WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 1/23/2019 ~ Rewind vs. Spurs 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.960 This is seventy Sixers. Rewind time now to listen back 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:11.080 to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. Great 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.720 win for the seventy Sixers to wrap up a three 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.560 game homestand against some really tough teams, knocking off the 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.759 San Antonio Spurs one twenty two to one twenty A 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.840 ten zip run to close things out in the final 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.680 two minutes forty eight seconds. Tremendous stuff. What's going on on? 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.960 Brian Seltzer. Seventy Sixers now improved to thirty two and 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.159 seventeen on the season. They split the series on the 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.839 year with the Spurs all two minutes forty eight seconds ago. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.640 Marco Belinelli did what we saw him do a lot 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.760 in the final three months of the season last year. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:47.239 Hit an impressive, leaning contested corner three pointer and ended 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.800 up putting the Spurs ahead one twenty to one twelve. 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.840 But the Sixers, they've been playing some great defense as 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:54.800 of late. For the better part of this game, the 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.240 Spurs were able to find their opportunities offensively, but when 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.400 it mattered most game on the line, seventy Sixers defense 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.880 stepped up in a major way. Blocks by Joel Embid 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.520 and Wilson Chandler in the final moments, all helping set 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.040 things up for the Sixers to win this one. Yeah, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:13.920 I mean you think back to ebid with under two 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.920 minutes to go, Demarda Rosen came and driving in and 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.399 Bed turned them away to keep the margin at six. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.880 And then after the Sixers went in front one twenty 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.800 one to one twenty on a four point play by 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.280 JJ Reddick with sixty seconds to go, Wilson Chandlers standing 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.959 tall protecting the rim and turning aside Demarda Rosen on 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.959 a one footer. San Antonio had an opportunity with just 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.399 over a second to go after the Sixers got a 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.320 free throw from Corey Brewer to make it a two 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.080 point game. Spurs could not get the playoff as Ben 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.320 Simmons tipped the pass, helping the Sixers secure this win, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.440 getting one final key stand. Well, this is what you 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.280 want to see, you know, the Sixers, they're in this 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.880 stretch right now. I mean you can probably recite it 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.680 with me. How many games against teams with winning records 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.960 twelve going into the All Star Break. What has been 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.840 an area the seventy Sixers have tried to shore up 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.160 over the course of this season defense and going back 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:10.359 to last Tuesday's game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the defense 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.160 totally trending in the right direction. Now, you could say 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.880 that statement from a statistical standpoint before tonight, over the 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:19.400 last four games. You know, if you looked at some 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.240 of their numbers, their defensive rating, sixers, they would be 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.520 among the top defenses in the league if you look 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.680 at the numbers they were putting up over the last 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.680 four But tonight this was more about eye test watching 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.440 the game. I mean, you look down at the final 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.200 stat sheet, Spurs shot fifty seven and a half percent 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:39.200 from the field, thirteen of twenty seven from outside the arc. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:40.919 You know, you look at those two numbers alone, and 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.880 if you were just going to go based off that, 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.760 you might say, well, the Sixers defense wasn't good tonight. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.160 This Spurs are one of the most highly efficient shooting teams, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.920 one of the best shooting teams in the entire league. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.440 And that's what they did tonight. They didn't put up 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.000 the highest volume number of shots. They took eleven fewer 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.600 shots in the seventy six ers, but shot for a 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.200 terrific percentage. But the Sixers, they overcame that and once 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.240 again the final two minutes forty eight seconds kept the 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.240 Spurs off the scoreboard and went on to win this one, 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.440 one twenty two to one twenty Who did great? Joe 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.240 el Embiid obviously thirty three points, nineteen rebounds. Massive night 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:21.840 for the big man. JJ Reddick. Statistically speaking, his shooting 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.239 not up to where you would expect it, but nineteen points, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.720 six of thirteen from outside the arc. I mean, who 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.880 cares about his shooting percentage? He made the four point 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.480 play to put the seventy Sixers in front with a 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.680 minute to go. That was enormous. Ben Simmons picking up 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.600 his eighth triple double of the year twenty one points, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.080 ten rebounds and fifteen assists. Landry Shammot with fourteen off 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.880 the bench. T J McConnell was great in the first half. 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.640 He finished with ten points, eight rebounds. I believe we 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.040 have Brett Brown at the podium right now. After the 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.840 Sixers one twenty two one twenty win. I thought Wilson 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.200 helped was maybe the main reason we won the game. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.160 When you look at it, you know, I think we 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.560 scored the last ten points and regulate in regulation at 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.240 the end of the game. And I think when you 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.400 really zoom in and you look at the plays, you 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.400 you look at the plays that Wilson was making, and 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:18.159 we were comfortable, you know, having him on de Rosen. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:19.760 I thought he did a good job on a bunch 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.240 of different people. But in general, when you go back 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.200 and you see Wilson Chandler play tonight, defensively, he was 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.600 He was great on a bunch of people, and I 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.520 trusted the physicality that he brought to the table. You're 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.120 down eight with two and change to play. How were 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.479 you able to come back and win defense? You know, 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.680 like we we had. They didn't score a point from 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.200 that point on. They didn't score a point. And I think, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.480 like when you go back at it, you know, Ben 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.880 had a steel for a dunk, sham, it hits the corner. Three. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.640 We run a play that we sort of saved for 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.080 the end with JJ and you know, ends up getting 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:56.360 a three n fouled um. But it was was all 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.039 sort of stemmed. It all sort of stemmed from our defense. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.400 Entire season. You've always focused on the defensive ended the four. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.880 So when you're when you're watching that and then those 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.240 final minutes and the reason you win the game and 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.600 defensives all coming together. What's going through your mind? I mean, 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.440 I think that we're playing good defense lately. I feel 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.279 like we did against Houston. I thought at times tonight 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.880 we did it was it was more evident the last 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.800 few minutes. I think we had six stops consecutive stops 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.239 in a row. I mean, how about Joel's block during 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.600 one of that those series of stops. Um, But I 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.200 feel like we were coming together defensively. There were times 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.159 tonight I thought we had lapses some of those. You know, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.599 younger players got the better of us and they found 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.440 open space for threes. But I tell you what, when 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.200 it matted, and when it matted most um, defensively we 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.800 were there. Landry at the end, how a person have 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.920 you been with us? His continuous grow everything that's you've 0:05:54.920 --> 0:06:00.479 seen from I mean, he really has a UM and 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.760 I think some of it's because he's been rewarded so much. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.880 He's got an ability to sprint to a corner, find 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.120 his feet, catching shoot a corner three that the whole 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.400 league rates as hot. Nobody's allowed to shoot corner threes 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.120 for the reasons we all know. And he still finds 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.479 his feet, he still finds his spot, he still takes 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.960 off as an athlete, and then he gets it off 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.960 and he's done that time and time again. He hunts 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:28.240 corner threes at it tonight, and it just was really 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.479 timely when he found that open spot and made that 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.080 open shot. So interesting listening back to that portion of 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.680 Brett Brown's press conference that the headline players that jump 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.080 out to him guys like Wilson Chandler and Landry Shammitt, who, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.760 judging by box score alone, you know, Joelle and Beads 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.320 numbers would stand out to you first. Ben Simmons numbers 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.239 would stand out to you first. But that's a great 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.479 sign of a team coming together. Not always I mean Joel, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.720 he was fantastic, but getting help in other areas, other 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.800 guys supporting and aiding the cause. And as Brett put at, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.080 the defense from start to finish, maybe not quite as 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.520 short up as it had been in previous games, but 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.520 really when it mattered most. As we were talking about 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.720 before we heard from Brett, the Sixers defense delivered, holding 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.560 these Spurs off the scoreboard for the final two minutes 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.800 forty eight seconds and the Spurs last six possessions of 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.880 the game one twenty two one twenty A great note 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.640 for the seventy Sixers to set west on tonight's wrapping 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.000 up this homestand two and one could have very well 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.320 gone three and oh, but against some quality competition. The 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:32.160 January seventy Sixers looking like the January seventy sixers we 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.160 have come to know from past seasons. Tom McGinnis is 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.240 coming up. Stay tuned more, the postgame show is on 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.480 the way here on the Sixers Raider Network. 