Speaker 1: Stop the presses. Let's go live to Brett Brown right
Speaker 1: now outside the Sixers locker room. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: you walk that tight rope of trying to guard good
Speaker 1: guards that can penetrate and also good guards that you
Speaker 1: know can can shoot the three. And uh, we we
Speaker 1: really had no answer for their point. For their point
Speaker 1: guards didn Wittie and D'Angelo. I thought I had great games,
Speaker 1: you know, as a team. They made some threes and
Speaker 1: we really tonight had a difficult time defending them. How
Speaker 1: about what efficiently Joel and Dario set screens in general
Speaker 1: and tonight, I mean, I think it's always something that
Speaker 1: you know, it's a partnership you're trying to get better at.
Speaker 1: I think when you have a pick and roll situation,
Speaker 1: it's a partnership where you got to set up the
Speaker 1: screen maybe better than we do. Um. You know, I
Speaker 1: think Amia's veteran sort of ex experience allows him to
Speaker 1: navigate screen setting a lot easier than the other young guys.
Speaker 1: In general, you're always looking to set better screens this game.
Speaker 1: You go back as safe we had done this, it
Speaker 1: would have turned out differently. What would it have ended?
Speaker 1: I mean, you go to this sort of They are
Speaker 1: an analytic sort of you know, blueprint to how young
Speaker 1: teams want to play. They want to either shoot threes,
Speaker 1: get fouled, or get layups. You know, get to the rim,
Speaker 1: get foul, shoot threes, and the volume of threes we
Speaker 1: knew we're gonna come. I think it's just that individual
Speaker 1: sort of pride and guarding you men and sticking to
Speaker 1: our rules. Like got edited at halftime, was rogue, Like
Speaker 1: we're leaving corners. You know, we're overhelping. I help that
Speaker 1: we were sort of directing the players too, wasn't there.
Speaker 1: And I think that defensively we will poor that that's
Speaker 1: who we are. You know, I think with third or
Speaker 1: fourth in the NBA, I like where we're trending defensively.
Speaker 1: But tonight, you know, you felt like you were twenty
Speaker 1: four and the three point shot, containment of the ball
Speaker 1: are the things that I believe I'm going to see
Speaker 1: in the in the table. Does that happen at the
Speaker 1: end of the road trip. Maybe it can't, though, like
Speaker 1: maybe it can't. Maybe maybe it does, but it just can't.
Speaker 1: Like you know, this is the NBA, and so you
Speaker 1: know we we we leave disappointed. That's a poor loss.
Speaker 1: And you know we we didn't guard. We're gonna look
Speaker 1: at some things offensively. You know, I got to find
Speaker 1: a way to get Cove way more involved. You know,
Speaker 1: he needs to be way more involved. And I thought
Speaker 1: that a bench, you know, struggle tonight. When you start
Speaker 1: looking at the raw numbers of the bench, that's Brett Brown,
Speaker 1: Robert Coving today at six points in the game, and
Speaker 1: among the bench scoring McConnell too, Amir Johnson seven, Anderson
Speaker 1: at two, Booker at six, and that's it. So again
Speaker 1: the final one six, one o eight, the Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 1: defeat the seventy Sixers. Brett Brown calling it a bad laws.
