Speaker 1: Right at the midway point. Of course. The Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers in game number forty one, improved their record to
Speaker 1: twenty one and twenty as they take down the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics on the road at the TD Garden in Boston,
Speaker 1: Massachusetts by a score of eighty nine to eighty. This
Speaker 1: is the Sixes postgame show here on the Sixes Radio Network.
Speaker 1: I'm Divine Gives with you for the postgame coverage and
Speaker 1: joining us right now before we get into everything else,
Speaker 1: we want to reconnect with Tom again is again live
Speaker 1: at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. After this big
Speaker 1: win for the Philadelphia seventy six is Tom, no jj Reddick,
Speaker 1: no Kyrie Irving. But the Sixes again held on to
Speaker 1: the lead late and finally come away with a good
Speaker 1: victory here. No, and again it wasn't textbook perfect you
Speaker 1: certainly I thought the Sixers turned the ball over just
Speaker 1: way too much down the stretch. But in the end,
Speaker 1: like I said, they're gonna when you look back at
Speaker 1: the end of the season, whether the victory totals forty two,
Speaker 1: forty five, thirty nine, whatever it ends up being, this
Speaker 1: is just a nice win on the road against Boston.
Speaker 1: I think, as Dario stipulated, just to hold in the
Speaker 1: eighty points no matter if Kyrie's in there or not.
Speaker 1: It's just very impressive. And the Sixes have played well.
Speaker 1: I mean they've only lost twice, including once to Boston
Speaker 1: since Christmas, and they just got to keep it out.
Speaker 1: They're getting better in a lot of areas, and Beat
Speaker 1: has become virtually unstoppable. I thought he played really well,
Speaker 1: dominant at times here tonight and a nice win against
Speaker 1: the Celtics. Absolutely, and of course on a night where
Speaker 1: he finds out he makes his first All Star game time,
Speaker 1: can you just talk about the overall growth of Joel
Speaker 1: and beads game. As you said, he's becoming unstoppable and
Speaker 1: he's learning how to play the game and learning how
Speaker 1: to pick his spots a lot more less floating on
Speaker 1: the perimeter and more on the block, and then pacing
Speaker 1: himself throughout the game. Could you just throw out there
Speaker 1: what you've seen over him as the progression goes. Of
Speaker 1: course with the on the floor time now, well, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is too his health. You know that he's
Speaker 1: able to play as many games as he's being able
Speaker 1: to play, and the way that he's played, you know,
Speaker 1: he's gotten progressively better. And again, like the one thing
Speaker 1: I've said, Divan is that with his I think maybe
Speaker 1: his main play is catching the ball on the wing,
Speaker 1: facing up and shooting that sixteen footer. I mean, he
Speaker 1: shoots over the top of people. It's he really doesn't
Speaker 1: have to do a whole lot of maneuvering and go
Speaker 1: with a whole lot of different counter moves or whatever.
Speaker 1: He's got that right there. You would like to me,
Speaker 1: you would like to be able to see him at
Speaker 1: that side, to be able to catch that ball closer
Speaker 1: to the basket on the block and dictate from there.
Speaker 1: But right now, like I said, that face up shot
Speaker 1: is kind of his ground zero, and he's very good
Speaker 1: at it. I mean, you know, I'm sure the analytics
Speaker 1: would bear out you know, what he hits from that shot,
Speaker 1: but I'll bet you it's a pretty high betch at
Speaker 1: sixty something percent. And he's just got tremendous ball skills
Speaker 1: on the catch. And I think he's handled the double
Speaker 1: team better a little bit. Again, he had a bit
Speaker 1: of a high turnover game here today. But and then
Speaker 1: defensively tonight, I thought he controlled the glass and that's
Speaker 1: been an issue for the six years over the last
Speaker 1: few years, and that is, you know, getting a stop
Speaker 1: and then getting the rebound. And it sounds simple, but
Speaker 1: that's how you punctuate the end of a possession for
Speaker 1: the opponent, is getting that defensive rebound and then in
Speaker 1: the lane. I mean, there was that one sequence where
Speaker 1: you know he ended up defending like Terry Rogier and
Speaker 1: then bringing the ball across and assisting on a place.
Speaker 1: So he can really hurt you in a multitude of ways.
