Speaker 1: Celt with you from six ers dot com. Let's join
Speaker 1: in progress right now. The winning head coach Rip Brown,
Speaker 1: You foul too much and you put them in the
Speaker 1: bonus early, and there's a barrage of threes. We didn't
Speaker 1: We only had ten turnovers for the game. We had
Speaker 1: three late you know, on sort of hooking fouls, and
Speaker 1: then we got a quick play. We try to get
Speaker 1: it in quickly from Ben getting in, so we have
Speaker 1: to burn a time out, you know, went through Cub's hands.
Speaker 1: And so I think that the demise of the lead
Speaker 1: happened with stoppages because they were in the bonus soon.
Speaker 1: It took away our tempo and our rhythm. And I
Speaker 1: think that they they made some threes, you know, they
Speaker 1: really made some threes. And so we'll go back and
Speaker 1: look deeper into why. But those types of things are
Speaker 1: on my mind. Anything change when there really wasn't that
Speaker 1: much indeed versus White Side tonight, when when Embeds matched
Speaker 1: up against them, and you sorry, just which question is? Well? Like,
Speaker 1: how did how did? How is? Anything didn't change it?
Speaker 1: When the magic went from Emmie versus White Side, which
Speaker 1: I think they're all expecting to Embed versus a man Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really know the probably, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like you, you'd be able to talk about sort of
Speaker 1: like the maybe the entertainment side of it, those two
Speaker 1: guys going at each other. But with Bam, I felt
Speaker 1: like Joel could get deeper. You know, I think white
Speaker 1: Side is a very very good defensive player. Not many
Speaker 1: times you're going to see a guy block one of
Speaker 1: Joel's like mini fade waves. But I thought that, you know,
Speaker 1: we had maybe more than advantage when Bam was in,
Speaker 1: just from a weight and physical standpoint. You said before
Speaker 1: the game that when when you have injuries to rotation players,
Speaker 1: it offers people like Justin Anderson the opportunity to play
Speaker 1: for more minutes. Do you feel like he had one
Speaker 1: of those games that might have earned him more minutes
Speaker 1: going forward? Already played well? You know, when you when
Speaker 1: you really sort of look at the bench, Um, I
Speaker 1: thought at times, you know, a bench struggled. I thought
Speaker 1: that he played well, and he has been playing well.
Speaker 1: He understands that he's different than any of our wings
Speaker 1: in relation to just being sort of a bowl in
Speaker 1: a china shop. You know, he's so physical, and I
Speaker 1: think that he has been playing well out of the
Speaker 1: wings that we had tonight. Um, I give him the
Speaker 1: most Uh, I give him the most credit. And I
Speaker 1: just shortly after the game, but I have to ask,
Speaker 1: are you still playing? I'm playing Joel tomorrow? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it is. It's a it's a at times
Speaker 1: when you feel it like it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: an empty win, and I get upset up myself, a
Speaker 1: feeling like that, I'm not walking on a planet. All
Speaker 1: that's great, I'm not feeling like that, you know. I
Speaker 1: feel like we had an opportunity that was very dominant
Speaker 1: for a long time. And so the fact that we
Speaker 1: did win, the fact that Joel is going to play,
Speaker 1: I will I will look at this win, I think
Speaker 1: in a different lens as soon as I jump in
Speaker 1: my car. But I am excited to have Joe Ellen
Speaker 1: his first back to back. There you have it. Some
Speaker 1: thoughts from Brett Brown after the seventy six ers one
Speaker 1: h three ninety seven win over the Miami Heat. So
Speaker 1: let's just very quickly start with that. The Heat came
Speaker 1: into tonight's game, fourth in the conference and three and
Speaker 1: a half games in front of the six or so
Speaker 1: by virtue of a win, the Sixers back above five
Speaker 1: hundred halt three game losing streak and closed within two
Speaker 1: and a half games of the fourth place team in
Speaker 1: the conference. That ain't bad what Brett Brown was just
Speaker 1: alluding to right there a few moments ago. In addition
Speaker 1: to the fact that jillenb could make history tomorrow by
Speaker 1: in terms of his career, playing back to back games
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, which would be great, what
Speaker 1: Brown was getting to the heart of was the fact
Speaker 1: that the Sixers routes scored by twenty thirty seven to
Speaker 1: seventeen in the fourth quarter and nearly squandered at twenty
Speaker 1: eight point lead. How it happened the Heat relying on
Speaker 1: a seventeen nothing run to get back into the game
Speaker 1: will dissect the details a little bit more. All five
Speaker 1: starters for the Sixers in double figures, twenty points for
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, double doubles for Joel Embiid and Dario Charge
Speaker 1: and the Sixers hold off the hard charging Miami Heats.
