Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers did show some fights in the Lone Star
Speaker 1: State tonight in a loss of the Houston Rockets one
Speaker 1: eighteen to one oh eight. They did not, however, get
Speaker 1: the win that they were looking for. Fourth straight lost
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers as their record drops to twenty
Speaker 1: three and fourteen or the Houston Rockets improved to twenty
Speaker 1: four and eleven on the season. I'm Brian Seltzer. The
Speaker 1: seventy six ers four game losing streak is the longest
Speaker 1: of the season, their longest since a five game skid
Speaker 1: back in December of two thousand and seventeen. What went
Speaker 1: well for the seventy Sixers tonight? Ben Simmons was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: You will probably look at his three for seven from
Speaker 1: the free throw line first in a game this close.
Speaker 1: That's valid. He was not the only seventy Sixer to
Speaker 1: miss from the line tonight, as the rest of the
Speaker 1: team was relatively up and down at certain points from
Speaker 1: the stripe, but the rest of Ben Simmons line pretty
Speaker 1: uncommon twenty nine points, thirteen rebounds, eleven assists, three steals,
Speaker 1: four block shots. According to the website Basketball Reference, he
Speaker 1: is the only player since nineteen forty six forty seven
Speaker 1: to reach those minimums twenty nine points, thirteen boards, eleven assists,
Speaker 1: and four block shots and three steals in a single game.
Speaker 1: So that is pretty impressive. Ultra impressive was what James
Speaker 1: Harden did tonight. Forty four points, eleven rebounds, eleven dimes.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of steals as well. It was
Speaker 1: the first triple double of the season for James Harden.
Speaker 1: He was really efficient, as Tom McGinnis was talking about,
Speaker 1: thirteen of twenty four from the field, six of twelve
Speaker 1: from three point territory. And if you go to three
Speaker 1: point shooting tonight, the Rockets out did the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers by twelve from beyond the arc, six of the
Speaker 1: bigger parton by six from the arc, and you make
Speaker 1: up the difference right there with James Harden's total. The
Speaker 1: three point shooting was a big storyline in the game. Again,
Speaker 1: the Rockets were plus six made from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: The Rockets also getting it done from the free throw line.
Speaker 1: We'll go down to the head coach Brett Brown, like
Speaker 1: you try to get close and like he's strong enough
Speaker 1: and good enough to go buy you. And then Cappella
Speaker 1: gets behind your head, you know for the lobs, and
Speaker 1: so the package is lethal. They're hard debat. He was
Speaker 1: outstanding tonight. I like the way I guys competed. You know,
Speaker 1: we got down, we fought back. We got down, we
Speaker 1: fought back. I think we got a two hundred and
Speaker 1: five hundred, you know, after being a very sort of
Speaker 1: erratic type of game. But I liked the spirit of
Speaker 1: our group. How did you feel like you kept up
Speaker 1: with their pace. I didn't think we did a good
Speaker 1: job in transition defense. I thought in the first half
Speaker 1: we will pull Capella beat us up the floor a
Speaker 1: few times. I didn't think we did a great job
Speaker 1: of showing a crowd on James. Initially, I thought we
Speaker 1: fixed some of that in the second half, but in
Speaker 1: general and the first half, the transition defense was a
Speaker 1: was a CEO thoughts on the street. I mean think
Speaker 1: about it, like I think that you just like go
Speaker 1: back and you keep moving. You know, you got to
Speaker 1: identify obvious things that we need work on. We had
Speaker 1: a rough time shooting tonight. I think we were six
Speaker 1: for whatever. And I think that like I um believe
Speaker 1: in it's it's it's a genuine comment that good days
Speaker 1: will add up. You know, I keep keep, keep the
Speaker 1: boys in the boat, keep moving forward, and uh, good
Speaker 1: days will add up this group. We will figure it out.
Speaker 1: I know you guys didn't come back, but there was
Speaker 1: a point where certain times where the body language look bad.
Speaker 1: You know the guys out there, um well, Joel was
Speaker 1: a couple of people the body language just looked bad.
