This is seventy Sixers. Rewind time now to listen back to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. Seventy Sixers back from the week long All Star Game break with a victory tonight one six, one h two over Miami Heats. Brian Seltzer, welcome you into our postgame coverage from down here at the Center. We're expecting to hear from Brett Brown. Maybe a few players will touch base with Tom McGinnis. One last time, good one for the
Sixers tonight. Boban Marnyaranovitch filling in for Joel and Beat is gonna be out for at least a couple more games with soreness in his knee. A great night nineteen points, twelve rebounds, each of those numbers tying a season high for the big man. He also was plus ten for the game and a high impact first half, getting the seventy Sixers started down the stretch to Bias Harris the key sequence to tie the game up. Ben Simmons taking over at one point in a clutch three from JJ
Reddick to put the seventy Sixers over the top. With a minute ago one six, one two. The Sixers winn it. And now I believe we do have Brett Brown at the podium that I intended to have with say Bobon. At what point, you know, does Zolnok punish that that matchup? And so you're learning and I wanted to take it as far as I could so that we have a
chance to learn what do we have in Bobon? And I think that to your point when you say they willed, you know, the game to win, there is truth through that in that the lineups and how we had to go big and small and you know t J came in and gave us a lift and Jimmy was a point guard and you know, like we're still learning. I think it's a fifth game with this group. And it was my my um determination to come back in this final third and try to figure some stuff out so
that where we want to be in April. What did you see first opportunity? Well, initially I was always curious about his conditioning. You know, is he going to be able to sustain whatever period of minutes that I was giving him? And I think I said pregame, you know, like I hope I'm going more like five minute clumps, maybe six minute clumps. I'm not worried about if it
ends up thirty minutes, but I am the duration. And he kept telling me he was fine, and the game spun out in that first period and he was really good. And then the game you know, left I think a little bit where it went probably a minute and a half longer than I had hoped. But in general I
thought that, you know, he was really good. There were times that you knew the matchup wasn't favorable, and so we got him out and then at the end, you know, we tried to use a foul because we had one to get him back in and have some level of room protection. I thought, in general he was very good
and he was our bell ringing tonight. FREDI went small at the beginning of the fourth first with I believe Mike was playing center, and yeah, what can you guys do without a true room protector on the floor, So I guess get stops. Yeah, it's a it's a good question, and my immediate reaction is to try to I think we have a better chance to keep the game in
front of us by switching everything. There's a lot of you know, like on like bodies out there, and I hope that there's not as much needed at the rim, but in general we we miss it, you know, like I felt that pain. I felt some level of pain without a rim protector. M I think probably my simplest Santa College what I said, I feel like, you know, you just hope to keep the game in front of you.
The struggles you guys had, just guys are not necessarily on the same page yet with a newness of the rotation, Yeah, familiarity, I think there's I think there's a lot of that, and I mean there were some miscues, you know that they go in for, you know, gut layups. This certainly wasn't a flow even offensively. When you start going small ball, you know, you start really trying to whittle it down into simple and so I put Jimmy in a middle pick and roll. You know, we tried to put a
link in that as much as we could. Then they made the substitution, but it wasn't like we were living in anything sophisticated offensively, which at times is just fine. But to your point, you know, trying to figure it out with that group was uh was was was hard out. Hello Ama, my friend of meat at the trade then might to get a backup center. I know that Harris was the big acquisition. I think you were thinking about getting another backup force. You and you know, we talked
about it. When when the media would come in, you guys all say like, what do you need? Really did I pivot? You know, we we always talked about, you know, somebody that can come in and you know, help with pick and roll defense. We talked about who ultimately, you know, the backup five. We were living with Mike and Jonah for a while and Ken that is that sustainable and
you know plan B type stuff. And I feel like the backup five in getting Boban in here to Elton Brand's credit, was just a tremendous move because I think that trade when you really study it with Tobias because of how young and good he is. And then I think that Mike Scott, you know, who ends up sort of a Wilson Chandler, and Boban who ends up like slotting in perfectly as the backup. It was an excellent sort of accumulated trade. We really made money, I think
