WEBVTT - Rewind vs. New York Knicks - 11/29/19 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.320 You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.760 highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. A 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.720 strong second half from the seventy sixers proves to be 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:14.240 the difference at Madison Square Garden one to one ninety 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.360 five the Sixers winners over the next I'm Brian Seltzer 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.680 and this is Brett Brown. Certainly helps the square board. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:26.040 And when you have somebody as dominant as Joel embiid Is, 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.240 you know you post him. We've experienced a lot of doubles. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.480 We've been trying to work on our post basing a lot. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.040 I think tonight we reap the benefit of a lot 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.760 of that effort that the guys have put in. But James, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.880 especially at the end of stuff like that, was recognized. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:42.720 You guys have had a lot of close games down 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.080 the stretch and specifically tonight. Defensively, and with Ben Simmons 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:47.800 coming up with some big plays there, what did you 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.840 think of the defense? I mean, Ben is whatever Ben 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.080 wants to be. Defensively, you know, we're trying to help 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.240 him grow his offensive game. I think he's making strides defensively. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.880 It's it's his effort has been exceptional, and he's just 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.840 so physical and such an athlete that you take those 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.280 qualities and you go put it into an NBA game 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.759 and let's let him start guarding some of the best players, 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.200 and he just shines. As I said, I'll say it again, 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:15.880 I think we have to look at him as an 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.120 All League defensive player. That's my goal for him, and 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:24.440 lately he sure has delivered. I thought Noavell came in 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.120 and just gave us a balance. I thought his his 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.440 um presence at the rim was excellent. We've seen it 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.200 with the G League team before, and I thought he 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.280 was excellent. Was a different player in the second half, 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:43.560 which changed with him offensively. Um, I don't know. I 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.240 think that he was trying to put his thumb front 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.120 on the game for the most part throughout, but it 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.040 is true, and I thought he had a pretty solid 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:57.160 game throughout the game. Probably the second half was more recognized. 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.320 But I think that he just was very rest of 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.840 trying to play downhill body body ball stuff, physicality stuff. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.600 I thought he didn't back off from and we needed 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.160 all of that from both James and Tobias tonight. Two 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.919 key figures in the seventy Sixers win one one ninety 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.440 five over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.840 Throw at Joel embiid in that mix as well. In 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.399 the seventy Sixers figured out enough to get the job done. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.400 They outscored the New York Knicks sixty two to forty 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.760 four in the second half. The third quarter was critical 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:36.200 the Sixers. They had a really rough first half, shot poorly, 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.120 the defense at times was not together. But Tobias Harris 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.680 I thought, really set the tone in the opening minute 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.560 of play in that second half, comes out makes a 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.560 driving score at the basket, then quickly knocks down a 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.560 three pointer after the seventy Sixers got a stop, and 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.079 that seemed to get the Sixers on their way. James 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.800 Ennis the third with some really timely three point shooting 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.040 in the second half to give the seventy Sixers a 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.359 shot in the arm. And it's the third with twenty points, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.640 his first twenty point game in over two years. Joel 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.519 Embi throughout getting the foul line. He was thirteen or 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.120 fifteen from the stripe, seventy Sixers thirty two of forty 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.080 from the line overall. Compare that to the Knicks performance 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.120 at the free throw line, where they were a mere 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:25.160 nineteen of thirty three. Tobias Harris finishes with nineteen points. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.200 Norvelle Pell, who he heard his name referenced in the 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:33.480 postgame press conference in his NBA debut, three points, two rebounds, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:38.000 but really the four block shots for Norvelle Pell, including 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.160 two in the same defensive stand in possession for the 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:45.160 seventy Sixers. He was a key factor and helping change 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.000 the energy for the Sixers in the second half against 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.840 the Knicks. Two matchups at a four in the books 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:55.480 against New York this season, Sixers, they really had to 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.840 fight in each one. They won by five points at 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.800 the Center back November the twentieth, Just last week, Grinding 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.760 went out against the New York Knicks tonight at the Garden. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.240 But the most important thing is the seventy Sixers. They 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.400 win for the sixth time in their last seven games 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.240 and put a good display of might and strength on 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.360 the floor at the Garden to topple the Knicks. I'm 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.200 Brian Seltzer. Tom McGinnis had the call in this one tonight. Tom, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.240 When did you start to think the Sixers had control 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.279 of this game and they were in a good position 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.919 to make that comeback push well in control wouldn't be 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.159 exactly how it phased it, but the threes by James 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.000 Ennis that propelled them right back into the thicket things. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:42.200 I believe it was tied at eighty at one point 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.680 and then not really until you know, six and seven 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.000 in a two possession game in the final minute or so. Really, Ben, 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.080 that's when you felt like the Sixers were gonna win 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.640 the game. That's that's what I said. Now, the Sixers 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.440 are gonna win. That was with seventy seconds ago. But again, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.680 you know, to close it out, you just you have 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:00.799 to wait and see. But I felt like the third quarter, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.400 with Tobias able to get going offensively thirteen points for 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.839 him in the second half and Ennis making those three threes, 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.360 that was crucial for the Sixers. And that's what Brett 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.520 Brown was saying to the swing swing and that is 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.320 where Joel passes out of the post, finds a guy 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.120 on the perimeter on the near side, strong side where 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:19.839 he is. Then the ball goes to the top and 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.560 then it goes all the way to the far side. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.240 So and b doesn't get statistically credit with an assist, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.560 but that's the right play and that's if the Sixers 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.120 can If you can punish that double team, then then 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:32.960 you know teams are going to have to start measuring 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:34.800 should they double, and then if they don't, then and 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.320 Ban goes to town on one of their centers. So 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.200 that that was a key aspect. That's how you play 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.560 the game. If they're gonna double, you gotta make them pay. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.159 You gotta get that odd man advantage, the three on 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.520 twos and four on threes, that type of thing. And 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.400 the Sixers were able to do that with the perimeter 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.680 with Ennis knocking down those shots. Sixers one on one 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.240 ninety five winners at the Garden tonight, now two and 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.480 o on the season against the New York Knicks. Time, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.000 did you get the vibe that when Joel subbed in 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.800 for his second into the night, that's when the Sixers 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.120 are like, all right, we're really gonna just try and 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.200 overpower the Knicks on the inside. Because early on, Joel, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.359 like the rest of his teammates, kind of had an 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:10.960 up and down start to the game in terms of 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.880 his shooting. We saw a lot of jump shots, the 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.400 fadeaways around the elbows, a couple three point attempts, but 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.600 then it seemed like he scored the final six points 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.880 of the first quarter, not all on field goals, he 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.400 was able to get to the free throw line. And 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:24.520 when I saw that, at least for me, I was like, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.359 all right, he's clearly a guy that the Knicks don't 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.960 have an answer for, and hopefully, over time the hope 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.440 is that that would win out. Yeah. Absolutely, and you 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.800 go to you got to ride your best player and 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.880 continue to go to him. And New York was using 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.120 Robinson in different players portous and like that, but they 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.320 don't really have somebody that can man for man match 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.520 up with him beat And you know, you asked about 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.000 Joel's performance, and you know, help me out here. But 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.240 the last time Al Horford, it's only the second time 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.559 that I can think of, right that Horford has sat 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.600 out as part of this load management. He came into 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.520 the season saying that I really haven't done that well. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.640 If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was maybe the 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.680 Orlando game where Joel did not play in that next game, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.200 And so we don't know what his status is for 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.720 tomorrow night. But if it holds like the theorem that 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.320 it has been in the past, I don't know if 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:15.920 it's a theorem, but you know what I mean. So 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.160 maybe he thought I am going all out tonight because 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.880 he already knows. And again this is speculation on my 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.080 part that Big Ala will be back in the game 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.360 and that he will be resting in this back to 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.560 back scenario. But he certainly played like that in terms 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.720 of going all out, and the Sixers needed it for sure, 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.360 Sixers one on one to ninety five over the New 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.200 York Knicks. And I will spend this final moment tom 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.040 as far as this segment goes, just putting the spotlight 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.240 on a guy who never I don't want to say, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.600 seems to want to embrace it. That's probably not the 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.040 right way to put it. But you know, James Annis 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.200 a very mild mannered, mellow guy, but you know when 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.400 he's out there, and we saw this last year in 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.640 the playoffs two, like there's like a pop to him, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.600 a lightning in the bottle factor. And he was three 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.520 for four from the outside, only missed one of his 