Speaker 1: I can look about about broadstree Stars, is gonna turn
Speaker 1: and get it off Matty Rolls the Sixers postgame show
Speaker 1: right now on Nutty seven five, the Panetic. In the end,
Speaker 1: when you're fighting for postseason positioning like your seventy Sixers are,
Speaker 1: I guess it doesn't really matter how you get the
Speaker 1: wins one sixteen, one fifteen over the Chicago Bulls. It
Speaker 1: was adventuresome at United Center tonight, but in the end,
Speaker 1: the Sixers buckle down and get the job done. That
Speaker 1: is the bottom line for an all important thirty first
Speaker 1: win of the season and season high sixth consecutive victory,
Speaker 1: the longest winning streak of the Brett Brown coaching era,
Speaker 1: longest since the end of two thousand and eleven start
Speaker 1: of two thousand and twelve for the franchise. Brian Seltzer
Speaker 1: with you from Sixers dot com. We're expecting to hear
Speaker 1: from the head coach Brett Brown Man Ben Simmons Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid were fantastic tonights. And for all the hats that
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons assumed tonight, playmaker, score, rebounder, facilitator, how about
Speaker 1: the most important of all being clutch free throw shooter yes,
Speaker 1: indeed that was the headline. Five point six seconds left,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons goes to the line with the Sixers down
Speaker 1: one knocks down a pair of huge, huge foul shots
Speaker 1: to get the Sixers over the hump. And for as
Speaker 1: much as Bobby Portis presented problems not just for the
Speaker 1: Sixers defense, but in particular Joel Embiid throughout the game
Speaker 1: tonight with his career high thirty eight points, there was
Speaker 1: Embeid on the final inbounds play of the game, shutting
Speaker 1: the door by turning aside Portis for his fourth block.
Speaker 1: And when Bad's credit fighting through some perhaps tired legs
Speaker 1: down the stretch, he denied Portis at the rim a
Speaker 1: couple times late, Sixers got the stop they needed and
Speaker 1: won the game by a point one sixteen one fifteen.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was crazy the start of this game.
Speaker 1: It was like the All Star Game break never happened
Speaker 1: at all. The Sixers raced out to an eighteen point lead,
Speaker 1: Bulls came back by scoring forty in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: and the race was on after that. Let's join in progress,
Speaker 1: Brett Brown, right now, a break, the All Star break
Speaker 1: is always strange. I've been with NBA championship teams. I've
Speaker 1: been with really young teams and now we have this
Speaker 1: team that's like a hybrid of you know, some really
Speaker 1: talented young guys and a few veterans, and it's always
Speaker 1: just a funny game. And I think that the resolve
Speaker 1: that we showed we we did stay together. We made
Speaker 1: some great plays at the end. Joellen Ben carried us.
Speaker 1: I thought everybody else really had some subpar performances. You know,
Speaker 1: you felt like we came out of a break. But
Speaker 1: to the group's credit, like we did when we were
Speaker 1: down twenty four at home, we stayed together. Sounds like
Speaker 1: we're having some issues unfortunately with Brett Brown, but you
Speaker 1: heard him highlight some of the key points in this one,
Speaker 1: the resolve of the seventy sixers, highlighting the efforts of
Speaker 1: Simmons and Embiid. I mean, these guys have played a
Speaker 1: total of one hundred and thirty one career games between themselves,
Speaker 1: and they combined four We're gonna try and do some
Speaker 1: quick math. Sixty two points, twenty rebounds, sixteen assists, and
Speaker 1: Embiid had four blocks and Simmons had one. I mean
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Bobby Portis, he was a menace for
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers tonight, and for a while there, while
Speaker 1: it was going well for the bulls, sixers seemed to
Speaker 1: struggle switching defensively. Seems like we have the line back.
