Speaker 1: Here's Brett Brown and you know, really just kind of
Speaker 1: changed the game with that lightning and a bottle off
Speaker 1: the bench mentality, and you know, we give them credit that.
Speaker 1: I thought the defense was pretty good after heating it
Speaker 1: from beyond in that second quarter, JJ with your first
Speaker 1: three and the second half seconds to play, what was
Speaker 1: going on there? You know, we really offensively to a man,
Speaker 1: we were down. I thought Jared Bayless had a good
Speaker 1: first half and then after that really not much from
Speaker 1: from anybody, and those nights happened. I give credit to Indiana.
Speaker 1: I thought the defense at home was excellent. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a very different storyline when you look at the
Speaker 1: first half where we each had sixty would have a points.
Speaker 1: Then you look at the second half, you know, and
Speaker 1: it was like thirty eight thirty five. It was very different.
Speaker 1: And it heats up like that in NBA basketball and
Speaker 1: in the defensive intensity on both side. I'd set it up.
Speaker 1: They got the better of us defensively. We really had
Speaker 1: a difficult time scoring. And uh, you know, Joel playing
Speaker 1: in his first back to back, you could see a
Speaker 1: little bit of the fatigue with the with the turnovers,
Speaker 1: and the good news is he played his first back
Speaker 1: to back, the turnovers with that being his first bank
Speaker 1: to bank, how do you think, I mean, just look
Speaker 1: at his numbers. Now, it's a little bit deceptive because
Speaker 1: if you you know, you look at the turnovers and
Speaker 1: then plus minus you get a more accurate pitch here.
Speaker 1: I think if you asked him, he wouldn't be pleased
Speaker 1: with his performance. But you know that that's how dominant
Speaker 1: Joel can be. You know, he ends up with with
Speaker 1: with how many points, you know, twenty four and ten
Speaker 1: rebounds and you're questioning, you know, his impact on the game.
Speaker 1: That's a hell of a statement. I think for him
Speaker 1: to do that in his first back to back, full
Speaker 1: credit to him, really, full credit to him. He's come
Speaker 1: from a very sort of you know, different plays to
Speaker 1: now be able to do that and to produce those
Speaker 1: types of stats and a back to back is impressive.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't Joel and beat Why do you think
Speaker 1: weren't falling in the second hit? I give I give
Speaker 1: Indiana credit. I think defensively, you know, they did a
Speaker 1: good job. I think you know, when you look at
Speaker 1: you know, our sort of three guys, they we were
Speaker 1: fourteen for forty with JJ Ben and Joel and you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to overcome that. You need a little bit
Speaker 1: of help, you know, from from some place, and tonight
Speaker 1: we just didn't have it. As I said, I give
Speaker 1: Indiana credit, but I leave feeling like a defense was good.
Speaker 1: I think that both Knights defense was pretty good. Um,
Speaker 1: we just struggled in the second half, especially scoring that
Speaker 1: Sixers coach Brett Brown, the Sixers fall by eight or
Speaker 1: twenty five and twenty five will wrap it up from
Speaker 1: here for now. We'll throw it back to Brian Seltzer
Speaker 1: quick hit segment wise in the post game, but the
Speaker 1: Sixers fall in Indianapolis, Tom mcgunners saying, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: We'll turn it over to Brian Seltzer. You're listening. That
Speaker 1: is seventy Sixers Radio Network. In terms of the big
Speaker 1: big picture, the big Man played a back to back
Speaker 1: set for the first time in his career, Battle gave
Speaker 1: what he could and all things considered, that, as Brett
Speaker 1: Brown pointed out to in his postgame press conference, was
Speaker 1: a very good sign. Joel ebead with twenty four points
Speaker 1: ten rebounds in just under thirty four minutes. But in
Speaker 1: the slightly less bigger big picture, seventy Sixers lose a
Speaker 1: game to a key Eastern Conference opponent, the Indiana Pacers
Speaker 1: one hundred ninety two, and now Indiana is three games
Speaker 1: in front of the seventy Sixers in the very densely
Speaker 1: packed tight Eastern Conference standings. Brian Selter saying what up
Speaker 1: on a Saturday night's postgame coverage underway, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for tuning in. Yeah, ebad, he did what he could.