Speaker 1: We'll have Brian Seltzer next from our flagship station. Our
Speaker 1: postgame coverage continues after this. This is the Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers radio network all at all. It was a
Speaker 1: respectable month of January for these seventy sixers, but on
Speaker 1: the final day of the month, definitely, definitely not the
Speaker 1: outcome this team was looking for. Sixers fallen Brooklyn one
Speaker 1: sixteen to one O eight in the finale of a
Speaker 1: four game trip. Sixers had a relatively full complement of
Speaker 1: players on the roster available tonight got off to a
Speaker 1: great start, led by nine points early on in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, but then suffered what was kind of a
Speaker 1: tone setting draft for the rest of the game. At
Speaker 1: the end of the first into the second, Dangel Russell
Speaker 1: got hot, Spencer Dinwoodie was potent throughout the game and
Speaker 1: the backcourt for Brooklyn. On a balanced night for the Nets,
Speaker 1: which entered with a record of eighteen and thirty three,
Speaker 1: very much difference making factors as the Sixers fall for
Speaker 1: the third straight time and are now twenty four and
Speaker 1: twenty four on the season with one sixteen one away
Speaker 1: defeat to the Nets. Sixers were led by Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: his twenty third double double of the year with twenty
Speaker 1: nine points, fourteen rebounds and two assists. Ben Simmons aggressive
Speaker 1: again with twenty four a fish and again eleven of
Speaker 1: sixteen overall, two rebounds and seven assists. JJ Reddick, looking
Speaker 1: relatively sharp in his return, had some good moments, got
Speaker 1: into a rhythm it looked like for him twenty points
Speaker 1: in the game, nine to ten from the free throw
Speaker 1: line and three for four from outside the arc, but
Speaker 1: it was the Nets. After the Sixers went up by
Speaker 1: one ninety two to ninety one early in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter that answered with an eleven Zip run, and ironically enough,
Speaker 1: it was Nick Stowskis who hit the three pointer to
Speaker 1: get it going and Jalil okafor who capped the stretch
Speaker 1: off with a two pointer over Embiid that represented a
Speaker 1: key juncture of the game that helped set up the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets a little bit further and more comfortably for
Speaker 1: a win. Tonight, Tom mc ginnis called the game at
Speaker 1: Barclays Center this evening, Tom, the NEPs. We talked about
Speaker 1: this before the game. This is an upstart team. It's
Speaker 1: a team that plays fast and as Brett Brown discussed afterwards,
Speaker 1: very analytically minded and a lot of those factors combined
Speaker 1: as they shot the ball well from outside the arc
Speaker 1: and the win. Yeah, they really did. They played well,
Speaker 1: no question about it. And like I said, you know
Speaker 1: who knew Spencer Dinwit he is this good. But he
Speaker 1: had twenty seven points, got fouled, made his free throws,
Speaker 1: good point on the book end baskets by the former
Speaker 1: Sixers and Stauskas and Okah four and you know, you'd
Speaker 1: have to think, without question numerically in terms of what
Speaker 1: Brett Brown said, you know, shooting threes and all that.
Speaker 1: They had a great night and one of their better
Speaker 1: nights of the year shooting, and it came against the
Speaker 1: Sixers defense that I thought was pretty good early on
Speaker 1: when the Sixers took a four point lead. But as
Speaker 1: you say that, there was that spell toward the end,
Speaker 1: which was in the end that one of the differences
Speaker 1: in the game. But there was another eleven o run
Speaker 1: and they opened the second quarter and an eight o run.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, those spurts. It's just like losing streets.
Speaker 1: You can't allow them to get the three and four.
Speaker 1: You got to nip them a two. You know, the
Speaker 1: really good teams are able to stay even and trend upwards,
Speaker 1: stay over that mean line if you wele that median,
Speaker 1: you know, like you want to be trending upward and
Speaker 1: be peaking, and the same thing in a game, you
Speaker 1: just can't allow the opposition to get away from you.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened here and Brooklyn saw an opening,
Speaker 1: they took it and they get a big win for
Speaker 1: themselves at home here tonight over the six Ers one
Speaker 1: sixteen went away at the final score from Barclays Center
Speaker 1: three ties, but twenty one lead changes in tonight's game.
Speaker 1: It seemed like Tom the Nets were able to start
Speaker 1: to get inside, get through the pain in the second
Speaker 1: half that helped turn things. And you could tell listening
Speaker 1: to Brett Brown afterwards, Listen, we know that this is
Speaker 1: now going on five years, he's not going to pull
Speaker 1: any punches. That this was one, and he spoke about
Speaker 1: it with you beforehand, that it's like, you look at
Speaker 1: opportunities and a very tightly packed bottom half of the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference top eight standings, and this was one they
Speaker 1: had their sightset on. They did, and again they don't
Speaker 1: really look at it like we look at it as
Speaker 1: fans or you know, I call ourselves reporters. But on
Speaker 1: the other hand, you know, big picture, as you said,
Speaker 1: he didn't dodge it. This is a game you should win.
