Speaker 1: This is seventy Sixers. Rewind time now to listen back
Speaker 1: to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game, tough
Speaker 1: one for the seventy Sixers in this Saturday matinee losing
Speaker 1: for the Portland Trailblazers one thirty two one fifteen. Brian
Speaker 1: seltu with you from Sixers dot com. We hope to
Speaker 1: hear from Sixer's head coach Brett Brown, as well as
Speaker 1: maybe some players involved in today's game too much Portland.
Speaker 1: Once again, it's a shame that Joel Embiid wasn't available
Speaker 1: for either of the two matchups and Sixers had against
Speaker 1: Portland this season, given the talent that Portland boasts on
Speaker 1: its front line, in particular use of Nurkis, who just
Speaker 1: started to shake loose thought. The Sixers held him in
Speaker 1: check after about a quarter and a half, but down
Speaker 1: the stretch of the second quarter he started to get
Speaker 1: going and Portland was able to maintain that momentum and
Speaker 1: carried over into the third just blew things open. And
Speaker 1: then Enis Kantner now that Portland has him behind Nurkics,
Speaker 1: that is a tough front line to contend with, and
Speaker 1: those two in Nurkics, Cantoner. Part of the overall theme
Speaker 1: of this game just that Portland was able to take
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers inside, both in terms of drives and
Speaker 1: layups and dunks, and on top of that, obviously rebounding.
Speaker 1: The final margin in that area fifty three two thirty
Speaker 1: three in favor of visiting Portland, and the offensive rebounding
Speaker 1: nineteen for the Trailblazers just seven for the seventy Sixers.
Speaker 1: So it started off relatively encouraging for the Sixers. Portland
Speaker 1: looked a little bit sluggish, but the Trailblazers were able
Speaker 1: to get themselves into a groove. Damian Lillard played in
Speaker 1: control throughout the entire game. They all star with seventeen points,
Speaker 1: five of ten shooting and of his five misses four
Speaker 1: with three point or six rebounds, eight assists. He committed
Speaker 1: just one turnover. Nurkics finished with twenty four and ten
Speaker 1: to go with four assists. Cantoner off the bench with
Speaker 1: sixteen and eight. Jake Layman, who yes, Jake Lahman eight
Speaker 1: points and eleven rebounds, And I thought, you go back
Speaker 1: into this game, this series in the first half where
Speaker 1: Layman just kept going to the glass and grabbing rebounds.
Speaker 1: That was emblematic. A. It was emblematic of what happened
Speaker 1: today's game, and B it almost seemed to invigorate and
Speaker 1: jump start the Portland Trailblazers, one of the bestern teams
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference, and they certainly looked like it
Speaker 1: this afternoon. For the Sixers, they were paced by Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: Simmons twenty nine points, ten assists, he tied a season
Speaker 1: high and scoring, Ben also bringing down seven rebounds. It
Speaker 1: was his seventh twenty point ten assist game of the season.
Speaker 1: Mike Scott thought he was a bright spot. Fifteen points
Speaker 1: a high as a Sixer since the trade six games ago.
Speaker 1: Scott won five of eight from the field, three or
Speaker 1: four outside the arc. He had four rebounds and two assists,
Speaker 1: but he was asked to play a lot out of
Speaker 1: position because the seventy Sixers went slightly small. I believe
Speaker 1: we might have Ben Simmons at the podium. We're gonna
Speaker 1: quickly listen in our ear to see if that is
Speaker 1: indeed the case. As the Sixers, they'll lose one thirty
Speaker 1: one fifteen the Portland Trailblazers. Simmons he had a tough
Speaker 1: game on the defensive end, as I think many of
Speaker 1: the Sixers would as they would tell you afterwards, and
Speaker 1: we might hear Brett Brown say, I think Ben is
Speaker 1: he made a quick exit from the podiums who will
Speaker 1: not hear from Ben Simmons will stand by for Brett Brown.
