Speaker 1: Years, perhaps even within a few months down the road.
Speaker 1: This will be an experienced no doubt that members of
Speaker 1: these seventy Sixers remember the franchises first ever regular season
Speaker 1: game played outside of North America. But the final outcome
Speaker 1: stinging for the Sixers tonight here in London one fourteen,
Speaker 1: one oh three, the Celtics with a sixty six point
Speaker 1: second half powering the way past the Sixers. For Boston,
Speaker 1: it was there seventh straight win and their thirty fourth
Speaker 1: NBA best victory on the year, while the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: fall back one game under five hundred or four game
Speaker 1: winning street coming to a halt. There now nineteen and
Speaker 1: twenty on the year. Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com
Speaker 1: with you on the postgame show here from Tom McGinnis
Speaker 1: in a moment, will play back some of his highlight
Speaker 1: calls as well. Typically on the postgame show, we have
Speaker 1: excerpts of Brett Brown's postgame press conference. Because we are
Speaker 1: across the Atlantic Ocean and the setup is a little
Speaker 1: bit different in these parts than a typical NBA arena,
Speaker 1: we do not have the technical capabilities of bringing that
Speaker 1: to you this evening, but Boston with a great second half.
Speaker 1: You saw why their defense leads the league doing what
Speaker 1: it does. They really extended it in the second half,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers did not have as much success shooting
Speaker 1: the ball certainly as they did over the course of
Speaker 1: the first twenty four minutes of action. I mean, at
Speaker 1: one point in the middle of the second quarter, it
Speaker 1: was a twenty two point game forty nine twenty seven
Speaker 1: favoring the Sixers. JJ Reddick got off to a torrid start.
Speaker 1: He knocked down six shots in a row during one
Speaker 1: stretch of the game. Ben Simmons was aggressive getting the rack,
Speaker 1: taking Al Horford head on, but the Sixers could not
Speaker 1: sustain all the good they built up with just about
Speaker 1: halfway through the second quarter to go in the opening half,
Speaker 1: and Boston turned things on in the third quarter. Jason
Speaker 1: Tatum helped them out in a big way. Al Horford,
Speaker 1: who has kept under wraps in the first half, had
Speaker 1: a very strong finish. Marcus Morris always seems to rise
Speaker 1: to the occasion against his hometown team, at least this
Speaker 1: season in Celtics Screen and White and the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: not able to get it done one fourteen to one
Speaker 1: oh three. Welcome back Tom mc Ginnis. At this point
Speaker 1: in time, Tom for the first eighteen minutes of action
Speaker 1: here at the sold out O two Arena, Man, it
Speaker 1: was looking better than good for the seventy Sixers. Reminiscent
Speaker 1: of the last game the Sixers played against the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 1: They just couldn't build off that. We saw why Boston
Speaker 1: is the best team in the Eastern Conference. After halftime,
Speaker 1: our counterpart from the Celtics radio broadcasts, Cedric Maxwell, just
Speaker 1: walked by and goes, wow, you were running him out
Speaker 1: of the gym. Talking about the Sixers up by twenty two.
Speaker 1: Reddick was on fire. Sixers were moving the ball, hitting
Speaker 1: all kinds of shot. Brian, I thought Boston missed a
Speaker 1: lot of shot, easy shots in the first half, and
Speaker 1: I'd like to say it was credited to the Sixers defense,
Speaker 1: but they were They just missed a lot of good
Speaker 1: looks and the Sixers embeed. Although he ended up with
Speaker 1: a double double, I believe he had fifteen attend he
Speaker 1: never really got in rhythm. I thought he was a
Speaker 1: little overanxious. He got like Tyson him. He wanted to
Speaker 1: go right at him because he felt like he would
Speaker 1: could overpower the younger taller German player and got fouls
Speaker 1: and that type of thing. And again they're a very
Speaker 1: solid overall team. Their bench really produced the numbers by
Speaker 1: are smart. Weren't big Rosiard in him a beginning, but
Speaker 1: they produced mightily. Morris was brilliant for them. Jalen Brown,
Speaker 1: I thought, helped to stem the tide with his second
Speaker 1: quarter activity, particularly scoring. He ended up leaving them with
Speaker 1: twenty one and Kyrie although not you know, huge numbers
Speaker 1: like we're accustoming at thirty six and the second matchup
Speaker 1: November thirtieth, he still had twenty or nineteen and he
Speaker 1: would still contributed in a big way. They're playing with confidence.
