Speaker 1: Sarah's knock off to La Clippers one twelve ninety eight,
Speaker 1: big finish down the stretch. Brian Seltzer with you from
Speaker 1: six ers dot com. Let's join in progress. Brett Brown,
Speaker 1: when I go back the fact that he was able
Speaker 1: to come back up sixteen guys scoring game, I think
Speaker 1: that we played good defense in the second half. For
Speaker 1: the most part, I thought the game was well played defensively.
Speaker 1: I think it's a tale of two uh different stories offensively,
Speaker 1: you know, the first half offense versus a second half offense.
Speaker 1: You know, we both played the night before. I thought
Speaker 1: it got a little bit slow. I thought it got
Speaker 1: sort of static in the second half. But to your point,
Speaker 1: you know, we had twenty seven points in one turnover
Speaker 1: in the fourth period. That that's excellent for us. And
Speaker 1: I give a d fends a lot of credit. And
Speaker 1: that stretch that you're referring to him tonight, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He uh, you know, every every game, as you know,
Speaker 1: we have a bell ringer, and uh he he rung
Speaker 1: the bell tonight. You know, you look at his what
Speaker 1: seventeen points, eight assists and not one turnover. You know,
Speaker 1: he was he was effective, as was our bench we
Speaker 1: we all have to give up bench some love tonight.
Speaker 1: I thought that that they really contributed and um t
Speaker 1: J was sort of the uh, the leader of that group.
Speaker 1: How much of a difference is it me for you
Speaker 1: to have justin back where you have a guy's got
Speaker 1: some size and athleticis Yeah, allows you to roll out
Speaker 1: some different lays. Yeah. The physicality side of what you're saying,
Speaker 1: and there is like a toughness side, and you know
Speaker 1: it sure helps when he can make a three and
Speaker 1: you know, run his lane. Uh, and he he's got
Speaker 1: to bounce, you know when you project out if if
Speaker 1: we were fortunate enough to be in the playoffs, that
Speaker 1: type of body, that type of physicality interests me a lot.
Speaker 1: You can you speak to what Vin Simmons does for
Speaker 1: your offense when he's getting stolled the defensive end and
Speaker 1: he's a teching in transition and push to pie as
Speaker 1: he said to especially in the UM. I think the
Speaker 1: thing that most surprises me about Ben is that he
Speaker 1: doesn't really overtly seem to fatigue like he plays. I
Speaker 1: played him what tonight I gave him, you know, thirty
Speaker 1: five and a half minutes. He's always up thirty four ish,
Speaker 1: and he just plays sort of within himself and chooses
Speaker 1: his uh moments to have bursts of speed. Offensively, he
Speaker 1: can almost bait somebody into throw in a pass when
Speaker 1: he knows he's going to be able to go pick
Speaker 1: it out of the air. He just is, you know,
Speaker 1: like the the the driver of our offense, the leader,
Speaker 1: especially of our fast break, and I think he just
Speaker 1: continues to get better. Seventy Sixers winning head coach Brett
Speaker 1: Brown following tonight's victory one twelve ninety eight. This was
Speaker 1: the sixers third straight win there now twenty eight and
Speaker 1: twenty five on the season, and they sweep the two
Speaker 1: game season set versus the La Clippers, a team that
Speaker 1: is playing very well at a critical time of the
Speaker 1: year and responded at a critical time in tonight's game. Sixers.
Speaker 1: They seem to have this one well in control, especially
Speaker 1: at the break. Clippers began to make some inroads in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, but then all of a sudden, there
Speaker 1: was that middle stretch of the fourth where the Sixers
Speaker 1: had to give it a go without Joel Ebid for
Speaker 1: a bit. After he went down and into the locker
Speaker 1: room to be examined. The Clippers charged back to within
Speaker 1: two points after being down by as many as sixteen,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, oh, where's this one gonna go? Well.
Speaker 1: TEJ McConnell hit a bucket, big night for him. There
Speaker 1: was a time out on the court, and the Sixers
Speaker 1: once again why they're such a good aftertime out team.