Speaker 1: But obviously a game like this against a talented opponent,
Speaker 1: you see where the loss of not having a player
Speaker 1: like Joel E. Bead and of his caliber and his
Speaker 1: abilities hurts the cause. As the Sixers, they just could
Speaker 1: not slow down Nurkicch, especially in some of the pick
Speaker 1: and roll action that Portland started to run with increasing
Speaker 1: effectiveness in the second quarter. And it was another game
Speaker 1: in which Portland was able to outdo the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: in a pretty handy way. Tobias Harris at twenty points,
Speaker 1: he had eight rebounds as well three three pointers, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler with fifteen as the Sixers fall the Trailblazers one
Speaker 1: thirty to one fifteen here at the center. So for
Speaker 1: the Sixers now it's looking ahead to the road as
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Pelicans awaits, and then on Thursday they're
Speaker 1: going to have the Oklahoma City Thunder. No Joel we
Speaker 1: know for sure, most likely in Monday's game against Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis should he play, and the Pelicans, and then they'll reevaluate,
Speaker 1: hopefully at some point before that OKAYC game, or at
Speaker 1: least we'll get another update. But I do think we
Speaker 1: have Brett Brand at the podium here he is. There
Speaker 1: are other pieces that are important, but none as significant
Speaker 1: as that fact. Is that why you went with the
Speaker 1: It was rich like in all, I mean, they had
Speaker 1: four Big Ball wasn't getting it done either, Like, they
Speaker 1: had fourteen offensive rebounds in the first half, and I
Speaker 1: tried to look at Ama like to see if maybe
Speaker 1: that could help with some rebounding stuff, and it didn't.
Speaker 1: And when you when you try that sort of combination
Speaker 1: and that two didn't work, Big Ball didn't work. We
Speaker 1: really didn't fix much with Amida. And so my instinct
Speaker 1: is when the game is clearly leaving us that I'm
Speaker 1: going small, we're gonna switch stuff and we're gonna try
Speaker 1: to speed it up and hunt threes that stuff, and
Speaker 1: you know, it still hurt us. But I think they
Speaker 1: only had five. I think up the end up with nineteen,
Speaker 1: you know, so they had five offensive rebounds. Big ball
Speaker 1: hurt us really as it relates. We we can't connect
Speaker 1: the dots to small ball with offensive rebounding. That's not true.
Speaker 1: And so yes to your point about like why did
Speaker 1: we It was for those reasons to a lot more
Speaker 1: loose balls and balls they did. I see. I felt
Speaker 1: that as much as anything we came up with with
Speaker 1: deflections or broken plays, and we didn't come up with
Speaker 1: the end result. I thought initially we did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job of busting some stuff up, but to ultimately
Speaker 1: secure the ball, we didn't do that. We just didn't
Speaker 1: do that. And I would be curious to see the
Speaker 1: percentage of when we didn't do that. How you know,
Speaker 1: somebody's just open at the rim, like they just find
Speaker 1: somebody and there's a there's a one foot shot. But
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Tom, we we did not come
Speaker 1: up with some of those loose ball stuff, and seemed
Speaker 1: to indicate he thought it could have been effort in
Speaker 1: some of those cases. Do you agree or disagree with that? Um,
Speaker 1: I'd be better off answering that accurately after I see it. Normally,
Speaker 1: you know you go there when when there's nineteen offensive rebounds,
Speaker 1: Normally I do go there. Um, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: do that until I can sort of look at it
Speaker 1: and like feel I can give a studied answer. Um,
Speaker 1: I would answer that like that, I would seventy six
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Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers follow the Portland Trailblazers one thirty two
Speaker 1: one fifteen. Brian Selzer with you from Sixers dot com
Speaker 1: as the Sixers fall in two games this season to Portland,
Speaker 1: which takes the season series. Tom McGinnis rejoins US now,
Speaker 1: and this is one time the Sixers actually seemed like
Speaker 1: they were getting off to a pretty strong star, but
Speaker 1: particularly down the stretch of the second quarter when Nurkics
Speaker 1: got loose. That was a theme that carried over to
Speaker 1: the third quarter in Portland just opened things up from there. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the phrase in the NBA. There's there's Well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have games like this, but you don't want
Speaker 1: to have that many, particularly when you're tracking toward a
Speaker 1: season of great proportion. And how the Sixers been playing,
Speaker 1: and this was another one of those clunkers, if you will,
Speaker 1: they have one in Portland. They happened, I get it.
