These guys are. I think it's a real time example of how you've heard me say, Oh, they play together, they coexist. We you know, pass the ball and this and that. That's real. It doesn't require a coach thrown out some math that that that that's there's a human side to that action that you just described that is special at great teams, remember any that are playing this well for this long as well as this team is played in the last sixteen dealers, I feel like this team.
When I think of this team now and there's so much more to do, I really think of that thing I just said. I feel that the group, you know, really enjoys each other's company. And when we lose, like heavyweight like Joe l Embiid or you know, other people go down, other people do step up. And it's not like we boast you know, a collection of NBA All Stars or you know NBA champions in that room. That that isn't who we are right now. We are in the infant stages of some organic growth that I love
the way the program, the culture is trending. And to end the season breaking I'm told an NBA recorded with consecutive games to secure the third spot in the East and to you know, break a franchise record with consecutive wins. All those things equal what I just said. I think the group is really really tight of the regular season. I mean, it's hard to sort of pinpoint anything, you know. I liked. I think that when you when you delineate between style of play and culture, I feel like we've
done that. You know, they do cross pollinate. But I feel like we play a certain brand of basketball, and we said we were going to play a certain brand of basketball for a long time, and I think to be able to see it evolve and not like wiggle to the left or right, and grow a style of basketball that we believe in. I'm proud of that. I'm proud of the cultural side of what we do, you know, as a team, stuff on court, off court. I'm proud
of that. And I think that when you say tell me one thing, it's hard for me to do that, I can tell you two global things, and it's that style of play and culture, and they do cross pollinate. The record of season is over and you turn your attached to the playoffs, Well, how do you get this young team to kind of redial and you focus it that you're ready to posting. You have them take a deep breath and recognize for a moment what they did. They have to take great pride, take great satisfaction and
the accomplishment. Albeit you know early and it's not something that I deem to be like, here we are, we've arrived significant type status. It's not that I want them to enjoy it. Take a deep breath and then reload. You know, we're gonna come back in tomorrow night. We'll have a team dinner. The coaches will be in there very early in the morning going through all the stuff
and delivering to the team a game plan. We'll have a team meal, we'll have a game plan laid out, and we'll bring him in the following morning and get into more compartmental type things with bigs and smalls and point guards and positional type stuff of this is who you're guarding, this is our expectations, etc. And walk it down and soon we'll learn what time we play. We
assume it's going to be Saturday. We don't know that for sure, but all that is what I want my players to like, enjoy and look forward to getting into tomorrow. Sixers coach Brett Brown now it's looking like up we'll beat Miami. They lead by four in overtime at home one thirteen, one oh nine. These six Ers will be third with a victory. Pretty sure the heat would be six and that would set up Round one playoff activities.
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or email tickets at seventy six ers dot com. And again that comes with the opportunity to purchase playoff tickets for this season's playoffs and the Sixers with that right around the corner. Brett Brown just gave you the game
plan in terms of getting ready for the postseason. I know they've been planning in terms of trying to get ready in terms if it would be not the coaches too much, but a lot of the analytical staff trying to prep as much as they can for each potential opponent, and they'll know by the close of business before they leave here tonight as to whom they'll play coming up over the weekend. So an incredible game here tonight. You
thought coming in this would be a nailbiter. It was anything but the Sixers blowout Milwaukee or thanks to Tyler, Julian Carlamoli and Marty Dickerson. Here we'll turn it over to Brian Seltzer dot Brian Seltzer of Sixers dot His name seems like his last name is dot com, but he is working here and we'll read all of his stuff over the course of the next couple of days and in the playoffs is the Sixers will be in the playoffs for the first time since twenty twelve. Thanks
for listening. We'll have a portion of the postgame program, but for now, Tom mcginns from the center where the Sixers win by thirty five in the regular season finale over Milwaukee. This is the Sixers radio network. He's the Philadelphia has seventy Sixers postgame show in feed. I can
look about about broad streets. Harks's gonna turn him getting off Matty rolls the Sixers postgame show right now on ninety seven five the finette hard to him mention a more perfect finish to a remarkable, incredible regular season for the Philadelphia seventy Sixers. Lisia's speechless. The box score one
