WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 3/24/18- Rewind vs. Timberwolves 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:05.440 These Sixers win tonight's game by twelve points, their forty 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.119 second victory, first time they've had forty two wins since 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:12.159 oh four, oh five. And again they led it to 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.840 half by seven, and that was actually strange, as Minnesota 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.639 got two free throws, these Sixers failed to get the 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.640 ball in and they allotted five seconds. So then with 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.960 two seconds to go, Minnesota inbounded and Jamal Crawford had 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.120 an unbelievably difficult fadeaway off one foot in the right 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.519 corner that made it a seven point game. And then 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.479 the third quarter started. You can imagine Brett Brown had 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.160 something to say about that inbound play by the Sixers 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.400 at the half, and the Sixers outscored Minnesota twenty to 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.839 four to open the third. All told, they outscored them 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.480 by twenty in the third, and in the Sixers scored 0:00:55.600 --> 0:01:02.600 thirty nine points and they scored seventeen off Minnesota's eight turnovers. 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.360 So we always talk about points off turnovers, and the 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:10.119 Sixers in that third quarter outscored Minnesota in that area 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.920 seventeen to three in a quarter in which they outscored 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.039 them by twenty and basically put the game out of 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:21.000 reach almost because Minnesota came back and outscored the Sixers 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:24.280 by fifteen in the fourth. Here's Brett Brown from outside 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.880 these Sixers locker room with his post game availability, and 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.479 they built up, you know, such a tremendous league. We've 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.240 done it in our past three games. I'm going to 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.600 look past that. I think I recall it earlier this 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.680 year when you just good reserves in there and we 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.000 need to play their way out of the call. It's 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.200 a different because you're so close down in the playoffs 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.200 in these games. I didn't like the way this game 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:51.040 was feeling, and you know, it's it's one of these 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.040 things that it's this close to the end of the year. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.680 I don't feel so much at that stage in the 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.680 mood for like letting people will have experiences like I 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.480 want to win, and I didn't feel the game was 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.040 where I wanted to. So we brought in, We brought 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.839 up you know, Ben and Joel back into the mix 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:14.600 and cuve what Ben makes a pass? Like that bounced 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.560 pass he made the Dario on the first half. Part, 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.440 Like you on the sideline, are you still surprised when 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.600 you see him make plays? Look that, No, he has 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:27.680 two things going for him. Um, I feel most times 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.760 I see what he sees, and because I know the plays, 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.080 I know what is coming or possibly coming. And really, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.880 when you judge how they play Dario and some of 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.600 our plays, the second they chase, you got him for 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.120 the most part, unless the week's side is just really aggressive. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.720 And that's the first thing. I feel like, I see 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.040 what he sees a lot of times, and then he's 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:55.239 got the the strength and slash guts to throw stuff 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.799 where they're rockets. Like, so he sees a few plays 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.880 ahead and he's got the vision and then he can, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.800 like at six ten throw dots. He really throws passes 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.639 with velocity and so a lot of times it doesn't 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.880 entirely surprise me. Right, So I would be a gage 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.000 where the team is. How do you feel that? I 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.680 think we're trending in a correct way. You know, you're 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.800 you're aware that Minnesota played last night in New York. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.160 It's part of the NBA and you have to reload. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.480 We get it. We do it all the time too. Um. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.400 I feel that when I look at our defense, and 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.320 I especially look how we come out a halftimes in 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.720 the last few third periods, there is a business approach 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.080 there is a serious approach. There is a defensive oriented 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:48.920 mindset that I love and respect, and I think we 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.240 made a step forward today. I think we got a 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.640 little bit better. I think as a team and in 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.400 our minds that that's a good team. Sixers coach Brett 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.680 Brown and postgame available ability after the contests as the 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.800 Sixers defeat Minnesota one twenty two, one oh eight. Now 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.240 forty two wins for the Sixers, twenty four of which 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.640 have come here at home. They've won six in a row, 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.719 Minnesota's forty two and thirty two. They had a mini 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.560 two game winning streak. Snap, we'll take a break and 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.960 we'll come back to Von Kibbitt and Von Gibbons. We'll 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.240 pick it up from here. Impressive win for the Sixers 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.000 over Minnesota for now. Tom McGuinness from the center, thanks 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.680 for listening back in a moment with the Sixers postgame 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:35.400 coverage on the Sixers radio networks, The Philadelphia has seventy 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.800 Sixers postgame show in feed. I can look about of 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.360 my broach free hars is gonna turn him? Get it off, 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:46.599 