Speaker 1: We'll let Brett Brown do a far more professional job
Speaker 1: of dissecting this one. Although we made some great plays
Speaker 1: at the end, Joellen Ben carried us. I thought everybody
Speaker 1: else really had some sub subpar performances. You know, you
Speaker 1: felt like we came out of a break. But to
Speaker 1: the group's credit, like we did when we were down
Speaker 1: twenty four at home, we stayed together. And I give
Speaker 1: Chicago a lot of credit for shooting the ball the
Speaker 1: way they did, and I give our group a lot
Speaker 1: of credit for having the the the the poise to
Speaker 1: see it through and find a way to win a
Speaker 1: big storyline. Ben steps the line and thinks those two
Speaker 1: what's going through your mind? I mean, the the way
Speaker 1: that he got to the line interests me as much
Speaker 1: as him having the you know, skill and the confidence
Speaker 1: to go up there and make the free throws. It
Speaker 1: was one hundred and ten to one hundred and fifteen,
Speaker 1: and we're down five points with you know, I think
Speaker 1: a minute too left in the game, and that particular
Speaker 1: play you're talking about, you know, Joel made a fantastic
Speaker 1: play on a sideline out of bound steal. You know,
Speaker 1: we found Ben, uh, they fouled him. Good job, Fred,
Speaker 1: they they found, you know, a way to to foul
Speaker 1: Ben with the ball, and Ben had the confidence to
Speaker 1: step up and make two huge free throws. What were
Speaker 1: you thinking though, I mean, because you know what, like
Speaker 1: I get to a stage with him where he has
Speaker 1: such strength of of inner belief. You know, we've seen
Speaker 1: it time and time again. You know, we saw Detroit
Speaker 1: found him what twenty eight times it was some ridiculous
Speaker 1: number in a Washington rather twenty eight times, and different
Speaker 1: things that we have seen at the end of games
Speaker 1: and so on, where he delivers he responds, he's got
Speaker 1: tremendous in a confidence and so it didn't surprise me, really,
Speaker 1: it really didn't. Like I judge people's body language sometimes
Speaker 1: maybe too much, and when I saw him step to
Speaker 1: the line, he looked like he wanted to shoot him.
Speaker 1: And as I said at the start, Joel's steele really
Speaker 1: his steel at seven foot two to make that type
Speaker 1: of athletic play and come up with the ball is
Speaker 1: of equal sort of benefit. It all added up for
Speaker 1: Ben and Joel to combine for sixty four points, and
Speaker 1: really their sat line across everything. Is there anything that
Speaker 1: concerns you of the rest of the ing in terms
Speaker 1: of the ball, I don't go any place except that
Speaker 1: I like coaching these guys. I think that this game
Speaker 1: coming out of a break you never really know, and
Speaker 1: their hearts are in the right place. They genuinely care,
Speaker 1: They coexist wonderfully, they really have we I'm lucky to
Speaker 1: coach them. The locker room is fantastic, and we stay together.
Speaker 1: I think that we're trending in the right way, and
Speaker 1: I know their attitudes is completely pointing in the direction
Speaker 1: that we want, and so we look forward to coming
Speaker 1: back home, you know where. We've got a little bit
Speaker 1: of a wind streak going on. We love playing in
Speaker 1: front of our home fans and just try to keep
Speaker 1: this moving. Win streaked the tune of six straight sixers,
Speaker 1: longest in roughly six years. They sneak by the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bulls one sixteen, one fifteen. Most importantly, they maintain their
Speaker 1: one and a half game leader of the Miami Heats
Speaker 1: for seventh place in the Eastern Conference and stay within
Speaker 1: two games of Washington for fourth place. As Washington, it
Speaker 1: wasn't this great? What you can start to do now
Speaker 1: this day to the season. You can scoreboardwash as Washington
Speaker 1: beats Cleveland on the road at the que earlier tonight.
Speaker 1: More to get into with Tom mc ginness, he's standing by.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next. It's the postgame showing the Sixers
Speaker 1: Rating Network seventy sixers had a nice stroke of good
Speaker 1: fortune in battling for a win just before the break
Speaker 1: without Joel Embiad against the Miami Heat eight days ago.