Speaker 1: Certainly there were the turnovers seven out of the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers eighteen in the game. Brett Brown acknowledging that
Speaker 1: perhaps after playing thirty one minutes last night, going on
Speaker 1: the road for the second out of a back to back,
Speaker 1: and Bead feeling a little bit fatigued that manifesting itself
Speaker 1: in cough ups. But all things considered, he gave the
Speaker 1: Sixers solid output despite the minus twenty rating for the game.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons with ten points, eleven rebounds, six assists, Dario
Speaker 1: Schartz with sixteen. Robert Covington got off to a good start,
Speaker 1: but Indiana was able to clamp down on him in
Speaker 1: the end. He finished with twelve. But the real headliner
Speaker 1: from this game Victor Oladip with the All Star from
Speaker 1: the Pacers. Yes, he was very good boyon Bugdanovich was
Speaker 1: wide open and knocked down some threes throughout most of
Speaker 1: the night. He finished with nineteen. But it's got to
Speaker 1: be Lance Stevenson through. I mean, listen, it's an unfortunate
Speaker 1: loss for the seventy sixers, but this guy is such
Speaker 1: a wild card that it's almost like in some ways
Speaker 1: hard to not be amused by watching him play fourteen points,
Speaker 1: five to eleven from the field, nine reb sounds as well,
Speaker 1: and he had a say in each one of the
Speaker 1: fifteen points that the Pacers scored to start the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: whether he's scoring the points directly or setting up his
Speaker 1: teammates on assists. He went for twelve of his fourteen
Speaker 1: and the fourth and final frame as the Pacers jumped
Speaker 1: out to a twenty two to nine run to begin
Speaker 1: the period, and that's certainly decisive, forcing the Sixers into
Speaker 1: seven turnovers in the fourth and route to the one
Speaker 1: hundred ninety two win. We bring up Tom Aginnis right now.
Speaker 1: He had the game call in Indianapolis. I don't know, Tom,
Speaker 1: I mean, I trying to figure out how to describe
Speaker 1: the Lance Stevenson effect. He's just a weird, wacky player.
Speaker 1: But if he finds the rhythm and the stroke, he
Speaker 1: can hurt you, which he did for the Sixers against
Speaker 1: the Sixers tonight. Yeah, not just a stroke, but you
Speaker 1: know a lot of different things like getting the loose ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's an incredible athlete getting the loose balls,
Speaker 1: making passes, disrupting plays at the defensive end, as you say,
Speaker 1: making a shot here or there. I almost wanted Brian,
Speaker 1: you know, as I said last night, it's my progative.
Speaker 1: I almost wanted to give him player the game because
Speaker 1: his impetus in the fourth quarter was was a huge
Speaker 1: factor in the game. And then like to your point
Speaker 1: about him being helter skelter and up and down in
Speaker 1: the roller coaster kind of way highs and lows. You know,
Speaker 1: he hit the one play where he leapt in the air,
Speaker 1: dropped the ball down like toward his feet and then underhead.
Speaker 1: I guess it was a pass. It went nowhere near
Speaker 1: the basket, sailed wide to the frame like by fifteen
Speaker 1: feet and went into the third row. One of the
Speaker 1: weirdest plays I've ever seen. And then comes right back
Speaker 1: with another positive play for them, and then with that
Speaker 1: file on Reddick. You know, like I said, he's out
Speaker 1: of right, to the fence line of out of control,
Speaker 1: and that was a that was a bad file for them.
Speaker 1: And he does some things that might ignite some fireworks
Speaker 1: with the opponent. By that I mean fisticuffs. I mean
Speaker 1: he's that kind of player. And he fouled JJ hard
Speaker 1: on the wrist and spun Reddick around. That led to
Speaker 1: three free throws, and then JJ shortly thereafter had a three.
Speaker 1: So it was wise of Nate mcmilly. You got a
Speaker 1: lot of good out of him, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was smart to bring him out of the game. They
Speaker 1: brought Collison back in a little more steady of a player,
Speaker 1: but hard fought game. And then you know, like the
Speaker 1: question was posed to Brett, Brett, why do you think
Speaker 1: that was with the shooting, And you know, again, I
Speaker 1: don't know that a coach can say it, but I
Speaker 1: just said this the other night in Milwaukee. It's fatigue.
