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Speaker 2: postgame Show Right now on ninety seventy five, the fanatic
Speaker 2: Sixers being Boston one eighteen one fourteen, and coaches already
Speaker 2: Nick Nurse is already in the press game, a postgame
Speaker 2: press conference. We're gonna go to him in a moment.
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Speaker 4: Seco Certainly, the way they were scheming defensively, they were
Speaker 4: trying to plug, you know, off off of him, so
Speaker 4: he had some some really good looks. But again he's
Speaker 4: you know, he's he's capable shooter.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: That was as obviously a special night, and he threw
Speaker 4: a couple a couple of funny ones in one funny
Speaker 4: one for sure, but he also I've been saying to
Speaker 4: you guys, he's much healthier now than he was two
Speaker 4: weeks ago. Just feeling I mean, the first thing he
Speaker 4: said to message, don't want to shoot. He goes if youse,
Speaker 4: I just coach, I just feel so much better are
Speaker 4: physically and said, well, it shows. And he was battling
Speaker 4: all night defensively as well. So it's good to see
Speaker 4: him back playing well. Yeah, I mean I think it's
Speaker 4: just kind of what we have left right now, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, Drumm and kJ are out did last game,
Speaker 4: certainly need to give Tyrese some rest, and decided to
Speaker 4: bring both veteran point guards together when Tyrese goes out,
Speaker 4: And normally we would bring somebody else back in, like
Speaker 4: kJ would probably be in there, but when it was
Speaker 4: Tyrese's time to come back in, we just left the
Speaker 4: three guys because again just absent players, and they did
Speaker 4: a heck of a job. I mean we went to
Speaker 4: his own right away both times they checked in and
Speaker 4: got got a couple of stops out of that, but
Speaker 4: that was just just enough kind of buying time. And
Speaker 4: then I thought those guys all battled. You know, Kyle
Speaker 4: had a hell of a game, just battling and physical
Speaker 4: and rebounding and and you know, just organizing the team
Speaker 4: at the offensive end. The Yeah, I mean, it's it's
Speaker 4: it just gives them both a chance to alternate bringing
Speaker 4: the ball up the floor. I just think sometimes you
Speaker 4: leave you know, Kyle out there by himself or whatever,
Speaker 4: and then there's gets some up court pressure and now
Speaker 4: you can just let Reggie initiate some stuff and and
Speaker 4: gets Kyle off the ball a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean listen, I mean ty Reese when he's
Speaker 4: aggressive like this and and doing just enough turn in
Speaker 4: the corner and throwing the jets on on downhill right,
Speaker 4: just enough of that, and then that's gonna certainly open
Speaker 4: up some some you know, wider drift drift threes and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. And and you know, I think, I
Speaker 4: think we got a huge bucket. Well it wasn't a bucket,
Speaker 4: it was a file. But when the game was going
Speaker 4: haywire there for a while, we finally got the ball
Speaker 4: across mid court and run a side screen and roll
Speaker 4: with tyres and Joel, and Joel rolled hard and we
Speaker 4: hit him and he got got fouled. That was kind
Speaker 4: of like a stabilizing possession. So those guys, I mean,
Speaker 4: pretty dangerous when you can both guys can shoot the
Speaker 4: three and got size and quickness in that. That combination.
Speaker 2: Change you guys are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think so, I think again, like uh,
Speaker 4: we just we just are finally figuring out kind of rolls,
Speaker 4: rotations no matter who's in, no matter who's there and
Speaker 4: who isn't organizations a lot better just organization of execution
Speaker 4: and things like that. And then and then I think
Speaker 4: our defense has certainly become a lot more physical and tough.
Speaker 2: Right We're just we're.
Speaker 4: We're giving ourselves a chance because we're we're really you know, guarding.
Speaker 2: Well way better, way better? Yeah.
Speaker 3: Really, yep, organizations, how import of the first identity as.
Speaker 4: The well, it's really important.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: I think two things show up tonight that we had
Speaker 4: kind of consistently last year is low turnovers and great
Speaker 4: free throw shooting, which we haven't had much this year.
Speaker 4: I met, Really, those are two really really important things. Again,
Speaker 4: I think our guys just are organized now. They did
Speaker 4: a really good job of helping each other figuring out
Speaker 4: what exactly we were trying to do on offense and
Speaker 4: where the spacing was, et cetera. We just we just
Speaker 4: got a little, hey, why are there in a couple
Speaker 4: of weird scenarios? But we can we can shore that
Speaker 4: up too, I think, but just much much better organization.
Speaker 2: Six Ers coach Nick Nurse his point about the free
Speaker 2: throw in nineteen out of nineteen and the turnovers only six.
