Speaker 1: This is seventy Sixers rewind time now to listen back
Speaker 1: to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. Minus
Speaker 1: two fifths of the starting lineup. No Joel Embid, no
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler. Yet, the seventy Sixers hit the road and
Speaker 1: the American Airlines Center in Dallas to take down the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks on a two second game of a short
Speaker 1: three game road trip here towards the end of the season. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: they fall short one twenty two, one O two. Hello all,
Speaker 1: this is the Sixers postgame show right here on the
Speaker 1: Sixers Radio Network. I'm Divine Gibbons with you. Game number
Speaker 1: five games now remaining on the regular season. After this
Speaker 1: game here again against the Dallas Mavericks. As the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers fall and their record now drops to forty nine
Speaker 1: and twenty eight. Dallas Mavericks improved to thirty one and
Speaker 1: forty six after a back to back night for them,
Speaker 1: coming up real strong in the second quarter with forty
Speaker 1: one points and continuating on grabbing hold of the basketball
Speaker 1: game and route to again a twenty point victory over
Speaker 1: the visiting Philadelphia seventy Sixers. As we do head back
Speaker 1: to American Airlines Center and check in with the man
Speaker 1: who called the game live from Dallas, Texas. That will
Speaker 1: be Tom mcguinnis. And Tom like a couple of days
Speaker 1: off since the Saturday went over. The Minnesota Timberwolves looking
Speaker 1: to again regain some of that steam that we thought
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers could and routes to closing the season
Speaker 1: down properly unfortunately fall short with two of their starters
Speaker 1: out tonight. Yeah really so not two days off though,
Speaker 1: on honest, since sarahly just because you know, yesterday travel
Speaker 1: and you get here and you play, sure, and that's
Speaker 1: the rhythm of the schedule. Not to correct, but just
Speaker 1: you know, game day off and that's how it goes
Speaker 1: typically after the All Star break and a lot of
Speaker 1: them have been on the road. And yeah, no, the
Speaker 1: Sixers pretty good start, JJ was on fire, up by five,
Speaker 1: and then things just completely fell flat. And again, like
Speaker 1: my thought coming in is a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: who played well in Dallas when they came in it
Speaker 1: was the second night of a back to back, if
Speaker 1: I recall correctly, when they were in Philadelphia, and their
Speaker 1: reserves showed a lot of spirit and fight and helped
Speaker 1: them back. Even though the Sixers won the game, and
Speaker 1: without Luca and without you know a lot of different
Speaker 1: players including Hardaway and others for Dallas, those guys were
Speaker 1: going to be prominent players in the game. And Powell
Speaker 1: and and Jalen Brunson played well, Dorian Finney Smith, I mean, Kleiber,
Speaker 1: how about sala Mesery had a career night. So those guys,
Speaker 1: they're playing with confidence. And again, these are NBA players,
Speaker 1: and they're giving an opportunity here even though their season
Speaker 1: is winding down. They're they're actually probably not trying to win.
Speaker 1: I mean as an organization, they're probably hoping to get
Speaker 1: to into that mix for the top three and the
Speaker 1: right to make one of those top picks. So but
Speaker 1: not that's not how the players think, you know. And
Speaker 1: there you got to give them credit. They played well,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers just like I said, they fell flat
Speaker 1: and you know in the one quarter. But it was
Speaker 1: such a wide disparity forty one to eighteen. That was
Speaker 1: the game. Absolutely with JJ ready getting things going early on,
Speaker 1: it appeared, as you pointed out, that they would have
Speaker 1: things in their favor. But sliding back to the Dallas
Speaker 1: Maverick side and players getting the best of their opportunity.
