Speaker 1: This is the Philadelphia seventy Sixers postgame show feed I
Speaker 1: can look about about Broach free Stars. Is gonna turn
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Speaker 1: right now on ninety seven five. The Fanetti seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: keep on a rolling back at home tonight, hosting the
Speaker 1: Orlando Magic Day power their way to a one sixteen
Speaker 1: one oh five victory, their seventh in a row, their
Speaker 1: longest winning streaks since a seven gamer back in January
Speaker 1: of two thousand and nine. Brian Seltzer with you from
Speaker 1: Sixers dot com. We are hopeful, fingers crossed that we
Speaker 1: might be able to pull up Brett Brown's postgame press
Speaker 1: conference feed. We are efforting that right now, but in
Speaker 1: the meantime we will recap some of the important developments
Speaker 1: from tonight's game. I mean, there were some very impressive
Speaker 1: efforts and contributions, no doubt about it, Joel and be
Speaker 1: dominant twenty eight and fourteen, Ben Simmons with seventeen, four
Speaker 1: and seven. But honestly, going back and thinking about how
Speaker 1: this game unfolded and got on track for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: you cannot overlook Rashaun Holmes and what he did tonight.
Speaker 1: He was only on the court for about four minutes
Speaker 1: in the opening period, but man his two way contributions,
Speaker 1: highlighted by a couple rebounds, a block on Nick Fusovic,
Speaker 1: and a big time alley oop set up by t
Speaker 1: J McConnell, that set the holistic tone for the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: which fell behind fifteen to six in the early going
Speaker 1: and were in vital need of a spark. It was
Speaker 1: ironic because Brett Brown was talking before the game about
Speaker 1: how you know, you never know when you get up
Speaker 1: for these postseason runs when you might need someone from
Speaker 1: your bench to step up and step in, and because
Speaker 1: of that, you try and keep them fresh as often
Speaker 1: as you can. Seemed like Rashaun Holmes, not surprisingly given
Speaker 1: the way we've seen him play over the years, took
Speaker 1: that message to heart. He was ready when Brown went
Speaker 1: to him and the Sixers they got going. After that,
Speaker 1: they read things up, and pretty much after Holmes helped
Speaker 1: light the spark for a thirteen to three run to
Speaker 1: give the Sixers the first lead, the Sixers were off
Speaker 1: and running after that. They outscored the Magic twenty one
Speaker 1: to three to end the first quarter and never look back.
Speaker 1: From there. They led by eighteen points at the break
Speaker 1: and wanted to go up by as many as twenty
Speaker 1: three points in the second half. This was a night
Speaker 1: where the Sixers really shooting fifty two percent from the field,
Speaker 1: nine to twenty seven from outside the arc, just seem
Speaker 1: to be able to do whatever they wanted on the
Speaker 1: offensive end, thirty one assists on forty two baskets and
Speaker 1: bed there was no answer for him. Whether it was
Speaker 1: Nick Vussevich or Bismack Biambo or Kem Birch, no one
Speaker 1: could slow him down. A great effort for him. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons a calm, cool and collected customer one sixteen one
Speaker 1: fifteen Sixers beat the magic. Let's go to Brett Brown
Speaker 1: right now. You know, he's also a sort of a
Speaker 1: glue guy in relation to the culture that we're building,
Speaker 1: as you know, like he's been with me, you know,
Speaker 1: a little less than Joel has. Joel and I've been
Speaker 1: with each other the longest, and so I see some
Speaker 1: things that really don't show up on a stat sheet
Speaker 1: that I just feel as the coach, but I hear you,
Speaker 1: you know, making some shots and him stepping in like
Speaker 1: he used to be in his old world a college foreman,
Speaker 1: and him going into the basket, going toward the basket
Speaker 1: instead of like pinned down, JJ is different coming away
Speaker 1: from the basket. That's when he is at his best.
Speaker 1: Cut the leads under ten the minutes a player, even
Speaker 1: as they started to do that with the huns up.