Speaker 1: But tonight or today it happened because the Blazers were
Speaker 1: that much better. And you mentioned Nurkics, that was an
Speaker 1: area there were multiple sequences and matchups where the Sixers
Speaker 1: didn't match up, and Nurkics was one of them. And
Speaker 1: with Damian Lillard, you know, Brett Brown talks about one
Speaker 1: five pick and roll being the predominant play in the NBA,
Speaker 1: and specifically in the middle of the court. Well, they
Speaker 1: had that one sequence where it was Lillard their point guard,
Speaker 1: their one tour kitch, their center, their five man, and
Speaker 1: they ran at time and again I believe they scored
Speaker 1: four times in a row and that duo was very
Speaker 1: competent for them, and Lillard you gotta love it. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy can rack up thirty points any night, but
Speaker 1: he was a playmaker and he put his players, his
Speaker 1: teammates in great positions to score. And then I hate
Speaker 1: to go here, but tonight or today, jj Reddick was
Speaker 1: a defensive liability. And again that's the NBA. When there
Speaker 1: is a mismatch, teams are going to go at it.
Speaker 1: It was heartless. And then they come in with Canter
Speaker 1: who was equally as effective off the bench. And again
Speaker 1: a number that I put out toward the end of
Speaker 1: the broadcast or earlier in this postgame coverage, they had
Speaker 1: fifteen dunks or layups at the rim. So that's not
Speaker 1: including their misses. And you talk about Joel being a
Speaker 1: rim protector without him out there, and Boban brings a
Speaker 1: little bit of that, but not so much. Today. They
Speaker 1: were getting a lot of plays at the rim with
Speaker 1: lobs to heartless and Layman and Amino players that you know,
Speaker 1: don't really strike fear. But oh boy, the way they
Speaker 1: were very effective here in this afternoon. Great game for them,
Speaker 1: terrific third quarter. Not so much for the Sixers. Seventy
Speaker 1: sixers lose to Portland one thirty two, one fifteen and
Speaker 1: because of some of the shorthandedness with the roster and
Speaker 1: some of the things we heard Brett Brown say he
Speaker 1: was looking for referring to go small ball down the
Speaker 1: stretch after he felt like the bigger size lineup with
Speaker 1: boban Mannanovitch wasn't working. Mike Scott got a lot of run. Thought.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're looking at it was the best game,
Speaker 1: you know, no doubt. Yeah, if you're looking for some
Speaker 1: bright spots or civil linings, you learn a little bit
Speaker 1: more about Mike Scott. And he showed what he can do,
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive end with a shot totally. And
Speaker 1: there was one play where he guarded Cantor and he
Speaker 1: locked him up and he did a great job. He
Speaker 1: runs the court and he gets a stand still three
Speaker 1: and you know, at the time I was talking with
Speaker 1: coach Brown again talks about and then is your form
Speaker 1: from out there? And then is he steps at the nine,
Speaker 1: goes straight up, holds, the follow through, sticks the landing,
Speaker 1: buries a three. And that's why you brought him here.
Speaker 1: He brings toughness and he brings the ability to hit
Speaker 1: an outside shot. And yes he did. He played well.
Speaker 1: Ben played well Ben Simmons. I mean there was a
Speaker 1: sequence in the third quarter where Ben Simmons had two
Speaker 1: or three court length drives on an incredible ability. That's
Speaker 1: that's the number one thing he does. And they were
Speaker 1: coming down and making terrific plays too. Like I said,
Speaker 1: great basketball theater, great great play. But if you're the
Speaker 1: six Ers and they're scoring at will, then that takes
Speaker 1: a little bit of the sizzle out of that end
Speaker 1: to end action. But that these guys are phenomenal athletes
Speaker 1: at both ends of the floor. Tremendous skill, JJ world
Speaker 1: class skill as a shooter. They held him in check
Speaker 1: a little bit, as I said, and again, and I
Speaker 1: made this point earlier, but that's where Joel has missed
Speaker 1: on the offensive end, not just scoring, rebounding, rim protection.
Speaker 1: But he helps JJ Reddick in tonight or today. They
Speaker 1: did a great job running him off the line, and
Speaker 1: he missed. I think as a teammate, Joelle and Bead
Speaker 1: speaking of but Ben was terrific, so that was a positive.
