Speaker 1: Key Eastern Conference went for the seventy six ers over
Speaker 1: the Bucks one sixteen ninety four. Bryant Seltzer with you
Speaker 1: from six or dot com. Let's join in progress right
Speaker 1: now the wedding head coach Brett Brown needs to be
Speaker 1: with that filter we need to be and our good
Speaker 1: defensive program looking to be great what you're saw from
Speaker 1: TV and good stat line. But I think the statue,
Speaker 1: I just think that he he's one of these players
Speaker 1: that continue to work. He's there on the bench. He
Speaker 1: really hasn't had that much opportunity. You know, in Boston,
Speaker 1: I yanked him quick, I thought he was down, and
Speaker 1: I didn't really go back to him. And that's the
Speaker 1: life of a young player, and it's it's hard to
Speaker 1: find a rhythm, and it's always the holy grail of
Speaker 1: any player, let alone a young player, to find NBA
Speaker 1: minutes and find consistent NBA minutes and really then get
Speaker 1: in a rotation. That's the easiest way to show this
Speaker 1: is who I am. And he hasn't had that yet.
Speaker 1: He still remains positive, he still works, and tonight with
Speaker 1: the demise of JJ and UH and Jared Bayless, you
Speaker 1: know that here he is and the kid responded, like
Speaker 1: he attacked the rim, he made threes. He is one
Speaker 1: of our best athletes on the team, and he's fearless
Speaker 1: and I think just from a human standpoint, to see
Speaker 1: him get rewarded after him stay staying positive and with
Speaker 1: the team. Um, that's a feel good story tonight. L
Speaker 1: doing health wise after the game, because I mean he
Speaker 1: took a few knocks. One on the hand, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: one in that fourth quarter. I believe it's his left leg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on the end one yeah yeah, So as he are
Speaker 1: right at the tier knowledge, to my knowledge, he is.
Speaker 1: And it's like you can see, you know, you get
Speaker 1: as a coach, you get try to handle this thing
Speaker 1: with responsibly, but you're also greed. You look at a cluck.
Speaker 1: But when do we get him out? Like, okay, game,
Speaker 1: let's get him out. Um. Some of it was borne
Speaker 1: out of that, like you're watching him hold his hand
Speaker 1: to like being a little bit nervous withholding it looked
Speaker 1: like his left ankle. But to my knowledge, he seems
Speaker 1: fine and we'll learn to more Tomorrow. We'll look forward
Speaker 1: to getting on the plane and heading down to Memphis.
Speaker 1: Big weekend in South Philadelphia begins in style earlier today
Speaker 1: matinee on the ice check in the evening hoops in
Speaker 1: the round ball check tomorrow to be determined, but a
Speaker 1: nice way to start a big weekend down here at
Speaker 1: the Sports Complex. Seventy Sixers. This was an important win
Speaker 1: over the Milwaukee Bucks one sixteen ninety four. Not going
Speaker 1: to overdramatize where things stand forty two games into the season,
Speaker 1: but the Sixers were very much cognizanto. The Bucks enter
Speaker 1: tonight a half game in front of them in the standings,
Speaker 1: because by the way Brett Brown showed them the standings
Speaker 1: recently to give them a look at what the lay
Speaker 1: of the land was like in the East. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: answered without Jared Balls and JJ Reddick. The Bucks didn't
Speaker 1: have Jannis out of Coupo or Malcolm Brogden. But you
Speaker 1: know what, you're at home, you're lined up for an
Speaker 1: opportunity to take one against a quality team, and that's
Speaker 1: what the seventy Sixers did with balance. They survived the
Speaker 1: ten turnovers in the third quarter, and they had a
Speaker 1: big finish. After the Bucks closed within two points in
Speaker 1: the opening minutes of the fourth quarter, the Sixers outscored
Speaker 1: Milwaukee by thirty two to twelve the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Not a bad way for the Sixers to work their
Speaker 1: way through the end of the game. Twenty nine points
Speaker 1: for Juell and b to go with nine rebounds. He
Speaker 1: had two block shots as well. Sixteen apiece for Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: He flirted with a triple double with eight rebounds and
Speaker 1: nine assists. Sixteen points for Timo day lewild Cabro We
Speaker 1: heard Brett Brown talk about him in the post game,
Speaker 1: eleven for t J McConnell off the bench, thirteen apiece
Speaker 1: for Robert Covington and Dario charch As. The Sixers find
Speaker 1: their way with a big finish to one sixteen ninety
Speaker 1: four win. They're now in sixth place, a half game
Speaker 1: in front of Milwaukee in the standings in the East.
