WEBVTT - Playoff Pod: Episode 21 - Round 2 Game 6 Rewind 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.400 This is a playoff edition of seventy six Ers Rewind 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.560 presented by Geico. Time Now to listen back to reaction 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.680 from the team's most recent postseason game. This version of 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.120 the Philadelphia seventy Sixers that we saw in a winner, 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.320 go home Game six in the second round tonight, this 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.959 is the version of the seventy Sixers that inspires, makes 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.599 you dream that much more and believe everything was clicking 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:28.000 and they dominated the Toronto Raptors one twelve to one 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.840 to one to force a decisive winner take all Games 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:36.000 seven on Sunday night back at Scotia Bank Arena in Toronto. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.080 What's going on on, Brian Seltz from down here at 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.960 the center, What a night, the crowd phenomenal from before 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.040 the game even started. What an inspired pregame bell ringing 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.200 from the inspirers of the underdog movement Philadelphia Eagles, Chris 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.080 Long and Lane Johnson that got everyone going. And the 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.959 seventy Sixers, after missing their first three shots in the night, 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:01.000 they went on full fledged attack Downhill four s Mode 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.120 thirteen to five. They opened the game. They weathered at 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.960 tend nothing run by the Raptors to regain control going 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.800 into the second quarter, leading by eight, Toronto made another 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.560 run to the tune of twelfth straight, but the seventy Sixers, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.160 led by Jimmy Butler what have finished the first half 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.880 by Butler scoring seven row capping the second quarter with 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.559 that dramatic steal of Kawhi Leonard zooming down the floor 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.360 is scoring on the lamp to put the seventy six 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.000 Ers of fifteen going into the break. You could just 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.600 feel it this was going to be the seventy Sixers night. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.880 Raptors got back within eight points middle of the third quarter. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:38.000 What happened from there? Sixers clamped down defensively, capitalized in 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.920 a series of Raptors misses, and scored in a variety 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.959 of ways. There was pace all over the place, full court, 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.520 half court. Ben Simmons was fantastic, helping key that type 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.360 of action all game long. Six Er scored twenty two 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.560 of the next twenty eight points in the game to 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.880 essentially put this one away. By the end of three quarters, 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.600 Sixers led by as many as twenty four points and 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.760 defeat the Raptors one twelve to one. Oh one. Man, 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.000 so much to like from this one. How about we 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.919 start with you gotta start with Joel Embiad, right, he's 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:10.840 the one that everyone focuses on. He's the one who 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.800 had the tough games four and five. Well, listen, he 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.239 was five or fourteen from the floor, but who cares? 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.720 He was plus forty in thirty five minutes. There are times, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.760 and for me this is just the way I look 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.639 at things. There are times when I feel you can 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.280 only make so much of plus minus numbers. But if 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.760 you watch tonight's game, if you were down here, if 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.920 you listen, if you folt on TV, you could see 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.200 by Joel Embiid simply planning himself in the lane and 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:43.680 doing his job defensively, how much he deterred, altered and 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.760 dissuaded the Toronto rafts made life uncomfortable for them, and 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:52.280 everything on the offensive end was unlocked as well. Plus 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.000 forty for Joel Embiid in thirty five minutes, he had 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.880 seventeen points, twelve rebounds, two block shots. He was huge 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.400 in the third quarter. I thought he got better and 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.640 better and better as tonight's game went along, so that 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.040 as you go into a game seven on Sunday, something 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.880 you hope to build upon. Oh, by the way, with 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.440 the next two days worth of rest and the seventy 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.440 Sixers are likely headed to Toronto tomorrow, though on the 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.440 full day, just to get settled there. Practice likely on Saturday, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.240 then play the game on Sunday. So there's Joel embiid 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.800 listen plus forty. You just cannot dispute the impact he 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:31.280 had in the game. Ben Simmons twenty one points, nine 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.560 of thirteen from the field, eight rebounds, six assists, all 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:37.880 in the first half. Listen. There has been so much 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:42.040 clamoring and talk, understandably so for Ben Simmons dialing in 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.560 to attack mode and again from the outset of the game. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.280 Ben Simmons was so involved in leading that effort for 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.160 the seventy Sixers tonight. What a tremendous bounce back effort 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.280 by Ben Simmons, arguably the best he's been given the 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.040 stakes in the postseason, maybe the best we've seen him 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:00.880 since the Brooklyn Nets series when he went for the 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.680 big number in Game two. Great stuff from Ben Simmons, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.520 Mike Scott off the bench four for five, three for 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.840 four from three eleven points in the game, and the 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.960 spark he gave the Sixers coming with big shots, playing 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.919 the five man at times he was vital plus twenty 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:23.240 nine from Mike Scott in twenty minutes played sixteen points, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.360 four Tobias Harris six of seventeen, shooting nine rebounds, five assists, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.480 eleven for JJ Reddick four of eleven, three of ten. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.479 But the seventy sixers all in all, they were able 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.600 to get that attack mode going early. I thought that then, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.080 you know, usually hear about defense leading offense. I thought 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.600 tonight sixers were fueling right off the start. Their defense 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.120 quickly got locked in after that, and they held to 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.080 Rontoto forty three percent overall, nine of thirty six from 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.000 three and I believe we have Brett bound right now. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:57.200 Courtesy of NBC Sports Philadelphia, if we can go to 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:01.440 that right now. I think a little bit of excuse me, 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.360 I think a little bit of both. When you when 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.080 you're trying to if you think you're gonna go just 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.720 beat up on and being pounded into, you know, somebody 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.720 that's being defended by a defensive player of the Year 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:17.520 as marcasoul Is. That's a hard way to score always, 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.159 and so you know, whether you ducked him in, whether 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.760 you pick and rolled him into sort of that honey spot, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.080 that foule line area, or you went a direct post. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.320 You know, you can pick different ways that he would 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.960 get his touches, But to suggest like he didn't get 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.600 the ball with his back to the basket on Marc 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.320 gasoul A lot, this is true. And some of it 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.640 was him, you know, reading the game. Some of it 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.200 as me not wanting to put him always in that situation. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.200 And I thought he was just brilliant, kind of all 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.360 over the place, although it doesn't sort of look at 0:05:53.400 --> 0:06:00.640 on an offensive statue a bad Jason Levin's filly front office. Um. So, 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:06.000 going back to Joel's defense and impact on his team, 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.679 but really does he have an impact on opposing teams 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:14.680 as well as a sort of deterrence a presence back there? 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.960 Does he change the way people attack or their confidence level? 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.560 It just seemed like tonight he was a plus forty. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:29.040 Is really his first maybe thirty minutes? Um? There seems 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.080 to be an evan flow when he's in the game 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.080 and when he's not in the game. What is the 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.720 impact that he's really got? Is it purely tactical? Um? 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:44.240 Where do I begin? So your question kind of surprises 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.000 me because it's clear the impact he has on the game, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.760 Like he is we get what he does at the rim. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.320 It's significant, you know when he goes out lots of times, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.839 look what happens. And so of course, like you know, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.920 he's got an incredible defensive impact on a game. If 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.279 you're looking at sort of people behind you, if you 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.320 pick him, quiet, Kyle, whatever, if you see him, you're 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.040 probably gonna think a little bit more about what you 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:17.360 want to do, what's your plan? And his importance to 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:22.280 our team is obvious. Tonight you saw a healthier Joel Embiid. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.760 And for that sort of example, for that sort of 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.320 situation of him and his health, he comes out and 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.720 has a plus forty. It's a huge number. It's a 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.520 huge plus minus number in a playoff game. His significance 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.520 has felt all over the place. That is seventy six 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.720 Ers head coach Brett Brown talking about Joel Embid plus 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.280 forty and thirty five minutes one twelve, one oh one. Well, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.360 Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, whether they heard some of the talk, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.400 read some of the writing, or whatever it was, guess 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.640 what they responded tonight in resounding fashion, been such a 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.840 huge part of setting the aggressive tone for the seventy 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.880 six ers. Tonight, seventy Sixers stave off elimination. They've fought 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.840 for forty eight minutes. They've earned themselves another forty eight 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.480 minutes coming up on Sunday, Game seven against the Toronto 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.200 Raptors at Scotia Bank Arena. Twenty one eight and six 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.840 for Ben Simmons, seventeen twelve two blocks plus forty for 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.880 Joel Embiid twenty five six and eight plus two steals 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.280 for Jimmy Butler, Kawhi Leonard nine for twenty oh for 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.000 four from three. He's now oh for eight from the 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.400 perimeter his last two games. He finished with twenty nine points, 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.800 twelve rebounds, twenty one for Pascal Siakam, thirteen for Kyle 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.400 Lowry as Toronto shoots under twenty six percent from three 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.000 nine to thirty six in the game, as the Sixers 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.199 get the job done at the center. Tonight, Tom McGinnis 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.040 is standing by. We speak with him next. As we 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:53.080 watched the suburban garden home carefully, carefully without disturbing it, 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.960 he noticed that it moves like not at all. It's 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:00.439 inanimate and utterly without brain function. But despite when it 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.920 goden know me heres about how Geico not only saves 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.520 people money but also gives them access to license s 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.720 agents twenty four seven online and over the phone. It's 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.000 clear to them you should switch, because, yes, switching to 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.079 Geico is a no brainer. But on second thoughts, maybe 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:22.920 don't watch Goden Nomes two carefully. People might talk seventy 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.920 Sixers do what needed to be done at the center 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.320 tonight knocking off the Raptors one twelve one on one 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.240 Game seven coming up on Sunday seven o'clock right here 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.800 in the Sixers Rating Network, as the Sixer would look 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.920 to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.200 time since two thousand and one. They have earned that 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.760 right after a great performance tonight. I'm Brian Selter. Tom 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.080 McGinnis had the call of this one Tom start to 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.679 finish the atmosphere and here was electric the seventy Sixers, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.280 after misfiring on a few shots to start the game, 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.439 get that driving downhill dunk from Tobias Harrison between Jimmy 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.760 Butler and Simmons. They were off to the races from there, 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.160 no doubt about it. And one common thread in these 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.000 games is that Mark Gassoul has picked up a foul 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.160 in the first couple of minutes or so. And the 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.960 reason I bring it up is because that occurred on 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:17.160 a loose ball right off the bat, and then that's 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.080 why Harris was propelled and thought about going in the 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.480 way he did against Kasaul. First of all, you have 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.600 to bring it because he's such a big guy, and secondly, 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.959 they knew he wasn't gonna be able to defend, and 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.880 you're right. That got the Sixers into a position where 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.600 eventually they led thirteen to five. They had three eight 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.280 point leads in the first quarter, and the second one 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.000 was built up after Toronto scored ten in a row. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.560 So after it was thirteen to five, Nurse calls time 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.840 out for the Raptors. They scored ten straight take the 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.880 lead for the first time, and then the Sixers rallied 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.200 back and eventually they led by eight after one. And 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.719 then I thought Jimmy Butler was just brilliant in the 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.600 late second. He has Lowry on him a lot and 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.040 he makes them pay for that. He was just brilliant 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.120 in the game. Seventy six Ers ride twenty five points 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:07.120 from Jimmy Butler, six rebounds, eight assists from him as well. 