Speaker 1: And I'm not blaming anybody that these players are tired.
Speaker 1: You could see this. Derek Dario, he's been a good
Speaker 1: year shooting threes, and two of his shots in the
Speaker 1: second half that were so bad they were one was
Speaker 1: an airball and one hit the left quadrant of the glass.
Speaker 1: And you know he helped win the game last night
Speaker 1: with his outside shots. So those those are those threes.
Speaker 1: You know, when you don't have your legs, that's a
Speaker 1: very difficult shot. Again, the six was a high number
Speaker 1: of attempts twenty seven tries, nine made threes, but just
Speaker 1: didn't have the offense. They had a fourteen point third quarter.
Speaker 1: Six Ers struggle for offense early in the fourth and
Speaker 1: then when you fall behind eight ten with four or
Speaker 1: five minutes to go, difficult spot from which to play
Speaker 1: from behind and win the game. And it's been a
Speaker 1: hard place a Sixers lost eight games in a row
Speaker 1: here one hundred and ninety two. The final score Pacers
Speaker 1: over the seventy Sixers, now three games in front of
Speaker 1: the Sixers, towards the bottom half of the top eight
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference. Joel ebid Tom twenty four points,
Speaker 1: nine of ten from the field, ten rebounds, three assists,
Speaker 1: two steals, the seven turnovers thirty three minutes thirty seven seconds,
Speaker 1: game two of his first back to back ha do
Speaker 1: you think overall he did what perspective would you put
Speaker 1: it in again? Like Brett Brown said his numbers are
Speaker 1: great unless you look at his plus minus which was
Speaker 1: minus twenty and his turnovers that were seven. So again,
Speaker 1: he played and he's a tremendous player. But again I
Speaker 1: think the fatigue was a factor. Some of those turnovers
Speaker 1: were careless. And sometimes it's you know, the mind and
Speaker 1: the focus unders because you know the body is tired.
Speaker 1: I'm just speaking in general in sports, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's like a boxer getting drilled several times and then
Speaker 1: just not having the wherewithal to cover up and do
Speaker 1: what he needs to do to stop getting punched, or
Speaker 1: somebody in football that runs and gets tackled two or
Speaker 1: three times. It takes a physical toll that it wanes
Speaker 1: on the mind as well. So just in part like
Speaker 1: I think some of that happened with Joelle, he had
Speaker 1: a careless turnover in the game. Layton Brooklyn had a
Speaker 1: couple here in the last segment of this game for
Speaker 1: the Sixers, And I just think the more and more
Speaker 1: he does this, the better. Again, to your point earlier,
Speaker 1: seventy first game in his career, he doesn't even have
Speaker 1: a full year of NBA basketball under his belt. He's
Speaker 1: young in the game. He's extremely gifted. The more and
Speaker 1: more he plays in back to back games, I believe
Speaker 1: he'll start to clean this up. It'll be good for
Speaker 1: him and great for the team the long term. Last
Speaker 1: thing to touch upon for tonight tom Ben Simmons double
Speaker 1: double number twenty on the year, but the last two
Speaker 1: games zero turnovers, and if I'm not mistaken, I think
Speaker 1: he's only committed one turnover now going on, let's see,
Speaker 1: I think it might be fifteen consecutive quarters or two
Speaker 1: turnovers in the last fifteen quarters. That's certainly. I know
Speaker 1: there was an issue for the team tonight with the eighteen,
Speaker 1: but for Simmons, being the guy with the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands at all times, pretty much that has to be,
Speaker 1: I guess considered a somewhat encouraging trend. Absolutely no question
Speaker 1: about it. And again, the more shots you get up,
Speaker 1: I mean, the fewer turnovers, the more attempts you have
Speaker 1: on the basket, and that can only benefit your team.
Speaker 1: And that obviously a concerted effort there, and that's really
Speaker 1: good because you know, it's one thing to talk about something,
Speaker 1: but then to be able to go out there and
Speaker 1: execute and change the way the course of the way
Speaker 1: things are going is a huge positive. And Ben was
Speaker 1: trying to start this game offensively, getting away from the
Speaker 1: turnovers a little bit with those aggressive pursuits on the basket,
Speaker 1: and then they got help and he wasn't able to
Speaker 1: get completely to the basket. And then sometimes when you're
Speaker 1: four and six feet away, those one hand twisting shots
Speaker 1: he makes, particularly where he doesn't have the glass to
Speaker 1: his advantage, like from the short those are hard, high
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty types of shots. He didn't make a
Speaker 1: lot of those early in the end. He did have
Speaker 1: nice numbers across the board. Simmons played thirty five minutes.