Speaker 1: He's just a highly skilled player. But you want for him,
Speaker 1: obviously to maintain his health, get back into a one
Speaker 1: hundred percent physical fitness. He said, I think he's a
Speaker 1: little bit joking, but that he was at eighty one
Speaker 1: percent earlier. Today he's getting much closer, and with these
Speaker 1: games spaced out, he's being able to play more. And
Speaker 1: then he said today after shooting around, he's looking at
Speaker 1: maybe the end of the month and possibly the early
Speaker 1: part of February to be able to play back to back.
Speaker 1: So that's the whole package right there, and I think
Speaker 1: the more he plays. Look, he's only played what seventy games,
Speaker 1: and these are the types of numbers he's putting up.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is as good as advertised. If he
Speaker 1: can stay out there, continue to grow, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: an awesome thing for the Sixers. Yes, and of course
Speaker 1: with him playing possibly in the back to backs, it
Speaker 1: will be very key for the stretch with the team
Speaker 1: obviously have that one goal in mind of making the postseason.
Speaker 1: Tom TJ McConnell, we talk about it a lot. He
Speaker 1: joined six and sixty with Brian Seltzer and nine and
Speaker 1: looking at his numbers in the previous ten nine points
Speaker 1: a game, four point six assists, three and a half
Speaker 1: rebounds in twenty six point six minutes a game. Tom,
Speaker 1: he's just really again finding his way on the floor
Speaker 1: and it's always hard to take him off. He comes
Speaker 1: up big tonight in the win when the Sixers needed
Speaker 1: scoring in a third quarter. Yeah, absolutely, not like that,
Speaker 1: but I thought he ran a quarterbacked the team really well.
Speaker 1: And you know he's not a perfect player, but boy,
Speaker 1: he just says you say, he will not go away,
Speaker 1: and he quite frankly has been one of the sixers
Speaker 1: best players of all that a few games, including eighteen Monday,
Speaker 1: like fifteen tonight, you know he hit two threes. Those
Speaker 1: are huge as the Sixers ended up moving the ball
Speaker 1: that that one extra pass and he is wide open
Speaker 1: able to measure that shot and knocking down the three.
Speaker 1: He's just you know, he's good defensive, very dependable, and
Speaker 1: you know, Brett Brown referred to him the other night
Speaker 1: after the game is fun. He's fun. Well that's a
Speaker 1: rare you know, you don't really hear. That's so refreshing
Speaker 1: because he plays so hard, you know, and just that's
Speaker 1: kind of he embodies how Brett Brown coaches, how Brett
Speaker 1: Brown was as a player. From what we can discern,
Speaker 1: that type of fighting spirit is great to have on
Speaker 1: your team. And it is fun to watch him play
Speaker 1: and produce. I mean, he's always proving to himself that
Speaker 1: he belongs. Well, he now knows he belongs, and he's
Speaker 1: contributing and realizing that he can do a lot of
Speaker 1: different things out there and has been very helpful and
Speaker 1: the Sixers quite frankly, have needed him at a big
Speaker 1: way over these last couple three games. Tom one game
Speaker 1: over five hundred for this team at the midway point,
Speaker 1: a very good win tonight over the Boston Celtics, and
Speaker 1: they look to keep it going on Saturday against the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks back here at the Center. We'll speak to
Speaker 1: you then. Thank you, Tobark, good night, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Good night, Tim, Tom Againnis again joining us live from
Speaker 1: the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, as the Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: six is pick up the win eighty nine to eighty
Speaker 1: over the Boston Celtics minus Kyrie Irving, no JJ Reddick
Speaker 1: for the seventy sixes, but yet again they come away
Speaker 1: with to win, with the first victory over the Celtics
Speaker 1: in four games on the season. So a good win
Speaker 1: on the road after a nice win at home against
Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors. Again, Milwaukee Bucks come to town on Saturday.
Speaker 1: You can hear that, of course right here on the
Speaker 1: Sixers Radio Network as the Sixers continue look to continue
Speaker 1: that strong play against another tough Eastern Conference opponent. Four.
Speaker 1: The seventy sixes tonight again off the bench, TJ McConnell
Speaker 1: with fifteen points in twenty five minutes and thirty two seconds,
Speaker 1: five eight from the floor, two of two from behind
Speaker 1: the three point line. As you just heard Tom allude
Speaker 1: two at catching them as well and just simply shooting them,
Speaker 1: not thinking. So that's obviously a growth in progress in TJ.