Speaker 2: You know, when teams lose games at any level when
Speaker 2: they miss free throws to turn the ball over. Isn't
Speaker 2: that like a common frame, well, turnovers and free throw shooting,
Speaker 2: it really caused well the Sixers, that was something that
Speaker 2: they had last year, and frankly within bead it's been
Speaker 2: really positive. Joelle has been in this limited time playing
Speaker 2: so far this year the number one free throw shooter
Speaker 2: in the NBA tonight seven for seven and his coach
Speaker 2: had that late possession where he got fouled. Two big
Speaker 2: free throws there. Paul George made four down the stretch
Speaker 2: as well, and then he mentioned Kyle Lowry. Lowry, he
Speaker 2: played only twenty minutes. He had five points, three rebounds,
Speaker 2: and four ASI. But again, a coach, especially a coach
Speaker 2: that's so aware of the contributions of a Kyle Lowry,
Speaker 2: not just now but throughout his career, he know that
Speaker 2: Kyle had a really good game. And Lowry was plus
Speaker 2: twenty I mean that is actually Al Horford was plus
Speaker 2: twenty two. But otherwise that's the best total in the
Speaker 2: game by way of comparison, Yabuselee plus eighteen and Reggie
Speaker 2: Jackson plus eleven. So the Sixers bench was superb in
Speaker 2: this game, and it was you know, they had nineteen
Speaker 2: points and Boston's bench had twelve, but it was more
Speaker 2: than just a scoring It was like I said, Yah,
Speaker 2: Busiley made a lot of hustle plays and a career
Speaker 2: night from three by Caleb Martin was seven twenty three
Speaker 2: points total for him. So a huge win for the Sixers.
Speaker 2: They continue to play well here in December and they
Speaker 2: get a really hard fought, big win in Boston on
Speaker 2: Christmas Night. Over the season again the final one to
Speaker 2: eighteen to one fourteen. Will send it back to Matt Murphy.
Speaker 2: With more postgame coverage from our flagships.
Speaker 3: I've got more on the perfect game at the free
Speaker 3: throw line. That's something that legitimately only happens about once
Speaker 3: a year, at least in six Ers recent history. They
Speaker 3: had not yet done it this season. Tonight nineteen for
Speaker 3: nineteen on Christmas Day in Boston. They the last time
Speaker 3: they had two games in a season where they went
Speaker 3: perfect wasn't since twenty seventeen eighteen. So you'll take these
Speaker 3: one hundred percent games at the line. They needed all
Speaker 3: those makes. They win it by four. Just a fantastic win.
Speaker 3: They're eleventh of the season. I know Drew Holliday was
Speaker 3: missing from the Boston lineup. But the Sixers were without
Speaker 3: four rotation players as well, so it was kind of
Speaker 3: like a playoff game in that aspect where a couple
Speaker 3: of guys came off the bench. You mentioned their impact, Tom,
Speaker 3: but let's talk about a couple of starters. I'll get
Speaker 3: to Maxie. But how about Caleb Martin. Those seven made
Speaker 3: threes were the most he's made in his career, and
Speaker 3: you said it they were kind of daring him to shoot, right.
Speaker 2: They really were. I mean the one toward the end,
Speaker 2: like at a certain point, you know they're not dumb,
Speaker 2: They're they're gonna changed their coverage. Like, but Caleb Martin
Speaker 2: must have gotten knocked down like he was literally it
Speaker 2: was like one of those exercises at the gym. He
Speaker 2: was on all fours trying to crawl out torn By
Speaker 2: that time, KYLEB. Martin was in his motion and getting
Speaker 2: an open three. But the rest of the time, right,
Speaker 2: they were playing up, And that's what happens when you
Speaker 2: double embiid, Like somebody's going to be open, even if
Speaker 2: it's not right next to the player that's got the ball,
Speaker 2: like sometimes it's a pass or so away. But they
Speaker 2: were definitely like if they were leaving one man. It
Speaker 2: was him, and it cost him. So great night for
Speaker 2: Martin and great to see overall that he's feeling that
Speaker 2: much better because look at the results. This is the
Speaker 2: player that the Sixers you know, were looking to get
Speaker 2: when they picked him up in the offseason.
Speaker 3: Twenty three points for Caleb Martin in the one eighteen
Speaker 3: to one fourteen win for the Sixers over the defending
Speaker 3: champion Celtics on the road. Matt Murphy with Tom McGuinness
Speaker 3: here on our seventy six Ers postgame show, which is
Speaker 3: presented by Parks Casino. Embiid had twenty seven points and
Speaker 3: nine rebounds and nine rebounds in thirty one minutes. It
Speaker 3: was Tyrese Maxi who led all scorers with thirty three
Speaker 3: points and he had twelve assists.
Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 3: He's the first Sixer ever on Christmas Day to have
Speaker 3: thirty plus points and ten plus assists in a game.
Speaker 3: The Sixers are now twenty and fifteen on Christmas as
Speaker 3: a franchise. Maxie's game, what did you see when Embiid
Speaker 3: is out there? You know he got tossed from the
Speaker 3: last game. When Embiid's out there, how much does that
Speaker 3: help Maxi? What did you see from that double double?
