Speaker 1: Six Ers fall one on one ninety eight. Big matchup
Speaker 1: coming in a lot of build up, a lot of expectation,
Speaker 1: and as I keep using the phrase, hard fought, that's
Speaker 1: for sure, both of these teams battling, and Indiana prevails
Speaker 1: by three, one on one ninety eight. So the Sixers
Speaker 1: came in down two games in the standings to the Pacers,
Speaker 1: and now they're three games separated from the three and
Speaker 1: six positions. The Sixers now with a record of thirty
Speaker 1: six and thirty and they have now lost well, there
Speaker 1: were four and four in their last eight games, and
Speaker 1: so the Sixers lose for the first time in thirteen
Speaker 1: home games. They're twenty one and eleven at home. Indiana
Speaker 1: tops in the Central, now forty and twenty eight, their
Speaker 1: best record since the end of the thirteen fourteen NBA season.
Speaker 1: They would not won eight of their last eleven, including
Speaker 1: three in a row. They're over five hundred at home,
Speaker 1: and they get a great game from Miles Turner and
Speaker 1: Victor Oladiep but with a huge shot despite struggling throughout
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Speaker 1: Up next is Sixers going back to New York. They
Speaker 1: were there Sunday against Brooklyn and Thursday night the Sixers
Speaker 1: will take on the New York Knicks. Let's go down
Speaker 1: to the locker room where Brett Brown is just outside
Speaker 1: speaking with the assembled press. Scoreps your Sixers coach, Brett Brown,
Speaker 1: I think some of them were self inflicted. I think
Speaker 1: some too many happened in the break. I'll be curious
Speaker 1: to go back and watch the tape of the turn
Speaker 1: on turnovers in the first like three to four seconds
Speaker 1: of a shaw Hawk as we're running. Some of the
Speaker 1: decisions you know, to two to make passes in early offense,
Speaker 1: UH did not help us um and some of the
Speaker 1: turnovers I give Indiana credit for. But we can almost
Speaker 1: sort of like all go home after you make that
Speaker 1: statement that the turnovers were the single thing that that
Speaker 1: I think influenced this game, Turner picked up that fifth foul,
Speaker 1: and you know, you guys scored a couple of times
Speaker 1: that sort of felt like you had to. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: had the momentum, therey and I guess turn the ball
Speaker 1: over and right, I mean I go back. I don't
Speaker 1: remember exactly the sequences after, you know, Miles went to
Speaker 1: the bench and then he came back in. But I felt,
Speaker 1: you know, in general, it's hard for me to pivot
Speaker 1: away from you know that that that fact you look at,
Speaker 1: you know, Joe had, Joe had a night that we
Speaker 1: can try to get that better, improve that. Dario also
Speaker 1: had some stuff in early offense turnovers and as a group,
Speaker 1: everybody sort of contributed a little bit to that number
Speaker 1: of twenty one. Coach, even though you lost this game,
Speaker 1: it was a playoff type atmosphere Earth, is there anything
Speaker 1: that you can take and help these guys before? Is
Speaker 1: he before towards the playoffs? I mean, I look at
Speaker 1: our defense. They shot forty percent from the field, twenty
Speaker 1: percent from the three point line. I thought we did
Speaker 1: a really good job on Oladipo. He was four for
Speaker 1: twenty one, had that months to three. At the end.