Speaker 1: They were not going to be bowing down to a
Speaker 1: twenty two point league with half of the second quarter
Speaker 1: in the entire second half to go, and then once
Speaker 1: they gained the league, they ran away with it. And
Speaker 1: they're dominating the Sixers. Let's league, honest. They've they've beaten
Speaker 1: the Sixers three times in a row right now, thirteen
Speaker 1: out of the last fourteen, and I mean the Celtics
Speaker 1: over the course of this season, they had sixteen game
Speaker 1: winning streak. They've won games in so many different shapes
Speaker 1: and sizes. They were not going to be phased by
Speaker 1: falling behind by twenty two. They ended up winning it
Speaker 1: one fourteen, one h three and perhaps not ohso coincidentally enough,
Speaker 1: when the Sixers had that twenty two point league time
Speaker 1: out Celtics, and who comes back on the court after that,
Speaker 1: Well there's Kyrie Irving and Al Horford and some of
Speaker 1: the starters. And Irving, as you said, superficially on the
Speaker 1: stat sheet seven to twenty twenty points. You're like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe pedestrian by his standards, but he really rammed up
Speaker 1: the engine and set the tone going into the half,
Speaker 1: got the deficit down to a manageable point for Boston,
Speaker 1: and he was big in that flurry at the end
Speaker 1: of the first half. Absolutely, as was as I mentioned Brown.
Speaker 1: And the guy we don't talk about, even though you
Speaker 1: just mentioned him, but really don't go into detail, and
Speaker 1: I think he doesn't get maybe the credit he deserves
Speaker 1: overall league wide is Horford. Hornford is the guy who
Speaker 1: really moves that ball in the perimeter, set screens, plays
Speaker 1: pick and pop. It's he's not necessarily their five because
Speaker 1: they're playing Baines at the center spotfended sim yeah, one
Speaker 1: four pick and roll though he's really good, he makes
Speaker 1: the extra pass he is. I mean that's when when
Speaker 1: you talk to people around the Celtics, that's when it
Speaker 1: started to really turned around for balls. And they've bet
Speaker 1: ahead of the Sixers in this trek toward the top
Speaker 1: of the East and clearly you know they're the best
Speaker 1: record last year. I mean, they're way there, Let's be honest,
Speaker 1: They're way another Sixer. They got two wall Stars and
Speaker 1: and al Horpe when they got Horford, and then a
Speaker 1: huge deal by Ange to acquire Kyrie Irving. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're really playing well and the growth of both
Speaker 1: Brown and Tatum has been market and they're they're a
Speaker 1: really good team right now. I gotta tell you they
Speaker 1: may they in Toronto. They may shock Cleveland. It may
Speaker 1: not be the Cleveland Cavaliers playing for the NBA title
Speaker 1: from the Eastern Conference. You mentioned the Toronto Raptors, which
Speaker 1: just happens to be the next team up on the
Speaker 1: schedule for the Sixers. Martin Luther King Day Matinee on Monday.
Speaker 1: They're the second best team right now in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: And I did think the Sixers came out tonight and
Speaker 1: played like this was a business trip. You could tell.
