Speaker 1: This is the Philadelphia Yes seventy Sixers postgame show. If
Speaker 1: I can look about about Broachtree Stars, is gonna turn
Speaker 1: to get it off Mattie Rolls and the Sixers postgame
Speaker 1: show right now on ninety seven five. The panetic tough
Speaker 1: spot for the seventy Sixers on the second out of
Speaker 1: a back to back on a Sunday night, tough outcome
Speaker 1: a one O nine ninety four loss on the road
Speaker 1: at Capitol One Arena to the Washington Wizards. Brian Seltzer
Speaker 1: from Sixers dot Com, welcoming you into our postgame coverage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was no doubt about it. There was a palpable
Speaker 1: heightened sense of importance surrounding this one tonight, the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers taking the floor with an opportunity to tie themselves
Speaker 1: with Washington in the standings. The Wizards began the day
Speaker 1: as the fourth place team in the Eastern Conference. End
Speaker 1: of course, top four teams in each conference get home
Speaker 1: court advantage for the playoffs. That's a goal that Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid has talked about increasingly in recent weeks. Sixers. It
Speaker 1: was competitive through a quarter. They trailed by just two
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty eight but then a really important tone
Speaker 1: setting eleven to two run set by Washington to begin
Speaker 1: the second quarter put them in motion. Kelly oubre Outo
Speaker 1: Porter were in the mix of things at that point
Speaker 1: in the game, and also during a nineteen to five
Speaker 1: run to end the first half, and that set up
Speaker 1: the Wizards to really take control. The Sixers a couple
Speaker 1: times midway through the fourth quarter got the deficit back
Speaker 1: down to single digits, but then after it was a
Speaker 1: one hundred ninety two game, seven straight points from the
Speaker 1: Wizards gave them control back of the scoreboard and they
Speaker 1: would not let it up for the rest of the night.
Speaker 1: One ninety four the Sixers fall in DC twenty five points,
Speaker 1: ten rebounds and four assists for Joel and bad Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons with sixteen points, eight boards and eight assists. Got
Speaker 1: to give a lot of credit to Dario Charch thirteen
Speaker 1: points on the night, battled through not having his shot,
Speaker 1: was tenacious on the glass, particularly in terms of offensive
Speaker 1: rebounding seven of his eight boards on the offensive end.
Speaker 1: He gave as much as he could, but much like
Speaker 1: the rest of his teammates, they fought, They battled not
Speaker 1: quite enough against a very quality hot shooting opponent in
Speaker 1: the Wizards to night, which went fifty four and a
Speaker 1: half percent from the field, twelve of twenty five from
Speaker 1: outside the arc, while the Sixers were held to just
Speaker 1: thirty six percent, shooting on nine of thirty three from beyond.
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis had the call of this one tonight, one
Speaker 1: nine ninety four the final in favor of the Wizards.
Speaker 1: Tim you said it second night of him back to
Speaker 1: back against a really good, focused team that had rest yesterday.
Speaker 1: A tough spot for the Sixers to be in and
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of margin for air, no, without question,
Speaker 1: and they made shots. They have shotmakers, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: Spiel is one of the great shooters in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Auto porters really been over the last couple three years.
Speaker 1: He got a big contract. As a result, he's been
Speaker 1: amongst the top three point shooters. He led that category
Speaker 1: for part of this season. He was terrific tonight. Ubre
Speaker 1: has really come on and they moved that ball around.
Speaker 1: They have a modicum of toughness as well, in terms
Speaker 1: of the way Morris plays with an edge. Not a
Speaker 1: big fan, but that's how he plays and it certainly
Speaker 1: adds to their aura. And physicality, and Gord Todd plays
Speaker 1: a similar way. I thought Gord Todd played and beat
Speaker 1: a little differently tonight. I thought he got into him
Speaker 1: a little bit. Joelle still had big numbers, a double double,
Speaker 1: but it was by no means easy, and that second
Speaker 1: quarter was a difference. As Brett Brown said, it was
Speaker 1: set up to be a difficult game for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: I say set up, and that the Sixers played last
Speaker 1: night and Washington played a back to back Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 1: say off yesterday, and they were the better team here tonight.
Speaker 1: They split the season series, and even though the Sixers
Speaker 1: showed some life and as you say, with Dario just
Speaker 1: battling so hard and was so much effort, but Washington
Speaker 1: won the game. They split the season series, and they're
Speaker 1: now you know, thirty five and what it's thirty five
Speaker 1: and twenty five for them home team winning each of
Speaker 1: the four matchups in the season long series for the Sixers. Time.
