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Speaker 1: On ninety seven five, the fanatic seventy Sixers drop a
Speaker 1: tough decision at home at the Center to the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Cavaliers one twenty one one twelve, first loss for the
Speaker 1: Sixers in this building since March thirteenth of this past spring.
Speaker 1: Cleveland came out firing away, in particular, their rookie Colin
Speaker 1: Sexon got them started and really for the rest of
Speaker 1: the night, Cleveland did not back down, didn't go away.
Speaker 1: The Sixers twice held five point leads in tonight's third quarter,
Speaker 1: but there was just a massive tough to overcome and
Speaker 1: ended up being unable to be overcome, run mounted by
Speaker 1: Cleveland twenty two to seven down the stres the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter that put this one out of the Sixers reach.
Speaker 1: They lose by nine and see there not only twenty
Speaker 1: game winning streak in the regular season. Here at home
Speaker 1: come to an end, but their season long four game
Speaker 1: winning streak called it as well. Sixers now thirteen and eight,
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers three and fourteen rebounding that the storyline
Speaker 1: in this game. Sixers came into tonight third in the
Speaker 1: league and rebounds per game, but early on you could
Speaker 1: tell Cleveland, behind Tristan Thompson, it was down to go
Speaker 1: right at it with the Sixers toe to toe on
Speaker 1: the backboards. Cleveland plus eleven on the glass, and they
Speaker 1: were plus ten and offensive rebounds and subsequently a fifteen
Speaker 1: to four advantage for the Cavaliers. All said and done
Speaker 1: in second chance points, they took a total of eighteen
Speaker 1: more shots in the seventy sixers, And you know the
Speaker 1: way this sport works, that's to a certain degree, mat
Speaker 1: makes some pretty big difference, especially when there's that significant disparity,
Speaker 1: especially with Cleveland shooting at justin or fifty three percent
Speaker 1: for the game. Yeah, you put up eighteen more shots,
Speaker 1: that's gonna end up making a difference in the final outcome,
Speaker 1: and certainly was the case in tonight's game, one twenty
Speaker 1: one to one, twelve Cleveland wins at the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: had four different twenty points scores twenty four and twelve
Speaker 1: for Joel mb twenty three for JJ Reddick, Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: and Ben Simmons with twenty two a peace Landry Shammon
Speaker 1: with ten off the bench. Cleveland was led by Rodney
Speaker 1: Hood twenty five points, twenty three for Colin Sexon twenty
Speaker 1: first SETI Osman, but really the guy who I thought
Speaker 1: had a huge, huge role in this game was Jordan Clarkson.
Speaker 1: Didn't do much in the first half, did a little
Speaker 1: bit in the third, but in the fourth he scored
Speaker 1: fourteen of his nineteen points, a major reason why Cleveland
Speaker 1: takes this one from the Sixers. This evening, Tom McGinnis
Speaker 1: is standing by. He called this one tonight. I mean
Speaker 1: you could tell early on, Tom Cleveland was game for
Speaker 1: this one. They were ready, no doubt about it. You
Speaker 1: got to give him credit, and they were. They were
Speaker 1: very good. They spread the Sixers out, as I said earlier,
Speaker 1: they were able to take them off the dribble. They
Speaker 1: had shotmakers tonight, and that rebound This is the Sixers,
Speaker 1: you know, not used to get an out rebounding. But
Speaker 1: part of that's hustle place and especially offensive rebounding as
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers allowed fourteen offensive rebounds for Cleveland.
Speaker 1: And again, you know, like Brett Brown said, you got
Speaker 1: to tip your hat. They made some very difficult shots.
Speaker 1: But you know, one of our things prior to the
Speaker 1: game was, you know, you can't play to the record
Speaker 1: of the opponent, or sometimes during the games, they can't
Speaker 1: play to the score. You got to play to get better.
Speaker 1: But human nature being what it is, sometimes it's difficult
Speaker 1: to get up. And that's no excuse. But Cleveland came
Speaker 1: out here with one of those, you know, another trite cliche,
Speaker 1: nothing to lose, and they played this is obviously their
Speaker 1: best game of the year, their first road victory, and
Speaker 1: they got a lot of a lot of solid performances.
Speaker 1: I used outlined. I was really impressed with both Sexton.