Speaker 1: I thought we did a good job on Bogdanovich, who's
Speaker 1: been playing extremely well. He was won for eleven. I
Speaker 1: think the defensively, you know, we were pretty good. We
Speaker 1: were pretty good. It's just it's really hard to go
Speaker 1: away from that thing that you know, is a part
Speaker 1: of who we are right now. We're up and down,
Speaker 1: we're young, we make not wise decisions at times, and
Speaker 1: I feel like what we need to walk out of
Speaker 1: this game with, I believe, is the recognition that we're
Speaker 1: close to being amongst a pretty elite group. We're just
Speaker 1: not there yet. And I think that the month that
Speaker 1: we have coming up, the remaining games, you know, we
Speaker 1: can admit the truth, try to find a way to
Speaker 1: to fix that and and move up as high as
Speaker 1: we can. In the Eastern standings. Two times that you
Speaker 1: faced the Pacers, Turner didn't cause as much problems he
Speaker 1: did as he did tonight. What wasn't that he was doing,
Speaker 1: especially with in being in the game at the same
Speaker 1: time that what was causing kind of the breakdown we
Speaker 1: eat When you have a five men that can pick
Speaker 1: and pop, it's it's really an unusual sort of schematic
Speaker 1: game plan you go through when you have like Joel,
Speaker 1: you know, it's an unusual thing where Miles can pull
Speaker 1: you out and and make make those you know, threes
Speaker 1: and long twos. And I think the adjustment that we
Speaker 1: made where you know, after we do whatever we're doing
Speaker 1: and pick and Roll will say, like you know, the
Speaker 1: clothes out, we're gonna make him hot. We're really gonna
Speaker 1: try to make him dribble and just get to him
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot quicker than we did at
Speaker 1: the start of the game. But I do give him credit.
Speaker 1: He's a young talent. And anytime you can find a
Speaker 1: big that can be that committed as sort of a
Speaker 1: roll or in a rebound and have the ability to
Speaker 1: step out and make shots at the precent that he does,
Speaker 1: he's pretty special. Brett Brown outside the six years locker room,
Speaker 1: talking lastly there about Indiana center Miles Turner, who had
Speaker 1: a twenty five point game. Pacers defeat the Sixers one
Speaker 1: oh one to ninety eight. They've now won fifteen out
Speaker 1: of eighteen games against the Sixers fourteen out of seventeen
Speaker 1: games over the last few years, including two out of
Speaker 1: three this year. Ben Simmons had a triple double. Joellabead
Speaker 1: had twenty nine points, but Indiana wins by three. We'll
Speaker 1: hand it over to Brian Seltzer of thanks to Marty Dickerson, Tyler,
Speaker 1: Zulie Allen Yates. They helped to engineer our broadcast. We'll
Speaker 1: be back after this with more six Ers postgame coverage
Speaker 1: live from the center the Sixers Radio Network. He's the filling, Yes,
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Speaker 1: on Nutty seven five. The panetic tough for for the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers, another stinging reminder of the importance of how
Speaker 1: slim the margin for Eric can be against very good teams,
Speaker 1: and at this time of year, a difficult pill for
Speaker 1: the Sixers to swallow, and a one one ninety eight
Speaker 1: lost the Indiana Pacers at home. Brian Seltzer with you
Speaker 1: from Sixers dot com. The headline will be twenty one
Speaker 1: turnovers committed by the Sixers, which the Pacers transformed into
Speaker 1: a twenty nine to twelve points off turnovers scoring advantage.
Speaker 1: There are certainly some other important subplots in this one tonight,
Speaker 1: but if you had the chance to hear Brett Brown
Speaker 1: in his postgame address a few moments ago. He acknowledged
Speaker 1: the reality turnovers right now a part of the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers identity as a young, growing team. Of course, it's
Speaker 1: something that they work on and rep on on a
Speaker 1: regular basis, but against high caliber teams, it's an issue
Speaker 1: that continues to reef surface. We saw it on the
Speaker 1: road trip in the loss at Milwaukee. The Sixers also
Speaker 1: tried to deal with turnovers in the defeat at Miami
Speaker 1: and against the third ranked team in the Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: right now, the Indiana Pacers, the sixth seed as it
Speaker 1: stands at the moment. Sixers unable to overcome ball security
Speaker 1: issues in a loss tonight, which was their first at
Speaker 1: the Center. Amazingly since December twenty first of two seventeen,
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid big down the stretch twenty nine points, twelve rebounds.