Speaker 1: They ripped off consecutive scoring possessions after that, the building
Speaker 1: blocks for a huge finish to night. And this is
Speaker 1: a team that we've talked about all year trying to
Speaker 1: figure out and had a better and more effectively and
Speaker 1: more consistently hang on to big leads and close out games.
Speaker 1: Well tonight, they ended the game on a seventeen to
Speaker 1: five run and that's a big reason why they were
Speaker 1: one twelve ninety eight winners over the LA Clippers. Joel
Speaker 1: embiid fantastic battling out there on the second night of
Speaker 1: his second ever back to back, twenty nine points, sixteen rebounds.
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell, as Brett Brown said, the bell ringer tonight
Speaker 1: their postgame locker room tradition. The man with seventeen points
Speaker 1: eight dimes, spirited effort throughout the game. JJ Reddick shut
Speaker 1: the door with a Big Three as a part of
Speaker 1: that run, seventeen points for him, five of ten from
Speaker 1: outside the arc, and Ben Simmons with his twenty first
Speaker 1: double double with fourteen points and ten assists. We'll get
Speaker 1: into this one a little bit more with t mac
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis. He's waiting, he's standing by, ready to go,
Speaker 1: as we continue our postgame coverage here on the Sixers
Speaker 1: Rating Network's The Philadelphia has seventy Sixers postgame Show. I
Speaker 1: can look about about Broachtree Stars. He's gonna turn him.
Speaker 1: Get it off, Maddie Roll the Sixers postgame Show right
Speaker 1: now on ninety seven five. The Finetic has been trying
Speaker 1: to close out games all season long, and on top
Speaker 1: of that going to the All Star break with momentum.
Speaker 1: A very nice win tonight one, twelve ninety eight over
Speaker 1: the La Clippers. Brian Selta with you from Sixers dot Com.
Speaker 1: We bring in Tom McGinnis five ninety three. Mister McGinnis,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, where is this gonna turn? And there was
Speaker 1: no Joellen beat at that point. Kind of anxious moments
Speaker 1: down here at the center. McConnell got the jumper, stopping
Speaker 1: the action and then bam, the Sixers right out of
Speaker 1: the time out build that seventeen to five run to
Speaker 1: close this game. It was great to see. You're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: and you know, honestly the way you put it, and
Speaker 1: I think all of us would agree that there are
Speaker 1: times earlier in this season that game maybe does get away,
Speaker 1: and that's right. That's that play that I talked about
Speaker 1: with TJ postgame where he dribbled around, ribbled around and
Speaker 1: ended up getting a jumper on DeAndre Jordan and that
Speaker 1: gave the Sixers a four point lead. Joel did come
Speaker 1: back in the game. I believe he had four free
Speaker 1: throws late. The Sixers again, ten field goals in the fourth,
Speaker 1: nine assists, only one turnover, and again that major drought
Speaker 1: for the Clippers led by the Sixers defense where La
Speaker 1: went oh for nine from the field a five minutes
Speaker 1: span from around seven minutes in the game to two
Speaker 1: minutes in the game, and the Sixers were able to
Speaker 1: rebuild the lead again. It's almost like we've talked about
Speaker 1: in Games Pass where they have to win the game twice.
Speaker 1: Didn't quite get to that because the Clippers never took
Speaker 1: the lead. They led by six early but never recapture
Speaker 1: the lead. And yet the Sixers did have to rally
Speaker 1: from like not behind, but rally again to re establish
Speaker 1: the lead, and they did it and they closed it out.
Speaker 1: And that's a huge sign for a young team where
Speaker 1: they're they're showing these signs from growing from some of
Speaker 1: their past mistakes, not to say it's going to be perfect,
Speaker 1: but to be three games over five hundred, to start
Speaker 1: to establish some home court dominance and headed this All
Speaker 1: Star break with two big games, the Knicks game Monday
Speaker 1: and the Miami game on Wednesday. Seventy six Ers over
Speaker 1: the Clippers one twelve ninety eight. This is something where
Speaker 1: there are so many reasons to love what Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: is all about. But Brett Brown has referenced this before.