Speaker 1: But it's tough and this is a good team and
Speaker 1: under we talked about some underrated players, even though Lillard
Speaker 1: a multiple All Star. But as a group, I think
Speaker 1: they're not maybe given as much credit as they should be.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Portland, seventy six Ers drop a one thirty
Speaker 1: one fifteen decision of the Portland Trailblazers. Two games on
Speaker 1: the road next week, first up at the Pelicans on Monday,
Speaker 1: than Oklahoma City on Thursday, New Orleans. Unfortunately, it's just
Speaker 1: been a little bit of an unhenged state in recent weeks.
Speaker 1: Of course if you read the NBA news you know why.
Speaker 1: But Anthony Davis has still been playing. They've got a
Speaker 1: back to back starting to night at Indian than they
Speaker 1: come home to take on the Lakers. Before the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers bigger part, they played the They finished the
Speaker 1: back to back today, So Davis still being used at times,
Speaker 1: and that's again given the state with the Sixers injury wise,
Speaker 1: that's going to be something to keep an eye on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that game of the Lakers is tonight. Lakers even at
Speaker 1: five hundred after big comeback over Houston, Indiana. The feed
Speaker 1: in New Orleans last night and when Day his place,
Speaker 1: you know, he's what he's gonna play halfway, No, he's
Speaker 1: gonna play all out. He's an incredible talent. And again
Speaker 1: drew holiday to the pain of underrated players and that's
Speaker 1: been a difficult place for the six years to play.
Speaker 1: And then and this is you know that game Thursdays
Speaker 1: on national TV. So here you are going on the
Speaker 1: road for five days to play two games. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the new spaced out NBA. By spaced out, I mean
Speaker 1: calendar wise where there are more days off built in
Speaker 1: and understandably so that's just the way it is. And
Speaker 1: that'll ought to be a terrific game. You talk about
Speaker 1: the sex Us have never won there, they have never
Speaker 1: won in Oklahoma. So hopefully Joel will be back for
Speaker 1: that game, but there's no guarantees he again, he was
Speaker 1: gonna be the way it was reported by the team,
Speaker 1: the way they delivered it, I should say that he
Speaker 1: was going to be reevaluated in a week. So that's
Speaker 1: not absolute Locke that he's going to play on Thursday,
Speaker 1: because that would be a week after that All Star break.
Speaker 1: But obviously that that would be big and so this
Speaker 1: is a this is a game. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: don't think you expected a fifteen point defeat here at
Speaker 1: home the Portland. But the Blazers played great and the
Speaker 1: Sixers got to get into the mix a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And like I said, Brian, hey, what do they average
Speaker 1: six Ers one hundred and fifteen points? They had one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty points, but the Portland average is one
Speaker 1: hundred and eleven, and so my point is they had
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty. We talked about this Thursday. It's
Speaker 1: not the offense, it's the defense, and today that was
Speaker 1: glaring in this game where Portland really exposed the Sixers
Speaker 1: on many fronts at that end of the floor and
Speaker 1: especially offensive rebounding. No question, Tom. We will talk to
Speaker 1: you from the Big Easy on Monday one thirty one
Speaker 1: fifteen the final It was the trail Blazers over the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers. Will step aside. One final segment coming up
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Speaker 1: But as for today's game, six is trying to split
Speaker 1: the season series against the Portland Trailblazers. They got off
Speaker 1: to a relatively decent start. Things started to pick up
Speaker 1: a little bit and t J McConnell came off the
Speaker 1: bench to provide a spark and here's a steel by
Speaker 1: who else? T J McConnell bust a gap in front
Speaker 1: of Lellard and scores it steel driving lamp. Two point
Speaker 1: game gave the Sixers a two point lead to twenty
Speaker 1: three twenty one. The Trailblazers would be in front twenty
Speaker 1: seven five after twelve minutes of play. Boban Marnyanovitch was
Speaker 1: the hero from a Thursday's game in the win over
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat, he was tremendous. A little bit more
Speaker 1: difficult today, but he helped give the seventy sixers a
Speaker 1: margin in their favor in the second quarter. And now
Speaker 1: here's Jimmy Butler to Bobono, Bobon going right at Anna's
Speaker 1: candor and a big man Bomi, I don't know right
Speaker 1: with a field goal thirty three thirty one sixers. With
Speaker 1: the leap sixers trying to stay in front down the
Speaker 1: stretch of quarter number two. JJ Reddick unable to find
Speaker 1: a stroke for most of the day, only one basket
Speaker 1: and this was it. And here JJ for three that
Speaker 1: rattle spitz goes j J Reddick knocking down his first
Speaker 1: three sixers in thirty three percent from beyond three for nine.
