Speaker 1: This is the Philadelphia seventy Sixers postgame show. If I
Speaker 1: can look about about Bronch free s hards, is gonna
Speaker 1: turn and get it off Betty rolling the Sixers postgame
Speaker 1: show right now on ninety seven five. The fanetic a
Speaker 1: little bit arrest certainly seeming to do a lot of
Speaker 1: good for the seventies Sixers tonight at Barclays Center one
Speaker 1: twenty to ninety seven over the Brooklyn Nets. Brian Seltzer
Speaker 1: with you from Sixers dot com. We're standing by and
Speaker 1: expecting to hear from the head coach of the winning
Speaker 1: team tonight, and that would be Brett Brown. Thursday's game
Speaker 1: in Miami, in the midst of a real road heavy
Speaker 1: stretch of the seventy sixers schedule. Certainly across the board
Speaker 1: you could see maybe it looked like the team not
Speaker 1: quite as sharp as it typically is. From the outset tonight,
Speaker 1: they were excellent and they carried that tone all the
Speaker 1: way through to the finish for a big twenty three
Speaker 1: point win over Brooklyn. More details on that in a
Speaker 1: moment right now. The head coach, Brett Brown, just to
Speaker 1: hold that team to thirty seven second half points, fourteen
Speaker 1: in the fourth period. They're hard to guard. They're really
Speaker 1: hard to guard, and I think that that excites me
Speaker 1: probably the most. Our second half defense turnovers tonight, you
Speaker 1: guys took care of the basketball and also want to
Speaker 1: brought up you will give them thirty seven points and
Speaker 1: the second I half had to give them sixteen the
Speaker 1: first What was worrying you guys tonight? I mean, just
Speaker 1: trying to improve on the things we know are gonna
Speaker 1: matter if we're fortunate enough to play in postseason. You know,
Speaker 1: we turnovers are always on our mind. We play, you know,
Speaker 1: with the fourth fastest pace or whatever it is. We
Speaker 1: got a young point got a rookie point guard, and
Speaker 1: they come. You just hope to reduce them and hope
Speaker 1: that the the flavor of turnovers reckless passes, you know,
Speaker 1: more than illegal screen so like back stepping out of bounds,
Speaker 1: Like there's different species of turnovers that really are upsetting.
Speaker 1: I thought that we did a better job of not
Speaker 1: like the sloppy passes, and I think that the sting
Speaker 1: and defense and especially the attention that we had to
Speaker 1: give to the three point line um was was good
Speaker 1: for the most part, excellent. At times, I thought we
Speaker 1: were pretty good I give us a B plus. I
Speaker 1: think that like that thing at the start of the
Speaker 1: third period where they, you know, had a little flurry
Speaker 1: of threes and you know you feel it. It's uh,
Speaker 1: anytime we connect the dots of how leads evaporate, it's
Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, you foul too much, you
Speaker 1: turn it over, they go on a three point flurry,
Speaker 1: and so those three areas like when you're holding a lead,
Speaker 1: you're always trying to you know, be aware of and uh.
Speaker 1: I think for the most part, they only got up
Speaker 1: I think twenty eight threes like they've been averaging forty
Speaker 1: and and the lessons. I think February one, a Christmas
Speaker 1: Day or something, you know recent my analytics people tell me,
Speaker 1: but to to just reduce them, let alone get to them. Uh,
Speaker 1: was was our game plan. And I thought, I guys
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job performance. I thought he was dominant,
Speaker 1: you know, like they he's a hard matchup for this team.
Speaker 1: They they opted to go a little bit smaller, a
Speaker 1: little bit more mobile, you know, the young draft pick
Speaker 1: I think plays with high energy sort of reminds me
Speaker 1: of like a you know, New Orleans was for us
Speaker 1: in the first few years. I thought he was extremely aggressive.
Speaker 1: I love when he tries to get deep catches in
Speaker 1: the paint and just you know, find that balance of
Speaker 1: bulling his way into the game. I thought he had
Speaker 1: some big passes out of the post, really sophisticated passes.