Speaker 1: Dennis Smith has moved during the trade deadline. Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 1: of course, the Villanova product. Can you see him out
Speaker 1: there playing eighteen minutes and fifty five seconds tonight, But
Speaker 1: he made the most of it as he started. Since
Speaker 1: Dennis Smith has moved on with thirteen point seven assists
Speaker 1: tonight and just running a very good offense, no turnovers
Speaker 1: and just flowing everything for this basketball team. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Jalen brunts for a little bit, the thirty
Speaker 1: third pick, right, I mean, last year one of the
Speaker 1: best players in college basketball. I mean, did he not
Speaker 1: win Most Outstanding Tournament Player in the well? I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess in the final game it was the young
Speaker 1: guy from from Wilmington, but I mean from Delaware, So yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean, come on, we all watched Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: and it's almost like the Shaun Watson. Isn't that the
Speaker 1: quarterback Houston Texans? Yeah? And then he was with Clemson
Speaker 1: and like good is good? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like sometimes these players and these these personnel types gets
Speaker 1: so wrapped up in size or this, that and the other.
Speaker 1: When if you're you know, and look, Brunson's really good.
Speaker 1: You could be called the other rookie on their team,
Speaker 1: with Luca obviously taking top honors, not unlike maybe Hurder
Speaker 1: down in Atlanta with Trey Young. And he's really good,
Speaker 1: and he's just so effective, and he's not the fastest player,
Speaker 1: but he knows how to play the angles. He's really
Speaker 1: good off the bounce, and he was terrific. He really
Speaker 1: led their offense, even though his numbers weren't, you know, gaudy,
Speaker 1: like thirty points or whatever. He's just a really good player.
Speaker 1: And it just shows you sometimes I think some you know,
Speaker 1: the upside is so the emphasis is on that so
Speaker 1: much with these young players. Well, here's a guy, you
Speaker 1: know who didn't play a long time at Villanova but
Speaker 1: was so effective and is obviously going to be a
Speaker 1: really good pro player. Yeah, three years, two national championships,
Speaker 1: and certainly allowed to be happy about now getting an
Speaker 1: opportunity with the Dallas Mavericks toime again his live from
Speaker 1: the American Airline Center in Dallas, Texas, site of the
Speaker 1: Sixers lost one twenty two one O two in town,
Speaker 1: with the offense being featured, as Brett Brown pointed out
Speaker 1: to you and a lot of the others doing a
Speaker 1: pregame coverage. Tobias Harris with twenty five points ten of nineteen,
Speaker 1: and you got to see him work a lot in
Speaker 1: the isolation in some pick and roll as well. And
Speaker 1: if this is something that we can possibly see going
Speaker 1: forward as the postseason years, with the regular offense that
Speaker 1: they have going on, the Sixers should have something really
Speaker 1: good going for them well. And Harris has that capability.
Speaker 1: He kind of took over the role that the Sixers
Speaker 1: handled with Jimmy Butler at times when they give Butler
Speaker 1: the ball and let him come out top and have it,
Speaker 1: and Harris short more than capable of that. I don't
Speaker 1: know with Jimmy and Joel out there that you would
Speaker 1: do that, but there certainly may be times when it
Speaker 1: would be just a bias with that group out there,
Speaker 1: with Ben and JJ and whatnot. But you know, listen,
Speaker 1: it's hard. I realize the Sixers are arresting Joel and
Speaker 1: trying to make themselves completely ready for the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: and Brett Brown has talked a lot in recent days
Speaker 1: about securing the third spot and getting rest, but it's
Speaker 1: tough when you play with a group and obviously Jimmy
Speaker 1: out with the back here where it come on? The
Speaker 1: Sixers didn't even look that good tonight, and yet you're
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs, is one of the top seeds.
Speaker 1: And I get it. They're a whole different team and
Speaker 1: maybe on Thursday we'll see it and they'll have it
Speaker 1: just like they did against Boston. An incredible performance and
Speaker 1: a really terrific victory. When you think about it, that
Speaker 1: Boston game that literally made the Sixers season. I mean,
Speaker 1: they put themselves in position. But that's the difference right
Speaker 1: now between third and fourth or fifth, and obviously those
Speaker 1: two teams in the end, and Boston struggled, So you know,
Speaker 1: I know, when the Sixers are whole and healthy, it's
Speaker 1: a whole different group. But boy, it's tough. I mean
Speaker 1: to see a performance like this, flat and beaten by
Speaker 1: a Dallas team that has struggled mightily since the All
Speaker 1: Star break and they come in and and really kind
Speaker 1: of blow you out. You know what I'm saying, It's different.
