Speaker 1: This is seventy Sixers rewind time now to listen back
Speaker 1: to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. Joel
Speaker 1: Embide was not just back, he was back to by
Speaker 1: the end of the afternoon, what looked to be his
Speaker 1: old former self, and that is a great self to be.
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer from the center in the aftermath of a
Speaker 1: nice one oh six eighty nine victory for the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers over the Indiana Pacers. Joel Embide the headliner thirty
Speaker 1: three points, twelve rebounds. He had two steals plus sixteen
Speaker 1: in the game, eleven of twenty one from the field.
Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter alone, he had eighteen points and
Speaker 1: was six of six from the floor, missing just one
Speaker 1: of seven free throws opportunity. It's was that good. By
Speaker 1: the end of the day for the two time All Star,
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers earn a great win over the Pacers. They
Speaker 1: move into third place in the Eastern Conference standings, even
Speaker 1: though the Sixers and Pacers are even in terms of
Speaker 1: one loss record at forty two and twenty five. Even
Speaker 1: more significant than that, it's the Sixers have the upper
Speaker 1: hand over Indiana for a tiebreaker should one be necessary
Speaker 1: in about four weeks time, when the regular season comes
Speaker 1: to an end and it's time to sort out playoff
Speaker 1: Seaton and Bead was great. As you heard Brett Brown say,
Speaker 1: or perhaps you did not, he was curious to see
Speaker 1: what Joel Embiid would look like from a fatigue standpoint,
Speaker 1: having not played in a regular season game since February
Speaker 1: the thirteenth against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: There was no question the first two stints Joe had
Speaker 1: in the game, both in the first quarter yield rusty
Speaker 1: trying to knock off some of that rust and find
Speaker 1: his way, find a rhythm, find his groove. In the
Speaker 1: third quarter, from there on out he was pretty much dominant.
Speaker 1: I mean, you retrace the steps of this one when
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers went on a massive run to
Speaker 1: take control of this game. There's a bunch of different
Speaker 1: ways you could cut that run up. The one that
Speaker 1: will use here for our postgame show purposes is going
Speaker 1: to be a twenty seven to eight stretched from the
Speaker 1: let's say minute mark of the third quarter. Joe had
Speaker 1: a big layp during that and that seemed to unlock
Speaker 1: the Sixers, get them going, and then there were small
Speaker 1: things that did by just the mere matter of his
Speaker 1: physical presence being out there affecting things on the defensive end,
Speaker 1: making life more difficult for the Pacers. I mean, you
Speaker 1: look down the stat sheet for Indiana, Thaddius Young three
Speaker 1: of ten, Miles Turner two of seven, Demanta Sabonis one
Speaker 1: of seven. Those are the top three big men essentially
Speaker 1: for Indiana. And when they put up unefficient numbers, I
Speaker 1: should say inefficient numbers like that, and Joel Embiid happens
Speaker 1: to be back in the line for the Philadelphia seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: it would be a stretch to say that that was
Speaker 1: just a coincidence. Ebid physically imposing and in twenty eight
Speaker 1: minutes puts up a great stat line, getting the free
Speaker 1: throw line going eleven of fifteen overall, looked like his
Speaker 1: old self, and that was a great thing for a
Speaker 1: Sixers team that is trying to intensify and increase its
Speaker 1: push into postseason play. Ben Simmons plus nineteen over all.
Speaker 1: He had fifteen points, six assists, and four rebounds in
Speaker 1: the game. Mike Scott eight points, six rebounds. He was
Speaker 1: a plus twenty in twenty five minutes. Good stuff from
Speaker 1: him four of eight from the field, and he also
Speaker 1: had sixteen points from Tobias Harris to go with eight
Speaker 1: boards and four dimes. Jimmy Butler with twelve points, four
Speaker 1: rebounds and four assists. We're gonna ring Tom McGinnis now
Speaker 1: after the seventy six ers one oh six eighty nine victory.
Speaker 1: Actually I beg your pardon. Let us go to the
Speaker 1: man known as Joe, who's at the postgame press conference
Speaker 1: putting as the game kept going, Uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: just kept getting better again to the law up, the
Speaker 1: law too so and the game slow that slowing down
Speaker 1: from me. But my focus was really defensively just by
Speaker 1: the way we've been playing and the way we were playing.
