Speaker 1: He's the Philadelphia seventy Sixers postgame show. It beat swats
Speaker 1: it on the glass and sevens plump damn beat Brosen
Speaker 1: down over to JJ three ball. It's good running crop
Speaker 1: to the Sixers postgame show right now on ninty seven
Speaker 1: five the Fanatic seventy Sixers hang on to go perfect
Speaker 1: on the two game homestand one sixteen one fifteen over
Speaker 1: the Lando Magic. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot
Speaker 1: Com here at the center. Let's join Brett Brown in
Speaker 1: progress and markl was a part of that and then
Speaker 1: TJ coming back in. That was part of my plan
Speaker 1: for that reason. Explain the JJ reddishaw. Was that a
Speaker 1: play John for Jjay three? I mean we live out
Speaker 1: of a look, you guys that sort of see us
Speaker 1: play a lot. There's probably you know, four to six
Speaker 1: things we do out of a set, and and we
Speaker 1: we when it gets down to crunch time and it's
Speaker 1: time to you know, try to get a bucket and
Speaker 1: try time to execute. We live in a world and
Speaker 1: we have for a while and it came out of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, JJ Reddick was our bell ringer tonight. I
Speaker 1: thought Joel was exceptional as well, but he uh, we
Speaker 1: needed every bit of jj Reddick tonight to find a
Speaker 1: way to get out of this building with a win.
Speaker 1: There's a normal coach. In the second quarter, I think
Speaker 1: Joel had just hit his twenty was that twenty one
Speaker 1: points and I looked over you kind of had to
Speaker 1: smirk on your face. It was almost like it almost
Speaker 1: looked like a you know, fairy is going again. What
Speaker 1: was going through in your mind? I think I remember
Speaker 1: the play you're talking about. Um, you know, when when
Speaker 1: Ben goes out, you realize and that that that you're
Speaker 1: gonna need some help from some place else. And the
Speaker 1: first place you go in my mind is Joel. You know, like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna need maybe more minutes more. Um, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to get him the ball more. You know, we
Speaker 1: knew JJ was gonna have to come in and take
Speaker 1: up some of that slack. And when you see Joel
Speaker 1: just just just that confident in playing with that type
Speaker 1: of spirit, you get excited. I think one of the
Speaker 1: things that's has stood out for us as coaches when
Speaker 1: you when you you drill down and you actually like
Speaker 1: watch the game and can look at it and rewind
Speaker 1: it and like study it and so on. We're blown
Speaker 1: away at how good he has been defensively, especially in
Speaker 1: regards to not taking plays off. It's hard to do
Speaker 1: that when you're a high minute guy, a big volume guy,
Speaker 1: minute volume guy. He plays, he really competes. And Uh,
Speaker 1: that play that you're talking about, as I remember it,
Speaker 1: those types of things, uh come to my mind. I
Speaker 1: guess Mark probably, Um, you know it's a bit premature,
Speaker 1: but on first glance, probably probably. And Uh, I we
Speaker 1: have off tomorrow, that would be a fine. We have
Speaker 1: off tomorrow, and we're back at eleven o'clock on Monday,
Speaker 1: and it's an appropriate day for us to have off.
Speaker 1: We get a big stuff coming up, as we all know,
Speaker 1: and we'll learn more about Ben, I think after treatment
Speaker 1: tonight and seeing how he responds in the morning. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers head coach Brett Brown saying before we ended up
Speaker 1: carrying that portion of the press conference, he was asked
Speaker 1: right off the bat about Ben simmons injury back tightness.
Speaker 1: Simmons left in the first quarter did not return. This
Speaker 1: is Brett Brown's quote, I don't believe it's serious, before
Speaker 1: adding I'm just giving my opinion without any information from
Speaker 1: the team. Doctors. There could be an update later on tonight,
Speaker 1: but the seventy Sixers beat the Orlando Magic one sixteen
Speaker 1: one fifteen game that featured a lot of swings. The
Speaker 1: Magic led by as many as sixteen points, the Sixers
Speaker 1: came back to lead by thirteen points. All of that
Speaker 1: was in the first half, and then things really tightened
Speaker 1: up in the third quarter, when the Magic out scored
Speaker 1: the Sixers by eight. The Sixers just enough to get
Speaker 1: by staving off the Magic. There was that Terrence Ross. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the forty footer if you were listening from just beneath
Speaker 1: the timeline was ridiculous and you're thinking, oh gosh, could
Speaker 1: this like it could really be that kind of night.