Speaker 1: McGinnis is standing by. We're gonna be hearing from him
Speaker 1: and his postgame highlights as well. That's all coming up
Speaker 1: on the postgame showing the Sixers rating Network. Important opportunity
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers on Saturday night here at the Center,
Speaker 1: and they responded to one sixteen ninety four victory over
Speaker 1: the visiting Milwaukee Bucks. Before the Sixers head into a
Speaker 1: road heavy stretch of the schedule. Brian Selta with you
Speaker 1: from Sixers dot Com, rejoined now by Tom McGinnis and Tom.
Speaker 1: It was a really, for the most part, encouraging first half.
Speaker 1: The Sixers were in control between periods one and two.
Speaker 1: Little flurry late in the second by the Bucks. Third
Speaker 1: quarter Sixers seemed to gain some initial control and then
Speaker 1: the ten turnovers, but that was a nice finish by
Speaker 1: Joel Embiide and the surrounding cast. Really in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter absolutely so. As we said during the course of
Speaker 1: the game, they kind of had to win this one twice,
Speaker 1: but they're able to do it. And it hasn't been
Speaker 1: textbook perfect in some of these games, but they did
Speaker 1: it against Toronto, they did it on the road Thursday
Speaker 1: in Boston, and they did it again here tonight. And
Speaker 1: great performance by Embiid and really solid contributions from different
Speaker 1: guys at different times, including Lua who had his best
Speaker 1: game here this season. T J McConnell was brilliant at times,
Speaker 1: Dario was terrific with the passing seven assists in total,
Speaker 1: a lot of which came early. Dario didn't have a
Speaker 1: field goal until the third quarter, and Simmons had some
Speaker 1: spectacular plays around the basket, as Brett Brown noted during
Speaker 1: his postgame press conference, a big dunk by Ben and Simmons.
Speaker 1: Even if sometimes he misses the shot or somebody else's
Speaker 1: misses one, he's so big and he's so athletic and
Speaker 1: agile around the basket, he can really punctuate a possession
Speaker 1: with a big time slam. So a nice team victory here,
Speaker 1: albeit they didn't have a Denna Coompo. But again, as
Speaker 1: you say, against the conference rival, gaining a whole game
Speaker 1: on Milwaukee, and the Sixers continue their forward momentum with
Speaker 1: how they've played with all the last three weeks. Nice
Speaker 1: win here tonight. I think of that stretch in which
Speaker 1: these Sixers outscored the Bucks by twenty after Milwaukee made
Speaker 1: in a two point game, Trevor Booker had a big
Speaker 1: basket for an and one. T J McConnell, Robert Covington,
Speaker 1: lewhil Cabro As you said, and there's nights win ebid.
Speaker 1: He's gonna more often than not put up big numbers,
Speaker 1: but sometimes there's a little bit more weight behind them.
Speaker 1: In tonight, at the end of that third quarter, he
Speaker 1: was when the Sixers desperately needed a spark of energy
Speaker 1: and the game got tied up. He was there with
Speaker 1: the two and ones, a Duncan and the big block
Speaker 1: on Eric Bledsoe. There's things that I think get Joel
Speaker 1: fired up. And they put plumbly on him. A younger
Speaker 1: big guy Maker came out on him. Henson really was
Speaker 1: no match for Joe. So certain things occur and then
Speaker 1: he gets like re fired up, remotivated and realizes the
Speaker 1: team needs him, and he did. He had some big plays,
Speaker 1: I mean, and he's scoring in chunks throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the game, and it's it's much needed. There's obviously
Speaker 1: going to be times where he ruggle in the half
Speaker 1: court to get going offensively, and to have a guy
Speaker 1: that can pick you up and get some easy baskets
Speaker 1: makes it that's that much easier. And he was solid
Speaker 1: throughout tonight for the Sixers seventy sixers over the Bucks
Speaker 1: one sixteen to ninety four seventy six ers. Tom This
Speaker 1: has been well documented, have had via ESPN dot com
Speaker 1: Strength of Schedule rating system the number one most difficult
Speaker 1: schedule in the NBA. On paper, they're gonna be taking
Speaker 1: on teams in the coming weeks with lesser records than theirs.
