Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers got what they needed tonight, a one fifteen,
Speaker 1: one oh six victory over the New York Knicks. They
Speaker 1: also got a couple out of the things, which were
Speaker 1: some big performances from guys who they need to step
Speaker 1: up for however long the team is going to be
Speaker 1: without Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid. I'm Brian seltered down
Speaker 1: here at the center, leading the way for the Sixers
Speaker 1: to Bias Harris his second highest scoring performance of the
Speaker 1: season with thirty four points. He was fourteen of twenty
Speaker 1: one from the field, three of six from three, seven rebounds,
Speaker 1: seven assists, and most importantly, you could tell he was
Speaker 1: dialed and he was locked in from the outset of
Speaker 1: the game. He scored the Sixers first seven points, had
Speaker 1: fourteen in the first quarter, and twenty three by intermission.
Speaker 1: That is exactly what the seventy Sixers needed coming off
Speaker 1: a tough fourteen point loss against slowly Cleveland last night,
Speaker 1: a game in which Harris quite frankly did not have
Speaker 1: his best night. Al Horford also had an off night
Speaker 1: against the Cavaliers yesterday. Tonight, he was really, really good.
Speaker 1: This is like vintage Al Horford what we saw tonight
Speaker 1: in just under thirty four minutes, fifteen points, nine assists,
Speaker 1: that's the season high, plus seven boards, five of ten
Speaker 1: from the field. He had a couple of clutch baskets
Speaker 1: late when the Knicks were nipping at these seventy sixers.
Speaker 1: Heels and shake. Milton continues to do great things when
Speaker 1: given opportunities. In two straight games starting in place of
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, Milton is combined for thirty nine points. He
Speaker 1: had twenty last night nineteen tonight, six of seven from
Speaker 1: the field, get this, five or five from outside the arc,
Speaker 1: three rebounds and four assists plus a couple block shots.
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson five or thirteen from the field, Oh, four
Speaker 1: from three, seven rebounds, eleven points. But when the Sixers
Speaker 1: needed a boost in the third quarter, if you were
Speaker 1: following the whole game, Richardson was very important during that stretch.
Speaker 1: He scored eight in a row at one point to
Speaker 1: give the Sixers some needed breathing room and separation against
Speaker 1: the Knicks team that never quite went away. Tonight But
Speaker 1: the Sixers the moral of the story, they got to win,
Speaker 1: they needed to win. They are on the winning side
Speaker 1: of things for the sixth time in their last eight games,
Speaker 1: now thirty seven and twenty three. They sweep the season
Speaker 1: series from the Knicks would drop to seventeen and forty two.
Speaker 1: Tom mcguinnis called tonight's game. The seventy six is getting
Speaker 1: great performances, Tom, from guys who needed to give them
Speaker 1: great performances. And we'll start with Tobias, Harris and Al Horford. Well, Brian,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn it around and go right back. You
Speaker 1: know what was the first question in coaches press conference?
Speaker 1: Didn't somebody say, did you talk to Harris, Richardson and
Speaker 1: Horford about you know, getting a little more aggressive and
Speaker 1: coach of Well night, Yeah, we're gonna have a pregame meeting.
Speaker 1: But the point was that obviously, without Ben and Joel,
Speaker 1: somebody was gonna have to step up. And it's obvious
Speaker 1: that those three guys, amongst the starters and the veterans,
Speaker 1: and particularly Harris, who's average twenty, would have to have
Speaker 1: that mindset. And you could tell right from the tap
Speaker 1: that Tobias had that with the way he was getting
Speaker 1: after it, driving it, shooting it, and they picked it
Speaker 1: up and then Shake, as Brett out said, you know,
Speaker 1: it's so it's a little bit of a surprise he's
Speaker 1: gone five for five and nine of eleven from three
Speaker 1: over the last two games, because that's incredible shooting the
Speaker 1: best of his career. But it's not a surprise that
Speaker 1: he's been been able to do what he's done. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like people get into it, is he a
Speaker 1: one or is he a two? Well, he's a basketball
Speaker 1: player that can handle the ball. He played college point
Speaker 1: guard at SMU, and he can score the ball. He's
Speaker 1: gonna play, and he is a rotation player for the
Speaker 1: Sixers for now until right because he has proven he's
Speaker 1: going to be able to play, and he is. Again,
Speaker 1: you don't have to run things for him. He's just Uh.