Speaker 1: More to come with Tom McGinnis joining us next. This
Speaker 1: is the postgame showing the Sixers Raider Network Heat at
Speaker 1: this Center tonight and a win for the Sixers one
Speaker 1: h three ninety seven. Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com
Speaker 1: rejoined now by Tom McGinnis and Tom that got a
Speaker 1: little bit close down the stretch of the game, a
Speaker 1: game that the Sixers just flat out dominated with a
Speaker 1: huge stretch in the third quarter in which they scored
Speaker 1: nineteen points in a row. But there were the heat.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a hard playing team. They clawed
Speaker 1: their way back, but the Sixers do hang on for
Speaker 1: a nice helpful win in the big picture. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: big picture. If you'd have said tonight at a round
Speaker 1: six o'clock, you take a six point win over Miami,
Speaker 1: absolutely twice on Sunday, right, doubleheader on Sunday. And we
Speaker 1: must add I believe this is Brett Brown's one hundredth
Speaker 1: victory as a Sixers coach, which you know, that's a
Speaker 1: pretty big achievement for a guy who's been here for
Speaker 1: five years and been through some tough seasons. Season with
Speaker 1: ten wins, you know, it's a great, great mark and
Speaker 1: hopefully you'll have hundreds more here with the Sixers. But
Speaker 1: no doubt, and great stretch to get ahead by twenty eight.
Speaker 1: But then, as you say, a little concerning to give
Speaker 1: up a lead and see it cut to four, and
Speaker 1: yet in the end the Sixers gained the victory. At
Speaker 1: some point, the Sixers have got to learn from this,
Speaker 1: and again you can sort of see it coming. As
Speaker 1: Brett Brown said, they put the opposition in the bonus.
Speaker 1: You start seeing some threes, the momentum shifts, the Sixers
Speaker 1: get away a little bit from what they were doing
Speaker 1: on offense. And it's happened multiple times, whereas the Sixers
Speaker 1: have lost these double digit leads, and in the NBA,
Speaker 1: with so much time on the clock, there's you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's a chance for the opponents to come back,
Speaker 1: and that's what happened here tonight. But again the Sixers
Speaker 1: were able to lock in and get two big field
Speaker 1: goals won by Simmons at the rim, one a jumper
Speaker 1: by Jowell, and I believe he assisted on the pass
Speaker 1: down load to Ben. So they were able to do it.
Speaker 1: And you know, they're so talented to be able to
Speaker 1: build up these leads repeatedly on good teams. It shows
Speaker 1: you and obviously the emphasis is not necessarily on that
Speaker 1: when you let it slip away, but a little easier
Speaker 1: to focus on that kind of thing when you do
Speaker 1: get the victory seventy six ers over the Heat, one
Speaker 1: of three ninety seven. Coming into tonight's game time, a
Speaker 1: lot of the focus was on how with the first
Speaker 1: regular season meeting between Embad and Hassan Whiteside go given
Speaker 1: that very spirited preseason confrontation in Kansas City. Well, especially
Speaker 1: in the first half, neither was doing much offensively. They
Speaker 1: had their rebounds and in the end and Bead finishes
Speaker 1: with seventeen points eleven rebounds, had a key assist followed
Speaker 1: by a basket to give the six or some breathing
Speaker 1: room in the final two minutes. Word came out that
Speaker 1: Whiteside was battling an illness in tonight's game, so we
Speaker 1: didn't really finish. But how did you things on that front?
Speaker 1: It looked like really Olink was one of the guys
Speaker 1: that got the Heat back into the game. Yeah, well right,
Speaker 1: But getting back to Whiteside, I'm glad you said that
Speaker 1: because I was. I already said during the game, it
Speaker 1: looks like he plays sometimes with a low motor. I mean,
Speaker 1: he just did not seem like he was that engaged.