Speaker 1: He did have eight of those twenty one turnovers. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons matching Magic Johnson with seven triple doubles, the second
Speaker 1: highest total ever for a rookie player in NBA history,
Speaker 1: behind Oscar Robertson. In his twenty six ten points, thirteen boards,
Speaker 1: and ten dimes for Ben Simmons, only two turnovers for
Speaker 1: him on the night, that was a good thing. Miles
Speaker 1: Turner twenty nine and six for the Pacers, Stadius Young
Speaker 1: nineteen and ten. Victor l Adipo just eleven four of
Speaker 1: twenty one from the field, but his final basket was
Speaker 1: a big one, a three pointer that gave the Pacers
Speaker 1: an eight point lead with just over three minutes to go.
Speaker 1: Tom turnovers coming into play again against a really good team,
Speaker 1: and as Brett Brown said, that's the reality. The Sixers
Speaker 1: continue to try and work off, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: At eight is a hard number for Joe. He's got
Speaker 1: to get better at that and just slow down, I think,
Speaker 1: and be a little bit more pragmatic with the basketball,
Speaker 1: a little more thodical, and they double and the you know,
Speaker 1: Trevor Booker was very active. Look, he's given up a
Speaker 1: lot of size to Joel, but he used his quickness
Speaker 1: and well placed reach getting into a little bit. Brett
Speaker 1: Brown used the phrase earlier tonight in addressing the assembled
Speaker 1: media prior to the game about you know, they get
Speaker 1: in and they got to get right into our chins.
Speaker 1: He's talking about how teams are defending the Sixers of late,
Speaker 1: and that's part of the issue with the turnovers, and
Speaker 1: you've got to be strong with that basketball. But you know,
Speaker 1: just stepping back and looking at the game again, I've
Speaker 1: said this so many times just since the buzzer ring,
Speaker 1: but a hard fought game, difficult defeat for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: But and you know, we've heard the phrase playoff atmosphere
Speaker 1: certainly is accurate here tonight, as with so many of
Speaker 1: these games here for the Sixers at home with a
Speaker 1: sellout crowd, great games against difficult opponents. And my point is,
Speaker 1: you know, there's you mentioned that Oladipo three that came
Speaker 1: with three eighteen ago. I believe there are only other
Speaker 1: points after that were two free throws by Miles Turner.
Speaker 1: But this is what's rich about an NBA game, and
Speaker 1: it's part of the reason I think the sport is
Speaker 1: so well received and so popular, not just in America
Speaker 1: but around the world. There was so many big players.
Speaker 1: Look at Reddick. When Ben got that triple double, it
Speaker 1: was on a pass from Simmons to Reddick, and then
Speaker 1: that was the second to last one. Because Reddick had
Speaker 1: that three where he pumped faked, he could have tied
Speaker 1: it at ninety nine. He missed that. There were several
Speaker 1: times you thought the Sixers were dead in the water.
Speaker 1: They couldn't come back. They're down five, but Oldpot goes
Speaker 1: in for a rousing slam dunk in traffic over like
Speaker 1: three guys left handed dunk attempt, no good, no foul,
Speaker 1: and b gets the rebound. Sixers come down and score again.
Speaker 1: I mean, and on and on, and that's sometimes like
Speaker 1: it's almost like having a great meal at a terrific
Speaker 1: restaurant and you go back home and you're reliving the experience, like, oh, remember, oh,
Speaker 1: and then there's a sert was good. That's how these
Speaker 1: games are, like where you reflect back and think of
Speaker 1: all the different chapters in the entire book, the way
Speaker 1: it played out. So difficult ball game for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: but again they've got to get over this turnover thing
Speaker 1: or big games down the stretch of the season, which
Speaker 1: like this one for the whole playoff implications or in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and you're gonna have these you know, these
Speaker 1: games go against you because you can't maximize your possessions
Speaker 1: and take care of the ball. They scored, like I said,
Speaker 1: plus seventeen off turnovers in a game that was decided
Speaker 1: by three points, and it's familiar refrain for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: They've got to somehow arrest that difficult situation and be
Speaker 1: and take better care of the basketball. Joel embiid master
Speaker 1: for the seventy sixers. If I don't have it wrong, Tim,
Speaker 1: I very well could. I think he scored his final
Speaker 1: eighteen points of the night between the closing minutes and
Speaker 1: the third when he scored the last eight points. Then
Speaker 1: he had ten in the fourth quarter. He stepped up Sixers.
