Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind. They'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Behind
Speaker 1: an outstanding performance from Joel Embiide, highlighted by a season
Speaker 1: best thirty nine points and sixteen rebounds, the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: beat the Brooklyn Nets one twelve, one oh four to
Speaker 1: start their home stretch after the All Star Game break
Speaker 1: with a win. I'm Brian Seltzer. I'll be joined by
Speaker 1: Devon Gibbons and Tom McGinnis in a few moments. Right now,
Speaker 1: let's listen in on Brett Brown postgame. So you tried
Speaker 1: Jay Rich. You know at the start, Jay struggled a
Speaker 1: little bit. I came in with you know how obviously started,
Speaker 1: but Jay Rich is the backup. Then we came in
Speaker 1: with shake. You know, we're searching a little bit at
Speaker 1: that position, and Ben's absence put us in that environment.
Speaker 1: And I think in general, you know, the flow of
Speaker 1: the game was a little bit erratic at the start,
Speaker 1: and Alec certainly came in and did what we we
Speaker 1: we scouted him to do. Now they play really small,
Speaker 1: but obviously as a rough game for al they have
Speaker 1: any concern about him against the smaller matchups on US.
Speaker 1: I mean when when it's small small, Because what I
Speaker 1: look at at the end of the game is how
Speaker 1: much did Al and Joel play together? Like you get,
Speaker 1: you know, Joel's in, Joel comes out, here, comes out
Speaker 1: you you get that. But the portion of the game
Speaker 1: where you can say it's Al hoof and and Joel together,
Speaker 1: you know that that's a that's an interesting number to
Speaker 1: always study. And tonight, you know they went small small,
Speaker 1: I mean Wilson Chandler out of five, you know, and
Speaker 1: it just didn't It didn't play out that way. And
Speaker 1: I think, like when you go to Milwaukee, things will change.
Speaker 1: But it was a small ball game. And it's true,
Speaker 1: you know, we we went with Joe more than Al
Speaker 1: for the reasons that I just said, what works in
Speaker 1: the third quarter that didn't during night wrong. I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought we did a good job in the second
Speaker 1: half of not turning the ball over. I thought we
Speaker 1: played with a great greater pace. You feel the pain,
Speaker 1: like we didn't shoot threes, not the quantity or the
Speaker 1: percentage that we need to. You know, I think you
Speaker 1: can point at Ben simmons absence as a big reason
Speaker 1: for that. He really does a great job a quarterback
Speaker 1: in the gym, collapsing the defense. I mean, I'll go
Speaker 1: back and look at it, but I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: we came out of the we came out of the
Speaker 1: time halftime. Two things reminded of how we that drought
Speaker 1: that we just spoke about there. But we clawed back,
Speaker 1: and I thought the last few minutes of the second
Speaker 1: period gave us a little bit of life. And as
Speaker 1: I mentioned to the group, it really wasn't like an
Speaker 1: X and O thing to me. It was, you know,
Speaker 1: let's rekindle our a spirit. Let's get that going first.
Speaker 1: And I feel like the turnovers in a spirit just
Speaker 1: playing with that type of intensity changed the game. Good
Speaker 1: night for the seventy six Ers down here at the Center,
Speaker 1: going back to before the All Star Game break, their
Speaker 1: fourth straight victory and now the seventy Sixers just a
Speaker 1: half game behind the Miami Heat for fourth place in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference standings. That's because the Sixers one tonight
Speaker 1: one twelve one oh four overtime against the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1: The Sixers improved to thirty five and twenty one thirty
Speaker 1: nine points, sixteen boards, two steals, two block shots, behind
Speaker 1: an eighteen from nineteen performance from the free throw line
Speaker 1: in forty one minutes for All Star Joel Embiid. Brett
Speaker 1: Brown said yesterday after practice he felt like Joel embiad
Speaker 1: was in a great headspace. That certainly proved to be
Speaker 1: the case tonight. A dominant performance by the big Man
Speaker 1: twenty two from Tobias Harris and Alec Burke's off the
Speaker 1: bench for nineteen all big parts of the Sixers win.
Speaker 1: They outscore the Nets nine to one, to ot and
Speaker 1: shut down Brooklyn as the game went along. We'll bring
Speaker 1: in Tom McInnis in a moment right now, we're gonna
Speaker 1: bring in Devon Gibbons. Divine. Good to speak to you, man,
Speaker 1: What did you think of tonight's game? Well, I just
Speaker 1: thought that the All Star and Joel Embiad Selts really
Speaker 1: stepped up to the plea minus Ben said, the second
Speaker 1: All Star for the Philadelphia seventy six is just doing
Speaker 1: what stars do with the thirty nine point sixteen remails.