Speaker 1: I think he mentioned after the last night's game to
Speaker 1: win over the Pelicans that embeed. I think he was asked, like,
Speaker 1: you know what allows him be to be questionable then
Speaker 1: come out and have a game like that, And he
Speaker 1: starts off by saying, it's his love for the game,
Speaker 1: and he's got to love something, whether it's the competition,
Speaker 1: the atmosphere. Because he just battled down the stretch, you
Speaker 1: can see it, just to get to the line and
Speaker 1: get some of those insurance free throws. Was big, and
Speaker 1: he finished with twenty nine point sixteen rebounds well. And
Speaker 1: one other player that really depicted that exactly, that fight
Speaker 1: and that spirit that you're talking to out was Lou Williams.
Speaker 1: Took a three right by the Sixers bench and a
Speaker 1: be sprinted out there, and I think he dove into
Speaker 1: the bench. Like they tried to coach him a little
Speaker 1: bit in the off season to literally stay on the court,
Speaker 1: but he knew he was going to be diving into
Speaker 1: his teammates, so he just laid out and like he
Speaker 1: took out like five teammates, Covington and Folds, everybody was
Speaker 1: over there, and there was a time out right after that,
Speaker 1: and he laid on the floor. He was absolutely winded.
Speaker 1: He got up JJ Reddick was seated in his position
Speaker 1: on the bench. He said, JJ, like scoot over. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was totally gassed at that point. That literally is
Speaker 1: laying it on theline. So he does. He plays so
Speaker 1: hard and you know, I'm sure his ankle was less
Speaker 1: than one hundred percent. I watched him warm up a
Speaker 1: little bit. You could tell he was testing it. He
Speaker 1: jogged down by us in our positions. We got ready
Speaker 1: prior to the game to do one of our telever
Speaker 1: you know, JumboTron hits or whatever in arena, and man
Speaker 1: gets after it. Any delivers didn't have a great shooting night,
Speaker 1: and again, as Brett Brown said, I think there were
Speaker 1: times where there was a lull on offense. Both these
Speaker 1: teams were fatigued. But in Bead plays awful hard. That's
Speaker 1: for sure. He's gonna rest up tomorrow and hopefully be
Speaker 1: ready to go against the Nixon. One other point, Brian,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Pelicans game last night, held the eighty
Speaker 1: two points here against the Sixers. They had a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty eight tonight in Brooklyn in a ten point
Speaker 1: when I mean think about that. That really puts a
Speaker 1: better little stamp, if you will, on the Sixers defensive effort,
Speaker 1: which was pretty good to begin with. They only shot
Speaker 1: thirty four percent eighty two points. But tonight one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty eight at Brooklyn one twelve ninety eight, seventy
Speaker 1: sixers down the La Clippers wanting to close it out
Speaker 1: on one. T J McConnell developing right before our very eyes,
Speaker 1: as a man would like to say, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: like It's almost at a point now where you wonder
Speaker 1: our team is gonna kind of have to honor when
Speaker 1: he's open on the perimeter. He was terrific at three
Speaker 1: for three from outside the arc. He's over now fifty
Speaker 1: percent from three on the season, eight assists and not
Speaker 1: a single turnover, scoring seventeen points. Oh, he's the heart
Speaker 1: and soul. He is the guts of the basketball team.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves him. He competes so hard. He's you know,
Speaker 1: he's a backup floor general when Ben's not in there,
Speaker 1: and he does a tremendous job. That corner three is
Speaker 1: the closest three. But it's also I think when you
Speaker 1: swing the basketball and you get a couple of brisk
Speaker 1: passes over there, it's the one that gets open maybe
Speaker 1: the most. And that's where he hit two in the
Speaker 1: first half, right in front of the Sixers bench and
Speaker 1: at the other end in the right corner, wide open.
