Speaker 1: This is seventy Sixers. Rewind time now to listen back
Speaker 1: to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. Finally,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers take down the Boston Celtics, and what
Speaker 1: a way to do it. One eighteen one fifteen. A
Speaker 1: fantastic effort by the Sixers to get the win tonight.
Speaker 1: They're sixth straight, extending their season high winning streak. They
Speaker 1: now leave the Boston Celtics by four games for third
Speaker 1: place in the Eastern Conference standings. Sixers pretty much looking
Speaker 1: real good for one of the top four seeds in
Speaker 1: the East going into the postseason. After playing Game number
Speaker 1: seventy two tonight and just some of the sub layers
Speaker 1: of this one. You had Joel Embiid putting the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers on his back essentially for the first three quarters
Speaker 1: of regulation, and then you're thinking someone else or some
Speaker 1: other people are going to have to step up down
Speaker 1: the stretch to see this through for the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: to get an elusive win over their art rival. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler off the chart fifteen of his twenty two points
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, he had the back to back
Speaker 1: three pointers to tie it up at one oh five
Speaker 1: free throws with four minutes to go to pull the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers within a point. He then had that driving
Speaker 1: lamp to make it one eleven one oh eight. He
Speaker 1: assisted on the ensuing Tobias Harris dunk that broke a
Speaker 1: tie and putting the Sixers up one thirteen to one
Speaker 1: to eleven. Jimmy Butler's so huge in this game. And
Speaker 1: then of course that pose he struck after hitting the
Speaker 1: jumper on the wing that proved to be the final
Speaker 1: basket of the night for the seventy Sixers in the
Speaker 1: one eighteen one fifteen win. So, yeah, someone tell me
Speaker 1: about Jimmy Butler, right. I think the guy's pretty good,
Speaker 1: especially in crunch time. Look at these last couple of
Speaker 1: games and how he's factored in fourth quarters. He has
Speaker 1: been precisely when the seventy Sixers sought and acquiring him
Speaker 1: all the way back in November. Let's go back to
Speaker 1: Joe el Embiid, right, So he didn't play last night
Speaker 1: in Charlotte, which means the last two games he's been
Speaker 1: in having to come against the best team in the
Speaker 1: NBA on the road, the Milwaukee Bucks, and all he
Speaker 1: did that night was put up forty fifteen and six,
Speaker 1: and then tonight you have your chief rival in the building.
Speaker 1: You're trying to break this hecks and change your fortunes
Speaker 1: and further boost your momentum going to the postseason. His
Speaker 1: numbers once again outstanding thirty seven twenty two. He had
Speaker 1: a block shot, four assists plus twelve in the game.
Speaker 1: But more than that, something that Brett Brown alluded to
Speaker 1: in the postgame press conference comments that we heard the
Speaker 1: mindset of Joel the last two games he's played against
Speaker 1: the Bucks in Boston. These have been big time, prime
Speaker 1: time national spotlight games. When everyone's looking at you. You're
Speaker 1: the best player on the team arguably, and how are
Speaker 1: you going to show up in games like this that
Speaker 1: mean this much, both in terms of the standings and
Speaker 1: also in the holistic sense to try and get everything
Speaker 1: good for the postseason. Joel embiid the man. The last
Speaker 1: two games he played forty one minutes. Tonight he went
Speaker 1: twenty of twenty one from the free throw line. And really,
Speaker 1: I mean you can say, yeah, the Sixers won the
Speaker 1: game because of their fourth quarter and because of what
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler did, and you know, Tobias played better in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and all that, But I think the
Speaker 1: fact that the Sixers were able to even stay close
Speaker 1: with Boston, which led by as many as fifteen in
Speaker 1: this game, goes directly back to what Joe was able
Speaker 1: to do from the foul line when the Sixers were
Speaker 1: battling uphill for most of the game. And then also
Speaker 1: what the Sixers did on the glass, and obviously in
Speaker 1: large part of that had to do with Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: who had sixteen rebounds in the game. Ben Simmons with
Speaker 1: a key basket late He finished with thirteen points, eight rebounds,
Speaker 1: and seven assists. He was able to break the tie
Speaker 1: at one thirteen one thirteen. Tobias finished with twenty one
Speaker 1: and eight. We talked about Joel jj Reddick with seventeen
Speaker 1: points and the Sixers get eight points from the bench.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if the way you look at this,
Speaker 1: especially last night and just how things are trending, Sixers
Speaker 1: are going to need the starters to be at full
Speaker 1: strength heading into crunch time in the postseason. But you
Speaker 1: know what, they have stepped up and come through Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons to Bias Harris at the mic, So why don't
Speaker 1: we hear from them? If we can get them what
Speaker 1: goes on on the court. But what is he like
Speaker 1: in to huddle Lake compared to I guess earlier. I
Speaker 1: think I don't think it's demeanor change. I just you know,
Speaker 1: he's comfortable. Um, I think he's more comfortable. It's sort
Speaker 1: of in that in that static set, um, where we're
Speaker 1: playing in a sort of at a slower pace, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a real value and having someone who who's
Speaker 1: capable of making plays, um, you know against the set defense. UM,
Speaker 1: somebody who can shoot over the top of guys and
Speaker 1: and really take advantage of mismassage mismatches and um. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know that you want to play that way
Speaker 1: for four quarters, but certainly at times going down the stretch, Um,
Speaker 1: there's value in that change. Now, you guys have only
Speaker 1: played the next samur eight games together. It's just starting five.
