WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 01/15/2018 - Rewind vs. Raptors 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:08.400 Naga run. In this matney of Martin Luther King Day 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.280 game against the seventy Sixers, the question would be whether 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.480 or not the Sixers would be able to hold things up, 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.079 a test that they had been presented with in previous games, 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.840 not always seeing the other side of it positively. They 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.040 did so today one seventeen, one eleven. The final score 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.000 seventy Sixers back at five hundred. They pick up their 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.120 twentieth win at as early a point of the season 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.240 as they have since two thousand and twelve, fifth victory 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.559 in their last six tries. Brian Seltz with you. Our 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.200 postgame coverage underway. Here's what we'll do. We'll stand by 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.960 for Brett Brown, get a little bit from the head coach. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.400 We'll bring back Tom McGinnis for a question or two, 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.040 play a couple highlights, and then get you to the man, 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.280 Mike mss and Ellie as soon as we can in 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.800 the four o'clock hour. If you're listening on the flagship 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.080 station of the Sixers ninety seven five to the fanatic, well, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.840 the Sixers. Their mission was to try and rectify an 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.880 issue that surfaced in the last Thursday's game in London 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:05.120 against the Boston Celtics, which namely was built up a 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.440 big lead against a quality opponent, no less, and try 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.320 to preserve it and down the stretch. Probably if you're 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.479 got a rooting interest in the Sixers, your mind's thinking, oh, well, 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.160 here it is all over again. But the Sixers they 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.760 managed to hang on. There was that crazy sequence in 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.120 about twenty five seconds to go where the Sixers had 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.520 a wide open look at a Covington layup. He missed 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.280 it and Bead couldn't tap it in. Simmons spiked the 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.840 jam and you're thinking, this is ridiculous, and it was. 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.720 But Joel Embiid got to the free throw line sunk 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.520 the two points of the Sixers needed to maintain breathing room, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.840 and that was certainly helpful in getting the Sixers over 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.440 the hump. A good win against a Toronto Raptors team 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.200 that has been playing really well as of late. Joel 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.600 embiad he was dominant from the outset he got going 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.080 down the stretching, particularly from the free throw line, where 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.840 he was eleven fourteen. Finished with thirty four points, his 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.320 seven thirty point game of the season. T J McConnell 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.960 was fantastic eighteen points that is a career high eight 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.440 of thirteen from the field, six rebounds, eight assists. He 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.600 found Covington late when Covington leaked out for that easy 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.079 layup to give the six or some breathing room at 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.919 seven points with a minute twenty five to go, and 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.160 he got the steal that's set up that Banana's stretch 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.760 where there were three misses, so an important turnover forced 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.440 by these six or third year point guard there. And 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.560 all in all, the Sixers they buckled down at a 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.400 key point of the season where they're aboat at the 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.320 halfway juncture, and this was a test for them today 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.200 against a very good Raptors team. They were able to 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.680 pass it. The defense was pretty good for the most 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.440 part in this one. Thought Toronto missed some open looks 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.600 throughout the day, in particular Kyle Lowry in his first 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.320 game back after a three game absence, he got himself 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.880 going in the fourth quarter in which the Raptors scored 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.000 thirty six points. So the Sixers still very much a 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.280 youthful team that is a work in progress, trying to 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.560 iron things out as they had the halfway point of 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:01.680 the season. But a win, as they say, is exactly 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.119 what it is, and that's what the Sixers got one seventeen, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.320 one eleven over the Toronto Raptors. We're standing by for 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.200 seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown will step aside real quick. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.840 It's the postgame show on the Sixers Raider Network. Testy, feisty, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.080 at times chippy on this Monday afternoon. But the seventy 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.880 Sixers hold off the Toronto Raptors one seventeen to one eleven. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.560 Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com with you down here 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.120 at the center or a waiting Brett Brown's post game 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:32.240 at press conference. We'll bring in Tom McGinnis right now. Tom. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.120 At the end of the day, this is what the 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.880 Sixers came for. They got it done despite style points 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.880 maybe of being not quite. That's a good way to 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.280 look at it because in the end, that is what 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.560 matters the victory for the Sixers. They hold off Toronto, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.640 but certainly they'll sketch you down the stretch. They built 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.720 up at twenty one point lead. The Raptors come back 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:55.400 primarily with their reserves, particularly Delon Right, and the Sixers 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.760 with a rash of turnovers, but able to forestall them 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.480 a huge shot by Dario Simmons had two big free throws, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.680 had a big field goal for the Sixers down the stretch. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.920 Embiid was pretty solid throughout despite a high turnovernight and 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.280 a great night Babe, the best game of his career. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.720 And that's saying something for t J McConnell, who's had 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.200 a number of really solid performances, including game winning shots 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.840 last year against the Knicks here Orlando on the road, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.719 but a career high eighteen and really helped the Sixers 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.520 through the middle portion of the game when Ben was 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.760 in foul difficulty. And hey, a win against Toronto hard 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.960 to come by first of the year, even after forty games. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.560 I think any Sixers fan would take that it actually 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.960 could be better. But this is not a bad way 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.160 to go for the Sixers. And here they go into 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.880 the second half of the season against their art tribals, Boston, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.400 whom they'll close out the season. Went on Thursday and 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:47.240 hopefully beginning to gain some knowledge about how to arrest, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.960 if you will, these runs and to continue to hold 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.400 these leads, because again, as Brett Brown says, you know, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.240 the focus is on how you lost the lead, but 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.760 there's also got to be some emphasis on how you 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.599 built up these big leads, and they've done this on 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.640 a number occasions. At today able to prevail and hold 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.599 off Toronto. Just the second win in twenty tries for 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.800 the seventy six Ers versus the Raptors. Real quickly on McConnell. Yes, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.760 he had the career high scoring day, but how emblematic 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.560 was it that it was the past that found Comington 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.320 late to make it a seven point game and then 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.479 the steal that preceded that crazy sequence of three minutes 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.960 ultimately setting up two points that helped get the Sixers 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.320 across the finish line. But wait for your thought on 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.520 that just moment. Let's peak in real quick Brett Brown, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.760 right now of what we were doing in pick and roll, 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.120 we're solid. I thought we executed them well. But I 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.920 think that that individually we understood that those two when 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.800 they get going, generate most of their wins. And we 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.640 understood that. And I give credit to our guys a 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.120 collective group, for guarding them. I'll say about TJ and 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:50.760 what he was able to do, especially with Ben being 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.520 in found trouble or I I mean, TJ was great. TJ. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.960 That's that's why the fans of Philadelphia love TJ. That's 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.240 why his teammates and coaching staff, you know, just have 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.120 a tremendous model respect for him. He plays with great energy. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.080 He is a lightning rod for us. We needed him 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.280 to be that. And he's a lot of fun. You know, 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.800 he's a lot of fun to watch and he show 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:22.640 brings a competitive spirit to kind of everything that we do. Indeed, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.600 true words from Brett Brown, fun washing t J McConnell 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.160 not only perform out there today, but mix it up 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.520 with some all stars out of the Toronto backcourt as well. So, Tom, 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.880 I'll spare you answering that question about t J McConnell, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.960 because Brett Brown just did a really nice job there. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.440 Joel Embad getting to the free throw line where he 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.200 was seven of ten, hit some key ones in crunch time, 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.840 and these Sixers a bigger part than eleven to fourteen 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:47.440 from the free throw line for him, beat and the 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.560 Sixers see him score thirty four points and get eleven rebounds. Yeah, 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.480 it's huge. As I said during the course of the 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.680 game and have mentioned in games and weeks past, But 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.760 to have your best player be a really consistent and 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.680 dependable foul shooter or Patrico and the guts of the 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.240 game is really a luxury, and in bed, you're gonna 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:08.000 go to him, and he's able to deliver at the line. Obviously, 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.960 JJ's got the second best percentage in the league overall 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.240 and is the six ER's best free throw shooter. But 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.960 Joel has been really good and he was able to play. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.480 I believe he played almost thirty four minutes. Again, I 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.320 say high turnover game. He got into me. I think 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.480 this is going to come with more experienced, more games 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.880 under his belt. But he got a little over anxious 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.040 against Peartle. He felt like that was a matchup that 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.520 he should not only win, but dominate, and he got 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.840 a little aggressive, just an establishing position before he even 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:40.360 got the basketball against Yaka Peartle. And you know, Peartle's 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.680 done really well. He's really come on in his second year. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.960 He played more in this game than there's starter Valentunis 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.560 and the backet didn't play much as well. But Joel 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.480 was really good. And again that ability he's very good 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.360 on the block, getting better, but his ability to face 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.080 up at fifteen feet and just knock out that shot, 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:03.400 that's almost where he builds his offensive repertoire in terms 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.120 of off of that, and then he can turn and 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.560 they can put his back to the basket and work 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.360 in a number of ways from that position. But he 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.400 was really good. And again the Sixers, you know, it 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.520 wasn't pretty in that they allowed at twenty one point 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.120 lead to slip away, but they were able to come 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.880 back with big plays. And that's I think it's got 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.440 to buoy their confidence with the way that Simmons found 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.560 and beat and that Ben realize, hey, I'm I'm gonna 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.480 take over this game like I did early in the game, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.880 and a nice victory like you put it earlier. You know, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.640 however it happened. They beat the Raptors and again five 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.920 hundred as long as the Sixers, and again, like I've 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.640 said two you know you're talking about the playoffs. Here 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.520 comes Milwaukee after the Boston game Thursday in Boston. You 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.400 haven't played Milwaukee yet, you haven't played Miami. If you 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.640 just beat those teams in front of you and hold 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:51.120 your own against those teams Indiana, they've only played one time. 