WEBVTT - Rewind vs. New York Knicks - 2/27/20 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.400 You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:09.039 highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Seventy 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.640 six Ers got what they needed tonight, a one fifteen, 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.159 one oh six victory over the New York Knicks. They 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:15.880 also got a couple out of the things, which were 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.360 some big performances from guys who they need to step 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.080 up for however long the team is going to be 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:26.479 without Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid. I'm Brian seltered down 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.720 here at the center, leading the way for the Sixers 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.040 to Bias Harris his second highest scoring performance of the 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.560 season with thirty four points. He was fourteen of twenty 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.879 one from the field, three of six from three, seven rebounds, 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.519 seven assists, and most importantly, you could tell he was 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.640 dialed and he was locked in from the outset of 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.279 the game. He scored the Sixers first seven points, had 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.760 fourteen in the first quarter, and twenty three by intermission. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.640 That is exactly what the seventy Sixers needed coming off 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.080 a tough fourteen point loss against slowly Cleveland last night, 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.480 a game in which Harris quite frankly did not have 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.200 his best night. Al Horford also had an off night 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.440 against the Cavaliers yesterday. Tonight, he was really, really good. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.400 This is like vintage Al Horford what we saw tonight 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.320 in just under thirty four minutes, fifteen points, nine assists, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.240 that's the season high, plus seven boards, five of ten 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.160 from the field. He had a couple of clutch baskets 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.080 late when the Knicks were nipping at these seventy sixers. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.440 Heels and shake. Milton continues to do great things when 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.920 given opportunities. In two straight games starting in place of 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.320 Ben Simmons, Milton is combined for thirty nine points. He 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.880 had twenty last night nineteen tonight, six of seven from 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.920 the field, get this, five or five from outside the arc, 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.560 three rebounds and four assists plus a couple block shots. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.280 Josh Richardson five or thirteen from the field, Oh, four 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.200 from three, seven rebounds, eleven points. But when the Sixers 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:47.960 needed a boost in the third quarter, if you were 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.720 following the whole game, Richardson was very important during that stretch. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.560 He scored eight in a row at one point to 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.720 give the Sixers some needed breathing room and separation against 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.280 the Knicks team that never quite went away. Tonight But 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.600 the Sixers the moral of the story, they got to win, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.520 they needed to win. They are on the winning side 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.240 of things for the sixth time in their last eight games, 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.080 now thirty seven and twenty three. They sweep the season 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.560 series from the Knicks would drop to seventeen and forty two. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.400 Tom mcguinnis called tonight's game. The seventy six is getting 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.079 great performances, Tom, from guys who needed to give them 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:25.320 great performances. And we'll start with Tobias, Harris and Al Horford. Well, Brian, 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.240 I'm gonna turn it around and go right back. You 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.720 know what was the first question in coaches press conference? 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.320 Didn't somebody say, did you talk to Harris, Richardson and 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.000 Horford about you know, getting a little more aggressive and 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.480 coach of Well night, Yeah, we're gonna have a pregame meeting. 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.560 But the point was that obviously, without Ben and Joel, 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.919 somebody was gonna have to step up. And it's obvious 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.040 that those three guys, amongst the starters and the veterans, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:50.280 and particularly Harris, who's average twenty, would have to have 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.880 that mindset. And you could tell right from the tap 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.639 that Tobias had that with the way he was getting 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.639 after it, driving it, shooting it, and they picked it 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.000 up and then Shake, as Brett out said, you know, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.440 it's so it's a little bit of a surprise he's 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.960 gone five for five and nine of eleven from three 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.360 over the last two games, because that's incredible shooting the 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.080 best of his career. But it's not a surprise that 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.200 he's been been able to do what he's done. And uh, 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.760 you know, like people get into it, is he a 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.920 one or is he a two? Well, he's a basketball 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.960 player that can handle the ball. He played college point 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.200 guard at SMU, and he can score the ball. He's 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.160 gonna play, and he is a rotation player for the 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.959 Sixers for now until right because he has proven he's 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.160 going to be able to play, and he is. Again, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.720 you don't have to run things for him. He's just Uh. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.440 It's it's great how sometimes talent emerges, opportunity steps up, 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.520 and Shake Bilton has really taken it. Horford had one 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.080 of his best games of the year, without doubt. And 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.960 You've got a lot of really solid performances, incremental performances 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.720 throughout the course of the night from guys like Quark 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.760 Mas and Buttis had a nice stint early in the game, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.920 Kyle Quinn came in and a nice victory here against 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.920 a New York team that you know, just hasn't been 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.320 able to get over the top. They've they've been competitive 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.800 and like I said, they you know, obviously this is 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.760 a difficult season for them, but they did not go 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.560 away lightly and the Sixers had to take the game, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.800 and they did seventy six ers over the next one 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.279 fifteen one oh six. There is a report from the 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.600 Athletic following the game tonight Joel Embiid will be reevaluated 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.400 for his left shoulder sprain in one week, so that'll 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.599 be the next time we probably get an update. But 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.840 this time is to the point that you actually talked 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.320 about with Al Horford after the game, like this the 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.760 way things work tonight, I mean, that was Al Horford 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.159 doing what we've seen Al Horford do over the years, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.360 and at least for the short term, if this allows 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.839 him to get into a groove and give the seventy 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.000 six ers some identity on offense, how they might go 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.080 through some things. I mean, you can see it work tonight, well, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.640 no doubt about it. Now, it doesn't solve how he 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.680 plays with Joel, which has been a bit of a 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.040 concerned throughout the course of the season. But to your 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.160 overall point, you know, if he gets into a groove. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.560 And again, these games are in every other day, you 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.279 know what I mean. They're playing four games over the 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.680 course of eight days. And I've said this so many 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.880 times in recent years with the scheduled tweaked the way 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.359 it has been over the last few years, but breathing 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.440 room in the schedule and the Sixers, these games are on. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.080 Three of these games are national TV, so they totally 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.160 want guys to be able to be in the lineup. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.360 And point being that Al Horford in his age, that's 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.160 going to benefit him. And to your point again, it's 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.640 just that if he's able to continue this, they're gonna 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.159 need him. I mean, these teams are loaded. Look at 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:41.239 the Lakers front line, the Clippers and so in their building. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.119 So this is a monumental task on the road without 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.839 your two all stars. But at least you come home 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.719 and get a victory, recalibrate that, you'll no doubt have 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.520 a day off tomorrow, practice Saturday morning, then fly out 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.640 to southern California to get ready for those four games 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:57.479 out West Man It really is going to be a 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.800 test time. Obviously the Clippers game on Sundays, and everyone 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.640 will be spry and ready to go back east for 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.560 that one at three thirty later game on Tuesday against 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.960 the Lakers. But this is one of those things where, yes, 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.440 there's been some adversity as of LA for the seventy Sixers, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.880 but from a fans standpoint, you really look forward to 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.120 seeing how things go in these two tests. These are 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.000 marquee teams that could come out of the West. Yeah, 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.480 I'm gonna challenge that spry and ready to go because 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.520 you're flying out there and then playing at noon out West. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.200 So that's a little bit different, you know what I mean. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.599 That's an early start time for the first game of 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.800 a road trip. Just an adjustment done a you know, 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.920 a plausible excuse or justification or anything like that. But 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:37.440 it is a little bit of a different but no 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.680 doubt about it. And again the Sixers, what was the 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.000 number again, thirty some odd national TV games during the 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.799 course of the year, thirty eight, Wasn't it some incredible number? 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.919 It was way up there. But think about that, go 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.960 back five years and the Sixers had none one somewhere 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.800 in there in the years past. So to be in that, 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.920 you know, to be in that conversation and to be 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.240 able to play again the Lakers and the Clippers like 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.279 that on national TV and then later in the week 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.280 against the Warriors a week from Saturday, no doubt about it. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.640 And again you're gonna need it. You're gonna need everybody 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.200 to step up and do it. I mean, Joel's had 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.840 some of his best games and staples against the Lakers. 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.440 Sixers won their last year. Yeah, it's gonna be tough 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.760 on those two teams. Right there are the two teams 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.640 that people project to play in the Western Conference Finals 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.680 with Lebron and the Lakers against Kauai and the Clippers. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.520 But like I said, to be able to come home 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.040 and gain a victory and then, you know, as difficult 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.440 as it's been on the road, at some point, you've 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.640 got to turn that around. You can't just expect to 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.320 click your heels in the playoffs and start ripping off 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.440 road wins. You've got to be able to develop the 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.840 habits and the success the winning formula on the road. 