Speaker 1: We're always like mindful that he's going to get the
Speaker 1: ball a lot. I think he gets the most NBA
Speaker 1: touches in the in the league at a post, and
Speaker 1: so like, what do you do with it once you
Speaker 1: get it? The combination of him scoring and him passing
Speaker 1: out of the post, I thought he was pretty special tonight. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid was, and indeed were the seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: one twenty to ninety seven over the Brooklyn Nets. So yes,
Speaker 1: the Sixers seem to get their spirit back tonight after
Speaker 1: a tough loss, especially one that got away from them
Speaker 1: Thursday in Miami. Joel Embiid he drew a lot of
Speaker 1: attention from fans and perhaps some medium members as well
Speaker 1: in recent days. Looking a little bit fatigued, he brushed
Speaker 1: off talk of that, so did Brett Brown, both of
Speaker 1: them saying that really it was more of a collective thing,
Speaker 1: and tonight, collectively the Sixers able to see their way
Speaker 1: through to one twenty ninety seven win over the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1: This team with two way spirit from the start of
Speaker 1: tonight's game. They defended terrific. They forced turnovers, eighteen of
Speaker 1: them on the nets while committing just ten themselves, a
Speaker 1: twenty two to nine advantage in points off turnovers that
Speaker 1: a key part of the game. The Sixers were balanced,
Speaker 1: they shared the ball tremendous effort all the way around tonight,
Speaker 1: as eight different Sixers scoring double figures. Joel embiad led
Speaker 1: the way with twenty one points and eight rebounds. T
Speaker 1: J McConnell in each individual category might not have the
Speaker 1: most eye popping nights statistically, but he was exceptional and
Speaker 1: as important as anyone. We'll get into that with Tom
Speaker 1: mcginnison just a moment in terms of the final outcome
Speaker 1: of tonight's game. He really seemed to embody the spirit
Speaker 1: that the Sixers were looking for tonight. Ben Simmons steady
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick two and Robert Covington with a very good
Speaker 1: flash of contributions both in the second and third quarters
Speaker 1: tonight and Dario Scharitch just mister consistent for the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers down the stretch of the season. One seven seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers over the Nets. Tom mc ginnis is next on
Speaker 1: the postgame show on the Sixers Rating Network, seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: and the Brooklyn Nets at Barclay Center for the second
Speaker 1: and final time this season. One twenty ninety seven. The
Speaker 1: score Sixers getting back into the win column. Most importantly,
Speaker 1: they are holding a grip on sixth place in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference standings. With the lost night, they could have
Speaker 1: perhaps slipped behind Miami for seventh place in the East,
Speaker 1: but a very convincing, well rounded effort by the Sixers tonight. Defensively,
Speaker 1: they were stout. They held the Brooklyn Nets to thirty
Speaker 1: eight point eight percent shooting while Brooklyn hit ten three pointers.
Speaker 1: It was more about the volume of threes that Brooklyn
Speaker 1: was not able to put up in tonight's game, and
Speaker 1: they held the Nazis Brett Brown talked about to just
Speaker 1: twenty eight three point attempts. It's a team that entered
Speaker 1: the evening second in the NBA in total three pointers
Speaker 1: made on the year, Sixers commanding in the paint plus
Speaker 1: twenty in points scored there. And they also, as we mentioned,
Speaker 1: did a great job converting turnovers in to scoring opportunities.
Speaker 1: There were some junctions of the game where a couple
Speaker 1: of Brooklyn's more important pieces were able to shake loose.
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell early on the third quarter left his mark.
Speaker 1: He finished with twenty six points. But aside from that,
Speaker 1: Brooklyn just never really able to get going for a
Speaker 1: sustained stretch. Yes, they hung around the Sixers. It was
Speaker 1: a single digit margin pretty much on the way through
Speaker 1: the middle portion of the third quarter. But after that
Speaker 1: the Sixers shifted into high gear. Their bench was so
Speaker 1: productive a total team effort in tonight's one twenty ninety
Speaker 1: seven win. We're gonna step aside real quick. Note we
Speaker 1: have him, we have Tom Againnis he is with us
Speaker 1: up to Brooklyn. We go Tom. A nice effort by
Speaker 1: the Sixers tonight, And this really was what it was
Speaker 1: all about that the players and the head coach were
Speaker 1: talking about the last thirty six hours after that game
Speaker 1: in Miami. Everything seemed to come together. And you could
Speaker 1: also tell quick there's going to be a different type
Speaker 1: of effort from the Sixers tonight. Well, I thought so again.
