Speaker 1: This is seventy Sixers rewind time now to listen back
Speaker 1: to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. It
Speaker 1: was a rough end to what ended up being a
Speaker 1: rough road trip for the seventy Sixers, only two games,
Speaker 1: but two losses, first Saturday at the Buzzer at Atlanta
Speaker 1: and then tonight in Orlando, a loss that occurred much
Speaker 1: earlier before the sound of the final hornon Brian Seltzer,
Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out late with us. We'll get to
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis in a moment. One nineteen ninety eighth y
Speaker 1: Orlando Magic battling and scrapping and clawing for their playoff
Speaker 1: lives handed to the seventy Sixers without Ben Simmons Tonight,
Speaker 1: as the Sixers lose one nineteen to ninety eight, crazy
Speaker 1: that if you went through the box scoring, he looked
Speaker 1: at some areas. Some of them might jump out to you.
Speaker 1: Twenty three league changes, ten ties the game that, without doubt,
Speaker 1: ended up being nowhere near that close. The seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: were outscored sixty two to thirty eight in the second half.
Speaker 1: The main culprit a scoring drought in terms of field
Speaker 1: goal shooting that lasted more than eleven minutes the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers on a shake Hilton basket made it a seventy
Speaker 1: eight seventy seven game. They were down by just one
Speaker 1: but then and there are a bunch of different ways
Speaker 1: you could carve up the magic. Run the Magic, scoring
Speaker 1: thirty of the next thirty five points in the game
Speaker 1: to seize control and have their way with the seventy sixers.
Speaker 1: The team split the four game season series, each team
Speaker 1: winning at home twice, and have The seventy sixers have
Speaker 1: got a couple of days to regroup, hopefully get back
Speaker 1: to full strength, and then focus their attention on the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets for a game at the Center on Thursday,
Speaker 1: which is Tom McGinnis alluded to could be a preview
Speaker 1: of the first round of the playoffs if current seatings
Speaker 1: were to hold. All right, let's go to the man
Speaker 1: himself at Amway Center, Tom, This really was competitive back
Speaker 1: and forth. That's not to say the seventy sixers are
Speaker 1: playing all that great, but it was a close game
Speaker 1: for about three and a half quarters, a bigger parton
Speaker 1: two and a half quarters, and the Magic really rev
Speaker 1: things up. Yeah no, I can't explain it, you know,
Speaker 1: they're just flat. I mean to have a sense of
Speaker 1: urgency for a team with big time aspirations, you know,
Speaker 1: like there's just no excuse for it. I don't care
Speaker 1: what the stage of the season is, down the stretch,
Speaker 1: nine games to go, there's just there. There isn't. You
Speaker 1: got to play with more urgency than that, more efficiency
Speaker 1: and better execution. Whereas Orlando, you know, okay, they're more desperate,
Speaker 1: but you know that coming in and you got a
Speaker 1: better record, you've had a better season, you would have
Speaker 1: to say you have better players. And it just did
Speaker 1: not turn out that way. I mean, teams have low
Speaker 1: scoring quarters, but to not score for almost eleven minutes
Speaker 1: or whatever it turned out to be, that's just unacceptable.
