WEBVTT - Playoff Pod: Episode 4 - Game 2 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 --> 0:00:09.800 the team's most recent postseason game. If it was a 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.280 bounce back victory, you were searching for a bounce back victory, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.360 is what you got and then some. The Philadelphia seventy 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.959 Sixers roll the Brooklyn Nets in Game two of the 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.840 Eastern Conference quarter finals and level this opening round series 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.560 had a game apiece before going on to Brooklyn for 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.520 Game three on Thursday night. Wow one, five, one twenty 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:36.120 three all seventy Sixers. Huge third quarter, monstrous second half, 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.760 the Sixers setting a franchise record for points scored in 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.360 the game, and they also tied an NBA record for 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.839 points scored in a postseason quarter with fifty one of 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.640 them in the third. I thought there were some great 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.599 signs to start the game. Ben Simmons all fired up, 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.920 taking his energy to another level. Joel and be looking 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.400 more and more comfortable as the first half went on. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.240 But that third quarter, if you want to snapshot of 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.080 what the seventy Sixers can be, the defense, the way 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:05.800 it came out in the first two minutes of the 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:10.440 third quarter forced three turnovers and four Brooklyn Nets misses, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.400 which allowed the offense to build the foundations for that 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.960 game changing twenty one to two run that stretched a 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.000 one point lead at the half into a very comfortable 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.240 place as the Sixers went through the rest of the 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.399 second Stanza. Just a great night all around from the Sixers. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.039 As we stand by and wait for seventy Sixers head 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:34.039 coach Brett Brown at the postgame press conference podium, shall 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.720 we run through the checklist of awesome things you saw 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:39.920 from the seventy six Ers tonight? All right, we'll go, 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.039 And I kind of think this is in order. This 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:43.360 is just kind of how it came to me, and 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.920 I jotted it down. The dub the first and foremost, 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:51.160 seventy Sixers got the needed win. Offense off the charts 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:56.120 most points ever in a playoff game. Ben Simmons responding 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.440 in many ways, especially in the first let's say, five 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.400 minutes of the game, attacking the rack on the very 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.080 first possession. No, he didn't score, but it helps set 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.120 the tone for what he would later do after that 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.600 in the first quarter, rest the first half, and for 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.560 the remainder of the evening. So Ben Simmons' second career 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:17.359 playoff triple double, eighteen points, ten rebounds and twelve assists. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.040 Joel Embiid he as the game went on. I don't 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.360 know what you thought, if you watched or listened. I 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.360 thought it was clear that as the game went along, 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:29.120 he was more confident, more explosive, more assertive going to 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.120 the basket. He went to the basket, didn't take a 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.680 single three in tonight's game. And this is not to 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.239 get him to talk about should shouldn't Joel Ebie'd be 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.280 taking three pointers, but he went to the paint, got 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.000 down on the block, and he was dominant there. Plus 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.280 twenty six in under twenty one minutes. Twenty three points, 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.880 ten rebounds for Joel Embiid. As we move along, our 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:55.560 checklist of very encouraging signs, JJ, Toby Mike Scott get 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.960 their strokes back. Reddick finished with seventeen two or five 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.359 shooting from three. Seven twelve were all Tobias Harris nineteen 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.959 points five to twelve shooting two or four from three. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.000 Mike Scott fifteen points three to five from outside the arc. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.800 So you do the quick math, and those three players, Reddick, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.400 Harris Scott a combined seven of fourteen from behind the 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.880 three point line. That's a winning statistic for the seventy Sixers. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.560 Boban Marnyanovitch, the man off the bench, sixteen points, eight 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.760 rebounds and eighteen minutes spelled Joel Embiid for extensive stretches 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:34.359 and Marnyanovitch was awesome the bench. Sixty one points. Defense lockdown. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.800 Let's go to the third quarter, when the seventy Sixers 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.760 outscored the nets fifty one to twenty three. Brooklyn did 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.720 not hit it three pointer on six attempts in that period. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.520 The seventy Sixers held Brooklyn to under forty percent shooting 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.080 in the third while the offense went to work. That 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.760 was when the defense was at its best. Seventy Sixers 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.839 dominate the glass. They were plus seventeen overall, plus three 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.200 on the offensive boards. They got to the three I 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.040 bigger parton they got to the free throw line, and 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:05.760 they crushed on turnovers, outscoring Brooklyn twenty nine two nine 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:10.480 on points off turnovers, missing anything. Do you want anything else? 