thirty to ninety five. But of course, who will spend the next couple of minutes speaking about this impressive seventy Sixers win, this impressive seventy sixers season, and impressive club overall? One thirty ninety five. Again the final score. Brian Selta with you from Sixers dot com. We're gonna talk with
Tom mc ginnis in just a few moments. Wow, No, Joel embiid, Ben Simmons not really a factor in the scoring tonight, JJ reddick out with some lower back tightness and the Sixers blast blowout the Milwaukee Bucks run the deer right out the building in what seemed like it could have been a potential first round playoff matchup. Within the opening minutes of play, it was clear this game belonged to the class of the seventy Sixers. They led forty six to eighteen after the first quarter. They scored
seventy points before Milwaukee hit thirty. The lead that just ballooned out tremendously eighty to forty four by the half, highest scoring first half of the seventy Sixers since nineteen at ninety just the tenth eighty point first half in team history. Only for twenty seven seconds in the second half of the Sixers lead dip below thirty points phenomenal.
Then to capit all off, you had that mob scene moment by the Sixers bench when Mark l Faults after everything he's been through, clinched a triple double tonight with
thirteen points, ten rebounds, ten assists. He hawked down that final rebound in the closing seconds and it was like a pitcher throwing no hitter or perfect game or the final out in the World Series, when Mark ll Foltz was just swarmed in front of the Sixers bench, And for a kid who's been through so so much, an outstanding moment for him and his teammates as they close out the regular season with an NBA record sixteenth consecutive victory to end a regular season that a new mark
in the NBA. Tonight's win adds to the longest winning streak in Sixers franchise history. They lock up the three seat in the Eastern Conference by virtue of the win with a fifty two and thirty record, and stand by for just a moment, we have this breaking news on the seventy Sixers postgame show. The first round opponent for the seventy Sixers starting this weekend at the Center, will
be the Miami Heat. That is because the Heat beat the Toronto Raptors at home in overtime one sixteen to one oh nine, Orlando defeating Washington in Florida one o one to ninety two, and the New York Knicks on the road with Cleveland's starters resting for the better part of that game, New York beating the Cavaliers one ten to ninety eight. So that news, Justin the seventy Sixers
will face the Miami Heat. As long as we read our NBA postseason breakdown chart correctly, it'll be the seventy Sixers and the Heat likely starting on Saturday here at the Center. Get it, got it great? We're gonna take a quick break, collect our breaths. Tom McGinnis is standing by team high point total going to Justin Anderson with twenty five, leading a tremendous bench effort. Dario charch lit the fuse twenty four points a plus twenty seven in
the game. Seventy Sixers with a brilliant way to cap a brilliant breakthrough regular season. We'll get to go in after this. It's the postgame showing the Sixers rate and network. Seventy Sixers just a fantastic finale in the regular season, trampling the Milwaukee Bucks one thirty six eighteen after the first quarter, they were up seventy to twenty nine one point in the second quarter. It was that dominant and they didn't even have their full complement of players. Brian
Seltzer joined now by Tom McGinnis. Tom, this has been a pretty amazing ride for the seventy sixers, and so neat that this was the type of regular season you could really enjoy and continue to be impressed by as and unfolded and for to wrap up this way. It really was storybook type setting for the seventy Sixers tonight. No, because this was a scary game coming in, I mean Milwaukee was rested. The Sixers with a hard fought, I
mean very physical game last night in Atlanta. Late arrival, Milwaukee had just beaten the Sixers twice, I mean not just but the most recent two games. And yet the Sixers came out Marco Belinelli made a three and the game wasn't even ten seconds old, and the Sixers never trailed, And just an astounding first half with the threes flying. Daria was back in a big way, eighty points in the first half and Ben Simmons hadn't even scored. I mean,
how about that. So just an incredible and then all around performance homes and folds, and we understand Foltz maybe the youngest player ever to record a triple double, securing the three seed, the sixteen consecutive victories and again never done before in the history of the NBA. I mean, it was remarkable the other night when the Sixers won and they tied the eighty two eighty three championship Sixers teams with the most consecutive wins. Then the Eclipse it
last night, and then they further established it tonight. It's all. It really just shakes your head in the most positive of ways. And this group wants more, Like Brett Brown said, you know, he wants them to feel satisfied and feel accomplished.
