Speaker 1: He's the Philadelphia seventy Sixers postgame show. It be Swatson
Speaker 1: on the glass. Sevens damn he rozen down over to
Speaker 1: JJ three bonus good running crops at home the Sixers
Speaker 1: postgame show right now on ninety seven five the fanatic
Speaker 1: back at home. The seventy Sixers get back on tracks,
Speaker 1: surviving these Charlotte Hornets in a very physical, at times
Speaker 1: chippy and scrappy game tonight. One oh five, one h
Speaker 1: three the final score of Brian Seltzer with you from
Speaker 1: the center here in South Philly. We're awaiting the arrival
Speaker 1: at the postgame press conference podium. Seventy Sixers head coach
Speaker 1: Brett Brown. Good one for the Sixers tonight. Why because
Speaker 1: it was a win the mission for the team tonight.
Speaker 1: They talked about it yesterday at practice and before the
Speaker 1: game today. Get back to playing hard. They did it.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of style points, but win. One oh five,
Speaker 1: one oh three Reddick and Bade Covington big down the stretch,
Speaker 1: Simmons more good numbers of the double double. Here's Brett
Speaker 1: Brown right now. You know you look at it and
Speaker 1: Kembuck ends up with thirty seven points. But what we're
Speaker 1: looking at is is the sort of stats in the
Speaker 1: second half, the fact that he's eleven for thirty one,
Speaker 1: you know, three for fifteen to get those thirty seven.
Speaker 1: I thought it was Cubbs best game of the year. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought that that he really he ended up being
Speaker 1: out with Bell Ringer. He had ten rebounds along with that,
Speaker 1: had that big three to really sort of seal the game.
Speaker 1: He was very good tonight. You see from bays right.
Speaker 1: I think he was forcing it a little maybe around
Speaker 1: the ring. Um. You know, I think I'm always trying
Speaker 1: to get him to to be an attack mode, you know,
Speaker 1: be proactive. You know, maybe tonight a few times it
Speaker 1: was four situations, but I still, you know, like his spirit. Um,
Speaker 1: I like his spirit, and it's it's it's putting taking
Speaker 1: that spirit and put it in the right environment, trying
Speaker 1: to help him find those drive in lanes and opportunities.
Speaker 1: You know, We're always challenged him with offensive rebounds. I
Speaker 1: think he can be incredibly elite gifted feature on other
Speaker 1: team's scout tapes as a committed sort of offensive rebound
Speaker 1: you he had six tonight. I thought that that was
Speaker 1: the that was an excellent part of his game tonight.
Speaker 1: In general, statistically you look at it wasn't one of
Speaker 1: his better games, But I think his mindset to attack
Speaker 1: is something that we want to encourage just in the
Speaker 1: right environment. Right, you guys can struggle in the half
Speaker 1: court of time, so the team, as Bill, how much
Speaker 1: of a difference does it make for you that you
Speaker 1: can take Ben out and he still have Marquel in
Speaker 1: the game? You can you know, se tempo and get
Speaker 1: you in the offense before defensive up. I think there's
Speaker 1: truth to what you just said. And I thought Marquel,
Speaker 1: I thought he was really good tonight, you know, pushing
Speaker 1: the ball as you say, an open court. I thought
Speaker 1: he had a few good fines on Joel. You know
Speaker 1: when when we can get him in early offense in
Speaker 1: open court and he's thinking tack the rim, get to
Speaker 1: the paint and go there to dunk, like in the
Speaker 1: world makes sense, instead of getting in there to like
Speaker 1: trying to pass. I wanted him and I've told him this, like,
Speaker 1: go like you're gonna go get fifty, Go go like
Speaker 1: you're gonna dunk everything, and then the world will make sense.
Speaker 1: You know, the game will speak to you preconceived notions
Speaker 1: on where people are going to be. It doesn't work,
Speaker 1: like put your own thumb print on on the rim,
Speaker 1: look at the rim, get to the rim. I thought
Speaker 1: he did that tonight. And you know he helped us.
Speaker 1: And as you say, when we're struggling trying to find
Speaker 1: ways to school, we lean on JJ a lot. And
Speaker 1: you know, Joel, to his credit, came in and played,
Speaker 1: you know played. That was that decision was up in
Speaker 1: the air until the last minute. We needed Marquel to
Speaker 1: do what he did. How's joel failure? Well, um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I haven't
Speaker 1: I didn't ask, you know, like probably you know, he
Speaker 1: ended up playing almost thirty seven minutes. That's for me,
Speaker 1: is too much. I don't feel comfortable with that. You know,
Speaker 1: over the long haul, if I headed again, I would
Speaker 1: have tried to find ways to clark back. We we
Speaker 1: we got, we got lucky at times. You know, I
Speaker 1: give up guys credit toward the end. But you know,
Speaker 1: JJ hit a big three, Cuve hit a big three.
