Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Finally,
Speaker 1: it was final. The seventy Sixers hang on and defeat
Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors one ten to one oh four. It
Speaker 1: is their second straight win to complete a weekend back
Speaker 1: to back, and they actually overtake Toronto for fourth place
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference. Now full game in front of
Speaker 1: the Raptors, the seventy six Ers seventeen and seven, while
Speaker 1: Toronto drops to fifteen and seven, losing their third straight game.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Seltzer. We expect to hear from Brett Brown
Speaker 1: in just a few moments. Matissetaibel a terrific effort tonight
Speaker 1: with the career high twenty points to go with the
Speaker 1: career high five three pointers. The seventy Sixers all around
Speaker 1: until a really adventuresome final five minutes of play. They
Speaker 1: had some really good defense tonight, specifically on Pascal Siakam.
Speaker 1: They held him to six points through three quarters. He
Speaker 1: came alive for ten points in the fourth, but the Sixers,
Speaker 1: which led by as much as twenty one in the game,
Speaker 1: had enough insurance to fend off the raptors. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a steady dose of different looks throughout the night
Speaker 1: that the seventy Sixers put on. Siakim has scored twenty
Speaker 1: five points against the Sixers. Back on November twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: when these two teams met for the first time, Al
Speaker 1: Horford started the game on Siakim. Ben Simmons picked up
Speaker 1: the load After that, Joel and Bead helped out, and
Speaker 1: the result was Siakam couldn't get to the rim and
Speaker 1: he had very few opportunities in open court and had
Speaker 1: to settle for jumpers. Ben Simmons with sixteen, eleven and nine,
Speaker 1: Al Horford with eleven and four. Here's Brett Brown at
Speaker 1: the podium on my team really too show how to
Speaker 1: dress some of it. Some of it you just scratch
Speaker 1: your head and try to, you know, try to coach
Speaker 1: better and help them more, and you know, we It
Speaker 1: is disappointing the way that ended, because I thought for
Speaker 1: the most part we played good basketball. It's just the
Speaker 1: way that it ended. You have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a sour taste in your mouth, and then I'm reminded
Speaker 1: it was a good weekend and we just beat the
Speaker 1: NBA champs, and there's lots of good things that came
Speaker 1: out of it. Just the last part, um, wasn't one
Speaker 1: of them. Just and again everybody's part of it. But
Speaker 1: then have to come meet those balls. He's your point
Speaker 1: guard and at times the circling back into the middle,
Speaker 1: you know, I think so, And it's part of part
Speaker 1: of the structure. Um. You know, I think in general,
Speaker 1: trying to get the ball handlers on the floor at
Speaker 1: times and have them still be your best defensive team,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work, um, And so like you just hope
Speaker 1: that as professional players we can handle that situation a
Speaker 1: little bit better, and I believe that we will. As
Speaker 1: you said it early in the season, maybe the preseason,
Speaker 1: you wanted that second group to be a you caught
Speaker 1: it a bop squad. And so those groups that have
Speaker 1: been mtis and all at center, Yeah, do they look
Speaker 1: how you expect on defense at this point, Um, we
Speaker 1: we're trending in that direction, I think so. And I
Speaker 1: like the speed. I like the verse versatility. You know,
Speaker 1: Matisse is moving forward. I like the way that he
Speaker 1: is trending. I thought offensively, for the large portion of
Speaker 1: the game, we were good, you know against a really
Speaker 1: good defensive team, that group that you're speaking of. I
Speaker 1: would say, yes, that that's starting to, like, um, take
Speaker 1: a shape that that I wished it did when we
Speaker 1: u when I sort of anointed him a bomb squad.
Speaker 1: It's your favorite horse, the favorite thing about the bias,
Speaker 1: and that's a great want to do. It was it
Speaker 1: was a funny part of the game where he came
Speaker 1: in and he just went bucket, bucket, and like it
Speaker 1: spun out. I think into like sixteen eighteen, you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen again. And I think that in general he is
Speaker 1: in a good place offensively. I think that the structure
Speaker 1: in his world is appropriate. I think he's learning how
Speaker 1: to use it with playing well around him off him.