Take a deep breath, no doubt, rest tomorrow and then begin to gear up through you know, the game plan and whatnot practice on Friday, and then the game here Saturday, and as you says it said, it's Miami, and wow, that's Miami won in the last two games against the Sixers, and certainly, the way the Sixers are playing right now,
they have to feel confident against any team. Miami scary though, the way they have what I call dribble drivers, slasher type players with Draga and Richardson, and of course Dwayne Wade is going to ratchet it up, and Wayne Ellington's having a career year from three. Whiteside's been up and down here, they've been playing Olinic a little bit more. But for them to beat Toronto and over time and secure the sixth spot, it's going to be a very
good series, no doubt about it. And to me, the longer that series goes maybe you know, who knows, maybe the Sixers take care of business early, but I think that the further that thing goes along, the better the prospects are that a bad will get back in the mix. I was saying that in the postseason for faults, but he looks like he's ready. I thought maybe the more time went on, the more practice, the longer the season went, the better. But he appears ready and he'll be raring
to go after what we saw here tonight. Just an incredible athletic I thought performance by Marquel. This game got out of hand real quick. The Sixers over the Bucks one thirty ninety five. Dario starts so important to setting
the tone, lighting the fuse for the seventy sixers. But as you said, Tom, the lasting impression, it's hard not to be Marquelle faults and that image of him being just mobbed and engulfed by his teammates in front of the seventy sixers bench, Just how cool is that for him and for people you know who may like sometimes take as teams speak, the whole narrative of oh, we were rooting for him all along. We really supported him
and were with him every step of the way. I mean, you could see it right there, just how thrilled they were for folks that he had that type of moment, a triple double in the final game of a regular season, and who knows, this time a month ago, no one probably expected to see him, right, It was actually like a shocker what Coach Brown said. It was on a Monday night where he said that he was going to play like I said. It was a bit of a startling revelation at that point. And boy, play he did.
And he's worked himself into where he's going to be an impactful player in the playoffs. And you know, to your point, Brian Justin Anderson said courtside that he's never seen more resilience shown. I mean, that's a pretty impactful comment right there. And you know, we've been around him. He is a very likable young guy. These guys have
all kind of taken them under the wing. How about you know, at shoot around at the training complex when the media would be allowed in, they'd all started shooting, Marquel shooting, and one day JJ Redick was just fed up and said, hey enough already, let the guys shoot.