Maddie Roll. The Sixers postgame show right now on ninety 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.479 seven five, The Finetic not the way you would have 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.279 liked to draw it up at the end, but the 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.320 Sixes got it done. Nevertheless. This is the Sixes post 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.760 game show Live from the Center. How though, everybody, I'm 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.280 divine given Sixers pick up their six straight victory one 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.680 twenty one oh eight over the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves. Their 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.880 record now stands at forty two and thirty on the season, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.599 looking really good as they close things out the regular 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.719 season to go ten more games remaining for the Philadelphia 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.560 seventy six or six more games at home, four more 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.680 on the road, but a very solid victory overall, got 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.360 it done when need be here at the Center as 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.599 the Stars had to come back in at the end, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.680 Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons as well as Robert Covington to 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.880 close things out. But all in all, a good win, 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.400 a very good win, a great one if you will, 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.839 for this basketball team. A one twenty one oh eight 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.400 victory for the Philadelphia seventy six is joining us again 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.600 back here at the Center. You heard them all game 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.800 long calling the game. Great job as always and time 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.960 again it's time not the way they drew it up 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.720 at the end, but good teams still find a way 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.400 to do it, and it appears at the seventy Sixes 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.200 are a good team picking up this win. Yeah, no, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.440 without question, that was awkward. But their reserves. I've played 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.400 the Sixers reserves, no doubt about it. Aaron Brooks played well, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:06.000 Georgie Jank played well, Marcus George's Hunt played well. Aldridge 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.320 was very physical. He was creating havoc in there, and 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.480 you know, you heard what Prett Brown said that, Hey, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.560 look he just had to get his guys in there 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.760 to finish the deal here. So that's gonna happen. I mean, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.320 TJ's been so good, but tonight down the stretch, those 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.880 guys out playing he and his group and that's too bad. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:28.760 But again in the end, the Sixers won, and you know, 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.920 I guess you could say they blew a big lead, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:33.839 but it's not the same as it was in Games 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.680 Pass where they had those big leagues and they lost 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:39.599 the game. So to have to bring Joe and you know, 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.560 you don't want to do it for you don't want 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.200 to do it because you don't want him coming back. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.320 You don't want him to come in there cold, you know, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.280 and being literally had his shoes off. You saw him 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:49.920 trying to warm up. Those guys are trying to get 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.320 back in and how it is they had to you know, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.040 rebreak a sweat and all that, so that's not ideal either. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.640 But nonetheless, the Sixers with a dominant third quarter. I 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.719 mean again, this was a game like, okay, the five 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.600 teams that they just played, you know, record wise weren't there. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.080 But you know, tonight was one of these games where 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.600 it was a huge matchup. Now, I think Minnesota was fatigued, 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:16.200 that was obvious, but in be dominated towns and Ben 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.680 Simmons was unbelievable. I mean, divon you watched the game, 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.560 It's like, this is gonna be a weird analogy, but 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.840 it's like in third grade where you realize you're so 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.040 much faster than anybody else you can't wait to get 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.240 the recess and just dust them diamond again. And all 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.960 the competition Ben's and he's doing against pros. He's taking 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.120 the dribble and just blowing by people. Even if he 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.400 doesn't take it all the way to the basket, he 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.840 pushes it below the fall line that forces their defense 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.480 to get back into pain. And then he just turns 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.400 around because he's not really looking for a shot in 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:49.000 that situation, he's wheeling and he's picking out JJ or 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.920 Daria or cub And and Daria was wide open. You know, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.600 Minnesota had some lapses. I mean, Thiboda was an incredible 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.000 defensive coach, but Dario had some wide open looks and 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.600 he made three Yearly that was really big. Cove ended 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.840 up hitting getting hot. Marco I thought played well. And 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.840 that's the ironic part that the Sixers reserves let the 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.960 game kind of slip away where the Wolves came back, 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.080 but the Sixers bench was so productive early in the game. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.000 They'd outscored them like double figures to like four or 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:21.320 five and just didn't happen late. But another dominant performance 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.680 where the Sixers had this game by the end of 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.120 three quarters, which is the third consecutive game that it's incredible. 