WEBVTT - Playoff Pod: Episode 9 - Game 5 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 --> 0:00:12.160 the team's most recent postseason game. The seventy Sixers dominate 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.520 in a close out Game five victory over the Brooklyn Nets. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.680 Now they have a date with another Atlantic Division rival, 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.040 the Toronto Raptors up next, in the second round of 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:27.639 the Eastern Conference Semifinals, starting this weekend up north in Canada. Wow, 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.280 what a game, What a performance for the seventy Sixers, 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.879 punctuating this series with a one twenty two, one hundred triumph. 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.800 I'm Brian Seltered down here at the center standing by 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.760 for Brett Brown post game. Sixers entered this series with 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.440 understandable question marks. They didn't play together a lot. Forget 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.360 the regular season in general, but in particular the final 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.000 two to three weeks of the year before beginning this 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.600 first round series against the Brooklyn Nets. There was that 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.720 tough Game one loss in which the Sixers didn't seem together. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.600 They began to turn things around a couple days later 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:04.200 and four straight wins to vault them into Round two, 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:08.600 culminating with the most convincing of efforts tonight a game 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.680 in which they led by as many is thirty nine points. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.760 This starting line for the Sixers when it was out 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.679 there in the four out of the five games of 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:20.160 this series, it had complete control over its counterparts from 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.200 the Nets, and tonight was no different. The Sixers raced 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.880 out to an eight nothing lead time out Kenny Atkinson 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.920 and the Nets. The margin grew to fourteen nothing before 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.440 Brooklyn had its first basket with five minutes fifty two 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.880 seconds gone by. In the first quarter, Sixers lead grew 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.520 as big as twenty three to two, outrageous, and they 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.479 led thirty two fifteen after a quarter, sixty to thirty 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.400 one at the break, and it was just a testament 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:49.880 to the way this team came together through at adversity 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.680 in this series to end on such a high note 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.480 and knock off the Nets four games to one. And 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.880 now the Sixers are onto the second round for the 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.480 second time in as many years. That's a first since 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.559 two thousand, two thousand and one, and back in two 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.680 thousand and one, the Sixers in the second round played 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.320 the Toronto Raptors an epic seven game series. This will 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.080 be the second time the team's ever meet in playoff competition. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.440 We're standing by for Brett Brown. After tonight's game, Joel 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.040 and Bead played just twenty minutes, twenty three points, thirteen rebounds. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.359 He was plus twenty six. Ben Simmons plus thirty four 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:31.040 thirteen points, five rebounds six times in the game. Jimmy Butler, 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:32.720 you know, you just look at his stat sheet. You 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.840 see nine points, five rebounds, five assists, three steals. We're like, okay, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.520 that's pretty good. He was plus thirty one along with 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:43.400 Tobias Harris. Harris had twelve points, eight boards, four assists, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.600 JJ Reddick with eleven points. The bench played really nice. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.919 Boban Marnyanovitch in the early going. He was such a 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.080 big presence defensively for the Sixers, clogging up stuff in 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.040 the lane and allowing Brooklyn no point for entry at all. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.600 Brooklyn tried to go inside, Sixers gave him nothing. Their 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.360 defense held Brooklyn to twenty six percent, shooting just twelve 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.960 field goals in the first half. Great display all around. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.880 Seventy six Ers eliminate Brooklyn one twenty two, one hundred. 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:13.800 Believe we have Brett Brown at the postgame podium. We're 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:19.280 right about now. And you know when you lose game 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:24.800 one that can be challenged that notion the is it 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.720 right or is it wrong? We felt like we were 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.440 on the right path, even not playing well and losing. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.920 We felt it was the correct defensive game plan to 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.160 see through. To beat this team four times in a 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:41.840 row is really hard and I think that to your point, Sarah, 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.720 we started the game well. I really was as happy 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.560 with the first you know, two minutes of the third 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.400 as I was the start of the game. I thought 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.200 we came out and tried to continue sort of what 0:03:55.280 --> 0:04:00.960 we tried to achieve defensively, Bred Shawn kind of the 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.760 Liberty Bawlers. The organization hasn't made it clear that you 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.120 guys have lofty goals this year. How do you balance 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.440 that against the accomplishment of reaching the second round of 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.360 the playoffs? Say that one more time, please. You guys 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.800 have stated that you have lofty goals this year. How 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.719 do you balance that against the accomplishment of reaching the 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.480 second round for the second straight year? UM, I'm not 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.280 sure how to answer that. Knowing that I can answer 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:30.480 the stuff quickly. UM, you know, it's like I can 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.480 answer like how I see the world, this is how 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.839 I see it. We have we have a team that 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.160 is slowly coming together, like they don't have the luxury 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.000 of lots of games and lots of context to share upon. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.400 And so you know, you have Joe, you don't. You 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.080 have Jimmy Butler, you don't. These guys have been great 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:52.479 on trying to form a team. And so when you 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:57.919 say lofty goals versus reaching the second round, we have 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:03.120 more to do. And so this is good. Beaton Brooklyn 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:05.839 advanced into the second round. This is good and it 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.520 can't be discredited like, oh, you should on paper, we should, 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.240 but you still play against the team that was a 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.200 team they had a hell of ye I give Kenny 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.239 Atkinson and Sean Mark's credit, and so I will answer 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:23.800 it like that and and conclude with we still have 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:28.640 more to do, a lot and more to do. I 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.120 Bret M. Martin, Frank Tellower, News Journal. I was wondering, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.080 like your thoughts on how kind of like the nets 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.840 made you guys, you know, come together as a team, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.440 you know, especially after game one, you know, kind of 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.440 playoff series and everything, after not having all that much 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.720 time together with the guys. God, I mean I think 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:53.120 that immediately it forced us into recognizing that we are 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:58.720 vulnerable if we don't play defense like we got to 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.080 play defense. And I think if I were to go 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:07.960 to one specific thing, the first game was a reminder 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.280 that we we better guard the way that we said 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.760 we wanted to defend them, or it's going to be 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.719 a long series and one that we could lose. And 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.880 so when you say it brought us together, I think 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.680 that is true. But what it really brought us together 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:30.119 on specifically is a defense. I thought we came together defensively. Coach, 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.919 Ky Carlin, sixers wire right in front of you, to 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:38.320 your right, coach, after losing Game one, you're able to 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.120 bounce back it as winforce free. What does that say 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.560 about your team? I mean, I think it's a little 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.640 bit like the the the answer that I just gave you, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.200 it's it's it says, it says really good things. We 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.880 responded how I hope that we would and we should. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.440 And I felt, like I've said to the group many times, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.400 it's land the plane and by time, just let's get 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.640 to the playoffs and buy some time, retain our health, 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.200 get Joel moving in the direction that he's really trending, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.000 I think in a positive way, and put it in 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.520 tons of time trying to to to be with us, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.080 like physically going overboard, trying to be with us. And 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.520 I think that that, you know, buying time is still 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.840 the answer that I give to keep what we want 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.000 to do moving forward, and I believe that it is 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.760 in us great on a follow up on you say 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.960 we still have more to do, I mean, when you're 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.600 going in Toronto, you know what your history has been 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.240 like in a regular season, but this is a different 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.880 team now, and what are you kind of looking forward to, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.520 you know, in that series with this new group. I mean, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.760 we all understand what the mass says with our success 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:56.280 in Toronto, and it's not flattering, but it's also not 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.760 directed to the team that we have and so you can, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.640 you know, credit it or you can discredit it. I'm 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.200 I'm discrediting it. I think that that we have a 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:10.280 new group, we have a new opportunity. I got tremendous 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.400 respect for the Toronto team. The coaching staff has done great, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.679 but we're excited to go up there and try to 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.400 fix someone with the mass says lack of success that 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.920 we have had, and it's going to be an incredibly 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.640 tough series. I think that you know, Toronto is as 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.200 good as there is in the NBA, and we will 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:36.079 be tested immediately when we get up into Jua, into Toronto. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.480 And when that is we will find out probably before 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.559 the end of tonight or early in the am tomorrow 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.599 as or when that will be. The seventy six and 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.600 the Raptors. We do know that is the second round 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.839 matchup for the seventy six or second time ever in 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.120 the playoffs going up against Toronto. The last time was 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.080 the epic seven game series in the second round in 0:08:56.120 --> 0:09:00.320 two thousand and one. Sixers will be trying to brown 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.320 alluded to change some recent history in their rivalry versus Toronto. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.280 Toronto the number two seeds in the East, seventy Sixers 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.280 enter the postseason number three, and man, they show themselves 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.480 to be one of the top teams the way they 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.120 wrapped up this series four consecutive wins over an opponent 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.800 that gave them tough times during the regular season. Tonight 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.160 one twenty two, one hundred Sixers first took Brooklyn's spirit immediately, 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.880 then they took their heart, and lastly they ended their 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.240 season tonight, four games to one, seventy Sixers knock off 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.360 the nets in the opening round. Toronto is up next. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.160 We'll talk about that some of the details of tonight's game, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.840 a dominant, most dominant win over Brooklyn. It's our post 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.840 game coverage and we're just getting starting. As we watched 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.640 the suburban garden nome carefully, carefully without disturbing it, he 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.000 noticed that it moves like not at all. It's inanimate 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.760 and utterly without brain function. But despite that, when it 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.920 goden know me. Here is about how Geico not only 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.760 saves people money but also gives them access to license 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.679 to agents twenty four seven online and over the phone. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.240 It's clear to them you should switch, because yes, switching 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.000 to Geico is a no brainer. But on second thoughts, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.840 maybe don't watch garden Homes two carefully. People might talk 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.480 a route in a close at seventy six ers eliminate 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.600 the nets one twenty two. Brian Selzer here at the center, 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:24.839 Joel beat at the podium right now, shing But no, no, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:30.119 you can't say I thought tonight my performance was was okay, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:35.880 but that was a great win. Everybody showed up, Joel, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:40.199 David Glenham and ESPN. Kenny Atkinson said right there ten 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.240 fifteen minutes ago and said that the six or teen 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.760 that just beat the Nets can contend for a championship. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.160 How are you guys in your locker room managing your 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.840 own expectations as you move through these playoffs. That's all 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:54.199 we think. We think we can win it all. Obviously, 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.439 he's gonna take a lot. You got some great teams 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.640 in the league. We are about to play one of them. Man, 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.640 I don't know he's gonna be. The next one is 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:07.280 gonna easither gonna be Milwaukee or Boston. And then you 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.719 got the West, which is pretty tough. So we just 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.800 gotta take uh one game by the time. Um, but 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.480 we understand how we got all the time, and we 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:24.160 need especially to win it all. More Joe to you left. Um, 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.360 you guys are back in the second round. No, last 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.440 year it was a humbling experience to go through that 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.920 with Boston. But where would you compare where you are 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.560 now going back into the second round. Just where your 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:38.600 mentality is and just confidence going in. Um, Man, we 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.600 felt pretty good about what we can do. Uh. There's 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.679 definitely a difference from last year. Uh feel like this 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.160 team is better than last year's team. Uh. And then 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.000 last year we had a great momentum going going into 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:59.280 the playoffs, and um, Boston just smacked us. Uh, but 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.160 going into this series is uh, you know it's kinda 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.280 it's different because I've seen it. That's my second time 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.720 being here. And last year, you know, we were kinda 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.080 I would say over confidence on what we came. We 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.840 could we could have done. But this year is just 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:23.040 about uh, you know, respecting everything about the game of basketball. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.559 And you know, just put in the walking Joe Joe. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.360 Last year in the in the back, last year in 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:32.200 the second round, you guys struggle to stop the drible penetration. Um, 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.840 they really gave you problems with the way Jimmy Butler 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.880 and Ben Simmons have been playing on the perimeter of 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.360 this year, Um, how much more equipped do you think 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:44.160 you guys are? Um Man, Um, not gonna say anything 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:48.800 about last year's guys. Um, but uh, it doesn't make 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.080 a difference. Uh. We gotta stick to the game plan. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.360 And uh usually the game plan is, uh to drive 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.800 all these guys to me and let me do my 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.800 job as the best defensive player in the league. But 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:08.600 if that's the game plan, you know those guys they 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.280 gotta do that best. As far as content in the 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.000 ball Land. I got that back, thanks Joe. Seventy six 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.640 Ers big man Joel and Beat, exuding understandable confidence after 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.280 a blowout one of the Brooklyn nets tonight one twenty 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.600 two to one hundred and Beat, finishing with twenty three 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.280 points thirteen rebounds in just twenty minutes. He was plus 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.720 twenty six. I bring on Tom McGinnis right now, and 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:33.720 I'm gonna hit you, Tom, Tom, I'm gonna lower some 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.680 I don't know how advanced this is, but some semi 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.920 advanced stats for you right here. Seventy six Ers starting 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.800 five put a total of sixty six minutes together the 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.160 entire series, essentially, not essentially, that was