Rewind vs. New Orleans Pelicans - 12/13/19

and zero. Down here at the center, we'll join in progress the victorious head coach Brett Brown, and back to bad games. Um, that's how I see it. They're hacking back at the end of the game. Just tell them I was actually okay that My mind was more about time, you know, like the clock kept stopping. The clock kept stopping. It was more of that than than than anything. And so you know, my uh belief is he's going to have to go through some of that to get where

we want to deliver him. I feel a responsibility to do that. And you weigh that up of well, you know, you got to make sure you have the game as secure as you can and I felt confident that that he was going to be okay. And what I didn't like is the fact that the clock just kept stopping. I didn't like that. And so one time we had a possession where Jay Rich had it. After that we gave him the ball. The decision today, yeah, UM, just we wanted to see what we have in him, Like

we had a little taste in New York. I wanted to see more um. And I thought he was really good. You know, I thought he was really good, like he's a he is a you know, sort of neuralands like to me rim protected shop blocker, UM, quick off the floor, I thought he. I thought he was good seven of the last eight. I think Tobias has had at least twenty. What kind of case is he making to being All Star? All you gotta do is repeat and write what you just said, and there it is. You don't need much

more ammunition. I mean, he's been so steady and just responsible, like reliable, you know, go to guy. And I put him kind of in a bunch of different spots middle pick and roll. I saw three balls making his free throws. You know, plays that back down pound pound game and can jump over people, smaller people. He's seven. A hell of a year that had him a fourth quarter, had a little bit of that on Sunday against Toronto. Are you surprised that this stuff pops up time to time?

Start a few guys, Not at all. I'm not surprised at all. I'm not surprised. You know, you got Matisse flying down the court, he gets the steal and he throws it behind the back pass to Ben you know where you just go, probably dunk it or come to a jump stop. It's just, you know, they're not perfect, and we just haven't. I think this is our eleventh now still it's our tenth game out or whatever we played twenty six where we haven't had our team starting.

So I'm not surprised, and neither should you all be. And I really mean that there are some things that I think, no matter how much you played together or the ages, I can't honestly look at you guys and say that, like then fouls and some of the other stuff that's not smart, that's on me and that's on them. But to be surprised with some of the other stuff not really. Seventy six Ers head coach Brett Brown after his team reaches the twenty win mark on the air.

Scanning down the rest of the NBA standings, there are few teams that are in that company with the seventy six Ers. There is no team league that is left undefeated at home, with the exception of your seventy Sixers. The Sixers are now in second place in the Eastern Conference, trailing just the Milwaukee Bucks, the only other twenty win team in the East. And there's only one other twenty win team in the NBA, and that would be the Los Angeles Lakers. So the seventy Sixers in very select company.

And while they again might not have had a ton of rest coming into this game tonight given their signature performance at ted Garden in Boston last night, they did have enough talent and they did make enough plays and did grab enough boards to get this thing across the finish line tonight. Thirty one points for Tobias Harris twelve of twenty from the field. You heard that response that Brett Brown had to a question about Tobias Harris's All

Star candidacy pretty much summed it up. He has been so efficient as of late, at twenty points or better in now seven of his last eight games, twenty four points apiece for Joel and beating Ben Simmons, each finishing with a double double. Ben had eleven assists and Joel had a eleven rebounds. The bench did some really nice work tonight. James Nis the third ten points on four of six shooting, two three from outside the arc, and Norville pell six points, five rebounds, three or four shooting

in just under twelve minutes. He had two blocks within his first three minutes of play, and just a feisty, energetic presence spelling Joel embe in a night that Al Horford was not available for a second straight game. Seventy Sixers are at the twenty win mark. They're twenty and seven, and as Brett said, they've only played ten games, with their opening nights starting five. It seems like a good sign. Seventy Sixers defeat the New Orleans Pelicans one sixteen one

on nine. The final scored Tom againis called this one tonight seventy six ers. Tom got off to a great start thirty nine points a new season high for a first quarter, and they were able to ride that. But you know, New Orleans came back. They went up by one third quarter, and who wasn't none other than Tobias Harris who really got the Sixers gone right, and that was that started a spell after that one point deficit right prior to that was the first tie, that was

the first lead change. But the Sixers responded with a twenty two to eleven run. And you're right, Tobias did it. And I thought Coach Brown, you know, as Apropos nailed it. And that is pound pound in other words, Tobias dribbling down, then able to square up, lift over people and score. And he's been so reliable and consistent in that area