Speaker 1: And you know what they found The right combination Tonight
Speaker 1: and Bead was excellent. Ben Simmons was two. Simmons a
Speaker 1: career high thirty two points tonight to go with seven
Speaker 1: rebounds and eleven assists. But the biggest thing for him
Speaker 1: were the two free throws with five points six seconds
Speaker 1: to go to make the difference in tonight's game. Also
Speaker 1: made the difference Joel Embiid helping set up the sequence
Speaker 1: that put Simmons at the line and then and Bead
Speaker 1: closing the lid on the rim for Portis, who was
Speaker 1: trying to deliver a game winning attempt as time ran
Speaker 1: out and bead, finishing with thirty points, thirteen boards and
Speaker 1: five times seventy sixers over. The Bulls won sixteen one fifteen.
Speaker 1: Tom mc ginnis called it at United Center tonight. It
Speaker 1: was a win time. It was a win out, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And the Sixers, let's be honest, they've lost some games
Speaker 1: like this over the years, and particularly when you say
Speaker 1: that Portis, you know, let's say that shot goes and
Speaker 1: it could have gone the other way, and you know,
Speaker 1: they definitely had their ups and downs. Leading by eighteen.
Speaker 1: I actually said the phrase route obviously a bit prematurely.
Speaker 1: And the Bulls battle back. They are incredible for three
Speaker 1: career night for Portis. I thought Nawaba was really good,
Speaker 1: Zach Levine was good at times, and the Sixers made
Speaker 1: the plays down the stretch. And you know, like same
Speaker 1: thing as in that Miami game when you battle back.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of possessions and a lot more opportunities.
Speaker 1: You certainly can't fritter away all of them. But the Sixers,
Speaker 1: you know, they miss free throws down the stretch. They
Speaker 1: missed four free throws. We mentioned the two that Ben
Speaker 1: hit the game winning free throws, but there are other
Speaker 1: free throws prior to that, where the Sixers miss free
Speaker 1: throws and there were turnover two and yet you still battle.
Speaker 1: You get a stop, you keep them off the board
Speaker 1: and not allowing them to expand the lead where they
Speaker 1: put it out of reach and down five with sixty
Speaker 1: two seconds to go. You just keep battling. You give
Speaker 1: yourselves an opportunity, you make a couple plays, and you
Speaker 1: walk away with a victory. And in the end, it's
Speaker 1: another w and it's not gonna go wow, remember that game.
Speaker 1: It's a win. It's two wins out of three against Chicago,
Speaker 1: and move on with six straight wins and you go
Speaker 1: home and you got a big weekend coming up. And
Speaker 1: again they're all big. But certainly the Sixers had great moments.
Speaker 1: They certainly had moments where they thought they maybe guys
Speaker 1: would have shot the ball bet over Marco Covington JJ.
Speaker 1: But you're able to pull your young stars pull it
Speaker 1: out for you in an exciting victory for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Sixers top the Bulls won sixteen one fifteen, something that
Speaker 1: Brett Brown has been on top of saying in respect
Speaker 1: to Simmons whenever he's asked about him. Tom throughout the
Speaker 1: year is poise, calm, maturity. Then even Brett, for all
Speaker 1: the time he spent with Ben last year, didn't see
Speaker 1: and you look at a spot like that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: Ben's asked about his free throws after the game he'll say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I just go to the line, do
Speaker 1: my thing, very business like. And that's what he was tonight. Well,
Speaker 1: for one, you know, you didn't know what you had
Speaker 1: because he wasn't in an athletic competition, right, he was
Speaker 1: in training and he was in a rehab mode. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's there's an old saying in basketball when
Speaker 1: you smell the popcorn, and that's what that's the type
Speaker 1: of player Simmons. He gets out here against these other
Speaker 1: guys and he wants to dominate. You can see it
Speaker 1: in his face. You can see it in his size
Speaker 1: and athleticism, like I'm going to use this to my
Speaker 1: advantage and I'm going to punish you and score. He's
Speaker 1: got that, you know, that alpha male kind of persona
Speaker 1: out on the court, which in order to be a
Speaker 1: professional athlete, a lot of these guys exhibit those traits.