Speaker 1: But man, if their goal is to be a playoff team,
Speaker 1: these last five games in particular against Eastern Conference teams
Speaker 1: that at the time to tip off we're ahead of
Speaker 1: them four and one, that's not too bad, no, And
Speaker 1: they've done well and they've proven that they can now
Speaker 1: beat and for their own knowledge as well, I mean
Speaker 1: not just for the standings, but to be able to
Speaker 1: beat Toronto, and to be able to eat Boston, to
Speaker 1: be able to beat Milwaukee. But and maybe that schedule
Speaker 1: is going to break a little bit in February where
Speaker 1: they'll be home for much of that month and of
Speaker 1: course the All Star break. But I see road game
Speaker 1: at Memphis, road game against San Antonio. The Sixers haven't
Speaker 1: won there since the Truman administration. They go to Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: I mean that's been a difficult place as well, and
Speaker 1: then they go to Milwaukee. So you know, I get
Speaker 1: it with the schedule, and there's no doubt because we've
Speaker 1: lived it in terms of traveling on the road with
Speaker 1: this team and going and seeing the top notch opposition
Speaker 1: that they've faced. So hopefully it'll continue, as you say,
Speaker 1: it'll ease up a little bit, and it appears as
Speaker 1: though it will do that and the games are going
Speaker 1: to be spaced out a little bit, so Joel, you know,
Speaker 1: health provided will be able to get into a rhythm
Speaker 1: as it continues to do so. But the bottom line is,
Speaker 1: you know, they're trending well, they're playing well, they're picking
Speaker 1: up victories. They still have some hiccups with the turnovers,
Speaker 1: but able to get past that. And they just got
Speaker 1: to keep plowing ahead and not looking or assuming or
Speaker 1: taking anything for granted. I mean, Milwaukee without its best
Speaker 1: player here tonight ended up putting up a fight for
Speaker 1: a much of the game, and you just can't assume anything.
Speaker 1: You got to kind of look at yourself as a
Speaker 1: group and know that you're you're doing the best that
Speaker 1: you can and trying to shore up those areas. And
Speaker 1: that's what Brett Brown and the coaching staff have been
Speaker 1: focusing on, and that's what the Sixers will do going forward,
Speaker 1: whether the schedules easier or harder. They got to just
Speaker 1: and I thought tonight really established beginning to establish a
Speaker 1: home court. Advantage of crowd certainly is going to help them.
Speaker 1: They're now a game over five hundred here at home,
Speaker 1: Finishing five hundred on the road is part of the
Speaker 1: formula of making the playoffs. But you've got to win
Speaker 1: closer to seventy seventy five percent of your home games
Speaker 1: to get upwards of forty plus victories and to try
Speaker 1: to get yourself in a position amongst the top eight.
Speaker 1: Important one for the Sixers Tonight one sixteen ninety four
Speaker 1: over Milwaukee. Tom mcguinnis talk to you from Beal Street
Speaker 1: on Monday nights. Thank you, Brian, good night. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: get a balanced effort on a shorthanded nights for both
Speaker 1: teams themselves and the Milwaukee Bucks. They fend off a
Speaker 1: run by Milwaukee in the second half and close things
Speaker 1: out strong in the fourth quarter. We will get into
Speaker 1: that in further detail coming up on the other side,
Speaker 1: and we play back sometimes. Highlight calls is the postgame
Speaker 1: showing the Sixers rate a network. Seventy Sixers wrapping up
Speaker 1: a stretch of five consecutive games against teams that at
Speaker 1: the time of tip off were ranked ahead of them
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference standings. The Milwaukee Bucks in town tonight,
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer with you on the postgame show. Is here
Speaker 1: is how it sounded courtesy of the one and only
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis. Sixers got off to an encouraging start tonight,
Speaker 1: racing app to a fourteen to six lead. Timotey Lewile Cabrough,
Speaker 1: making a second start of the season, cap that stretch
Speaker 1: with a two point of The Bucks would battle back
Speaker 1: and close to within a possession in the final moments
Speaker 1: of the first quarter. TJ McConnell with a positive punctuation
Speaker 1: period number one. Here's TJ after two, three those and
Speaker 1: he blows by him in McConnell of the lap. TJ
Speaker 1: McConnell goes from zero to twenty in three seconds. Here's
Speaker 1: Delavadova over and beat at the half court stripe. Why
Speaker 1: double half? The Sixers lead by eight. I'm totally familiar
Speaker 1: with how this thing works with the kids these days.