Speaker 1: Great job defensively really for the most part of Oladipo.
Speaker 1: But there were some other guys for India, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: in particular Thad Young. You know, there was that one
Speaker 1: stretch when the Sixers tied it up at seventy one
Speaker 1: in the third on a charge three and then the
Speaker 1: next six points make it seven. Actually because the final
Speaker 1: play was an a one went to Thad Young, and
Speaker 1: that's like some veterans that no one is right, and
Speaker 1: that was a tough matchup for the Sixers. This is
Speaker 1: during that spell that I think you're talking to, but
Speaker 1: I was over there by the Sixers bench. Thaddish Young
Speaker 1: had Marco Belinelli on him. Marco was playing over the top.
Speaker 1: In other words, Young then caught the ball, went baseline
Speaker 1: and had an unimpeded path to the basket left hand
Speaker 1: player on the right baseline. He turns it back into
Speaker 1: the defense but nobody was there, and scored it with ease.
Speaker 1: And so you know he is a very active player
Speaker 1: and he slices through there. He's been a high field
Speaker 1: goal percentage shooter throughout his career. This year at forty
Speaker 1: eight percent, he had double digit rebounds. I mean, they
Speaker 1: got a lot of nice pieces. They don't have a
Speaker 1: I mean, you call all the deepole a superstar at
Speaker 1: this point, but you know, they don't have like an
Speaker 1: Embid or a Simmons. And having said that, Turner was
Speaker 1: awful good here tonight, But they are. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of really good pieces. They're deep. I thought an
Speaker 1: unheralded player in the game. And I've said it again, Boydanovitch,
Speaker 1: I thought he guarded Ben where Simmons was not able
Speaker 1: to get all the way to the basket. If Ben
Speaker 1: did shoot, it was a difficult one hand like right
Speaker 1: or left hand jump hook from eight or nine feet.
Speaker 1: Those are that's a high degree of difficulty, and I
Speaker 1: thought bug Donovitch at six eight two twenty five at
Speaker 1: the size and the strength to kind of keep Ben
Speaker 1: away from the basket. But rate game. You got to
Speaker 1: give indi Ena credit again. They hold the opposition the
Speaker 1: Sixers tonight under one hundred points. That's been what they've
Speaker 1: been doing of late. And again they got a difficult role.
Speaker 1: They got the Raptors twice, they got the Warriors twice,
Speaker 1: and so they got a difficult schedule. But they've outshot
Speaker 1: everybody's expectations in terms of how they're playing after the
Speaker 1: Paul George trade, and they're not going away. That kind
Speaker 1: of segues to the final point. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of build up surrounding this one. Tonight was it arguably
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers most important regular season game in the
Speaker 1: last however many years. You could make an argument for that,
Speaker 1: but there still is a month to go, a lot
Speaker 1: of basketball we played in as you said, short term, micro,
Speaker 1: you look at this game, and this one stings and
Speaker 1: it hurts, but macro some scheduling breaks, perhaps favoring the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers, and most importantly games against opponents like these,
Speaker 1: And we heard Brett Brown say it could have been
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee game last week, the Miami loss as well.
Speaker 1: These are teaching the lessons about how teams might go
Speaker 1: about the Sixers in the playoffs and they still have
Speaker 1: time to address them. And I thought the point you
Speaker 1: brought up about Simmons and what Bogdanovich did on him
Speaker 1: was a perfect case in point. And then had you
Speaker 1: adjust well and to just to back up what you're
Speaker 1: saying about what coach, what Brett Brown has been preaching.
Speaker 1: And again, you know he's so authentic, like he shares
Speaker 1: with the media what he tells the team, and he's saying,
Speaker 1: simply stated, played better longer, and that's what happened in that.