Speaker 2: Well, that part right there, we've seen some of Tyree's
Speaker 2: best games have been without Joelle, and so on the
Speaker 2: one hand, you're like, well, right, he knows he has
Speaker 2: to pick up the scoring, but there must be something
Speaker 2: to the spacing and the fact that he's able to,
Speaker 2: you know, to turn the corner and and be you know,
Speaker 2: is not in the middle with you know, his defender.
Speaker 2: But again it's his speed, is its ability to get
Speaker 2: by the initial defender and then the other bigs are
Speaker 2: lifted out, so there's nobody protecting the rim and he's
Speaker 2: just become an unbelievable finisher. And that's that's what coach
Speaker 2: was talking about about, you know, turning on the jets
Speaker 2: in other words, racking up the speed. Probably the fastest
Speaker 2: player off the dribble, certainly one of in the NBA,
Speaker 2: Tyrese Maxi, and able to get those underhand scoops. He
Speaker 2: made a rolling hook shot. I mean, he is. His
Speaker 2: repertoire is expanding as he goes along, and you know,
Speaker 2: kind of by by force or because they're they're guarding
Speaker 2: him and throwing so much at him. Right, you have
Speaker 2: to be more creative and go different when they're not
Speaker 2: letting him always get to the basket. But then at
Speaker 2: the same time, as you know, he's got that ability
Speaker 2: to back up and hit the deep balls. And then
Speaker 2: that's what coach was talking about with Joel. Two guys
Speaker 2: that can step out and make threes, but two guys
Speaker 2: that also can get to the basket. So really great
Speaker 2: performance to dishing, you know, like he's you know, when
Speaker 2: he does get double, he's thrown it, thrown it to
Speaker 2: other players to twelve assists. Great overall game for Maxie.
Speaker 2: Like I said, you just you get the sense he's
Speaker 2: becoming a star, and part of that is delivering every
Speaker 2: single night. That's a big load. Like Nick Nurse has said,
Speaker 2: these great players are expected to get twenty or more
Speaker 2: points every game. That's a burden that's not not a
Speaker 2: lot of guys can carry. And Maxi is beginning to
Speaker 2: prove that he can do it. And he's like you said,
Speaker 2: he's getting off the good starts with now four the
Speaker 2: last five games, twelve more points in the opening quarter.
Speaker 2: That'll set you on a good course.
Speaker 3: And he finishes strong because that last check. He leads
Speaker 3: the NBA in clutch scoring, which is a five point
Speaker 3: game or less in the last five minutes. Tyrese Maxey
Speaker 3: with thirty three points and twelve assists. Tom This was Boston,
Speaker 3: the defending champs on their home court, where they had
Speaker 3: a twenty game winning streak at home last season to
Speaker 3: start the season. They made twenty threes tonight where they
Speaker 3: had been ten to zero in those situations, So they
Speaker 3: kind kind of played their game and the Sixers still
Speaker 3: get the win by four. I know the five game
Speaker 3: road trip for the Sixers is coming up, but not
Speaker 3: until Saturday. So just a final thought on this game.
Speaker 3: What impressed you most about what is truly a statement victory?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like just because we sit pretty much in the crowd.
Speaker 2: It's not an angle, it's an unusual locale. And then
Speaker 2: you know, just having been here so many times, this
Speaker 2: is give or take my eightieth trip to Boston with
Speaker 2: the Sixers, Like it's somewhere in there when you throw
Speaker 2: in postseason and preseason, it's not fifty I know that.
Speaker 2: So my point is, and they've all been here. I
Speaker 2: was never back in the Old Garden, at least in
Speaker 2: this role, And so the fans expect to win, like
Speaker 2: when they were coming back, they expect to win and
Speaker 2: they there is a huge home court advantage with their crowd.
Speaker 2: It's just there as there's an edge here and you
Speaker 2: feel it and I know the players feel it. It's
Speaker 2: it's palpable. So that right there is awesome. And that's
Speaker 2: why I kind of was getting that with Yabu Sali,
Speaker 2: and that is as a team, you have to know
Speaker 2: it's coming, you know, you just there's no way that
Speaker 2: you know you're going to cruise to a victory here.
Speaker 2: And so that to me, that's always, you know, really
Speaker 2: reinforcing for a team, like for the Sixers to know
Speaker 2: they could withstand the challenge and come back and and
Speaker 2: still win right Like it's it wasn't wired to wire.
Speaker 2: They stood a big run in the fourth, they stood
Speaker 2: a run you know, early in the in the second quarter,
Speaker 2: so really really impressive, and you know they're building, right,
Speaker 2: they're building together. Like it's still like six or seven
Speaker 2: times period in which Paul has played with Tyrese and
Speaker 2: Joel and you know, now you get Caleb Martin into
Speaker 2: the mix, like and then you know you got the
Speaker 2: veterans with Jackson and hopefully Drum won't be out too long.