Speaker 1: We've seen riding Hood before, We've seen Clarkson before. They
Speaker 1: both played in the Western Conference with the Jazz and
Speaker 1: the Lakers. But these two young players Yetie Austin, he's
Speaker 1: got to be really good and then Sexton. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the thing when you're in a rebuild, you know
Speaker 1: what you're doing is you're giving your young players a
Speaker 1: huge opportunity to get valuable minutes, get experience, get confidence,
Speaker 1: and those two guys had that in the biggest way possible.
Speaker 1: Here tonight Sixers lose at home to the Cavaliers one
Speaker 1: twenty one, one twelve, And I didn't even mentioned Tristan Thompson.
Speaker 1: I kind of but I didn't even run through his numbers.
Speaker 1: He was plus nineteen. That might be one of the
Speaker 1: more telling stats of tonight's game. Eighteen points, thirteen rebounds
Speaker 1: and Joel and Be thirteen shots in this game. And
Speaker 1: Tristan was a veteran body who could make life a
Speaker 1: little bit more difficult than he usually is for joy right, well,
Speaker 1: you remember what is it now three seasons ago when
Speaker 1: he held out a little bit and Lebron was one
Speaker 1: of his biggest backers in terms that we need to
Speaker 1: sign this guy. And he's a good player. You know,
Speaker 1: he's not a classic center in that you know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't do you know, his shooting's not that great. And meanwhile,
Speaker 1: I hit a couple fallne jumpers, hit his free throws
Speaker 1: down the stretch. But he's a I want to say,
Speaker 1: he's more than you know. You hear the phrase like
Speaker 1: he's a glue type player in other words, he's a
Speaker 1: guy that just fits into a winning ball club. He's
Speaker 1: really more than that. He can add in a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways. And when you're setting up second chance opportunities,
Speaker 1: it might not even be you in terms of getting
Speaker 1: the rebound in the putback, but you're kicking the ball
Speaker 1: out now. Granted it's shorter this year with the fourteen
Speaker 1: on the reset clock, but no, he played really well.
Speaker 1: And to your point about Joe, they doubled Joe in
Speaker 1: terms of embad and he had a couple of early
Speaker 1: turnovers and he wasn't as effective. I mean, he still
Speaker 1: had a good all around game, good numbers, but not
Speaker 1: dominant like he was in the game against the Pelicans
Speaker 1: or the three straight thirty and ten games that he
Speaker 1: had in the recent past. And really an anatomy of
Speaker 1: an upset for Cleveland and how they played against the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Here tonight, seventy six Ers fall one, twenty one, one
Speaker 1: twelve to the Cleveland Cavaliers. And you know it's funny,
Speaker 1: obviously in this sport, you know this how humbling it
Speaker 1: can be at times, Just when it seemed like the
Speaker 1: Sixers had really turned a corner or on the cusp
Speaker 1: of it winning four in a row. You know, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler has been in for about ten days. It's all
Speaker 1: coming together. You get a game like this and it
Speaker 1: brings you back down to earth a bit and now
Speaker 1: you go to Brooklyn. No carousel vert. He was big
Speaker 1: in that first game, come back home for three more.
Speaker 1: But just a reminder that still in this you know,
Speaker 1: we're amazingly already at the quarter point of the season,
Speaker 1: but it's just a reminder that there's still some room
Speaker 1: to go for this team. They still have some work
Speaker 1: to be done, no doubt, no doubt. The question was
Speaker 1: posed to Brett Brown pre game. Sometimes he'll use the phrase,
Speaker 1: you know NBA royalty and you know the the question
Speaker 1: was like how do you define that, and like what
Speaker 1: do you mean? And he goes, I know it's a
Speaker 1: little vague, but what and Brett Brown says, no, I
Speaker 1: have no problem to find in it. And he was
Speaker 1: talking like, by way of example, with Toronto, I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, you look at their record and secondly,
Speaker 1: they produce every night. And what he meant more than
Speaker 1: anything was that, you know, the coaches use a phrase
Speaker 1: like make them feel you well, and that was big.
Speaker 1: Lloyd Pierce Now with the Atlanta Hawks, he used to
Speaker 1: say that a lot, and that means defensively, get into people.
