Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind. They listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers clamped down in crunch time fend off the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets ninety seven ninety two. I'm Brian Seltzer will
Speaker 1: join a progress right now. The winning head coach, Brett Brown,
Speaker 1: I thought he did a good job of continuing to
Speaker 1: stay aggressive offensively, those types of things that stretch with
Speaker 1: the teeth of a three and they got ja. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you can feel the building light up. You know,
Speaker 1: he really is a an energy giver. When he can
Speaker 1: make those types of plays, he continues to just move
Speaker 1: up the food chain in relation to sort of the
Speaker 1: confidence as the head coach you having him, and that
Speaker 1: his teammates are growing to having him. Struggled to score
Speaker 1: later at the end game, but he regarded them also
Speaker 1: really well. But speaking of offensively, what were you trying
Speaker 1: to do to down trying to go through Joe, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to get to bias the ball. A few times
Speaker 1: we looked at Ben, you know, in some pick and
Speaker 1: roll type stuff and just not stopping the play and
Speaker 1: letting him play out of it. It was a physical game.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the it was sixteen
Speaker 1: fourteen in the last period for both teams. We found
Speaker 1: difficulties scoring, you know, and I think that that with
Speaker 1: for me, like we're going through Joe a lot, and uh,
Speaker 1: that's that a struggle for you guys to get twelve
Speaker 1: going for like the entirety of a game. That's he
Speaker 1: has these good stretches. I'm sorry, I'm getting don key.
Speaker 1: So it feels like we haven't seen many sustained great
Speaker 1: stretches from He has these sparks where he's been to backball,
Speaker 1: but maybe not over the course of an entire game.
Speaker 1: So what what needs to change for him to get
Speaker 1: I think for me it's always about like the passing
Speaker 1: out of the post. I thought he had one turnover
Speaker 1: tonight in the fourth period at the post, I thought
Speaker 1: he did a good job. How many assist did he
Speaker 1: end up with? Yeah, you know, so we need to
Speaker 1: you know, I think look at that a little bit,
Speaker 1: and he's a lightning rod for double teams or deep digs.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like for me, it's a lot it's
Speaker 1: like who do you put in the slot that first
Speaker 1: pass out of it needs to be a good shooter,
Speaker 1: and so to to go away from that, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that. And I think to just get him feeling comfortable, confident,
Speaker 1: deep catches, spacing around him, willingness which he has shown
Speaker 1: to pass that. That's that's what we're going to do. Now.
Speaker 1: What I will tell you is if you just go
Speaker 1: back to some of the recent games, you know, we
Speaker 1: put tobias and a lot of stuff, you know with
Speaker 1: middle pick and rolls, sort of wing ISOs or wing
Speaker 1: sideline pick and rolls. You know, times we've gone to
Speaker 1: Ben and I think like when you have a second dribbler,
Speaker 1: a pick and roll guy in Jay Ridge, it's gonna
Speaker 1: open up more options. But it's always on oline and
Speaker 1: stuff we always try to, you know, get better and
Speaker 1: better at and that's the mission of the season. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers outlast the Denver Nuggets ninety seven ninety two. As
Speaker 1: you heard Brett Brown say, it combined thirty points. That's
Speaker 1: it between the two teams over the final twelve minutes
Speaker 1: of regulation. The seventy Sixers able to get by thanks
Speaker 1: to strong efforts in the second and third quarters. Thought
Speaker 1: Al Horford, even though he finished five for sixteen from
Speaker 1: the field, one for eight from three, eleven points, nine rebounds.
Speaker 1: He was huge in the third quarter, when he scored
Speaker 1: nine of his eleven points. He also had a timely
Speaker 1: basket in the fourth. Tobias Harris came up large once again,
Speaker 1: his fifth twenty point outing in his last six games.