Speaker 1: But is this kind of an example that you guys
Speaker 1: are capable of everything? Sure, I still think we're trying
Speaker 1: to figure things out a little bit, and I think, um,
Speaker 1: I think we all sort of have to learn. I
Speaker 1: think just the flow of the game at times is
Speaker 1: a little different than some of us. You know, I
Speaker 1: say me too. I mean some of us, you know,
Speaker 1: we can go five six possessions without really touching the ball.
Speaker 1: But yet you know, you look up and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we have sixty two at half time or not tonight.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying just in general and um, and so
Speaker 1: those are sort of, you know, the things we just
Speaker 1: got to keep sort of learning about playing together because
Speaker 1: I think the talent is there and there's a real
Speaker 1: chance for for cohesiveness because I do think our our
Speaker 1: skill sets compliment each other. That your most what does
Speaker 1: the thing you guys have to work on, I guess
Speaker 1: at the most over the next three weeks. Is it
Speaker 1: just a matter of playing together and actually getting games
Speaker 1: on of your balance before the playoffs. In terms of
Speaker 1: preparing for sure, I mean I think defensively, communication probably
Speaker 1: is the biggest thing. And then just continuing to evolve
Speaker 1: our execution offensively. Marcus, where are your p seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: shooting guard JJ Reddick finishing with seventeen points in tonight's
Speaker 1: game as the seventy Sixers fend off the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 1: overcoming a fifteen point depicite one eighteen to one fifteen
Speaker 1: seventy six and now forty seven and twenty five. Boston
Speaker 1: drops to forty three and twenty nine. We'll talk with
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Speaker 1: call two one five, three three nine seven six seven
Speaker 1: six two one five, three three nine seven to six
Speaker 1: seven six. Jimmy Butler has it. There's a three second differential.
Speaker 1: If the Sixers score here, they could probably win the game.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler with it. Ten seconds to go on the
Speaker 1: shot clock. Ten seconds now to go in the game.
Speaker 1: Jimmy with a dribbles. Jimmy loses it. He almost fell
Speaker 1: in abouts. He shoots it. It's good. He made it
Speaker 1: with an under five seconds ago. Jimmy Butler has come up,
Speaker 1: dude ten. The crowd roars, that is what a closeout
Speaker 1: performance sounds like. Jimmy Buckets getting it done with fifteen
Speaker 1: points in the fourth quarter, seventy Sixers beat the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics one eighteen to one fifteen. I'm Brian Seltzer. We
Speaker 1: are rejoined now by Tom McGinnis. Tom, what a fantastic
Speaker 1: NBA basketball game tonight, it really was. And Tobias Harris
Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head. He joined his post
Speaker 1: game and he said, you know what, we never quit
Speaker 1: because up fifteen and Boston was just unbelievable. And I
Speaker 1: would think some of these twenty thousand fans were like, oh, brother,
Speaker 1: here we go. We just can't beat Boston. And yet
Speaker 1: the Sixers just kept with it. And you know I
Speaker 1: noted this earlier, Brian, but that Marcus smart thing that
Speaker 1: I think that cost Boston. Not only did they lose
Speaker 1: one of their top players he started in this game,
Speaker 1: but and to that we just heard. I saw on
Speaker 1: the old Twitter sphere from from Brad Stevens. He was
Speaker 1: quoted saying after the game, I'm disappointed him. We needed him. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: and I thought he was trying to like make a
Speaker 1: statement the way he was like kind of taunting and
Speaker 1: bead and that don't get me wrong, Like I said,
Speaker 1: that screen by Joel could have been called in the
Speaker 1: legal screen probably should have been, but that wasn't I mean,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna say it wasn't like a real dirty play,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But the push of the
Speaker 1: back was and then he was like, you know this bravado.
