Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind to listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers got another stellar showing from Al Horford, but
Speaker 1: it was not enough, losing for the first time this
Speaker 1: season one fourteen one O nine a Talking Stick Resort
Speaker 1: Arena in Phoenix to the young impressive Suns. How you doing,
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Seltzer. We're gonna touch base with Tom mcguinnis
Speaker 1: in just a moment while also playback some of the
Speaker 1: highlight calls that Tom had in tonight's game as well,
Speaker 1: a bummer for the seventy Sixers. You figured at some
Speaker 1: point the loss was going to come. At one point
Speaker 1: tonight's game, it didn't seem like it would be against
Speaker 1: the Suns. The Sixers, led by seven points, seemed to
Speaker 1: have the game within their control early in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: Within the Suns, which have been not only an impressive
Speaker 1: team this year, but a good second half team, a
Speaker 1: really good second half team, one of the best in
Speaker 1: the league, started to mount their comeback, and of course,
Speaker 1: when you have such a dynamic scoring talent the likes
Speaker 1: of Devin Booker, who has burned the seventy Sixers over
Speaker 1: the course of his career. You always have to be
Speaker 1: on guard and on alert. Booker ended up going for
Speaker 1: forty points. Ricky Rubio for twenty one. The Sixers could
Speaker 1: not get a handle on the turnovers they committed twenty
Speaker 1: that led to twenty three points scored by the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 1: The Sun's outscoring the Sixers thirty three to twenty seven
Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter enough to pull out the Wine
Speaker 1: fourteen to one. On nine. Sixers got, as I said,
Speaker 1: a really great effort from Al Horford. Man. How phenomenal
Speaker 1: was he not just tonight but also the games Saturday
Speaker 1: as well, when the Sixers without Joel embiid thirty two
Speaker 1: points from Al Horford, two off his career high. The
Speaker 1: thirteen year veteran also with five rebounds and four assists
Speaker 1: in thirty four minutes of play. Tobias Harris got the
Speaker 1: Sixers roll in early. He had a really good start,
Speaker 1: finished ten to twenty from the field, twenty four points,
Speaker 1: ten rebounds, his second double double on the season for
Speaker 1: con Cork Mos. Two days after clinching the game in
Speaker 1: Rip City, went for a career best twenty points, four
Speaker 1: three pointers for cork Mas, but the Sixers did not
Speaker 1: get a ton from their bench. As Brett Brown alluded
Speaker 1: to if you heard the postgame press conference, not only
Speaker 1: did they miss eight of their free throws twelve twenty
Speaker 1: from the line, didn't get to the line all that much,
Speaker 1: and for the first time this season, the Sixers I
Speaker 1: thought were outdone, outplayed on the interior. Phoenix Suns outrebounded
Speaker 1: the Sixers by two. The Sixers, they did have a
Speaker 1: decent margin on the offensive glass they were plus four,
Speaker 1: but that didn't manifest itself in second chance scoring the
Speaker 1: way that it did for the Sixers and the five
Speaker 1: games leading into tonight, and also after going for eighty
Speaker 1: four points in the paint against Portland on Saturday, the Suns,
Speaker 1: relying on the likes of Aaron Baines and also Dario Scharitch,
Speaker 1: contained the Sixers for thirty two points in the paint. Tonight.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons just too freight from the field for six
Speaker 1: point points. Josh Richardson with eight points. The seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: starting guard duo not their best combined outing in terms
Speaker 1: of the six games the Sixers have played so far.
Speaker 1: Tom Aguinnis called this one from the desert in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Tom It was a back and fourth game, nine lead changes,
Speaker 1: twelve ties. We knew the Suns were a good second
Speaker 1: half team, especially in the fourth quarter, and that man
Speaker 1: Devin Booker was at it again. Yeah, no, he's amazing.
