Speaker 1: This is the Philadelphia Has seventy Sixers postgame show. I beat,
Speaker 1: I can look about about broach free starts. Is gonna
Speaker 1: turn and get it off Mattie rolling the Sixers postgame
Speaker 1: show right now on ninety seven five the Panetic. Three
Speaker 1: times in the last five weeks, the seventy Sixers and
Speaker 1: Miami Heats squared off. Those three games where physical, hard
Speaker 1: fought close affairs, and tonight, in another important Eastern Conference
Speaker 1: matchup between the two teams, it was no different. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers fall to the Heat at American Airlines Arena
Speaker 1: one of eight ninety nine. As a result, the Sixers
Speaker 1: and the Heat split their four game season series. So
Speaker 1: if a tiebreaker is ultimately needed to determine playoff seating
Speaker 1: between these two teams, it will go to conference record.
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com with you on the
Speaker 1: postgame show. We expect to hear from Brett Brown outside
Speaker 1: the Sixers locker room. We'll revisit with Tom McGinnis, who
Speaker 1: had the game call tonight, and we'll also play back
Speaker 1: some of his highlight calls. Hassan Whiteside had a big
Speaker 1: game for the Miami Heat, matching his stature twenty six points,
Speaker 1: eight rebounds, a night in which Joel Embiide, particularly in
Speaker 1: the second half, just couldn't get going for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: He finished with seventeen and seven, but five eighteen from
Speaker 1: the field was embiide as. The Sixers just not quite
Speaker 1: able to catch up with the Heat down the stretch.
Speaker 1: White Side proved to be too much of a force
Speaker 1: to stop with embid playing with five personal fouls in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and also you got to give credit
Speaker 1: to the Heat reserves, which ended up combining for forty
Speaker 1: six points in the game. In a game like this
Speaker 1: really evenly played for let's say three and a half
Speaker 1: quarters tonight, many runs become so so important. The Sixers
Speaker 1: were trailing eighty to seventy seven in the early stages
Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter, and that's when Dwayne Wade, Wayne Ellington,
Speaker 1: and especially Justice Winslow, who had two big three pointers
Speaker 1: during this run, they combined to create a twelve to
Speaker 1: four spurt for the Heat and that pretty much gave
Speaker 1: Miami control the game for good. The Sixers were coming
Speaker 1: off an excellent offensive display Tuesday in Charlotte Day had
Speaker 1: their second highest point total of the season in their
Speaker 1: top field goal shooting performance going back eight years. But
Speaker 1: tonight turnovers started to come quick. Miami a great defensive team.
Speaker 1: They turned the Sixers over eighteen times in the game,
Speaker 1: manufactured twenty points off that, and just some of the
Speaker 1: little things that added up in terms of the final
Speaker 1: score of tonight's game the Sixers. They ended up getting
Speaker 1: twenty from Dario Charch. He also had ten rebounds for
Speaker 1: a double double, his ninth of the season. Charch has
Speaker 1: just been so great as of late, five of ten
Speaker 1: from the field, four of seven outside the arc. You
Speaker 1: really have to love the way he's playing at this
Speaker 1: late stage of the season. Ben Simmons chipped in with
Speaker 1: ten points, eight rebounds, eight assists. He got started early,
Speaker 1: especially in open court opportunities, driving hard to the rack,
Speaker 1: but he ultimately was an option that the Heat were
Speaker 1: able to take away down the stretch. JJ Reddick with
Speaker 1: eighteen points, seventy six ers falling on the road to
Speaker 1: Miami went away to ninety nine. Brett Brown. We believe
Speaker 1: we have him right now, so let's go to him
Speaker 1: after the six or drop to one and two on
Speaker 1: their current road trip. Will be told in relation to
Speaker 1: the problems we had in the fourth. Once we identify
Speaker 1: that gained total, you know, on pace to double from
Speaker 1: last season. How much did that powel trouble was to
Speaker 1: did you see him? Um? I didn't feel that. I
Speaker 1: felt like that's a great matchup. You know, you go
Speaker 1: and beat in Whiteside and you know, two legitimate big men,
Speaker 1: skilled big men that want to go at each other.