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.720 And boy would be beautiful. It showed up and reared 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.840 itself in these next four games. Well, but by Tom 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.120 McGinnis after tonight's one fifteen, one oh six win the 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.040 seventy six Ers, Tom talks to you out west, all right, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.160 here's how it sounded, courtesy of the one and only 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:07.760 Tom McGinnis on the Sixers Radio Network. Tobias Harris purposeful. Indeed, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.720 at the outset of tonight's game, here's Tobias court lank drive, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.680 good man. He scores it on Julius Randall. So New 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.760 York does give up one hundred and twelve points per game, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.920 and Tobias Harris looks like he's gonna score a hundred himself. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.360 He's got eleven points already, driving right down the lane 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.840 on Julius Randall. It really did seem like the Sixers 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.720 might need to re enact the famous Wilt Chamberlain photo 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.239 by the locker stall afterwards, because Harris scored the first 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.320 seven points of the night for the Sixers, finished with 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.000 fourteen in the opening frame as the Sixers led a 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.000 twenty six twenty one after one in the second quarter, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.520 Glenn Robinson, the third who made his third start for 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.640 the seventy Sixers, made a high energy play steal by 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.880 thibel Sixers playing ahead, and now here's Al Horford given 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.959 the lane backing down underhand scoop to Robinson and he 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.240 gets a jam. So a bad pass by Smith. Thibel 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.160 came up with it and in the end Horford with 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.960 another hand scoop pass to Glenn Robinson for a two 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.800 hand dunk, one of the nine assists on the evening 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.760 for Horford Glenn Robinson. The third the beneficiary seventy six 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.559 was led by eleven. They're margin would be sixty one 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.040 forty six at the break, and the third quarter things 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.199 tightened up a little bit more. Josh Richardson was scoreless 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.520 in the first half. That changed in the third. Here's 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:25.080 Tobias and the Josh Richardson with a two hand slam. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:30.079 Great job by Tobias driving it on Mitchell Robinson thinking 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.680 better of trying to attack him in terms of trying 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.200 to score it, so he kicks it back and Josh 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.040 Richardson sores and dunks it with two hands. Seventy two 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.640 to sixty six. Ers. Lead was eighty seven seventy nine 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.280 going into the fourth. The Knicks they just would not 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:50.240 go away. They were always scratching at the seventy sixers heels. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.240 Al Horford with the second of key at back to 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.440 back three pointers and now built one on one with 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.439 Bobby Portis over to Al three ball from the top 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.560 and that's gone Al Horford with another trade time out 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:08.559 New York one hundred eighty five. Horford has come a 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.880 five man. Just like that, it felt like the Sixers 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.560 had some breathing room at last. Not so. The Knicks 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.880 made it a five point game one oh seven, one 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.800 h two with about two minutes to go to Bias 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.680 Harris started the night and he would have a hand 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.800 in ending it. Here's Harrison a drive, did the corner, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.400 Milton three ballers up and gone shake. Milton knocks it out. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.319 He's five for five from date. Harrison Milton, back to 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.400 back freeze ball game seventy seconds to go, the Sixers 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:40.360 by eleven, and the Sixers would end up winning one 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.199 fifteen one ow eight. A key eight to two mini 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.480 run in the final two minutes was the ultimate turning 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.880 point for the Sixers. They're now thirty seven and twenty three. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.000 The Knicks drop to seventeen and forty two. Final notes 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.840 from the final stat sheet, Sixers shoot just under fifty 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.600 percent from the field. The Knicks shot just over fifty 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.360 percent to Sixers fifteen for thirty one from outside the arc. 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.160 You'll love to see it. That's the highest shooting percentage 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.000 at forty eight and a half percent for the Sixers 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.080 in a game in which they've knocked down at least 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.760 fifteen three pointers this season, Sixers outrebounded the Knicks forty 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.120 four to thirty nine. They were plus two on the 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.680 offensive glass. Six Ers just six turnovers. It was overall 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.720 a low turnover game, only eight committed by the Knicks. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.880 Hop top scorer in the game was Tobias Harris with 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.200 thirty four to fourteen to twenty one from the field, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.960 three to six outside the arc, perfect from the line 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.720 on three attempts, seven rebounds, seven assists nineteen for Shake 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.679 Milton now thirty nine points the last two games and 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.440 a back to back no less. He was six for 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:42.600 seven overall, five for five from three, fifteen, seven and 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.839 nine in a vintage performance from Al Horford, eleven points 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.880 from Josh Richardson he had all but one of those 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.400 points in the third quarter, and eleven for Concorkmas off 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:56.000 the bench. Seventy Sixers will now pack their bags after 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.079 a practice on Saturday morning, and they will head to 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.319 the Golden State a four game swing up the coast 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.720 of California, starting with two games in Los Angeles Sunday 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.320 afternoon at three thirty against the Clippers and then on 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.480 Tuesday night late against the Los Angeles Lakers. On Wednesday, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.360 they'll be at the Sacramento Kings, and after that it 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.920 is a date with the Golden State Warriors next Saturday. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.200 You've been listening to Rewind, look out for fresh episodes 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.760 the day after every seventy six Ers game this season.