Speaker 1: This is seventy Sixers. Rewind time now to listen back
Speaker 1: to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. It
Speaker 1: was a massive start by the seventy Sixers in Phoenix, Arizona,
Speaker 1: in the finale of their road trip. It was a
Speaker 1: very interesting and adventuresome finish to the last game on
Speaker 1: this season long five game trip, but most important as
Speaker 1: concerns the seventy Sixers, it was a winning result. How's
Speaker 1: it going. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thank you for staying up
Speaker 1: late and following along on the seventy Sixers Raider Network.
Speaker 1: We expect to hear from Brett Brown at a moment
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis after the appial playback some of Tom's game
Speaker 1: calls as well. One thirty two, one twenty seven, the
Speaker 1: final score the seventy Sixers winners, their second straight And man,
Speaker 1: did Joel Ebid just take over? I mean, you can
Speaker 1: throw that phrase around so often with him bed and
Speaker 1: used words like dominant and overpowering with him on a
Speaker 1: regular basis, because that's just how good he is. But
Speaker 1: the way he's at tonight was on like a completely
Speaker 1: different level. We'll get into that in a moment. We
Speaker 1: expect to hear Brett Brown talk about that as well.
Speaker 1: The seventy six Ers were at scored by a pretty
Speaker 1: sizeable disparity sixty to thirty five after going up by
Speaker 1: thirty points, and we might hear Brett address that as well.
Speaker 1: Here he is after the six Ers point. They just
Speaker 1: didn't go away, Booker is for real. They got young
Speaker 1: guys that made some shots. I think that we got
Speaker 1: a little bit tied at the end, but to get
Speaker 1: a win on the road and go back to Philadelphia
Speaker 1: is the bottom line. No Jimmy Butler, no Wilson Chandler,
Speaker 1: but you have Ben Simmons, Joel and jj combining for
Speaker 1: ninety eight points. Those three guys, and I thought Furkon
Speaker 1: came in and played well. I think there was a drought.
Speaker 1: There was a real funny part of the game that
Speaker 1: you completely felt momentum turning and Furkon hit a monster
Speaker 1: three like we really were in a position that where
Speaker 1: we needed a basket, and I thought Furken in general
Speaker 1: played well. But to your point, at those three um
Speaker 1: carried us and we needed all of them. You said,
Speaker 1: going into this game, before we knew that Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: was gonna play that you hoped he did because he
Speaker 1: gets out for games like this when he gets to
Speaker 1: get a guy like DeAndre. What do you make of
Speaker 1: his first half? I mean he's he's strong. What now
Speaker 1: eight of those types of first halfs this year, it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: just incredibly dominant. And teams do different things obviously in
Speaker 1: the second half, and I thought that that Phoenix did
Speaker 1: some of that as well, but I thought he continued
Speaker 1: to just play. His spirit on the bench was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You know, Ben and Joel hooking up on some things
Speaker 1: was was outstanding. And uh, you know, seeing those two
Speaker 1: play together and and and lead us um was as
Speaker 1: as impressive to me as the bottom line um when
Speaker 1: the final score de betrious he got some some minutes tonight.
Speaker 1: Would you think of his play? I mean he came in,
Speaker 1: he gave us, you know, he had to hit those
Speaker 1: few threes, he hit a dunk. We were down bodies well,
Speaker 1: you know, back to back. There wasn't much turnaround from
Speaker 1: last night, and when you sort of shorthanded and searching
Speaker 1: a little bit, I thought his energy off the bench
Speaker 1: and the sort of being paid back for the hod
Speaker 1: work that he has put in to get minutes and
Speaker 1: perform as he did. I thought he was outstanding. Some
Speaker 1: of Brett Brown's thoughts following the seventy six Ers one
Speaker 1: thirty two one twenty seven win in Phoenix to finish
Speaker 1: the road trip with a three and two record. Six
Speaker 1: Ers now twenty five and fourteen on the season. Joel
Speaker 1: and Beat matching the season high with forty two points
Speaker 1: eighteen rebounds. He had thirty and fourteen in the first
Speaker 1: half alone. Ben Simmons was pretty excellent from start to finish,
Speaker 1: twenty nine points, a season high. The biggest thing fifteen
Speaker 1: of twenty three from the free throw line is fifteen
Speaker 1: free throws, equal career high from last year, but ultra
Speaker 1: efficient on twenty three attempts, especially by the con text
Speaker 1: of his foul shooting. JJ Reddick as it was pointed
Speaker 1: out in the postgame press conference another big part of
Speaker 1: that trio as well with twenty seven and listen to
Speaker 1: it far be it for me too, and layers upon
Speaker 1: the student analysis and commentary of the head coach Brett Brown. Yes,
Speaker 1: the three pointer that Furkon quork Mos hit in crunch
Speaker 1: time in the fourth quarter was a really, really important basket.