Speaker 1: I believe that that that was more to do with
Speaker 1: the foul trouble than than fatigue. I think fatigue definitely
Speaker 1: has a part to say, and some of you know
Speaker 1: Joel's performances recently, but I didn't go there with foul
Speaker 1: trouble right to that point with the fatigue, Has there
Speaker 1: been any thought about resting him at any point because
Speaker 1: of that? We talk all the time about Joel and
Speaker 1: you know, as far as a definitive plan, there is
Speaker 1: not one. But you know Joel and JJ and you
Speaker 1: know some of our other guys. You know, I think
Speaker 1: all that you talk about, but like I say, there's
Speaker 1: no definitive plan as we speak. But to come up
Speaker 1: that point to pos Tuesday in Charlotte, what do you
Speaker 1: say to him to keep shooting you? And you say
Speaker 1: it like three times and then the last one. You
Speaker 1: say it really loudly, and uh, you know, as long
Speaker 1: as he's guarding that, that's where my interests really lies.
Speaker 1: We understand clearly that making the three point shot will
Speaker 1: help all of us. I thought we actually missed him.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we try to get to the paint and look
Speaker 1: at a kickout to find him. Uh, it got to
Speaker 1: the to the you know, the the last six minutes of
Speaker 1: the game, I believe you know, you just felt like,
Speaker 1: you know, enough for tonight was enough, and we decided
Speaker 1: to go with Marco and try to generate some scoring
Speaker 1: opportunities through Bell and Ellie. But with Robert, you move on,
Speaker 1: you move on. You don't really pay much attention. I
Speaker 1: don't pay much attention to this game for him. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers drop a one o eight ninety nine decision to
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat. The two teams split their season series,
Speaker 1: and now because of that, conference record will be used
Speaker 1: to determine a tiebreaker if it's necessary. More importantly and immediately,
Speaker 1: the Sixers lead of the Miami Heat for a sixth
Speaker 1: place in the Eastern Conference trim from two games to one.
Speaker 1: We'll get into some of the details of tonight's game
Speaker 1: a big effort for Hassan, white Side and company. Also
Speaker 1: Miami's reserved The Sixers just not quite able to sustain
Speaker 1: a strong stretch over the course of Tonight's game, as
Speaker 1: we saw them do in Tuesday's matchup with the Hornets.
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis is standing by. I will get to him next.
Speaker 1: It's the postgame showing the Sixers, Rating Network seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: and Miami Heat wrapping up there four game season series
Speaker 1: at American Airlines Arena. Tonight Heat over the Sixers one
Speaker 1: of eight ninety nine, pulling away down the stretch. Tom
Speaker 1: McGinnis had the call of this one tonight. Tom a
Speaker 1: lot of similar qualities and characteristics between all four meetings
Speaker 1: this season between the teams which took place the last
Speaker 1: five weeks, but the home team winning each time in Miami,
Speaker 1: able to keep going to white Side down the stretch,
Speaker 1: and some of the reserves really important contributions. They got
Speaker 1: three threes from Winslow, three from Ellington, Olink had ten
Speaker 1: points including the three, and Dwayne Wade had sixteen, so
Speaker 1: their reserves had balanced. Richardson I thought played pretty well.
Speaker 1: He hit the long ball, and as you say, Whiteside
Speaker 1: was kind of a constant throughout, so they just had
Speaker 1: more jump from the beginning. That showed. The Sixers battled
Speaker 1: back with a flurry at the end of the first half.
Speaker 1: They led into the fourth, but in the Sixers were
Speaker 1: doing the bulk of their damage in transition with a
Speaker 1: lot of those baskets by Simmons on the run. But
Speaker 1: a tough night obviously coming to old for ten as
Speaker 1: we heard coach address that Joel was five of eighteen,
Speaker 1: so two starters are combined five for twenty eight for
Speaker 1: the Sixers, they shoot under forty percent and a tough
Speaker 1: night here for the Sixers, a bit of a deflating
Speaker 1: loss after how well they've played of late seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: drop on to the heat one O eight to ninety nine.