Speaker 1: He was more intent on personal or so it appeared,
Speaker 1: you know, the personally showing a bead, you know what
Speaker 1: what he could kind of married he what well, it
Speaker 1: cost his team big time and in bed, like I said,
Speaker 1: he had eight points in a row for the sixers there,
Speaker 1: and Joel had a stretch in the first half of
Speaker 1: fifteen and seventeen points in a row. And not only
Speaker 1: did it cost him those points, but Smart was out
Speaker 1: for the game with Baines already on the shelf with
Speaker 1: an ankle, and you know, and also that kind of
Speaker 1: thing like it's like in an Allen you see a
Speaker 1: fight on the playground that you're not even involved in.
Speaker 1: So I don't see you a whole lot of playground
Speaker 1: scrapes growing up. But whatever, I'm just saying, surprised in
Speaker 1: the tough streets he gets parked. Baby, what I'm saying
Speaker 1: is it ratchets up you're adrenaline, you know you're on
Speaker 1: the outside and get fired up. I think it fired
Speaker 1: up the Sixers like, oh yeah, you're gonna do that
Speaker 1: to our big guy. And they came out and then
Speaker 1: Harris was big obviously in the fourth. But Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: it's uncanny. I mean, he's so good down the stretch
Speaker 1: and you're like, jeez, if he did that for the
Speaker 1: under thirty six minutes, he'd be Will Chamberlain. He was
Speaker 1: just dobbing it. I love that little stare he got
Speaker 1: into that Kecter's crouch after making that one big shot
Speaker 1: and froze their strike a pose. I mean, Butler just
Speaker 1: really this was, like you say, by all accounts, an
Speaker 1: awesome game and a great result and an exciting win
Speaker 1: for the Sixers and a big win in that you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, and you noted to the four game
Speaker 1: separation in the standings now and the Sixers, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is the point last year where they took off and
Speaker 1: one sixteen in a row. They won six in a row.
Speaker 1: Here they're doing an outstanding job with nine to go
Speaker 1: one eighteen one, fifteen the final score the seventy sixers.
Speaker 1: And it's funny when you say it now they take
Speaker 1: one game out of four against the Boston Celtics this year.
Speaker 1: But this is timing. This is you know, everyone says it,
Speaker 1: and it's true. It's how you are playing when you
Speaker 1: get to the time of the year that matters most.
Speaker 1: And this is now, if I'm not mistaken, it's seven
Speaker 1: and one with the current projected playoffs starting lineup, and
Speaker 1: it's been working. They have found ways together and I
Speaker 1: mean Joel just what he was able to do from
Speaker 1: the foulon was incredible. Well, and you go back to
Speaker 1: the starters and the record together, and I'll go back
Speaker 1: and borrow a phrase from JJ Reddick's commentary, it's not
Speaker 1: like how you want to play all the time. But
Speaker 1: this group, the starters had sixty four the last sixty
Speaker 1: five points and all but like six or eight points
Speaker 1: in the game from that first five, and so unbelievable
Speaker 1: by the group that first five. But also you just
Speaker 1: know in the postseason, with foul difficulties and whatever else
Speaker 1: may come up, that you're gonna need that group, and
Speaker 1: Mike didn't have a big offensive game, TJ struggled, And
Speaker 1: again this is a McConnell that, in addition to the
Speaker 1: others but basically helped you win Game four in this
Speaker 1: series last year with Boston and then started and played
Speaker 1: exception well in Game five in Boston. But in Bed,
Speaker 1: I mean he got to the line quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, making twenty out of twenty one is huge.
Speaker 1: But he was really good. I mean, he was just
Speaker 1: a very very top all star performer in this game.
Speaker 1: And he carried the sixer strop much of this game.