Speaker 1: It's a little unsettling, especially after the game last night
Speaker 1: that they had. Yeah, it's just and I get it,
Speaker 1: but it's like we've said before. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I watched the Warriors the other night, Bang Bay Bang.
Speaker 1: They make threes and they're a nine point games. Tike.
Speaker 1: The Sixers don't have that explosive capability, and that's in
Speaker 1: a given game, but also you know, in a larger sense,
Speaker 1: like over the course, they're just they're just not that
Speaker 1: type of team. And maybe with Juell and Jimmy, everything's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine, and I'm sure it will be, but
Speaker 1: it's tough here. You are, like you say, five games
Speaker 1: to go, and you're seeing performances like this, and again
Speaker 1: it's based on personnel and who's out there, but it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's not it's it's certainly it's not going perfectly in
Speaker 1: that regard. Just for my own personal opinion, it's hard
Speaker 1: to see a game like this, and I thought this
Speaker 1: might be a tough game, but I did not think
Speaker 1: it would be a twenty point defeat. Yeah, certainly would
Speaker 1: like a better performance coming off to Minnesota win and
Speaker 1: a chance to again, as you pointed out, get closer
Speaker 1: to locking down that third seed. But Tom, we'll definitely
Speaker 1: look forward to speaking to you on Wednesday again live
Speaker 1: from Atlanta, where the Hawks just stay pesky against these
Speaker 1: seventy sixers, and I'm sure they'll give them another game
Speaker 1: as the season ends from what is it the State
Speaker 1: Farm Arena? Now it is the State Farm. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: about that? Well, Tom, have a great night and we
Speaker 1: will talk to you again live from Atlanta on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: All right, good night, got a time again. It's live
Speaker 1: from American Airline Center in Dallas, Texas, where the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers dropped there twenty eighth loss of the season one
Speaker 1: twenty two one oh two at the hands of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks with a game high twenty six from JJ Reddick.
Speaker 1: Got really got rolling in the first half with twenty
Speaker 1: one points in the first half for the Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: sixer is only score five and second half four of them.
Speaker 1: But again, as Tom pointed out, things just really got
Speaker 1: out of hand as the second quarter was really big
Speaker 1: with forty one points for the Dallas Mavericks to the eighteen.
Speaker 1: Dallas also had a twenty six to eight run to
Speaker 1: second quarter against the Philadelphia seventy sixers to go up
Speaker 1: eighteen going into the locker room, so that really did
Speaker 1: help the Dallas Mavericks separate themselves from the seventy six
Speaker 1: or twenty five points from Tobias Harris as mentioned, with
Speaker 1: six rebounds as well in his thirty three minutes and
Speaker 1: forty one seconds, which was a team high for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Justin Jackson a solid second half really exploded with twenty
Speaker 1: four points to lead to Dallas Mavericks on seven eighteen,
Speaker 1: seven of eleven shooting from the field, three of six
Speaker 1: from behind a three point line, getting to the free
Speaker 1: throw line eight times, converting seven of those for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks. On the other side, we will continue to
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Speaker 1: six tough one on a road for the Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: Sixes as they fall one twenty two one oh two
Speaker 1: at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks. Hello, all divine
Speaker 1: givens again here on the Sixes postgame Show Live one
Speaker 1: of Sixers Radio Network. As we get to the highlights
Speaker 1: from Dallas. In the first quarter, JJ Reddick really getting
Speaker 1: things gone again. Very good start for JJ Reddick, a
Speaker 1: three pointer and at and one eleven to eight that
Speaker 1: will be for the Dallas Mavericks. But Ben Simmons had
Speaker 1: back to back layups and going strong to the basket.
Speaker 1: Simmons attacking on Jackson, gets a round and goes to
Speaker 1: the basket and lays it up and good. Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: a little awkward there at the end with a sidestep
Speaker 1: of the contact with Justin Jackson, but he gets it.