Speaker 1: So I fell had to. You know, I don't think
Speaker 1: I had the block shots it did, but just being
Speaker 1: all over the players, helping my teammates, and uh, I'm
Speaker 1: glad we got to win. Bred said before the game
Speaker 1: that you played five on five yesterday for about seventy
Speaker 1: five minutes. What did that tell you about where you were?
Speaker 1: You know, did it give an indication that you could
Speaker 1: play as much as you did today and be sharp
Speaker 1: as you were? Uh? Yesterday basically told me that I
Speaker 1: wasn't ready because yesterday after every game, I was on
Speaker 1: the floor crime for my life. Uh Uh, So I
Speaker 1: didn't think I was gonna come in and uh, you
Speaker 1: know play uh the whole, the whole, the goal of
Speaker 1: it this game was basically he thought I could only
Speaker 1: played twenty four minutes and depending on my conditioning. And
Speaker 1: I told him I was, let's just go with the
Speaker 1: flow of the game. Man, I'm glad we gotta we
Speaker 1: got a chance to west me at the end. The
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks been like for you watching fred sidelines,
Speaker 1: you know from back home, he's been hard because you
Speaker 1: want to be out there and uh for for the
Speaker 1: people that I know me, Uh, you know, I hate
Speaker 1: uh now playing. I always want to play, and I
Speaker 1: always pushed to play. Uh. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, you know, got to trust all these guys
Speaker 1: and um we we've all done a great job as
Speaker 1: far as getting me back on the court, taking a
Speaker 1: wider push. And I'm sure at some point, uh in
Speaker 1: these last fitting games, I'm gonna miss a game, just
Speaker 1: like make sure that I'm good to go for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But they've been doing a great job from the coaching style,
Speaker 1: to the medical staff, to the fun office, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he walked out with it well and I
Speaker 1: feel better. One of the things seventy six Ers two
Speaker 1: time All Star joelling me thirty three points twelve rebounds
Speaker 1: in the win this afternoon over Indiana, one of six
Speaker 1: eighty nine. He was pretty awesome time, especially as game
Speaker 1: went on right and again, like so he played seventy
Speaker 1: five minutes of pickup and then he plays in an
Speaker 1: NBA game the night. If he's fine tomorrow, that's a
Speaker 1: really good sign for the Sixers because you'd think there'd
Speaker 1: be some soreness there if in fact, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know anything, but if a guy's been out for
Speaker 1: eight games and two plus week with left knee ten
Speaker 1: the nightis that would be a huge sign for the
Speaker 1: Sixers if he's rarer to go for Tuesday, and you
Speaker 1: would think he would be. But I'm just saying understandable.
Speaker 1: So yeah, And like Brett Brown said, I said it
Speaker 1: during the course of the game. If you watched the game,
Speaker 1: you could tell he did. He got better as the
Speaker 1: game went along, and Brett Brown kept saying balance, you know,
Speaker 1: I was putting in a different way. He was falling
Speaker 1: down and whatnot. He was all over the place, but
Speaker 1: that is amazing to get better after a shaky start.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had a lot of rebounds early, but
Speaker 1: a lot of those were taps off field goals he
Speaker 1: missed and you get credit for a rebound for that.
Speaker 1: And then he was fantastic that one play on the
Speaker 1: left wing by the Pacers bend where out of a
Speaker 1: time out he crosses over Miles Turner and gets in
Speaker 1: the half court from that angle basically like a breakaway dunk.
Speaker 1: That was so impressive, and that's where the skill set
Speaker 1: of this guy is just off the charts. He was
Speaker 1: really dominant as the game went along, and that's that's
Speaker 1: why he's an exceptional that's why he's a unique talent.
