The Sixers take care of Brooklyn one twenty one ninety five. Welcome back our final segment here and then we'll hand it over to Brian Seltzer, who's also here. That it sounds like Brett Brown is available outside the Sixers locker room. Let's throw it to the coach and his availability right now. Well to do that, than things of things are looking quite positive with a group that we have. If people can offensive rebound, you know you're in a whole new world.
I think we dropped to nineteenth or twenty one or something that doesn't isn't so good. And so we've been talking about it. We show it daily after every game film session, talking about it, trying to drill it and get better at defensive rebounding, especially how much more important because Robert's defense, because when Joel's not back there, Um it does, it does become more important. I think to what I think you're saying, Riches, like the front door
stays shut. He really can move his feet and keep people out of the paint. Um. He and he's been playing some fool lately, you know, if you look at how we've been playing him. I thought tonight his ability to we call it guard the yard. Can you not
get beat on the first dribble? Slide your feet was elite third quarters, not just is there a goal for your guys, not just a whole of the opponents to a little number, but see how great we can make the scoring margins, because that's been yeah number and it's been a It's always the hard part I think in my years in the NBA is like, how do you come out of a locker room? How do you come
out at halftime and buying large? I think, you know, the first few minutes, you know, some coaches got to yell at the team and call it time out and the game sort of gets real again. Our guys have jumped into third periods for the most part. And you know, tonight I could hear JJ talking about Detroit is waiting
for us. You know. The fact that we can jump on these guys and try to like balance the gym in relation to playing more of the bench and not really pounding people with extending extended minutes was interesting, Like he's such a he's such a pro, he's a veteran, And it was as sound a message as I could think of that he delivered to the team and so the third periods. It's true we've been jumping out tonight. I think maybe JJ had a little bit to do that.
Bena Marquel obviously played together a little bit at the start of the season. Have they gotten any time in practice now? I mean the days of practice nowadays don't exist,
and they really don't. And you know, you try to, as I've said in my sort of walk down of the playoffs, is how do you keep the health, this spirit in the form those three things and in that autumn and you find that the realities of when you're on the floor minimal, and when you are on the floor it's not sort of full contact and you know, one hundred percent type stuff, tape stuff, and so you get educated in a film room, you get educated through
a walkthrough, and in that environment they've done a little, not a lot, just a little. But I intend to, you know, continue to look at that and try to grow that. Sixers coach Brett Brown Sixers win one, twenty one ninety five. This is the Philadelphia has seventy Sixers postgame show. If I can look about about broach free
zars is gonna turn and get it off. Maddie Rolls and the Sixers post game show Right now on ninety seven five the Fanetic be the longest anti winning street in the National Basketball Association, rolls right on along and convincing fashion and no less here at this center in South Philadelphia. Tonight one one ninety five, the seventy Sixers over the Brooklyn Nets. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot com. This was a good win for the Sixers tonight.
A little back and forth with the Brooklyn Nets midway through the first period, Ben Simmons setting the tone for the squad during that stretch and along with Arson Iliasova, helping fuel a nice eleven nothing run to end the first quarter. They added five more points that spurt going into the second, and from there the Sixers were essentially in the driver's seat. The Nets claude within two points midway through the second quarter, of the Sixers answered with
thirteen more in a row. They had a twelve point lead to the break and never looked back, blowing things open in the third quarter. Balance all around. Ben Simmons with fifteen points, twelve rebounds and six assists, just the second rookie ever to reach twelve hundred point six rebounds
and six hundred assists in a single season. JJ Reddick continues to be his veteran steady self, leading the Sixers with nineteen Robert Covington a great two way press, ersan Ilyasova a double double, and markl faults in the rest of the Sixers bench. All good stuff. Tom McGinnis had the game call of tonight's Tom, do you remember what you were doing back in nineteen ninety the Sixers last one eleven straight in season because eleven of the Sixers
players in the roster were not even born yet. In a strange twist, I was calling pro basketball, but at a different level, and it was in the CBA. Pretty amazing stuff. Now, it was great some of these numbers, like the other one where they've won by double digits for nine games in a row and that's the first time ever. You're like, really so no, Like I said, it's just astonishing that just even not last year. Let's go back two years ago, the year of the Sixers
won ten games. Some of these numbers somewhere in there, Brian, wasn't that not a twenty six game losing streak. So some of the numbers that were of shall we say dubious distinction are now the complete opposite, where the Sixers are going into uncharted waters in the most positive of directions, including individual statistics like what Simmons did denied in terms of joining Oscar Robertson with over twelve hundred points in his first season, He's already accumulated over six hundred rebounds
and six hundred assists. I mean to be in the same grouping as Oscar Robertson. He's not closing in on Will Chamberlain for triple doubles, but he's up there with Bobby or excuse me, you know, Billy Cunningham and some of the others. The names that he's brushing up against with some of these statistical accomplishments is amazing. Then, And as I say, as the team twenty games where they've held the opposition under one hundred points, they've won the game,
it's just an on and on and on. The assist that Coach Brown mentioned, I knew he was going to be looking at that. He's so proud of that accomplishment. With the way the Sixers are sharing the ball, and to me, not only this is what I've called like kind of taking care of business, they should beat Brooklyn, but they pounded him. They took him right out of it.