Speaker 1: But now you look ahead and you've got the Raptors,
Speaker 1: the Seltics along road trip at the end of the month,
Speaker 1: So very quickly it's going to be back to business
Speaker 1: stateside for the team. Oh absolutely. And Toronto has had
Speaker 1: the six Ers number. I mean, the Sixers gained that
Speaker 1: victory last year in January at the Center with great
Speaker 1: defense down the stretch on Kyle Lowry by both Joel
Speaker 1: and Robert Covington, memory serves, but they've dominated the overall
Speaker 1: headed head series with the Sixers. In your right, Sixers
Speaker 1: had won four games in a row, but lose this
Speaker 1: one here. Coming back to Toronto, play Toronto, go to Boston,
Speaker 1: later San Antonio, at Oklahoma, at Milwaukee, so it's not
Speaker 1: easy there again, there's no easy path. That might let
Speaker 1: up sometimes when you play certain teams at home. But
Speaker 1: the Sixers have been playing well, but tonight it unraveled
Speaker 1: in a hurry and Boston ended up steamrolling them. Here
Speaker 1: in London. Tom McGinnis had an exceptional call from the
Speaker 1: O two arena. We will hear his highlights coming up, Tom,
Speaker 1: and thank you very much ye experience. Thank you Brian
Speaker 1: great job. Seventy six Ers follow the Boston Celtics here
Speaker 1: at two Arena one fourteen one oh three. One. Final
Speaker 1: segment of our postgame coverage is coming up. On the
Speaker 1: other side, Tom's calls stay with us here on the
Speaker 1: Sixers R seventy Sixers venturing overseas to the British Capitol, London,
Speaker 1: England at the O two Arena for the annual NBA
Speaker 1: London Game, the eighth straight year a regular season game
Speaker 1: in the NBA played at this venue, and the Sixers,
Speaker 1: with a lot of international talent on their roster, facing
Speaker 1: a likely similarly constructed team of the Boston Celtics, which
Speaker 1: just so happened to be a big time rival out
Speaker 1: of the Atlantic Division. Brian Seltzer with you final segment
Speaker 1: of our postgame coverage from here. Devin Gibbons is standing
Speaker 1: by and we'll get to him in just a moment.
Speaker 1: Let's get to Tom McGinnis's highlight calls the Sixers bidding
Speaker 1: for a fifth straight win, Boston going for their seventh
Speaker 1: in row, and JJ Reddick on foreign soil on a
Speaker 1: tear early Hi Red has it pull up from the
Speaker 1: top of the key. Short note, JJ on the run
Speaker 1: Reddick with a rebound Reddick on the boom, Reddick stops Buyer,
Speaker 1: freeball bank. It's good a Sixers with a seven zip lead.
Speaker 1: How to transition? JJ Reddick floats it up and dails
Speaker 1: it the beginning of a stretch in which Reddick snapped
Speaker 1: off the six consecutive made baskets, and he was a
Speaker 1: big reason why the Sixers went into quarter number two
Speaker 1: with some momentum two twenty three twenty one Sixers led
Speaker 1: the entire way. Here's a lot of hooker and a
Speaker 1: nice bead by Reddick and tremmor worker down the outside
Speaker 1: cat just head guides it in all in one motion.
Speaker 1: Here's Kyrie, every buck by bead swatted by Joel and
Speaker 1: here cup d J McConnell. He's one on three. He
Speaker 1: goes out the Reddick and Reddick and type words, shoots
Speaker 1: the pots and put a play by the Sixers didn't
Speaker 1: be with a rejection. You can hear Leather in London
Speaker 1: on one of the sequences of the trip Sixers courtesy
Speaker 1: of that. Going to the second quarter with a twenty
Speaker 1: eight twenty three lead, JJ Reddick, still unconscious, pain shoots
Speaker 1: it in and out. No good. Dara with a rebound
Speaker 1: down Joel Will gather it in McConnell down the fireside
Speaker 1: line to Rhdick JJ for three. Peace again j J.