Speaker 1: Kemba had that sneaky layup over Joel at the end,
Speaker 1: and we just needed a group. We really needed, like
Speaker 1: a big boys to bring it home to see this
Speaker 1: thing through. And some of the seventy Sixers. Big boys
Speaker 1: did just that tonight, one oh five, one oh three.
Speaker 1: The final scores. The Sixers get back to five hundred,
Speaker 1: back at home, where they've won all three of their
Speaker 1: games this season. Robert Covington excellent tonight. I'll say I
Speaker 1: thought it was great, showed up when it mattered. Eighteen points,
Speaker 1: ten rebounds, two steals, four block shots plus seven That
Speaker 1: was a game high for the seventy Sixers. Two or
Speaker 1: five three that at times makes you like espascially in
Speaker 1: the game this title would have been nice to see
Speaker 1: that line, that portion of line a little bit cleaner.
Speaker 1: But he was really great. Really the ceiling three pointer
Speaker 1: to make it one oh five, one on one with
Speaker 1: under two minutes to go, and then the defensive possession
Speaker 1: right after that he came up with a block shot.
Speaker 1: So Covington really really good all around for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Joel and B twenty seven points and fourteen rebounds. He's
Speaker 1: the first Sixer ever to start a season with six
Speaker 1: straight twenty point ten rebound games. And the final question
Speaker 1: that we heard Brett Brown respond to was about the
Speaker 1: condition of Joel. He was questionable at game time decision
Speaker 1: due to recovering from a rolled ankle at practice yesterday
Speaker 1: in Camden. Ben Simmons fourteen points, twelve rebounds, and three assists.
Speaker 1: He was five of twenty. However, from the field, the
Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets did a really nice job on him defensively,
Speaker 1: packed the paint made life a little bit more difficult.
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick with fifteen, a big three pointer that preceded
Speaker 1: Covington's in the final two minutes. No doubt those two
Speaker 1: three pointers on back to back possessions critical to getting
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers over the hump. I thought that Dario
Speaker 1: Shart started out well and I agree with Brett Brown.
Speaker 1: What I really disagree with Brett Brown, but I did
Speaker 1: feel this way as well watching and I think kind
Speaker 1: of a lot of fans would say the same two
Speaker 1: If you watched in file tonight's game, Mark Hill Folts,
Speaker 1: it passed the eye texts. He was able to get
Speaker 1: into the lane, created things done only with some very
Speaker 1: nice scoring plays and lamps, but he was able to
Speaker 1: generate assists and dimes off his drives into the key.
Speaker 1: So Mark Hill Folts with ten, four rebounds and four assists.
Speaker 1: We'll go over this a little bit more with Tom
Speaker 1: mcginnesse is standing by and we'll get to him next.
Speaker 1: As the postgame showing the Sixers rating at more ninety
Speaker 1: seven five, the fanatic seventy Sixers at last thee Charlotte
Speaker 1: Warning twenty five one oh three. Brian Seltzer with you
Speaker 1: from Sixers dot Com down here at the center Timely
Speaker 1: three pointers from JJ Reddick and Robert Covington in the
Speaker 1: closing minutes helped seal the deal for a Sixers team
Speaker 1: that was looking to get back on track. Tom McGuinness,
Speaker 1: by playing hard, they got to win. And I think
Speaker 1: you can make the case they certainly did play hard
Speaker 1: to night, Oh, no doubt about it. They compete every
Speaker 1: single night. And again, just to my point, down the
Speaker 1: stretch up four, I believe it was one one on
Speaker 1: one and they had three or four trips where they
Speaker 1: could have knocked him out of the box and were
Speaker 1: unable to do it. But as Brett Brown said, Covington
Speaker 1: did play well overall. I mean he ended up with
Speaker 1: I believe four steals, two blocks, ten rebounds that clutched
Speaker 1: three eighteen points total. And it's not easy guarding Kimball Walker.
Speaker 1: That's not a one man proposition and again through switching,
Speaker 1: the Sixers ended up with a beat on him. They
Speaker 1: made it difficult and he really struggled from three, had
Speaker 1: a timely three down the stretch that made things interesting
Speaker 1: those two free throws. But the other thing is he
Speaker 1: was the only Hornet player to score over like a
Speaker 1: span of ten minutes in the final quarter. So that's
Speaker 1: good overall defense by the Sixers, and you got a
Speaker 1: lot of good play at specific times by a bunch
Speaker 1: of different Sixers, including Simmons and Folds and Dario and
Speaker 1: JJ coming up with that big three down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Mascala gave me some good minutes. So a nice win.