Speaker 2: Same for Eric Gordon who's proven that he can be,
Speaker 2: you know, everything that the Sixers expected him to be
Speaker 2: when they here, although you know, just in flashes. But
Speaker 2: that's the other thing. You got to get healthy. And
Speaker 2: you know, the Sixers Nick Nurse knows one way to
Speaker 2: keep battling, to keep working, keep practicing, keep putting in
Speaker 2: the time and great game plans. And tonight they deliverately
Speaker 2: sweet win for the victor here in Boston, for sure.
Speaker 3: Sixers have won eight of eleven. The Celtics have now
Speaker 3: dropped three of four. Tom McGinnis in his thirtieth season,
Speaker 3: thank you, sir, and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: All right, Murph, thank you.
Speaker 3: One eighteen one fourteen final score the NBA on Christmas Day,
Speaker 3: and the Sixers win the third of the five games
Speaker 3: on the slate in Boston against the Celtics to get
Speaker 3: to ten. We'll make it eleven and seventeen on the
Speaker 3: season while Boston they're eleven and five at home. Now
Speaker 3: it's not quite as dominant as they started last season.
Speaker 3: To stay, to say the least, and twenty two and
Speaker 3: eight overall. The Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference stay.
Speaker 3: We'll have a look at the standings towards the end
Speaker 3: of the show tonight, but plenty more to come. Highlight
Speaker 3: a break including all of the audio heights, the key
Speaker 3: plays with Tom mcguinness's calls still to come, a closer
Speaker 3: look at the box score, and a couple of stats
Speaker 3: of the game. CO Stats of the game if you will,
Speaker 3: taking a deeper look at Sixers history and deeper look
Speaker 3: at Sixers history in Christmas games. But a one to
Speaker 3: eighteen one fourteen Sixers win an impressive win on the
Speaker 3: road against the Boston Celtics. We'll have plenty more. Devin
Speaker 3: Caleb Martin a season high twenty three and a career
Speaker 3: high seven threes on nine attempts, Paul George with twelve
Speaker 3: gershon Yabusele off the bench with twelve. The Sixers counter
Speaker 3: Boston's twenty threes with seventeen of their own, and they
Speaker 3: were a perfect nineteen for nineteen at the free throw line.
Speaker 3: We'll have stats, highlights, and standings when we continue on
Speaker 3: next with our seventy six Ers Parks Casino Postgame Show.
Speaker 3: The Park's Casino postgame show after a big seventy six
Speaker 3: Ers win, part of the NBA on Christmas Day, always
Speaker 3: a staple of the NBA schedule, the Sixers fortunate enough
Speaker 3: to be part of it, and they go to Boston
Speaker 3: and beat the defending champs one eighteen one fourteen behind
Speaker 3: thirty three points and twelve assists from Tyrese Maxi and
Speaker 3: Beat and Caleb Martin also with twenty plus points. Tatum
Speaker 3: led Boston with thirty two points and fifteen rebounds, but
Speaker 3: it's the Sixers by four in what is the first
Speaker 3: of the four meetings between the two rivals this season.
Speaker 3: He had to wait till December twenty fifth to see
Speaker 3: these teams square off for the first time this season,
Speaker 3: and it's a one to zero series lead. Now for Philadelphia,
Speaker 3: who has won eight of eleven, they are, as Nick
Speaker 3: Nurse would say, three to zero in games that they're
Speaker 3: big three of Paul George, Joel and Beat and Tyree
Speaker 3: Maxey have started and finished. They've played about twice as
Speaker 3: many with them that they've started, but because of injuries
Speaker 3: and ejections, it's only the third game that they've completed
Speaker 3: as a trio, and they're three to zero in those situations,
Speaker 3: including this win over the Celtics. Matt Murphy here with you,
Speaker 3: good time to mention that It's also a three for
Speaker 3: one voting day for the NBA All Star Game in
Speaker 3: the San Francisco Bay Area this February twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Sixers dot Com Slash all Star has all your voting
Speaker 3: resources to send your favorite Sixers to the All Star Game.
Speaker 3: You can also vote directly through the NBA app and
Speaker 3: the website vote dot NBA dot com, but your vote
Speaker 3: counts for three a triple voting day for the NBA
Speaker 3: All Star Game, and one of our stats of the
Speaker 3: game has to do with a deserving All Star candidate,
Speaker 3: a guy that made his All Star Day view last
Speaker 3: NBA season, Tyrese Maxi. One of our stats of the
Speaker 3: game is that he just became the first seventy six
Speaker 3: er ever with at least thirty points in ten assists
Speaker 3: on Christmas. Those final numbers thirty three and twelve. Our
Speaker 3: other one is that this is the first Sixers Christmas
Speaker 3: game with three twenty point scorers. The ones outlined Caleb Martin,
Speaker 3: Joel Embid and Tyrese Maxey since nineteen eighty eight. These
Speaker 3: stats courtesy of the ESPN telecast that trio in eighty
Speaker 3: eight Charles Barkley, Mike Jaminski and Gerald Henderson Senior in
Speaker 3: a fifteen point win over the Washington Bullets at the Spectrum.
