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. It
Speaker 1: might not have been a perfect performance from the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: seventy sixers, but that did not matter, not one bit.
Speaker 1: What was most important was that back in home, the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers found a way to end their three game
Speaker 1: losing streak, and they did just that behind a very
Speaker 1: strong third quarter, knocking off the Charlotte Hornets one fourteen
Speaker 1: to one oh six. How you doing, I'm Brian Seltzer's
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers back in the win column and just their
Speaker 1: third home outing of the season. They're now six and three.
Speaker 1: Dropping the Charlotte Hornets to four and six shorthanded on
Speaker 1: short rest did not matter for the Sixers. Joel Embi
Speaker 1: finishing with team highs of eighteen points nine rebounds, great
Speaker 1: effort for a Concorkmas off the bench with seventeen fifteen points,
Speaker 1: seven boards, and five assists for Al Horford. A really
Speaker 1: strong showing from Tobias Harris with fourteen points, seven rebounds
Speaker 1: and five dimes. He also had two block shots, and
Speaker 1: Josh Richards very important contributions as well with eleven points,
Speaker 1: six assists, seven boards, who was plus twenty in thirty
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes. The Sixers they over the
Speaker 1: course of their Western Conference road trip that saw them
Speaker 1: lose their final three games, they talked about energy, needing
Speaker 1: to get a little bit dialed in more, particularly on
Speaker 1: the defensive end, and at the outset of tonight's game
Speaker 1: against the Hornets, I thought they were playing pretty well,
Speaker 1: especially through the first quarter. They had thirty three to
Speaker 1: twenty four after one, But in the second quarter things changed.
Speaker 1: The Hornets outscored the seventy Sixers by fourteen, thirty four
Speaker 1: to twenty, and the Sixers at one point up by
Speaker 1: as much as fourteen in the first half. Well, they
Speaker 1: were down by five at the break like all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, looking around like how did this happen? But
Speaker 1: the Sixers they found their stride quickly to open the
Speaker 1: third quarter a nice run fueled by Al Horford to
Speaker 1: get things going in the third. I thought he was
Speaker 1: really important setting the tone for that second half. And
Speaker 1: then fur Conc Moss sprinkling threes in throughout the game.
Speaker 1: He was a big presence off the bench with seventeen
Speaker 1: and the Sixers ultimately had enough to withstand a late
Speaker 1: comeback charged by the Hornets in the one fourteen, one
Speaker 1: oh six victory. Tom mcguinnis called the game tonight from
Speaker 1: down here at the Center, another sellout crowd, and Tom,
Speaker 1: at least in one guy's opinion, that would be me.
Speaker 1: Not about style points on a night like Tonight's just
Speaker 1: about getting the job done. That's what they did. Know.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons still winners, yeah, no doubt about it. And
Speaker 1: you need different waves of energy and they got it
Speaker 1: from that group. Off the bench. He had fourteen or
Speaker 1: seventeen from Furkon, a dozen from Trey Burke and nine
Speaker 1: from James Ennis. The third four the five starters and
Speaker 1: double figures. I thought Joel controlled the early part of
Speaker 1: the game. Certainly a hiccup for the Sixers energy wise
Speaker 1: and defensive play in the second, but they came on
Speaker 1: strong in the third and built up a comfortable lead
Speaker 1: before winning this game one fourteen, one oh six and
Speaker 1: nice to be three and oh at home, Nice to
Speaker 1: stop the three game losing streak, to handle business against
Speaker 1: a team that's under five hundred Charlotte and get ready
Speaker 1: for Cleveland and a back to back set off Tuesday
Speaker 1: and Wednesday six Ers Tomp of the Hornets one fourteen
Speaker 1: one oh six. I don't know, tell, I don't know
Speaker 1: about you. If people ask you questions like this, maybe
Speaker 1: it's family friends, Like you know, who's your favorite person
Speaker 1: on a team, or what do you root for? Do
Speaker 1: you root for this team? I know you're gonna say Furkun,
Speaker 1: but you're a big alf Al Horford fan. This is
Speaker 1: what we're trending towards Furkon. This is ultimately gonna spin
Speaker 1: and land on Furkon Corkmise. And I don't know. For
Speaker 1: me at least, it's like it's always about like people
Speaker 1: and stories. You root for good people, good stories, and
Speaker 1: Furkon Corkmise in the early stage of this season continues
Speaker 1: to be one of them. I mean, I think that now,