Speaker 1: It gave the Magic one twelve one ten lead with
Speaker 1: forty seconds left, But it proved to be the night
Speaker 1: that belonged to JJ Reddick and Joel Embiid, the two
Speaker 1: of those players combining for sixty three, more than half
Speaker 1: of the seventy sixers point total. Reddick with thirty one
Speaker 1: matching as high as a sixer, his eight three pointers
Speaker 1: matching as high as a sixer as well, second highest
Speaker 1: three point total in his career. Joel Embiad his second
Speaker 1: straight thirty two and ten game for the second time
Speaker 1: in his career. He was really brilliant, especially in the
Speaker 1: second quarter. I thought it was Reddick who got the
Speaker 1: Sixers jump started back in the swing of things after
Speaker 1: they fell behind by sixteen early on the first quarter,
Speaker 1: and he trimmed the deficit to two going into the second,
Speaker 1: and then from there Joel Embiad took over. At one
Speaker 1: point he scored thirteen straight for the seventy Sixers, had
Speaker 1: seventeen points in the second frame, and reached twenty one
Speaker 1: points by halftime. Just dominant stuff from Joel Embiid, And
Speaker 1: as Tom pointed out very fittingly, it was Ebid who
Speaker 1: flipped the ball to Reddick on the wing for that
Speaker 1: three point shot on the move that put the Sixers
Speaker 1: in front by the score of one sixteen to one
Speaker 1: fourteen with seventeen seconds to go, and that would prove
Speaker 1: to be enough. Sixers get the job done. They go
Speaker 1: perfect on the home stand. There now about five hundred
Speaker 1: and two and one on the year, one sixteen or
Speaker 1: one fifteen, your final Sixers win. At the center, Tom
Speaker 1: McGinnis is coming up and play some of his highlights
Speaker 1: as well. It's the postgame show here on the Sixers
Speaker 1: Rated Network ninety seven five, The Fanatic seventy Sixers Edge
Speaker 1: the Orlando Magic one sixteen one fifteen. Brian Seltzer with
Speaker 1: you from Sixers dot Com down here at the center,
Speaker 1: rejoined by the man who always calls a good one.
Speaker 1: This one was a victory tonight. After that Terence Ross
Speaker 1: three point or time, it was not feeling good for
Speaker 1: the Sixers at one twelve, one ten with about forty
Speaker 1: seconds to go, but JJ Reddick had one more triple
Speaker 1: left in him. He and Joel Embid were a fantastic
Speaker 1: now that was well guarded on that fire left perimeter
Speaker 1: and they were really not letting Reddick get any airspace whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But Joel got it. JJ flared a little bit to
Speaker 1: that left wing, got free online and poured it in.
Speaker 1: And it was exciting the way that the whole crowd
Speaker 1: here in the lower bowl, over twenty thousand, three hundred
Speaker 1: fans on in total, were up in anticipation and then
Speaker 1: reacted to that. That's what live you know, basketball in
Speaker 1: this setting is all about. That was really exciting, and
Speaker 1: you know, coming in you would have thought, oh, the
Speaker 1: Sixers just shought to be an easy one. That's just
Speaker 1: not the way it always works. And in other words,
Speaker 1: Orlando really wanted to play better after how they played
Speaker 1: at home last night, and guess what, from their perspective,
Speaker 1: they feel like they let this game slip away. Steve
Speaker 1: Clifford was livid after the game and for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: as Joel Embiid was able to explain to us, they
Speaker 1: felt like it was a little too close down the stretch,
Speaker 1: but really exciting and in the end it's a win
Speaker 1: and they got some tremendous performances. I thought without Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys needed to step up. They did.