Speaker 1: And so for the Sixers it was huge. And guess what,
Speaker 1: they don't win this game without him because they struggled mightily,
Speaker 1: particularly in that second quarter, and then they turned the
Speaker 1: tables in part because of India's presence. But as Brett
Speaker 1: Brown said, they just got better defensively, didn't change anything,
Speaker 1: that's what he's talking about, No skim schematic alterations. They
Speaker 1: just played better defense, ran them off on line and
Speaker 1: Indiana had a tough, tough goal of it. And let's
Speaker 1: be honest too, and I mentioned throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the game there were a lot of fouls and a
Speaker 1: lot of fouls for both team, but they're big guys,
Speaker 1: Sabonus and Turner got a lot of foul calls against
Speaker 1: them and that got them out of rida. Bonus actually
Speaker 1: played probably more than Turner in the game, and look bright,
Speaker 1: Turner twenty seven point He was really good. Now from
Speaker 1: what I gather in that game against Milwaukee, they kind
Speaker 1: of let him shoot some long range shots out front
Speaker 1: and he ended up with twenty seven points as a result.
Speaker 1: But he was really and Matthews was not a factor
Speaker 1: in this game. So they had a lot of things
Speaker 1: that didn't go their way. But the Sixers took this
Speaker 1: game by control and never let up after that really aggressive,
Speaker 1: dominant third quarter and be thirty three points, twelve rebounds
Speaker 1: in this one. And one of the things we talked
Speaker 1: about Tom before the game was seventy six Ers defense,
Speaker 1: it's going to have to get to a different level
Speaker 1: for this to go well in the playoffs. And you
Speaker 1: would think you would presume, and yeah, what we saw
Speaker 1: in the second half that was locking in. That was
Speaker 1: a team that looked like it was loaded for bear
Speaker 1: Dan up doing things well, and they really just made
Speaker 1: life pretty difficult from Dan right, and difficult can take
Speaker 1: different forms. But if you're in a post team and
Speaker 1: you're you're first of all, a team like that puts
Speaker 1: its imprint that, like the Sixers have always said, make
Speaker 1: them feel you, and that means you know, getting afford,
Speaker 1: stepping up defensively, and it alters what you're trying to
Speaker 1: do on offense. In other words, if it's Collinson with
Speaker 1: a dribble drive or Wes Matthews coming off a screen
Speaker 1: and they're right there greeting you with physicality and not
Speaker 1: letting things get through them, and there's there's help. They're
Speaker 1: sliding over and everybody's rotating well, and then you got
Speaker 1: to be back in the middle. Altering what a guy
Speaker 1: might do on a drive or pulling up too soon
Speaker 1: and then running people off the line. It comes in
Speaker 1: a lot of forms. Including his coach, Brown talked about
Speaker 1: deflections and really disrupting their offense and they did it
Speaker 1: on multiple levels. And that's right, and you aren't. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna win because he looked at this low score,
Speaker 1: I mean one six to eighty nine. The Sixers average
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen. The Pacers this is one of
Speaker 1: their lowest scoring games of the year. And that's when
Speaker 1: it's going to take you. You know, you got a
Speaker 1: knuckle down and defend because the possessions down stretch are
Speaker 1: just huge. And there was that long stretch where the
Speaker 1: Sixers it was a two point lead and they finally
Speaker 1: were able to open it up and extend it to
Speaker 1: double digit and win. Going away seventy Sixers over the
Speaker 1: Pacers one oh six eighty nine. They get the tiebreaker
Speaker 1: and the season series. Last thing I'll leave you on
Speaker 1: tom We got a shout out Amir Johnson. Right. The
Speaker 1: man got in probably a little bit after two thirty
Speaker 1: three in the morning yesterday. That's just when the team
Speaker 1: got back from Houston, Texas found the game on Friday.
Speaker 1: Plays in the G League for the Blue Coats for
Speaker 1: about twenty some minutes. I thought he gave pretty good relief,
Speaker 1: finished with seven rebounds for on the offensive glass. He
Speaker 1: helped hold the fourth down when Joel was either buying
Speaker 1: time to get rhythm or it was just simply taking
Speaker 1: a breather. No it's it's it's quite a story. He
Speaker 1: had some turnovers here in this game, but you know,
Speaker 1: come on, the mire was the odd man out throughout
Speaker 1: much of this season after playing quite a bit last year,
Speaker 1: and is able to start earlier this week a couple
Speaker 1: of times and steps up and contributes and you know,
Speaker 1: it's one thing to buy time and play with well
Speaker 1: on the bench, but it's a whole nother thing you're
Speaker 1: expected to perform, and he was able to do that.