Speaker 1: And he liked Dario and Brett Brown gave us that
Speaker 1: tutorial about loading and being a stepper, and that is,
Speaker 1: you know, bending your body, getting into a little bit
Speaker 1: more of an athletic crouch on the catch on a
Speaker 1: long distance shot like that, and then stepping into it
Speaker 1: toward the line, and it's helped Dario with his arc
Speaker 1: and I think TJ was afflicted with the same thing,
Speaker 1: a bit of a line drive approach. But he's gotten
Speaker 1: more arc, moore airtime on his shots, He's become more consistent,
Speaker 1: and to have a to be a handle the ball
Speaker 1: as much as he does and then not have a
Speaker 1: turnover is so efficient and without question, seventeen points. He
Speaker 1: helped the Sixers seal the deal here in a great
Speaker 1: number of ways. And as Brett Brown said, the ringing
Speaker 1: the bell that you know, that's the coaches, whomever selects that,
Speaker 1: but that for everybody in there is that's like the
Speaker 1: MVP of the game. And certainly and B could win
Speaker 1: that almost every single night. But TJ was incredible. He's
Speaker 1: become a fan favorite because you talk about playing out
Speaker 1: and playing your heart out, that that's the definition of
Speaker 1: what he does. And he's just been a great young player.
Speaker 1: You think about he's survived with in here into the Sixers,
Speaker 1: not being drafted, all those things, not being counted out
Speaker 1: to twenty some odd point guards that he's probably survived
Speaker 1: past if you will, that have come through on the
Speaker 1: roster he's just a delight and a scrap. He's he
Speaker 1: He might be from Pittsburgh, but he's all Philly. He's
Speaker 1: Philly tough here with the Sixers. Well put last thing,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna need a ruling from a stage veteran
Speaker 1: like yourself on this one. Now, in the aftermath of
Speaker 1: this game, you might read see here that the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers home winning streak is seven games. Well, I wish
Speaker 1: it was nine, because I said nine. Now listen, listen,
Speaker 1: it's all a matter of perspective because the home home
Speaker 1: lass technical home game played on foreign soil in London,
Speaker 1: because they have in fact not lost here at the
Speaker 1: Center for now nine straight games dating back to the
Speaker 1: last last year was December twelve, you know, for that
Speaker 1: game in England at the O two Arena. Somebody had
Speaker 1: to be the home team and the Sixers did give
Speaker 1: up a home game. But I think obviously we put
Speaker 1: a lot of stock in playing here at home. Sell
Speaker 1: out across twenty thousand plus. The team has done a
Speaker 1: great job. The front office has done a tremendous job.
Speaker 1: It is truly a home court advantage and it's been exciting,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And again, as I've set up
Speaker 1: for years, the part of the formula to make the
Speaker 1: playoffs is to be at or above five hundred on
Speaker 1: the road, win twenty twenty one road games, and then
Speaker 1: you have to win more than that at home, and
Speaker 1: the Sixers are doing that right now and again to
Speaker 1: have this the schedule is a little quirky. They've done
Speaker 1: a great job opening it up, but two five game
Speaker 1: homestands in a season, some of the other things being
Speaker 1: done with a Western conference before the first part of
Speaker 1: the calendar year, and so you got to take advantage.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. But if it's if it's
Speaker 1: opening it up and lightening up in terms of the
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty with the opponents, then you've got to
Speaker 1: take advantage. And the Sixers have done a tremendous job
Speaker 1: at eight even though it was no travel, but it's
Speaker 1: still a back to back and these guys, you know,
Speaker 1: battled through that and were able to persevere and just
Speaker 1: continue to fight. You Know, they had some turnovers, they
Speaker 1: missed some jams, and this game could have been potentially,
Speaker 1: you know, put away earlier, but they came back and
Speaker 1: like we said from the onset here during our postgame
Speaker 1: coverage one turnover in the establishing, re establishing a lead,
Speaker 1: and coming away with a double digit victory, sweeping the
Speaker 1: Clippers for the first time in eight years, gaining whether
Speaker 1: it's their seventh or their ninth home win, All in all,
Speaker 1: very good job, well deserved day off tomorrow and a
Speaker 1: big matchup with the Nicks on Monday. Here at the Center,
Speaker 1: t MAC talked to you at that point in time.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bryank. Good night. Seventy Sixers over the La
Speaker 1: Clippers one twelve ninety eight. If you missed them, if
Speaker 1: you caught some. Looking to hear some more, we'll get
Speaker 1: to Tom McGinnis's highlight calls coming up on the other side.
