WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 3/6/18- Rewind vs. Hornets 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.440 Sixers with a fourteen point win over the Hornets tonight 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.560 in North Carolina one twenty eight, one fourteen, now thirty 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.440 five and twenty eight for the Sixers sixth in the East. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.920 Miami is in overtime with Washington. They were a game 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.040 and a half behind the Sixers. Meanwhile, the Wizards a 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.560 half a game ahead of the Sixers, So it's conceivable 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.560 with Washington if they were to lose at home to Miami, 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.000 the Sixers would go into fifth or at least a 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.240 fifth place tie with the Wizards and up decks for 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:34.920 the Sixers at Miami Thursday night, seven thirty, Game three 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.560 of this four game road trip all lean Saturday in Brooklyn, 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.240 and the Sixers will be home next Tuesday against Victor Oladipo. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.440 Here's Brett Brown from outside these Sixers locker room. You know, 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.280 I thought that the job he did defensively, he switched 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.440 out on kember Lot, you know, Kemba I think was 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.560 one for nine, you know, with five points. A TJ 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.200 also had an excellent game on Kemba, and then Robert scored, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.640 you know, he eight shots. He found a way to 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.480 contribute on both sides of the the ball, and he 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:10.520 was the uh he was the bell ringing tonight first half. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.600 For him to really turn it on in the second, 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:16.840 I took. What I liked most was that we had 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.600 seventy one points in the first half and he only 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.000 had four. And it shows that, you know, we we 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.919 were growing our bench. I thought our bench was excellent tonight. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.399 That he's got another he's got a group of players 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:35.520 and people around him that care and are capable, and 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.520 you know, tonight, like offensively, he struggled, I suppose in 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.520 the first half and then had a you know, a solid, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.520 big second half. And I think just the fact that 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.440 that we, you know, could put that volume of points 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.600 on the board and and be winning at halftime without 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.440 really Joel sort of completely stamping his thumb on that 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.280 first half was was a good sign. I thought. In 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.640 relation to the turnovers, I mean, you talked about how 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.600 you want your team to be smart, not scared, but 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.920 I mean we're actually trending. It doesn't probably get the 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.480 attention you know, you wish it did because you have 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.600 a game like we did the other night on TV, 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.519 and you know it is it's a killer. You can't 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.640 win any game when you had twenty six turnovers, and 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.840 I give Milwaukee credits some of them. You know, we're 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.480 self inflicted and we're aware of it. And uh, you know, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.720 since the the the All Star break, you know, we've 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.640 come out of this understanding like we have to fix this, 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.320 we have to own it, and for the most part 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.160 we have. You know, I think we're like fifteenth or 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.600 fourteenth after the All Star break, and it's just the 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.919 the fourteen turnovers tonight really allowed us to put that 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.000 many points on the board. That's Brett Brown from outside 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.920 the Sixers locker of an impressive second half for the 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.120 Sixers as even though they only opened their lead to 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.519 two more, it was just a dominant period for them. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.960 So they went again as they beat in Charlotte now 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.880 wise and again the final one twenty eight to one fourteen. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.440 We'll throw it back to the Bond Gibbons and continue 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.560 our coverage on the Sixers radio network. This is the 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:15.040 Philadelphia Has seventy Sixers postgame Show. I can walk up 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.519 all of my Broadstreet hard She's gonna turn him. Get 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:22.280 it off, Matty Rolls The Sixers postgame show right now 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.239 on ninety seven five. The Finetic the seventy six is 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.000 continue their road run and come away with the victory 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.480 and one of their better wins of the season on 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.880 the road tonight again as they beat the Charlotte Hornets 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.600 in Charlotte at the Spectrum Center one twenty eight, one fourteen, 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.960 improving their record now to thirty five twenty eight on 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.680 the season. Hello, A'm Divine gives and welcome to the 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.040 Sixers postgame show here on the Sixers Radio Network. We 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.080 are going to head back to Charlotte to hear from 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.680 the man who gave the game call here, Tom again 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.960 us to get his thoughts on this solid win again 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.200 away from home. One twenty eight one one fourteen, Tom, 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.120 and win here as we talked about it. Pregame a 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.119 one of these things, two game, four game road trip, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.600 second game on this trip and they go into a 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.880 place like Charlotte. Ware team is still trying to find 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.240 their way into the postseason, and the Sixers just come 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.520 away with a very very good offensive performance tonight in 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.479 this victory, no doubt, very impressive as you say, and 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.120 the Sixers moved the ball around. What excuse me, Brett 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.320 Brown was just saying when teams double and bad, which 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.799 quite frankly, the Sixers didn't handle that well because Joel 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.800 didn't handle it early in the game all that effectively. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.480 But they moved that ball around and they got some 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.160 good three point shooting, and that I think is going 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.359 to be the secret of the Sixers success, and that 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.039 is how they handle double teams when the bad gets 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.360 the ball and then the space scene around him. And 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:50.120 you know, obviously they've added Davon Bella, Nelli and Ilyosova. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.240 They both were in double figures tonight, and JJ got 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.159 off to a good start. Dario and Covington combined for 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.720 nine threes and a great overall performance, and they just 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.400 they pummeled Charlotte. They kept Walker at bay, and you 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.720 could tell that they were a dejected group. I mean, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.080 still it was a nine point game or so, you know, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.039 at nine thirty eight to go, they were still they 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.960 were just a basket away from making it a six 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.919 point game. And the Sixers, they were the ones particularly, 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.760 were around five or six minutes to go. I was 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.320 saying at that point, if the Sixers were able to 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.839 just manage the next two and a half minutes, they'll 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.640 win the game. Well, right, they went on a little 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.200 spurge and went up sixteen and for all intensive purposes, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.080 that was the game. So that's what that three point 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:34.080 shooting can do. They stood a season high for Dwight Howard, 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.039 but a great overall team victory for the Sixers, and 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.680 as you pointed out, eight of fourteen between Covington and 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.600 Reddick behind the three point line. But I want to 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.520 focus on Robert Covington because sometimes, as we know, the 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.000 game can go up and down. For him tonight, seven 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.359 of eleven from the floor, five of nine from behind 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.680 the ark, thirty minutes of play for twenty two points. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.719 But tim also, as you pointed out, Kimball Walker only 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.120 five points. A lot of it also had to do 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.440 with the defense of Robert Covington. What have you seen 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.279 from him tonight? What did you see from Covington tonight 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.520 overall to come away with this solid game? Well, he 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:12.159 is without question the sixers best perimeter option defensively, and 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.440 he draws that assignment night in and night out. Whether 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.200 it's a quick, perimeter based point guard like Walker who 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.320 certainly can drive the ball, or Denikupo or Lebron I mean, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.200 think about it, those are huge assignments. And then to 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.720 step up and also hit threes. I mean as Brett 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.080 Brown uses the phrase, that's the holy grail being a 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.680 two way player. And he did a tremendous job. He 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.320 got some deflections which leads to steals and turnovers on 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.120 the opponents. I mean, he's done a tremendous job. He's 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.599 a streaky shooter, to be sure, and he's had his lolls, 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.640 maybe longer this season then in years past. But when 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.279 he steps up and he's going to be a key 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.960 component for the Sixers, I mean when he knocks that 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.200 ball down, I mean, the Sixers become that much better, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.960 particularly when he's not the only three points. Dario shooting 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.440 at a high level, jj Son, Marco, they can all 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.960 make those shots and including Embiid. That I think is 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.839 going to be the key to the six or success 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.320 in the postseason, provided they get there. And you spoke 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.400 with Dario scharge postgame, and what can you say about 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.640 his play over the last couple of weeks, and this 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.520 he pointed out maybe coming from the All Star breaker, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.160 just took him a little time to get his legs going, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.320 but overall, stepping into that starting lineup at the early 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.640 in the beginning of the season and just maintaining that 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:29.320 steady level of play from Dario starts and playing well defensively, Tom, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.520 He's just been a really, really good piece for this 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.160 seventy six ers starting unit. Well. Absolutely, he's got no agenda. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.720 He's all about team and he'll do anything it takes. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.960 I mean, he's effective and powerful down low. He's now 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.600 starting to hit the three ball with more consistency. I 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.040 mean last year, when you left the season, you know 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.240 what he pay You knew he played so much basketball. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.360 He had a bit of a line drive trajectory on 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.400 his threes. I think he's worked on that. That's added 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.560 to his ability to hit that shot, you know, the 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.840 higher arc, softer shot, and then he grinds. He's a 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.840 defensive player, he rebounds, He's just been a great asset. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.720 You know. I think he's a bit of an underrated 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.000 sixer player when a lot of the attention, and understandably 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.080 so deservedly so goes to Ben and Joel. But he 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.440 is a major component for this team, particularly with the 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.240 bead you know, going out then and Dario goes down 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:23.880 there and is again like we saw at the end 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.080 of the last year, he's a very effective post player. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.560 It's not like it's this picture perfect rolling skyhook, a 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.280 thing of beauty. But he gets in there and nudges 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.120 him over the rim and scores with regularity. And like 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.960 I said, I wouldn't say with ease, but he's very 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.240 effective and if he can't score it, he's able to 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.640 pass it out. So he's been a major part of 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.240 the sixers success. Absolutely and offensively again shooting fifty seven 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.520 percent from the floor, forty eight from behind a three 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.920 point line. Just a very very good offensive displayed by 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.560 the Sixes tonight, Tom, thanks so much for your time. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.880 We will catch up with you on Thursday live from Miami. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.920 All right, thank you, and I wanted to thank Mark Feltman, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.280 our engineer here in Charlotte. Good night, Good night Tom. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:10.000 Tom McGinnis again live from the Spectrum Center in Charlotte 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.000 as the Philadelphia seventy six is take down the Hornets 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.360 one twenty eight, one fourteen, a four game series for 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.400 them this season. They played them. Sixers played the Hornets 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.720 last Friday at home and come away with that win 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.160 and a very impressive win, and then tonight just topping 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.640 that win, improving to thirty five and twenty eight on 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.000 the season. They dominated the Hornets on the glass forty 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:34.880 four to thirty three. And one of the things that 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.560 I always like to look at thirty five assists on 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.679 fifty made baskets. That just goes to show how much 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.120 they're sharing the ball. Tom pointed out, the ball is 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.880 constantly moving, the balls popping out of each other's hands, 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.479 and they when they're able to do that, better opportunities, 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.839 better looks at the basket, and then protecting the basketball. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.360 With only fourteen turnovers tonight, the six is very very 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.920 good across the board, both offensively in defense. Six is 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.400 when one, eight, one, fourteen over the Charlotte Hornets. We 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.160 come back on the other side a little bit more 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.959 diving into the box score as the Sixes improved to 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.400 thirty five and twenty eight. I'm divine givens. This is 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:15.600 the Sixes postgame show on the Sixes Radio Network. Solid 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.360 win for the seventy Sixes again tonight on the road, 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.040 thirty five and twenty eight now in the season, and 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.760 on the road they do hold a record of fifteen 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.680 and eighteen now away from the center. But again looking 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.679 into what the Philadelphia seventy Sixes did tonight against the 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.200 Charlotte Horns, and it starts with the head of their offense, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.720 the head of their team, their franchise player, if you will, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.040 kemba Walker in thirty four minutes and forty five seconds, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.040 and you look at the one of nine shooting, all 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.600 five from the floor, only two turnovers, but only managing 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.960 to come away with five points. And that again is 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.800 just simply going back to what he had against the 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.600 Philadelphia seventy Sixes last Friday in the one ninety nine lost. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.880 He got off to a very very hot start, finishing 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.160 game with thirty one points on eleven of twenty one shooting. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.120 But the way the Philadelphia seventy six is, and we 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.199 talked about it with Tom again his pregame about how 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.160 things had to be where you had to make sure 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.480 that Kimball Walker was not allowed to get things going 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.600 to get this offense started. And while the Hornets discord 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.160 twenty seven points in the first quarter, after that with 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.920 the seventy six is having a lead by twelve at 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.000 the half, seventy one to fifty nine, it was everyone 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.360 else doing their job minus the All Star, the two 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.200 time All Star and Kimball Walker, Dwight Howard, had a 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.160 bit of a resurgence. If you will, twelve of seventeen 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.680 from the floor. Offensively, you did not expect that type 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.880 of game from Dwight Howard in the thirty minutes and 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:48.120 twenty seconds, thirty points from the big Man, six rebounds again, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:52.000 twelve of seventeen from the floor, Nicholas Betune with only 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:56.360 twelve Marvin Williams eleven. The fifth starter for the Charlotte Horners, 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.160 Michael Kidd Gilchris. He fouled out very early apart he 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.080 was ejected very early in the game after picking up 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.480 two technical fouls, at the second being at the three 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.880 fifty two mark. And you would think, defensively, with what 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.440 you know of Michael Carter Williams to come in and 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.240 maybe make things a little more difficult for Robert Covington 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.520 in his twenty two points this evening, and they were 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.199 that was sorely missed. They sorely missed the Hornets did 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.360 Michael kid Gilchris and the energy that he brings on 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.240 the defensive end off the bench for the Hornets. Frank 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.240 mc kaminsky twenty minutes of play, four of nine from 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.400 the floor, a little bit of a burst also of energy, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.760 but not enough. The eleven points that he contributed to 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.880 simply not enough to help the philadelph Charlotte Hornets take 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.400 down the Philadelphia seventy Sixers. Again, looking at the Sixers 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.680 bench and what they were able to do, Tom pointed 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.560 out Marco Bell and Nellie and ear soon Iliosilva both 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.440 coming off the bench with eleven points apiece, but a 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.760 lot you cannot overlook the impact that Emir Johnson and 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:00.000 t J McConnell also had in their reserve roles seven points. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.840 Former Johnson, not known for his scoring, not known for 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.160 his outside shooting, as he knocked down his only three 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.640 point attempt three or four from the floor for his 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:12.199 seven points contributing and also adding five rebounds to assists 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.959 to his stat line on the evening, but just solid overall, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.600 tough defense in the paint. While he will be scored 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.520 on at times, he's going to make that offensive player 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.640 work for every point that they get in. TJ McConnell 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.559 coming in and just being the spark plug that he 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.280 is and oftentimes off the bench for Brett Brown and 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:37.880 the seventy Sixers eight points and five assists and two 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.880 steals right away, also two steals. He came in and 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.200 gave a good impact two steals right away in twenty 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.720 four minutes to play nine seconds of basketball for the 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.720 reserve point guard for the Philadelphia seventy six Timy Taylor. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.840 Wawu Rashaun Holmes. Justin Anderson also got some late run 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.559 for the seventy Sixers as thing where things were pretty 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.720 much out of hand down the stretch for this team 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.760 again coming away with the one twenty eight, one fourteen 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:08.280 victory over the Charlotte Hornets at the Spectrum Center. Coming 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.440 up on the other side, we'll get into the highlights, 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:12.880 of course, called by the man you just heard from, 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.959 Tom McGuinness. This is the Sixes postgame show. I'm Divine 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:20.080 Givens right here on the Sixers Radio Network. Philadelphia seventy 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.200 Sixers again win one twenty eight one fourteen over the 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.280 Charlotte Hornets, improving their record thirty five and twenty eight, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.880 and now we get to the highlights as the Philadelphia 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.080 seventy Sixes again start things off with the scoring. Ben 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.880 Simmons gets it going right away. Dario Charge follows up 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.800 a little bit later with a three pointer to make 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.120 it a seven and four advantage to the Sixers, but 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:44.040 then the Horners turn things around take advantage and get 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.480 their first lead and carry it on out. But the 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.640 Sixers again find their way and claw their way back 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.720 from Mere Johnson. The three points that we pointed out, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.720 he knocked that one down to make it twenty one 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.800 to eight. And we mentioned TJ. McConnell as well, with 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.560 that bench unit that came in to help give the 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.920 Philip off, You're seventy sixers some energy and some life, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.840 a spark off the bench he connects with Ben Simmons 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.440 with a very impressive play. There's a steel by TJ. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.040 He's got Simmons, Elliott, Ben Simmons, and Ben Air throws 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.920 it down. A spectacular run out jam by the Sixers. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.840 That's how you throw the Ellie, very impressive way to 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.160 contort his body in the air, Ben Simmons flushing it 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.120 down for the seventy sixes in transition. That made a 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.600 twenty one twenty Charlotte. A little back and forth, a 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.720 little on the seesaw, if you will, for the Sixers 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.480 and the Hornets. But at the end of the first 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.400 quarter at the buzzer, JJ Reddick with one of his 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.600 three point meets Arsta with the rebound. I'll let the 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.560 Bellonelli three to shoot Bellonelli to JJ the corner for 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.040 an off balustrator ten J. J Reddick, What the buzzer 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.160 going off? What a play by the Sixers. A little 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.520 barking from JJ Reddick as well with some of the 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.200 fans in the crowd. You have to think some of 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.720 the Charlotte Hornets faithful, we're giving JJ Reddick the business 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.400 of bid it after making that shot fade away, falling 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.680 out of bounds, making sure he had a few choice 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.240 words for the fans in the Charlotte crowd. Six is 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.960 up thirty to twenty seven at the end of the 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.720 first quarter. Dario charts again keeping things going in the 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.960 start of the second, coming out of the start, coming 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.520 out with a three pointer to tie things up forty 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:24.280 two to forty two. Robert Covington the expressive play tonight 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.160 seven to eleven from the floor. Here is one of 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.080 his five three pointers. Bendtle left hand Simmons back to 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.160 a trailing charge ball, fake dribble move kid Gilchris and 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.200 Kamiski there back out to Covington for three good JJ 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.600 Reddick followed things up not too far after with a 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.400 long two pointer to make it fifty seven to forty eight. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.560 As the Sixes started to be spread things out a 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.520 little bit. Take advantage of a twelve to two running 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.360 and move away from the Charlotte Hornets again as they 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.520 try to make a push. Ben Simmons with the layup 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.080 to make it sixty to fifty aerosound Ilias Silva eleven 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.320 points off of the bench. Here's one from deep. Here's 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.240 Joel against Dwight Howard and Walker comes over to steal it, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.240 but Joel bounces the TJ over to your son. Opened 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.640 three by Iliosilva is good and the Sixers have come 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.600 alive in a huge way, in a huge way on 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.040 a twenty one to four run, sixty four to fifty 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.600 lead at that point. After Ilia Silva's three point basket 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.639 at the end of the second quarter, there was a 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.159 Dwight Howard three point but before that, TJ McConnell snuck 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.520 behind the defense as they were sleeping on the n 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.600 inbounds play. Ben Simmons delivered a perfectly past basketball two 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.280 t J McConnell to Layden for seventy one fifty six 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.040 seventy one fifty ninety advantage. After Dwight Howard three pointer. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.120 Howard kept it going tonight as he was very physical, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.760 very active in the paint. Here is one and one 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.119 for the veteran big man underhand Howard in the law 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.440 bead he goes around him in another lamp by Dwight 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.320 Howard one a contrast and beat had twenty three and 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.320 fifteen points and rebounds. I guess a foul pro Howard 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.600 Friday at the Center in Philadelphia and thinks have turned 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.240 and that made his seventy seven to seventy. And as 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.440 things started to turn, and he got a little nervous 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.800 as to wondering if the Philadelphia seventy sixes who were 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.679 again gonna allow a comeback. They did not. Dario Shards 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.560 made sure of that, knocking down a three, making it 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.360 eighty five to seventy four, as the Hornets again just 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.600 keeping him that arms length. But Ben Simmons we heard 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.240 about the one player earlier with the acrobatic dunk, and 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.120 he also got into the mix in the pain again 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.480 mirror Johnson with a runner off the glass wide the 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.840 right no bit tracks down his old miss, keeps it 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.040 away from Walker, goes to Simmons and Ben Simmons jams it. 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.640 He got knocked out a bounds on the rebound as 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.840 a mirror gathered it in out of bounds, comes back 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.160 into play, establishes his feet inbound as a player who 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.120 can catch the ball, and then an impressive reverse dunk 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.600 for Ben Simmons, leading one o one ninety one after 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:58.880 three frames of basketball in Charlotte. Joel embiid very quiet 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.960 in the very beginnings of the basketball game, but he 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.160 really got it going in the fourth quarter, very aggressive, 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.280 very physical, and you have to think some of it 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.520 is because of the play of Dwight Howard. Here is 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.359 the big fella in the paint. Paul goes into the corner. 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.879 Bell and Ni makes an unbelievable catch and the beach 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.600 slams the ball, Marco Bell and Lli catching the ball 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.480 while almost falling out about right in front of the 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.240 Charlotte bench. One oh three ninety one after that score 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.560 by your first time All Star, and Kimball Walker got 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.119 his first made field goal of the game to make 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.159 it one ten, one hundred four the Charlotte Hornets, but 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.359 again the Philadelphia seventy sixers would not allow them to 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.840 come back. You've had right following that, Kimball Walker made 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.760 jumper Joel Ebad then made a short turnaround jump shot. 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.359 Robert Covington again followed that up with one of his 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.760 five three pointers on the night, Dario Charge with an 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.760 impressive layup one twenty to one oh four, and again 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.840 Joel and beat with the punctuation five minutes to go. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.840 Six is by fourteen sevens lobs the alum jab. That's 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:05.919 our dunkin' donuts dunking the game, Joel. It beat rocks 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:10.040 the state. It is still shaking here in North Carolina. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.280 Ben Simmons not to be shown up with a little 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.760 bit of a flare of himself as he drove baseline, 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.600 got a reverse dunk, made it one twenty four, one 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.240 oh eight to Sixers come away with the victory one 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:25.000 twenty eight, one fourteen in Charlotte over the Hornets improved 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.800 to thirty five and twenty eight now on the season 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.879 and again fifteen and eighteen on the road, as they 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.360 have two more to go on the roast, with their 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.640 next one being against the Miami Heat, who fell tonight 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:41.400 in overtime one seventeen, one thirteen at the hands of 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.080 the Washington Wizards tonight in Washington, So that means the 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:49.000 Wizards remained one game up on the Philadelphia seventy Sixers. 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:51.159 If the Wizards would have lost, the Sixes and Wizards 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.760 would have been tied in the standings and the Miami 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.400 Heat then would have been up a little bit more 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.560