Speaker 1: It's it's great how sometimes talent emerges, opportunity steps up,
Speaker 1: and Shake Bilton has really taken it. Horford had one
Speaker 1: of his best games of the year, without doubt. And
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of really solid performances, incremental performances
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the night from guys like Quark
Speaker 1: Mas and Buttis had a nice stint early in the game,
Speaker 1: Kyle Quinn came in and a nice victory here against
Speaker 1: a New York team that you know, just hasn't been
Speaker 1: able to get over the top. They've they've been competitive
Speaker 1: and like I said, they you know, obviously this is
Speaker 1: a difficult season for them, but they did not go
Speaker 1: away lightly and the Sixers had to take the game,
Speaker 1: and they did seventy six ers over the next one
Speaker 1: fifteen one oh six. There is a report from the
Speaker 1: Athletic following the game tonight Joel Embiid will be reevaluated
Speaker 1: for his left shoulder sprain in one week, so that'll
Speaker 1: be the next time we probably get an update. But
Speaker 1: this time is to the point that you actually talked
Speaker 1: about with Al Horford after the game, like this the
Speaker 1: way things work tonight, I mean, that was Al Horford
Speaker 1: doing what we've seen Al Horford do over the years,
Speaker 1: and at least for the short term, if this allows
Speaker 1: him to get into a groove and give the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers some identity on offense, how they might go
Speaker 1: through some things. I mean, you can see it work tonight, well,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Now, it doesn't solve how he
Speaker 1: plays with Joel, which has been a bit of a
Speaker 1: concerned throughout the course of the season. But to your
Speaker 1: overall point, you know, if he gets into a groove.
Speaker 1: And again, these games are in every other day, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. They're playing four games over the
Speaker 1: course of eight days. And I've said this so many
Speaker 1: times in recent years with the scheduled tweaked the way
Speaker 1: it has been over the last few years, but breathing
Speaker 1: room in the schedule and the Sixers, these games are on.
Speaker 1: Three of these games are national TV, so they totally
Speaker 1: want guys to be able to be in the lineup.
Speaker 1: And point being that Al Horford in his age, that's
Speaker 1: going to benefit him. And to your point again, it's
Speaker 1: just that if he's able to continue this, they're gonna
Speaker 1: need him. I mean, these teams are loaded. Look at
Speaker 1: the Lakers front line, the Clippers and so in their building.
Speaker 1: So this is a monumental task on the road without
Speaker 1: your two all stars. But at least you come home
Speaker 1: and get a victory, recalibrate that, you'll no doubt have
Speaker 1: a day off tomorrow, practice Saturday morning, then fly out
Speaker 1: to southern California to get ready for those four games
Speaker 1: out West Man It really is going to be a
Speaker 1: test time. Obviously the Clippers game on Sundays, and everyone
Speaker 1: will be spry and ready to go back east for
Speaker 1: that one at three thirty later game on Tuesday against
Speaker 1: the Lakers. But this is one of those things where, yes,
Speaker 1: there's been some adversity as of LA for the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: but from a fans standpoint, you really look forward to
Speaker 1: seeing how things go in these two tests. These are
Speaker 1: marquee teams that could come out of the West. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna challenge that spry and ready to go because
Speaker 1: you're flying out there and then playing at noon out West.
Speaker 1: So that's a little bit different, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's an early start time for the first game of
Speaker 1: a road trip. Just an adjustment done a you know,
Speaker 1: a plausible excuse or justification or anything like that. But
Speaker 1: it is a little bit of a different but no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. And again the Sixers, what was the
Speaker 1: number again, thirty some odd national TV games during the
Speaker 1: course of the year, thirty eight, Wasn't it some incredible number?
Speaker 1: It was way up there. But think about that, go
Speaker 1: back five years and the Sixers had none one somewhere
Speaker 1: in there in the years past. So to be in that,
Speaker 1: you know, to be in that conversation and to be
Speaker 1: able to play again the Lakers and the Clippers like
Speaker 1: that on national TV and then later in the week
Speaker 1: against the Warriors a week from Saturday, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And again you're gonna need it. You're gonna need everybody
Speaker 1: to step up and do it. I mean, Joel's had
Speaker 1: some of his best games and staples against the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Sixers won their last year. Yeah, it's gonna be tough
Speaker 1: on those two teams. Right there are the two teams
Speaker 1: that people project to play in the Western Conference Finals
Speaker 1: with Lebron and the Lakers against Kauai and the Clippers.
Speaker 1: But like I said, to be able to come home
Speaker 1: and gain a victory and then, you know, as difficult
Speaker 1: as it's been on the road, at some point, you've
Speaker 1: got to turn that around. You can't just expect to
Speaker 1: click your heels in the playoffs and start ripping off
Speaker 1: road wins. You've got to be able to develop the
Speaker 1: habits and the success the winning formula on the road.
Speaker 1: And boy would be beautiful. It showed up and reared
Speaker 1: itself in these next four games. Well, but by Tom
Speaker 1: McGinnis after tonight's one fifteen, one oh six win the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers, Tom talks to you out west, all right,
Speaker 1: here's how it sounded, courtesy of the one and only
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis on the Sixers Radio Network. Tobias Harris purposeful. Indeed,
Speaker 1: at the outset of tonight's game, here's Tobias court lank drive,
Speaker 1: good man. He scores it on Julius Randall. So New
Speaker 1: York does give up one hundred and twelve points per game,
Speaker 1: and Tobias Harris looks like he's gonna score a hundred himself.