Speaker 3: Sixers entered today with a nineteen and fifteen Christmas Day record,
Speaker 3: so this is their twentieth win on the holiday. It's
Speaker 3: by four points over the Boston Celtics. And we'll hear
Speaker 3: how it sounded right now, as called by Tom McGuinness.
Speaker 3: The Sixers Celtics in Boston, starting lineup of Tyrese Maxi,
Speaker 3: Paul George, Kelly oubre Junior, Caleb Martin and Joel Embiid
Speaker 3: in the absence of Jared McCain, kJ Martin, Andre Drummond
Speaker 3: and Eric Gordon. Drew Holliday was out for Boston with
Speaker 3: a shoulder injury. Sixers in the white uniform, Celtics in
Speaker 3: green with some red accessories for the holiday. And in
Speaker 3: the first quarter we skip ahead towards the end. This
Speaker 3: was an up tempo first quarter. Threes were flying, including
Speaker 3: from the big men of the Boston Celtics. Boston takes
Speaker 3: fifty a game, as we said a number of times,
Speaker 3: Sixers only thirty five a game on average, but Al
Speaker 3: Horford took four and made three threes in the first Cup.
Speaker 2: Here's Horford, but it all one and good again. I
Speaker 2: don't know that Horford.
Speaker 1: Has gone inside. He certainly has a shot.
Speaker 2: Inside, but I mean like, I don't think he's gone
Speaker 2: inside the paint at all. He made his third three
Speaker 2: out Arford with nine.
Speaker 3: He tacked on two more in the game, five for
Speaker 3: ten in thirty three minutes as a starter, seventeen points
Speaker 3: for the former sixer in the game, Tyrese Maxie had
Speaker 3: twelve in the first quarter alone, including the final bucket
Speaker 3: of the first spinning right of the lane on Peyton Pritchard.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight to twenty five. Maxie with a dribble eight
Speaker 2: seconds to go. The first Pritchard with a d god
Speaker 2: of the upper conics, Maxi drives it, spins in the lane,
Speaker 2: running hook shot counted off the windowing good.
Speaker 1: With two seconds, here comes Presser. This is his deal.
Speaker 2: He almost made it. The fans expecting another half court miracle.
Speaker 1: But no.
Speaker 3: Pritchard has a knack for end of quarter buzzer beating baskets,
Speaker 3: but it was Maxie who got the last laugh. Four
Speaker 3: of five recent games, four of his last five, Maxi
Speaker 3: has scored twelve plus points. Three of those twelve on
Speaker 3: the number with multiple threes. He did so again in
Speaker 3: this thirty twenty five first quarter, favoring the Sixers on
Speaker 3: the road, and he rolled that right into the second quarter,
Speaker 3: going back to that left hand like Monday night with
Speaker 3: the dunk.
Speaker 2: Here's Maxie down the label the left pat slam. He
Speaker 2: throws it down rimmed into the San Antonio game with
Speaker 2: that left hand chosen and he's got fourteen car in
Speaker 2: JM drive of the game.
Speaker 3: What a burst by Maxi. Sixers were building the lead.
Speaker 3: It was thirty two to twenty five. He had the
Speaker 3: last of the basket of the first the first basket
Speaker 3: of the second quarter, Tyrese Maxi. They built the lead
Speaker 3: to fifty thirty six on a Caleb Martin put back
Speaker 3: after he had hit a three. But his night would
Speaker 3: just be getting started at that point with the impact
Speaker 3: that he would make so good against the Boston Celtics
Speaker 3: in his career, most recently as a member of the
Speaker 3: Miami Heat in recent years. But fourteen would be the
Speaker 3: number again on a Joel mb'd three point fifty seven
Speaker 3: forty three bead. By the way, was four for five
Speaker 3: from three point range tonight, but as he was closing
Speaker 3: the first half, strong. So too was Jason Tatum, who
Speaker 3: only had five points in the first quarter. But Tatum,
Speaker 3: who missed their game on Monday in Orlando with an
Speaker 3: illness and was questionable to play today, he was heating
Speaker 3: up alongside Embiid late first half.
Speaker 1: Did beat with a ball for the Sixers.
Speaker 2: It beat into the lane on Horford, backing turnings, painting
Speaker 2: fifteen footer and that's good. It be now six of
Speaker 2: ten with fifteen Sixers lead by eight, sixty one, fifty
Speaker 2: three down to forty three seconds. Another try by Tatum,
Speaker 2: and it's good again. Tatum with a slow start, but
Speaker 2: now he's got sixteen.
