Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game, a
Speaker 1: well rounded victory for the seventy Sixers one twenty one
Speaker 1: thirteen over the Oklahoma City Thunder Down here at the center,
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Seltzer. Goodbye, four game losing streak. Hello, Brett
Speaker 1: Brown speaking now in progress at the podium. Early foul
Speaker 1: trouble and had to sit him and ended up with
Speaker 1: his fifth foul I think on an offensive foul at
Speaker 1: the start of the fourth. And my point is like
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're trying to re order the
Speaker 1: deck and you have trade there and Tray can play
Speaker 1: one to play a two. And I agree with you,
Speaker 1: like he really has emerged to be something a little
Speaker 1: bit different on our team and has made has made
Speaker 1: significant sort of impact offensively during that spell that that
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. I guess what did you see, Adam
Speaker 1: Joel unless he used to deal with it's a hand
Speaker 1: issue in terms of both on the court and communication. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna because I haven't spoken to doctors,
Speaker 1: I haven't spoken in depth with Joe. Originally as the
Speaker 1: game is playing out. It was evident like he hurt
Speaker 1: his hand. I could see that, and then when he dislocated,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it looks seemed to be like a dislocation.
Speaker 1: You know, we all saw it. I'm assuming that they
Speaker 1: show it on the Yeah, and so like there's two
Speaker 1: kinds of injuries going on with his hand, Um and
Speaker 1: for him to you know, go back in and come
Speaker 1: back out and play. I was shocked that he was
Speaker 1: able to come back out and play. I thought he
Speaker 1: was done for the game. As far as like what
Speaker 1: does it mean going forward, I don't know that, but
Speaker 1: I do know. What I do know is that that
Speaker 1: that is a that is a tough um return to
Speaker 1: the court. That that that is a competitive statement. And
Speaker 1: h I appreciate him. I respect that we needed we
Speaker 1: needed to play well here at home. We haven't been
Speaker 1: on the right side of the win lost column lately.
Speaker 1: And Uh, I respect his m his motives to come
Speaker 1: back more impressed with Josh and the offensive or defensive
Speaker 1: that's a good question, Um, I liked and I'll speak
Speaker 1: to both. I like him coming out aggressive, like we
Speaker 1: need him to find them rim, we need him to
Speaker 1: be amongst this this Uh notion my desire to shoot
Speaker 1: more threes. I put him to bias and now squally
Speaker 1: into that instead of sort of like casting out of
Speaker 1: broad based statement, and I haven't I will specifically those
Speaker 1: three feature in that desired um um wish to shoot
Speaker 1: more threes. And uh, you know, I like Jay Rich.
Speaker 1: He came out in attack mode. He looked to rise
Speaker 1: up and then you go to the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball, and I thought he was harassing, like, you know,
Speaker 1: really just able to navigate stuff. As the team, we
Speaker 1: fouled too much, and I think that I think I'm
Speaker 1: right saying that we put him in the bonus with
Speaker 1: like eight forty in the fourth and I don't believe
Speaker 1: we fouled until forty seconds left in the game, which
Speaker 1: is a really hard thing to do. And I thought
Speaker 1: that he was a part of that. He played hard
Speaker 1: and still you know, was able to not whack him
Speaker 1: and send him to the line. He was really good.
Speaker 1: Tonight seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown. After a needed
Speaker 1: victory for the home team tonight one, twenty one thirteen,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers put an end to that four game
Speaker 1: losing streak through now twenty four and fourteen on the season.
Speaker 1: They dropped the previously surging Oklahoma City Thunder, which lost
Speaker 1: for the first time in six games. Oksee now twenty
Speaker 1: and sixteen. A really balanced game all around from the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers. They shot fifty one percent from the field,
Speaker 1: thirteen of twenty six from three point territories. Brett Brown
Speaker 1: mentioned just so crucial that the seventy Sixers stopped failing
Speaker 1: essentially for the final eight minutes of regulation. The Sixers
Speaker 1: overcame a tremendous rebounding effort from okc's relentless Steven Adams,
Speaker 1: and each starters scoring in double digits for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Speaking to the balanced nature of tonight's game, Josh Richardson
Speaker 1: led the way with twenty three. Ben Simmons flirted with
Speaker 1: his second straight triple double. He had seventeen, fifteen and
Speaker 1: eighteen points apiece for Tobias Harris and Joel Embiid. Not
Speaker 1: sure if you'd hear the question asked by the Philly
Speaker 1: Voices Kyle Newbeck during the postgame press conference about Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: but he was referring to the dislocated finger on Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid's left hand and it is. It was unsightly, to
Speaker 1: say the least. You'll probably catch it on the old
Speaker 1: Twitter sphere if you didn't see it live while it happened.