Speaker 1: So that explains a little bit why Bam and Abaio
Speaker 1: was in there, and we commented pregame that we thought
Speaker 1: Adebio would play because he had quickness and strength to
Speaker 1: deal with Joel, so that obviously had a big part
Speaker 1: to do with it. Whiteside did have three blocks, but
Speaker 1: was really a non factor in the game. And then
Speaker 1: when they were coming back, as we stipulated earlier, I
Speaker 1: think Spolster left in that second group with Tyler Johnson
Speaker 1: who started, because that's the group that got them back
Speaker 1: in the game, and that certainly gave him the outside
Speaker 1: firepower with you know, Ellington beginning to hit some threes
Speaker 1: and Olymic got into the lane, he made a three
Speaker 1: point field goal, he got some free throws. Winslow didn't
Speaker 1: score a lot, but boy, he was active at both
Speaker 1: ends of the floor, getting rebounds and defensively adding quite
Speaker 1: a bit. And Joel had it up and down night.
Speaker 1: Early he struggled a little bit from the field, had
Speaker 1: a good rebounding night, and ended up with his twenty
Speaker 1: fourth double double. And you know, again, when you need
Speaker 1: a basket in beating not flawless, but it's a nice
Speaker 1: thing to be able to have your biggest and best
Speaker 1: player stepping out and making a seven seventeen foot face
Speaker 1: up jump shot to give you a cushion and give
Speaker 1: you a much needed hoop. Sixers over the Heat one
Speaker 1: oh three ninety seven. We tend to focus on lasting
Speaker 1: impressions of games, and maybe especially in the fresh row
Speaker 1: moments right after not the matchup. In the totality, Dario
Speaker 1: charts great start helped get the Sixers going. He finished
Speaker 1: with seventeen and ten no absolutely, and the Sixers struggled
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee and in Brooklyn, but I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: Dario and the whole group had had its legs back collectively,
Speaker 1: and Dario five for five to start the game did
Speaker 1: a tremendous job, had a great action to start the
Speaker 1: game off a cut, got the ball from Ben and
Speaker 1: scored it, and then the threes, and then when he
Speaker 1: gets inside again with space with Dull not in there,
Speaker 1: when a years in there, Dario goes in there and
Speaker 1: he's just able to wheel and deal. Doesn't always score it,
Speaker 1: but gets a pretty good look at her, is able
Speaker 1: to set somebody up, and he's just in many ways,
Speaker 1: like TJ, kind of the heart and soul of the
Speaker 1: team and just a really good old round player, double
Speaker 1: figures on the glass, able to guard, and just a
Speaker 1: great team player. Who's beloved by his teammates and a
Speaker 1: key component for this team on Indianapolis with the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers go up against a Pacers team with an all
Speaker 1: start in Victor Oladipo. Tom, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Late night, Good night, Brian. Thanks. Seventy Sixers outlast the
Speaker 1: Miami Heat by six one h three ninety seven, get
Speaker 1: back above five hundred hall of three game losing streak
Speaker 1: and gain ground on the fourth ranked team in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference standings in Miami. We'll get to some of
Speaker 1: Tom's highlight calls. They are coming your way. On the
Speaker 1: other side, it's the postgame show on the Sixers Rated Network.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers and the Miami Heat a noteworthy matchup in
Speaker 1: terms of the Eastern Conference playoff picture. First of four
Speaker 1: meetings on the season. Here's hat went, as called by
Speaker 1: the one and only Tom McGinnis. Seventy Sixers scored the
Speaker 1: first six, the Heat answered with eight in rows, so
Speaker 1: a little bit of a neck and neck pace at
Speaker 1: the outset. Darrio scharge was terrific in the early going.
Speaker 1: T J McConnell in the names he's caught, He's got
Speaker 1: to get it out of there he does. He goes
Speaker 1: to Dario and Scharedge shoots the three that's in. Dario
Speaker 1: Scharge a perfect night. He's got twelve points, five for five,
Speaker 1: another three Sixers by three or three minutes to go.
Speaker 1: In the opening quarter, Sixers had a one point lead
Speaker 1: after twelve minutes of play, twenty four to twenty three.
Speaker 1: Was still close and leads were traded. In the opening
Speaker 1: minutes of quarter number two, Ben Simmons trying to help
Speaker 1: the Sixers gain some separation. Dario Scharge takes it away
Speaker 1: down to Simmons and Simmons with a jam. Great play
Speaker 1: by the Sixers, Dario the Ben and the Sixers have
Speaker 1: a three point lead eight minutes to go. Great feed
Speaker 1: down the court by Schariche Simmons capped it off, but
Speaker 1: Dario scharch doing a little bit of everything in that
Speaker 1: first half, scoring, facilitating and helping the Sixers get some
Speaker 1: momentum going. They rode that to a thirteen to two
Speaker 1: run to open things up, and they let it the
Speaker 1: half fifty one to forty one. In the third quarter,
Speaker 1: the highlight for the Sixers a nineteen nothing terror and
Speaker 1: Daro Sharich once again left his imprint Simmons with it,
Speaker 1: Miami back with numbers, Ben goes behind his back, Nobody
Speaker 1: opened finally to Daro who is wide open F three.