Speaker 1: Why did you decide to go with your bench guys
Speaker 1: and not bring the starters back in. We talked about
Speaker 1: that in the locker room. You know what if his
Speaker 1: owning a shot went in, you know, I think it
Speaker 1: would have cut it to six with about a minute thirty.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't going to do it. I was gonna
Speaker 1: go with those guys. And you know, again some of
Speaker 1: his just gut feel, maybe some of its stubbornness, but
Speaker 1: you know, we have to grow up, bench. We have
Speaker 1: to give those guys confidence that they can close out games.
Speaker 1: They did and my intention was going to be is
Speaker 1: to let them see it through. And it ballooned out
Speaker 1: at the end, but I would have handled it that way.
Speaker 1: It's one of the seven consecutive victories for you guys,
Speaker 1: or was it really important for you guys to get
Speaker 1: a win like this going into this road? For I
Speaker 1: think it's what we spoke about it and the pre
Speaker 1: game press. I can inflate the importance in my mind
Speaker 1: of every game, and I'm trying to stay with these
Speaker 1: guys behind me, nice and steady in relation to what
Speaker 1: matters most, what's most important, and so it's always a
Speaker 1: defense and the pieces to our defense. So it's not
Speaker 1: like a global statement of oh, we got to play defense.
Speaker 1: It's the intricacies of the accountability in the execution of
Speaker 1: a defense that interests me the most. There are pieces
Speaker 1: is of us screen setting and how we're going to
Speaker 1: score and what are you gonna do, you know, behind
Speaker 1: Joel once he gets the ball Joel had zero turnovers tonight,
Speaker 1: and how you're going to space out of that, and
Speaker 1: so to come in and like to clear like this
Speaker 1: is the only end of game, and tomorrow it's going
Speaker 1: to be the Washington game, like they really all matter.
Speaker 1: And in my mind, it's trying to take that approach
Speaker 1: in our remaining games so that we can become hardened
Speaker 1: and I hope well drilled when when it matters most
Speaker 1: in a playoff situation. Right, you talked about playing playing
Speaker 1: well for longer periods of time to fight you guys
Speaker 1: complished that tonight. You know, I thought in the second
Speaker 1: half it was kind of trading baskets. I thought defensively,
Speaker 1: forty points in the first half was a really good effort.
Speaker 1: I think this sixty five points in the second half
Speaker 1: is way too many. You know, I thought for a while,
Speaker 1: it's just sort of like trading baskets. And so no,
Speaker 1: not to the level that I'm talking about. No, And
Speaker 1: you know that again is the same sort of answer
Speaker 1: that I'd give to you that keech, you vocal boat.
Speaker 1: That's the holy grill, you know, just playing harder, smarter, longer.
Speaker 1: That's the word longer, harder, smarter, longer. And tonight I
Speaker 1: thought was okay, not great. Seventy Sixers over the Orlando
Speaker 1: Magic one sixteen to one oh five. A dramatic turnaround
Speaker 1: from the Sixers after falling behind early fifteen to six,
Speaker 1: keyed by Rashaun Holmes, and then a whole lot of
Speaker 1: help from the likes of Joel Embid, Ben Simmons, JJ Reddick,
Speaker 1: Marco Belinelli. With fifteen off the bench and the rest
Speaker 1: of the seventy Sixers rotation. At this stage of the season,
Speaker 1: we're able to get them to their seventh consecutive win, again,
Speaker 1: their longest since January of two thousand and nine, when
Speaker 1: they also won seven games in a row and taken
Speaker 1: care of business at home before setting out on the road.
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis is standing by. He has some thoughts. We
Speaker 1: know they'll be good ones. Stay tuned for that. Next
Speaker 1: is the postgame showing the Sixers Raider Network seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: and the Orlando Magic at the center. Tonight, Sixers were
Speaker 1: trying to stretch their winning streak, which began before the
Speaker 1: All Star Game break and continued Thursday in Chicago. Early on,
Speaker 1: Orlando had the upper hand, but the Sixers got a
Speaker 1: nice little lift from the bench and things changed from
Speaker 1: there in a big way. One sixteen, one oh five
Speaker 1: over the Magic. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot com.