Speaker 1: Our final segment of the postgame show is next here
Speaker 1: on the Sixers Rating Network, Seventy Sixers and the Clippers
Speaker 1: for the second and final time this season. Sixers going
Speaker 1: for a two game season series sweep and also trying
Speaker 1: to pick up win a number three in a row.
Speaker 1: Strong starts have been the Sixers thing as of late.
Speaker 1: They actually fell behind sixteen to ten, but then Dario
Speaker 1: Scharch helped put them back in front. Dario fakes at
Speaker 1: three long two top of the key and that's good
Speaker 1: as Dario charge with eight straight points for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Nice little flurry from Dario's charge, and then to close
Speaker 1: off the first quarter, a highly energizing play by the
Speaker 1: big man. Booker has the ball in the little main
Speaker 1: on Decker puts it up. No good, but a slap
Speaker 1: hit beat follows. What look dup one second to go.
Speaker 1: Joel crashes in there and now Montrez harrold no good
Speaker 1: at the end of the first and want a play
Speaker 1: by a bead a major exclamation point on the end
Speaker 1: of the first twelve minutes of play, and at that
Speaker 1: juncture the Sixers were up thirty seven to twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Should be noted Joel and bad for the second time
Speaker 1: in as many weekends and the second time in his
Speaker 1: career playing a back to back. In the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: Clippers stayed nippin on the Sixers heels. They got it
Speaker 1: down to a four point game, but the Sixers answered
Speaker 1: with a nice run of ten to two. The Clippers
Speaker 1: got backed within four once again by scoring nine straights
Speaker 1: and Justin Anderson's settle things down. Justin Anderson with a
Speaker 1: rebound ahead to Ben Simmons on DeAndre Jordan peels back
Speaker 1: out with the dribble back out top the Anders and
Speaker 1: he drives it underhand, right hand. Scoop is good. He
Speaker 1: shifts into his off hand and scores it. At halftime,
Speaker 1: the Sixers were in front comfortably ninety nine to fifty five,
Speaker 1: the third highest first half scoring total for the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers this season. Ben Simmons doing some work early in
Speaker 1: the third. Here's Ben deflecting a Harris off. He bats
Speaker 1: it ahead. Ben Simmons in the lane on Austin rivers
Speaker 1: up and good and a foul. The length an athleticism
Speaker 1: of Simmons is off the charts. It's like pick any
Speaker 1: flavor you like. Anticipation, hops, length, explosiveness, speed, power, finishing,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. Simmons putting it on display right there.
Speaker 1: Sixers in front, eighty five to seventy eight. Going in
Speaker 1: to the fourth now and Bead scored the Sixers first
Speaker 1: basket of the fourth, and then not too long after
Speaker 1: he made it ninety three eighty seven, which was around
Speaker 1: the seven and a half minute mark, suffered a tough
Speaker 1: fall on the court and he had to go into
Speaker 1: the locker room. He was examined, and during that stretch
Speaker 1: was when the Clippers made further inroads. They actually got
Speaker 1: the margin down to two. At ninety five ninety three.
Speaker 1: T J McConnell hit a jump shot. There was a
Speaker 1: time out taken on the floor. Joe ellen Bead came
Speaker 1: back and then the Sixers were able to rev up
Speaker 1: the defense a bit. Simmons dive steals the ball, throws
Speaker 1: it ahead to Comington and the Sixers are gonna get
Speaker 1: a jab. Robert Covington points ahead. Want to play by
Speaker 1: Simmons laying out and stealing the ball, So the Sixers
Speaker 1: got a big play right there. They got another stop
Speaker 1: after a Lou Williams miss and JJ Reddick came down
Speaker 1: and banged down a three pointer. Dario charch a big
Speaker 1: block on Danilo Gallinari with just under three minutes to
Speaker 1: play and JJ Reddick turning two his shooting stroke to
Speaker 1: beat to Reddick JJ for three from out top. That's
Speaker 1: good ball game. Reddick sings his old with it three
Speaker 1: that he is fired up. Sixers one away the Clippers
Speaker 1: ninety six with twenty five seconds ago. It would end
Speaker 1: one twelve ninety eight final notes in the final stat sheet.