Speaker 1: And you could say that the Sixers have beaten the
Speaker 1: three teams that you would expect them to beat in
Speaker 1: terms of beating the Magic and the Bulls here earlier
Speaker 1: and then tonight they certainly could have won that game
Speaker 1: on the road in overtime against Detroit, Milwaukee and Boston
Speaker 1: not so much with how well they played. And so
Speaker 1: you're at five hundred and as Robert Covington shared with
Speaker 1: this post game, the Sixers are and Coach Browns talked
Speaker 1: about post practice in recent days, they're trying to find
Speaker 1: their rhythm, but they still were able to pull it
Speaker 1: out here tonight. The fact that him be played when
Speaker 1: he was questionable and then he played so well again
Speaker 1: big numbers, points and rebounds and protecting the rim was
Speaker 1: exemplary for the ball clip here tonight. I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised looked down at the final box sheet and
Speaker 1: see the only has two block shots. To me, it
Speaker 1: seemed like when you saw guys driving in at that
Speaker 1: bucket and was always there all night long. I had
Speaker 1: a sorry, but I had a laugh when somebody said,
Speaker 1: how's Joe doing well? First of all, the coach doesn't
Speaker 1: go over and going how are you doing Joe? Joe?
Speaker 1: But I gotta think his ankle soar uh, he just
Speaker 1: played thirty seven minutes of basketball when he was a
Speaker 1: question prior to the Game's probably sore. He probably got
Speaker 1: an inflamed ankle right now. But that's what he is.
Speaker 1: As Brett Brown said pregame, you know he's one of
Speaker 1: the people. He wants to deliver for the Sixers and
Speaker 1: for this city. And yeah, you're right, two blocks. But
Speaker 1: in football, when when a lineman gets to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: they call him a hurry he affected a lot of
Speaker 1: shots in there, and you know, you see guys veering
Speaker 1: away from the basket. Miles Bridges had some real nice
Speaker 1: moments fourteen total three threes, but he took some shots
Speaker 1: going away from the basket. Zeller, you know, like the
Speaker 1: shot chart, we can't really get into it on the radio,
Speaker 1: but you know, you look at that restricted areas, they've
Speaker 1: already lowered the basket here, Brian Zeller did not get
Speaker 1: to the rim like he might have gotten as Joe
Speaker 1: would rotate back on him defense, but he would pull
Speaker 1: up at least the dribble or two shy of the rim.
Speaker 1: And now he's shooting, say a ten or twelve foot runner.
Speaker 1: That's a way different shot than right at the cup.
Speaker 1: And he's a six foot eleven player as well. And
Speaker 1: that really speaks to Joel's defense, and that's what the Sixers,
Speaker 1: that's what their defense is built on. You start from
Speaker 1: the rim out and he is one of the best
Speaker 1: rim protectors in the game. Sixers over the Hornets one
Speaker 1: oh five, one three back at five hundred with a
Speaker 1: record of three and three on the season. Nice to
Speaker 1: see Robert Covington come through with a quality game for
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers and you alluded to him, Tom, But
Speaker 1: for a team that has really gotten by or not
Speaker 1: gotten by with consistent output from Joel Embid, Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: and JJ Reddick in the first five games of the season,
Speaker 1: good to see Dario starts have the type of game
Speaker 1: that he did, especially in the early going. Absolutely and
Speaker 1: made some big shots early Sixers ended up getting double
Speaker 1: figures for the game. And you know, particularly the question
Speaker 1: was posed to coach, sometimes you struggle in the half court,
Speaker 1: but those are also times then when this Sixers go
Speaker 1: to Dario, and Dario goes in there and kind of
Speaker 1: gets a you know, a lunch pale type of opportunity
Speaker 1: where he bangs into a Marvin Williams or whatever, and
Speaker 1: he just does so many different things, and you know,
Speaker 1: soon I think, you know, these guys are going to
Speaker 1: start to play well together, find their stride and take off.
Speaker 1: Now here we go with Atlanta coming in here there.
