Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Tough
Speaker 1: one for the seventy Sixers tonight under adverse circumstances in Orlando,
Speaker 1: losing to the Magic one twelve nineties seven. I'm Brian Seltzer.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers out scored thirty two to fifteen in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and that was indeed the ball game. Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson finishing with a team high nineteen points. He scored
Speaker 1: eleven points in a third quarter that was a real
Speaker 1: bright spot and promising point of the game for the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers. They went on a twelve nothing run to
Speaker 1: take an eight point lead, which would be a game high,
Speaker 1: but from there the Magic managed to trim the deficit
Speaker 1: to two points eighty two eighty going into the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and that was part of what would end up being
Speaker 1: a twenty two to seven run mounted by the Magic
Speaker 1: that turned the game in their favor. One twelve ninety
Speaker 1: seven the final scored. The seventy Sixers are now seven
Speaker 1: and four on the season. They have lost their last
Speaker 1: four on the road. They play at Oklahoma City on
Speaker 1: Friday night before heading to Cleveland on Sunday, And yeah,
Speaker 1: not ideal circumstances in the least for the seventy Sixers.
Speaker 1: It was the second night of a back to back
Speaker 1: on the road after having a grind out a game,
Speaker 1: a one point win last night at the Center against
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cavaliers. And this next factor is something that
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis and I talked about before the game started.
Speaker 1: Continuity is really tough for the Sixers right now. You
Speaker 1: have to go back eight games to find a time
Speaker 1: when the seventy sixers talking about the home game against
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves, when the seventy Sixers had their projected
Speaker 1: opening night starting five available, the full complement of players
Speaker 1: available for the entirety of a game. The last now
Speaker 1: seven games, the seventy Sixers have been missing someone important
Speaker 1: from that starting lineup, whether it's a Joel Embiid or
Speaker 1: a Ben Simmons or Al Horford who rested last night,
Speaker 1: one of the starters an all star no less has
Speaker 1: been out of the starting lineup in each of the
Speaker 1: last now seven games for the seventy Sixers. Sixers take
Speaker 1: one on the chin tonight to one, twelve to ninety seven.
Speaker 1: We bring in Tom mcguinnis, who had the call from
Speaker 1: Amway Center of this evening. Tom, what did you see
Speaker 1: down the stretch of that one, especially in the fourth quarter, Well,
Speaker 1: the Sixers just lost energy and Orlando, you know, they
Speaker 1: found their rhythm on offense. So, like I was saying
Speaker 1: in the third, as you say, the Sixers built up
Speaker 1: at eight point lead, you could almost see the badgic
Speaker 1: kind of you know, when you've seen enough basketball, you
Speaker 1: can see the nonverbal cues, like the signs, their body language.
Speaker 1: They were shooting them, but you almost could see they
Speaker 1: weren't confident strokes, whereas in that stretch where Orlando turned
Speaker 1: things around with a twelve three start to the fourth,
Speaker 1: very confident and that would be Fortyer and Terrence Ross
Speaker 1: knocking down back to back threes and the Sixers were
Speaker 1: coming down. They were inefficient on offense with turnovers, miss shots,
Speaker 1: not a lot of movement, not a lot of action
Speaker 1: toward the basket, Difficult shooting stretches there for both Harris
Speaker 1: and Horford. I thought Josh Richardson did the best that
Speaker 1: he could. Ben thrown out of his little rhythm a
Speaker 1: little bit by the four fouls and the game turned
Speaker 1: in a span of like six or four or five
Speaker 1: minutes right there, the game turned and the Sixers looked
Speaker 1: like they were going to come up with an impressive
Speaker 1: road victory, but Orlando's got things have flipped around and
Speaker 1: they came away with the victory. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think the back to back, I think it was a factor,
Speaker 1: and certainly no one bed as well, but that's how
Speaker 1: it goes. I mean, these other teams travel and play
Speaker 1: back to back as well, and the Sixers just did
Speaker 1: not back it up. Sort of speak with that tight
Speaker 1: win last night and come back here and have the
Speaker 1: ability to finish off this game in Orlando for most
Speaker 1: of the night, a competitive game, thirteen lead changes and
Speaker 1: seven ties, but the seventy Sixers see Orlando pull away
Speaker 1: down the stretch for a one twelve ninety seven win,
Speaker 1: thought Josh richardson, Tom, like you said, played a pretty
Speaker 1: good game. But on a macro, I think the response
Speaker 1: that Brett Brown had in his postgame press conference about
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris is really something that the entire team should internalize.
Speaker 1: Like Brett didn't hesitate when he was asked about Tobias
Speaker 1: and the two game stretch that Tobias is in right now.