Speaker 1: And so you know they played well forty eight. He
Speaker 1: really got going. He had four points at halftime. I
Speaker 1: believe he had sixteen or so in the third. And
Speaker 1: then even their reserves, I mean there their reserves were
Speaker 1: playing with an edge kem Birch had or really he
Speaker 1: would bringing up physical I don't want to say dominance
Speaker 1: because it wasn't dominant, but he brought an ed Michael
Speaker 1: Carter Williams, you know, five of eight made all of
Speaker 1: his free throws. Again, the Sixers. The turnover total not
Speaker 1: you know, not crazy bad with fifteen, but they scored
Speaker 1: twenty three points off the turnovers. So yeah for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: you know, and again, like coach Brown said, it happens,
Speaker 1: but to see it twice in a row, to be
Speaker 1: to be handled in the fourth quarter by a team
Speaker 1: under five hundred twice in a row not what they
Speaker 1: expected when they come down here to the Southeast in
Speaker 1: terms of losing in Atlanta and playing this way down
Speaker 1: the stretch against the Orlando Magic. Right, just because this
Speaker 1: team focused on trying to further established chemistry and jail
Speaker 1: after that big win over Boston certainly was not meant
Speaker 1: to be interpreted as like, all right, let's go through
Speaker 1: these next two games and to a certain degree, go
Speaker 1: through the motions. And I mean, I think the other
Speaker 1: thing about the turnovers two time was that they just
Speaker 1: looked like they were errors of omission and not commission,
Speaker 1: if that makes any sense. You know, It's like they
Speaker 1: just were unforced errors on many of these turnovers where
Speaker 1: it was this communication Joel and Beat simply losing the
Speaker 1: ball a couple of times, and the Magic just were
Speaker 1: able to feast on that and they had all the
Speaker 1: intangibles that you like to associate with the seventy six ers.
Speaker 1: It was once again, it was the opposition that seemed
Speaker 1: to happen. That's right, I mean, And it seemed as
Speaker 1: though there were times when he kind of corralled these
Speaker 1: the turnover issue, but not lately. You have five turnovers
Speaker 1: in the game, and for your best player with a
Speaker 1: high usage rate, he's got to get a way more
Speaker 1: efficient with that ball. There's no doubt about it. And uh,
Speaker 1: like you say there were the phrase unforced errors. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's omission or comission, but like some
Speaker 1: of them are just as you say, they just threw
Speaker 1: the ball carelessly away and you know it's just for
Speaker 1: the like you say, they're playing together. And I'm sorry
Speaker 1: this team has not played at a high enough rate
Speaker 1: of efficiency where they can just turn it on and
Speaker 1: turn it off. They're not. They're not at that point.
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can ever do that, but
Speaker 1: certainly you know when you have the ability, like save
Speaker 1: for the Warriors, and I know they got crushed the
Speaker 1: other night by Dallas, but when you can just strike
Speaker 1: an all of a sudden bang Bang Bang, knock in
Speaker 1: a few threes and either blow a game out or
Speaker 1: get back into the section. You don't have that capability,
Speaker 1: and so you know, again it's just it's tough, man,
Speaker 1: and you can't. I guess my point. You just can't
Speaker 1: get up for the Milwaukeees and the Boston's. You know,
Speaker 1: these are games where you're trying to get ready for
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You know, like Coach Brown talks about being
Speaker 1: in good form or rest versus playing, like you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't rest these guys after games like this, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? You got to me, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: you gotta get it back before you rest somebody. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, you only have a two suthing game lead,
Speaker 1: two and a half game lead now with this laws
Speaker 1: and you know, God forbid you let it slip away
Speaker 1: in Bang there you're playing Boston. What's everybody feared? You know? Like,
Speaker 1: so that's how serious to me? That's how serious it is.
Speaker 1: You know, Like I said, you can chalk up these
Speaker 1: games happen, but this is not exactly how you want
Speaker 1: to be getting ready for the NBA playoffs, no question
Speaker 1: about it. Couldn't agree with you more why don't we
Speaker 1: leave it on perhaps if you if you want to
Speaker 1: try and find a silver lining. We saw some good
Speaker 1: stuff offensively out of shake Milton tonight, he was back
Speaker 1: in action an NBA game for the first time since February,
Speaker 1: had thirteen points on six of eight shooting and certainly
Speaker 1: removing ourselves from the micro and looking at the macro.