Speaker 1: I think they lost tonight as they fell to the
Speaker 1: Bulls by a dozen at home, but they you know,
Speaker 1: they were two and two coming in. So Trey Young
Speaker 1: it's going to be exciting to watch him play. And
Speaker 1: then you go to Toronto and the Sixers have fared
Speaker 1: a little bit better in reason the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: but overall the Raptors had a mastery. They're off to
Speaker 1: the best start in franchise history. So interesting back to
Speaker 1: back for the Sixers Monday here against the Hawks and
Speaker 1: Tuesday on the road in Canada. Looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: whether or not the seventy Sixers can maintain the momentum
Speaker 1: they built up tonight at the start of next week.
Speaker 1: Tom talk to you that you gotta Brian, thank you
Speaker 1: Sixers knock off the Charlotte Hornets. One oh five hundred
Speaker 1: three will playbacks Tom's highlight calls. On the other side,
Speaker 1: it's the postgame show on the Sixers radio network. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers back at home and it was a nice sight
Speaker 1: to see hosting these Charlotte Hornets even better sites. A
Speaker 1: positive outcome tonight and a needed one at that for
Speaker 1: the Sixers. Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com, let's run
Speaker 1: through some of Tom McGinnis's highlight calls from tonight. After
Speaker 1: losing at Detroit and Milwaukee on Tuesday and Wednesday, the
Speaker 1: Sixers looking to get back to some of their ethos,
Speaker 1: their identity of competing with an edge toughness, playing hard
Speaker 1: and from the outset that was clear embodied by one
Speaker 1: of their most rugged players, Ben in the lane and
Speaker 1: Michael kid Gilchris who just got in mister Tario with
Speaker 1: the reboundies pushed by seller, no call, but Shark puts
Speaker 1: it in, got pushed right in the chest in front
Speaker 1: of Mark Davis a two hands show in a thoracic kevity,
Speaker 1: but he did not get the call, but charge still scorted.
Speaker 1: Very impressive anatomical breakdown by our radio man Tom McGinnis,
Speaker 1: keeping the Sixers within two of sharp early on. The
Speaker 1: Sixers then got over the hump with JJ Reddick doing
Speaker 1: this thing under four minutes to go. Reddick for three
Speaker 1: around one minute and he puts it in on Miles Bridges.
Speaker 1: So JJ Reddick with his second three, the Sixers remained
Speaker 1: perfect four for four. From beyond they go up by five,
Speaker 1: their largest lead twenty four to nineteen. It would be
Speaker 1: a four point lead in favor of the Sixers after
Speaker 1: a quarter thirty two to twenty eight. Early on in
Speaker 1: the second, Joel and Beat imposing as will to keep
Speaker 1: the Sixers up by two possessions. Charlotte wouldn't go away.
Speaker 1: Robert Covington was present three out the evening and especially
Speaker 1: at this point midway through quarter number two. Savante Graham
Speaker 1: Boy he throws it away, turnover and a slam coming
Speaker 1: up by coming to the right hand a throw down
Speaker 1: breakout after the Steel Sixers by five. Covington and Gario
Speaker 1: each with seven the master deflector transitioning defense into offense.
Speaker 1: He made sure not to miss on that gym. Forty six.
Speaker 1: Forty one was the score after the dunk, and the
Speaker 1: Sixer would have a very slender one point halftime lead
Speaker 1: of sixty three to sixty two. Other Hornets, they were
Speaker 1: the aggressors at the outset of the third quarter. They
Speaker 1: jumped in front seventy one to sixty five. Jowell and
Speaker 1: Bead helped bring the Sixers back. Ben with it down
Speaker 1: to Joel. Joel gets to seal Walkers there he missed
Speaker 1: it and then beat gets it back and he scores it.
Speaker 1: The big man on the low post goes up against
Speaker 1: Cody Zeller. Walker ran underneath good feed and on the
Speaker 1: second chance and be puts it in sixth straight by
Speaker 1: the Sixers. Game is tied at seventy went our second tie.
Speaker 1: But you know with the Hornets, they kept coming through
Speaker 1: that third quarter, they were really playing physical, aggressive, they
Speaker 1: locked down on defense. They led eighty five eighty three
Speaker 1: going into the fourth, and the fourth started off fortunately
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. The Bangleique Monk on the move and
Speaker 1: the lane is Zeller, but Fols comes over and steals it.
Speaker 1: Sixers with numbers, false leads a break, Foals keeps it,
Speaker 1: jams in right hand slap markl faults do really great play,
Speaker 1: really great high energy play. At a moment when the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers needed one that made it eighty seven eighty five,
Speaker 1: Sixers back in front. It was niptuck into the final
Speaker 1: minutes of the fourth quarter, JJ Reddick trying to I'm
Speaker 1: not a ninety nine all time, Joel, will it outside
Speaker 1: the arc? He goes to Reddick. Threefall in the year
Speaker 1: by JJ Reddick is good. JJ Reddick knocked it down.