Speaker 1: But he's having a really good mindset lately to score.
Speaker 1: Ben had some success so getting some trible penetration and
Speaker 1: the half court that a function of and ob guarding
Speaker 1: him up there cord and improving in that regard. But
Speaker 1: what did you think bez performance tonight? I think two things.
Speaker 1: At times, yes, uh, you know, the league guards been differently.
Speaker 1: The proximity of which Toronto guards him is close at times.
Speaker 1: You know you can actually put him in probably some
Speaker 1: picking rolls and let him just all by himself, blown
Speaker 1: by people, and I thought he did a really good
Speaker 1: job of that tonight. I thought that the passing out
Speaker 1: of the post initially when they kept doubling, doubling, doubling,
Speaker 1: I think we did a pretty good job of moving
Speaker 1: the ball and just getting off it and finding the
Speaker 1: second side action. And I think in that action he
Speaker 1: did a good job of playing catch, go go catch game.
Speaker 1: And just like he shot out of a rocket playing downhill.
Speaker 1: Seventy six or head coach Brett Brown after tonight's one
Speaker 1: ten and one oh four victory over the Toronto Raptors,
Speaker 1: and that's what it was. Feels nice to say that
Speaker 1: the Sixers had a tough one in Toronto one one
Speaker 1: ninety six lost thirteen days ago, but tonight they got
Speaker 1: off to a great start. In the second quarter. They
Speaker 1: were really able to open things up. They outscored the
Speaker 1: Raptors thirty to twenty. It was on the heels of
Speaker 1: a strong finish to the first quarter. Tobias Harris Scott
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers going early. He was in double
Speaker 1: figures in the first quarter, finished with twenty six. It
Speaker 1: was his fifth twenty plus point game his last six
Speaker 1: times out batistible with a career high twenty points tonight.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons sixteen points, eleven rebounds, nine assists, Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: ten points, eight rebounds, six assists, but the seven turnovers,
Speaker 1: including the ones he had late, it was a real
Speaker 1: issue for the seventy six Ers tonight, which did a
Speaker 1: decent job with ball control. He's relative to how the
Speaker 1: game was playing out until the final five minutes of regulation.
Speaker 1: I mean they were sitting pretty with a nineteen point
Speaker 1: lead eight minutes to go, and then it was just
Speaker 1: like the anchor dropped. Here came Toronto. I guess you
Speaker 1: never really felt like this one would get away. The
Speaker 1: Sixers led by as much as twenty one. It turned
Speaker 1: out they had enough insurance to lock up the win
Speaker 1: in the end, but it was a little bit of
Speaker 1: an uneasy finish. Nonetheless, the Sixers got what they needed
Speaker 1: and that was a win one ten, one oh four
Speaker 1: over the Raps. Tom McGinnis is here to give us
Speaker 1: some more analysis. He will bring that to you in
Speaker 1: a moment. It was a circuitous finished, Tom, to say
Speaker 1: the least. But the seventy Sixers through three quarters they
Speaker 1: were clearly the better team. In this one tonight, Toronto,
Speaker 1: though able to capitalize on some turnovers and some aggressive
Speaker 1: d while pressing to make this one slightly more interesting
Speaker 1: than probably everyone would have hoped. Well, the Sixers, let's
Speaker 1: go back to the guts of the game and the ending,
Speaker 1: as Brett Brown to put it so aptly, and that
Speaker 1: is it left the sour taste. But in the end
Speaker 1: it's a win over the Raptors, and that's been hard
Speaker 1: to come by obviously up there and certainly here as well.
Speaker 1: And so the Sixers finished the first quarter. You recall
Speaker 1: that Matisse Thyble and Bed with under two seconds to go,
Speaker 1: turns and passes over to the right perimeter, and Thyble,
Speaker 1: with only a tenth of a second to go in
Speaker 1: the first frame, makes a three. There was a foul
Speaker 1: on the play. Lowry fouls them, and so Matisse makes
Speaker 1: a four point play literally with the final tenth of
Speaker 1: a second to go in the quarter. And the Sixers
Speaker 1: closed out that opening frame of the nine two run
Speaker 1: and allowed them to lead by five. And then they
Speaker 1: had a big run I think it was like thirteen
Speaker 1: to four and close out the first half, and that
Speaker 1: pushed the lead to fifteen. And then if you recall
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, neither team really got going. The
Speaker 1: Sixers were kind of lucky because on an Obie missed
Speaker 1: a layup, the Sixers missfired, and finally they got a
Speaker 1: three by Harris to make it an eighteen point game.
