WEBVTT - Radio Rewind 46/82: Sixers vs. Sacramento Kings Rematch Recap ft. Ricky Council IV 0:00:49.259 --> 0:00:51.779 I'm Tari's Mexi and you're listening to the seventy six 0:00:51.859 --> 0:00:53.419 Ers Insiders podcast. 0:00:53.699 --> 0:00:56.619 This podcast is part of the seventy six Ers podcast network, 0:00:56.659 --> 0:00:58.179 presented by Stern and Cohen Law. 0:00:58.299 --> 0:01:01.299 Search seventy six Ers Insiders wherever you get your podcasts. 0:01:01.659 --> 0:01:04.419 Suffering an injury at work can cause physical pain, but 0:01:04.499 --> 0:01:07.659 also great uncertainty about your rights. You need to retain 0:01:07.699 --> 0:01:10.419 a worker's compensation law firm that is a winner like 0:01:10.499 --> 0:01:13.379 our sixers, a firm that gets some of the best settlements, 0:01:13.459 --> 0:01:15.539 but is also willing to go toe to toe with 0:01:15.659 --> 0:01:19.379 the insurance company. No settling on the cheap. 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The main thing is the main thing, 0:01:58.699 --> 0:02:00.859 and that's winning. That's all we're trying to do right now. 0:02:01.059 --> 0:02:03.499 One thing, like for a guy in your position, and 0:02:03.539 --> 0:02:05.499 that is to come in off the bench. You kind 0:02:05.499 --> 0:02:08.059 of have a cench, kind of a feel for what 0:02:08.099 --> 0:02:13.459 your team needs. Usually for you, it's an injection of energy, fight, spirit, speed, 0:02:13.979 --> 0:02:16.259 and tonight I thought you really made an impact in 0:02:16.259 --> 0:02:20.299 that area against Sacramento. They weren't ready for the thrust 0:02:20.339 --> 0:02:22.259 of what you put on them in the game. 0:02:22.299 --> 0:02:23.019 Would you agree? 0:02:23.219 --> 0:02:23.579 That's right? 0:02:23.619 --> 0:02:25.419 Man, I'm just trying to play my game, try to 0:02:25.459 --> 0:02:27.219 stand in the control and trying to stand on the floor. 0:02:27.219 --> 0:02:29.459 That's the main thing I care about. Three things. I 0:02:29.499 --> 0:02:31.219 want to win, I want to play the system minutes 0:02:31.739 --> 0:02:33.739 and so yeah, I mean, shoot, I'm just trying to 0:02:33.739 --> 0:02:34.819 stand on the floor. So I'm trying to do the 0:02:34.859 --> 0:02:35.299 right things. 0:02:35.339 --> 0:02:38.179 And we were saying, like over the last say ten days, 0:02:38.259 --> 0:02:40.499 up until the last two nights, your minutes were down 0:02:40.539 --> 0:02:43.179 a little bit for sure, So and how do you 0:02:43.339 --> 0:02:45.699 I mean, does that really that did that motivate you? 0:02:45.859 --> 0:02:47.499 Like how did you come back and play the way 0:02:47.539 --> 0:02:48.779 you did over the last two games. 0:02:49.059 --> 0:02:49.539 Yeah. 0:02:49.619 --> 0:02:51.219 I always use little things as motivation. 0:02:52.219 --> 0:02:52.339 Man. 0:02:52.419 --> 0:02:53.979 That's kind of been my battle all year. Kind of 0:02:54.419 --> 0:02:56.859 consistent minutes, that's that's my goal. That was my goal 0:02:56.899 --> 0:02:58.779 to the beginning of the year. It took some time 0:02:58.819 --> 0:03:00.659 and it's still not consistent. Yeah, but I'm trying to 0:03:00.659 --> 0:03:02.779 get there. I'm more importantly, I'm trying to win, so right, 0:03:02.859 --> 0:03:04.579 whatever I need to do to help the team win, 0:03:05.699 --> 0:03:07.139 that's what I'm gonna do. But being on the floor 0:03:07.219 --> 0:03:08.419 doing it is even better. 0:03:08.859 --> 0:03:11.979 Just continuing on that theme a little bit, like for 0:03:12.059 --> 0:03:14.819 young players, for anybody, like in this league, like nothing 0:03:14.899 --> 0:03:16.499 is guaranteed, even your confidence. 0:03:16.499 --> 0:03:17.659 Your confidence may. 0:03:17.619 --> 0:03:20.259 Come and go, and you gotta be able to, like, 0:03:20.259 --> 0:03:22.379 like you say, almost trick yourself into motivating. 