Speaker 1: Dario, Tom mcginnus, thank you for joining us. Great all
Speaker 1: around effort, and I know you, like everybody else, was
Speaker 1: really pleased for TJ his first career triple double. But
Speaker 1: more than that, he helped you guys win the game
Speaker 1: over New York. Your thoughts, Yes, I agree, it's his
Speaker 1: first triple up in his career. He really puts so
Speaker 1: much effort. He walking his working card every day, really
Speaker 1: working card. You know when I say really walking card,
Speaker 1: I mean like that. And of course he helped the
Speaker 1: team to win the to win the this game, and
Speaker 1: U all team kind of play a pretty good, pretty
Speaker 1: good with score one hundred eight points. Uh, we tried
Speaker 1: to share the ball. We tried to play like uh
Speaker 1: like like like every time, and we did that a
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh we start to play good defense. His
Speaker 1: second cough and of course this is the score, and
Speaker 1: uh we deserve upolutely. You guys definitely do deserve it.
Speaker 1: You have a goal of winning five straight home games
Speaker 1: on this homestand you have one more hurd of the climb,
Speaker 1: and that would be the Miami Heat and a big
Speaker 1: match up here Wednesday. Talk about that as you set
Speaker 1: your sights on a perfect homestand yes we play against Miami.
Speaker 1: We played against Miami like one week ago or two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, like if we know the their strand we
Speaker 1: know the dbate is back in in his city, and
Speaker 1: h you know, we need to prepare if we need
Speaker 1: to if we want to finish the this like a
Speaker 1: whome how I can say home games we need to
Speaker 1: finish with with a win. And I thought we will
Speaker 1: be ready for the last thought, ayo, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: But when you were in Turkey playing professionally, you'd been
Speaker 1: drafted by the Sixers, and now you guys are playing
Speaker 1: so well, potentially headed toward the playoffs. Is this is
Speaker 1: what you thought it would be? Uh No, it's a
Speaker 1: question for the for the deep question. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a good question. But you know, me and you we
Speaker 1: need to sit like for twenty minutes, you know, and
Speaker 1: I will explain everything fair enough to day the end
Speaker 1: of the day. You know, I hope other commun young team,
Speaker 1: I hope you to play like this. I hope you
Speaker 1: pay this in front of this uh fantastic crowd, I
Speaker 1: mean a Philip fans and uh, you know, the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you know, everybody believe in process. And
Speaker 1: it does the thrust the process. Fair point. Thank you, Dario.
Speaker 1: Congratulations Dario Shars one oweight ninety two. Good point post game.
Speaker 1: But I don't know that was a postgame question there,
Speaker 1: because we'll be right back as the Sixers defeat the
Speaker 1: Knicks one away ninety two back on the Sixers Radio
Speaker 1: Network ninety seven five the fanatic. These Sixers win one
Speaker 1: aweight ninety two earlier in this homestand they held the
Speaker 1: Pelicans to eighty two points tonight New York ninety two.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Sixers have held the last three opponents
Speaker 1: to under one hundred points, including the Clippers here Saturday
Speaker 1: ninety eight points for LA. So it's three straight opponents
Speaker 1: held under one hundred points and Sixers have not done
Speaker 1: that since last January, when they pulled the same feat
Speaker 1: winning three games and holding the opposition under a hundred points.
Speaker 1: And the Sixers defensive rating continues to skyrocket, particularly since
Speaker 1: they met this New York team in New York City
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. Well, TJ McConnell got the ring the
Speaker 1: bell in the Sixers locker room after the most recent game,
Speaker 1: and I'd be hard pressed to think that he wouldn't
Speaker 1: get to do it again with his first career triple double.
Speaker 1: Not only that he added six deals and had the
Speaker 1: grit and toughness that Sixers fans have become accustomed to
Speaker 1: watching and enjoying with his play as his third year
Speaker 1: guard out of Arizona by way of Pittsburgh has displayed
Speaker 1: for his team. And with that, he's our Independence Blue
Speaker 1: Cosse Player of the Game Independence Blue Coss Live Fearless
Speaker 1: and learn more at IBX dot com. So TJ McConnell.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven minutes. He gets ten points, eleven assists, ten rebounds,
Speaker 1: six deals, He turned it over just twice, and he
Speaker 1: shot five of eleven from the field thirteen for Robert Covington.