Speaker 1: You want to you want to get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You got a game a team fifteen games under five hundred.
Speaker 1: It's the type of game you gotta take care of.
Speaker 1: And let's be honest. The Sixers, you know, you go
Speaker 1: to Memphis, that's another game you probably could have should
Speaker 1: have won. On paper. You're like, all right, they're struggling
Speaker 1: this year. This guy's out Parsons is out, Conley's out,
Speaker 1: and on and on, and then the Sacramento games, the
Speaker 1: Phoenix games. I mean that's just and then you know,
Speaker 1: let's give credit where credits to these players and these
Speaker 1: teams are they're they're really good. I mean there's no layups,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's not easy, you got it. That's
Speaker 1: why as coaches, you gotta got to take care of
Speaker 1: business and make sure you guys are in a position,
Speaker 1: your team is in a position to continue to excel
Speaker 1: and be in position to succeed. But yeah, it's tough,
Speaker 1: you know, coming in, You're right, this is a game
Speaker 1: you think the Sixers should win, as I said last
Speaker 1: night earlier, But last night the Knicks beat the Nets
Speaker 1: for the fourth time, and now the Sixers are ahead
Speaker 1: of the Knicks by not by much. And you got
Speaker 1: one of your opponents, you know, a team that's going
Speaker 1: to be buying for a spot as well, beating them
Speaker 1: four times and you can't beat them. So three more
Speaker 1: games with them and then a huge weekend coming up.
Speaker 1: But the Sixers one step forward and right now forty
Speaker 1: eight I mean one step back. They're even five hundred
Speaker 1: after forty eight. Well you make the point after tonight
Speaker 1: sixteen one o eight lost a big back to back
Speaker 1: home road coming up this weekend Friday, National TV against
Speaker 1: a Miami Heat team that recently ripped off seven straight wins,
Speaker 1: their fourth and the East. Currently they're trailing Cleveland by
Speaker 1: three on the road, and then Indiana it's seventh and
Speaker 1: a couple of games ahead of the Sixers. That's on Saturday.
Speaker 1: They beat Memphis at home tonight one oh five, one
Speaker 1: on one. So a few teams in Memphis and Indie
Speaker 1: that maybe you don't hear a ton about nationally, but
Speaker 1: they've played really well this year. Absolutely, And I'll see
Speaker 1: you two in raise you one and that is wen
Speaker 1: or Tuesday. The Sixers have washing. Yeah, that's right. So
Speaker 1: you keep hoping for the sixth and they just didn't.
Speaker 1: They went three games over five hundred, but that win
Speaker 1: at San Antonio, and overall they've been playing well coming
Speaker 1: into this game, having one nine of twelve. But you know,
Speaker 1: and you keep waiting for what now. You almost has
Speaker 1: to be a pretty substantial winning street to put yourself
Speaker 1: in a position where you could feel pretty good going
Speaker 1: into the last third of the season. You know, around
Speaker 1: the end of February, where you know you're going to
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs, but it's still it's still up
Speaker 1: for grabs at five hundred right now. So and those
Speaker 1: are those are tough teams. And here's another. Here's a
Speaker 1: team in Miami. The Sixers are gonna play four times,
Speaker 1: including two times in the not too distant future down there.
Speaker 1: And to your point about Indiana, Victor Oladipo, you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: they lost poor Paul George. Well he's matured. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you one thing with Indiana and Oladipo just reading
Speaker 1: a little bit about that ball club from a few
Speaker 1: weeks back. But you know, Kevin Pritchard went out and
Speaker 1: met with Victor Oladipo said, look, we want you. And
Speaker 1: I think it's a of a young player really coming
Speaker 1: into his own in his fourth season, I believe, fifth
Speaker 1: season in the NBA, where now he has confidence, he's
Speaker 1: got great ability, and he's playing real So bonus is good.