Speaker 1: at this point, almost a month into the year, like
Speaker 1: that's a good enough sample size where you can start
Speaker 1: believing a bit and what you're seeing from well right,
Speaker 1: And I think part of the reason you have an
Speaker 1: affinity for him as Furkon hasn't changed. He's been the
Speaker 1: same guy. He's a young guy. He's had a great
Speaker 1: attitude each and every week, month, year that he's been here,
Speaker 1: comes off knee surgery last year and you weren't certain
Speaker 1: if he was going to be back here, but he
Speaker 1: comes back and his face at the Sixers need outside shooting,
Speaker 1: and Brett Brown used the phrase earlier this season and
Speaker 1: now tonight about developing a bomber, and what he's talking
Speaker 1: about is somebody that can come in and just fill
Speaker 1: it up from range, and that's become furk On. He
Speaker 1: took eight threes tonight and three of his seven makes
Speaker 1: were from outside the arc. And again he's got a
Speaker 1: quick release. You know, you talk about release point, you
Speaker 1: talk about the gatherer, and Furkon catches it high and
Speaker 1: shoots it right. Then it's almost like Mike Scott, a
Speaker 1: little bit different in terms of style, but it's the
Speaker 1: same thing where he's not bringing that ball to his
Speaker 1: chest and swinging it side to side and a rift
Speaker 1: through move. He catches it up top and he shoots it.
Speaker 1: So he's got a quick release. And then if you
Speaker 1: close out, he's been good at sidestepping defenders and creating
Speaker 1: the opening and then he'll take you off the bounce
Speaker 1: and get in there with a floater as well. So
Speaker 1: he's been a pleasant surprise without question. And again, like
Speaker 1: you say, to your point, he's got a great personality,
Speaker 1: easy to root for, and then I think maybe most importantly,
Speaker 1: he's able to stay out up there. Now he's doing
Speaker 1: a better job leveling players off in terms of defense.
Speaker 1: He's doing better in iso situations, and with that defense,
Speaker 1: he's garnering more time and thus more opportunities at the
Speaker 1: offensive end. And it's been a win win for the
Speaker 1: Sixers and fur Con so far this year seventy sixers
Speaker 1: they won fourteen one oh six win tonight. Fair to say,
Speaker 1: Tom that through now nine games in the season, the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers are at their best when they're controlling the interior.
Speaker 1: They scored fifty eight points in the pain tonight and
Speaker 1: they wound up out rebounding Charlotte by four in the
Speaker 1: offensive glass eighteen overall, and was in that second quarter
Speaker 1: when it was Charlotte that was able to turn the
Speaker 1: tide because they got inside well, without doubt, and that's
Speaker 1: what you would expect from this team. Everyone talks about
Speaker 1: the length and the tallest starting five, and they've been
Speaker 1: dominant on the glass in almost every single game this year,
Speaker 1: and certainly that leads to points in the paint within
Speaker 1: bead and with Horford and even at times to Bias Harris,
Speaker 1: who I think has done a remarkable job to Bias again,
Speaker 1: seven rebounds in this game, both he and Horford had
Speaker 1: seven rebounds, and you know that would think would be
Speaker 1: something along with their defense for the Sixers in general,
Speaker 1: those should be dominant factors for a coach. You're looking
Speaker 1: for consistency, things you can count on night in and
Speaker 1: night out, and you know you're not always going to
Speaker 1: have the outside shot whatever, tired legs, good defense. You
Speaker 1: know you may not have a perimeter game, but you
Speaker 1: can get that ball into the paint. Try to go
Speaker 1: paint the great and then defend and rebound, and those
Speaker 1: are characteristics hallmarks of winning teams. Seventy six Ers. After
Speaker 1: this one fourteen, one oh six win over Charlotte, they
Speaker 1: have the Cleveland Cavaliers coming in on Tuesday to wrap
Speaker 1: up this first quote unquote homestand of the season, the
Speaker 1: two gamer before the team goes back out on the
Speaker 1: road and the Cavalier's tom three and five. You'd love
Speaker 1: to see the Sixers maybe get a little bit healthier.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's gonna happen with Ben Simmons and then
Speaker 1: get back out on the road with a little bit
Speaker 1: of mo no doubt about it, you know, and again
Speaker 1: this game tonight, let's be honest, the game Tuesday. These
Speaker 1: are winnable games for the Sixers, and you want to
Speaker 1: take care of business because big picture, the Sixers obviously
Speaker 1: you're to win these games, but you're trying to get better.