Speaker 1: Daria was rugged, consistent and solid. Mere Johnson brought a
Speaker 1: lot of energy. Marquel was okay in the game, not great,
Speaker 1: but certainly did a lot of good things. And b
Speaker 1: was really terrific, particularly with three threes in the first half.
Speaker 1: He made six consecutive field goals in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: leading to a thirteen or run of thirteen straight points
Speaker 1: for him. So all at all, an exciting night and
Speaker 1: a scintillating one point victory for the Sixers. Seventeen three
Speaker 1: points for the seventy Sixers, matching a franchise record one
Speaker 1: sixteen one fifteen. You said this at one point during
Speaker 1: the game, and I thought it was a great point.
Speaker 1: You know what, maybe the style points weren't necessarily there tonight,
Speaker 1: but like part of this whole thing with eighty two
Speaker 1: games is there's gonna be nights when you don't have
Speaker 1: your full compliment and your complete arsenal players, and you
Speaker 1: still expecting, when you're a team like the Sixers level
Speaker 1: to get the job done. And they ended up doing that,
Speaker 1: and they relied on a lot of different players to
Speaker 1: do that. Dario had his moments. The stats may not
Speaker 1: suggest that if you just looked at the box score,
Speaker 1: but it was nice to see him kind of get
Speaker 1: into a little bit of a rhythm, right absolutely. I
Speaker 1: thought early on he kind of was looking for that
Speaker 1: three ball and oftentimes a line drive three point shooter.
Speaker 1: Tonight he added some mark he got too early, and
Speaker 1: that's where like sometimes Folks is passing up shots, but
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's swinging the ball to corners and
Speaker 1: Dario got some looks and he's just he's so physical,
Speaker 1: and Dario makes some play sometimes that where he had
Speaker 1: a tremendous defensive play on Gordon Initially, I believe I
Speaker 1: called it a block. In other words, he blocked a shot,
Speaker 1: but it looked like he just was able to body
Speaker 1: up Aaron Gordon and Gordon lost it on the key possession.
Speaker 1: And say the last three minutes of the game, there
Speaker 1: was another instance down there where looked like Dario kind
Speaker 1: of intertwined his arm into Gordon. It kind of both
Speaker 1: went down. It looked like it could have been a foul,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers got the ball. I mean, Sharritz is
Speaker 1: a winning player and he does a lot of things
Speaker 1: that add up for your ball club, and tonight he
Speaker 1: was part of the success. There's so much great that
Speaker 1: Joel Embi does, impressive dunks like the one he had
Speaker 1: over Nick Vussevic. In the second half. We saw some
Speaker 1: great moves obviously on Obamba. The luxury to have a
Speaker 1: guy that size step back and in some jumpers, whether
Speaker 1: at the elbow or three. But how about someone who
Speaker 1: in the guts of the game, you can go to
Speaker 1: the free throw line and make his shots and then
Speaker 1: have the awareness to recognize when to get the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is something he's been working on, but
Speaker 1: just get the ball out of his hand like Reddick.
Speaker 1: I mean those were two things. Free throws late and
Speaker 1: then that just finding Reddick that was so big in
Speaker 1: this minute. Absolutely that, And the one constant is his
Speaker 1: defensive presence. It's like, for example, you know before Orlando
Speaker 1: with four seconds ago, they brought it inside and Joel's
Speaker 1: in there. And the Sixers did a great job after
Speaker 1: the Aaron Gordon miss on the free throw of freeing
Speaker 1: up the rebound and ended up being a jump all
Speaker 1: situation with Covington and Vussovitch and they won that and
Speaker 1: that led to that side at a bounce player that
Speaker 1: ended up concluding the game. But no, you're right, and
Speaker 1: bead is really showing that he is a versatile and
Speaker 1: the Sixers needed offense from him early on and he
Speaker 1: delivered there. But I'll tell you, Aaron Gordon, as brilliant
Speaker 1: as he is, he's had a career. He had a
Speaker 1: forty one point game last year. He was terrific at
Speaker 1: times here tonight. But there was a late situation where
Speaker 1: the Sixers were in a switch and t J. McConnell
Speaker 1: was on Gordon and he backs him down and you're thinking,
Speaker 1: for the Sixers, boy, this is not bode Well and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he passes it when he was
Speaker 1: just three or four feet from the basket, and he
Speaker 1: has six or seven inches on TJ. And certainly with
Speaker 1: that extraordinary leaping ability, you thought he would go up
Speaker 1: and at least get a close range bank shot. But
Speaker 1: he passed it in traffic. That cost them, And then
Speaker 1: you know they had a tremendous performance by Fortier. But
Speaker 1: you know Orlando for them, now they go to Boston.