Speaker 1: They had the lead at fifty four fifty three after
Speaker 1: that go in front bucket by JJ Reddick, but Nurkics
Speaker 1: helped the Trailblazers to a fifty nine to fifty six
Speaker 1: margin at the break. Sixers battling uphill and quarter number three,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler trying to make an impact. Jimmy Butler drives
Speaker 1: it oh right down the lane, Jimmy Butler with a
Speaker 1: two hand slam. You can clap, you can pot the floor,
Speaker 1: but you gotta go Jimmy Butler. He gets a two
Speaker 1: hand stuff eight point game, but play call ato after
Speaker 1: time out by the Sixers. That made it seventy to
Speaker 1: sixty two Blazers in front. They would widen the gap
Speaker 1: from there. As this sequence demonstrated Portland Bowl one forty
Speaker 1: and the third Plazer's offensively work in front of their
Speaker 1: bench Canter screens for Lillard backdoor Eli Jake Layman puts
Speaker 1: it up an end. He curled from out top down
Speaker 1: low right, the catch and the slam. He's been impressive.
Speaker 1: Another dish by Lillard. He was impressive indeed, finishing with
Speaker 1: eight points and eleven rebounds. The bench player out of
Speaker 1: Maryland seventy sixers. In the final quarter, they were trying
Speaker 1: what they could. Ben Simmons tied a season high on
Speaker 1: the offensive end. Simmons keeps it underhand, Scoop got it.
Speaker 1: They spread the floor, he attacks, twists it up with
Speaker 1: the right hand. Simmons the rebound, the drive and the
Speaker 1: who That's what he brings to the table. It's an
Speaker 1: eighteen point game in the end. Of fifteen point margin
Speaker 1: in favor of the Trailblazers. They defeated the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: one thirty to one. Fifteen final notes from the final
Speaker 1: stat sheet, seventy six or shot forty eight and a
Speaker 1: half percent from the field, the Trailblazers forty nine and
Speaker 1: a half percent, Portland with five three pointers the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers with nine. Each team with a volume of free throws,
Speaker 1: Portland a little bit better twenty seven to twenty nine
Speaker 1: from the stripe seventy six or twenty two of twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Rebounding the key stat in this one, Portland had fifty three,
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers thirty three, and on the offensive glass
Speaker 1: it was a plus twelve margin for Rip City nineteen
Speaker 1: to seven. Looking at some individual performers, Ben Simmons, with
Speaker 1: the game high scoring total of twenty ninety also had
Speaker 1: ten assists for another double double to go with seven rebounds.
Speaker 1: Spend was eleven of seventeen from the floor in seven
Speaker 1: of eight from the free throw line twenty points four.
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris, who had three three pointers, he had eight
Speaker 1: rebounds to be Butler with fifteen seventy six on five
Speaker 1: of nine shooting plus two rebounds, two assists. Mike Scott
Speaker 1: a good day in his sixth game as the seventy
Speaker 1: six er. It was arguably his best fifteen points, five
Speaker 1: of eight from the floor, three or four from outside
Speaker 1: the arc. He had four rebounds. Yusef Nurkicz was huge
Speaker 1: for the Blazers twenty four points and ten rebounds. Damian
Speaker 1: Lowan with seventeen six and eight. CJ mccollumn with fifteen points,
Speaker 1: including one three. Seventy Sixers with the loss are now
Speaker 1: thirty eight and twenty two on the season, while Portland
Speaker 1: blues to a thirty six and twenty three. Next up
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers, New Orleans, eight o'clock Eastern on Monday.
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Speaker 1: series game against the Penguins. Hope you enjoy that. Big
Speaker 1: thanks to Carl Namoli and at Dylan McKillen back at
Speaker 1: the studio, Marti Dickerson here and now for the radio,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers, Tom McGinnis, Brian Seltzer saying so long
Speaker 1: for now one final time. The final score it was
Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazers won thirty and the seventy Sixers one fifteen.
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