Speaker 1: But the thing that releasedood out as you just laid
Speaker 1: everything out with his stat line of eighteen of nineteen
Speaker 1: from the free throw line. Huge there, especially the big
Speaker 1: ones in the fourth quarter and in overtime ten of
Speaker 1: twenty certainly a big deal, but sells forty one minutes
Speaker 1: and six seconds for Joel Embiid And we know about
Speaker 1: the things in the past where it has come to
Speaker 1: his load management, if you will, the minute restrictions, but
Speaker 1: when they needed him most out there on the floor
Speaker 1: and again minus Al Horford, the question posed to Brett
Speaker 1: Brown during that presser that we just heard Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: was there. He did look fatigue from time to time,
Speaker 1: but to step up to the free throw line fatigue
Speaker 1: the way he was in playing the forty one minutes
Speaker 1: and six seconds and knock those down, impressive performance by him.
Speaker 1: And be at his second block shot of the night,
Speaker 1: the one at the buzzer that denied Wilson Chandler and
Speaker 1: kept the seventy six Ers in the hunt, sending the
Speaker 1: game to overtime. Back and forth tops turvy game. The
Speaker 1: Sixers led early on by sixteen and then fell behind
Speaker 1: by twenty. Tom McGinnis, you called this one tonight. Would
Speaker 1: you see things change? Well? I thought the third quarter,
Speaker 1: you know, as Brett Brown said, they had to get
Speaker 1: things situated, and you know, not just what they were
Speaker 1: doing offensively or for that matter, defensively, but just get
Speaker 1: the intensity back. You know, who's to say what the
Speaker 1: what the rationale was. But I thought when the Sixers
Speaker 1: jumped out that had twenty to four lead for a
Speaker 1: split second, I think human nature crept in. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be easy. They don't have Kyrie, this,
Speaker 1: that and the other. And then here comes Brooklyn back.
Speaker 1: And you know, Brooklyn missed a lot of shots, like Leavert,
Speaker 1: took a lot of shots, and again a high volume.
Speaker 1: I think he took what twenty five shot twenty nine shots,
Speaker 1: But boy Ebid was just dominant and at both ends
Speaker 1: of the floor. And it's just defensively, he's just so key,
Speaker 1: clogging up the middle the threat for the blocks and
Speaker 1: forcing rush shots and difficult attempts. And then I thought,
Speaker 1: maybe one of the most impressive plays of the game
Speaker 1: is the time he sat on the ball. He literally
Speaker 1: made a stop, he fell on the ball and was
Speaker 1: able to unrest it, as I said at the time,
Speaker 1: and get it to Tobias. That was huge. And then
Speaker 1: you know, again, Brett Brown has all these options in
Speaker 1: terms of you know, these different players, and tonight it
Speaker 1: was clearly Alec Burks and Shake Milton who came in
Speaker 1: and made the difference where they were able to add
Speaker 1: offense and get them uh, you know, over the hump
Speaker 1: in terms of all those ties and stuff, even though
Speaker 1: there weren't that many lead changes in ties, but to
Speaker 1: break to break through and Burkes had just a huge
Speaker 1: second half for the Sixers and Tom that really started,
Speaker 1: as you said, in the second half in the third
Speaker 1: quarter specifically for Burks and the addition now that he
Speaker 1: brings in the ability to put the ball on the
Speaker 1: floor maybe more than anybody else on the team outside
Speaker 1: of Ben Simmons, with not only getting to the basket,
Speaker 1: but also being able to get to a spot as
Speaker 1: we saw in the fourth quarter pull up and knock
Speaker 1: down a jump shot key for the Sixers as they
Speaker 1: look for that scoring punch off the bench. Absolutely, that
Speaker 1: one layup he made where you couldn't even conceive, at
Speaker 1: least from our angle, how he was able to slither
Speaker 1: through all of those nets defenders and he got a
Speaker 1: three point play that was that was another huge basket
Speaker 1: And you're right, and that's the thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just go back a little bit and when we
Speaker 1: were listening to Doc Rivers here before the game last week.