Speaker 1: Time for game high honors with Maxis that.
Speaker 3: Made it a sixty one to fifty six game, Sixers
Speaker 3: up five. Eleven of Tatum's sixteen first half points were
Speaker 3: in the second quarter. Ten of Embiad's eighteen first half
Speaker 3: points were in the second Maxie also had eighteen in
Speaker 3: the first half of this game. By the way, earlier
Speaker 3: in the quarter, when I mentioned Kaylen Martin making it
Speaker 3: a fifty to thirty six game, that was part of
Speaker 3: a fifteen to two run turned into a seventeen to
Speaker 3: two run for the Sixers, but the Celtics, and Tatum
Speaker 3: got it closer as the half wo We're on Paul George.
Speaker 3: His dunk actually capped the seventeen to two run in
Speaker 3: the second quarter and gave the Sixers their largest lead
Speaker 3: of the night at sixteen. He had twelve points in
Speaker 3: thirty four minutes as a starter, but it was sixty
Speaker 3: six fifty eight Sixers at halftime in Boston, and the
Speaker 3: Celtics started the third quarter on a seven to zero run,
Speaker 3: including two buckets from Jalen Brown, who was just one
Speaker 3: for eight shooting in the first half.
Speaker 1: Here's Brown with it. Brown into the lane, Maxie right there.
Speaker 2: Jalen Brown spins right hand, one hand paint shot is good.
Speaker 2: So Brown one field goal to the first half. Two
Speaker 2: quick ones here in the third. He's made it a
Speaker 2: four point game.
Speaker 3: Jalen Brown ends up in this game with twenty three points,
Speaker 3: so a huge second half for him after only two
Speaker 3: in the first two quarters. Two points total. That in
Speaker 3: a sixty six to sixty two game. With the Sixers
Speaker 3: ahead by four, then Jason Tatum, who had a team
Speaker 3: high thirty two tonight plus a game high fifteen rebounds,
Speaker 3: he hit a three to force a Sixers timeout up
Speaker 3: by one early third quarter. Around the same time is
Speaker 3: when Kristaps Porzingis was ruled out for the game for
Speaker 3: Boston with nine points in thirteen minutes because of an
Speaker 3: ankle injury. With the game tied at seventy six, it's
Speaker 3: Jason Tatum working on Kelly Oubre Junior and he hits
Speaker 3: a tough long two over him.
Speaker 2: Left hand dribble, gets a screen at the top of
Speaker 2: the arc, now fires for three.
Speaker 1: It's good. What a play by Tatum.
Speaker 2: Five prize at twenty two points, and Boston has recaptured
Speaker 2: the league, first lead since the opening quarter, and this
Speaker 2: crowd of nineteen thousand censing.
Speaker 3: The momentum, first lead since nine to eight on the scoreboard.
Speaker 3: Tatum's thirty two came in forty two minutes on eleven
Speaker 3: of twenty, shooting four for eight from three and six
Speaker 3: for seven at the line. So it's seventy eight seventy
Speaker 3: six Boston. Jalen Brown with a floater extends the Celtics
Speaker 3: lead to eighty seventy six. In the third, Gershon yabu
Speaker 3: Sele would tie the game. The former Celtic evening the
Speaker 3: Ledger at.
Speaker 1: Eighty Sixers could tire take the lead.
Speaker 2: Yabu Sele screens Paul George now to Gershan. Yabu Sele
Speaker 2: goes in on Tatum, works ur the Easepins goes up,
Speaker 2: lays it up and good. Even though he's smaller than Tatum,
Speaker 2: he's able to use his body of the maneuver and Yabu.
Speaker 3: Sle with twelve twelve points off the bench in twenty
Speaker 3: one minutes for Gershan, and it was eighty two eighty two.
Speaker 3: Lowry would tie it the next time for the Sixers,
Speaker 3: heading to the fourth quarter in a tie game in
Speaker 3: Boston on Christmas eighty two, all fourth quarter after a
Speaker 3: couple of Peyton Pritchard free throws. He didn't make a
Speaker 3: three tonight, which is notable. He was OH for eight
Speaker 3: four points in thirty three minutes off the bench. One
Speaker 3: of the leading sixth Man of the Year candidates, he
Speaker 3: averages fifteen point seven points in is a forty three
Speaker 3: percent three point shooter, but was OH for eight in
Speaker 3: this contest. Sixers followed up his free throws to start
Speaker 3: the fourth with an eight zero run culminated that culminated
Speaker 3: with a Tyrese Maxi stepped back three, forcing a Joe
Speaker 3: Mizzula timeout.
Speaker 2: Sixers by three with the ball too well on the bench,
Speaker 2: so was Paul George Boles spitting segment of the fourth
Speaker 2: Maxi for three.
Speaker 1: It's up and good.