Speaker 1: Make make sure it's hard for them to get into
Speaker 1: their offense, it's hard for them to produce and the
Speaker 1: execute an offense and to bring that make you. Brett
Speaker 1: Brown was using the phrase sting make them, you know,
Speaker 1: sting them in other words, where you have a persona
Speaker 1: something that oh, here comes the Sixers. They play like
Speaker 1: this and it's all of those things like execute on offense,
Speaker 1: take care of the defense, all those things. And he said,
Speaker 1: we're not there yet and we're hoping to get there,
Speaker 1: but it's going to take a while. And tonight is
Speaker 1: reflective of that because tonight they got outplayed and got
Speaker 1: beaten i'll say soundly by Cleveland. I mean this is
Speaker 1: the Sixers made an interest game down the stretch and
Speaker 1: just kind of getting back into tonight's game, like the
Speaker 1: urgency that the Sixers. Ben Simmons was on a mission
Speaker 1: late in this game and not signally out Ben like
Speaker 1: earlier in the game that he wasn't, but that kind
Speaker 1: of urgence, that's what you need to bring from the
Speaker 1: jump and put your thumb print on the game that
Speaker 1: this is how it's gonna go. You're an we don't
Speaker 1: lose here, and that didn't happen. Cleveland got on a roll,
Speaker 1: they got confidence, they were making shots, and then you
Speaker 1: get clark I said, Clarkson hasn't scored. He's the fourth
Speaker 1: most productive bench player at fourteen per He had none
Speaker 1: at halftime and nineteen in the second half, and he
Speaker 1: was playing with a swack. He was skipping down the
Speaker 1: near sideline and to me, you know, he's showing a
Speaker 1: little bit, showing off a little bit. But I didn't
Speaker 1: like it, not even a little bit. But he earned
Speaker 1: it like he was playing well. And like I said,
Speaker 1: you got to come back here and speaking it back
Speaker 1: here the Sixers, you're going back to Brooklyn, where if
Speaker 1: this wasn't the worst loss of here, it was certainly
Speaker 1: up in Brooklyn two weeks ago. And that's another team
Speaker 1: that gives a six the dribble penetrate when they get
Speaker 1: guards like Dinwiddie and certainly LeVert, how he plays like
Speaker 1: that's a problem for the Sixers at times, is controlling
Speaker 1: these dribble drivers on the perimeter where they opened the floor.
Speaker 1: And now you know you have to you're switching. You
Speaker 1: got a mirror or Joel or Biscala guarding some of
Speaker 1: these perimeter players. Those are tough covers and it'll be
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit better. But to your overall point
Speaker 1: about ay, you know there are nights like this and
Speaker 1: what's in football on any given Sunday, Well, in this league,
Speaker 1: at any given night, somebody can step up, play well
Speaker 1: on defeat you. And that's what happened tonight. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: follow the calves one one, one twelve, Tom talk to
Speaker 1: you on Sunday. Thank you, Bryan, good night. We'll have
Speaker 1: some of the highlights from this one coming up. On
Speaker 1: the other side, the seventy Sixers ran into a determined
Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers team tonight. They were on the Sixers from
Speaker 1: the start and never let up, refuse to back down
Speaker 1: throughout the evening and in the end of nine point
Speaker 1: loss for the Sixers, bringing to an end a twenty
Speaker 1: game regular season winning streak here at the Center. It
Speaker 1: was great, but it was not to survive tonight, and
Speaker 1: also a four game streak for the Sixers, their longest
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Speaker 1: seven six seventy six Ers day after Thanksgiving game against
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers. Obviously a different type of Cleveland team
Speaker 1: than what we saw the last four seasons, but as
Speaker 1: tonight would reveal, under the right seven circumstances, still a
Speaker 1: pesky out. Cleveland jumped on the Sixers early Tonight, went
Speaker 1: up five double figures behind an eleven nothing run in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. Jimmy Butler ended it Pascata to Shammon
Speaker 1: shammont Is a Sixers trail twenty two to eight over
Speaker 1: to Butler. Jimmy Butler berries at three He's got five,
Speaker 1: Simmons with four, and b with a basket, and the
Speaker 1: lead is eleven. That made it twenty two to eleven.