Speaker 1: That's a very familiar characteristic for these successful competitive athletes
Speaker 1: and you're right. I think Ben going to the line,
Speaker 1: as Brett Brown said, he wanted those free throws, so
Speaker 1: that that was really big. And you know, the guys
Speaker 1: find a chip like cub mentioned, And I actually saw
Speaker 1: it where there was the young fans in the front
Speaker 1: row and they're allowed to say what they want. That's
Speaker 1: still the greatest seat in sports right there. And they
Speaker 1: must have been teasing Ben about his shooting ability or whatever,
Speaker 1: and he's stuck a jumper and he's looking over at them,
Speaker 1: putting a little dagger toward them, and you know, so
Speaker 1: he's proving people wrong left and right in this area,
Speaker 1: in that area, and he just stepped up huge. He was.
Speaker 1: He was very good throughout the entire game, obviously passing
Speaker 1: as you said, wearing multiple hats, including game winning free
Speaker 1: throws one sixteen, one fifteen, and one. You know in
Speaker 1: the end. The other big contributed to night Joe ellenbad
Speaker 1: he got Bobby Portis. Slave Portis was unconscious tonight fifteen
Speaker 1: to twenty six, six of nine from three point territory
Speaker 1: for thirty eight. But late in the game when he
Speaker 1: went at the rim, there was joellenbiad to turn him away,
Speaker 1: no doubt, and Joel covers a lot of ground. He
Speaker 1: blocked that Cameron Pain shot. He really you know, even
Speaker 1: if it's off the ball, if it's a done drive
Speaker 1: and you know, done got by Ben And here he
Speaker 1: comes cruising in. But you know, as I said, he'd
Speaker 1: done drove it from the left side. This is in
Speaker 1: the guts of the game in that final minute and
Speaker 1: missed it. Why the right I guarantee it. Joel was
Speaker 1: part of that. So he anchors the defense. The numbers
Speaker 1: are off the charts when he's in there. And tonight
Speaker 1: he played a humongous game and dominated as good as
Speaker 1: Portis was, and a lot of that for Bobby Portis
Speaker 1: was on the perimeter. Joel ebid put a stamp on
Speaker 1: this game, and he dominated the game just as Ben did.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers beat the Bulls one sixteen, one fifteen. Tom
Speaker 1: mcguinnis talked to you on Saturday a little bit earlier
Speaker 1: when the Sixers host the Magic Good Night from Chicago,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bryan. Sixers top of the Bulls their first
Speaker 1: season series win over Chicago going back a couple years
Speaker 1: now to the two thousand and ten two thousand and
Speaker 1: eleven season. The headliners were Simmons and Embiid. We will
Speaker 1: hear more about them with Tom's highlight calls. In just
Speaker 1: a moment. It's the postgame showing the Sixers Rating Network
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers and the Chicago Bulls for the third and
Speaker 1: final time this season. First game back from an eight
Speaker 1: day hiatus for these seventy sixers. Brian Seltzer with you
Speaker 1: from Sixers dot com. Well, an eight day hiatus for some,
Speaker 1: not for a couple members of these seventy sixers involved
Speaker 1: in All Star weekend activities. And wouldn't you know the
Speaker 1: three of them talking about Ben Simmons, Joel and Bad
Speaker 1: and Darios Charch with loom large in tonight's game. Here
Speaker 1: is how it sounded, courtesy of Tom McGinnis. The Sixers.
Speaker 1: It was like they never went on break at all.
Speaker 1: They looked like the squad that ripped off five straight wins.
Speaker 1: Midway through the first quarter, here's Ben Domina runs in
Speaker 1: the Norball breaks up and good and a block on
Speaker 1: David Norball and said dominance continues sevens of the line
Speaker 1: for what could be a three point play. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: raced down to a twenty five seven lead middle of
Speaker 1: the first quarter they were up, though only by four
Speaker 1: thirty three twenty nine, as Chicago's bench started to get
Speaker 1: the Bulls back into it to close the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Early on in the second, Joel and Bad made his
Speaker 1: presence fell. Now duel would to shoot against Noel. Voley
Speaker 1: turns faces foot fake got him off the ground into
Speaker 1: the late fakes again. Violet recovers fade away by Duella's good.