0:03:22.419 --> 0:03:24.819 You're fighting a different way, do you agree. 0:03:24.979 --> 0:03:27.099 Yeah, I'm one of the most confident people I know, 0:03:27.459 --> 0:03:30.259 and I say that respectfully and I'm not even being biased. 0:03:30.299 --> 0:03:32.619 So it's hard, man, It's hard. 0:03:33.259 --> 0:03:33.779 It's hard. 0:03:33.859 --> 0:03:36.899 There's fac shit, but you know, you gotta stick with it. Man. 0:03:37.019 --> 0:03:38.819 It's been it's been a bumper year for me. It's 0:03:38.859 --> 0:03:40.419 been a bumper year for the team to be honest, 0:03:40.459 --> 0:03:42.499 but we just gotta keep you. Gotta just gotta keep pushing. 0:03:42.659 --> 0:03:44.179 That's that's how I grew up. That's all I know, 0:03:44.419 --> 0:03:45.139 gott pushing. 0:03:45.339 --> 0:03:48.059 Good job, Ricky, thank you so much. Congratulations. Way to 0:03:48.059 --> 0:03:51.899 go for siate, y'all, you're still Philadelphia. Seventy six Ers 0:03:51.939 --> 0:03:55.299 Postgame Show presented by the Parks Casino. 0:03:55.059 --> 0:03:58.419 MAXI double oh Baby, love cha to beat on the 0:03:58.419 --> 0:04:01.739 back Dunn again, wiping on your powers Filets flaps of 0:04:02.019 --> 0:04:05.899 the seventy six Ers postgame Show right now on ninety 0:04:05.939 --> 0:04:06.579 seven to five. 0:04:06.699 --> 0:04:07.899 The fanatic. 0:04:09.099 --> 0:04:12.979 All Right, the seventy six Ers win messaging being shown 0:04:13.059 --> 0:04:16.419 throughout the arena here in Philly after a one seventeen 0:04:16.739 --> 0:04:21.219 one oh four victory over the Sacramento Kings. It was 0:04:21.299 --> 0:04:23.459 a back to back. They've now beaten the Lakers and 0:04:23.499 --> 0:04:27.219 the Kings in consecutive nights, and the Sixers have won 0:04:27.459 --> 0:04:34.179 four straight games overall. This is our Parks Casino postgame Show. 0:04:34.539 --> 0:04:37.219 I'm Matt Murphy. We'll hear from Tom McGinnis and from 0:04:37.299 --> 0:04:42.939 Nick Nurse. It's a season long six game homestand for 0:04:43.099 --> 0:04:46.299 the Sixers that has started two to oher. It'll be 0:04:46.459 --> 0:04:50.579 Denver up next on Friday, the Celtic schedule to come 0:04:50.619 --> 0:04:54.579 to town on Sunday evening. Maxi led the way again 0:04:55.299 --> 0:04:58.899 with a game high thirty points on a night the 0:04:58.939 --> 0:05:04.019 Sixers shot almost fifty forty ninety as the in basketball 0:05:04.099 --> 0:05:06.379 in the basketball world. That's what you're looking for from 0:05:06.419 --> 0:05:08.339 the field from three and from the foul line fifty 0:05:08.339 --> 0:05:12.179 two percent, forty one percent and eighty six percent from 0:05:12.259 --> 0:05:15.019 the line, nineteen of twenty two at the foul line, 0:05:15.139 --> 0:05:21.059 single digit turnovers. They produced eight steals themselves. Maxi had 0:05:21.059 --> 0:05:25.379 thirty points with eight assists. Kyle Lowry in double figures 0:05:25.379 --> 0:05:28.899 with thirteen points and eight assists, matching Maxi for team 0:05:29.019 --> 0:05:32.659 high honors in that category. So with the thirty, Maxi 0:05:32.779 --> 0:05:36.299 has extended that streak of consecutive games with at least 0:05:36.379 --> 0:05:39.419 twenty five points. It's actually with at least twenty eight 0:05:39.459 --> 0:05:44.459 points to twelve consecutive games, which continues a career best 0:05:44.659 --> 0:05:49.819 run in that category. As he awaits the news on 0:05:49.859 --> 0:05:52.339 whether or not he will be an Eastern Conference All 0:05:52.379 --> 0:05:56.499 Star reserve, which we find out tomorrow if the NBA 0:05:56.619 --> 0:06:00.579 coaches are sending him to his second consecutive All Star 0:06:00.659 --> 