Speaker 1: You know, he was saying, when you get ousted in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and you go back and you knew the
Speaker 1: post mortem, it's never your defense, at least, this is
Speaker 1: what he was saying. It's always you wish you had
Speaker 1: another ball handler. You wish you had another guy that
Speaker 1: could create off the dribble. And that's exactly what Elton
Speaker 1: Brand did and getting Burks and Robins and you got
Speaker 1: two guys that can create and score and Burks. You know,
Speaker 1: to your point, Devon is able to do that, and
Speaker 1: that's going to be huge because there's so many times,
Speaker 1: especially in tight taunt defensive games, where you just got
Speaker 1: to go out and make a play, and to have
Speaker 1: guys with the ability to do that score it or
Speaker 1: make a play for somebody else, that's just the paramount importance.
Speaker 1: Tom mc ginnis, thank you very much, great call tonight.
Speaker 1: We will talk to you on Saturday from Milwaukee against
Speaker 1: the league leading Bucks. Good night, guys, Thank you. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers beat the Brooklyn Nets in overtime one twelve on
Speaker 1: O four. One more question for you, Divon before we
Speaker 1: step aside for a moment, you kind of like that
Speaker 1: this felt I mean, I kind of thought that this
Speaker 1: felt like a playoff type game. Fans were on their
Speaker 1: feet down the stretch in the fourth quarter into overtime,
Speaker 1: they were back and forth. Swing Sixers were able to
Speaker 1: stick with it, grind it out. I thought that was
Speaker 1: kind of like almost symbolic of a way to start
Speaker 1: this home stretch the final twenty seven games. I agree,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit as Tom mentioned, getting off to
Speaker 1: the big start to twenty the four to start things off.
Speaker 1: But as NBA teams do, as basketball teams do, Brooklyn
Speaker 1: made their run to put, you know, close the gap
Speaker 1: on the seventy sixes. In the second quarter got a
Speaker 1: little dull and the fans let everyone know that they
Speaker 1: were not happy with the performance, but as you said,
Speaker 1: sticking it out, waiting until things happened in the second
Speaker 1: half and the Sixes gave them that performance in year
Speaker 1: absolutely right. It just felt like, at least from back
Speaker 1: here listening to the broadcast, that this was a playoff
Speaker 1: type atmosphere with the fans on top. Joel nbid something
Speaker 1: that we have talked about what you expect to see
Speaker 1: knowing that this team is potentially going to be a
Speaker 1: playoff team, as we think they should. A lot of
Speaker 1: it is going to run through him, as it should
Speaker 1: because he is the best player on the team. And
Speaker 1: when Bevin Simmons is out there, it's a totally different dynamic.
Speaker 1: But the bread and butter is Joel Nbid. Now you
Speaker 1: have this different scoring punch of Alec Burks and it
Speaker 1: certainly shows why celts this team has the amount of
Speaker 1: wins that they have at home right now with the
Speaker 1: twenty six and two home record, the crowd doing their
Speaker 1: part and helping out the basketball team giving them that
Speaker 1: home court advantage. Just a very good win over a
Speaker 1: team that gives them problems and good to see them
Speaker 1: step up to the plate having to come back down
Speaker 1: as much as they were in this game by as
Speaker 1: much as twenty points to the Brooklyn Nets. A very
Speaker 1: good win by this team tonight. Great stuff from Divine Gibbons.
Speaker 1: Let's hear how the games sounded tonight at the center
Speaker 1: courtesy of the one and only the great Tim McGuinness.
Speaker 1: Early on the seventy sixers were rolling in That was
Speaker 1: doing large part to a large man who was an
Speaker 1: All Star this year. Again. Here's duel down low against
Speaker 1: Allen comes into the nearer corner, left hand dribble shot
Speaker 1: block at twelve seven eleven ago and Beat baseline shoots
Speaker 1: it on Allen and that's good man, he's on fire.
Speaker 1: Seventy sixers, they certainly set the tone early on, led
Speaker 1: by as much as sixteen points at the outset of
Speaker 1: tonight's game against the Brooklyn Nets. After a quarter of
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers led a twenty six to twenty in
Speaker 1: quarter number two. What happened not many things good for
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers. They fell behind because Brooklyn went on
Speaker 1: a run. I believe it was forty four to eight.
Speaker 1: But you know they found something to get it back
Speaker 1: to a respectable deficit late in the first half. And
Speaker 1: who other than Joel and Beat involved in that efforts.
Speaker 1: Karris LeVert now four of thirteen. He's got thirteen much
Speaker 1: needed basket for the Nets even though they lead by thirteen.
Speaker 1: Here's a beat for three man, he makes it said
Speaker 1: of the two for one, Choella beat fighters for three
Speaker 1: from out front. Okay, So the seventy sixers, they were
Speaker 1: down fifty two forty two after scoring sixteen points in
Speaker 1: the second quarter at intermission. In the third, Alec Burkes
Speaker 1: started to get himself going. He had proved to be
Speaker 1: an important player for the seventy sixers off the bench tonight,
Speaker 1: one forty five to go and beat with the bull.