Speaker 1: Roddick is on fire here in England and the Sixers
Speaker 1: lead thirty six to twenty three. Boston would after that
Speaker 1: score the next four points for the Sixers spun together
Speaker 1: a run to the tune of thirteen straight capped off
Speaker 1: by a Ben Simmons basket, making it forty nine twenty seven,
Speaker 1: twenty two point lead, their largest of the evening. Celtics
Speaker 1: called time out. Kyrie Irving came in after that. He
Speaker 1: got going, but still the Sixers doing good things courtesy
Speaker 1: of Dario Scharich. Ben puts his head down, this time
Speaker 1: outside left right hand dribble powers into the late kick
Speaker 1: out Dario three ball by scharch Is up it good,
Speaker 1: that bang, that's good. Dario scharge for Simmons, Ben with
Speaker 1: his third assists Dario with his first field goal, seventh
Speaker 1: three for the six Ers, twenty one points from three,
Speaker 1: but the Celtics gained ground going into the break. The
Speaker 1: Sixers lead was whittled down to fifty seven forty eight
Speaker 1: at intermission. In the third quarter, Jason Tatum started to
Speaker 1: take over. Joel Ebad was trying to stem the tide.
Speaker 1: Tatum on a right, Kadom middle Nat Tat and puts
Speaker 1: it up no good and Joella beating. They can't there
Speaker 1: about Tatle gets it put Reddick Fox up from behind.
Speaker 1: T J looking for Joella La play bam all are
Speaker 1: you tam Joel pry play by TJ McConnell. With the
Speaker 1: recognition half, the Sixers have cut up to five and
Speaker 1: it was seventy seven to seventy two, six Ers down
Speaker 1: eighty five seventy nine. Going into the fourth. The Celtics
Speaker 1: would pull away, but not before a few more buckets
Speaker 1: from the Pride of Cameroon. R Joella beat with a
Speaker 1: three point shot up and good. The Sixers come out
Speaker 1: of the time out with a field goal and they
Speaker 1: cut the deficits to fourteen one h two eighty eight
Speaker 1: and beat out with thirteen points six and a half.
Speaker 1: They going the game, but it was not to be tonight.
Speaker 1: A big third quarter of the difference for the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: They win this one by eleven. Final notes from the
Speaker 1: final stat sheet. The Sixers shot forty six point three
Speaker 1: percent from the field the Boston Celtics a touch above
Speaker 1: forty eight percent, the Sixers eleven of twenty eight outside
Speaker 1: the arc, Boston thirteen of thirty five six or sixteen
Speaker 1: of eighteen from the line. These Celtics were fifteen of nineteen.
Speaker 1: The rebounding battle a key storyline in this one, as
Speaker 1: the Celtics outdid the Sixers by nine eighteen turnovers for Boston,
Speaker 1: nineteen for the Sixers. The Celtics converted that into twenty
Speaker 1: five points. Individual notes, the game high scoring total belong
Speaker 1: to JJ Reddick eighteen of his twenty two in the
Speaker 1: first half. He was five of nine from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons with sixteen points, two rebounds, three assists. Joellen
Speaker 1: beat his seventeenth double double in thirty games with fifteen
Speaker 1: and ten TJM. McConnell great off the bench with twelve points,
Speaker 1: four rebounds, five assists and three steals for Dario Charch
Speaker 1: fourteen points for him in his NBA European debut, twenty
Speaker 1: for Kyrie Irving, twenty one for Jaylen Brown, thirteen for
Speaker 1: Al Horford came on in the second half, and sixteen
Speaker 1: of Fort Tatum, ten of which came in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Nineteen for Philadelphia's Marcus Morris off the bench. Wouldn't he
Speaker 1: changed In Tonight's game, which took two hours, ten minutes
Speaker 1: to play a sellout crowd of nineteen thousand, seventy eight
Speaker 1: here at the O two Arena. Boston wins at one fourteen,
Speaker 1: one oh three. They're now thirty four and ten, while
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers dropped to nineteen and twenty. Up next
Speaker 1: on the schedule a Martin Luther King Day matinee on
Speaker 1: Monday versus the Toronto Raptors. Coverage of that game beginning
Speaker 1: at twelve fifty back east on the Sixers radio network