This is the Philadelphia Has seventy Sixers postgame show. If I can look about about Broad Street Stars, He's gonna turn and getting off Mattie Roll the Sixers postgame show right now on ninety seven five. The fanetting a complacent
group by no means at all. That's what Brett Brown said before the game in describing his resilience seventy Sixers, and certainly those words proved to be prophetic tonight, on the second night of a back to back, the Sixers coming off a great win yesterday on the road in Cleveland, and did they answer tonight, Trailing by as many his fourteen points in the second half, the Sixers summoning up a major closing kick to defeat the visiting Charlotte Hornets
one ten two at ninety nine. Brian Seltzer with you here on the postgame show. We're expecting to hear from seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown. We'll touch base with Tom McGinnis one more time and play back some of his highlight calls. The Sixers had a great closing finished last night at the queue, and tonight they outscored the Hornets thirty six to nineteen over the final twelve minutes of regulation. It really was a collective group and balanced effort.
There was that massive surge in crunch time, the Sixers outscoring the Hornets nineteen to seven to close the game. But you saw guys like JJ Reddick driving unscathed into the lane, Ben Simmons getting involved and arson Elio Silva with eighteen points Joel and Bed leading the way with a very big night of his own. Let's join in progress Brett Brown doing recently, they've won five out of
the past six games. They're playing hard, and they're well coached, and they're playing really good basketball, and they want what we currently have, a playoff spot, and the season is running out, and you know, we were all looking at somebody die ice a wing last night at one thirty in the morning. We got in everybody, you know, got into their rooms, I'm sure their own homes at about two thirty three, and we found a way to you know, come back and and win at home and and uh
reload on the back to back. The the nineteen defensive points in a fourth period after playing last night, I'm proud of, I'm really proud of on nine assists in the same period you know, to have thirty six points and hold them to nineteen points and to have you know, a big number nine assists is a good team basketball. Um, all those things come to my mind. It's it's it's a very good win. It's a solid win. Yes, you
guys are usually pretty conservative. So the pick and roll defensively handed back kempis sort of got going in the second quarter. You talk about the adjustments you made it. So yeah, the second hand, I mean right now with third or fourth in defense, and we really are trending to be an elite defensive team. And and I feel in my old life the way that we're guarding isn't all un It can't be all you have if you're
fortunate enough to get into the playoffs. You can't always rely that Dario is gonna guard Kimba Wonka, say, because we switch a lot with six ten and six. Hey, we've had great successes here switching, But to think you're going to win a series switching isn't going to happen.
And so trying to you know, give some aggressive shows on the ball, hard hedges on the ball and letting Dario stay connected with Kaminski and keeping you know, cub or tj on Kemba to avoid sort of cross matches interest me a lot, and I think that what always goes on in my mind and the coach's mind is how do you best prepare them if we are going to be in the playoffs and in a seven game series and pick and roll defense with some minor but I think effective adjustments is one of them. And that's
what you saw tonight. We're trying to grow the ability to make adjustments out of our pick and rolls if we're lucky enough to get in the playoffs. The impact that Urson had eighteen points off off the batch research for gas, you know. And I'm going to grow him in different ways. And you know tonight you would have seen him and Dario play a lot with each other. You know, you see him have the ability to make great passes. You know from that pick and roll spot.
I put him in Joel and you know, some pick and rolls and they delivered. You know, he's able to make that pass. You saw him be able to you know, sort of throw and go we call it with with Joel and cut. You saw him take a massive charge at the end of the game that he got rewarded for.
There was a few others that I thought he could have but didn't, and so all over the place, you know, whether it's him making a three, him passing to you know, Joel rolling, him taking a charge, him coexisting with Dario Sarich. You know, I think that that that flexibility, that versatility is what excites me most about him. And it's not like we don't know each other. We know each other well. He knows the system, you know, quite well. There's still
lots to refamiliarize him with. But he's a massive pickup at this stage in my eyes, certainly proved to be in tonight's game for the seventy six ers one ninety nine win over the Charlotte Hornets. Down here at the center, Iliosiva with eleven of his eighteen points off the bench coming in the fourth quarter, a lot of key deposits from him, a turnaround jump shot that cut the deficit to three about three and a half minutes into the fourth.
He later on assisted on a timely Dario charge three that sliced the margin to one, and then hit a three pointer of his own midway through the fourth to put the Sixers in front ninety one. To eighty nine.
