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I guess weapony on your power. 0:01:49.099 --> 0:01:53.459 Flex Flabs of the seventy six Ers postgame show right 0:01:53.499 --> 0:01:55.419 now on ninety seven five. 0:01:55.539 --> 0:01:56.739 The fanatic. 0:01:58.779 --> 0:02:01.939 Sixers with home games Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week 0:02:02.059 --> 0:02:06.539 after a six game road trip in totality that began 0:02:07.259 --> 0:02:09.659 on the NBA on Christmas Day with the big win 0:02:09.819 --> 0:02:12.939 over Boston and then they went to Utah and out 0:02:12.979 --> 0:02:15.499 West and returned to play Phoenix. But the Suns with 0:02:15.539 --> 0:02:18.539 a ten point win in Philadelphia tonight, one oh nine 0:02:18.939 --> 0:02:22.419 ninety nine. This is our Parks Casino postgame show on 0:02:22.539 --> 0:02:25.699 Matt Murphy. I'll be rejoined in a moment by Tom McGinnis. 0:02:25.699 --> 0:02:30.699 We will also hope to hear Nick Nurse's postgame media availability. 0:02:31.619 --> 0:02:34.659 After this loss to Phoenix, who snaps a four game 0:02:34.699 --> 0:02:38.379 losing streak, they made a big lineup move, couple changes 0:02:38.419 --> 0:02:40.859 to the starting lineup, but bringing Bradley Beal off the 0:02:40.859 --> 0:02:44.139 bench certainly paid off a team high twenty five points 0:02:44.179 --> 0:02:47.459 twenty in a second half that they outscored the Sixers 0:02:47.499 --> 0:02:50.419 sixty seven to fifty three in for the one zho 0:02:50.459 --> 0:02:54.939 nine ninety nine rears old and behind Bal, the Suns 0:02:54.979 --> 0:02:58.619 bench outscored the Sixers bench as their Sixers roster was 0:02:58.659 --> 0:03:02.459 shorthanded tonight. To say the least, headlined by no Joel Embiid. 0:03:02.939 --> 0:03:06.859 The bench scoring was fifty four to seven Suns. Five 0:03:07.179 --> 0:03:12.979 players out for the Sixers, including Embiid. Andre Drummond was 0:03:12.979 --> 0:03:16.459 a late scratch as well. So Yabusele had this start 0:03:16.499 --> 0:03:18.739 as the small ball center. It was their twenty first 0:03:18.739 --> 0:03:21.819 different starting lineup of the season, which does lead the NBA. 0:03:22.819 --> 0:03:25.179 So all the starters played heavy minutes. The only bench 0:03:25.219 --> 0:03:28.219 scorers were a dem Bona with four and Justin Edwards 0:03:28.699 --> 0:03:33.459 with three. So Beal shoots ten for fifteen, the Sun 0:03:33.539 --> 0:03:37.699 shoot fifty one percent. Durant had a good game twenty 0:03:37.739 --> 0:03:41.939 three points on nine of fourteen, and the Sixers only 0:03:41.939 --> 0:03:45.659 shot thirty nine percent in this game. They also missed 0:03:45.699 --> 0:03:49.819 ten free throws sixteen of twenty six and they lose 0:03:49.859 --> 0:03:55.739 the game by ten. They will have the two teams 0:03:55.779 --> 0:03:58.539 with the worst records in the league coming in next 0:03:58.579 --> 0:04:00.579 We will get there later in our post game show. 0:04:00.619 --> 0:04:02.459 It'll be the Wizards, the worst in the East, on 0:04:02.539 --> 0:04:05.299 Wednesday night, and then the New Orleans Pelicans, who have 0:04:05.379 --> 0:04:10.859 been battling injuries all season, notably Zion Williamson's not playing 0:04:10.939 --> 0:04:14.299 right now. They'll be here on Friday night. But Tom 0:04:14.339 --> 0:04:17.299 mcguinnis the first home game back in two weeks, and 0:04:17.339 --> 0:04:20.619 it's Phoenix with a one ZHO nine ninety nine win. 0:04:21.379 --> 0:04:23.779 Kelly Oubre Junior had a great game and his return 0:04:23.859 --> 0:04:27.219 to the Sixers lineup twenty six points and eleven rebounds. 