WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 4/11/2018- Rewind vs. Bucks 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.240 These guys are. I think it's a real time example 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.800 of how you've heard me say, Oh, they play together, 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.000 they coexist. We you know, pass the ball and this 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:12.080 and that. That's real. It doesn't require a coach thrown 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.680 out some math that that that that's there's a human 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.160 side to that action that you just described that is 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:24.520 special at great teams, remember any that are playing this 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:26.960 well for this long as well as this team is 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:31.840 played in the last sixteen dealers, I feel like this team. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.360 When I think of this team now and there's so 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:36.640 much more to do, I really think of that thing 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.680 I just said. I feel that the group, you know, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.120 really enjoys each other's company. And when we lose, like 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.400 heavyweight like Joe l Embiid or you know, other people 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.639 go down, other people do step up. And it's not 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.880 like we boast you know, a collection of NBA All 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.200 Stars or you know NBA champions in that room. That 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.480 that isn't who we are right now. We are in 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.880 the infant stages of some organic growth that I love 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:09.400 the way the program, the culture is trending. And to 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.880 end the season breaking I'm told an NBA recorded with 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:18.720 consecutive games to secure the third spot in the East 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.520 and to you know, break a franchise record with consecutive wins. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.560 All those things equal what I just said. I think 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:31.039 the group is really really tight of the regular season. 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.720 I mean, it's hard to sort of pinpoint anything, you know. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:41.080 I liked. I think that when you when you delineate 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.839 between style of play and culture, I feel like we've 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.800 done that. You know, they do cross pollinate. But I 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.520 feel like we play a certain brand of basketball, and 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.720 we said we were going to play a certain brand 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.680 of basketball for a long time, and I think to 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.800 be able to see it evolve and not like wiggle 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.480 to the left or right, and grow a style of 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.440 basketball that we believe in. I'm proud of that. I'm 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.880 proud of the cultural side of what we do, you know, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:14.480 as a team, stuff on court, off court. I'm proud 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.119 of that. And I think that when you say tell 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:18.960 me one thing, it's hard for me to do that, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.840 I can tell you two global things, and it's that 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.079 style of play and culture, and they do cross pollinate. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.560 The record of season is over and you turn your 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.760 attached to the playoffs, Well, how do you get this 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.640 young team to kind of redial and you focus it 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.760 that you're ready to posting. You have them take a 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:39.519 deep breath and recognize for a moment what they did. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.840 They have to take great pride, take great satisfaction and 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:49.880 the accomplishment. Albeit you know early and it's not something 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.600 that I deem to be like, here we are, we've 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.240 arrived significant type status. It's not that I want them 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.560 to enjoy it. Take a deep breath and then reload. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.919 You know, we're gonna come back in tomorrow night. We'll 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.000 have a team dinner. The coaches will be in there 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.400 very early in the morning going through all the stuff 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.720 and delivering to the team a game plan. We'll have 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.360 a team meal, we'll have a game plan laid out, 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.040 and we'll bring him in the following morning and get 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.679 into more compartmental type things with bigs and smalls and 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.839 point guards and positional type stuff of this is who 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.440 you're guarding, this is our expectations, etc. And walk it 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.720 down and soon we'll learn what time we play. We 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.720 assume it's going to be Saturday. We don't know that 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.280 for sure, but all that is what I want my 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:41.440 players to like, enjoy and look forward to getting into tomorrow. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:46.400 Sixers coach Brett Brown now it's looking like up we'll 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.920 beat Miami. They lead by four in overtime at home 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.920 one thirteen, one oh nine. These six Ers will be 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.240 third with a victory. Pretty sure the heat would be 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.920 six and that would set up Round one playoff activities. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.440 Sixers and Miami expected to be here on Saturday. A 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.080 limited number of premium season ticket packages that are now 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.800 available for next season in the centennial VIP and club 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.720 level selections. Purchase a full season membership for next year 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.120 and guarantee yourself an opportunity to purchase these for the 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.760 eighteen playoffs coming up right here. For more info or 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.440 to speak with a sales rep, call the Sixers at 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.559 two one five, three, three nine seven to six seven six, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.520 or email tickets at seventy six ers dot com. And 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.400 again that comes with the opportunity to purchase playoff tickets 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.360 for this season's playoffs and the Sixers with that right 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.599 around the corner. Brett Brown just gave you