Speaker 1: I mean I felt that my own self, just to
Speaker 1: be able to get two days you know, you gotta understand,
Speaker 1: you go all the way to Florida and you know,
Speaker 1: like and there's certainly being in South Florida. It's just
Speaker 1: you know, granted it was seven. He said, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about. You're tired. Well, you get tired when
Speaker 1: you're on the road like that, when you're going to
Speaker 1: bed at four o'clock, five o'clock, even when you come
Speaker 1: back from Miami and your home, so be able to
Speaker 1: rest up, restore and get recrupitative in terms of, you know,
Speaker 1: your energy back. And it showed. And I think they
Speaker 1: were disappointed with how they finished that game down there
Speaker 1: and again like and be like Brett Brown said, and
Speaker 1: you commented too, a special unbelievab bull in a lot
Speaker 1: of aspect. But I thought McConnell really gave them the
Speaker 1: jump with those steals and that effort like we're not
Speaker 1: And I think they also must have you know, you
Speaker 1: never in the NBA like there's they don't say there's
Speaker 1: no refrenge games. But I thought for sure the way
Speaker 1: they played, they definitely did not like the way they
Speaker 1: played here and lost here last time. So it was
Speaker 1: it was there was a sense of urgency. That's the
Speaker 1: team we've become accustomed to watching this year for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: and it showed with the result Sixers topple the Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets one twenty two ninety seven. Let's digging h McConnell
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Tonight was vintage TJ. He was
Speaker 1: dialed in on the offensive end, dealing with six assists. Defensively,
Speaker 1: he's just a terror in transition and really so much
Speaker 1: of the damage he does, it seems Tom comes between
Speaker 1: the baseline and the mid court line on inbound opportunities
Speaker 1: for the opposition. It's amazing. Yeah, no sneaky one man press,
Speaker 1: and and then it's just tenacious defense too. He's one
Speaker 1: of those guys that kind of gets after ucanus. Assume
Speaker 1: that you're just gonna walk the ball, and nobody walks
Speaker 1: it across anymore, quite frankly in the NBA, but you know,
Speaker 1: he gets after it. He puts pressure on the basketball,
Speaker 1: and again that type of energy and that effort that's contagious.
Speaker 1: That that's when you see your teammate playing all out
Speaker 1: like that, diving scraping for the basketball, you almost feel
Speaker 1: compelled to play that way too. So he adds a
Speaker 1: lot of spirit and fight for the ball club, something
Speaker 1: they'd become accustomed to. And that's how he is too.
Speaker 1: I mean he's not you know, he's a very likable guy,
Speaker 1: but he's irascible. He's not gonna he's not gonna steady
Speaker 1: a take for you know, the common thing. He gets
Speaker 1: after it a good bit. So he played well and
Speaker 1: as you said, Dario has been so consistent, you know, Ben,
Speaker 1: I thought they did a pretty good job of covering Simmons.
Speaker 1: He had nine shots in the game, but still affected
Speaker 1: it with six boards and six assists. And Covington came back.