0:06:03.299 Game this year, the mid February event will be in 0:06:03.339 --> 0:06:07.899 the San Francisco Bay area. Maxi leads the way again 0:06:08.219 --> 0:06:11.099 for the Sixers. The second leading scorer was fifteen points 0:06:11.139 --> 0:06:13.739 from Kelly Oubre Junior. He had twenty last night against 0:06:13.739 --> 0:06:17.219 the Lakers. He had four steals, the most for any 0:06:17.219 --> 0:06:19.859 player in the game, half of the Sixers total. With 0:06:20.059 --> 0:06:24.019 his fifteen points, it was a twenty eight to seventeen 0:06:24.019 --> 0:06:26.859 to fourth quarter for the Sixers to win one seventeen 0:06:26.859 --> 0:06:29.459 to one to oh four over the Sacramento Kings, who 0:06:29.499 --> 0:06:32.459 came in two games over five hundred. The Sixers, with 0:06:32.499 --> 0:06:34.699 their next win, will hit twenty for the season. They 0:06:34.699 --> 0:06:37.099 are nineteen and twenty seven. The Kings are twenty four 0:06:37.419 --> 0:06:39.899 and twenty three. Matt Murphy and Tom McGinnis here on 0:06:39.939 --> 0:06:44.419 the Parks Casino post game show, Tom your immediate takeaways 0:06:44.459 --> 0:06:46.979 from this one. They locked it down in the fourth quarter, 0:06:47.059 --> 0:06:49.659 the opposite of what happened the last time these two 0:06:49.659 --> 0:06:50.379 teams played. 0:06:50.619 --> 0:06:54.419 That was absolutely you know, like a really cut checked 0:06:54.459 --> 0:06:57.339 like great win for the Sixers. And then I'll say this, 0:06:57.379 --> 0:07:01.419 and this is not any astute observation about defense or whatever, 0:07:01.459 --> 0:07:04.339 but sometimes the other team just misses, right, I mean 0:07:04.379 --> 0:07:06.219 some of their shots were just way off and they 0:07:06.259 --> 0:07:09.659 had open looks. Monk had a great look, de Rosen 0:07:09.739 --> 0:07:11.699 had some I mean, am I right Like, they just 0:07:11.859 --> 0:07:15.059 missed some of those shots and it was totally advantageous 0:07:15.139 --> 0:07:18.419 for the Sixers. But again the Sixers like they did, 0:07:18.619 --> 0:07:21.419 they were Coach was able to rest Tyres throughout much 0:07:21.459 --> 0:07:23.739 of the early part of the fourth quarter because they 0:07:23.739 --> 0:07:26.059 were extending the lead or at least it held at 0:07:26.099 --> 0:07:29.099 like seven, And then I think helped Mexian. Then Maxi 0:07:29.179 --> 0:07:31.459 made some incredible shots down the stretch. He made a 0:07:31.499 --> 0:07:35.379 big three, those twisting turning left hand layups, the runner 0:07:35.419 --> 0:07:38.219 he made, so he had just enough down the stretch. 0:07:38.259 --> 0:07:40.499 He'd done the bulk of his scoring early in the game, 0:07:41.099 --> 0:07:43.819 but the effort and the contributions of the likes of 0:07:43.939 --> 0:07:48.019 Jackson and Kyle Lowry and Ricky Counsel and Yabu stepped 0:07:48.059 --> 0:07:51.619 up and Kelly uber Ray just just huge in this 0:07:51.699 --> 0:07:52.859 game for the Sixers. 0:07:53.299 --> 0:07:56.299 Tom, how much of a plus minus believer are you? 0:07:56.899 --> 0:08:00.379 It's it can be. There are times I'm like, oh, 0:08:00.419 --> 0:08:03.819 look at that, But there are also times where it's 0:08:03.899 --> 0:08:08.139 not indicative really of a guy's con contribution. You almost 0:08:08.139 --> 0:08:10.059 have to look at it and then case by case 0:08:10.099 --> 0:08:12.059 figure it out and why it was that way when 0:08:12.099 --> 0:08:13.459 that particular player was in the game. 0:08:13.499 --> 0:08:16.019 Would what would your verdict be on Ricky Counsel the 0:08:16.019 --> 0:08:18.859 fourth plus twenty eight and Kyle Lowry's plus twenty Yep. 0:08:18.779 --> 0:08:20.899 Now that's that's what I mean, Like they helped swing 0:08:20.979 --> 0:08:23.459 the ballance of the game because they played, you know, 0:08:23.539 --> 0:08:26.819 like Kyle Lowry just does so many little things. I 0:08:26.819 --> 0:08:30.139 mean you look at eight assists, five rebounds, hit a 0:08:30.139 --> 0:08:33.939 big basket, and then Ricky Counsel like his I would 0:08:33.979 --> 0:08:37.299 almost argue his he changed the tempo of the game. 0:08:37.419 --> 0:08:39.579 Here's the coach, though we'll find out more. 0:08:40.539 --> 0:08:41.979 Was really, really, really great. 