Speaker 1: Not pretty, but Joel battled through it to give the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers not just a great presence on the court,
Speaker 1: but his offensive rebound with time winding down that set
Speaker 1: up the open three pointer for Tobias Harris. That made
Speaker 1: it a nine point game with under two minutes ago.
Speaker 1: That was huge. That was essentially the clincher for the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers in this one tonight off the bench, Trey
Speaker 1: Burke was awesome twelve points and Mike Scott, his box
Speaker 1: score might not do the impact of his game justice.
Speaker 1: He had eight points, two rebounds. They actually didn't give
Speaker 1: him credit. I'd have to go back and look, but
Speaker 1: he didn't get credit for a block shot he had
Speaker 1: on the baseline against OKC. He blocked a shot and
Speaker 1: then back the other way knocked out a three pointer
Speaker 1: to give the seventy sixers some really important insurance at
Speaker 1: one O one ninety seven. If I'm not mistaken, but
Speaker 1: a couple threes from Mike Scott in this game came
Speaker 1: at timely moments all part of the seventy sixers one
Speaker 1: twenty one thirteen win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Tom
Speaker 1: McGinnis had the call of this one tonight most important Tom,
Speaker 1: seventy sixers got the dub first one since they were
Speaker 1: here on Christmas Day and beat the Bucks. But really,
Speaker 1: what was also nice about this was that there were
Speaker 1: a lot of guys who got to have their fingerprints
Speaker 1: put on this win. I mean, this whole team is
Speaker 1: looking to get back on track, and there were multiple
Speaker 1: players you could point two, who assumed key roles in
Speaker 1: the outcome, no doubt, and as I've said multiple times
Speaker 1: over the previous years, you know you need that in
Speaker 1: a forty eight minute game, you know, and a different
Speaker 1: point different guys to step up. You had all five
Speaker 1: starters and double figures season high in the glass for
Speaker 1: Ben season high and assists for Joel. You had timely
Speaker 1: scoring off the bench from Burke and Scott. The bias
Speaker 1: as you mentioned with that three that which the dagger
Speaker 1: from the corner set up an offensive rebound by and
Speaker 1: bead Al Horford got back on track offensively and defensively.
Speaker 1: You know, the Sixers were able to hold them off
Speaker 1: because the Thunder they were coming. The Sixers had a
Speaker 1: huge second quarter where they outscored them by ten to
Speaker 1: put them in front by ten at the break after
Speaker 1: being tied at thirty one after one, and then to
Speaker 1: Coach Brown's point, and I'll spell out a little fourth,
Speaker 1: we had it from the eight twenty five mark of
Speaker 1: the fourth. That's when the Sixers committed their fifth file,
Speaker 1: so they're in the bonus the Thunder, and then a
Speaker 1: little bit later it was seven files for the Sixers
Speaker 1: and only two for the Thunder. In fact, they had
Speaker 1: a foul twice down the stretch, you know, to get
Speaker 1: to the Sixers to the line when they sent richardson
Speaker 1: to the line, but again back to the Sixers. Following
Speaker 1: the Sixers, they did not foul and send the Thunder
Speaker 1: to the line again until twenty seven seconds remained. So
Speaker 1: that's a span where Oklahoma could have really particularly with
Speaker 1: the way they dominated from the line in their game
Speaker 1: out in Oklahoma, doubling up on the Sixers from the stripe,
Speaker 1: they could have gotten even further and taken Remember that
Speaker 1: they didn't lead in the second half. As close as
Speaker 1: they were, I don't think they ever took the lead.
Speaker 1: I don't think they tied the game, and they could
Speaker 1: have taken a huge advantage. But credit to Sixers for
Speaker 1: not following during that you know, seven or eight minute
Speaker 1: stretched there down the stretch where they kept away from
Speaker 1: you repeatedly sending them to the line, which could have
Speaker 1: shifted the battle of the scoring. And how it finished
Speaker 1: in the end seventy six Ers defeat o kac one
Speaker 1: twenty to one thirteen. I mean, it really was amazing
Speaker 1: seeing Joel Embid back out there. Your reaction to seeing
Speaker 1: the replay of it was totally spot on for how
Speaker 1: it looked. It was not pretty and talking about his
Speaker 1: left finger. And there he was not a while later.
Speaker 1: I mean it was within a couple of minutes. He
Speaker 1: was kind of like back out there, re emerged and
Speaker 1: he I thought he came out of the locker room
Speaker 1: with you know, guns ablazing head of steam. He seemed
Speaker 1: fired up. Well, two things. One is we had a
Speaker 1: report in the opening quarter that had been within the
Speaker 1: locker room and they was getting his left hand looked at.