Speaker 1: He had ten and eleven plus six assists, but four
Speaker 1: or thirteen from the field, and just overall, Indiana had
Speaker 1: a better game, more strong performances up and down the line,
Speaker 1: they got the crowd behind them. Tough night shooting for
Speaker 1: the Sixers in general, just thirty eight percent for the game,
Speaker 1: and hard to do on the road with late turnovers
Speaker 1: and not a lot of production in the fourth quarter. Offensively,
Speaker 1: hard fought victory for Indiana shapes up to be another
Speaker 1: good matchup in Philadelphia, with a meet for the third
Speaker 1: and final time, and again halfway or fifty games and
Speaker 1: the Sixers are five hundred so far in the year.
Speaker 1: Not bad. Two games and two nights. Now time again
Speaker 1: us go enjoy two days that a game, all right,
Speaker 1: Probably it'll be good for the Sixers to go home
Speaker 1: and play five consecutive games at the Center that have
Speaker 1: to do good with that home court record. That build
Speaker 1: that up a little bit. Thanks and good night. All
Speaker 1: righty Tom again, it's the great call of tonight's game
Speaker 1: one hundred ninety two, the final Pacers over the seventy Sixers.
Speaker 1: We'll get to hear some of Tom's calls coming up.
Speaker 1: On the other side. It's the postgame showing the sixersread Network,
Speaker 1: two teams vying for better positioning in the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: both playing on the second nights of a back to back,
Speaker 1: one of them with one very large man making his
Speaker 1: first career appearance in said back to back. Brian Seltzer
Speaker 1: with you from Sixers dot Com. Final segment of our
Speaker 1: postgame coverage. Joel Embid and the Sixers at the Pacers
Speaker 1: second time and as many nights in the first time
Speaker 1: that Ibid playing career game number seventy one cleared for
Speaker 1: back to back action. Sixers and Pacers competitive early Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons with a high impact play. Simmons on the backdown
Speaker 1: against Boydanovat you're comes the bonus to give help if
Speaker 1: did you help? All faked dribble, move back to bed,
Speaker 1: bend in the lead hand, a right head jam with authority,
Speaker 1: a throwdown in Indy. We saw and I could say
Speaker 1: heard that last night as well in the win over Miami.
Speaker 1: The inverted action high low between and Beat and Simmons.
Speaker 1: It paid dividends last night and again in the first
Speaker 1: quarter this evening, Sixers trailed thirty three twenty seven. After one.
Speaker 1: You could tell the Pacers came out with purpose after
Speaker 1: a tough loss last night in Charlotte in which they
Speaker 1: gave up forty nine first quarter points and one hundred
Speaker 1: thirty three overall. There was some intensity about them. They
Speaker 1: opened up the lead to thirteen early on in the second.
Speaker 1: Then the Sixers started dial up a great string and
Speaker 1: wave of three point possessions. Indiana biss bed between the legs,
Speaker 1: bed back out top, the coming to three ball in
Speaker 1: the air, Robert coming to us, burned another Simmons of
Speaker 1: the fancy tribble, and Robert coming to three for three
Speaker 1: from beyond fifty fifty that capped a twenty two to
Speaker 1: eight stretch in favor of the Sixers. On seven consecutive possessions,
Speaker 1: they produced three points. Six of those possessions in three pointers,
Speaker 1: the one exception a traditional three point play from Dario
Speaker 1: charch Sixers and the Pacers. They would go down the
Speaker 1: stretch of the second quarter, as the Pacers had scored
Speaker 1: the Sixers ten to two, and they took a sixty
Speaker 1: two fifty seven lead into the break. Early on in
Speaker 1: the third quarter, some action involving the seven footer playing
Speaker 1: for the second time and as many nights for the
Speaker 1: first time. Dario's gonna shoot at three is up ribby
Speaker 1: now No Joel with a rebound, It beat, puts it back,
Speaker 1: a figure rolls no Good gets it again, It gets
Speaker 1: jung and Turner puts it up with a left hand,
Speaker 1: fights his way through two defenders and it beat scores it.