Speaker 1: McConnell's game. Some nice minutes from Justin Anderson off the
Speaker 1: bench five points, one to five from the floor, But
Speaker 1: I think it spoke more to the energy that he
Speaker 1: brought in the big body, the versatility that he brings
Speaker 1: as a defender. We're not known for his scoring, so
Speaker 1: not gonna looking for that too much from Justin Anderson,
Speaker 1: but some good minutes when you're down a player with
Speaker 1: such importance as JJ Reddick. Ben Simmons only eight points tonight,
Speaker 1: a light night, four of nine from the floor, seven rebounds,
Speaker 1: four assists for the rookie guard Dario Charge with sixteen
Speaker 1: point six or fourteen shooting, two or five from behind
Speaker 1: the three point line. Six rebounds on the evening for
Speaker 1: Dario Scharge. Robert Covington only one to five, one or
Speaker 1: four from behind the arc, good defense, three turnovers, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: five points for your swing man for the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: again eighty nine eighty win over the Boston Celtics tonight
Speaker 1: at the TD Garden. The seventy Sixers again back at
Speaker 1: home Saturday against the visiting Milwaukee Bucks and Janison Tennan
Speaker 1: Coompoh on the other side, will continue this conversation about
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers win, look more into what they did
Speaker 1: tonight over the Boston Celtics, and later on. Here's some
Speaker 1: of the call from Tom. Again it's right here on
Speaker 1: the Sixers Radio Network. Troll my mic Sixers win eighty
Speaker 1: nine eighty to is the Sixers postgame show here on
Speaker 1: the Sixers Radio Network. Beating the Boston Celtics tonight again
Speaker 1: eighty nine eighty behind a big game from Joel n B,
Speaker 1: the new All Star, first time All Star Joel n
Speaker 1: B twenty six points, sixteen rebounds in thirty four minutes
Speaker 1: and fifty seven seconds, ten of nineteen from the floor,
Speaker 1: four again the first time All Star, as the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers pick up a very good win here on the
Speaker 1: evening against the Atlantic Division foes where you look at
Speaker 1: them and they've had trouble with them throughout the season,
Speaker 1: but right now again the Sixers winning two in a row,
Speaker 1: having beat the Toronto Raptors now sitting second in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference and the first team in the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: to Boston Celtics back to back Monday and tonight here
Speaker 1: again at the TD Garden. So a solid win all around,
Speaker 1: the visiting Milwaukee Bucks, who right now have a half
Speaker 1: game lead over the Philadelphia seventy Sixers, will visit the
Speaker 1: Center on Saturday, and again just looking at what the
Speaker 1: game gave to you tonight based on how things played out.
Speaker 1: The seventy Sixers got up to a big lead, they
Speaker 1: had a big advantage, twenty one point lead, and they
Speaker 1: let the Celtics back in. This is what you get
Speaker 1: when you play the best team in the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: albeit without their best player in Kyrie Irving. They're going
Speaker 1: to make a run and they did, and it was
Speaker 1: up to the Philadelphia seventy six is to find a
Speaker 1: way to hold them off, and they did just that,
Speaker 1: getting as close as seven points in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: But the six has made enough, the defensive stops made
Speaker 1: enough plays, hit their free throws down the stretch to
Speaker 1: allow them to come away with this victory. Again at
Speaker 1: eighty nine eighty at the visiting Boston Celtics Arena for
Speaker 1: also off the bench, Amir Johnson gave them four points,
Speaker 1: two rebounds in twelve minutes and thirty three seconds, so
Speaker 1: just giving them solid minutes tonight. Trevor Booker, also off
Speaker 1: the bench, gave them six points contribute to six points,
Speaker 1: two boards, three or three from the floor. Again not
Speaker 1: known for his offense, but when called upon, always ready
Speaker 1: for the veteran Trevor Booker solid night there. The turnovers
Speaker 1: are something that Tom mcguinnis mentioned during our connection in
Speaker 1: the first segment. Twenty five turnovers for the Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: six is again something that they really have to get
Speaker 1: under control if they want to down the stretch. This
Speaker 1: is the midway point of the season, forty one games
Speaker 1: and twenty one twenty record, Sitting in the eighth place
Speaker 1: right now in the Eastern Conference playoff standings, you have
Speaker 1: to be better with the basketball protecting it. Twenty five
Speaker 1: turnovers four the seventy sixers, contributing to twenty four points
Speaker 1: for the Boston Celtics, so they have to get that
Speaker 1: under control. The Celtics did also hand over quite a
Speaker 1: few nineteen turns over for the night for the Celtics
Speaker 1: fifteen points to seventy Sixers were able to manage off
Speaker 1: of those turnovers and just the solid, solid work all night.