0:04:27.219 --> 0:04:30.219 But let's let's start with Phoenix quickly. I mean the 0:04:30.299 --> 0:04:32.339 move to put Beale on the bench, I mean it 0:04:32.379 --> 0:04:35.659 looks like a good one so far because they came 0:04:35.699 --> 0:04:38.419 in kind of the reports were saying that there was 0:04:38.419 --> 0:04:42.459 some uncertainty around their group, and he delivered in a 0:04:42.499 --> 0:04:44.819 big way and that role really embraced it as a pro. 0:04:45.019 --> 0:04:48.139 Yeah, he's a really good player, and even Nurkic I 0:04:48.139 --> 0:04:50.779 thought made an impact. He was the other player that 0:04:50.939 --> 0:04:53.099 was shall we say, sent to the bench. And again 0:04:53.179 --> 0:04:55.379 he'd been out for three games, so that's not a 0:04:55.459 --> 0:04:59.099 complete shocker, but you know, coach Budden needed to do something. 0:04:59.099 --> 0:05:01.979 They lost four games in a row. They considered it 0:05:02.019 --> 0:05:05.259 wasn't just a one time thing. And Beal came in. 0:05:05.339 --> 0:05:08.219 You figured he was going to be you know, not 0:05:08.419 --> 0:05:10.219 what they have four points in the last game, but 0:05:10.259 --> 0:05:13.499 he was ten of fifteen. It was Booker, you know, 0:05:13.619 --> 0:05:16.499 that struggled. Booker was just three of sixteen, three of 0:05:16.539 --> 0:05:19.099 eighteen in the first match, but he helped in other 0:05:19.099 --> 0:05:21.979 ways with tennis sists, and they just Durant came in 0:05:21.979 --> 0:05:24.939 with a knockout punch down the stretch. You know. It 0:05:24.979 --> 0:05:27.059 is a little bit about Phoenix, no doubt, but it's 0:05:27.219 --> 0:05:29.379 the Sixers just didn't again, they did not have the 0:05:29.499 --> 0:05:32.059 energy or the bodies, and it showed right they were 0:05:32.179 --> 0:05:35.579 under man Kelly Oubre who didn't play over the last week. 0:05:35.619 --> 0:05:37.699 I mean the last time he played was last Monday, 0:05:38.219 --> 0:05:41.099 and he really came out with a lot of fight. 0:05:41.219 --> 0:05:44.419 He ended up with thirteen eight in the first, thirteen 0:05:44.659 --> 0:05:48.259 in the third, twenty five total. But the Sixers, you know, 0:05:48.299 --> 0:05:50.539 when they had that early twelve point lead, you felt 0:05:50.539 --> 0:05:52.139 like it could have been a little bit more. Not 0:05:52.219 --> 0:05:54.339 that they would have knocked him out at the beginning 0:05:54.379 --> 0:05:56.179 of the game, but they could have had a little 0:05:56.179 --> 0:06:00.579 bit better separation. But they just couldn't maintain with the 0:06:00.619 --> 0:06:03.939 shooting consistency. They ended up shooting thirty nine percent and 0:06:03.979 --> 0:06:06.619 it dissipated went down as the game went along. 0:06:06.939 --> 0:06:10.059 Right, and the Suns did come out flat. I kind 0:06:10.059 --> 0:06:12.699 of made it seem like it was an instant success thing. 0:06:12.739 --> 0:06:15.419 With the lineup changes, but it was seventeen to five 0:06:15.899 --> 0:06:18.219 the start for the Sixers right in this game, the 0:06:18.259 --> 0:06:20.219 final score ends up being the Suns one oh nine 0:06:20.339 --> 0:06:22.699 the Sixers ninety nine. Matt Murphy and Tom McGuinness here 0:06:22.699 --> 0:06:27.019 on our Parks Casino postgame show, and Embiid was scratched. 0:06:27.499 --> 0:06:29.979 He was questionable. The listing has been left foot sprain 0:06:30.179 --> 0:06:32.699 and the right sinus fracture. They also they add in 0:06:32.699 --> 0:06:35.539 on the injury reports. The official reports mask that that 0:06:35.619 --> 0:06:37.939 he has continued to wear the mask when he's playing. 