Speaker 1: But that Jeff with Spider Man pointing at Spider Man.
Speaker 1: You see McConnell and Delavadova. It's like that embodied on
Speaker 1: the hardwood. Well, anyhow, McConnell got the best of Delavadova
Speaker 1: in that sequence to make it thirty seven to twenty
Speaker 1: nine going into the second. The Sixers got some good
Speaker 1: things from Joel Embad with time winding down and period
Speaker 1: number two two free throws for Plumbly, He's made all
Speaker 1: four of his attempts. He guards a Bead to twelve
Speaker 1: to go Joel down, low up and undermoved by a
Speaker 1: beat and he powers it right back and scores it
Speaker 1: in Bead makes it sixty one forty eight. He's got
Speaker 1: eighteen in the first half, but the Milwaukee Bucks would
Speaker 1: whittle things away and draw within six points of the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers by the score of sixty one to fifty
Speaker 1: five going into the halftime break. But things started really
Speaker 1: well for the Sixers in the beginning of the third.
Speaker 1: Dario Schartz got himself going in terms of scoring after
Speaker 1: handing out six assists in the first half, but the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks strung together nine straight after the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: went up by eleven, so the Sixers had the Bucks
Speaker 1: on their heels. Milwaukee would tie it on a thon
Speaker 1: Maker basket at seventy five, and then the Sixers got
Speaker 1: an answer from Ben Simmons and Bead with a rip
Speaker 1: through move and now they dribbled out top against Baker
Speaker 1: picks it up. He goes to Simmons, Simmons off the
Speaker 1: Abe screen double they with the right hand lamp up
Speaker 1: and good. He turns the corner and puts it in
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons now the four double figure scorer for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Simmons in particular had a lot of success getting behind
Speaker 1: the defense, the interior defense of the Milwaukee Bucks tonight,
Speaker 1: as was the case in NAT highlight right there. Then
Speaker 1: Joel Embad rose to the occasion to close out the
Speaker 1: third quarter. One twelve to go. Third quarter, McConnell in
Speaker 1: the lane, somebody's got to shoot that ball and beat
Speaker 1: fakes it two to shoot, dominate off bounce. But then
Speaker 1: Joe Ellenbad racing dominating the nick of time. He's shooting
Speaker 1: a free throw for his twenty fifth point of the game,
Speaker 1: and he made the free throw to make it eighty
Speaker 1: four to eighty going into the fourth Joel Ebad score
Speaker 1: the final seven is six or points to close out
Speaker 1: the thirty at a big block on Eric Bledsoe during
Speaker 1: that stretch of the game as well, very much said
Speaker 1: of the tone. But the Bucks made it eighty four
Speaker 1: eighty two minutes in to the fourth quarter. That is
Speaker 1: when the Sixers went on a game changing a tear.
Speaker 1: They would score the next thirteen points to open things up.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee sliced the deficit to eight, and then the Sixers
Speaker 1: would put this thing away. Here Simmons on a drive.
Speaker 1: Simmons with a jam. Ben Simmons first free and bangs
Speaker 1: home a right hand jab bus through the Bucks. He's
Speaker 1: got fourteen where there are times when he makes it
Speaker 1: looks unbelievably easy and put the Sixers up by fourteen,
Speaker 1: one h three to eighty nine. TJ McConnell closing the
Speaker 1: curtain on Milwaukee, shars right perimeter for three and that's
Speaker 1: good five straight for the Sixers out of the time
Speaker 1: out and the leaders one oh six eighty nine. TLC
Speaker 1: with the dish. Here's TJ with a knockaway but steal,
Speaker 1: he drives it at scares it at Milwaukee takes time
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers up one oh eight eighty nine. It
Speaker 1: was a furious run with just under five minutes to go.
Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier, the Sixers out scoring the Bucks
Speaker 1: thirty two to twelve over the final eleven minutes of
Speaker 1: regulation on the way to their seventh win in their
Speaker 1: last eight games. Final notes from the final stat sheet.
Speaker 1: The Sixers shot fifty three percent from the field, Milwaukee
Speaker 1: just over forty percent, six or ten of twenty five
Speaker 1: outside the arcs slightly more efficient than Milwaukee, which was
Speaker 1: ten of thirty two six or sixteen to nineteen from
Speaker 1: the foul line. The Bucks were eighteen of twenty two
Speaker 1: sixers plus eight bigger pardon, ten on the glass, and
Speaker 1: plus three in terms of offensive rebounds as well turnovers.