Speaker 1: How about that, you know, three points no field goals
Speaker 1: in Miami tonight three three six of ten, four free throws,
Speaker 1: five rebounds, four assists, nineteen points, had a great driving
Speaker 1: play and quite frankly, one of his best all around
Speaker 1: games of late. Sixers dropped the Brooklyn Nets one twenty
Speaker 1: to ninety seven. I think you said a time towards
Speaker 1: the end of the game, how about that or something
Speaker 1: like finally a home game on the horizon for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: and they've got a really key one on Tuesday against
Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers. Pacers taking on the Boston Celtics to
Speaker 1: night and when you know, they beat them at ted
Speaker 1: Garden ninety seven, so that'll set up some stakes for
Speaker 1: the Sixers to possibly climb a little bit higher in
Speaker 1: the standings. But all in all, really nice that after
Speaker 1: tonight's game, there's only one more stretch at the end
Speaker 1: of this month Atlanta and Charlotte where the Sixers play
Speaker 1: more than one game consecutively on the road, and it'll
Speaker 1: be just a pretty modest two game trip. Now, absolutely,
Speaker 1: this has been a wild you know, I mean, you
Speaker 1: look at the schedule and this stretch was crazy, and
Speaker 1: Brett Brown was saying, you know, by the people that
Speaker 1: measure some of those things that this has been the
Speaker 1: most that the Sixers have played, you know, minutes they
Speaker 1: use that load management exactly sure what that means, but
Speaker 1: I could just tell you they've been gone for like
Speaker 1: twelve of the last fourteen days. So to come back
Speaker 1: and play Indiana with rest and like another major head
Speaker 1: to head game, I mean in Miami, you know, the
Speaker 1: Sixers don't have the tiebreaker, they're now just a game
Speaker 1: behind the Sixers. The Sixers with the win here to
Speaker 1: create a game separation. So they're in six Miami and seventh,
Speaker 1: and you know Indiana had with Washington. I felt like
Speaker 1: the last time the Sixers rout in Indianapolis, it was
Speaker 1: part two of a back to back, didn't really have
Speaker 1: the juice. So this shapes up to be a good season.
Speaker 1: And remember, you know, we go all of them back
Speaker 1: to the summer, they trade Paul George. It looks like
Speaker 1: it's going to be a rebuilding year. When you're when
Speaker 1: you're assessing the Eastern Conference, you didn't figure that Indiana
Speaker 1: would be fifth. They're right in the mix. Well they
Speaker 1: are all the Deepo's having a career year, so Bonus
Speaker 1: is playing well that everybody they have is really stepping
Speaker 1: it up. So that shapes up to be a really exciting,
Speaker 1: big time game for the Sixers on Tuesday at the
Speaker 1: Center against the Pacers. Sixers over the nets, one twenty
Speaker 1: to ninety seven. Tom enjoy the train ride back. You
Speaker 1: got it. Thank you Sixers with a welcomed win tonight,
Speaker 1: getting back on track and splitting the four game road
Speaker 1: trip two up, two down. We'll get into some of
Speaker 1: the sounds of tonight's game with Tom's highlight calls. On
Speaker 1: the other side, it's the postgame show and the Sixers
Speaker 1: Rader Network finally the end of a week long four
Speaker 1: game road trip for these seventy sixers. Brian Seltzer with
Speaker 1: you from Sixers dot com. It was a positive outcome
Speaker 1: for the Sixers tonight. We will tell you that much.
Speaker 1: Ask for the details. Here's how tonight's game sounded. The
Speaker 1: one only Tom McGuinness with the radio calls two points
Speaker 1: early for the Brooklyn Nets, the next ten to the
Speaker 1: visiting team. Simmons across mid cord. He's got Dario, but
Speaker 1: he'll keep it. And now back out to a bad
Speaker 1: Joel top of the arc for three and that's good.
Speaker 1: So ten straight points by the Sixers. Joel started the
Speaker 1: game three for three, so did Ben Simmons. Sixers showed
Speaker 1: early they were in a groove and got some of
Speaker 1: that spirit back that they were looking to reclaim after
Speaker 1: going two days without a game on the heels of
Speaker 1: thursdays lost in Miami heat. So some nice energy at
Speaker 1: the outset of the opening quarter tonight. And then also
Speaker 1: that was the case at the end of the first
Speaker 1: Sixers ball Reddick with it two seconds to go, fires
Speaker 1: for three. Day j Reddick come oh, coming in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: He nails at three with point three to go in
Speaker 1: the opening quarter and the Sixers by a dozen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they couldn't miss thirty seven twenty five sixers after twelve
Speaker 1: minutes of play. In the second quarter. Robert Covington, who
Speaker 1: was a little bit off the mark, to say the least,
Speaker 1: Thursday in Miami after big game Tuesday in Charlotte, well
Speaker 1: he was back on again tonight. Over to Covington for three.