Speaker 1: They were discourages, hard guarding. James Hodden, you can ask
Speaker 1: them about it. Are you concerned about the morale this
Speaker 1: group losing the fourth straight settlers in I'm not what
Speaker 1: gives you that confidence? Because I think that this is
Speaker 1: smart enough to know that we have talent in that
Speaker 1: room and then it's a good league and losing in
Speaker 1: Houston is no disgrace and that that good days will
Speaker 1: add up. I think the character will prevail. What did
Speaker 1: you make of Ben's aggression tonight? I thought Ben was great.
Speaker 1: You know, we put him in different pick and roll situations,
Speaker 1: used him as a screen center, you know, him rolling
Speaker 1: out of it. I thought he was excellent all around.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at those stats and as dominating.
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers head coach Brett Brown after tonight's one
Speaker 1: eighteen one O eight loss to the Houston Rockets, the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers fourth in a row, their longest losing
Speaker 1: streak since December of twenty seventeen. Some of the highlights
Speaker 1: from that. Brett Brown at postgame press conference. He believes
Speaker 1: that good days will add up. He thinks that there's
Speaker 1: enough character and talent among the team to figure out
Speaker 1: this current rut. The group is in. The team is
Speaker 1: coming back home after two idle days Tomorrow and Sunday.
Speaker 1: The seventy Sixers will host the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday,
Speaker 1: get two more days without a game before hosting the
Speaker 1: Ball Celtics in a game next Thursday night at the Center.
Speaker 1: So some opportunities for the seventy sixers to get in
Speaker 1: the gym and work on writing some of the wrongs.
Speaker 1: But for the most part is Brett said, and I
Speaker 1: think if you listen to this game tonight, if you
Speaker 1: watch this game followed portions of it, you could tell
Speaker 1: the spirit, the fight, the competitiveness of the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: was there. I mean, listen, the bottom line is is
Speaker 1: the last place, one of the last places you would
Speaker 1: want to have to go to when you're riding a
Speaker 1: three game losing streak and you're hoping to break out
Speaker 1: of it, is on the road to a place like
Speaker 1: Houston to face a team that's got the talent and
Speaker 1: the dynamic, transformative players like the Rockets do. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's James Harden, who, as we talked about before that
Speaker 1: excerpt of Brett's postgame press conference, had forty four points,
Speaker 1: eleven rebounds, eleven assists. Russell Westbrook, I mean, he was
Speaker 1: what he is. He was wild at times, he was crazy,
Speaker 1: and I felt the Sixers did a good job capitalizing
Speaker 1: on his erratic nous to try and get back of
Speaker 1: the game. But he can also drive down the length
Speaker 1: of the floor and put immense pressure on your transition
Speaker 1: defense and set up a drive and kick game, which
Speaker 1: was what was happening throughout the night. Westbrook had twenty
Speaker 1: points tonight, seven rebounds, four assists. And then there's Clinton Capella,
Speaker 1: who had a career game thirty points, fourteen rebounds. He
Speaker 1: was feasting off of what the likes of Westbrook and
Speaker 1: Harden were able to create, and the Sixers were not
Speaker 1: able to account for that many threats that Houston was
Speaker 1: throwing at them. Tonight, seventy Sixers follow the Rockets one
Speaker 1: eighteen one o eight. The record is now twenty three
Speaker 1: and fourteen on the season. We'll get some more thoughts
Speaker 1: from Tom McGinnis. Tom, it's a tough spot for the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers to be in, right, I mean, they're trying
Speaker 1: to get out of this funk and they're going up
Speaker 1: against one of the better teams in the NBA, and
Speaker 1: they started off pretty strong. They led by seven after
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Houston then got going driving the lane
Speaker 1: while the seventy Sixers closed the gap on a few occasions,
Speaker 1: there was always someone there for the Rockets to get
Speaker 1: the lead back to a comfortable spot, right And to
Speaker 1: your point, you know, they did keep battling back, and
Speaker 1: they got it down to six, I know, and maybe
Speaker 1: even less than that, but you know, they're around three
Speaker 1: minutes to go. They had a chance to cut it
Speaker 1: to four and came away empty and Harden came back
Speaker 1: with a big play. And again, when you're trailing like
Speaker 1: that and you get down toward the latter stages of
Speaker 1: the game. Like my point was right around that stage
Speaker 1: with three minutes or so to go, and I've said
Speaker 1: it before you but you almost have to play perfect,
Speaker 1: and that is you have to completely shut them out
Speaker 1: while you go on a tear and you know, there's
Speaker 1: obviously still a lot of possessions left with that much
Speaker 1: time to go, but you can't allow them to score,
Speaker 1: and certainly not more than once. And that that's what happened.
