WEBVTT - Rewind vs. Boston Celtics - 2/1/20 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.400 You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:09.160 highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Well, 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.360 that was certainly less than ideal for the seventy Sixers. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:16.159 Tonight one, sixteen ninety five the final score Sixers go 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.680 down to Ted Garden in Boston, denied their first regular 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.880 season series sweep of the Boston Celtics since two thousand 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.160 and two thousand and one. I'm Brian Seltzer and from 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:30.240 the earliest stages of the game not particularly close. The 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.320 Sixers yes, got the deficit to eight points at the 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.919 half fifty nine to fifty one, but Boston behind the 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.880 likes of Jason Tatum early, especially in the first quarter 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.200 when he went for eleven of his twenty five points, 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.280 and Jellen Brown right after the half in the third 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.760 quarter when he went for eleven of his own in 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.600 the period in route two, finishing with a game best 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.240 thirty two points. No answer was what the seventy Sixers 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.440 had for the Boston Celtics to night Boston, approving to 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.520 thirty three and fifteen all, the seventy Sixers dropped to 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.720 Owen two. On their current four game road trip against 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.400 some really key Eastern Conference opponents. The Sixers now thirty 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.160 one and nineteen on the year. The Sixers entered tonight 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.440 in sixth place in the East, while the Boston Celtics 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.880 were in third place. But at this point in time, 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.919 the Sixers are currently despite winning the four game season 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.200 series between the teams three games to one, the Sixers 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.360 notably are four back in the lost column of the 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.120 Boston Celtics and three full games behind Boston in the 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.080 Eastern Conference standing. So yes, some ways to go, but 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.240 it is hard not to think in terms of lasting 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.440 impressionate tones and terms based on what we saw tonight. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.679 Boston didn't have one of its all stars, and Kemba 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.040 Walker didn't have a key backup center in Ennis Cantor, 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.120 who at various points of his career has played Joel 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.600 Embiide well. But they came out and had total control 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.520 against the Sixers, outscore them thirty two to nineteen in 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:59.160 the first quarter for seven turnovers for the Sixers in 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.000 the first period. The Sixers committed seven turnovers against six 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.000 made field goals in the first Now to their credit, 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.480 in the second quarter, they came back scored thirty two 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.280 points showed some signs of life and increased defensive energy. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.640 But in the third quarter of the Celtics held the 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.640 Sixers to sixteen points. It was Boston's defense that was 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.680 so supercharged. It seemed like they were just exerting so 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.600 much more pressure. They were so much more lively at 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.600 the beginning of the game, coming down with every key 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.959 reband and the Sixers they missed some quality shots. But 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.320 you know, I guess you wonder do you let it 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.760 affect you on the opposite end or does it filter 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.640 into opposite parts of your game? Who knows? The Sixers 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:45.320 shoot thirty seven percent for the night, seven for thirty 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.760 three from three point territory, and Boston outscores the Sixers 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.600 seventeen to six on points off turnovers, and not unrelated, 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.720 twenty three to ten in terms of fast break points. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.680 Jayalen Brown and Jason Tatum, Who I thought, I'm gonna 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.680 ask Tom about this. I thought the Sixers did an 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.280 excellent job on them, the two of those wings the 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.200 first three meetings of the season, and while that wasn't 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.440 the sole factor that tipped the scales in the seventy 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.079 Sixers favor in the first three matchups of the year, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.280 it was definitely a big part of it. You just 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.919 look back those first three games and Tatum and Brown 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.639 didn't look nearly like the type of players they are 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.760 on a regular game in game out basis. Well tonight 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.920 they shorted Brown again went for thirty two. Jason Tatum 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.240 went for twenty five. Marcus Smart filling in for Kemba 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.280 Walker at the starting point guard spot, very efficient sixteen points, 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.240 four rebounds, four assists. Off the bench, brad Wanamaker out 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.119 of Roman Catholic fifteen points. That was a season high 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.480 for him. Shemy Ojola played pretty aggressive as well, and 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.800 while the stats won't really show it, for Daniel Tye 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.960 at center, certainly much smaller and undersized than Joel Embiid, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.480 he had a great game working on Joel and bid 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.000 was held to just eleven points. He was one for 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.400 eleven from the field, oh for four from three point territory, 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.840 nine for nine from the free throw line, five rebounds 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.320 and assist four turnovers, all of which came early on 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.719 in the first quarter. Ben Simmons twenty three points, nine 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:21.960 rebounds and five assists, thirteen for four con Corkmas ten 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.120 for Tobias Harris, Shake Milton and the start tonight. He 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:27.680 went three for eight from the field, had a couple 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.559 nice defensive place he had three steals, finished with eleven 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.880 points in the game. Al Horford nine points, nine rebounds, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.600 four assists, one for six from outside the ark. So 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.160 once again the seventy six Ers, they struggle on the road. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.039 That's a recurring theme. They're nineteen seventeen and away games. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.840 And another thing is their three point shooting is extremely 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.400 different on the road than it is at home. And 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.000 that boardsself out again tonight we go to TD Garden 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.520 right now. Tom McGinnis had the call. Tom. It seemed 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.400 like the Celtics came out with a mindset that was 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.920 at an extremely different level tonight and that carried them 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.440 to the first quarter and kind of set the tone 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.240 for the rest of the game. Yeah, you could tell 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.680 the way that Tatum was attacking, the way that Jalen 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.039 Brown had bounced, and you know, Smart always plays with 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.080 a swagger and a toughness and a grit, and that 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.680 was on display. And they just they took it to 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.320 the Sixers. I mean to me, it's a very disheartening 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.799 loss for the Sixers. They got handled big time tonight 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.160 in Boston. A couple of things on that. I mean, 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.400 maybe just to dovetail off that it kind of like, 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.680 I'm not going to say you overlooked the first three 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.680 games in the season, but this is like that lasting 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.920 impression factor. It's like che and that just doesn't feel 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:36.360 good to see a game go down like that. No, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.480 Like I said, you know, you could say the Sixers 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.400 won the season series and you know the tiebreaker, but 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.039 right now it doesn't appear that the teams are gonna 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.000 be tied, you know, like that's that's all well and good. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.800 And I just again, the Sixers beat them, but two 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.000 of those games, Boston had played the night before, and 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.200 tonight they were fresh, and the Sixers were fresh, you know, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.360 other than they didn't have Josh Richardson, but they didn't 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:00.120 have Kemba Walker, and the Sixers just didn't put up 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.599 enough fight. And again, the pendulum of momentum swings early 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.960 on and in these games, and it swung heavily in 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.720 favor of Boston and they never let up and just 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.040 kept pursuing. And they had a number of players who 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.720 outplayed the Sixers, including as you mentioned, Brad Wanamaker, and 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.839 so yeah, I mean Tatum was driving. I thought Ben 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.039 showed fight, Ben showed that he wasn't going to go away, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.479 and he continues to play extremely well. And you know, 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.280 you had some decent performances at times from firk On 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.440 in the second there to bias, but to bias, you know, 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.800 and all had a decent night, but you know you 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.480 expect more from Harrison Warford and uh, you know, just 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.920 to you know tonight, like I said, like you said, Brian, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.080 after that Atlantic, Hey, the Sixers might win the next 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.320 three road games and okay, well not not tonight. So 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.719 you know what I mean, Like you know that that's 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.279 the hope coming in, but you gotta do it, you 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.960 gotta execute, you gotta make it happen. And this was 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.919 not the night where the Sixers did any of that. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.760 Seventy Sixers lose to the Boston Celtics one, sixteen ninety five. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.920 And I don't know how you feel, Tim, but it's 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.039 just the stark contrast between how the Sixers were able 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.000 to keep the wings of the Celtics in check Tatum 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.760 and Brown the first three games and tonight, man, they 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.560 had their way. Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.640 it's almost like Brown was proving he should have been 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.800 an All Star, and Tatum was proving why he is 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.640 an All Star. You know, I mean, people look these guys, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.040 these professional athletes, they look for the little less edge. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.240 You can find one little thing, and if that's that's 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.800 what motivates them, you know, you almost have to find different. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.640 These guys played eighty two regular season games sometimes, you know, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:43.720 fifteen twenty playoff games. You gotta motivate, you gotta self motivate. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.000 There's the new Rockney, newt Rockney's not coming through that door. Brown, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.800 you know what I mean. And these guys do it. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:55.280 They the slightest little thing. And you know, I don't know, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.600 I just that's how they played. Those two players that 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.360 were speaking of Brown and Tatum and they're good. Oh, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.200 by the way, they're good. And uh again they're ten 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.080 and oh when they both scored twenty and more, well 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.880 they had thirty two and twenty five. Well, Tom, no 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.640 need to belabor this one anymore. Tonight, We're gonna let 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.760 you off the hook earlier. You can start making whatever 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.239 efforts are necessary to find your way into Super Bowl 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.640 fifty four tomorrow when the team is in Miami. Oh, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.040 I wish, but that's a hey, Monday night. I mean, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.240 this is another huge one, and this is one where 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.160 it's like, all right, you're trying to get something on 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.120 this road trip, but also avoid losing the four game 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.680 season series to the Miami Heat. Right, you could even 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.040 at two games apiece, and uh, you know, no, the Sixers, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.920 you know, they beat Miami in the first game, and 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.800 then the second game they should have won, they lost 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.920 one to eight, one to four. That was when you know, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.240 Miami played a lot of zone defense. So yeah, no, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.480 it's it's not going to be easy. Boston just went 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.920 down there in one, you know, pretty good game the 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.800 other night. I believe that was Tuesday night. So but 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.440 those young guys have really done well. It's an incredible 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.880 Duncan Robinson and Kendrick Nunn and Tyler Hero and of 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.040 course Bam now in All Star and like Miami just 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.560 the rebirth is you know, Drogage head thirty two in 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.360 their game the other night against Boston. But and Jimmy 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.760 Butler's playing at a level that he's obviously playing better 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.560 than he did a year ago. And I would argue 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.560 two years he's always been a good player, but he's 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.240 almost been like reinvigorated. So it's in a difficult ball 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.319 game down there in South Florida on Monday. Already time. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.800 We'll speak to you at that point in time. All right, 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.000 good night. Thanks. The Sixers lose one sixteen to ninety 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.320 five to Boston Celtics in the four game a regular 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.160 season series finale between the long time rivals. Looking over 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.800 the final box score, seventy Sixers shot just under thirty 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.200 seven percent from the field. They were seven of thirty 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.960 three from outside the arc. If you do the quick math, 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.840 that is just under twenty one and a half percent. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.240 Boston shot forty seven and a half percent from the floor, 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.079 eight of thirty from outside the arc. Boston got to 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:56.040 the line forty one times. Speaking to its level of aggressiveness, 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.079 they shot seventy eight percent from the stripe. Seventy six 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.400 Ers made twenty six of thirty one free throws. Sixers 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.360 did win the rebounding battle by five. However, the seventy sixers, 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.520 you know, obviously they were missing shots. There were more 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.840 rebounds to be had. Turnovers were an issue, especially at 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.120 the outside of the game. The seventy Sixers committed seven 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.720 in the first quarter. They only made six baskets in 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.800 the first quarter, Sixers out scored seventeen to six in 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.760 points off turnovers in twenty three to ten on the break. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.800 Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum or the difference makers. Certainly Tatum. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.360 You know Jaylen Brown will have the bigger night. Thirty 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.920 two points. That was a game high. But it was 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.760 Jason Tatum in the early going who could do no wrong. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.040 In the first quarter. He scored eleven points in about 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.600 seven minutes on the way to twenty five for the game. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.680 Markus Smart, filling in for the injured Kemba Walker finished 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.040 with sixteen points, and brad Wanamaker out of Roman Catholic 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.160 with two dunks in the game and route to fifteen 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.000 points a season high fourteen for fir Con Quirk Miles 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.080 off the bench. Tough night for Dwell and Batis won 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.679 for eleven h for four from three, nine for nine 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.000 from the free throw line with five rebounds. He finished 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.280 eleven points. Tobias Harris had ten, Al Horford with nine, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.400 Shake Milton making the start his fourth in row with eleven, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.480 and as I said, fur con Cork Miles with fourteen 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.360 off the bench. Seventy six Ers now thirty one to nineteen. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.720 The Boston Celtics improved to thirty three and fifteen, So yes, 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.600 they're four games in front of the seventy Sixers in 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.480 the lost column, three games in front in the standings. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.280 Sixers will have two more games to go on this 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.280 road trip. They're actually gonna come back to Philadelphia after 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.640 the game in Miami on Monday Night against the thirty 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.640 three and fifteen Heat. Really important for the seventy Sixers. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.400 They trail the Miami Heat by three games and the standings, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.240 and they are down two games to one in the 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.199 regular season series. And the seventy Sixers have the Milwaukee 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.800 Bucks on Thursday before hosting Jamorant and the Memphis Grizzlies 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.920 on Friday, and a tough back to back. You've been 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.599 listening to Rewind. Look out for fresh episodes of the 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.120 Day after every seventy Sixers game this season.