Speaker 1: Covington had three jams in this game, two three pointers,
Speaker 1: five rebounds, two assists, a steal and a block. Dario
Speaker 1: Scharz had twenty four points. He went eight of twelve
Speaker 1: four threes. As a group, the Sixes made ten threes.
Speaker 1: Rennick had three. He had eighteen points. Joe Ellvan beat
Speaker 1: seventeen points, six rebounds, two assists, and Ben Simmons went
Speaker 1: six of eight. He had thirteen points, six boards, six assists,
Speaker 1: and he had four steals. So I mentioned this through
Speaker 1: the late stages of the third, end of the fourth,
Speaker 1: but between Simmons and Reddick, and those are the point
Speaker 1: guards that Brett Brown uses, the numbers are off the
Speaker 1: charts real quickly. Twenty three points combined. They had seventeen
Speaker 1: assists combined, sixteen rebounds and ten steals. Works every single
Speaker 1: night to be sure, fifty five percent shooting for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: In the end, they outrebound of the Knicks. They had
Speaker 1: thirty seven rebounds. New York was led by Ennis Cantu
Speaker 1: had another big game against the six Ers seventeen and thirteen.
Speaker 1: Michael Beasley had twenty two and Courtney Lee had eighteen
Speaker 1: off the bench. But the Sixers have now won two
Speaker 1: games against the Knicks, and we look quickly. New Orleans
Speaker 1: beats the Pistons, So these Sixers are now three games
Speaker 1: ahead of Detroit in the eight spot in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break and come back on the Sixers
Speaker 1: Radio network seven five the Fanatic. These Sixers defeat New
Speaker 1: York one O eight ninety two in front of yet
Speaker 1: another sellout crowd. The Sixers have it sold out every
Speaker 1: single game here at the Center throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this seventeen eighteen NBA season. Now the Sixers are twenty
Speaker 1: nine and twenty five. They've won four straight games. They're
Speaker 1: four games over five hundred. New York has dropped seven
Speaker 1: games in a row, and they're now twenty three and
Speaker 1: thirty five. They're oh and three since they lost their
Speaker 1: best player, Chris TAFs Porcingis, to a knee injury last week.
Speaker 1: The Sixers starters had thirty one made field goals in
Speaker 1: the game. That's more than the entire New York team,
Speaker 1: as the Knicks went with thirty well, it was thirty
Speaker 1: one to thirty in terms of the field goals. The
Speaker 1: Sixers with one more field goal than the entire Nick's squad,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers outscored New York by nine. In the
Speaker 1: fourth New York never led. There were three lead changes,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, three ties, but the Sixers basically led the
Speaker 1: entire game. So a career night for t J McConnell.
Speaker 1: In thirty seven minutes, he gets ten points, eleven assists,
Speaker 1: ten rebounds, and he tied his career high and steals
Speaker 1: with six. So the Sixers have won four straight here
Speaker 1: at home. They'll take on Miami. That'll be Wednesday at
Speaker 1: seven into tonight's action, the heat Idol by the way,
Speaker 1: they were thirty and twenty six, and the Sixers, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, by virtue of their win and the
Speaker 1: Pistons losing to the Pelicans in Detroit. The Sixers now
Speaker 1: maintaining a control on the eighth spot in the East
Speaker 1: by three games over Detroit again. The final one oweight
Speaker 1: ninety two, the Sixers over the Knicks for the second
Speaker 1: time this year. Brian Seltzer, Sixers dot Com is next
Speaker 1: our thanks to Marty Dickerson, Tyler Zuli, Pat Egan, our engineers.
Speaker 1: And this is Tom McGinn the saying thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: The Sixers beat New York for now so long everybody.
