WEBVTT - Rewind | Takeaways vs. Toronto 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.640 This podcast is part of the seventy Sixers podcast network 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.960 search seventy Sixers podcast wherever you get your pots, you're 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.639 listening to rewind. I'll listen back on press conferences, highlights 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.360 and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. In a 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.000 game that had the feel of a preseason matchup down 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.000 the stretch in the fourth quarter of the seventy Sixers 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.880 come up just short to the Toronto Raptors one twenty 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.599 five to one twenty one. I'm Brian Seltzer. Let's go 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:28.280 to the zoom line and here from the head coach, 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:32.960 Brett Brown, let's first, Toronto is the best defensive team 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:38.720 in the bubble statistically. I think that they're very aggressive. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.400 I think that they really get into you and force 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:46.120 you into precious situations as well as any team certainly 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.360 here and I thought that we responded well, not getting 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.760 stood up, not getting bent over. We really tried to 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.840 meet so to fire with fire and played downhill as 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.360 best we could. I thought those two did a great 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.440 job of doing that. It is inevitable that when you 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.360 get into the playoffs it's a similar type of of 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:11.440 of pressure, that type of sort of harassing team defense 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.640 that Toronto is I think exceptional at I expect us 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.520 to see that against it seems like we're going to 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.840 play Boston. I think Boston does a really good job 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.080 of that as well, and so I think just to 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.840 carry over, you know, is important on what you can 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:31.800 take from tonight and bring him forward. We'll go to 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.280 Noah Levic. Hey, Brett, we've talked a lot this year 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.959 about Furkhan's defense and that being an important factor with 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:45.080 him heading into a series against Boston. How do you 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.600 look at that and do you have confidence in him 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.520 to part some of those difficult wings on the Celtics. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.600 I do. I think he's made great progress this year. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.880 You know, he understood well and truly that it was 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.040 going to influence clearly how much he was gonna play. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.080 And because we experienced some different things this year with 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.440 lots of injuries, they opened up a do off for 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.720 him that he took advantage of. He's a great story, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.920 as we all know, his route to where he was 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.880 to where he is needs to be told. I suspected 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.120 it will, and I think that his defense has improved 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.839 enough where you know, you feel confident he can come 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:34.400 in and play in an NBA rotation. Thanks, looks like 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.240 Tim has another one for coach Brown. Yeah. Bright, just 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.840 kind of along those lines, like you said, you guys 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.000 aren't going to play Boston now. Now it's a team 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.120 you guys have seen a bunch for over the past 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.919 few years, you know, near yourself, get adjusted to being 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.280 without Ben. But kind of what are your initial thoughts 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.320 on going up against them in the first round of 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.320 the playoffs. I mean, I had got a lot of 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:04.520 respect for brad Um. It's true, We've had tons of experiences, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.639 you know, regular season playoffs over the past few years. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.720 I think the team is very unique in that there 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:17.880 is just so much firepower ut at several positions, and 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.800 you know, the Philly scort to Celtics rival rivalry is 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.000 is story, it's historic, and so to be able to 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:32.640 have this opportunity again, we're excited treat this series with 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:38.400 tremendous respect, but it's certainly one that we're excited to 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:42.440 want to compete against them. One more seating game to 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.920 go for the seventy six ers on Friday against the 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:49.120 Houston Rockets after tonight's one twenty one loss to the 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.920 Toronto Raptors, but a game that will have no bearing 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.800 on set seatings. It's that game on Friday, because, as 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.080 you heard Brett Brand allude to in that postgame press 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.720 conference on Zoom, it is going to be the seventy 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.480 Sixers as the sixth seed out of the East, playing 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.040 the three seed Boston Celtics in the opening round of 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:10.160 the playoffs starting next week. Their Atlantic Division rival arch nemesis. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.920 Another go at it with Boston the postseason two years 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.239 later after that series in two eighteen, and undersized Boston 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.159 team in terms of their actual height, but a very 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.479 talented group with exceptional scoring out of the backcourt and 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.640 on the wings, should be a great test for the Sixers. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.560 As for tonight's game against the Raptors, here's the way 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.640 that I'm looking at it. There was one part of 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.080 the game where the top available players for both sides played. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.360 That was in the first half, because we didn't see 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.960 Joel Embiid in the third quarter, and in the first half, 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.640 the Sixers played pretty well all things considered. They did 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.120 have issues with turnovers, specifically for Embiid, but the Sixers 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.200 they led sixty two fifty five of the break. They 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.240 were up by as much as sixteen points in the 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.080 first half, the ball was kind of like popping around 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.279 and moving on offense, Tobias Harris in particular was really 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.400 strong for the first two quarters, and the defense against 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.360 Toronto clampdown held the Raptors to thirty eight and a 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.000 half percent shooting in the first half, seven to twenty 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.200 three from outside the arc, and in particular, Al Horford 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.880 and company did a really good job on Pascal Siakam 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.040 two for nine from the field. Was he scoring only 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.599 four points in the first half. And one thing that 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.359 turned the game around in the second half, namely the 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:24.280 third quarter, was that with Embat out and Horford only 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.120 playing about two and a half minutes in the third 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.440 quarter was unsurprisingly when those two guys went out, Siakam 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.679 started to get more opportunities in open court transition play. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.679 Chris Bouche came in and he was it was almost 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.320 kind of like a mini Siakam at times because he 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:45.000 could block shots with his length defensively and get out 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.200 and run and either score on the run or from 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.840 the perimeter as well. So again, I think the way 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.720 that I'm looking at this one tonight a Joel Embiid 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.119 was back. I mean, that's really your top headline Joel 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.240 Embiid returns the injury is not serious stemming from Sunday's game, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.680 and you know, he had nine rebounds when he was 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.040 out there in the first half. And again, the Sixers 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.160 played pretty well in the first half. Kyle Lowry had 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.600 success scoring the ball, So that's something as far as 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.240 when you look ahead Sixers nailing down their backcourt defense, 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.320 They're gonna have to tighten up, as Lowry had nineteen 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.640 points in the first half. But I'll take the positive 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.880 outlook on this one and that the seventy Sixers were 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.960 able to do some things with their top players available 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.080 in this one in the first half that were encouraging. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.320 So that's my take, whether you like it or not. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.680 Twenty five to one twenty one the final score. It 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.080 was a loss for the seventy six Ers, their third straight. 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.240 They're now three and four in the Bubble and their 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.960 seating game finale is on Friday against the Rockets. Joel 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.240 Embiid negative X rays on his right hand after he 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:46.960 got hit on the hand in the first half of 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.839 tonight's game. He was scheduled to play limited minutes anyway. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.080 In his return from a left ankle injury stemming from 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.080 a Sunday's game against the Portland Trailblazers. He played the 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.039 first half and in thirteen and a half minutes, finished 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.880 with five points, one field goal, three for four from 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.679 the line, nine rebounds, and he did have some issues 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.719 with turnovers, committing five of them four the Sixers. But 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.520 the Sixers did outscore Toronto in the first half by 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.840 the score of sixty two to fifty five. The defense 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.760 played well in the first half, the Sixers got more 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.520 and more into their benches the game went along. Tom 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.920 again has called this one tonight. Tom, what was your 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.560 spinning takeaway from this game tonight? Well, in the end, 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.880 it was really a game that featured young players for 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.200 both sides and it ended up being a bit of 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.720 an exciting finish there. But to your point, with Kyle 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.040 Lowry leading the way for the Raptors in the late 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.480 stages of the first half, they got back in the game, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.760 Lowry scoring eighteen of his nineteen in that second quarter, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.640 and I thought the Sixers did a good job. Siakam struggled, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.960 he got into the flow a little bit in the 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.280 third quarter, but for the most part, the Sixers did 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.440 a pretty good job. A little bit concerning like you said, 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.320 with Joel getting back into a rhythm. But again that 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.720 chop on the right hand by gasol On and Bead happened, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.640 So who's to say whether that didn't play a bit 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.760 of a part on him handling the traps. But they 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.760 came very aggressively on the catch on Ebad with the 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.680 double team and that's something that Toronto has done all 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.480 along and guarding him. So in the end, not the 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.840 biggest deal that the Raptors young players ended up with 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.280 helping them to win the game and then the one 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.960 last game and you want to get ready for the 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.240 start on Monday or Tuesday when those playoffs roll around 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.680 against the Seas, seventy Sixers lose by four two Toronto 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.800 one twenty five to one twenty one. Tobias Harris top 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.080 the seventy six ers with twenty two points. Chris Bouchet 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.120 came in had a great run for the Raptors. He 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.400 