Speaker 1: But the Sixers and the Bulls they got into a
Speaker 1: foot race down the stretch of half number one. It
Speaker 1: was actually Chicago which hung forty points in the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers in the second quarter, making it sixty nine to
Speaker 1: sixty seven. Bulls going in to the third. Sixers came
Speaker 1: out with some purpose after the break, in particular Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: he was scoring at Will re about duel. Duel out
Speaker 1: let the Simmons on the fire sideline. Simmons tract it down,
Speaker 1: goes into the lane and dun comes into another head
Speaker 1: scoop as good Simmons like a freight cade hit in
Speaker 1: the Midwest. Here he stars again. It beat at Simmons
Speaker 1: on a road at Chicago seventy eight seventy five Sixers
Speaker 1: trying to get some momentum, but the Bulls would not
Speaker 1: back away. The Sixers lead at a tenuous two ninety
Speaker 1: three ninety one going into the fourth quarter. Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: had some more to give Gario in the lad not
Speaker 1: a lot of real there. He goes to Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: at the paint, He's got a shoot it. He finally
Speaker 1: paid fire fed scares it and Ben Simmons was a
Speaker 1: split second away from what could have about a three
Speaker 1: point three second violation, but he got the shot off
Speaker 1: and went down and he drew the foul. He completed
Speaker 1: the three point player to make it one h three
Speaker 1: one oh one, putt in the seventy Sixers back in front.
Speaker 1: Now Chicago, they would go up one twelve, one oh
Speaker 1: seven just under two and a half minutes to go.
Speaker 1: The Sixers then got three straight points from Dario Schartch
Speaker 1: to make it one twelve one ten, and Bead committed
Speaker 1: a turnover with seventy seven seconds left. Chicago scored on
Speaker 1: a three point from Zach Levine after that make it
Speaker 1: one fifteen one ten sixty two seconds to go. With
Speaker 1: those would be the final points Chicago scored on the night.
Speaker 1: Thirty five seconds left, Bucket from Dario scharch for two.
Speaker 1: Then JJ redickos the line with eight seconds left to
Speaker 1: make it one fifteen, one fourteen, Denzel Valentine has the
Speaker 1: ball stolen by Joel and bead on an inbounds play.
Speaker 1: It trickled at Simmons. He was fouled with five point
Speaker 1: six seconds left, went to the line front Room roll
Speaker 1: in the first swished his second. This the final sequence
Speaker 1: of the night. Blobs it into ports ports catches. He
Speaker 1: goes Dowbo puts it up, no go full tips lose
Speaker 1: down the type puts the headness Sixers half piper by
Speaker 1: to win the game. Ben sevens het Joanna be delivered
Speaker 1: at a one point win in Chicago. Six straight wins
Speaker 1: a new season high for the seventy Sixers, their longest
Speaker 1: since two thousand eleven two thousand and twelve. Final notes
Speaker 1: from the final stat sheet. In the seventy Sixers one
Speaker 1: point win, Sixers shoot fifty one percent from the field,
Speaker 1: Chicago forty five and a half percent. Six Ers eleven
Speaker 1: of twenty nine from three point territory. They were just
Speaker 1: three of fourteen from the perimeter after halftime Chicago eighteen
Speaker 1: of thirty five from beyond the arc, the eighteen three
Speaker 1: pointers a season high. Sixers survived fourteen missed free throws
Speaker 1: twenty one of thirty five from the line. Chicago only
Speaker 1: went to the line fifteen times sixers where minus seven
Speaker 1: on the glass. They did limit themselves to just eleven
Speaker 1: turnovers in the game, so that was good. Bobby Portis
Speaker 1: led all scores of thirty eight fifteen to twenty six
Speaker 1: from the floor, six of nine outside the arc. That
Speaker 1: total of career high for him in terms of thirty
Speaker 1: eight points, but for the seventy sixers, a little bit
Speaker 1: more bounced from some young stars. Ben Simmons career high
Speaker 1: thirty two to go with seven rebounds and eleven assists,
Speaker 1: his twenty third double double thirty points for Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: thirteen rebounds for him plus five assists and four blocks.
