Speaker 1: This is seventy Sixers. Rewind time now to listen back
Speaker 1: to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers back from the week long All Star Game break
Speaker 1: with a victory tonight one six, one h two over
Speaker 1: Miami Heats. Brian Seltzer, welcome you into our postgame coverage
Speaker 1: from down here at the Center. We're expecting to hear
Speaker 1: from Brett Brown. Maybe a few players will touch base
Speaker 1: with Tom McGinnis. One last time, good one for the
Speaker 1: Sixers tonight. Boban Marnyaranovitch filling in for Joel and Beat
Speaker 1: is gonna be out for at least a couple more
Speaker 1: games with soreness in his knee. A great night nineteen points,
Speaker 1: twelve rebounds, each of those numbers tying a season high
Speaker 1: for the big man. He also was plus ten for
Speaker 1: the game and a high impact first half, getting the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers started down the stretch to Bias Harris the
Speaker 1: key sequence to tie the game up. Ben Simmons taking
Speaker 1: over at one point in a clutch three from JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick to put the seventy Sixers over the top. With
Speaker 1: a minute ago one six, one two. The Sixers winn it.
Speaker 1: And now I believe we do have Brett Brown at
Speaker 1: the podium that I intended to have with say Bobon.
Speaker 1: At what point, you know, does Zolnok punish that that matchup?
Speaker 1: And so you're learning and I wanted to take it
Speaker 1: as far as I could so that we have a
Speaker 1: chance to learn what do we have in Bobon? And
Speaker 1: I think that to your point when you say they willed,
Speaker 1: you know, the game to win, there is truth through
Speaker 1: that in that the lineups and how we had to
Speaker 1: go big and small and you know t J came
Speaker 1: in and gave us a lift and Jimmy was a
Speaker 1: point guard and you know, like we're still learning. I
Speaker 1: think it's a fifth game with this group. And it
Speaker 1: was my my um determination to come back in this
Speaker 1: final third and try to figure some stuff out so
Speaker 1: that where we want to be in April. What did
Speaker 1: you see first opportunity? Well, initially I was always curious
Speaker 1: about his conditioning. You know, is he going to be
Speaker 1: able to sustain whatever period of minutes that I was
Speaker 1: giving him? And I think I said pregame, you know,
Speaker 1: like I hope I'm going more like five minute clumps,
Speaker 1: maybe six minute clumps. I'm not worried about if it
Speaker 1: ends up thirty minutes, but I am the duration. And
Speaker 1: he kept telling me he was fine, and the game
Speaker 1: spun out in that first period and he was really good.
Speaker 1: And then the game you know, left I think a
Speaker 1: little bit where it went probably a minute and a
Speaker 1: half longer than I had hoped. But in general I
Speaker 1: thought that, you know, he was really good. There were
Speaker 1: times that you knew the matchup wasn't favorable, and so
Speaker 1: we got him out and then at the end, you know,
Speaker 1: we tried to use a foul because we had one
Speaker 1: to get him back in and have some level of
Speaker 1: room protection. I thought, in general he was very good
Speaker 1: and he was our bell ringing tonight. FREDI went small
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the fourth first with I believe
Speaker 1: Mike was playing center, and yeah, what can you guys
Speaker 1: do without a true room protector on the floor, So
Speaker 1: I guess get stops. Yeah, it's a it's a good question,
Speaker 1: and my immediate reaction is to try to I think
Speaker 1: we have a better chance to keep the game in
Speaker 1: front of us by switching everything. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, like on like bodies out there, and I
Speaker 1: hope that there's not as much needed at the rim,
Speaker 1: but in general we we miss it, you know, like
Speaker 1: I felt that pain. I felt some level of pain
Speaker 1: without a rim protector. M I think probably my simplest
Speaker 1: Santa College what I said, I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: you just hope to keep the game in front of you.
Speaker 1: The struggles you guys had, just guys are not necessarily
Speaker 1: on the same page yet with a newness of the rotation, Yeah, familiarity,
Speaker 1: I think there's I think there's a lot of that,
Speaker 1: and I mean there were some miscues, you know that
Speaker 1: they go in for, you know, gut layups. This certainly
Speaker 1: wasn't a flow even offensively. When you start going small ball,
Speaker 1: you know, you start really trying to whittle it down
Speaker 1: into simple and so I put Jimmy in a middle
Speaker 1: pick and roll. You know, we tried to put a
Speaker 1: link in that as much as we could. Then they
Speaker 1: made the substitution, but it wasn't like we were living
Speaker 1: in anything sophisticated offensively, which at times is just fine.
