The BroadCast: 01/20/2018 - Rewind vs. Bucks

really hasn't had that much opportunity. You know, in Boston, I yanked him quick, I thought he was down, and I didn't really go back to him. And that's the life of a young player, and it's it's hard to find a rhythm, and it's always the holy grail of any player, let alone a young player, to find NBA minutes and find consistent NBA minutes and really then get in a rotation. That's the easiest way to show this is who I am. And he hasn't had that yet.

He still remains positive, he still works, and tonight with the demise of JJ and UH and Jared Bayless, you know that here he is and the kid responded, like he attacked the rim, he made threes. He is one of our best athletes on the team, and he's fearless and I think just from a human standpoint, to see him get rewarded after him stay staying positive and with the team. Um, that's a feel good story tonight. L doing health wise after the game, because I mean he

took a few knocks. One on the hand, yeah, there's one in that fourth quarter. I believe it's his left leg. Yeah, on the end one yeah yeah, So as he are right at the tier knowledge, to my knowledge, he is. And it's like you can see, you know, you get as a coach, you get try to handle this thing with responsibly, but you're also greed. You look at a cluck. But when do we get him out? Like, okay, game,

let's get him out. Um. Some of it was borne out of that, like you're watching him hold his hand to like being a little bit nervous withholding it looked like his left ankle. But to my knowledge, he seems fine and we'll learn to more Tomorrow. We'll look forward to getting on the plane and heading down to Memphis.

Big weekend in South Philadelphia begins in style earlier today matinee on the ice check in the evening hoops in the round ball check tomorrow to be determined, but a nice way to start a big weekend down here at the Sports Complex. Seventy Sixers. This was an important win over the Milwaukee Bucks one sixteen ninety four. Not going to overdramatize where things stand forty two games into the season,

but the Sixers were very much cognizanto. The Bucks enter tonight a half game in front of them in the standings, because by the way Brett Brown showed them the standings recently to give them a look at what the lay of the land was like in the East. Seventy Sixers answered without Jared Balls and JJ Reddick. The Bucks didn't have Jannis out of Coupo or Malcolm Brogden. But you know what, you're at home, you're lined up for an opportunity to take one against a quality team, and that's

what the seventy Sixers did with balance. They survived the ten turnovers in the third quarter, and they had a big finish. After the Bucks closed within two points in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter, the Sixers outscored Milwaukee by thirty two to twelve the rest of the way. Not a bad way for the Sixers to work their way through the end of the game. Twenty nine points for Juell and b to go with nine rebounds. He had two block shots as well. Sixteen apiece for Ben Simmons.

He flirted with a triple double with eight rebounds and nine assists. Sixteen points for Timo day lewild Cabro We heard Brett Brown talk about him in the post game, eleven for t J McConnell off the bench, thirteen apiece for Robert Covington and Dario charch As. The Sixers find their way with a big finish to one sixteen ninety four win. They're now in sixth place, a half game in front of Milwaukee in the standings in the East. McGinnis is standing by. We're gonna be hearing from him

and his postgame highlights as well. That's all coming up on the postgame showing the Sixers rating Network. Important opportunity for the seventy Sixers on Saturday night here at the Center, and they responded to one sixteen ninety four victory over the visiting Milwaukee Bucks. Before the Sixers head into a road heavy stretch of the schedule. Brian Selta with you from Sixers dot Com, rejoined now by Tom McGinnis and Tom. It was a really, for the most part, encouraging first half.

