WEBVTT - Rewind vs. Milwaukee Bucks - 12/25/19 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.400 You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:08.680 highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. A 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:12.680 most tampy holiday indeed, as the seventy Sixers roll past 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.279 the NBA's best team in terms of record one twenty 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.960 one one O nine. The final score a Christmas Day 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.800 victory for the seventy Sixers over the Bucks. I'm Brian Seltzer, 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.239 how are you? This was a fun game today, so 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.160 much build up and anticipations surrounding it. Seventy Sixers a 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.880 major tests they closed out the first third of their season. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.600 Based on how Brett Brown views it and man While 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.080 a isolated regular season victory over the top team in 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:44.760 the league does not a season make, it certainly showed 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.280 today that the Sixers took this challenge seriously. Joel Embiid 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.479 played like the best player on the floor and arguably 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.120 the best player in the league. Thirty one points, eleven rebounds, 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:59.160 two block shots, three assists. He scored twenty three points 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.040 in a dominant first half in which the seventy Sixers 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.199 were leading by a hefty, hefty margin at the break 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.960 as they held the Milwaukee Bucks for just forty eight 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.640 points in the first half. The Sixers led sixty nine 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.720 to forty eight. It was the most points scored on 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.559 Milwaukee in a first half the season. The Sixers also 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.120 scored thirty eight points on Milwaukee in the first quarter. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.440 That was also the highest total that Milwaukee had given 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.360 up this year when looking at first quarters, and Beads 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.319 set the tone and the seventy Sixers were able to 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.120 then playoff and around him. Josh Richardson phenomenal eighteen points, 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:38.800 four three pointers, five rebounds, four assists. Tobias Harris another 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.600 exceptional game, twenty two points, very efficient eight of sixteen 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.760 would have about five of seven from three point territory 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:51.640 four Tobias Harris. Ben Simmons fifteen points, fourteen assists, seven rebounds. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.160 He also had a couple noteworthy steals when the seventy 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.160 Sixers were in a portion of the game where they 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.680 were seasoned control. The Sixers led by as much as 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.800 one nine in this one. In the first half, they 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.600 were up by twenty one. Again, that biggest lead was 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.360 coming at the break. So in this one, the Sixers 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.800 you could tell they had the date on the calendar circle. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.080 They came out and performed accordingly, and while yes, there's 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.520 still a long way to go, two thirds of the 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.079 season left and three more matchups against the Milwaukee Bucks, 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.919 including one in the final week of the regular season, 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.160 that could ultimately be a little bit more indicative of 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.320 where these teams stack up going into the postseason, which 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.919 is the time of year that both clubs have their 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.200 eyes looking at. Today was great and it has to 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.720 be most reassuring, especially when you consider some of the competition. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.240 The seventy Sixers have played and played well again, so 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.440 you can put the win over Boston in this category. Now, 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.600 the win over the Bucks went at home versus the 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.720 Toronto Raptors and a great effort against the Miami Heats 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.600 going back a couple of weeks ago, seventy Sixers beat 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.600 the Bucks one twenty one to one on nine for 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.880 as good as Dwell and beats numbers looked on the surface, 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.520 his defense on Janis was awesome. I don't know. Kupo 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.080 held to eighteen points on eight of twenty seven shooting. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.720 He was oh for seven from three point territory. Chris 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.960 Middleton did score thirty one, but with Joel leading the 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.679 way on Jannis do Acupo for the bulk of the game, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:21.239 especially when Joel was on the court, he was terrific, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.440 kept Jannis in front of him, locked down in front 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.600 of the rim, protected that thing with all of his 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.720 strength and muscle and might just a great effort from 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.440 Joel Embiid rising through the occasion, as we have seen 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.920 him do against some of the top competition in the NBA. 