and getting it done. You know, went in there against taller players in haze and sometimes Oka four and Favors didn't play much in the second half, but scoring the ball in the guts in the game. And then it

got a little ugly. And when you when you consider forty four combined free throws in the fourth quarter, as Brett Brown was talking about a lot of stoppages, that clock just wouldn't keep running and it made it difficult, and then they were never able to get it to a single possession, maybe it was three at one point. The Sixers were still able to you know, keep in front, but they missed some free throws down the stretch and fouled,

and that made a little problematic. But even though they were, you know, running on fumes a little bit down the stretch, they were able to prevail and win the game one sixteen one on nine. And like I said, isn't it ironic? It's almost the same score as it was last night when the Sixes beat Boss and albeit in a much different form and setting in consequence, if you will, but a huge victory for the Sixers. Sixers outlast the New

Orleans Pelicans won sixteen one on nine. There were I think Tom, first of all, it's ten o'clock and we're just getting in this segment. We're usually about fifteen minutes ahead on a typical night. I think there were in the twenties total free throw attempts in the final minute forty five regulation. The seventy Sixers closed the game eleven or fourteen from the line, which was critical. Yeah, again, it seems like they missed a ton, but to your point,

they didn't. I know, Josh missed a couple, Ben missed one, and Joel missed one, but they were able to finish it out down the stretch and preserve the victory. And again, as Brett Brown said, you know, hey, look, these guys aren't perfect, because it hasn't gone perfectly. And yet here we are through twenty seven games, and the Sixers have won money. And you know, they've piled up these winning streaks. Now it's five in a row and what now ten of the last twelve. Now they have the second best

record in the East. And again there hasn't been a lot of continuity with the starting lineup olling ten games all told, as Horford sits out for the second consecutive game, and a much needed day of rest, early turnaround as they got to get up there to New York with everything that's going on with the Army Navy game here tomorrow, and you go to Brooklyn, they'll be on night number two of a back to back, and that's what happens. I think Boston was affected a little bit last night.

The Sixers were affected a little bit tonight. There are fewer back to backs, as we've talked about over the course of the season, and yet when you have one, it's it's still an issue, you know, whether you want to you know, coaches try to deny it a little bit issue. Might not be the right phraseology, but it's still a consideration. We'll put it that way, and I

think it's showed here tonight for the Sixers. There was a period Brian with about one six or seven, maybe eight minutes into the fourth the Sixers had four field goals and four turnovers, and they didn't turn it over much, only eleven times. They're getting better at that, but obviously not very efficient. Then we get into that slew of free throws that we touched on. But again, this New Orleans team, Okay, yeah, they've lost eleven in a row.

They only won two road games, but you can tell and Drew Holland they didn't have his a game tonight over six from three, but Ingram and jj and they got some guys that could score the ball and Josh Hart and double figures, and so they just haven't been able to string together, you know, consistent minutes during the course of a game to get off the schneide a little bit with this double digit losing streak, but certainly capable, and I think they're gonna win their share of games,

and hopefully for them, they get zioned back and they get a little bit more excitement going and we'll see where it goes from there. But a nice, hard fought victory, taking care of business win by the Sixers. Amen to that one sixteen win and on the final I will leave you with this, Tom McGinnis, Steve Brooklyn, that's certainly a huge off season storyline in the NBA, adding Kyrie Irving and of course Kevin Durant. Durant who knows when

he'll return. Kyrie Irving remains out. They've been up and down, you know, and Spencer Dinwoodie has been the guy who's leading them and scoring were obviously familiar with him, and given how the playoffs went last year, and Sam goes for Carousel vert but Brooklyn tough place, and I thought that playoff series kind of set the tone for a rivalry that could add a few layers once broke down, Oh no doubt. And they're they're they're not an easy team.