Speaker 1: Ninety seven five the Fanetic. This is the Philadelphia has
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers postgame show beat. I can look about about Broadstree,
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Speaker 1: the Sixers postgame show right now on ninety seven five
Speaker 1: the Fanetic and the seventy Sixers beat the Knicks one
Speaker 1: O eight ninety two. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers
Speaker 1: dot Com. I will joined Brett Brandon progress right now
Speaker 1: talking about Trevor Booker and the Sixers patch, especially on Beasley.
Speaker 1: He's a hard guard. He really can score. And I
Speaker 1: think that the combination of those two did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job on Michael Beasley. And I do agree that
Speaker 1: Dario is improving in the defensive Areastarker Center. What is that?
Speaker 1: Somebody mentioned it was a lot. I didn't know was
Speaker 1: that many. Um. I think the thing that it means
Speaker 1: is all of us, you know, we're heading in the
Speaker 1: right direction. Nobody is too far ahead of ourselves. I
Speaker 1: think that we're trending in the right way. I think
Speaker 1: that for Marco Bellinelli too, you know, have a choice
Speaker 1: of several really good programs, several good teams, and he
Speaker 1: chose He chose us, And I think it's a statement
Speaker 1: to the guys in that locker room. I think it's
Speaker 1: a reflection of where our program is heading and how
Speaker 1: it's viewed in the marketplace. But to get whatever the
Speaker 1: number of wins that is here at home, really all
Speaker 1: it means to me is that we're starting to move
Speaker 1: in a direction that I'm that I'm proud of. I
Speaker 1: like Justin has been improving so much lately, and then
Speaker 1: he goes down and looks really painful. So I said,
Speaker 1: knack the wind that ear sales, and you guys were
Speaker 1: having some good going. I mean, you never like to see, obviously,
Speaker 1: anybody injured. I think that's why you have a team.
Speaker 1: You know, Timmy came in and did a few good things.
Speaker 1: You know, we will have some decisions to make in
Speaker 1: that area with Marco, who will be, in my eyes,
Speaker 1: more available for the Miami game. I intend on playing
Speaker 1: him in his first game as a seventy six against
Speaker 1: Miami before we all go wherever we're going in the
Speaker 1: All Star break. Um, it's part of, you know, just
Speaker 1: trying to have some level of depth. He has been
Speaker 1: playing well, and I expect he'll be back. He'll be
Speaker 1: back quickly. Wants that link game offense early tonight. A
Speaker 1: lot of the money you guys ran out to the the
Speaker 1: end of the reason that pace wasn't going to favor us.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're up, you can feel the lead,
Speaker 1: you can feel the lead secure, and I just didn't
Speaker 1: feel comfortable unless it was clear cut that, you know,
Speaker 1: fast offense was going to be favorable. I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, if we didn't have something cheap just to
Speaker 1: like put it on a hip walk some stuff down,
Speaker 1: milk the game, use the clock back on defense. That
Speaker 1: type of mentality was was on my mind, And uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's a it's a it's a delicate balance
Speaker 1: because you can't forget what got you there. You know,
Speaker 1: you knew they played the night before. You don't want
Speaker 1: to play hoping the clock evaporates and you're playing a
Speaker 1: little bit fearful. That's not how we want to play.
Speaker 1: So somewhere in the middle is smart. You know, where
Speaker 1: you take early offense and then you don't have it
Speaker 1: and you go back to what you're saying rich about
Speaker 1: just like that, end the game walk down package along
Speaker 1: with seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown. Following tonight's win
Speaker 1: one O eight ninety two over the next TJ McConnell
Speaker 1: tremendous ten points, ten rebounds, eleven dimes, six steals for
Speaker 1: the spunky third year point guard in thirty seven minutes
Speaker 1: off the bench, part of a really impressive effort top
Speaker 1: to bottom from the Sixers, one that saw the Sixers
Speaker 1: finish strong yet again, outscoring the Knicks twenty two to
Speaker 1: thirteen in the fourth quarter, the defense clamping down Dario
Speaker 1: scharch A spark at the start hit a big three
Speaker 1: point late twenty four points four three pointers for him,
Speaker 1: eighteen for JJ Reddick, seventeen and six for Joel Embid.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons a very versatile effort on his part with
Speaker 1: thirteen points, six rebounds, six assists, three blocked shots, and
Speaker 1: four steals. The Sixers couldn't quite gain enough separation from
Speaker 1: the Knicks for about two and a half three quarters
Speaker 1: of tonight's game, but then Robert Covington, with a flurry
Speaker 1: of hard driving moves to the basket midway through the
Speaker 1: third quarter, got the crowd into it. He had another
Speaker 1: big dunk later early on in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 1: then McConnell at the controls helped get the Sixers across
Speaker 1: to the finish line for their fourth straight win. This
Speaker 1: is the third four game winning street for the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers this season. They're now four games over five hundred,
Speaker 1: twenty nine and twenty five and their four oh on
Speaker 1: this homestand with a chance to make it perfect on
Speaker 1: Wednesday against the Miami Heat. Tom McGinnis is standing by.