0:06:38.219 --> 0:06:43.219 Kyle Lowry was unavailable, among many others. Andre Drummond though 0:06:43.459 --> 0:06:45.459 might might have been the latest scratch of them all. 0:06:45.499 --> 0:06:47.179 So they didn't have the morning shoot round, They had 0:06:47.179 --> 0:06:49.699 the pregame walk through a couple of hours hours before, 0:06:49.939 --> 0:06:52.899 and then no Drummond either, which Yabusel had a great 0:06:52.979 --> 0:06:55.979 first half. But there's been a couple of games like 0:06:56.019 --> 0:07:00.179 this where there's no true center, and and this was 0:07:00.219 --> 0:07:02.939 another one tonight. How do you think that impacted things? 0:07:02.979 --> 0:07:07.419 Well, like Mason Plumbley started its center for them, so 0:07:07.659 --> 0:07:11.259 like he he can certainly guard. He's a great screen setter, 0:07:11.939 --> 0:07:14.819 but you know it's not like you need Wenby to 0:07:14.859 --> 0:07:16.699 guard him, right, I mean he's not he's not going 0:07:16.779 --> 0:07:19.419 to really challenge you, but just missing one of your 0:07:19.659 --> 0:07:22.179 one of your better players at Andre Drummond. And for 0:07:22.299 --> 0:07:26.139 drum like you say, he went through the walkthrough, but 0:07:26.379 --> 0:07:29.179 when you have a toe injury like that, I don't 0:07:29.219 --> 0:07:31.899 know what happened, but you know, like he might have 0:07:31.979 --> 0:07:35.139 tweaked it. But the slightest thing can set you back, 0:07:35.299 --> 0:07:38.019 like that's you know, that's everything when you take, when 0:07:38.099 --> 0:07:41.499 you stop and sprint that that can be really problematic. 0:07:41.579 --> 0:07:44.419 So I can imagine where you know, they're gonna be 0:07:44.459 --> 0:07:48.219 a little cautious with that if he has any discomfort. 0:07:48.699 --> 0:07:50.619 But that, yeah, that was a shock. I think it 0:07:50.659 --> 0:07:53.539 sounds like coach nurses addressing the media. 0:07:54.539 --> 0:08:00.459 A ton and then you know, then they you know, 0:08:00.459 --> 0:08:04.619 he just got going with some sideline throw ahead step 0:08:04.699 --> 0:08:07.059 up action. He was getting getting around the bend a 0:08:07.099 --> 0:08:09.219 little too fast on us. But I think we lost 0:08:09.259 --> 0:08:12.059 a little a little bit of our our spark and 0:08:12.099 --> 0:08:15.019 I you know, just based on on how poorly we 0:08:15.019 --> 0:08:18.899 were shooting the ball, because it was like we were 0:08:18.899 --> 0:08:23.579 getting we were getting, but I thought were really really 0:08:23.619 --> 0:08:28.139 good shots. You know, for most of that game, I 0:08:28.139 --> 0:08:30.379 think our energy and everything was great to start. Our 0:08:30.419 --> 0:08:34.299 defense everything was really good, but the offense just wasn't 0:08:34.699 --> 0:08:39.459 wasn't well, the shooting wasn't probably where it needed to 0:08:39.499 --> 0:08:42.619 be compared to how we were playing, what we were generating, 0:08:42.659 --> 0:08:46.219 and what we were doing defensively, and it ended up 0:08:46.259 --> 0:08:48.299 just kind of catching up to us. I think as 0:08:48.339 --> 0:08:51.979 far as the fact thing our spirit and our energy. 0:08:50.979 --> 0:08:54.499 Oh, the decentelget and the paint early on, then a 0:08:54.539 --> 0:08:57.739 lot of the game was tim settling from testing long 0:08:57.819 --> 0:09:00.819 tos or threes as what you as offensive process. 0:09:01.819 --> 0:09:04.419 Yeah, listen, I think I think he's in there with 0:09:04.459 --> 0:09:06.699 a lot of the guys tonight as far as is 0:09:06.979 --> 0:09:09.939 generating you know, good shots and shots that we want 0:09:09.979 --> 0:09:13.179 them to take, and for whatever reason, you know, they 0:09:13.259 --> 0:09:16.019 just they just weren't going in tonight. So I think 0:09:16.179 --> 0:09:17.899 I think you can throw the whole team in thirty 0:09:17.899 --> 0:09:20.299 eight percent from the field, isn't gonna isn't gonna win 0:09:20.339 --> 0:09:22.419 you many games, and then throw in another ten miss 0:09:22.419 --> 0:09:25.339 free throws and you're in trouble. Anytime you miss ten, 0:09:25.499 --> 0:09:27.459 usually are on the wrong side of the score. 