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. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers, it was adventurous, but they do get the
Speaker 1: job done tonight against the Cleveland Cavaliers, winning ninety eight
Speaker 1: ninety seven, fending off the Calves in the final seconds.
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm Brian Seltzer down here at the
Speaker 1: center of the seventy Sixers, Trailed by five points with
Speaker 1: five minutes to go. Joel Ebad checked back into the game,
Speaker 1: brought some solid energy with him, and the Sixers closed
Speaker 1: the night on an eight to two run. Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: who struggled to find his shot throughout the evening, had
Speaker 1: a say in each of the sixers final three decisive baskets.
Speaker 1: He scored the first two, assisted on the game winner
Speaker 1: to Embiid, and the seventy Sixers get over the top
Speaker 1: ninety eight to ninety seven, and Bead finishing with twenty
Speaker 1: seven points to go with sixteen rebounds and four assists,
Speaker 1: seventeen for Josh Richardson, who was an active scorer throughout
Speaker 1: the night. Ben Simmons with fifteen points five rebounds, six assists,
Speaker 1: two steals and two blocks, and his return ten points
Speaker 1: for fur Con corkmas again Tobias Harris with just eight points.
Speaker 1: He was four of seventeen from the field over eleven
Speaker 1: from three butts. At the end of the night, Harris
Speaker 1: was there and helped the seventy Sixers get over the
Speaker 1: top Sixers. It was a collective theme that they struggled
Speaker 1: to find their shot throughout the entire night, eight of
Speaker 1: thirty eight from outside the art. Cleveland was not better,
Speaker 1: just five of twenty one. But this was a game
Speaker 1: in which young Cleveland battled and fought and hung around,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers had a couple points throughout the night
Speaker 1: where they led by nine points, but Cleveland just would
Speaker 1: not let the Sixers get a comfortable grip of this game,
Speaker 1: and up until the end, the Sixers had a tough
Speaker 1: time obviously put in Cleveland away. But the good news
Speaker 1: is the team is seven and three. They were mean
Speaker 1: undefeated at home with the record of four and oh.
Speaker 1: Here at the Center before setting out on the road
Speaker 1: once again standing by for Brett Brown's postgame press conference
Speaker 1: following the sixers second straight victory. And you know these
Speaker 1: last two games here at the center. They went over
Speaker 1: Charlotte on Sunday and the game tonight against the Cavaliers
Speaker 1: similar in field. You know, it was not easy for
Speaker 1: the Sixers as they looked to tighten some things up.
Speaker 1: I thought in the first half it was really encouraging
Speaker 1: to see the Sixers protect the basketball a little bit better.
Speaker 1: They only had four turnovers in the first half. But
Speaker 1: then in the third quarter, when Cleveland hung thirty points
Speaker 1: in the Sixers, that's when things started to get interesting.
Speaker 1: They gave up the ball did the Sixers six times
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, ten times overall in the second half,
Speaker 1: and that, without question allowed Cleveland to get back in
Speaker 1: the game. Cleveland did a decent job rebounding the ball tonight.
Speaker 1: They also were able to control the interior to a
Speaker 1: certain part of tonight's game, outscoring the seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: fifty eight to fifty six in the paint, and they
Speaker 1: hung with the Sixers the offensive glass as well. Jordan
Speaker 1: Clarkson has been a guy who's been a problem for
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers in recent years. He came off the
Speaker 1: bench to score twenty. I thought Tristan Thompson had a
Speaker 1: really nice game with seventeen points and twelve rebounds. Kevin
Speaker 1: Love with twenty points and eight boards for Cleveland, but
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid twenty seven and sixteen. He came back into
Speaker 1: the game with five minutes to go. He scored right away.
Speaker 1: The Sixers set him up for a close range shot
Speaker 1: right at the rim that he laid in from two feet.