And with the contributions eight guys in double figures all around, just remarkable in terms of whether it's a winning streak of eleven games that dates back to the first time since nineteen ninety is just amazing on many different fronts, Sixers out scoring the nets twenty one to five points off turnover as part of a very solid effort on both ends by the Sixers at the time. You know, it's like you look down some of these statuets and
I feel like I'm guilty. He's charging this front. Of course, you want to talk about guys like Ben Simmons and Joel E. Bieber's health and even something like Mark el Folks tonight, but JJ Reddick's having a career year in his twelfth season. He's going back to the playoffs twelve
or twelve as a pro. Nineteen points tonight helped widen things in this one tonight, And I guess maybe, at least for me, it is sometimes take a little bit for granted just how steady and good and how much of a fit he's been on this rock now during these runs. It again the Sixers had three substantial runs that helped separate them from Brooklyn sixteen eleven oh thirteen. Note he was right in the midst of those scoring sprees. The Sixers ran the same play three times in a row.
Four Reddick and that is Ben had on the right wing. He threw it to a mirror, a mirror with a dribble handoff the JJ Reddick on a tight curl around that getting open leaning to and with that separation, whether it was Harris on him or Dinwittye or Hollis Jefferson, he's able to create the separation and get the shot off clean. Look like Bell Andelle. He's very effective at
off balance shooting. He's just a basketball sniper. And then you add the leadership in what Brett Brown was referring to and JJ Reddick, assuming it was at halftime yelling, hey, look the pistons I'm assuming he affected, especially the Pistons are waiting for it. They're resting, and we need this. In other words, let's put this away right now. We have it right in front of us, where these guys can play twenty some odd minutes instead of thirty plus.
And that's exactly what happened. And the balance and the depth. It's really all coming together, and Reddick is a major part of it. Sixers over the Brooklyn Nets one one to ninety five, and out's on to Detroit, a team that about a month and a half ago, Tom was right in the mix of things with the Sixers for
positioning in the Eastern Conference standings. The addition of Blake Griffin has not gone their way, Detroit entering today four games behind the eight spot in the East with about a week and a half left, So the Sixers an opportunity to close out this back to back. No Dario starts tomorrow, but Detroit has talent. Even though they don't have the record to show for it in terms of what they were expecting, they still can be a very dangerous team. No, I mean you reflect back all the
way to the opening days of the season. The Sixers were oh and three, and they go in there on a Monday night and gain their first victory, and then I thought the other two games with Detroit, we're gonna be knocked down drag outs, and the Sixers handled them with these Now, Reggie Jackson missed some of that early portion of the season with the knee the Sixers have yet to face him. With Griffin and they're not going to face him tomorrow. I understand he's got a bone bruise.
He's out, so Drummond and Jackson is back. They've actually played well of late. In fact, they just beat Brooklyn on Sunday. If Smith has performed, they're not an easy team to beat. I'm surprised, quite frankly that it didn't come together. Now. Obviously they've had their ups in their downs. They made a huge trade, and you got to think Blake Griffin going forward for them and stan Van Gundi will be very helpful. But it does not look like they're going to be able to get into the playoffs.