Speaker 1: He got on the glass and you know, he takes
Speaker 1: and makes open shots. He had a three he missed.
Speaker 1: But it's a story, really, and that's why you bring
Speaker 1: in a guy like Amir Johnson. And again, people might
Speaker 1: only look at the numbers and you know, like why
Speaker 1: is this guy on the team. There could be this
Speaker 1: guy or that guy, But when you're around the team
Speaker 1: and you're around a guy like that, he has really
Speaker 1: a tremendous leadership quality and he's been a terrific veteran
Speaker 1: for this group, and he proved it again with his
Speaker 1: play in today's game. Alredy Tom talked to you on
Speaker 1: Tuesday when the seventy sixers are back at it against
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers. You gotta thank you Sixers a key
Speaker 1: victory with playoff implications over the Pacers one oh six
Speaker 1: eighty nine. The Big Fellow was huge. We'll hear some
Speaker 1: of the highlights involving him coming up as we close
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Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers back at home after a tough two
Speaker 1: game road trip to end last week, and also Joel
Speaker 1: Embiide returning to the lineup for the first time since
Speaker 1: the All Star Game break. Both of those things very good,
Speaker 1: and as we hit the highlights from today's game. It
Speaker 1: was just regardless of what it made the score. Good
Speaker 1: to hear about this development. Here's Joel cut off by
Speaker 1: Boydanovitch a turn but dot for long. He goes Colm
Speaker 1: all right and bench it in and beats first bucket back,
Speaker 1: making it a four to two seventy sixers lead. But
Speaker 1: this one figured, given how close the seventy sixers and
Speaker 1: Pacers were in the standings, to be a tough battle
Speaker 1: from the outset, and it was early on in the
Speaker 1: first quarter. First quarter had six ties seven lead changes,
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers in front by just a point twenty six
Speaker 1: twenty five after twelve minutes of play, and it was
Speaker 1: the Pacers that set tone start quarter number two. The
Speaker 1: seventy sixers turning to another all start to try and
Speaker 1: get some momentum back. Here's a drive by Ben. It
Speaker 1: gets right to the cup and lays it in Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons right down Broad Street with a right hand layup.
Speaker 1: Sixers battle back as they pulled it to within six
Speaker 1: thirty nine thirty three, with the Pacers not too long
Speaker 1: after that would open up a double figure advantage. In
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers played a bit of catchup. They went
Speaker 1: on a nice little spurt to get back within three
Speaker 1: points in the closing minutes in the first half. Indiana
Speaker 1: responded shortly thereafter. They got it up to a fifty nine,
Speaker 1: a fifty one lead going into the third quarter, and
Speaker 1: that was when things started to turn around. There was
Speaker 1: one layup that Joel Embiad had that gave the Sixers
Speaker 1: a particular boost, and from there they just started to
Speaker 1: run with it. Matthews at the arc and beat goes
Speaker 1: out passes in the lane and picked off by seven
Speaker 1: Sixers going left the right, Ben sevens out to JJ
Speaker 1: to catch the shot. The tree hold that by J. J.
Speaker 1: Reddick his third trey, and the Sixers have put up
Speaker 1: the three sixty three to sixty. The Sixers kept coming.
Speaker 1: They would close the third quarter on a fantastic spurt.
Speaker 1: Twenty one to eight was what they outscored the Pacers
Speaker 1: down the stretch of the third quarter. As a result,
Speaker 1: they led a large seventy two to well large eventually
Speaker 1: seventy two to seventy going into the fourth, and Joel
Speaker 1: Embad helped the Sixers get things going not too long
Speaker 1: after that. In the fourth Jimmy Butler with his screen
Speaker 1: by Joel jumps at, throws at Joe, I beat down
Speaker 1: low and duns it as bonus. Well done if beat
Speaker 1: down low left good feat by Jimmy and Joel with
Speaker 1: a slam dunk jeep and going seventy four seventy was
Speaker 1: the score at that point. Joel Embiid had his best
Speaker 1: stretch the final frame. Here's t j with it up
Speaker 1: top to Joel. He's gonna fake a three some Botis
Speaker 1: gets into the air, Joel goes around that puts it
Speaker 1: in and a foul and it beat extendes her and
Speaker 1: tells the crowd. Let me hear you. What he actually
Speaker 1: told the crowd was I am back. That's what you
Speaker 1: could read his lips he said on that particular play.