The Sixers were in control between periods one and two. Little flurry late in the second by the Bucks. Third quarter Sixers seemed to gain some initial control and then the ten turnovers, but that was a nice finish by Joel Embiide and the surrounding cast. Really in the fourth quarter absolutely so. As we said during the course of the game, they kind of had to win this one twice,

but they're able to do it. And it hasn't been textbook perfect in some of these games, but they did it against Toronto, they did it on the road Thursday in Boston, and they did it again here tonight. And great performance by Embiid and really solid contributions from different guys at different times, including Lua who had his best game here this season. T J McConnell was brilliant at times, Dario was terrific with the passing seven assists in total,

a lot of which came early. Dario didn't have a field goal until the third quarter, and Simmons had some spectacular plays around the basket, as Brett Brown noted during his postgame press conference, a big dunk by Ben and Simmons. Even if sometimes he misses the shot or somebody else's misses one, he's so big and he's so athletic and agile around the basket, he can really punctuate a possession with a big time slam. So a nice team victory here,

albeit they didn't have a Denna Coompo. But again, as you say, against the conference rival, gaining a whole game on Milwaukee, and the Sixers continue their forward momentum with how they've played with all the last three weeks. Nice win here tonight. I think of that stretch in which these Sixers outscored the Bucks by twenty after Milwaukee made in a two point game, Trevor Booker had a big

basket for an and one. T J McConnell, Robert Covington, lewhil Cabro As you said, and there's nights win ebid. He's gonna more often than not put up big numbers, but sometimes there's a little bit more weight behind them. In tonight, at the end of that third quarter, he was when the Sixers desperately needed a spark of energy and the game got tied up. He was there with the two and ones, a Duncan and the big block on Eric Bledsoe. There's things that I think get Joel

fired up. And they put plumbly on him. A younger big guy Maker came out on him. Henson really was no match for Joe. So certain things occur and then he gets like re fired up, remotivated and realizes the team needs him, and he did. He had some big plays, I mean, and he's scoring in chunks throughout the course

of the game, and it's it's much needed. There's obviously going to be times where he ruggle in the half court to get going offensively, and to have a guy that can pick you up and get some easy baskets makes it that's that much easier. And he was solid throughout tonight for the Sixers seventy sixers over the Bucks one sixteen to ninety four seventy six ers. Tom This has been well documented, have had via ESPN dot com Strength of Schedule rating system the number one most difficult

schedule in the NBA. On paper, they're gonna be taking on teams in the coming weeks with lesser records than theirs.

But man, if their goal is to be a playoff team, these last five games in particular against Eastern Conference teams that at the time to tip off we're ahead of them four and one, that's not too bad, no, And they've done well and they've proven that they can now beat and for their own knowledge as well, I mean not just for the standings, but to be able to beat Toronto, and to be able to eat Boston, to

be able to beat Milwaukee. But and maybe that schedule is going to break a little bit in February where they'll be home for much of that month and of course the All Star break. But I see road game at Memphis, road game against San Antonio. The Sixers haven't won there since the Truman administration. They go to Oklahoma, I mean that's been a difficult place as well, and

then they go to Milwaukee. So you know, I get it with the schedule, and there's no doubt because we've lived it in terms of traveling on the road with this team and going and seeing the top notch opposition that they've faced. So hopefully it'll continue, as you say, it'll ease up a little bit, and it appears as though it will do that and the games are going to be spaced out a little bit, so Joel, you know, health provided will be able to get into a rhythm

as it continues to do so. But the bottom line is, you know, they're trending well, they're playing well, they're picking up victories. They still have some hiccups with the turnovers, but able to get past that. And they just got to keep plowing ahead and not looking or assuming or taking anything for granted. I mean, Milwaukee without its best player here tonight ended up putting up a fight for a much of the game, and you just can't assume anything.

You got to kind of look at yourself as a group and know that you're you're doing the best that you can and trying to shore up those areas. And that's what Brett Brown and the coaching staff have been focusing on, and that's what the Sixers will do going forward, whether the schedules easier or harder. They got to just and I thought tonight really established beginning to establish a home court. Advantage of crowd certainly is going to help them.