Speaker 1: One thing to take away from this weekend and perhaps
Speaker 1: something for Brett Brown and the coaching staff to mull
Speaker 1: over going ahead along this road trip and the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. Rashawn Holmes and to no surprise given
Speaker 1: minutes and he played really well. He gave them a
Speaker 1: nice spark, and it seemed like when he was paired
Speaker 1: with Joel Embid that did give the Sixers and needed boost.
Speaker 1: They showed some life in the closing moments. Just tough
Speaker 1: catching up, no doubt about it. I mean, Rashawn played
Speaker 1: well last night, and tonight you went back to him
Speaker 1: because you know they needed some juice. You know, part
Speaker 1: of a coach's challenge, particularly as you tighten up the rotation,
Speaker 1: is keeping those back line players, the eighth, ninth, tenth,
Speaker 1: eleventh players active, engaged and getting the goat. I think
Speaker 1: that's a little bit what you saw last night where
Speaker 1: a Mirror got the night off and Rashawn played it
Speaker 1: played well. I mean he only had four points, but
Speaker 1: again he had I believe four assists and eight rebounds.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Holmes, I thought a Mirror played well tonight,
Speaker 1: so Holmes helped out he certainly there was the one
Speaker 1: play where they loaded over toward and beat and Simmons
Speaker 1: instead of throwing into Joel, through it to Rashawn and
Speaker 1: Holmes got an open dunk. So there's definitely gonna be
Speaker 1: some openings there when it Beat is out there, but
Speaker 1: overall just not enough energy for the Sixers. And it
Speaker 1: goes two ways. It's not just scoring where they struggle
Speaker 1: to get baskets, but you need that repetitive second effort
Speaker 1: oftentimes on defense and to be able to control the glass.
Speaker 1: And it just it wasn't there. Washington, as I said,
Speaker 1: was the better team. They've played well here at home.
Speaker 1: It's remarkable how well they've played without Wall, and you
Speaker 1: can only imagine. I think everybody reads into it, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 1: John Wall, they don't need well. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: true at all. I think they're going to come back
Speaker 1: a better basketball team with when healthy, one of the
Speaker 1: best guards in basketball and Wall and he can only
Speaker 1: make their team better. And you know he's one of
Speaker 1: those players too. He's a finisher, a closer, and that's
Speaker 1: what you need to win these tight games, and that's
Speaker 1: what you need to win in the postseason. It's a
Speaker 1: team in Washington. They've made the playoffs, but they've never
Speaker 1: gotten out in the second round. They're trying to crack
Speaker 1: through there. They're amongst these top four teams. They've got
Speaker 1: a difficult road, no doubt about it. For the Sixers.
Speaker 1: You want to re energize, go down to Miami and
Speaker 1: try to recoup that energy as you get ready for
Speaker 1: a big game with Miami on Tuesday, and then obviously
Speaker 1: Thursday with the road game at Cleveland. But a great
Speaker 1: run by the Sixers, seven wins in a row, five
Speaker 1: of them of course at home, and now back out
Speaker 1: here on the road with a loss, and then two
Speaker 1: big games. As I said before coming home for Friday's
Speaker 1: game with Charlotte, you said, on the heels of this
Speaker 1: one nine ninety four defeat, that now becomes the challenge
Speaker 1: a young team showing that it could string together sustain
Speaker 1: wins over the last three weeks, an opportunity to potentially
Speaker 1: get it back. But it's going to be interesting. This
Speaker 1: Miami team has won, the Sixers have beaten twice so far.
Speaker 1: They're going to play them on Tuesday and then about
Speaker 1: a week after that, and of course I'm sure they're
Speaker 1: not forgetting that game right before the All Star break
Speaker 1: with the Sixers erased the twenty four point deficit and
Speaker 1: roots of the win, no doubt about it. And that
Speaker 1: was a key game for the Sixers. They won for
Speaker 1: the third time without Joel Embiid, and again I hate
Speaker 1: to be repetitive, but it is important. And again, you
Speaker 1: know you're battling with these teams. Now, Miami's right behind
Speaker 1: the Sixers in the East, and when you play them
Speaker 1: head to head and a whole game swings in the balance,
Speaker 1: win or lose, it's huge. You know, I'm saying that's
Speaker 1: that's the case here. Again, the Sixers had that opportunity tonight. Again,
Speaker 1: Milwaukee loss the Detroit Pistons. They're falling further and further
Speaker 1: out of the playoff picture. And then you know the
Speaker 1: Sixers had a chance, but you know that that's kind
Speaker 1: of a non factor when you don't have the energy
Speaker 1: to compete. It's not like they lost of the last
Speaker 1: second on a shot here. But again, the point is
Speaker 1: that Miami game stacks up that way as well. Another,
Speaker 1: as you say, two more games with Miami in Florida
Speaker 1: and it starts Tuesday. Tom enjoyed the trip down there.