Speaker 1: And indeed, by the end of the afternoon, and sure
Speaker 1: as heck looked like at the seventy Sixers with a
Speaker 1: great opportunity on the outside to keep Indiana at arm's
Speaker 1: length in the final minutes. So Botus that throws it
Speaker 1: away a mirror with a steel Mike Scott with a
Speaker 1: Scott to the corner, Enis for three good. James Edis
Speaker 1: puts it in and the Sixers lead ninety two seventy
Speaker 1: seven time out Indiana with six minutes ago. We'll give
Speaker 1: you one more Joel and beat. Highlight from what was
Speaker 1: a really encouraging first game back today against Indiana, big
Speaker 1: possession for the Sixers, juela beat outside, leaf crosses overturners
Speaker 1: gets fine and dump said, whoa, what a play might
Speaker 1: it be? By far and away, it's best play in
Speaker 1: the game. Fluid motion, wicked crossover drives at duncton. I'm
Speaker 1: a left wig on turner Duel now with twenty six
Speaker 1: might have been one of Duel's best plays of the season,
Speaker 1: especially given the fact that he'd missed almost a full month.
Speaker 1: And Bead powers the seventy six ers to a one
Speaker 1: oh six eighty nine win. And amazing, just like that,
Speaker 1: you get your best player back, one of the best
Speaker 1: highest impact players in the league, and incredibly, you look
Speaker 1: what happens, You play a lot better basketball, and you
Speaker 1: beat a very good team to pick up a very
Speaker 1: important win. All right, Sixers shoot forty three and a
Speaker 1: half percent for the game, the Pacers thirty seven a
Speaker 1: half percent, six or seven or twenty three from outside
Speaker 1: the arc. Indiana was five or sixteen, six or twenty
Speaker 1: three or thirty from the stripe Indiana costly twenty two
Speaker 1: of thirty seven him is fifteen free throw opportunities, and
Speaker 1: that certainly was something that loomed large when the Pacers
Speaker 1: went ice cold in the second half. Sixers outrebound in
Speaker 1: Indiana by eight by one of the offensive glass, Sixers
Speaker 1: just thirteen turnovers fourteen for Indiana. Joel Embiad, with the
Speaker 1: game high thirty three points, also had a game high
Speaker 1: twelve rebounds, and he really made life difficult for front
Speaker 1: court players from the Pacers, guys like Fatties Young three
Speaker 1: of ten overall, Demantes Sabonis one of seven, Miles Turner
Speaker 1: two of seven. Certainly that had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with Joel Embiad being out there. Ben Simmons with fifteen points,
Speaker 1: four rebounds, six assists, sixteen points, eight boards. For Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris he had four dimes. Two Jimmy Butler with twelve points,
Speaker 1: four rebounds, four assists off the bench, Mike Scott with
Speaker 1: eight points. He was a plus twenty in twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: He also had six rebounds, two assists and two steals
Speaker 1: for the seventy sixers in a nice win over the Pacers.
Speaker 1: These two teams finished with the same record after the
Speaker 1: game forty two and twenty five. But it's the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers that now jump into third place because they win
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker, beating Indiana in the season series three games
Speaker 1: to what big Thanks to everyone VOLM today's broadcast Carlinmalali
Speaker 1: and Brian McLaughlin back in the studio, Marty Dickerson the
Speaker 1: man on site here now for the radio voice the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers, Tom Againnis Brian Seltzer saying so long
Speaker 1: for now one final time. The final score it was
Speaker 1: the seventy six Ers one oh six and the Pacers
Speaker 1: eighty nine. Have a great rest of your Sunday from
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