0:08:42.019 --> 0:08:44.019 And the fourth man, we were just flying all over 0:08:44.059 --> 0:08:48.259 the place, got our hands on a bunch of tipped 0:08:48.299 --> 0:08:51.579 a bunch around, just just disruption. I thought guys would 0:08:51.659 --> 0:08:54.259 drive and somebody was there to help, they'd kick it out. 0:08:54.299 --> 0:08:58.499 We for the most part, challenged almost most of those shots, 0:09:00.219 --> 0:09:02.979 pushed them inside the line enough to make them take 0:09:03.099 --> 0:09:06.699 enough two's and and even challenge those at some point. 0:09:07.539 --> 0:09:09.139 And then then we did a much better job on 0:09:09.179 --> 0:09:11.019 the defensive glass in the fourth quarter. 0:09:11.139 --> 0:09:14.699 Two early in the fourth on paper right now should 0:09:14.739 --> 0:09:17.059 be really difficult for you guys, because you know, Tyres 0:09:17.179 --> 0:09:19.379 is on the bench or now Joel and Paul. I guess, 0:09:19.619 --> 0:09:22.699 is there any common theme that you think has allowed 0:09:22.739 --> 0:09:25.419 that these guys to succeed and hould the court it 0:09:25.499 --> 0:09:26.459 out at? 0:09:27.219 --> 0:09:30.819 Yeah, well, the probably the biggest. Well let me let 0:09:30.819 --> 0:09:33.579 me just I looked out there at the fourth and 0:09:33.619 --> 0:09:37.219 they had brought all their starters back, right, So he 0:09:37.339 --> 0:09:40.259 obviously was planning on us being kind of in that 0:09:40.459 --> 0:09:44.539 rotation we have. He left hay Reese with Reggie and 0:09:44.619 --> 0:09:50.099 Kyle some lately, right, Yeah, I was. I was pretty concerned, 0:09:50.139 --> 0:09:52.379 and I did mention it to my staff. I was like, 0:09:52.419 --> 0:09:54.459 we got to watch this. He's got all the starters back. 0:09:54.459 --> 0:09:58.019 We may need to. We had four guys off the 0:09:58.059 --> 0:10:03.939 bench in but they they started attacking the zone instead 0:10:03.939 --> 0:10:05.659 of standing around. We got in a little bit of 0:10:05.659 --> 0:10:07.819 a moment of standing around and looking at it, and 0:10:08.259 --> 0:10:10.659 it was so stretched out. We just kept telling him 0:10:10.659 --> 0:10:12.659 to drive the ball, and Reggie drove it once and 0:10:12.659 --> 0:10:14.299 then Kelly drove it. Kelly drove it. You know, We 0:10:14.419 --> 0:10:16.699 like we started attacking that pretty good. 0:10:18.339 --> 0:10:18.659 I don't know. 0:10:18.699 --> 0:10:20.579 I guess they probably made a couple of shots, Reggie 0:10:20.619 --> 0:10:24.139 threw one in. Ricky played great, right, Ricky was what 0:10:24.219 --> 0:10:27.099 was he plus twenty eight? I thought he made some 0:10:27.099 --> 0:10:32.339 some key plays, and even even Bone thought Bona did 0:10:32.379 --> 0:10:34.539 a good job. He started figuring out how to free 0:10:34.579 --> 0:10:36.739 those guys up on the perimeter with the angles of 0:10:36.739 --> 0:10:38.899 the screens against the zone as well. That's what got 0:10:38.899 --> 0:10:42.939 those guys downhill a few times. And their defense was good. 0:10:44.379 --> 0:10:44.819 I guess. 0:10:49.899 --> 0:10:56.179 Ricky now, yeah, Well that that that Reggie Kyle kind 0:10:56.179 --> 0:10:59.779 of combination of coming in together as for whatever reason, 0:10:59.819 --> 0:11:03.459 has really seemed to be a good combination. 