Speaker 1: But I would also venture, because that one made it
Speaker 1: one nineteen to one ten. The very next scoring play,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers had to get it back to eleven.
Speaker 1: He had a very nice assist to Joel Ebad, and
Speaker 1: while Phoenix was not quite done at that point, they
Speaker 1: ultimately got within three points. That sequence right there, involving
Speaker 1: fur con Quorkms, the three pointer, the dime to Joel
Speaker 1: and bad for the jam. Really important plays in tonight's game,
Speaker 1: a one thirty two two, one twenty seven win. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers, you could tell down the stretch may be
Speaker 1: got a little bit tired having played in La versus
Speaker 1: the Clippers last night, and again no Wilson Chandler or
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler in tonight's game, both of the dealing with
Speaker 1: upper respiratory infection. So the Sixers get it done shorthanded
Speaker 1: under dress, come back home two days off before. It
Speaker 1: should be a great match up on Saturday versus rookie Phenom,
Speaker 1: Luca Donjich and the Dallas Mavericks. But we're going to
Speaker 1: talk more about this one, and we'll talk with the
Speaker 1: man who talked about it for the last couple hours,
Speaker 1: Tom mc ginnis. He's standing by We'll go to him
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Speaker 1: seven six. You know, we should probably be thankful that
Speaker 1: this game went two hours, twenty nine minutes tonight, because
Speaker 1: it had in large part to do with all the
Speaker 1: free throws that were taken and the majority of which
Speaker 1: were shot by the seventy six Ers forty one a
Speaker 1: fifty four from the free throw line, Ben Simmons and
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid combining to go thirty two of forty two
Speaker 1: from the foul line, and that was ultra important in
Speaker 1: the victory over Phoenix. Tom McGinnis had the call of
Speaker 1: this one. Tom. I mean that first half by Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid was really exceptional and maybe fatigue, maybe part of
Speaker 1: human nature. The Sixers, they were just so dominant this one.
Speaker 1: Phoenix ultimately came back and made a run. But they
Speaker 1: got it done shorthanded tonight and are coming back with
Speaker 1: some momentum they did. And you know, one thing, I
Speaker 1: made a comment as we get set for the start
Speaker 1: of the third quarters, the Phoenix is going to make
Speaker 1: a run. This is their home court. You know, they
Speaker 1: really didn't play all that well in the first half.
Speaker 1: It's a matter of a few things. When the run comes,
Speaker 1: how long it lasts, what kind of dent it puts
Speaker 1: in the Sixers lead. And I guess you could add
Speaker 1: a fourth and that is, you know, in what ash
Speaker 1: and while it was with their reserves, and it was
Speaker 1: in a thirty eight point third quarter, and again it
Speaker 1: was ninety seven sixty seven and at one point, then
Speaker 1: early in the fourth they'd cut that lead from thirty
Speaker 1: to fifteen. And then you know, you come down with
Speaker 1: an empty possession or two of the Sixers had a
Speaker 1: rash of turnovers, and you know, they get a bucket,
Speaker 1: Josh Jackson started going. Rashwan played well for them and
Speaker 1: they were back in it. And that whole time, Booker
Speaker 1: was out and their coach, Igor Kokushkov left those guys
Speaker 1: out and Eaton finally got back in there. But then
Speaker 1: they came back and you know, it got tight down
Speaker 1: the stretch. Now you're right in Bed was to me
Speaker 1: dominant and Aton got into foul trouble. T j Warren
Speaker 1: was a non factor because of foul difficulty. Bridges struggled,
Speaker 1: and you know, those are three of their starters and
Speaker 1: they were I mean, DeAndre Eton had some moments, ended
Speaker 1: up in double figures in both categories points and rebounds.