Speaker 1: You know what is so impressive Brian that he has
Speaker 1: a fast gear, he has a fifth gear, but for
Speaker 1: the most part he's kind of surveying the scene like
Speaker 1: a running back in football, probing, looking where the opening
Speaker 1: is and then also waiting for his screeners to come,
Speaker 1: and he kind of just finds out where he's gonna
Speaker 1: go with that ball. And you know, we know him
Speaker 1: as a great catch and shoot player. But some of
Speaker 1: those baskets down the stretch from the right baseline, the
Speaker 1: drive where he's shifted it to the left hand and
Speaker 1: made it on Al Horford, and another kind of fade
Speaker 1: away from about fourteen feet along the right base line
Speaker 1: just in an angle that had almost the ball almost
Speaker 1: had a float over the corner of the glass. Very impressive.
Speaker 1: He's got an array, a multitude of scoring plays and
Speaker 1: opportunities and he put them out there, plus the free throws,
Speaker 1: and like you say, good second half team great finished
Speaker 1: by him. He had eleven in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 1: just like with the six Ers, and I thought, Coach,
Speaker 1: as you might expect, nailed it, and that is the
Speaker 1: six Ers missed the free throws, they didn't have a
Speaker 1: tremendous performance up and down the bench, and Furkin ended
Speaker 1: up being that third score. But they needed a little
Speaker 1: bit more balanced through the course of the game. And
Speaker 1: the Suns closed it out here at home. And guess
Speaker 1: what I mean. The Sixers played without a bead and
Speaker 1: they played without DeAndre Ayton. So there's always a surprise team.
Speaker 1: And the Western Conference, of course, is stacked. Who knows
Speaker 1: how long this will hold for them, but they are
Speaker 1: way ahead of maybe where anybody would have thought they
Speaker 1: would have been, and they're right in the thickest things
Speaker 1: in the West in the opening two weeks of this
Speaker 1: NBA season, and the two losses come against two really
Speaker 1: good teams, Denver and Utah by a point of piece.
Speaker 1: Do you think, Tim the Sixers on the interior got
Speaker 1: their biggest test in the season tonight in terms of
Speaker 1: what Bains and Dario were able to do. How Phoenix
Speaker 1: is able to compete with them inside, Absolutely no doubt
Speaker 1: about it, and you know, they did a good job. Bains,
Speaker 1: as we've seen, you know over the years with Boston,
Speaker 1: is just a terrific player, one of those underrated players.
Speaker 1: Great signing by them to get him. I thought Dario
Speaker 1: was okay. I don't know that he was a huge
Speaker 1: factor in the game, but you know, they they're helping
Speaker 1: and recovering on defense, and then offensively, they spread the
Speaker 1: Sixers out and created space and we're setting up a
Speaker 1: drawn kick opportunities, and they played a lot of middle
Speaker 1: pick and roll with Rubio and Booker and the likes
Speaker 1: of Bains and others setting those screens, and they did
Speaker 1: a good job backdoor cuts and whatnot there. It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of like how the Sixers offense was. The Sixers
Speaker 1: don't play as much of that anymore, and that because
Speaker 1: of the size and whatnot, but they were they were
Speaker 1: better in that area tonight. So the Sixers have dominated
Speaker 1: the glass, they dominated that points in the pain, but
Speaker 1: not as much here tonight, seventy six Ers loose for
Speaker 1: the first time this season one fourteen, one on nine
Speaker 1: at Phoenix. Tim try to I try to keep a
Speaker 1: neutral unbiased. Uh oh, you're looking bias you are told
Speaker 1: you're to be You're the number one fan in the
Speaker 1: Horford club. You knew where I was going. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is just a treat to watch him. I thought
Speaker 1: that play. I know this is a loss, and you
Speaker 1: know we probably should be a little bit more you know,
Speaker 1: temperate here. But I thought the play at the end
Speaker 1: of the first half where he kind of like bumped
Speaker 1: off Bains knocked down a deep straight away three was
Speaker 1: one of the great plays for him on a great night,
Speaker 1: thirty two points. He's been terrific in the absence of
Speaker 1: Joel these last two games. No, you're right, and at
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter two and then maybe
Speaker 1: his most spectacular play was the rebound dunk bottle slam
Speaker 1: after the Simmons miss, and then again late he hit
Speaker 1: a huge three and you know that was still at
Speaker 1: that point a three possession game, I mean, sorry, a
Speaker 1: three point game, a one possession game game. And then
Speaker 1: the Sixers did that again with Furkon hitting that. So
Speaker 1: now you couldn't ask for more from Al Horford again.
