WEBVTT - Rewind | Recapping Seeding Play 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.960 search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pods you're 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.639 listening to Rewind. They'll listen back on press conferences, highlights 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.840 and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. The seventy 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.040 Sixers roll past the Houston Rockets one thirty four to 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.079 ninety six in the final game of seating play inside 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.840 the Bubble in Orlando. The seventy Sixers went four and 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.040 four in seating play. They're the sixth seed in the East, 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.199 and of course they have the Boston Celtics starting on 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.879 Monday in the opener of the Eastern Conference quarter finals. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.559 Sixers kind of like, at least as far as what 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.080 the Rockets try to do. Out rocketed the Rockets. They 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.360 knocked down eighteen three pointers, and they got off to 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.199 a really great start, outscoring Houston by thirteen thirty nine 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.479 to twenty six in the first quarter. The Sixers then 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.080 outscored Houston by eleven in the second quarter, and their 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.280 offense was humming tonight, especially with the regulars on the court. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.480 I was pretty surprised. I feel like probably a lot 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.040 of other people were two with the extent to which 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.720 some of the main stays for the Sixers played. Joel 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.240 Embiid log twenty three minutes. He finished with fourteen points, 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.480 six of twelve from the field, six rebounds for the 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.880 big man, he was plus nine. That was a high 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.640 mark among the starters. Eighteen points for Tobias Harris, six 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.039 of ten from the floor for him, two for three 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.040 from outside the arcs, seven rebounds and four assists for 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.680 Tobias Harris. Al Horford with ten points, three rebounds, four dimes. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.760 Eleven for Shake Milton behind three three pointers. Alec Burke's 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.479 a great finish for him inside the bubble in terms 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.640 of seating games. Sixteen points for him, four of six 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.240 from the perimeter, fourteen four Howell Nato, who just played 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.400 terrific this past week. I thought Matisse Steibel had a 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.000 really strong game. Seven points. He was three for four 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.400 from the field. He had four steals and two block shots, 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.880 two rebounds, one assists, and a handful of great cuts 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.120 that led to dunks. He had a great few moments 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.800 on James Harden, one that resulted in a steal that 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.360 then led to a Sixers basket, and then he forced 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:10.520 another turnover in Harden in the second half. So I 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.600 think the Sixers in terms of a launching point into 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.519 the playoffs, this is a really good showing for them tonight. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.800 They shot fifty six percent overall. They certainly used their 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.320 size to their advantage, crushed the Rockets on the glass 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.480 fifty one to twenty seven, and Houston just did not 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.079 seem to have it tonight. James Harden finished with twenty 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.240 seven He was nine of sixteen from the field. Jeff 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.760 Green added seventeen points. Eric Gordon knocked down three to 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.880 three pointers to finish with thirteen. But yeah, the Sixers, 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.519 I think tonight was a perfect case in point. I 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.640 feel like we saw it a lot during the regular season, 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.079 especially when the team was at home, when they can 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:52.639 shoot threes, and when Joe Ellen beat his playing. Those 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:57.240 factors combined for a pretty auspicious result one thirty four 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.720 to ninety six to seventy Sixers over the Rockets. Here 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.600 is head coach Bret Brand. We've all come back from 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.200 from the break here in Orlando, and all good teams 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.400 need one and he has provided that. And he's also 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.519 along that path provided a secondary ball handle it, you know, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.119 really a backup point guard if you will. And so 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.560 I think out of anybody there or out of our team, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.800 there's nobody that stands out more than he does in 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.480 the role that he has sort of embraced. Thanks coach, 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:36.040 it's got a serena. Next to follow up on Alec coach, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.760 what do you think has enabled him to have so 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.119 much success in the bubble? Is it? Is it just 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.200 the opportunity, you know, with the injuries. Has there been 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.600 a different mentality him getting to know the guys more. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.480 Just what do you think has contributed to that? I 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.600 think it's I think it's a hybrid. I think it's 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.000 a combination of all the things that you just said. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:04:01.720 There is there is a comfortability, there is a role 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:09.600 recognition slash opportunity. And we put him in a place 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.880 right from the get go where he had the ball 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.920 the second he get off of plane at a bus 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:20.600 and went into very first day of practice, I had 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.600 him with the ball, Like we had a chance to 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.040 revisit a lot over the pandemic as a staff myself, 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.280 like if he had to do it again, what would 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.919 you do? That was one of the things we talked about, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.080 is let's give him the ball, Like he's very creative 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.400 with the ball, and I hope that that has had 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.400 something to do with it, that we've empowered him. But 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:45.160 in general, I give him credit where his mentality from 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:49.720 the very beginning has been one of remembering who he is, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.320 like Reda's resume, like when you look at what does 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:56.520 he do? He has a very unique NBA game and 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:00.520 that he can create his own score scoring opportunity. He 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.800 can create his own shot and he has been doing that. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.120 He has been making them. And also like being the 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:13.279 secondary sort of point guard, a primary ball handled with 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:18.440 that second group, he's been exceptional. Thank you, Keith, You're 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:24.719 up next. Hey, how you do on Breton Brett? You 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.640 know all year that I guess they're not the model, 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.680 but everybody kept saying this team is built for the playoffs. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.800 I mean, the playoffs are here. I know that Ben 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:38.520 Simmons down And do you still feel that way, Like, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.680 do you still think like this is a team the 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.320 roster that you have that you guys could be successful, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.320 you know, and go deep in the playoffs. I do, 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.320 I do, and I think I think that for a 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:54.359 few reasons. I think the defensively, we are starting to 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.919 understand how to play with each other. We're starting to 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:03.960 understand switch groups. We we clearly need a healthy Joe Olmbi. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.960 Nobody denies that. We can't dismiss that you need a 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.920 healthy Joe ol Embi to make the run that we 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.280 need to make. And I think that defensively, there is 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.240 a spirit, there is a connection amongst our group that 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.640 makes me say that I feel like offensively there is 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.080 a path like it it's a it's a different path 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.400 than it used to be with Ben, but there is 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:29.640 a path. And I think that our scoring opportunities. I 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:34.240 think that our symmetry has been pretty clean and clear 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.480 since the loss of Ben Um and I think that 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.919 both sides of the ball and the spirit, I believe 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.159 that we are built for the playoffs and I look 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:50.039 forward to playing Boston. They're well coached, they're a great team. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.560 They've had an exceptional year and we've been beaten up. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.080 And you know, now is our moment. Now is our 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.559 time to be recognized, and I think that the group 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:03.920 has the ability to do that as it since I'm 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.440 happy with the way that you know, we're playing the game. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.320 I think that there's a great sort of unity within 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:15.240 the group. Seventy sixers head coach Brett Brown. After tonight's 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.640 landslide victory over the Houston Rockets by the final score 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.280 of one thirty four to ninety six. Seventy Sixers fell 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.720 behind by one midway through the first quarter of the 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.960 Sixers called a timeout. They trailed twenty one. Twenty came 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.760 back from the timeout, and then it was bang, bang bang, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.960 Josh Richardson a three, another triple from fur con Quark 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.960 miles after the stop, the Sixers got another defensive stand 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.480 and that led to a Tobias Harris three pointer, and 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.840 just like that, the seventy Sixers snapped off nine straight 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.080 points on three consecutive three pointers. They never looked back. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.280 They were great from outside the arc, as I mentioned, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.240 eighteen triples in the game. When you've got that and 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.040 Joel and beat in a good place, seventy Sixers are 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.920 tough out, especially when they're playing defense, which they did 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.440 as well. Tonight, Sixers dominate the Houston Rockets. They're four 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.920 and four to wrap up seating play, and now, as 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.240 Brett Brown said, the moment is here. The Boston Celtics wait. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.160 On Monday, seventy Sixers a convincing victory over the Houston 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.320 Rockets won thirty four to ninety six. Joel Embiid played 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.440 twenty three minutes, almost finished with fourteen points six or 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.080 rebounds for the big Man on six of twelve, shooting 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.600 eighteen four, Tobias Harris Alec Burks with sixteen off the 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.560 bench for Concorkmiles with a dozen, whole Nato with fourteen, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.120 and some good contributions on both ends of the floor 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.800 by Matisse Steibel. Tom McGinnis called this one tonight, Tom 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.800 and all around well rounded, convincing effort by the seventy 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.920 sixers to put a punctuation on seating play with the 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.280 playoffs limon no doubt and convincingly, you know, winning over 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.880 Houston in a shocker who knew that it would at 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.800 one point be a forty point lead, and the Sixers 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.400 out shooting the Rockets from deep and got contributions from 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.000 multiple players and just put this one out of reach. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.559 So you know, like you say, a confidence filder. Good 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.400 to get back into the win column. You go four 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.240 and four during the seating games, and now everything attention 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.240 wise shifts to Monday evenings game with Boston to tip 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.200 off that playoff series with the Celtics, what are some 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.160 of the things time you're looking forward to seeing carry 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.719 over from the seating phase into the postseason. Well, like 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.840 you know, we've talked about X factors and variables and again, 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.120 like I just this is simple, and you know, in 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:30.600 this world of analytics, it's probably is a small little nugget. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.040 But just to me, I think the Sixers have got 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.840 to make twelve or thirteen threes in a game to 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.839 be able to a match Boston and then secondly that'll 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.360 give them the best chance. And as Brett Brown says, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.520 you know you've got an explosive score off the bench 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.680 now in Burke's forkon had it going the night, you know, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.439 you get some good play from Howel Netto and m 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.199 matise thy ball. I mean, you're gonna ask Marcus Smarts 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.240 coming off their bench, and as we've stated before, he's 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.480 the you know, the heart and soul of that ball club. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.720 And you know, but I think Brett Brown said it 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:06.280 pretty succinctly and obviously very apt, and that is you 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.440 need a healthy and effective and dominant Joel and be that. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.160 That's how the Sixers took three out of four during 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.320 the regular season with Boston. You know, the matchups in 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.680 other areas, you could go this way or that way, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:24.320 but it's certainly even, you know, like in terms of 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.560 Tatum versus to Buy or however you want to shake 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.360 it out. But the spot where the Sixers clearly have 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.880 an advantage is their all star center in bed against 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:38.160 Tye and against Cantor, and Joel, you know, has been 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.080 a little banged up with the ankle in the hand. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.920 He was clenching that hand a couple of times in 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.520 this game, that right risk after taking that shot from 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.520 Gasol early in that game with Toronto. And he needs 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.480 to be more efficient. He was pretty good in the 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.400 first few games in terms of moving that ball out 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.559 of Travis, but he's got to get a little bit better. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.360 He had some air prone passes in this game and 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.720 five turnovers, as we mentioned in the previous game. And 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.720 Boston's gonna come, and they come in multiple forms, and 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.760 they change it up in terms of doubling from the top, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.120 doubling off the dribble, doubling on the catch, coming from 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.920 a block to block, and they're gonna come with a 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.480 steady diet and like I said, a varied recipe if 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.160 you will to attack that and he's got to find 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.200 those shooters, and again, just move it out of the post. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.960 You don't have to make the cross court pass. Move 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.319 it out to the perimeter, and then get that swing. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.240 Swing to the opposite side and make them pay, because 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.199 that's the whole idea of NBA basketball is try to 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.080 get the odd man situation and make the opposite If 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.480 you've got a player good enough that they have to 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.080 put two players on them, then you've got to make 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.679 them pay. And that right there is really in essence 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.880 part of what this thing is going to boil down 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.560 to in this series seventy six or Searched Past the 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.480 Rockets one thirty four, ninety six postseason on the horizon 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.320 and especially time with that Ben Simmons, you alluded to 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.600 Tobias har So the course of that explanation right there 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.040 in the question about him, Beaden talking about him, I 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.319 really think Tobias is going to be in the spotlight 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.200 on both ends of the court. Seventy sixers obviously think 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.280 very highly of him. He played mostly very well in 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.280 the bubble during the seating phase, but this could be 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.640 a really big moment I think for Tobias well and 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.720 as well it should be. You know, he's a max player. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.000 He's been so consistent, twenty points per game played in 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.520 almost every single game. And unless I'm mistaken, I think 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.800 he started out on Harden tonight. I don't think those 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.800 were Ala switches. And I think that's important too, because 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.480 you know, when you have like three or four perimeters 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.079 slashers like Tatum, like Brown, like Hayward, and then you're 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.800 gonna have you know, Kemba Walker wheeling and dealing off 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.640 the bounce out top. You need Tobias to be able 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.079 to guard certainly one of Brown, Hayward or Tatum. And 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.640 you don't expect him to lock up Tatum for forty 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.360 eight minutes six or seven games, but he's gonna have 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:54.960 to be able to stay in front and keep the 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.120 man in front of him to help the Sixers defensively, 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.840 like you say in the appsence to Ben, who you 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.680 could no doubt pencil in to guard one of those, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.880 including Walker. But yeah, no, this is a this is 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.720 a big series for Tobias, here's no question about it already. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.760 Time we will talk on Monday prior to game one 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.839 of the opening round matchup between the seventy Sixers and 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.560 the Celtics. All right, good night. Celts up a great weekend, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.640 apping up seating play inside the bubble ahead of the 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.640 playoffs Sixers. It was competitive a little bit to the 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.880 first six minutes or so, but then they were able 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.600 to find a spark from outside the arc. After falling 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.600 behind by one, Sixers called a time out and then 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:41.240 they got going Burks, Harris, Cork, Boss, Richardson, had Horford, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.320 Rett Brown, Burkson, Levaine Day Blockett and now he splits 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.280 a trap to get it back out to Tobias. He's 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.760 open for three and the Sixers with three straight triples 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.320 out of the time out. Started with Richardson, then Furkon 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.160 Cork Moss hit one, followed up by that tray from 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.240 Tobias Harris gave the Sixers twenty nine twenty one lead. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.040 They were up thirty nine to twenty six on Houston 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.800 after the first quarter of play. They had two big 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.480 runs in that first quarter, and they really were able 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.480 to seize control from the outset of tonight's game. In 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.360 the second quarter, the Sixers built up a twenty one 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.520 point margin midway through the frame, taking advantage of a 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.840 three and a half minute Houston Rockets scoring drift. It's 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.480 forty five thirty one Sixers with eight oh eight to 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.640 go Netto with a drive at acrobatic attack and it's 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:31.560 good how Netto scores the ball netto now two for three. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.040 Seventy Sixers were in front forty seven thirty one, and 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.000 about eight minutes later the Sixers gap had grown that 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.480 much more. Looking for seventy one or more here as 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.960 they get it to the corner Richards it beat is 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.320 fronted by Green Horford though with a great entry feed 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.800 in a layout by and beat hel Horford. That high 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:52.440 low that pass from out front, that is really well 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.880 done by him. And for all the talk about him 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.880 beating Horford playing alongside each other throughout the season before 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.040 the suspension, they look for he darned good together ever 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.240 since Ben Simmons injury. A great example of that right there. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.600 Seventy one forty seven seventy sixers at that point and 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.560 that was the score at intermission. Fourth time this season 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.080 the Sixers hit seventy by the break, their third highest 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.440 scoring total in a first half this season. Third quarter, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.960 the Rockets came at the seventy sixers with a three 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.240 point garage midway through the frame, dwell Embe left the 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.280 game with about six minutes ago. That was the last 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.960 bit of action for him, but some of the backups 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.960 were able to make sure the seventy six ers stayed 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.240 comfortably in front. Harris with a rebound for the Sixers. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.880 Battle of the boards, decide an edge on the glass 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.360 thirty one fourteen Sixers. Harris spins finds table and that 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.960 duo another set up for mccase with a two hands slam. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.440 Sixers eighty eight, the Rockets seventy three. Alec Burks has 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.640 been awesome in Orlando, and he was again tonight. Burks 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.280 plays into Kylo Quinn. He's guarded by Clemmens. You gotta 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:54.720 try to take him down low. Instead, he goes to 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.520 Mike Scott hasn't knocked away. Six Ers, do du game 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.960 it back five to shoot Burkes one. I wanted to 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.800 corner fires for three and it's good Alex Perks, He's hot. 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.120 Sixers advantage was ninety nine to seventy five. Their leader 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.440 was one of three seventy seven after three, and they 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.480 got a bucket from Batist to open the fourth one 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.120 old three seventy seven. The Sixers actually up their lead 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.920 in the thirty Yers, but tis for three at Thibald 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.960 knocks it out his first three in the game. He's 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.440 got three field goals total. Three is worth the theme. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.280 Seventy Sixers all over Houston one thirty four ninety six. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.400 Six Er shot fifty six and a half percent from 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.120 the field, Houston held to just under forty four percent. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.240 Sixers controlled things from outside the arc eighteen for thirty eight, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.040 or the seventy six ers from three point territory that's 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.960 good for around forty seven and a half percent. Houston 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.000 was held to twenty five percent shooting from three twelve 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.520 for forty eight. The Sixers destroyed Houston on the glass 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.480 fifty one to twenty seven to seventy Sixers allowed just 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:57.040 one offensive rebound to the Houston Rockets the entire game. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.920 That is really really good thirty one for the Sixers 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:05.119 on forty nine baskets. Tobias Harris led a balance scoring 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.680 sheet for the Sixers. He had eighteen points on six 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.400 of ten shooting two for three outside the arc, four 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.440 for four from the line, with seven rebounds fourteen for 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.320 Joel Embiad in twenty three minutes six of twelve from 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.880 the field, two for three from the stripe, six rebounds 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.200 for Joe, sixteen points for Alec Burks off the bench, 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.119 four for six for him from the perimeter, fourteen for 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.240 how Oil Nato. In the game he got to the line, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.680 drove for the basket, another nifty performance. He had five 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:35.080 assists and no turnovers. Mike Scott with ten points, seven rebounds, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.240 three assists for con Cork Miles with a dozen batises 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:43.080 Thible he finished three four for seven points. He also 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.840 had four steals and two blocked shots. He was great, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.680 I mean, just all around the board. It was good 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.760 stuff for the Sixers. Al Horford ten points, three rebounds, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:56.080 four assists, Shake Milton eleven points and two rebounds plus 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:00.439 one assist, five points four Josh Richardson tonight for the 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.440 Sixers twenty seven and ten. That's talking about points and 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.720 assist for James Harden. Other than that, you know, seventeen 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:10.000 for Jeff Green. Houston just did not have enough to 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.359 surround James Harden tonight, and they also just did not 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.399 shoot the ball well enough to keep up with the 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.400 red hot seventy Sixers. So the Sixers open up their 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.119 first round series against the Boston Celtics six verses three, 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:26.040 six thirty on Monday night from Orlando, Florida. Cannot wait. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.439 We are finally here. This has always been this phase 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.479 of the season with the seventy Sixers. It would be 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.320 their judgment day. They said, it's all about the postseason. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.520 They're built for the playoffs. Now we get to find 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.840 out exactly what they are. You've been listening to rewind 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.560 look out for fresh episodes the day after every seventy 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:43.840 Sixers game this season.