Speaker 1: But Joel was dominant and again like he was able
Speaker 1: to catch the ball on the same block. He's a
Speaker 1: right hand player, so he likes to catch it on
Speaker 1: the left block. And oftentimes a good defensive team will
Speaker 1: get a guy out of that comfort zone, make him
Speaker 1: catch it further out. And now that that makes it
Speaker 1: a whole different thing. I mean, and beat over the
Speaker 1: last two years has had to shoot a lot of
Speaker 1: face up shots, in other words, sixteen eighteen foot shots
Speaker 1: on the wing facing the basket. Not tonight he's catching
Speaker 1: it close to the basket getting into the lane, got fouled.
Speaker 1: Was dominant and just in Reddick and Simmons, that trio
Speaker 1: was incredible, a staking the six Ers to that big
Speaker 1: lead in the first half and then you know, like
Speaker 1: I described in the second half, how they made an
Speaker 1: a run and it's okay. McConnell came on. He was ticked.
Speaker 1: He was not happy that it kind of happened in
Speaker 1: part on his watch. But in the end, it's a
Speaker 1: nice road victory. Any win in the NBA is a
Speaker 1: is a a good road victory, even against a team
Speaker 1: that has nine wins, and it becomes a winning road
Speaker 1: trip as you go back home. For really, was it
Speaker 1: what is a very difficult month of January forty two points,
Speaker 1: eighteen rebounds and two block shots to go with two
Speaker 1: assists for Joel Embiid Ben Simmons times season high twenty
Speaker 1: nine points. He had three rebounds, six assists. But if
Speaker 1: you go back to I want to say, if I'm
Speaker 1: remembering correctly, I think it was the exit interview for
Speaker 1: Simmons in May where Brett Brown he was asked, well,
Speaker 1: you know, what's Ben's off season to do list? And
Speaker 1: where's the jump shot and a factor into things, because
Speaker 1: that's something that people pay so much attention to. And
Speaker 1: Brett was like, hold on, before we even get to
Speaker 1: the jump shot, let's look at his production and efficiency
Speaker 1: from the free throw line. And there was some staff
Speaker 1: that was thrown out. You know, if Ben makes takes
Speaker 1: two more attempts per game or makes five more shoots
Speaker 1: five free throws a game, six ers might have been
Speaker 1: five wins better last year. Well, this tonight, fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty three from the free throw line. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: something that you'd have to think, Brett, the entire team
Speaker 1: had to really be thrilled with in a game that
Speaker 1: ended up this close. Absolutely, and he had his misses,
Speaker 1: obviously if he missed eight, but there were times in
Speaker 1: the guts of the game where he was knocking them
Speaker 1: down making both the free throws. And you know, his
Speaker 1: shot chart forget I'm not saying forget the free throws,
Speaker 1: because you make a very valid point and it was
Speaker 1: obviously a huge point of emphasis by the co coach.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to miss that, but from the field,
Speaker 1: his shot chart had a coach last night saying, man,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable looking at where he gets all his baskets.
Speaker 1: And I'll add this, he ended up missing a lot
Speaker 1: of those shots right near the rim. He played in
Speaker 1: the end forty minutes when seven of eleven. Now a
Speaker 1: lot of those attempts he was where he was down
Speaker 1: there and missed. He went to the line twenty three
Speaker 1: free throws to your point, twenty nine points, a season high.
Speaker 1: And he's just a unique player. I mean, somebody post
Speaker 1: tonight to one of the Phoenix broadcasters, you know who
Speaker 1: is Ben, said, what does he play like? And you know,
Speaker 1: I think his Sixers fans, the first thing we would
Speaker 1: say is his end to end action is incredible. It's
Speaker 1: it's an elite, world class ability to drive that basketball
Speaker 1: from follo line to following unlike any other player. I
Speaker 1: think that exists in the NBA today. He's just six
Speaker 1: ten and he's an incredible athlete, long strides, powerful, and
Speaker 1: then he gets to the rim and you know he's
Speaker 1: able to facilitate and lead the attack. He's just he
Speaker 1: brings a whole different dimension and dynamic to the four
Speaker 1: and he's a nightmare matchup, and tonight he was a
Speaker 1: dominant player for the Sixers. Nice time to see the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers respond these past two games. Tonight it was
Speaker 1: a one thirty two one twenty seven win over the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns and a really intriguing matchup coming up on
Speaker 1: Saturday against the Dallas team that's making strides. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: has really been amazing. Are you kidding me? Nineteen years old?
Speaker 1: I mean, and it'd be a treat, you know that.