Speaker 1: And again it shows, like Brett Brown said, it just
Speaker 1: shows how much he wants it, how much he wants
Speaker 1: to carry the mantle for the franchise, and he showed
Speaker 1: it big time here tonight. Thirty seven twenty two. The
Speaker 1: totals for Joel Embid twenty of twenty one from the
Speaker 1: Falline seventy six ers survived Kyrie Irving's thirty six, Al
Speaker 1: Horford's twenty two. I mean, that's the other thing, Joe
Speaker 1: with that block on Kyrie and Iso down the stretch,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's and that's so you think about that, Okay,
Speaker 1: in a vacuum. That's so impressive. The guy was the
Speaker 1: primary defender essentially on Jannis in the game on Sunday. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 1: And then you know you have to give Boston credit.
Speaker 1: I mean, what they've done to the six Ers over
Speaker 1: the years, certainly the last two years, is they create
Speaker 1: these switches that create for them what they feel are
Speaker 1: favorable match How many times tonight did Embed guard Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving out front, So it's twofold. One you're pulling Joel
Speaker 1: away from the basket, and then two you're guarding a
Speaker 1: guy who's unguardable. With the way Irving was playing, particularly
Speaker 1: early in this game. I mean, he got that switch
Speaker 1: and he bangs into three, he makes in another three,
Speaker 1: and then he proceeds to go one of eleven from three.
Speaker 1: But to your point, and it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: microcosm of how the six has played in the game
Speaker 1: and that they didn't quit, they kept coming back. Kyrie
Speaker 1: takes Joel off the dribble, but in being able to
Speaker 1: get in there and block that shot. So you know,
Speaker 1: he does a lot of things that are just incredibly
Speaker 1: athletic and just mind numbing when you watch a player
Speaker 1: in speaking of and be of that size, that height,
Speaker 1: that weight, and that ability and agility to make the
Speaker 1: physical plays that he does is just astounding. And that's
Speaker 1: that's why, in part why twenty thousand people show up.
Speaker 1: And again, this is great on the radio. It's basketball
Speaker 1: lends itself to television unlike any other sport. But to
Speaker 1: be here, I mean, this is why you're a season
Speaker 1: ticket holder. This is why you get on a waiting
Speaker 1: list to become one. It is an incredible atmosphere and
Speaker 1: it just coursed through your body with what went on
Speaker 1: here down the stretch with this win over Boston. We
Speaker 1: will leave it at that. I believe we have a
Speaker 1: couple more players coming to the podium in just a
Speaker 1: few moments. Tom Againnis, thank you very much. We'll speak
Speaker 1: with you on Saturday when the seventy Sixers go up
Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta. Thank you, goodnight. Seventy
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Speaker 1: sixers in Boston Celtics a fourth and final time in
Speaker 1: the regular season. You got it down here at the
Speaker 1: Center tonight. What a game. Let's listen back. Started off
Speaker 1: rather disappointing and disturbing because the Celtics they were clicking
Speaker 1: on all cylinders, shooting the lights out of the ball.
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving was going nuts, but Tobias Harris had a
Speaker 1: very solid first quarter. It beat in pain shoving. Here's
Speaker 1: allowed to Harris at an LU camp to Bias hairs up,
Speaker 1: top down, hard good feat by Simmons. Sixer's tied at
Speaker 1: twenty one under five to go. Yes, But at the
Speaker 1: end of a quarter it was the Boston Celtics leading
Speaker 1: the seventy six Ers thirty nine to thirty. Boston were
Speaker 1: going to lead by as many is fifteen points before
Speaker 1: the first half was done. Mike Scott trying to keep
Speaker 1: things close. Download who Marcus fourth clock by Simmons in
Speaker 1: a big way. Now Bet with the ball. Simmons on
Speaker 1: a drive right at Harford leans it. Oh Bellot shot
Speaker 1: no good. He snatches his own rebound. He gets it.