0:09:30.659 --> 0:09:34.059 Usually, like conventional wisdom, NBA Wise says the first home 0:09:34.139 --> 0:09:34.739 game after. 0:09:34.579 --> 0:09:36.179 A long road trip is always really tough. 0:09:36.379 --> 0:09:36.579 Yep. 0:09:36.699 --> 0:09:38.619 Yeah, And I mean we talked before the game about 0:09:38.619 --> 0:09:39.859 some of the stuff we try to do different bat 0:09:39.939 --> 0:09:43.739 that with was tired legs or anything. 0:09:43.819 --> 0:09:45.299 Did you see any of them? Yeah, I mean I 0:09:45.619 --> 0:09:48.259 think I think that's always it is always tough, you know, 0:09:48.339 --> 0:09:52.539 and you you like, I try not to talk about it. 0:09:52.579 --> 0:09:54.219 I just tried to bring a ton of energy. And 0:09:54.219 --> 0:09:56.099 I thought I thought we were we were super. I 0:09:56.099 --> 0:09:59.339 thought we were we were awesome start, you know, start 0:09:59.339 --> 0:10:01.579 the game, even even to start the second half. I 0:10:01.579 --> 0:10:03.539 mean they took the first time out out of the half. 0:10:05.779 --> 0:10:09.139 But again I think I think just a little bit 0:10:09.139 --> 0:10:12.059 of combination, that little bit of combination of of of 0:10:12.219 --> 0:10:15.219 just you know, when the ball you know, continually you're 0:10:15.219 --> 0:10:18.339 shooting wide open shots and continually doesn't go in it, 0:10:18.339 --> 0:10:21.299 it seems to, you know, affect other parts of the game. 0:10:21.499 --> 0:10:27.059 Yeah. Nick, to the point about Paul's off as a process, 0:10:27.779 --> 0:10:31.779 he's way below his career numbers shooting wise. Obviously, what 0:10:31.819 --> 0:10:34.819 do you think is the the main cause of that? Right, 0:10:34.859 --> 0:10:37.779 because we're past the point of you know, small sample 0:10:37.899 --> 0:10:41.299 or whatever, where he's played over a quarter of seasons 0:10:41.379 --> 0:10:44.699 worth of games, and we really haven't had the Paul 0:10:44.779 --> 0:10:45.619 Georgier expecting. 0:10:46.539 --> 0:10:49.259 Yeah, just just from a shooting standpoint again, and I 0:10:49.299 --> 0:10:54.099 think that you know, they weren't all like super open tonight, 0:10:55.139 --> 0:10:57.059 but a lot of them were and a lot of 0:10:57.099 --> 0:10:59.379 them were ones that, like you said, career wise, he's 0:10:59.379 --> 0:11:05.379 gonna take normally take again, you know, say that his 0:11:05.579 --> 0:11:08.219 presence out there is really good, his defense is really good, 0:11:08.699 --> 0:11:10.899 his rebounding is really good. You know, there's a lot 0:11:10.939 --> 0:11:12.939 of things to like. And I just think the shooting, 0:11:13.579 --> 0:11:16.099 the shooting will get to his career numbers, you know, 0:11:16.139 --> 0:11:19.459 as we go here, you know, maybe you know, again, 0:11:19.539 --> 0:11:23.979 we try to do some different things. We posted him 0:11:24.099 --> 0:11:26.899 a couple of times tonight, We ran some pin downs 0:11:26.899 --> 0:11:28.699 for him a couple of times tonight, you know, a 0:11:28.739 --> 0:11:31.939 few other things. You know, we are doing a variety 0:11:31.939 --> 0:11:36.659 of things. And again, once he got there, eighteen shots, 0:11:37.779 --> 0:11:40.619 you know, I probably like thirteen or fourteen of them, 0:11:40.859 --> 0:11:43.339 you know, kind kind of what it's been twelve to 0:11:43.339 --> 0:11:45.899 fifteen and shots that I probably wouldn't trade in. 0:11:47.499 --> 0:11:49.139 You like, what do you kind of say to him? Like, 0:11:49.179 --> 0:11:50.779 I guess that what kind of do maybe. 