WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 02/09/2018 - Rewind vs. Pelicans 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:05.600 This is the Philadelphia seventy Sixers postgame Show. If I 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:08.280 can look about about Broad Street stars, He's gonna turn 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.800 and get it off. Mattie Rolls and the Sixers postgame 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:19.320 show right now on ninety seven five the Fonetic just 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.960 about the sports pojo of the city right now. But 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:28.800 man Philadelphia on a roll. Seventy Sixers steamroll past the 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.360 Pelicans one hundred eighty two, a game that was much 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.720 more one side in the final score would suggest Sixers 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.600 flat out dominant. Joel Embiid helped get things started, and 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.680 the Sixers never looked back by winning their second straight 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.840 game and proving a two and oh on this homestand 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.200 and getting two games over the five hundred mark as 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.199 they wind down their pre All Star Game stretch of 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.080 the schedule. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot com. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.240 We're standing by for Brett Brown's postgame press conference. Gonna 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.280 hear from Tom McGinnis as well, one more time and 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.280 playback some of his highlight calls. Let's start with the 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.759 big man, Joel Embiid. He did not miss his first 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.800 six shots. He had sixteen points and six rebounds. A 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:18.320 very respectable night by the standards of mere mortals in 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.040 the NBA. By the end of one quarter of play. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.920 By halftime, he had a twenty and ten game and 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.240 after three quarters, which was indeed and understandably so. The 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.559 end of his night twenty four points, sixteen rebounds, eleven 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:37.520 of eighteen from the field, and he was totally imposing 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.199 his will not only against the Pelicans, but perhaps more 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:47.440 intriguingly and significantly against his all star starting center counterparts 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:52.160 Anthony Davis. I mean it, really tonight was not even close, 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:56.040 Davis finishing with fourteen points, eight rebounds, six of nineteen 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.640 from the floor, and Joel was just able to do 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.640 whatever he want. Had been Simmons stirring the drink all 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:06.320 evening long ten points, nine rebounds, eight assists. He was 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.560 able to get some buckets to go early, was not 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.560 able to be as steady with his shot down the 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.079 stretch of his playing time, but the luxury of not 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.000 having to be out there in the fourth quarter on 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.840 the first night of back to back very big. Dario charge. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.160 Somehow this is just one man's opinion, but it's almost 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:27.120 like the steadiness and consistency of his play has been 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.000 flying under the radar and It's like something that this 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:34.160 point you're taking for granted or you expect game in, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.360 game out on a regular basis. Twenty four points from him, 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.200 his second twenty point game in a row. He's scored 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.760 in double figures thirty two straight games, and he's just 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:49.080 finding ways too, especially on the heels of a start 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.280 to the season where he was looking to find his 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.920 role with more playmakers on this team. He has certainly 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.120 done that, gotten into a real steady groove. Eight of 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.280 eleven overall, four or five outside the arc, four to 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.919 four from the line, five boards, four assists, plus thirty two. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.040 EPID was plus thirty three in the Sixers one hundred 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.480 eighty two victory over the Pelicans. What were some of 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.959 the key tracking points in tonight's game, fourteen to two, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:19.920 twenty three to two. Both of those stoppages resulted from 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.600 timeouts called by the Pelicans. Sixers were up by eighteen 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.359 after a quarter, their second largest first quarter lead of 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.400 the season. They were in front by fifteen, but led 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:35.080 by as many as eighteen in the second quarter. Score 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.840 at halftime was fifty six forty one. You know, the 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:43.600 Pelicans kind of showed signs of life in the third quarter. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.080 You know, there were junctures where you could say, looks 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:51.880 like they're getting themselves back into the game. But the 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:56.880 Sixers responded in kind by scoring eighteen points in a 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.360 row bridging the end of the third and into the 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.760 fourth quarter, and that gave them control the game. They 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.440 were up eighty four fifty two after three quarters of playing, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.760 and the reserves got to see the Sixers through to 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.360 one hundred eighty two victory. Let's join in progress Brett Brown, which, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.400 as we can we played well. We were able to 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.479 get him out to your point, back to backs here 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.440 at home, which is very rare. You know, we've given 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.800 ourselves our best chance to be able to see him 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.440 play back to back tomorrow night. I was surprised that 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.920 he played tonight, you know, really that was that was 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.760 declared to me. We start film at thirty five. It 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.960 was declared to me at about thirty six minutes even 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.960 even later. And uh, obviously we welcomed him into the 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.120 team after his warm up he felt good enough to 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:50.479 play driving that what's that? Yeah, yeah, to his credit, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.440 like he came flying through the film room, you know, 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.640 grabbed the seed. He looked good to go and h 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.320 you know, he always he loves playing basketball. It's one 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.480 of the things that is most admirable about him. He 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.880 really loves playing basketball. Even when he was injured and rehabilitating, 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.239 he wanted, you know, to play pickup when we're at Peacom. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:15.320 He just liked playing basketball. And you know, to his credit, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.599 he loves playing at home. He loves playing in front 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.880 of these fans, and we appreciate him getting through some 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:28.920 level of pain to be able to do this place 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:35.400 four years really dominated job he did. I mean, when 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.760 you look at his stat line and really what half 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.960 a game? You know, it's to your point, Keith, it's 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:47.719 a it's a pretty impressive stat filled sort of box 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:51.039 score sheet. I'm looking at in only twenty four minutes, 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:52.960 and I thought our start, as you know, we came in. 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.000 I think if you looked at the first period, fourteen points, 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.880 the third period eleven points. So much of everything that 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.680 we did was generated throughout defense, and Joel was a 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:12.520 obviously a huge contributor. To view a press, your starters, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.240 you go to the bench, things don't go as planning. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.440 So what was the difference tonight? I know the Pelicans 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:18.840 that scored you in the fourth, but what was the 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.920 difference that you guys held on for us. I think 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.640 the turnovers. We had no turnovers in the third period. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.359 And you know, when we can guard like we guard, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.680 and we do it well most nights, and we can 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:37.120 just get a shot, as simple as that sounds, then 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.360 you have a really good chance to maintain a lead. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.160 And if you do that and you don't foul and 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:49.560 make the game static and stop start stop start, you've 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.440 got to even a better chance of doing that. And 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.360 so I feel like somewhere between those three things, you know, 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.240 we we held on. We we held them to eleven points, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.640 and as we said, we're able to effectively put up 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.919 bench on the floor of the entire fourth period because 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:13.360 of it. Bringing Mesa he was way, I was aware 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.840 of it all, and I just it's not how I'm wired, 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.840 I understand it. My answer is no, there wasn't any 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.960 thought I was aware of it. It's just, you know, 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.040 not how I sort of see the world. I get it. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.680 But the risk reward with anything happening as stuff you 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:34.480 just couldn't sleep at night with. It's it's irresponsible. Seventy 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.720 Sixers head coach Brett Brown following the Sixers one hundred 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.880 eighty two victory over the New Orleans Pelicans, and if 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.120 you heard it as he detailed on a night in 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:47.600 which Joel Embiid was not even a definitive presence for 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:52.080 the Sixers in terms of his availability for game activity. 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.840 The Sixers went into their film study about forty five 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.800 minutes before the game doubtful and somewhat questionable whether or 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.240 not Embiid would play. The official designation for him was questionable, 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.720 but then he felt good enough to go. He expressed 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.640 as much and looked like he was at his best. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.120 You know, it is pretty frightening to think. If that's 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.320 what Joel Embiid can do on a slightly sore ankle 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.040 when at full strength, we've seen it, but tonight just 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.760 a reminder of what type of force he can be. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.600 A truly special talent for the seventy sixers. Joel Embid 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.240 with twenty four points sixteen rebounds, keying a phenomenal start 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.200 for the seventy Sixers. They were up eighteen thirty two 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.600 to fourteen after one quarter of play by as many 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.960 his thirty five points early on in the fourth quarter, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.240 and they rolled their way to an eighteen point triumph 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.800 over the New Orleans Pelicans. Will break down this one 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.120 a little bit more with Tom McGinnis. He's standing by 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:52.079 it's the postgame show on the Sixers Raider Network. An 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.000 overpowering performance from the Philadelphia seventy six Ers tonight one 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:00.520 eighty two, defeating the New Orleans Pelicans finals or not 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.240 nearly doing the way this game it played out enough 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:08.280 justice Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot Com. Joel 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.800 and bid Dario Scharch each with twenty four points and 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.400 Bead had sixteen rebounds. He was plus thirty three. Scharch 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.800 was plus thirty two. Ben Simmons nearly a triple double 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.000 and only twenty five minutes of play, and all things considered, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.440 Tom McGinnis, I guess at the end of the night, 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.320 it doesn't really matter by which way these wins come. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.560 Bottom line is the Sixers and now two games over 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.480 five hundred. Once again they are trying to establish their 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.160 positioning in the Eastern Conference. The Clippers defeated the Pistons. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.520 That was a good thing, But man, when you see 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.439 the way games like this start, you're reminded of what 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.520 this team can be when they're really clicking on both 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.840 ends of the court. It was incredible. Absolutely a third 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.880 quarter would fit into that too, And it does matter 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.000 a little bit how you win, just because you know 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.240 you can win ugly like a boy. They gotta clean 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.360 up this done the other and tonight the only thing 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.040 you could say was boy, the Pelicans reserves. I'll played 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.480 the Sixers reserves in the last six minutes of the game. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.360 But the other part the Sixers flat out dominated, particularly 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.360 that in Bad Davis matchup, where they outscored them something 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.559 to the tune of thirty two to six that I 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.600 shared with Joel and Bead was phenomenal. Typically, that three 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.600 point shot is something he used to kind of tricked 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.800 the defender at the beginning, but tonight he just came 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.839 out firing. He made his first two threes. Ben was 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:26.360 really good, and then you know, Dario was terrific. Great 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.160 overall performance. I mean, you couldn't you couldn't really ask 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.160 for a better home game when you play another home 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.199 game tomorrow, and that is dominate, blowout the opponent, and 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.160 your top players spend the entire fourth quarter on the 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.600 bench and play less than half the game. And more 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:46.160 importantly too, the Sixers, you know, they had to kind 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.079 of rebuild the lead a little bit in the third, 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.400 but once it got the thirty five points, I mean, 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.040 obviously that was good night, Irene, and that's what you 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.120 want to do. You want to take care of business. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.439 And I thought, and again just one little caveat a 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.599 little high turnovers. But the Sixers dominated the game and 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.280 they put it out of reach. There was no doubt 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.720 they were winning this game, which has been at times 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.320 in question with the way they've lost leads, but not tonight. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.800 So they appear to be there. They continue to build 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.760 big leads and now they're protecting them better, particularly in 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.840 these last two games seventy Sixers over the Pelicans one 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.319 hundred and eighty two. And it is like Tom, it 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.719 feels like that the Sixers are in this stage of 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:27.160 their growth and development where while the talent has certainly 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.600 been upgraded and increase compared to the first four years 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.480 of Brett Brown's tenure, they're still playing with the same 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.280 amount of scrap and hustle and spirit. And when you 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.640 combine those two factors together, if you're an opposing team 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.240 and you're not ready for that, look out because it 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.640 comes together and it hits you like a blitz. They're 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.040 the best Eastern Conference team in first quarters and the 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.480 last two games especially to begin this homestand have shown 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.960 them absolutely. You make a really good point. I mean, 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.880 the Sixers got a lot of credit and respect over 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.520 the last few years before. They play hard, you know 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.720 what I mean, And everybody, including like for instance, JJ Reddick, 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.680 who was looking in from a far and years pass like, WHOA, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.839 what is up with Brett Brown? These guys play so 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.920 hard for him, And you're right, that element is still there, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.920 even on that play where TJ. Gove ad center court 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.680 didn't get the ball but got a standing ovation because 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.480 that's fully tough. That's what people respect around here. And then, 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.160 as you say, now that you bring in talents like 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.199 Ebid and Simmons and Dario in his second season, and 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.040 including Reddick, who was again in double figures and he's 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:36.119 averaging around seventeen points per game, it's a really potent combination. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.400 And again they're coming together and beginning to play better 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.120 and better. Now they've been two three games over five 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.200 hundred in the past and then they've had a little dip, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.960 so you want to see that consistency and for them 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.600 to finish out this last three games before the All 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.560 Star Break and then going to an underman Chicago team 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.400 when the thing restarts in late February. But so far, 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.280 so good. They've done a really good job. And now 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.640 they've got a Clippers team that's playing well. Lou Williams 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.320 is scoring the ball, they add the bias Harris Austin 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.040 Rivers is back in, and they had a big win 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.960 the night they came from behind. It's a great opportunity, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.240 but nonetheless another important and difficult game tomorrow night against 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.280 the Clippers. Before we wrap a bar dissection of tonight's 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.320 game and get to some hardcore analysis about the ninety 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.480 seven five the Fanatic Annual Knockout tournament taking place in 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.600 front of us here at the center. Are we talking 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.679 enough about Dario charch I mean, I know everyone appreciates 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.679 him and recognizes his abilities, but thirty two game double 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.839 figure scoring streak, and perhaps most encouragingly, really has seemed 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.120 within the last month month and a half to find 