Speaker 1: Points in the paint, the seventy sixers had the advantage there.
Speaker 1: Forty six for the seventy six Ers Celtics twenty eight
Speaker 1: second chance points and nice night for the Sixers twelve
Speaker 1: to five, the advantage to the Philadelphia seventy Sixers outrebounding
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics thirty three to twenty eight. A low
Speaker 1: scoring defensive affair tonight for these two teams, the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers and the Celtics both shooting under fifty percent forty
Speaker 1: six for the Sixers, forty percent for the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: The Sixers from behind the ark six of seventeen for
Speaker 1: thirty five percent seven of twenty nine for the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 1: obviously not one of their better shooting nights from the
Speaker 1: perimeter only twenty four percent. Sixers and Celtics both getting
Speaker 1: to the free throw line seventeen a fifteen of seventeen
Speaker 1: for the Sixers and the Boston Celtics converting thirteen on
Speaker 1: the evening evening twenty two assists for the Sixers on
Speaker 1: thirty four makes We're very used to and accustomed to.
Speaker 1: The seventy six is sharing the ball, getting their baskets,
Speaker 1: no selfish play, So good stat there for the Sixes,
Speaker 1: and I apologize in the rebounding it was forty one
Speaker 1: to thirty one to ten rebound advantage for the visiting
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers over the Boston Celtics. On the other side,
Speaker 1: will hear from the man who called the game, Tom
Speaker 1: mcguinness's game calls, where we get the highlights, some good
Speaker 1: stuff here, So make sure you guys tune in Sixers
Speaker 1: postgame show here on the Sixers Radio Network. Sixes come
Speaker 1: away with the win tonight in Boston eighty nine to
Speaker 1: eighty over the Eastern Conference leading Boston Celtics. I'm Divine givens.
Speaker 1: This is the Sixers post game Show and right now
Speaker 1: we get to the highlights where the seventy Sixes again
Speaker 1: come away with the win, a solid one. And it
Speaker 1: really starts off where the newly announced first time All
Speaker 1: Star joellenbad Helps gets the Sixers going early. They chop
Speaker 1: it away from Joel, no foul it beat back and
Speaker 1: down on Bains I'd off for the lay back. He
Speaker 1: fakes one way Shibby shoots and scores. They have the
Speaker 1: Sixers down by four, eight to four. Nice play by
Speaker 1: Joel and be going through contact and shooting it from
Speaker 1: the right elbow, getting it going early for the All
Speaker 1: Star again eight to four. Right there. Trevior Booker made
Speaker 1: three baskets in a row for the Philadelphia seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: to tide things at fourteen fourteen. At the end of
Speaker 1: the quarter, Justin Anderson made it three to make it
Speaker 1: twenty one nineteen. The final basket in the frame for
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia seventy six is in the second quarter. Dario
Speaker 1: charts again on the evening sixteen point six to fourteen
Speaker 1: from the floor, solid defensive l always an all around
Speaker 1: good game. Here one of his two three pointers on
Speaker 1: the night playlist upside Dario scharge for three. Fuck it good,
Speaker 1: Dario scharge knocking down a high arcing three, and that's
Speaker 1: key for sharge shutters outside shots. Sometimes line drives that
Speaker 1: time though well in the year much agreed to Tom
Speaker 1: again it's there. If he gets the shots and gets
Speaker 1: some good arc on those shots, he obviously has better
Speaker 1: chance of making him. And that's what we're seeing as
Speaker 1: of late from Dario scharge at the end of two
Speaker 1: thirty nine. Thirty two is to score at the half
Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia seventy Sixers with the advantage coming out
Speaker 1: of the third quarter. Again, it's all about holding on
Speaker 1: to the leads and that's what the Sixers we're trying
Speaker 1: to do their biggest quarter of the evening as the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy sixes again got big, big time contributions from
Speaker 1: t J McConnell off the bench, and the Sixers get
Speaker 1: it back and Joel has it in the quarter two
Speaker 1: minutes ago, Sixers by fourteen. It beat against Pains one