Speaker 1: He's got four. That was the first leave for Philadelphia
Speaker 1: at twelve eleven after the may basketby Simmons again, then
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson with the four court layup to make it
Speaker 1: sixteen to twelve. Vin Simmons once again pushing the rebound,
Speaker 1: pushing the pace, getting a layup to make it seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick continues his hot shooting in the first quarter
Speaker 1: with another three pointer to make it twenty to sixteen,
Speaker 1: but also not just that. When one to close out
Speaker 1: the quarter for the Philadelphia seventy six ers, just under
Speaker 1: thirty one points per first footer, they're right online and
Speaker 1: obviously if they score here they'll get that number. Or
Speaker 1: Boris Redda choose to three, it does exactly that, knocking
Speaker 1: down his third tray at the opening quarter, six Ers
Speaker 1: by five thirty two twenty seven, almost as if Tom
Speaker 1: McGinnis could see that when coming, JJ Reddick made it
Speaker 1: thirty two twenty seven with his three pointer right there.
Speaker 1: He finished the quarter with twelve points, four or five
Speaker 1: from the field, three or three perfect from behind the
Speaker 1: three point line. The Sixers after one up thirty two
Speaker 1: to twenty seven, and second quarter JJ ready continues his
Speaker 1: hot shooting to make it thirty four thirty one, but
Speaker 1: the Villanova product really got things going for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: Here JJ lost the ball. It goes right to Dorian
Speaker 1: Pinny Smith, the kleeber the Brunson right side three paull
Speaker 1: and that's good. Jaylen Brinson with five in a row
Speaker 1: before that one. That was the layout for Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1: His time again to talk about pushing the fast break,
Speaker 1: getting into the middle of the florid, No one stops him,
Speaker 1: gets the layup, followed by that three point to make
Speaker 1: it sixty to forty eight Dallas. At that point, Dirk Navitsky,
Speaker 1: he just keeps on going it no matter what his
Speaker 1: age is. The man can flat out shoot and here
Speaker 1: is his loan. Three point on the night, No whisky
Speaker 1: around and good. They got it that three seconds to
Speaker 1: go in the first half, sixty eight fifty Brunson to
Speaker 1: Nobiski Dallas by eighteen momentum shot right there for Dirk
Speaker 1: Navinski got the nice bounce. Sixty eight to fifty at
Speaker 1: the break for Dallas at home. They continue to start
Speaker 1: off the third quarter right away as Justin Jackson scores
Speaker 1: things for the Dallas Mavericks to continue to push that lead,
Speaker 1: of course, for the Dallas Mavericks to make it a
Speaker 1: twenty point advantage for Dallas. James Ennis again starting in
Speaker 1: plays four, a resting Jimmy Butler with the back issue
Speaker 1: gets a strong, strong dump Nini to shoot on the reset,
Speaker 1: Harris backing out on Powell to the quarter, Ennis driving
Speaker 1: down in a right hand jab. Nice job by James
Speaker 1: Ennis his loan basket on the night. He finished the
Speaker 1: night with four points, two or four from the free
Speaker 1: throw line, of two from deep, one of six from
Speaker 1: the field in twenty one minutes and forty seven seconds.
Speaker 1: But you know he's gonna give you a lot of energy.
Speaker 1: The athleticism will come into play, and finishes like that
Speaker 1: will certainly help ignite the Philadelphia seventy six is going
Speaker 1: forward to Bias Harris on the night again twenty five
Speaker 1: points and scored a variety of different ways, this one
Speaker 1: from the mid range area. Here's Tobias Harris with a
Speaker 1: pull up on the wing for the Sexers, and that's good.