Let the guy go through this process. So in a sense, you know, they've kind of had his back and it's just remarkable for him to miss what sixty eight games and then to come back and to play like this, and you know, look, he showed why he was the number one pick. I mean that when he goes when I say sores and scores, I mean you're watching he's flying over the opposition and going right over the room. I mean it's incredible. So you know, hopefully and all
these guys will be raring to go. And I'll tell you one thing too, that markl tj Rashaan at some point a mirror will go back to the bench, your son Marco. In addition to how well Dario and Ben and JJ and everybody's play cove but depth is so important into playoffs because you know, I referenced this Milwaukee
team with Jannis Adenib. I remember watching that it was games and Milwaukee, like Jana Sadeta Kopa, one of the great players in our game, couldn't he could not summon the energy to shoot a free throw, and that said something about their lack of depth in Toronto's depth in that playoff series a year ago. I only bring it up just because it kind of points to what it's like. The energy, the intensity in the game shrinks. It's more
of a half court type of game. And I think the Sixers depth is going to serve them well in this postseason. And I know him going on what one last thing, Brian, like coach talks about the team coming together, how they play for one another. You think back to August, and for that matter, even before. I mean this team
got back together right after the season. I mean they took a few weeks off in August, but this group was in that gym together, the practice facility, everything that one would have hoped for, putting a team in the best possible position for them to want to go there, to spend the time there to work on their craft. They did it, and they were doing it for each other and pushing each other along. And look where it's
brought them. It's brought them to the cusp I mean right now of greatness and they're going to try to prove it. And as Brett Brown said, you know they've done terrifically well. But right now this means they put themselves into position. But this is when you get graded. This is they've they've gone past expectations. But the playoffs are when you really earn your grades. Seventy sixers over
the Bucks one thirty ninety five. So it will not be the Sixers against the Bucks in the postseason, which if the season at end of yesterday it would have been. It's looking like the seventy sixers and the Miami Heat. The two teams, Tom what a tremendously hard fought four game regular season series. Going back and looking at this now, the entire regular season series was decided by a total
of eight points. Sixers won the first two games here at the center of the first two weeks of February, and then interestingly enough, the final week of February, first week in March, they played twice at Miami, so it really almost had about as much of a playoff type simulation as you could have in the regular season. Lasting impression from Miami games, Dwayne, Wayne finding the fountain of youth.
But they're a hard, fighting team. You mentioned the cutting and the slashing, and of course the head coaches widely considered one of the best in the league. Oh yeah, it's so much appreciation and respect for Eric Spoelstra, and it it starts with pat Riley with that franchise, and you know the two games here and talking to Spoelstra in Miami prior to those games down there, you know, spo was saying that was must see TV. If you remember, Brian, The Sixers had a huge lead and Miami came back,
but the Sixers prevailed. And then then the game just prior to the All Star Break, the Sixers trailed huge and came back to win, and those were twenty point swings, if I'm not mistaken. And then the games down there they were like playoff games. So no Miami. Last year they had a huge rush to the finish but didn't make the playoffs. And then this year, you know, obviously they were in the mix the entire time. It'll be the sixth They've already played five times, and you know,
you include Kansas. The Sixers played at the Sprint Center there in October in the last preseason game, and then those two games here in the two games down there, and obviously no opponent everybody so worthy in the postseason in Miami. They are gonna be a tough out. That's gonna be a hard fought series. Sixers played them in the playoffs back in the Lebron years in Miami prevailed. It'll be the second time they've ever played the Heat in the postseason. Seventy Sixers will play on after game
number eighty two in the regular season. Can't wait to hear some Tom McGinnis called postseason basketball in Philadelphia for the first time since two and twelve. Thank you, Brian, have a great night. Sixers beat the Bucks one thirty to ninety five. It'll be the seventy Sixers in the Miami Heats in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals series starting this
weekend here in South Philadelphia. The Sixers and the heatab met one other time in the history of the two franchises in the playoffs, and that was back in two eleven, a series that Miami took four games to one. We have some highlights coming up after this. Just a really incredible, amazing game. Cannot wait to listen to Divine Gibbons on the drive home from the building. Divine is coming up in just a bit if you want to get on the phone. Six sixty two zero nine seven five Tom's