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:43.120 his groove, surrounded by an amplified cast of playmakers, which 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.120 at the outside of the season he was looking to 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.480 find his way. Well, how about that he started the 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.599 season on the bench right right, and Prett Brown's like, no, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.720 this is this can't work. He's too good. We got 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.319 to get into the lineup. And you're right, no, he 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.960 when you say, are we talking about enough? I didn't 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.000 think in general no. And you know, obviously during the 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.160 accounts and description of the game, we are, because he's 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.599 racking up big time points, as you say, But he 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.839 is really solid and obviously when his three point shot 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.360 is going well, then his game goes to a whole 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.319 nother level. He's certainly is getting better at that. He's 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.360 a little up and down at times, but tonight he's 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.400 just at six ten. He's gonna be open just by 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.520 the fact that he's shooting over. Even if a defender 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.320 is closing out or in proximity, he's able to get 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.760 that ball over the top of them because of his 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.000 height and his release point. But he is I mean 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.360 he you talking about a core four or whatever. He 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.640 is firmly entrenched in there among charge I'm sorry, among 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.240 Simmons and Bed and JJ Reddick. He's just a terrific 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.960 young player. And again, look, and I thought about this 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.840 last night with Peyton being traded. Okay, McDermott is now 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.760 on his fourth team and those two guys were sandwiched 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.440 right around Dario Sharge. Yes, the six Ers had to 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.800 wait two years as he played proficially professionally in Turkey. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.840 But where's Dario scharge now? With those guys in the 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.880 draft position ten eleven twelve in that draft four years ago. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:09.200 Clearly he's without question the best player amongst him, and boy, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.560 the Sixers are so lucky to have him. No data 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.760 bat it seventy Sixers beat the Pelicans one hundred eighty two. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.640 All right, Tom, what are your thoughts insights analysis on 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.440 this annual ninety seventy five to fanatic knockout? Do we 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.600 see any on air personalities? They're still alive. I'm seeing 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.240 a few air balls, that's for sure. Now. If Von 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.240 Gibbons were here, I don't see. He's back at the studio, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.560 go whoa, whoa. Sixers President Chris Heck is out there. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.200 He's alive. Yes, So it is a very long line 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.280 and everybody knows I think at this stage how lockout 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.440 is played. These are free throws attempted. If you don't 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:45.920 make it, you have to race in there and try 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.680 to get a put back before the next contestant makes it. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.320 And so there's a little bit of a footwork in volum. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.080 You have to hustle in there, and there's some intense competition. 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.680 Many of the on air callers are involved as right. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.120 I think the bro from the morning show is uh 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.880 is still standing strong from what I can tell, So 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:10.640 Tyrone Johnson out there. It might just be the Bro 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:15.440 and perhaps weekend man Zach Gelb among the dignitaries and 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:21.520 representatives from our flagship radio stage. Dignitaries loosely term, if 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.320 there ever were one, Let's see what he can do, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.640 he's said. Third in line here, sleeves are rolled up. 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:32.320 Scott O'Neill usually a part of this, typically a strong contender, 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:42.320 Pride of Villanova, A bit short, Edie? Is it? That's 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.680 what happens when you're game ends early, you get continuing 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.080 knockout towards. Is that a fast game? I feel like 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.240 your baseball career when I say time in the game 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.920 two hours, in a minute almost seven. The Pelicans had 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.480 their most recent game post because of rain right, yeah, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.840 a rainout? Are you kidding me? It's like when the 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:59.680 fourth quarter rolled around, I think it seemed like they 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:03.960 were two Perhaps move north drive that bust of Brooklyn 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.879 Good night, Brian, thank you. Seventy Sixers power their way 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.120 to a one hundred eighty two victory over the Pelicans. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:10.800 Will talk more about it on the other side. Our 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.960 final segment coming up with some highlights, and remember Divin Gibbons. 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.119 We'll hang out for the post post game show. We 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:17.840 gotta get a name for that segment of the evening 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.359 on ninety seven five to the fanatic that's coming up 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.639 in just a moment here on the Sixers Rating Network. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.679 Seventy Sixers Pelican is for the second final time this season, 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.200 a clash of two opposing All Stars starting centers in 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.080 Joel Embiid and Anthony Davis. Sixers looking to continue a 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.560 strong stretch of play, getting into the guts of this 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.160 five game homestand before the arrival of the All Star break, 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.040 Sixers set in the tone in a major way in 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:52.639 the opening minutes and Simmons with a rebound, Sixers punctuating 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:57.480 these defensive stops with rebounds, and here's Simmons blowing by everybody. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.200 Fur layoff Davis and Lincoln's look at another It's not 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.760 how we did in Lexington and a dunk five. Ben 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.119 Simmons a very early indication that on this night, New 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.520 Orleans would have very little answers for these Sixers offensive threats. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.400 Sixers force the time out after they raced the lead 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:18.480 out to fourteen to two, and not too long after 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.160 that the Sixers margin would only inflates. Here's Simmons back 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.640 up top, Dario three balls shot here, it's good. Take 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.240 another time out, New Orleans. The Sixers are leading twenty 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.080 three to four. They're gonna do exactly that. The Sixers 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.359 are nine up ten and the crowd gives a Sixers 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.440 a standing ovation. It was incredible assigned from a few 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.840 turnovers here and there, the Sixers so dominant, lights out 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.240 on both ends to the floor to start things off. 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:50.280 They were up thirty two to fourteen after twelve minutes 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.520 of play. Plicins would score the first six points of 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.560 the second quarter. Then JJ redickott in the action. He 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.359 assisted on a joel and b jam. Then he turned 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.960 to his jump shot. It's Jj Reddick off the swing 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.640 from the near side. Good. It beat that time real 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.639 briskly and succinctly out of the trap. They go to 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.720 Daria topping into the near side and it's a free 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.480 ball by Reddick. His first Sixers got the lead back 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.560 in hand and down the stretch of the first half, 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.920 Joel and Beads still showing the despite going into tonight's 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.040 game listed as questionable. He had a ton to get 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.400 and now the Sixers searching. Simmons picked up his dribble prematurely, 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.200 and he's gonna shoot it off the bank down with 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.159 a slam by it bean it bead bottles it up 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.440 and a two hands thrown down Sixers letter fifty six 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.440 forty one at intermission. They would then set the tone 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.960 to begin the third quarter, much like they did at 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.720 the outset of the first. There were signs of brief life. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:47.160 The Pelicans, they got it back inside at twenty were 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.960 hanging around a little bit. It was sixty eight fifty two, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:54.840 and then the Sixers collectively went into flat out total takeover, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.680 put the dark game away mode. Here's driver coming, here's 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.240 coming to him on the lap, and oh, the Pelicans 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:05.480 ought to be a shame. Nobody guarding Robert Covington. A 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.480 layup line broke out cover with a two hands slam. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.639 Sixers lead by twenty two, just one instance of the 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.520 Sixers doing whatever they wanted whenever they wanted to. Tonight 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.240 JJ Reddick further blew the game wide open. Here's GJ 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.159 and a dribble. Keep that a left corner Reddick three 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.960 ball from there is good and the Sixers are blowing out, 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.200 blowing out the New Orleans Pelicans. Three threes for Reddick, 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:33.920 He's got thirteen McConnell with the dish twelve zero run. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:38.200 Sixers would go on to add six more points to 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.280 that run. Bridging the end of the third and start 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.520 of the fourth quarters, they had eighty four fifty two 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.800 after three. It was their second largest margin of the 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.200 scoreboard after three quarters this season and also of the 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:54.040 Redground coaching era. After three quarters and the fourth only 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.119 a couple of the starters would see some time and 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.800 action that would do JJ Reddick and Darius Charts there 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:01.840 Iss got run the rest of the way, and the 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:07.160 Sixers would very much convincingly knock off the Pelicans one 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:09.880 hundred two eighty two. Some final notes from the final 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.800 stat sheet. Six Ers forty two percent from the field, 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.679 the Pelicans limited to thirty four point seven percent from 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.480 the field. The Sixers defense amist all the offensive highlights, 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:24.240 so Stingy's stow airtight and just on top of New Orleans. 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.119 Throughout the evening the Sixers fourteen to thirty four from 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:30.680 outside the ark, New Orleans with eight three pointers. Sixers 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:35.159 dominated the glass plus twelve twenty six assist for the 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:39.280 Sixers on thirty nine made baskets. They did commit sixteen turnovers, 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.359 they got that part of their game under control, particularly 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.240 the third quarter in which they outscored the Pelicans twenty 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.359 eight to eleven. Individual notes will start with New Orleans 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:54.600 Anthony Davis pretty subdued tonights the Sixers and Joel and 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:58.159 Beat keeping him in check fourteen points six of nineteen 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.879 shooting eight rebounds well and Bead meanwhile leading the way 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:04.440 for the seventy six Ers his twenty seventh double double 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:06.760 of the season, tied for eighth most in the NBA 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:10.320 plus thirty three with twenty four and sixteen eleven of 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.119 eighteen from the floor. He hit his first six shots 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.800 of the night, two of four overall, and just brilliant 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.719 tonight one of the best games of his young seventy 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:23.920 sixers career, and some of these numbers from NBA Stats. 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:28.480 The Sixers officially outscoring the Pelicans by thirty points in 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.040 the fifteen and a half minutes that Embid and Davis 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.720