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.160 That was pretty darn good by the Sixers. Owned by 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.920 the way, Maybe someone say, oh well, Brooklyn scored thirty 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.680 six points in the fourth quarter. The starters were all 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.160 gone with ten minutes ago in regulation. So the seventy sixers, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.640 this was an encouraging step. I would be surprised if 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.400 you did not hear Brett Brown say something maybe the 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.200 effect of like you're never as bad as your worst 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.679 or as good as your best, probably somewhere in between. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.120 Probably somewhere in between. That might be good enough for 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.719 the seventy sixers. They were clicking on all cylinders tonight. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.800 Are really great, welcomed, exactly what you need type of 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.800 game against the Brooklyn Nets to even this thing up 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.680 at one game apiece heading towards game number three on 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.040 Thursday at Barclay Center, We're gonna take a break. We're 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.000 gonna talk to Tom mc guinness when we come back, 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.520 and also hopefully here from Brett Brown, maybe a few 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.800 players as well. It is the postgame show. It is 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.640 a victorious postgame show. It is a victorious head coach. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.320 Let's go to Brett Brown right now. Kevin from Crossing 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.640 Broad Yep, you can talk about the adjustment to leave 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.320 TJ out of the rotation and Jonathan and go with 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.799 Green James, and it played Jimmy as a point guard 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:22.800 or point guard by committee. There, Yeah, I mean that's 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.520 at first it's a difficult decision because TJ has been 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.559 a part of sort of our bloodline for a while 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:34.960 and the energy that he injects is contagious and we 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.960 all get and even if you study this stat line 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.039 from the game that we lost, I think he was 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.080 a plus twelve, which is pretty good. And so you 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.240 started like looking at maybe the ripple effects of what 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:53.960 can others do from a spatial standpoint, James's ability to 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.960 you know, stretch the quart a little bit more, try 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.440 to give Jimmy the ball as a legitimate, you know, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.160 back up point guard, a point guard when Ben wasn't 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.719 on the court. Um influenced that decision. I thought TJ 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.640 handled it as we all guessed he would. He's a 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.159 wonderful teammate. But it was driven for those reasons that 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.920 I just said to to make that decision to take 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:23.279 TJ out of the rotation. Coach Jason Blevins Philly Front office, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:30.120 was your sense that you guys were really pressuring, putting 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.599 a lot of pressure on Brooklyn through that first half, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.880 but they were able to hang in, make some shots, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:40.080 continue to score. But did the damn break in the 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.400 third quarter or did you make a change that just 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.840 sort of like hit them a second time. I think 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.440 we did what we tried to do in the first half, 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:58.080 just kind of like harder bet alonga type stuff. The 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:04.240 we we didn't really change stuff schematically. We just did 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:09.279 what we wanted to do better. And the margin for 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.280 era when you're playing against DeAngelo and didn't when he 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.520 as an example where they can create separation and find 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.880 enough daylight to get a shot off, is marginal. But 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.520 that fragility, that little tiny like half a second you 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:31.440 could have should have didn't environment is punishing. And I 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.160 thought that in the third period we did a good 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.440 better job of you know, taking away some space, getting 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.840 to their feet, being six ten, six nine, whatever, showing 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:46.680 our length, And I thought everything that we're talking about 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.520 now was successfully as far as the wind goes to me, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.960 was driven through our defense in the second half. A 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.760 couple of insights and nuggets from the head coach after 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.920 seventy six or one three win over the Brooklyn Nets 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.560 that evens up this best of seven opening round series 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.880 at one game apiece, We're gonna step aside a lot 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.040 to talk about with Tom mc ginnis on the other side. 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:13.320 Sixers tick a lot of boxes into night's win. So 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.440 much good that was done. They'll try to build on 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.680 it moving ahead later this week. They always told Will 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.880 he was too short to play basketball, but Will never listened. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.480 We'll let his work ethic do the talking for him. 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.960 Always in the gym, always running drills. Will knew where 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.200 there was a will, there was a way, and he 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:34.360 was Will. But then after his second child was born, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.600 he realized the bros were all way better than him. 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.719 So Will gave up and buried his high tops in 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.839 a cheerful ceremony. But one day he heard that Geico 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.160 could save him money on car insurance, so he switched 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:49.200 and saved a bunch which was awesome. Seventy sixers all 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.640 over the Brooklyn nets behind a huge second half one five, one, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.080 twenty three. The final score triple double for Ben Simmons, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.079 who came out with his hair on fire, double double 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.240 for Joel beat Harris Reddick and Scott Combine to go 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.240 seven to fourteen from outside the arc the bench with 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.680 sixty one points all all, Tom McGinnis, A pretty dawn 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.720 good night for a team that very much needed it. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.280 Where would you like to start? Without question? So great 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.280 start for the Sixers. I thought Ben was so aggressive 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.160 and it paid off, and you know, I thought a 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.800 really nice moment, particularly on the heels of the loss 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.200 and the comments about the fans and the booing of 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.960 the fans in the game on Saturday, when Ben scored 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.600 a big basket, Brooklyn takes time and now he's running 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.160 back to the Sixers bench and he extends his arms 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.360 and literally having the crowd in your hands when they 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.000 totally responded when he asked for it. A great standing 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.480 ovation and great sequence early in the game. But at 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.880 halftime it was a one point game at sixty five 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.360 sixty four, and you know, you're like, if you're Brooklyn, 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.840 you gotta love the position you're in because it's Philadelphia 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.520 has played so much better and you're down one. But 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.520 it's a way. The Sixers started that third quarter scoring 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.240 on eight consecutive possessions and beat had seven points in 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.719 a row, and then kind of the floodgates open. There 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.280 was a big play. And again I mentioned this a 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.280 couple of times, but the first time here in this format, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.000 I thought their coach Kenny Atkinson could have called a 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.199 time out and kind of stopped the momentum. Sloated a 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:22.640 little bit earlier than he did, because then they had 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.320 that clear path foul where Tobias Harris cuts two free 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.400 throws and the Sixers score out of that, and it 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.200 was another four point play. So a fifty one point quarter, 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.840 I mean, a record number of points for the franchise, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.880 for a franchise that's been in the playoffs quite a 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.160 bit over the years. Really an unbelievable game. And again 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.240 you know now which team for the Sixers goes up 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.120 to Brooklyn, the team that was this dominant and has 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.600 the confidence back in, the swagger back, and you got 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.600 to play with that urgency and carry that. You can't 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.880 feel too good about where you're at because and then 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.640 the other thing is the Sixers reageing the home court advantage, 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.079 which is huge as we have five potentially five games 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.440 left in the series, but obviously swinging up north for 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.640 the next two games starting Thursday at Berkeley Center, seventy 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.560 sixers in a game they led by as many as 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.920 thirty two points to feed the Brooklyn Nets by twenty two, one, five, one, 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.600 twenty three. Talking about it after the game with Tom McGinnis, 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.120 is it as simple Tom to talk about spirit, energy, 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.559 and just the way the Sixers came out, because it's funny, 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.160 I thought in Game one in the third quarter when 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.920 the Sixers got within two, the scoreboard said, hey, maybe 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.880 they were coming back, but it just didn't really feel 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.199 like they were going to get control of that game. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.839 In this one tonight halftime, at one point game you 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.200 didn't feel great because Brooklyn wasn't going away, but you 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.839 still felt like it was the Sixers dictating the way 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.080 this game. Yeah, no doubt about it, because you could 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:47.199 see that JJ and Ben were I don't want to 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.319 say more engaged, simply more effective. Simmons was definitely more engaged, 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.800 like how he was driving the ball and was kind 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.160 of unstoppable. And then again through the first ten minutes 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.000 of the game, you well didn't have any field goals, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.840 he had a free or two. So to be in 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.600 that position with your star player not contributed at a 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.600 large rate, and then in the end for him to 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.760 play twenty one minutes and have another double double, that 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.800 was really good. Jimmy Butler not the scoring night obviously 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.960 that he had in Game one, but he had seven assists. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.679 And then you get to Bobon and Mike Scott off 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.040 the bench, and I thought Bobon was terrific, huge and 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.560 he just said he joined his post game, but they're 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.240 playing way off him and and he's kind of he 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.480 could tell that he was listened to the crowd, like 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.200 shoot and he makes his first six field goals in 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.000 the game. And as I said, they're not jumper as 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.920 a guy doesn't have to jump. He's so big and 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.960 he's so open. He's basically shooting like a one hand 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.880 set shot. And I honestly I think that's in particularly 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.559 how he shot it in the first game. That's something 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.200 that Brooklyn's got a got a contented seth Well, you 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.400 can't let him shoot. He had, you know in Monster 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.280 Night shooting the ball in the first two games, so 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.680 really good performances. I think little things. You got James 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.880 Ennis back in the mix. He showed that he's he's 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.400 got energy. Hopefully with a couple of days to to 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.160 rest and rehab and get ready for game four, he'll 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.080 be another presence. He gives you a lot of energy 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.080 the wing defender and the ability to get inside creep 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.120 in there for offensive rebounds and all told just to 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.720 you know, kind of good were You know, I think 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.120 that everybody was a little shock with how Game one 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.079 ended up. And still the Sixers didn't shoot lights out 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.120 from three. But you know they have more talent than 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.800 Brooklyn and they showed it here tonight in a big way. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.560 Sixers top of the nets level of the series one 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.160 forty five, one twenty three, tied at one going to 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.360 Brooklyn on Thursday. And from the Nets side of the 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.840 box score time, you know, Danzel Russell six of sixteen, 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.839 sixteen points, Spencer Dinwood, he had a decent game, but really, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.720 even a guy like some of the guys who had 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.319 X factor type games in Game one, I'm thinking of casselver, 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.559 Ed Davis and Joe Harris, they were not the players 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.439 we saw them in the game on Saturday. No. I 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.400 thought JJ did a really good job on Joe Harris. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.400 I think the Sixers made a tactical change. I mean 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.360 they didn't sech where JJ was staying connected. He was 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.680 in lock and trail off screens on Joe Harris, fighting 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.280 over the tops of screens and staying connected to him, 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.880 and did a pretty good job. And then you know, 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.000 it sounds like we just heard a very little brief 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.600 snippet of a question posed to Kenny Atkinson sounds like 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.240 Ed Davis might be dinged up a little bit. He 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.400 played just five minutes, did not come back. He had 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.400 three fouls, so but that wouldn't be the case in 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.120 the second half. And you know, I think that one 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.920 of the areas where the Sixers, if they have, certainly 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.240 one of the strengths in their game is three point shooting. 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.280 So that's certainly, you know, to them a plus. But 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.040 the Sixers have a decided advantage at the five spot. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.040 I mean, Jared Allen actually had some good moments in 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.040 this game, certainly some good blocks, but within Bead and 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:50.080 Marianovitch certainly different types of players. I don't think Brooklyn 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.960 has an answer for the Sixers at that in that 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:56.280 area of the court. And obviously Joel is a dominant player, 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.480 and I think that's going to really prove to be, 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.440 you know, quite to benefit. And they think a big 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.760 difference in this series for the Sixers. Ay, we will 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.240 find out the answer, perhaps a Tom against his question, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.360 which version of the seventy Sixers will we see in 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.680 Game three? In Game three Thursday night, Barclay Center in Brooklyn, Tim, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.720 see up there, Thank you, Brannan, Good night, Sixers. By 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:22.160 twenty two, convincingly over the Brooklyn Nets one one twenty three, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.680 most points in a playoff game in franchise history, and 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.320 the biggest quarter in NBA playoff history tied for it 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.280 fifty one points in the third quarter. The La Lakers 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.800 back in nineteen sixty two with a fifty one point 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.600 fourth quarter against the Detroit Pistons. So a great night. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.040 This was pretty much exactly what the seventy sixers needed. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.880 We'll get to a couple of highlights and we will 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:48.000 wrap things up on the postgame show. 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We shall explain after 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.560 we get through these highlights. Seventy sixers looking to bounce 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.200 back after a tough game on loss on Saturday, in 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.640 particular Ben Simmons aiming to get back on track, and 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.760 very early on it was evident this was a different 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.600 Ben Simmons tonight. Simmons, with Poler ahead of him, takes 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.080 it right at Karen Allen puts it up an in 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.080 and Brooklyn, you cannot stop Ben Simmons here so far 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.960 in this game. Seven points for Simmons and he gets 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.040 the crown into it. And that's just telling us anything, 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.080 and they respond. Could not agree with Tom Moore. Just 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.560 the interplay between Ben and the crowd tonight as good 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.360 as we saw from him on the court. Seventy six 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.800 Ers let at thirty four to twenty eight after twelve 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.360 minutes to play. Joel Embiad didn't get on the scoreboard 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.240 until the final moments the first quarter on free throws, 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.480 but then some field goals starting to fall from him. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.120 Early in the second it beat against Jared Allen, collision 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.800 Joel with a finger roll around and good, but that 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:24.639 is power and Finesse took a big hitt sidestep Jared 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.080 Allen and then a finger roll add he nestles it 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.199 in increase the seventy Sixers lead to forty four to 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.640 thirty two. You felt at that point like the Sixers, 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:34.919 this one is gonna have to be taken from them. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.159 In Brooklyn, they would make a comeback push down the 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.920 stretch of the second quarter, Bobon Varyanovitch was great for 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.560 Joel Embiad in relief tonight Obama. The ball looks to 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.840 hand off to Tobias Harris, but Spencer did what he 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:51.480 denies Tobias, so Boban shoots it at Baranovitch is literally 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.240 shooting the lights out. It's seven of ten for Bobon 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.560 fourteen points. He leads the Sixers in scoring, get his 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.880 first six shots to the night. The seventy Sixers lead 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.000 was just a point sixty five sixty four at intermission, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:09.000 but the third quarter opening possession from Brooklyn turnover forced. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.760 The Sixers got four stops forced two more turnovers as well. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.280 Joel Embiid was dominant during this stretch, scoring seven in 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.480 a row and helping the seventy Sixers go on a 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.360 big run. Harris down the fire sideline, Simmons of the vault, 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.520 Simmons of the one on Jared Allen at the last 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.240 moment of Joel and it B Dunson and B was 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.320 getting in the rebound position. Simmons turned and found him 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.600 and seventh straight by Ebad and you blink in a 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.400 few moments later, the seventy Sixers led by twenty because 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.960 of this Russell as it taken away by Ben Simmons, 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.440 Allan is there, then goes around him and he lays 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.000 it up and in, and now Atkinson with a time out. 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.520 It's a twenty point game. Simmons steals it from Russell, 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.719 breaks away, lays it up and in, and the Sixers 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.240 got dear crowd on their feet and Ben Simmons making 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.240 the Allen iverson ear to the hands of the ear 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.480 gesture of the crowd. Just a great moment. As the 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.000 Sixers led by twenty, they weren't done by any stretch. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.560 In the third quarter, Mike Scott capped it off. Reddick 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.120 turns fires on dead Winny were no good ball, pop three. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.560 Mike Scott at the hornet ten and the Sixers punched 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.040 away a brilliant third quarter. Well the last second shot 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:20.280 by Mike Scott played one sixteen eighty seven, and they 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.960 wreck up fifty one points in the quarter, the most 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.760 of any quarter this year and the most ever, tying 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.440 a mark for the most ever an NBA playoff game 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.560 in a quarter. Fifty one points. T J. McConnell and 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.000 the reserves saw this one through to the finish. Connell 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.880 the line stops pop said, that's good. T J. McConnell 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:43.400 on the run jump stop jumper from thirteen bucket one 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:48.320 twenty five ninety four, seven forty and the seventy Sixers 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.000 seven minutes forty seconds later would have this one in 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.639 hand one forty five, one twenty three, evening the series 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.399 at one game. Apiece six or shoot fifty six percent. 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.359 The Nets held under forty eight percent Brooklyn fifteen to 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.760 thirty six outside the arc. The seventy sixers a little 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.960 bit better in terms of where they were in Game one. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.520 They were nine for twenty three for thirty nine percent 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.040 six ers eighty one percent from the free throw line. 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.760 That was an improvement. Twenty six to thirty two Brooklyn 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.560 twenty two of twenty nine to seventy sixers plus seventeen 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.640 on the glass Sixers only two fewer turnovers than Brooklyn, 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.879 but they outscored the Nets on turnovers. Get this twenty 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:26.439 nine to nine. That is awesome to see Ben Simmons 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.000 second career postseason triple double eighteen ten and twelve, Joel 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.880 mb twenty three and ten plus twenty six in less 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.920 than twenty one minutes of action. JJ Reddick with seventeen 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.160 on two of five shooting from three, Tobias Harris nineteen points, 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.800 five rebounds on two of four shooting from three, seven 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.440 to seven from the line, five to twelve overall sixteen 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:47.040 for Bobon Marnyanovitch to go with eight rebounds and eighteen 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.680 minutes off the bench. Mike Scott getting back on track 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.240 three to five from the perimeter for fifteen points from 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.160 Mike Scott, as the seventy Sixers get seven from Jimmy 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.879 Butler to go with seven assists and four rebounds. Jimmy 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.679 was plus twenty seven in the game. Seventy six ers 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:02.600 one hundred forty five points, the most ever in a 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.280 playoff game, and now it's on the game number three 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.240 coming up on Thursday night. The seventy sixers will have 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.399 an opportunity to rest recharge, get back in the gym 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:13.560 over the next two days, and hey, we saw what 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.159