Speaker 1: The Sixers or trail by the score of thirty one
Speaker 1: to twenty three at the end of the first quarter
Speaker 1: of play. Of note, the quarter came to an end
Speaker 1: scoring lise for the seventy Sixers on a two pointer
Speaker 1: from JJ Reddick. He would have a stretch of scoring
Speaker 1: ten in a row for his team. Here, JJ Reddick
Speaker 1: for three. It's up and good and the Sixers back
Speaker 1: on the board. Reddick with five in a row. It's
Speaker 1: a three point game, thirty one to twenty eight. In
Speaker 1: the early stages of quarter A number two Sixers hung
Speaker 1: around Cleveland and they would go back and forth. But
Speaker 1: then Ben Simmons put his fingerprints on the game, sparking
Speaker 1: a run that would send the Sixers in front for
Speaker 1: the first time, and Sexton handling the basketball on the
Speaker 1: perimeter twelve to shoot l nine. Simmons busted up Simmons
Speaker 1: on the run. Simmons down the nine, Simmons by everybody
Speaker 1: right hand, lamp up and good and comin Sexton with
Speaker 1: a turnover there and the Sixers take their first lead
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons like an Australian locomotive. Six straight by the Sixers. Yes,
Speaker 1: indeed he was fifty to forty eight was The score
Speaker 1: was tied up at fifty four going into the half.
Speaker 1: The Sixers would take control once again early third, Simmons
Speaker 1: with it his first rebound. Ben advances the left side.
Speaker 1: Shammon shot on a transition. It's good a triple by
Speaker 1: Landry Shammon. He ran right the line, knocks it down.
Speaker 1: Simmons with the fine as sixth assays and Cleveland takes
Speaker 1: time out sixty five sixty two, seventy sixers. They would
Speaker 1: add more insurance behind a six nothing run and a
Speaker 1: good close out to the middle stages of the third
Speaker 1: in that period, but the rebound down to the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons down the night with the right hand lay
Speaker 1: up the Sixers, Simmons driving left the right, several players
Speaker 1: lingered in the backcourt and Simmons able to go one
Speaker 1: on two and gets the field goal. Twelve points eight
Speaker 1: assays top of the boards for Ben, Sixers by five,
Speaker 1: their largest league yet that point. You were feeling kind
Speaker 1: of good. The Sixers were up seventy nine seventy four,
Speaker 1: but they trailed by one eighty four eighty three going
Speaker 1: into the fourth. The Sixers were able to tie it
Speaker 1: up on a joel and Bead layup at ninety apiece
Speaker 1: within the first three minutes of the fourth. From there
Speaker 1: it was a twenty two to seven run for the Cavaliers,
Speaker 1: and that was enough to put this game effectively out
Speaker 1: of reach. Hood with a ball three to shoot, Rodney
Speaker 1: Hood with it beat ont of them three ball right
Speaker 1: side up and good Rodney Hood for three and the
Speaker 1: Sixers take time out. They get in beat on a switch,
Speaker 1: Hood makes his fifth three, He's got twenty five. Cleveland
Speaker 1: goes up fifteen with just under three minutes to go,
Speaker 1: too much for the seventy six ers to overcome. Despite
Speaker 1: a relatively spirited effort in the final few minutes, Cleveland
Speaker 1: wins this one by nine one twenty one to one twelve.