Speaker 1: And you know, so often this year end in years passed,
Speaker 1: but specifically this year as well, the Sixers haven't built
Speaker 1: enough of a cushion. And that was still early in
Speaker 1: the third, but down the stretch they were able to
Speaker 1: use that cushion and they needed it because they didn't
Speaker 1: finish the game strong they had in the final right
Speaker 1: around the last twelve possessions, they had turnovers in six
Speaker 1: of them, and boy, that was just confounding. They were
Speaker 1: throwing the ball away left and right, the Raptors with
Speaker 1: pressure and you don't see you only see full core
Speaker 1: pressure in the NBA in special situations like that, just
Speaker 1: because these guys are too good, they're so athletic, and
Speaker 1: they moved the ball. It's just it's not like you
Speaker 1: can throw a diamond and one press on a team
Speaker 1: in the NBA. It doesn't work. But they were trapping
Speaker 1: and they were having success, and so the gap tightened.
Speaker 1: And yet the Sixers hold them off. So in the
Speaker 1: end twelve and oh at home they beat the Raptors.
Speaker 1: Toronto's lost three in a row, and the Sixers got
Speaker 1: great performances from Harris and Thible and Simmons. It's talking
Speaker 1: about the defense. Time the seventy Sixers played on Pascal Sachem,
Speaker 1: scored twenty five and had the punctuating dunk to end
Speaker 1: the game thirteen days ago in Toronto. But tonight the
Speaker 1: Sixers after relying mostly on Ben Simmons to do the
Speaker 1: defense on Siakam in that game at Toronto, and granted
Speaker 1: the Raptors didn't have Lowry that night, so that changed things.
Speaker 1: But tonight it was like a steady wave of Horford
Speaker 1: to start. Then Simmons Joe finished the first half on
Speaker 1: Siakam and he really couldn't get comfortable at all. He
Speaker 1: was limited to six points going him to the fourth right.
Speaker 1: He had seven of eighteen in the end, but basically
Speaker 1: a non factor offensively, basically because of all the same
Speaker 1: points that you just raised. So they did a good
Speaker 1: job and then they got nothing from Gasol. He was
Speaker 1: over six, he picked up two early fouls. He wasn't
Speaker 1: the factor defensively and he was really a non factor offensively.
Speaker 1: I thought Lowry played really well. He made four three,
Speaker 1: twenty six points. Ogi on Anobi had a good start
Speaker 1: for them. They missed Van fleet Less. We forget he
Speaker 1: left the game. He played only twelve minutes. He went
Speaker 1: out with a right knee contusion, did not return, and
Speaker 1: he's having a career year averaging around eighteen points per game.
Speaker 1: But a good job on siakam and Ibaka wasn't a
Speaker 1: huge factor in the game. He ended up following out.
Speaker 1: He had a dozen points at seven rebounds. But all
Speaker 1: in all, a good victory for the Sixers, And I
Speaker 1: think one of the big takeaways is being consistent and
Speaker 1: as Brett Brown would call it, the trending of batist table.
Speaker 1: I mean the defense with the blocks, the steals, the deflection,
Speaker 1: the straight up man to man defense, whether he steals
Speaker 1: it or not. But now the threes. He made five, three,
Speaker 1: six of nine total from the field. And as I've
Speaker 1: said before, if you can start to count on him
Speaker 1: for consistent minutes, he's not gonna get twenty points that
Speaker 1: was a career high every game. But if he can
Speaker 1: get two or three threes a game, man, that's going
Speaker 1: to open some things up. That's the Sixers kind of
Speaker 1: have to develop that. It wasn't for con tonight he started,
Speaker 1: he went one of six, he made only one three.