Speaker 1: I was just like, you know it, as far as
Speaker 1: the SHOT's concerned, you keep firing and keep plugging away.
Speaker 1: And I think right now that's kind of the mentality
Speaker 1: that the whole team has to take. They're trying to
Speaker 1: get continuity. It's still relatively early in the season and
Speaker 1: the schedules has done them no favors well. And according
Speaker 1: to you know, coach and relative to Harris, he was
Speaker 1: saying that before the game yesterday where to buy, he's
Speaker 1: trying to develop him as a as a big time scorer.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been around an eighteen twenty point scorer
Speaker 1: his whole career, but in that it's not just threes,
Speaker 1: but it's being aggressive and finding what's there. But again,
Speaker 1: it turns out, like I know, the line of questioning
Speaker 1: prior to the game with coach was about to Bias,
Speaker 1: about him ready to go, and about was he one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, So you kind of got the sense that
Speaker 1: he was a little bit under the weather. And for
Speaker 1: much of the day yesterday, the Sixers head coach Brett
Speaker 1: Brown did not the way I understood it, did not
Speaker 1: did not think that the Bias was going to play
Speaker 1: and then Harris City was okay. So now knowing that
Speaker 1: he was less than one hundred percent physically, a little
Speaker 1: bit apparently a little bit under the weather, well we
Speaker 1: all know what that feels like. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: ailing him or whatever, but shooting NBA three point shots
Speaker 1: certainly not you know, the best scenario. And he struggled.
Speaker 1: He was over eleven last night. Tonight he was all
Speaker 1: of three, and not only that, but you need to
Speaker 1: have like the scores mentality where you just to coach
Speaker 1: his point. You just put it behind you and you
Speaker 1: keep firing, and hopefully a couple of days rest as
Speaker 1: he gets you know, gets ready for Friday, he'll feel
Speaker 1: better and have a better night shooting the basketball. But
Speaker 1: that that's a scores mentalities. You miss, no problem, you
Speaker 1: you know, just totally blank out about that and go forward.
Speaker 1: You know, the only caveat there is when you miss,
Speaker 1: you want to throw in you know maybe why you
Speaker 1: miss so and might need more lived Obviously, if you
Speaker 1: miss it this way or that way, you try to
Speaker 1: counter it, to try to correct it. But it just
Speaker 1: didn't look like he had his legs over the last
Speaker 1: two games, and that's what happens if you're ailing and
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent physically. I would agree with that entirely.
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers fallen Orlando tonight to open their three
Speaker 1: game road trip one twelve ninety seven. Tom, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're so into the NBA. I know that you
Speaker 1: love it. Are you intrigued to see what this OKAC
Speaker 1: team is all about? There off to a little bit
Speaker 1: of a slow start, but there was a complete makeover
Speaker 1: with Westbrook and George departing the offseason, and now they've
Speaker 1: got Chris Paul who's playing and seemingly healthy and a
Speaker 1: young nucleus. They're trying to rebuild now in the absence
Speaker 1: of those two stars who left. No. Absolutely, it's like
Speaker 1: it's Clippers Southwest, you know. I know Chris Paul had
Speaker 1: been with the Rockets, but with Shay Jill, just Alexander
Speaker 1: and Demido Golnari, I mean, they're doing I think better
Speaker 1: than maybe some teams would have thought. And the Sixers
Speaker 1: had that great I believe they won out there last
Speaker 1: year and been in such a difficult place to play
Speaker 1: with Russell Westbrook, and you know, every team goes through
Speaker 1: the phases where they kind of have to retweak their
Speaker 1: roster and they've done a really nice job, so it
Speaker 1: should be good. I mean, you want the Sixers to
Speaker 1: get through this stretch of losing now with his four
Speaker 1: road games and then you got a rematch with Cleveland.
Speaker 1: So as you said, the Sixers have not had the
Speaker 1: continuity that they've want in terms of having everybody in
Speaker 1: the line of Hopefully that'll be the case on Friday
Speaker 1: night and you get rested and you get out there
Speaker 1: and you get things going a little bit against the
Speaker 1: thunder Already, Tom Easy travels onto Oklahoma City. We will
Speaker 1: speak with you before the game on Friday. Thank you, Brian,
Speaker 1: and goodnight. Seventy Sixers lose at Amoy Center to the
Speaker 1: Orlando Magic one twelve ninety seven. Some of Tom's radio
Speaker 1: calls are coming up. Seventy Sixers back out on the
Speaker 1: road again, a night after pulling out a one point
Speaker 1: victory at the Center in South Philadelphia, facing the Orlando
Speaker 1: Magic at Amway Center. I'm Brian Seltzer. Here is how
Speaker 1: the game sounded, courtesy of the one and only Tom McGinnis.