Speaker 1: Tom mcguinnis is ready to roll on south down to Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: A quick wardrobe change by coaching outfit on from earlier
Speaker 1: our CYO game. So yes, a season veteran, but that
Speaker 1: was a nice win. These the last three between the Heats,
Speaker 1: the Bulls and this one tonight, they have not come
Speaker 1: with that. Perhaps certuitous roots the finish line, but the
Speaker 1: finish line has been reaching really and Bead was fantastic,
Speaker 1: and I tend to agree with what you said that
Speaker 1: this is maybe the most comfortable he looked in his
Speaker 1: one and a half season so far. But Holmes was
Speaker 1: the one that got him going. Absolutely. But let's go
Speaker 1: back to your initial comment, Brian, because you're right. The Sixers,
Speaker 1: down twenty four, come from behind win here Wednesday, February fourteenth,
Speaker 1: without Joel mb their fifth straight win at home, fifth overall.
Speaker 1: Then they begin the second half, or the last portion
Speaker 1: of the schedule as they go to Chicago up eighteen,
Speaker 1: win by one, basically steal a victory, and then as
Speaker 1: you say early in this game, down nine, and then
Speaker 1: win comfortably. It gets a little tighter down the stretch.
Speaker 1: But again, these are the types of games the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Any one of those three games, the Sixers might have
Speaker 1: lost this game even earlier this year, or any one
Speaker 1: of these games this year, or at points certainly in
Speaker 1: years pass. So that's the maturity and growth where they're
Speaker 1: punching through. And even though they had a sluggish start,
Speaker 1: they come back and score the last thirteen points and
Speaker 1: outscore them twenty one to three. At the end of
Speaker 1: the first and dominate the game. Now Joel and bead
Speaker 1: I thought he was. They were funneling the offense through him.
Speaker 1: He was moving the ball quickly. He didn't have a
Speaker 1: turnover in the game. He was dominant. Vussovich couldn't guard him.
Speaker 1: Beyambo comes in and gets three fouls. They didn't have
Speaker 1: a guy that could guard him, and he was moving
Speaker 1: that ball with precision. Covington gets on fire. He's he's
Speaker 1: struggled a little bit of late, but he makes four
Speaker 1: first half threes. Ben was aggressive and dominant. JJ Reddick
Speaker 1: was extremely efficient after a sluggish start from the field.
Speaker 1: Bella Notlli comes in. He's played in Philadelphia twice. He
Speaker 1: had seventeen points in that Miami game and fifteen here tonight.
Speaker 1: And then Rashawn Holmes for the first time this year,
Speaker 1: to my knowledge or recollection, he's the first big guy
Speaker 1: off the bench. A Mirror Johnson doesn't play, and you know,
Speaker 1: we'll have to hear from coach. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was posed post game, but you know now a
Speaker 1: mirror is raring to go against Washington, and Rashaun Holmes
Speaker 1: was a big part of that comeback against Miami. Comes
Speaker 1: with energy and bounce. Physical. He got really knocked around
Speaker 1: here in this game, but he has eight rebounds four well,
Speaker 1: eight points of rebounding assists was very good. He's an
Speaker 1: energy and along with TJ he brings such fight and
Speaker 1: scrap if you will, off the bench. And again one
Speaker 1: of those games, all five starters in double figures. Nineteenth
Speaker 1: time they've done that where everybody that played, Trevor Booker
Speaker 1: played well, contributed in spurts, and it all added up
Speaker 1: to a nice overall victory over the Magic. The final
Speaker 1: scoring this one tonight one sixteen one oh five. Who
Speaker 1: was funny? Brett Brown has asked before the game in
Speaker 1: his press conference to kind of give a self scout
Speaker 1: of the Sixers at this point, and essentially the line
Speaker 1: of questioning got to, well, how would you defend yourself?