Speaker 1: But like you said, good spirit, good fight. They came
Speaker 1: back to your overall point, you know, and that was
Speaker 1: probably one of the sentiments coming in. You could play
Speaker 1: better and show more energy and execution and play overall
Speaker 1: better for the Sixers, but come away empty due to
Speaker 1: the fact that you're playing the Rockets here and they're
Speaker 1: pretty good at home. And then you have a transcendent
Speaker 1: performance by not just Westbrook but by Capella, who was terrific.
Speaker 1: And it's a predicament defensively, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: where you have to go Otherwise Harden's getting another layup
Speaker 1: and so Joel kind of has to roam toward him
Speaker 1: and then Capella throws it down from behind. So I
Speaker 1: mean they run that really well. I mean that's you
Speaker 1: can x and know all you want, but that's a
Speaker 1: really simple, fundamental thing. You throw it up to a
Speaker 1: six eleven player with great leaping ability, with one of
Speaker 1: the great greatest scorers ever throwing the ball to him,
Speaker 1: and that's a winning combination in terms of that alley.
Speaker 1: Youp with Harden and Cappella seventy six ers fall by
Speaker 1: ten at Houston one eighteen to one oh eight. What
Speaker 1: would you make tom of what Ben Simmons did tonight? Well,
Speaker 1: he was great, you know, and I think he ended
Speaker 1: up missing seven shots and two or three of those
Speaker 1: at least we're in the opening moments now. He also
Speaker 1: got rebounds for that, so that kind of padded that
Speaker 1: area of his game. But you know, he had difficulty
Speaker 1: scoring early on, but he was very aggressive. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I thought he would be a little more aggressive. He
Speaker 1: caught the ball down low and then opted to throw
Speaker 1: it out, and particularly when you've got somebody you know,
Speaker 1: and these are great players but not known as defensive stalwarts.
Speaker 1: In Harden and Westbrook and other times he had Gordon
Speaker 1: on him, and you know, Ben at six to eleven,
Speaker 1: I think he's got to be a little bit more
Speaker 1: aggressive with his back to the basket. Most of the
Speaker 1: times are some of these. Anyway, we're on second chances
Speaker 1: where you know, he's four or five feet from the
Speaker 1: goal and I get the three point shot as king
Speaker 1: in today's NBA, but not when you can spin and
Speaker 1: take a two footer. You know, those shots are pretty
Speaker 1: big too, so to be able to score at the rim.
Speaker 1: But overall, he was terrific, and he led the way.
Speaker 1: He was a dominant, aggressive player. And how about that
Speaker 1: two of the biggest stars in the game getting triple
Speaker 1: doubles in a ballgame. Here's tonight. Following tonight's ten point
Speaker 1: one eighteen one lost the Houston Rockets. These seventy sixers
Speaker 1: will be idol tomorrow and Sunday. Back at it on
Speaker 1: Monday against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and then after that
Speaker 1: they'll wrap up a two game stop at the Center
Speaker 1: versus the Boston Celtics tom How important do you think
Speaker 1: the next couple days off for the seventy six ers,
Speaker 1: presumably an off day, a true off day tomorrow and
Speaker 1: then another practice on Sunday. These are opportunities more so
Speaker 1: than you would normally find and pox the schedule to
Speaker 1: try and get some legit practice time in well, no doubt.
Speaker 1: In just one other note that I failed to mention,
Speaker 1: but James Ennis did not play. I see him here.