0:11:50.619 --> 0:11:52.139 Yeah, I mean it talk to him a little bit 0:11:52.259 --> 0:11:54.259 just to always ask, you know, what can what can 0:11:54.419 --> 0:11:56.059 we do to help you? You know, what can we 0:11:56.099 --> 0:11:58.499 do to to get you going? Do you think the 0:11:58.539 --> 0:12:00.579 looks are good enough? Is there any other actions we 0:12:00.619 --> 0:12:01.979 can we can try to do? 0:12:03.379 --> 0:12:03.579 You know? 0:12:03.939 --> 0:12:08.739 And we've had some of those conversations as well, and 0:12:08.859 --> 0:12:11.019 you know, he just kind of says, no, we're all right, 0:12:12.179 --> 0:12:14.299 but I'm gonna look at these tonight for sure and 0:12:14.899 --> 0:12:16.619 sit down with them tomorrow and see what we can 0:12:16.619 --> 0:12:19.819 figure out. All right, Thanks everybody? 0:12:20.339 --> 0:12:20.579 Yep. 0:12:21.499 --> 0:12:23.779 Coach Nick Nurse here on the seventy six Ers post 0:12:23.859 --> 0:12:26.779 game show presented by Parks Casino. It's the Phoenix Suns 0:12:26.779 --> 0:12:31.299 one oh nine, the Sixers ninety nine in Philadelphia and 0:12:31.379 --> 0:12:34.019 Tom that the question there towards the end from Gina 0:12:34.099 --> 0:12:37.939 Mizela that the Inquirer about the road the first home 0:12:37.979 --> 0:12:40.899 game back from a long road trip being tough. Why 0:12:40.979 --> 0:12:43.299 is that? Why have you noticed that over the years? 0:12:43.619 --> 0:12:46.459 Well, I just said that, Well, again, your sleep has 0:12:46.579 --> 0:12:51.579 been totally you know, there's that jetlag thing is real 0:12:52.099 --> 0:12:54.779 and when you go back and Coach Nurse mentioned this 0:12:54.939 --> 0:13:00.019 pregame but twice on the trip getting into Portland and 0:13:00.099 --> 0:13:02.539 one of the other stops all. I can't remember which 0:13:02.579 --> 0:13:04.739 it wasn't the Warriors, because the Warriors, they were in 0:13:04.779 --> 0:13:08.339 San Francisco by midnight. But twice the six Ers, you know, 0:13:08.819 --> 0:13:11.699 went to bed at three three thirty Pacific time. That's 0:13:11.739 --> 0:13:14.859 six o'clock. You're still your body clock is still on 0:13:14.939 --> 0:13:17.979 East Coast time. Well into that trip. It isn't until 0:13:18.019 --> 0:13:21.419 the very end where you kind of adjust to West 0:13:21.499 --> 0:13:23.659 Coast time and then guess what, then you're back here. 0:13:24.339 --> 0:13:26.259 So I think that's it, you know what I mean, 0:13:26.379 --> 0:13:29.899 Like the sleep deprivation is real. It's totally you know, 0:13:29.939 --> 0:13:33.019 it's messing. So it's it's just difficult, you know what 0:13:33.059 --> 0:13:37.259 I mean. Like and you can like that's why I 0:13:37.459 --> 0:13:40.299 like rest and hydration. There's such an emphasis on that 0:13:40.379 --> 0:13:43.819 in pro sports period. It's a real thing. And then 0:13:43.859 --> 0:13:46.499 they come home and your family's waiting for you. These 0:13:46.499 --> 0:13:50.539 guys got lives outside basketball, and you know it was 0:13:50.579 --> 0:13:52.859 evident like in the play like it, like I said 0:13:52.899 --> 0:13:55.499 it kind of the Sixers energy. Wane coach was talking 0:13:55.539 --> 0:13:59.459 about that. Almost everything we talked about prior with miss 0:13:59.459 --> 0:14:02.179 Mozelle spoke of. We just I just said, yeah, what 0:14:02.299 --> 0:14:05.459 coach said about missing shots early? They played really well. 0:14:05.459 --> 0:14:07.859 But it's a lot of factors. Yeah, went it went 0:14:07.899 --> 0:14:10.339 down as it went. The fact, as you mentioned, they 0:14:10.339 --> 0:14:12.299 were missing a number of players. 