Speaker 1: He scored twenty on the nose, seven of seventeen from
Speaker 1: the field, a double double for Joel and b twenty
Speaker 1: two points, ten rebounds, six assists, four turnovers. He was
Speaker 1: six for seven from the free throw line, and while
Speaker 1: the Sixers were having a tough time getting points on
Speaker 1: the board in the final four minutes of regulation, it
Speaker 1: was Joel Embiid at the free throw line with fifteen
Speaker 1: point three seconds left to put this game away. Will
Speaker 1: Barton started hot for the Nuggets. He finished with twenty
Speaker 1: six Nicolajokich put up fifteen points, seven rebounds, eleven assists,
Speaker 1: Hestible great off the bench thirteen points. He was plus
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty six minutes now he finished the game. Essentially,
Speaker 1: he's the Sixers two guard because Josh Richardson, who was
Speaker 1: back in the lineup for the first time in six games,
Speaker 1: he was on a minute restriction tonight he played nineteen minutes.
Speaker 1: You presume we don't know this for a fact that
Speaker 1: Richardson was on a twenty minute limit tonight, Matise finishing
Speaker 1: out the game, and he just had some great all
Speaker 1: around plays, key rebounds in the fourth quarter as well
Speaker 1: for Matisse, and is all around solid defensive play as well.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers are thirteen and oh here at home. They've
Speaker 1: won three straight and eleven out of the last thirteen,
Speaker 1: and they split the season series with the Nuggets, now
Speaker 1: eighteen and seven overall. On the air, Tom Beginnis joins us. Now, Tom,
Speaker 1: these were two of the best defensive teams in the
Speaker 1: league coming in the seventy Sixers number three. Denver was
Speaker 1: number two. We saw that playout, especially in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: But the Sixers, to their credit, even though they almost
Speaker 1: went scoreless for the final four minutes, their defense got
Speaker 1: enough stops, right, and that's what's gonna give the Sixers,
Speaker 1: you know, a chance going forward, like in the big
Speaker 1: games in the Lord Willing in the playoffs, that defense,
Speaker 1: because and they're trying to sort this out a little
Speaker 1: bit in terms of you know, the scoring down the stretch,
Speaker 1: and you know, again just for starters. This is gonna
Speaker 1: sound so simple, but get a shot up, you know,
Speaker 1: get a decent look, and if you make it, great,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, but at least don't turn the ball over.
Speaker 1: Try to execute. And it's tough, you know, especially the
Speaker 1: way Coach Brown was saying that, the way they go
Speaker 1: at and beat and and then Tobias. You know, you
Speaker 1: know he's getting the ball in space, but they're they're
Speaker 1: going to swarm him and it's difficult. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what That's what makes, you know, the end of the
Speaker 1: game so exciting, is how intense it is and how
Speaker 1: how it changes. I mean, you look at the final
Speaker 1: like like we said, and coach reiterated, like I believe
Speaker 1: it was sixteen fourteen or something like that, where Denver
Speaker 1: just outscored there six only fourteen points in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So but that's that's how it is in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: where you know, the court shrinks a little bit, it's
Speaker 1: more difficult to score, and you know, you've got to
Speaker 1: have playmakers and the ability to get baskets down the stretch,
Speaker 1: stops and scores is the key. They were getting the
Speaker 1: stops and they didn't get the scores. They did get
Speaker 1: the two free throws by Joel. But again, the bigger
Speaker 1: thing is the Sixers won. They're finding ways to win.
Speaker 1: They've done it thirteen times. There's been any number of
Speaker 1: these games that have been close and yet the Sixers prevailed.
Speaker 1: And so eleven games over five hundred. It hasn't all
Speaker 1: been perfect. It's perfect at home, but in terms of
Speaker 1: getting there, it's been a little bit up and down.
Speaker 1: But in the end they've gotten all these wins, and
Speaker 1: this was a well played game. I think if you're
Speaker 1: watching this game, you know anywhere else against we're really
Speaker 1: vested in this here. Exciting for our fans, no doubt,
Speaker 1: but that you you know, you tuned in around the
Speaker 1: country and you watched a pretty good NBA basketball game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you'd have to say, right, think these teams
Speaker 1: are pretty balanced in terms of how they match up.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got versatile big man and embiad and yokis.
Speaker 1: You've got teams that generally shoot efficiently from outside the arc,
Speaker 1: great defense. One wild card for the well, I guess
Speaker 1: you can't even really call him a wild card anymore.