Speaker 1: In the course of last season, sixty eight games with
Speaker 1: the Celtics, he had nine twenty plus point games, and
Speaker 1: he's already in the first six games, had three with
Speaker 1: the Sixers. So he is producing and he's you could
Speaker 1: just see him and you've watched practices at the training complex, Brian,
Speaker 1: where he is that that phrase like a coach on
Speaker 1: the floor. He really he gets guys and he talks
Speaker 1: to him on the side, and he's really just a
Speaker 1: total veteran presence. And Tobias was good here tonight. They
Speaker 1: were great, and particularly through you know, the first forty
Speaker 1: five or so minutes of the game, Harrison that up
Speaker 1: falling out. But again I thought the Sixers needed more.
Speaker 1: They needed somebody like Mike Scott or Ben or Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson or Ennis or Thieble, somebody to step up and
Speaker 1: make more scoring plays. And it didn't just happen. And Phoenix,
Speaker 1: a young and athletic team on the rise, had the
Speaker 1: Sixers number here tonight, particularly late already time speak with
Speaker 1: you on Wednesday from Salt Lake City. All right, good night,
Speaker 1: thank you, Brian. Seventy Sixers drop a one fourteen one
Speaker 1: on nine decision to the Phoenix Suns. The Phoenix Suns
Speaker 1: now five and two, the seventy Sixers their first loss,
Speaker 1: now five and one on the year. Thirty two from
Speaker 1: Big Al Horford, twenty four and ten from Tobias Harris.
Speaker 1: Will get to some of the highlights coming up. Game
Speaker 1: number two of a four game Western Conference road trip
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers. Put the going into the night,
Speaker 1: undefeated squad in the desert. My name's Brian Seltzer. Here's
Speaker 1: how it sounded. Seventy Sixers and the Phoenix Suns. Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris was really good at the outset of this game.
Speaker 1: Harris handles in against the left the ubre out of Kansas.
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris with a right hand dribble him put up
Speaker 1: from seventeen and it's up in good. Harris rattles it
Speaker 1: in so the Sixers allow him to be the initiator
Speaker 1: and he calls his own number. Put the Sixers up
Speaker 1: four to two. Early on, the Phoenix Suns would respond,
Speaker 1: and then the Sixers and Phoenix would begin trading leads
Speaker 1: back and forth. It was the seventy Sixers that ended
Speaker 1: the first quarter on a positive note. Park Mooth battles
Speaker 1: Fike Scott gets it how old with five netto with
Speaker 1: the ball netto on the dribble netto down the lane
Speaker 1: to the quarner Al Horford for three. It's good having
Speaker 1: the Sixers with point three to go in the opening
Speaker 1: quarter have taken the lead. Thirty one twenty nine was
Speaker 1: the score. That's how it would be going into the
Speaker 1: second quarter. Let us fast forward to the end of
Speaker 1: the first half and that man Al Horford found himself
Speaker 1: in a spot to do some damage from deep once again.
Speaker 1: Three seconds to go for the Sixers. Harford has it.
Speaker 1: He knocks down Bays. He tries to shoot at three
Speaker 1: at the horse Pit's good. Now Horford has done it again.
Speaker 1: He made a three at the end of the opening quarter.
Speaker 1: He nailed a tribble here at halftime, down goes base
Speaker 1: had down Goes to three. Poor big Al. It was
Speaker 1: an awesome play. Seventy sixers in front sixty one and
Speaker 1: fifty six at intermission. The third quarter of the Sixers
Speaker 1: would go up by a game high seven point margin.
Speaker 1: Phoenix came charging back to Bias, Harris doing his thing
Speaker 1: to keep the seventy sixers in front. To Bias with
Speaker 1: the ball six to shoot four minutes to go in
Speaker 1: the quarter, Harris on the right side against Booker, backing
Speaker 1: down with a gribble three on o'clock turns face fires
Speaker 1: in the air gun in a foul Devin Booker to bias,
Speaker 1: Harris puts it in, and moments later it would be
Speaker 1: Harris on a driving lamp with nine tenths of a
Speaker 1: second left from the third to keep the Sixers in
Speaker 1: front going into the fourth eighty two to eighty one.