Speaker 1: That's good, oh, for ten in Miami, eleven points here
Speaker 1: in the opening half against Brooklyn, Robert Tubby did his
Speaker 1: three for three, and in that stretch in particular, he
Speaker 1: scored eleven out of thirteen points for the Sixers. That
Speaker 1: basket made it fifty four to thirty three, seventy sixers.
Speaker 1: We're up ten, seventy two sixty at the break. This
Speaker 1: was the third time on the road trip, in fact,
Speaker 1: that the Sixers reached seventy points by halftime. That is
Speaker 1: pretty good considering where this team had been in the
Speaker 1: past in terms of its offense. Third quarter, Danzel Russell
Speaker 1: made a couple of baskets in the opening minutes, Brooklyn
Speaker 1: got back to within single digits. They were looking for
Speaker 1: someone or something to stem the tide then get the
Speaker 1: energy back on their side. TJ McConnell was great in
Speaker 1: the first half and he had an all around terrific night.
Speaker 1: As this play demonstrated Holmes and McConnell two man game.
Speaker 1: On the right side. TJ crosses over on count half,
Speaker 1: shoots it from the wake and end slis port McConnell
Speaker 1: at the Sixers pitch. It is celebrating as they should have.
Speaker 1: Sixers were backup eighteen ninety to seventy two. They led
Speaker 1: by thirteen did the Sixers going into the fourth ninety
Speaker 1: six eighty three. Not too long after that, the Sixers
Speaker 1: lead would be in the twenties for the rest of
Speaker 1: the night. Tend to shoot to beat guarded by DeAngelo
Speaker 1: Russell outside right, and they switched. He passes the Covey
Speaker 1: duty drives at Ardheadscoop is good. Robert Comington primy nominal
Speaker 1: nineteen points, Robert Covington a balanced Knight himself. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: a balanced night all the way around. Final notes from
Speaker 1: the final stat sheet in this evening's game. These second
Speaker 1: and final stop the Sixers make on the year at
Speaker 1: Barclay Center. Sixers fifty two and a half percent from
Speaker 1: the field. Brooklyn held to thirty eight point eight percent
Speaker 1: shooting defense, defense, defense. It's obviously a calling card the
Speaker 1: Sixers hang their hat on. They also wanted to get
Speaker 1: back to doing good things defensively tonight, and that's one
Speaker 1: statistic that would indicate that they did. Sixers nine to
Speaker 1: twenty six from outside the arc. Brooklyn was twenty eight.
Speaker 1: But as we talked about, this was more about quantity
Speaker 1: of opportunities from the outside in terms of what Brooklyn
Speaker 1: had and based on what they do on a game
Speaker 1: in game out basis, tonight not quite up to the
Speaker 1: same volume of three pointers that that takes, so a
Speaker 1: success for the Sixers in that department. Sixers outrebounded the
Speaker 1: Nets by six overall in the game. They really picked
Speaker 1: up their efforts on the glass in the second half.
Speaker 1: All around, a very good game. From the turnover standpoint
Speaker 1: for the Sixers, they only committed ten while forcing Brooklyn
Speaker 1: into eighteen. As a result, the Sixers finished with a
Speaker 1: twenty two to nine advantage in points off of turnovers.
Speaker 1: Some individual notes. Joel Embiid back to his very dominant
Speaker 1: form tonight twenty one points, eight rebounds, three assists, a
Speaker 1: block shot. Sixers were plus nineteen with him on the
Speaker 1: floor for only twenty six minutes, so he came. He saw,
Speaker 1: he conquered in a very brief period of time, nine
Speaker 1: of seventeen from the field for embiid Robert Covington with
Speaker 1: nineteen points. He scored six field goals, half of which
Speaker 1: were from the inside and half of which were from
Speaker 1: the outside of the arc. He was also four to
Speaker 1: six from the free throw line, five rebounds, four assists,
Speaker 1: two block shots in a steel He was plus thirteen
Speaker 1: for the game. Dario charts with eighteen points, six bounds,
Speaker 1: and three assists plus two block shots twelve for JJ Reddick.