Speaker 1: So then he comes back in and as he was
Speaker 1: coming back out of the core, they were they were
Speaker 1: addressing what appeared to be a cut. So I don't
Speaker 1: actually know what that was about. But then, as you say,
Speaker 1: there was Steven Adams getting the rebound and Joel was
Speaker 1: down there. Adams dunks it and a bed goes over
Speaker 1: by the visiting bench, by the thunders bench, puts his
Speaker 1: hands on his knee, bent over and then yes, you
Speaker 1: saw his hand there, and you know the displacement of
Speaker 1: what appeared to be the ring finger and the knuckle
Speaker 1: above that ring finger. And like you said, you know
Speaker 1: people are going to see a coach Brown noted and
Speaker 1: kind of was curious too, But it was on television
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, oh my gosh, and there was a
Speaker 1: Paul if you will in the arena. How could there
Speaker 1: not have been because I think it was on the
Speaker 1: JumboTron as Joel walked by. But then he comes back
Speaker 1: out and I think he, you know, changed his game
Speaker 1: a little. He had a fall later right by their
Speaker 1: bench where he had to brace himself. Think how much
Speaker 1: that hurt. You know, you can't just brace yourself with
Speaker 1: one hand. I mean you could, but not the way
Speaker 1: he fell. And then to come back and you know
Speaker 1: he had a one or two baskets tell load, but
Speaker 1: most of his points were face up jumpers from then on,
Speaker 1: but he had eight assists, so he made a huge
Speaker 1: impact and got that big rebound and as a force
Speaker 1: on defense, he really affected that late layup try by
Speaker 1: Chris Paul and then the rebound dunk attempt by Adams
Speaker 1: went a ride that that was a big sequence in
Speaker 1: the game. So you know you're gonna be a leader
Speaker 1: you do things like that, and he really came up
Speaker 1: big when it were. You know, regarding coming back into
Speaker 1: the game, seventy sixers fend off the thunder by seven,
Speaker 1: should we give a little love time to Trey Burke. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean you're looking for someone to emerge in this
Speaker 1: Netto Burke battle, if you will, for the backup minutes.
Speaker 1: And let's face it, the Sixers more times than not,
Speaker 1: certainly of late him needed scoring and that's that's where
Speaker 1: he has the edge. And Howell Netto has played really
Speaker 1: well and adds a lot including scoring and running, pick
Speaker 1: and roll and any number of things. But Burke is
Speaker 1: kind of instant offense, and that's what he was tonight.
Speaker 1: You're actually when he misses, you're a little surprise because
Speaker 1: he's been so efficient. He's been in double figures. Now,
Speaker 1: I believe in three of the last four games. And
Speaker 1: you know, as Brett Brown said, and hey, that's the
Speaker 1: guy you're trying to impress more than anybody if you're
Speaker 1: Trey Burke, and that is he's emerging, and that would
Speaker 1: be a great thing for the Sixers to expect him,
Speaker 1: you know, to come in and deliver off the bench
Speaker 1: the way he's done of late Sixers. Knock off the
Speaker 1: Thunder one twenty one thirteen. Tom McGinnis, we will talk
Speaker 1: to you on Thursday. Seventy Sixers and the Celtics Round three.
Speaker 1: Good night. Thanks another guy we should give a shout
Speaker 1: out to just post mortem after that. Mike Scott. Big
Speaker 1: game tonight, eight points, two huge three pointers and a
Speaker 1: big defensive stop in the final six minutes of play
Speaker 1: to give the seventy Sixers pivotal insurance in their close win.
Speaker 1: But to win, that's all they needed against the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City Thunder. Tonight important midseason game for the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: as they look to get back on track on the
Speaker 1: heels of a season high four consecutive losses. I'm Brian Seltzer.
Speaker 1: Time now to recap this one with the highlight calls
Speaker 1: of the one and only Tom McGinnis. Seventy sixers hosting
Speaker 1: a red hot team in the Oklahoma City Thunder. They
Speaker 1: had won five consecutive games coming in. Seventy Sixers found
Speaker 1: themselves in a tight battle in the first quarter. So
Speaker 1: the Thunder gets their score on a timehouse. Here's Harris
Speaker 1: for another three, and it's good to Bias Harris. All
Speaker 1: three of the shots had been three Pointe goes this
Speaker 1: one from the near side and from that left perimeter
Speaker 1: he makes it twenty two. Ould Tobias Harris and key
Speaker 1: parton helping the seventy Sixers get off to a good start.