Speaker 1: I mean, they just come off a road trip where
Speaker 1: they you know, they went one and three and they
Speaker 1: conceivably could have won all of those games, you know,
Speaker 1: and obviously they were they were lucky in the way
Speaker 1: they won the one game in Portland, but you tighten
Speaker 1: up some things again, they had twenty one turnovers tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean, again going back to a coacher's perspective, as
Speaker 1: you say, they took care of business, even though there
Speaker 1: were some lulls energy wise, particularly in the second late
Speaker 1: first half. But you have things to correct, things to
Speaker 1: work on. You got a captive audience that the players
Speaker 1: knowing that there's areas they need to tighten up, and
Speaker 1: yet you still won the game. And even Orlando struggling
Speaker 1: a little bit. So you know, these as you get
Speaker 1: through this early part of the schedule, because after that
Speaker 1: after these three games on the road Tuesday home and
Speaker 1: then Orlando Friday at Oaks City, and then next Sunday
Speaker 1: again against it's Cleveland out of the Q in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: You know the Sixers are going to be home for
Speaker 1: a pretty good stretch. So and as you say, you
Speaker 1: start to get healthy a little bit. You get Ben
Speaker 1: out there, and you get the group playing together, hopefully
Speaker 1: for a number of games in a row, and you
Speaker 1: get this thing headed in the direction where everybody is playing,
Speaker 1: You're comfortable with one another. You're developing the bench with
Speaker 1: Burke and Howell and Anderson, Scott and O'Quinn, and so
Speaker 1: you know things are looking up, but you want to
Speaker 1: take care of business Tuesday when you get that young
Speaker 1: Cavalier squad here well put by Tom McGinnis after a
Speaker 1: one fourteen, one oh six win for the seventy six ers. Tonight, Tom,
Speaker 1: we'll talk beforehand on Tuesday. Thank you, Brian, goodnight, seventy
Speaker 1: sixers back in the win column, back at home. Good
Speaker 1: to be in the center in South Philadelphia. Tonight we'll
Speaker 1: hear some of Tom's highlights coming up. Seventy sixers in
Speaker 1: South Philadelphia. Hey, welcome sight after the team was traversing
Speaker 1: the Western Conference for the bit of part of the
Speaker 1: last week. I'm Brian Selzer. This is our postgame coverage
Speaker 1: one fourteen one oh six seventy six Ers over the Hornets.
Speaker 1: Will get to the highlights in a moment, but a reminder,
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Speaker 1: of our coverage. All right, now to the highlights from
Speaker 1: Tom again as Joel Nato getting the start at the point,
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons missing a second straight game and Netto was
Speaker 1: part of the seventy sixers promising start tonight. Burkon gets
Speaker 1: it again, gets bridges off the ground behind the back
Speaker 1: to hull wide open for Netto and it's good cork
Speaker 1: Mos going behind the back. Rosier got stuck in traffic
Speaker 1: in the lane and the Sixers knocking down a three
Speaker 1: their first trade of the game. With that, it's an
Speaker 1: eight point lead, and it was all good for the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers after one leading thirty three to twenty four.
Speaker 1: Day outrebound of the Hornets by eight in the first
Speaker 1: quarter and had ten assists on twelve field goals. Really good.
Speaker 1: But they also had six turnovers in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: That was something that had to battle a little bit
Speaker 1: more of, but still they were able to maintain a
Speaker 1: sizeable lead. Now it being rejected to Bante Graham, get
Speaker 1: it out. Here's Burke again to Hannas and a rebeat,
Speaker 1: another jam by James the horn This is a game
Speaker 1: that the practice is a game. There turned it over
Speaker 1: twice and the Sixers would run out dunks. Berego wants
Speaker 1: time out sixes by twelve. Yeah, and at that point
Speaker 1: with the score thirty seven twenty five, it felt like
Speaker 1: the Hornets were a little bit lifeless. It also felt
Speaker 1: like the seventy Sixers perhaps should have been up by
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Joel and Bean tried to add
Speaker 1: to the cushion. Burke now that the corner ns catch
Speaker 1: shot three ball rimy, no rebounding beating along the weak
Speaker 1: side Zeller has got his hand in there. Joel gets
Speaker 1: free and to be dunks the ball, so Yeller and
Speaker 1: and Bean both buying for the rebound. Joel rested it
Speaker 1: free and then with an easy one hand, right hand
Speaker 1: dunk and the Sixes by thirteen, but behind Cody Zeller.
