WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 02/10/2018 - Rewind vs. Clippers 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.120 Sarah's knock off to La Clippers one twelve ninety eight, 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:05.880 big finish down the stretch. Brian Seltzer with you from 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.799 six ers dot com. Let's join in progress. Brett Brown, 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:13.800 when I go back the fact that he was able 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:29.280 to come back up sixteen guys scoring game, I think 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.720 that we played good defense in the second half. For 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.000 the most part, I thought the game was well played defensively. 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:39.080 I think it's a tale of two uh different stories offensively, 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.239 you know, the first half offense versus a second half offense. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.920 You know, we both played the night before. I thought 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.839 it got a little bit slow. I thought it got 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.080 sort of static in the second half. But to your point, 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.880 you know, we had twenty seven points in one turnover 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.920 in the fourth period. That that's excellent for us. And 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.480 I give a d fends a lot of credit. And 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:06.360 that stretch that you're referring to him tonight, I don't know. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.039 He uh, you know, every every game, as you know, 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.720 we have a bell ringer, and uh he he rung 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.440 the bell tonight. You know, you look at his what 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.720 seventeen points, eight assists and not one turnover. You know, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.720 he was he was effective, as was our bench we 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.000 we all have to give up bench some love tonight. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.760 I thought that that they really contributed and um t 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.480 J was sort of the uh, the leader of that group. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.520 How much of a difference is it me for you 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.319 to have justin back where you have a guy's got 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.600 some size and athleticis Yeah, allows you to roll out 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:46.280 some different lays. Yeah. The physicality side of what you're saying, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.160 and there is like a toughness side, and you know 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.560 it sure helps when he can make a three and 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.520 you know, run his lane. Uh, and he he's got 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:59.120 to bounce, you know when you project out if if 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.480 we were fortunate enough to be in the playoffs, that 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.880 type of body, that type of physicality interests me a lot. 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:09.600 You can you speak to what Vin Simmons does for 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.679 your offense when he's getting stolled the defensive end and 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.160 he's a teching in transition and push to pie as 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.240 he said to especially in the UM. I think the 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:23.359 thing that most surprises me about Ben is that he 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:29.600 doesn't really overtly seem to fatigue like he plays. I 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.880 played him what tonight I gave him, you know, thirty 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.760 five and a half minutes. He's always up thirty four ish, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:41.320 and he just plays sort of within himself and chooses 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:46.680 his uh moments to have bursts of speed. Offensively, he 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.239 can almost bait somebody into throw in a pass when 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:51.880 he knows he's going to be able to go pick 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.200 it out of the air. He just is, you know, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.520 like the the the driver of our offense, the leader, 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.080 especially of our fast break, and I think he just 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:06.640 continues to get better. Seventy Sixers winning head coach Brett 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.480 Brown following tonight's victory one twelve ninety eight. This was 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.960 the sixers third straight win there now twenty eight and 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.919 twenty five on the season, and they sweep the two 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.560 game season set versus the La Clippers, a team that 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.560 is playing very well at a critical time of the 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.400 year and responded at a critical time in tonight's game. Sixers. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.400 They seem to have this one well in control, especially 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.239 at the break. Clippers began to make some inroads in 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.960 the third quarter, but then all of a sudden, there 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.600 was that middle stretch of the fourth where the Sixers 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.240 had to give it a go without Joel Ebid for 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.400 a bit. After he went down and into the locker 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.560 room to be examined. The Clippers charged back to within 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:52.000 two points after being down by as many as sixteen, 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.000 and you're like, oh, oh, where's this one gonna go? Well. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.040 TEJ McConnell hit a bucket, big night for him. There 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.880 was a time out on the court, and the Sixers 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.920 once again why they're such a good aftertime out team. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.320 They ripped off consecutive scoring possessions after that, the building 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.640 blocks for a huge finish to night. And this is 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.680 a team that we've talked about all year trying to 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.360 figure out and had a better and more effectively and 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.839 more consistently hang on to big leads and close out games. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.640 Well tonight, they ended the game on a seventeen to 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.920 five run and that's a big reason why they were 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.120 one twelve ninety eight winners over the LA Clippers. Joel 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.960 embiid fantastic battling out there on the second night of 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.520 his second ever back to back, twenty nine points, sixteen rebounds. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.000 TJ McConnell, as Brett Brown said, the bell ringer tonight 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.760 their postgame locker room tradition. The man with seventeen points 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.239 eight dimes, spirited effort throughout the game. JJ Reddick shut 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.599 the door with a Big Three as a part of 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.200 that run, seventeen points for him, five of ten from 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.920 outside the arc, and Ben Simmons with his twenty first 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.840 double double with fourteen points and ten assists. We'll get 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.920 into this one a little bit more with t mac 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.400 Tom McGinnis. He's waiting, he's standing by, ready to go, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.000 as we continue our postgame coverage here on the Sixers 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:11.080 Rating Network's The Philadelphia has seventy Sixers postgame Show. I 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.920 can look about about Broachtree Stars. He's gonna turn him. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:19.440 Get it off, Maddie Roll the Sixers postgame Show right 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:25.279 now on ninety seven five. The Finetic has been trying 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.159 to close out games all season long, and on top 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.800 of that going to the All Star break with momentum. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.680 A very nice win tonight one, twelve ninety eight over 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.560 the La Clippers. Brian Selta with you from Sixers dot Com. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:42.320 We bring in Tom McGinnis five ninety three. Mister McGinnis, 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.040 you're thinking, where is this gonna turn? And there was 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.680 no Joellen beat at that point. Kind of anxious moments 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.120 down here at the center. McConnell got the jumper, stopping 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.600 the action and then bam, the Sixers right out of 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.400 the time out build that seventeen to five run to 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.200 close this game. It was great to see. You're absolutely right, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.880 and you know, honestly the way you put it, and 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.880 I think all of us would agree that there are 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.520 times earlier in this season that game maybe does get away, 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.920 and that's right. That's that play that I talked about 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.400 with TJ postgame where he dribbled around, ribbled around and 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.640 ended up getting a jumper on DeAndre Jordan and that 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.800 gave the Sixers a four point lead. Joel did come 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.720 back in the game. I believe he had four free 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.039 throws late. The Sixers again, ten field goals in the fourth, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:29.640 nine assists, only one turnover, and again that major drought 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.200 for the Clippers led by the Sixers defense where La 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.480 went oh for nine from the field a five minutes 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.160 span from around seven minutes in the game to two 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.600 minutes in the game, and the Sixers were able to 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.720 rebuild the lead again. It's almost like we've talked about 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.080 in Games Pass where they have to win the game twice. 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.920 Didn't quite get to that because the Clippers never took 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.520 the lead. They led by six early but never recapture 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.520 the lead. And yet the Sixers did have to rally 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.040 from like not behind, but rally again to re establish 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.240 the lead, and they did it and they closed it out. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.560 And that's a huge sign for a young team where 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.919 they're they're showing these signs from growing from some of 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.200 their past mistakes, not to say it's going to be perfect, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.400 but to be three games over five hundred, to start 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.160 to establish some home court dominance and headed this All 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.520 Star break with two big games, the Knicks game Monday 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.800 and the Miami game on Wednesday. Seventy six Ers over 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.520 the Clippers one twelve ninety eight. This is something where 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.200 there are so many reasons to love what Joel Embiid 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.640 is all about. But Brett Brown has referenced this before. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.960 I think he mentioned after the last night's game to 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.560 win over the Pelicans that embeed. I think he was asked, like, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.000 you know what allows him be to be questionable then 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:39.600 come out and have a game like that, And he 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.720 starts off by saying, it's his love for the game, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.880 and he's got to love something, whether it's the competition, 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.120 the atmosphere. Because he just battled down the stretch, you 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.200 can see it, just to get to the line and 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.200 get some of those insurance free throws. Was big, and 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.760 he finished with twenty nine point sixteen rebounds well. And 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.320 one other player that really depicted that exactly, that fight 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.840 and that spirit that you're talking to out was Lou Williams. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.360 Took a three right by the Sixers bench and a 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.520 be sprinted out there, and I think he dove into 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.240 the bench. Like they tried to coach him a little 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.360 bit in the off season to literally stay on the court, 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.520 but he knew he was going to be diving into 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.160 his teammates, so he just laid out and like he 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:21.520 took out like five teammates, Covington and Folds, everybody was 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.480 over there, and there was a time out right after that, 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.080 and he laid on the floor. He was absolutely winded. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.080 He got up JJ Reddick was seated in his position 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.640 on the bench. He said, JJ, like scoot over. I mean, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.040 he was totally gassed at that point. That literally is 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.880 laying it on theline. So he does. He plays so 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.600 hard and you know, I'm sure his ankle was less 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.200 than one hundred percent. I watched him warm up a 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.839 little bit. You could tell he was testing it. He 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.960 jogged down by us in our positions. We got ready 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.360 prior to the game to do one of our telever 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.760 you know, JumboTron hits or whatever in arena, and man 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.600 gets after it. Any delivers didn't have a great shooting night, 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.719 and again, as Brett Brown said, I think there were 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.040 times where there was a lull on offense. Both these 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.720 teams were fatigued. But in Bead plays awful hard. That's 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.320 for sure. He's gonna rest up tomorrow and hopefully be 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.320 ready to go against the Nixon. One other point, Brian, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.400 you mentioned the Pelicans game last night, held the eighty 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.640 two points here against the Sixers. They had a hundred 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.720 and thirty eight tonight in Brooklyn in a ten point 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.160 when I mean think about that. That really puts a 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.440 better little stamp, if you will, on the Sixers defensive effort, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.120 which was pretty good to begin with. They only shot 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.079 thirty four percent eighty two points. But tonight one hundred 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.560 and thirty eight at Brooklyn one twelve ninety eight, seventy 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.920 sixers down the La Clippers wanting to close it out 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:47.880 on one. T J McConnell developing right before our very eyes, 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.760 as a man would like to say, I mean, it's 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.600 like It's almost at a point now where you wonder 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.880 our team is gonna kind of have to honor when 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.079 he's open on the perimeter. He was terrific at three 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.000 for three from outside the arc. He's over now fifty 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.040 percent from three on the season, eight assists and not 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.240 a single turnover, scoring seventeen points. Oh, he's the heart 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.040 and soul. He is the guts of the basketball team. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.600 Everybody loves him. He competes so hard. He's you know, 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.880 he's a backup floor general when Ben's not in there, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.120 and he does a tremendous job. That corner three is 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.080 the closest three. But it's also I think when you 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.120 swing the basketball and you get a couple of brisk 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.319 passes over there, it's the one that gets open maybe 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.120 the most. And that's where he hit two in the 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.840 first half, right in front of the Sixers bench and 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.760 at the other end in the right corner, wide open. 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.319 And he liked Dario and Brett Brown gave us that 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.080 tutorial about loading and being a stepper, and that is, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.560 you know, bending your body, getting into a little bit 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.040 more of an athletic crouch on the catch on a 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.240 long distance shot like that, and then stepping into it 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.040 toward the line, and it's helped Dario with his arc 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.800 and I think TJ was afflicted with the same thing, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.760 a bit of a line drive approach. But he's gotten 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.240 more arc, moore airtime on his shots, He's become more consistent, 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.480 and to have a to be a handle the ball 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.240 as much as he does and then not have a 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:14.360 turnover is so efficient and without question, seventeen points. He 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.120 helped the Sixers seal the deal here in a great 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.839 number of ways. And as Brett Brown said, the ringing 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.080 the bell that you know, that's the coaches, whomever selects that, 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.920 but that for everybody in there is that's like the 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:29.959 MVP of the game. And certainly and B could win 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.800 that almost every single night. But TJ was incredible. He's 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.280 become a fan favorite because you talk about playing out 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.520 and playing your heart out, that that's the definition of 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.720 what he does. And he's just been a great young player. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.520 You think about he's survived with in here into the Sixers, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.840 not being drafted, all those things, not being counted out 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.000 to twenty some odd point guards that he's probably survived 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.440 past if you will, that have come through on the 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.360 roster he's just a delight and a scrap. He's he 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.000 He might be from Pittsburgh, but he's all Philly. He's 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.000 Philly tough here with the Sixers. Well put last thing, 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.840 and I'm gonna need a ruling from a stage veteran 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.240 like yourself on this one. Now, in the aftermath of 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:15.120 this game, you might read see here that the seventy 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:20.000 Sixers home winning streak is seven games. Well, I wish 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.880 it was nine, because I said nine. Now listen, listen, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.040 it's all a matter of perspective because the home home 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:30.400 lass technical home game played on foreign soil in London, 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.120 because they have in fact not lost here at the 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:37.240 Center for now nine straight games dating back to the 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.319 last last year was December twelve, you know, for that 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.120 game in England at the O two Arena. Somebody had 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:44.800 to be the home team and the Sixers did give 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.200 up a home game. But I think obviously we put 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.440 a lot of stock in playing here at home. Sell 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.840 out across twenty thousand plus. The team has done a 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.120 great job. The front office has done a tremendous job. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.560 It is truly a home court advantage and it's been exciting, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.720 no doubt about it. And again, as I've set up 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.080 for years, the part of the formula to make the 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.559 playoffs is to be at or above five hundred on 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.319 the road, win twenty twenty one road games, and then 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.440 you have to win more than that at home, and 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.000 the Sixers are doing that right now and again to 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.280 have this the schedule is a little quirky. They've done 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.000 a great job opening it up, but two five game 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.800 homestands in a season, some of the other things being 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.520 done with a Western conference before the first part of 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.840 the calendar year, and so you got to take advantage. 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.880 It is what it is. But if it's if it's 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.959 opening it up and lightening up in terms of the 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.960 degree of difficulty with the opponents, then you've got to 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.679 take advantage. And the Sixers have done a tremendous job 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.160 at eight even though it was no travel, but it's 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.280 still a back to back and these guys, you know, 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.679 battled through that and were able to persevere and just 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.320 continue to fight. You Know, they had some turnovers, they 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.359 missed some jams, and this game could have been potentially, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.360 you know, put away earlier, but they came back and 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.240 like we said from the onset here during our postgame 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.800 coverage one turnover in the establishing, re establishing a lead, 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.960 and coming away with a double digit victory, sweeping the 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.720 Clippers for the first time in eight years, gaining whether 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.480 it's their seventh or their ninth home win, All in all, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.240 very good job, well deserved day off tomorrow and a 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.920 big matchup with the Nicks on Monday. Here at the Center, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.720 t MAC talked to you at that point in time. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.520 Thank you, Bryank. Good night. Seventy Sixers over the La 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.160 Clippers one twelve ninety eight. If you missed them, if 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.000 you caught some. Looking to hear some more, we'll get 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.720 to Tom McGinnis's highlight calls coming up on the other side. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.520 Our final segment of the postgame show is next here 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.160 on the Sixers Rating Network, Seventy Sixers and the Clippers 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.040 for the second and final time this season. Sixers going 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:44.080 for a two game season series sweep and also trying 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.800 to pick up win a number three in a row. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.920 Strong starts have been the Sixers thing as of late. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.680 They actually fell behind sixteen to ten, but then Dario 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.880 Scharch helped put them back in front. Dario fakes at 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.880 three long two top of the key and that's good 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:04.359 as Dario charge with eight straight points for the Sixers. 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.680 Nice little flurry from Dario's charge, and then to close 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.240 off the first quarter, a highly energizing play by the 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.440 big man. Booker has the ball in the little main 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.360 on Decker puts it up. No good, but a slap 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.640 hit beat follows. What look dup one second to go. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.360 Joel crashes in there and now Montrez harrold no good 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.240 at the end of the first and want a play 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.880 by a bead a major exclamation point on the end 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.640 of the first twelve minutes of play, and at that 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.560 juncture the Sixers were up thirty seven to twenty eight. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.520 Should be noted Joel and bad for the second time 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.440 in as many weekends and the second time in his 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.960 career playing a back to back. In the fourth quarter, 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.800 Clippers stayed nippin on the Sixers heels. They got it 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.960 down to a four point game, but the Sixers answered 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.560 with a nice run of ten to two. The Clippers 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.640 got backed within four once again by scoring nine straights 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.840 and Justin Anderson's settle things down. Justin Anderson with a 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.440 rebound ahead to Ben Simmons on DeAndre Jordan peels back 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.400 out with the dribble back out top the Anders and 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.760 he drives it underhand, right hand. Scoop is good. He 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.440 shifts into his off hand and scores it. At halftime, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.920 the Sixers were in front comfortably ninety nine to fifty five, 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.280 the third highest first half scoring total for the seventy 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:23.120 Sixers this season. Ben Simmons doing some work early in 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.360 the third. Here's Ben deflecting a Harris off. He bats 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.080 it ahead. Ben Simmons in the lane on Austin rivers 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:33.280 up and good and a foul. The length an athleticism 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:37.520 of Simmons is off the charts. It's like pick any 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:45.040 flavor you like. Anticipation, hops, length, explosiveness, speed, power, finishing, 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.920 all that good stuff. Simmons putting it on display right there. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:53.000 Sixers in front, eighty five to seventy eight. Going in 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.640 to the fourth now and Bead scored the Sixers first 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.040 basket of the fourth, and then not too long after 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.240 he made it ninety three eighty seven, which was around 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.080 the seven and a half minute mark, suffered a tough 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.280 fall on the court and he had to go into 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.879 the locker room. He was examined, and during that stretch 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.080 was when the Clippers made further inroads. They actually got 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.080 the margin down to two. At ninety five ninety three. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.560 T J McConnell hit a jump shot. There was a 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.200 time out taken on the floor. Joe ellen Bead came 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.320 back and then the Sixers were able to rev up 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.240 the defense a bit. Simmons dive steals the ball, throws 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.600 it ahead to Comington and the Sixers are gonna get 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.640 a jab. Robert Covington points ahead. Want to play by 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:38.480 Simmons laying out and stealing the ball, So the Sixers 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.800 got a big play right there. They got another stop 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:44.200 after a Lou Williams miss and JJ Reddick came down 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.160 and banged down a three pointer. Dario charch a big 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.920 block on Danilo Gallinari with just under three minutes to 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:54.040 play and JJ Reddick turning two his shooting stroke to 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.760 beat to Reddick JJ for three from out top. That's 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:01.320 good ball game. Reddick sings his old with it three 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.400 that he is fired up. Sixers one away the Clippers 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.000 ninety six with twenty five seconds ago. It would end 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.000 one twelve ninety eight final notes in the final stat sheet. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.879 Six or shoot just under forty eight percent from the field, 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.040 thirteen of thirty three from outside the arc. The Clippers 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.879 were forty three percent overall but eight of thirty two 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:26.160 from the perimeter. Sixers were outdone on the glass minus 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.479 eight fifty three to forty five, but it felt like 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.640 they were able to get the key rebounds they needed 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:35.000 in the guts of the game final minutes of play 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:39.159 to make sure that things would stay in their control. Turnovers, 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.919 for the most part, continue to trend well for the 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:46.520 Sixers only twelve tonight. They four seventeen individual notes will 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.639 start with the Clippers. Lou Williams with twenty three points 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.920 That was a Clippers high nine to twenty one, though 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.560 from the field four of ten from the perimeter. He 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:59.480 did have six assists, but seven turnovers for Lou Williams tonight, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.960 twenty two for Daniel o' gallinari and DeAndre Jordan with 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.639 ten points and twenty one boards for the Sixers. Joel 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.560 Embiid he battled through after coming back on the floor 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.040 for the final minutes of play, got to the line 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.359 where he was ten of thirteen that was big tonight, 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:20.960 battled with Jordan and Montrez Harrell underneath. He finished with 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.159 sixteen rebounds. Did mb to go with twenty nine points. 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.280 This was the fourth straight twenty ten game f HMBID, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.199 and that's the longest streak of its kind for a 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:35.439 six or since EMBID got its back earlier this year 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.240 in November. But before that, there hadn't been a streak 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.800 that long since Clarence Weatherspoon had five straight twenty ten 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:47.240 games back in nineteen ninety five. Fourteen points, ten dimes 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.520 and five boards from Ben Simmons, seventeen points for TJ McConnell. 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.320 Excellent tonight, six to seven from the field, eight rebounds. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.240 You gotta highlight Justin Anderson with a dozen points, five 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:00.720 of seven from the field, four boards, seventeen team for Reddick. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:02.639 I actually can't remember if I already said that. Dario 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.960 Charch nearly a double double with ten points, nine rebounds 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.200 and five assists. Good one for the seventy sixers tonight 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.680 as they win the third straight. Are now three and 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.879 oh on the homestand twenty eight and twenty five on 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.320 the season. LA Clippers are twenty eight and twenty six. 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:20.840 Can we do this? Can we start to do some 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.080 scoreboard watching as we get to the All Star break 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.320 and take a look at some of the teams surrounding 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.960 these seventy Sixers, the Miami Heat right above them not 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:32.080 in action tonight, so the Sixers will move into a 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:36.119 tie for seventh place. Washington which is in front of 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.399 the Sixers by two games, leading at Chicago this evening 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.920 by sixteen with seven and a half to go in 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.960 that game, and the Milwaukee Bucks a win at Orlando tonight, 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.639 so that maintains two games worth of distance between fourth 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.320 place Milwaukee and now tied for seventh seventy Sixers. All right, 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.200 New York Knicks are up next. They have lost five 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.320 in a row. They have lost their all star big man, 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:03.080 Chris DAPs Porzingis. That game is gonna be on Monday 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.840 nights at seven o'clock. Pregame coverage underwear some of our 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.240 six Ers Rating network affiliates beginning at six fifty. Big 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.480 thanks everyone involved. Tonight's production Back at the studio, Tyler 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.480 Zuli and Alan Yates here on site demand. Marty Dickerson 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:18.960 now for the radio voice the seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis, 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.640 Brian Seltzer saying so long for now one final time. 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.040