Speaker 1: He was perfect from outside the arc on his first
Speaker 1: three attempts from three point territory. Seventy Sixers and the Thunder.
Speaker 1: They were tied up in thirty one after one Joel
Speaker 1: and beat. He was knocked around between the first quarter
Speaker 1: and started the second a cut in his hand and
Speaker 1: a dislocated finger. No matter to the big man. Thirty six,
Speaker 1: thirty four by two. Actually it beat with it. He's
Speaker 1: yet to shoot since coming back, and now he'll rise
Speaker 1: and score on. Steven Adams just his shag and field
Speaker 1: goal in the game tied it up at thirty six,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers turning back to Tobias Harris to nudge
Speaker 1: them back in front. Late in the first half, Jill
Speaker 1: Surprise died in the park and Harris Dovallee Gallinari was
Speaker 1: kind of arguing about the lack of a call the
Speaker 1: entire way back pedaling. He recessed so much that Harris,
Speaker 1: who was able to get by his initial defender, and
Speaker 1: Gallinari in a dunk. And not too long after that,
Speaker 1: that was when the seventy Sixers made the first major
Speaker 1: move of the game, streaming together a sixteen to five
Speaker 1: run to close out the half Trooter outside right. The
Speaker 1: shake Gilders at Gander, but Sixers picking off Scott on
Speaker 1: the move, Ben Simmons tableton and scores over the right
Speaker 1: hand and now they outlet the shredder. Ben Simmons using
Speaker 1: Mike Scott as a decoy, put the Sixers up by ten.
Speaker 1: They led by ten of the break, sixty two to
Speaker 1: fifty two. In the third, it would be the thunder
Speaker 1: turning the tables. They scored thirty four points, but Trey
Speaker 1: Burke was important to keeping the seventy Sixers in control
Speaker 1: the scoreboard five point Sixers lead forty seconds ago. Trey
Speaker 1: Burke with it after making that three, the tenth Maine
Speaker 1: triple to the game. On the drive outline, he scores
Speaker 1: it got right by Shredder. That's why he's in there.
Speaker 1: That would be the final basket of the third. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers led ninety to eighty six. Let's go to the fourth. Okay,
Speaker 1: see not going anywhere. Mike Scott. He's had some ups
Speaker 1: and downs this season, but there was a forty five
Speaker 1: second stretch midway through the four where he really was
Speaker 1: one of the key pieces that kept the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: in front. Here's Mike Scott for another three head. It's
Speaker 1: ten and he's a streaky shooter, and it shows back
Speaker 1: to bat freeze by Scott one oh four and ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers clamped down and crunch time, their desperation on
Speaker 1: full display. Joel embiad battling and Tobias Harris reaped the
Speaker 1: rewards of that. Richardson with nine into the lane, drives
Speaker 1: a block by Adams. If beat has it into the corner,
Speaker 1: Harris three ball, It's good ball game. Tobias Harris corner three.
Speaker 1: That made one fifteen one oh six. Seventy Sixers hung
Speaker 1: on to Winni by seven one twenty one. Thirteen. Seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers now twenty four and fourteen on the season.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City is twenty and sixteen. The Sixers moving a
Speaker 1: little bit closer up the Eastern Conference ladder the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: They were in action earlier tonight at Washington. They lost
Speaker 1: ninety nine to ninety four, halting a three game winning streak.
Speaker 1: Those two teams will meet up on Thursday here at
Speaker 1: the Center. Six Or shot fifty one percent overall thirteen
Speaker 1: to twenty six from three. They were outrebounded by OKC
Speaker 1: by five, but the seventy Sixers kept the Thunder off
Speaker 1: the line essentially for the final eight minutes of regulation,
Speaker 1: also only ten turnovers for the seventy Sixers, they outscore
Speaker 1: the Thunder by eight and points off turnovers twenty three
Speaker 1: for Josh Richardson, a team high eighteen points apiece for
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris and Joel and Beat and Beat also with
Speaker 1: nine rebounds in a season high eight assists. Al Horford
Speaker 1: with thirteen and four, Ben Simmons almost a second straight
Speaker 1: triple double, seventeen points fifteen rebounds and eight assists, twelve
Speaker 1: for Trade Burke off the bench, eight for Mike Scott,
Speaker 1: Steven Adams a monster game for the Thunder twenty four points,
Speaker 1: fifteen rebounds, Chris Paul with eighteen, Shay Giljis Alexander with
Speaker 1: fourteen points and nine rebounds, twenty one for Dennis Shrewder
Speaker 1: off the bench, one final time. In the final score,
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers one twenty the OKC Thunder one thirteen.
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