Speaker 1: He's got eleven points already, driving right down the lane
Speaker 1: on Julius Randall. It really did seem like the Sixers
Speaker 1: might need to re enact the famous Wilt Chamberlain photo
Speaker 1: by the locker stall afterwards, because Harris scored the first
Speaker 1: seven points of the night for the Sixers, finished with
Speaker 1: fourteen in the opening frame as the Sixers led a
Speaker 1: twenty six twenty one after one in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: Glenn Robinson, the third who made his third start for
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers, made a high energy play steal by
Speaker 1: thibel Sixers playing ahead, and now here's Al Horford given
Speaker 1: the lane backing down underhand scoop to Robinson and he
Speaker 1: gets a jam. So a bad pass by Smith. Thibel
Speaker 1: came up with it and in the end Horford with
Speaker 1: another hand scoop pass to Glenn Robinson for a two
Speaker 1: hand dunk, one of the nine assists on the evening
Speaker 1: for Horford Glenn Robinson. The third the beneficiary seventy six
Speaker 1: was led by eleven. They're margin would be sixty one
Speaker 1: forty six at the break, and the third quarter things
Speaker 1: tightened up a little bit more. Josh Richardson was scoreless
Speaker 1: in the first half. That changed in the third. Here's
Speaker 1: Tobias and the Josh Richardson with a two hand slam.
Speaker 1: Great job by Tobias driving it on Mitchell Robinson thinking
Speaker 1: better of trying to attack him in terms of trying
Speaker 1: to score it, so he kicks it back and Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson sores and dunks it with two hands. Seventy two
Speaker 1: to sixty six. Ers. Lead was eighty seven seventy nine
Speaker 1: going into the fourth. The Knicks they just would not
Speaker 1: go away. They were always scratching at the seventy sixers heels.
Speaker 1: Al Horford with the second of key at back to
Speaker 1: back three pointers and now built one on one with
Speaker 1: Bobby Portis over to Al three ball from the top
Speaker 1: and that's gone Al Horford with another trade time out
Speaker 1: New York one hundred eighty five. Horford has come a
Speaker 1: five man. Just like that, it felt like the Sixers
Speaker 1: had some breathing room at last. Not so. The Knicks
Speaker 1: made it a five point game one oh seven, one
Speaker 1: h two with about two minutes to go to Bias
Speaker 1: Harris started the night and he would have a hand
Speaker 1: in ending it. Here's Harrison a drive, did the corner,
Speaker 1: Milton three ballers up and gone shake. Milton knocks it out.
Speaker 1: He's five for five from date. Harrison Milton, back to
Speaker 1: back freeze ball game seventy seconds to go, the Sixers
Speaker 1: by eleven, and the Sixers would end up winning one
Speaker 1: fifteen one ow eight. A key eight to two mini
Speaker 1: run in the final two minutes was the ultimate turning
Speaker 1: point for the Sixers. They're now thirty seven and twenty three.
Speaker 1: The Knicks drop to seventeen and forty two. Final notes
Speaker 1: from the final stat sheet, Sixers shoot just under fifty
Speaker 1: percent from the field. The Knicks shot just over fifty
Speaker 1: percent to Sixers fifteen for thirty one from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: You'll love to see it. That's the highest shooting percentage
Speaker 1: at forty eight and a half percent for the Sixers
Speaker 1: in a game in which they've knocked down at least
Speaker 1: fifteen three pointers this season, Sixers outrebounded the Knicks forty
Speaker 1: four to thirty nine. They were plus two on the
Speaker 1: offensive glass. Six Ers just six turnovers. It was overall
Speaker 1: a low turnover game, only eight committed by the Knicks.
Speaker 1: Hop top scorer in the game was Tobias Harris with
Speaker 1: thirty four to fourteen to twenty one from the field,
Speaker 1: three to six outside the arc, perfect from the line
Speaker 1: on three attempts, seven rebounds, seven assists nineteen for Shake
Speaker 1: Milton now thirty nine points the last two games and
Speaker 1: a back to back no less. He was six for
Speaker 1: seven overall, five for five from three, fifteen, seven and
Speaker 1: nine in a vintage performance from Al Horford, eleven points
Speaker 1: from Josh Richardson he had all but one of those
Speaker 1: points in the third quarter, and eleven for Concorkmas off
Speaker 1: the bench. Seventy Sixers will now pack their bags after
Speaker 1: a practice on Saturday morning, and they will head to
Speaker 1: the Golden State a four game swing up the coast
Speaker 1: of California, starting with two games in Los Angeles Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon at three thirty against the Clippers and then on
Speaker 1: Tuesday night late against the Los Angeles Lakers. On Wednesday,
Speaker 1: they'll be at the Sacramento Kings, and after that it
Speaker 1: is a date with the Golden State Warriors next Saturday.
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