Speaker 1: They got some good young talent and I think everybody
Speaker 1: kind of projected in Indiana would be struggling and rebuilding.
Speaker 1: Well guess what they're in the mix. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: for the Sixers, you just got it. They've been playing
Speaker 1: well again. They shot it well, all these things well,
Speaker 1: they just didn't defend well tonight good enough to win
Speaker 1: the game. And it's it's hard to win on the road.
Speaker 1: And it comes and you come away with an l.
Speaker 1: Here at Berkeley Center in Brooklyn, only about two hours
Speaker 1: away from home. Tom, have an easy trip back. Thank you, Bryan.
Speaker 1: Good Night one sixteen one On eighth, the final score
Speaker 1: nets over the seventy sixers and beat with twenty nine
Speaker 1: and fourteen, Simmons with twenty four, Reddick with twenty but
Speaker 1: guys named Dinwitty twenty seven, Angel Russell twenty two, loved
Speaker 1: Marie Carol, Jared Allen, Alan Crabb came up with some
Speaker 1: big plays in the second half as well. We'll get
Speaker 1: to some of Tom's highlight calls on the other side
Speaker 1: as we roll along. One more segment on the postgame
Speaker 1: show before Devon gives takes over on ninety seventy five
Speaker 1: and the Sixers Radio Network, seventy Sixers were trying to
Speaker 1: catch up on some sleep going into tonight's game in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: They'd been really busy on the road San Antonio, OKAC
Speaker 1: back to back ending on Monday in Brooklyn and the
Speaker 1: goal for the Sixers tonight to try and get back
Speaker 1: on track. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot com.
Speaker 1: Here are some of the highlights from the fourth and
Speaker 1: final game of this road trip. It was a solid
Speaker 1: start for the Sixers. Ben Simmons scored six out of
Speaker 1: the first eight points, Joel and Bead getting things going
Speaker 1: from the perimeter, and the Sixers by four with eight
Speaker 1: twenty to go in the opening quarter. Going right and
Speaker 1: left a white uniform. Here's a three buying beach shot here,
Speaker 1: and that's good time out Brooklyn Kenny Atkinson says time out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that made it fourteen to seven. And within the first
Speaker 1: three and a half minutes of the game, the Sixers
Speaker 1: had gone two for two from outside the ark. And
Speaker 1: if you follow these things closely, you would probably know
Speaker 1: that they went two for twenty six from outside the
Speaker 1: arc and Monday's loss a Milwaukee, so that was nice
Speaker 1: to see. It was also nice to see the Sixers
Speaker 1: built up a nine point lead thirty two twenty three
Speaker 1: into the closing moments of the first quarter, but then
Speaker 1: a spell hit. The Sixers led thirty four thirty going
Speaker 1: into the second, but a nice run by the Nets
Speaker 1: got them not only back in the game, but in front.
Speaker 1: It was fueled by d'anzel Russell. They scored eleven of
Speaker 1: the first thirteen points of quarter number two. The Sixers
Speaker 1: were searching for some sort of response, and then Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons flicked the hard driving switch at Brooklyn by four
Speaker 1: forty three thirty nine. Here Simmons blowing by everybody, reverse jap,
Speaker 1: twisted dirt and the Cruts going crazy. They love fantastic basketball.
Speaker 1: At Simmons from down under, twisted turned slabs, two point game.
Speaker 1: The old Ben Simmons was trending in the Twitter sphere
Speaker 1: at one point tonight, probably as a result of that dunk.