four out of 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.480 the five games. They outscored Brooklyn starters by one hundred 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.880 four points in sixty six minutes. Outrageous. And to follow 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.720 up on what Kenny Atkinson apparently said, Sixers tonight played 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.720 like a championship contender. You would be hard pressed to 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.040 find fault in a remark like that. Well, for sure, 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.760 and that's high praise coming from an opposing coach. And 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.680 they were dominant here, particularly early, and obviously that's the 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.800 strength of this Sixers team, the starting five. So that 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.560 is a commanding performance obviously in the last four games 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.440 of the series. And again you have options, but I 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.680 think as as important as anything, and the bid was 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.120 just touching on this as the defense. You know, you're 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.760 doing better on the perimeter. The Sixers made tactical changes 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.640 in this series. They stopped switching everything, they started fighting 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:35.080 through screens and that allows Jimmy Butler and Ben were 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.120 really good. They were really good on the perimeter in 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.280 this game. I thought JJ played really solid defense, and 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.080 then Tobias and you got the anchor back there in 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.600 and b So really kudos to the Sixers in that. Regardless, 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.160 we watched Ben Simmons coming out of the locker room 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.040 out out onto the accord here and he was really good. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:57.000 His father David following in his footsteps. But a tremendous 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.040 performance by the Sixers and again Brian coming in. I 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:01.880 I didn't see this. I mean, I just coming into 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.440 this game, you know, you felt like it was going 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.560 to be a lot closer. But with the way the 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.760 Sixers dominated early, they really took the nets out of it it. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.640 And you know, Coach Brown told me as we were 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.400 interviewing here, I talked to him on the court. You know, 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.320 right when shoot around was wrapping up and he was 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.560 talking about breaking their spirit, and I thought the Sixers 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.040 were successful in doing that, And especially when you look 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.480 down at their bench and you saw Russell and did 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.760 with Ee and Lavert and Jared Allen and Dudley and 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.320 Demarrow Carroll some of their top players. Those are their 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.400 top players, and they really they watched as the Sixers 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.360 dismantled them and really solid for the Sixers to win 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.760 four straight to close them out and panic start convincent 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.520 finished one twenty two to one hundred and seventy Sixers 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.120 over the Brooklyn Nets to take this one in five games. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.280 Would you say the Sixers there is a different are 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.200 around them right now right than we saw at the 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.520 start of the series. And as Brett Brown said, much 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.200 like he did at this point last year, that more 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.120 to do slogan and the notion of the Sixers though 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.240 coming together. It seemed like they did find some things 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.480 going through this series. And no doubt, and you know 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.560 it sounds like, you know, after the first game and 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.280 then a sixty five sixty four first quarter of Game two, 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.000 that that speech by Brett Brown kind of got the 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.800 Sixers going to look and then another you know, little 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.960 pivotal point in this series was well too, really the 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.680 fact that they won Game two, I'm sorry, Game three 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:26.600 without Embid with really great performances by Marianovitch and Greg 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.720 Monroe filling in for Joel, and they were able to 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.080 hold down the fort and win convincingly in that second game. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.920 And then I really think the third quarter of Saturday's 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.760 Game four and the ejections and the freakas the fact 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.760 that Dudley tried to stir it up, I think that 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.280 backfired big time on Brooklyn, with Joel and Ben really 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.000 taking off and just dominating down the stretch in that game. 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.480 And then tonight, obviously the first six or so minutes 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.880 when the Sixers were up twenty three to two, for 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:59.120 all intensive purposes, the game was over. So to your 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.320 point about the stars, Brian as I talked to JJ 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.480 Reddick postgame and he kind of concurred, And that is 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.480 one of the sentiments coming in was can you get 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.160 the chemistry and that grouped together playing in the playoffs? 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.960 And I think it happens because of the intensity and 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.600 the stage. You know, it happens quicker, I mean, because 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.879 it's so intense and they were able to play to 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.719 your point about that lopsided edge in terms of when 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.199 the starters were out there and they're jelling together, and 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.639 now comes a huge test against a Toronto team that 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.359 the Sixers have really struggled with over the years. All right, Tom, 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.479 and we'll leave it on that note about the Toronto Raptors, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.000 I'll get one from you. Now. We're gonna be talking 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.120 about it ad nauseum over the next couple of days. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.359 First of all, these are the type of matchups that 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.520 you just ralished from an outsider's perspective as a spectator. 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.400 This is awesome theater number two, number three, a team 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.440 that's had your number talking about the seventy Sixers so 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.240 many of these recent years. But we did not see 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.640 matchup between the seventy Sixers and the Raptors following the 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.840 final pieces that the Sis added at the trade Devilo well, 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.480 and same thing with Toronto. They didn't have Gasol in 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.959 any of these games that the Sixers have played, and 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.160 when the Sixers won here, the Raptors did not play 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.919 Ibaka or Kawhi Leonard. So Leonard again missed like what 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:18.879 twenty twenty two games and now here Siakam turns into 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.359 an incredible player. It's amazing the leaps that he's made 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.840 over the last three months. And uh no, you're right, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.440 and overall you're talking about what the fans look for 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.720 and the regular season matters. It's proven and that the 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.040 first four seeds in the East are playing still and 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.879 playing each other, with Milwaukee against Boston and obviously the 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.760 Sixers against Toronto. And you know, at some point the 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.800 Sixers have got to get through We've talked to for years. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.040 Getting through Boston will remains to be seen whether that 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.520 will concur in the conference finals, but first Toronto, and 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.600 it's one of these teams that you've got to get through. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.320 The Raptors have been right there at the top of 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.720 the division and they've ruled the roost of if you 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.720 will up there one thirteen in a row and what 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:03.760 is it, twenty three out of twenty four, something to 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.000 that effect, and you've got to be able to go 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.480 up there, and now without home court advantage, you know, 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.800 you go up there with the idea of gaining a 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.199 split and then coming back home and holding serves. So 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.760 matchups abound. There's some of the best players in basketball 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.240 are pitted against one another in this series, so as 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.920 you say, it is one to savor, it's going to 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.280 be intense. That crowd up there is as good as 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.640 any in sports. The Sixers have not played there since 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.480 two thousand and one in that playoff series with Carter 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.320 and iverson the Sixers and the Raptors, and this shapes 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.320 up to be really a very exciting matchup in round two. 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.600 Tom cannot wait to speak with you in advance of 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.840 that opening game and the second round versus the Raptors. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.280 Have a great rest of the night. Thank you. Seventy 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.359 six Ers rolling into the second round behind four straight 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.200 wins and a convincing one twenty two one hundred victory 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.119 over the Brooklyn Nets in an elimination game tonight. Some 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.439 highlights coming up next. Then we have divine givens in 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:06.400 the post. This is our postgame coverage. 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If it 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.520 was all seventy six ers you were hoping for and 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.800 a subsequent reassuring performance in a close out game five 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.240 of the first round, that is what you got tonight. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:46.360 We're just going to play a hand full of highlights 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:48.680 because it was that type of evening for the seventy sixers. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.800 And boy did it get started quickly. Jimmy Butler racing 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:55.119 the seventy sixers out to a quick start, Harris playing 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.520 in for Brooklyn out top and just steer by Butler. 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:04.359 Jimmy Butler jam time out Brooklyn. Teddy Atkins said, points 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:08.600 at the officials, give me a teo, baby. He did 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.920 that and more did the Brooklyn nets. The lead would 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:15.240 only increase seventy sixers. Wow, it was just a dramatic 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.200 margin did way through the first quarner. Here's to bias 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.240 off the screen. In the lane stops, page fifteen, voter 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.360 got the front but no good rebounded by Jimmy back 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.960 out the Harris Open. Three shot in here bang a 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:30.760 dagger at early dagger. It's good. By Tobias and Paris. 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.439 It's twenty three to two. He really did as crazy 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.400 as a Santa Dad felt like it was a dagger. 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:39.560 And the first quarter wasn't even done yet. Ben Simmons 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:41.879 with a punctuation to add a little bit more to 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:43.760 the seventy sixers total. At the end of a quarter 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:46.320 number one Simmons of the ball bid to shoot Ben 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.919 on a drive bab bright hast slap break out broad Street, 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:54.600 deep hammers and then nine seconds to go. Sixers lead 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:59.400 by nineteen thirty two fifteen seventy sixers all sixers after 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.960 twelve minute and Joel and Bead kept pointing on after 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.320 the first Brooklyn turns it over. JJ stopped to the line, 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:08.800 back to a trailing it beat. He'll try for three. 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:13.560