Speaker 1: The game was back and forth throughout the evening, especially
Speaker 1: so in the fourth quarter Devin Booker Ricky Rubio starting
Speaker 1: to step up for the Suns. They went up by
Speaker 1: seven points with just under six minutes to go. Al
Speaker 1: Horford let a seventy Sixers come back Sixers in transition.
Speaker 1: Simmons with it right at Dario drives at right hand lamp,
Speaker 1: no pre bouts lamp, Hartford he hammers and in time
Speaker 1: out Preheenix. Simmons fishes. Hartford slabs big. Al a thirty
Speaker 1: three year old. I'll have to I asked Tommy about
Speaker 1: that call, but I'm pretty sure he was mimicking the
Speaker 1: inflection of the Boston Celtics PA announcer a TD Garden,
Speaker 1: the way he used to introduce Al Horford. Anyhow, that
Speaker 1: tied it up at one hundred. Big moment for the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers. Phoenix went back up by two on a
Speaker 1: Devin Booker step back for con Quirk Mos tied the
Speaker 1: game at one oh two or three minutes ago, but
Speaker 1: then Booker answered again, this time with another floater, and
Speaker 1: he would score to put the Sons up by three,
Speaker 1: one oh six to one oh three. Some more insurance
Speaker 1: came from Phoenix that made it a one o nine,
Speaker 1: one oh three game. The Sixers were turning into owl
Speaker 1: once again. Quark Mos. Sixers got a chance. They gotta
Speaker 1: score here, they're down six. Josh Richardson with an owl
Speaker 1: and Orford for three over May just good Hartford Ports
Speaker 1: today and that makes it a three point game. But
Speaker 1: a couple more free throws from Devin Booker would be
Speaker 1: enough to ice this one for Phoenix. They win by five,
Speaker 1: one fourteen one on nine. Seventy six Ers shoot forty
Speaker 1: seven percent from the field, Phoenix fifty three percent. Sixers
Speaker 1: thirteen three pointers. Sons hit eleven, but the Sixers just
Speaker 1: twelve of twenty from the free throw line, where his
Speaker 1: Phoenix was twenty one of twenty seven. Seventy Sixers lose
Speaker 1: the rebounding battle, a rarity on this young season. Minus
Speaker 1: two overall, despite winning the offensive rebounding battle plus four.
Speaker 1: Sixers had twenty turnovers, as did Phoenix, but here was
Speaker 1: a noteworthy gap. It was Phoenix scoring twenty three points
Speaker 1: off the Sixers turnovers, the Sixers nineteen points off of
Speaker 1: Phoenix's twenty turnovers. Forty points for Devin Booker, now five
Speaker 1: straight games from him against the seventy Sixers with at
Speaker 1: least thirty points, twenty one for starting point man Ricky Rubio.
Speaker 1: He also had ten assists and seven rebounds. Al Horford's
Speaker 1: thirty two points to shy off his career high. He
Speaker 1: was thirteen to twenty from the field, five of eight
Speaker 1: from three, twenty four points and ten rebounds for Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris and fur Con Corkmiles and new career high with
Speaker 1: twenty points. The seventy Sixers suffered their first loss of
Speaker 1: the season. There now five and one, Phoenix improves to
Speaker 1: five and two and up next for the seventy six
Speaker 1: ers eighty nine o'clock game on Wednesday night from Vivin
Speaker 1: Smartenhome Arena in Salt Lake City the Utah Jazz, a
Speaker 1: place where Utah has not lost this season. They're four
Speaker 1: and three Overall, they've lost their last two but three
Speaker 1: and oz In an always very tough place to play.
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, it's expected Joel and Bead will be back,
Speaker 1: and that of course sets up a premier big man
Speaker 1: matchup between him and two time Defensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year from the Jazz Rudy Gobert. So long for now,
Speaker 1: one final time of the final score Phoenix Suns one
Speaker 1: fourteen seventy six Ers one O nine. You've been listening
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