Speaker 1: Sharich triple time out. Miami a fourteen point lead, and
Speaker 1: it would balloon to the total of sixteen before the
Speaker 1: Sixers run was done. And at the end of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, Joel and bat who had to battle to
Speaker 1: get some baskets from the first two and a half
Speaker 1: quarters of play, got in position to do some damage
Speaker 1: down low. McConnell with the ball down to Joel to
Speaker 1: beat against at a bio backs, turns, gets around him
Speaker 1: and lays it right at the rim. He's got the
Speaker 1: last two baskets for the Sixers. Samwich around that break
Speaker 1: between the third and the fourth quarters, Joel now twelve points,
Speaker 1: nine rebounds, eighty six sixty after three quarters to play.
Speaker 1: The Sixers game highly would be moments into the fourth
Speaker 1: at eighty eight to sixty. They led ninety to sixty
Speaker 1: two and then the time he didn't. This one turned
Speaker 1: dramatically as the heat would rip off a total of
Speaker 1: seventeen consecutive points to put the pressure on the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers down the stretch. Joel embiid Ben Simmons get in
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers the baskets. They needed a couple to
Speaker 1: make it back to a ten point lead, and then
Speaker 1: Summitt ninety five to ninety two. The Heat charged back,
Speaker 1: slicing it to a six point margin at ninety seven
Speaker 1: to ninety one, the two All Star weekend bound prospects
Speaker 1: getting it done. Big half court set for the Sixers
Speaker 1: ten to shoot minute forty five ago, Ben down Low,
Speaker 1: Simmons catches, puts it up and in He got it
Speaker 1: underneath with Winslow and Ellington their good feed by Joel
Speaker 1: Ebad and Miami takes time. Sixers got a stop. Next
Speaker 1: trip down the floor, sivens well eight goes to Joel
Speaker 1: if beat with five fakes on out of bio foot
Speaker 1: fake jump ruppin gun and the Sixers hit the century
Speaker 1: market lead by nine. Joel let be and that's the
Speaker 1: outside shot, baking it one O one ninety two. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Heat would score the next five points to make
Speaker 1: it one O one ninety seven with twenty three seconds
Speaker 1: to go. The Sixers were able to get a runout
Speaker 1: dunk from Justin Anderson to cap the scoring in the
Speaker 1: game and hang on for an important, as we've said,
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference win. Final notes in the final stat sheet
Speaker 1: heat thirty nine percent from the field. The Sixers, the
Speaker 1: fourth rated defense coming into tonight, played like it for
Speaker 1: the most part in this evening's game, especially through three quarters.
Speaker 1: Sixers shot forty nine and a half percent against the
Speaker 1: sixth ranked defense in the league. Twelve three pointers for
Speaker 1: the Heats, including four in the fourth quarter, eight for
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers Miami seventeen to twenty six from the line,
Speaker 1: the Sixers eleven of fifteen the heat plus ten on
Speaker 1: the glass. Ten turnovers for a second straight game for
Speaker 1: the Sixers. That ties a season low. Excuse me, I
Speaker 1: beg your pardon second time in the last three games
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. Their season low was Wednesday with eight
Speaker 1: at Brooklyn, twelve turnovers four the heat. Individual notes twenty
Speaker 1: for Ben Simmons to lead all scores. He was eight
Speaker 1: of thirteen from the field, six rebounds and five assists,
Speaker 1: seventeen apiece for Dwell and Beating Dario s Charch each
Speaker 1: finished him with double doubles, and beat with eleven rebounds
Speaker 1: and charts with ten. Charch also with four assists and
Speaker 1: the same total for him Bleed and beat also with
Speaker 1: three block shots, Covington with thirteen, Reddick with thirteen, and
Speaker 1: Justin Anderson with eleven points off the bench, eight lead
Speaker 1: changes and three ties. Tonight two hour, twenty two minute game,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers over the Miami Heat one O three
Speaker 1: to ninety seven. With the win, the Sixers back above
Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty five and twenty four. The Heat
Speaker 1: now twenty nine and twenty three on the season, and
Speaker 1: the Sixers moved within two and a half games of
Speaker 1: the Heat, with three more matchups against Miami to go
Speaker 1: before the season is out.