Speaker 1: He's really helped the Sixers bolst of their offense here
Speaker 1: in the third eighteen total now for Tobias in the game,
Speaker 1: and it's seventy nine sixty six, showing the versatility of
Speaker 1: scoring for the wing man for the seventy Sixes. That
Speaker 1: made it seventy nine sixty six. Dallas at the end
Speaker 1: of three up again by twenty points, where the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks ninety seven seventy seven and really JJ Redick makes
Speaker 1: it one hundred and ninety two with a three point
Speaker 1: for Philadelphia. As things started to really pull away for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks and Brett Brown decided to rest his
Speaker 1: guys with Dorian Finny Finny Smith puts a capital on
Speaker 1: the night Doctor McConnell baseline right, pulled up seventeen footer
Speaker 1: for the window going who would they get a run
Speaker 1: out of here? Dorian Funny Smith a right hand throw
Speaker 1: down one o nine eighty seven. After that basket by
Speaker 1: the wing player out of Florida, one twenty two one
Speaker 1: oh two is the final on the night Dallas wins,
Speaker 1: making their record now thirty one and forty six good
Speaker 1: wins for them back to back as again the season
Speaker 1: comes to a close for them in the NBA in
Speaker 1: the Western Conference. In the Philadelphia seventy Sixers with five
Speaker 1: more games to go, one more on this short three
Speaker 1: game road trip in Atlanta on Wednesday, taking on those
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks who have two wins already over Philadelphia, led
Speaker 1: by former seventy sixers assistant coach Lloyd Pierce, doing a
Speaker 1: nice job with that young Atlanta Hawks team. They will
Speaker 1: be ready for the Sixers on Wednesday. They do play tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but you know they'll get up for a game against
Speaker 1: Philadelphia after having the success that they in fact have had.
Speaker 1: T J McConnell led the bench unit with fifteen points
Speaker 1: on seventeen seven of ten shooting, three rebounds, one assists
Speaker 1: in sixteen minutes and fifty seven seconds. Mike Scott not
Speaker 1: you struggle a little bit tonight from the field overall,
Speaker 1: one of five shooting or four from deep. Did add
Speaker 1: seven rebounds to go along with this four points in
Speaker 1: twenty two minutes and fifty one seconds. Bobam Arianivis thirteen
Speaker 1: sixteen of run one or four from the floor for
Speaker 1: his five points. Zaire Smith getting a little bit of
Speaker 1: action tonight to Texas native nine minutes and forty five seconds.
Speaker 1: Only one shot a temp a layup opportunity at the basket,
Speaker 1: but he was going so fast when he received the
Speaker 1: basketball from t J McConnell, kind of lost his balance
Speaker 1: trying to get the shot up. But good to see
Speaker 1: him out there in an extended role, if you will.
Speaker 1: Four seventy to seventy six ers and seeing if we
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to get a glance at him in
Speaker 1: these next few games, just from time to time to
Speaker 1: see where Brett Brown may like to see him. Overall,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons with seventeen points, seven rebounds, five assists, five
Speaker 1: or fifteen from the field, seven of eleven from the
Speaker 1: free throw line in thirty one minutes and thirty one seconds,
Speaker 1: three block shots, five assists. As we pointed out, three
Speaker 1: turnovers on the night for the second year All Star
Speaker 1: point guard Joona Bolden starting in place of a resting
Speaker 1: load management Joe ellenbid career night against Minnesota tough one
Speaker 1: in the second run for him on this road trip,
Speaker 1: one of six from the field, missed every shot from
Speaker 1: the three point area O four for the rookie big
Speaker 1: man for his two points, seven rebounds and close to
Speaker 1: thirty minutes of run on the evening. Again, seventy six
Speaker 1: or twelve turnovers on the night, not a huge number,
Speaker 1: but they did give up eighteen points off of those
Speaker 1: Missqes struggled from deep six of thirty three from the
Speaker 1: field for eighteen percent on the night for Philadelphia, got
Speaker 1: to the free throw line thirty two times, converting twenty
Speaker 1: four four. They're seventy five percent thirty six of ninety
Speaker 1: three struggling from the field on this night, thirty eight
Speaker 1: point seven percent to the forty six point nine percent
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Mavericks, who also made six more three
Speaker 1: pointers than the Philadelphia seventy six Ers on this night.
Speaker 1: So hopefully they can bounce back and get a victory
Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday. That is a seven
Speaker 1: thirty tip live from State Farm Arena in Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: you can hear that, of course right here on the
Speaker 1: Sixers Radio Network with McGinnis on the call. Special thanks too,
Speaker 1: called Namole for engineering the game here back at the
Speaker 1: ninety seventy five the Fanatic Studios, the flagship station of
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia seventy Sixers Radio Network, and Brian McLachlin for
Speaker 1: the audio highlights on the evening. So for Brian Seltzer
Speaker 1: and Tom McGinnis, Called Namole, Brian McLachlin, I'm Divine givens.
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