Speaker 1: You know, you go back a week ago Sunday, they
Speaker 1: lose in Milwaukee, they lose in Miami, and that is
Speaker 1: you know, they played good in stretches, certainly against the Bucks,
Speaker 1: they had a twenty point lead and a nineteen point lead,
Speaker 1: but try to extend that great play for longer stretches
Speaker 1: of the game, and you could correlate that to tonight.
Speaker 1: You know, they played well, but the Sixers never led.
Speaker 1: The last lead they had was fourteen thirteen, and every
Speaker 1: time they would come back and close the gap. Indiana
Speaker 1: would get a spurt and it would be a seven
Speaker 1: point game. And so you got to give Indian of credit.
Speaker 1: They've answered the bell. But again to your larger point
Speaker 1: from if you step back and you take a look
Speaker 1: at what's going on, the sixers are in good position,
Speaker 1: and let's you want to put yourself in the best
Speaker 1: position first, get into the playoffs, into the best position,
Speaker 1: but be playing your best basketball, have health going into
Speaker 1: that midweek in April, that final game of the year
Speaker 1: is here against Milwaukee, and then whatever the matchup is.
Speaker 1: You know it's going to be a tremendous experience for
Speaker 1: this young group because it's, as Brett Brown has stated
Speaker 1: so many times, it's a whole new ball game. But
Speaker 1: it's not that much different than this type of game.
Speaker 1: Because half court scoring is so difficult, the pressure increases.
Speaker 1: You're playing a two week series potentially of seven games.
Speaker 1: There's no mysteries, and so that that's part of the
Speaker 1: reason that it becomes so difficult. But hey, look, it's
Speaker 1: like you said, it's tremendous. You're talking about this game.
Speaker 1: They're all big. I thought tonight, you're right, I think
Speaker 1: this easily could because it was the next game and
Speaker 1: it was against a team ahead of you, but you
Speaker 1: could have gained a whole game on them against Indiana.
Speaker 1: But now you go on the road, you take on
Speaker 1: New York, you take on Brooklyn. Got an opportunity against
Speaker 1: two of these teams that are in your division that
Speaker 1: are having different occult years, and you've got to come
Speaker 1: right back. One of the great things, one of the geniuses,
Speaker 1: if you will, about Brett Brown, is keeping the spirits
Speaker 1: alive even during the tough years where the Sixers were losses,
Speaker 1: were piling up and putting in a good day's work.
Speaker 1: And that's what he really excels in. And that's what
Speaker 1: you got to go up to the garden tomorrow and
Speaker 1: get ready for Thursday and get ready to pound the knicks.
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis with great wisdom and insight, as always, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Good night, Brian. Seventy Sixers follow the
Speaker 1: Pacers one one ninety eight to twenty one turnovers committed
Speaker 1: by the home team tonight, which led to twenty nine
Speaker 1: Indian points. We'll get into some of the highlights. There
Speaker 1: were great moments in this game. Unfortunately it did not
Speaker 1: go the Sixers way. Stay with us. It's the postgame
Speaker 1: show on the Sixers Radio Network ninety seven five. The
Speaker 1: Fanatic the Sixers and the Indiana Pacers at the center.
Speaker 1: Tonight third and final meeting of the season between these
Speaker 1: two teams, which began the day two games apart in
Speaker 1: the standings. Let's get to some of Tom McGinnis's highlight
Speaker 1: calls Tonights. Sixers got a nice run going to the
Speaker 1: tune of eight straight to put themselves in front. Off
Speaker 1: the dribble, pulls up, goes back out top. He throws
Speaker 1: it away Miror Johnson with the lead past the bend
Speaker 1: Simmons into the lake. Simmons around one man, lays it
Speaker 1: up and in Ben Simmons with a first and a
Speaker 1: beautiful play. As a mirror Johnson picks it up and
Speaker 1: leads Simmons. Sixers would go up fourteen to nine, but
Speaker 1: then India would respond with a spurt of its own,
Speaker 1: scoring the next fourteen points to take control. Sixers would
Speaker 1: trail thirty three twenty three going into the second. The
Speaker 1: long ball help the Sixers get back in it down
Speaker 1: the stretch of quarter number two. Back to Marco, he
Speaker 1: passes to Covington over Oladipot and that's in boy that figures.