Speaker 1: Great moment for Zaire Smith got to play the final
Speaker 1: five and a half minutes and hit the three point
Speaker 1: on his first NBA field goal attempt. Absolutely and you know,
Speaker 1: like what a feeling it must be for him to
Speaker 1: step out on the court. Like again, he's a young
Speaker 1: young man. I believe he's what Brian twenty years old,
Speaker 1: not even yet, yeah, nineteen years old, and just to
Speaker 1: have that vision and to have that dream to be
Speaker 1: a pro player, just like any of these guys, they'll
Speaker 1: never forget their first ever game and they try to
Speaker 1: go to him and the ball never got to him.
Speaker 1: But then the next time down he did get it
Speaker 1: and he knocked down a three, which is an area
Speaker 1: he spent a lot of time working on with, among others,
Speaker 1: John Towns and the Sixers shooting coach and Tyler Lashbrook
Speaker 1: has really worked with here, So credit to those guys
Speaker 1: and credit to him for putting in the work. And
Speaker 1: like I said, this is not exactly how he anticipated
Speaker 1: his career starting all the way here at the end
Speaker 1: of March with that broken foot and then you know
Speaker 1: the medical situation he went through with that allergic reaction,
Speaker 1: and then regarding Shank, certain guys are scores and he
Speaker 1: obviously is that. I mean, that was his game at SMU.
Speaker 1: He can basically play the one or the two and
Speaker 1: to just step right back into the fold and go
Speaker 1: six for eight, play twenty two minutes. And I was
Speaker 1: in the locker room right before I spoke with coach
Speaker 1: and he had a moment with Shake like and I'm
Speaker 1: assuming it was somewhere along like, oh, I'm going to
Speaker 1: you and I'm gonna go to you early with not
Speaker 1: just Ben Simmons out, with Ennis out, And to me, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a positive sign for the Sixers. We
Speaker 1: just talked about the fact that they need more outside shooting,
Speaker 1: and particularly on a night like this where Reddick goes
Speaker 1: one for seven from three and I think Shake Milton's
Speaker 1: going to give you that, and you know, maybe down
Speaker 1: the stretch here and then obviously, but bigger picture going forward,
Speaker 1: I think you got a guy that's going to be
Speaker 1: a rotation player and somebody that can score the ball,
Speaker 1: which is always needed. So two bright positives with these
Speaker 1: two young players. And you're always looking for talent, and
Speaker 1: the Sixers bring these guys in the defold and it'll
Speaker 1: be nice to see how they develop over the next
Speaker 1: few months and years. All right, Tom, we'll speak with
Speaker 1: you next on Thursday when the seventy Sixers host the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets at the Center. Talk to you then, all right,
Speaker 1: good night, Brian. Thanks. Seventy Sixers drop another tough one,
Speaker 1: this time to the Orlando Magic. Final score from Amway
Speaker 1: Center Tonight was the Magic one. Nineteen seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: ninety eight will play a couple of highlights and then
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Speaker 1: six seven six. Seventy Sixers concluding a two game road
Speaker 1: trip after Orlando Magic tonight, looking to bounce back after
Speaker 1: that stinging loss the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday, It was
Speaker 1: not to be. Here are a couple of highlights for
Speaker 1: a few isolated moments in this game. First half, it
Speaker 1: was pretty competitive in Shake Milton getting some early run
Speaker 1: Freshaw finishing his first G season. There's Jimmy in the lane,
Speaker 1: then Milton and Shake able to get it to go
Speaker 1: floating ten foot field goal. Shake Milton puts it in.
Speaker 1: That made an eighteen eighteen game. One of the reasons
Speaker 1: why Milton was getting some early runs a Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: was not available to night with a stomach bug, and
Speaker 1: also James and it's the third he was out of
Speaker 1: the lineup as well, so Shake Milton checked in tied
Speaker 1: up to score at eighteen. Who was even at thirty one?
Speaker 1: After one in the second quarter, some more back and
Speaker 1: forth scoreboard swaying pace between the seventy sixers and the
Speaker 1: Magic And this was one of the more high energy
Speaker 1: plays of the night. Zat it would be to beat
Speaker 1: to the left side, TJ back to Joel lab play
Speaker 1: two hands, slam by and be good job, well done
Speaker 1: by McConnell. That evolving out of a dribble move in
Speaker 1: the lane, Joella be puts it in. He's got twelve.
