WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 02/12/2018 - Rewind vs. Knicks 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.480 Dario, Tom mcginnus, thank you for joining us. Great all 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.240 around effort, and I know you, like everybody else, was 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.960 really pleased for TJ his first career triple double. But 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.160 more than that, he helped you guys win the game 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.040 over New York. Your thoughts, Yes, I agree, it's his 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.479 first triple up in his career. He really puts so 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:23.000 much effort. He walking his working card every day, really 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.360 working card. You know when I say really walking card, 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.200 I mean like that. And of course he helped the 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.440 team to win the to win the this game, and 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.720 U all team kind of play a pretty good, pretty 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.520 good with score one hundred eight points. Uh, we tried 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:39.880 to share the ball. We tried to play like uh 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:45.199 like like like every time, and we did that a 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.800 little bit. Uh we start to play good defense. His 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.120 second cough and of course this is the score, and 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.720 uh we deserve upolutely. You guys definitely do deserve it. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.400 You have a goal of winning five straight home games 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.840 on this homestand you have one more hurd of the climb, 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:03.800 and that would be the Miami Heat and a big 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.600 match up here Wednesday. Talk about that as you set 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:11.720 your sights on a perfect homestand yes we play against Miami. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.479 We played against Miami like one week ago or two 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.120 weeks ago, like if we know the their strand we 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.480 know the dbate is back in in his city, and 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:22.720 h you know, we need to prepare if we need 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.160 to if we want to finish the this like a 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:28.520 whome how I can say home games we need to 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.840 finish with with a win. And I thought we will 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.520 be ready for the last thought, ayo, thank you so much. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.640 But when you were in Turkey playing professionally, you'd been 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.679 drafted by the Sixers, and now you guys are playing 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.720 so well, potentially headed toward the playoffs. Is this is 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:48.720 what you thought it would be? Uh No, it's a 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.560 question for the for the deep question. You know, it's 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.800 a good question. But you know, me and you we 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.240 need to sit like for twenty minutes, you know, and 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.760 I will explain everything fair enough to day the end 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.600 of the day. You know, I hope other commun young team, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.760 I hope you to play like this. I hope you 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:08.800 pay this in front of this uh fantastic crowd, I 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.680 mean a Philip fans and uh, you know, the end 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.880 of the day, you know, everybody believe in process. And 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.080 it does the thrust the process. Fair point. Thank you, Dario. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:23.440 Congratulations Dario Shars one oweight ninety two. Good point post game. 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.560 But I don't know that was a postgame question there, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.359 because we'll be right back as the Sixers defeat the 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.720 Knicks one away ninety two back on the Sixers Radio 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:37.919 Network ninety seven five the fanatic. These Sixers win one 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:42.440 aweight ninety two earlier in this homestand they held the 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.600 Pelicans to eighty two points tonight New York ninety two. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.600 In fact, the Sixers have held the last three opponents 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.320 to under one hundred points, including the Clippers here Saturday 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.399 ninety eight points for LA. So it's three straight opponents 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.960 held under one hundred points and Sixers have not done 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.560 that since last January, when they pulled the same feat 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.960 winning three games and holding the opposition under a hundred points. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:12.040 And the Sixers defensive rating continues to skyrocket, particularly since 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.880 they met this New York team in New York City 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.920 on Christmas Day. Well, TJ McConnell got the ring the 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.519 bell in the Sixers locker room after the most recent game, 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.920 and I'd be hard pressed to think that he wouldn't 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.359 get to do it again with his first career triple double. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.440 Not only that he added six deals and had the 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:36.040 grit and toughness that Sixers fans have become accustomed to 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.280 watching and enjoying with his play as his third year 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.520 guard out of Arizona by way of Pittsburgh has displayed 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.880 for his team. And with that, he's our Independence Blue 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.680 Cosse Player of the Game Independence Blue Coss Live Fearless 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:54.560 and learn more at IBX dot com. So TJ McConnell. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.440 Thirty seven minutes. He gets ten points, eleven assists, ten rebounds, 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:04.240 six deals, He turned it over just twice, and he 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.520 shot five of eleven from the field thirteen for Robert Covington. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:13.560 Covington had three jams in this game, two three pointers, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.480 five rebounds, two assists, a steal and a block. Dario 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.240 Scharz had twenty four points. He went eight of twelve 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.200 four threes. As a group, the Sixes made ten threes. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.479 Rennick had three. He had eighteen points. Joe Ellvan beat 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:34.760 seventeen points, six rebounds, two assists, and Ben Simmons went 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:39.359 six of eight. He had thirteen points, six boards, six assists, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.799 and he had four steals. So I mentioned this through 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.480 the late stages of the third, end of the fourth, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.520 but between Simmons and Reddick, and those are the point 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.919 guards that Brett Brown uses, the numbers are off the 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:56.080 charts real quickly. Twenty three points combined. They had seventeen 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:01.640 assists combined, sixteen rebounds and ten steals. Works every single 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.800 night to be sure, fifty five percent shooting for the Sixers. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:06.920 In the end, they outrebound of the Knicks. They had 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.240 thirty seven rebounds. New York was led by Ennis Cantu 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.800 had another big game against the six Ers seventeen and thirteen. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.680 Michael Beasley had twenty two and Courtney Lee had eighteen 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.119 off the bench. But the Sixers have now won two 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.679 games against the Knicks, and we look quickly. New Orleans 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:27.760 beats the Pistons, So these Sixers are now three games 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:31.839 ahead of Detroit in the eight spot in the Eastern Conference. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.760 We'll take a break and come back on the Sixers 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:39.800 Radio network seven five the Fanatic. These Sixers defeat New 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.800 York one O eight ninety two in front of yet 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.400 another sellout crowd. The Sixers have it sold out every 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.240 single game here at the Center throughout the course of 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.599 this seventeen eighteen NBA season. Now the Sixers are twenty 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.000 nine and twenty five. They've won four straight games. They're 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.279 four games over five hundred. New York has dropped seven 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.080 games in a row, and they're now twenty three and 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.800 thirty five. They're oh and three since they lost their 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.640 best player, Chris TAFs Porcingis, to a knee injury last week. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.960 The Sixers starters had thirty one made field goals in 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.719 the game. That's more than the entire New York team, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.840 as the Knicks went with thirty well, it was thirty 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.320 one to thirty in terms of the field goals. The 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.839 Sixers with one more field goal than the entire Nick's squad, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.120 and the Sixers outscored New York by nine. In the 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.480 fourth New York never led. There were three lead changes, 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.640 I'm sorry, three ties, but the Sixers basically led the 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.560 entire game. So a career night for t J McConnell. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.520 In thirty seven minutes, he gets ten points, eleven assists, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.240 ten rebounds, and he tied his career high and steals 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.600 with six. So the Sixers have won four straight here 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.200 at home. They'll take on Miami. That'll be Wednesday at 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.080 seven into tonight's action, the heat Idol by the way, 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.320 they were thirty and twenty six, and the Sixers, as 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.760 I mentioned earlier, by virtue of their win and the 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.960 Pistons losing to the Pelicans in Detroit. The Sixers now 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.720 maintaining a control on the eighth spot in the East 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:16.280 by three games over Detroit again. The final one oweight 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.960 ninety two, the Sixers over the Knicks for the second 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.960 time this year. Brian Seltzer, Sixers dot Com is next 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:27.040 our thanks to Marty Dickerson, Tyler Zuli, Pat Egan, our engineers. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.600 And this is Tom McGinn the saying thanks for listening. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.320 The Sixers beat New York for now so long everybody. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:38.480 Ninety seven five the Fanetic. This is the Philadelphia has 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:43.080 seventy Sixers postgame show beat. I can look about about Broadstree, 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.920 Sars is gonna turn and getting off Maddy Rolls in 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.720 the Sixers postgame show right now on ninety seven five 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:56.800 the Fanetic and the seventy Sixers beat the Knicks one 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.560 O eight ninety two. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.920 dot Com. I will joined Brett Brandon progress right now 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.520 talking about Trevor Booker and the Sixers patch, especially on Beasley. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.960 He's a hard guard. He really can score. And I 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.800 think that the combination of those two did a pretty 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.560 good job on Michael Beasley. And I do agree that 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:22.200 Dario is improving in the defensive Areastarker Center. What is that? 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.560 Somebody mentioned it was a lot. I didn't know was 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.840 that many. Um. I think the thing that it means 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.840 is all of us, you know, we're heading in the 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.640 right direction. Nobody is too far ahead of ourselves. I 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.360 think that we're trending in the right way. I think 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.840 that for Marco Bellinelli too, you know, have a choice 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.839 of several really good programs, several good teams, and he 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.439 chose He chose us, And I think it's a statement 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.360 to the guys in that locker room. I think it's 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.600 a reflection of where our program is heading and how 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:03.280 it's viewed in the marketplace. But to get whatever the 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.600 number of wins that is here at home, really all 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.000 it means to me is that we're starting to move 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.480 in a direction that I'm that I'm proud of. I 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.040 like Justin has been improving so much lately, and then 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.400 he goes down and looks really painful. So I said, 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.520 knack the wind that ear sales, and you guys were 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.720 having some good going. I mean, you never like to see, obviously, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.240 anybody injured. I think that's why you have a team. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.040 You know, Timmy came in and did a few good things. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.520 You know, we will have some decisions to make in 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.760 that area with Marco, who will be, in my eyes, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.000 more available for the Miami game. I intend on playing 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.480 him in his first game as a seventy six against 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.560 Miami before we all go wherever we're going in the 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.480 All Star break. Um, it's part of, you know, just 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.480 trying to have some level of depth. He has been 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.480 playing well, and I expect he'll be back. He'll be 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.640 back quickly. Wants that link game offense early tonight. A 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:02.800 lot of the money you guys ran out to the the 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.439 end of the reason that pace wasn't going to favor us. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.120 You know, when you're up, you can feel the lead, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.600 you can feel the lead secure, and I just didn't 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.840 feel comfortable unless it was clear cut that, you know, 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.920 fast offense was going to be favorable. I think that, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.320 you know, if we didn't have something cheap just to 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.680 like put it on a hip walk some stuff down, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.160 milk the game, use the clock back on defense. That 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.640 type of mentality was was on my mind, And uh, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.480 you know it's a it's a it's a delicate balance 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.800 because you can't forget what got you there. You know, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.040 you knew they played the night before. You don't want 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.800 to play hoping the clock evaporates and you're playing a 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.680 little bit fearful. That's not how we want to play. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.640 So somewhere in the middle is smart. You know, where 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.120 you take early offense and then you don't have it 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.200 and you go back to what you're saying rich about 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.839 just like that, end the game walk down package along 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:06.400 with seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown. Following tonight's win 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.359 one O eight ninety two over the next TJ McConnell 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:15.400 tremendous ten points, ten rebounds, eleven dimes, six steals for 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.320 the spunky third year point guard in thirty seven minutes 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.800 off the bench, part of a really impressive effort top 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.520 to bottom from the Sixers, one that saw the Sixers 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.480 finish strong yet again, outscoring the Knicks twenty two to 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.640 thirteen in the fourth quarter, the defense clamping down Dario 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.120 scharch A spark at the start hit a big three 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.480 point late twenty four points four three pointers for him, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.640 eighteen for JJ Reddick, seventeen and six for Joel Embid. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.839 Ben Simmons a very versatile effort on his part with 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:50.920 thirteen points, six rebounds, six assists, three blocked shots, and 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.200 four steals. The Sixers couldn't quite gain enough separation from 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.840 the Knicks for about two and a half three quarters 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.079 of tonight's game, but then Robert Covington, with a flurry 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.960 of hard driving moves to the basket midway through the 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.720 third quarter, got the crowd into it. He had another 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.760 big dunk later early on in the fourth quarter, and 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.520 then McConnell at the controls helped get the Sixers across 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.319 to the finish line for their fourth straight win. This 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.640 is the third four game winning street for the seventy 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.199 Sixers this season. They're now four games over five hundred, 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.920 twenty nine and twenty five and their four oh on 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.079 this homestand with a chance to make it perfect on 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.200 Wednesday against the Miami Heat. Tom McGinnis is standing by. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.640 We'll get to him next. It's the postgame showing the Sixers. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:40.320 Rating Network N five, the fanatic seventy Sixers and the 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.000 New York Knicks here at the center, and it was 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.560 the Sixers the one O eight ninety two win over 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.040 New York. We bring back Tom McGinnis. You know what, 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.800 Tom McGinnis. The Knicks they had resiliency, the Sixers had. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.840 TJ McConnell tonight. What a great showing from him with 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:00.400 ten points, ten rebounds, eleven assists, six steals and just 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.880 really helped in a major way set the tone for 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.719 this win tonight. And you know, my favorite play of 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.040 his was it was being on the receiving end of 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.760 an illegal screen by Kyle O'Quinn, who you know, the 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.440 whole object of a screen is to make the opposing player, 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.800 you know, run around him, and Kyle O'Quinn just ran 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.200 smack dab and like he was trying to send a 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.480 message to TJ McConnell. And McConnell got bounced out at 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.319 mid court, didn't hit the ground or anything, but basically 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.320 flexed the crowd like that's what you got, and it 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.280 just it seems to fire him up even more. And 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.200 he was so good. And the combination of Simmons as 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.960 a starter and McConnell as a reserve. Those numbers combined 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.880 were just tremendous, I believe Brian. Unofficially it may be 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.560 the first ever triple double for a Sixers reserve in 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:54.880 franchise history. Certainly hasn't been in my recent memory anytime soon. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.079 I know Aaron McKee did it a couple of times 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.600 in a row. But he also, I think was a 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.240 starter for the Sixers years ago. Just a great all 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.920 around game. And numbers are one thing, but it's the 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.560 way he got those numbers and his contributions to the 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:11.240 win that were paramount and a nice victory for the Sixers. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.679 It was not a great first half. It seemed like 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.760 every time the Sixers began to build the lead in 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.960 New York was able to creep within two or three. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.320 But his play was just superb throughout the game. How 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.280 about the moment in the closing seconds where it's like 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.000 everyone in the house knew it was going on. No, right, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.800 it's the crowd they all cleared out after McConnell hit 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.560 the step back to get to eleven points and ten assists, 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.640 and then everyone knew what was going on. Right, So 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.720 it's on the board in terms of when the players 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.080 on the JumboTron scoreboard that hangs above the floor when 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.680 you know players in the game, his points are up 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.600 there and everything's in there. So yeah, I mean, but 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.560 there's no other It's not like Matt Cord the public 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.640 address announcers going, there's one rebout high. I guess that 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.800 would be our jobs, but no, so, yeah, you're right. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.040 They were so in tune and then it was like 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.640 a celebration that lasted more than a possession. And that 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.560 just goes to show you his a his value to 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.360 the team and his popularity amongst the fan base and 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.760 his own teammates. Seventy sixers with the win over the 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.720 next t J McConnell the fourth player of the Brett 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.240 Brown coaching ra to record a triple double, joining Tony Roten, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.960 Michael Carter Williams, and Ben Simmons as the Sixers defeat 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.480 the Knicks one of eight ninety two. Thought another key 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.560 thing from this one, Tom was Robert Covington driving and 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:32.520 not just driving finishing at the rim in tonight's game. 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.040 How out that he had the big what's his independence 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.400 Blue Cross commercial? Will you be able to dunk like me? 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:42.440 And he was throwing him down he was. It was great. 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.800 The and one conversion dunk at seventy nine seventy three 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.800 right after the Knicks tied it up, and then maybe 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.160 one of the hardest dunks of his career. I mean, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.720 the first one was really really good, but ninety three 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.400 seventy nine was another big one, and those were key 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.000 energizing moments in the game where the Sixers needed a spark, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.760 no question about it, and that again, that's the thing 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.160 about an all around team effort is when guys step 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.560 up and contribute at different points. They thought Daria was 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.080 really good early Ben was driving on Lance Thomas. Then 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.400 I thought they made it an adjustment where you know 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.080 Thomas most teams play off of Simmons, but they clogged 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.240 the lane and didn't let him get in there. Joel 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.240 had his moments, not the greatest rebounding night, but certainly 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.880 made a lot of jumpers. JJ made three or four 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.440 three pointers, and TJ was steady throughout the bench. I 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.280 thought Trevor Booker was really good. So I mean, it's 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.120 a great all around effort and the Sixers, you know, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.160 are getting it done even when they're not playing their 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.080 best in terms of in certain chunks of this game. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.720 But then I think maybe the big takeaway too that 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.120 we're not addressing his defense to hold three straight opponents 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.800 under one hundred points, and they're really excelling in that area. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.120 As the metrics continued to rise in terms of on 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.440 the charts for the Sixers and in a great overall effort, 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.760 the Knicks tapered off. Without doubt in terms of the 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.120 four quota they played last night. I thought it would showed. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.800 But that's when that's the advantage, you know, when you're 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.800 playing here at home and you see that he sees 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.720 that opportunity, and that's exactly what they did. Seventy Sixers 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.640 best the Knicks one O eight ninety two. And now, 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:15.400 tom what a feat that would be. This is gonna 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.160 be a It should set up to be a great 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.000 game on Wednesday. With Miami only a half game in 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.119 front of the Sixers entering tonight. By virtue of the 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.960 Sixers victory, they're now tied in the standings and this 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.800 is gonna be a key game in the Eastern Conference 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.320 standings coming up on Wednesday, no doubt. And before we 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.600 get into that, to me again, Detroit lost again the 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:40.400 night and that's that's big because to me, the Sixers 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.120 have solidified for now the A spot. They're now three 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.920 games in front of Detroit, so that's big. And now 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.080 looking forward to that seven spot, like you say, the 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.040 sixth spot, it's another big game against Miami. It's only 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:53.959 the second game of the year against the Heat, and 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.920 it's here at home, and if you beat them, automatically, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.879 you put yourself in a position to even or tie 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.679 the season series. And the only reason I mentioned that 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.120 is because that's the first tiebreakers head to head competition. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.520 And you know, again, another part of it is the Sixers. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.440 It set a goal to win all of these home games, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.880 and their four fifths of the way there. So it's 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.640 a huge, huge game to your point, and again it's 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.920 there's not that much separation between four or five, six, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.600 seven in the Eastern Conference standings and then again long 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.840 way to go, but in the Sixers, the way they're 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.840 trending and then continue to play well, they'll put themselves 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:31.920 in that spot. But there's no doubt a head to 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.720 head game against somebody you know directly or certainly right 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.879 within range in the conference is paramount. Tom mcguinnis with 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.680 great insight is always postgame Thank you very much? Should 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.400 I Brian? Thank you? One to wait ninety two Sixers 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.160 beat the New York Knicks. We'll have some of Thomas 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.520 highlight calls coming away. On the other side, it's the 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.240 postgame show here on the Sixers Rating Network.