0:11:05.019 --> 0:11:08.019 You know, they've they've either held the ford or or 0:11:08.579 --> 0:11:11.939 you know, extended the lead or whatever got us back 0:11:11.979 --> 0:11:16.139 in whatever they've they've they've been a rarely been a minus, right, 0:11:16.179 --> 0:11:18.339 it's always been even or higher. And some of them, 0:11:18.379 --> 0:11:20.779 like tonight, you know you can see the plus minus. 0:11:20.779 --> 0:11:23.419 There's some big ones there. So they took it from 0:11:23.539 --> 0:11:27.099 what were down eighty sixty eight or something like that, 0:11:27.179 --> 0:11:29.179 and then all of a sudden we took off and 0:11:29.219 --> 0:11:30.819 I don't know what was that about a thirty to 0:11:30.859 --> 0:11:33.699 ten run or something like that. So those guys were 0:11:33.699 --> 0:11:34.299 a big part of that. 0:11:35.179 --> 0:11:38.779 Big runs and the layed first quarter, then l corresponded 0:11:38.859 --> 0:11:41.139 with Reggie and Kyle coming in. 0:11:41.579 --> 0:11:46.139 What did you think about them changed the dynamic the game? 0:11:46.219 --> 0:11:48.299 Well, I'm not sure. I just I just think that 0:11:48.419 --> 0:11:50.379 the start of the game, the first six minutes of 0:11:50.419 --> 0:11:52.179 the game, in the first six minutes of the third, 0:11:52.219 --> 0:11:54.979 for whatever reason we were we were just it was 0:11:55.019 --> 0:11:57.659 just transition fest for them, right, for whatever reason, we 0:11:57.659 --> 0:11:59.859 couldn't get back and couldn't get matched up and whatever, 0:11:59.939 --> 0:12:03.419 and probably just probably just defensive organization to start with it. 0:12:03.659 --> 0:12:05.299 We got our guys back and we got the ball 0:12:05.379 --> 0:12:08.299 slowed down a little bit. That probably where it started. 0:12:08.699 --> 0:12:10.739 And then again, I think I always say this, and 0:12:10.779 --> 0:12:13.659 I thought it was true. The big run to start 0:12:13.659 --> 0:12:15.579 the third was because we were staying around looking at 0:12:15.579 --> 0:12:17.739 the zone. Now, we did get some wide open threes, 0:12:17.779 --> 0:12:19.339 I think three in a row. Didn't make any of them, 0:12:19.339 --> 0:12:23.099 but those long clank misses and they're going, they're going 0:12:23.139 --> 0:12:25.579 the other way, and we're we're on our heels. 0:12:25.739 --> 0:12:25.939 Right. 0:12:26.459 --> 0:12:28.859 You were pretty aggressive right off the bat with Travi 0:12:28.979 --> 0:12:31.739 Tares just it seemed like we need pretty good. 0:12:31.579 --> 0:12:32.059 Decisions on I. 0:12:33.379 --> 0:12:35.699 Yeah, we we were good. We you know, they have 0:12:35.779 --> 0:12:40.379 been aggressive, really aggressive here recently. Obviously, we had a 0:12:40.419 --> 0:12:42.819 little problem with it at the end of the game there, 0:12:42.859 --> 0:12:46.539 so we we did, uh, you know, pregame. We went 0:12:46.539 --> 0:12:48.419 out on the court and worked on some things. But 0:12:48.419 --> 0:12:51.139 I got yeah, tyres again made the reads the right plays. 0:12:51.499 --> 0:12:54.299 Thought he was really good at the at the throw ahead, 0:12:54.979 --> 0:12:56.619 he was just right when he's getting blitzed. He was 0:12:56.619 --> 0:12:59.619 throwing it ahead and then it was going into the center, 0:12:59.659 --> 0:13:01.619 and it was it was either a cut for a 0:13:01.699 --> 0:13:04.179 dunk or a wide open corner three, which is it's 0:13:04.259 --> 0:13:06.019 kind of our goal when we get blitzed, we want 0:13:06.019 --> 0:13:09.579 a dunk or a catch and shoot three. And they 0:13:09.619 --> 0:13:12.499 did it almost. We did it almost every time they 0:13:12.579 --> 0:13:17.099 blitzed us. So and I mean usually Tyrese will sometimes 0:13:17.099 --> 0:13:18.939 he'll shy away from it because they're blitzing him. But 0:13:18.979 --> 0:13:21.739 he just he just kept calling for it and was 0:13:21.779 --> 0:13:23.579 just ready to make the next play and get everybody 0:13:23.579 --> 0:13:25.179 involved in it. I thought it helped us and gave 0:13:25.219 --> 0:13:29.019 our gave our other guys, like, you know, really good opportunities. 