Speaker 1: Talk to you on Tuesday. Good night, Brian. Thanks seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers knocked off by the Wizards to Night one ninety four.
Speaker 1: The seven game winning streak has come to an end. Sixers.
Speaker 1: It wasn't for lack of effort tonight, shots just did
Speaker 1: not go down health to thirty six percent from the field.
Speaker 1: The Wizards, meanwhile, quite the opposite, fifty four and a
Speaker 1: half percent from the floor shooting and twelve of twenty
Speaker 1: five from outside the arc. The likes of Kelly Oubrey
Speaker 1: with nineteen points, out of Porter with twenty three and
Speaker 1: Bradley Beale with twenty four collectively too much for the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers down in DC tonight. Well, here's some of
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis's highlight calls on the other side, as our
Speaker 1: postgame coverage continues here on the Sixers Radio Network. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers completing their ninth back to back set of the season,
Speaker 1: doing so against an Eastern Conference rival that sat one
Speaker 1: game in front of them in the Eastern Conference standings.
Speaker 1: Heading into tonight's key game, Brian seltzerwit you from Sixers
Speaker 1: dot Com. Let us go to the tape, the highlight
Speaker 1: tape and the game called by the one and only
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis. Within seconds, seventy Sixers off to an encouraging start.
Speaker 1: Joel and Beat tips it and Ben Simmons gets the ball.
Speaker 1: These Sixers with Simmons, Covington Reddick sharedge Andy b here's
Speaker 1: a lot Ben's white up and he kept it and
Speaker 1: guides it in. There was great energy from the Sixers
Speaker 1: at the outset of tonight's game is that highlight demonstrated.
Speaker 1: Sixers jumped out to a ten six advantage, but after
Speaker 1: that eight straight points from the Wizards that gave them
Speaker 1: some controls. Sixers would charge back into it quarter of
Speaker 1: the late and Cup tips it away. Joel with it
Speaker 1: Sixers with numbers, Ben handles it, Simmons back to Joel
Speaker 1: and it be slams it in and a foul on Washington.
Speaker 1: He would hit the free throw one point game sixteen
Speaker 1: fifteen in favor of the Wizards. Very competitive throughout the
Speaker 1: finish of the first quarter, which ended with the Wizards
Speaker 1: leading by two thirty two twenty eight, but then first
Speaker 1: key run of the game for Washington. Eleven out of
Speaker 1: the next thirteen points went to them. They went up
Speaker 1: forty one to thirty Sixers in ketchup Mo Dario Charge
Speaker 1: helping the cause. Dario steals the rebounded Oh he missed it,
Speaker 1: He goes back up and scores it. So Simmons missed
Speaker 1: both free throws, but Charge jumped around beyond Mehemi got
Speaker 1: the rebound. Missed the first put back and then scores it,
Speaker 1: trim the Sixers deficit to forty eight to forty two.
Speaker 1: But from there the Wizards, behind Kelly ubre Otto Porter
Speaker 1: and Bradley Beale, sprinkled in, scoring up a nineteen to
Speaker 1: five run to end the first half, and they took
Speaker 1: a sixty seven forty eight lead into the breaks, second
Speaker 1: most totals allowed in the first half this season by
Speaker 1: the Sixers. Sixers battling uphill throughout most of the third quarter,
Speaker 1: but some signs of life late in the period. Eight
Speaker 1: seconds ago would beat with the rebounded, beat advances at
Speaker 1: the Simmons, Simmons back to Joel three ball by a
Speaker 1: beat is up and in one second to go at
Speaker 1: Joel and beat cuts at the fourteen, and that'll do
Speaker 1: it for three eighty seven seventy three the tally going
Speaker 1: into the fourth. The Sixers were able to build on that,
Speaker 1: and they kept coming. They got closer and closer and closer,
Speaker 1: and Dario Charch with some timely outside shooting, got the
Speaker 1: margin back down to single digits, back out top coming
Speaker 1: at four to shoot Ben to Joel, No Simmons off
Speaker 1: the drive, He's got a shoot it over to Dario
Speaker 1: shot in effort three Oh, let's go, but my Tony
Speaker 1: Brown was waving it off. The Shark just put it in.