Speaker 1: For the seventy six Ers. Matisse Thible thirteen points plus twenty.
Speaker 1: Richardson got the start, but Matisse finished the game because
Speaker 1: Josh was on a minute restriction and for as energizing
Speaker 1: as you called it, the peekaboo dunk was in the
Speaker 1: corner three that stretch that gave the Sixers a cushion
Speaker 1: in the first half. I mean, he came up with
Speaker 1: two huge rebounds in crunch time, one which led to
Speaker 1: a Horford jumper that gave the seventy six or some
Speaker 1: insurance with four minutes to go, and another one on
Speaker 1: the defensive end when the Sixers needed those stops down
Speaker 1: the stretch right, And there's a lot there. And one
Speaker 1: thing I said during the course of, you know, describing
Speaker 1: the game, is that Thible is going to for the
Speaker 1: six yes, coaches to play him more. He's just going
Speaker 1: to be that good. And that's that's what we're seeing here,
Speaker 1: you know. And you don't want to speak for the
Speaker 1: coaches or whatever, but that's prior to the game. He
Speaker 1: was saying. The minutes are going to be reduced a
Speaker 1: little bit with Richardson coming back into the mix, and
Speaker 1: so the wing players like cork Mos and like James Ennis,
Speaker 1: even Mike Scott and Thieball all within that grouping of
Speaker 1: of trying to get some time. Well, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's a tournament as coach called it last year with
Speaker 1: jan Jonathan Simmons and James Ennis, it's the gym speaks.
Speaker 1: And that's what Brett Brown has said all along, in
Speaker 1: other words, who plays in practice and shows these guys
Speaker 1: the coaches stuff? And same thing in the games, I
Speaker 1: mean even more so. And Thible is doing that. And
Speaker 1: then you know, like you're saying about the rebounds and
Speaker 1: all that, he's got young legs and he's got an
Speaker 1: incredible instinct at a knack of knowing where the ball is.
Speaker 1: Clearly on defense. He made a great play right in
Speaker 1: front of us where he tipped it off of Harris
Speaker 1: earlier in the third quarter. And uh, you know that
Speaker 1: that basketball IQ, And like I said, his elity to
Speaker 1: read and anticipate that serves him so well defensively, does
Speaker 1: so on the glass. And now he's starting to knock
Speaker 1: down the three with consistency. He's had an incredible last
Speaker 1: few games for the Sixers, seventy sixers over the Nuggets
Speaker 1: ninety seven to ninety two. All Right, I was excited
Speaker 1: for the Sunday game. I was excited for tonight's game.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited for Thursday night, seventy six Ers going
Speaker 1: up to Boston TD Garden, one of the other best
Speaker 1: venues in the NBA. You know, it's going to be fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot made of Al Horford facing
Speaker 1: the Celtics on Opening Night, but this is really going
Speaker 1: to be his moment on Thursday, back in the building
Speaker 1: for the first time since leaving after spending three years there.
Speaker 1: And the Celtics entered today a full game in front
Speaker 1: of the seventy Sixers for the lead in the Atlantic
Speaker 1: and for second place in the East. Right, and now
Speaker 1: they're a half game because they're Idol And I'll make
Speaker 1: you a little more excited. They're a Celtzer and that
Speaker 1: is they play tomorrow on the road at Indiana and
Speaker 1: that always helps, and that the Sixers will show down
Speaker 1: with Boston Thursday night at eight o'clock. And they played
Speaker 1: so well. It was a little that game here at
Speaker 1: the Center was a little rat down the stretch and
Speaker 1: then an opener and the Sixers prevailed. But then they
Speaker 1: took off and they would they win eleven twelve games
Speaker 1: in a row. There was definitely a double digit winning
Speaker 1: streak before. Like I said, they lost in Sacramento. They
Speaker 1: lost Hayward there for a little while with a hand injury,
Speaker 1: but he's back, and Brown and Tatum and Walker they're
Speaker 1: they're so versatile and so solid, and they're they're undefeated
Speaker 1: at the home as well, and a share. One last thing,
Speaker 1: but when the Sixers were in New York, I guess
Speaker 1: it's almost now two weeks ago, Boston was saying there
Speaker 1: they were playing Brooklyn and the Sixers were playing the Knicks,
Speaker 1: and they were housed, if you will, in the same hotel.