Speaker 1: Some final notes. In the final statuet, Cleveland shot just
Speaker 1: under fifty three percent. The Sixers shot fifty three and
Speaker 1: a half percent. Problem was Cleveland made nine more baskets
Speaker 1: because they took eighteen more shots because of their plus
Speaker 1: eleven advantage on the glass overall, and specifically their plus
Speaker 1: ten margin on the offensive rebounds department six Ers in
Speaker 1: never single offensive rebound in the entire first half, Sixers
Speaker 1: with twelve, three pointers Cavaliers with eleven. The Sixers were
Speaker 1: plus eight and free throws made the Sixers keeping their
Speaker 1: turnovers down, but again, rebounding such a major factor in
Speaker 1: Tonight's game. Individual performances Joel Embi topping the Sixers with
Speaker 1: twenty four He also had twelve rebounds for his nineteenth
Speaker 1: double double of the season, twenty three points for JJ Reddick,
Speaker 1: twenty two piece for Jimmy Butler and Ben Simmons. Butler
Speaker 1: in a nice third quarter, scoring ten of his twenty
Speaker 1: two in the period Simmons double doubles. He had ten
Speaker 1: assists ten points for Landry Shammitt Off the bench for
Speaker 1: the Cavaliers, they were led by Rodney Hood with twenty
Speaker 1: five points. Twenty three for Colin Sexon, who didn't play
Speaker 1: much down the stretch, but he was vital to get
Speaker 1: in Cleveland off to a good start in both the
Speaker 1: first and early stages of the second halves, eighteen and
Speaker 1: thirteen for Tristan Thompson, a big body in the middle,
Speaker 1: leading the rebounding efforts for the Cavaliers. And Chetty Oosman
Speaker 1: with twenty points and eight boards for Cleveland. Cleveland now
Speaker 1: in fourteen with the victory the seventy six Ers thirteen
Speaker 1: and eight with the loss. Next up for the Sixers, Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: a chance for well a a bounced back after this
Speaker 1: one tonight and b possibly some vengeance after the Sixers
Speaker 1: lost that one twenty two to ninety seven game back
Speaker 1: on November the fourth. So the Sixers have Brooklyn at
Speaker 1: six o'clock at Barclays Center on Sunday. Pregame coverage on
Speaker 1: some of our Sixers Rady Network affiliates beginning at five fifty.
Speaker 1: Big thanks to everyone involved today's broadcast back at the studio.
Speaker 1: That would be Dylan McKinnon and Tyler Zuli here on site.
Speaker 1: Marty Dickerson now for the radio voice the seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers time against Brian Seltzer, saying so long for now
Speaker 1: one final time. The final score the Cavaliers one twenty
Speaker 1: one to seventy Sixers one twelve on the Flagship ninety
Speaker 1: seventy five. Von Gibbons in the post coming up next
Speaker 1: to A great rest of your night see him, we
Speaker 1: discussed that free game when I brought up a guardian
Speaker 1: against a letdown. You brought up with the need to
Speaker 1: play defensive rebound and why do you think offensive rebounds
Speaker 1: was such an issue tonight? And I can be done
Speaker 1: to improve on that. I think it wasn't a mystery
Speaker 1: to me of like what really you judge pre mortems?
Speaker 1: If we're gonna die, what's it look like? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: told you we wouldn't rebound and we didn't play defense.
Speaker 1: Now what I will say is they they may I
Speaker 1: give them credit. I do give them credit, but that's
Speaker 1: not the thing that that that our locker room needs
Speaker 1: to hear, you know, I do. We all can see
Speaker 1: they made some tough shots. But we're at home. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a game that that you win. It was a
Speaker 1: locker room in here that I'll see him in the
Speaker 1: morning and we'll talk more about it. But I know
Speaker 1: it's a whole team defensively again scoring yea, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean there's something there to that, right, I think. So
Speaker 1: like those teams that have three live ball guys Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: you know, this team we struggle. We we do struggle,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know we're gonna have to find some answers.
Speaker 1: I think that that when it gets down to you know,
Speaker 1: end a game, playoff time and regularly you know, crunch
Speaker 1: time stuff in in normal big games and games like
Speaker 1: tonight that teams do go small. They're doing that more
Speaker 1: than they're going big. And some teams just start out
Speaker 1: that way, which is really kind of the design of
Speaker 1: their team. And we struggled guarding them. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought all their guards made tough shots and they could
Speaker 1: beat us off alive dribble and there was no there
Speaker 1: wasn't as much resistance on the ball as we need,
Speaker 1: and they they just did not feel us. Sometimes other
Speaker 1: times they felt us, and you know, Hood made some
Speaker 1: tough shots. But there's no denying that this is a
Speaker 1: disappointing loss. And we'll talk more with the team tomorrow
Speaker 1: about it. What do you think was the cause that
Speaker 1: was not having the spire idelogy? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think we I think he struggled initially, you know, then
Speaker 1: I think that it sort of settled down initially. I
Speaker 1: think he produced three turnovers on the double teams. They
Speaker 1: did a good job. I think we can help Joel,
Speaker 1: you know, with maybe quick or better spacing. But I
Speaker 1: give Cleveland credit and causing some some confusion with the
Speaker 1: double teams with Joel. You've been listening to seventy six
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