They're now a game over five hundred here at home, Finishing five hundred on the road is part of the formula of making the playoffs. But you've got to win closer to seventy seventy five percent of your home games to get upwards of forty plus victories and to try to get yourself in a position amongst the top eight. Important one for the Sixers Tonight one sixteen ninety four over Milwaukee. Tom mcguinnis talk to you from Beal Street

on Monday nights. Thank you, Brian, good night. Seventy Sixers get a balanced effort on a shorthanded nights for both teams themselves and the Milwaukee Bucks. They fend off a run by Milwaukee in the second half and close things out strong in the fourth quarter. We will get into that in further detail coming up on the other side, and we play back sometimes. Highlight calls is the postgame

showing the Sixers rate a network. Seventy Sixers wrapping up a stretch of five consecutive games against teams that at the time of tip off were ranked ahead of them in the Eastern Conference standings. The Milwaukee Bucks in town tonight, Brian Seltzer with you on the postgame show. Is here is how it sounded courtesy of the one and only Tom McGinnis. Sixers got off to an encouraging start tonight,

racing app to a fourteen to six lead. Timotey Lewile Cabrough, making a second start of the season, cap that stretch with a two point of The Bucks would battle back and close to within a possession in the final moments of the first quarter. TJ McConnell with a positive punctuation period number one. Here's TJ after two, three those and he blows by him in McConnell of the lap. TJ McConnell goes from zero to twenty in three seconds. Here's Delavadova over and beat at the half court stripe. Why

double half? The Sixers lead by eight. I'm totally familiar with how this thing works with the kids these days. But that Jeff with Spider Man pointing at Spider Man. You see McConnell and Delavadova. It's like that embodied on the hardwood. Well, anyhow, McConnell got the best of Delavadova in that sequence to make it thirty seven to twenty

nine going into the second. The Sixers got some good things from Joel Embad with time winding down and period number two two free throws for Plumbly, He's made all four of his attempts. He guards a Bead to twelve to go Joel down, low up and undermoved by a beat and he powers it right back and scores it

in Bead makes it sixty one forty eight. He's got eighteen in the first half, but the Milwaukee Bucks would whittle things away and draw within six points of the seventy Sixers by the score of sixty one to fifty five going into the halftime break. But things started really well for the Sixers in the beginning of the third.

Dario Schartz got himself going in terms of scoring after handing out six assists in the first half, but the Milwaukee Bucks strung together nine straight after the seventy Sixers went up by eleven, so the Sixers had the Bucks on their heels. Milwaukee would tie it on a thon Maker basket at seventy five, and then the Sixers got an answer from Ben Simmons and Bead with a rip through move and now they dribbled out top against Baker

picks it up. He goes to Simmons, Simmons off the Abe screen double they with the right hand lamp up and good. He turns the corner and puts it in Ben Simmons now the four double figure scorer for the Sixers. Simmons in particular had a lot of success getting behind the defense, the interior defense of the Milwaukee Bucks tonight, as was the case in NAT highlight right there. Then Joel Embad rose to the occasion to close out the

third quarter. One twelve to go. Third quarter, McConnell in the lane, somebody's got to shoot that ball and beat fakes it two to shoot, dominate off bounce. But then

Joe Ellenbad racing dominating the nick of time. He's shooting a free throw for his twenty fifth point of the game, and he made the free throw to make it eighty four to eighty going into the fourth Joel Ebad score the final seven is six or points to close out the thirty at a big block on Eric Bledsoe during that stretch of the game as well, very much said of the tone. But the Bucks made it eighty four

eighty two minutes in to the fourth quarter. That is when the Sixers went on a game changing a tear. They would score the next thirteen points to open things up. Milwaukee sliced the deficit to eight, and then the Sixers would put this thing away. Here Simmons on a drive. Simmons with a jam. Ben Simmons first free and bangs home a right hand jab bus through the Bucks. He's got fourteen where there are times when he makes it looks unbelievably easy and put the Sixers up by fourteen,

one h three to eighty nine. TJ McConnell closing the curtain on Milwaukee, shars right perimeter for three and that's good five straight for the Sixers out of the time out and the leaders one oh six eighty nine. TLC with the dish. Here's TJ with a knockaway but steal, he drives it at scares it at Milwaukee takes time the seventy Sixers up one oh eight eighty nine. It was a furious run with just under five minutes to go.