0:14:11.899 --> 0:14:14.179 Five players out and then six if you count two 0:14:14.179 --> 0:14:16.659 way player Pete Nance. But that meant that the whole 0:14:16.699 --> 0:14:19.059 starting lineup played more than thirty six minutes max. He 0:14:19.139 --> 0:14:21.219 played almost forty four right. 0:14:21.059 --> 0:14:24.859 In this game. Even tyrese like some of those shots, 0:14:24.899 --> 0:14:27.219 and he made some shots late. He did have sixteen 0:14:27.259 --> 0:14:30.219 in the fourth quarter, right, that's uh, And that's because 0:14:30.259 --> 0:14:33.939 he's he's in fantastic shape and he's not He's just 0:14:33.939 --> 0:14:36.459 going to keep coming at it. But yeah, like you know, 0:14:36.499 --> 0:14:41.019 when you're shooting, you know, like anybody that's played, like 0:14:41.099 --> 0:14:43.499 you realize your legs are such a huge part of it. 0:14:43.499 --> 0:14:45.419 It's almost like a starting pitcher if you don't have 0:14:45.459 --> 0:14:49.579 your legs. That's why baseball pitchers run. They run like 0:14:49.579 --> 0:14:52.899 they're in their off days. They they go distance. That's 0:14:52.939 --> 0:14:54.939 why you need your legs. And you know, that's the 0:14:54.979 --> 0:14:58.819 slightest when you're when you're a little weary, oftentimes that's 0:14:58.859 --> 0:15:00.699 part of it, and you're missing shots by just a 0:15:00.739 --> 0:15:01.979 little bit. But it adds up. 0:15:02.619 --> 0:15:06.059 So the next two opponents just Washington six and twenty 0:15:06.099 --> 0:15:08.819 seven New Orleans on Friday is seven of twenty nine. 0:15:08.859 --> 0:15:11.859 They just played each other twice, so that that has 0:15:11.899 --> 0:15:14.259 to help the scouting process this week for the Sixers. 0:15:14.259 --> 0:15:16.979 Their next two opponents New Orleans won both of those games, 0:15:17.019 --> 0:15:18.419 but it will be Washington first. 0:15:18.979 --> 0:15:21.739 Yeah, and they and the Whist they play tomorrow against Houston. 0:15:21.819 --> 0:15:24.979 They're you know, a prohibitive underdog in that game, and 0:15:25.019 --> 0:15:28.179 you got, yeah, you gotta hope Joelle is able to go. 0:15:28.339 --> 0:15:31.259 And you know, for the Sixers, it's it's it's no 0:15:31.379 --> 0:15:33.539 doubt about you know, like tonight you felt like this 0:15:33.739 --> 0:15:36.099 coming in was a winnable game. Phoenix is struggling, but 0:15:36.299 --> 0:15:38.739 like overall for the Sixers to have the health, to 0:15:38.779 --> 0:15:41.659 have the continuity and to get going here, like you've 0:15:41.699 --> 0:15:44.739 got a huge month of home games, a lot and 0:15:44.779 --> 0:15:46.699 you want to get into a groove. So okay, we're 0:15:46.699 --> 0:15:49.619 playing home games, but we're winning. Let's go oh. I 0:15:49.659 --> 0:15:51.779 know Coach Nurse has talked about that over the years, 0:15:51.779 --> 0:15:54.219 like when you're rolling, you want to play and most 0:15:54.219 --> 0:15:56.859 definitely you want to play here and use this home 0:15:56.859 --> 0:16:00.659 court advantage, you know, to your best, you know, to 0:16:00.699 --> 0:16:03.739 your best advantage. So yeah, this this is a tough one. 0:16:03.779 --> 0:16:05.139 But you know, here you go, like you say, you 0:16:05.219 --> 0:16:07.339 got two games coming in, you got an Orlando team 0:16:07.379 --> 0:16:09.179 on the road, you've played well, you've beaten them. 0:16:10.419 --> 0:16:12.979 After that, a bunch of big name opponents too. The 0:16:13.059 --> 0:16:15.699 back half of January is a very tough schedule, some 0:16:15.739 --> 0:16:17.779 of them at home, but got to take care of 0:16:17.819 --> 0:16:19.179 business the rest of this wait. 0:16:19.019 --> 0:16:22.139 The Knicks, the Calves, the Wars, thunder Right. 