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.600 five shots overall, twenty points for the seventy six Ers, 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.119 got to the line for a nine for nine effort 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.840 from the stripe. He was great, absolutely, and you know, 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.600 the game has become in some ways very specialized. So 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.160 you know what's his strength corner threes and he made 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.760 a couple on the wing too, and so you know, 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.040 and you're right, like some of these guys from californiare 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.640 California cool, but that does not diminish the fact that 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.440 they're they're ready to go out there and do whatever 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.840 it takes to win. And I think that would qualify 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.160 He's in a spot in his career where he's been 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.959 around a little bit with Memphis and Miami, with Houston, 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.880 as you say, hasn't at twenty in two years, and 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.559 now they don't win this game without him, that's for sure. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.839 And his ability to to guard, as Brett Brown was 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.800 saying post game, he was good on both sides of 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.280 the ball. And just to go back, Brian, you were 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.080 talking about him beat and win this and about him 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:55.000 beat well, he had a huge defensive play against RJ. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.440 Barrett on a driving play before Barrett started that where 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.600 he got the ball and crunched situations for them. It 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.559 was on a driving play prior to that, say, give 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.800 or take three or four minutes ago. That was an 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.320 emphatic and really crucial block for the Sixers. And then 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.440 a little bit later, say six or seven possessions after that, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.600 and bad got the ball and completed an and one 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.960 basket and for the three point play. And that was 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.200 huge right there for the Sixers at different times in 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.079 the late stages of the game, but key components of 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.480 the Sixers victory and holding off the Knicks tonight, all right, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.280 the Sixers get it done, one one ninety five at 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.000 the garden time. We'll talk to you at the center tomorrow. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.200 All right, good night, Brian. Thanks. Seventy sixers get thirty 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.640 one points from their bench. A huge reason why the 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.720 twenty points that came from James Ennis the third He 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:48.319 was awesome. Joel Embiid overpowering, helping the seventy Sixers overmatch 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.200 the Knicks in the second half. Joe with twenty seven 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:56.520 points seventeen rebounds, both those numbers game high totals nineteen four. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.320 Tobias Harris, who came out of the locker room with 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.680 some real determination about him that appeared to get the 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:07.000 Sixers going. Ben Simmons finishes with fifteen points, five rebounds, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.560 eight assists. He also had a huge steal that resulted 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.640 in a runout dunk to put the seventy Sixers up 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:17.199 by seven with just a few moments remaining in regulation 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.079 that at that point you started to feel better about 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.679 where the game tonight stood seventy sixers at Madison Square 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.880 Garden to start a weekend back to back. I'm Brian 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.000 Seltzer's second match between the seventy sixers and the Knickerbockers. 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.679 Here's how it sounded, courtesy of the one only Tom McGinnis. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.640 The Sixers they get off to a little bit of 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.360 a bumpy start. The Knicks came out strong, the Sixers. 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.440 They were playing catchup early on. It's twenty three to 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:46.319 nine sixers. Ball Hell has it three thirty five to 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.640 go back out to Purk for three of the shot 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:54.600 clock buzzer and it's a burkuzzer. Sixers needed that something, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.560 anything to keep pace with the Knicks early on. That 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.040 made a twenty three to twelve seven. Sixers, though trailed 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.040 thirty one to eighteen after a quarter, but one encouraging 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.240 sign was in Bad scored the final six points of 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.560 the period for the seventy sixers, and he did so 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.960 not by taking jump shots, which we saw a lot 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.760 of early on. He was starting to get inside and 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.960 either score at the rim or get to the free 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.520 throw line. So more on that as the game continued. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.920 As the Sixers battle up hill in the second quarter, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.280 Joel and Bead is back in the game. Sixers go 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.839 down to Simmons five minutes to go in the second quarter. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.520 Ben dribbles into the lane, passes to Joel and a 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.320 Bead lays it up and end. Now that was a 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.920 thing of beauty that made the six Ers deposit forty 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.920 three to thirty five. They trailed by twelve, fifty one 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.960 thirty nine an intermission. They were down by as many 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.560 as sixteen points in that second quarter. All right, third quarter, 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.000 Tobias Harris, he sets the tone in a huge way, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.800 comes out, drives the basket for a score, knocks down 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.400 a three pointer. Ben Simmons then started to pick it up. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.800 Sixers trailed by eight. Here's Tobias hoop, here would help? 