WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 12/25/2017 - Rewind vs. Knicks 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.280 On this particular Christmas Day, the seventy Sixers were looking 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:06.280 for improved health and a win to go along with it. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:10.280 Both received in New York City one oh five ninety 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.080 eight over the New York Knicks. Joel Embiid was back. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:17.079 JJ Reddick was back. T J McConnell was terrific, and 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.560 the Sixers snap a season long five game losing streak 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.480 as a result. Seven point win for the Sixers on 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.600 the holiday. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot com 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.040 here at the garden, hoping you've had a great day 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.000 and very nice that a Sixers triumph could be a 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.640 part of it. Joel Embiid, Yes, he was in action 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.239 Saturday in Toronto, but if you watch the game, if 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.400 you listen to it, if you followed it, you could 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.200 tell he wasn't quite himself. Well today he got going 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.600 down the stretch of the first quarter with the jam 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.560 opened up the second period in really strong fashion, finished 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.240 with the team high twenty five points in team best 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.680 sixteen rebounds for his fifteenth double double of the season. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.160 Plus twenty five or the Sixers when he was on 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.880 the core, The same could be said for it. JJ Reddick, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.000 Reddick looked sharp, even battling some right hamstring tightness, four 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.240 for eight from outside the arc. He also had six 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.119 rebounds to finish with twenty four points on the evening. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.160 TJ McConnell with eight consecutive points to close out the 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:18.720 third quarter, and Nat helped the Sixers wrestle control of 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.039 this game, a game that for the early let's say 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.800 two and a half periods, was really dictated by the 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.880 inside play of Enis Cantor for the New York Knicks, 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.200 who had a career day with thirty one points and 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.720 twenty two rebounds. Sixers just could not slow him down, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.600 but he and Chris dabs Porzingis both subbed out. With 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.039 about four minutes to go in the third period. Datshel 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.679 McConnell stepped up and one step back jumper end of 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.600 shot clock and a corner three pointer to vault the 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.520 Sixers into the fourth quarter with some momentum on their side. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.760 They led by four, and they just would not back down. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:58.600 They rattled off a string of seven straight points in 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.720 the latter stages of the worth Ben Simmons when the 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.720 Knicks got a little bit closer with a runout jam 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.920 to make it one h three ninety five, and at 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.359 that point, with sixty six seconds to go, you kind 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.480 of felt pretty decent in the Sixers would leave the 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.639 Garden on a winning note. The final score one five 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.519 ninety eight were standing by for the postgame press conference 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.880 of head coach Brett Brown. Eighteen lead changes, eight ties 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:24.160 in a really competitive game. But big picture, you step 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.040 back the Sixers, this has been a really bumpy month 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.320 for them. The schedule difficult and challenging, injuries kept piling up, 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.400 and probably just almost as much as a win today, 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.720 I think Brett Brown wanted to see the Sixers come 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:42.480 out and fight, not except recent results, not except losing, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.000 and we saw that today from the outset, extremely competitive, 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:51.359 feisty and spirited, and in the end they were rewarded 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:56.280 with a winning outcome. Cancer was fantastic. He was a 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.120 beast on the inside. Is thirty one points, a season 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:03.080 high two rebounds his top total of the year as well. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.280 The Sixers had trouble even with him beat out there 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.600 finding a solution, but to their credits, they were not phased. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.160 They kept the ball under control with some decent ball 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.280 protection up until ironically the final three minutes when they 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.399 turned it over on three straight possessions that made things 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.520 a little bit dicey, but in the end, the Sixers 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.560 survived one oh five ninety eight. Let's go to Brett 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.839 Brown right now. I mean just the reality of what 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.920 you don't have when they're injured. And I love our guys. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.840 They fight, they fight, but you know, you bring in 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.200 Joe and JJ and the fight goes to a high level. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.360 It gives us more of a chance. And I think 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.680 that although you know, you know, I'm the coach and 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.960 fans see it and our teammates see it, when you 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.720 actually live it in real time, it stands out that 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:03.160 dramatically challenge that I think he was the MVP of 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.640 the game, and he wears his heart on his sleeve. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.520 I have a sort of like, uh, a very um 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.760 antagonistic relationship with him, Like I coach him harder than 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.000 I coach anybody. And I'm just so proud of like 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.080 him coming out of left field, and you know, being 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.520 in the NBA and I was staying in the NBA 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.800 and now playing in the NBA. He played today and 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.240 I thought that his spirit, you know, apart from the 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.640 other stuff, his spirit was awesome, and uh, I thought 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:39.400 he was the most valuable player today. Obvious is that 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:46.200 a tangible I mean the checklist even with JJ tonight, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.320 you know, we we we learned JJ late as well. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:53.240 There's always like a lead up that really doesn't get 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.280 stamped off on until I meet the team at thirty 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:01.560 five you know, loud Tunic games ago in Toronto, it 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.719 was delivered at thirty five, you know, forty five seconds 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.560 on the clock before I speak to the team at 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.120 thirty five minutes. And so there is a checklist, but 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.640 really the final decision is only kind of determined after 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.520 he does his warm ups and he gives us you know, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.880 thumb up fam down. He cares, he doesn't want to 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.840 hurt the team. And that's the process of which we 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:28.799 go through. It's all the normal stuff that you would expect. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:34.039 You know, there's physiotherapists involved. Joel has a significant saying 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.640 all this. There are doctors, there are people that you 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.200 know are looking at sort of preloading stuff that has 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.360 gone on in patterns and trends. It's all the stuff 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.600 that you know we would do and should do when 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.400 responsibly you're trying to preserve you know, one of our 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.719 crown jewels. And it's extensive and thoughtful, and it needs 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.800 to be because he's very much in his infant stages 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.120 of growing into playing again. I've shared with everybody many 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:04.200 times he doesn't seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown following 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.200 this Afternoons one oh five ninety eight Christmas Day victory, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.200 and especially at the outset of that postgame press conference, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:15.720 could you hear the satisfaction happiness in Brett Brown's voice. 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.560 You couldn't see it. We have a monitor in front 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.960 of us here at the Garden, but the smile on 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.239 Brett's face and he's not what he's always got upbeat emotions, 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.479 but we don't always see a wide smile. But he 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.000 was talking affectionately about TJ. McConnell and what he brought 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.960 to the Sixers today. It was like the father son 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.599 basketball dynamic right on display there. He seemed absolutely and 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.560 understandably thrilled with what McConnell gave the Sixers today. Fifteen points, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.719 especially in the latter stages of the third period, a 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.159 stretch of the game that helped these Sixers wrestle control 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.000 away from the Knicks. Twenty five point, sixteen rebounds and 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.920 three blocks for Joel embad JJ Reddick with twenty four points, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.280 six boards, four three pointers fifteen for t J McConnell 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.200 as the Sixers win on Christmas one five Tune eight. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.720 Tom McGinnis is going to be back with further thoughts 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.440 in a moment. It's the postgame show from New York 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.640 City on the Sixers Radio Network Holiday trip to New 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.679 York City. A good and successful one for the seventy 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.680 Sixers on this Christmas Day one oh five ninety eight 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.240 win over the Knicks, starting off the NBA's Quinn tuppleheader 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.400 on a good note. Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.760 and and now vacated Garden with the exception of a 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.520 handful of important people, one of which is Tom McGinnis. 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.360 This was good today, Tom, real good to see Joel 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.640 back there. It seemed like he really started revet up 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.280 in the second quarter. JJ Reddick was locked in early, 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.320 but head coach given the game ball to one t 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:44.239 J McConnell. Right. He talked about his spirit, that spurt 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.640 that I mentioned of eight consecutive points at the end 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:51.400 of the third deflections defense getting after it. How about 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.160 when he was Garden poor singers and both he and 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.640 Baylis got off in pick and roll situations, had to 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.920 switch out onto him. They both got into his body. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.760 He's so tall. But Jay just kind of got it, 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.960 just the spirit with which he plays, and you know 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.520 he ended up with some threes too, like getting the 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.640 corner three right. He just he played so well. I mean, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.240 he just it's a great story. It really is when 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.400 we've been through it quite a bit in terms of, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.400 you know, not being considered a draft pick, didn't get drafted, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.480 and just having to prove himself and for himself. That's 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.920 just how he ticks, like, you know, trying to establish 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.160 the fact that he's an NBA player, and you know 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.440 he is that and more. I was joking during the 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.000 course of the call, or at least said it in 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.280 jest about he's a nick killer. And just when you 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.320 think that that basket that he helped the Sixers in 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.320 January with that turnaround over Camaldo at the center, and 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.800 this game here, without question, as far as Reddick goes, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.520 it's like he hits the floor running, you know, like 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.960 he he had those two late turnovers, but like that 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.160 ability that he could almost do that in his sleep. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.720 In terms of at the three point arc, they upfaked 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.480 the side dribble the two or the three and then 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.320 automatic at the line. But obviously, you know, twenty plus 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.680 points by him, and Bead was great as well. And Joel, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.760 you know, like the more he plays and Lord willing 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.480 he'll be able to practice at some point. I think 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.160 he'll be able to clean up and tighten up some 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.760 of those areas with the ball on the block when 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.680 he picks up the dribble and they come to double him. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:19.560 But his influence, particularly defensively early was special. I didn't 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.720 you think. I mean they had him for three blocks. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.400 I think he might have had more than that. But 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.480 it's not safe, you know. I mean for a guy 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.840 to go in there and if they do shoot it, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.120 they're they're thinking about his their cognizant of his presence. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.960 So that that's a guy who can protect that. They 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.600 call that that phrase in you know the front the basketball, 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.480 the rim protector. Well he is that and more. And 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.680 then his foot quickness and the ability for a man 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.120 of that size to get over and cut off a 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.400 smaller player on a dribble drive, helping out defensively, and 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.439 then to rotate back to the guy he's garden to 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.079 protect the rim. That right there, in addition to the 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.880 hand eye coordination, those are some of the elements that 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.040 make him a real terrific defender. Six Ers beat the 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.520 X on Christmas one, five ninety eight. We're around this 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.880 team fortunately enough time where you can tell when Brett 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.280 Brown just housing Sirius with that message he was kind 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.200 of talking about after the Toronto game that you know, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.959 no one's panicking. They believe that good days add up. 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.920 But certainly a win at this juncture doesn't hurt, because 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.360 especially it sinks up with this whole the way Brett 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.760 looks at the season in different thirds and today has 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.760 traditionally started his second third of the season from Christmas 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.160 to the All Star Game break, and this is an opportunity, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.400 a way to reset in some sort, right. But let's 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.760 go back to the initial statement there and the comment 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.000 about you know, us being around the team as reporters, 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.480 and you know, the next phrase that would come to 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.959 mind is the Sixers needed to win and you need 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.959 to win more to you know, not just to stop 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.319 them obviously, to stop a five game winnings to a 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.600 losing streak, but also for the mojo, for the vibe. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.680 I mean it's you could put into good day's work, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.000 but if you're not getting rewarded with a victory in 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.120 the win column and playing this hard, and it's disheartening 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.280 to let things slip away. And again, this was not 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.520 a perfect game by the Sixers. For much of the game. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.720 They shot in the low forties percentage wise. That's not 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.480 where you'd like to be. They struggled from three at 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.240 times at a rash of turnovers down the stretch when 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.400 they were trying to close it out. Let Canner have 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.120 a number of putbacks, but they still want Those are 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.160 all things you can work on and clean up. And 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.000 once you get your group back together healthy, you can 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.560 begin to progress and get better and feel that you 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.560 know you're making strides. But more than anything like because 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.240 losing wears on people. It wears on the whole group, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.560 the coaches, the players, I mean everybody. For the podcast, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.160 well everybody loves I was coaching from the press box 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.280 or two. But no, I'm joking. But you know, like 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.920 you just it's a better vibe. Like I've always said, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.520 this is a little deep, but I've always feud somebody. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:44.960 I don't know what the degree would be in or 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.240 the form of academia. But I feel like somebody should 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.200 write a thesis paper on the effects of winning and losing. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.480 They just go out and interview two hundred people, you know, 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.000 the wives of coaches, the players like and you know, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.520 it's it's no serious gees. People feel better when they win, 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.520 no doubt. But I mean, I think it goes. It's 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.440 almost deeper than that. It's just it affects everything, and 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.680 it all it's just sports and entertainment, but for these guys, 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.920 it's their lives. It's their livelihoods, and jobs are won 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.480 or loss, and contracts are wonder loss. There's just there's 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.679 just so much to it. But obviously it feels good 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.120 for the Sixers, and particularly here in New York on 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.480 this stage on Christmas Day, it made it even that 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.280 much better. Real nice Division win for the Sixers. And 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.680 now it's a bit of a reprieve for the next 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.199 couple of days until Thursday, when the team will be 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:32.560 out at Moda Center in Portland too, heading the guts 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.280 of this five game road trip on the West Coast, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.520 and then it's off to Denver and Phoenix. And that 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.800 gets to my point, just to keep Brian to keep talking, Yes, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.320 but you know you're flying, You're going across the country, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.960 You're going out west. You want to you want to 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.400 take on Phoenix. Denver is one of the people. Don't 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.560 realize Denver is really good. You played Portland, you beat them, 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.319 and that's what I mean. You feel a little better 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.880 about yourselves going on that west coast trip and have 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.280 a major chunk of your far out travel, the Western 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.599 conference travel completed by the first of the year. I 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.760 don't know that that's ever happened before, so you know, 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.319 and then now you get the other than the back 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.240 to back in Phoenix. You got the schedule spaced out 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.199 a little bit, so Joel should get to play. But 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.680 all a nice day here in tense victory for the 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.240 Sixers over there are tribals, as you say, the Knicks 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.600 and joy the rest of the daytime. Thank you, Brian Gooday. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.600 Seventy Sixers over the Knicks on Christmas one O five 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.640 to ninety eight times highlight calls coming up after this, 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.720 it's the postgame showing the Sixers rating network. Seventy sixers 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.439 in New York City to celebrate Christmas Day a great 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.360 place to be. But for the Sixers this was business 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.200 trying to get back on track with a win. In 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.000 the first quarter, you could tell this was going to 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.959 be a closely contested Atlantic Division rivalry game. Joel and Bad, 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.200 who played on Saturday in Toronto and didn't quite seem 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.240 like himself, seemed to get his rhythm going on this 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.679 key sequence late in the first twenty two sixties. So 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.559 now they have changed the score. Here we go Beat 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.120 down low and be with a jam stepped around Kyla 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.160 Quinn deep post up position, and the field goal is 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.200 good by Joelle and Band. So it's twenty two to eighteen. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.480 That's the second asket for him. Beat. He's played eight 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.280 minutes and he had great footwork on that play to 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.720 get inside and slam at home. Twenty four to twenty one. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.800 Nicks were in front after one quarter of play. In 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.559 the second, the Sixers starting to step it up. Dario 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.520 Scharch with some important contributions to get the Sixers in 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.720 the lead. JJ Reddick back in action, added to it. 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.560 Twelve to shoot. Joel is fronted by Cantor and now 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.320 he comes up to get it back to Reddick. Eight 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.480 on o'clock JJ for a three shot falling outside is good. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.480 JJ Reddick has made his second three and beat with 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.720 the dish, and the Sixers have gone in front by 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.320 a point forty seven forty six, and they would lead 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.320 by two fifty to forty eight going into intermission. For 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.640 the Sixers in quarter at number three, they continued to 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.160 have issues with Enis Cantor, but Joel Embiid he helped 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.600 set a positive tone for the Sixers at the outset 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:51.200 of the period, and that would be the case as 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.400 well in the home stretch of quarter number three as well. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:59.440 McDermott with a shot flock by Comington and Baylis gets 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.840 the ball. J's in there, Joel's out there and a 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:04.520 Bead is gonna try to run to the block, but 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.360 first he screens TJ with a leaning shot rimming up 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.600 no tap bying Bead is good, Joella being inside position 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.960 on Cantor and a rebound follow up the miss bike 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.120 TJ nineteen make that twenty one and eleven four him 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.920 bead for him Bead. That was his second straight basket 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.720 the Sixers line at seventy one to sixty eight. Moments later, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.760 after two free throws, Cantor was taken out of the game, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.960 and that's when t J McConnell really upped his attitude. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.640 Five on four sixers with them ball t J at 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.360 Covington up top aatas Oh, he passed up an open three. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.280 Now TJ with an open three in the quarter, and 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.800 that's good McConnell. He's leading the Sixers. It's seventy nine, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:48.239 seventy three, eight straight points for the Pittsburgh native TJ. McConnell. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.120 A case of good to great for the Sixers and 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.400 McConnell with that passing seventy nine seventy five sixers in 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:58.120 front going into the fourth, the Knicks would not go away. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.200 Despite the fact the Sixers had taken eight point lead 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.240 on a Jared Baylis three eighty nine eighty one. They 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.800 got another pivotal contribution from outside the arc from yet 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.240 another veteran member of the roster and be with a 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.520 rebound Sixers with numbers TJ with a bull and now 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.040 to the right side, JJ Reddick for three out of transition, 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:20.600 got it. JJ Reddick knocks it down. Mccono dishes. Reddick 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:25.080 scores Sixers by seven with three and a half to go. Reddick, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.360 now with twenty two in the game, is four to three, 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.040 ninety six to eighty nine. The Sixers were not yet 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.120 done from beyond the arc well a difficult place to 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.560 inbound from, and with three seconds on the shot clock. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.880 Here here's a bet catching shooting shot here for three. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.360 That's good, that could be the game winner Christmas Day. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.240 Joe Ellen be knocking down to three Sixers up by 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.520 a one on one ninety three and just for good 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.200 measure to leave little to no doubt in this one 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.400 this afternoon, the Sixers produce a very important turnover. Here's 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.680 port sing Us into a trap at us by Simmons, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.080 a breakout Ben Simmons is all win the game. Ben 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.560 Simmons dunks it. Jeff Horn sec Takes time a double 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:13.000 on poor Singers by McConnell and charge. Ben with that anticipation, 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.200 breaks down, steals it, drives left the right and dunks it. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.520 And the Sixers up eight with sixty six seconds to go, 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.919 and that would help see these Sixers to the finish 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.360 line in this seven point win this afternoon. Final notes 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.760 from the final stat sheet. Six or shot forty two 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.680 percent from the field, the knicks forty and a half percent. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.840 Six Ers ten of twenty nine outside the arc. New 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:33.960 York was four of fifteen. The sixers got to the 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.520 free throw line and hit their shots twenty five or 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.679 thirty from the stripe. The next eighteen of twenty eight 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.120 sixers were plus three on the glass. That helped, as 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.679 did keeping the turnovers down relatively speaking to just fifteen. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.719 That a big improvement from recent games. Game high scoring 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.119 and rebounding total belonged to Ennis Cancer thirty one points, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.240 twenty two boards sixers, led by Joel Embiide with twenty 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.320 five and sixteen is fifteenth double double. JJ Reddick with 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.879 twenty four, a career high for him Christmas Day. This 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.560 was his eighth Christmas Day game. Cannot overlook t J 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.240 McConnell with fifteen off the bench and that guy Ben 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.760 Sevens with that punctuation point with the jam added eight points, 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:16.880 eight rebounds and also three assists, eighteen lead changes, eight 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.480 ties in a two hour, twenty seven minute Christmas Day 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.520 game in front of a salad crowd of nineteen thousand, 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.919 eight hundred twelve six ers. With the winner now fifteen 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.200 and eight, the Knicks fall to seventeen and sixteen on 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:26.680 the year.