Speaker 1: So Miami now within a game of the Sixers. Sixers
Speaker 1: thirty five and twenty nine on the season with eighteen
Speaker 1: games to go. And it's interesting, Tom when you look
Speaker 1: at the Eastern Conference landscape. Yes, there's still a month
Speaker 1: left in the season, but there is some pretty noteworthy
Speaker 1: separation between the top eight and then the ninth place
Speaker 1: team Detroit. And for the Sixers, it sounded like Coach
Speaker 1: Brown taking things in stride based on what he said
Speaker 1: in the postgame press conference, and perhaps looking ahead, seeing
Speaker 1: a gap of two days without a game now on
Speaker 1: the schedule tomorrow and Saturday, maybe to let guys recharge,
Speaker 1: regenerate some energy, in particular someone like him bead Well
Speaker 1: a couple things. We'll address your latter point right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so obviously off day tomorrow later, arrival here tonight. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know what their plan is the way I
Speaker 1: would do it, but I would go Saturday and then
Speaker 1: not shoot on Sunday in Brooklyn. Just let the guys
Speaker 1: they're going to take a train up there, let them
Speaker 1: go to thirtieth Street station, and then not even have
Speaker 1: a shoot around Sunday morning and try to because again
Speaker 1: it's you're trying to balance practice time and preparation with rest,
Speaker 1: not just physical rest, but mental rest. Again, this was
Speaker 1: a two week road trip. I don't remember anything like
Speaker 1: this in recent years. I mean, there was a one
Speaker 1: home game, but even though it's a great crowd and
Speaker 1: a great comeback for the Sixers against Charlotte Friday, that
Speaker 1: was That's like a road game when you come home
Speaker 1: on the night of a back to back and then
Speaker 1: go right back out the next day. Schedule wise, that's
Speaker 1: like stopping in Philadelphia for a game. Now, the Eastern Conference,
Speaker 1: obviously the separation at the top is vast between Toronto
Speaker 1: and Boston. After that, I would teams three through eight,
Speaker 1: they're pretty well balanced. I mean, obviously Cleveland is in
Speaker 1: the you know, the top three, and when they get
Speaker 1: Love back that that could change things. They could be
Speaker 1: a very difficult doubt. Obviously, they got the best player,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, in the NBA in James So He
Speaker 1: had a huge night last night bringing them back against
Speaker 1: Denver with a victory. But these the rest of these teams, Washington, Indiana,
Speaker 1: the Sixers, Miami, Milwaukee, they're all pretty evenly matched. I
Speaker 1: mean this series clearly, with the Heat drawing two two
Speaker 1: and the way these games played out, these two teams
Speaker 1: are really well balanced. In Detroit, yeah, they've fallen off.
Speaker 1: I don't see Charlotte making it these I would think
Speaker 1: knock Wood. All of these teams are going to make it.
Speaker 1: The Men, the ones that I just mentioned, the Wizards,
Speaker 1: the Pacers, the Sixers, the Heat, and the Bucks. And
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of how it shakes out, how
Speaker 1: well you're playing, how health figures into it. But difficult
Speaker 1: game for the Sixers tonight. I thought they were flat
Speaker 1: and again it speaks a little bit to the road trip.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you got to get a little bit of
Speaker 1: rest and get there. And you know, the Sixers lost
Speaker 1: at Brooklyn. It's certainly a game that they've they've struggled
Speaker 1: up until tonight, that you should get. But more than anything,
Speaker 1: and this is what I think maybe you're referring to
Speaker 1: about the way coach Brown handles that you want to
Speaker 1: play better and keep checking boxes and you know, continue
Speaker 1: to play well. And what will be now the final
Speaker 1: month of the regular season, final thoughts after this one
Speaker 1: away ninety nine set back the Sixers suffered in Miami tonight.
Speaker 1: Dario scharch I guess, at least on this end, Guilty
Speaker 1: has charged sometimes to highlight enough all the good that
Speaker 1: the second year Ford is doing. Twenty points, ten rebounds,
Speaker 1: so steady, and Marco Bell and Ellie proving to be
Speaker 1: a really nice edition. Fourteen points tonight, five eleven from
Speaker 1: the field, three three pointers. Yeah, and Bell and Ellie
Speaker 1: makes some difficult shots. He shoots some tough shots, but boy,
Speaker 1: contested threes, difficult twos. I mean he's really to me
Speaker 1: surprised at least myself in that regard. And he's a
Speaker 1: playmaker and a shot anchor, and then you're right. You
Speaker 1: can't give enough accolades to Dario. He played thirty one
Speaker 1: minutes a double double, as you mentioned, just plays with
Speaker 1: so much spirit and fight. Has added that he had
Speaker 1: a four point or four three pointers again the night
Speaker 1: for the second Strang game, and he's really done a
Speaker 1: really good job in that regard. He made a three
Speaker 1: right out of the gate in the third quarter out
Speaker 1: of transition, got locked and load and got his legs
Speaker 1: underneath it. And he's just been a terrific player. He's
Speaker 1: obviously part of the core for for the Sixers, including Simmons,
Speaker 1: Abide and JJ Reddick, and you know, he's been just
Speaker 1: a very consistent performer throughout and I don't know that
Speaker 1: he gets enough credit from the officials too. He got
Speaker 1: knocked around a lot tonight. There were a lot of
Speaker 1: no calls early in the game. In fact, in arena
Speaker 1: here they showed like, I don't know what it was,
Speaker 1: but it was some sponsored element for the I could
Speaker 1: say what the sponsor was, but they didn't. They kept
Speaker 1: showing it was a Hassan whiteside drop step and a dunk,
Speaker 1: and they showed it like five different replay angles. He
Speaker 1: charged into Urson Iliasova on the plane, they kept replaying
Speaker 1: it and it was the play of the game. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that time they didn't call the charge and Arson got
Speaker 1: knocked down. So that's the kind of night it was.