Speaker 1: But to get double digit threes is almost a must
Speaker 1: in tonight's or today's NBA. They ended up with fourteen Thible,
Speaker 1: as I say, with a career high five, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to develop those from within at least for now.
Speaker 1: And watching Thible shoot those from a fire was really
Speaker 1: a thing of beauty. And you know what in the
Speaker 1: Sixers one ten on a four win, his contributions, I mean,
Speaker 1: the things that stand out the most. It was in
Speaker 1: a key point the game, in that third quarter where
Speaker 1: Toronto got the margin back to ten and it was
Speaker 1: three Steel and his finger roll another three from Thieball
Speaker 1: and that was when you really felt like the Sixers
Speaker 1: were in the driver's seat right now. They held them off.
Speaker 1: This was a very good win. I mean, the Sixers
Speaker 1: shoot fifty percent, Toronto shoots only forty three percent, and
Speaker 1: the city you could tell there was a sense of
Speaker 1: urgency and understand how could there not be by the
Speaker 1: team when everybody else was feeling that coming into the
Speaker 1: gym here tonight and they held their ground and they
Speaker 1: you know, this was a very good win. And you know,
Speaker 1: against a team was resilient with the championship pedigree that
Speaker 1: they possess and the dominance that they've had over the Sixers,
Speaker 1: they were not going to go away, and they didn't.
Speaker 1: It's just that the Sixers were able to build up
Speaker 1: a big enough lead and I think the crowd helped.
Speaker 1: And on a night where Ebid was not great, I
Speaker 1: mean he was not bad. He wasn't terrible, except at
Speaker 1: the end a couple of those passes weren't so great.
Speaker 1: But he was thirty one minutes, three of seven and
Speaker 1: only ten points. He did have eight rebounds and six assists,
Speaker 1: but not a dominant player. And yet the Sixers had
Speaker 1: enough other really good performances like the trio that I mentioned,
Speaker 1: plus Horford played pretty well, and then Ennis and Scott
Speaker 1: gave you something as well. So great team victory tonight
Speaker 1: over Toronto. Tom Againnis. We will talk to you on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: next test the Denver Nuggets. All right, thanks, good night,
Speaker 1: seventy sixers. Get the victory. One ten, one oh four.
Speaker 1: We've got some highlights coming up. Seventy sixers. They were
Speaker 1: climbing a pill early on in this one in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, but even though they were still behind, you
Speaker 1: could feel a momentum shift courtesy of Ben Simmons. Siakam
Speaker 1: gets it into the lane. Here's he buck up block
Speaker 1: by Horford. Big Al comes away with a block and
Speaker 1: now the Sixers with numbers. Simmons into the lane. Simmons
Speaker 1: downlow right and he banked it an he went right
Speaker 1: at Siak timeout Toronto. Even though the Rafters were still
Speaker 1: up by two at that point eighteen to sixteen, the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers got a nice lift from some reserves. They
Speaker 1: closed the first quarter on a thirteen to four run
Speaker 1: and then actually gave them a twenty seven twenty two
Speaker 1: lead going into the second. The second was where the
Speaker 1: tone of this game really changed. Joel embeat his best
Speaker 1: stretch offensively came in quarter number two. Error is guarded
Speaker 1: by Powell. Here comes a double in the form of Ibaka,
Speaker 1: who a bead, he fakes, he drives, he goes in
Speaker 1: and Ibaka spins back right side, shot up and good
Speaker 1: well done by a beat under control on balance reverse
Speaker 1: pim and turns and gets it from twelve to the
Speaker 1: right lelane in which Joel Embiid scored on consecutive possessions
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers. He was back in action tonight
Speaker 1: after being sidelined last night with a left hip issue.
Speaker 1: Sixers closed out half number one courtesy of their Rookmatise Thible,
Speaker 1: giving them some extra insurance. Scott, with a twenty one
Speaker 1: point team last night against gets it again. Step that
Speaker 1: shot on Ronde Garside three ballers good his first basket
Speaker 1: in this game, and Mike Scott has made a fifty
Speaker 1: five forty two five three for the Sixers, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers would go into the half leading by the score
Speaker 1: of fifty seven two forty two. The Sixers it felt
Speaker 1: like they had all the mojo on their side, and
Speaker 1: that only continued to be the case in the second
Speaker 1: half when Matisse Thybal gave the Sixers a nice lift
Speaker 1: when it seemed like the Raptors were closing in a bit.