0:13:30.539 --> 0:13:33.459 Maxi leads the way with thirty for the Sixers coach 0:13:33.579 --> 0:13:36.499 Nick Nurse. This is the Parks Casino postgame show after 0:13:36.539 --> 0:13:38.899 a one seventeen to one to OHO four Sixers win 0:13:38.979 --> 0:13:42.259 for their fourth straight overall. They beat the Sacramento Kings 0:13:42.459 --> 0:13:46.019 here in Philadelphia. Matt Murphy and Tom McGinnis back with you. 0:13:46.419 --> 0:13:50.539 He covered a lot of ground there, including the players 0:13:50.539 --> 0:13:52.699 who came in off the bench and contributed, and that 0:13:52.859 --> 0:13:55.219 duo of Kyle Lowry and Reggie Jackson. It just so 0:13:55.259 --> 0:13:58.259 happens when when they played together recently, there's a lot 0:13:58.299 --> 0:14:00.699 of zone going on in the game at those times, 0:14:01.019 --> 0:14:03.339 and really in this game both ways, right, how many 0:14:03.339 --> 0:14:05.419 times did you call out his own tonight for the 0:14:06.219 --> 0:14:07.339 Kings on that side? 0:14:07.379 --> 0:14:09.219 So it was just mad. The number was twenty five. 0:14:10.339 --> 0:14:12.059 I had the over now. 0:14:12.099 --> 0:14:15.059 But those guys are veterans, right, they know they know 0:14:15.179 --> 0:14:18.419 how to the nuance, right, they know how to take 0:14:18.459 --> 0:14:22.139 care of things. And Jackson started being aggressive. He ended 0:14:22.219 --> 0:14:24.859 up four of eight. Kyle only took five shots, but 0:14:24.979 --> 0:14:28.019 four of them were threes. He made four free throws. 0:14:28.699 --> 0:14:31.139 I mean, he's just a winning player, you know, he's 0:14:31.139 --> 0:14:35.859 a leader. That drive on Monk was kind of endemic 0:14:35.979 --> 0:14:38.739 or you know it. That's how he plays, right, He 0:14:38.819 --> 0:14:40.499 just went in there and forced him to follow, and 0:14:41.219 --> 0:14:45.539 Can's two free throws which was really advantageous. So and 0:14:45.579 --> 0:14:48.019 again like to the point that they were asking coach, 0:14:48.099 --> 0:14:51.379 you know, they were in there and you know, helped 0:14:51.459 --> 0:14:53.739 preserve the lead a little bit during the early part 0:14:53.779 --> 0:14:55.979 of the fourth quarter when Maxi was on the bench. 0:14:56.059 --> 0:14:59.939 So like, this is just amazing that the Sixers and 0:15:00.299 --> 0:15:03.579 I give everybody the players of course, put the staff 0:15:03.699 --> 0:15:06.019 led by coach Nurse and all these guys with the 0:15:06.059 --> 0:15:09.419 scheme and the game plan and adjusting during the game. 0:15:09.499 --> 0:15:12.059 Like right there, like he was just telling you see 0:15:12.059 --> 0:15:14.619 these drives Like it was like, guys, like that's what 0:15:14.619 --> 0:15:16.619 he was telling them, like, we need to attack this zone. 0:15:16.659 --> 0:15:19.059 And then they went out there and implemented that and 0:15:19.139 --> 0:15:22.019 it made it different. So and look, and Sacramento has 0:15:22.059 --> 0:15:24.259 been playing really well, really. 0:15:24.019 --> 0:15:26.139 Well, and we talked about the fourth quarter defense holding 0:15:26.179 --> 0:15:29.699 them to seventeen. In the Doug Christie era, if you will, 0:15:29.739 --> 0:15:31.659 the last fifteen games, he's eleven and four. 0:15:31.779 --> 0:15:33.459 Now eleven and five is a month. 