And for the Sixers, you know, one game at a time. They got to take care of business to keep this streak alive right on the hills of Cleveland. Shaping up to be a monster game Friday, but it's not as big if they don't win the game tomorrow and go to Michigan. And I think the Sixers known that they've been acutely aware. That's what Brett Brown keeps saying. These guys are totally aware of the home court advantage. What they need to do and how to take an arrest
situations in a game and win them. To me, that's one of the biggest things they've matured right before our eyes games during the early part of the season that would get away to Sixers, see a problem in a game and this is what coach was talking about prior to the game, and take care of it right then, whether it's rebounding or running a team off the line or this that of the other Simmons has been dominant and it's just been an amazing streak and the Sixers
with one more opportunity tomorrow before coming back here against the Cavaliers. Well by Tom McGinnis. Tom talks to you tomorrow. Got it great to talk to you, Brian. Seventy Sixers knock off the Brooklyn Nets one twenty one to ninety five. Tom's highlight calls coming away on the other side, it's the postgame showing the Sixers Raider Network ninety seven five the Fanatic the back of this season for the seventy Sixers hosting the Brooklyn Nets tonight, It's off to Detroit
for a game against the Pistons tomorrow. Here's how this one sounded, courtesy of the one and only Tom McGinnis Sixers and the Brooklyn Nets went back and forth in the early going. Sixers fell behind by as Manis five points,
but Urson Iliasova helped trigger a response six rebounds. Now for Simmons, your sons same spot free ball fame resolve Iliosoma has put it in Simmons with the dish Sixers down league twenty five twenty two, and they would take a twenty twenty two to lead into the second quarter.
Of the Sixers extended that run and they got a little bit of help off the bench Folds with a drive folds into the lake folds of the bellas Bank shot right at Spencer did with a hanging in the air and markul Folds Dangley left the right fades and scores it off the window that deposit cap Day sixteen. Nothing spurred for the Sixers, putting them up by eleven thirty three to twenty two, and in many ways that
gave them control for the duration of the evening. Now, the Nets did come back a couple of times in the second quarter, slicing the deficit to two with about four minutes to go. In the first half, Ben Simmons was great at the outset of the first half, and he was also very impactful in the closing minutes. Ben dribbles in front of Countingham, turns on the Jets, keeps it right hand, lamp up and gun. Ben Simmons weaving through the bed court and getting the underhand right hand scoop.
He's got a dozen plus nine rebounds. Sixers lead by eleven fifty seven forty six. They would go up by twelve at the half, sixty one to forty nine. In the third quarter, the Sixers sees command once again. Ben Simmons was right in the fray. Simmons gets it back, driving it down to night left hand scoop on. Jared Ellen is good. He climbs the ladder of the longhorn and scares the ball. Sixers were up sixty eight to fifty. We also saw a little bit in the third quarter
of Ben Simmons playing alongside markul Foults. They did so for about three and a half minutes. Now was the first since Foltz's first four games of the season. Foultstan was in control the backcourt himself. At the end of period number three, Belloni tips up the fault Marquel on the run down the nine and round one man puts it up and good barquel fault qualt, impressive athletic crod out of foul and the crowd loves that equally as much. Help the Sixers to a ninety three seventy one lead
going into the fourth quarter. Don't forget about TJ McConnell in the Sixers backcourt rotation. When he's been given minutes, he has delivered outlet. McConnell followed extended right side off the left hand bounce in the lane, off balance shop a good McConnell. He actually squared up in the air but was drifting right to left and McConnell scores it. They made it one on one seventy seven to nice embrace after that between t J McConnell and Brett Brown.
The Sixers very much sensing at that early point of the fourth quarter that they had this one in hand and an eleventh straight victory in their sights, final lons. From the final statuet, the Sixers one twenty one ninety five winners over the nets of the Sixers shot fifty four and a half percent from the field, nine to twenty one from outside the arc. They were twelve of eighteen from the free throw line. They outrebounded the Brooklyn nets by twenty twenty eight assists for the seventy six
Ers just ten turnovers. They outscored Brooklyn twenty one to five off turnovers. Brooklyn, you could tell early on they were going to live and die on the hill called three pointer. Seventeen of their thirty four baskets came from outside the arc, and more than half of their eighty one field goal attempts were from three. If you have makers, great, If not well, you put yourself at risk, and that
was indeed the case tonight. Sixers dominated in side sixty two to thirty two in terms of points and on the break eighteen to nine. Individual notes. Sixers had eight players finished in double figures, leaving the way JJ Reddick with nineteen eight to fifteen from the field, just one three pointer needed for him, seventeen points for Marco Belinelli on seven of eleven shooting. Ben Simmons fifteen points, twelve rebounds,
six assists. He is the second rookie ever to reach twelve hundred points, six hundred rebounds, and six hundred assists in a single season. The other Oscar Robinson for the Cincinnati Royals back in nineteen sixty nineteen sixty one. The only other six Er to hit those marks in a single season, regardless of experience, was a man named Wilt Chamberlain.