Speaker 1: Dario Charitch with thirteen to go with eight rebounds, and
Speaker 1: he was big in the final minutes of regulation. Should
Speaker 1: also mention that Joel Embiad was a huge factor in
Speaker 1: Bobby Portis missing his final five shots of the night,
Speaker 1: including that decisive stand at the end of regulation. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers with the win are now thirty one and twenty five.
Speaker 1: They maintain their one and a half game lead over
Speaker 1: the Heat for seventh place in the East, and Washington
Speaker 1: did beat Cleveland at Cleveland tonight, but with the Sixers
Speaker 1: winning and Washington winning, there are still only two games
Speaker 1: between those two teams from fourth place in the East.
Speaker 1: Devon Gibbons patiently standing by. He'll be coming at you
Speaker 1: next the phone number six, one zero six through two
Speaker 1: zero nine seven five if you want to talk about
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons career nights and a nice Sixers win. Big
Speaker 1: thanks to Carlinemoli and Jay Gray. Back here at the
Speaker 1: studio now for the R Radio voice to the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers, Tom McGinnis, Brian Seltzer saying so long for
Speaker 1: now one final time. The final score it was the
Speaker 1: Sixers pulling one out one sixteen. The Chicago Bulls won fifteen.
Speaker 1: Following the Sixers win, Tom McGinnis had a chance to
Speaker 1: catch up with one of the players afterwards. Big win
Speaker 1: here against the Bulls Edward Joint courtside by Robert Covington,
Speaker 1: won a finish come an exciting game. You guys led
Speaker 1: big early, came back, scored six in a row, got
Speaker 1: the plays down the stretch and your thoughts on this one. Man,
Speaker 1: it was about it from very man. You know, we
Speaker 1: jumped out of him early, but you know they made
Speaker 1: a run as well. But you know, it's first game
Speaker 1: back from All Star break, so we kind of figured that,
Speaker 1: you know, everything would you know, kind of ploted this
Speaker 1: way because you know everybody's getting back in that tune
Speaker 1: and everything. So we just came out and we had
Speaker 1: to execute, and you know, we executed down the stretch.
Speaker 1: You know, Joe came up with a big stop, you know,
Speaker 1: being knocked down. Two big free throws, two big free us.
Speaker 1: Then we still the win. We're getting that stop. Man.
Speaker 1: That's that's the type of execution we gotta have. And
Speaker 1: we gotta keep pushing because you know, to make this thing,
Speaker 1: you know, realistic, because we know we got twenty six more.
Speaker 1: We got twenty six more Simmons with a career high
Speaker 1: thirty two. They're your stars, Joel and Bannon. Boy, they
Speaker 1: stepped up big down the stretch with the steel the
Speaker 1: free throws and beat the defense right there at the
Speaker 1: very end. What an exciting finish and a great win
Speaker 1: you must feel you later, Uh oh, absolutely, you know
Speaker 1: we gotta finish out this, uh this last run stretch, uh,
Speaker 1: for for the you know, for the fans. You know
Speaker 1: it's we know we capable of and you know it
Speaker 1: started tonight. So we just gotta finish out this long
Speaker 1: this little stretch and you know we got going to
Speaker 1: run because you know, to make ourselves that much more
Speaker 1: DELI you gotta get these type of games and and
Speaker 1: we need it. We need him big time. You know,
Speaker 1: that's gonna help us down the stretch and he's gonna
Speaker 1: give us more momentum going down to stretch. And you
Speaker 1: know it's just fun playing that way. You know, we
Speaker 1: we we got to solidify a lot of things and
Speaker 1: you know, bend them, let us from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: You know, he just a kissing fans that that it
Speaker 1: was marking him the whole game. So you know he
Speaker 1: stepped up big time, him and Joe and we needed
Speaker 1: that tonight. Come. Thank you very much. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you Robert coming to the Sixers. Great victory here
Speaker 1: against the Bulls and Ben Simmons delivers Down the Stretch
Speaker 1: final from Chicago one sixteen one fifteen