0:15:33.499 --> 0:15:37.899 In the era, they were averaging one hundred and twenty 0:15:37.939 --> 0:15:40.539 one plus points per game, second best in the NBA. 0:15:40.619 --> 0:15:43.179 They score one hundred and four tonight, and they're healthy. 0:15:43.299 --> 0:15:45.379 I mean, other than Doug McDermott, who had an illness. 0:15:45.579 --> 0:15:48.899 Their core group is there and they're outscoring mostly every 0:15:49.299 --> 0:15:51.819 and that's the team that the Sixers without Himbiid, without 0:15:51.859 --> 0:15:55.379 Paul George, Caleb Martin, Andre Drummond, kJ Martin and Jared 0:15:55.419 --> 0:15:59.139 McCain just held to one oh four and they're going 0:15:59.179 --> 0:16:01.699 to need that defense on Friday Night against the Nuggets 0:16:01.819 --> 0:16:04.379 in the rematch, who put one forty four on the 0:16:04.419 --> 0:16:08.059 Sixers that spurred this four game winning streak in some 0:16:08.179 --> 0:16:10.939 ways for the Sixers, they were not happy after that 0:16:10.979 --> 0:16:13.939 one on Tuesday of last week. By that time, we'll 0:16:13.939 --> 0:16:16.179 also know if Maxi is an All Star reserver, if 0:16:16.219 --> 0:16:19.619 he'll have an added chip on his shoulder. But with 0:16:19.659 --> 0:16:23.699 the Nuggets coming in transition, defenses of the utmost importance, right. 0:16:23.859 --> 0:16:26.579 For sure, and just you know, kind of revisiting this game, 0:16:26.739 --> 0:16:29.819 just you know, we're kind of figuring some things out, 0:16:29.859 --> 0:16:33.739 like going back and like the deflections and the pressure. 0:16:33.779 --> 0:16:36.339 Like Sacramento they had like a lot of not on 0:16:36.579 --> 0:16:39.939 target passes right like they're toward the end there, Like 0:16:39.979 --> 0:16:42.699 that Monk passed to de Aaron Fox, it was at 0:16:42.699 --> 0:16:44.619 his feet and they ended up going out of bounds. 0:16:45.179 --> 0:16:48.179 So those weren't unforced. Here I talk about some of 0:16:48.219 --> 0:16:51.019 their misses where they had great opera clean looks and 0:16:51.059 --> 0:16:54.339 they didn't make them. But overall, the Sixers defense was great. 0:16:54.339 --> 0:16:57.139 And you're right, like, in the wake of that one 0:16:57.219 --> 0:17:00.019 hundred and forty four point, you know game, there wasn't 0:17:00.299 --> 0:17:03.659 a great defensive effort by the Sixers, you know, and 0:17:04.019 --> 0:17:08.019 that happens, but you know, also as a result, things change. 0:17:08.019 --> 0:17:10.059 The Sixers have come back with a more considered an 0:17:10.059 --> 0:17:12.819 effort and it's been a big difference. Now beating them 0:17:12.819 --> 0:17:15.379 will be, you know, a huge challenge. I mean, look 0:17:15.379 --> 0:17:18.739 at the their home games, but you got Denver and 0:17:18.779 --> 0:17:21.379 the Celtics, the Mavericks, I mean, they're a little down 0:17:21.419 --> 0:17:24.099 without Luca and Lively and Kyrie's been in and out. 0:17:24.139 --> 0:17:28.019 But then Miami. So they're tough games, but just a 0:17:28.139 --> 0:17:30.339 grit in the fight. And this has been an amazing 0:17:30.419 --> 0:17:33.699 stretch for the Sixers. When it's going good, you lean in, baby. 0:17:33.619 --> 0:17:35.979 And they're right there with Chicago. When it comes to 0:17:36.019 --> 0:17:38.859 that play in tournament, Chicago lost, right, but they have 0:17:38.899 --> 0:17:42.739 a four to seventeen winning percentage to the Sixers four thirteen, 0:17:42.939 --> 0:17:44.659 So they're still in the tenth spot. 0:17:45.219 --> 0:17:46.779 But the Sixers are are closing in. 0:17:46.779 --> 0:17:49.619 They have one fewer win, one fewer loss than than 0:17:49.659 --> 0:17:52.219 the Bulls right now, and they'll look for win twenty 0:17:52.219 --> 0:17:53.259 on Friday against Denver. 0:17:53.299 --> 0:17:55.859 Tomcginnis. Thank you, sir, all right, good night, Murph thinks. 