Speaker 1: And Brett was like, I know how, but I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if anything. I mean that, you know, It's like
Speaker 1: I respect for that reporter, but as he's asking, then
Speaker 1: I'm like, what coaching is right, man? Mine, Let's see,
Speaker 1: I would let Simmons shoot. What else do you need?
Speaker 1: Of course he's not going to share that with the media.
Speaker 1: Let's run that right down to Frankie Vogel, frank, here's
Speaker 1: a blueprint, so no doubt. But how he did answer,
Speaker 1: maybe this is where you're going. You will know where
Speaker 1: I was going, was like Brett Brown might know, but
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if there are many of the teams
Speaker 1: right now, at least based on the ones and the
Speaker 1: Sixers have played lately, that know how to do it
Speaker 1: because the options have been so multiple and balanced that
Speaker 1: the Sixers have been able to get just about whatever
Speaker 1: they want. Well, Brian Colangelo did a good job of
Speaker 1: adding pieces to the team in the offseason. You get
Speaker 1: the likes of Reddick, who gives you that spacene element
Speaker 1: and the ability to knock down shots. You had another
Speaker 1: threat like that in Bell and Nellie. You've got now
Speaker 1: they're starters according to coach, the number one ranked first
Speaker 1: five in the NBA. So that might you'd say, well,
Speaker 1: maybe the bench needs to step it up, but again
Speaker 1: you've got pieces, pivotal players that come in and make
Speaker 1: a difference. But again, to reiterate what coach said was,
Speaker 1: I can tell you what we are, and that's what
Speaker 1: he's tried to establish since he came to Philadelphia. It's
Speaker 1: been five years, and that is we're going to play
Speaker 1: with pace. They're like three or four in terms of
Speaker 1: playing fast in the NBA. They're gonna share the ball,
Speaker 1: we're gonna move it. Their number one in passing, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna guard and their number four in defense. And tonight,
Speaker 1: to your point, they did all of those things and
Speaker 1: they're interspersing in which I would say even well, what
Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier more than interspersing in they're going through
Speaker 1: the posts with maybe the best big man in basketball
Speaker 1: in Joel and Bad and he's moving that ball, and
Speaker 1: that is that's And then you got a six ten
Speaker 1: point guard who's gonna ram it down your throat. You're
Speaker 1: right there. There are some things that are big that
Speaker 1: they are some difficult matchups and like that's those are
Speaker 1: two questions like that. The opponents have to come. Who's
Speaker 1: Garden Simmons? And how are we going to handle them? Beat?
Speaker 1: Every night the Sixers play. This is the fun part now,
Speaker 1: as the Sixers, after tonight's win one sixteen one on five,
Speaker 1: get ready to head south to Washington, DC, a big
Speaker 1: three game road trip against clubs that, like themselves, are
Speaker 1: in the mix and thick of this Eastern Conference playoff picture.
Speaker 1: You got Washington first tomorrow, Miami two, Cleveland Thursday, and
Speaker 1: you just got to feel good for the fans following
Speaker 1: this team out there, because when was the last time
Speaker 1: there was this much excitement and anticipation checking scoreboards? I mean,
Speaker 1: they're a game behind Washington for fourth place in the
Speaker 1: conference going into the matchup at Capitol. I want to
Speaker 1: read in them orrow night. Well, and I said that
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, and that is now. You can
Speaker 1: watch the scoreboard and I know you mentioned it pregame
Speaker 1: and the other night after the game as well. But
Speaker 1: you know, as a fan in years pass, you're you're
Speaker 1: looking up at the standings and you know, you look
Speaker 1: around the NBA and it really didn't matter as to
Speaker 1: whom was winning and whom is losing. Now every single
Speaker 1: night I look at the who's playing, and you're I
Speaker 1: got a team. I'd like that team to lose. You know,
Speaker 1: last night, I'm listening to the New Orleans Miami game.
Speaker 1: Come on, Drew Holiday, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: they beat Miami and they're waiting seconds with an outstanding
Speaker 1: game by Davis. And so you're right, I mean, and
Speaker 1: Washington has played well. The Sixers have beaten them here twice.