Speaker 1: So we were around him for oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like at least two or three different comings and goings,
Speaker 1: and like we know all those guys. It's it's unbelieving.
Speaker 1: Their staff they're coach league playoffs divisuals. They were. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know about the players, but I had I
Speaker 1: must have had a dozen conversations with different players and
Speaker 1: coaches and staff members. And then you watch their game
Speaker 1: against the Nets and certainly over the last few years
Speaker 1: and the playoffs of course two years ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: these that's how a rivalry, you know, when there is
Speaker 1: that close and that adverse relationship and it's the Celtics.
Speaker 1: I mean, how much more do you have to say
Speaker 1: if you're from the Sixers. So now it'll be great
Speaker 1: and the Sixers continue to really they just need to
Speaker 1: stream together as close as they can to forty eight
Speaker 1: minutes and they're gonna get this thing figured out because
Speaker 1: they they played some really good stretches of basketball. And
Speaker 1: again there've been a couple of hiccups here or there
Speaker 1: where the opposition has been able to come back, but
Speaker 1: that out'll be really exciting on Thursday. And again the
Speaker 1: game will be on TNT, so we'll have the call
Speaker 1: locally and we'll be right here with the coverage on
Speaker 1: the radio. All righty Tom Againnis, talk to you Thursday.
Speaker 1: We got a good night. Seventy six Ers beat the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets ninety seven ninety two. The seventy Sixers remained
Speaker 1: the best home team in the NBA, now thirteen and
Speaker 1: oh in South Philadelphia. They're also eighteen and seven overall,
Speaker 1: and finally they got the starting lineup back for the
Speaker 1: first time in a couple of weeks with Josh Richardson
Speaker 1: in the mix. Joel and b led the seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers with twenty two points ten rebounds and six assists,
Speaker 1: twenty from Tobias Harris, thirteen for Thible off the bench.
Speaker 1: We'll get into more details coming up as we listen
Speaker 1: to Tom McGinnis's highlights. Seventy Sixers wrapping up a three
Speaker 1: game homestand tonight against the Denver Nuggets. Sixers trying to
Speaker 1: build momentum heading towards Boston, a big matchup on Thursday.
Speaker 1: In the beginning, it was the Denver Nuggets set in
Speaker 1: the tone, the seventy Sixers trying to make up some ground.
Speaker 1: Harris with it in the lane, Nobody stops him in
Speaker 1: a jam. Yo Kids was out with Horford, nice feet
Speaker 1: by Ben on a curl left the right. Harris gathers
Speaker 1: it in and scores it man. It makes it fifteen
Speaker 1: to ten years. Denver was in the lead. Seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers finished the first quarter strong. They took a twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty six lead into the second quarter, and that
Speaker 1: set the stage for a big burst. The Sixers hit
Speaker 1: the Nuggets with a twenty to six blitz, and a
Speaker 1: big part of it was Matisse thybal Sixers on the
Speaker 1: run a cork mos cork mos, one hand pass, the mate,
Speaker 1: a jam, a big a boos fan baby a two
Speaker 1: hand jam Batie Stibo who now he's got that too.
Speaker 1: Want to pass by cork Mas and the Sixers have recaptivity.
Speaker 1: Corkmas to hole to the corner of the ties. Three
Speaker 1: balls shot near. He's done it again. The rookies on fire.
Speaker 1: Denver takes time Footies. Tible has arrived from Seattle to Filly.
Speaker 1: He's part of man five in a row. Sixers thirty
Speaker 1: one the Nuggets twenty seven. It was a tremendous spark
Speaker 1: provided by Thible. Seventy sixers keeping pace and keeping a
Speaker 1: comfortable lead in hand as the first half was finding
Speaker 1: down eight to shoot, three minutes to go in the
Speaker 1: first half, cross course, getting near elbow, it's a beat
Speaker 1: one on one with five, he's gonna go one on
Speaker 1: Yokis backing into the lane, turns, tries to draw the
Speaker 1: fall club hand scoop up and good. Joe ellen Bead
Speaker 1: with fourteen points in the game. That was impressive. He
Speaker 1: was trying to draw the file, but then a finger
Speaker 1: roll into the lane. Seventy Sixers led by as much
Speaker 1: as fourteen in the first half. They were up by
Speaker 1: five to break fifty five to fifty Denver how for answer.