Speaker 1: We'll get to him next. It's the postgame showing the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Rating Network N five, the fanatic seventy Sixers and the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks here at the center, and it was
Speaker 1: the Sixers the one O eight ninety two win over
Speaker 1: New York. We bring back Tom McGinnis. You know what,
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis. The Knicks they had resiliency, the Sixers had.
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell tonight. What a great showing from him with
Speaker 1: ten points, ten rebounds, eleven assists, six steals and just
Speaker 1: really helped in a major way set the tone for
Speaker 1: this win tonight. And you know, my favorite play of
Speaker 1: his was it was being on the receiving end of
Speaker 1: an illegal screen by Kyle O'Quinn, who you know, the
Speaker 1: whole object of a screen is to make the opposing player,
Speaker 1: you know, run around him, and Kyle O'Quinn just ran
Speaker 1: smack dab and like he was trying to send a
Speaker 1: message to TJ McConnell. And McConnell got bounced out at
Speaker 1: mid court, didn't hit the ground or anything, but basically
Speaker 1: flexed the crowd like that's what you got, and it
Speaker 1: just it seems to fire him up even more. And
Speaker 1: he was so good. And the combination of Simmons as
Speaker 1: a starter and McConnell as a reserve. Those numbers combined
Speaker 1: were just tremendous, I believe Brian. Unofficially it may be
Speaker 1: the first ever triple double for a Sixers reserve in
Speaker 1: franchise history. Certainly hasn't been in my recent memory anytime soon.
Speaker 1: I know Aaron McKee did it a couple of times
Speaker 1: in a row. But he also, I think was a
Speaker 1: starter for the Sixers years ago. Just a great all
Speaker 1: around game. And numbers are one thing, but it's the
Speaker 1: way he got those numbers and his contributions to the
Speaker 1: win that were paramount and a nice victory for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: It was not a great first half. It seemed like
Speaker 1: every time the Sixers began to build the lead in
Speaker 1: New York was able to creep within two or three.
Speaker 1: But his play was just superb throughout the game. How
Speaker 1: about the moment in the closing seconds where it's like
Speaker 1: everyone in the house knew it was going on. No, right,
Speaker 1: it's the crowd they all cleared out after McConnell hit
Speaker 1: the step back to get to eleven points and ten assists,
Speaker 1: and then everyone knew what was going on. Right, So
Speaker 1: it's on the board in terms of when the players
Speaker 1: on the JumboTron scoreboard that hangs above the floor when
Speaker 1: you know players in the game, his points are up
Speaker 1: there and everything's in there. So yeah, I mean, but
Speaker 1: there's no other It's not like Matt Cord the public
Speaker 1: address announcers going, there's one rebout high. I guess that
Speaker 1: would be our jobs, but no, so, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: They were so in tune and then it was like
Speaker 1: a celebration that lasted more than a possession. And that
Speaker 1: just goes to show you his a his value to
Speaker 1: the team and his popularity amongst the fan base and
Speaker 1: his own teammates. Seventy sixers with the win over the
Speaker 1: next t J McConnell the fourth player of the Brett
Speaker 1: Brown coaching ra to record a triple double, joining Tony Roten,
Speaker 1: Michael Carter Williams, and Ben Simmons as the Sixers defeat
Speaker 1: the Knicks one of eight ninety two. Thought another key
Speaker 1: thing from this one, Tom was Robert Covington driving and
Speaker 1: not just driving finishing at the rim in tonight's game.