Speaker 1: There were four guys clustered around the three point arc,
Speaker 1: and Robert Covington raises up and scores at three, and
Speaker 1: it's a four point game. Forty six forty two, Sixers
Speaker 1: benefiting again from beyond the arc, this time in the
Speaker 1: closing seconds to a half eight seconds to go. Sixers
Speaker 1: on the run. Iliosoma is out front. TJ goes to Reddick,
Speaker 1: Reddick rises for three. Shot yere J J Reddick with
Speaker 1: two seconds ago. It's a four point game. That's the
Speaker 1: third time in the last four games Reddick has hit
Speaker 1: a three pointer in the final five seconds of a period.
Speaker 1: Fifty seven fifty three pacers in front going into quarter
Speaker 1: number three. Sixers had Victor Oladipo under wraps in the first.
Speaker 1: He got a little bit of a flurry going his
Speaker 1: way in the early moments of the third, but the
Speaker 1: Sixers are spotted right back. Dario Scharge truly a consistent Croatian.
Speaker 1: He was at it again tonight twelve to shoot Simmons
Speaker 1: on the backdown boy On keeping him out to about
Speaker 1: ten feet up top. Dario for three, and it's in
Speaker 1: tie game. Dario charge from Ben Simmons a dynamic duo. Indeed,
Speaker 1: they were even at seventy one, but then Thaddeus Young
Speaker 1: scored seven straight points for the Pacers. That was part
Speaker 1: of a nine nothing run that sent India head eighty
Speaker 1: to seventy one. Sixers needed time out. Joel Embead got
Speaker 1: rolling after that. Down by five, the Bead made two
Speaker 1: free throws moments ago. He has it back on the
Speaker 1: right side, backing down on Al Jefferson with a minute
Speaker 1: to go in the third, into the lane, very deliberate,
Speaker 1: and now it puts it up at the end. He
Speaker 1: got the left side of the basket and off the glass,
Speaker 1: an end that was part of a run of ten
Speaker 1: straight points scored for the Sixers by Ebead. The Sixers
Speaker 1: trailed eighty three seventy nine going into the fourth and
Speaker 1: Bead open things in the fourth with a basket of
Speaker 1: his own, and the Sixers kept hanging and hanging around
Speaker 1: Indy until about four minutes to go in regulation. Victor Oladipo,
Speaker 1: he had missed fifteen of his first eighteen shots in
Speaker 1: the night, banged a big three pointer with three eighteen left.
Speaker 1: Joel Ebead answered Ben with a right hand dribble turns
Speaker 1: the corner. Two guys go at him and goes into
Speaker 1: a beat and Beat throws it down a monster right
Speaker 1: hand jam by Joel and Bead. Ben Simmons drew double coverage.
Speaker 1: He flips it back to Joe with a right hand
Speaker 1: and it Beat crashes in with a slam. So that
Speaker 1: made it ninety seven ninety one just under three minutes ago.
Speaker 1: The Sixers, though committing two turn overs on two of
Speaker 1: their next trips down the court within the next two minutes.
Speaker 1: That did not help the cause, but in Bead kept
Speaker 1: on fighting, this time right out. Fifty five seconds ago,
Speaker 1: Sixers down by five. Dario shars to Joel and beat
Speaker 1: on the right wing, making a move on Bugdano. The
Speaker 1: late steps around and puts it up an in off
Speaker 1: the glass. It's ninety nine ninety six. Sixers on A
Speaker 1: and B driving dunk would stay within three one one
Speaker 1: ninety eight with thirteen seconds to go. Then a crazy sequence,
Speaker 1: the Sixers doubled Victor Oladipo off an inbounds play was
Speaker 1: McConnell and Simmons and Oldipo thrown elbow up offensive foul.