0:17:56.099 --> 0:17:58.819 Thirteen point win for the Sixers one seventeen, one oh 0:17:58.859 --> 0:18:01.739 four over the Kings despite a triple double for Sabonis 0:18:02.059 --> 0:18:06.099 his eighth of the season, thirteen points, fourteen rebounds, eleven assists. 0:18:06.299 --> 0:18:09.579 His rebounds and assists were the most for any player. 0:18:09.859 --> 0:18:13.459 The Kings did out rebound the Sixers forty six thirty five, 0:18:13.979 --> 0:18:17.739 but they shot us forty four percent twenty four percent 0:18:17.819 --> 0:18:21.059 from three, ten of forty one, and they were eighty 0:18:21.099 --> 0:18:23.299 two percent at the line fourteen of seventeen. So the 0:18:23.339 --> 0:18:26.899 Sixers were forty one percent from three compared to Sacramento's 0:18:26.899 --> 0:18:29.699 twenty four and then fifty two percent overall to their 0:18:29.779 --> 0:18:32.899 forty four and they win one seventeen, one oh four. 0:18:32.939 --> 0:18:36.539 We'll have audio highlights, stats stat of the game when 0:18:36.579 --> 0:18:39.139 we continue on. This is the seventy six Ers Parks 0:18:39.139 --> 0:18:43.179 Casino post game show. It was the second night of 0:18:43.179 --> 0:18:47.379 a back to back here in Philadelphia. The fifth back 0:18:47.419 --> 0:18:50.939 to back in the month of ja January is complete, 0:18:51.339 --> 0:18:54.499 and we're about to jump right in in a second 0:18:54.499 --> 0:18:57.139 to how it sounded how it went down the Sixers 0:18:57.139 --> 0:18:59.779 and the Kings in Philadelphia. The Sixers will have five 0:18:59.819 --> 0:19:02.979 more back to backs later this season in March, but 0:19:04.019 --> 0:19:07.339 let's do jump back into the highlights here on our 0:19:07.339 --> 0:19:10.699 Parks Casino post game show Matt Murphy with you at 0:19:10.739 --> 0:19:12.819 the center, and here's how it sounded. We're gonna go 0:19:12.939 --> 0:19:15.539 start to finish here as called by Tom McGinnis. The 0:19:15.579 --> 0:19:19.859 Sixers and the Kings in South Philadelphia. Sixers were again 0:19:19.899 --> 0:19:23.899 without Joel Embiid, Paul George, Andre Drummond, Caleb Martin, kJ 0:19:24.019 --> 0:19:27.019 Martin and Jared McCain. They started the same lineup as 0:19:27.019 --> 0:19:29.819 the Lakers game a night ago, Tyrese Maxi, Eric Gordon, 0:19:29.939 --> 0:19:32.659 Justin Edwards his second career start, second in a row, 0:19:32.739 --> 0:19:37.059 Kelly Oubray Junior and Gershon Yabucele Demontes Sabonis and the 0:19:37.139 --> 0:19:40.379 Kings in town. He had his pregame gathering and photo 0:19:40.419 --> 0:19:44.059 op with the Lithuanian fans with the flags in the crowd. 0:19:44.099 --> 0:19:47.219 They started nine to three on the scoreboard, Sixers took 0:19:47.219 --> 0:19:49.939 a time out. Derozen made it eleven. That was an 0:19:49.939 --> 0:19:54.099 eight to zero King's run. And during that Malik Monk, 0:19:54.099 --> 0:19:57.179 who had double digits in the first quarter, he made 0:19:57.219 --> 0:19:59.539 it a seven three Kings lead. 0:19:59.779 --> 0:20:01.699 Three from the right side, a round it out no 0:20:02.219 --> 0:20:04.699 Murray tips the Fox quickly down the floor to Monk. 0:20:04.939 --> 0:20:06.979 Monk goes in on Maxi, lays it up. 0:20:06.859 --> 0:20:09.499 And in what it outlet by Deer and Fox from 0:20:09.499 --> 0:20:13.019 the backcourt and Monk rapidly down the left wing and the. 0:20:13.139 --> 0:20:18.019 Kings lead by four, seven to three. It became eleven 0:20:18.099 --> 0:20:20.419 three after the timeout. It was an eight to zero run. 0:20:20.459 --> 0:20:23.059 The Sixers were then down twenty nine to twenty with 0:20:23.219 --> 0:20:26.299 ninety less than ninety seconds left in the opening quarter. 0:20:26.579 --> 0:20:29.099