Speaker 1: You got to play through that stuff. I get it.
Speaker 1: But a difficult night for the Sixers. Good to get
Speaker 1: back off the road, and you know, at this point
Speaker 1: of the year you basically play every other night, so
Speaker 1: it's an important last final month. As I mentioned, whatever
Speaker 1: time it is you arrived back in the Delaware Valley, Tom,
Speaker 1: enjoy evening in your own bed. Sure cars are snow
Speaker 1: and crusted down there in South Philadelphia. Thank you, Brian.
Speaker 1: Good night one eight ninety nine. The final score seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers falling in Miami to the heat. We'll hear some
Speaker 1: of Tom's highlight radio calls coming up on the other
Speaker 1: side as the postgame show continues on the Sixers Radio Network.
Speaker 1: At home of seventy Sixers entering the backstretch of their
Speaker 1: four game road trip, Brian sells with you from Sixers
Speaker 1: dot Com Sixers and the Heat for the fourth time
Speaker 1: in the span of five weeks, but for the final
Speaker 1: time this season, two teams tightly bunched in the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference standings. Let us go to some of the highlights.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons imposing his will in open court opportunities early
Speaker 1: on that staked the Sixers to an early lead, but
Speaker 1: Miami responded and the Sixers had to work up Hill
Speaker 1: a bit. Dario Scharch has been excellent over the course
Speaker 1: of the season. Waited with a nice bibble move kickout,
Speaker 1: throws it right to Simmons. Simmons driving with Dario Dragage's pack.
Speaker 1: Ben fakes it, then goes to Dario. Dario puts it in.
Speaker 1: Oh man, he's the turn buckle. It goes down hard
Speaker 1: driving play by the Croatian. The free throw was awarded
Speaker 1: and made by Scharch. It was eighteen seventeen Heat. After
Speaker 1: that sequence, it would also be a one point game
Speaker 1: in favor of the home team, Miami twenty nine twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Going into the second quarter. The Heat quickly strung together
Speaker 1: a run to the tune of twelve to two that
Speaker 1: put them up forty one to thirty one. Simmons was
Speaker 1: right in the middle of helping the seventy sixers respond,
Speaker 1: he scored a basket himself. He set up one of
Speaker 1: his teammates too, not enough arc on it and Miami
Speaker 1: with Rockage going the other way to a trailing James
Speaker 1: Johnson and now Johnson one on one with Simmons drives
Speaker 1: into a ball's down. Ben steals the ball. Johnson goes down,
Speaker 1: Whiteside goes down. Here's Simmons passing in the mirror with
Speaker 1: a slam. What a play by Ben Simmons looking off
Speaker 1: the defender and a jam by a mirror Johnson so
Speaker 1: out of the time. As we said, Simmons a force
Speaker 1: to be reckoned with when given chances to do damage.
Speaker 1: In transition, Sixers got to within two points fifty one
Speaker 1: forty nine and the final moments of the first half,
Speaker 1: but the Heat would score once more fifty three forty
Speaker 1: nine going in to the break. It was an outstanding
Speaker 1: start to the seventy six ers. To begin the third quarter,
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick help send a squad in front Tyler Johnson.
Speaker 1: No good, Joe's actually a double Prickers with him. Here's
Speaker 1: Reddick for three and good. JJ reddicks Dario with a
Speaker 1: screen and Reddick with a stop and pop, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers have recapture the league and the Sixers would outscore
Speaker 1: the Heat twenty one to twelve to begin the third quarter.