Speaker 1: That's why, that's why you plucked down the money. You
Speaker 1: go to stubub, you get a season ticket, hover it works,
Speaker 1: and you get to that ball game and you come
Speaker 1: to see some of this elite you know, I'll say
Speaker 1: it again, world class talent, because he has been a marvel.
Speaker 1: And you know, for us thus far, we've just seen
Speaker 1: him on the highlights and watched him. And you know,
Speaker 1: I made a comment earlier speaking of Phoenix broadcasters. I
Speaker 1: was talking here at the half with their longtime boys
Speaker 1: Al McCoy, and you talked about Nash and you know,
Speaker 1: he just loved to play. He had a zeal for
Speaker 1: competition and for the game, and it came out in
Speaker 1: an effervescent, likable kind of way. And again watching Donas
Speaker 1: from Afar, he seems like a nineteen year old kid
Speaker 1: who's having a good time and oh, by the way
Speaker 1: he's doing you know, his life's work right in front
Speaker 1: of you know, his Dallas crowd, and in an NBA game.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to watch him play. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if he'd be paired with Ben, he might be.
Speaker 1: And the Sixers played Dallas, and I think they're a
Speaker 1: lot better than a lot of people thought maybe they were.
Speaker 1: I know they're hovering under five hundred, but what a
Speaker 1: resounding win against the Kemba Walker led Charlotte Hornets tonight
Speaker 1: and that'll be a good game. And then get Washington
Speaker 1: and a back to back, And like I said, you
Speaker 1: look at the Sixers down the road. They come back
Speaker 1: out west here at Double Lakers, they play the Warriors.
Speaker 1: They got games with Oklahoma and Houston. This is a
Speaker 1: big tough stretch of the schedule here in this opening
Speaker 1: month of the nineteen portion of the season. The season
Speaker 1: really does feel like it is on for good for
Speaker 1: this stage of the year. Hope time you guys catch
Speaker 1: a very nice talent coming back, all right, Bud Yep,
Speaker 1: long trip, Thank you, Brian, goodnight. Twenty seven seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: beat the Phoenix Suns duel and beat forty two points
Speaker 1: eighteen rebounds. Ben Simmons with twenty nine points fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty three from the line. JJ Reddick five three pointers
Speaker 1: for twenty seven points on the night. We'll play some
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Speaker 1: West Coast trip for the seventy sixers. Brian Seltzer with
Speaker 1: you from sixers dot com. Let's getting now to the highlights,
Speaker 1: some of them from this evening's games. Second game of
Speaker 1: the back to back to the Sixers, they beat the
Speaker 1: Clickers yesterday, bouncing back after that tough loss into Portland
Speaker 1: shorthanded tonight No Jimmy Butler, Wilson, Chandler Bucks. A couple
Speaker 1: of the main stays that starting lineup came out sending
Speaker 1: the tone. Here's Ben spending on him in the lane.
Speaker 1: Looks like he may have walked out away with it.
Speaker 1: Had a hook shot is good and the Sixers now
Speaker 1: with eight in a row. Simmons and a b getting
Speaker 1: it done here in the Valley of the Sun. Yet
Speaker 1: Mbiad had the Sixers first four points. Ben Simmons followed
Speaker 1: up after that with four more and at the end
Speaker 1: of the first quarter, Joel Embiad continuing to do damage.
Speaker 1: We well miss a second freed throw and now he
Speaker 1: has the ball out out drives it into the lane.
Speaker 1: Size up a bet of damns and brush, Shawn Holmes
Speaker 1: and stuff dot and the Sixers. Ben celebrates with the
Speaker 1: all star bick Man. All due respect to her Shaun Holmes.
Speaker 1: In the first half, no match for Joel and bad.
Speaker 1: Neither was number one picked from this past June DeAndre
Speaker 1: eighteen seventy sixers. They had forty four thirty two after
Speaker 1: a quarter of play. Their highest scoring first quarter of
Speaker 1: this season. Onto the second, the team maintaining a healthy
Speaker 1: a lead and Demetrius Jackson, one of the two eight
Speaker 1: players for the seventy sixers, the recipient of a great
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons passed, but DJ made a great play himself.
Speaker 1: Sixers ball Mike Buscotta outside right to Demetrius Jackson, squares up, three,
Speaker 1: ball up and gun. Demetrius Jackson with a big three
Speaker 1: for the Sixers, and now five trains for the Sixers
Speaker 1: in the game, sixty one to forty seventy Sixers in front.