Speaker 1: But to your point, you know, trying to figure it
Speaker 1: out with that group was uh was was was hard out.
Speaker 1: Hello Ama, my friend of meat at the trade then
Speaker 1: might to get a backup center. I know that Harris
Speaker 1: was the big acquisition. I think you were thinking about
Speaker 1: getting another backup force. You and you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about it. When when the media would come in, you
Speaker 1: guys all say like, what do you need? Really did
Speaker 1: I pivot? You know, we we always talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody that can come in and you know, help with
Speaker 1: pick and roll defense. We talked about who ultimately, you know,
Speaker 1: the backup five. We were living with Mike and Jonah
Speaker 1: for a while and Ken that is that sustainable and
Speaker 1: you know plan B type stuff. And I feel like
Speaker 1: the backup five in getting Boban in here to Elton
Speaker 1: Brand's credit, was just a tremendous move because I think
Speaker 1: that trade when you really study it with Tobias because
Speaker 1: of how young and good he is. And then I
Speaker 1: think that Mike Scott, you know, who ends up sort
Speaker 1: of a Wilson Chandler, and Boban who ends up like
Speaker 1: slotting in perfectly as the backup. It was an excellent
Speaker 1: sort of accumulated trade. We really made money, I think
Speaker 1: in multiple areas. So postgame thoughts from seventy six ers
Speaker 1: head coach Brett Brown after tonight's one oh six one
Speaker 1: h two win over the Miami Heat. Seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: now thirty eight and twenty one on the season. The
Speaker 1: Heat dropped to twenty six and thirty one. Talked about
Speaker 1: this before the game. Had the Sixers as long as
Speaker 1: things stay relatively intact right now, very much in line
Speaker 1: for at worst the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: A lot would have to happen for them to drop
Speaker 1: down any farther than that. And with a win tonight,
Speaker 1: as we get into the stretch of the year, we're
Speaker 1: going into the evening, they're only twenty four games left,
Speaker 1: you know, a chance to move up into the fourth
Speaker 1: spot to night should Boston lose at Milwaukee. The Celtics
Speaker 1: were trailing at the half, so a good way, all
Speaker 1: things considered for the seventy six ers to start the
Speaker 1: unofficial second half of the season. No Joe ellenbad in
Speaker 1: the game, but Boban steps up with a big one
Speaker 1: nineteen points, twelve rebounds, two assists, and a block shot.
Speaker 1: He was tremendous in the first half. Tobias Harris all
Speaker 1: around good game twenty three points, eleven rebounds for him,
Speaker 1: He was a team best plus nineteen Ben Simmons a
Speaker 1: strong stretch in the second half twenty one point seven
Speaker 1: rebounds and four times. I thought TJ McConnell had a
Speaker 1: huge impact in the game. He only played just over
Speaker 1: eleven minutes, all eight of those in the second half
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, and he gave the team a
Speaker 1: spark when they needed it the Sixers were down. TJ
Speaker 1: ignited things with a steel, a couple of baskets and
Speaker 1: scores himself. So he was doing what he does, providing
Speaker 1: high energy plays with some scrap and some hustle and
Speaker 1: some grits. TJ McConnell with a key role off the
Speaker 1: bench for these seventy six Ers. One O six one
Speaker 1: h two Sixers beat the Heat. We'll speak with Tom
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Speaker 1: seven six. Seventy Sixers outlast the Miami Heat one oh
Speaker 1: six one h two back and forth game that featured
Speaker 1: thirteen lead changes in ten times. Brian Seltzer with you
Speaker 1: from down here at the center as we are rejoined
Speaker 1: by Tom McGinnis after an exciting game. Listen. We know
Speaker 1: that from the playoffs last year, this is a hard
Speaker 1: fighting Miami Heat team. The seventy six ers shorthanded for
Speaker 1: the short term at least with actual all embiid. But
Speaker 1: from the outset time it was clear boban Majanovich he
Speaker 1: was ready to play. He really was. He was dramatic.
Speaker 1: We had him as our player of the game, Brett
Speaker 1: Brown also signaling that he was in there, and he
Speaker 1: got to ring the bell, which is basically player of
Speaker 1: the game as chosen by the coaches. So a tremendous night.