Speaker 1: The Sixers get back to back threes, both from Sharks
Speaker 1: that made it ninety seven to eighty nine. Morris would
Speaker 1: score to make it one hundred to eighty nine, but
Speaker 1: Joellenbad got three the old fashioned way bead with four
Speaker 1: turnovers in the game, don lolep Power move on where
Speaker 1: Top puts it up in d a foul Joel and
Speaker 1: Bad driving it from the upside. One hundred ninety two
Speaker 1: was the score after the free throw with just under
Speaker 1: four minutes left in regulation, but Washington would score the
Speaker 1: next seven points and that would prove to be the difference,
Speaker 1: as the Wizards end up taking this one by the
Speaker 1: final of one o nine to one oh four. Final
Speaker 1: notes from the final statue. We talked about this with
Speaker 1: Tom McGuinness. He referenced it throughout the game. Washington really
Speaker 1: with the hot hand tonight fifty four and a half
Speaker 1: percent from the field of seventy six ers just thirty
Speaker 1: six percent Wizards twelve of twenty five from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: The Sixers hit nine of their thirty three three point
Speaker 1: attempts what kept the Sixers hanging around. They were pretty
Speaker 1: prolific from the free throw line, where they outscored the
Speaker 1: Wizards by a dozen. Washington with the upper hand on
Speaker 1: the glass plus five. Sixers also converting nineteen Washington turnovers
Speaker 1: into thirty one points, one of their better numbers in
Speaker 1: that category of the season. But still, the Wizards could
Speaker 1: not be slowed down enough as they went on to
Speaker 1: take the four game series finale. Beale had twenty four
Speaker 1: to lead the Wizards, twenty three from Otto Porter and
Speaker 1: nineteen from Kelly Ubrey off the bench. From the Sixers
Speaker 1: side of things, Joel and B twenty five points, ten rebounds.
Speaker 1: This is his twenty third twenty and ten game of
Speaker 1: the season. He's played forty seven games and all, so
Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing that nearly half the games he's played
Speaker 1: this season he's had at least twenty and ten. Awesome
Speaker 1: stuff from the All Star Ben Simmons sixteen points, eight
Speaker 1: rebounds and eight assists Ago with one block shot and
Speaker 1: a steel thirteen for Dario scharch Yeah, he was one
Speaker 1: of several Sixers who was trying to get his shot
Speaker 1: to go down. Five of seventeen from the field two
Speaker 1: three pointers, eight rebounds, three assists, But really thought Dario
Speaker 1: acquit himself nicely with his hustle and fight tonight when
Speaker 1: he was out there for the Sixers, ten for Marco
Speaker 1: Bellinelli off the bench, and Rashaun Holmes played all of
Speaker 1: his eleven minutes forty seconds in the second half. He
Speaker 1: was paired at times with Joel Embiid. By far had
Speaker 1: the best plus minus rating of any six or plus
Speaker 1: twelve in the game seven points, two to four from
Speaker 1: the field, two rebounds, but bringing, most importantly as he
Speaker 1: did on Saturday against the Atlanto Magic, some welcomed intangibles.
Speaker 1: With the loss, the seventy sixers season long seven game
Speaker 1: winning streak ends. They're now thirty two and twenty six.
Speaker 1: The Wizards improved to thirty five and twenty five. So
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference standings we're gonna do some quick math
Speaker 1: now looks as follows. Wizards a half game in front
Speaker 1: of the Pacers, which did not play today, for fourth
Speaker 1: place at thirty five and twenty five, the Indiana in
Speaker 1: fifth at thirty four and twenty five. On the season,
Speaker 1: these seventy Sixers are a half game behind the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: Now the Bucks in sixth place with the record of
Speaker 1: thirty three and twenty six. The Sixers are thirty two
Speaker 1: and twenty six, and they are now two games in
Speaker 1: front of the Miami Heat. The Heat are an eighth
Speaker 1: and the Sixers and the Heats, what do you know?
Speaker 1: Face off seven thirty on Tuesday night from American Airlines
Speaker 1: Arena down on South Beach. We will begin our pregame
Speaker 1: coverage that night at seven twenty as the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: look to win their four game season series, playing game
Speaker 1: number three against the Heat on the year. Big thanks
Speaker 1: to Jay Gray and Carl Namoli back here at the
Speaker 1: studio now for the radio voice the seventy six Ers,
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis Brian Seltzer saying so long for now one
Speaker 1: final time. The final score was the Wizards one or
Speaker 1: nine and the seventy Sixers ninety four. Have a great
Speaker 1: rest of what is left of your Sunday night from
Speaker 1: all of us here at the Sixers Radio Network.