in multiple areas. So postgame thoughts from seventy six ers head coach Brett Brown after tonight's one oh six one h two win over the Miami Heat. Seventy six Ers now thirty eight and twenty one on the season. The Heat dropped to twenty six and thirty one. Talked about this before the game. Had the Sixers as long as things stay relatively intact right now, very much in line for at worst the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference. A lot would have to happen for them to drop
down any farther than that. And with a win tonight, as we get into the stretch of the year, we're going into the evening, they're only twenty four games left, you know, a chance to move up into the fourth spot to night should Boston lose at Milwaukee. The Celtics were trailing at the half, so a good way, all things considered for the seventy six ers to start the
unofficial second half of the season. No Joe ellenbad in the game, but Boban steps up with a big one nineteen points, twelve rebounds, two assists, and a block shot. He was tremendous in the first half. Tobias Harris all around good game twenty three points, eleven rebounds for him, He was a team best plus nineteen Ben Simmons a strong stretch in the second half twenty one point seven rebounds and four times. I thought TJ McConnell had a
huge impact in the game. He only played just over eleven minutes, all eight of those in the second half in the fourth quarter, and he gave the team a spark when they needed it the Sixers were down. TJ ignited things with a steel, a couple of baskets and scores himself. So he was doing what he does, providing high energy plays with some scrap and some hustle and some grits. TJ McConnell with a key role off the bench for these seventy six Ers. One O six one
h two Sixers beat the Heat. We'll speak with Tom McGinnis next on the postgame show here on the Sixers Radar Network. Club seventy six is the official season ticket waiting list of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. Get priority access for twenty nineteen twenty twenty season tickets by signing up for either Club seventy six Elite or Club seventy six three. Other benefits include exclusive seventy six Ers gear
and access to special ticket offers and events. For more information, go to sixers dot com, slash join Club seventy six, email Club seventy six at seventy six ers dot com, or call two one five, three three nine seven six seven six two one five three three nine seven six seven six. Seventy Sixers outlast the Miami Heat one oh six one h two back and forth game that featured thirteen lead changes in ten times. Brian Seltzer with you from down here at the center as we are rejoined
by Tom McGinnis after an exciting game. Listen. We know that from the playoffs last year, this is a hard fighting Miami Heat team. The seventy six ers shorthanded for the short term at least with actual all embiid. But from the outset time it was clear boban Majanovich he was ready to play. He really was. He was dramatic. We had him as our player of the game, Brett Brown also signaling that he was in there, and he got to ring the bell, which is basically player of
the game as chosen by the coaches. So a tremendous night. And again he's so big, he's not really even leaping to catch that ball. He's around the basket. He showed though, great hand eye coordinations, scoring that ball with agility around the basket, made free throws, got back in the game late, made a big free throw, and he was really terrific.
I mean, there were a lot of questions, as Brett Brown said, would it be his stamina, Would it be his ability to guard in the perimeter, which was challenged when Olenak got out there. But here's the other thing. They couldn't guard him. He dominated whiteside here tonight and one of the best games of his career and the Sixers needed it. In a clutch performance by him against Miami Sixers knock off the heat one O six, one
or two. One of the other teams that Brett Brown spoke about yesterday when the team regrouped for practice for the first time since the break, was who's going to step up in the absence if someone like him beat especially on the offensive end, we saw at various stretches, Jimmy Butler getting really aggressive attacking the bucket. He was great.
Finished with eighteen points, six or rebounds, six assists. Tobias Harris had that swing of five straight points to tie the game up at eighty six when the Sixers fell behind, and then in crunch time, really in the guts of the game, Ben Simmons did a lot with a run of eight consecutive points. Right, Well, let's start with Jimmy Butler, because they had four fouls as a team in the final frame with eight minutes, as you know, they commit that next foul, they put the Sixers in the bonus.
So Butler, he was the primary ball handler out top, and he's such a good driver and slasher and such an excellent foul shooter. That was a really good strategy and it allowed Ben Simmons to play off the ball down load to your other point, where Simmons was very effective around the basket. Not only that, though Ben had some of those classic his number one skill set on folders play and that is grabbing the rebound and driving
the ball the length of the floor. They had a couple of defensive breakdowns, particularly in the first half, where he was able to just get running slam dunks. He was phenomenal. And then again part of the reason you love the acquisition of Tobias Harris. He's a closer. He can make shots until your point about five in a row.