Speaker 2: He nails a tray timeout Joe Mazzola and Boston. Maxi
Speaker 2: with twenty three had the seventy six Ers lead ninety
Speaker 2: to eighty.
Speaker 3: Four, one of Maxi's three threes on nine attempts tonight
Speaker 3: ninety eighty four to six point lead. He attacked on
Speaker 3: another basket in the lane after the Boston timeout middle
Speaker 3: of the fourth quarter. He was also racking up those assists,
Speaker 3: as evidenced.
Speaker 1: By the double double.
Speaker 3: With the thirty three points and game high twelve assists,
Speaker 3: he finds Caleb Martin draws the attention to the defense.
Speaker 3: They were leaving some room for Martin. He had all
Speaker 3: the time in the world, and he made the Celtics pay.
Speaker 2: Here's KYLEB. Martin wide open study survey. He said, knocks
Speaker 2: it out. Caleb Martin having a career night. From three,
Speaker 2: he hits his six to three. He had a big
Speaker 2: game for Miami here earlier in his career. He puts
Speaker 2: the Sixers up by fifteen point and whoa what's going on.
Speaker 2: Some of the Celtics fans are leaving, they're putting their
Speaker 2: coats on, or as they said in grammar school, they're
Speaker 2: getting their reps and getting out of here. We'll be back.
Speaker 2: With six thirty six to go, it's a fifteen point game.
Speaker 1: Long way to go, long way to go.
Speaker 3: Indeed, there was still some drama in store, but that
Speaker 3: basket made it one oh three eighty eight. Sixers gave
Speaker 3: Caleb Martin a season high twenty points, which turned into
Speaker 3: twenty three. It was his six to three. He ended
Speaker 3: up seven to nine from three point range. That's a
Speaker 3: career high for three pointers in a game. Caleb Martin
Speaker 3: who averaged against the Celtics as a member of the
Speaker 3: Heat in the twenty twenty three Eastern Conference Finals in
Speaker 3: which they beat Boston. He averaged nineteen points per game.
Speaker 3: He has had their number over the years, which could
Speaker 3: loom large come playoff time. Fourth quarter, one oh three
Speaker 3: to eighty eight. After that Martin three, the Celtics would
Speaker 3: cut it to one oh eight one hundred with three
Speaker 3: minutes left in the game, forcing a time out. Then
Speaker 3: five more quick points from Boston, starting with a Derek
Speaker 3: White three pointer.
Speaker 1: After the Sixers open the quarter twenty one to six.
Speaker 2: Boston had scored twelve o the last seventeen and they
Speaker 2: have it. Derek White for three. It's up hand good
Speaker 2: Man bought it continues.
Speaker 1: It's Moomtum. It's a five point game with two thirty
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 3: White like Tatum was questionable coming in. He had some
Speaker 3: hamstring tightness. He had twenty one points in the game, though,
Speaker 3: and was five to ten from three.
Speaker 1: It's a five point game.
Speaker 3: During a nine zero run that became eleven zero steal
Speaker 3: and an alhr for dunk made it a one possession game,
Speaker 3: prompted another Sixers timeout. All of a sudden, It's one
Speaker 3: o eight, one oh five Sixers. They had a side
Speaker 3: out of bounds with only one point one seconds on
Speaker 3: the shot clock. A few possessions later, at this point
Speaker 3: they are leading one ten, one oh five, but just
Speaker 3: about one second to shoot. And it was a as
Speaker 3: Tom McGinnis describes, a Christmas miracle courtesy of Maxi.
Speaker 2: Caleb Martin will inbound one eleven to go. Sixers, cut Maxy.
Speaker 1: To the basket, he dropped it, he gains it back,
Speaker 1: Penny put it in. A miracle Christmas miracle at Boston.
Speaker 2: Maxi dropped it, stooped it back, peat scored it six
Speaker 2: Ers by seven, one to oh three to.
Speaker 1: Go one twelve, one oh five.
Speaker 3: Maxi had thirteen of his thirty three in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: He's been so clutch this season, so clutch in his career,
Speaker 3: and deserving of your All Star votes for sure. It
Speaker 3: wasn't over after that, though, Al Horford a steal Tatum
Speaker 3: layup cut it to five forty seconds left one fourteen,
Speaker 3: one oh nine. It was a later a three point
Speaker 3: game after a Jalen Brown layup with six seconds left.
Speaker 3: Paul George made some free throws. Jalen Brown hit a three,
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid hit the final free throws. Sixers went a
Speaker 3: perfect nineteen for nineteen at the line, their first one
Speaker 3: hundred percent free throw shooting game of the season, and
Speaker 3: they hold on to win in Boston on Christmas Day,
Speaker 3: one to eighteen, one fourteen. What a game, What a
Speaker 3: road win for the Philadelphia seventy six ers, the third
Speaker 3: of the five games on Christmas, so the national stage,
Speaker 3: and they win it to get to eleven and seventeen.