Later some free throws down the stretch to erase a one point deficit, and then during that sequence of driving layups and dunks that featured JJ Reddick and Ben Simmons, Iliosiva with a driving layup score of his own to make it one o one to ninety six with two and a half minutes to go, and essentially at that point he had a pretty good feeling about the direction that tonight's game was headed. In Iliosilva with eighteen off the bench, Joel Embiid with twenty three and fifteen to
go along with four assists and three block shots. His presence on the court helped open up those opportunities inside late for other members of the team. Ben Simmons fifteen is seven and eight to go along with a block in tonight's matchup Robert Covington with sixteen he was pretty steady over the course of the evening, and JJ Reddick getting some driving scores late with eighteen points of his own. Big win for the seventy sixers on the second night of a back to back, just their third win on
night two of a back to back this season. They've won two in a row after two straight losses back to seven games over five hundred thirty four wins, the most since two twelve, twenty thirteen, the year before Brett Brown's arrival. Tom McGinnis is coming up on the other side. It's the postgame show here on the Sixers Radio Network. Seventy Sixers top of these Charlotte Hornets one ten to nine.
The seventy Sixers in a game that went back and forth, racing a deficit as large as fourteen points in the second half in route to win number two in a row. Tom mc ginnis had the call up tonight's game. My name is Brian Seltzer. Let's talk about this one Tom a little bit. Looking back at the third quarter, Sixers nine a great spot down as seventy six two sixty two, A very large man, an all star, stepped back onto
the court. He had a fantastic third period, and then we saw rasan Ilyasova as one of the top performers in crunch time, down the stretch well and beat as I mentioned when six verse six, he ended up with fifteen points in the third quarter. And I think in general, these Sixers kind of seize the moment. They came out in the third quarter, Trailion at halftime, and it looked like they could they could never really get over the top.
In other words, Charlotte was flat and the Sixers pulled within like three, but couldn't get over the hump until Joel did that. And yet they still trailed by four in the fourth, and then their defense really up. The same thing occurred where the Sixes made a run, and this time they got over the top and they closed out the game. I mean to do this two nights
in a row, where so effective on offense. Last night down the stretch in the last four and a half minutes against Cleveland, and then tonight with Earson, the two drives by Reddick, the jam by Simmons, the overall played by Embiid. You know you're looking out there at t points tonight you got Dario Sharch six, Earson, Iliosova six ten, Ben Simmons six ten. I mean that's long, and they all save for Ben can step out and shoot the long ball. You've got some really nice elements. And again
the defense they held them the forty three points. They only had three field goals on the last eight minutes. Walker was finally held in check and just a tremendous job, you know, on a night where you didn't have the energy due to the late night, as Coach Brown talked about, and on the heels of a very emotional victory in a hard food win in Cleveland, it just it showed how much this team has grown over the last three or four months. Seventy sixers over the Charlotte Hornets one,
ten ninety nine. Sometimes Tom mc ginnis, we talk about the micro immediately after a game, but let's why don't we roll out into the macro category where you know you're safessors, drop a dime in the hats, pay some things off every now and then you know you're seeing a team playing and fulfilling the with and fulfilling the blueprint the head coaches long had, but also the whole concept of position lest basketball that Brian Clanzo has talked about over the last two seasons, and now some of
the acquisitions that he's made over the last three weeks all coming together right now at a really critical time of the year, and it seems like everything's just fitting together. And for the Sixers it is a time about adjustments. But to see them close out these games that has
to be in making shots. When we hear about defensive lot but seeing the make shots and important junctures of games, it's got to be one of the more telling positive signs of without Well, let's go back to your overall point about you know, kind of stepping back and looking at the general picture. One of the other phrase that
Brian Colangelo looked at was a positionally balanced roster. And now you've got guys like Reddick and Covington that could shoot the basketball, Bell and Ellie's in the mix, that could spread the floor. And that's what Ben Simmons talked about postgame with you know, that lane was so wide open. It was like the layup line broke. I thought that layup line was supposed to occur at you know, seven h three or six fifty four, but it broke out
in the fourth quarter and really helped the Sixers. So that plus the way that Brett Brown approaches it, he and his coaches, you know, like he just said, they're they're they're planning for the playoffs, and so, you know, development is still huge. That's how your team, that's how a young team gets better. They improved during the course of the season and during the course of several seasons and overall then your team gets better. So you're seeing
a lot of these things come into play. The acquisitions obviously of Ilios, Sliva and Bell and Ellie are huge. You've got guys you know you needed a little bit of scoring off the bench, and now you've got that. And the defense is improving, and Bead has stepped up and improved to be so consistent and really you can
count on him. As I said during the course of tonight's game, he does something that one time he sprinted the floor after harassing Dwight Howard defensively sprinting down the middle of the floor and got the ball in the lane and just a tremendous So, you know, one of the things that I said earlier during our postgame coverage, you know the Sixers marketing mantra, you know, welcome to the moment. Well, this is the moment. This and when you're on the rise, this is as much fun as anything.