Speaker 1: And again he's so big, he's not really even leaping
Speaker 1: to catch that ball. He's around the basket. He showed though,
Speaker 1: great hand eye coordinations, scoring that ball with agility around
Speaker 1: the basket, made free throws, got back in the game late,
Speaker 1: made a big free throw, and he was really terrific.
Speaker 1: I mean, there were a lot of questions, as Brett
Speaker 1: Brown said, would it be his stamina, Would it be
Speaker 1: his ability to guard in the perimeter, which was challenged
Speaker 1: when Olenak got out there. But here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: They couldn't guard him. He dominated whiteside here tonight and
Speaker 1: one of the best games of his career and the
Speaker 1: Sixers needed it. In a clutch performance by him against
Speaker 1: Miami Sixers knock off the heat one O six, one
Speaker 1: or two. One of the other teams that Brett Brown
Speaker 1: spoke about yesterday when the team regrouped for practice for
Speaker 1: the first time since the break, was who's going to
Speaker 1: step up in the absence if someone like him beat
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive end, we saw at various stretches,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler getting really aggressive attacking the bucket. He was great.
Speaker 1: Finished with eighteen points, six or rebounds, six assists. Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris had that swing of five straight points to tie
Speaker 1: the game up at eighty six when the Sixers fell behind,
Speaker 1: and then in crunch time, really in the guts of
Speaker 1: the game, Ben Simmons did a lot with a run
Speaker 1: of eight consecutive points. Right, Well, let's start with Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: because they had four fouls as a team in the
Speaker 1: final frame with eight minutes, as you know, they commit
Speaker 1: that next foul, they put the Sixers in the bonus.
Speaker 1: So Butler, he was the primary ball handler out top,
Speaker 1: and he's such a good driver and slasher and such
Speaker 1: an excellent foul shooter. That was a really good strategy
Speaker 1: and it allowed Ben Simmons to play off the ball
Speaker 1: down load to your other point, where Simmons was very
Speaker 1: effective around the basket. Not only that, though Ben had
Speaker 1: some of those classic his number one skill set on
Speaker 1: folders play and that is grabbing the rebound and driving
Speaker 1: the ball the length of the floor. They had a
Speaker 1: couple of defensive breakdowns, particularly in the first half, where
Speaker 1: he was able to just get running slam dunks. He
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. And then again part of the reason you
Speaker 1: love the acquisition of Tobias Harris. He's a closer. He
Speaker 1: can make shots until your point about five in a row.
Speaker 1: He got an open three he nailed it. Reddick was
Speaker 1: brilliant when it mattered down the stretch, and you needed
Speaker 1: multiple players, including Marianovitch to step up in the absence
Speaker 1: of Embid, and the Sixers got a great team performance
Speaker 1: overall seventy six ers with one oh six one h
Speaker 1: two win over the heat Hey by tomorrow morning, they
Speaker 1: couldn't well even sooner than that, being fourth place in
Speaker 1: the East with Boston trailing Milwaukee by three in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. But next time is a Portland Trailblazers team
Speaker 1: that I guess maybe because it doesn't have the name,
Speaker 1: Notoriete or some of the highest profile players, although you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Damian Lillard is a few of the other teams
Speaker 1: out west maybe not getting quite as much attention. But look,
Speaker 1: they're in fourth place at a record of thirty four
Speaker 1: and twenty three. And we know what happened the last
Speaker 1: time around, rushed after Christmas, and guess who wasn't playing
Speaker 1: in that game either, right, and Bid did not play.
Speaker 1: And if we thought Yokich was good here, and he
Speaker 1: was very good, and he had a triple double with
Speaker 1: Denver against the Sixers earlier this season, not that long ago.
Speaker 1: Of course, the other game was just two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Well here comes Nurkics and he's maybe not as good,
Speaker 1: but certainly a very talented big man for the Blazers.