Speaker 1: He used to play in Houston, but he was under
Speaker 1: the weather tonight and he didn't play. And you say,
Speaker 1: true off day. This is also you know, just from
Speaker 1: doing this for a few years, this is one of
Speaker 1: the more difficult games other than returning from the West
Speaker 1: Coast because you know, again this this game was played
Speaker 1: on Central Time, but you know back home, it's getting
Speaker 1: on at eleven o'clock and then you gotta fly all
Speaker 1: the way home, so you know, you really you go
Speaker 1: to bed pretty pretty late, almost early in the morning,
Speaker 1: so you need that entire day, and then it's hard
Speaker 1: to practice full go on Sunday. You got a game
Speaker 1: on Monday, right, So but it is I mean, you
Speaker 1: got I think the six Ers benefited by getting into
Speaker 1: the gym yes day before they flew out here, and
Speaker 1: anytime like that is good. You just you're not going
Speaker 1: to be able. You might be able to go ten
Speaker 1: or fifteen minutes hard, but you can't go you know,
Speaker 1: a big hour and a half practice before a game,
Speaker 1: and those are really difficult now, you know, maybe Wednesday,
Speaker 1: but again, two days off is great, but mostly at
Speaker 1: this stage it's for rest and recovery, and that's what
Speaker 1: this will kind of be over the weekend. To get
Speaker 1: carried up. I think the biggest thing is they're coming
Speaker 1: home and played so well at home, and you know
Speaker 1: Oklahoma with Chris Paul. You know, everyone's kind of he
Speaker 1: was here, but remember how good he was down the
Speaker 1: stretch in that game. He was just incredible in the
Speaker 1: game in Oklahoma. So not an easy out for sure.
Speaker 1: Gallinari is hard to guard, so not an easy game.
Speaker 1: And then the showdown with Boston looms as well. But
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is to get back Monday and see
Speaker 1: if you can't get back in the win column, get
Speaker 1: that crowd behind you and get the good vibes going
Speaker 1: again and try to turn this thing around a little
Speaker 1: bit because the four games is where it needs to stop.
Speaker 1: Well put by Tom McGinnis. Tom talked to you on Monday.
Speaker 1: Good night, Thanks Brian. Here's how it sounded, courtesy of
Speaker 1: the one and only Tom McGinnis. Seventy sixers were looking
Speaker 1: for an energetic start and they got it. Joel and
Speaker 1: Bead was in the middle of it. Go here's a
Speaker 1: lob to the rim and Beat catches it, comes down
Speaker 1: and jams it over the top of Capella. What a
Speaker 1: feed by Ben Simmons from out front and Joel caught it,
Speaker 1: landed and went right back up and stuffed it. That
Speaker 1: made it seven to four. Seventy Sixers led by seven
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty after a quarter of play. In
Speaker 1: the second, when Ben Simmons on the bench, one of
Speaker 1: the best defenders in the NBA this season, Russell Westbrooks
Speaker 1: started to gain control and gain momentum going downhill and
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers lost their lead. They were battling uphill
Speaker 1: for the rest of the first half. Simmons with the ball.
Speaker 1: Simmons with its back to the basket, gets the screened
Speaker 1: by Joe, tries the eurostep around Harnin. He banked it in.
Speaker 1: Wow and improbable, but good shot by Ben Simmons, and
Speaker 1: it's a one point game. The score was fifty four
Speaker 1: fifty three in favor of Houston. The Rockets would score
Speaker 1: the next six points going into the half. They led
Speaker 1: by the tally of sixty to fifty three. In quarter
Speaker 1: number three, who wasn't once again, Ben Simmons stirring the pot,
Speaker 1: getting the seventy Sixers back within striking distance. Harris would
Speaker 1: a drive. Capella's there underhand left hand scoop nobody rebound,
Speaker 1: followed by Simmons with authority. Ben Simmons throws it down.