Speaker 1: on one, backing turns room passes to t J. And
Speaker 1: McConnell shoots it from our front had rattles in the
Speaker 1: t J. McConnell and Joel would be a potent combination
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. T J McConnell with nine points, didn't
Speaker 1: score into the third quarter. Nine points in the third
Speaker 1: quarter to help again with the Philadelphia seventy sixes with
Speaker 1: the biggest quarter thirty two to twenty one quarter for
Speaker 1: the team, and even after three, the Philadelphia seventy Sixes
Speaker 1: again had it at a nice, nice pace seventy one
Speaker 1: to fifty three after three, up eighteen. All you have
Speaker 1: to do now is hold on to the lead in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, something that they've had trouble doing. But
Speaker 1: as they do that, of course, as we know, TJ
Speaker 1: McConnell again once again very tough, comes out and get
Speaker 1: the three again in the start of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: making it seventy eight to fifty nine, and then Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: Light scoring night on the evening for Ben, but a
Speaker 1: very very good lay up here in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: bed Don loo on Rford fakes, comes back and fakes
Speaker 1: again eder for with us back to the basket. Tommy
Speaker 1: defedhim and Simmons patiently down low, faking the reverse, twisting
Speaker 1: back the other way and laying it up left handed.
Speaker 1: A sixteen point six ers leave eighty four sixty eight
Speaker 1: seventy six is Ben Simmons also had a very nice
Speaker 1: spin move along the sideline towards the baseline get the
Speaker 1: layup to go. Very nice move from the rookie point guard.
Speaker 1: But the of course, when you're playing the best team
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference, they're not going to go away.
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown for the Boston Celtics with the big three
Speaker 1: to make it eighty six seventy six, and then rookie
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum, still making noise out there, converged from the corner.
Speaker 1: Tatum with a dribble hand off the Brown, Brown hit
Speaker 1: a three A moment ago back to Tatum in the
Speaker 1: corner for three and that's good. The Celtics have hit
Speaker 1: another three. Jason Tatum makes it eighty six seventy nine
Speaker 1: and the crowd is absolutely beside itself. Eleven points for
Speaker 1: Tatum on the night. That was his only three pointer
Speaker 1: from behind. The Arcy finished again the evening with the
Speaker 1: eleven point on the night for Jason Tatum. No Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving for the Boston Celtics. Al Horford and Marcus Mars
Speaker 1: led the team with fourteen points on the night. Marcus
Speaker 1: Smart thirteen for the Celtics in place of Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown quiet as well, four of twelve from the
Speaker 1: field for twelve points. But when you have to put
Speaker 1: up twelve for the twelve points, it seems like a
Speaker 1: good night. The same for Jason Tatum eleven shots for
Speaker 1: eleven points for the young Celtics. Coming back again on Saturday,
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia seventy six is will host Johannison Tenna Coompo
Speaker 1: and the Milwaukee Bucks. Earlier in the evening, Johannison Tenna
Speaker 1: Coompo is announced as an All Star, started his second
Speaker 1: straight year of making the All Star team. Also a
Speaker 1: team eight of Joe olyn Bid, the first time All
Speaker 1: Star contributions for him again a big night four and
Speaker 1: Bid twenty six point sixteen rebounds, four the big Man
Speaker 1: ten of nineteen from the floor and close to thirty
Speaker 1: five minutes of play, six assists also for Jewel and
Speaker 1: b four personal fouls. But the turnover is still something
Speaker 1: that's plagued in him that he will have to find
Speaker 1: his way throughout his career of getting better at. But
Speaker 1: they did come away with the victory tonight, eighty nine
Speaker 1: to eighty over The Boston Celtics improve in the air
Speaker 1: record to twenty one and twenty on the season, now
Speaker 1: sitting in eighth place in the Eastern Conference and the
Speaker 1: only one team right above them at half a game
Speaker 1: in front the Milwaukee Bucks here at the Center on Saturday,