Speaker 1: How out that he had the big what's his independence
Speaker 1: Blue Cross commercial? Will you be able to dunk like me?
Speaker 1: And he was throwing him down he was. It was great.
Speaker 1: The and one conversion dunk at seventy nine seventy three
Speaker 1: right after the Knicks tied it up, and then maybe
Speaker 1: one of the hardest dunks of his career. I mean,
Speaker 1: the first one was really really good, but ninety three
Speaker 1: seventy nine was another big one, and those were key
Speaker 1: energizing moments in the game where the Sixers needed a spark,
Speaker 1: no question about it, and that again, that's the thing
Speaker 1: about an all around team effort is when guys step
Speaker 1: up and contribute at different points. They thought Daria was
Speaker 1: really good early Ben was driving on Lance Thomas. Then
Speaker 1: I thought they made it an adjustment where you know
Speaker 1: Thomas most teams play off of Simmons, but they clogged
Speaker 1: the lane and didn't let him get in there. Joel
Speaker 1: had his moments, not the greatest rebounding night, but certainly
Speaker 1: made a lot of jumpers. JJ made three or four
Speaker 1: three pointers, and TJ was steady throughout the bench. I
Speaker 1: thought Trevor Booker was really good. So I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a great all around effort and the Sixers, you know,
Speaker 1: are getting it done even when they're not playing their
Speaker 1: best in terms of in certain chunks of this game.
Speaker 1: But then I think maybe the big takeaway too that
Speaker 1: we're not addressing his defense to hold three straight opponents
Speaker 1: under one hundred points, and they're really excelling in that area.
Speaker 1: As the metrics continued to rise in terms of on
Speaker 1: the charts for the Sixers and in a great overall effort,
Speaker 1: the Knicks tapered off. Without doubt in terms of the
Speaker 1: four quota they played last night. I thought it would showed.
Speaker 1: But that's when that's the advantage, you know, when you're
Speaker 1: playing here at home and you see that he sees
Speaker 1: that opportunity, and that's exactly what they did. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: best the Knicks one O eight ninety two. And now,
Speaker 1: tom what a feat that would be. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be a It should set up to be a great
Speaker 1: game on Wednesday. With Miami only a half game in
Speaker 1: front of the Sixers entering tonight. By virtue of the
Speaker 1: Sixers victory, they're now tied in the standings and this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a key game in the Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: standings coming up on Wednesday, no doubt. And before we
Speaker 1: get into that, to me again, Detroit lost again the
Speaker 1: night and that's that's big because to me, the Sixers
Speaker 1: have solidified for now the A spot. They're now three
Speaker 1: games in front of Detroit, so that's big. And now
Speaker 1: looking forward to that seven spot, like you say, the
Speaker 1: sixth spot, it's another big game against Miami. It's only
Speaker 1: the second game of the year against the Heat, and
Speaker 1: it's here at home, and if you beat them, automatically,
Speaker 1: you put yourself in a position to even or tie
Speaker 1: the season series. And the only reason I mentioned that
Speaker 1: is because that's the first tiebreakers head to head competition.
Speaker 1: And you know, again, another part of it is the Sixers.
Speaker 1: It set a goal to win all of these home games,
Speaker 1: and their four fifths of the way there. So it's
Speaker 1: a huge, huge game to your point, and again it's
Speaker 1: there's not that much separation between four or five, six,
Speaker 1: seven in the Eastern Conference standings and then again long
Speaker 1: way to go, but in the Sixers, the way they're
Speaker 1: trending and then continue to play well, they'll put themselves
Speaker 1: in that spot. But there's no doubt a head to
Speaker 1: head game against somebody you know directly or certainly right
Speaker 1: within range in the conference is paramount. Tom mcguinnis with
Speaker 1: great insight is always postgame Thank you very much? Should
Speaker 1: I Brian? Thank you? One to wait ninety two Sixers
Speaker 1: beat the New York Knicks. We'll have some of Thomas
Speaker 1: highlight calls coming away. On the other side, it's the
Speaker 1: postgame show here on the Sixers Rating Network.