Speaker 1: The Sixers only had three in the first half, committed
Speaker 1: ten in the third quarter. Survived that very balanced all
Speaker 1: throughout the scoring sheet tonight, as six players finished in
Speaker 1: double digits. Joel and bed leaving the way eleven of
Speaker 1: nineteen from the field, two of five outside the arc,
Speaker 1: five of six from the free throw line for twenty
Speaker 1: nine points. He had nine rebounds as well sixteen apiece
Speaker 1: for Ben Simmons and Timotey Leile Cabo Leio Cabrero, stepping
Speaker 1: up in his second start of the season. Simmons and
Speaker 1: hear triple double. He also had eight rebounds and nine dimes,
Speaker 1: thirteen apiece for Dario Shart, who had seven assists two
Speaker 1: Robert Covington plus twenty eight in the game with thirteen points,
Speaker 1: five boards, three dimes. TJ McConnell big off the bench
Speaker 1: with eleven points five to ten from the field. He
Speaker 1: had seven assists and two steals plus twelve for t
Speaker 1: J McConnell. Sixers dominated the paint, out scoring the Bucks
Speaker 1: there sixty two thirty two on a night in which
Speaker 1: the Sixers were without JJ Redick and Jared Billis and
Speaker 1: the Bucks were down Jannis Anacopo and Malcolm Brogden three ties,
Speaker 1: two lead changes in a two hour, nine minute game
Speaker 1: tonight sellout crowd of twenty thousand, eight hundred twenty six
Speaker 1: down here at the Center where the spirits of good
Speaker 1: fortune was alive in South Philadelphia. And absolutely you hope
Speaker 1: that extends into tomorrow and around this time, fingers crossed,
Speaker 1: all will be well and right in the Delaware Valley,
Speaker 1: all right. Next up for the seventy six Ers a
Speaker 1: Monday night meeting with the Memphis Grizzlies alone stop on
Speaker 1: Beal Street this season. Game time is eight o'clock Eastern.
Speaker 1: We will get underway with a pregame show at seven
Speaker 1: fifty on some of our Sixers rated network affiliates. Following
Speaker 1: the Sixers win, Tom McGinnis had a chance to catch
Speaker 1: up with one of the players afterwards, and I believe
Speaker 1: we're gonna be joint courtside by t J McConnell. TJ,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. Tom McGuinness, you guys came
Speaker 1: out of that time out. You got a big steel
Speaker 1: part of a seven old run and that in the
Speaker 1: end was what put Milwaukee away for good. Clutch stretch
Speaker 1: for you guys down the stretch and you had a
Speaker 1: big hand in it. Your thoughts on that, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: just continue to persevere even though we gave up another lead.
Speaker 1: You know, at least we're ahead. Yeah, that's the positive thing,
Speaker 1: and just to continue into fight and giving something that
Speaker 1: these fans cheer for. It's they deserve it. You're really
Speaker 1: beginning out again. You're just a game over five hundred
Speaker 1: at home, but you're really beginning to establish a home
Speaker 1: court advantage. Sellout crowds. You guys inspire the crowd, they
Speaker 1: in turn pour it back, and that's what you're looking
Speaker 1: for if you hope to be a competitive playoff team
Speaker 1: where playing in Philadelphia is a very difficult thing for
Speaker 1: the opposition. Yeah. Absolutely, m I continue to say it.
Speaker 1: I think we have the best home court advantage in
Speaker 1: the NBA. This place is sold out every night and
Speaker 1: they're behind us all the way, and we love them
Speaker 1: with that in mind, because basketball is hard. I mean,
Speaker 1: you play hard, gritty, tough. But when, for example, you
Speaker 1: made that play and you turned and you have twenty
Speaker 1: thousand people responding to you, what is that? That must
Speaker 1: be joy in a basketball sense. It gives you chills,
Speaker 1: you know, every time you think about it. Um, they're
Speaker 1: incredible people and incredible fans, and you know the way
Speaker 1: they get behind us. Like I said, I don't think
Speaker 1: there's a crowd like it. Well, thank you very much, congratulations,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you. T J. McConnell of the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Sixers beat the Bucks one sixteen to ninety four.