Speaker 1: Emblematic of his effort throughout the night, hard fighting, very
Speaker 1: physical and active over the course of the game, Sixers
Speaker 1: keeping it close late in the third courtesy of Mbat
Speaker 1: eight seconds ago, Joel gets a screen for TJ now
Speaker 1: mcconnough with three to a beat, He takes a look
Speaker 1: at the clock, he fires for two and a ten
Speaker 1: joel and beat. With two tenths of a second to
Speaker 1: go in the third seventy six seventy five Pacer is
Speaker 1: going into the four the whisper of what only he
Speaker 1: perhaps knows, But Lance Stevenson then started dialing things up.
Speaker 1: He would have a say in fifteen straight points for
Speaker 1: the Pacers, and this sequence was towards the end of
Speaker 1: a fourth quarter opening twenty two to nine tear that
Speaker 1: decided the game pretty much for the Pacers. High screen rolls,
Speaker 1: aboon us a little deep ball equal to the left
Speaker 1: side Stevenson three ball shot, air ball game, let's Stevenson
Speaker 1: put today in their ninth three He's got fourteenth. They
Speaker 1: go up thirteen with three h nine to go, twelve
Speaker 1: of Stevenson's fourteen points in the game coming in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, in which the Sixers gave them all away
Speaker 1: seven times. Major storyline in tonight's loss. Final notes from
Speaker 1: the final stat sheets. Pacers bounce back defensively, hold the
Speaker 1: Sixers to just under thirty eight from the field seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers give up forty four and a half percent shooting
Speaker 1: to the Pacers six or ten of thirty two from
Speaker 1: outside the arc. The Pacers were nine of twenty seven
Speaker 1: Indiana with a little bit of an advantage from the
Speaker 1: free throw line plus five. In terms of foul shots
Speaker 1: made six or sixteen to twenty four Pacers twenty one
Speaker 1: to twenty five Sixers plus six on the glass butt.
Speaker 1: They commit eighteen turnovers and as we mentioned, seven in
Speaker 1: the key, fourth and final quarter. Individual notes will start
Speaker 1: with the Pacers. Fourteen for Stevenson, who was plus fifteen
Speaker 1: in the game, nineteen apiece for Victor Oladipo, and Boyon Bogdanovitch.
Speaker 1: Bogdanovitch with four three pointers and he was a steady
Speaker 1: presence for the Pacers throughout the night. For the Sixers,
Speaker 1: they were led by Joel Embi, game high points and
Speaker 1: rebounds for him in terms of twenty four and ten.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons a double double with ten points your pardon.
Speaker 1: Simmons had the game high in rebounds with eleven. Simmons
Speaker 1: is twentieth double double of the season to go with
Speaker 1: six assists. He was four of thirteen from the field,
Speaker 1: and he won a second consecutive game without committing a turnover.
Speaker 1: Pretty good, but the rest of his teammates had some
Speaker 1: issues with ball security. Sixteen points for Dario Schartz. He
Speaker 1: also finished with five rebounds and two assists for Robert Covington,
Speaker 1: who at three three pointers and also had eight rebounds,
Speaker 1: three steals and a plus seven rating for these seventy sixers. Tonight, Sixers,
Speaker 1: with the loss dropped back to five hundred, twenty five
Speaker 1: and twenty five Pacers, improved to thirty and twenty four.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers now three games behind the Pacers in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference standings, as Indiana should move into sixth place. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Sixers holding Tights at eighth, but the Detroit Pistons winning
Speaker 1: again tonight beating Miami close on their heels, now to
Speaker 1: within a half game of the seventy Sixers. Since adding
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin, Sixers will get two days off. They're back
Speaker 1: at it on Tuesday nationally televised eight o'clock game against
Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards. Wizards, by the way, fourth in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, that starts a five game homestand going into
Speaker 1: the All Star Break for the Sixers. Game time again
Speaker 1: is at eight o'clock on Tuesday. Pregame coverage at seven
Speaker 1: fifty on some of our Sixers Right Network affiliates