Speaker 1: He also had a big block on Tristan Thompson. He
Speaker 1: dove for the loose ball rebound on the sequence when
Speaker 1: Kevin Love missed the open straightaway three with time winding
Speaker 1: down embad and then of course, the game winning shot
Speaker 1: to make it ninety eight ninety seven on the inbounds
Speaker 1: play with Tobias Harris finding him from the foulne big
Speaker 1: place from Joel Embiid down the stretch on a night
Speaker 1: that he and the seventy sixers just not able to
Speaker 1: get into quite enough of an offensive sinc to make
Speaker 1: this a comfortable game. But they do fend off the
Speaker 1: Cavaliers ninety seven in the final seconds. Brett Brown now
Speaker 1: talking about themes for tonight's game and the defense, nacity,
Speaker 1: his will to win, diving on the floor, you know,
Speaker 1: making plays. I thought he was exceptional tonight, and you
Speaker 1: know when we all look back and see sort of
Speaker 1: the Utah game and Denver game, he's trying to get
Speaker 1: his legs underneath him and find his win. It's it's
Speaker 1: exacerbated because you're in altitude. And I really do believe
Speaker 1: that it's not an excuse. That's what I think. And
Speaker 1: then incrementally, you know, like he has a good game
Speaker 1: the other night and has a Joe LMB type of
Speaker 1: game tonight, but it was driven out of I think
Speaker 1: his his his energy, like he really got after things.
Speaker 1: From a physical standpoint, Very little has come easy from you.
Speaker 1: What does it say really about the NBA where even
Speaker 1: the sub five hundred teams are just you know, making
Speaker 1: your work like crazy. We've got a ton of close games.
Speaker 1: I mean, we really have. I sadistically love it. I
Speaker 1: do because we've spent so much time I'm on situations
Speaker 1: over Audacia. We knew early on, like if we're winning,
Speaker 1: we're not blowing anybody out. If we're gonna win, it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be close and we're gonna have to steal one.
Speaker 1: And then you get to this stage and it's true,
Speaker 1: like people coming at us from a different angle now
Speaker 1: and I think that those young guys, they've they've claimed
Speaker 1: some scalps. They've actually, in my opinion, overachieved. I think
Speaker 1: coach Beeline has done a great job with them. And
Speaker 1: so NBA teams come into to our Jim and they're
Speaker 1: NBA teams, and I think like that that game, there
Speaker 1: are some things that turnovers in the second half, you know,
Speaker 1: you scratch your head. But in general to find a
Speaker 1: way in a will to win, I give our guys credit.
Speaker 1: You're playing with fire and that regard where it's hard
Speaker 1: to come down to so many it is a blowtorch,
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. It is violent. It's a really big one.
Speaker 1: It's you know, like you're just watching the game on
Speaker 1: fold and you like, you can't make some of that up,
Speaker 1: and you know it's I'm the coach and so I
Speaker 1: got to figure it out. But some of those turnovers
Speaker 1: certainly were head scratching. I do give a guys credit
Speaker 1: for not crumbling. I think that we knew if we
Speaker 1: had to do anything, we better play defense, and defense
Speaker 1: we played. I liked the way that we defended, especially
Speaker 1: down this stretch. I don't think they scored in the
Speaker 1: last three minutes. Score the Cleveland Cavaliers did not, as
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers hang on eight ninety seven two knockoff Cleveland,
Speaker 1: a feisty Cleveland team. Tonight, the Sixers one two in
Speaker 1: a row after three straight losses. There's seven and three
Speaker 1: on the year, undefeated at home, still with a record
Speaker 1: of four and oh as bring on Tom McGinnis right now,
Speaker 1: and Tom, we have heard that phrase emerging resilience about
Speaker 1: this year's team. And hey, you know, no, Al Horford tonight,
Speaker 1: first game back for Ben Simmons and all, it was
Speaker 1: not a linear path to the win tonight, it still
Speaker 1: was in the end victory. Well, and it goes back
Speaker 1: to another thing, and that is, you know, like, for instance,
Speaker 1: Harris really struggled from the field, but made some nice
Speaker 1: plays led to mb to the basket on an assistant
Speaker 1: help win the game. And the overall point I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make is even on nights where you struggled from
Speaker 1: schooling from the field scoring, you got to play defense.
Speaker 1: And that's what they did and coaches right over the
Speaker 1: last three and a half minutes, Cleveland had five empty
Speaker 1: possessions and then that's what allowed the Sixers to come
Speaker 1: back and win this game, and it's you know, you
Speaker 1: get to April with Lord Willing fifty plus wins, and
Speaker 1: this is a type of game you may not remember,
Speaker 1: but it's what gets you to that point. And it's
Speaker 1: a game you should have won. But that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to come out here and do it.