and Kyle Lowry sharing team high honors for the Rafts 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.319 with nineteen points apiece. But Tom, I think that when 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.400 you look back on what we've seen from the seating phase, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.480 there's a handful of seventy sixers who should feel good 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.319 about themselves heading to the playoffs, and certainly now with 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.520 the injury to Ben Simmons, a guy like Al Horford, 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.400 who I think has played well in Orlando deservedly has 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.520 some confidence about him in the six Ers gonna need 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.000 to count on him. But then for someone like a 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.360 Furkon cork Mose who shot the ball really well from 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.800 the outside he was five for nine tonight, or a 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.640 whole Nato who scored seventeen points tonight after tying her 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.160 high with twenty two yesterday, or a Mike Scott the 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.400 last couple of games. I mean, there's guys who, at 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.560 some point the Sixers are probably going to need in 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.600 the playoffs that have some they should have some confidence 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.920 heading into the postseason. Well, you're right, and that's a 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.040 pretty big ala carte menu. But let's start with Netto, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.839 who wasn't even in the rotation expected to be going 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.199 back two three games ago where Coach Brown said he 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.320 was going to tighten it up and have it being 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.360 a nine person rotation, and then all of a sudden, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.439 because Simmons gets hurt, Netto gets in there twenty two 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.199 last night and tonight seventeen. As you say, furkon making 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.720 that three point shot tonight, And I thought that was 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.079 a telling question in the zoom interview with coach after 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.640 about Quark Mos and his defense, because he's only going 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.480 to be able to stay out there against Boston if 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.760 there are going to be times w he's matched up 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:05.600 with Jalen Brown, with Ojul, with Tatum, who knows, I mean, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.960 and Brad Stevens is so good at recognizing mismatches and 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.600 going at them. So Firkin, you know, the way he's 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.560 going to stay out on the court is obviously shooting 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.240 the ball, but being able to hold his own defensively. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.200 Then again, Mike Scott, and I think coach already knows 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.320 what he can get from Mike. It's good to see 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.320 that he seems to be back to one hundred percent health. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.720 Norvelle Pell's going to give you some minutes off the bench, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.760 But I think it all comes down to the health 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.080 of himbid their ability to guard him. I mean, the 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.480 Sixers took three or four from Boston. They had difficulty 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:44.400 guarding Jewel Tye as much improved Cantor's very physical off 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.680 the bench, and then again Boston with Brown, So again 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.360 Tatum makes the all Star Team for the first time. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.440 It emboldens him. He comes out he was maybe the 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.360 hottest player in the NBA after that February All Star 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:02.360 Game into March, into the hiatus, and Brown didn't make 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.160 the All Star team and that fired him up. And 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.080 then there's Kemball Walker who's had sixty against the Sixers 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.439 in years pass when he was down in Charlotte, he 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.000 obviously was nursing a knee, appears to be back to health. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.240 And then the heart and soul the Celtics is Marcus 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.760 Smart and he's playing at a very high level. He's 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.240 shooting the ball better, and he just gives them so 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.760 much defensively. So it's a monumental challenge. I think the 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.120 Sixers like the matchup. Obviously, without Simmons, it's going to 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.920 be a big, big, different, you know, scenario for everything 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.760 that Ben brings, specifically the ability to guard one of 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.600 those guys in terms or three of them Heyward two, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.160 Brown and Tatum and Walker. But it should be interesting, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.840 that's for sure. I think the fact that the Sectors 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.680 aren't going to get to play here at the Center, 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:50.320 I mean, it is what it is. We all know 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.640 that at this point. But this thing would start in 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.280 Boston and come back here to Philadelphia for Games three 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.400 and four. That's not the case. It's slated for two weeks. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.000 It's the NBA Playoff. This thing has worked out incredibly 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.400 down to Fla with the bubble, and the postseason promises 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.520 to be scent the leading as well. Last thing time 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.840 that I'll leave you with the Sixers and Celtics. They've 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.840 played nearly five hundred and sixty times overall between the 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.520 regular season and the postseason, over one hundred times and 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.240 the playoffs. But this time of year, the postseason, I 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.000 think for the seventy Sixers, at least as they exist 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:26.000 in two nineteen, two twenty, as Brett Brown likes to say, 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.680 this was always going to be their judgment day. They've 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.119 said from the beginning that they've been built for the playoffs. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.600 They've been built for the postseason, and it's starting like 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.280 maybe two and a half months after when perhaps in 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.520 a perfect world that could have ended for the Sixers 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.200 back in June. But it's here, and I think that 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.040 this will ultimately be the judgment time for the Sixers 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.319 after they wrap up seeding play on Friday. I'm not 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.200 sure if you see it the same way, well, no doubt, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.480 and it's just a little bit altered and that you 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.240 don't have one of your best players in Ben Simmons. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.439 But you know, one of the reasons you acquired Horford 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.680 was this time of the year, and now he's going 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.400 to be that lineup in and hey, he's going up 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.400 against his old team. And I think Horford has played 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.840 really well amongst the best of any player for the 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:11.680 Sixers during these first seven games of the restart, and 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.319 he made some great passes tonight looking off to the 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.160 week's side to a cunning Harris and he knows Boston 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.920 as well as anybody. I think he's gonna be a 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:23.600 pivotal figure in this series, without question. And it's gonna 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.200 be a battle royale to be sure. As you say, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:30.719 Celtics Sixers postseason, that's a perfect mix. The Sixers are 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.440 big and physical and they're gonna have to do a 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.319 good job against Boston. I mean, really, Stevens is shrewd, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.520 very good coach. You know, the recent playoff history was 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.520 two years ago when Boston took that thing four out 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.559 of five. And it'll be interesting to see how things 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.800 evolve because the Sixers, you know, they got to go 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.880 in there a little bit with they're the six seed. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.520 Boston's a little bit of that Philly underdog mentality where 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.400 they're gonna go in there and you know, just play 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.000 as hard and really try to shock the Boston Celtics 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.880 and create a first round upset. And it'll be obviously 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.560 very telling in that first game to see who gets 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.240 the upper hand early on. All right, Tom, thank you 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.480 very much. We will speak again late on Friday for 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.520 that nine o'clock game between the Sixers and the Rockets. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.480 All right, good night, Bright seventy. Sixers lose to the 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.360 Toronto Raptors tonight, one twenty five to one twenty one. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.760 Joel Embiid did not play in the second half. He 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.280 was sit on the right hand in the first half. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.200 X rays were negative. Simply, it was just nice to 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.520 see him back out there on the courts to start 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.440 the game in a starting role after suffering that left 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.800 ankle injury. On Sunday, Sixers did some other good things. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.560 Their bench made an interesting down the stretch, as did Torontos, 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.360 and with many of the reserves going at it in 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.000 the fourth quarter, Toronto ultimately pulled out the victory. Here's 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.720 how it went. Joel Embiid was in the starting lineup, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.680 as was Tobias Harris, Al Horford, Josh Richardson. None of 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.320 them played yesterday in the seventy sixers front end game. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.600 In the back to back against the Phoenix Suns, Shake 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.200 Milton rounded out the starting five, and the seventy Sixers 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.680 enjoyed an encouraging start. Here's a bad bringing it across 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.240 from the Sixers, looks the Horford. Nothing there. They go 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.800 back out top to Tobias high screened by and b 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.480 middle pick and roll. The Bias keeps it, drives it 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.920 off the glass and in he goes right up on 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.760 their center. You gotta love that. Tobias Harris with the basket. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.920 He's got five. Seventy Sixers enjoyed a really promising start 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.640 in the game. They want our thirteen to three run 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.040 to take control, and later another nine nothing run to 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.160 really put themselves in the driver's seat. After twelve minutes 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.560 of play, the Sixers were in front thirty two to 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.240 twenty five. They also kept Pascal Siakaman check right off 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.160 at the jump. Howell Nato enjoying a nice run in Disney, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.480 and that continued in tonight's game, Lowery gets it again, 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.400 shoots for three, block by Netto, Joel and b with 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.040 a ball. I had a cork moss work on Weeby 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.040 goes in the corner. Netto had a three, but now 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.360 I boyd the defender shoots for three an in Netto 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.360 feeling it from a night ago as well. Oh, Netto 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.480 now with five listen that made it thirty five to 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.760 twenty nine. And I am admittedly not well versed in 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.200 the book of Neto beyond this season, but I gotta 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.400 think that was one of the best sequences of his career, 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.040 right a block of the Philly guy. Lowry then takes 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:11.760 it back to the way, knocks down at three. Not 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.200 bad for jul Nato to wind things down in the 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.640 second quarter. Al Horford, he too, is another player who 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.320 should have great confidence going to the postseason, and when 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.880 he was out there tonight, he certainly did his thing. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.440 Horford with it on the right side, shoots it and 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.720 it's good man. He stuck the landing as al Orford 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.400 with yet another three. He's got nine and the Sixers 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.920 go up by fourteen. Sixers from three seven of fifteen 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.120 and led by as much as sixteen in the first 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.360 half did the Sixers. Their advantage was sixty two to 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.040 fifty five. At the break. Things were going well on offense. 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.320 They moved the ball around and shared it well, and 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.680 they were locking down on Dan and the third quarter 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.040 things started change, namely because Joel Embiid was not out there. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.240 He was scheduled to play limited minutes to begin with, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.000 regardless of what happened with his right hand. Al Horford 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:58.800 only played a couple of minutes of the start as well, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.080 and then Pascal Acham and Chris Bouche started to get 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.040 going to help give Toronto some momentum. For CONCORKMS was 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:07.720 trying to do what he could to keep the seventy 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.359 Sixers in the league. Norvell Pell hands off the Tobias 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.359 Arras has got twenty point over to cork Mos for 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.600 three nice reach, an extension and the Hierarchy shot is good. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.160 Now he had lowry one and Kyle's got the four fouls. 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.000 So cork Mos with confidence and he executes. He has 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.640 four threes in the game. He would finish with five 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.560 to seventy sixers. We're up at that point seventy eight 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.920 to seventy five. Norvelle Pell bring it back to a 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.959 one possession game with this deposit. In the final seconds, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.239 Wool up a high screen by Pell six seconds ago, 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.000 and then he gets Bouchet on a switch in the lane. 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.639 Skits was top, goes to Matise, divaled into the Robell 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.800 and Pell well enoft Hand scores it with point six 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.359 to go. Seventy Sixers down to ninety to eighty eight 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.560 going into the fourth. They got a three point early 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.200 in the fourth from Matis Divle to make it ninety 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.960 one to ninety would go back and forth from there 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.000 between the Sixers and the Raptors. Sixers led by ten 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.560 midway through the frame. Mike Scott was part of the 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.040 push that helped give the seventy Sixers their last double 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.879 digit lead detto to Scott. Here's Mike for three and 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:14.600 that's good. Mike Scott makes it one oh five ninety nine. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.280 Man Scott now four oh five with a dozen points 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.520 of the game, one of three double figures scores off 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:26.480 the bench. Time out Toronto, but the later stretches belong 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:31.439 to the Toronto Raptors and a man named Stanley Johnson, 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.600 former lottery pick, got some key baskets in crunch time, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.040 the tying bucket on a layup and the go ahead 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.240 five footer to give the Toronto Raptors what would ultimately 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.280 be a one twenty five to one twenty one victory. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.240 Seventy Sixers in tonight's game shot forty six and a 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.200 half percent overall. The Raptors shot forty four and a 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.639 half percent from the field. Sixers finished with seventeen three pointers, 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.080 the Raptors with eighteen. They shot a lot better from 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.639 outside the arc in the second half, six or twenty 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.040 six to thirty three from the line, Raptors twenty seven 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.760 of forty. The Sixers and Raptors even on the boards 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.480 at forty seven apiece. The Sixers minus two on the 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.320 offensive glass. Early on in the first half, the Sixers 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.960 were in turnover trouble. If that hadn't been the case, 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.880 who knows how big that lead could have gotten by halftime. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.680 But all in all, still some really good stuff from 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.800 the Sixers in the first half. They were led in 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.160 scoring by Tobias Harris, who finished with the game high 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.560 twenty two. He was eight of thirteen from the field, 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:25.679 one of four from outside the arc. He also had 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.840 six rebounds and five assists plus two block shots. He 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.840 was plus ten in just twenty four minutes. Twenty one 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.960 points for fir Concorkmus, who was five for nine from 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.600 the perimeter. Howell Nado with seventeen at night after tying 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.240 a career high twenty two, twelve points for Mike Scott 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:47.680 and ten apiece for Matise Thibel and Josh Richardson al Horford, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.800 he finished with nine points, four rebounds, five assists. Joel 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.200 Embiid played thirteen and a half minutes on the first half, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:58.600 five points, nine boards for the big man plus five turnovers. 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.000 Toronto was led by Bouche who had nineteen points and 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.879 Kyle Lowry also sharing that team high scoring dis section 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:08.399 with nineteen of his own as well. Seventy Sixers are 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:10.440 three and four in the Bubble. They are locked into 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:12.879 the sixth seed in the East and the Boston Celtics 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:14.880 are locked into the three seed. That means they meet 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.360 in the first round of the playoffs starting next week, 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:20.000 but not before the Sixers wrap up seeding play against 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:25.560 the Houston Rockets at nine o'clock, Yes, nine o'clock Friday nights. 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.040 You've been listening to rewind look out for fresh episodes 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.560 the day after every seventy sixers game this season.