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.360 They get twenty one, eight and six from Ben Simmons 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.880 and a plus forty from Joel embiad time. We talked 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.920 about the importance and this is not either of us 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.120 going out on a limb of Joel Embiid and Ben 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.360 Simmons the seventy six ers chances and a winner go 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.120 home proposition, and those two they stepped up big time, 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.320 oh no doubt. And Ben was just totally aggressive and 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.599 that's what you expect from him, you know. And I 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.080 thought it was neat too, how the crowd was sold 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.400 behind Ben Simmons even when he went to the line 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:39.080 and just basically urging him to make his free throws 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.440 that one early on he missed the first and made 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.720 the second, and they were so responsive in the most 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.000 positive of ways toward him, and he was brilliant, and 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.880 they were involved in a lot of plays where you know, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.680 Joel would make a play at the one end and 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.000 then Ben at the other end, and they were they 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.960 were great. And Bead's impact again not shooting wise per se, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.679 but overall in the game with that plus minus, as 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.280 coach noted and we talked about throughout the game, but 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:10.160 just absolutely astounding his impact in the game. And you know, 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.200 the Sixers they played with a sense of urgency that 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.440 you obviously have to have. And now the big question 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.439 is can they sustain that? Can they bring that into 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.319 the seventh game? The energy that was here will exist 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.760 for the Raptors, as as Mike Scott noted during our 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.600 postgame conversation, to put up with a noise and go 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.640 in there and steal yourself off to their crowd and 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.520 take the momentum away from the Raptors in the game. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.120 But for now, they set that up with a superb 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.559 performance tonight. Seventy six Ers winners in Game six, best 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.360 of seventh series in the second round. I'll tie to 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.840 three games apiece one, twelve, one on one. Mike Scott 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.960 had himself a game tonight time, he really did. And 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.880 you got to remember he missed the first two games 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.080 in this series with the planner fasciitis and the bone 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.000 contusion and has had some threes in the series. But 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.280 you know, he's a big player for the Sixers off 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.760 the bench, and I thought Ennis stepped back into the 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.320 fold and played well in this game. He had only 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.160 one point in the game on Tuesday in Game five. 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.679 And those two guys off the bench, you know, they 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.840 bring a lot of the same qualities, the ability to 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.440 guard and guard multiple positions, he'd be able to hit 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.680 the shots. And Mike Scott with his four field goals, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.080 three of which were threes. That big start to the 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.600 second quarter, Sixers made three straight threes, with JJ, Joel 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.480 and Mike Scott all getting into the act. He ended 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.240 up being a nine two run that helped advance the 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.520 lead and again get the crowd ignited. But Mike was 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.959 really big, and you know, he's a great teammate. All 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.880 these guys love playing with him. He brings a toughness, 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.600 He's all about the group, and that's what you need. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.120 That's what you need to have a winning basketball ball club. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.320 Seventy Sixers playing Game seven on Sunday after a one, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.880 twelve on on one win tonight of the Raptors. Tom Ollivi, Fish, 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:59.960 You've been a part of a handful of Game seven, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.040 most recently in two thousand and twelve second round against 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.880 Boston of course, two thousand and one against these Raptors, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.640 and also against the Bucks later in that playoffs. What 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.920 is a Game seven like and what do you expect 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.719 coming up on Sunday? Well, I mean, everything is magnified 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.040 as you would expect because both teams are playing for 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.040 their playoff lives and for their seasons. And again these 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.880 two teams high aspirations. Coming in eight months, it'll be 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.640 the ninety ninth game for the Sixers. Think about that, 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.920 and it comes down to forty eight minutes and uh, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:34.680 it's one of the you know, it's one of those 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.240 situations where you can literally feel the tension, the apprehension, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.280 the nervous energy and the crowd and extends to the players. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.880 I thought, you know, Toronto was tight tonight, that a 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.920 lot of their shots, you know, don't don't even take 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.480 my word for it. Just if you watched a bunch 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.320 of their shots at the very beginning of the game. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.320 We're short, and that you're not playing with the freedom 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.560 and you know, the confidence shot, and that's that's what happens, 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.440 and that's that can be evident in game seven. So 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.680 you know, the thing is that they're obviously going to 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.320 be at home, and you know, like they got one 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.800 of the great players, one of the great finishers in 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.240 our game, and that is Kawhi Leonard, and boy, you 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.480 don't you don't want to see it come down to 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.200 the final minute or so where you know, it's Kawhi 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.400 Leonard against the Sixers because he's he's been awful, good 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.800 and at times unstoppable in this series. But they are 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.600 they're they're a load of fun. I remember you speak 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.760 of the last time the Sixers were in a Game seven. 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:36.960 It was Memorial Day weekend of twenty twelve, and it 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.360 was the first time I met Doris Burke. And I 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.000 was with the then Sixers general manager Tony de Leio 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.360 on our bench in Boston at the Garden and Doris, 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.000 great basketball person, comes over. She had not met at 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:56.040 either one of us, and she says, Game seven, Sixers Celtics, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.080 and that was the introduction, and then we all chatted. 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.520 And that's the There's just an energy. You hear it 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.280 all the time on sports broadcast. Two of the best 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.280 words in sports. And it's exciting and it'll be great. 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.240 And the Sixers have put themselves in this position and 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.920 now they've got to finish it off, you know what 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.920 I mean. Like they play great, They've had their moments 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.640 in this series. They've had some times when they've struggled, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.000 but hopefully, you know, Joel gets rested and gets in there, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.640 and you got guys like Jimmy Butler, and you know 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.440 you've got some finishers of your own in terms of 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.480 the Sixers and their abilities to be able to make 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.440 some key shots. And it should be really exciting and 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.600 fun to be a part of. To be sure, seventy 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.600 Sixers beat the Rafters one twelve, one on one in 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:43.000 game six. That means game seven. It'll be Sunday at 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.880 seven o'clock. Tom, we'll speak with you before then. All right, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.640 thank you, good night. What a night at the center. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.760 Seventy Sixers rise to the occasion along with several of 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.960 their young stars, Ben Simmons and Joel and beating in 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.200 particular Simmons twenty one, eight and six, Joel and b 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.160 plus forty and thirty five minutes to go with seventeen points, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.840 twelve rebounds and two block shots twenty five for Jimmy Butler, 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:11.040 the man taken over the Delaware Valley. He has been 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.480 spectacular in this series. We'll get into some of the 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:17.359 details playback, some highlights coming up on the other side. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.480 Your home is important. That's why Geico helps make it 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.680 easy to save on homeowner's insurance. Because home is more 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.879 than just a place. Home is where you have a 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.159 cute little reading nook for those rainy days when you 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:29.840 want to curl up with a good book but you 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.760 don't even read, so you just sit in there during 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.480 thunderstorms and scroll through memes on your phone and laugh 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:41.000 in the darkness. The Geico Insurance Agency could help protect 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.240 the dark meme filled corner. You call home, call Geico 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.200 and see how easy it is to switch and save 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:54.639 on homeowner's insurance. Seventy six ers and the Toronto Raptor 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.359 is game six seventy six ers end of the evening, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.080 trailing three games to two. So that meant the formula 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:06.080 and the stakes were pretty simple. Gotta win to stay alive. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.880 Obviously easier said than done, but nothing better than having 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.879 the best home crowd in the association at full throat 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.040 behind you. And the seventy sixers got rolling. They wanted 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.600 to play with an attacking, downhill, forceful style, and that 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.119 is exactly what Tobias Harris gave them early on in 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.479 the first quarter. Here's Tobias Harrison a drive pride at 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:31.119 a soul and he champs at two hand stuff. Seventy 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.480 sixers were off and rolling. From there, they jumped out 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:36.280 to a thirteen to five lead. Now the Rafts would 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.440 answer with ten straight points to take a thirteen a 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.080 bigger pardon at fifteen to thirteen lead, that would be 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.160 their only advantage of the night. The seventy Sixers closed 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.199 out the first quarter strong. Sixers get it back. Simmons 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.480 on Ibaka fakes it, turns, shoots it up with a hook. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.040 He good, he got a side roll. What a play 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:59.040 by sevens. Seventy Sixers led twenty nine twenty one after 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.439 twelve minutes play. Sixers kept the momentum going early on 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.880 in the second quarter. They snapped off nine in a row. 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:11.280 Cinne corner, Scott one time, Scotty, Yeah, it's good, a three, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.679 and the Sixers lead thirty eight twenty one. Hopping excitement 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.199 here at the center, and the lead would grow to 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.560 nineteen on a JJ Reddick two point layup. But then 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.280 the Raptors answered, scoring twelve straight to make the lead 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:29.160 for the seventy sixers only seven. Sixers took time out, 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:32.520 regrouped and would be Jimmy Butler who would lead them 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.840 down the stretch of the first half. Jimmy Butler for three. 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:37.879 This would be large. It's off the front. Faler got 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.040 us over rebut fob by Larry put back in. Oh man, 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.320 Jimmy Butler going to the line. He tucked the head 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.800 and made the buckets and now he motions part the crowd. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.240 Let me hear you. Jimmy at the main hangs on, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.320 Siaka backs it up. Jimmy Butler with a kiss off 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.400 the window. Eight seconds to go. Six is by thirteen 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.199 Raptors ball Leonard with it, Leonard has it stolen by 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:03.679 Jimmy three seconds erased a rip up layoup God, Jimmy 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.480 Butler and Scart four in a row right now. It 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.200 is Jimmy Butler's town and we were all just living 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.160 in What a play that was for Jimmy Butler. In sequence, 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.480 he had the steel layoup by defending Kawhi Leonard to 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.480 send the seventy six Ers into the break with a 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.800 lead of fifty eight to forty three. In the third quarter, 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.480 the Sixers would withstand a surge from the Raptors. Raptors 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:29.040 got the deficit down to eight to seventy. Sixers roared 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.480 right back from Mike Scott, once again finding himself there 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.280 to punctuate a run. Harris in the lane kickoff Mike 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.679 Scott baseline free ball up at head at Mike Scott 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.280 parts in a three, a six or seventy eight Toronto 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.280 sixty one Scott off the bench. What a love of 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.040 time out Toronto. As the game went along, Dwelling Beads 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.240 seemed to be getting more and more into rhythms scoring 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.600 the basketball, but defensively he was a force all night long. 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.359 And this stuarts Kawai and dribbles right and rather than 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:00.719 pet boxes shot on the runout seven, He's gonna lay 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.080 it up at head and be within a block at 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.359 one in a sevens like a freight trade. Get it lit, 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:08.840 lay up. So great to see the two of those 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:12.360 players in particular respond tonight Sixers by twenty eighty seven 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.239 sixty seven after three early on the fourth. They did 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:19.520 not slow down Year's rrors goal low Tobias Harris with twelve. 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.680 He's going right at Kassoul. Who knows Mark Kasol has 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:27.280 three fouls and that is good And the seventy sixers 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.520 made an eighty nine sixty seven on that basket by Harris. 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.160 They would pretty much coast the rest of the way, 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:35.960 winning one twelve one on one. The reserves came in 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.920 to play the final few minutes and the seventy sixers, 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.680 tying this series up at three games a piece. Six 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.680 Ers shot forty six percent from the field Toronto forty 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.560 three percent six or ten of twenty eight from outside 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:50.840 the arc Toronto nine of thirty six, seventy six or 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:52.840 twenty of twenty six in the line Raptors twenty two 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.160 of twenty nine six Ers fifty two thirty four, crushing 0:21:56.200 --> 0:22:00.200 Toronto in the glass, sixteen to nine offensive rebounds, eighteen 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:04.040