And these fans played a huge part. It's been an unbelievable home advantage and it's only going to get better. Sell out every game. Tonight huge twenty thousand plus in the night like tonight, everybody had tough sledding getting down here. Just a fantastic second half of the Sixers, a great victory, well deserved off and then right back on the road. It's unbelieved. Jim O'Brien did something that I laughed about this about five times today. Sitting courtside in Cleveland at
practice and practice hasn't really started yet. He goes to me top real quick, what day is it? And he goes not quick enough, and I hesitated because I'm like, well, it's Thursday. We're on TNT. I figured out where it was Thursday because the Sixers were on TNT. How scary that is. So it's been a whirlwind. You know, they've been on the road a lot, and I realized the All Star break was only two weeks ago. But now right back out on the road, and when you're playing well,
you want to keep playing. That's exactly what's going on right now. So encouraging to see this team bounce back after two hard fought, tough losses to start that road trip against Washington and Miami, and really someone like Arthsnilio Silva, you talked about the urgency and hunger. This team is shown while it's on the rise, clearly that was something that was attractive to him and finally seen him get that charge late and come through the way he has.
It's just a team that seems very much together. And that goes back to the concept that Ben Simmons started off the postgame interview with when they're playing together and they're clicking, they're a scary group. Well that and you bring up point with your son and just sitting down with him yesterday after that practice in Cleveland. He's a good guy. And Brett Brown like he likes and that's how you build a team. That's how you get chemistry,
and that is high character. Guys like Joel mister free throw in the fourth quarter and he put his head down and as I said, TJ McConnell put him in the headlock. Well, and which is TJ's like six two or six three and Joel seven two. But you know what I mean, those guys have had that rapport and all these guys, I mean, that's how you buy in. I mean, that's what championship teams, that's what winning franchises do, where everybody realizes you're going to have to sacrifice. How
about like Jared Baylis, some of these guys. He's proven veteran players realizing, you know, you can't play twelve guys every night, that when you sacrifice for the betterment of the group, that's what makes team. And tonight you had to put Rashwan in there and Timo Tayluwaw got a little bit of time. So that's how you go forward. And you know, everybody has to step up at different points. Different guys in different games come to and have better
games than other. You don't even everybody contributes, and that's what you're seeing right now. So it's really special. And you know, as we've talked about each and every one of the day, the Sixers got to go back down to Charlotte and backed us up on Tuesday. Huge game in Milwaukee on Sunday, an exciting time of the year, and the Sixers clicking, playing some of their best basketball in the last six or seven years. Thirteenth consecutive win
here in South Philadelphia. Tom McGinnis, we will talk to you from Milwaukee on Sunday nights. Good night, Thanks Sixers over the Hornets one ten ninety nine. There are some great performances in tonight's game. Joel Embid delighting the fuse for the Sixers eventualill comeback push in the second half. Ben Simmons versatile as always, Robert Covington a very nice night, Iliasova off the bench, Dario Charts another impact winning type
play effort late in the game. We'll get into all that as we continue on the other side, as we play back some of thim's highlight calls from tonight's game. It's the postgame showing the Sixers Raider Network the fanatic seventy Sixers making a brief pit stop here in South Philadelphia after three in a row on the road. They'll be back out for four straight away from home, but first this one tonight against the Charlotte Hornets. Brian Selts
you with you from Sixers dot Com. Let's get to the calls of tonight's game, spun and provided beautifully and excellently by the one only Tom McGinnis Sixers and the Hornets. It was a pretty evenly contested game throughout the first quarter. A nice sign Robert Covington getting into the act. Here's Walker with a dribble hesitation move rejected by Holmes. Want
to play by Rashawn Holmes. Simmons with it Bellinelli cutting Covington with it three ball right side bottom, Comington puts it in good to see, giving the Sixers a twenty to eighteen lead. They would trail by three thirty twenty seven going into the second quarter. Now, in the early stages of quarter number two, the Charlotte Hornets, with Frank Kaminski getting increasingly involved, opened up a ten point lead at forty four to thirty four. So there was some
work to be done for the Sixers. In work they would do, battling playing for the second time and as many nights, a late start last night against a talented team and an excellent player of course in the Cavaliers and Lebron James. But very noteworthy in the final seconds of the first half, the Sixers got a high energy playing here's been on a drive? Whoa Simmons with the left hand, jam Ben Simmons, What a jam? Fifty six
forty eight is what the stuff made it? And that would be the score going into intermission, And you're thinking in the back of your mind, well, wouldn't it be excellent if the Sixers could somehow build upon that. About fifteen minutes later, when they got back out on the court, for half number two. They did. Joe Ellen b did. He was fantastic in the third ben with it Simmons an overdrive finally lives at Joel in another jam by