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.560 Seventy Sixers win their third in a row. They're now 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.560 twenty three and ten on the season. Milwaukee loses for 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.800 just the fifth time. Their record stands at twenty seven 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.360 and five. Seventy Sixers roll passed in Milwaukee Bucks one 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.080 twenty one to one O nine. I'm Brian Seltzer. Tom 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.960 mc ginnis called this one today a great matinee win 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.720 for the seventy sixers, hosting their first Christmas Day game 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.640 since nineteen eighty eight. Tom, I think this is a 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.720 game where the final score perhaps not quite as reflective 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.560 of the way the majority of this game went. Milwaukee 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.520 out scored the seventy six Ers by fifteen and the 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.520 fourth quarter, but by the end of the third it 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.680 was one hundred and seventy three. The building was rock 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.920 and Joel Embiid was playing like he was arguably the 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.559 best player in the league. This was just a great 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.479 win for the seventy six ers, where across the board 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.560 they out did the Milwaukee Bucks in just about every way, right, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.040 they shot lights out Holiday hoops. Boy, that was an 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.240 electric atmosphere. And you know, Tobias Harris shared with his 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.280 post game that they had this game circled and how 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.040 couldn't they in that it's their first matchup with Milwaukee. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.440 The Bucks have been the cream of the crop in 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.440 the NBA. You come in with the MVP and just 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.680 the way they've torn through their first thirty plus games 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.279 with that record, And it was Joel with the shooting. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.159 You know, I don't think I'm giving away State secrets here, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.640 but after the team shot around, Joel stayed out there 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.800 and he works with Chris Bap and Joel there's actually 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.839 like even a Milwaukee coach, and Joel's like, I'm gonna 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.479 I'm gonna go eight for twelve from three tonight, and 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.880 he came close, and he really did. And when he's 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.480 not shooting the three, he's able to lift the defender 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.279 in many cases, Robin Lopez off the floor and able 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.000 to get into the lane with the dribble, and then 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.920 he's so he's got such a great touch and around 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.480 that eighteen footmark or just outside the elbows, he's nearly 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.640 flawless with those face up shots. And he was really good. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.520 But then I thought Josh Richardson and the point was 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.520 made during the press conference with Coach Brown about their 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.080 two man game and pick and roll, and you know, 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.360 Brett Brown said the phrase, and I've never really heard 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.840 it adapted to describing a player, but he said, he's 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.080 got wiggle and that's so he is. He kind of 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.920 snakes around the defense. And then to me, he's got 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.240 a little Oklahoma soon or toughness too, and that he'll 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.840 make a field goal with the defender being aggressive. And 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.680 you know, he told us early in the year it's 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.680 sometimes it's not pretty, but he can score. And he 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.440 was as good offensively as he's been, including maybe even 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.000 that Miami game. You'd throw in there for Josh to 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.520 buy us again filling it up, and then timely three 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.320 point shooting in the second half by Burkon. I thought 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.320 Ben was dominant at times. That one move, that eurostep 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.080 move that he made, he was phenomenal. He made some 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.480 difficult running hook shots against that tall defense with Lopez 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.760 and Jannis, and then the Sixers defense against the data 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.400 Kompo o for seven from three. The combination of Horford 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.240 and and Bid did a tremendous job on him, and 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.839 the Sixers were the better team today. And again, there's 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.080 two more matchups in this series. They'll be out in 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.960 Wisconsin and but this was just terrific. I mean a markim. 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.080 Everybody sensed how special it was to be playing here 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.080 in Philadelphia on Christmas Day and then to perform like 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.960 that for the ball club was really neat. Seventy Sixers 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.080 over the Bucks. They'd take around one of four one 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.240 twenty one, two, one oh nine. Let's get into the 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.880 defense on Jannis on a Kompo, you could say he 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.320 was very normal today, Tom offensively perhaps less than normal 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.360 eight for twenty seven from the floor, over seven from three, 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.080 eighteen points. Dwell Embiid had him from the start of 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.479 the game. We saw this in the big win the 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.000 Sixers had last year at Milwaukee for the first time. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.839 Brett Brown went back to it again today and jannest 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.160 he seemed flummixed and frustrated, like he tried multiple times 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.360 to load up like a battering ram to try and 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.119 break down the wall of him. Bead just didn't happen. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.280 And the loading up is him taking that dribble from 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.400 you know, darn Year a half court or certainly well 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.880 beyond the three point arc and three large dribbles for 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:29.280 mankind those strides into the lane and he missed. I mean, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.320 the Sixers defended him well, but he did miss some 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.920 close range shots that he's been making throughout the last 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.400 two or three years of his career. But I thought 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.080 Joel matched him, and they switched it up on him 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.880 a little bit. There was that one play Joe got 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.560 called for a foul on it, which I kind of 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.360 disagree with, and that is, you know, as you said, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.880 he was loaded for bear Jannis coming into the lane 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.160 and a beat instead of matching the physicality backed off. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.600 The big guys in our league called that pull in 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.440 the chair and so Juell did not meet him with 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.680 the force and Jannis just kind of fumbled out of 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.800 bounce and that just kind of indicative of kind of 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.080 changing things up on him. And then again al Horford 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.080 has done over the last three four or five years 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.360 when Atlanta or Boston whichever team he's been, he's been 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.560 guarding Janna, so he's not totally unaccustomed, and Jannis is 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.160 having a great year. He did not have a good 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.200 day here today, certainly from the outside, where he's been 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.480 much improved in that three point shooting. One thing we 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.120 didn't mention, as Kyle has been working with him about that. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.200 Looks like a coach in waiting there in Kyle Korver, 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.920 who made only one three. But I thought another two 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.360 guys for them that were great and they're having good years. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.840 George Hill was perfect five for five, including three threes 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.240 at the beginning of the game, and then Chris Middleton 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.240 can fill it up. And the one question I would 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.760 have postgame here and maybe Milwaukee the reporters asking coach 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.400 Bud but why not zone? Earlier I kind of teased 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.679 it jokingly but somewhat serious, and that is, would coach 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.199 Bud go zone after a thirty eight point first quarter? 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.240 Will see kind of throwed out there as a tease, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.040 and he didn't until the end, and it made an 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.000 impact late in the game, as you mentioned, the outschool 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.360 the sections by fifteen in the fourth seventy six Ers 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.840 knock off the Bucks one, twenty one, one on nine, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.080 All right time. Your assessment of the seventy six Ers 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.720 a third of the way into the season on this 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.760 Christmas Day twenty three and ten, with some noteworthy victories, Well, 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.880 no doubt about it. And you know, let's go back 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.360 to what coach said, and and that is, you know, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.920 part of his press conference here tonight or today was 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.439 you know, this team is built for the playoffs. And 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.960 that's true, and there's no doubt about it. You got 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.520 veteran players that have been in big games before and 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.760 could perform at a high level. Uh. And today the 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.040 Sixers this this was like a playoff atmosphere, and no 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.760 doubt there's been some uposite end downs. They started out 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.480 struggling on the road. Uh. And then you know they 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.800 should have won some of those games that the Oklahoma 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.800 game comes to mind, that game in Denver comes to mind, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.960 the tough loss here in some of those three the 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.400 three losses last week, and how about that, what this 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.559 is kind of a over the last two weeks indicative 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.280 and that's a three and three record, so not totally, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.199 but in other words, the Sixers lost three game in 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.600 a row, and look out, now the sky has following 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.480 you can't solve his zone. And now you've won three 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.439 in a row, including an exciting, emphatic victory over Milwaukee, 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.000 and so you just want to keep improving. Get that 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.200 group that in terms of the starters to continue to 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.360 play together, get that consistency to continuity with that group, 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.480 and then keep developing young players. You get motised back, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.040 you get furkon who's really going to be confident and 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.199 the ability to hit the threes. And this has been good. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.440 Mike Scott's been good off the bench. He got Trey 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.200 and Howl and so you know it's shaping up to 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.520 be a memorable year, and you just you know, you 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.040 want to keep it going. And in the end you're 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.440 going to be battling Miami and just everybody that's up 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.840 there right now, the Heat, the Celtics. How about the 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.080 Celtics going into Toronto when winning convincingly, and you're going 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.840 back to Milwaukee twice, Like this is chapter one, but 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.480 there'll be two more chapters in this story, and then 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.040 who knows, these two teams could meet down the road 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:55.360 in April May in the playoffs. An accurate, measured look 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.040 at the state of the seventy six Ers and how 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.640 they stack up with the best team in the league 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.559 right now via record, the Milwaukee Bucks. But nonetheless, as 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.400 Tom said, great afternoon in South Philadelphia as the seventy 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.560 Sixers prevail. Tom, enjoy the rest of your holiday. Thank you, 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.120 Brian Gooday. This was a game that when the schedule 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.960 came out back in August. As a fan, anyone who 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.360 files the team, a media member, you had to have 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.600 circles in your calendar right, not only a Christmas Day game, 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.520 but a Christmas Day game at home against a team 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.360 you figured would be a top contender for the Eastern 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.199 Conference title. Well. As it turned out, going into this 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.960 particular showdown, the Bucks had the best record in the 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.800 league at twenty seven and four, the seventy Sixers trying 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.960 to climb up the rungs a little bit higher in 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.360 the East Great Theater as the Sixers hosted their first 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.959 Christmas Day game since nineteen eighty eight. Early going at 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.200 the first time out, it was all tied up at fourteen. 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.560 From there it was all seventy Sixers as they began 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.040 to flex their muscle and its squares. It for three 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.480 right side back iron off noe week side rebound earth 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.679 side and horpor owner and how Horpork claims like for 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.320 the sixers to Benny domin Night sevens with a lamp 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.160 up and good like a freak train right up broad straight. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.360 Ben Simmons puts it up an end. You could tell 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.560 the intensity was starting to rub off on the rest 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.200 of the team and the crowd as well. Joel Ebad 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.320 putting a finish on what was a high scoring first quarter. 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.280 Richardson with the ball five on the clock, Josh around screen, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.720 Contaton flocks up up five it, Bead picks it up, 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.480 fires from deep ed in. Joel and being with the 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.679 clock twindling, knocks out another grade Sixers by eight, and 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.280 Bead made it thirty eight to thirty to thirty eight points, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.680 the most allowed by Milwaukee in a first quarter this season, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.319 and Bead continued to do damage in the second Sixers 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.800 by eleven nine forty. In the first half, Richardson turns 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.240 into the lane left hand scoop, it's a path to it, 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.520 beat in an lu calf What a play by Josh 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.679 Richardson edit beat up harded down with a slam, and 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.199 Bead would scored twenty three points, a season high in 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.640 the first half. To Bias Harris helped make sure the 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.640 Sixers had a comfortable cushion going into the break. Sixers 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.920 have eight threes and the ball here's Harris for an 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.199 they're try and it's good to Bias Harris five in 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.240 a row, his second three, and the Sixers by fourteen 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.720 time out. Milwaukee ben a standing ovation in Philadelphia, and 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:12.839 that's when you really started to feel like this would 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.760 be the seventy Sixers day. Fifty three, thirty nine was 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.920 the score, then sixty nine to forty eight to score 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.400 at the half. The sixty nine points the most surrendered 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.520 by Milwaukee in the first half this season, so you 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.439 can tell the Sixers doing a great job scoring the 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.960 ball obviously, but then defensively forty eight points scored by 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.560 Milwaukee that tied for the lowest first half mark of 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.200 the season. So across the board, the seventy Sixers had 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.360 things going their way. Ben Simmons adding the seventy Sixers total, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:44.440 opening it up to a twenty three point lead. In 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.760 the third, Ben milonet tan dribble takes him up, the 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.000 bounce into the lane, fence it up and then that's 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.559 what happens if you give Simmons too much space. You've 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.520 allowed him to get the momentum off the bounds to 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.719 get in there, and he goes right five Middleton and 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.240 scores it. Ben Simmons with the field goal. He's got 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.480 eight and one of the great moments of the afternoon. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.400 Furd con quirk Bis going up against Yannis. Sound of 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.440 the kumpo. In the third, here's furk On again one 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.520 more time. Oh yeah, he's knocked out by Jannis furk On. 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.839 Clark Bas, he's out of his mind. The six Ers 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.280 lead ninety three to sixty seven. Clark Bas with a 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.800 holiday present for I Donna Kumpo. It would be one 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.920 hundred and seventy three heading into the fourth. A couple 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.320 more highlights for you, Ben Simmons one last time on 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.760 this Christmas Day. Five minutes to go, though, Simmons of 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.520 the ball. Simmons on a drive, Jamal Name puts it 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.680 up with the right hand and in damn, that is 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.800 hard man. He's going right and left. He ships into 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.120 his right hand and scores it. Simmons now thirteen one, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.880 thirteen ninety one was the score. Then Bucks made a 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.840 late charge. They knockdown eight of their sixteen three pointers 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.480 that he could probably. They knocked down five of their 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.400 thirteen three pointers in the fourth quarter that helped him 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.400 gain some ground. They got it to within nine at 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.440 one point late, but Al Horford made sure there would 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.760 be no doubt left about this one. Josh Richardson downlow, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.400 left three to shoot, cross court, skip al, catch shot, 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:07.479 free fall ball game yeah, hell. Hartford puts Milwaukee to bed. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.120 One twenty one one O nine had the Sixers with 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.480 a rebound after a wild shot by Middleton, it's over 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.880 and that would be the final score. One twenty one 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.400 one O nine. Seventy Sixers shoot forty three and a 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.880 half percent from the field. They set a season high 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.640 with twenty one three pointers on forty four attempts. That 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.080 equates to forty seven and a half percent. They were 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.240 twelve or fifteen from the line, plus two on the 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.359 glass against Milwaukee, with plus six in terms of offensive rebounding, 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.000 and that gave them a little bit of an edge. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.440 In terms of second chance points. They were plus three 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.000 only eight turnovers committed by the seventy Sixers. That's a 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.560 great number. Thirty one and eleven for Joel Embiid twenty 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.200 two points behind five of seven three points shooting for 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:52.040 Tobias Harris, eighteen for Josh Richardson fifteen points, fourteen assists 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.880 for Ben Simmons, sixteen for fur Con Corkmas off the bench, 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.840 he knocked down his first four three pointers of the afternoon. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.680 Milwaukee was led by Chris Midlton with thirty one. Jannis 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.120 out of Acupo, a very pedestrian eighteen points on a 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.320 very unsightly eight of twenty seven, shooting over seven from 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.760 outside the arc. He did have fourteen rebounds and seven assists. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.000 George Hill came off the bench for fifteen. Seventy six 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.600 Ers have won three straight. After three losses in Rome, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.880 Milwaukee drops to twenty seven and five. There three game 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.480 winning streak is over, while the seventy six ers improved 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.720 to twenty three and ten. As we take a look 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.600 at the updated Eastern Conference standings, the seventy Sixers now 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.880 move into fourth place thanks to a loss by Toronto 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.400 to the Boston Celtics earlier today. Up next with the 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.720 seventy six Ers, they start a four game road trip, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:44.400 a really just weird road trip in terms of geography. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.640 They're at Orlando in two days on Friday, then they 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.920 finish it back to back at Miami. They're off for 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:52.880 a couple days, go to Indeed to play at three 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.520 o'clock on New Year's eve Day. Come back home for 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.120 two days before heading out to visit Houston a week 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.120 from this coming Friday. You've been listening to rewind. Look 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.680 out for fresh episodes the day after every seventy six 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:05.760 ers game this season.