You mentioned Dinwoodie, he has been their leader. You know. You go back to that series and you know, Brooklyn wins the first game here in Philadelphia, the Sixers come back and hold Serve it's tied at one. Then you go out there it's I believe game three on a Saturday, and Mike Scott maybe that was, but still that thing was right in the balance and it's deflected ball tip by and b to Scott and that thing. You know that Sixers win the game because of that shot. So

it's that close. And you know, said Kyrie has been out for a long time. I'd be surprised if Kevin Durant plays this year. But yeah, no, and Ken Atkinson's done a tremendous job with that team. Hard place to play, and you're right, it's the first of four matchups, So look to six Ers. You know, I think more than anything, just to get the rest and to get ready. And even though they you know, they won twenty games, there's certainly some areas where they need to get a little

bit better. And I think in to get in beat and Simmons rolling at the same time, then look out cookout because both of these guys have had some really big nights, including Joel last night, Ben earlier in the week that that Cleveland game stands out, and Tobias has just been so steady. You get out back into the mix. Josh Richardson I thought played really well here tonight, and

the six Ers are gonna get going. You got these bench guys as your pointing out Brian about the three pointers with his reserves and now Matisse into the mix. It's going to be exciting as you get into the middle portion of the schedule. Tom mcgannis will have the call on Sunday early start at six o'clock. Tom speak with you, then thank you. Buy seventy six ers over the New Orleans Pelicans won sixteen in one O nine. I'm Brian Seltzer and here are the details. Seventy sixers.

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win at TD Bank Garden. They were looking to continue momentum and they hit their stride in the first quarter thanks to a spark from the bench walker with it to Juliel Olkaport back down to Oltraport against Bell makes One's Bikes twice a bone nor Bell sented packing sixers in the siventhy guys against slap right down Broad Street Ben Simmons with a dumb that made it twenty six twenty seventy sixers, and moments later Pell again leaving his imprint.

Here's a backdoor cut ahead Pell Prejeck Brown and Ingram He tried to rock it and Norbell turns him away. Here's Betty to the corner in US three boating year. It's good and a foul boh Man so great that made it twenty nine to twenty to seventy sixers like thirty nine twenty five after one. It was their highest scoring first quarter of the season. Second quarter, Tobias Harris started getting in rhythm. The inside, I'll jumble on with Jackson Hayes. There better'd be carefully. He's been proven to

be a good blocker. And now back to Harris. He goes right at Hayes, goes up and in Tobias Harris right at the Pelicans inside and he gets the basket. Tobias Harris only scored two points in tonight's first quarter. He really had it going on after that. The seventy sixers at the break led sixty two fifty seven. In the third quarter, the Pelicans, they would actually threaten. They are those seven of sixteen for three forty three more trades.

And the Sixers Harris too, are driving Simmons underhead scoop by Simmons, He's sword and scored. What a play by Ben Simmons seventy Sixers needed that to keep the lead seventy to sixty eight, but New Orleans would flip the score in its favor seventy one seventy moments later on a three point of it. Then Tobias Harris answered with a triple of his own, and the seventy sixers were

often running on a key nine oh run. Simmons skipped into no foul, puts it up on ken Rich Williams no good rebound, Ennis beyond the ark, James backs up, He goes at to Bias, seventeen foot straight away, good great second chat, time out pals. They made it seventy seven seventy one sixers. They would lead by ten ninety two to eighty two after three quarters of play. The fourth quarter. If you're either here, you were watching, you were listening, you know it was a grind, a slog,

lots of free throws. But these seventy sixers got what they needed in the end to Bias, Harris of the ball locked down to buy ribbles back out to the right perimeter on brandon Ingrin now takes them into the wing area, big posts, right side, and fuck it good Harris eleven field goals at eighteen tries and he did it himself there with a clock winding down, one of the final baskets in the game for these seventy sixers.

In the fourth quarter, there was a total of twenty five fouls called and that resulted in forty four free throws. The seventy Sixers finished the game eleven to fourteen from the line. They win for the twenty fifth time this year and for the fifth straight game. Thirty one points for Tobias Harris. That was a team high total for him. He was twelve of twenty from the field, six of seven from the line, twenty four apiece for Joel and beat and Ben Simmons. Simmons had eleven assists and Bead

had eleven rebounds. Josh Winson had eight points in twenty six minutes, but we look good in the time that he was out there on the floor. Ten points for James Ennis the third four of six, shooting two of three outside the argument. He Stiebel with a three pointer plus a steel and two rebounds. Norvell Pel's six points, five rebounds, three block shots in twelve minutes of play. Seventy six Ers now twenty and seven. They visited the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday at six o'clock. The nets will

be going up against Toronto tomorrow. You've been listening to Rewind, look out for fresh episodes the day after every seventy six ers game this season.