Speaker 1: To begin the third quarter, they started on a fourteen
Speaker 1: to four run, going back in front Denver's offense operating
Speaker 1: extremely efficiently. At that point in the game, Al Horford
Speaker 1: was scoreless between the first and second quarters. That trend
Speaker 1: changed welcomely in at quarter number three. Terrorist angles to
Speaker 1: the right side the Horford. He will shoot the three.
Speaker 1: It's ten. Al Horford connects his first train and Denver
Speaker 1: timeout seventy four to seventy. The Sixers now in the lead.
Speaker 1: They trailed moments ago by six points, and Horford was
Speaker 1: a big reason why the seventy sixers swung the score
Speaker 1: back in their favorite You know, it's one of those
Speaker 1: games whe if you just look at the box score,
Speaker 1: you might not gauge the type of true impact Horford had,
Speaker 1: but he was big in the third quarters, scoring nine
Speaker 1: of his eleven points. The seventy Sixers had the edge
Speaker 1: eighty three seventy six going into the fourth. Josh Richardson
Speaker 1: back in the lineup for the first time in seven games.
Speaker 1: It beat with it one out one of plumbing to
Speaker 1: the run of the lane three to shoot back out top. Josh,
Speaker 1: He's gonna shoot a three. From the front. It's up
Speaker 1: good Richardson with a timely trey his first field goal.
Speaker 1: Up the game clock winding down, Richardson knocks it out.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers led by ten eighty eight seventy eight. But
Speaker 1: the Sixers, it would turn out, they would need every
Speaker 1: bit of insurance that they could get. Harris backing up
Speaker 1: by jokers trying to cross them over in the lay
Speaker 1: and goes by him left hand hook. It's good to
Speaker 1: buy us on an angle drive for the right perimeter
Speaker 1: in the lay. With a left hand runner and good
Speaker 1: clutch bucket by Harris, He's got twenty sixes by seven,
Speaker 1: four minutes to go ninety five. Idiot turned out that
Speaker 1: would be the final field goal the seventy sixers scored,
Speaker 1: but luckily enough for the seventy sixers, well, not luckily
Speaker 1: they earned it. They played great defense down the stretch.
Speaker 1: They got enough stops and two free throws from Joe
Speaker 1: Ellenbiad to get by in the end. Ninety seven ninety two.
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers shot forty one and a half percent
Speaker 1: Denver forty three and a half percent. A couple of
Speaker 1: key areas the Sixers had advantages in tonight. One was
Speaker 1: from outside the arc the Sixers with twelve three pointers
Speaker 1: on thirty six attempts, Denverse seven of twenty seven from
Speaker 1: outside the arc. Sixers also finished plus eleven on the glass,
Speaker 1: plus seven on the offensive glass, and they were plus
Speaker 1: ten in fast break points as well. Six Ers turned
Speaker 1: the ball over seventeen times, Denver fourteen times. Sixers led
Speaker 1: by Joel Embiad both in points and rebounding with twenty
Speaker 1: two and ten, respectively. He also had six assists, a
Speaker 1: season high for a second straight game. Tobias Harris with
Speaker 1: twenty eleven and nine for Al Horford. Josh Richardson played
Speaker 1: nineteen minutes tonight. You could tell he was getting his
Speaker 1: rhythm back. He only hit that one three pointer that
Speaker 1: we heard from Ben Simmons seven points, nine rebounds, seven assists,
Speaker 1: batistible thirteen points off the bench and of the great
Speaker 1: adding for the rookie. He was plus twenty in twenty
Speaker 1: six minutes and finished the game with Josh Richardson on
Speaker 1: a minute's restriction. Seventy six Ers thirteen to no at home,
Speaker 1: eleventh win in the last thirteen tries, three straight up
Speaker 1: to Boston on Thursday. That game is going to be
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