Speaker 1: The Hornets turned the momentum this game entirely around in
Speaker 1: the final closing minutes of the first half. Charlotte putting
Speaker 1: you They're a twenty one to four run, including a
Speaker 1: stretch of nine straight points at one point to end
Speaker 1: the first half. They went into the locker room break
Speaker 1: with a fifty eight fifty three lead. Seventy Sixers need
Speaker 1: to do a little bit of a soul searching perhaps
Speaker 1: during the break, and the third quarter got started on
Speaker 1: a very nice six nothing run. Al Horford was a
Speaker 1: big part of that. Back to al against PJ. Washington
Speaker 1: turned faces baseline right, Washington tips it, Al gets it again.
Speaker 1: Oh or reverse lamp up and good, that's the Al
Speaker 1: Horford a fountain up you nice play reverse layup. It
Speaker 1: was terrific. Horford gave the Sixers a sixty nine sixty
Speaker 1: four lead. The Sixes were up eighty eight eighty one
Speaker 1: through three, and in the fourth Josh Richardson, who had
Speaker 1: a very nice night all around, was a little bit
Speaker 1: more impactful. Here's Richardson on the drive left hand lamp.
Speaker 1: WHOA what a shot? Hierarchy tear drop one hand, left
Speaker 1: hand layup by Josh Richardson that gives him eleven sixers
Speaker 1: in front, nine to eighty one. It felt more in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter than did by comparison, Let's say the
Speaker 1: second quarter. The seventy sixers were in control and ultimately
Speaker 1: the lead flirted with twenty, and they had enough to
Speaker 1: get past Charlotte. Tonight, Neto drives at nine to shoot
Speaker 1: into the corner. They go, Mike Scott, three ball, it's good.
Speaker 1: Scott knocks it down. Sexers with nine trays and a
Speaker 1: little phrase called bull game comes to mind. One oh
Speaker 1: six eighty eight. Scott dials direct and knocks it out,
Speaker 1: and even though the Hornets made a late push, the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers had enough to withstand it. They win one fourteen,
Speaker 1: one oh six seventy six or shoot just under fifty
Speaker 1: five percent from the field for the game, Charlotte just
Speaker 1: over forty five percent. Seventy six Ers ten of twenty
Speaker 1: eight from outside the arc of the Hornets were fourteen
Speaker 1: of thirty three six or twelve of sixteen from the
Speaker 1: line Charlotte six of twenty two the Sixers. In an
Speaker 1: important stat they were plus eighteen in the glass, plus
Speaker 1: four in terms of offensive rebounding. The Sixers also scored
Speaker 1: fifty eight points in the paint. That was plus sixteen
Speaker 1: in terms of differential on the Hornets. Sixers survive twenty
Speaker 1: one turnovers, which led to twenty six points for the Hornets.
Speaker 1: That was one factor that kept Charlotte around. Joel Embiad
Speaker 1: leading these seventy six and both points and rebounds with
Speaker 1: eighteen and nine seventeen For fur Con Corkmas off the bench,
Speaker 1: he had three three pointers twelve off the bench. For
Speaker 1: Trey Burke, he was four for eight from the field,
Speaker 1: five rebounds and four assists. Fifteen points, seven rebounds, five
Speaker 1: assists plus twenty five for Al Horford. Tobias Harris also
Speaker 1: plus twenty five with fourteen point, seven boards and five
Speaker 1: assists eighteen as I mentioned for Joel Embiad and Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson with eleven points, seven rebounds and six assists. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers got what they needed that was a win. They're
Speaker 1: now six and three, and they snapped that three game
Speaker 1: losing streak that coincided with the end of their four
Speaker 1: game Western Conference road trip. Up next for the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers the three and five Cleveland Cavaliers. That game
Speaker 1: was going we at seven o'clock on Tuesday down here
Speaker 1: at the Center one final time. The final score was
Speaker 1: the seventy six Ers one fourteen Charlotte Hornets one oh six.
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