Speaker 1: I thought in that first game, even though they lost
Speaker 1: the open are down there in Washington, they had their chances,
Speaker 1: but they turned the ball over down the stretch. They
Speaker 1: seem to have graduated from that, grown from that. Not
Speaker 1: to say that it would never come back where they
Speaker 1: would have a costly turnover, but it'll be a great matchup.
Speaker 1: And then as you say, down to Miami, the Sixers
Speaker 1: have played and beaten them twice here to Cleveland or
Speaker 1: rejuvenated calvs team. And the only thing other thing I
Speaker 1: would say, Brian is Orlando and the Sixers. You know,
Speaker 1: they were in this mix with a lottery picks over
Speaker 1: the last few years and they basically started the rebuilds
Speaker 1: at the same time. Well, look where the Sixers are,
Speaker 1: and Orlando's eighteen and forty one, and they've had some
Speaker 1: high picks and it's just you know, so say what
Speaker 1: you want, but this is the moment. This has been
Speaker 1: the process. It's working for the Sixers. Well, put seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers knock off the Magic one sixteen one oh five
Speaker 1: primetime game on a Sunday Tomorrow at eight pm DWAN
Speaker 1: in DC versus the Wizards talk to you just before then,
Speaker 1: mister McInnis, good night, Brian, thank you seventy Sixers. When
Speaker 1: they're seventh straight. They're thirty two and twenty five on
Speaker 1: the Sea and a game behind the Wizards now for
Speaker 1: fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings. We'll hear more
Speaker 1: about this game with some of Tom's highlight calls coming up.
Speaker 1: On the other side, it's the postgame show on the
Speaker 1: Sixers Radio Network. Three Fitch stop in South Philadelphia for
Speaker 1: the seventies Sixers before beginning a long stretch on the
Speaker 1: road over the next two weeks, going in the middle
Speaker 1: of the month of March. Game's all important this time
Speaker 1: of year, Sixers trying to keep a winning streak alive.
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot Com. Here's how
Speaker 1: it went tonight is called by the one and only
Speaker 1: radio voice in the seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis. It
Speaker 1: was not in a very good place the first six
Speaker 1: minutes of place. The seventy Sixers fell behind fifteen to six.
Speaker 1: At that point, Brett Brown went to his bench. He
Speaker 1: was looking for a boost. He got one from Rashaun Holmes,
Speaker 1: so he has helped the Sixers off the bench he've
Speaker 1: actually fared better with him in there. Here's McConnell in
Speaker 1: the name. McConnell breaks free lobs and shot slams it.
Speaker 1: McConnell the Holmes laun That was in the midst of
Speaker 1: a big one for the Sixers. They were down by one,
Speaker 1: fifteen to fourteen, and moments later they would get over
Speaker 1: the top three balls short. No Dario taps it, It
Speaker 1: goes to Holmes, out to Covington. Three is good. Robert
Speaker 1: Covington puts first chuple four, the Sixers second chance opportunity
Speaker 1: set up by the back tap by old Dario, and
Speaker 1: it was also the Sixers first lead at nineteen to eighteen.
Speaker 1: Shortly after that, Holmes would be brought back the bench
Speaker 1: in favor of him b. But while Holmes was on
Speaker 1: the court, the Sixers outscored the Magic by ten, putting
Speaker 1: them in front, setting the tone for the rest of
Speaker 1: a big first half. The Sixers outscored the Magic twenty
Speaker 1: one to three, going into the second lead in twenty
Speaker 1: seven to eighteen. A lot of good things in quarter
Speaker 1: number two will go to the very end and Joel
Speaker 1: En b just capping off a monster opening first stanzing
Speaker 1: and we're in the final forty seconds of the first half,
Speaker 1: Joellen b with the ball, he dribbles, he gets a
Speaker 1: screen and jims it. Orlando a two car pile up
Speaker 1: in the hey Joel the beat throws it down. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nick Vussevich and DJ Augustine ran into one another at
Speaker 1: the elbow, freeing up inbad for that big jam. Joel
Speaker 1: with nineteen points and eight rebounds, which would be an
Speaker 1: excellent night from your mortals. But that was by the
Speaker 1: half for the All Star Sixers up eighteen fifty eight
Speaker 1: to forty. Going in to the break onto the third,
Speaker 1: Sixers seeing things open up, Dario's charge with the stroke
Speaker 1: up top, Dario for three and charge knocks it out.
