WEBVTT - The BroadCast: 3/13/18- Rewind vs. Pacers 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.080 Six Ers fall one on one ninety eight. Big matchup 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.920 coming in a lot of build up, a lot of expectation, 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.119 and as I keep using the phrase, hard fought, that's 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.200 for sure, both of these teams battling, and Indiana prevails 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.680 by three, one on one ninety eight. So the Sixers 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.560 came in down two games in the standings to the Pacers, 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.959 and now they're three games separated from the three and 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.720 six positions. The Sixers now with a record of thirty 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:31.640 six and thirty and they have now lost well, there 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.080 were four and four in their last eight games, and 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.840 so the Sixers lose for the first time in thirteen 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.240 home games. They're twenty one and eleven at home. Indiana 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.400 tops in the Central, now forty and twenty eight, their 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:48.560 best record since the end of the thirteen fourteen NBA season. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.520 They would not won eight of their last eleven, including 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.640 three in a row. They're over five hundred at home, 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.400 and they get a great game from Miles Turner and 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.920 Victor Oladiep but with a huge shot despite struggling throughout 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.959 much of the game. Fan stupub is your ticket out 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.440 to once in a lifetime experiences from six Ers games. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.320 So amazing concerts and shows you don't want to miss. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.720 Get the stub Hub app today. Stupub is the official 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.400 ticketing partner of the Sixers, and they'll in part bring 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.640 you the game on Friday when the Sixers play host 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.080 of the Brooklyn Nets. Find your tickets at StubHub dot com. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.480 Up next is Sixers going back to New York. They 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.840 were there Sunday against Brooklyn and Thursday night the Sixers 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.840 will take on the New York Knicks. Let's go down 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.160 to the locker room where Brett Brown is just outside 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:39.120 speaking with the assembled press. Scoreps your Sixers coach, Brett Brown, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.839 I think some of them were self inflicted. I think 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.760 some too many happened in the break. I'll be curious 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.440 to go back and watch the tape of the turn 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.000 on turnovers in the first like three to four seconds 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:57.800 of a shaw Hawk as we're running. Some of the 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:02.000 decisions you know, to two to make passes in early offense, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.920 UH did not help us um and some of the 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:10.000 turnovers I give Indiana credit for. But we can almost 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.840 sort of like all go home after you make that 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:18.799 statement that the turnovers were the single thing that that 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.080 I think influenced this game, Turner picked up that fifth foul, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.160 and you know, you guys scored a couple of times 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.400 that sort of felt like you had to. Yeah, you 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.799 had the momentum, therey and I guess turn the ball 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.400 over and right, I mean I go back. I don't 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.960 remember exactly the sequences after, you know, Miles went to 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.960 the bench and then he came back in. But I felt, 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.640 you know, in general, it's hard for me to pivot 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.760 away from you know that that that fact you look at, 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.680 you know, Joe had, Joe had a night that we 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.560 can try to get that better, improve that. Dario also 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.440 had some stuff in early offense turnovers and as a group, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.720 everybody sort of contributed a little bit to that number 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.280 of twenty one. Coach, even though you lost this game, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.720 it was a playoff type atmosphere Earth, is there anything 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.519 that you can take and help these guys before? Is 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.480 he before towards the playoffs? I mean, I look at 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.480 our defense. They shot forty percent from the field, twenty 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.040 percent from the three point line. I thought we did 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.120 a really good job on Oladipo. He was four for 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.520 twenty one, had that months to three. At the end. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.440 I thought we did a good job on Bogdanovich, who's 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.560 been playing extremely well. He was won for eleven. I 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:36.280 think the defensively, you know, we were pretty good. We 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.640 were pretty good. It's just it's really hard to go 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.920 away from that thing that you know, is a part 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.800 of who we are right now. We're up and down, 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:49.160 we're young, we make not wise decisions at times, and 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.320 I feel like what we need to walk out of 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:56.520 this game with, I believe, is the recognition that we're 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.280 close to being amongst a pretty elite group. We're just 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.200 not there yet. And I think that the month that 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.240 we have coming up, the remaining games, you know, we 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.160 can admit the truth, try to find a way to 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.920 to fix that and and move up as high as 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.600 we can. In the Eastern standings. Two times that you 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.520 faced the Pacers, Turner didn't cause as much problems he 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.920 did as he did tonight. What wasn't that he was doing, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:22.960 especially with in being in the game at the same 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.719 time that what was causing kind of the breakdown we 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.120 eat When you have a five men that can pick 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:35.720 and pop, it's it's really an unusual sort of schematic 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.039 game plan you go through when you have like Joel, 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.800 you know, it's an unusual thing where Miles can pull 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:45.560 you out and and make make those you know, threes 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.839 and long twos. And I think the adjustment that we 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.760 made where you know, after we do whatever we're doing 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.839 and pick and Roll will say, like you know, the 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.040 clothes out, we're gonna make him hot. We're really gonna 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.320 try to make him dribble and just get to him 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.400 a hell of a lot quicker than we did at 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.560 the start of the game. But I do give him credit. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.560 He's a young talent. And anytime you can find a 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.320 big that can be that committed as sort of a 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.640 roll or in a rebound and have the ability to 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.520 step out and make shots at the precent that he does, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:20.159 he's pretty special. Brett Brown outside the six years locker room, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.840 talking lastly there about Indiana center Miles Turner, who had 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.320 a twenty five point game. Pacers defeat the Sixers one 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.800 oh one to ninety eight. They've now won fifteen out 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.960 of eighteen games against the Sixers fourteen out of seventeen 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.440 games over the last few years, including two out of 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.520 three this year. Ben Simmons had a triple double. Joellabead 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.520 had twenty nine points, but Indiana wins by three. We'll 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.000 hand it over to Brian Seltzer of thanks to Marty Dickerson, Tyler, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.440 Zulie Allen Yates. They helped to engineer our broadcast. We'll 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.160 be back after this with more six Ers postgame coverage 0:05:55.360 --> 0:06:00.440 live from the center the Sixers Radio Network. He's the filling, Yes, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.240 seventy Sixers postgame show. If feed I can look about 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.520 of a broad free SORR, He's gonna turn and get 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:11.240 it off. Mattie Roll the Sixers postgame Show right now 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:17.719 on Nutty seven five. The panetic tough for for the 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.920 seventy Sixers, another stinging reminder of the importance of how 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.000 slim the margin for Eric can be against very good teams, 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.560 and at this time of year, a difficult pill for 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.000 the Sixers to swallow, and a one one ninety eight 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.919 lost the Indiana Pacers at home. Brian Seltzer with you 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.360 from Sixers dot com. The headline will be twenty one 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.040 turnovers committed by the Sixers, which the Pacers transformed into 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.560 a twenty nine to twelve points off turnovers scoring advantage. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.839 There are certainly some other important subplots in this one tonight, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:50.840 but if you had the chance to hear Brett Brown 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.799 in his postgame address a few moments ago. He acknowledged 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.239 the reality turnovers right now a part of the seventy 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.800 sixers identity as a young, growing team. Of course, it's 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.200 something that they work on and rep on on a 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.760 regular basis, but against high caliber teams, it's an issue 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.720 that continues to reef surface. We saw it on the 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.400 road trip in the loss at Milwaukee. The Sixers also 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.480 tried to deal with turnovers in the defeat at Miami 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.640 and against the third ranked team in the Eastern Conference 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.560 right now, the Indiana Pacers, the sixth seed as it 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.520 stands at the moment. Sixers unable to overcome ball security 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.120 issues in a loss tonight, which was their first at 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.960 the Center. Amazingly since December twenty first of two seventeen, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:37.200 Joel Embiid big down the stretch twenty nine points, twelve rebounds. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.920 He did have eight of those twenty one turnovers. Ben 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.720 Simmons matching Magic Johnson with seven triple doubles, the second 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.320 highest total ever for a rookie player in NBA history, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.520 behind Oscar Robertson. In his twenty six ten points, thirteen boards, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.280 and ten dimes for Ben Simmons, only two turnovers for 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.200 him on the night, that was a good thing. Miles 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.280 Turner twenty nine and six for the Pacers, Stadius Young 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.080 nineteen and ten. Victor l Adipo just eleven four of 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.040 twenty one from the field, but his final basket was 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.720 a big one, a three pointer that gave the Pacers 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.800 an eight point lead with just over three minutes to go. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.400 Tom turnovers coming into play again against a really good team, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.480 and as Brett Brown said, that's the reality. The Sixers 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.960 continue to try and work off, no doubt about it. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.520 At eight is a hard number for Joe. He's got 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.360 to get better at that and just slow down, I think, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.200 and be a little bit more pragmatic with the basketball, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.200 a little more thodical, and they double and the you know, 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.880 Trevor Booker was very active. Look, he's given up a 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.280 lot of size to Joel, but he used his quickness 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.320 and well placed reach getting into a little bit. Brett 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.800 Brown used the phrase earlier tonight in addressing the assembled 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.200 media prior to the game about you know, they get 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.199 in and they got to get right into our chins. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.480 He's talking about how teams are defending the Sixers of late, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.600 and that's part of the issue with the turnovers, and 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.280 you've got to be strong with that basketball. But you know, 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.160 just stepping back and looking at the game again, I've 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.600 said this so many times just since the buzzer ring, 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.240 but a hard fought game, difficult defeat for the Sixers. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.479 But and you know, we've heard the phrase playoff atmosphere 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.880 certainly is accurate here tonight, as with so many of 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.280 these games here for the Sixers at home with a 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:22.760 sellout crowd, great games against difficult opponents. And my point is, 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.120 you know, there's you mentioned that Oladipo three that came 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.440 with three eighteen ago. I believe there are only other 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.199 points after that were two free throws by Miles Turner. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.360 But this is what's rich about an NBA game, and 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.200 it's part of the reason I think the sport is 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.000 so well received and so popular, not just in America 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.280 but around the world. There was so many big players. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.240 Look at Reddick. When Ben got that triple double, it 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.079 was on a pass from Simmons to Reddick, and then 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.240 that was the second to last one. Because Reddick had 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.880 that three where he pumped faked, he could have tied 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.760 it at ninety nine. He missed that. There were several 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:01.760 times you thought the Sixers were dead in the water. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.520 They couldn't come back. They're down five, but Oldpot goes 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.800 in for a rousing slam dunk in traffic over like 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.040 three guys left handed dunk attempt, no good, no foul, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.360 and b gets the rebound. Sixers come down and score again. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.960 I mean, and on and on, and that's sometimes like 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.800 it's almost like having a great meal at a terrific 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.640 restaurant and you go back home and you're reliving the experience, like, oh, remember, oh, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.960 and then there's a sert was good. That's how these 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.560 games are, like where you reflect back and think of 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.000 all the different chapters in the entire book, the way 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.240 it played out. So difficult ball game for the Sixers, 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.880 but again they've got to get over this turnover thing 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.720 or big games down the stretch of the season, which 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.080 like this one for the whole playoff implications or in 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.680 the playoffs, and you're gonna have these you know, these 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.720 games go against you because you can't maximize your possessions 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.880 and take care of the ball. They scored, like I said, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.280 plus seventeen off turnovers in a game that was decided 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.800 by three points, and it's familiar refrain for the Sixers. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.559 They've got to somehow arrest that difficult situation and be 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.920 and take better care of the basketball. Joel embiid master 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.280 for the seventy sixers. If I don't have it wrong, Tim, 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.360 I very well could. I think he scored his final 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.520 eighteen points of the night between the closing minutes and 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.440 the third when he scored the last eight points. Then 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.400 he had ten in the fourth quarter. He stepped up Sixers. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.160 Great job defensively really for the most part of Oladipo. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.839 But there were some other guys for India, as you mentioned, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.640 in particular Thad Young. You know, there was that one 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.520 stretch when the Sixers tied it up at seventy one 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.560 in the third on a charge three and then the 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.320 next six points make it seven. Actually because the final 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.480 play was an a one went to Thad Young, and 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.920 that's like some veterans that no one is right, and 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.280 that was a tough matchup for the Sixers. This is 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.040 during that spell that I think you're talking to, but 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.920 I was over there by the Sixers bench. Thaddish Young 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.840 had Marco Belinelli on him. Marco was playing over the top. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.760 In other words, Young then caught the ball, went baseline 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.559 and had an unimpeded path to the basket left hand 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.640 player on the right baseline. He turns it back into 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.400 the defense but nobody was there, and scored it with ease. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.720 And so you know he is a very active player 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.640 and he slices through there. He's been a high field 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.040 goal percentage shooter throughout his career. This year at forty 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.400 eight percent, he had double digit rebounds. I mean, they 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.000 got a lot of nice pieces. They don't have a 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.439 I mean, you call all the deepole a superstar at 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.079 this point, but you know, they don't have like an 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.400 Embid or a Simmons. And having said that, Turner was 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.600 awful good here tonight, But they are. They have a 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.240 lot of really good pieces. They're deep. I thought an 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.320 unheralded player in the game. And I've said it again, Boydanovitch, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.240 I thought he guarded Ben where Simmons was not able 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.559 to get all the way to the basket. If Ben 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.600 did shoot, it was a difficult one hand like right 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.200 or left hand jump hook from eight or nine feet. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.760 Those are that's a high degree of difficulty, and I 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.280 thought bug Donovitch at six eight two twenty five at 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.280 the size and the strength to kind of keep Ben 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.719 away from the basket. But rate game. You got to 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.040 give indi Ena credit again. They hold the opposition the 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.720 Sixers tonight under one hundred points. That's been what they've 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.120 been doing of late. And again they got a difficult role. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.720 They got the Raptors twice, they got the Warriors twice, 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.559 and so they got a difficult schedule. But they've outshot 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.120 everybody's expectations in terms of how they're playing after the 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.160 Paul George trade, and they're not going away. That kind 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.840 of segues to the final point. There was a lot 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.880 of build up surrounding this one. Tonight was it arguably 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.200 the seventy sixers most important regular season game in the 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.120 last however many years. You could make an argument for that, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.319 but there still is a month to go, a lot 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.520 of basketball we played in as you said, short term, micro, 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.360 you look at this game, and this one stings and 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.920 it hurts, but macro some scheduling breaks, perhaps favoring the 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.199 seventy sixers, and most importantly games against opponents like these, 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:48.760 And we heard Brett Brown say it could have been 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.240 the Milwaukee game last week, the Miami loss as well. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.400 These are teaching the lessons about how teams might go 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.960 about the Sixers in the playoffs and they still have 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.760 time to address them. And I thought the point you 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.480 brought up about Simmons and what Bogdanovich did on him 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.040 was a perfect case in point. And then had you 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.400 adjust well and to just to back up what you're 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.199 saying about what coach, what Brett Brown has been preaching. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.240 And again, you know he's so authentic, like he shares 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.760 with the media what he tells the team, and he's saying, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.760 simply stated, played better longer, and that's what happened in that. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:20.680 You know, you go back a week ago Sunday, they 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.320 lose in Milwaukee, they lose in Miami, and that is 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.400 you know, they played good in stretches, certainly against the Bucks, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.440 they had a twenty point lead and a nineteen point lead, 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.880 but try to extend that great play for longer stretches 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.280 of the game, and you could correlate that to tonight. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.000 You know, they played well, but the Sixers never led. 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.880 The last lead they had was fourteen thirteen, and every 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.680 time they would come back and close the gap. Indiana 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.400 would get a spurt and it would be a seven 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.360 point game. And so you got to give Indian of credit. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.320 They've answered the bell. But again to your larger point 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.400 from if you step back and you take a look 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.040 at what's going on, the sixers are in good position, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.640 and let's you want to put yourself in the best 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.400 position first, get into the playoffs, into the best position, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.520 but be playing your best basketball, have health going into 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.480 that midweek in April, that final game of the year 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.920 is here against Milwaukee, and then whatever the matchup is. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.440 You know it's going to be a tremendous experience for 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.800 this young group because it's, as Brett Brown has stated 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.080 so many times, it's a whole new ball game. But 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.240 it's not that much different than this type of game. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.640 Because half court scoring is so difficult, the pressure increases. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.200 You're playing a two week series potentially of seven games. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.520 There's no mysteries, and so that that's part of the 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:40.080 reason that it becomes so difficult. But hey, look, it's 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.160 like you said, it's tremendous. You're talking about this game. 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.840 They're all big. I thought tonight, you're right, I think 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.200 this easily could because it was the next game and 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.120 it was against a team ahead of you, but you 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.000 could have gained a whole game on them against Indiana. 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.520 But now you go on the road, you take on 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.480 New York, you take on Brooklyn. Got an opportunity against 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.360 two of these teams that are in your division that 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.840 are having different occult years, and you've got to come 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.920 right back. One of the great things, one of the geniuses, 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.520 if you will, about Brett Brown, is keeping the spirits 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.280 alive even during the tough years where the Sixers were losses, 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.960 were piling up and putting in a good day's work. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.640 And that's what he really excels in. And that's what 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.520 you got to go up to the garden tomorrow and 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.440 get ready for Thursday and get ready to pound the knicks. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:25.040 Tom McGinnis with great wisdom and insight, as always, thank 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.760 you very much. Good night, Brian. Seventy Sixers follow the 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.400 Pacers one one ninety eight to twenty one turnovers committed 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.320 by the home team tonight, which led to twenty nine 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.640 Indian points. We'll get into some of the highlights. There 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.200 were great moments in this game. Unfortunately it did not 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.800 go the Sixers way. Stay with us. It's the postgame 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.840 show on the Sixers Radio Network ninety seven five. The 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:51.200 Fanatic the Sixers and the Indiana Pacers at the center. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.960 Tonight third and final meeting of the season between these 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.320 two teams, which began the day two games apart in 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.800 the standings. Let's get to some of Tom McGinnis's highlight 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.600 calls Tonights. Sixers got a nice run going to the 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:08.160 tune of eight straight to put themselves in front. Off 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.520 the dribble, pulls up, goes back out top. He throws 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.160 it away Miror Johnson with the lead past the bend 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.280 Simmons into the lake. Simmons around one man, lays it 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.560 up and in Ben Simmons with a first and a 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.399 beautiful play. As a mirror Johnson picks it up and 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.440 leads Simmons. Sixers would go up fourteen to nine, but 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.280 then India would respond with a spurt of its own, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:31.920 scoring the next fourteen points to take control. Sixers would 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.000 trail thirty three twenty three going into the second. The 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.680 long ball help the Sixers get back in it down 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.679 the stretch of quarter number two. Back to Marco, he 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.920 passes to Covington over Oladipot and that's in boy that figures. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.240 There were four guys clustered around the three point arc, 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.679 and Robert Covington raises up and scores at three, and 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.760 it's a four point game. Forty six forty two, Sixers 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.520 benefiting again from beyond the arc, this time in the 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.400 closing seconds to a half eight seconds to go. Sixers 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.159 on the run. Iliosoma is out front. TJ goes to Reddick, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:08.000 Reddick rises for three. Shot yere J J Reddick with 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:12.840 two seconds ago. It's a four point game. That's the 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.040 third time in the last four games Reddick has hit 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.719 a three pointer in the final five seconds of a period. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.800 Fifty seven fifty three pacers in front going into quarter 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.040 number three. Sixers had Victor Oladipo under wraps in the first. 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.560 He got a little bit of a flurry going his 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.800 way in the early moments of the third, but the 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:35.520 Sixers are spotted right back. Dario Scharge truly a consistent Croatian. 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.880 He was at it again tonight twelve to shoot Simmons 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.720 on the backdown boy On keeping him out to about 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.280 ten feet up top. Dario for three, and it's in 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:48.560 tie game. Dario charge from Ben Simmons a dynamic duo. Indeed, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.480 they were even at seventy one, but then Thaddeus Young 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.040 scored seven straight points for the Pacers. That was part 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.840 of a nine nothing run that sent India head eighty 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.520 to seventy one. Sixers needed time out. Joel Embead got 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:04.400 rolling after that. Down by five, the Bead made two 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.399 free throws moments ago. He has it back on the 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.600 right side, backing down on Al Jefferson with a minute 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.680 to go in the third, into the lane, very deliberate, 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.000 and now it puts it up at the end. He 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.160 got the left side of the basket and off the glass, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.400 an end that was part of a run of ten 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.280 straight points scored for the Sixers by Ebead. The Sixers 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.240 trailed eighty three seventy nine going into the fourth and 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.399 Bead open things in the fourth with a basket of 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.240 his own, and the Sixers kept hanging and hanging around 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:32.000 Indy until about four minutes to go in regulation. Victor Oladipo, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.639 he had missed fifteen of his first eighteen shots in 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.920 the night, banged a big three pointer with three eighteen left. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.000 Joel Ebead answered Ben with a right hand dribble turns 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:42.520 the corner. Two guys go at him and goes into 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.360 a beat and Beat throws it down a monster right 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.320 hand jam by Joel and Bead. Ben Simmons drew double coverage. 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.160 He flips it back to Joe with a right hand 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.280 and it Beat crashes in with a slam. So that 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.680 made it ninety seven ninety one just under three minutes ago. 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.040 The Sixers, though committing two turn overs on two of 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.320 their next trips down the court within the next two minutes. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.200 That did not help the cause, but in Bead kept 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.400 on fighting, this time right out. Fifty five seconds ago, 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.280 Sixers down by five. Dario shars to Joel and beat 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.680 on the right wing, making a move on Bugdano. The 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:18.800 late steps around and puts it up an in off 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:23.399 the glass. It's ninety nine ninety six. Sixers on A 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.199 and B driving dunk would stay within three one one 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:30.440 ninety eight with thirteen seconds to go. Then a crazy sequence, 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.600 the Sixers doubled Victor Oladipo off an inbounds play was 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.440 McConnell and Simmons and Oldipo thrown elbow up offensive foul. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.880 Sixers got the ball back Joel and beat a three 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:44.200 pointer straight away six seconds to go that fell short. 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.440 A jump ball tied for the rebound with less than 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:49.199