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.320 They beat them here, you know, and do really well 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.480 against those teams and then handle the teams like you 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.520 have for instance, Atlanta and Charlotte. You haven't played that 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.760 much some of the other teams that you're supposed to be, 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.200 then the Sixers will be in good stead. But over 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.240 a coach doesn't think that way. I mean, that's how 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.280 we as fans and as announcers talk. A coach looks 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.280 at how your team is playing overall, and if you're playing, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.880 if you're trending consistently well. And I think the Sixers 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.120 for the most part have They've now won what five 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.880 of their last six games, so after that hiccup in December, 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.439 they're trending in a good way and try to grow 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.160 from some of the things they need to work on, 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.839 the turnovers, the fouls, and like that, they'll be in 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.640 a good position. But a nice victory here today in 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.720 front of a great crowd set out again at the Center. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.480 Tom mc ginnis, thank you very much, night, Brian, Thanks 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.079 one seventeen one, eleven, seventy Sixers over the Raptors, Mike 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.120 miss and Elly in just a few moments. One last 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.640 segment of our postgame covered from the center. On the 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.280 other side. This is the postgame showing the Sixers Radio 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:50.200 Network seventy Sixers and the Toronto Raptors for the fourth 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.840 and final time this season at Mike miss and Ellis 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.960 starting in just a matter of moments. Let's get to 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.360 a couple of highlights really quick. The Sixers set the 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.720 tone in this one, and it was they tried to 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.839 ride throughout the better part of the day. Here's an 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.400 is sulfur and beat to let up. The lane takes 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.640 it into paint fakes, one way goes to Ronald takes 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.319 the bump head puts it in. Joella Be downo on 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.280 botta tunis. Score one for the big guy and one 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.200 He'll go to the line to shoot for the three 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.440 point play. Much of an answer the Raptors did not 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.600 have for the big man Joel and Be. Throughout most 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.880 of the afternoon, the Sixes were up by nine thirty 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.240 two twenty three going into the second quarter. This play 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.120 capped the frame and the half. It involved t J McConnell, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.800 who locked big minutes and relief of Ben Simmons, who's 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.840 in faltrum DeRosa has it tipped away and stolen. Here's 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.440 t J head A coming to let coming to two 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.280 nd jam. He throws it down. McConnell with a steel 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.319 had a breakout for Robert Comington, six Ers up fifty 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.840 nine forty nine going into the brake. McConnell got into 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.840 the scoring act throughout the afternoon, in particular in the 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.880 third quarter. Mcconno with the ball TJ a brilliant first half, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.160 exchanges it with Dario driving on Siaka middle a and 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:01.120 TJ underhead scoop gun fuccono. Where there's a will, there's 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:05.640 a way. Great play by McConnell. He's got nine man 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.920 made it seventy eight to sixty four six or ahead 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.160 ninety three seventy five going into the fourth. Wouldn't you 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.079 know the Raptors they had done kind of like opponents 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.760 in previous games had done against the Sixers. A big 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.400 lead started to a road and all of a sudden, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.400 the Sixers lead at one point twenty one points in 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.640 the second half was trimmed all the way down to 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.960 the sliver of a point at one oh two to 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.400 one oh one after a layup. All the Sixers they 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.440 responded and this play helped get them over the finish leave. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.640 Ninety seconds ago, coming dis wide open, he gathers it 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.160 a head, scars a layup. J McConnell blows it down 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.199 the floor, Tom puts a head at the Sixers lead 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.840 eleven one h three. Yeah, there were some circutest developments 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.280 down the stretch in the final seconds, but the Sixers 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.960 did get the win one seventeen one eleven over the Raptors. 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.760 Sixers now twenty and twenty on the year, back to 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.280 five hundred with their fifth win in six tries. The 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.240 Raptors have dropped two in a row and three out 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.800 of the last four. They're now twenty nine and thirteen. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.880 Joel Embid with thirty four and eleven, his eighteenth double 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.760 double of the season, t Jim McConnell a career high eighteen, 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.400 Ben Simmons with twelve, one rebound, four assists, and JJ 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.720 Reddick with fifteen. Kyle Lowry finished with thirteen, Demarda Rosen 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.280 with twenty four, and de line Right with twenty off 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:20.679 the bench.