He did it twice. Robert Covington was awesome on both ends of the court plus twenty two twelve point six rebounds, four steals and three blocked shots, eleven points thirteen rebounds for Urson, Iliasova, Rashaun Holmes with eleven and ten points
apiece for Mark el Foltz and TJ. McConnell. Faults five or eight from the floor and three assists to go with two rebounds good stuff from markl Faults with win the seventy six Ers forty seven and thirty the Brooklyn Nets with the lost drop to twenty five and fifty three. The Sixers win the season series against their division rival
three games to one. Let's scan the Eastern Conference scoreboard as shall we, And there are a lot of games because there were none last night in evolving postseason hopefuls, and we will scan them as follows. Milwaukee the eighth seed leading Boston eighty six eighty two. About eight minutes ago on the fourth quarter. Boston entered today two games back of Toronto for the top spot in the Eastern Conference.
The Washington Wizards a noteworthy team. They are the sixth seed right now and they are being blown out at Houston, even with john wall one o two to eighty five. Also, Indiana right behind the seventy sixers by a game, trailing Denver thirty nine to thirty six with about four and a half minutes ago in the first half. That game in Denver, and the main game of importance in the East, well, hold on, I'll build up some suspense. One more went
past my ticker. Yes, Miami survives at home versus lowly Atlanta one o one to ninety eight, so they will stay in the seventh spot. But the big game tonight was Cleveland hosting Toronto. Cleveland the three seed, Toronto the one seed. With a win and a Calve's lost, and the Sixers could have leapt into the third place spot. That did not happen. Cleveland beating Toronto at home one twelve to one oh six, and all of a sudden, Cleveland. You look at their last ten, they're now nine and one.
But the Sixers, they have the longest winning streak in the NBA right now with eleven in a row, their longest streak since January and February of nineteen ninety. They go for twelve straight tomorrow night against the Detroit Pistons. It is a seven o'clock start time pregame coverage on some of our Sixers Rated Network affiliates beginning at six fifty. Looking forward to talking with you at that point in time. Big thanks to everyone in following tonight's broadcast, Alan Yates
and Tyler Zuli Back at the studio. Marty Dickerson is always awesome here on site, but especially so tonight as we had the sixers and sixty show with the Von Givens, who, by the way, is standing by right to take your calls at six one zero sixty three, two zero nine seven five Now for the radio voice and seventy six ers, Tom mc ginnis, Brian Selzer saying so long for now one final time. The final score was the Sixers one
at twenty one Brooklyn Nets ninety five. Have a great rest of your Tuesday night from all of us here at the Sixers Rating Network. Following the Sixers win, Tom McGinnis had a chance to catch up with one of the players afterwards, and we are joined courtside by your san Ilioslviersa. Is that you yeah, thank you very much. Congratulations. Brooklyn came out with a barrage of threes, but you guys came back with a sixteen oh run, an impressive
victory here at home against the Nets. I mean, you know, it's so fun outcast. We'll just kind him up, you know, strolling out of the gates. But you know, like you said, you know the sholdiland well in the beginning, but you know, we stick with our defense, obviously believing it and believing a system. And like you said, you knowing down with
the up twenty points. When you're playing the five spots starting well even maybe not starting in that role, but playing it a lot more without Joel, how does your mindset change in terms of how you play it? Obviously it's it's tough, you know, obviously mostly defensively because they don't Joe really great, you know, down down the pain. You know, obviously all black the shots. But you know, we all try to do just you know, stay front
that guy. You know, the believ a concepts, uh, you know, for us to be able to you know in those games you have to be shown defensefull. You know what, this is what we did in US, get a couple of stops and just around offense. You definitely did that, Erst, Thank you, congratulations. We appreciate your time.