WEBVTT - Rewind vs. Chicago Bulls - 1/17./20 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.360 You're listening to rewind to listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.960 highlights and analysis from the seventy six ers previous game. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.640 And welcome to the Sixers postgame show here on the 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.280 Sixes Radio Network tonight victorious yet again, one hundred eighty 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.599 nine over the Chicago bullsom Divine givens with you for 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.640 the Sixers postgame coverage. Right now, we head back down 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:25.000 to the center for Six's head coach Brett Brown swept 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.520 under the cropt. He did it with all of us 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:35.159 and his teammates probably more importantly felt his success. Had 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.840 another three pointer if it wasn't for the six guys 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.199 on the court there what happened on that See, I 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.120 thought that was confusing of the rotations, like it was 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.040 hard for them to try to find that extra guy. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.400 We we we played a different rotation tonight, and you 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.320 know we sub kind of consistently over the years, and 0:00:55.600 --> 0:01:01.480 a group went in wasn't communicated, and you know, that's 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.039 that's what happened. That's that's I'll own that. It's a 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:10.360 direct result of playing new rotations and new people. Was 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.760 trying to run off I think, yeah, he was trying 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.399 trying to get him off and Mike Scott was coming 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:23.000 in for Tobias and there was confusion. I appreciate you 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.400 bringing that up, though, Coach. Two wins at home and 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:28.920 now you're going back out on the road where you 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.960 really haven't had the same type of successful Can you 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:32.600 take them these two games and kind of carry it 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.399 with you on the road to kind of turn things 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:37.800 around a little bit on the road. Just the the 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:45.959 intensity defensively, um, I think the the the pride of learning, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.400 like how we're going to guard people, the game plan, 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.720 you know, and there's many layers to it, you know, 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.800 even with a team like you know, Chicago, as you're 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.480 making somebody a drivers he left handed or right handed, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.640 you're gonna late switch, you know, just the basic Daddius 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.720 wants to get to his left hand. All that type 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.120 of stuff I thought was on point, especially in the 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.720 second half and especially in the fourth period. You know, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.480 I think that if we look at our fourth period defense, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.880 I don't know what math would tell us, but I 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.639 suspect it would say that we're pretty down good at home, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:24.079 especially in close out quarters les differently than pretty much 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.280 the entire league at this point. So how do you 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.880 feel like you guys dealt with I didn't like. I 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.640 didn't like it as much in the first half. I 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.200 felt like we held it either one dribble too long, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.680 because it's true, like they hedge, we held it one 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.480 dribble too long and we threw it and we let 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.880 him off the hook, or we threw it a second late, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.440 like we didn't take the additional dribble. We just didn't 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.040 throw it quick enough. I thought when we didn't take 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.320 the extra dribble, and we when we had a mindset 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.480 of I need to get off it because I didn't 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.639 turn the corner. Then you played four on three behind 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.720 it in the ball moved and I liked it better 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.120 in the second half. I thought in the first half 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.799 it was okay, but I liked it in the second 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.280 half where we could get him scrambling and moving around, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.520 and I think some of Furcon's looks were produced through 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.160 scrambled defense. Winning head coach on the evening six is 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.519 Brett Brown, after his home team, of course, at the Center, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.440 once again taking care of business one hundred eighty nine 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.320 over the visiting Chicago Bulls, improving to twenty seven and 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.200 sixteen on the season twenty and two now at home 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.560 for the Philadelphia seventy Sixers. Once again, I'm divine givens 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.360 with you here on the Sixers postgame show right here 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.280 on the Sixers Radio Network, and tonight, as Brian Seltzer 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.480 alluded to throughout the entire second half, as furkon Corkmas 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.880 really got going, it was his night. Twenty six minutes 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.040 and forty five seconds, eight of eleven from the floor, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.720 most importantly six of nine from behind the three point line, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.920 totaling with two free throws mixed in there, twenty four 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.640 points on the evening and when we speak about and 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.760 here Brett Brown talking about trying to grow a shooter, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.360 and we see that coming to full display tonight. For 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.480 the seventy six struggled in the first half as a 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.640 team where they really couldn't find the three point range 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.680 one of eight in the first quarter, two of six 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.240 in the second quarter, totaling three of fourteen for twenty 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:33.280 one percent within the second half in the third quarter, 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.279 specifically five of eight from behind the three point line, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.640 and also overall at that point, eight of twenty two 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.800 and one of seven in the final frame of the 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.720 fourth quarter, once again getting up to the number for 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:50.760 the team overall nine of twenty nine, but Furkon quorkmas 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:55.039 growing him as that shooter six of nine, looking very comfortable. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.400 You saw him early on where he knocked down a 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.719 few shots, had a few things going to the basket 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.240 as well, a floater that he mixed in, and just 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.160 the confidence that he has. And if you watch fur 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.919 Con Chork Miles from time to time, and I know 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.200 you all have seeing him play the way that he does, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.520 you can see he has a flare to his game 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.520 a little bit. He's very confident in what he does, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.719 not only shooting the basketball from the perimeter, but also 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.039 putting it on the deck and making a play not 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.760 only for himself or a teammate, but tonight when they 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.760 needed it, being able to get things done. As Brett 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.440 Brown talks about needing more, three point is twenty nine 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.080 on the evening, So got their fair show up Chicago 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.280 eight to thirty five from deep and the six or 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.120 thirty one percent Chicago twenty two point nine percent getting 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.720 those shots up, getting those opportunities and for the most part, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.840 very good looks for fur Con Chork Miles. You heard 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.279 Brett Brown just mentioned how some of them were off 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.159 of scramble drills with the ball just simply swung back 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.039 into his hands, and he was able to confidently step 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.400 into those shots and knock them down. And once he 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.960 had won two, three, four, he was in a really 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.520 good rhythm. The rim opened up for him. As you know, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.920 you see one go through, you see two go through, 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.040 then all of a sudden, you start to get a 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.920 flurry of them. And that's what furkon Chorkmles did, confidently 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.280 knocking them down to the tune of six to nine 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.279 from deep four. His twenty four points eight of eleven 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:19.360 overall from the floor phenomenal performance, a career high and 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:24.040 points and also a career high and makes for furkon 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.880 chork Mos tonight from behind a three point line, leading 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.800 all scores tonight off the bench in general, all scores 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.400 in the game. With those twenty four points, the next 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.200 high is Zach Levine for twenty through twenty three, pacing 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.840 the Chicago bull Sixers Victorias tonight one oh one hundred 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:45.440 eighty nine behind the scorching outside shooting from furkon chork 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.800 Mos for twenty four points sixes Win tonight at the 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.600 center one hundred eighty nine divine givings with you here 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.760 on the Sixers postgame show and the Sixers Radio Network. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.479 Great performance from furkon quorkms leading all scores tonight with 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.719 twenty four points, connecting six of nine from deep in 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.080 twenty six minutes and forty five seconds. So in a 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.400 low number like that, you know how good he was 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.640 in this game overall to put up a nice number 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.360 twenty four in twenty six minutes. We head back down 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.640 to the center where the man who was calling the 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.560 game tonight in for Tom mc guinnis our guy from 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.760 Sixers dot Com, of course, and you hear him pre 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.560 and post game. You heard him on pre game with 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.360 d Lineman I earlier, and that is Brian Selt to 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.840 b Selt. If we look at how this game played 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.920 out very close in the first half and seventy Sixers 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.240 trailing the Chicago Bulls forty seven, forty six really couldn't 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.800 get it good rhythm offensively, solid defense overall from the 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.600 Chicago Bulls. But in second half, as you alluded to, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.640 fur con Korkmas really got hot and he carried to 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.400 help carried the team to the victory tonight. Yeah, and 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.560 I thought Al Horford was really big early on in 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.160 the third quarter as well, yet his fourth twenty point 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.680 game of the season. He hasn't scored eighteen points since 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.320 a game against the San Antonio Spurs towards the end 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:01.040 of November, right before Thanksgiving. YEA, their quarter, no question, 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.520 was the turning point, and I think fur Con and 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.280 al were the stories on the offensive end of the floor. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.040 But then defensively, the Sixers were able to start preventing. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.520 In other words, I guess stopping would be the more 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.440 direct way to put it. The open court opportunities that 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.760 Chicago was able to accumulate early on in the game 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.040 that got them out to a relatively solid start. So 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.200 I thought the transition defense picked up a little bit 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.120 for the seventy Sixers, or just eliminating runout opportunities in general, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.960 because I mean, you let a guy like obviously Levine 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.640 get open an open court Laurie Marketing, if he's driving 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.040 the basket, he's tough to slow down. I think the 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.000 Sixers did that, and it was a combined effort between 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:40.640 some of the stuff we talked about offensively and I 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.640 think defensively two areas where the seventy Sixers tightened up 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.000 that helped them turn things around in the second half 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.400 for a second straight game twenty nine to six. The 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.000 Bulls the advantage in the fast break points Selton, as 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.959 you pointed out early on in the first end and 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.360 second quarter as well, I remember just looking at it 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.920 and saying that, you guys are just getting out on 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.600 lane too easy in transition and they have to figure 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.120 that out. And that's something that they did with the 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.560 defense in that second half you alluded to. Also. Al 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.600 Horford and his role twenty points tonight, six assists, five rebounds, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.160 eight to four from the floor, two of six from 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.240 behind the three point line in thirty two minutes and 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.800 twenty seconds. And when you look at what he's been 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.680 able to do now stepping in for Joel and bat 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.480 and the starting role at the center spot, it is 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.280 now again a new role for him. Obviously being the 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.920 man next to Mbid having to fulfill that role and 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.440 now stepping in and doing something totally different where he 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.640 knows he's going to be the guy for a little bit. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.760 It takes some time, and tonight you could see the 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.240 results of him playing within himself within the offense and 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.080 putting up those twenty points in this game tonight so 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.920 you got a couple of baseline jumpers, divine a few 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.760 up at the elbow obviously popped out for two to 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.720 three pointers in tonight's game. And listen, I know that 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.800 Horford's been up and down a little bit the last 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.680 couple of weeks, especially since he returned from that two 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.760 game injury absence in the middle of December, but you know, 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.080 he's scored in double figures now six straight games. And 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.800 for me looking at Al Horford, obviously this time of 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.000 the year accounts and the regular season's important, but I trust, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.839 based on the body of work that we've seen from 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.520 Al Horford over the course of his career that when 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.520 it matters the most, when you need him to be 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.959 there stabilizing key presence, the track record shows that you 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.440 got to give him the benefit of the doubt that 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.600 he's going to be there. So yeah, I mean, I 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.280 think that it's a long season, and certainly his shooting 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.400 percentage was down for a bit the past couple of weeks, 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.360 but who knows, maybe something like the way he finished 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.320 the game against the Nets on Wednesday could have served 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.839 as a springboard to what we saw tonight. Don't know 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.280 if he's gonna get twenty points each and every game. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.840 I'm not necessarily certain that's what the Sixers need, but 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.000 you're right. He's been asked to do things differently, not 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.800 just on the offensive end without Joel Embiid, but certainly 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.880 how the Sixers scheme of things defensively, and tonight he 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.720 was really really good. He was that Al Horford level 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.559 good that I think Sixers fans became uncomfortable with when 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.400 he was playing for another team in green and white 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.640 uniform the last three years. He had a really I 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.840 think good vintage game tonight. Brian Seltzer joining us live 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.720 from the center call in the game tonight and for 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.400 Tom McGinnis and Brian when you looked at tonight, also 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.880 just a production from Ben Simmons yet again through three quarters, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:21.120 phenomenal with eighteen points overall from Ben Simmons as he 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.720 played very well, eight rebounds, five assists, very aggressive through 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.120 the three and setting things up in the fourth quarter. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.440 What did you look at his performance once again tonight? 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.240 I think that the good news is as we had 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.760 past the midway point of the season now and towards 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.440 the All Star Game break, it seems like there's no 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:43.240 slowing down for Ben Simmons. I think tonight he found 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.679 ways to help set up people, you know, the people involved, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.200 while also going for his own. It was just another 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.560 night where it seemed like he was very much in 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.120 control of what he was doing. We know the presence 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.280 that he provides defensively, I think deservedly, that's getting a 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.400 lot of attention. But also I want a piggyback off that, 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.000 and let's let's turn over to someone like Matisse Thybel, 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.520 who had a lot of time right on Zach Levine tonight, 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.880 another difficult assignment. After he's faced off against Kyrie Irving 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.440 for a bit against the Nets on Wednesday, and you 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.439 know the moments that he had to go up against Levine. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.560 I thought he looked good. And I think the thible 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.959 continues to show why Brett Brown wants to give him 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.679 more run at this stage of the season. Three blocks, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:28.120 couple steals, he has now over fifty steals on the season. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.280 And then there was that memorable swath that he had 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.360 chasing down Zach Levine from behind the game was winding down. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.839 I think that combination what we've been able to see 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.440 the likes of Simmons, Richardson and now Thibill do some 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.680 of the interchangeability of them on defense. That's been really 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.960 advantageous I think for the Sixers. And then of course 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.080 we'll in the back end. You have Horford and Embed 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.040 helping out if in the event that those guys get 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.600 by by the way, he can block you from behind 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:55.040 as we saw tonight against Zach Levine going to the basket. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.920 We've seen that quite a bit during the season final one. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.319 So was one thing that Brett Brown has talked about 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.920 for some time now, and that's protecting the basketball. And 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.640 over the last couple of games, so we're starting to 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.960 see the number go down or stay at a certain level. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.719 And tonight only thirteen turnovers for the seventy six is 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:17.120 protecting basketball giving themselves the opportunity to get some buckets. Right, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.000 Just a couple of games ago there was the weird 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.520 four turnover game that they lost against the Pacers. So 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.080 without a doubt, I think that that's helping them. I 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.400 just want to see, not to totally go off this point, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.200 I'll ask you, like, what do we got to see 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.640 for this team to do what they do at home 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.520 on the road? Right Like that right now is to 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.240 me and I think a lot of other people out 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.640 there the missing link. I kind of like it that 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.760 that Brett has. It sounds like I been talking about 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.079 it more openly the past day, day and a half. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.439 I kind of like that to you. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.120 And if I listened tomorrow tomorrow, back at back at 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.320 it on the road against New York and we'll see 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:53.920 how they go out there performed. But it's good to 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.520 come off of these two wins here against Brooklyn and Chicago. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.559 Do exactly as you said, protecting the basketball on number one, 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.520 and just make sure you do that and carry that 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.200 type of performance from your home floor on the road 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.640 and come away with the victories only seven and fourteen. 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.480 You have to improve that, of course if you want 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:11.840 to be where you want to be later on in 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.520 the season, No doubt, man, no doubt. Well listen, man, 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.800 you'll be back tomorrow in my chair at that I 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.600 am in for you. And great job tonight of course 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.920 calling the game for tom and enjoy listening to it. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.840 And we will certainly be listening out for you tomorrow 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:32.160 starting at seven twenty for the pregame coverage Sixers Nicks 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.280 Live from the Garden. Thanks so much. Sales have a 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.560 great night. Thanks. I gotta give a quick shout out 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.680 to Marty Dickerson, Tyler Julie and Pat Egan, which I 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.440 did not do when I signed up the first time, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:42.840 and thanks to you as well well. I would have 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.720 done that for you nowhere I know adversifully for the 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.000 Delaware Valley tom look back tomorrow. So thank you everyone 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.160 for your patience tonight, great works man, Thanks man. Sixers 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.720 come away with your twenty seventh win of the season, 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.760 beating the Chicago Bulls one hundred to eighty nine, and 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.840 the seventy Sixers got things star Ben Simmons aggressive in 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:06.200 the first quarter, strong to the rim for the point guard. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.000 Tied up at ten, Levine had thirty nine for the 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.880 Bulls in a win over the Sixers last year. The 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.560 Sixers returned the favor as Horford up top ghost inside 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.760 of Simmons, who with the reverse jam was the Sixers 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.720 back in the league twelve to ten. It was a 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.640 great pass by Al Horford eight points in the first 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:27.840 frame for Ben Simmons, leading all scores to open things up. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.400 Firkon Quorkms. It wasn't just the third quarter getting things 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.560 started as well. In the first quirk Mos Baries another three, 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.280 this time for the left corner. Was seventy six ers 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.560 up twenty two eighteen two, forty nine to go in 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.280 the first quarter, and that was furkon Quorkmas only shot 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.520 of the first quarter, nailing that one twenty two eighteen 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.080 sixers right now trailing the Chicago Bulls at the end 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.400 of one twenty four twenty one. As we head to 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.720 the second quarter, a little boost from the bench, kylo 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.120 Quinn giving the Sixers some much needed energy. Held Nato 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.320 at the top of the arc, down the lane to 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.040 the right hand, off the dribble. No good to the runner, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.880 Kylo O'Quinn. The putback off at last, and he's got it. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.920 Kyle O'Quinn. This is what a veteran does. He stays 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.800 preparative twenty seven twenty three. At that point, kylo Quinn 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.680 off the bench, contributing six points five rebounds in his 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.480 fifteen minutes and forty seconds of action. Ben Simmons, carrying 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.280 over the first quarter, plays to the second, once again 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.000 strong in the pain. Simmons top of the key, working 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.680 on Young inside kiss it right quarter Richardson. Richards puts 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.320 it on the fourth shot clock at seven. He watch 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.960 the Simmons with the Alliott jam Great passed by Josh 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.240 Richardson and Ben Simmons breaking free about double coverage in 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.960 tight to throw it down with two hands, finding those 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.000 little spots. Ben Simmons to get free forty two forty 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:46.000 one Chicago at that point sixers at the half trail 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.120 the Bulls by one forty seven forty six. The third 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.400 quarter six is erupted for thirty five. We'll just let 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.240 Brian Selton for con Korkmas. Let you know what really happened. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.200 Simmons talking to a cutting Hans off faceline. He's quickly 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.480 doubled Tobias Harris to the quorkms right quarter three and 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.840 Furkon Porkmoise flushes home another triple. Corkbos with his third 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.520 triple of the night. He's got nine points Bible front 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.520 court to the right side, who goes big post rights 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.560 to sevens. One hand passed to Quorkmles left side. Quarkbas 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.600 put him anywhere and he's gonna knock it down to 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.400 the outside. Fur con Quorkmoise with his fifth three pointer, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:26.000 seventy six ers by eleven, seventy four sixty three. Gosh 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:27.920 Richardson is in along with James and it's the third 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:33.679 Quorkms rise up left side contested, still good furkon Corkmis 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:38.240 came due no wrong his six three seventy seven sixty 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.879 three fourteen points in the quarter for fur Con cork 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.680 Mose perfect from the field and from the free throw line, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.680 contributing two free throws as well in that five minutes 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:51.960 and twenty four seconds and run. Think about that five 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.040 minutes and twenty four knocking down fourteen points. A great 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.960 quarter for fur Con Quorkmise. Not to be left out, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.160 Al Horford really get it things is Brian Selton pointed 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.359 out four or five from the field, one three pointer 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.119 for nine points in seven minutes and fifty two seconds 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.560 and sixers up at after three eighty one seventy one 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.000 thirty five points of course in that quarter to the 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.160 twenty four four the Chicago Bulls. In the fourth quarter, 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.240 Ben Simmons not to be outdone yet again they couldn't 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.480 stop him going to the room. Horford settles it down, 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.119 toss his left post of inside Simmons. Simmons goes to 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.680 work on Hutchinson driving to us right. Ben Simmons the 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.159 gentle touch for two ninety one is seventy nine seventy 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.000 six ers back up by a dozen, and for good measure, 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.960 that was ninety one seventy nine at that point for 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:39.879 Ben Simmons, and for good measure not from behind the 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.840 three point line fur Con cork Mose, showing that he 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.760 can do more than just shoot from the perimeter. Simmons 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.320 backs it after the right side line up top to 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.680 cork Moos, swings at left side line of Horford, back 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.080 up top to cork Mose, shot clock at five, Fork 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:58.720 drives givin two handed jam ferk on past Felicio flushes 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.320 at home and that keeps US sixers bench up and 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:05.040 the fans as well strong. Flush to the rack for 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.679 Furkin cork Mos again the star of the night, ninety 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.040 three eighty one at that point, six to score seven 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:16.360 more points to end the game to win by eleven 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.639 one hundred eighty nine, picking up yet again their twenty 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.680 seventh win of the season, their twentieth at home at 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:27.199 the Center. Very comfortable there, and they showed again tonight 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.880 against a team that they should have taken care of, 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.200 and they did as they broke away in the third quarter. 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.040 Having their troubles from time to time in the third 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:39.280 quarter themselves. They certainly found a way in the third 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.359 frame this evening at home to put up thirty five 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.080 and really spread things out for the seventy six is 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.640 only nineteen points in the fourth quarter, but they only 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.800 gave up eighteen, so they won the quarter. They took 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.160 care of business in the third in the second half 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:56.200 to simply outscoring the Chicago Bulls in a big way, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.240 coming away with the victory tonight, and in the second 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.640 half overall fifty four to forty two, the seventy six 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.920 Ers eighteen points four for a concorkms in the second 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:10.480 half Tonight. Sixers back on the road tomorrow, back to 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.720 back fashion, they head to New York Madison Square Garden 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.360 to take on the New York Knicks. Should be an 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.840 entertaining game. We'll see how things go tomorrow. Matis stay 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.639 will playing very well with the starting unit picking up 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:27.440 two wins at home Brooklyn on Wednesday Chicago tonight, and 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.720 we'll see if the seventy Sixers can keep their winning 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.160 ways tomorrow. Getting to the free throw line this evening 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:37.680