WEBVTT - Rewind vs. Toronto Raptors - 12/8/19 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.400 You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:09.000 highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Finally, 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.200 it was final. The seventy Sixers hang on and defeat 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.560 the Toronto Raptors one ten to one oh four. It 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.240 is their second straight win to complete a weekend back 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.200 to back, and they actually overtake Toronto for fourth place 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.720 in the Eastern Conference. Now full game in front of 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.680 the Raptors, the seventy six Ers seventeen and seven, while 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.640 Toronto drops to fifteen and seven, losing their third straight game. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.240 I'm Brian Seltzer. We expect to hear from Brett Brown 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.280 in just a few moments. Matissetaibel a terrific effort tonight 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.519 with the career high twenty points to go with the 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.240 career high five three pointers. The seventy Sixers all around 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.879 until a really adventuresome final five minutes of play. They 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.520 had some really good defense tonight, specifically on Pascal Siakam. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.880 They held him to six points through three quarters. He 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.720 came alive for ten points in the fourth, but the Sixers, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.880 which led by as much as twenty one in the game, 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.920 had enough insurance to fend off the raptors. Yeah, it 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.479 was a steady dose of different looks throughout the night 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.600 that the seventy Sixers put on. Siakim has scored twenty 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.840 five points against the Sixers. Back on November twenty fifth, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.520 when these two teams met for the first time, Al 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.800 Horford started the game on Siakim. Ben Simmons picked up 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.240 the load After that, Joel and Bead helped out, and 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.679 the result was Siakam couldn't get to the rim and 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.160 he had very few opportunities in open court and had 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.479 to settle for jumpers. Ben Simmons with sixteen, eleven and nine, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.480 Al Horford with eleven and four. Here's Brett Brown at 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.800 the podium on my team really too show how to 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.360 dress some of it. Some of it you just scratch 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.920 your head and try to, you know, try to coach 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.679 better and help them more, and you know, we It 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.600 is disappointing the way that ended, because I thought for 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.960 the most part we played good basketball. It's just the 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:52.800 way that it ended. You have a little bit of 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.400 a sour taste in your mouth, and then I'm reminded 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.520 it was a good weekend and we just beat the 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.160 NBA champs, and there's lots of good things that came 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.560 out of it. Just the last part, um, wasn't one 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.560 of them. Just and again everybody's part of it. But 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.000 then have to come meet those balls. He's your point 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.880 guard and at times the circling back into the middle, 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.840 you know, I think so, And it's part of part 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.480 of the structure. Um. You know, I think in general, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.079 trying to get the ball handlers on the floor at 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.720 times and have them still be your best defensive team, 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.080 it doesn't work, um, And so like you just hope 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.679 that as professional players we can handle that situation a 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.639 little bit better, and I believe that we will. As 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.000 you said it early in the season, maybe the preseason, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.000 you wanted that second group to be a you caught 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.840 it a bop squad. And so those groups that have 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.880 been mtis and all at center, Yeah, do they look 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.679 how you expect on defense at this point, Um, we 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.120 we're trending in that direction, I think so. And I 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.680 like the speed. I like the verse versatility. You know, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.280 Matisse is moving forward. I like the way that he 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.840 is trending. I thought offensively, for the large portion of 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.960 the game, we were good, you know against a really 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.120 good defensive team, that group that you're speaking of. I 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.679 would say, yes, that that's starting to, like, um, take 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.560 a shape that that I wished it did when we 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.880 u when I sort of anointed him a bomb squad. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.600 It's your favorite horse, the favorite thing about the bias, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.440 and that's a great want to do. It was it 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.080 was a funny part of the game where he came 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.600 in and he just went bucket, bucket, and like it 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.080 spun out. I think into like sixteen eighteen, you know, 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:50.120 fifteen again. And I think that in general he is 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.080 in a good place offensively. I think that the structure 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.160 in his world is appropriate. I think he's learning how 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.800 to use it with playing well around him off him. 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:07.200 But he's having a really good mindset lately to score. 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.960 Ben had some success so getting some trible penetration and 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.760 the half court that a function of and ob guarding 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.120 him up there cord and improving in that regard. But 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.040 what did you think bez performance tonight? I think two things. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:28.239 At times, yes, uh, you know, the league guards been differently. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.400 The proximity of which Toronto guards him is close at times. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.200 You know you can actually put him in probably some 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.160 picking rolls and let him just all by himself, blown 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.040 by people, and I thought he did a really good 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.400 job of that tonight. I thought that the passing out 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.320 of the post initially when they kept doubling, doubling, doubling, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.480 I think we did a pretty good job of moving 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.359 the ball and just getting off it and finding the 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.800 second side action. And I think in that action he 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.200 did a good job of playing catch, go go catch game. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.240 And just like he shot out of a rocket playing downhill. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.080 Seventy six or head coach Brett Brown after tonight's one 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.680 ten and one oh four victory over the Toronto Raptors, 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.960 and that's what it was. Feels nice to say that 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.880 the Sixers had a tough one in Toronto one one 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.320 ninety six lost thirteen days ago, but tonight they got 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.440 off to a great start. In the second quarter. They 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.520 were really able to open things up. They outscored the 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.400 Raptors thirty to twenty. It was on the heels of 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.839 a strong finish to the first quarter. Tobias Harris Scott 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.000 the seventy six ers going early. He was in double 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.680 figures in the first quarter, finished with twenty six. It 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.279 was his fifth twenty plus point game his last six 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.000 times out batistible with a career high twenty points tonight. 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.520 Ben Simmons sixteen points, eleven rebounds, nine assists, Joel Embiid 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.680 ten points, eight rebounds, six assists, but the seven turnovers, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.960 including the ones he had late, it was a real 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.479 issue for the seventy six Ers tonight, which did a 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.560 decent job with ball control. He's relative to how the 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.880 game was playing out until the final five minutes of regulation. 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.560 I mean they were sitting pretty with a nineteen point 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.800 lead eight minutes to go, and then it was just 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.280 like the anchor dropped. Here came Toronto. I guess you 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.240 never really felt like this one would get away. The 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.080 Sixers led by as much as twenty one. It turned 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.760 out they had enough insurance to lock up the win 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.040 in the end, but it was a little bit of 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.800 an uneasy finish. Nonetheless, the Sixers got what they needed 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.800 and that was a win one ten, one oh four 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.960 over the Raps. Tom McGinnis is here to give us 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.320 some more analysis. He will bring that to you in 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.360 a moment. It was a circuitous finished, Tom, to say 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.000 the least. But the seventy Sixers through three quarters they 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.160 were clearly the better team. In this one tonight, Toronto, 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.880 though able to capitalize on some turnovers and some aggressive 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.680 d while pressing to make this one slightly more interesting 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.400 than probably everyone would have hoped. Well, the Sixers, let's 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.680 go back to the guts of the game and the ending, 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.840 as Brett Brown to put it so aptly, and that 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.440 is it left the sour taste. But in the end 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.880 it's a win over the Raptors, and that's been hard 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.400 to come by obviously up there and certainly here as well. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.159 And so the Sixers finished the first quarter. You recall 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.240 that Matisse Thyble and Bed with under two seconds to go, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.680 turns and passes over to the right perimeter, and Thyble, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.800 with only a tenth of a second to go in 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.640 the first frame, makes a three. There was a foul 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.320 on the play. Lowry fouls them, and so Matisse makes 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.200 a four point play literally with the final tenth of 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.560 a second to go in the quarter. And the Sixers 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.080 closed out that opening frame of the nine two run 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.440 and allowed them to lead by five. And then they 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.360 had a big run I think it was like thirteen 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.880 to four and close out the first half, and that 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.760 pushed the lead to fifteen. And then if you recall 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.280 in the third quarter, neither team really got going. The 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.680 Sixers were kind of lucky because on an Obie missed 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.520 a layup, the Sixers missfired, and finally they got a 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.480 three by Harris to make it an eighteen point game. 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.320 And you know, so often this year end in years passed, 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.320 but specifically this year as well, the Sixers haven't built 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.240 enough of a cushion. And that was still early in 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.840 the third, but down the stretch they were able to 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.880 use that cushion and they needed it because they didn't 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.120 finish the game strong they had in the final right 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.000 around the last twelve possessions, they had turnovers in six 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.720 of them, and boy, that was just confounding. They were 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.760 throwing the ball away left and right, the Raptors with 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.360 pressure and you don't see you only see full core 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:22.720 pressure in the NBA in special situations like that, just 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.120 because these guys are too good, they're so athletic, and 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.640 they moved the ball. It's just it's not like you 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.520 can throw a diamond and one press on a team 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.440 in the NBA. It doesn't work. But they were trapping 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.840 and they were having success, and so the gap tightened. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.680 And yet the Sixers hold them off. So in the 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.480 end twelve and oh at home they beat the Raptors. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.160 Toronto's lost three in a row, and the Sixers got 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.480 great performances from Harris and Thible and Simmons. It's talking 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.520 about the defense. Time the seventy Sixers played on Pascal Sachem, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.520 scored twenty five and had the punctuating dunk to end 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.160 the game thirteen days ago in Toronto. But tonight the 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.440 Sixers after relying mostly on Ben Simmons to do the 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.920 defense on Siakam in that game at Toronto, and granted 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.320 the Raptors didn't have Lowry that night, so that changed things. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.480 But tonight it was like a steady wave of Horford 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.520 to start. Then Simmons Joe finished the first half on 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.719 Siakam and he really couldn't get comfortable at all. He 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.319 was limited to six points going him to the fourth right. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.960 He had seven of eighteen in the end, but basically 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:24.280 a non factor offensively, basically because of all the same 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.760 points that you just raised. So they did a good 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.280 job and then they got nothing from Gasol. He was 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:33.320 over six, he picked up two early fouls. He wasn't 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:38.040 the factor defensively and he was really a non factor offensively. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.679 I thought Lowry played really well. He made four three, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.800 twenty six points. Ogi on Anobi had a good start 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.560 for them. They missed Van fleet Less. We forget he 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.640 left the game. He played only twelve minutes. He went 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.520 out with a right knee contusion, did not return, and 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.600 he's having a career year averaging around eighteen points per game. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.640 But a good job on siakam and Ibaka wasn't a 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.959 huge factor in the game. He ended up following out. 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.760 He had a dozen points at seven rebounds. But all 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.320 in all, a good victory for the Sixers, And I 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.120 think one of the big takeaways is being consistent and 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.360 as Brett Brown would call it, the trending of batist table. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:18.240 I mean the defense with the blocks, the steals, the deflection, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.600 the straight up man to man defense, whether he steals 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.400 it or not. But now the threes. He made five, three, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.160 six of nine total from the field. And as I've 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.400 said before, if you can start to count on him 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.800 for consistent minutes, he's not gonna get twenty points that 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.600 was a career high every game. But if he can 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.840 get two or three threes a game, man, that's going 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.560 to open some things up. That's the Sixers kind of 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.760 have to develop that. It wasn't for con tonight he started, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.120 he went one of six, he made only one three. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.160 But to get double digit threes is almost a must 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.760 in tonight's or today's NBA. They ended up with fourteen Thible, 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.199 as I say, with a career high five, and you're 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.400 gonna have to develop those from within at least for now. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.439 And watching Thible shoot those from a fire was really 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.160 a thing of beauty. And you know what in the 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.960 Sixers one ten on a four win, his contributions, I mean, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.160 the things that stand out the most. It was in 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.920 a key point the game, in that third quarter where 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.640 Toronto got the margin back to ten and it was 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.800 three Steel and his finger roll another three from Thieball 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.320 and that was when you really felt like the Sixers 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.000 were in the driver's seat right now. They held them off. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.680 This was a very good win. I mean, the Sixers 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:29.360 shoot fifty percent, Toronto shoots only forty three percent, and 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.280 the city you could tell there was a sense of 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.440 urgency and understand how could there not be by the 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.640 team when everybody else was feeling that coming into the 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.160 gym here tonight and they held their ground and they 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.320 you know, this was a very good win. And you know, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.560 against a team was resilient with the championship pedigree that 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.120 they possess and the dominance that they've had over the Sixers, 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.680 they were not going to go away, and they didn't. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.840 It's just that the Sixers were able to build up 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.559 a big enough lead and I think the crowd helped. 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.680 And on a night where Ebid was not great, I 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.400 mean he was not bad. He wasn't terrible, except at 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.400 the end a couple of those passes weren't so great. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:09.199 But he was thirty one minutes, three of seven and 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.840 only ten points. He did have eight rebounds and six assists, 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.040 but not a dominant player. And yet the Sixers had 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.360 enough other really good performances like the trio that I mentioned, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.600 plus Horford played pretty well, and then Ennis and Scott 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.640 gave you something as well. So great team victory tonight 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.920 over Toronto. Tom Againnis. We will talk to you on Tuesday, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.719 next test the Denver Nuggets. All right, thanks, good night, 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.600 seventy sixers. Get the victory. One ten, one oh four. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.959 We've got some highlights coming up. Seventy sixers. They were 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.160 climbing a pill early on in this one in the 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.960 first quarter, but even though they were still behind, you 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:48.520 could feel a momentum shift courtesy of Ben Simmons. Siakam 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.520 gets it into the lane. Here's he buck up block 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.640 by Horford. Big Al comes away with a block and 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.800 now the Sixers with numbers. Simmons into the lane. Simmons 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.200 downlow right and he banked it an he went right 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:03.920 at Siak timeout Toronto. Even though the Rafters were still 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.680 up by two at that point eighteen to sixteen, the 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.120 seventy sixers got a nice lift from some reserves. They 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.000 closed the first quarter on a thirteen to four run 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.040 and then actually gave them a twenty seven twenty two 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.960 lead going into the second. The second was where the 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.520 tone of this game really changed. Joel embeat his best 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.720 stretch offensively came in quarter number two. Error is guarded 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.040 by Powell. Here comes a double in the form of Ibaka, 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.480 who a bead, he fakes, he drives, he goes in 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.720 and Ibaka spins back right side, shot up and good 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.520 well done by a beat under control on balance reverse 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.559 pim and turns and gets it from twelve to the 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:44.520 right lelane in which Joel Embiid scored on consecutive possessions 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.600 for the seventy Sixers. He was back in action tonight 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.680 after being sidelined last night with a left hip issue. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.880 Sixers closed out half number one courtesy of their Rookmatise Thible, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.600 giving them some extra insurance. Scott, with a twenty one 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.599 point team last night against gets it again. Step that 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.240 shot on Ronde Garside three ballers good his first basket 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.960 in this game, and Mike Scott has made a fifty 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.920 five forty two five three for the Sixers, and the 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.080 Sixers would go into the half leading by the score 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.440 of fifty seven two forty two. The Sixers it felt 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.080 like they had all the mojo on their side, and 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.240 that only continued to be the case in the second 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.840 half when Matisse Thybal gave the Sixers a nice lift 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.040 when it seemed like the Raptors were closing in a bit. 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.280 Simmons in the corner up top of Teas three ball right, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.800 so I got it. Back to back triples by the 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:39.000 rook and time out Toronto and they love it. At Philadelphia. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.760 They're on their feet. The Sixers are leading by eighteen 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:47.720 seventy one fifty three and actually sandwiched in between those 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.080 two threes by Thibaal, he stole the ball away from Toronto. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.640 That led to a run out finger roll for James 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.720 Ennis the third. So a quick spurt by the seventy sixers, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.880 all that happening in less than forty five seconds tell 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.320 them regain control the game up by eighteen seventy one, 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.720 two fifty three through three quarters to sixers. They led 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.080 eighty six to sixty eight. Toronto was shooting under forty percent, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.080 just eight of twenty six from outside the arc. Pascal 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.320 Siakam was held to just six points. Toronto tightened things 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.760 up down the stretch after the Sixers started to have 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.280 some turnover issues, but Matisse Thible was there as a 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.560 studying presents well, gets it back still eight to shoot, 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.960 Thible fakes it, shoots it and in passed it to 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.640 the corner. Faked the pass to the corner of forty three. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.200 That's a career best for him and the Sixers lead 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.240 ninety four seventy five, and Ben Simmons would help put 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.040 this one away as time was winding down against a 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.000 pesky Toronto opponent. Now Matise catches fakes up to the 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.720 bias five seconds down to Betty and he lays it 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.119 up at in with the right hand bank shot. Sixers 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.560 go up one oh seven ninety six to a minute 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.440 forty five to go. Simmons was sixty. That was well done. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.680 Seventy Sixers would commit five bigger parton make that eight 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.560 turnovers in the final eight minutes of play. That did 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.920 not help the cause, but they did have enough insurance 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.080 thanks to a big second quarter and a good finish 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.360 the first to fend off Toronto one ten to one 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.600 oh four. Seventy six Ers shot better than fifty and 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.880 a half percent from the field. They were fourteen of 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.760 thirty two from outside the arc. Toronto was under thirty 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.760 forty three and a half percent and just eleven of 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.360 thirty three from the perimeter. Sixers. They were minus two 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:34.200 on the glass tonight seven on the offensive board, somewhat uncharacteristic, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:35.920 and again they were doing a pretty good job with 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.720 turnovers until the final eight minutes. The Sixers finished with 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:43.320 twenty turnovers in the game. Toronto committed seventeen, tying with 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.400 Kyle Lowry for game high scoring honors. That would be 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.360 Tobias Harris. Harris with eleven of his twenty six in 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.480 the first quarter. He was ten of twenty two overall, 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.840 but four for eight from outside the arc, plus six 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.040 rebounds and three assists in a block shot sixteen points, 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.520 eleven rebounds, nine assists for Ben Simmons. He also had 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.480 five turnovers in the game eleven four and five for 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.199 al Horford. Joel Embiid was back. Played thirty minutes, ten points, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:11.320 eight rebounds, six assists, seven turnovers for Embiid batistible career 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.200 high twenty points and also a career high five three 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.320 pointers on eight attempts eleven for James Ennis, the third 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.399 off the bench. He was a nice spark plug for 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.000 the seventy sixers as well. The Sixers now move into 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.760 fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings. There were full 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.760 game in front of the Raptors. The Sixers are seventeen 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.240 and seven. The Raptors are fifteen and seven. Up next 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.439 for the seventy six Ers the Denver Nuggets, eight o'clock 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.520 Star time. 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