calls coming up after this. Sixers postseason bound after blowing out the Bucks, making NBA history with a sixteenth straight win and the regular season. Stay with us. It's the postgame showing the Sixers Raider Network. This was a really outstanding season and it was going to be that way regardless of what went down at the Center tonight's. But goodness, gracious, this was and nights to remember as far as incredible displays by these seventy sixers. Go Brian Selt with you
from Sixers dot com. Let us get to the highlights. Sixers won the opening tap within ten seconds, Marco Bellonelli had a three and the Sixers were off from their three pointers. A major theme from quarter number one. There's a long shot by Bellonelli, up and go. The Sixers
get the field goal right out of the gate. Ben drives on the Dennick Coopo spins back middle out, top charge, three balls good, Dario Chartz puts it in three bowl in the air, and Anderson puts it in six triples four the Sixers Milwaukee has none comington fakes two defenders off. Here's t J wide open, three ball, Hey McConnell, here's the new JJ Redick. TJ McConnell knocks down another three, And they had a reference to the Sixers being without
JJ Reddick tonight. They were still able to do what they did without a guy who's been their leading score over the latter stages of this winning streak. Another subplot from the first quarter, Mark hell Folds spelled Ben Simmons. After Simmons picked two early fouls and Folds proceeded to have a say whether it was through an assist or a black basket. He scored directly in the next twenty points to seventy Sixers scored after he subbed in to open up a forty to twelve lead. Amazing forty six
to eighteen to score after one quarter. Markul folks doing his thing and great to see. In quarter number two, Holtz drives on sterling brown, hangs in the lane, spins, shoots no good rebound. Rashawn he troubles and champs and that's what he does. And Markuel stills. He in head, he lays it in a road. It's a road. The Sixers with four straight points, they're winning fifty eight to twenty three. Foults, his confidence, his moves, everything about him.
It was just off the charts tonight, Sixers led fifty eight twenty three at that point. Rashaun Holmes is a big part of a very strong bench effort for the Sixers. Thirty seconds ago, seventy six forty two. T J on a lab, Rashaun Holmes patches in and slams at hellayo Cam TJ. Mcconne, He's shredding the box. Holmes duns the ball. Sixers led by a commanding margin of eighty to forty four at a half, just the tenth eighty point first
half in franchise history. Again, the Milwaukee Bucks a playoff team coming into tonight, and the Sixers absolutely took a tomb. Sixers kept the energy flowing and the pedal on the gas. In corner number three coming to Timpson, Simmons steals it. Here's a run up, Ben to come coming to the late. Hey throws it down. Hey towering right hand slam. Robert coming to cascades down with a slam. And what shouldn't be lost in all this is that the Sixers played
fantastic defense tonight. I mean they were getting hands on balls. They pride away a tremendous amount of steals to the tune of fifteen, very opportunistic, outscoring the Bucks thirty one to ten off turnovers. From there, these Sixers we continue to see some good things happened. Justin Anderson had himself to night faults with it off a screen by Holmes, double covered in the corner, Mark Kell around one man
puts it up Ruby now no rebound slam. Justin Anderson gathers it in and dunks the ball Anderson with twenty points in the game. One O five, seventy five Sixers in front through three and let's go all the way fast forward to the final moments of the fourth quarter. This one of the highlights, sequences and moments of the season. It's a forty point game. Again, Jennings with a scoop. That's no good, Baker try to dunk it. Faults got the rebound and that's a triple double, and the Sixers
are going crazy hugging Marquel Faults. It really was like brad Lidge, maybe not quite that extent, but Pitcher getting the final out in the World Series. Everyone swarming Marquel Faults, helping the young man celebrate a historic moment, the youngest player in NBA history to ever record a triple double. Will get to these specifics in particulars of the numbers in just a moments, seventy six ers, forty nine and
a half percent from the field. They kept the Bucks to forty one percent, six Ers fifteen to thirty six from outside the arc. Eleven of those triples in the first half that matched the season high. Sixers dominated the glass. They were plus fourteen on the boards, thirty five assists, on fifty two makes, keeping with a late season theme that turned them into the hottest team in the NBA.
We talked about the turnovers. Six Ers fours twenty behind, fifteen steals, and outscored the Bucks on turnovers thirty one two eleven. Jannis undercoupo Pedestrian he had missed the last two games with the Sixers, were excellent defensively. In transition, they locked up the paint out a coupo just ten points five or fourteen from the field, ten rebounds. Let's now go to the Sixers. Twenty five points, a team high for Justin Anderson, the second highest total of his career.