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Seventy 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.560 Sixers battle against the San Antonio Spurs game that came 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.080 down to the wire Spurs led by as many as 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.320 eight Sixers by as much as ten, the final margin 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:33.120 two points one twenty two to one twenty seventy Sixers 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.360 picking up win number thirty two on the year. I'm 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.000 Brian Seltzer. Tom mcguinnis called an awesome one tonight, and 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.600 this was an awesome game time this three game homestand 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.160 no shortage of excitement, entertainment. Three really good games. So 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.160 close to being perfect on this one. But it's been 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.440 great to see the Sixers bounce back after that tough 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.760 OKC loss and in particular the defense when it mattered 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.120 most to night they lock things down. Well, let's get 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.800 into the homestand into this as we've all called it, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.160 like the gauntlet. And I guess you know this is 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.800 why professional athletes and coach Brown included in that they 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.000 look at things differently. In other words, we were like, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.560 whoa a little the teams and Sixers have to play, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.480 and he was said, Hey, we look at it as 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.800 a challenge and we want to see where we're at. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.480 And that's exactly what happened. They measured up to the competition. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.520 They go out to Indiana and beat the Pacers, They 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.920 come back they had a tremendous game against the thunder 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.520 and as you say, so close to winning all three 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.640 of these home games. Two point lost there blowout win 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.400 over the Rockets, and then tonight, I got a box 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.280 here in front of me, Brian, that is San Antonio 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:39.160 one twenty, the Sixers one twelve, and there was still 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.319 two forty six to go in the game. And that's 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.959 when the Sixers started at ten oh spurt to win 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.240 the game. Coach mentioned the sham at three, the big 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.760 play by JJ Reddick, the defense, and you know you 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.520 were talking about that, and you hear about Landry and 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.200 Wilson to your point earlier, and that's what team is. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.679 And Beat and Simmons had gaudy numbers. They don't win 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.080 without those fantastic numbers are crossed the board by the 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.120 top two players in terms of tonight's game in Joel 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.560 and Ben. But a tremendous win in San Antonio was 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.400 so good. I mean, this was really a great game. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.199 I mean the Sixers went forty two possessions to start 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.320 the game without a turnover. Now they had five in 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.640 a row shortly thereafter. That was within like the first 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.680 fourteen minutes of the game. No turnovers. I can't recall 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.760 any game this year when that was the case. And 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.040 then you look at the three point shooting. The Sixers 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.920 ended up making seventeen threes on thirty six tries. That's 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.360 forty seven percent from three, and San Antonio they shot 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.040 forty eight percent, but the difference was the Sixers had 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.400 four more made threes, I mean. And then to win 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.280 it with the defense, Wilson blocking DeMarre de Rosa without 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.080 falling and being able to deflect that ball on a 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.400 bound to preserve the win. I mean, it was really exciting. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.640 And the crowd, man, it was it was just reverberating. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.960 It's so much excitement, it's just palpable. It's an incredible 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.000 home court advantage. Twenty one and five here at home. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.360 All good, exciting victory for the Sixers over the Spurs 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.480 one twenty two, one twenty the final score. I haven't 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.280 even said yet that Jimmy Butler. It was a second 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.200 straight game they didn't play in the seventy six Ers 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.480 able to be another quality Western Conference team. And you know, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.440 this might not be the most juicy storyline that people 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.640 would want to pay attention to as far as what's 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.600 happened over the last week and a half. But if 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.720 you go back to that Minnesota game, if I'm not mistaken, 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:23.640 someone can correct me out there. If I am at 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.760 Brian Seltzer on Twitter, I believe that was the first 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.280 game where Brett Brown mixed up the rotation and started 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.000 using Wilson Chandler at the three more, which you know 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.560 that's meant furkon cork Mos has not played as much, 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:38.120 but having that veteran defensive presence that you can stretch 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.160 out and flush out over a game and use him 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.120 in a variety of roles, I mean, I think that 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.960 that that's been a huge part of this. We've seen 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.000 Wilson Chandler's three point makes go up, and we've seen 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.319 his defensive play on the perimeter really make a big 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.480 difference in the sixers. It seems like it stabilized things 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.000 a little bit, made this team look more veteran in nature. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:56.880 I think at least Yeah, no, that's a good point, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.439 and you're certainly right about his threes, but I would 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.360 say his defense, it's like he's reached into the wayback 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.720 machine and as the Wilson Chandler from four and five 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.319 years ago, with how he's playing defense. And you got 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.920 to remember too, he was a little banged up earlier 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.840 in the year. I believe he had a hamstring injury. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.720 He also had an illness. You're joining a new team. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.640 It doesn't it's not something that you just snap your 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.560 fingers and you insert this veteran player in there who's 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.680 used to averaging over double figures offense. If you throughout 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.880 his career has been a real great cover guy defensively, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.720 and now you're starting to see that. And boy, I'll 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.079 tell you what a presence he's been. What a great 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.520 advantage is for defense to be able to guard, you know, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.000 in turn sometimes Aldridge or a taller player and then 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.600 come back and defend the Rosen. And then it's also 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.840 the intellectual capital that he brings to the table. He 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.600 knows the Rosen's game, you know, like you could tell 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.120 that the Rosen was taking that ball off that high 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.080 screen by LaMarcus Aldridge and taking it to the rack 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.920 and to be able to beat him to the spot 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.839 get a hand on the ball without following as I said, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.400 because the Rosen really gets to the line. Exceptional clutch 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.040 play for the Sixers by by Wilson Chandler one twenty two, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.680 one twenty a victory just as good to save her tonight, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.000 a close game as it was on Monday, a blowout 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.840 one of the rockets. All right, Tom, We look ahead 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:20.960 Denver Nuggets starting on Saturday, then on Tuesday, the LA Lakers, Thursday, 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.840 Golden State Saturday, Sacramento Kings. All those teams right now 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.160 are above or at five hundred, within close striking distance 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.480 in the playoff picture. And this should be a really 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.880 pretty fun road trip, you would think, just from a 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.480 listen for those of us who don't have a horse 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.240 in the race and our livelihood doesn't depend on it, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.000 it's just going to be a lot of fun to 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.640 sit back and watch how the Sixers hold up in 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.720 these tests. Well, no doubt about it. And you figured 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.400 by Tuesday Lebron might be back in action for the Lakers. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.719 He's been out for since Christmas, and I know he's 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.679 getting close, to be sure. And then Denver a team 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.120 that everybody expected to be in the mix, but the 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.760 way they're playing and now high they're playing, and it's 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.200 just been Yokich has been incredible, and they've got talented 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.640 young players. They're playing exceedingly well for Mike Malone. It's 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.120 always been a difficult place to play. The Sixers had 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.800 success there. They've been like this one down to the 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:12.880 wire seemingly every year. And then of course the Lakers 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.760 are in there and Sacramento. Boy, they're really way ahead 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.040 of the curve, I think, so that'll be exciting. That's 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.400 at the end of the trip. And again, this is 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.280 a trip that not unlike the Christmas trip where it's 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.880 spaced out. This is four games over eight plus days. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.120 Same thing with that trip after the Boston game on 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.600 Christmas Day in Boston where the Sixers are out there 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.360 for nine days and played four games. So that's really 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.480 beneficial in terms of rest and recovery. And you'll probably 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.800 get a practice in out at UCLA early next week. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.160 And I think it's good. The Sixers are playing really 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.680 well and this is a stretch that everybody knew coming 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.600 in was gonna be difficult, but as we've said, they're 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.480 rising to the challenge and that'll be a great matchup 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:55.880 at the Pepsi Center. Will be on the air at 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.080 nine o'clock from Colorado on Saturday night. Are any time, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.680 talk to you, Mile High City, Thank you, good night 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.720 here in South Philadelphia, seventy Sixers winners at ten nothing 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.240 run to end the game of the final two minutes 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.200 forty eight seconds one twenty two, one twenty of the 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.040 San Antonio Spurs will hear sometimes great highlights from this 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.480 one on our final segment of the postgame, showing a 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.120 programming reminder Divine gives in The post is coming up 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.680 after we are done on our flagship station ninety seventy 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.280 five the Fanatic It is the postgame showing the Sixers 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:33.720 radio network. The Delaware Bluecoats have a rod the Sixes 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.520 official NBAG League affiliates opening the all new seventy six 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.800 is Fieldhouse in Wilmington, Delaware. Bluecoats games are perfect business 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.200 outings and an awesome family night out business sixes dot 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:49.560 com slash Bluecoats. That's sixes dot com slash Bluecoats tickets 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:53.520 start at ten bucks. Just ten bucks. That's sixes dot 0:15:53.560 --> 0:16:01.960 com slash Bluecoats. Join the Revolution today. Seventy Sixers over 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.440 the San Antonio Spurs one twenty two to one twenty 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:09.000 gutsie gritty victory by the seventy Sixers. Will get into 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.720 the details in a moment. I believe we have Ben 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.280 Simmons who picked up trible double number eight, and JJ Reddick, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.120 who hit the decisive four point play at the podium. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.360 So if they're still there, let's listen in I do 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.720 stuff up and make plays with the one the offensively 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.320 and defenses right now. Definitely. I mean when everyone's really 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.440 stepping up, when you have guys like Land, you you know, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.560 they put into a funny position where you know you 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.240 have to come come into the game, you know, try 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.080 and do what JJ is doing. Similar. Um, it's tough, 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:38.720 but I think you know, guys are just getting more 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.040 confidence in their ability and you know, we're all trusting 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.520 in each other, uh for each one of us to 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.200 do our job the right way. Um, but I think 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.680 we're to stepping out. We're learning, um, and everyone's really 0:16:49.720 --> 0:17:00.760 getting better guys. It's worried us exactly. Corey has been 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.480 been great. Um again, he's a pro and UM, he's 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.879 an energy guy. He's just given us a real, um, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.719 a real lift when we when we've needed it. Uh, 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.920 he's been fantastic. UM. I don't know what uh what's 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.480 going on with um the ten day, but you know, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.080 hopefully he's back for for another one. How much was 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.520 it offensively it's in late. I mean they've put a 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.960 lot of fresh round you guys. Um they roll outside 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:35.879 show how much of an ever just was? I just 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.480 it's always exhausting to play those guys. They make you work. Um, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.359 there's multiple actions on nearly every play. Um, they're so 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.160 good at running their offense, They're so good at counters, 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.000 they're so good at atos. Um, they're a tough team 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:55.359 to play. Seventy six Ers veteran guard J. J. Reddick 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.600 will hear more about him and his role in this one. Well, 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.520 however long I decided blabber four as we work our 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.840 way through these highlights. So let's start the highlights segment 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.920 of tonight's postgame show. Seventy Sixers got off to a 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.480 terrific starting early on, Joel and Bead was cooking the 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.959 rosen on a drive banked and why man Brewers steals 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.200 the ball six or the head of Simmons Simmons the 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.080 fourth backpelling goes and Joe headed Bead dumps and hard 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.800 throws it down with a right hand jam. Ben Simmons 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.280 with radar must have known he was behind him and 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:29.000 Joel and b with a huge jam seventy Sixers jumped 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.520 out to a ten to three lead, with San Antonio 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.680 starting the game two for eight. They ended the first 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.879 quarter missing only three of their last fifteen shots. They 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.040 let it after one thirty five to thirty four. On 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.040 we go to the second quarter. This was not just 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.200 one of the highlights of tonight's game, but you could 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:48.120 make the season. Jonah Bolden doing a little bit of everything. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.680 Derek White dribbles inside of Reddick and feeds aldridg Aldreds 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.760 goes up blocked by Jonah Bolden and then a dead 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.359 again Aldreds trying to dunk it at Jonah Bolden blocked 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.760 it again. Sixers ball Simmons on the run, Simmons and 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:05.639 Jonah and a chap Jonah Bollman has arrived from down under. 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.560 Just awesome. Put the Sixers up fifty three to forty eight. 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.359 After nip and tuck start to the second quarter and 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.399 before the first half was then we gotta hit a 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.480 little bit more from Ben Simmons and the imprint he 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.840 left on this game. Simmons with the ball, Simmons in 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.680 the lain. Simmons goes down the low banks it in 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.960 hanging in the air, stretching out, he long gating and 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.239 he baked it in. He's got his third field goal, 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.840 nine points, nine assists and six rebounds. He would have 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.120 ten assists before the first half was done, a first 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.680 time this year. He had double figure dimes and half 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.000 number one of the game. The seventy Sixers led by 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.080 three sixty seven sixty four going into the half. In 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.200 the third quarter, the Sixers they would have a little 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.280 bit of an uphill climb. They fell behind by four 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.240 points twice, but Ben Simmons put the lead back in 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.800 their control. Simmons against Rudy Gay nine to shoot, Ben 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.919 around up, puts it up left the right reverse, great strength, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.399 great length, and the layup by Ben Simmons starting outside 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.520 the lane on the left side in the late a 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.800 right hand reverse. Rudy Gay can't stop Ben Simmons on 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.920 that plane. Snip put the Sixers up eighty to seventy nine, 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.600 but San Antonio would answer with a fifteen to five run. 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.000 Part of the reason and a big reason why they 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.040 would jump back ahead by the tune of a lead 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.960 of seven points the Sixers. They fought back behind Joel 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.040 and Bad and tied up at ninety six going into 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.399 the fourth quarter and things were even in the opening 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:28.720 minutes of the final frame. Not a Ben top of 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:30.639 the key, Simmons driving down, Rudy Gay down, then a 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.120