0:16:22.779 --> 0:16:25.099 Gets a couple of times. So yeah, it's a tough 0:16:25.139 --> 0:16:27.339 back half of January. But we'll be back on Wednesday. 0:16:27.379 --> 0:16:28.899 But thank you Tom, I'll be back with more on 0:16:28.899 --> 0:16:31.099 our post game here in the next second. Tom mcguinnis, 0:16:31.459 --> 0:16:34.619 I'm getting comfortable up here postgame. Thanks to Tom for 0:16:35.059 --> 0:16:37.499 joining me here on the Parks Casino postgame show after 0:16:37.539 --> 0:16:40.219 the one oh nine ninety nine loss for the Sixers 0:16:40.259 --> 0:16:44.019 to the Suns. The records are now Philadelphia fourteen and twenty, 0:16:44.459 --> 0:16:49.739 Phoenix sixteen and eighteen. We will have our game high 0:16:50.299 --> 0:16:52.939 leaders on the box score. We will have our stat 0:16:53.019 --> 0:16:57.379 of the game, the audio highlights still to come, so 0:16:57.499 --> 0:17:02.579 plenty coming up from Philadelphia here postgame, and we'll be 0:17:02.659 --> 0:17:05.339 right back on the seventy six Ers Postgame Show, which 0:17:05.379 --> 0:17:07.259 is of course presented by Parks Casino. 0:17:07.979 --> 0:17:11.499 Thank you were listening to the Sixers Radio Network presented 0:17:11.539 --> 0:17:13.379 by Jackpot City Casino. 0:17:14.379 --> 0:17:17.659 Sixers off a six game road trip in which they 0:17:17.699 --> 0:17:22.219 went four and two that ended in Brooklyn on Saturday 0:17:22.739 --> 0:17:26.139 with a near thirty point win their home for three 0:17:26.179 --> 0:17:30.459 straight games this week, five of their next six, but 0:17:30.579 --> 0:17:34.899 they were without Joel Embiid tonight against the Phoenix Suns 0:17:35.979 --> 0:17:39.179 in their first home game back. It was exactly two 0:17:39.259 --> 0:17:44.139 weeks to the date since they beat the San Antonio 0:17:44.219 --> 0:17:48.099 Spurs here on December twenty third, so Embiid joined a 0:17:48.179 --> 0:17:55.299 long list of inactives five regular players for the Sixers 0:17:55.419 --> 0:17:58.699 out tonight against Phoenix. Matt Murphy here with our Parks 0:17:58.699 --> 0:18:01.219 Casino postgame show, and in this segment, we're going to 0:18:01.299 --> 0:18:04.819 jump right into our audio highlights of how this game 0:18:05.259 --> 0:18:08.579 went down from start to finish. Here is how it sounded, 0:18:09.139 --> 0:18:11.979 as called by Tom McGinnis. The seventy six Ers and 0:18:12.019 --> 0:18:16.499 the Suns in Philadelphia. The Sixers in the white Spectrum 0:18:16.579 --> 0:18:20.339 uniforms the City Edition uniforms presented by Crypto dot Com 0:18:20.379 --> 0:18:22.659 on a spirit of seventy six night presented by Crypto 0:18:22.699 --> 0:18:27.339 dot Com, the Suns were in purple. The inactive list 0:18:27.659 --> 0:18:33.939 no longer included Kelly Oubre Junior, who rejoined the lineup, 0:18:34.139 --> 0:18:37.779 but among joining embiid it was Joel unbeat out with 0:18:37.779 --> 0:18:40.379 a left foot sprain. He's also listed with the right 0:18:40.459 --> 0:18:43.939 sinus fracture from the Indiana game, but Kyle Lowry out 0:18:43.939 --> 0:18:49.499 tonight hip injury. Andre Drummond was a last minute scratch 0:18:49.899 --> 0:18:52.179 for the toe sprain that he's been in and out 0:18:52.179 --> 0:18:54.339 of the lineup seemingly every other game at this point, 0:18:55.619 --> 0:18:59.139 as well as Jared McCain and kJ Martin who remain out. 0:18:59.939 --> 0:19:02.619 So the Sixers started their twenty first different starting lineup, 0:19:02.619 --> 0:19:05.259 the most in the NBA this year, Maxie Ubra, Paul George, 0:19:05.339 --> 0:19:09.659 Caleb Martin, and Gershan Yabucele. Philadelphia Eagles rookie Cooper dejen 0:19:10.379 --> 0:19:13.859 was the bell ringer and the Sixers going up against 0:19:13.859 --> 0:19:16.379 the Suns team that bench Bradley Beal in his fifty 0:19:16.379 --> 0:19:18.979 million dollar contract. They started the game ten to three 0:19:19.019 --> 0:19:21.819 to force a timeout, and later in the first they 0:19:21.819 --> 0:19:24.939 would stretch it to their largest lead, with Tyrese Maxi 0:19:25.019 --> 0:19:27.899 teeing up another early three for an even bigger first 0:19:27.979 --> 0:19:28.699 quarter lead. 0:19:28.899 --> 0:19:33.139 Fourteen to five, sixers, Martin to Maxi. Maxie's got a three. 