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.480 They all help, right, Here's Tobias into the naight off 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.160 balance leader front rib and off nope and Joe. He 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.920 rips it away from Taj Gipson in effects he says touch, 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.360 give me the rock, baby, and then made it fifty 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.360 six to fifty two. James and Is the third coming 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.600 alive big time in the third quarter, and he got 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.960 the thing all tied up. Simmons on a drive Portis 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.559 cuts him off out the birth perk rund An angle 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.320 of the bluff corner and Ennis, he's open, free ball 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.680 shot in the here. It's good tie game sixty six all. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.280 Ennis was open there prior to the time out, and 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.200 they drew it up and he got it back and 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.840 he knocks it out. And not too long after that, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.240 and as the third would help the seventy sixers ride 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.920 some amentum into the fourth quarter with a seventy to 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.880 sixty eight lead. He had another three pointer that gave 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.079 them a five point lead. He had Tobias Harris. I 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:41.840 feel like one of the things he's done this year 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.760 is step up in timely moments more often than not. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.200 In tonight that is the case, especially with some tough buckets. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.920 Thible with it to pel and the young guys operating 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.840 pick and roll to Bias with a Harris pulls up 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.480 baseline left, tight shot, got it Robinson there, Randall there, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.240 and Tobias Harris has been brilliant here in the second half, 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.240 made it eighty one to seventy seven. R J. Barrett 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:05.839 started to come alive a bit for the Knicks. The 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.760 seventy Sixers had an answer. Eighty seven All Sixers ball 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.120 half bourt clock already down at twelve. It beat battling 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.319 with Robin said. Joel catches on the block back, he 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.960 draws the file, puts it up and he got the 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.400 road off the back of the yard. Big one for 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.319 Joel Embiid. The and one made it ninety eighty seven 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.560 in favor of the seventy Sixers. Barrett then scored for 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.520 a second straight possession to cut the Sixers lead down 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.520 to one. But the Sixers they got a key timely 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.240 deposit from Tobias Harris to make it ninety four to 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.120 eighty nine. After a couple of free throws from Joel 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.640 Embiid and then Ben Simmons helped put this one away. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.920 Ben guards Barrett. Barrett trying to break free out near 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.280 mid court and Ben back to that. Simmons stole the ball. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.480 Benny Simmons in the plane, slap up. The Sixers are 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.720 gonna beat the next. Barrett couldn't get it. Simmons took 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.080 the deflected it ran it down at chapter. It wasn't 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.319 a straight line from there on out, But in the end, 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.480 the Sixers did get across the finish line. In their 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.920 one O one on ninety five win over the New 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:07.000 York Knicks, seventy Sixers and the Knicks both shot just 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.520 a touch over forty three percent from the field, the 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.839 Sixers with seven three pointers, the Knicks with eight of them. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.400 But where the Sixers had two key advantages were these 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.719 next two areas. The Sixers thirty two to forty from 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.880 the free throw line, the Knicks nineteen of thirty three. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.000 The Sixers were plus nine on the glass overall, and 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.600 that was a major, major key for them as they 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.080 were able to pull this one out tonight, surviving sixteen 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.120 turnovers in the game. Joel em b twenty seven point 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.360 seventeen rebounds, three block shots, Tobias Harris with nineteen point 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.440 six rebounds, fifteen points. For Ben Simmons, he had five 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.680 boards and eight assists to go along with two steals. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.320 James Ennis the third three to four from outside the arc, 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.840 nine for nine from the free throw line. He was phenomenal. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.640 A game best plus seventeen in twenty one minutes of action. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.400 I get it. Sometimes plus minus does tell you the 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.240 whole story. That is a pretty representative number tonight as 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.840 far as James, and it's the third's impact in the game. 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.800 Sixers with the winner now thirteen and six winners of 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.800 six out of their last seven. They're going to come 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.360 home for a game on Saturday against the Indiana Pacers 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.800 at seven o'clock and try to improve to nine and 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.240 oh at the center of course, sentimental spirit figures to 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.560 be strong inside the building tomorrow night. TJ McConnell is 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.280 going to be back in the house. He's signed with 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.560 the Pacers over the offseason, and statistically, TJ having the 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.840 best year of his career this season if you look 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.600 at it on a per game average basis, and especially 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:41.000 if you look at the per thirty six minute stats, points, rebounds, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:45.880 assists in those three areas in particular, TJ is statistically 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.320 playing the best basketball of his career. One final time. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.960 The final score seventy six Ers one to one New 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.360 York Knicks ninety five. You've been listening to rewind look 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.920 out for fresh episodes the day after every seventy six 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.040 Ers game this season.