Speaker 1: They've had a tough opening start here in Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: then with the Celtics. But for the Sixers now two
Speaker 1: tough road games at Detroit, they're a lot better. They
Speaker 1: had Blake Griffin now from training camp on and then
Speaker 1: to Milwaukee and Milwaukee's got I think it'll be a
Speaker 1: lot better with Mike Budenholzer this year. They got to
Speaker 1: win in their opener at Fiser for him yesterday. That's
Speaker 1: a late night start national TV before the Sixers come
Speaker 1: back here to take a red hot Charlotte team in
Speaker 1: Kimba Walker on Saturday at seven thirty, Tom talked to
Speaker 1: you from Motown. Thank you, Brian, good night, Sixers over
Speaker 1: the magic the three ball, Big JJ Reddick to Ellen
Speaker 1: beat Big One sixteen one fifteen, the final score, final
Speaker 1: segment coming up with Tom McGinnis's calls. Next, it's the
Speaker 1: postgame showing the Sixers Rating Network ninety seven five, the
Speaker 1: Fanatic Sixers, and the Orlando Magic. Second and final game
Speaker 1: of this brief home stand for the Sixers before setting
Speaker 1: out on the road for their first back to back
Speaker 1: early next week. Brian Selt with you from Sixers dot com.
Speaker 1: Let's hit the hard news before we get to the highlights.
Speaker 1: And the hard news is what's going on with Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: Brett Brown telling reporters in his postgame press conference, if
Speaker 1: you're just joining us, I don't believe it's serious. He's
Speaker 1: referring to the back tightness that four Simmons out of
Speaker 1: the game in the first quarter. But then Brown added,
Speaker 1: I'm just giving my opinion without any information from the doctors.
Speaker 1: An official word is expected at some point either later
Speaker 1: this evening or tomorrow. So that is the word that
Speaker 1: we got from Brett Brown about Ben Simmons back. But
Speaker 1: the Sixers able to get past Orlando anyway. And here
Speaker 1: is how it happened. Early on the Magic, they got
Speaker 1: off to a great start. They only scored ten points
Speaker 1: in the first quarter last night at home against Charlotte,
Speaker 1: only five baskets, but they were a different team, jumping
Speaker 1: out to a sixteen point twenty six to ten lead
Speaker 1: by the five minute fifteen second mark. Sixers got going
Speaker 1: thanks for JJ Reddick. Here's JJ for three and it's
Speaker 1: good Reddick, but I will go all over him and
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick with two threes in a row for the
Speaker 1: Sixers that cut their margin to five. Magic, we're up
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty five. Sixers trail by just two thirty
Speaker 1: two thirty going into the second thanks to another JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick three, and what do you know? That theme repeated
Speaker 1: itself once again opening up the second quarter. Here's a
Speaker 1: lob to Joel and he couldn't get it to go.
Speaker 1: Wall comes down to w beat. He's rounded by four
Speaker 1: members of Orlando. Gets it back with ten to shoot
Speaker 1: and he's one on one with Mobama. But I believe
Speaker 1: he used his dribble. Nope, he's double team. He loses it.
Speaker 1: It's loose on the neck. He died for it, and
Speaker 1: beat from his backside throws at the Landry Shammon free ball.