Speaker 1: There's that combo again. It be the Reddick. It's the
Speaker 1: Sixers one oh two and Charlotte ninety nine sixers down
Speaker 1: to the three ball one more time to try and
Speaker 1: put this game out of reach, and the Sixers lead
Speaker 1: with a shot by coming to this up head good
Speaker 1: Robert coming to delivers a triple along the near side,
Speaker 1: a quick strike three after the Walker lay up, and
Speaker 1: the Sixers increased their lead to four, and the Sixers
Speaker 1: would end up holding on by two one oh five
Speaker 1: to one oh three the final score, and it was
Speaker 1: nice a good one tonight, as the Sixers got their
Speaker 1: record back up to five hundred after suffering two losses
Speaker 1: earlier this week. Looking at some of the final numbers,
Speaker 1: the Hornets shot just under thirty nine percent from the field,
Speaker 1: the Sixers at thirty eight and a half percent, six
Speaker 1: or ten of twenty eight from outside the arc. The
Speaker 1: Hornets were nine of thirty five sixers plus five from
Speaker 1: the free throw line. They owned the glass. They were
Speaker 1: plus eight and plus five in particular in terms of
Speaker 1: offensive rebounding. Turnovers were kept down by both teams, nine
Speaker 1: for the Hornets and eleven for the seventy sixers. Individual notes,
Speaker 1: Kemba Walker was a tough, tough cover tonight, thirty seven points.
Speaker 1: Not the most efficient shooting line eleven of thirty one,
Speaker 1: three of fifteen from outside the arc, but in the
Speaker 1: guts of the game, he certainly helped the Hornets jump
Speaker 1: in front, and he was very very pesky getting the
Speaker 1: free throw line, where he was twelve of fourteen for
Speaker 1: the game. For the Sixers, all five starters and double
Speaker 1: figures plus JJ Reddick and double digits off the bench.
Speaker 1: Reddick had fifteen. Ben Simmons with fourteen points and twelve
Speaker 1: rebounds for another double double. Mark El Folts with ten points,
Speaker 1: four boards, four assists, just one turnover plus two. He
Speaker 1: was four of nine from the field, also two of
Speaker 1: two from the free throw line. He was good. He
Speaker 1: was able to get in the lane penetrate and not
Speaker 1: only score, but up his teammates as well. Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: was questionable coming into tonight's game, no question about it.
Speaker 1: A great box line twenty seven points, fourteen rebounds, two
Speaker 1: block shots and two assists. Just the first Sixer ever
Speaker 1: to record six straight twenty point ten rebound games to
Speaker 1: begin a season. Scharge was great, especially in the first
Speaker 1: half eleven points and seven rebounds. Robert Covington, as Brett
Speaker 1: Brown said, if he missed the postgame press conference, the
Speaker 1: Sixers have this tradition inside of the the locker room where
Speaker 1: a player rings the bell. Robert Covington a deserved bell,
Speaker 1: ringing eighteen points, ten rebounds. He had two steals, four
Speaker 1: block shots, a ton of deflections, plus seven six of
Speaker 1: eleven from the field, four of seven from outside the
Speaker 1: arc Robert Covington a very fine performance for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Sixers will now wait until Monday. Their next game was
Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Hawks. Atlanta has led this season by
Speaker 1: former Sixer assistant and defensive guru Lloyd Pierce. Lloyd was
Speaker 1: an original member of Brett Brown's coaching staffs. Will be
Speaker 1: really nice to see him bring Atlanta into South Philadelphia
Speaker 1: on Monday. Atlanta did lose tonight, The now three and
Speaker 1: four in the season. Betray Young, who they acquired in
Speaker 1: the first round this past June in the draft, is
Speaker 1: putting up some really big numbers over twenty one and
Speaker 1: a half points per game and seven and a half
Speaker 1: assists seven o'clock game time from the Center on Monday.
Speaker 1: Pregame coverage beginning just before then on some of our
Speaker 1: Sixers Rating Network affiliates. Thanks to everyone involved tonight's broadcast,
Speaker 1: Dylan McKinnon and Carl Nivoli Back at the studio, Marti
Speaker 1: Dickerson here and now for the ready voice of the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis Brian Seltzer saying so long
Speaker 1: for now one final time. The final score from South
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six Ers one oh five and the Charlotte
Speaker 1: Hornets one oh three. Have a great wrest a Saturday
Speaker 1: Night from all of us here at the Sixers Rating
Speaker 1: Network