Speaker 1: Sixers got the ball back Joel and beat a three
Speaker 1: pointer straight away six seconds to go that fell short.
Speaker 1: A jump ball tied for the rebound with less than
Speaker 1: a second left to play. The tap was won by
Speaker 1: the Pacers, went out of bounds off Simmons. Indiana got
Speaker 1: the ball back and the final point three seconds would
Speaker 1: run out as the Pacers would hang on to win
Speaker 1: by the final of one. One. Final stats before we
Speaker 1: get you two divine givens. Pacers shot forty percent from
Speaker 1: the field, the seventy six or forty six and a
Speaker 1: half percent just five three pointers for Indie seventy six Ers,
Speaker 1: ten of thirty from outside the arc. The Pacers were
Speaker 1: plus two from the free throw line on plus three
Speaker 1: opportunities Sixers plus three on the glass. Turnovers though, that
Speaker 1: the big stories we talked about, twenty one for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: ten for the Pacers. Pacers outscoring the Sixers on turnovers
Speaker 1: twenty nine to twelve. The Pacers entered tonight's game the
Speaker 1: first ranked team in the Eastern Conference and steals, and
Speaker 1: they had thirteen of them in this evening's game. That's
Speaker 1: a big, big number. Individual notes will start with some
Speaker 1: from Indie. Miles Turner had a team best twenty five points.
Speaker 1: He was a real presence on the inside. Thirty s
Speaker 1: young great two way play nineteen and ten came up
Speaker 1: big in that sequence. In the third quarter, we talked
Speaker 1: about Oladipo the All Star just four of twenty one
Speaker 1: one of four Sixers used Covington and McConnell's the primary defenders.
Speaker 1: They switched a lot, but Oladipo with a big crossover
Speaker 1: three in the closing minutes that gave the Pacers some
Speaker 1: needed insurance. Now for the Sixers, Joel and b twenty
Speaker 1: nine points, twelve rebounds is thirty fourth double double. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons tying Magic Johnson for the second highest rookie triple
Speaker 1: double total with ten thirteen and ten only two turnovers
Speaker 1: for Simmons in the game. That was a good thing.
Speaker 1: Eighteen for charge ten apiece as I mentioned for Simmons
Speaker 1: and Covington. Covington with a double double as well ten points,
Speaker 1: ten rebounds and JJ Reddick with sixteen six of ten
Speaker 1: from the field, four to five from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: Tonight's game a long one, two hours, twenty five minutes,
Speaker 1: another sellout crowd, but the seventy sixers they lose. They
Speaker 1: dropped to thirty six and thirty Indiana improves to forty
Speaker 1: and twenty eight, winning on the road at Boston and
Speaker 1: the Sixers in consecutive games. Very impressive. Indiana now two
Speaker 1: and a half games in front of the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference standings, and will do one quick
Speaker 1: check of the scoreboard around the NBA tonight as far
Speaker 1: as teams that are in action of note Toronto beating Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: they maintained their perch atop the conference in first place. Washington,
Speaker 1: the other relevant game tonight, they lost at home to Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So the Sixers and Washington both losing tonight, they'll remain
Speaker 1: separated by eight game in the standings, but Indiana does
Speaker 1: gain ground. All right. Divine Gibbons is awaiting your calls.
Speaker 1: Six one zero sixty three, two zero nine seventy five,
Speaker 1: Looking forward to listening on the drive home, and a
Speaker 1: big thanks to everyone involved tonight's production. That would be
Speaker 1: back to the studio, Alan Yates and Tyler Zuli here
Speaker 1: on site. Our engineer extraordinary Marty Dickerson. Now for the
Speaker 1: radio voice in the seventy six ers, Tom mcguinnis Brian
Speaker 1: Seltzer saying so long for that one final time the
Speaker 1: final score. Pacers one on one, seventy six ers ninety
Speaker 1: eight have a great resture Tuesday Night from all of
Speaker 1: us here at the Sixers of Raider Network