Speaker 1: One of the few high energy plays where he seven sixers.
Speaker 1: We should say that made it fifty six fifty five sixers.
Speaker 1: They led sixty to fifty seven at the break, but
Speaker 1: I thought they were pretty fortunate be in front given
Speaker 1: some of the turnover issues. Another looseness with their play
Speaker 1: on the defensive end of the floor shape Milton helping
Speaker 1: the Sixers keep pace in a head of a third corner.
Speaker 1: Here's shake with a shot hand good like he's a
Speaker 1: born score. He comes into the NBA and he doesn't
Speaker 1: look back, he just continues the score. He was a
Speaker 1: hot scorer for the Bluecoats, gets the field goal, makes
Speaker 1: it a one point game, so that brought these seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers back within a point seventy eight seventy seven. From there,
Speaker 1: the Magic would rattle off the next thirteen points, all
Speaker 1: part of a thirty to five run during which the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers did not score a single field goal. And
Speaker 1: that right there is the game. This end of the
Speaker 1: Sixers field goal drag and the Sixers with a drive
Speaker 1: by Bolden top top heres was a year per three
Speaker 1: and it's in. How about that nice jobs. Here's Smith
Speaker 1: his first catch and he makes a three from the
Speaker 1: top of the yard, first field goal, tap, first career basket,
Speaker 1: Prezier Smith a straightaway three point in the seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers one nineteen ninety eight loss. The Magic six Ers
Speaker 1: shot under fifty percent from the field of Magic just
Speaker 1: over fifty one and a half percent Orlando with five
Speaker 1: more three pointers in the seventy six Ers eleven to six.
Speaker 1: The Magic outrebound in the seventy Sixers by five overall,
Speaker 1: but seven on the offensive glass. Sixers with fifteen turnovers
Speaker 1: that resulted in twenty three Magic points. Nick Vusovic twenty
Speaker 1: eight and eleven even forty eight big in the second half,
Speaker 1: he finished with twenty four twenty and ten for Joel Embi,
Speaker 1: who had five turnovers in the game, thirteen for Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler to Bias Harris with fifteen, Shake Milton a new
Speaker 1: NBA career high with thirteen. Zayer Smith played the final
Speaker 1: five and a half minutes. He had the three pointer,
Speaker 1: plus a rebound and a steal for the Sixers. Sixers,
Speaker 1: with their second straight loss, are now forty seven and
Speaker 1: twenty seven on the year. The Magic improved to thirty
Speaker 1: six and thirty eight with their fifth straight win. Seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers back at home on Thursday, and they currently
Speaker 1: in the third spot in the East, will host the
Speaker 1: six seed Brooklyn Nets Brooklyn at thirty eight and thirty six.
Speaker 1: They are playing the Portland Trailblazers tonight. That game starts
Speaker 1: in about fifteen minutes on NBA TV if you want
Speaker 1: to do some advanced scouting. The Nets will be back
Speaker 1: on the East Coast. However, they'll be playing their seventh
Speaker 1: straight That's almost unheard of in the NBA. There's seventh
Speaker 1: straight road game against the seventy Sixers on Thursday. The
Speaker 1: Sixers gotta get back in sync, get back to full
Speaker 1: strength and whatever it's been the last two games against
Speaker 1: lesser opponents, snap out of it. It has not been
Speaker 1: a good look the last two nights the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: have played. Devon Gibbons is up next within the post.
Speaker 1: Big thanks to Tyler Zuli and Brian McLaughlin Back at
Speaker 1: the studio now for the radio voice of the seventy
Speaker 1: six Tom mcguinnis, I'm Brian Seltzer, saying so long for
Speaker 1: now one final time. The final score, the Magic one nineteen,
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers ninety eight have a great rest your
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