WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 3/2/2018- Rewind vs. Hornets 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.120 This is the Philadelphia Has seventy Sixers postgame show. If 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.440 I can look about about Broad Street Stars, He's gonna 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:11.520 turn and getting off Mattie Roll the Sixers postgame show 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:19.279 right now on ninety seven five. The fanetting a complacent 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.320 group by no means at all. That's what Brett Brown 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.960 said before the game in describing his resilience seventy Sixers, 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.479 and certainly those words proved to be prophetic tonight, on 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.600 the second night of a back to back, the Sixers 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.800 coming off a great win yesterday on the road in Cleveland, 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.479 and did they answer tonight, Trailing by as many his 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.960 fourteen points in the second half, the Sixers summoning up 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.760 a major closing kick to defeat the visiting Charlotte Hornets 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.640 one ten two at ninety nine. Brian Seltzer with you 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.239 here on the postgame show. We're expecting to hear from 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.239 seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown. We'll touch base with 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.360 Tom McGinnis one more time and play back some of 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.760 his highlight calls. The Sixers had a great closing finished 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.680 last night at the queue, and tonight they outscored the 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.679 Hornets thirty six to nineteen over the final twelve minutes 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.880 of regulation. It really was a collective group and balanced effort. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.800 There was that massive surge in crunch time, the Sixers 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.839 outscoring the Hornets nineteen to seven to close the game. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.640 But you saw guys like JJ Reddick driving unscathed into 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.360 the lane, Ben Simmons getting involved and arson Elio Silva 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.280 with eighteen points Joel and Bed leading the way with 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.600 a very big night of his own. Let's join in 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.240 progress Brett Brown doing recently, they've won five out of 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.600 the past six games. They're playing hard, and they're well coached, 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.960 and they're playing really good basketball, and they want what 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.400 we currently have, a playoff spot, and the season is 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:50.040 running out, and you know, we were all looking at 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.240 somebody die ice a wing last night at one thirty 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.360 in the morning. We got in everybody, you know, got 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.600 into their rooms, I'm sure their own homes at about 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.680 two thirty three, and we found a way to you know, 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.760 come back and and win at home and and uh 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.160 reload on the back to back. The the nineteen defensive 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.919 points in a fourth period after playing last night, I'm 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.640 proud of, I'm really proud of on nine assists in 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.080 the same period you know, to have thirty six points 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:23.480 and hold them to nineteen points and to have you know, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.160 a big number nine assists is a good team basketball. Um, 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.520 all those things come to my mind. It's it's it's 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.240 a very good win. It's a solid win. Yes, you 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.680 guys are usually pretty conservative. So the pick and roll 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.920 defensively handed back kempis sort of got going in the 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.120 second quarter. You talk about the adjustments you made it. 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.400 So yeah, the second hand, I mean right now with 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.880 third or fourth in defense, and we really are trending 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.959 to be an elite defensive team. And and I feel 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.600 in my old life the way that we're guarding isn't 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.839 all un It can't be all you have if you're 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.600 fortunate enough to get into the playoffs. You can't always 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.760 rely that Dario is gonna guard Kimba Wonka, say, because 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.840 we switch a lot with six ten and six. Hey, 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.280 we've had great successes here switching, But to think you're 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.880 going to win a series switching isn't going to happen. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.919 And so trying to you know, give some aggressive shows 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.800 on the ball, hard hedges on the ball and letting 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.800 Dario stay connected with Kaminski and keeping you know, cub 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.320 or tj on Kemba to avoid sort of cross matches 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.640 interest me a lot, and I think that what always 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.560 goes on in my mind and the coach's mind is 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.480 how do you best prepare them if we are going 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.600 to be in the playoffs and in a seven game 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:49.240 series and pick and roll defense with some minor but 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.880 I think effective adjustments is one of them. And that's 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.240 what you saw tonight. We're trying to grow the ability 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.000 to make adjustments out of our pick and rolls if 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.840 we're lucky enough to get in the playoffs. The impact 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.800 that Urson had eighteen points off off the batch research 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.280 for gas, you know. And I'm going to grow him 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.280 in different ways. And you know tonight you would have 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.560 seen him and Dario play a lot with each other. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.480 You know, you see him have the ability to make 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:21.000 great passes. You know from that pick and roll spot. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.839 I put him in Joel and you know, some pick 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.680 and rolls and they delivered. You know, he's able to 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.880 make that pass. You saw him be able to you know, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.240 sort of throw and go we call it with with 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.800 Joel and cut. You saw him take a massive charge 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.240 at the end of the game that he got rewarded for. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.719 There was a few others that I thought he could 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.920 have but didn't, and so all over the place, you know, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.919 whether it's him making a three, him passing to you know, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:52.360 Joel rolling, him taking a charge, him coexisting with Dario Sarich. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:57.400 You know, I think that that that flexibility, that versatility 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.920 is what excites me most about him. And it's not 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.160 like we don't know each other. We know each other well. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:07.040 He knows the system, you know, quite well. There's still 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:12.120 lots to refamiliarize him with. But he's a massive pickup 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.560 at this stage in my eyes, certainly proved to be 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.559 in tonight's game for the seventy six ers one ninety 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.440 nine win over the Charlotte Hornets. Down here at the center, 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.039 Iliosiva with eleven of his eighteen points off the bench 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.160 coming in the fourth quarter, a lot of key deposits 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.880 from him, a turnaround jump shot that cut the deficit 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.680 to three about three and a half minutes into the fourth. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.400 He later on assisted on a timely Dario charge three 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.640 that sliced the margin to one, and then hit a 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.080 three pointer of his own midway through the fourth to 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.520 put the Sixers in front ninety one. To eighty nine. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.200 Later some free throws down the stretch to erase a 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.719 one point deficit, and then during that sequence of driving 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.360 layups and dunks that featured JJ Reddick and Ben Simmons, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.320 Iliosiva with a driving layup score of his own to 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.200 make it one o one to ninety six with two 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:00.800 and a half minutes to go, and essentially at that 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.120 point he had a pretty good feeling about the direction 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.480 that tonight's game was headed. In Iliosilva with eighteen off 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.159 the bench, Joel Embiid with twenty three and fifteen to 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.000 go along with four assists and three block shots. His 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.839 presence on the court helped open up those opportunities inside 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.120 late for other members of the team. Ben Simmons fifteen 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.599 is seven and eight to go along with a block 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.520 in tonight's matchup Robert Covington with sixteen he was pretty 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.240 steady over the course of the evening, and JJ Reddick 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.000 getting some driving scores late with eighteen points of his own. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.680 Big win for the seventy sixers on the second night 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.520 of a back to back, just their third win on 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.839 night two of a back to back this season. They've 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.440 won two in a row after two straight losses back 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.599 to seven games over five hundred thirty four wins, the 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.760 most since two twelve, twenty thirteen, the year before Brett 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.000 Brown's arrival. Tom McGinnis is coming up on the other side. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.839 It's the postgame show here on the Sixers Radio Network. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.000 Seventy Sixers top of these Charlotte Hornets one ten to nine. 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.400 The seventy Sixers in a game that went back and forth, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.599 racing a deficit as large as fourteen points in the 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.720 second half in route to win number two in a row. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.560 Tom mc ginnis had the call up tonight's game. My 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.320 name is Brian Seltzer. Let's talk about this one Tom 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.600 a little bit. Looking back at the third quarter, Sixers 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.840 nine a great spot down as seventy six two sixty two, 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.480 A very large man, an all star, stepped back onto 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.360 the court. He had a fantastic third period, and then 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.160 we saw rasan Ilyasova as one of the top performers 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.040 in crunch time, down the stretch well and beat as 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.320 I mentioned when six verse six, he ended up with 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.720 fifteen points in the third quarter. And I think in general, 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.000 these Sixers kind of seize the moment. They came out 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.640 in the third quarter, Trailion at halftime, and it looked 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.360 like they could they could never really get over the top. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.840 In other words, Charlotte was flat and the Sixers pulled 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.880 within like three, but couldn't get over the hump until 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.720 Joel did that. And yet they still trailed by four 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.560 in the fourth, and then their defense really up. The 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.760 same thing occurred where the Sixes made a run, and 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.520 this time they got over the top and they closed 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.400 out the game. I mean to do this two nights 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.800 in a row, where so effective on offense. Last night 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.320 down the stretch in the last four and a half 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.400 minutes against Cleveland, and then tonight with Earson, the two 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.720 drives by Reddick, the jam by Simmons, the overall played 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.200 by Embiid. You know you're looking out there at t 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:29.360 points tonight you got Dario Sharch six, Earson, Iliosova six ten, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.760 Ben Simmons six ten. I mean that's long, and they 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.080 all save for Ben can step out and shoot the 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.960 long ball. You've got some really nice elements. And again 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.360 the defense they held them the forty three points. They 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.440 only had three field goals on the last eight minutes. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.000 Walker was finally held in check and just a tremendous job, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:50.960 you know, on a night where you didn't have the 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.560 energy due to the late night, as Coach Brown talked about, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.760 and on the heels of a very emotional victory in 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.960 a hard food win in Cleveland, it just it showed 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.559 how much this team has grown over the last three 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.360 or four months. Seventy sixers over the Charlotte Hornets one, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.000 ten ninety nine. Sometimes Tom mc ginnis, we talk about 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.719 the micro immediately after a game, but let's why don't 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.520 we roll out into the macro category where you know 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:21.280 you're safessors, drop a dime in the hats, pay some 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.280 things off every now and then you know you're seeing 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.760 a team playing and fulfilling the with and fulfilling the 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.720 blueprint the head coaches long had, but also the whole 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.400 concept of position lest basketball that Brian Clanzo has talked 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.280 about over the last two seasons, and now some of 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.800 the acquisitions that he's made over the last three weeks 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.439 all coming together right now at a really critical time 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.040 of the year, and it seems like everything's just fitting together. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.840 And for the Sixers it is a time about adjustments. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.840 But to see them close out these games that has 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.360 to be in making shots. When we hear about defensive 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.680 lot but seeing the make shots and important junctures of games, 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:58.880 it's got to be one of the more telling positive 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.600 signs of without Well, let's go back to your overall 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.640 point about you know, kind of stepping back and looking 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.120 at the general picture. One of the other phrase that 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:10.320 Brian Colangelo looked at was a positionally balanced roster. And 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.720 now you've got guys like Reddick and Covington that could 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.360 shoot the basketball, Bell and Ellie's in the mix, that 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.440 could spread the floor. And that's what Ben Simmons talked 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.880 about postgame with you know, that lane was so wide open. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.160 It was like the layup line broke. I thought that 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.960 layup line was supposed to occur at you know, seven 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.720 h three or six fifty four, but it broke out 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.360 in the fourth quarter and really helped the Sixers. So 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.600 that plus the way that Brett Brown approaches it, he 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.920 and his coaches, you know, like he just said, they're 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.240 they're they're planning for the playoffs, and so, you know, 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.880 development is still huge. That's how your team, that's how 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.679 a young team gets better. They improved during the course 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.400 of the season and during the course of several seasons 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.160 and overall then your team gets better. So you're seeing 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.559 a lot of these things come into play. The acquisitions 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.880 obviously of Ilios, Sliva and Bell and Ellie are huge. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.959 You've got guys you know you needed a little bit 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.400 of scoring off the bench, and now you've got that. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.640 And the defense is improving, and Bead has stepped up 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.440 and improved to be so consistent and really you can 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.120 count on him. As I said during the course of 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.040 tonight's game, he does something that one time he sprinted 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.800 the floor after harassing Dwight Howard defensively sprinting down the 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.160 middle of the floor and got the ball in the 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.360 lane and just a tremendous So, you know, one of 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.000 the things that I said earlier during our postgame coverage, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:32.400 you know the Sixers marketing mantra, you know, welcome to 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.200 the moment. Well, this is the moment. This and when 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.800 you're on the rise, this is as much fun as anything. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.880 And these fans played a huge part. It's been an 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.440 unbelievable home advantage and it's only going to get better. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.400 Sell out every game. Tonight huge twenty thousand plus in 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.079 the night like tonight, everybody had tough sledding getting down here. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.439 Just a fantastic second half of the Sixers, a great victory, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.000 well deserved off and then right back on the road. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.560 It's unbelieved. Jim O'Brien did something that I laughed about 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.760 this about five times today. Sitting courtside in Cleveland at 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.679 practice and practice hasn't really started yet. He goes to 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.960 me top real quick, what day is it? And he 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.600 goes not quick enough, and I hesitated because I'm like, well, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.559 it's Thursday. We're on TNT. I figured out where it 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.120 was Thursday because the Sixers were on TNT. How scary 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.280 that is. So it's been a whirlwind. You know, they've 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.640 been on the road a lot, and I realized the 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.559 All Star break was only two weeks ago. But now 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.640 right back out on the road, and when you're playing well, 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.080 you want to keep playing. That's exactly what's going on 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.840 right now. So encouraging to see this team bounce back 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.560 after two hard fought, tough losses to start that road 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.760 trip against Washington and Miami, and really someone like Arthsnilio Silva, 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.360 you talked about the urgency and hunger. This team is 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.440 shown while it's on the rise, clearly that was something 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.040 that was attractive to him and finally seen him get 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.280 that charge late and come through the way he has. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.080 It's just a team that seems very much together. And 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.439 that goes back to the concept that Ben Simmons started 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.319 off the postgame interview with when they're playing together and 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.959 they're clicking, they're a scary group. Well that and you 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.600 bring up point with your son and just sitting down 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.080 with him yesterday after that practice in Cleveland. He's a 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.240 good guy. And Brett Brown like he likes and that's 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.079 how you build a team. That's how you get chemistry, 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.600 and that is high character. Guys like Joel mister free 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.800 throw in the fourth quarter and he put his head 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.360 down and as I said, TJ McConnell put him in 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.360 the headlock. Well, and which is TJ's like six two 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:24.959 or six three and Joel seven two. But you know 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.320 what I mean, those guys have had that rapport and 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.480 all these guys, I mean, that's how you buy in. 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.960 I mean, that's what championship teams, that's what winning franchises do, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.880 where everybody realizes you're going to have to sacrifice. How 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.600 about like Jared Baylis, some of these guys. He's proven 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.839 veteran players realizing, you know, you can't play twelve guys 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.719 every night, that when you sacrifice for the betterment of 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.240 the group, that's what makes team. And tonight you had 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.520 to put Rashwan in there and Timo Tayluwaw got a 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.520 little bit of time. So that's how you go forward. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.160 And you know, everybody has to step up at different points. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.839 Different guys in different games come to and have better 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.720 games than other. You don't even everybody contributes, and that's 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.680 what you're seeing right now. So it's really special. And 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.920 you know, as we've talked about each and every one 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:08.679 of the day, the Sixers got to go back down 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.600 to Charlotte and backed us up on Tuesday. Huge game 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.800 in Milwaukee on Sunday, an exciting time of the year, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.960 and the Sixers clicking, playing some of their best basketball 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.040 in the last six or seven years. Thirteenth consecutive win 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.280 here in South Philadelphia. Tom McGinnis, we will talk to 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.240 you from Milwaukee on Sunday nights. Good night, Thanks Sixers 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.640 over the Hornets one ten ninety nine. There are some 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.680 great performances in tonight's game. Joel Embid delighting the fuse 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.880 for the Sixers eventualill comeback push in the second half. 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:41.160 Ben Simmons versatile as always, Robert Covington a very nice night, 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:47.040 Iliasova off the bench, Dario Charts another impact winning type 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.720 play effort late in the game. We'll get into all 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.960 that as we continue on the other side, as we 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.880 play back some of thim's highlight calls from tonight's game. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.840 It's the postgame showing the Sixers Raider Network the fanatic 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.320 seventy Sixers making a brief pit stop here in South 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.800 Philadelphia after three in a row on the road. They'll 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.200 be back out for four straight away from home, but 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.160 first this one tonight against the Charlotte Hornets. Brian Selts 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.400 you with you from Sixers dot Com. Let's get to 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:20.240 the calls of tonight's game, spun and provided beautifully and 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.840 excellently by the one only Tom McGinnis Sixers and the Hornets. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.840 It was a pretty evenly contested game throughout the first quarter. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.160 A nice sign Robert Covington getting into the act. Here's 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.520 Walker with a dribble hesitation move rejected by Holmes. Want 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.400 to play by Rashawn Holmes. Simmons with it Bellinelli cutting 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.240 Covington with it three ball right side bottom, Comington puts 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.280 it in good to see, giving the Sixers a twenty 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.360 to eighteen lead. They would trail by three thirty twenty 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.160 seven going into the second quarter. Now, in the early 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.640 stages of quarter number two, the Charlotte Hornets, with Frank 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.920 Kaminski getting increasingly involved, opened up a ten point lead 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.400 at forty four to thirty four. So there was some 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.600 work to be done for the Sixers. In work they 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.760 would do, battling playing for the second time and as 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.239 many nights, a late start last night against a talented 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.320 team and an excellent player of course in the Cavaliers 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:15.000 and Lebron James. But very noteworthy in the final seconds 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.680 of the first half, the Sixers got a high energy 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.320 playing here's been on a drive? Whoa Simmons with the 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:26.680 left hand, jam Ben Simmons, What a jam? Fifty six 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.000 forty eight is what the stuff made it? And that 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.000 would be the score going into intermission, And you're thinking 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.360 in the back of your mind, well, wouldn't it be 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.520 excellent if the Sixers could somehow build upon that. About 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.960 fifteen minutes later, when they got back out on the court, 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.440 for half number two. They did. Joe Ellen b did. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.640 He was fantastic in the third ben with it Simmons 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.320 an overdrive finally lives at Joel in another jam by 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:56.880 it be Steve Clifford keeps calling the plays. Maybe somebody 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.720 should guard and b The crowd is going crazy here 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.960 at Pladelphia, and for good reason. And Bead with back 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.480 to back slams, part of a spurt of seven straight 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.120 scored by the All Star that got the Sixers right 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.479 back in it, or so you would think. Their deficit 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.680 was sixty one to sixty, but the Hornets responded with 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.080 seven points of their own. They would later increase the 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.879 lead to fourteen. At seventy six to sixty two, and 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.080 Bead returned to action and once again the tone of 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.879 the game changed. Here's Reddick with the ball. That's Joel 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.600 willa oh Man beat off balance and he got it. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.920 Indeed he did. Seventy six to seventy six in a 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.720 row by the Sixers. They were down by six going 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.040 into the fourth eighty to seventy four. What would this 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:43.280 team have left down the stretch final twelve minutes. Robert 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:47.040 Covington big sequence to start the fourth quarter with five 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.320 points in a row. The Sixers kept clawing and scratching 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.440 and fighting their way back into it or a son 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.040 Ilyasova got better and better and more into a rhythm 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.960 as the game went along, as evidenced by this contribution, 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.119 here's your side open for three right side, Ilia Silva 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.600 knocks it down, but the Sixers efficiency at a timehouse 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.800 has been amazing and punctual. Ninety one eighty nine. The 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.560 Sixers back in front for the first time in the 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.199 second half. Ilia Silva with two free throws to make 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.680 it ninety three ninety two. After the Hornets reclaimed the lead, 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.119 Kemba Walker went to the line to make it ninety 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.800 four to ninety three, and then the Sixers really began 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.520 to open things up. One of the lasting impressions from 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:29.560 the closing kick. The Sixers delivered tonight three consecutive jams 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:32.960 and also sprinkled in some lamps like this one from 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.040 JJ Reddick. It beat to JJ Reddick drives and nobody stops, 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.159 and we got a lap right down Broad Street J. J. 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:45.240 Reddick ninety seven ninety four Hornets would score. Then that 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.600 jam we were talking about, joelma beat fakes and three 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.679 Howard guards him now Sivens on a drive. Siventh domina 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:57.480 a slab Ben Sivens with a two hands stuff, seventy 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.959 sixers with another stop after they made it, ninety ninety 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.880 six on the dunk from Simmons and the professional putting 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.680 his nickname into this one. Iliasova on the wing, Earson 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.040 over to Joel fact ear sign hit a layup. It's 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:17.000 a layup line. The Hornets can't stop the Sixers. Welcome 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:22.040 back ear Sock. Hornets could not stop him. Ersoni Ilasova 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.200 right place, right time. He was excellent down the stretch 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.119 in tonight's game. Also had a key charge throwing the 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.240 mix in the fourth quarter as well, and the seventy 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.240 Sixers power their way to a victory over the Hornets 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:37.320 night one to ninety nine. Final stats. Tonight Sixers end 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.639 up shooting fifty and a half percent from the field, 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.760 the Hornets held to forty two percent. Sixers with nine 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.520 three pointers, Charlotte with eleven sixers nineteen to twenty five 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.040 from the line. The Hornets were twenty of thirty two, 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.280 so some missed opportunities there. Against one of the other 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.560 better rebounding teams in the NBA, the Sixers were plus 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.359 seven on the glass. They are the top rebounding club 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.240 in the league, only twelve for the Sixers, ten for 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.879 the Hornets, but six or survive twenty two points scored 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.280 off their turnovers. They had fifty four points in the paint. 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.040 Did the Sixers outscoring the Hornets by sixteen in that category. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.960 That a crucial part of tonight's outcome. Individual notes. The 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.280 main highlight from Charlotte Kemba Walker with thirty one. The 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.920 All Star was a hardcover, indeed, but the Sixers able 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.960 to overcome it. Joel Embiid with twenty three points fifteen 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:29.840 rebounds his thirty third double of the season, also had 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.359 four assists in three block shots fifteen eight and six 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.360 for Ben Simmons, eighteen for JJ Reddick, sixteen for Robert Covington. 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.200 Dario Charche very efficient four of eight from the field 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.960 four nine points to go with seven rebounds and six 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.840 assists versni Elio Silva with eighteen off the Benchmarco Belinelli 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.320 with seven. With the win, the seventy Sixers pick up 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.840 their second straight victory, the now thirty four and twenty 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.760 seven after two losses in a row. These Charlotte Hornets 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.680 fall to twenty eight and thirty five. The Sixers maintain 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:03.200 their spot in sixth place in the Eastern Conference standings, 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.320 but they could move up a little bit higher depending 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.720 what happens with Indie Tonights. They are losing right now 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.560 in Milwaukee fifty six to fifty three midway through the 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.439