Speaker 1: Sixers's that is right there, good to great. In other words,
Speaker 1: coming to Ben had a shot coming. It had a
Speaker 1: really good look, but it opened three and that's the
Speaker 1: great and answer. The Sixers are a potent passing team.
Speaker 1: Made it a twenty point lead, sixty seven forty seven.
Speaker 1: Magic got the depsit down to a Baker's dozen middle
Speaker 1: of the third. The Sixers were ready to answer and
Speaker 1: come back with some more. Joel Embad at the head
Speaker 1: of the snake, standing with a right and dribble fee
Speaker 1: to beat down low. They run to double Joel split
Speaker 1: the traff and jams and oh man, how about that.
Speaker 1: You think he's handling doubles better. He jumped right through
Speaker 1: the double team and dunked it eighty seven at seventy
Speaker 1: one Sixers after three onto the fourth. We should give
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons a bit of a highlight forum here. He
Speaker 1: was just steady threat the night and he did a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything for the Sixers. He has it
Speaker 1: on a drive against Jonathan Simmons, jumps it up with
Speaker 1: a hook and that's good against. There are certain aspects
Speaker 1: of that play that are unguardable Ben Simmons with fourteen,
Speaker 1: he calls his own number and scores again, you know,
Speaker 1: and Simmons the other Simmons, Jonathan Simmons, he really tried
Speaker 1: to get up in physical on Ben tonight. Whether it
Speaker 1: was him or Aaron Gordon, Simmons was still able to
Speaker 1: find his opportunities on the interior, scoring and the Sixers
Speaker 1: would move on to win it one sixteen, one oh fives.
Speaker 1: We heard Brett Brown talk about during his press conference
Speaker 1: comfortable letting some of the reserves handled the home stretch
Speaker 1: of this game necessary for their long term development heading
Speaker 1: towards the postseason. Some final stats. In the Sixers victory tonight,
Speaker 1: they shot just under fifty two percent from the field
Speaker 1: the magic forty five percent six or nine to twenty
Speaker 1: seven from outside the arc Orlando with thirteen threes. Sixers
Speaker 1: were plus seven in terms of free throws made tonight.
Speaker 1: That helping their cause answered the performance on the glass,
Speaker 1: the best rebounding team in the NBA plus twelve on
Speaker 1: the backboards tonight, Sixers, with thirty one assists on forty
Speaker 1: two made baskets, kept their turnovers relatively in check, especially
Speaker 1: after the first three minutes of the game. They finished
Speaker 1: with fourteen cough ups on the night. Individual notes dwell
Speaker 1: Embead game high in both points and rebounds with twenty
Speaker 1: eight and fourteen, respectively, thirty double doubles on the season
Speaker 1: for him, twenty ninth time in franchise history a player
Speaker 1: has reached the thirty double double mark, first time since
Speaker 1: five oh six when Chris Webber did it. Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: seventeen points, four rebounds, seven assists, and we should also
Speaker 1: mention with Joel Embiid no turnovers for the first time
Speaker 1: in about seven weeks that another important stat for him.
