WEBVTT - Playoff Pod: Episode 2 - Game 1 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 Now to listen back to reaction from 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.880 the team's most recent postseason. A tough start to the 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.200 two nineteen postseason run for the seventy Sixers bound to 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.680 the Brooklyn Nets one eleven, one h two down here 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.279 at the center, I'm Brian Seltz from Sixers dot Com. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.600 We do expect to hear from Brett Brown at the podium, 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.000 some players as well, But this one for the seventy 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.240 Sixers certainly did not go as planned, and the build 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.000 up to the game certainly there was a heightened sense 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.640 of excitement when news came down that Joel Embiad would 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:34.600 be back. He would be playing. In the early going 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.639 of this game, he was a just physical presence, if 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.040 not anything else that Brooklyn and especially it's big man 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.440 Jared Allen could not contain a string of free throws 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.600 for Joel Embiad as he went to the free throw line, 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:48.960 helping the seventy Sixers get out to an early lead 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.320 midway through the first quarter. But around that time Brooklyn 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.400 went to its bench and here would start a theme 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.520 for the rest of the day. The reserves for the 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.640 Nets coming up huge in this one this afternoon and 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:01.960 the Nets to the one eleven one h two victory. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.000 Ed Davis came in, gave Brooklyn a little bit more 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.400 something in the front court, and during that time it 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.560 would be a twenty to one Brooklyn run to end 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.520 the first quarter, putting Brooklyn up thirty one twenty two 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.760 going into the second. That completely turned this game around, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.280 and the seventy sixers trying to find some of that 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.759 chemistry that eluded them down the stretch of the regular 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.959 season because of player availability and health. They were battling 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.440 up him and they just could not find it today. 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.319 Thirty six points for Jimmy Butler. I thought he was great. 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.760 He gave the seventy sixers everything they were looking for 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.920 in terms of an aggressive approach, determined mindset, some greediness, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:42.000 but that just quite simply didn't transfer to the rest 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.280 of the roster. Joel Embiid probably did what he could. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.880 He has not played much obviously over the last two 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.640 to three weeks. He finished with twenty two points, fifteen rebounds, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.880 five blocks, and four assists, but five or fifteen from 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.160 the field over five from three very telling. He was 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.920 twelve or eighteen from the free throw line. Ben Simmons 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.040 nine points on nine shots, and from the foul line 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.560 he was one of five tough breaks for Ben Simmons. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.200 Boban Marnyanovitch thought he was awesome in relief of Joel 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:14.640 Embiid thirteen points, three rebounds, four assists, five or seven 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.400 from the field ultra efficient to bias Harris and JJ Reddick. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.239 Not enough from them in this game, unfortunately. Harris two 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.040 of seven from the field, O two from three point territory. 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.200 He did do some other things. He was plus through 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.840 in the game seven points, six assists, but four points. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.480 I beg your pardon. Seven rebounds, six assists, four points. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.680 But the seventy sixers in this game, with Brooklyn putting 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.519 the pressure on with its balanced attack of drives to 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.840 the laying pick and roll offense, three points shooting Sixers 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.680 needed more. They were not able to get it. Fifty 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:49.400 nine points for the Brooklyn Nets bench just a major 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.440 major statistical subplot in this one. Twenty three for Carouselvert 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.480 a major matchup problem for the seventy sixers. He was 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.480 able to do a little bit inside and certainly he 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.240 did from the outside three of three from the perimeter 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.320 for Carousel Vertz, Spencer Dinwitty with eighteen points. He finished 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.399 with two threes. Daniel Russell a team high with twenty six. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.760 He got off to a pretty sluggish start, especially in 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.200 the first quarter, but in the third quarter we saw 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.520 him get a steady dose of mid range jumpers to 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.440 fall that seemed to unlock him and he was big 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.960 in the second half, finishing with twenty six ten of 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.239 twenty five from the field. He had four assists as well, 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.320 thirteen for Joe Harris, steady from the perimeter, three of four, 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.480 Demari Cowl with eleven points and six rebounds. Jared Allen 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.480 essentially a non factor. It was Ed Davis in the 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.360 front court who was a huge reason why the Brooklyn 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.800 Nets won this game. He was plus twenty eight in 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.480 the game, twelve point sixteen rebounds, a key cog for 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.920 Kenny Atkinson and the Brooklyn Nets. We're standing by hoping 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.560 to hear from Brett Brown from the playoff postgame podium. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.360 Tom McGinnis will share some more thoughts as well. But 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.760 the Brooklyn Nets take Game one of this best of 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.160 seven Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series by the score of one 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.080 eleven to one O two, now three and two on 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.240 the season against the seventy sixers. Our postgame coverage will 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.360 continue after this. As we watched the suburban garden Nome carefully, 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.400 carefully without disturbing it, he noticed that it moves like 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.440 not at all. It's inanimate and utterly without brain function. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.440 But despite that, when a garden know me hears about 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.400 how Geico not only saves people money but also gives 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.440 them access to licensed agents twenty four seven online and 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.360 over the phone, it's clear to them you should switch, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.680 because yes, switching to Geico is a no brainer. But 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.159 on second thoughts, maybe don't watch garden Nomes two carefully. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.000 People might talk. Seventy Sixers dropped the opening game of 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.200 the two nineteen playoffs one eleven, one h two to 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.280 the Brooklyn Nets, who take the early lead in this 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:47.320 best of seven game Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series. I'm Brian Seltzer, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.280 rejoined now by Tom McGinnis. Tom. Certainly, there was understandable 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.600 build up to this game. It got even more heightened 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.520 with Joel Embiid being declared good to go in this game. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.960 Early on, he was just creating a individual parade to 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.200 the free throw line of Because of that, the seventy 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.440 Sixers jumped out to a lead. But Brooklyn, their bench 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.120 had great spirit. They hit the key in the ignition 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.520 and then as this one went along, we saw Damiel 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.480 Russell come up big. But I thought their reserves were 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.200 just fantastic, no doubt about it, and they were able 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.240 that This is what I thought was a little concerning 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.280 for the Sixers early on. Specifically, I believe it was 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.760 like twenty one to nineteen, the Sixers were in the lead, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.640 the Sixers at one point at a five point lead, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.480 based on what you were saying with the foul shooting him, 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.880 not just Joell Ebid but Jimmy Butler and Brooklyn. Meanwhile, 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.880 I was like old for their first five from the field. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:40.360 But Joe Harris had three quick threes, I mean, limited opportunities, 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.880 tight window, bang, bang bang. He made three threes, and 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:46.120 again at forty seven percent, he was the top three 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.080 point shooter in the league this year, so no surprise 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.120 that he was successful. But he kept them in the 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.200 game and they were tight. And Jared Dudley, you know, 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.599 he just kind of shared with his postgame that yeah, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.279 they were but they kind of shook off the the 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.640 inexperience in the playoffs and kind of got right in 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.800 a little bit and then they come on and like 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.240 you said, Ed Davis was a big factor. Their bench 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.719 was a big factor. You look at their plus minus 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.440 in the game, and again for the uninitiated, that's the 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.960 scoring of your team when you're on the court. So 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.719 in other words, Brooklyn's bent their reserve. They did better 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.400 Dudley din with the LeVert Davis. They were all big 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:28.400 plus twenty eight for Davis. In other words, the Nets 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.440 outscored the Sixers when Ed Davis was in there to 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.279 the tune of twenty eight points. Their top score Russell 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.360 twenty six points, but he was minus ten. So, Brian, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.560 circling back to what you were saying, their reserves were 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.640 key in this game, outscoring the Sixers whereas the Sixers 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:48.080 Jonathan Simmons played, he was minus sixteen. Simmons, Reddick minus 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.880 twenty one. And you know, you talk about spirit now again, 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:58.320 they were dominating the game. Here, here's apparently coach Brown's 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.680 getting really good. He wasn't missing or do you have 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:05.240 to kind of help I mean, I'm always putting it 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.880 on me to help him, you know, try how do 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.960 you help your players, And uh, I'll stick with that. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.400 You know, I get a fine ways to help him, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.720 and he cares at times too much, you know. And 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.640 I think that that you learn quickly in the NBA 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:27.200 playoffs that the first kind of open look you got 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.480 is probably going to be your best look. The game 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.480 will tell you to shoot. And at times I feel 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.560 like he's trying to maybe press a little too much 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.520 or you know, go someplace else when you know he 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.760 can shoot more than seven times. And is that what 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.600 it ended up? Yeah, So you know, I I will 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.440 own that I got to find ways to help to 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:58.800 bias defensively on stuff. It's just stuff that you know 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.920 playoff teams do. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.680 They just did it quite well. You know. There's a 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.280 physical side that they played with. You know, lots of 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.080 teams sort of play on the high side of JJ 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.440 and try to like staple him to a baseline. I 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.280 thought that they did that well, and uh, he got 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.240 in some into some foul trouble and I don't think 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.200 that helps sort of cultivate a rhythm. But but I 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:31.360 give them credit that they were physical on JJ and 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:36.400 and kind of went into him playing just before the game. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.360 But you know, we went into the decision. How do 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.280 you think I mean, I'm I'm always just a recipient 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.360 of news as as opposed to like any kind of 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.400 level of a decision maker when it gets to the 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.880 health like um they head coach. I listened more than 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.560 I advise as I as I should, and I was 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.600 advised that he could come in and play very late. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.880 Joel really wanted to play. He really really wanted to play. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.520 I think the thing that I was most concerned about 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.559 is what what what's going to be like the outcome? 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:14.640 We we don't want to look in the rearview mirror 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.640 and have regrets. It's game one. Somebody's going to find 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.800 a way to win four games, and it happens, as 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.120 we all know, in many way, shapes and forms. I 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:29.600 thought that Joel Um looked like he hadn't played for 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.920 a while yet was still you know, dominant. Look at 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.959 look at his numbers and look at the free throw 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.960 attempts UM, But it was clear that you know, the 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.560 pace of the game, the the the the speed of 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.960 the game types of stuff, you could you could see 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:50.160 that he was tired. And those are my initial thoughts 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:54.120 without seeing the tape. Pretty good for you. And often 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.559 in that game the guy could lift a team around 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.000 it and inspire them to join him and do it. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.240 That first of your thoughts about Butler's games and your 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.440 thoughts about why that might not happen with the team 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.480 following a lot. Yeah, first, I'm so with you, Bob 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.800 on Jimmy, like that was the adult in the room, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.360 that that was a man. And I think that that 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.040 especially like we've seen it from time we see it 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.760 here in filling the regular season and fourth period stand 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.560 out a lot, but you saw it kind of consistently 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.000 spread throughout the game, the physicality of the game, the 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:34.000 elite athleticism, the toughness. It is true. He was the 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.720 adult in the room and he was trying to, like, 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.960 you know, pull others along. And you know, just when 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.720 you look at the starting five as an example, Ben 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.120 had a down game, JJ had a down game. To 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.760 Bias at a down game. You know, if you go 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.480 straight to the three point shooting, we were three for 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.480 twenty think about this now, we were three for twenty five. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.960 And then if you take a little bit of a 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.480 pivot on a statue, you're going to see that we 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.199 will only sixty nine percent from the free throw line, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.439 and so you know, we missed a bunch of shots. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.600 We had three starters down a bench was I was 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.079 scored heavily by their bench. I think it was fifty 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.680 nine to twenty six. I thought Boban did some good things, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.760 but trying to find participants outside of Joel, who we 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.720 really wasn't she was going to play. It didn't happen 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:26.800 tonight for whatever reason. And I I give Brooklyn credit 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.680 more than I do anything. But I feel like the 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.560 room that we have to get better and find a 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:37.000 way to change some things to win. I see it. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.880 It's not like it's a mystery to us. That's really 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.760 seventy six Ers head coach Brett Brown following today's one eleven, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.720 one or two lost to Brooklyn. That's in the opener 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.600 the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. So Tom, we heard a little 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.840 bit about that. Jimmy Butler was fantastic today, a playoff 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.600 career high of thirty six points on eleven of twenty 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.160 two shooting, and he had a spirit. As Brett was 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.240 talking about that, you just were hoping that it would 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.200 have rubbed off on the rest of the team. And 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.079 whether it was because the group hasn't played a lot 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.080 of the last two weeks together or for whatever other reasons, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.280 just didn't happen, no doubt about it. And at one 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.959 point in the second but had seven points in a row, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.400 sixteen out of twenty. He really pulled, especially at the 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.120 end of that first half when he hit a big 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.079 three to give the Sixers some life into the dressing room. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:22.560 And then he came out and played well in the 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.679 third quarter. And in fact, okay, you're thinking, all right now, 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:28.120 now it's a game where the Sixers they cut it 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.800 down to two, they were right there on the precipice 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.800 of tying it and potentially taking a and Brooklyn countered 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.440 with a six oh run. And then from that point on, 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.720 you know, the Nets were leading by mostly eight, nine 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.400 ten points per game, and they had to confidence, the swagger, 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.400 and they had the spirit. The Sixers talk so much 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.880 about the spirit if you watched their bench. Now, don't 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.160 get me wrong, they were pulling off an upset in 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.400 the enemy territory. Of course they're gonna be fired up. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.640 But there were time there was that one time out 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.680 where the Sixers took a break and the Sixers players 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.439 had a walk through the nets who were out there dancing, celebrating, 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.560 congratulating one another on the Sixers court. Like I said, 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.280 tomorrow is going to be a day of reflection for 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.079 the six Ers. There probably won't be a little on 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.800 court work that o'd be a little clip they show 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.319 the Sixers right there, look at this their party and 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.440 on your court, and the fans are disgruntled and dis 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.959 happy the Sixers. They have to show more fight and 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.400 way way better spirit, form and play in game two 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.680 because again there's a long way to go. As coach 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.840 Brown says, you got to win four games, but you 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:38.200 cannot go down O two going to a building where 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.840 over recent years you've struggled a little bit, the Barclays 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.120 Center in the games three and four in this series. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.200 And the other thing I'll say is their scheme, how 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.360 they play is not going away. Like the way they 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.439 spread the court. It wasn't necessarily the three point shooting 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.480 by them. Now they made eleven. That was telling, and 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.600 that's thirty three of their hundred and eleven points. I 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.240 get that, But it was the driving lanes in the 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:05.520 space they created and they four and again limiting JJ 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.400 to five points. Big thing in the game, but running 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:10.920 at him. They got him out of the game by 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.760 forcing him to file fighting over screens. He got two 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.640 of his six files fighting through traffic to try and 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.360 questionable calls, but he got calls at the defensive end 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.800 where he was trying to, you know, stay connected. So yeah, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.280 I mean there is a lot, a lot for the 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.360 Sixers to clean up after this. One seventy six ers 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.760 bad of the Brooklyn Nets one eleven one h two, 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.440 Game one of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals. First thing, Tom, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.360 I mean when you look ahead to the game two, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.800 I mean, how much do you think this is maybe 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.040 at least in terms of certain things like I guess 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.720 the first thing, I'll look at three point shooting. How 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.080 much of that was influenced by the defensive Brooklyn? Do 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.880 you think half much of it was perhaps the Sixers 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.240 just not hitting some shots. No, some of the looks 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.280 of six Ers Scot they think of Jonathan Simmons and 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.040 Mike Scott, some of those were wide open looks. So 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.200 that's not the defense. Those shots just weren't going down. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.480 And look, I think it was pat Riley years ago, 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.200 but says, you know, like a playoff series doesn't start 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.360 until you know, somebody wins on the road or something 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.080 along on those lights. Well, they just won on the road. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.320 Wake up call, you know what I mean? So yeah, 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.960 I mean the Sixers look Ben sim and you could 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.720 just watch him during warmups. He was so rebbed up. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.760 And that's all well and good. He's he swants this 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.840 so badly. He's such a great athlete and such a 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.000 key player for the Sixers. But when it doesn't translate 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.320 into open shots, makeable shots down low, that takes a 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.760 lot of steam out of your tank, sort to speak. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.600 And they did. They took Simmons out of the game. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.440 They walled them off. He wasn't getting close at the basket. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.400 And as Coach Brown said, you know, Joel did not 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.280 have Numerically he had a good game, but even his 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.360 shots weren't clean looks. And certainly when Davis and all 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.360 we are there, he's trying to play through the likes 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.920 of Jared Dudley and forcing the end and they weren't 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:58.160 clean looks. And so I mean at some point and Joe, 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.080 you know, he took I think five threason missed them all, 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.480 but he had a lot of shots at the elbow. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.080 Maybe just sit there and accept the fifteen foot shot 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.360 from around the following but and then Tobias Harris a 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.320 non factor in the game. And you know, and again 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.520 the Sixers with Butler fantastic and Tobias you were hoping 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.600 for that, you know, the ability at times one on 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.880 one to be able to score. But I mean Brooklyn 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.360 took it to the Sixers in this game. And this 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.400 is not I mean, you knew this was going to 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.080 be a series, and like I said, a very concerning 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.040 matchup for the Sixers, and it all revealed itself here 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.760 in this afternoon of this evening's game. Alrighty Tom talks 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.400 to you next on Monday night, seventy six will try 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.360 to bounce back and level the series before heading to Brooklyn. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.840 Seventy Sixers lose to Brooklyn first game of the Eastern 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.640 Conference quarter Finals by the score of one eleven two. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.360 Let us get to some highlights from today's game. About 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.600 five minutes before tip time, Joel embiid it was announced 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:55.800 would be in the starting lineup. He got to the 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.600 three throw line and did some other things as well. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:02.520 Here's Joe Slow got it in beat, getting the crowd 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.480 fired up. So Russell made two free throws and Ben 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.760 Simmons again rifles it download of Joel in Bead scores 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.000 it in a foul and that put the seventy Sixers 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.239 up nine to five. Thanks to in Beads back up 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.520 boban Marnianovitch. The Sixers would lead twenty two nineteen midway 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.040 through the first quarter, but then things changed in a hurry. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.080 The Brooklyn Nets would go on a twenty to one 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.359 run that bridged the end of the first quarter and 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.520 the start of the second. Sixer or down thirty one 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.800 twenty two after one, and cast Lavert added to Brooklyn's 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.320 league early in the second. Here's Lavert open tray and 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.919 down it goes time out Sixers. Caris Lavert gets the three, 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.440 and now the booze a little more broth cypherus here 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.080 in Philadelphia, not two minutes into the second quarter, as 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:52.080 the Nets have taken a fourteen point league thirty seven 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.679 twenty three. But the Sixers got some amentum backpacks, some 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:59.080 guys off the bench. Baranovitch against Jared Dudley turning passes. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.879 The TJ McConnell puts it in that Boulbon pass was 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:06.840 really a dumb down. He's so big. He just threw 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.760 it down to McConnell, who faded baseline left by the 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.959 Nets fence from ten behind Russell and Dinwitdie. The Brooklyn 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.320 Nets would expand the lead back to fifteen, but Jimmy 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.560 Butler gave the Sixers a shot in the arm going 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.040 into halftime. Butler with it. Jimmy Butler with five seconds, 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:25.320 the crowd rising is one. Jimmy Butler steps back, shoots 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.880 to three ball at the horn and it's good. Had 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.280 the Sixers get ball met him into the halftime locker 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:34.399 room at eighteen point second quarter for Butler, he was 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.040 great in the second frame, Sixers down sixty two fifty 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.399 four at the break. In the third, Sixers got off 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.440 to a strong start and Joel Embiad was right in 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.919 the middle of it and beat against Allen sidesteps up 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.040 through two defenders, puts it up at it and be 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.520 with a reparkable drod and the crowd standing ovation four feet. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.640 So at that point it was sixty five sixty three Nets, 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.159 the Sixers so close to being right back in it. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.520 But then D'Angelo Russell strung together a scoring string that 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.080 put them margin back to eight and he would be 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.480 a menace for the seventy sixers in the second half, 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:09.560 Russell seventeen footer and got it unstoppable right now, D'Angelo 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:14.040 Russell twenty one points that made it eighty two seventy 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.640 four middle of the third, Sixers down eleven ninety three 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.200 eighty two going into the fourth and D'Angel Russell down 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.480 the stretch of crunch time would put it away. Here's 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.400 Russell stop being seventeen footer up. Good ball game. De'angelo 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.520 Russell now with twenty six at Brooklyn leads by thirteen 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.960 with two minutes to go, and Brooklyn would gone to 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.200 win It's by nine one eleven, one h two to 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.399 take a one game to none lead in the Eastern 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.439 Conference quarterfinals. Some final stats in the final stat sheet, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.400 seventy Sixers held to forty and a half percent shooting 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.760 Brooklyn forty three percent. But here's one huge disparity. The 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:50.760 nets eleven of twenty six for forty two and a 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.359 half percent from outside the arc seventy six ers and 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.760 uncharacteristic three of twenty five and nets twenty four of 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.880 twenty six from the stripe. Seventy six Ers missed thirt 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.320 of their forty two free throws. Six Ers finished plus 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.879 five on the glass plus six on the offensive boards, 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.440 but Brooklyn out rebound of the seventy six is by 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.800 five in the second half, one of the reasons why 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.480 they were able to create some distance and ultimately put 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.760 this game away fourteen to nine advantage for the Nets 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.160 scoring points off turnovers. Jimmy Butler finished with a playoff 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.280 career high in game high thirty six points. He was 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.120 eleven of twenty two, thirteen to fifteen from the line, 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.800 also had nine rebounds and two blocks shots. He was 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.600 plus eleven for the Sixers. Joel and Bead with twenty 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.560 two points, fifteen rebounds, four assists in five blocks. He 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.880 was minus seventeen and twenty four minutes. Ben Simmons with nine, 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.160 Jj Reddick with five two of seven from the field, 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.919 one of four from three, Tobias Harris with four points, 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.840