Speaker 1: Download out to Scott quartered three by Mike Scott. Scott
Speaker 1: a free ball climb out busted. Bet Simmons putting his
Speaker 1: thumbprint on the ball. Game. It's a nine point game,
Speaker 1: and the cargoes crazy. Sixty to fifty one. Seventy sixers
Speaker 1: trailed by eleven sixty nine fifty eight at the end
Speaker 1: of the first half. In the third quarter of the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers, it was so much, Joel, It was so
Speaker 1: much getting to the free throw line and beginning the
Speaker 1: slow climb back up the hill. And Joel and Beat,
Speaker 1: of course he was an essential part of it. On
Speaker 1: the drive and beat his foul by Tatum and a
Speaker 1: ten What a shot by and Beat, and he can
Speaker 1: tie the game. He gets up and looks at the
Speaker 1: crowd and waxes and next fingers he did it, tied
Speaker 1: up at eighty two a piece. Let's move on to
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter seventy six Ers one of the final frame,
Speaker 1: trailing ninety to eighty five. This was time for Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1: Butler guarded by Kyrie. You'll rise for another threak. It's good,
Speaker 1: back to back praise Jimmy Bucketts tie game one oh five,
Speaker 1: one oh five, just under five oh five to go
Speaker 1: at Butler delivers. That was with about six minutes to
Speaker 1: go in the game. The seventy Sixers and Celtics were neck,
Speaker 1: and Boston actually went back up one away to one
Speaker 1: oh five. Butler hit free throws and then the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers got an alley featuring Tobias Harris diming out Joe
Speaker 1: l Embiide, and there was an opportunity for Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: to further increase the league one o nine, one away. Butler,
Speaker 1: with an outside right Harris comes to screen, tend to shoot.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler against Kyrie Irvy, How good is this? Here's
Speaker 1: Butler on a drive in the way left hand lamp good.
Speaker 1: He went right by Kyrie. Irby's looking at Boris like
Speaker 1: give me some hell man. It's Jimmy Butler. One eight
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers Boston would not go oa. Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: would tie it up at one thirteen. Ben Simmons, what
Speaker 1: do you got? Ben Simmons with it, shot clock down
Speaker 1: to nine. Ben drives it in the lane, puts it up,
Speaker 1: and he back to the kind of fount on Morris
Speaker 1: Simmons going to the basket. Eddie stares it. Simmons hits
Speaker 1: the free throw. One sixteen, one thirteen. This right now,
Speaker 1: right here is the sequence that decide of the game.
Speaker 1: Thirty five seconds to go, seventeen to shoot. Here's Irving
Speaker 1: on a drive in the night. He gets round it,
Speaker 1: Beat blocked it. Morris gets the ball Forrest with a
Speaker 1: stepback not short, and it beat pulls down the rebound.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler has it. There's a three second differential. If
Speaker 1: the Sixers score here, they could probably win the game.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler with it. Ten seconds to go on the
Speaker 1: shot clock. Ten seconds now to go in the game.
Speaker 1: Jimmy with a dribble. Jimmy loses it. He almost fell
Speaker 1: in about he shoots it. It's good. He made it
Speaker 1: one hundred five seconds ago. Jimmy Butler has come up
Speaker 1: huge and the crowd roars. He got into a crouch
Speaker 1: stuck a pose after sticking the eventual game winning basket.
Speaker 1: Huge moment for Jimmy Butler the seventy Sixers, one of
Speaker 1: the newcomers this year, putting the Boston Celtics aways. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers beat Boston for just a fourth time in
Speaker 1: the last twenty two meetings going all the way back.
Speaker 1: You know you include regular and postseasons. The seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: the fourth win in the last twenty two tries against Boston.
Speaker 1: What was it that Lebron James said the first time?
Speaker 1: That's right, we'll clean it up because it's PG radio.
Speaker 1: It's about darn time for the seventy sixers. They went
Speaker 1: it despite shooting just under thirty eight percent from the field.
Speaker 1: Boston shot forty seven percent in the first half, though
Speaker 1: they were up at one point around the sixties. So
Speaker 1: the Sixers outscoring Boston the second half sixty to forty six.
Speaker 1: The defense improving Sixers with eleven of thirty three going
Speaker 1: down from outside the arc Boston twelve of thirty two.
Speaker 1: Pretty even there, I mean this right here is pretty
Speaker 1: much the game in terms of offense. The Sixers thirty
Speaker 1: nine of forty three from the foul line Boston thirteen
Speaker 1: of sixteen and the Sixers. They were plus eight on
Speaker 1: the glass, plus seven on the offensive boards and the
Speaker 1: only committee of the Sixers nine turnovers same total as Boston,
Speaker 1: just one turnover in the fourth quarter from the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: tremendous Joel and b thirty seven points, twenty two rebounds
Speaker 1: on the strength of twenty of twenty one free throw shooting,
Speaker 1: ridiculous Jimmy Butler twenty two points, fifteen in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: twenty one for Tobias Harris. He was seven to seventeen
Speaker 1: from the field. Ben Simmons with thirteen eight and seven,
Speaker 1: also two block shots and three steals. Seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: got seventeen from JJ Reddick. They survived Kyrie Irving's thirty six,
Speaker 1: twenty from Terry Rozier and twenty two from Al Horford
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