WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 2/24/18 - Rewind vs. Magic 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:05.160 This is the Philadelphia seventy Sixers postgame show feed I 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.880 can look about about Broach free Stars. Is gonna turn 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.719 and get it off, Maddie rolling the Sixers postgame show 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:20.040 right now on ninety seven five. The Fanetti seventy Sixers 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.279 keep on a rolling back at home tonight, hosting the 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.400 Orlando Magic Day power their way to a one sixteen 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.480 one oh five victory, their seventh in a row, their 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.800 longest winning streaks since a seven gamer back in January 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.199 of two thousand and nine. Brian Seltzer with you from 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.800 Sixers dot com. We are hopeful, fingers crossed that we 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.800 might be able to pull up Brett Brown's postgame press 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.800 conference feed. We are efforting that right now, but in 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.960 the meantime we will recap some of the important developments 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.360 from tonight's game. I mean, there were some very impressive 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.640 efforts and contributions, no doubt about it, Joel and be 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.800 dominant twenty eight and fourteen, Ben Simmons with seventeen, four 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.480 and seven. But honestly, going back and thinking about how 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.399 this game unfolded and got on track for the Sixers, 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.600 you cannot overlook Rashaun Holmes and what he did tonight. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.080 He was only on the court for about four minutes 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.319 in the opening period, but man his two way contributions, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.920 highlighted by a couple rebounds, a block on Nick Fusovic, 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:21.960 and a big time alley oop set up by t 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.560 J McConnell, that set the holistic tone for the seventy Sixers, 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.559 which fell behind fifteen to six in the early going 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.800 and were in vital need of a spark. It was 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.520 ironic because Brett Brown was talking before the game about 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.400 how you know, you never know when you get up 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.600 for these postseason runs when you might need someone from 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.759 your bench to step up and step in, and because 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.240 of that, you try and keep them fresh as often 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:48.000 as you can. Seemed like Rashaun Holmes, not surprisingly given 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.240 the way we've seen him play over the years, took 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.360 that message to heart. He was ready when Brown went 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.000 to him and the Sixers they got going. After that, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:01.440 they read things up, and pretty much after Holmes helped 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.560 light the spark for a thirteen to three run to 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.480 give the Sixers the first lead, the Sixers were off 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.839 and running after that. They outscored the Magic twenty one 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.919 to three to end the first quarter and never look back. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.000 From there. They led by eighteen points at the break 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.200 and wanted to go up by as many as twenty 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.640 three points in the second half. This was a night 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.680 where the Sixers really shooting fifty two percent from the field, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.760 nine to twenty seven from outside the arc, just seem 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.920 to be able to do whatever they wanted on the 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.919 offensive end, thirty one assists on forty two baskets and 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.520 bed there was no answer for him. Whether it was 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:42.400 Nick Vussevich or Bismack Biambo or Kem Birch, no one 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.200 could slow him down. A great effort for him. Ben 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.480 Simmons a calm, cool and collected customer one sixteen one 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.960 fifteen Sixers beat the magic. Let's go to Brett Brown 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.959 right now. You know, he's also a sort of a 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.840 glue guy in relation to the culture that we're building, 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.120 as you know, like he's been with me, you know, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.560 a little less than Joel has. Joel and I've been 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.240 with each other the longest, and so I see some 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.280 things that really don't show up on a stat sheet 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.639 that I just feel as the coach, but I hear you, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.480 you know, making some shots and him stepping in like 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.400 he used to be in his old world a college foreman, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.720 and him going into the basket, going toward the basket 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.360 instead of like pinned down, JJ is different coming away 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.720 from the basket. That's when he is at his best. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.959 Cut the leads under ten the minutes a player, even 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.720 as they started to do that with the huns up. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.160 Why did you decide to go with your bench guys 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.200 and not bring the starters back in. We talked about 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:38.640 that in the locker room. You know what if his 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.000 owning a shot went in, you know, I think it 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.160 would have cut it to six with about a minute thirty. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:44.640 And I wasn't going to do it. I was gonna 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.880 go with those guys. And you know, again some of 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.640 his just gut feel, maybe some of its stubbornness, but 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.800 you know, we have to grow up, bench. We have 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.360 to give those guys confidence that they can close out games. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.000 They did and my intention was going to be is 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.520 to let them see it through. And it ballooned out 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.440 at the end, but I would have handled it that way. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.040 It's one of the seven consecutive victories for you guys, 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.360 or was it really important for you guys to get 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.200 a win like this going into this road? For I 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.599 think it's what we spoke about it and the pre 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:31.520 game press. I can inflate the importance in my mind 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.720 of every game, and I'm trying to stay with these 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:41.240 guys behind me, nice and steady in relation to what 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.720 matters most, what's most important, and so it's always a 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.200 defense and the pieces to our defense. So it's not 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.040 like a global statement of oh, we got to play defense. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:56.320 It's the intricacies of the accountability in the execution of 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.919 a defense that interests me the most. There are pieces 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.720 is of us screen setting and how we're going to 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.520 score and what are you gonna do, you know, behind 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.680 Joel once he gets the ball Joel had zero turnovers tonight, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.240 and how you're going to space out of that, and 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.360 so to come in and like to clear like this 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.039 is the only end of game, and tomorrow it's going 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.719 to be the Washington game, like they really all matter. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.359 And in my mind, it's trying to take that approach 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.640 in our remaining games so that we can become hardened 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:30.960 and I hope well drilled when when it matters most 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:36.159 in a playoff situation. Right, you talked about playing playing 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.400 well for longer periods of time to fight you guys 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.559 complished that tonight. You know, I thought in the second 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.400 half it was kind of trading baskets. I thought defensively, 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.000 forty points in the first half was a really good effort. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.040 I think this sixty five points in the second half 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.760 is way too many. You know, I thought for a while, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.320 it's just sort of like trading baskets. And so no, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.599 not to the level that I'm talking about. No, And 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.600 you know that again is the same sort of answer 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.320 that I'd give to you that keech, you vocal boat. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.200 That's the holy grill, you know, just playing harder, smarter, longer. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:16.000 That's the word longer, harder, smarter, longer. And tonight I 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.360 thought was okay, not great. Seventy Sixers over the Orlando 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.039 Magic one sixteen to one oh five. A dramatic turnaround 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.680 from the Sixers after falling behind early fifteen to six, 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.400 keyed by Rashaun Holmes, and then a whole lot of 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.240 help from the likes of Joel Embid, Ben Simmons, JJ Reddick, 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.000 Marco Belinelli. With fifteen off the bench and the rest 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.440 of the seventy Sixers rotation. At this stage of the season, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.120 we're able to get them to their seventh consecutive win, again, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.040 their longest since January of two thousand and nine, when 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.159 they also won seven games in a row and taken 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.640 care of business at home before setting out on the road. 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.880 Tom McGinnis is standing by. He has some thoughts. We 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.160 know they'll be good ones. Stay tuned for that. Next 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:06.080 is the postgame showing the Sixers Raider Network seventy Sixers 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.880 and the Orlando Magic at the center. Tonight, Sixers were 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.080 trying to stretch their winning streak, which began before the 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.600 All Star Game break and continued Thursday in Chicago. Early on, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.840 Orlando had the upper hand, but the Sixers got a 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.720 nice little lift from the bench and things changed from 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.680 there in a big way. One sixteen, one oh five 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.000 over the Magic. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot com. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.560 Tom mcguinnis is ready to roll on south down to Washington, DC. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.960 A quick wardrobe change by coaching outfit on from earlier 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.280 our CYO game. So yes, a season veteran, but that 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.880 was a nice win. These the last three between the Heats, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.000 the Bulls and this one tonight, they have not come 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.120 with that. Perhaps certuitous roots the finish line, but the 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.840 finish line has been reaching really and Bead was fantastic, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.000 and I tend to agree with what you said that 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.840 this is maybe the most comfortable he looked in his 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.920 one and a half season so far. But Holmes was 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.520 the one that got him going. Absolutely. But let's go 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.000 back to your initial comment, Brian, because you're right. The Sixers, 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:11.920 down twenty four, come from behind win here Wednesday, February fourteenth, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.840 without Joel mb their fifth straight win at home, fifth overall. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.880 Then they begin the second half, or the last portion 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.880 of the schedule as they go to Chicago up eighteen, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.120 win by one, basically steal a victory, and then as 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.400 you say early in this game, down nine, and then 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.040 win comfortably. It gets a little tighter down the stretch. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.400 But again, these are the types of games the Sixers. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.920 Any one of those three games, the Sixers might have 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.240 lost this game even earlier this year, or any one 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.040 of these games this year, or at points certainly in 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:48.720 years pass. So that's the maturity and growth where they're 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.000 punching through. And even though they had a sluggish start, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.800 they come back and score the last thirteen points and 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.000 outscore them twenty one to three. At the end of 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.800 the first and dominate the game. Now Joel and bead 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.440 I thought he was. They were funneling the offense through him. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.280 He was moving the ball quickly. He didn't have a 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.040 turnover in the game. He was dominant. Vussovich couldn't guard him. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.720 Beyambo comes in and gets three fouls. They didn't have 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.160 a guy that could guard him, and he was moving 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.880 that ball with precision. Covington gets on fire. He's he's 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:21.840 struggled a little bit of late, but he makes four 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:26.000 first half threes. Ben was aggressive and dominant. JJ Reddick 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.360 was extremely efficient after a sluggish start from the field. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.360 Bella Notlli comes in. He's played in Philadelphia twice. He 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.959 had seventeen points in that Miami game and fifteen here tonight. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.960 And then Rashawn Holmes for the first time this year, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.280 to my knowledge or recollection, he's the first big guy 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.839 off the bench. A Mirror Johnson doesn't play, and you know, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.400 we'll have to hear from coach. I don't know if 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.959 it was posed post game, but you know now a 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:55.000 mirror is raring to go against Washington, and Rashaun Holmes 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.440 was a big part of that comeback against Miami. Comes 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.680 with energy and bounce. Physical. He got really knocked around 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.240 here in this game, but he has eight rebounds four well, 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:08.000 eight points of rebounding assists was very good. He's an 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.120 energy and along with TJ he brings such fight and 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.000 scrap if you will, off the bench. And again one 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.600 of those games, all five starters in double figures. Nineteenth 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.000 time they've done that where everybody that played, Trevor Booker 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.400 played well, contributed in spurts, and it all added up 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.200 to a nice overall victory over the Magic. The final 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.480 scoring this one tonight one sixteen one oh five. Who 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.880 was funny? Brett Brown has asked before the game in 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.000 his press conference to kind of give a self scout 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.840 of the Sixers at this point, and essentially the line 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.840 of questioning got to, well, how would you defend yourself? 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.160 And Brett was like, I know how, but I'm not 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.080 sure if anything. I mean that, you know, It's like 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.680 I respect for that reporter, but as he's asking, then 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.040 I'm like, what coaching is right, man? Mine, Let's see, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.520 I would let Simmons shoot. What else do you need? 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.480 Of course he's not going to share that with the media. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.720 Let's run that right down to Frankie Vogel, frank, here's 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.400 a blueprint, so no doubt. But how he did answer, 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.640 maybe this is where you're going. You will know where 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.600 I was going, was like Brett Brown might know, but 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.400 I'm not sure if there are many of the teams 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:11.760 right now, at least based on the ones and the 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.120 Sixers have played lately, that know how to do it 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.240 because the options have been so multiple and balanced that 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.800 the Sixers have been able to get just about whatever 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.840 they want. Well, Brian Colangelo did a good job of 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.520 adding pieces to the team in the offseason. You get 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.480 the likes of Reddick, who gives you that spacene element 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.560 and the ability to knock down shots. You had another 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.199 threat like that in Bell and Nellie. You've got now 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.720 they're starters according to coach, the number one ranked first 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.480 five in the NBA. So that might you'd say, well, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.200 maybe the bench needs to step it up, but again 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.160 you've got pieces, pivotal players that come in and make 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.320 a difference. But again, to reiterate what coach said was, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.560 I can tell you what we are, and that's what 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.120 he's tried to establish since he came to Philadelphia. It's 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.080 been five years, and that is we're going to play 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.199 with pace. They're like three or four in terms of 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.320 playing fast in the NBA. They're gonna share the ball, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.320 we're gonna move it. Their number one in passing, and 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.040 we're gonna guard and their number four in defense. And tonight, 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.200 to your point, they did all of those things and 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.880 they're interspersing in which I would say even well, what 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.800 we mentioned earlier more than interspersing in they're going through 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.479 the posts with maybe the best big man in basketball 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.840 in Joel and Bad and he's moving that ball, and 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.880 that is that's And then you got a six ten 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.800 point guard who's gonna ram it down your throat. You're 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.120 right there. There are some things that are big that 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:36.040 they are some difficult matchups and like that's those are 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.240 two questions like that. The opponents have to come. Who's 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.640 Garden Simmons? And how are we going to handle them? Beat? 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.280 Every night the Sixers play. This is the fun part now, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.480 as the Sixers, after tonight's win one sixteen one on five, 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.080 get ready to head south to Washington, DC, a big 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.080 three game road trip against clubs that, like themselves, are 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.559 in the mix and thick of this Eastern Conference playoff picture. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.280 You got Washington first tomorrow, Miami two, Cleveland Thursday, and 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.959 you just got to feel good for the fans following 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.079 this team out there, because when was the last time 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.280 there was this much excitement and anticipation checking scoreboards? I mean, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.400 they're a game behind Washington for fourth place in the 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.920 conference going into the matchup at Capitol. I want to 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.960 read in them orrow night. Well, and I said that 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.920 a few weeks ago, and that is now. You can 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.240 watch the scoreboard and I know you mentioned it pregame 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.760 and the other night after the game as well. But 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.520 you know, as a fan in years pass, you're you're 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.959 looking up at the standings and you know, you look 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.080 around the NBA and it really didn't matter as to 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.280 whom was winning and whom is losing. Now every single 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.480 night I look at the who's playing, and you're I 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.200 got a team. I'd like that team to lose. You know, 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.200 last night, I'm listening to the New Orleans Miami game. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.000 Come on, Drew Holiday, you know what I mean, And 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.000 they beat Miami and they're waiting seconds with an outstanding 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.760 game by Davis. And so you're right, I mean, and 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.679 Washington has played well. The Sixers have beaten them here twice. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.640 I thought in that first game, even though they lost 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.199 the open are down there in Washington, they had their chances, 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.679 but they turned the ball over down the stretch. They 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:08.200 seem to have graduated from that, grown from that. Not 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.079 to say that it would never come back where they 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.800 would have a costly turnover, but it'll be a great matchup. 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.480 And then as you say, down to Miami, the Sixers 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.160 have played and beaten them twice here to Cleveland or 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.120 rejuvenated calvs team. And the only thing other thing I 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.120 would say, Brian is Orlando and the Sixers. You know, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.560 they were in this mix with a lottery picks over 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.520 the last few years and they basically started the rebuilds 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.160 at the same time. Well, look where the Sixers are, 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.760 and Orlando's eighteen and forty one, and they've had some 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.480 high picks and it's just you know, so say what 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.520 you want, but this is the moment. This has been 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.160 the process. It's working for the Sixers. Well, put seventy 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.600 Sixers knock off the Magic one sixteen one oh five 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.520 primetime game on a Sunday Tomorrow at eight pm DWAN 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.960 in DC versus the Wizards talk to you just before then, 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.760 mister McInnis, good night, Brian, thank you seventy Sixers. When 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.640 they're seventh straight. They're thirty two and twenty five on 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.120 the Sea and a game behind the Wizards now for 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.320 fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings. We'll hear more 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.800 about this game with some of Tom's highlight calls coming up. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.520 On the other side, it's the postgame show on the 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:18.160 Sixers Radio Network. Three Fitch stop in South Philadelphia for 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.680 the seventies Sixers before beginning a long stretch on the 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.920 road over the next two weeks, going in the middle 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.880 of the month of March. Game's all important this time 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.000 of year, Sixers trying to keep a winning streak alive. 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.120 Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot Com. Here's how 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.200 it went tonight is called by the one and only 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.520 radio voice in the seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis. It 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.440 was not in a very good place the first six 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.240 minutes of place. The seventy Sixers fell behind fifteen to six. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.720 At that point, Brett Brown went to his bench. He 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.040 was looking for a boost. He got one from Rashaun Holmes, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.520 so he has helped the Sixers off the bench he've 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.280 actually fared better with him in there. Here's McConnell in 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.160 the name. McConnell breaks free lobs and shot slams it. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.960 McConnell the Holmes laun That was in the midst of 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:03.960 a big one for the Sixers. They were down by one, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.840 fifteen to fourteen, and moments later they would get over 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.000 the top three balls short. No Dario taps it, It 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.800 goes to Holmes, out to Covington. Three is good. Robert 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:18.760 Covington puts first chuple four, the Sixers second chance opportunity 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.800 set up by the back tap by old Dario, and 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.840 it was also the Sixers first lead at nineteen to eighteen. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.600 Shortly after that, Holmes would be brought back the bench 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:29.840 in favor of him b. But while Holmes was on 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.920 the court, the Sixers outscored the Magic by ten, putting 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.960 them in front, setting the tone for the rest of 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.920 a big first half. The Sixers outscored the Magic twenty 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.480 one to three, going into the second lead in twenty 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.360 seven to eighteen. A lot of good things in quarter 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.080 number two will go to the very end and Joel 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.880 En b just capping off a monster opening first stanzing 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.760 and we're in the final forty seconds of the first half, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.080 Joellen b with the ball, he dribbles, he gets a 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.600 screen and jims it. Orlando a two car pile up 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.600 in the hey Joel the beat throws it down. Yeah. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.720 Nick Vussevich and DJ Augustine ran into one another at 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.800 the elbow, freeing up inbad for that big jam. Joel 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.720 with nineteen points and eight rebounds, which would be an 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.560 excellent night from your mortals. But that was by the 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.960 half for the All Star Sixers up eighteen fifty eight 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.359 to forty. Going in to the break onto the third, 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.919 Sixers seeing things open up, Dario's charge with the stroke 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.760 up top, Dario for three and charge knocks it out. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.960 Sixers's that is right there, good to great. In other words, 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.320 coming to Ben had a shot coming. It had a 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.560 really good look, but it opened three and that's the 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.080 great and answer. The Sixers are a potent passing team. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.920 Made it a twenty point lead, sixty seven forty seven. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.280 Magic got the depsit down to a Baker's dozen middle 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.919 of the third. The Sixers were ready to answer and 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.400 come back with some more. Joel Embad at the head 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.240 of the snake, standing with a right and dribble fee 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.560 to beat down low. They run to double Joel split 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.720 the traff and jams and oh man, how about that. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.480 You think he's handling doubles better. He jumped right through 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.520 the double team and dunked it eighty seven at seventy 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.320 one Sixers after three onto the fourth. We should give 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.880 Ben Simmons a bit of a highlight forum here. He 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.000 was just steady threat the night and he did a 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.440 little bit of everything for the Sixers. He has it 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.080 on a drive against Jonathan Simmons, jumps it up with 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.520 a hook and that's good against. There are certain aspects 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:31.080 of that play that are unguardable Ben Simmons with fourteen, 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:35.240 he calls his own number and scores again, you know, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.440 and Simmons the other Simmons, Jonathan Simmons, he really tried 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.359 to get up in physical on Ben tonight. Whether it 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.080 was him or Aaron Gordon, Simmons was still able to 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.919 find his opportunities on the interior, scoring and the Sixers 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.200 would move on to win it one sixteen, one oh fives. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.600 We heard Brett Brown talk about during his press conference 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.680 comfortable letting some of the reserves handled the home stretch 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.639 of this game necessary for their long term development heading 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.320 towards the postseason. Some final stats. In the Sixers victory tonight, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.520 they shot just under fifty two percent from the field 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.040 the magic forty five percent six or nine to twenty 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.280 seven from outside the arc Orlando with thirteen threes. Sixers 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.919 were plus seven in terms of free throws made tonight. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.960 That helping their cause answered the performance on the glass, 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.840 the best rebounding team in the NBA plus twelve on 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.879 the backboards tonight, Sixers, with thirty one assists on forty 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:28.520 two made baskets, kept their turnovers relatively in check, especially 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.399 after the first three minutes of the game. They finished 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.920 with fourteen cough ups on the night. Individual notes dwell 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.320 Embead game high in both points and rebounds with twenty 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.560 eight and fourteen, respectively, thirty double doubles on the season 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.720 for him, twenty ninth time in franchise history a player 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.920 has reached the thirty double double mark, first time since 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.840 five oh six when Chris Webber did it. Ben Simmons 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.160 seventeen points, four rebounds, seven assists, and we should also 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.880 mention with Joel Embiid no turnovers for the first time 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:00.280 in about seven weeks that another important stat for him. 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.240 Sixteen for JJ Reddick on six of eight shooting, fifteen 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:06.879 for Marco Belinelli off the bench came on strong in 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.240 the second half point six for twelve overall with one 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.800 three pointer. The Sixers had all five starters in double figures, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.680 finishing out that contingent Dario Schartz with eleven point six rebounds, 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.800 four assists, Robert Covington with a couple three pointers four 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:24.199 of them, twelve points, five boards and four dimes. Seventy 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.080 Sixers took this one, which is two hours, seven minutes 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:30.320 to play in front of a sellout crowd of twenty thousand, 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.880 five hundred and ninety four. With the win the six 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.160 or seventh straight through Now thirty two and twenty five, 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.760 the Sixers play the Washington Wizards tomorrow night, eight o'clock 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.840 at Capitol One Arena, only a game between the teams 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.160 now for fourth place or sheaf of it, at least 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.600 in the Eastern Conference standings for some of our six 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:51.480 Er Rady Network affiliates. Pregame coverage underway at seven to 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.960 fifty with the pregame show Big Thanks the guys back 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.679 at the studio Carl Namoleon Alan Yates, Marty Dickerson here 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.159