the game 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.520 plan in terms of getting ready for the postseason. I 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.360 know they've been planning in terms of trying to get 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.800 ready in terms if it would be not the coaches 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.320 too much, but a lot of the analytical staff trying 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.600 to prep as much as they can for each potential opponent, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.760 and they'll know by the close of business before they 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.000 leave here tonight as to whom they'll play coming up 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.600 over the weekend. So an incredible game here tonight. You 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.120 thought coming in this would be a nailbiter. It was 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.279 anything but the Sixers blowout Milwaukee or thanks to Tyler, 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.440 Julian Carlamoli and Marty Dickerson. Here we'll turn it over 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.520 to Brian Seltzer dot Brian Seltzer of Sixers dot His 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.479 name seems like his last name is dot com, but 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.080 he is working here and we'll read all of his 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:23.920 stuff over the course of the next couple of days 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.479 and in the playoffs is the Sixers will be in 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.520 the playoffs for the first time since twenty twelve. Thanks 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.760 for listening. We'll have a portion of the postgame program, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.800 but for now, Tom mcginns from the center where the 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.719 Sixers win by thirty five in the regular season finale 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:42.599 over Milwaukee. This is the Sixers radio network. He's the 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.680 Philadelphia has seventy Sixers postgame show in feed. I can 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.640 look about about broad streets. Harks's gonna turn him getting 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.560 off Matty rolls the Sixers postgame show right now on 0:05:54.800 --> 0:06:00.360 ninety seven five the finette hard to him mention a 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:05.479 more perfect finish to a remarkable, incredible regular season for 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:11.040 the Philadelphia seventy Sixers. Lisia's speechless. The box score one 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.160 thirty to ninety five. But of course, who will spend 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.560 the next couple of minutes speaking about this impressive seventy 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:23.039 Sixers win, this impressive seventy sixers season, and impressive club overall? 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.159 One thirty ninety five. Again the final score. Brian Selta 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.039 with you from Sixers dot com. We're gonna talk with 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.800 Tom mc ginnis in just a few moments. Wow, No, 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.839 Joel embiid, Ben Simmons not really a factor in the 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.239 scoring tonight, JJ reddick out with some lower back tightness 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.880 and the Sixers blast blowout the Milwaukee Bucks run the 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.680 deer right out the building in what seemed like it 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.640 could have been a potential first round playoff matchup. Within 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.679 the opening minutes of play, it was clear this game 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.200 belonged to the class of the seventy Sixers. They led 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.719 forty six to eighteen after the first quarter. They scored 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.960 seventy points before Milwaukee hit thirty. The lead that just 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.360 ballooned out tremendously eighty to forty four by the half, 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.960 highest scoring first half of the seventy Sixers since nineteen 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.840 at ninety just the tenth eighty point first half in 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.760 team history. Only for twenty seven seconds in the second 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.760 half of the Sixers lead dip below thirty points phenomenal. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.360 Then to capit all off, you had that mob scene 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.600 moment by the Sixers bench when Mark l Faults after 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.760 everything he's been through, clinched a triple double tonight with 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.120 thirteen points, ten rebounds, ten assists. He hawked down that 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.840 final rebound in the closing seconds and it was like 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:40.840 a pitcher throwing no hitter or perfect game or the 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.560 final out in the World Series, when Mark ll Foltz 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.160 was just swarmed in front of the Sixers bench, And 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.760 for a kid who's been through so so much, an 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.560 outstanding moment for him and his teammates as they close 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.160 out the regular season with an NBA record sixteenth consecutive 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.440 victory to end a regular season that a new mark 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.320 in the NBA. Tonight's win adds to the longest winning 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.840 streak in Sixers franchise history. They lock up the three 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.040 seat in the Eastern Conference by virtue of the win 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.920 with a fifty two and thirty record, and stand by 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.680 for just a moment, we have this breaking news on 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.320 the seventy Sixers postgame show. The first round opponent for 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.520 the seventy Sixers starting this weekend at the Center, will 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.440 be the Miami Heat. That is because the Heat beat 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.840 the Toronto Raptors at home in overtime one sixteen to 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.319 one oh nine, Orlando defeating Washington in Florida one o 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.440 one to ninety two, and the New York Knicks on 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.600 the road with Cleveland's starters resting for the better part 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.640 of that game, New York beating the Cavaliers one ten 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:48.040 to ninety eight. So that news, Justin the seventy Sixers 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.520 will face the Miami Heat. As long as we read 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:55.760 our NBA postseason breakdown chart correctly, it'll be the seventy 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.240 Sixers and the Heat likely starting on Saturday here at 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.920 the Center. Get it, got it great? We're gonna take 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.840 a quick break, collect our breaths. Tom McGinnis is standing 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.600 by team high point total going to Justin Anderson with 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:13.320 twenty five, leading a tremendous bench effort. Dario charch lit 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.040 the fuse twenty four points a plus twenty seven in 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.840 the game. Seventy Sixers with a brilliant way to cap 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.679 a brilliant breakthrough regular season. We'll get to go in 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.559 after this. It's the postgame showing the Sixers rate and network. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:37.959 Seventy Sixers just a fantastic finale in the regular season, 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.920 trampling the Milwaukee Bucks one thirty six eighteen after the 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.800 first quarter, they were up seventy to twenty nine one 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.760 point in the second quarter. It was that dominant and 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.920 they didn't even have their full complement of players. Brian 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.200 Seltzer joined now by Tom McGinnis. Tom, this has been 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.199 a pretty amazing ride for the seventy sixers, and so 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.440 neat that this was the type of regular season you 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.400 could really enjoy and continue to be impressed by as 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.040 and unfolded and for to wrap up this way. It 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.559 really was storybook type setting for the seventy Sixers tonight. No, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.800 because this was a scary game coming in, I mean 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.400 Milwaukee was rested. The Sixers with a hard fought, I 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.360 mean very physical game last night in Atlanta. Late arrival, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.960 Milwaukee had just beaten the Sixers twice, I mean not 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.800 just but the most recent two games. And yet the 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.360 Sixers came out Marco Belinelli made a three and the 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.800 game wasn't even ten seconds old, and the Sixers never trailed, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.840 And just an astounding first half with the threes flying. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.760 Daria was back in a big way, eighty points in 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.679 the first half and Ben Simmons hadn't even scored. I mean, 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.760 how about that. So just an incredible and then all 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.559 around performance homes and folds, and we understand Foltz maybe 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.440 the youngest player ever to record a triple double, securing 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:57.360 the three seed, the sixteen consecutive victories and again never 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.120 done before in the history of the NBA. I mean, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.480 it was remarkable the other night when the Sixers won 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.079 and they tied the eighty two eighty three championship Sixers 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.440 teams with the most consecutive wins. Then the Eclipse it 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.960 last night, and then they further established it tonight. It's all. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.280 It really just shakes your head in the most positive 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.720 of ways. And this group wants more, Like Brett Brown said, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.479 you know, he wants them to feel satisfied and feel accomplished. 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.880 Take a deep breath, no doubt, rest tomorrow and then 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.560 begin to gear up through you know, the game plan 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.520 and whatnot practice on Friday, and then the game here Saturday, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.720 and as you says it said, it's Miami, and wow, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.200 that's Miami won in the last two games against the Sixers, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.240 and certainly, the way the Sixers are playing right now, 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.200 they have to feel confident against any team. Miami scary though, 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.360 the way they have what I call dribble drivers, slasher 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.360 type players with Draga and Richardson, and of course Dwayne 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.600 Wade is going to ratchet it up, and Wayne Ellington's 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.880 having a career year from three. Whiteside's been up and 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.439 down here, they've been playing Olinic a little bit more. 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.320 But for them to beat Toronto and over time and 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.079 secure the sixth spot, it's going to be a very 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.080 good series, no doubt about it. And to me, the 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.040 longer that series goes maybe you know, who knows, maybe 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.920 the Sixers take care of business early, but I think 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.160 that the further that thing goes along, the better the 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.120 prospects are that a bad will get back in the mix. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.080 I was saying that in the postseason for faults, but 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.880 he looks like he's ready. I thought maybe the more 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.720 time went on, the more practice, the longer the season went, 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.480 the better. But he appears ready and he'll be raring 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.560 to go after what we saw here tonight. Just an 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.199 incredible athletic I thought performance by Marquel. This game got 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.240 out of hand real quick. The Sixers over the Bucks 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.840 one thirty ninety five. Dario starts so important to setting 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.920 the tone, lighting the fuse for the seventy sixers. But 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.600 as you said, Tom, the lasting impression, it's hard not 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.400 to be Marquelle faults and that image of him being 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.520 just mobbed and engulfed by his teammates in front of 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.520 the seventy sixers bench, Just how cool is that for 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.479 him and for people you know who may like sometimes 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.960 take as teams speak, the whole narrative of oh, we 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.080 were rooting for him all along. We really supported him 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.320 and were with him every step of the way. I mean, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.080 you could see it right there, just how thrilled they 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.200 were for folks that he had that type of moment, 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.080 a triple double in the final game of a regular season, 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:14.839 and who knows, this time a month ago, no one 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.840 probably expected to see him, right, It was actually like 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.800 a shocker what Coach Brown said. It was on a 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.160 Monday night where he said that he was going to 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.200 play like I said. It was a bit of a 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.560 startling revelation at that point. And boy, play he did. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.640 And he's worked himself into where he's going to be 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.120 an impactful player in the playoffs. And you know, to 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.120 your point, Brian Justin Anderson said courtside that he's never 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:43.160 seen more resilience shown. I mean, that's a pretty impactful 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.000 comment right there. And you know, we've been around him. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.280 He is a very likable young guy. These guys have 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.400 all kind of taken them under the wing. How about 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.160 you know, at shoot around at the training complex when 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.720 the media would be allowed in, they'd all started shooting, 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.840 Marquel shooting, and one day JJ Redick was just fed 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.760 up and said, hey enough already, let the guys shoot. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.880 Let the guy go through this process. So in a sense, 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.520 you know, they've kind of had his back and it's 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.240 just remarkable for him to miss what sixty eight games 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.600 and then to come back and to play like this, 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.120 and you know, look, he showed why he was the 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.920 number one pick. I mean that when he goes when 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.080 I say sores and scores, I mean you're watching he's 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.680 flying over the opposition and going right over the room. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.160 I mean it's incredible. So you know, hopefully and all 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.600 these guys will be raring to go. And I'll tell 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.600 you one thing too, that markl tj Rashaan at some 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.640 point a mirror will go back to the bench, your 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.240 son Marco. In addition to how well Dario and Ben 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.960 and JJ and everybody's play cove but depth is so 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:56.520 important into playoffs because you know, I referenced this Milwaukee 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.440 team with Jannis Adenib. I remember watching that it was 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.520 games and Milwaukee, like Jana Sadeta Kopa, one of the 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.360 great players in our game, couldn't he could not summon 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.600 the energy to shoot a free throw, and that said 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.160 something about their lack of depth in Toronto's depth in 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.400 that playoff series a year ago. I only bring it 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.680 up just because it kind of points to what it's like. 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.600 The energy, the intensity in the game shrinks. It's more 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.280 of a half court type of game. And I think 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.680 the Sixers depth is going to serve them well in 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.040 this postseason. And I know him going on what one 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.680 last thing, Brian, like coach talks about the team coming together, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.840 how they play for one another. You think back to August, 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:43.000 and for that matter, even before. I mean this team 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:47.480 got back together right after the season. I mean they 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.840 took a few weeks off in August, but this group 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:55.360 was in that gym together, the practice facility, everything that 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.880 one would have hoped for, putting a team in the 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.040 best possible position for them to want to go there, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.280 to spend the time there to work on their craft. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.760 They did it, and they were doing it for each 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.400 other and pushing each other along. And look where it's 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.920 brought them. It's brought them to the cusp I mean 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.760 right now of greatness and they're going to try to 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.080 prove it. And as Brett Brown said, you know they've 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.160 done terrifically well. But right now this means they put 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.280 themselves into position. But this is when you get graded. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:29.320 This is they've they've gone past expectations. But the playoffs 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.600 are when you really earn your grades. Seventy sixers over 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.720 the Bucks one thirty ninety five. So it will not 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.960 be the Sixers against the Bucks in the postseason, which 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.080 if the season at end of yesterday it would have been. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.120 It's looking like the seventy sixers and the Miami Heat. 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.400 The two teams, Tom what a tremendously hard fought four 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.880 game regular season series. Going back and looking at this now, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:55.360 the entire regular season series was decided by a total 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.080 of eight points. Sixers won the first two games here 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.240 at the center of the first two weeks of February, 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.119 and then interestingly enough, the final week of February, first 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.439 week in March, they played twice at Miami, so it 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.600 really almost had about as much of a playoff type 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.680 simulation as you could have in the regular season. Lasting 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.280 impression from Miami games, Dwayne, Wayne finding the fountain of youth. 