Speaker 1: And Cleveland played really well and led the game, you know,
Speaker 1: early in the fourth quarter and for most of the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter by a margin of around five points. So
Speaker 1: to come out with a victory and get that stop
Speaker 1: at the end, great look by Kevin Love. But he
Speaker 1: struggled from beyond in this game, and the Sixers really
Speaker 1: fun for that loose ball rebound to let the game
Speaker 1: come to a close with that one point win. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers over the Cavaliers ninety eight to ninety seven, twenty
Speaker 1: seven points, sixteen rebounds for Joel Embiid. He came in
Speaker 1: tom with five minutes to go. The Sixers outscored the
Speaker 1: Cavaliers eight to two. From there, he scored right off
Speaker 1: the bat first play the Sixers ran from following that
Speaker 1: time out, he had a big block on Tristan Thompson.
Speaker 1: You could tell that he helped lift the energy the
Speaker 1: Sixers when it mattered the most well, and almost as
Speaker 1: much or had certainly as big as anything was the
Speaker 1: defensive play with about I'm not exactly sure, but I
Speaker 1: would say three or four possessions before the end where
Speaker 1: he dove down and stole the ball. And again when
Speaker 1: the clock is winding down, there was like two seconds
Speaker 1: to shoot. You know, you can kind of take a
Speaker 1: gamble because they were so far away from the bad
Speaker 1: You gotta be careful. You don't want to follow and
Speaker 1: bail him out. But beat dove down and freed up
Speaker 1: that ball and got the Sixers the possession and knocked
Speaker 1: Cleveland in terms of being able to score again. One
Speaker 1: of those possessions went by the wayside because of his effort,
Speaker 1: and he literally laid it on the line. I mean again,
Speaker 1: there's certain players, there's certain teams they're gonna have difficulty
Speaker 1: covering ebid. I thought Thompson was very efficient for them
Speaker 1: early on. Come on, he made two threes and around
Speaker 1: the basket. But really, even with nance, they don't have
Speaker 1: anybody that can guard you well, and he made them pay.
Speaker 1: He had energy, he had fight, He was the star,
Speaker 1: and he helped deliver the Sixers. This victory tonight Joel
Speaker 1: in bead Seventy sixers right back at it tomorrow evening
Speaker 1: versus the Orlando Magic. Tom talked to you from Florida,
Speaker 1: Thank you, goodnight. Seventy Sixers hang on to win by one,
Speaker 1: ninety eight, ninety seven, twenty seven and sixteen for Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons fifteen, five and six in his return, ten
Speaker 1: for fur con Corkmas, seventeen for Josh Richardson to go
Speaker 1: along with five assists. Sixers over the Cavaliers ninety eight,
Speaker 1: ninety seven will play some of Tom's highlight calls next.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers on the eve of another long road trip,
Speaker 1: looking to leave South Philadelphia with a second straight win
Speaker 1: in hand. I'm Brian Seltzer. Here's out. Tonight's game against
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers sounded courtesy the one and Only Tom
Speaker 1: again as Ben Simmons was back and early on it
Speaker 1: seemed like he was feeling pretty good. Sexton was seven
Speaker 1: lobs into the lane to dance, busted up by Kylo Quinn.
Speaker 1: Good job defending of the paint corkbos leads to break
Speaker 1: the betty Oh yeah, Ben Simmons with a jam cork
Speaker 1: boss with the dish, wheeling and dealing in the middle.
Speaker 1: Simmons missing portions of the last three games due to
Speaker 1: a minor sprain in his right shoulder. Seventy Sixers after
Speaker 1: twelve minutes of play, holding a twenty four twenty one lead,
Speaker 1: They would open things up after finishing the first quarter
Speaker 1: on a fourteen to four run to a nine point advantage.