Speaker 1: Not enough far count it. It's tip and now it
Speaker 1: gets back out top the Reddick again, the clock only
Speaker 1: at ten. These makes these here's a long shot by
Speaker 1: Reddick gets good and the Sixers have taken the league.
Speaker 1: Firstly to the game at thirty three to thirty two.
Speaker 1: Joel and Bad then started to take over. Middle of
Speaker 1: quarter number two. He was phenomenal tonight. Foltz again across
Speaker 1: bid court. Here's a b with another three, and that's
Speaker 1: up and good again Joel and beating now three three
Speaker 1: point in field goals and the Sixers lead by eleven
Speaker 1: fifteen to thirty nine. The eleven point margin would hold
Speaker 1: going into the half. The Sixers were up sixty three
Speaker 1: fifty two. Third quarter things started to change a little bit,
Speaker 1: the Orlando magic behind Nick Vussevich. They got into ur
Speaker 1: The Vussevic had a phenomenal triple double game tonight. The
Speaker 1: Sixers were looking to go back to their guy without
Speaker 1: Simmons tonight to help stem the time. Sixes with Joel
Speaker 1: and Bach slabs it on Vusovich, get out of my
Speaker 1: way from the left wing. He never really got separation
Speaker 1: until he got to the rim and he basically says
Speaker 1: the vushch this is where I'm going with it, and
Speaker 1: he throws it down bully ball one oh one. Still
Speaker 1: a ninven point game, eighty two to seventy one, but
Speaker 1: a three point game eighty nine eighty six. The Sixers
Speaker 1: margin trimmed down just like that going into the fourth
Speaker 1: Joel and bed still imposing his will. That was a
Speaker 1: regular thing throughout the night. Eighteen to go six is
Speaker 1: by four with the ball into a Bead, goes around
Speaker 1: Bamba and jams it. So then you talk about defensively
Speaker 1: doing the early work, and that would be positioning. That
Speaker 1: time would be duck in the lane, got on his backside,
Speaker 1: got a great entry feed and dunks the ball. Ninety
Speaker 1: six to ninety was the lead for the Sixers. The
Speaker 1: magic would climb back into it. Terrence Ross had a
Speaker 1: forty foot three pointer with seventy eight seconds to go
Speaker 1: to make it one twelve one ten Orlando. But then
Speaker 1: the Sixers got some free throws from Dario Sharks to
Speaker 1: tie it up. Joel and Bead hit one from the
Speaker 1: line to make it a one point game, and that's
Speaker 1: it up. This would prove to be a decisive play.
Speaker 1: Sixers with twenty seconds to go down by a point,
Speaker 1: Reddick and it beat on a Fireway, JJ fires three ball,
Speaker 1: He's good, he did it. J. J. Reddick parts in
Speaker 1: the three and the Sixers take the naight. Reddick with
Speaker 1: eight triples in the game, Are you kidding Me? One?
Speaker 1: Sixteen one fourteen With seventeen seconds, laf the Magic would
Speaker 1: send Aaron Gordon to the line. He would go one
Speaker 1: for two that made it a one point game. Magic
Speaker 1: would get the ball back on a jump tie up,
Speaker 1: but Terrence Ross his three pointer missed in the final
Speaker 1: seconds and the Sixers get out of dine with a
Speaker 1: dub one sixteen one fifteen Quick look at the final number.
Speaker 1: Six Er shot forty eight percent from the field, Orlando
Speaker 1: forty five and a half Sixers match franchise record with
Speaker 1: seventeen threes, Orlando had sixteen. Sixers were outdone on the
Speaker 1: glass minus three. They kept their turnovers down only ten committed,
Speaker 1: and they also were plus seven in points scored off
Speaker 1: of turnovers. Individual scoring notes Really good games from Evan
Speaker 1: Fortyer thirty one points and Nick Vussovitch for the Magic.