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.119 But they're a hard, fighting team. You mentioned the cutting 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.520 and the slashing, and of course the head coaches widely 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.200 considered one of the best in the league. Oh yeah, 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.080 it's so much appreciation and respect for Eric Spoelstra, and it 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.760 it starts with pat Riley with that franchise, and you 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.000 know the two games here and talking to Spoelstra in 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.360 Miami prior to those games down there, you know, spo 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.240 was saying that was must see TV. If you remember, Brian, 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.879 The Sixers had a huge lead and Miami came back, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.040 but the Sixers prevailed. And then then the game just 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.760 prior to the All Star Break, the Sixers trailed huge 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.760 and came back to win, and those were twenty point swings, 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.400 if I'm not mistaken. And then the games down there 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.240 they were like playoff games. So no Miami. Last year 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.280 they had a huge rush to the finish but didn't 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.320 make the playoffs. And then this year, you know, obviously 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.000 they were in the mix the entire time. It'll be 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.480 the sixth They've already played five times, and you know, 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.160 you include Kansas. The Sixers played at the Sprint Center 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.879 there in October in the last preseason game, and then 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.280 those two games here in the two games down there, 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:23.080 and obviously no opponent everybody so worthy in the postseason 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.440 in Miami. They are gonna be a tough out. That's 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.240 gonna be a hard fought series. Sixers played them in 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.000 the playoffs back in the Lebron years in Miami prevailed. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.280 It'll be the second time they've ever played the Heat 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.400 in the postseason. Seventy Sixers will play on after game 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.000 number eighty two in the regular season. Can't wait to 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.760 hear some Tom McGinnis called postseason basketball in Philadelphia for 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.880 the first time since two and twelve. Thank you, Brian, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.399 have a great night. Sixers beat the Bucks one thirty 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.600 to ninety five. It'll be the seventy Sixers in the 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:59.199 Miami Heats in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series starting this 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.000 weekend here in South Philadelphia. The Sixers and the heatab 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.960 met one other time in the history of the two 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:10.760 franchises in the playoffs, and that was back in two eleven, 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.240 a series that Miami took four games to one. We 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.359 have some highlights coming up after this. Just a really incredible, 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:22.280 amazing game. Cannot wait to listen to Divine Gibbons on 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.560 the drive home from the building. Divine is coming up 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:26.600 in just a bit if you want to get on 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.680 the phone. Six sixty two zero nine seven five Tom's 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.600 calls coming up after this. Sixers postseason bound after blowing 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.760 out the Bucks, making NBA history with a sixteenth straight 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.240 win and the regular season. Stay with us. It's the 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:48.320 postgame showing the Sixers Raider Network. This was a really 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.200 outstanding season and it was going to be that way 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:57.960 regardless of what went down at the Center tonight's. But goodness, gracious, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:03.840 this was and nights to remember as far as incredible 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.280 displays by these seventy sixers. Go Brian Selt with you 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.159 from Sixers dot com. Let us get to the highlights. 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.600 Sixers won the opening tap within ten seconds, Marco Bellonelli 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.639 had a three and the Sixers were off from their 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.320 three pointers. A major theme from quarter number one. There's 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.000 a long shot by Bellonelli, up and go. The Sixers 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.600 get the field goal right out of the gate. Ben 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.639 drives on the Dennick Coopo spins back middle out, top charge, 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.920 three balls good, Dario Chartz puts it in three bowl 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.920 in the air, and Anderson puts it in six triples 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.920 four the Sixers Milwaukee has none comington fakes two defenders off. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.080 Here's t J wide open, three ball, Hey McConnell, here's 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.639 the new JJ Redick. TJ McConnell knocks down another three, 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.280 And they had a reference to the Sixers being without 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.840 JJ Reddick tonight. They were still able to do what 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.200 they did without a guy who's been their leading score 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.560 over the latter stages of this winning streak. Another subplot 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.119 from the first quarter, Mark hell Folds spelled Ben Simmons. 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.520 After Simmons picked two early fouls and Folds proceeded to 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:04.280 have a say whether it was through an assist or 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:08.320 a black basket. He scored directly in the next twenty 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.199 points to seventy Sixers scored after he subbed in to 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.560 open up a forty to twelve lead. Amazing forty six 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.200 to eighteen to score after one quarter. Markul folks doing 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.360 his thing and great to see. In quarter number two, 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.399 Holtz drives on sterling brown, hangs in the lane, spins, 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.639 shoots no good rebound. Rashawn he troubles and champs and 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.320 that's what he does. And Markuel stills. He in head, 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.960 he lays it in a road. It's a road. The 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:35.399 Sixers with four straight points, they're winning fifty eight to 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:40.520 twenty three. Foults, his confidence, his moves, everything about him. 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:44.280 It was just off the charts tonight, Sixers led fifty 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:46.760 eight twenty three at that point. Rashaun Holmes is a 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.680 big part of a very strong bench effort for the Sixers. 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.879 Thirty seconds ago, seventy six forty two. T J on 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:58.040 a lab, Rashaun Holmes patches in and slams at hellayo 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:03.280 Cam TJ. Mcconne, He's shredding the box. Holmes duns the ball. 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:07.560 Sixers led by a commanding margin of eighty to forty 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.240 four at a half, just the tenth eighty point first 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:13.840