Speaker 1: It was phenomenal. They got the Sixers right back into
Speaker 1: it and very encouraging to see JJ Reddick's first appearance
Speaker 1: in eight games getting into a rhythm late in the
Speaker 1: first half. Back to Reddick near side, dribble, side steps
Speaker 1: a man right in, two point ed. He got it it,
Speaker 1: hit rib, backboard, back to the rim, bounded twice on
Speaker 1: the rim, and then in and Reddick for what could
Speaker 1: not be a three point play. It was, and it
Speaker 1: put the Sixers in front fifty to forty nine. But
Speaker 1: Brooklyn answered with the next nine points. The Sixers led
Speaker 1: sixty five to sixty four going into intermission. In the
Speaker 1: third quarter, still very tight, tense back and forth pace.
Speaker 1: Dario sharts sending the Sixers back into the lead five
Speaker 1: to shoot. Simmons off the dribble to Dario and charge
Speaker 1: for three. If that's it. The seventy Sixers with two
Speaker 1: late shot clock baskets in their last trip trips and
Speaker 1: made it seventy seven to seventy five. Dams Or Russell
Speaker 1: again late in the third, rearing his very impactful head
Speaker 1: and he put the nets up ninety one eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Going into the fourth, two quick baskets by the Sixers
Speaker 1: gave them the lead back, then eleven straight points by
Speaker 1: the Nets. The runs started with the three from Nick
Speaker 1: Stoskus and ended on a two from jalil Oka four,
Speaker 1: But the Sixers wouldn't let the nets get too far away.
Speaker 1: Joel and bead with a late flurry in the fourth
Speaker 1: Joel catches politics hit and left side left ped dribble back,
Speaker 1: eat it nut. Jared Allen Allen banked into a British
Speaker 1: shoot it beat on the movies gotta put it up.
Speaker 1: He does it the basket that scores it off the
Speaker 1: glass in the nick of time, Joel a beat next
Speaker 1: to the four point game two h five to go,
Speaker 1: Brooklyn got it back, made it one thirteen, one oh
Speaker 1: seven and two really big missed opportunities by the Sixers.
Speaker 1: A turnover followed by Robert Covington splitting threes missed the second.
Speaker 1: Sixers not able to get the loose ball rebound after that,
Speaker 1: as Brooklyn ends up with an eight point win tonight.
Speaker 1: Final notes from the final stat sheet. In this evening's game,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers shot just over forty seven percent from
Speaker 1: the field, Brooklyn fifty and a half percent, six or
Speaker 1: seven of eighteen from outside the arc. Brooklyn was thirteen
Speaker 1: of thirty two. That was a big difference six or
Speaker 1: twenty nine to thirty four from the line that helped them.
Speaker 1: Brooklyn also study at twenty five of twenty eight the
Speaker 1: Sixers best rebounding team in the league in terms of
Speaker 1: rebounds per game. They were outdone by six on the
Speaker 1: glass tonight. Brooklyn also had him on the offensive boards
Speaker 1: a season low eight turnovers for the Sixers, fourteen for Brooklyn, Spencer,
Speaker 1: Dinwoodie and d'azel Russell Big for the Nets. They combined
Speaker 1: for forty nine points. Jared Allen had sixteen and twelve
Speaker 1: to Maori Carrol with fifteen and Alan crab with fourteen
Speaker 1: for the Sixers duel and B twenty nine and fourteen,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons with twenty four, two and seven twenty for
Speaker 1: JJ Redick in his return. He was three or four
Speaker 1: from outside the arc and a dozen for Daro Scharch
Speaker 1: to go along with six rebounds and four assists, three ties,
Speaker 1: twenty one lead changes tonight. In the loss, the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers have now dropped three in a row. They're twenty
Speaker 1: four and twenty four well. The Brooklyn Nets take game
Speaker 1: one of the four game Atlantics Division Series in our
Speaker 1: nineteen and thirty three on the season, important important Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference games on the Horizon Friday, nationally televised game at
Speaker 1: the Center eight o'clock against the Ammy Heats. That's followed
Speaker 1: up by a road game on Saturday against Indiana, and
Speaker 1: then the Sixers have Washington back at home next Monday