Speaker 1: He had a nice first half. Ben Simmons steady with
Speaker 1: eleven points, six boards six times. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: the bench. Tremendous tonight, beginning with t J McConnell five
Speaker 1: of nine for him ten points, six assists, four rebounds
Speaker 1: and four steals. He was tenacious in transition defensively in particular,
Speaker 1: he was plus sixteen in the game, thirty nine bench
Speaker 1: points for the Sixers. That's really good. Marco Belinelli with
Speaker 1: thirteen six of ten from the field. Erson Iliasova a
Speaker 1: double double with eleven points and thirteen rebounds plus three steals.
Speaker 1: Job well done by Erson Iliasova. Tonight, seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: with the win improved to thirty six and twenty nine
Speaker 1: to now one and one on the year versus Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Brooklyn drops the twenty one and forty six on the season,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers with the victory, they remain in the hunts. Well.
Speaker 1: They're obviously in the hunt, but still very much within
Speaker 1: striking distance of the Indiana Pacers Indie winning tonight at
Speaker 1: Boston ninety nine to ninety seven. They'll be at the
Speaker 1: Center on Tuesday. Going into today, two games separated the
Speaker 1: Sixers and the Pacers in the standings for fourth place,
Speaker 1: which is occupied by Indie, arguably one of the most
Speaker 1: surprising teams in the NBA this season. That'll be a
Speaker 1: key game Tuesday night at the Center at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Pregame coverage on some of our Sixers radio network affiliates
Speaker 1: begin at six fifty. Big thanks to everyone involved tonight's broadcast.
Speaker 1: Alan Yates, Jay Gray back at the studio and after
Speaker 1: the radio voice of the seventy six Ers Tom mc
Speaker 1: ginnis Brian Selzer sang so long for now one final time.
Speaker 1: The final score seventy six Ers one twenty Brooklyn Nets
Speaker 1: ninety seven of a great rest or Sunday night from
Speaker 1: all of us here at the Sixers Radio Network. Following
Speaker 1: the Sixers win, Tom mcguinnis had a chance to catch
Speaker 1: up with one of the players afterwards, joining us courtside
Speaker 1: been Tom mcguinnis, thank you we're up here, was like, congratulations,
Speaker 1: great all around play. I thought TJ McConnell really helped
Speaker 1: your bench very efficient up and donald line up in
Speaker 1: a nice win here in Brooklyn for you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we needed this one, um, to get back on track.
Speaker 1: I think everybody really played well. Uh. T just stepped up,
Speaker 1: UM and we played solid game overall. It seemed like
Speaker 1: two days of rest was really what the doctorate order
Speaker 1: before you guys got out here against the nes right.
Speaker 1: I think so maybe, uh maybe it's a you know,
Speaker 1: I new winning strategy, but um, I think we've been
Speaker 1: really lucking in and focusing in the film room. Now
Speaker 1: you come back and you start some of the home games.
Speaker 1: You'll be back here against the Nix later in the week.
Speaker 1: But you got Indiana who beat Boston tonight, and it
Speaker 1: shapes up to be a good one. Tuesday definitely definitely.
Speaker 1: You gotta get back to feeling and prepared for that.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough game, um, but you know
Speaker 1: we're definitely ready for it. Last up, but your folks
Speaker 1: are here. I saw your brother here. What's it like
Speaker 1: to have your family coming on the road to watch
Speaker 1: you so often? It's awesome. It's funny because you know,
Speaker 1: my dad's right there, my grandpa, my uncle, and my
Speaker 1: mom and I got a few friends here. So it's
Speaker 1: just good having my family out here and I want
Speaker 1: to have that support. Great, Happy for you. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Ben apprecid, Congratulations Ben Simmons, our guest court side sexust
Speaker 1: Win one twenty to ninety seven and back with more
Speaker 1: postgame coverage after this on the seventy six Ers Radio
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