Speaker 1: In quarter number two, Simmons one on one on the
Speaker 1: near sides out to Tobias Harris with dance on a
Speaker 1: footpak and now lives into the Ben Simmons. A reverse
Speaker 1: jam up top and a reverse slam by Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: to Bias led him to the basket. They made it
Speaker 1: forty two to thirty three. The Sixers lead would be
Speaker 1: six at intermission fifty four to forty eight. The third quarter,
Speaker 1: things began to change. The Sixers did a great job
Speaker 1: of keeping the turnovers down in the first half, but
Speaker 1: they committed six in the third quarter and that gave
Speaker 1: the smunky Cavalier's new life. Josh Richardson putting a positive
Speaker 1: punctuation on another difficult third parks at biss a second
Speaker 1: free pro eight seconds to go. Richardson with a ball
Speaker 1: five seconds off the dribble. Josh Richardson backs up, fires
Speaker 1: three is good, and that puts the Sixers up four
Speaker 1: eighty two seventy eighth. The score would be going into
Speaker 1: the fourth Cleveland, though they would manage to build a
Speaker 1: lead to as large as five multiple times in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, including ninety with five minutes ago. With Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid came back in. The Sixers quickly ran a play
Speaker 1: fir him. He laid it in to cut the march
Speaker 1: into three. He then assert himself on the defensive end
Speaker 1: with a key rebound on a block shot of Tristan Thompson.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers got some momentum rolling in Tobias Harris. He
Speaker 1: was in a key spot in the lake. Kick out
Speaker 1: Klark bas three, no good rebounded beat Sixers have it again,
Speaker 1: back out top to Josh Richardson for three. That's in
Speaker 1: and out. No Tobias gets it put back is good. Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Tobias sticking with it personally and for the seventy Sixers collectively.
Speaker 1: That made it ninety seven and ninety four. Harris, after
Speaker 1: the Sixers got a stop, would score a jumper at
Speaker 1: the falline to make it a one point game. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers would force a shot clock violation to get
Speaker 1: the ball back and the Sixers would after a jump
Speaker 1: ball once again regain possession, and that was set up
Speaker 1: the decisive play. Sixers down by a point. Josh Richardson
Speaker 1: drives it to the right wing, back out top Harris.
Speaker 1: He throws it into Joel and it beat jams it
Speaker 1: with thirteen seconds to go for the league. So a
Speaker 1: high low pass from Harris to it Bead. He got
Speaker 1: great position inside on Thompson and it bead with a dunk.
Speaker 1: Harris factoring into each of the seventy sixers final three
Speaker 1: field goals of the game, the first two he scored
Speaker 1: in the third one which put the Sixers over the top,
Speaker 1: the dime to Joel for the jam. Sixers win at
Speaker 1: ninety eight ninety seven. They're now seven and three, while
Speaker 1: the Cavaliers fall to four and six. Sixers shot forty
Speaker 1: five percent from the field, Cleveland forty four percent, six
Speaker 1: Ers eight of thirty eight from outside the arc, bets
Speaker 1: for twenty one percent. Cleveland just five of twenty one
Speaker 1: sixers plus one on the glass plus two on the
Speaker 1: offensive glass. They committed just fourteen turnovers, but ten in
Speaker 1: the second half complicated things after intermission for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: Joel Embiide leading all scores with twenty seven. He also
Speaker 1: posted a game high sixteen rebounds as well, seventeen for
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson to go with five assists, fifteen for Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons plus five rebounds and six helpers. Ten points for
Speaker 1: for a concorkmaz eight for Tobias Harris, nine for Mike
Speaker 1: Scott off the bench, and seven for James Ennis. The
Speaker 1: third should also mention that Mike Scott was big in
Speaker 1: the Sixers rebounding efforts. He had eights for the Cavaliers,
Speaker 1: twenty apiece for Jordan Clarkson off the bench, and Kevin
Speaker 1: Loves seventeen and twelve for Tristan Thompson. Seventy Sixers are
Speaker 1: on the road once again. They begin a three game
Speaker 1: trip tomorrow night against the Orlando Magic at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Then it's off to OKC for an eight o'clock game
Speaker 1: on Friday, followed by three o'clock rematch matinee with Cleveland
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I'm Brian Seltzer saying so long for now
Speaker 1: one final time. The final score, seventy Sixers pulled out
Speaker 1: ninety eight ninety seven of the Cleveland Cavaliers you've been
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