0:19:33.179 --> 0:19:36.179 He's got one on one coverage with Jones, he said. 0:19:36.259 --> 0:19:39.259 Jabu packing rises deep three up and good. What a 0:19:39.339 --> 0:19:43.899 shot by Maxi. Prinks Rain with a deep three at 0:19:43.939 --> 0:19:46.099 Maxi like Oubre was six. 0:19:46.859 --> 0:19:50.019 Seventeen to five the game after Durant made the first 0:19:50.019 --> 0:19:52.579 basket of the game of three seventeen to two sixers 0:19:52.779 --> 0:19:56.739 run Tyrese Maxi second three of the game. He would 0:19:57.099 --> 0:20:00.699 end the game with six of his fourteen made from 0:20:00.779 --> 0:20:03.699 beyond the arc, so to go up seventeen to five, 0:20:03.779 --> 0:20:06.379 and then first quarter leading twenty one to thirteen. Paul 0:20:06.379 --> 0:20:08.499 George defense leads the offense the steal and. 0:20:08.539 --> 0:20:12.539 The slam boris covered well. Nurkicchigainst A den Bona back 0:20:12.579 --> 0:20:16.499 out top George with a steal, breakaway peg doblay oh 0:20:16.579 --> 0:20:20.419 baby right hand jam right down Broad Street, the pick, 0:20:20.699 --> 0:20:24.659 the runout and the jam. Paul George with his second 0:20:24.699 --> 0:20:28.059 field goal. Sons with the turn sixes by ten. 0:20:29.259 --> 0:20:33.699 Paul George thirteen points, nine rebounds, five assists, and two steals, 0:20:33.939 --> 0:20:36.699 almost thirty eight minutes of work five for eighteen from 0:20:36.699 --> 0:20:39.899 the field, shooting the ball three for nine from three. 0:20:40.019 --> 0:20:43.739 That in a twenty three to thirteen game that they 0:20:43.739 --> 0:20:47.459 were leading. It was twenty three sixteen after the first 0:20:47.579 --> 0:20:52.419 quarter in favor of the sixth second quarter. Kevin Durant 0:20:52.499 --> 0:20:54.979 led the Sons in the first half with with seven points, 0:20:54.979 --> 0:20:57.459 but it was Gershon Yabusele, who started at the five 0:20:57.539 --> 0:21:00.179 for the Sixers with who led all scorers in the 0:21:00.179 --> 0:21:03.699 first half with twelve points, including three threes. 0:21:04.499 --> 0:21:07.899 Georgia Yabaseile Yabasley with another try for three, and it's 0:21:07.939 --> 0:21:14.539 in Gershaan Yaba Sile has attempted six threes. Yabu scores again. 0:21:14.579 --> 0:21:17.739 He's got three may threes. That's what's important. Five points, 0:21:17.779 --> 0:21:18.339 six is leep. 0:21:19.379 --> 0:21:21.539 All of those were in the first half. It was 0:21:21.579 --> 0:21:25.019 forty one thirty six Sixers. He had twelve of his 0:21:25.099 --> 0:21:27.659 fourteen points in the game in the first two quarters. 0:21:27.659 --> 0:21:30.299 He was three for eight all told from three in 0:21:30.379 --> 0:21:32.739 thirty six minutes. He did have a double double with 0:21:32.859 --> 0:21:35.619 ten rebounds to go with the fourteen points. And how 0:21:35.619 --> 0:21:38.179 did it get close after the double digit six Ers lead, Well, 0:21:38.219 --> 0:21:39.739 there was a stretch in the second quarter where the 0:21:39.739 --> 0:21:42.499 Sixers missed seventeen of twenty field goals. Neither team shot 0:21:42.539 --> 0:21:45.179 it well thirty eight percent per side in the in 0:21:45.219 --> 0:21:47.899 the first half. Ubre almost had a first half double 0:21:47.939 --> 0:21:49.379