He scored twenty six points. Get this in game number eighty two last year at Madison Square Garden. Twenty four for Dario Chartz ten of nineteen from the field. He had five assists as well, plus twenty seven. The Sixers got nineteen from Rashaun Holmes eight of eleven overall, seven rebounds and two block shots. Mark hill Folks thirteen points, ten rebounds and ten assists, six of thirteen from the field. He also had two steals in the game and a
block shot. He was plus eighteen sixteen points for t Jim McConnell plus six rebounds and seven assists. Ben Simmons four points, one of six from the field. He dead had seven assists and six rebounds thirteen from Marco Belinelli starting in place of JJ Reddick. All right, we will hit you with some particulars. Then get it. Two divine seventy six Ers once again, sixteen straight wins that adds to a franchise records a new NBA mark for wins to end a regular season. Six Ers finished the regular
season fifty two and thirty. They're best finish going back to two thousand and two thousand and one. They're the three seat in the Eastern Conference. They will play with the Miami Heats in the opening round of the playoffs. That is because first the Cleveland Cavaliers lost in home one ten to ninety eight. Then after that the Washington Wizards lost on the road at Orlando one on one to ninety two, followed by an overtime win by the Miami Heat one sixteen to one on nine at American
Airlines Arena. Seventy six Ers will host a first round playoff game that will be some point this weekend. We think possibly Saturday. I do believe the details will be set at some point by the ends tonight, So check at Sixers Sixers dot Com or any of your NBA feeds for the infall. And that just gotta wait for some of the West Coast games to go final and get the TV schedule set. But on the radio, we'll have more basketball coming your way, at least four more games,
we hope more than that. Devon Gibbons is standing by. A long, productive and exceptional night on the radio for him continues six six through two, zero nine seven five to call him up. Great efforts by our team back of the studio Connemoli and Tyler Zuli. Now for our engineer on site, Marty Dickerson, Brian Seltzer, saying so long for now one final time. The final score seventy six Ers beat the Milwaukee Bucks convincingly one thirty nine five
playoffs coming up this weekend. We will talk to you then from all of us here at the Sixers Reading Network. Following the Sixers win, Tom McGinnis had a chance to catch up with one of the players afterwards. So the Sixers head into the playoffs with sixteen straight wins and we are going to be joining courtside by Justin Anderson. Justin, thank you for joining us. I know you were just visiting with your former teammate. What a night here for you guys. You played some said, I don't want to
keep you. You might be in there ringing that bell in a second. But one a game, huh yeah, great game. It was a great game from the start. We came out and we established our pace. You know, we our bench was ready. Yeah, guys, numbers will call it our veteran JJ. He went down for the game and it was good. It was good for us to come in and hold the four down. You know, like I was saying prior to the game, the coach and the coach Pierce, it's almost like you guys needed four days off, but
not when you're this hot. You want to play. And tonight you guys proved it. Yeah, we sure did, and we were ready for the challenge. How we've been rolling. We were gonna proch this thing with you a great humility. We're gonna continue to know who we are and we're gonna try to continue to play together. And when this team does that, we're forced to be reckoned. With sixteen wins, headed into the postseason. It's never been done before. How about that? How about it being a part of that
history is amazing. So Marquel, you guys were so proud of him. That was a nice moment. They're right at the end with a moment. What a moment for him. He reminded me, he said, I need three more rebounds, so I'm gonna crack. And I wanted to make sure I gotta let him get every single one that he could grab. And the one that he went up there to grab to get in was a phenomenal man's rebound. And I'm super happy for him. And you know, he's
battled through a lot of things. He's been the most resilient person that I've ever met, battling through what he's gone through, and I'm so glad to finally see that he's prevailing himself. It's a great opportunity for him and he took full advantage. Well stated happy for you, Justin, Thank you, Thank you, Justin Anderson. The Sixers win one, thirty ninety five.