Speaker 1: And then you have Lillard and McCollum and a very
Speaker 1: well coached team by Terry Stotts. So it ought to
Speaker 1: be interesting, that's for sure. And you know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be It's gonna be tough. You got Anthony Davis on Monday,
Speaker 1: you got the Thunder on Thursday. In terms of playing
Speaker 1: without Embid. But tonight the Sixers, it wasn't perfect. It
Speaker 1: was up and down. They got a big lead, Miami
Speaker 1: came back, and yet they were able to kind of
Speaker 1: copple it together to do a nice job and to
Speaker 1: win this game. They didn't shoot the three well, they
Speaker 1: shot just six of twenty three. Excuse me for the
Speaker 1: six or seven of twenty six. Miami shot six of
Speaker 1: twenty three, and uh, you know, important for the Sixers
Speaker 1: to make some late and as you said, you know,
Speaker 1: a hard faught win Miami, even though the Sixers have
Speaker 1: dominated them here. I know Miami won that playoff game here,
Speaker 1: but Miami makes it really tough. And the only other
Speaker 1: thing I'll say is You know Dion Waiters, he's a
Speaker 1: high volume shooter. But imagine if they had him in
Speaker 1: that playoff series. Not saying it might have been different,
Speaker 1: but it would have been a different Here you have
Speaker 1: to contend with him, and you know, no, back to
Speaker 1: your point about Portland, that should be And again, I
Speaker 1: think for our fans, you only get to see some
Speaker 1: of these players once a year, and it's a huge game,
Speaker 1: huge game, one o'clock. But it's great to see some
Speaker 1: of the top talent come in here. McCollum, of course,
Speaker 1: played locally at Lehigh University, and he's one of the
Speaker 1: best backcourt players in the NBA. They are arguably one
Speaker 1: of the best duos in the backcourt where Lillard and
Speaker 1: McCollum and the Sixers will have their hands full here
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon at one, all right, should be a good one. Tom,
Speaker 1: talk to you that you got a bud seventy. Sixers
Speaker 1: outlast the Miami Heat one oh six, one h two.
Speaker 1: Bobie with nineteen points twelve rebounds, tying season highs in
Speaker 1: both categories, played a season high twenty seven minutes, Tobias
Speaker 1: harsh to twenty three points eleven boards, Ben Simmons with
Speaker 1: twenty one, seven and four. Jimmy Butler a very nice
Speaker 1: all around game as well with eighteen six and six
Speaker 1: t J McConnell a great spark off the bench. All
Speaker 1: that combining on a shorthanded night to be enough for
Speaker 1: the Sixers as they fend off at Miami. Final segment
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Speaker 1: Revolution today. Seventy Sixers back at it tonight for the
Speaker 1: All Star Game break back Without one of their all
Speaker 1: stars in Joel Embiid, Who would step up? Who would
Speaker 1: help fill the void? Well, perhaps the most obvious answer,
Speaker 1: as it became apparent very early on tonight when the
Speaker 1: Sixers host in Miami heat for the only time this season.
Speaker 1: Down here at the center, big Man Boban Mariyanovitch was
Speaker 1: ready to playing, but Connell stops and stars troubles awand
Speaker 1: Winslow goes to Boban, a runner by the big man.
Speaker 1: You pick up. Bobon Marianovitch just putting on a clinic.
Speaker 1: The Sixers lead by ten. He's got eleven point seven
Speaker 1: rebounds and that would end up being his first quarter line.
Speaker 1: He was a phenomenal four for four from the field
Speaker 1: in the first eight minutes twenty six seconds huge, plus
Speaker 1: ten in the first quarter, plus eighteen in the first half,
Speaker 1: helping the seventy sixers to a lead of twenty nine
Speaker 1: twenty one after twelve minutes of play. In the second quarter,
Speaker 1: Miami went on a run of twenty two to eleven
Speaker 1: between the stretch that Boban was on the court, so
Speaker 1: that even more indicative of the effect that Marianovitch had
Speaker 1: on the game. But Bobi, when he got back out there,
Speaker 1: he would do his part to help re establish a
Speaker 1: double figure lane. Ben keeps its rise. It loves a
Speaker 1: Bobon Marianovitch h by whiteside, and he started whiteside like
Speaker 1: a boxer in a ropetope mood in a fifteenth round?
Speaker 1: What kind of defense is Dad leaning on Bobon like
Speaker 1: he's gonna tire him out? And Bobon Marianovich lays it
Speaker 1: in again. I had made a forty nine thirty nine,
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers up at intermission at fifty seven. At two
Speaker 1: fifty in the third quarter, Miami would charge back. They
Speaker 1: would take a brief lead of sixty nine sixty five.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, the All Star in his first game back
Speaker 1: following his first All Star Game appearance, playing like one,
Speaker 1: here's Ben on a drive round the lane, in the lane,
Speaker 1: got it and at the time out taken by the
Speaker 1: heat well, he dribbled right around Winslow and Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: a court length drive scores it to tie it. Second
Speaker 1: basket for Simmons in a stretch of four in a
Speaker 1: row for the seventy sixers. He would put the team
Speaker 1: in front momentarily, but Miami would be in the lead
Speaker 1: seventy five seventy three. Going to the fourth, Sixers were
Speaker 1: trailing by five. Tobias Harris changed that. Here comes Harris
Speaker 1: with a screen slips it. Now catches it on the
Speaker 1: perimeter He's now guarded by Wade and drives it. He
Speaker 1: goes right at him and makes a lamp and a timeout.