Speaker 1: Sixers started with some good energy and Ben Simmons was
Speaker 1: a big reason why. High screen by Simmons takes it
Speaker 1: into the lane, lopped it down to Simmons at Ben
Speaker 1: guides it up with the right hand, folds off with Swick,
Speaker 1: ended up with Simmons at a nifty pass by Richardson
Speaker 1: and Ben Simmons needed just to tap it in right
Speaker 1: at the cylinder. Seventy Sixers would trail by a point
Speaker 1: thirty one thirty going into the second quarter. That competitive
Speaker 1: theme continued as we headed towards the half. Simmons was
Speaker 1: six and now it's Ross misshelling the ball. Simmons got
Speaker 1: a hand out a Harris picks it up, bombs it
Speaker 1: back to bed, head, back to back field goes by
Speaker 1: Simmons at the rib time out let no. Despite attempting
Speaker 1: just one free throw and making it in the entire
Speaker 1: first half, the seventy Sixers managed to go into the
Speaker 1: break tied at fifty three with the magic also again
Speaker 1: on the second night of it, back to back without
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. Third quarter was the brightest spot of the
Speaker 1: knife to the Sixers. Josh Richardson had going on in
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers on a nice little run to jump
Speaker 1: in front. Wow. Mark el Foltz missed that three by
Speaker 1: a lot. Cork Boss, on the other hand, puts a
Speaker 1: head he swishes. At three, had the seventy Sixers lead
Speaker 1: sixty seven sixty three, fur Con corkbas with his first
Speaker 1: tray in the game. At that point, it was the
Speaker 1: largest lead of the Knight of the seventy sixers, and
Speaker 1: they continued to run to the tune of twelve straight points.
Speaker 1: Kusovitch for three almost missed it all. Ben with the
Speaker 1: rebound Sixers with a down court fee to it. Quin
Speaker 1: Penny dumpson. Ben Simmons is doing a tremendous job at
Speaker 1: both ends. Kyle O Quinn with a slam. Simmons stirring
Speaker 1: the drink of the seventy sixers. He was great in
Speaker 1: the third. As I mentioned, Josh Richardson had a really
Speaker 1: big third period, scoring eleven points in the frame. Seventy Sixers.
Speaker 1: It felt like they were in a great spot up
Speaker 1: seventy one sixty three, but Orlando quickly regroup and scored
Speaker 1: seventh straight. The Sixers lead was trimmed to two eighty
Speaker 1: two eighty going to the fourth quarter. Orlando then built
Speaker 1: up a massive twenty two to seven run that turned
Speaker 1: the tide of the game totally in their favor. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers were just trying to keep pace. Slapped off the glass.
Speaker 1: It's loose, Orlando can't get it. Rebound down to Richardson
Speaker 1: four minutes straight up to go seventh with it, drives
Speaker 1: at Cable said and scores it sorry right by Aaron Gordon.
Speaker 1: Not enough for the seventy sixers as they lose the
Speaker 1: Magic tonight one twelve ninety seven. Seventy Sixers and Orlando
Speaker 1: each shot forty four percent from the floor. Of the
Speaker 1: Sixers with eighty three pointers, Orlando with ten. Huge disparity,
Speaker 1: as I said, and this was in the makings from
Speaker 1: the first half. At the free throw line, seventy six
Speaker 1: ers nine is thirteen from the stripe. The Magic were
Speaker 1: twenty six of thirty four. That is a big time gap.
Speaker 1: Orlando was plus one on the glass to seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: committed fifteen turnovers. On the surface, that a better number
Speaker 1: than what we've seen in recent games. But the turnovers
Speaker 1: came late and Orlando scored nineteen points off the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers fifteen turnovers. Sixers were led by Josh Richardson with
Speaker 1: nineteen points. Ben Simmons had eighteen points. Eight rebounds and
Speaker 1: five assists, fourteen for Al Horford, to go with eight boards,
Speaker 1: eight for Tobias Harris, nine fur Con cork Mas ten
Speaker 1: for James Ennis. The third off the bench, he hit
Speaker 1: his first four shots of the night and in the
Speaker 1: first half he gave the Sixers a nice spark. Markel Foltz,
Speaker 1: going up against his old squad, just eight points, four rebounds,
Speaker 1: three assists. He was only two of six from the
Speaker 1: field twenty five and twelve for Nick Vusovic, and Aaron
Speaker 1: Gordon was big two with eighteen points, thirteen boards, and
Speaker 1: seven assists. Seventy Sixers will try to snap their four
Speaker 1: game road losing streak on Friday at eight o'clock Eastern
Speaker 1: against the Oklahoma City Thunder one final time. The final
Speaker 1: score it was the Orlando Magic one twelve and the
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