Speaker 1: Six or shoot just under forty eight percent from the field,
Speaker 1: thirteen of thirty three from outside the arc. The Clippers
Speaker 1: were forty three percent overall but eight of thirty two
Speaker 1: from the perimeter. Sixers were outdone on the glass minus
Speaker 1: eight fifty three to forty five, but it felt like
Speaker 1: they were able to get the key rebounds they needed
Speaker 1: in the guts of the game final minutes of play
Speaker 1: to make sure that things would stay in their control. Turnovers,
Speaker 1: for the most part, continue to trend well for the
Speaker 1: Sixers only twelve tonight. They four seventeen individual notes will
Speaker 1: start with the Clippers. Lou Williams with twenty three points
Speaker 1: That was a Clippers high nine to twenty one, though
Speaker 1: from the field four of ten from the perimeter. He
Speaker 1: did have six assists, but seven turnovers for Lou Williams tonight,
Speaker 1: twenty two for Daniel o' gallinari and DeAndre Jordan with
Speaker 1: ten points and twenty one boards for the Sixers. Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid he battled through after coming back on the floor
Speaker 1: for the final minutes of play, got to the line
Speaker 1: where he was ten of thirteen that was big tonight,
Speaker 1: battled with Jordan and Montrez Harrell underneath. He finished with
Speaker 1: sixteen rebounds. Did mb to go with twenty nine points.
Speaker 1: This was the fourth straight twenty ten game f HMBID,
Speaker 1: and that's the longest streak of its kind for a
Speaker 1: six or since EMBID got its back earlier this year
Speaker 1: in November. But before that, there hadn't been a streak
Speaker 1: that long since Clarence Weatherspoon had five straight twenty ten
Speaker 1: games back in nineteen ninety five. Fourteen points, ten dimes
Speaker 1: and five boards from Ben Simmons, seventeen points for TJ McConnell.
Speaker 1: Excellent tonight, six to seven from the field, eight rebounds.
Speaker 1: You gotta highlight Justin Anderson with a dozen points, five
Speaker 1: of seven from the field, four boards, seventeen team for Reddick.
Speaker 1: I actually can't remember if I already said that. Dario
Speaker 1: Charch nearly a double double with ten points, nine rebounds
Speaker 1: and five assists. Good one for the seventy sixers tonight
Speaker 1: as they win the third straight. Are now three and
Speaker 1: oh on the homestand twenty eight and twenty five on
Speaker 1: the season. LA Clippers are twenty eight and twenty six.
Speaker 1: Can we do this? Can we start to do some
Speaker 1: scoreboard watching as we get to the All Star break
Speaker 1: and take a look at some of the teams surrounding
Speaker 1: these seventy Sixers, the Miami Heat right above them not
Speaker 1: in action tonight, so the Sixers will move into a
Speaker 1: tie for seventh place. Washington which is in front of
Speaker 1: the Sixers by two games, leading at Chicago this evening
Speaker 1: by sixteen with seven and a half to go in
Speaker 1: that game, and the Milwaukee Bucks a win at Orlando tonight,
Speaker 1: so that maintains two games worth of distance between fourth
Speaker 1: place Milwaukee and now tied for seventh seventy Sixers. All right,
Speaker 1: New York Knicks are up next. They have lost five
Speaker 1: in a row. They have lost their all star big man,
Speaker 1: Chris DAPs Porzingis. That game is gonna be on Monday
Speaker 1: nights at seven o'clock. Pregame coverage underwear some of our
Speaker 1: six Ers Rating network affiliates beginning at six fifty. Big
Speaker 1: thanks everyone involved. Tonight's production Back at the studio, Tyler
Speaker 1: Zuli and Alan Yates here on site demand. Marty Dickerson
Speaker 1: now for the radio voice the seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis,
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer saying so long for now one final time.
Speaker 1: The final score was the seventy six Ers one twelve
Speaker 1: and the La Clippers ninety eight have a great rest
Speaker 1: here Saturday night, from all of us here at the
Speaker 1: Sixers Rating Network