Speaker 1: Simmons in the corner up top of Teas three ball right,
Speaker 1: so I got it. Back to back triples by the
Speaker 1: rook and time out Toronto and they love it. At Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: They're on their feet. The Sixers are leading by eighteen
Speaker 1: seventy one fifty three and actually sandwiched in between those
Speaker 1: two threes by Thibaal, he stole the ball away from Toronto.
Speaker 1: That led to a run out finger roll for James
Speaker 1: Ennis the third. So a quick spurt by the seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: all that happening in less than forty five seconds tell
Speaker 1: them regain control the game up by eighteen seventy one,
Speaker 1: two fifty three through three quarters to sixers. They led
Speaker 1: eighty six to sixty eight. Toronto was shooting under forty percent,
Speaker 1: just eight of twenty six from outside the arc. Pascal
Speaker 1: Siakam was held to just six points. Toronto tightened things
Speaker 1: up down the stretch after the Sixers started to have
Speaker 1: some turnover issues, but Matisse Thible was there as a
Speaker 1: studying presents well, gets it back still eight to shoot,
Speaker 1: Thible fakes it, shoots it and in passed it to
Speaker 1: the corner. Faked the pass to the corner of forty three.
Speaker 1: That's a career best for him and the Sixers lead
Speaker 1: ninety four seventy five, and Ben Simmons would help put
Speaker 1: this one away as time was winding down against a
Speaker 1: pesky Toronto opponent. Now Matise catches fakes up to the
Speaker 1: bias five seconds down to Betty and he lays it
Speaker 1: up at in with the right hand bank shot. Sixers
Speaker 1: go up one oh seven ninety six to a minute
Speaker 1: forty five to go. Simmons was sixty. That was well done.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers would commit five bigger parton make that eight
Speaker 1: turnovers in the final eight minutes of play. That did
Speaker 1: not help the cause, but they did have enough insurance
Speaker 1: thanks to a big second quarter and a good finish
Speaker 1: the first to fend off Toronto one ten to one
Speaker 1: oh four. Seventy six Ers shot better than fifty and
Speaker 1: a half percent from the field. They were fourteen of
Speaker 1: thirty two from outside the arc. Toronto was under thirty
Speaker 1: forty three and a half percent and just eleven of
Speaker 1: thirty three from the perimeter. Sixers. They were minus two
Speaker 1: on the glass tonight seven on the offensive board, somewhat uncharacteristic,
Speaker 1: and again they were doing a pretty good job with
Speaker 1: turnovers until the final eight minutes. The Sixers finished with
Speaker 1: twenty turnovers in the game. Toronto committed seventeen, tying with
Speaker 1: Kyle Lowry for game high scoring honors. That would be
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris. Harris with eleven of his twenty six in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. He was ten of twenty two overall,
Speaker 1: but four for eight from outside the arc, plus six
Speaker 1: rebounds and three assists in a block shot sixteen points,
Speaker 1: eleven rebounds, nine assists for Ben Simmons. He also had
Speaker 1: five turnovers in the game eleven four and five for
Speaker 1: al Horford. Joel Embiid was back. Played thirty minutes, ten points,
Speaker 1: eight rebounds, six assists, seven turnovers for Embiid batistible career
Speaker 1: high twenty points and also a career high five three
Speaker 1: pointers on eight attempts eleven for James Ennis, the third
Speaker 1: off the bench. He was a nice spark plug for
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers as well. The Sixers now move into
Speaker 1: fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings. There were full
Speaker 1: game in front of the Raptors. The Sixers are seventeen
Speaker 1: and seven. The Raptors are fifteen and seven. Up next
Speaker 1: for the seventy six Ers the Denver Nuggets, eight o'clock
Speaker 1: Star time. That's a change nationally televised game on your
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Speaker 1: the third best team in the Western Conference. You've been
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