WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 02/14/2018 - Rewind vs. Heat 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:04.200 This is the Philadelphia has seventy Sixers postgame show. If 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.240 fed I can look about about Bronch free Zarcs is 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.240 gonna turn and getting on Maddie Roll the Sixers postgame 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:18.520 show right now on ninety seven five the Fonetic honestly 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.279 think that you might be able to make the case 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.599 that tonight we saw the seventy sixers most impressive win 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.920 of the season, remarkable one oh four, one oh two 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.400 over the Miami Heats. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.920 dot com. Why so impressive tonight? Well, First of all, 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.720 no All Star available Joel Embi did not play tonight. 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.600 The Sixers fell behind by twenty four points early on 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.040 in the third quarter, and on top of all that, 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.960 this team going up against the Miami squad that, like itself, 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.160 is jockeying for positioning for postseason play. The Sixers came 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:57.040 into tonight trailing the Milwaukee Bucks by just a few 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.920 games for fourth. The Heat were right on their heel, 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.880 is just a half game behind, and by powering their 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.640 way back in this one this evening, the Sixers create 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.480 one and a half games worth of separation between themselves 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:13.839 and the Heat. Great determination tremendous resiliency and so many 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.560 guys stepping up with embiid not out there. Ben Simmons 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:22.120 triple double, excellent tonight and powerful down the stretch eighteen points, 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.480 a dozen rebounds, ten assists to go along with four steals. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.000 But let's get into guys like Dario's charge with nineteen points, 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:34.559 eight rebounds and fantastic on the glass. JJ Reddick, Marco Bellanelli, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.000 Trevor Booker, Rashaun Holmes. Let's join Brett Brown right now 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.560 in progress, a heck of a lot more enjoyable. In 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.399 team is the word you want to hear. It was 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:50.520 a team effort, a complete team effort double tonight. But 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.160 what did you see from Ben on the defensive end 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:59.840 in the second half, in particular loose balls, deflections, the 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.400 ability to come up with stuff that you think is 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.200 just not going to happen. All of a sudden, he 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.480 just arrives with the ball. I was only reminded of 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.440 his triple double about three steps before I opened the 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.880 door to come out here, and he just sort of, 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.919 you know, quietly in my eyes, quietly assumes statistics. You 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.120 feel his presence, but not to the level when I 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.120 look at the statue, you say, really like, you know, 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.320 as eighteen, ten and twelve. Those are massive numbers in 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.280 a close game, and in a game that we judge 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.399 to be like a little bit of a mini playoff audition. 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.680 They hanging around us, We're hanging around them, and so 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.240 it's an important game, and in our eyes it was. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.560 And for Ben to produce those types of numbers and 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.000 sort of just a very sort of deliberate way, um, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.120 and for me not to come in immediately noticing it, 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.960 I think it speaks in a crazy way positives about 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:58.200 Ben Simmons. You ever saying maturity of such a magna 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:04.120 two someone so yeah, gets an experience, he has tremendous poise. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.680 It's the word that I always that always so easily 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.200 comes out of my mouth when they say what do 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.880 you think of Ben Simmons? Because, as I've said so 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.160 many times, you know, you take a college for me 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.720 and you make him an NBA point guard and you 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.320 kind of say, good luck figured out lead a team 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.360 in an unbelievable city. I mean, how about the crowd tonight? 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.919 Just incredible and this is our eleventh win in a 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.200 row here at home, and you feel every one of 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.720 those voices and fans, and he's able to navigate that 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:36.680 landscape flawlessly. He's not phased at all, and you know, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.400 he handles himself with a tremendous amount of grace and 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:44.200 poise for being so young and especially sort of being 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.040 responsible for what I think is the most difficult position 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:53.560 in the NBA. A point guard hit a tin one footer. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.400 It's to night kind of weird with the violation that 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.120 are being called back, But I mean, no matter how 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:01.600 it goes in, because he see it go in and 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:06.520 say all right, maybe I can maybe you know, he's 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.360 had more pull ups over the past few games and 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.480 has made some um maybe you know, ultimately we all 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.520 get that's going to have to be part of his game. Uh, 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.320 if we're lucky to get in the playoffs, you know, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.599 like the regular season, as we keep talking about, it's 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.479 so different than the playoffs to go beat somebody four times, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.680 you know, scouting reports game and then the next game 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.839 and then the next game. There are no tricks anymore, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:35.360 and weaknesses get exposed in a dramatic way incrementally, and 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.120 so that part of Ben's game what we will continue 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.560 to grow to the point you ask he's got the 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.039 poison confidence to do it. He's not afraid of the 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.320 moment and that shot that you just said, you know, 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.760 we got a little bit lucky, but will will take it. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.080 Doubling them in rebounds without your well, I think if 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.560 you looked at the tenacity of Trevor Book, Let's just go, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.560 you know there, then you can come over to uh 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.080 to Rashawn. I think Ben, you know, with his rebounding, 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.560 we needed every one of them. That the level of 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.120 desperation that we needed to show to come back from 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:10.320 that type of massive deficit. You just like were so 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.240 a tune to like get finishing the play. I thought 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.640 a defense was good, then we had to finish the play. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.160 I think that that was you look at the difference, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.680 you know, sixty to twenty nine is a big number, 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.000 and we needed every one of them. Seventy Sixers head 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.640 coach Bret Brown talking about the massive rebound disparity in 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.359 tonight's game, and you'd think, you know, with a team 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.599 like Miami, and it's full compliment, especially with the sun 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.880 White side, that if anything would be inverted given the 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.919 Sixers didn't have him be tonight, Well, Ben Simmons with 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.760 a dozen boards Dario Schartz was tremendous in the early going, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.320 giving the Sixers key offensive rebounds, or Sean Holmes, Trevor 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.440 Booker as well just the greatest, Brett Brown said. A 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.520 terrific team win to head into the All Star Game 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.480 break as the Sixers defeat the Miami Heat one oh four, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.279 one two. They trailed by as many as twenty four 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.360 points early on in the third quarter. This the largest 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.120 deficit overcome by the Sixers in a win since erasing 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.920 a twenty four point margin as well, back in a 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.240 November two thousand and eight win over the Indiana Pacers. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.400 Sixers are now thirty and twenty five on the ear. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.599 It's their first time at thirty wins before the All 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.040 Star Break since that memorable two thousand, two thousand and 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.960 one season. Ben Simmons a triple double. A whole lot 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.400 more Sixers stepped up as well. We'll discuss with Tom McGinnis. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.520 Coming up next. There's the postgame showing the Sixers rate 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:39.400 and network seventy Sixers in a very important Eastern Conference 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.680 matchup with the Miami Heat tonight, A comeback win to 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.520 remember for the Sixers one oh four, one oh two. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.920 Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot Com. Tom McGinnis 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:54.040 had the game call. Ben Simmons triple double, Marco Belinelli 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.480 fantastic with seventeen and his Sixers debut. Just it was 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.839 a team win. Tom, you can go down as scharge, Reddick, Booker, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.800 Holmes really just very very good. Before we get to 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.960 Tom's comments, we will keep you listening audience out there 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.760 in suspense. We've got some legal bills to pay. In 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.240 terms of a ten second id or on the Sixers 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.160 Rader Network down the heats one oh four to one 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.200 h two. Yes, there was a lot to go around. 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.080 Let's start with this time the Sixers. They were down 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.240 by twenty four sixty eight to forty four early in 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.320 the third quarter, snap off a string of twelve straight points. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.840 Everyone was involved in that, and that was kind of emblematic. 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.200 If had the Sixers got themselves back into this well, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.280 and that's the interesting thing. We'll get to that in 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.800 a second. But when you trail by twenty four and 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.440 get a twelve all run, it's still a double digit deficit, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.320 and that was a thing. They came back with another surge. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.160 But I thought Trevor Booker was huge and Bell and 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.760 Ellie and JJ stepped up Dario and had a big 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.400 part of that. I believe he had six or eight 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:59.240 in a row. And Dario has been terrific. Simmons was 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.880 fantastic throughout the game. And a point I made in 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.360 an earlier portion of our post game, and that is 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.200 Miami had more than half its point in the lane 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.840 in the first half, thirty two points. They had sixty 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.000 two points at halftime. They only had ten points in 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.120 the paint in the second half. And now you're forcing 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.800 a team that played last night a little bit to 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.000 thick legged, if you will, didn't have the jump that 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:23.760 they had early in the game, and now you're forcing 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.640 them into long shots. And that played right into the 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.520 sixers hand. And how about Bell and Ellie and Reddick. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.720 JJ struggled from the field but steps up and makes 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.960 that huge shot down the stretch and Marco Bellonelli was seventeen. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.880 It just shows you both those players. You know, the 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.240 Reddick shot, It's an old phrase. I don't know where 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.080 it came from, but leaping leaner, that's exactly what Reddick 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:48.200 shot was. And Bell and Ellie's got that shot as well. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.720 In other words, just enough to get it off, and 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.679 they're accustomed to shooting difficult, well contested shots, and it 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.920 was a huge factor in the game. Bellon Elli with 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.920 eleven of his seventeen points off the bench in the 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.520 fourth and final quarter, in which the Sixers shot fifty 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.240 percent from the field. I mean this was a game 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.959 time where from the outset, I mean count the different 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.800 levels that you wanted to feel or maybe don't want 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.360 to refeel, and Bead's absence, there were no real driving 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.400 lanes for someone like Ben Simmons to get to Reddick. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.160 It was tough for him to shake free. The Sixers 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.040 seemed out of sink and more than anything, there was 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.600 just kind of a lack of energy in the building 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.600 and their credit they found it and you know, Scharage 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.760 in the mix getting involved and this is just the 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.960 way they play. And I don't know, would you say, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.040 would it be far fetched? I kind of put out 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:38.840 there on the old Twitter sphere. I kind of feel 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.280 like this might be the most impressive win of the season, 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.040 given the circumstances who they didn't have and some of 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.760 the implications in the standing. Without question, it's certainly the 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.880 most impressive, most recent great game because they've had a few. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.880 And to your point about Joel, it's so true. You know. Again, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.360 the Sixers started like four of nine from the field, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.080 not bad right in there to lead changes early on, 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.720 but then Miami takes off and outscores of six Ers 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.120 twenty nine to twenty. And it again the Sixers have 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.080 played without m B but not of late, and it 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.560 almost seemed like that. And again they practiced at times 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.040 without them, but it seems like there was an adjustment 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.320 and it was almost as we said, during the course 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.439 of the calling, where's the offense going to come from? 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.800 It was a real struggle, and then it was they 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.320 flipped the script and came out with energy and jump 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.360 and getting those handoffs out top in terms of getting 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.240 Rennick and like I said, Bill and Ellie and Dario 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.920 free and you know, like and now they're going to 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.719 come back rested and trying to pick off or pick 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.320 up where they left off. But most impressive and the 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.559 fact that it came against a Miami team that's right 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.040 on their heels that's gonna be in this mix. There's 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.760 basically nine spot nine teams fighting for five spots, and 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.560 the Sixers in Detroit and Miami and Washington, Milwaukee. They're 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.439 all in that mix. Probably left out a team, but 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.040 so to gain a victory like this against a really 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.280 good opponent in Miami is huge and an exciting night. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.600 Brett Brown sighted the crowd. Man, it was unbelievable, great 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.360 atmosphere here, there were I saw a couple people leave 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.600 early and you know, like the sixers were flat. They 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.000 don't hit the star player. But that's dismissing the fight, 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.920 the spirit, the gumption, everything that this group is about, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.600 and they put that on display. And a great team 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.640 victory here up and down the Nie with Rashawn and Booker. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.640 TJ didn't play as well as he did the other night, clearly, 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:29.959 but he came in there with fight. He had a 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.200 big jump shot over James Johnson, the blockouts, the steals. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.600 Just an exciting victory and need to be here at 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.520 the center and very interesting here. Brett Brown called game 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.720 like tonight something kind of like a mini playoff audition 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.280 for the group, and man, today, stand up to the task. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.960 Twenty four one or two sixers over the heats after 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.880 trailing by as many is twenty four points in the game. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.200 All right, Tom, here we are. The all Star break 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.880 is here the Sixers have won thirty games. They haven't 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.480 done that before the break since two thousand and two 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.679 thousand one. And you, just from the Sixer standpoint, got 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.240 to hope that they find a way to keep this 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:08.040 momentum going in terms of how they measure these things. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.600 Still some vulnerable opponents, you would think on paper, on 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:13.760 the schedule, on the horizon. But as we've seen, you 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.040 know this ain't gonna becoming easy. But the Sixers, they 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.000 have positioned themselves well to get to where they want 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.480 to go. I like that phrase. Vulnerable opponents were trying 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.400 to be trying to speak with diplomacy here on the 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.520 post game, which is translated to say that games you 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.080 should win. But and then your point is, but they're 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.880 the Sixers have dropped some of those games. R See Brooklyn, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.880 see Chicago, see Phoenix. He's sick. So we know that. 