Speaker 1: Two point game, great dribble drive by Tobias, even though
Speaker 1: he didn't score. It was sixty two sixty and this
Speaker 1: was a recurring theme and pattern for the game throughout
Speaker 1: the night, especially in the second half. Seventy Sixers would
Speaker 1: maunt a run, Houston would have an answer. The Rockets
Speaker 1: score the next nine points. They went up comfortably, leading
Speaker 1: by double digits for the first time. Simmons closing the
Speaker 1: third quarter in solid fashion one on one would the
Speaker 1: beat and beat dares of the shoot. Capella goes into
Speaker 1: the lane, get to Ronda and misses a lamp and
Speaker 1: Westbrook miss is a rebound jemp and then hangs on
Speaker 1: the rim. Here come the Sixers, Simmons into the na
Speaker 1: Simmons many dumps it on Capella. Ben Simmons with a
Speaker 1: tomahawk left hand jab, but the seventy Sixers would be
Speaker 1: down a dozen and ninety six eighty four going into
Speaker 1: the fourth at one point, it seemed like the Rockets,
Speaker 1: maybe we're in position to run away with this game. Tonight,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers came charging back one last time. It
Speaker 1: was down now by eight again, here's a chance to
Speaker 1: cut in the league. Josh Richardson with a dribble, lobs
Speaker 1: it to Ben Simmons, catches and dunks it. Well done,
Speaker 1: as they borrow a page from that, Harden to Capella,
Speaker 1: all of you and Simmons now with twenty five, one
Speaker 1: oh three ninety seven Houston, five minutes to go, one
Speaker 1: last gasp for the seventy Sixers. They headed into the
Speaker 1: final minutes of regulation. Westbrook has it. They got a
Speaker 1: three on two going left the right. He loves him
Speaker 1: in the lane and Cark Moss breaks it up. The
Speaker 1: Sixers with the day and now Simmons has a number.
Speaker 1: He goes into the lane and Harris jams it over. Harden.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons are the good dish down low right and
Speaker 1: the Sixers are the three on one and Harris dunks
Speaker 1: the ball. It's a five point game. One oh five,
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy Sixers would essentially have to pitch
Speaker 1: a perfect game the rest of the way against the
Speaker 1: team as good as Houston. They were not able to
Speaker 1: James Harden leading a eight to two run that but
Speaker 1: the Rockets up one thirteen, one two with about two
Speaker 1: minutes to go, Harden's three point shooting putting this game
Speaker 1: away as Houston goes on to win it by ten
Speaker 1: in the end, one eighteen to one oh eight. Taking
Speaker 1: a look at some notes from the final box score
Speaker 1: in tonight's game, there were some spectacular individual performances as
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers, though collectively we're not able to keep
Speaker 1: pace with the Houston Rockets from three point territory. That
Speaker 1: was a big storyline, as was the fact that the
Speaker 1: Sixers also were outdone from the free throw line Houston.
Speaker 1: In tonight's game against the seventy sixers, they shot overall
Speaker 1: forty seven and a half percent to seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: forty five and a half percent the six or sixty
Speaker 1: three pointers Houston with twelve. Houston was twenty four thirty
Speaker 1: two from the free throw line the seventy sixers eighteen
Speaker 1: of twenty five. Houston was plus four on the glass.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers also surrendered a decent amount of fast break
Speaker 1: points twenty seventy sixers, doing most of their work in
Speaker 1: the paint. They scored sixty points. James Harden tonight, finishing
Speaker 1: with forty four points that was a game high. He
Speaker 1: was thirteen to twenty four from the field twelve or
Speaker 1: twelve and the free throw line six of twelve from three.
Speaker 1: He also had eleven rebounds and eleven assists. Twenty points
Speaker 1: for Russell Westbrook, A big story, a huge story for Houston.
Speaker 1: Career game for Clinton Cappella thirty points, fourteen rebounds, three assists.
Speaker 1: He was great for the Rockets. Tonight for the seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons with twenty nine points, thirteen rebounds, eleven assists,
Speaker 1: three steals, and four block shots. If you missed me
Speaker 1: setting this earlier. According to the great website Basketball Reference
Speaker 1: dot com, there's been no player in the NBA since
Speaker 1: nineteen forty six forty seven to put up those numbers
Speaker 1: in a single game. Twenty four points for Tobias Harris.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid with his twenty first twenty ten game. He
Speaker 1: finished with twenty on the nose to go with twelve rebounds.
Speaker 1: Seventy sixers are now twenty three and fourteen. The Rockets
Speaker 1: are twenty four and eleven to seventy six Ers have
Speaker 1: lost four in a row, their longest losing streak since
Speaker 1: December twenty seventeen, when they dropped five straight. Six will
Speaker 1: look to end the skid on Monday Night against the
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