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris shoots and scores tie game eighty six apiece.
Speaker 1: Miami would jump back ahead. In ninety six ninety two,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons was part of a comeback charm five O
Speaker 1: five to go. Josh Richardson has it knocked away by
Speaker 1: t j U Steele. He's got Simmons in front. TJ
Speaker 1: loves and it's a dug by Ben seven and the
Speaker 1: Sixers are running rough. Todd under Miami heat. Dwayne Wade,
Speaker 1: last game in South Philadelphia in the regular season, caught
Speaker 1: fire late, putting the Heat up ninety nine to ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons would put the Sixers back in front one
Speaker 1: hundred two ninety nine, and JJ Reddick after a wave
Speaker 1: miss two pointer with Lock fins up with a one
Speaker 1: point lead. The Sixers with a bowl twelve on the shot.
Speaker 1: Crock Here's Butler on the drives Butler. The Butler skids
Speaker 1: to a stop. I'll stop kJ KK pace payers three ball,
Speaker 1: It's good. J. J. Rudnick puts it in, delivers a
Speaker 1: big play. Had the Sixers go out by four one
Speaker 1: h three ninety nine with a minute left, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers would do enough to stay in front and hang
Speaker 1: on for a one oh six one h two win.
Speaker 1: They shot forty five percent for the game. Miami took
Speaker 1: thirteen more shots in the seventy Sixers that doing parts
Speaker 1: of the Sixers committing six more turnovers in the game.
Speaker 1: Miami forty seven and a half percent from the field.
Speaker 1: Sixers seven three pointers, but got what they needed from
Speaker 1: outside the arc late down the stretch. Miami just six
Speaker 1: of twenty three from outside the arc. Free throw line
Speaker 1: advantage pivotal for the Sixers in such a tightly played
Speaker 1: game like tonight, Sixers outscored the Heat by a total
Speaker 1: of nineteen points from the free throw line. They outrebounded
Speaker 1: the Heat by eleven, including five on the offensive glass.
Speaker 1: For the Sixers, leading the way, it was to Bias
Speaker 1: Harris with twenty three points. He also had eleven rebounds
Speaker 1: for a double double. Right behind him Ben Simmons with
Speaker 1: twenty one point, seven rebounds and four assists. Bobon Manyanovitch
Speaker 1: with the fourth double double a bigger part than the
Speaker 1: fifth double double of the season for him nineteen points
Speaker 1: twelve rebounds, both of those numbers tying season highs. He
Speaker 1: also had a block shot and finished plus ten to
Speaker 1: be Butler with eighteen points, six boards, and six assists
Speaker 1: off the bench, cannot overlook TJ McConnell mentioned this earlier,
Speaker 1: but if you tuned in late six points on three
Speaker 1: or four shooting, five assists and three steals when the
Speaker 1: Sixers needed a spark in the fourth quarter, loan behold
Speaker 1: grit man TJ. McConnell checking in and getting the job done,
Speaker 1: helping the Sixers to a one oh six, one or
Speaker 1: two victory. Seventy six Ers now thirty eight and twenty
Speaker 1: one on the season, while the Heat they dropped to
Speaker 1: twenty six and thirty one. Taking a look at the
Speaker 1: scoreboard right now, the game of note in terms of
Speaker 1: where things are in the Eastern Conference, the Milwaukee Bucks
Speaker 1: leading the Boston Celtics seventy nine seventy one just underway
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Were that trend to continue and
Speaker 1: the Bucks to hang on and beat the Celtics, seventy
Speaker 1: sixers move into fourth place over Boston. All right, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it. From down here at the Senative on
Speaker 1: Gibbons is standing by within the post that's coming up next.
Speaker 1: We'll be sure to give him a call at six
Speaker 1: one zero sixty three, two zero nine seventy five. Big
Speaker 1: thanks to Brian McLaughlin and Tyler Zulie. Back in the studio,
Speaker 1: Marty Dickerson here now for the radio voice the seventy
Speaker 1: six or Tom McGinnis, Brian Selzer saying so long for
Speaker 1: now in final time, the final score it was the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers one oh six in the Miami Heats
Speaker 1: one oh two. Have a great rest of your Thursday
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