He got an open three he nailed it. Reddick was brilliant when it mattered down the stretch, and you needed multiple players, including Marianovitch to step up in the absence of Embid, and the Sixers got a great team performance overall seventy six ers with one oh six one h two win over the heat Hey by tomorrow morning, they couldn't well even sooner than that, being fourth place in the East with Boston trailing Milwaukee by three in the
third quarter. But next time is a Portland Trailblazers team that I guess maybe because it doesn't have the name, Notoriete or some of the highest profile players, although you know, obviously Damian Lillard is a few of the other teams out west maybe not getting quite as much attention. But look, they're in fourth place at a record of thirty four
and twenty three. And we know what happened the last time around, rushed after Christmas, and guess who wasn't playing in that game either, right, and Bid did not play. And if we thought Yokich was good here, and he was very good, and he had a triple double with Denver against the Sixers earlier this season, not that long ago. Of course, the other game was just two weeks ago. Well here comes Nurkics and he's maybe not as good, but certainly a very talented big man for the Blazers.
And then you have Lillard and McCollum and a very well coached team by Terry Stotts. So it ought to be interesting, that's for sure. And you know it's gonna be It's gonna be tough. You got Anthony Davis on Monday, you got the Thunder on Thursday. In terms of playing without Embid. But tonight the Sixers, it wasn't perfect. It was up and down. They got a big lead, Miami came back, and yet they were able to kind of copple it together to do a nice job and to
win this game. They didn't shoot the three well, they shot just six of twenty three. Excuse me for the six or seven of twenty six. Miami shot six of twenty three, and uh, you know, important for the Sixers to make some late and as you said, you know, a hard faught win Miami, even though the Sixers have dominated them here. I know Miami won that playoff game here, but Miami makes it really tough. And the only other thing I'll say is You know Dion Waiters, he's a
high volume shooter. But imagine if they had him in that playoff series. Not saying it might have been different, but it would have been a different Here you have to contend with him, and you know, no, back to your point about Portland, that should be And again, I think for our fans, you only get to see some of these players once a year, and it's a huge game, huge game, one o'clock. But it's great to see some
of the top talent come in here. McCollum, of course, played locally at Lehigh University, and he's one of the best backcourt players in the NBA. They are arguably one of the best duos in the backcourt where Lillard and McCollum and the Sixers will have their hands full here Saturday afternoon at one, all right, should be a good one. Tom, talk to you that you got a bud seventy. Sixers outlast the Miami Heat one oh six, one h two.
Bobie with nineteen points twelve rebounds, tying season highs in both categories, played a season high twenty seven minutes, Tobias harsh to twenty three points eleven boards, Ben Simmons with twenty one, seven and four. Jimmy Butler a very nice all around game as well with eighteen six and six t J McConnell a great spark off the bench. All that combining on a shorthanded night to be enough for
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ten bucks. That's sixes dot com slash Bluecoats join the Revolution today. Seventy Sixers back at it tonight for the All Star Game break back Without one of their all stars in Joel Embiid, Who would step up? Who would help fill the void? Well, perhaps the most obvious answer, as it became apparent very early on tonight when the Sixers host in Miami heat for the only time this season.
Down here at the center, big Man Boban Mariyanovitch was ready to playing, but Connell stops and stars troubles awand Winslow goes to Boban, a runner by the big man. You pick up. Bobon Marianovitch just putting on a clinic. The Sixers lead by ten. He's got eleven point seven rebounds and that would end up being his first quarter line.