it be Steve Clifford keeps calling the plays. Maybe somebody should guard and b The crowd is going crazy here at Pladelphia, and for good reason. And Bead with back to back slams, part of a spurt of seven straight scored by the All Star that got the Sixers right back in it, or so you would think. Their deficit was sixty one to sixty, but the Hornets responded with seven points of their own. They would later increase the
lead to fourteen. At seventy six to sixty two, and Bead returned to action and once again the tone of the game changed. Here's Reddick with the ball. That's Joel willa oh Man beat off balance and he got it. Indeed he did. Seventy six to seventy six in a row by the Sixers. They were down by six going into the fourth eighty to seventy four. What would this team have left down the stretch final twelve minutes. Robert Covington big sequence to start the fourth quarter with five
points in a row. The Sixers kept clawing and scratching and fighting their way back into it or a son Ilyasova got better and better and more into a rhythm as the game went along, as evidenced by this contribution, here's your side open for three right side, Ilia Silva knocks it down, but the Sixers efficiency at a timehouse has been amazing and punctual. Ninety one eighty nine. The Sixers back in front for the first time in the second half. Ilia Silva with two free throws to make
it ninety three ninety two. After the Hornets reclaimed the lead, Kemba Walker went to the line to make it ninety four to ninety three, and then the Sixers really began to open things up. One of the lasting impressions from the closing kick. The Sixers delivered tonight three consecutive jams and also sprinkled in some lamps like this one from JJ Reddick. It beat to JJ Reddick drives and nobody stops, and we got a lap right down Broad Street J. J.
Reddick ninety seven ninety four Hornets would score. Then that jam we were talking about, joelma beat fakes and three Howard guards him now Sivens on a drive. Siventh domina a slab Ben Sivens with a two hands stuff, seventy sixers with another stop after they made it, ninety ninety six on the dunk from Simmons and the professional putting his nickname into this one. Iliasova on the wing, Earson over to Joel fact ear sign hit a layup. It's a layup line. The Hornets can't stop the Sixers. Welcome
back ear Sock. Hornets could not stop him. Ersoni Ilasova right place, right time. He was excellent down the stretch in tonight's game. Also had a key charge throwing the mix in the fourth quarter as well, and the seventy Sixers power their way to a victory over the Hornets night one to ninety nine. Final stats. Tonight Sixers end up shooting fifty and a half percent from the field,
the Hornets held to forty two percent. Sixers with nine three pointers, Charlotte with eleven sixers nineteen to twenty five from the line. The Hornets were twenty of thirty two, so some missed opportunities there. Against one of the other better rebounding teams in the NBA, the Sixers were plus seven on the glass. They are the top rebounding club in the league, only twelve for the Sixers, ten for the Hornets, but six or survive twenty two points scored
off their turnovers. They had fifty four points in the paint. Did the Sixers outscoring the Hornets by sixteen in that category. That a crucial part of tonight's outcome. Individual notes. The main highlight from Charlotte Kemba Walker with thirty one. The All Star was a hardcover, indeed, but the Sixers able
to overcome it. Joel Embiid with twenty three points fifteen rebounds his thirty third double of the season, also had four assists in three block shots fifteen eight and six for Ben Simmons, eighteen for JJ Reddick, sixteen for Robert Covington. Dario Charche very efficient four of eight from the field four nine points to go with seven rebounds and six assists versni Elio Silva with eighteen off the Benchmarco Belinelli
with seven. With the win, the seventy Sixers pick up their second straight victory, the now thirty four and twenty seven after two losses in a row. These Charlotte Hornets fall to twenty eight and thirty five. The Sixers maintain their spot in sixth place in the Eastern Conference standings, but they could move up a little bit higher depending what happens with Indie Tonights. They are losing right now in Milwaukee fifty six to fifty three midway through the
third quarter. Milwaukee entered today a half game behind the seventy Sixers. Sixers and Milwaukee play each other on Sunday Nights. Get it, got it great? Sixers knock off the Hornets tonights by the final of one ten two ninety nine. As we said, Sixers and the Bucks Sunday Night from BMO Harris Bradley Center. Game times eight o'clock will be on the air with pregame coverage seven fifty big thanks
to everyone involved tonight's broadcast. That would be Jay Gray and Tyler Zulie back at the studio now for the main man engineer on site, Marty Dickerson and the radio voice the seventy Sixers, Tom McGinnis, Brian Seltzer saying so long for an hour. Minor Devon Gibbons coming up next. Call him up at six zero six through two zero nine, seven five one final time from South Philadelphia was the seventy six Ers one ten and the Charlotte Hornets ninety nine.
Big comeback win for the seventy Sixers to pick up win number two in a row. Talked to you next time here in the Sixers Raider Network