Speaker 1: Sixteen for JJ Reddick on six of eight shooting, fifteen
Speaker 1: for Marco Belinelli off the bench came on strong in
Speaker 1: the second half point six for twelve overall with one
Speaker 1: three pointer. The Sixers had all five starters in double figures,
Speaker 1: finishing out that contingent Dario Schartz with eleven point six rebounds,
Speaker 1: four assists, Robert Covington with a couple three pointers four
Speaker 1: of them, twelve points, five boards and four dimes. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers took this one, which is two hours, seven minutes
Speaker 1: to play in front of a sellout crowd of twenty thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred and ninety four. With the win the six
Speaker 1: or seventh straight through Now thirty two and twenty five,
Speaker 1: the Sixers play the Washington Wizards tomorrow night, eight o'clock
Speaker 1: at Capitol One Arena, only a game between the teams
Speaker 1: now for fourth place or sheaf of it, at least
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference standings for some of our six
Speaker 1: Er Rady Network affiliates. Pregame coverage underway at seven to
Speaker 1: fifty with the pregame show Big Thanks the guys back
Speaker 1: at the studio Carl Namoleon Alan Yates, Marty Dickerson here
Speaker 1: now for the radio voice in the seventy six or
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis, Brian Seltzer saying so long for now one
Speaker 1: final time. The final score seventy six ers one sixteen
Speaker 1: Magic one oh five. Have a great rest of your
Speaker 1: night from all this yet the Sixers Rating Network. Following
Speaker 1: the Sixers win, Tom mcguinnis had a chance to catch
Speaker 1: up with one of the players afterwards, Ben Simmons, with
Speaker 1: a tremendous game and he's going to join us courtside. Ben,
Speaker 1: thank you for your time, great win here tonight, dominant
Speaker 1: in parts up twenty three holding on and you guys
Speaker 1: have been just excellent here at home, your thoughts in general.
Speaker 1: Thank god. We got off to the rough start. I
Speaker 1: think the person I really had a bass star like
Speaker 1: that in a while, but we kept it together. I
Speaker 1: got the lead back and I think we played a
Speaker 1: well overall. You know. Again, so they were up fifteen
Speaker 1: to six. You mentioned their start early. Coach Brown takes
Speaker 1: time out. What's the general gist of a timeout? What's
Speaker 1: the message by him to you guys at a point
Speaker 1: like that? For us, I think we're in the stage. Well,
Speaker 1: we know what we need to do, and it's us
Speaker 1: coming together again on the floor doing that. We stayed
Speaker 1: together as a team. I think that's all it really matter.
Speaker 1: So you were attacking aggressively again. There was one sequence
Speaker 1: in the first half where you had Aaron Gordon on him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you just to me like watching it, You're like,
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for a chance like that. You're just
Speaker 1: driving it right at him. Tell me what's going on
Speaker 1: for me? Um, I knows we're down, and so you know,
Speaker 1: I was getting kind of frustrated with that. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get, you know, a little bit of energy going
Speaker 1: with the teams, and I think we got that back
Speaker 1: after a few quick buckets and then we'll have one.
Speaker 1: Then there are times, in fact in the in the
Speaker 1: second half, fourth quarter, you're guarding Bussevic, which by the way,
Speaker 1: you're the point guard and there he's the center. You're
Speaker 1: the same height, and then Simmons comes on a drive.
Speaker 1: You were like you beat, You're guarding the big guy,
Speaker 1: and then coming over on the driver he scored, but
Speaker 1: then you come right back and hit a bank shot.
Speaker 1: That that is you're that's like dominance at both ends.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that definitely. UM, I know coaches talked
Speaker 1: a lot about it for me to be dominant on
Speaker 1: the defensive end, and I'm taking a lot of pride
Speaker 1: in that. I feel like I'm getting a lot better, um,
Speaker 1: guarding the perimeter and also, you know, the bigger guys
Speaker 1: in the hope. Last thought, but your confidence, your team's confidence.
Speaker 1: Seven straight wins, it's got to just be percolating bubbly
Speaker 1: as you go down to Washington. We're gonna wait to
Speaker 1: get down there and play. So, you know, back to
Speaker 1: back game tomorrow, looking forward to I think teams ready
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we know we have to do
Speaker 1: great job. Thank you, Benn, all right, thank you. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons of the Sixers. Sixers beat the Magic by eleven
Speaker 1: one sixteen, one oh five.