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.480 But they're playing well. And here's the thing, and this 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.040 is so true in the NBA. When you're playing well, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.920 you can't wait to play again. There's a rhythm, there's 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.640 a pep, there's a bounce, there's a knowledge that you're 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.040 going to get it done. And the converse is true, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.400 and that is when things are going wrong, then it's 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.480 almost like teams find ways to lose. They botch a turnover, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.319 they botch possessions and it goes the other way. But 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.280 that's not how it's going right now. And the Sixers 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.320 they have a confidence about themselves. They put in so 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.880 much work. They've really look at the way the defense 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.520 has improved throughout the season is going along. Now you 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.960 add a new piece and a proof to night and 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.959 he's going to be a valuable asset in Marco Bellinelli. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.600 He was just awesome here tonight. So no, it's going 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.080 to be exciting and it's Brett Brown said pregame, this 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.880 is when the fund start. This is the motto, the 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.480 marketing slogan is this is why we play in the NBA. Well, 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.400 here we go in the last two months with hopefully 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.160 a playoff berth on the line. This is why they play. 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.920 Enjoy about a weekend change, mister McGinnis, Thank you, Brian. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.440 One oh four, one oh two Sixers knock off the 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.680 Miami Heat. Great important comeback win for the Sixers. We'll 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.040 hear some of Tom's highlight calls. Are they very slanted 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.800 focus on the second half and an exciting finish. Stay 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.360 with us. It's the postgame showing the Sixers Rader Network 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.880 Sixers and the Heat bunched up in the Eastern Conference 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.480 standing Sixers trying to gain some separation and go five 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.120 for five on this homestand heading into the All Star 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.040 game break. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot Com. 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.480 Let's go through some of the highlights. We do have 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.479 to take care of this in the form of chronology, 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.440 so just because of that, we'll have to hit some 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.400 stuff in the first and second quarters, neither of which 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.760 were particularly memorable, but it was a good start for 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.760 the Sixers tonight and the Sixers with a shot by 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.840 Reddick fill good, but Booker puts it up at it 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:31.240 He's salvages the opening quarter a little bit, indeed a 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.480 little bit, a nice energy play from Tregor Booker, who 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.600 would go on to have a very important role in 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.600 tonight's game twenty nine twenty Heat in front after twelve 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.840 minutes of play. Another guy who would prove to be 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.240 very helpful down the road, not just in terms of 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:49.280 tangible contributions, but his style of competition one Rashaun Holmes. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.440 This midway through the second quarter, Simmons the Dario three ball, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.880 oh inside of Rashawn and he jams it. You better 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.320 get out of the way. Rashawn Holmes is gonna dunk it, 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.320 and a great play by Dario. That's good to great. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.040 Sixers still trailing by thirteen at that juncture, but they 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.240 would be down sixty two thirty nine at the half, 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.320 their largest halftime deficit of the season, and it would 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.120 balloon to twenty four points early on in the third, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.880 sixty eight to forty four, and then some things started 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:22.280 to change. Dario Sharitch very spirited. You're Sharich for three. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.760 How about that? The Sixers have rattled off now eight 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.920 in a row. Eric Spoelstra takes time. Sixers have cut 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:34.360 into sixteen. Gotta start somewhere right And that was where 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.560 for the Sixers, a twelve nothing run. But they would 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.120 continue to get important contributions down the stretch of the 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.360 third quarter. Ben Simmons started to come alive that much 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.880 more too now Dario wide open, left side three ball, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.320 too hard, noe rebound foot back by Simmons, and that 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.480 doesn't do that shot justice. He caught that miss with 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.520 one hand and scored it. While admit are well and 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.400 the bigger point was at that captured one of the 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.680 huge themes of tonight Sixers tenacious on the glass. I mean, 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.720 if you watch guys like Simmons and Sharitch and Booker, 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.840 it was like when a shot went up, they were 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.840 just making a bee line to the basket put back there. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.680 For Simmons, Sixers still had work to do. After three 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.680 quarters of play, onto the fourth we go and napped. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.400 Is when the recently acquired Marco Bellanelli started to make 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.400 a big imprint on tonight's game. JJ Rennick back out 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.760 to Marco Bellanelli. Three boot in the air. It's good. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:36.120 Welcome to the new guy, Marco Belli. He's got nine. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:40.120 It's a five point game. Eighty one seventy six on 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.680 the Sixers next two scoring possessions, they would both end 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.880 in Marco Bellonelli threes that got the Sixers within four 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.480 eighty six eighty two heats, still able to keep the 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.120 Sixers at bay, even after a flurry from Trevor Booker 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.000 to trim the deficit to one, but the Sixers, courtesy 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.760 of Ben Simmons, would take a ninety two to ninety lead. 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.880 Ben Simmons would make it then ninety four ninety two. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.000 After the heat tied it up, they would lock the 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.000 score again at ninety four. JJ Reddick battling to get 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.000 his shot throughout the game and he got a big 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.800 one to go down here nine to shoot back to JJ. 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.080 Three ball right side and a bucket is good. JJ 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.520 Reddick is eleventh three point attempt. But that's huge. Under 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.600 four minutes to go Simmons with the assists. He's got 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.640 another triple double. That made it ninety seven ninety four, 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.639 sixth triple double of the season for Ben Simmons. Sixers 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.439 looking for some insurance, enter the new guy once again 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.000 for Shawn done that. Simmons gets the rebound reddick to 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.560 Marco Bellonelli on the drive Bellanelli in the lay up. 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:47.440 Good Marco Bellonella, he can be loved in South Belay. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.080 The Sixers lead by six. I had a few more 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:55.520 zip codes and territories and neighborhoods to territories of being 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.880 beloved for Marco Bellonelli. After tonight that had a big play. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.919 Sixers hit their free throws in the closing seconds and 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:03.800 they were able to stave off the heat one four 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.280 one two. Dwyane Wade did get a pretty good look 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.840 from up top just as game time was expiring, but 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.960 it went off the mark no good and the Sixers survived. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.239 Six Ers shoot forty two and a half percent from 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.960 the field, fifty percent even in the second half Heat 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.160 forty five and a half percent from the floor, six 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.439 Ers nine to thirty five from the perimeter, seven of 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.280 those three pointers coming in the second half. The Heat 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.560 were eleven of twenty seven. Sixers outscored by the Heat 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.199 by four from the line, but so enormous for the 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.200 Sixers in terms of their rebounds, sixty to twenty nine 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.879 was the advantage on the boards Sixers plus twenty on 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.200 the offensive glass. This is a night when Joel Embe 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:46.359 didn't play and Hassan Whiteside did so. Impressive nineteen turnovers 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.480 for the Sixers that did not help just eleven for 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.600 the Heat. Sixers led by Dario scharch with nineteen points, 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.880 five of twelve from the field, three of eight from three, 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.200 six of six from the line. He also had eight 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.480 rebounds and three assists. Ben Simmons eighteen points, twelve rebounds, 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.560 ten assists, moving to third place all time in terms 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.680 of rookie triple doubles. He trails Magic Johnson by one 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.920 and Oscar Robertson by a considerable amount, but in modern 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:16.040 NBA history, just historic stuff from Ben Simmons. Fourteen for 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:20.280 JJ Reddick, who also had seven rebounds, five assists and 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.160 again a big part of the Sixers rebounding efforts. Gotta 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.920 go to the bench. Marco Bellonelli with seventeen seven to 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.479 twelve from the field, three of five from outside the arc, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.200 nine points, nine rebounds, five offensive boards for Trevor Booker 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.000 he got during the bell inside the postgame locker room 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.840 for the Sixers tonight, and Rashaun Holmes summoned into extra 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.240 duty twenty eight minutes to night with no Joel and 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:45.160 Bdia eleven points and nine rebounds four these Sixers six 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.720 league changes, four ties in a two hour, twenty five 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:52.000 minute game. Seventy Sixers another sellout crowd, this one. Twenty thousand, 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.679 four hundred ninety two twenty eight games played at home 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.960 for the Sixers before the All Star Game break all 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.320 were sellouts. Well done Sixers fans. Rett Brown given props 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.679 to the crowd tonight. Should we scoreboard watch just a 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.000 little bit in terms of some teams ahead of the 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:12.200 seventy Sixers or near by them in the standings. Really 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:16.000 only other one other game of note tonight, and that 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.280 was Detroit hosting Atlanta Detroit one. Detroit is a game 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.439 and a half out of eighth place in the East, 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.399 but they do gain some ground on Miami by virtue 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.400 of the Sixers win tonight. Sixers are now a game 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.320 and a half in front of the Heat for seventh place. 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:32.760 They trail Indiana by a game and a half and 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.399 Milwaukee by game and a half for fifth place, and 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.159 there are two games behind Washington for fourth place in 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:42.040 the East and three and a half games out of third, 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.720 which is held by Cleveland, but Cleveland looking good after 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.720 the trade deadline. Divine givens very patiently standing by dial 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.680 up six one sixty three two zero nine seventy five 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:54.800 to get in touch with him. We gotta keep working 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:56.800 on how to figure We gotta come up with some 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.520 names for this postgame show for Divine, given we got 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.680 to give him some space in there and some ownership 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.600 of that spot. If I can interject and get on 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.000 the soapbox for a bit. Big thanks to the guys 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.639 back at the studio holding things down technically, Alan Yates 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.760 and Tyler Zuli here on site. Marty Dickerson. Now for 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.160 the radio voice the seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis, Brian 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.040