Speaker 1: We're in the third Sixers down by four. Now Alec
Speaker 1: Burks with it, a runner in La got it. He's
Speaker 1: starting to feel the rhythm. Alec Burks now with a bucket.
Speaker 1: He's got twelve in the game for the Sixers, and
Speaker 1: he scored nine of his twelve points up to that
Speaker 1: point of the game in the third quarter. That made
Speaker 1: it a four point contest seventy three to sixty nine
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers. They were down by one going into
Speaker 1: the fourth seventy eight seventy seven. A couple of key
Speaker 1: baskets from fur con Quirk Mas giving the Sixers a
Speaker 1: boost and they actually led it ninety three ninety one,
Speaker 1: but then the Nets answered to go back in front
Speaker 1: one oh one to ninety three. Tobias Harris was doing
Speaker 1: a little bit of contributions in the clutch. Nets drift
Speaker 1: back into a two three es old netto that Alec
Speaker 1: Burke's former teammates with the Jazz, and they going back
Speaker 1: to Howel Netto for three rimming off no tap by
Speaker 1: a bead at ten. Harris was down there as well.
Speaker 1: That made it one oh one, two ninety seven to
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers. Trailed by four, it ultimately would end one
Speaker 1: oh three one oho three at the end of the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter thanks to some free throws for the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers converted by Alec Burks with a minute and a
Speaker 1: half ago and Joel Embiid ultimately to force a tie
Speaker 1: at one oh three apiece. Joel Embid also with a
Speaker 1: big block underneath the basket on Wilson Chandler to send
Speaker 1: the game to overtime. Inot the Sixers, you know they
Speaker 1: spread the scoring around. There were other people who stepped
Speaker 1: up to aid the cause, led by Mbiid and Shake.
Speaker 1: Milton was one of those guys. Here's a golden opportunity
Speaker 1: two twenty ago. End of the late Shake puts it
Speaker 1: up pitspens bit drip, oh yeah, Shake, rattling roll Milton
Speaker 1: makes it a four point game that was preceded by
Speaker 1: some awesome defense by Milton on the very talented carousel
Speaker 1: vert from the Brooklyn nets. Alec Burks clinched the game.
Speaker 1: Alec Burks has it on the fire sideline. Now Joel
Speaker 1: screening Burkes behind the pick, Burke with the right head,
Speaker 1: rubble Burks from the wing shot in the air. It's gone.
Speaker 1: Alec Burks has done it again. A sensational effort here
Speaker 1: in overtime and the Sixers take a six point lead,
Speaker 1: and they would go on to win with the Sixers
Speaker 1: by eight one twelve to one o four in overtime
Speaker 1: to improve to thirty five and twenty one, their fourth
Speaker 1: consecutive victory, their league leading twenty sixth at home, while
Speaker 1: the Nets fall to twenty five and twenty nine. The
Speaker 1: Sixers they tie a season high high watermark. I mean,
Speaker 1: how about that for some perspective. Fourteen games over five hundred,
Speaker 1: Sixers led by Joel and b thirty nine points a
Speaker 1: season best sixteen rebounds for him as well. Joe was
Speaker 1: ten for twenty from the field, hit his only three
Speaker 1: point or eighteen of nineteen from the line. He also
Speaker 1: had two assists, two steals and two block shots plus
Speaker 1: two four in forty one minutes. Twenty two points from
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris, nineteen for Alec Burks off the bench, Sixers
Speaker 1: held Brooklyn to thirty five percent shooting ten of thirty
Speaker 1: four from outside the arc for sixteen turnovers, Sixers getting
Speaker 1: by despite his four made three pointers in tonight's game.
Speaker 1: Coming up next with the seventy Sixers ESPN ABC Saturday
Speaker 1: Night prime time headliner event of the weekend eight thirty
Speaker 1: start Eastern from Fiser Forum in Milwaukee against the league
Speaker 1: leading Bucks. Season series. It's a four game series, tied
Speaker 1: one game apiece. Each team so far has held serve
Speaker 1: at home six and will try to get the win
Speaker 1: against Milwaukee after playing there just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: They'll meet for a fourth and final time in April.
Speaker 1: Should be an awesome night one final time. The final
Speaker 1: score was the seventy Sixers in overtime over the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets one twelve one oh four. You've been listening to Rewind,
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