As we mentioned earlier, the Sixers out scoring the Bucks thirty two to twelve over the final eleven minutes of regulation on the way to their seventh win in their last eight games. Final notes from the final stat sheet. The Sixers shot fifty three percent from the field, Milwaukee just over forty percent, six or ten of twenty five outside the arcs slightly more efficient than Milwaukee, which was ten of thirty two six or sixteen to nineteen from

the foul line. The Bucks were eighteen of twenty two sixers plus eight bigger pardon, ten on the glass, and plus three in terms of offensive rebounds as well turnovers. The Sixers only had three in the first half, committed ten in the third quarter. Survived that very balanced all throughout the scoring sheet tonight, as six players finished in

double digits. Joel and bed leaving the way eleven of nineteen from the field, two of five outside the arc, five of six from the free throw line for twenty nine points. He had nine rebounds as well sixteen apiece for Ben Simmons and Timotey Leile Cabo Leio Cabrero, stepping up in his second start of the season. Simmons and

hear triple double. He also had eight rebounds and nine dimes, thirteen apiece for Dario Shart, who had seven assists two Robert Covington plus twenty eight in the game with thirteen points, five boards, three dimes. TJ McConnell big off the bench with eleven points five to ten from the field. He had seven assists and two steals plus twelve for t

J McConnell. Sixers dominated the paint, out scoring the Bucks there sixty two thirty two on a night in which the Sixers were without JJ Redick and Jared Billis and the Bucks were down Jannis Anacopo and Malcolm Brogden three ties, two lead changes in a two hour, nine minute game tonight sellout crowd of twenty thousand, eight hundred twenty six down here at the Center where the spirits of good

fortune was alive in South Philadelphia. And absolutely you hope that extends into tomorrow and around this time, fingers crossed, all will be well and right in the Delaware Valley, all right. Next up for the seventy six Ers a Monday night meeting with the Memphis Grizzlies alone stop on Beal Street this season. Game time is eight o'clock Eastern. We will get underway with a pregame show at seven

fifty on some of our Sixers rated network affiliates. Following the Sixers win, Tom McGinnis had a chance to catch up with one of the players afterwards, and I believe we're gonna be joint courtside by t J McConnell. TJ, thank you for joining us. Tom McGuinness, you guys came out of that time out. You got a big steel part of a seven old run and that in the end was what put Milwaukee away for good. Clutch stretch for you guys down the stretch and you had a

big hand in it. Your thoughts on that, Yeah, we just continue to persevere even though we gave up another lead. You know, at least we're ahead. Yeah, that's the positive thing, and just to continue into fight and giving something that these fans cheer for. It's they deserve it. You're really beginning out again. You're just a game over five hundred at home, but you're really beginning to establish a home

court advantage. Sellout crowds. You guys inspire the crowd, they in turn pour it back, and that's what you're looking for if you hope to be a competitive playoff team where playing in Philadelphia is a very difficult thing for the opposition. Yeah. Absolutely, m I continue to say it. I think we have the best home court advantage in the NBA. This place is sold out every night and they're behind us all the way, and we love them with that in mind, because basketball is hard. I mean,

you play hard, gritty, tough. But when, for example, you made that play and you turned and you have twenty thousand people responding to you, what is that? That must be joy in a basketball sense. It gives you chills, you know, every time you think about it. Um, they're incredible people and incredible fans, and you know the way they get behind us. Like I said, I don't think there's a crowd like it. Well, thank you very much, congratulations,

appreciate it. Thank you. T J. McConnell of the Sixers. Sixers beat the Bucks one sixteen to ninety four.