WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 3/30/18- Rewind vs. Hawks 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.240 This is the Philadelphia Has seventy Sixers postgame show. If 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.600 I can walk about about Roch freeze hards, just gonna 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.320 turn them. Get it off. Natty rolls the Sixers postgame 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:17.000 show right now on ninety seven five. The Panetic due 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.959 game trip down south in the Philadelphia seventy Sixes start 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.720 off in Atlanta at Philips Arena and they come away 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.720 with yet another w. Hello all, it's the postgame show 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.680 here on the Sixers Radio Network. I'm divine givens. The 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.680 Sixers again come away victorious tonight over the Atlanta Hawks 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.440 in Atlanta not one O one ninety one, picking up 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.880 their ninth straight win. Another big time win for the 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.640 Philadelphia seventy Sixers on the road, separating themselves as things 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.640 were a little bit too close for comfort early on, 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.400 but the Sixers used the third quarter yet again to 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.879 separate themselves big time, coming away with the win one 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.360 on one ninety one. It is it's ten o'clock here 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.520 in the Delaware Valley on the Sixers Radio networks. Less 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.000 pause for ten seconds and allow our affiliates and ourselves 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.200 to identify themselves here on the Sixers Radio network. See 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.120 home for the Philadelphia seventy six Ers and the Philadelphia 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.360 Flyers ninety seventy five. The fanatical WPE and Burlington philadelphodcasting 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.759 from the ex Afinity studio only from Comcast. Sixers win 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.600 one on one, ninety one, forty five and thirty Now 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.480 on the season nine wins in a row. We're going 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.840 to hear at some point outside of the visitors locker room, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.080 the winning locker room, the Philadelphia seventy Sixers head coach 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.720 Brett Brown as they are victorious yet again. We head 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.600 back to Philips Arena again at some point later on 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.759 to check in with the Sixers radio voice. You heard 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.640 him throughout the contest. Tom mcguinnis. Big time performance by 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.600 Ben Simmons one more time. Thirteen points, twelve rebounds, eleven 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.800 assists in twenty six minutes on six of eleven shooting 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.600 for the young point guard as he picks up its 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.600 eleventh triple douvil of his career, eleventh of the rookie year, 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.200 now only trailing the late great Will Chamberlain for the 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.040 franchise record, so it's gonna take some time to catch 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.120 up to that. But a great start to a young, 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.440 promising career with Ben Simmons, and you expect to see 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.640 this more and more, especially with the absence of Embiad 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.399 the first test for this basketball team, as we talked 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.959 about this first two game road trip down south, facing 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.240 the Atlanta Hawks tonight, heading to Charlotte on Sunday for 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.519 an early afternoon game against the Hornets as they continue 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.480 to try to keep pace in the Eastern Conference and 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.240 solidify themselves with one of the home court positions in 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.960 the Eastern Conference playoffs standings again tonight the Cleveland Cavaliers 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.720 also in action, taken on the New Orleans Pelicans and 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.520 nice battle in Cleveland as the Cavaliers only up one 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.480 point on the Pelicans if they in fact lose tonight 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.280 to the Pelicans. With the Sixers win, the Sixers will 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.800 take oversoul possession by half a game in the Eastern 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.600 Conference in third place for the playoff positioning again with 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.359 Embiad out and all the substitutions that you need and 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.200 the impact of others that needed to help pick up 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.200 this win. Six players in double figures tonight for the 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.200 Philadelphia seventy Sixers to one question, and the wonder was, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.720 how was Philadelphia Sixers head coach Brett Brown going to 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.720 make the necessary adjustments and try to get things and 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.320 adjust things normally for this team to maybe have a 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.040 different look because of what Joe ellenb brings you with 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.600 the impact both on offense and defense. Where you have 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.960 it again, six players and double figures for the seventy sixers, 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:31.040 led by former Hawk earsign Ilia Silva, who came in 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.320 early and got things started. Had the hot hand in 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.840 the first quarter eleven points on eight of the sixteen 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.760 shooting overall, he had eleven in the first quarter. Really 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.320 had it going for the Sixers against his other former team, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.280 the Atlanta Hawks. Playing twenty nine minutes and forty three seconds, 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.080 and we talked about with Emir Johnson starting at the 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.880 center position and Rashaun Holmes primary backup at the five 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.560 spot for the Sixers, you may also see ear sign 0:03:55.680 --> 0:04:01.680 Iliasilva and Dario Charge play some of the Philadelphia seventy 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.320 six to center minutes. And that's what Brett Brown decided 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.360 to do throughout the night again coming away with the 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.080 one on one ninety one victory. Now, let's head back 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.800 to Phillips Arena outside of the visitors locker room for 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:16.240 Brett Brown that we played good defense they had, you 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.919 know what, it was eighteen points in the third period. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.480 I thought our second period we held them to fourteen points. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.080 But the third period especially let us get out and go. 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.400 We wanted to really embrace the three point line. With 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.120 Joel gone two of nineteen at the half, where do 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.040 you tell your players and how did you leave we 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.240 got that's who we are, like, if we are open, 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.160 we need to shoot the ball, and well, I think 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.560 we got to do a better job of offensive rebounding. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.960 That disturbed me more than two p nineteen. There are 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.080 a few threes you wish you had back that were poor, 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.800 quick threes, contested threes. But to have only had I 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:53.360 think five offensive rebounds behind that poor two p nineteen percentage, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.360 that's the thing that's not acceptable. And we are going 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.560 to shoot more threes. It'll come out of us, Ruxha. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.799 It'll be organized with sort of the flow of the game. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.960 But you know, to look any deeper into it, I'm 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.240 not I think that that, in fact was the thing 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.560 that let us jump out in the third period. When 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.679 you have such a gap to fill at the five spot, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.240 how did you assess how all of the players who 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.719 filled in tonight did there I thought they did a 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.080 good job. You know, I look forward to seeing the 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.480 tape with the rebounding. I thought, for the most part, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.960 defense was what impressed me. I thought in the fourth period, 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.880 you know, it was poor. You know, we were up 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.000 twenty eight points. I think they got it back down 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.440 in the last score was ten ten points. That that 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:43.480 can't happen. And I think, by and large, to fill 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:48.800 in for Joe ellenbad is obviously a difficult task. You'll 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.760 know this. You'll see that we played are Signed quite 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.640 a bit at some five and I thought that Amia 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.880 really you know, had zero shots and had eleven rebounds. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.880 I thought, I thought he was very good. What did 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.920 you think of Urson's night of a huge game for him? 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:09.360 I thought he was good all over the place. You know, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.240 he's coming back to a former team. I'm sure he 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.040 wanted to play well. He had the opportunity to play well. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.200 We played him, you know, decent minutes. And I think 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.920 him him playing out of five is a challenge for 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:26.920 other teams. I really feel like he can cause problems 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.440 defensively for them. Was with his ability to step out 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.679 and stretch the floor. Sixers head coach Brett Brown. Outside 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.560 of the winning locker room as the Sixes again Victoria's 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.040 one on one ninety one over the Atlanta Hawks at 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.520 Philips Arena in Atlanta. Now forty five and thirty on 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.320 the season. We have to special thanks and credit to 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.599 our great friends at NBC Sports Philadelphia for allowing us 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.440 to carry that Brett Brown press conference outside of the 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.719 locker room. He's speaking on the coaches, speaking on Ierson 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.080 Eli Silvan, the impact that he had on the game 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.599 tonight again in twenty nine minutes and forty three seconds, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.800 eight of sixteen from the floor overall, two of eight 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.719 from behind the line, three or four from the free 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.520 throw line, but causing problems defense as a matchup problem 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.640 for Atlanta because of his stretchability, the way he's able 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.080 to do things and work mid range, but also getting 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.920 on the glass both offensive and defensive. And that's one 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.040 area that the Philadelphia seventy sixers needed to collectively come 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.480 together with the absence of Joel inbid Is to control 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.840 things on the glass and ear sound. Iliasova off the 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.880 bench did just that by grabbing sixteen total boards, twelve 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.760 in the defensive end, four on the offensive side, So 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.960 a great opportunity and a great job overall for Iliasova 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.360 to come out and contribute in that way. Also not 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.720 just in the scoring which he is certainly known for, 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.680 also in the rebounding category. We mentioned Ben Simmons with 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.720 this triple double, he notched twelve boards. Emir Johnson seventeen 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.160 minutes in the starting role in place of Embid he 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.280 grabbed eleven boards as well. Sixers win one, one ninety 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.160 one over the Atlanta Hawks, first game of a two 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.080 game trip in the South Side as they head to 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.160 Charlotte on Sunday, we head back to Atlanta and Philips 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.720 Arena on the other side. As we reconnect with Tom 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.000 McGinnis here on the Sixers postgame show, I'm divine given 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.440 six six Ers win one, one ninety one. This is 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:23.640 the Sixers postgame show on a Sixers Radio Network one 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.600 on one ninety one. That is the final from Atlanta. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.520 The Philadelphia seventy Sixers pick up another victory there, ninth 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.640 in a row, forty five and thirty on the season. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.800 Currently as we speak, tied with the Cleveland Cavaliers for 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.920 the number three spot in the Eastern Conference standings. The 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.120 games still going on between Cleveland and New Orleans that 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.679 will be decided in a little bit this evening, and 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.000 of course the standings will be adjusted as such. Divine 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.600 givens here on the Sixers postgame show, as we head 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.600 back to Atlanta from Philips Arena, Tom McGinnis again joining 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.560 us in Tom, we talked about collectively doing it together 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.880 to help replace Joe ellen Beads impact on the game, 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.439 because no one player can do that with such a 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.360 player to the skill set in standards of Joel n b. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.440 But off the bench first quarter ear sound, Ilias Silva's 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.360 stepped right in and put his footprint on the game. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.160 Well he did. He played well. He played thirty minutes. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.959 He goes eight of sixteen from the field. Of those 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.760 sixteen shots, eight were threes. He made a couple, he 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.640 was three or four from the nine sixteen rebounds. He 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:27.319 had two assists and twenty one points. So he filled in, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.640 particularly on the glass where the Sixers had fifty three 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.920 rebounds down atlant I had fifty nine, but the Sixers 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.880 actually had fifty three in the first matchup as well, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.160 and I would think you're gonna get better shooting from 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:42.360 both Dario and Covington. The Sixers had six threes in 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.040 the third, Cove hit one, Dario had two. Those were 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.199 the only two baskets of the game. For Charge, he 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.720 had six points, so I think you're gonna get more 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.240 from Dario obviously going forward and the mirror started. He 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.360 rebounded well with eleven rebounds. He could have been I 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.920 don't know this, but again he was under the weather Wednesday, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.400 so it's possible he was less than one hundred percent 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.839 and only played seventeen minutes and he did not score. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.440 You're gonna get a little bit more than that from 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.839 Amir Johnson offensively, so they did a good job. Or 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.160 Seawan played twenty four minutes. He had seven points, three 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:17.199 rebounds and two assists. But again standout performance by Simmons. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.360 JJ was great with nineteen and Marco Belinelli added eleven. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.280 Markuell look good. He had ten. So this is one 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.000 of those games. Taking care of business, you should beat Atlanta. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.959 They're struggling, They're playing an exceedingly amount of young players, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.280 and in the third quarter the Sixers showed their medal 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.079 if you will, and put them away and held on 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.520 down the stretch absolutely scoring another great opportunity in the 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.160 third quarter to separate themselves thirty nine to eighteen in 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.040 that quarter between the second and the thirds, fifty six 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.160 and thirty two advantage Sixers in that area. So they're 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.720 using that again, turning it around. As we talked about 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.280 it before, that used to be something we saw on 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.080 the other side, and now they found a way tom 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.760 out of that locker room to really learn how to 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:04.000 set rate themselves some others well, absolutely, and not necessarily tonight, 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.199 but you know, the first corner has been pretty good 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.160 of late for the six Ers also, and you know, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.280 you talk about thirty nine points in the third, they 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.319 only have forty seven. And the entire first half, I 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.280 thought Ben just he was cruising. He was just and 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.240 I don't mean taking an easy coasting. I mean cruising 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.800 through the mid court and kind of picking your battles. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.720 I mean sports are fun when you win and you compete. 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.480 But Ben Simmons, he looks like he's having fun during 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.840 the throws of the game. I mean, when you can 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.120 control and manipulate what you want to do, and I 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:41.959 print your style of play on five other NBA basketball players, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.840 which is what he seems to be doing when he's 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.720 coming down, wrapping that ball around his waist at center court, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.400 kind of cruising into the front court, picking as to 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.520 what he's going to do with the ball and then 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.160 making it work. That's how it appears to me. I mean, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.680 he really looks comfortable, confident, and aggressive out there. It's 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.400 his skill set and his abilities all come into fruition 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.040 right here in the throws of the latter part of 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.640 his first NBA season. Pretty remarkable. Yeah, absolutely right, And 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.760 he's the one that you're probably gonna lean on more 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.360 so than anyone, even though it's a collective thing. And 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.760 Joel Embiid's app since Tom again is joining us from 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.839 Phillips Arena six is win one on one ninety one time. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.480 We'll get you out of here on this one. As 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.560 you talk about looking comfortable. Game number three from Marquel 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.400 Folks since his return, nineteen minutes for eight from the floor, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.880 ten points and again Tom no turnovers for the number 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.880 one overall pick tonight. Yeah, and I think he did 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.880 play a little bit more fluidly and freely, and you know, 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.760 he's an incredible athlete and that's steel like toward the end, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.200 how Dwayne Deadman now, granted he's there seven foot center 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.079 and he was totally not expecting Marquel, but Folts just 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.520 kind of swooped in behind him and took the ball 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.520 away with ease and then circled back. The game was over. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.760 But again they'd cut it down to ten. And he's 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.520 just got some you know, a unique skill set, you know, 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.480 a different kind of player like Swervey and the way 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.360 he flew it and the way he floats down the court, 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.000 I mean, and he made some jump shots, he made 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.559 two free throws, and this is really valuable time for him. 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.400 So you know, again like he's probably not gonna play 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.920 thirty minutes. He's not in the playoffs, but if he 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.240 can get his feet underneath them and over these next 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.280 two weeks and you know, be in a position where 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.240 he could be an impact player in the playoffs, like 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.439 for limited time, which I think he can based on 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.040 how it's gone so far, that's gonna be I think 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.840 a tremendous asset obviously for the sixers. And the one 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.600 that also stood out you described it as splitting two 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.280 defenders while in the air and converting the difficult layout 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.679 that was that looked like the old Marquelton when he 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.200 did that. Yeah, No, he's he's a terrific talent. Great 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.599 for him to be out there. And nice win for 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.319 the Sixers. Not perfect by any stretch at some points 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:54.959 in the game, but they, like I said, they took 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.360 care of business and they've won nine in a row. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.800 And like you said, Penning, the come to that Cleveland 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.920 game still right in the thick of things in terms 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.720 of a home court advantage and possibly even moving up 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.240 to the three spot. And it all shapes up for 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.640 what will be an exciting matchup next Friday at the 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.439 Center when the King and the Calves come to Philadelphia 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.120 on April six, no question about it. Well, Tom, you 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.240 have a safe trip to Charlotte and we'll speak to 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.360 you on Sunday afternoon. Good night, COmON, Thank you, goodnight Tom. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.960 Thanks Tom McGinnis again live from Philips Arena as the 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.400 Sixers come away with another w nine in a row, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.200 one on one ninety one over the Atlanta Hawks on 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.920 the other side. You just heard the man himself. We'll 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.120 get to some of the highlights from the game, called 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.000 by Tom McGinnis. Sixers win one, one ninety one. This 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.560 is the Sixes postgame show right here on the Sixes 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:54.200 Radio Network. The hottest team in the NBA. Pardon me 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.560 in the Eastern Conference, that would be You're Philadelphia seventy 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.480 six is winners of nine straight for your home team, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.040 as they are nine and one in their last ten, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.440 latest being of course, tonight beating the Atlanta Hawks in 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.200 Atlanta one O one ninety one, improving to forty five 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:15.200 and thirty on the season, seven games remaining, and they 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.720 are in the playoff push. Here for positioning at this 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.400 stage of the season, I'm Devine Givens. This is the 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:25.000 postgame show and we get ready to head to the highlights. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.760 As things got started in the first quarter, Sixes got 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.000 off to an early lead, back and forth in the 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.800 Atlanta Hawks decided they wanted to make a push. But 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.760 as Tom Againn has pointed out, making a statement on 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:38.960 how the pace of this game will be played, is 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:43.160 Ben Simmons six Is Baul McConnell across mid court to Simmons, 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.680 Ben charge by stop that amount of Ben Simmons right 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.120 out beach trade, slap the ball, time out hard. What 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.440 do you got cooked? Fot five straight points for your 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.160 starting point guard Ben Simmons. That made it fourteen to 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.880 twelve after that fast break dunk Damian Lee of course 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.680 from Drexon University, also went to Louisville in his college career. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.440 He then made a layup to make it eighteen sixteen. 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.160 Earson Ilias Silvia came in off the bench and he 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.720 started off high, then whether on the backdown looking for Irson. 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.280 Iliosolvia gets the screen launches of three, and that's good. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.120 That's the first triple of the mink by the sixers. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:25.440 Simmons already five assists nineteen eighteen sixers at that point. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.680 After Iliasilvia's three, Ben Simmons getting into the mix of 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:30.880 a little more with a fadeaway jumper to make it 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:35.200 twenty three twenty two. Markulle Folks inserted makes his impact 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.760 immediately with the layup thirty to twenty seven. That was 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.000 the score at the end of the first quarter. Iliasilvia tonight, 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.120 as we pointed out, twenty one points. Eleven of those 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.600 came in the first right out of the gate. Again, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.800 Markulle Folks made it thirty to twenty seven. He did 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.760 not stop there when he got into the open floor. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.680 In the second here's Marquel knocking away. Now Folts on 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.440 the runout faults in the Malankos up for jam and 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:02.360 he Dumstaball. Markl Foat slams it with a forty and 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.840 the crowd is bussy, very encouraging to see get into 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.399 the open floor takes some of that body contact finished 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.280 strong at the room. Thirty two twenty nine six is 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.640 a lighter quarter as it was, as they were only 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.720 seventeen points put up by the Sixers fourteen by the 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.879 Hawks at the end of two forty seven forty one. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.040 But in the third quarter, as has been the case 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.480 as of late fourth to Sixers, they really started to 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.080 put it on Dario Scharz. A quiet night, but a 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.120 much needed bucket here to start things off. Sixes need 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.280 eight substantial run to kind of jump start this second half. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.560 Here's Covington faking the three to the corner Dario. He 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.359 gets a shot off and that's good charge with his 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.720 first field goal in the game, and that they did. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.800 They went on a nice thirteen to two run Ben Simmons. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:48.440 Then he gets a steal in the dunk to make 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.680 it sixty to forty six. Robert Covington also a little 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.920 quieter night for the Sixers swing player sixty seven forty 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.720 four after he made three pointer Ben Simmons. We know 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.359 about the triple deuvil, his eleventh of the season. Here's 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.280 where he converted that last point, that last assist to 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.440 Rashaun Holmes Simmons with another rebound, his twelve dead behind 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.880 his back at mid court. Simp's no look pastor for Shaw. 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.880 Triple doubble for sevens. There's your rookie of the year. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.600 A slam by Rashawn very under control all night, only 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.040 twenty six minutes and thirty seconds to put up the 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.800 thirteen points, twelve rebounds and eleven assists, only two turnovers 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.560 after so much ball handling on the evening. After that play, 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.480 it made his sixty nine to fifty one. JJ Reddicks 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.400 jumper towards the end of the third quarter made eighty 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.640 six to fifty nine. Again. That was the score after 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.600 three into the fourth, the game pretty much in hand 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.639 after the six is posted thirty nine points in the 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.800 third frame. Mark hell folks getting those extended minutes that 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:48.520 Tom and I talked about. Here is something encouraging from 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.720 a jumper from folks. Mark heel folks hanging the scoring 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.159 the field goal. He feels like he could get to 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.919 any spot on the floor he desires with that dribble 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.680 he's four for six and all, by the way, that 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.320 was a beautiful jump shot. Ten points on the night 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.879 four your number one overall pick. Again, Tom pointed out 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.040 nineteen minutes of eight from the floor for his ten 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.240 points triple threat. He understands that he can get to 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.879 anywhere on the floor and get the basket at that 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.720 he likes. And again that one right there just shows 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.840 that gradually easing himself back into the Marquelle folks that 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:25.560 made him the first overall selection in twenty seventeen NBA Draft. 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.720 In this past June one, ninety six Ers win tonight 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:34.120 forty five and thirty now on the season, currently sitting 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.480 in the fourth spot again as the Cleveland Cavaliers do 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.080 in fact beat the New Orleans Pelicans one oh seven, 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.960 one h two, so they are now forty six and 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:50.320 thirty on the season. For the Cleveland Cavaliers and Sixers 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.800 are now forty five and thirty obviously again half a 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.520 game back behind the third spot. Cleveland Cavaliers making a 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.520 big matchup next Friday at the Center a week from tonight, 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.440 as the Sixers and the Cavaliers will in fact face 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:09.680 off next week and sure that will probably have playoff 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.240 positioning at that point of the season. Next Friday, again 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.840 back at the center, So deeper dive into the box score, 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.240 we look at the turnover battle as the Sixers pretty 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.760 good tonight, fifteen turnovers only resulting in eleven points for 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.560 the Atlanta Hawks eleven seventeen turnovers for the Atlanta Hawks, 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.440 seventeen points for the Sixers off of those. Again, the 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:34.920 advantage on the glass tonight Atlanta fifty nine, Sixers fifty three, 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:36.840 So as good as they were on the glass, the 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.919 Sixers Atlanta with the advantage tonight. But the one thing 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:43.680 we do point out pretty much every postgame show, the 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.879 assist and the field goal makes. Thirty four assists on 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.760 forty two mate baskets. So they continue to do what 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.080 they've done all season long, which is shared the basketball, 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.479 get each other easier shots. And again that's what they 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.399 did tonight, thirty four assists on forty two makes for 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.879 the Piladelphia seventy six is Robert Covington ten points on 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.600 the evening, the quiet night shooting saying for Dario Schartz 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.399 for six points on two of ten. So you expect 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.919 them to bounce back, possibly on Sunday against the Charlotte Horners. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.400 No points former Johnson, but did give you some good 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:18.280 defense and eleven rebounds in this his seventeen minutes of action. 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.480