Speaker 1: They would lead seventy two to forty nine at the break.
Speaker 1: Second straight game in which the Sixers scored at least
Speaker 1: seventy points in the first half. Onto the third, the
Speaker 1: Sixers were just putting it on the Phoenix Suns. Tonight's
Speaker 1: they continued to have their way. Here's Freddick intercepted and
Speaker 1: outlet by Bridges. JJ shoots the three. It's good put
Speaker 1: a play by Jane j Reddick, the Federate with a
Speaker 1: great read the assissipation to pick the runout kind of
Speaker 1: three run out, your good old traditional runout. Three points
Speaker 1: are just an awesome play from JJ Reddick making it
Speaker 1: eighty three to fifty eight. Seventy six would lead ninety
Speaker 1: seven to sixty nine, biggest margin in the game of
Speaker 1: thirty points. From there, things began to change. It was
Speaker 1: one of four eighty seven going into the fourth, but
Speaker 1: Phoenix continued to apply some pressure to Sixers, still ding
Speaker 1: some buckets. Simmons and Reddick Ben on a drive by
Speaker 1: one man. Daniels fouls and Ben Simmons gets it to go,
Speaker 1: bring it up. It's good Simmons driving a down low
Speaker 1: foul and a basket. So Simmons looking for the and
Speaker 1: one man he got it, making it one ten to
Speaker 1: ninety one, nineteen point game. You're thinking, all right, things
Speaker 1: are doing okay, but no, the Sons were able to
Speaker 1: cut into single digits. Joel Ebead was there at the start,
Speaker 1: and he was there towards the finish sixer's ball. Sons
Speaker 1: trying to bend corkboles wrap around of Joel Jabb cork
Speaker 1: boss getting it done. He is sealing the deal. Good job,
Speaker 1: Cork Miles are the three A moment ago, nice interior
Speaker 1: passed to a beat forty two for Joe. Phoenix would
Speaker 1: still get it down, the deficit to three points. But
Speaker 1: the Sixers would hang on to win this one by
Speaker 1: the final of one thirty two to one. Twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Sixers shot fifty four percent from the field in the game,
Speaker 1: Phoenix forty five percent, each team with eleven three pointers.
Speaker 1: The big disparity and key in what ended up being
Speaker 1: a close game from the foul line six Ers forty
Speaker 1: one of fifty four while the Suns were thirty of
Speaker 1: thirty six. Sixers plus seven on the glass overall, even
Speaker 1: though they were outrebounded by five on the offensive boards
Speaker 1: twenty seven assists on forty baskets for the Sixers eighteen turnovers,
Speaker 1: though that led to twenty nine Phoenix points off turnovers.
Speaker 1: Joel Embi led the way, pacing all scores with forty
Speaker 1: two points, matching a season high. He also had a
Speaker 1: game high with eighteen rebounds, another double double for the
Speaker 1: big man. Twenty nine points a season best for Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons seven eleven from the field and fifteen of twenty
Speaker 1: three from the free throw line. He tied a crew
Speaker 1: high with those fifteen foul shots in tonight's game. Six
Speaker 1: assists for Ben Simmons as well in twenty seven for
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick five to eight from three and eight of
Speaker 1: ten from the free throw line, Devin Booker with thirty
Speaker 1: seven for Phoenix, DeAndrea eight and with eighteen and eleven
Speaker 1: two hour, twenty nine minute game and the seventy Sixers.
Speaker 1: They hung on to improve to twenty five and fourteen
Speaker 1: while Phoenix drops to nine and thirty six. Or sweep
Speaker 1: the two game season series between the squads and also
Speaker 1: wrap up the road trip with a winning record of
Speaker 1: three and two. Up next the Dallas Mavericks and Luca
Speaker 1: donchich on Saturday at the Center. Seventy six is going
Speaker 1: to begin a real heart of the schedule in a
Speaker 1: very tough month of January. Should be a fun one
Speaker 1: seven thirty Star time. We'll hit the air with some
Speaker 1: pregame coverage on a few of our Sixers Rating Network
Speaker 1: affiliates at seven twenty Big thanks to the guys back
Speaker 1: at the studio Brian McLachlan and Tyler Zuli. Now for
Speaker 1: the radio voice of the seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis,
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer, saying so long for now one final time.
Speaker 1: The final score from Phoenix. It was the seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers one thirty two and the Suns one twenty seven.
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