Speaker 1: Voussovich the former Sixer with twenty seven, thirteen and twelve
Speaker 1: for his second career triple double for the Sixers. Joel
Speaker 1: and Bid led the way with thirty two points ten rebounds,
Speaker 1: second time in his career he's had at least thirty
Speaker 1: points and ten rebounds in consecutive games. And then JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick off the bench. He started the second half, but
Speaker 1: he had thirty one points to match his highest total
Speaker 1: in now one plus seasons with the seventy six Ers,
Speaker 1: eight of thirteen from outside the arc. Just tremendous work
Speaker 1: by Ebid and JJ in the game. Mere Johnson good
Speaker 1: off the bench with eight TJ McConnell another good presence
Speaker 1: off the bench as well. He had eight points foists
Speaker 1: and he was a guy who was thrust into extra
Speaker 1: duty tonight in the absence of Simmons Marquel Foltz. He
Speaker 1: had eight points, four of eleven from the field, seven assists,
Speaker 1: just one turnover. It was McConnell who finished out the
Speaker 1: game tonight. Two thousand, I beg a pardon. Two thousand
Speaker 1: was a little bit more than that twenty thousand, three
Speaker 1: hundred sellout crowd at the Center tonight as the Sixers
Speaker 1: improved to two and one, The Orlando Magic are now
Speaker 1: one and two on the season. So the Sixers will
Speaker 1: started back to back on Tuesday. They'll visit the two
Speaker 1: news venues in the NBA on this upcoming road trip.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday night, it's going to be at Detroit against
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin Company from Little Seasons Arena in downtown Motown.
Speaker 1: That's at seven o'clock. And then the Sixers will visit
Speaker 1: Jannis and Acupo and the Bucks on Wednesday for a
Speaker 1: nine thirty Eastern game on ESPN, and that's at Fiser Forum,
Speaker 1: brand new place in downtown Milwaukee. Big thanks to everyone
Speaker 1: involving tonight's broadcast, Carlamuli and Pat Egan at the studio,
Speaker 1: Marti Dickerson here and after the thirty voice the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers, Tom McGinnis Brian Seltzer saying so long for
Speaker 1: now one final time on the final score, seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers one sixteen Orlando Magic one fifteen at the great
Speaker 1: rest of Saturday night, from all of us here the
Speaker 1: Sixers Rating Network. Following the Sixers win, Tom McGinnis had
Speaker 1: a chance to catch up with one of the players afterwards.
Speaker 1: Man to be joining us, Joel. Tom McGinnis, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, congratulations, exciting finish, what a win here tonight,
Speaker 1: Your thoughts in general with this one over the magic.
Speaker 1: We had to lead on to fresh and they came
Speaker 1: back in. You know, we had to get one last
Speaker 1: stop and that's all we did. Then before that last session,
Speaker 1: I told Cup you know he was fast him on defense.
Speaker 1: I was second and up to defensive play off the USA.
Speaker 1: We had to get best stop that we're doing. How
Speaker 1: about that pass that you fed jj Reddick That was
Speaker 1: his eighth three and that ended up being the winning
Speaker 1: play offensively, your thoughts at that end of the floor,
Speaker 1: are you how do you go? Oh? And then I
Speaker 1: just did my job, you know, under pressure, I thought
Speaker 1: I didn't bat me and I did my job, and
Speaker 1: I had to make the Vie pass. And even if
Speaker 1: he didn't have the shot, Uh, we had a continuity
Speaker 1: and then I could have had something. But you know,
Speaker 1: he was hot all games, so I had to feel there, Joel,
Speaker 1: these wins, these battles come in all different forms, and
Speaker 1: this was really an exhilarating, exciting finish for you guys
Speaker 1: here tonight. Right. Yes, Uh, he should have had been
Speaker 1: like that. Uh. I felt like we controled the whole
Speaker 1: game except the Foss quarter, but we got back in
Speaker 1: the game. Then we contold it. So he should have
Speaker 1: never got into this point, but he did, and we
Speaker 1: did our job and we got to win. Now we
Speaker 1: two on one and we on we're two eighty one
Speaker 1: and one. Joe, thank you very much. Congratulations,