Speaker 3: They've won eight of eleven, eight of their last eleven.
Speaker 3: Boston is twenty two and eight. We'll check out the standings.
Speaker 3: Will quickly run through the Christmas Day schedule as well,
Speaker 3: but the Sixers do their part and they've won back
Speaker 3: to back game San Antonio at home on Monday, now
Speaker 3: the Celtics in Boston on the NBA on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3: They do have a five game road trip, but they're
Speaker 3: not staying out on the road, but they will. They
Speaker 3: won't be back in action until Saturday night in Utah
Speaker 3: for a nine to thirty Eastern game, and then they'll
Speaker 3: play in Portland on Monday, followed by Sacramento Golden State
Speaker 3: and then Brooklyn on January fourth of Saturday. The Sacramento
Speaker 3: Golden State is a back to back New Year's Day
Speaker 3: in Sacramento, and then the next day Thursday at the
Speaker 3: Golden State Warriors at Chase Center in San Francisco. Again,
Speaker 3: the Celtics were ten and oh when they made twenty
Speaker 3: threes this season. They made twenty, but the Sixers win
Speaker 3: seventeen threes. For the Sixers, they shot forty two and
Speaker 3: a half percent from three seventeen of forty forty one
Speaker 3: percent for Boston from three twenty of forty nine. Boston
Speaker 3: missed five of their thirteen free throws, only sixty one
Speaker 3: and a half percent at the line, and they lose
Speaker 3: by four. And they missed five free throws, they were
Speaker 3: forty five percent from the floor from the floor shooting,
Speaker 3: six Ers were forty just under forty seven percent as
Speaker 3: a team. One of the five games on Christmas, the
Speaker 3: Knicks beat the Spurs at noon one seventeen to one fourteen,
Speaker 3: behind forty one points for Mical Bridges, his career high
Speaker 3: as forty five, now a member of the New York Knicks.
Speaker 3: Victor Wembiniama in the three point loss had after playing
Speaker 3: the Sixers Monday in Philly, he had forty two points,
Speaker 3: eighteen rebounds, four assists, and four block shots. Not a
Speaker 3: career high for him either, that number is fifty. The
Speaker 3: next game, Mavericks fell at home one oh five, nine
Speaker 3: nine to the Timberwolves. Luka Doncic left the game early
Speaker 3: with a calf strain. In reports are saying he could
Speaker 3: miss an extended amount of time. Sixers won eighteen, Celtics
Speaker 3: won fourteen, and then the Lakers Warriors up next. Nuggets
Speaker 3: and Suns will close it out. The Suns will be
Speaker 3: without Devin Booker at ten thirty eastern Lebron versus Steph
Speaker 3: in the game right now, no players played more Christmas
Speaker 3: Day games or scored more Christmas Day points than soon
Speaker 3: to be forty year old Lebron James his nineteenth game
Speaker 3: four hundred and seventy six career points on this day,
Speaker 3: and if he wins, it would break a tie with
Speaker 3: Dwayne Wade for the most Christmas Day wins weighed with ten.
Speaker 3: But the Sixers over the Celtics, which produces a standings
Speaker 3: in the East that moves the Sixers up within one
Speaker 3: game of the play in tournament, which is the seventh
Speaker 3: through ten seeds. The Pistons and the Bulls are the
Speaker 3: Bulls ninth, Pistons tenth, six Ers eleventh, so just outside
Speaker 3: the play in tournament picture, which is how they entered
Speaker 3: the playoffs last year to play the Knicks. Bulls and
Speaker 3: Pistons are thirteen and seventeen. Sixers are eleven and seventeen,
Speaker 3: so one game back from playoff positioning, well technically play
Speaker 3: in tournament positioning for the right to go to the
Speaker 3: playoffs with plenty of season ahead of them, Celtics are
Speaker 3: four games back of the first place Cleveland Cavaliers now
Speaker 3: Cabs are on a five game winning streak. Celtics have
Speaker 3: lost three of four. Cleveland is twenty six and four.
Speaker 3: Celtics are twenty two and eight. But this has been
Speaker 3: the seventy six Ers postgame show presented by Parks Casino.
Speaker 3: Again the final score of the Sixers one eighteen. The
Speaker 3: Celtics won fourteen. Thanks to our producers Matt Manarek and
Speaker 3: Brendan Petrilli, and of course Tom McGinness on the call
Speaker 3: that next Sixers game Saturday night in Utah. Reminder, it's
Speaker 3: a nine to thirty pm Eastern road start against the
Speaker 3: Jazz and our coverage here on the Sixers Radio Network
Speaker 3: presented by Jackpot City Casino. We'll begin at nine twenty Eastern.
Speaker 3: Until then, I'm Matt Murphy saying thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 3: I have a great rest of your holiday week. Merry Christmas,
Speaker 3: Happy Holidays. The Sixers over the Celtics on Christmas. Take
Speaker 3: care everyone,