He was a phenomenal four for four from the field in the first eight minutes twenty six seconds huge, plus ten in the first quarter, plus eighteen in the first half, helping the seventy sixers to a lead of twenty nine twenty one after twelve minutes of play. In the second quarter, Miami went on a run of twenty two to eleven between the stretch that Boban was on the court, so that even more indicative of the effect that Marianovitch had
on the game. But Bobi, when he got back out there, he would do his part to help re establish a double figure lane. Ben keeps its rise. It loves a Bobon Marianovitch h by whiteside, and he started whiteside like a boxer in a ropetope mood in a fifteenth round? What kind of defense is Dad leaning on Bobon like he's gonna tire him out? And Bobon Marianovich lays it in again. I had made a forty nine thirty nine, seventy Sixers up at intermission at fifty seven. At two
fifty in the third quarter, Miami would charge back. They would take a brief lead of sixty nine sixty five. Ben Simmons, the All Star in his first game back following his first All Star Game appearance, playing like one, here's Ben on a drive round the lane, in the lane, got it and at the time out taken by the heat well, he dribbled right around Winslow and Ben Simmons a court length drive scores it to tie it. Second basket for Simmons in a stretch of four in a
row for the seventy sixers. He would put the team in front momentarily, but Miami would be in the lead seventy five seventy three. Going to the fourth, Sixers were trailing by five. Tobias Harris changed that. Here comes Harris with a screen slips it. Now catches it on the perimeter He's now guarded by Wade and drives it. He goes right at him and makes a lamp and a timeout. Tobias Harris shoots and scores tie game eighty six apiece.
Miami would jump back ahead. In ninety six ninety two, Ben Simmons was part of a comeback charm five O five to go. Josh Richardson has it knocked away by t j U Steele. He's got Simmons in front. TJ loves and it's a dug by Ben seven and the Sixers are running rough. Todd under Miami heat. Dwayne Wade, last game in South Philadelphia in the regular season, caught fire late, putting the Heat up ninety nine to ninety eight.
Ben Simmons would put the Sixers back in front one hundred two ninety nine, and JJ Reddick after a wave miss two pointer with Lock fins up with a one point lead. The Sixers with a bowl twelve on the shot. Crock Here's Butler on the drives Butler. The Butler skids to a stop. I'll stop kJ KK pace payers three ball, It's good. J. J. Rudnick puts it in, delivers a
big play. Had the Sixers go out by four one h three ninety nine with a minute left, and the Sixers would do enough to stay in front and hang on for a one oh six one h two win. They shot forty five percent for the game. Miami took thirteen more shots in the seventy Sixers that doing parts of the Sixers committing six more turnovers in the game. Miami forty seven and a half percent from the field. Sixers seven three pointers, but got what they needed from
outside the arc late down the stretch. Miami just six of twenty three from outside the arc. Free throw line advantage pivotal for the Sixers in such a tightly played game like tonight, Sixers outscored the Heat by a total of nineteen points from the free throw line. They outrebounded the Heat by eleven, including five on the offensive glass. For the Sixers, leading the way, it was to Bias Harris with twenty three points. He also had eleven rebounds
for a double double. Right behind him Ben Simmons with twenty one point, seven rebounds and four assists. Bobon Manyanovitch with the fourth double double a bigger part than the fifth double double of the season for him nineteen points
twelve rebounds, both of those numbers tying season highs. He also had a block shot and finished plus ten to be Butler with eighteen points, six boards, and six assists off the bench, cannot overlook TJ McConnell mentioned this earlier, but if you tuned in late six points on three or four shooting, five assists and three steals when the Sixers needed a spark in the fourth quarter, loan behold grit man TJ. McConnell checking in and getting the job done, helping the Sixers to a one oh six, one or
two victory. Seventy six Ers now thirty eight and twenty one on the season, while the Heat they dropped to twenty six and thirty one. Taking a look at the scoreboard right now, the game of note in terms of where things are in the Eastern Conference, the Milwaukee Bucks leading the Boston Celtics seventy nine seventy one just underway in the fourth quarter. Were that trend to continue and the Bucks to hang on and beat the Celtics, seventy
sixers move into fourth place over Boston. All right, that's gonna do it. From down here at the Senative on Gibbons is standing by within the post that's coming up next. We'll be sure to give him a call at six one zero sixty three, two zero nine seventy five. Big
thanks to Brian McLaughlin and Tyler Zulie. Back in the studio, Marty Dickerson here now for the radio voice the seventy six or Tom McGinnis, Brian Selzer saying so long for now in final time, the final score it was the seventy six Ers one oh six in the Miami Heats one oh two. Have a great rest of your Thursday night from all of us here at the Sixers Raider Network.
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