Speaker 1: That spurt capped off with this very impressive play from
Speaker 1: a bench player. Here's Simmons download to Marco. He dropped it,
Speaker 1: knocked away. Bellonelli finally keeps the dribble bumped at every turn,
Speaker 1: finally shoots it at in and I probable three or
Speaker 1: rugged three by Marco Bellonelli at the Sixers by five,
Speaker 1: seventy to sixty five. Yeah, Bell and Ellie had gorn
Speaker 1: dragget straped all over him. Still somehow managed to get
Speaker 1: the shot off at the top of the arc for
Speaker 1: an impressive three point or seventy Sixers by one into
Speaker 1: the fourth seventy four seventy three, but the Miami Heats
Speaker 1: made their move. They went on a run. Sixers trying
Speaker 1: to slow him down, cross court, skip baseline rights charge
Speaker 1: for three at it. So a layup opportunity for the
Speaker 1: Sixers turns into a three ball from the fire right quarter.
Speaker 1: Dario bakes it. He's got seventeen. At that stage of
Speaker 1: the Sixers needed every extra point. They could get. It
Speaker 1: was eighty eight eighty one on the heels of a
Speaker 1: twelve four Miami push. Sixers could not recover Justice Winslow
Speaker 1: and other big three pointer Dwayne Wade Hassan Whiteside kept
Speaker 1: coming and that would be too much for the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers to overcome. Final notes from the final stat sheet
Speaker 1: in tonight's game in the fourth and final meeting of
Speaker 1: the season between the teams, seventy Sixers shot thirty nine
Speaker 1: a half percent from the field, the heat defense buckling
Speaker 1: down Miami forty seven percent from the floor. Sixers fifteen
Speaker 1: three pointers Miami fourteen of twenty six from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: The Sixers outdone the glass minus three, although they were
Speaker 1: plus three on the offensive boards. Eighteen turnovers did not help.
Speaker 1: It led directly to twenty Miami points. Some individual performances
Speaker 1: to highlight Hassan Whiteside with twenty six and twelve his
Speaker 1: point and rebounding totals I beg your pardon, sand Whiteside
Speaker 1: with twenty six points and eight rebounds. His point total
Speaker 1: was the high for the game. Dwayne Wade with sixteen
Speaker 1: off the bench, thirteen for Josh Richardson and a dozen
Speaker 1: for Tyler Johnson for the seventy six Ers. Dario Scharch
Speaker 1: led the way twenty points, ten rebounds, ninth double double
Speaker 1: of the season for Charch, and he continues to shoot
Speaker 1: the ball so well from outside the arc. He's been
Speaker 1: over fifty percent in each of the three games on
Speaker 1: the Sixers four game road trip, which will wrap up
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Ten points, eight rebounds, eight assists for Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: eighteen for JJ Reddick four of six from three. Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid limited in the second half, particularly the third quarter
Speaker 1: to foul trouble. He had seventeen points and seven rebounds
Speaker 1: to go with three assists in the game, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers got fourteen from Marco Bellinelli in a reserve role.
Speaker 1: There were nine lead changes seven ties in tonight's game.
Speaker 1: It went two hours, fourteen minutes, sellout crowd of nineteen
Speaker 1: thousand and six hundred at American Airlines Arena. With the loss,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers now one and two on the road trip.
Speaker 1: They're thirty five and twenty nine on the season. They're
Speaker 1: lead over the Heat for sixth place in the East
Speaker 1: is now down to a game. Miami has won six
Speaker 1: times in its last seven games, thirty five and thirty
Speaker 1: one on the year, and again these squads went two
Speaker 1: and two against each other, so conference record will be
Speaker 1: used if a tiebreaker is needed in about a month's
Speaker 1: time when you're looking at playoff seating. Up next for
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers will be the Brooklyn Nets, which one
Speaker 1: at Charlotte tonight one twenty five to one eleven. It's
Speaker 1: just the second win in the last twelve games for
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets, which beat the Sixers upset them in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn earlier this season. Brooklyn is twenty one and forty
Speaker 1: five on the year in those two teams. At Sixers
Speaker 1: and the Nets meet up on Sunday. Big thanks to
Speaker 1: everyone involved tonight's broadcast. Tyler Zuli, Jay Gray back here
Speaker 1: at the studio, stay tuned to Von Givens is standing by.
Speaker 1: He'll be up next. The phone number six one zero
Speaker 1: sixty three, two zero nine seventy five. Now for the
Speaker 1: radio voice the seventy sixers, Tom McGinnis Brian Seltzer sang
Speaker 1: so long for now one final time. The final score
Speaker 1: was the Heats one oh eight and the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: ninety nine. Have a great rest your Thursday night, from
Speaker 1: all of us here at the Sixers Radio Network,