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.040 I know it is. And it's funny that you bring 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.360 that up specifically with Ben Simmons because as we were 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.480 watching it, and you're right, you're calling it, and I'm 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.600 turning around looking at you, and I'm just shaking my 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.880 head just because of the things that he's doing on 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.640 the floor. And as you pointed out, this is a 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.040 rookie in the NBA doing it and he's six ten, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.480 not supposed to be faster or as fast as some 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.520 of these people that he's running by. But yet and 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.160 still he still finds a way to do it, and 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.199 he does it at a pace where he knows what's 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.000 going on. He is in total control of the entire 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.680 pace and the defense is just simply on their heels 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.640 now he is. And then he placed ticked off. I 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.680 love that. I love that, Like he got called for 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.840 a tiki tachy foul and he just looked at like, 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.080 I guess it was tigued and like he were not 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.319 even getting close to being by me. He's got that ability. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.160 And then you heard the question posed in the postgame 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.439 press conference about that pass. That's the type of pass 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.160 that people, if they were going to work tomorrow, they'd 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.400 be talking about. I mean that that is the type 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.600 of play that is special. And I mentioned it. You know, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.040 like even before Benn even played, people were comparing him 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.680 the magic Johnson or Lebron and Brett Brown had seen 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.000 him play like in practice and whatnot and didn't want 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.360 to go there. Well, first of all, some of the 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.280 numbers are shaping up in that you know, he's already 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:44.200 passed Magic Johnson and one's triple doubles. Yeah, yeah, statistical category. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.360 But that pass right there was almost a half court 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.520 pass with his right hand that they were talking about. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.040 It was from this quadrant to the floor outside left 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.560 and then all the way downlow right to Dario. I 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.480 mean to get it through there and to write, like 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.959 Brett Brown said, the heavy guts to throw it, ethic ability, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.040 the vision just dolls are. That's a special kind of 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.560 play right there. And we talked about the offense Tom again, 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.080 us again joining us live here at the Center on 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.720 the postgame show. Tom. The offense, we spoke up defensively though, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.040 is where things are really starting to turn up for 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.200 the seventy sixers at the right time of the season. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.160 Ten games to go, trying to position yourself in the postseason. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.160 They keep dominating in the third quarter where they put 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.040 up thirty nine, winning by twenty in that quarter, thirty 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.480 nine to nineteen. We've seen it over the last few games, 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.280 way more important just because of who the opponent was today, well, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.559 without doubt, and you know, the first half kind of 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.560 ended on a downer a little bit, as I talked 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.520 about with that violation and Crawford making the shot. But 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.560 you know, third quarters used to be an issue for 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.400 the Sixers like he as early as last year. And 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.679 they came out and they dominated, and you know, the 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.440 defense again, you're gonna the threes are gonna come and 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.079 go and whatnot. But the thing about the three pointers, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.440 you can miss like two or three in a row 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.160 and then make one and you're still advancing your lead. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.880 But the defense is a constant. Indeed, they got great 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:07.120 length and Covington. Covington was all over the place early 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:08.680 in the game. A couple of his plays where he 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.600 stole it, he gave it right back with a foul 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.679 or a turnover, but his length and deflections, and he 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.040 hit a block coming off from the weak side. He's 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:22.520 really underrated, I think amongst not statistically in the NBA 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.520 with the with the players and the coaches, but I 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.880 think his fans. I don't know that we put enough 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.640 credence to what he does with guarding the best player 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.160 and the perimeter and then all of his things where 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.679 he helps. But certainly the defense has been stellar throughout 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.679 the year. Top five defense, it's been terrific. It's been 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.400 a huge part of this and it's gonna be a 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.240 major part of the playoffs because that's what you need, 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.560 stops and scores, and you've got to be able to 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.120 put the clamps on people. Absolutely Well, Tom, another big 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.520 one coming up here at the Center on Monday against 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.120 the Denver Nuggets. They're fighting for a playoffs spot as well. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.960 We'll catch up with you and have a great weekend. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.240 Thank you. Divino night Tom again us again live here 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.080 on the postgame Show from the Center. Sixers victorious yet again, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.680 one twenty one oh eight. We can get used to 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.959 saying that victorious yet again. They've won six in a row, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.200 beating the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight here at the Center one 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.760 twenty one oh eight. On the other side, we'll discuss 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.240 a little more of what happened during the game, get 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.800 into a little deeper with the box score. Later on, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.160 we'll have some highlights as well. Sixers win one twenty 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.120 one oh eight. I'm Divine Givens. This is the postgame 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:32.679 Show Live from the Center. Sixers win one twenty one 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.240 oh eight tonight over the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves improved their 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:39.560 record to forty two and thirty twelve games over five 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:43.400 hundred for the Philadelphia seventy six is an impressive outlook 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.360 on how the season has gone along for the Sixers 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.400 where they are now again just twelve games over five hundred. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.280 They have not done that in quite some time, and 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.040 picking up a victory like this, still no playoffs. You 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.319 have to wait on the Detroit Pistons to lose a 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.319 game or combination of both in tonight to Detroit. Pistons 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.679 are leading the Chicago Bulls as of right now in 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.920 the fourth quarter one fifteen and nineties, so you'll have 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.240 to wait until Monday most likely to get a spot 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.480 if you will in the playoffs for the Philadelphia seventy sixes. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.280 But in terms of this win tonight over the Minnesota Timberwolves, 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.720 let's get to some of the highlights. It started off 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:24.160 in the first quarter with a very good combination overall 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.000 of the team doing exactly what they do. It is 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.120 just sharing the ball, passing it the way they done. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.560 Somebody had to get things going in four the Sixes 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.560 in the first quarter with Dario Scharge. Simmons breaks it 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.120 into the lane up top Dario Scharch Choper Gibson and 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:40.600 that's good. Dario Scharge straightaway triple his second that ties 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.320 it at eight. Dario scharge very aggressive to start things off. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.559 He had a few three pointers in the first quarter, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.480 ending up on the evening with eighteen three or six 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.800 from behind the floor. That score made it eight to 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.920 eight at that time. Another impressive play not too far 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.480 a go from that spot, JJ Reddick with the miss 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.000 and the out of bound to time out of bounds 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.920 played Ben Simmons with the offensive rebounds to JJ Reddick 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.880 four three, made a thirteen eleven. Sixers then decided that 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.640 they wanted to make sure they let the Minnesota Timberwolves 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.400 know who was better. Started making plays, making shots and 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.080 putting their lead all the way up to nine points 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.000 after Ben Simmons rebound and assist to Marco Bell and 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.400 Nellie four three, twenty five sixteen for the Sixers, and 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.040 then earsund Iliasova off the bench, very very stellar for 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.080 the Sixers, back over to joel for three. The beat 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.720 shot front ribbon off no almost tap ten by Wiggins 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.160 and now Earshun puts in two players are there. One 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:40.040 effort by Iliosolva and the Sixers lead by nine. Offensive 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.880 rebound for Eliasova at that point and the score made 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:46.000 it twenty nine to twenty Iliasilva on the night three 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.880 offensive rebounds for defensive of course, that makes the seven 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.080 total rebounds for the veteran big man. Also nine points 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.280 on the evening. Justin Anderson got into the mix early 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.440 as well with an and one and a made free 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.440 throw to make it thirty two twenty four to one. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.320 Sixers kept it going in the third as they kept 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.800 getting it going, Joel and Bead getting into the mix. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.640 There's Joel Wan the dram and beat catchers at the 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:12.200 right elbow turns nobody there for Minnesota and a jam 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.000 by e Bead his second field goal and one of 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.440 the easiest baskets of the game, and emphatic dunk four 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.960 and bad thirty seven to twenty nine Sixers. Emir Johnson 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.680 also got a put back basket a little earlier with 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.280 a pardon you hit. A great post footwork for the 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.120 veteran big man not known for his offensive scoring, but 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.000 he got Karl Anthony Towns in the air off of 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.800 a nice spin move out like Kevin McHale, pump fake 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.120 made it fifty one forty four. Things didn't go the 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.840 way they thought. You had a bad turnover at the 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.440 end of the first. With a few seconds to go, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.320 the Minnesota Timbwolves inbounded the ball for Jamal Crawford's basket 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.440 at the end votus shot and here's Crawford with a fadeaway. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.200 Got it. Of course he got it. It's Jamal Crawford. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.400 Red Brown is chicked. He is striding, old man. He 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:05.640 is walking perfectly toward the locker room. We are played 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.760 there too as well. Because the way things went, Joel 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.080 Embi was gonna take the ball out after May Minnesota basket. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.400 Ben Simmons told him no, the referee had already started 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.800 the counting. You know, you only have five seconds. When 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.920 Ben Simmons took his time to try to figure out 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.400 where he was going with the basketball, the official had 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.000 already rung him up for a turnover and again an 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.160 opportunity for Jamal Crawford to make that basket. Fifty nine 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.000 fifty two. That was the score after two. But in Philadelphia, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.920 seventy six is like they have over the past few games, 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.000 past few weeks for that matter. Get things going in 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.400 the third quarter courtesy of JJ Reddick and Ben Simmons 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.320 has knocked it in the air. It goes to Joel 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.240 and not a Dario back to JJ three ball left 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.480 side counted. It's good time out Minnesota. The Sixers with 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:53.920 another three. They take a fourteen point lead. That started 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.400 with a tough entry pass ever resulting in the turnover 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:00.600 by Ben Simmons. He tipped the pass defensively to allow 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.040 Joeling Bad to get the steal. Then they hit JJ 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.480 four that three to make it sixty six fifty two. 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.160 Robert Covington nailed to three to make it seventy four 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.200 fifty four, and not two far after that, the route 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.840 started to be on and Joeling Bad one more time defensively, 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.159 Robert Covington would steal in the past to him be 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.320 four breakaway Collington with another steal to Joel. Here's a 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.280 jam Bimbad. He rams it home. The Sexers are blowing 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:32.320 out Minnesota. Oh Man, Joel and bead. He archestrates the crowd. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.320 He's jumping around with his hands up. It's a party 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:39.400 in South Filling. The energy in the center was crazy. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.560 It was fantastic, especially after a play like that seventy 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.359 nine fifty six, Joeling Bad showing off his athleticism and 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.240 a different dunk if you will normally, then we see 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.040 it from Himbad Daria Schartz. Later on with a driving 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.360 layoup plus the foul met it eighty two to fifty eight. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.160 Ben Simmons, he had his tenth triple double on the night. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.560 Here is when it happened, and now shoots it with 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:02.360 the right hand, almost baked it. It It gets his own 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.200 miss followers that can't get it to go. He gets 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.520 it one more time. Head champs and triple double. Bet 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:14.280 Simmons rebound jamb sixers up eighty nine sixty two. Simmons 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.040 had an opportunity to make a play before that dunk, 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.680 missed it, got it back and was able to convert 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.159 it on that very basket right there to make it 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.439 ninety eight seventy one. At the end of three, the 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.479 route was on the starters sat down. Marco Belinelli again 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.720 slid off the bench with seventeen points. Here is another 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.280 three pointer from the veteran shop shooter. Here's McConnell with 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.480 a movie to the lane, back out top two. Marco 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.240 Bellanelli for three got it the twelve Maine three for 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:46.040 the sixers TJ with the dish. Marco with fourteen points. 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.720 He ended up with seventeen on the night that score 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.760 one oh three seventy four. After that basket for kind 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.360 Cork Miles also got into the mix one oh eight 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.720 eighty four. The substitution guys, the reserves for the Minnesota 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.280 Mberwolves did force their way back into this game, making 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.800 Brett Brown decide to call on yet again Ben Simmons, 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:08.879 Joel and Beat and Robert Covington, their starters who were 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.639 already rested. Joel and Beat no shoes laying on the 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.160 floor like he normally has late in the game when 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.160 the game is out of hand, he had to put 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.600 his shoes back on. Robert Covington also had to tie 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.879 his tighter to get back out there and put his 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.439 shooting sleeves on. As the Sixers wound up with this 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.960 win one twenty one oh eight, their sixth straight win 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.320 for this basketball team. And again it's coming yet at 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.640 the right time. Ten games to go, so they want 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.560 to make sure they get as many victories as possible, 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.959 and they're playing some of the best basketball of the 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.120 season as they looked to for this particular group their 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.560 first appearance in the NBA postseason. So right now again 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.560 they're sitting in the fourth spot in the Eastern Conference 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:50.800 as a lot of teams are still going on, but 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.600 most importantly when it comes to seating and just getting 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.719 in there all together, you have to now wait until Monday, 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.040 since the Detroit Pistons took care of the Chicago Bulls tonight. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.239 But most importantly, the Sixers did their job, picking up 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.160 their forty second win forty two and thirty on the year, 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.640 one one oh eight over the Minnesota Timberwolves. A quick 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.760 dive into the stats before we hand things over to 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:17.000 Joe Stazac. On nine seventy five, the fanatic forty two 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.480 of eighty eight from the field for forty seven point 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.280 seven percent, a field goal percentage thirteen of thirty seven 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:28.280 from behind the ark for thirty five percent, a big discrepancy. There, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.480 a big advantage for the Sixers making seven more three 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.639 pointers than the Minnesota Timberwolves. From the free throw line. 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.040 Very aggressive game, very physical game, both teams getting to 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.600 the free throw line thirty plus times twenty three for 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.920 thirty six four the Sixers twenty eight to thirty eight 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.119 four the Minnesota Timberwolves. But the one stat that we 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.560