure out but I 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.880 felt they went a little bit bigger at times between 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.120 the front line of Abaca and Ghassol, and whether that 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.480 was by deliberate intent or Siakam not being himself in 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.760 this game, hey, that at least gave him a chance 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.720 on the glass, because before today, in all three games, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.720 I would even say even Game one, the Sixers just 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.440 absolutely dominated on the backboards and that was a huge 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.679 part of their Game two and Game three success for 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.120 the Sixers, no doubt, and you know, part of their strategy. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.400 I mean, like they're big guys like Maranovitch has not 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.080 been able to play in this series. And think about 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.760 how efficient he's been for the Sixers. I mean, the 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.200 guy gets you know, four out of five, five out 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.440 of six, seven or eight rebounds. He's very efficient, and 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.280 he's really been He's not even been in this series 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.880 at all. And that's due to the fact that Ibaka 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.760 comes in the game and he's a more you know, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.240 athletic player who can play both inside it out and 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.160 today was a big factor. So that that's part of it. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.040 And Greg Monroe, he certainly had a really good game 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.000 in Game three. He certainly helped the Sixers in the 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.520 game that they won before going out with that ankle, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.560 but today he was a non factor. So yeah, I mean, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.200 you know, their big gasol had his best game of 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.960 the series. But you know, again the style of play 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.400 where they want to get out and run and get 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.760 some easier baskets, that that's limited Boban in terms of 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.040 Coach Brown being able to use him in the series. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.280 So they didn't make a lot of adjustments the one 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.680 I thought they made, whereas they put Ibaka on Joel 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.680 a little bit more. Siakam was clearly limited. He was 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.960 two of ten, he had nine points, and you know, 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.000 like there's two schools that thought. One is he has 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.760 another day or so to get ready. But on the 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.520 other end, he just played in a game where I 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.120 believe he played thirty minutes on you know, apparently a 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.440 bit of a bruised calf or an injured calf or 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.200 whatever ended up playing yet twenty nine minutes. I guess 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.680 I should say. So that's the thing. I guess maybe 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.240 it all for Toronto. It starts it ends with Leonard. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:25.960 I mean, Sixes have not been able to get a 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.240 handle on him. I don't know quite frankly, anybody that 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.720 will have a handle on him no matter what happens. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.160 But thirty nine again here, He's been a dominant player 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.200 in the series and he he was the big difference 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.520 in this game as well. Tom aginnis, we'll do it 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.120 again Tuesday night, eight o'clock Eastern. That's when you hit 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.680 the air for game at five. It's Scosia Baccarina, Good night, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.120 Thank you. Seventy six Ers losing Game four the Eastern 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.440 Conference semi Finals one on one to ninety six twenty 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.120 nine eleven and four from Jimmy Butler thirty nine points, 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:58.040 fourteen rebounds, five assists, and a key fourth quarter performance 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.640 from Kawhi Leonard sparking Toronto to this win to even 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.120 the series. There was a tough loss for the Sixers. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.960 There were some highlights, as there always are when you've 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.000 got Tom McGinnis on the microphone, and we'll play back 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.760 a few of them next that's coming up. They always 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.520 told Will he was too short to play basketball, but 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.400 Will never listened. We'll let his work ethic do the 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.440 talking for him. Always in the gym, always running drills. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.240 Will knew where there was a will, there was a way, 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.640 and he was Will. But then after a second child 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.960 was born. He realized the pros were all way better 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.120 than him, so Will gave up and buried his high 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.160 tops in a cheerful ceremony. But one day he heard 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.280 that Geico could save him money on car insurance, so 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:42.360 he switched and saved a bunch, which was awesome. Seventy 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.280 Sixers and the Toronto Raptors. A chance for the seventy 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.280 Sixers today to push the Raptors the brink of elimination 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.960 going into Tuesday's Game five. Instead, we got a brand 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.400 new series, all square two games apiece after Toronto's one 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.960 O one ninety six victory today. Down here at the center, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.680 I'm Brian seltered. Tom mc ginnis called the game. Let 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.080 us get to some of those highlights right now. First quarter, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.199 you could tell right away that the Raptors had come 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.840 out with renewed defense intensity. Still, the seventy Sixers got 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.480 an early lead, but then a thirteen nothing run by 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.359 the Raptors gave them control. Jimmy Butler helped the seventy 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.920 Sixers play ketchup late in the first fifty seconds to 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.080 go six and fall. Butler gets positions, he goes in 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.840 on the call and it's in and then Butler knocked 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.480 out by Siaka. So these Sixers get the field goal 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.359 good beat by Joel twenty four twenty one Toronto, And 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.080 that was how the first quarter came to a close. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.080 In the second, the seventy sixers trying to make some 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.680 more inroads on the Raptors. They widen the gap to 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.480 as much as nine. But in the early stages of 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.160 the second Joel Ebad he'll make it a one point game, 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.480 and it's with it bakes the three. Everybody beyond the 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.399 yard for the Sixers get it beat inside. He sets 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.959 a high screen. Now rolls catches your little name, goes 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.960 up and hammers it is Joel and beat two hands slam. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:01.199 That is Nick n Roll. When the thunderous, one of 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.719 just two buckets on the day for Joel, thirty one 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.080 thirty was the score. Then the Raptors went on that run, 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.800 but Joel Embiad was using his defense until the seventy 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.119 Sixers get right back in it. In the Nanny Baka 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.280 goes up Joel a bead block Sergey Baka in a 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:18.320 big way down goes Abaca sicked his ball too a 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.480 trail into bead in on Kauahi fakes back to Ben 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.520 add a slam Ben seventh with a two hands up 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.440 one of Jimmy Butler's three pointers made it a two 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.240 point game. Raptors in front forty seven forty five at 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.520 the break. In the third quarter of the Sixers got 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.000 off to a really strong start thanks to that man 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.600 mister buckets Butler for three hihoneer hen in Jimmy Butler 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.119 with a second train outside right pull up manns he 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.360 get lipped on that ja five point lad for Philadelphia. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.159 Fifty seven to fifty two was the score. In the 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.040 seventy Sixers were playing pretty well down the stretch of 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.240 the third two JJ win to Tobias Harris will shoot 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.000 at three in in or that Tobias Harris knocking down 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:03.919 a triple. Sixers lead seventy five seventy three, but moments 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.400 later Sergeonbaka tied it up at seventy five going into 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.680 the fourth quarter. So how about that for a lay 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:12.520 of the land from a storyline standpoint tie game, seventy 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.960 Sixers leading the series two games to one. What's with 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.280 the Toronto Raptors have in store? I don't know the Sixers. 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.080 They had the momentum early in the fourth thanks for 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.920 Jimmy Butler once again, Butler with it. He's been brilliant 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.680 on Lowry's got a rise up. He hasn't knocked away, 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.960 ain't a backshoot at death, Braason three heavy Bacon in 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:35.399 Shimmy Father Lucky and good eighty four eighty one. That 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:37.760 might have been Jimmy and his most brilliant today. An 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.800 incredible shot. But after that, Marcus All would hit a 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.240 time three pointer. He had some big buckets in this game, 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.800 and of course so too did Kawhi Leonard. That started 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.840 to string of free throws made by Kawhi Leonard getting 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.400 the line. Joel Embiid went o for two from the stripe, 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.480 part of a one for four stretch from the line 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.840 with five and a half minutes to go, sprinkling some 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.360 miss threes and some turnovers, and the Toronto Raptors had 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.240 new life. Leonard by the wing. We'll jumping on Jimmy 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.640 Butler and its Simmons started on him, and beat came over, 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.040 and then Butler came there and Kawhi Leonard scores the ball. 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.919 He has thirty four points in the game. He's been 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.879 over thirty in each of these games and made a 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:20.240 ninety one to big your pardon eighty nine to eighty five, 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.560