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, all
Speaker 1: two familiar themes for the Philadelphia seventy Sixers. On the road,
Speaker 1: they fall to the Indiana Pacers in a noteworthy mid
Speaker 1: season Eastern Conference matchup, one on one to ninety five
Speaker 1: on Brian Seltzer. With the loss, the seventy Sixers have
Speaker 1: now dropped six straight on the road. They slip a
Speaker 1: half game behind Indiana in the Eastern Conference standings. The
Speaker 1: Pacers leap frog the seventy Sixers into fifth, improving to
Speaker 1: twenty five and fifteen, while the seventy Sixers are now
Speaker 1: twenty five and sixteen. They were swept on this two
Speaker 1: game road trip, which started Saturday in Dallas, and the
Speaker 1: Sixers now have dropped six of their last eight games
Speaker 1: and nine of their past thirteen, which essentially accounts for
Speaker 1: the last three and a half four weeks for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: On the road, they struggled with their perimeter shot once again.
Speaker 1: They were just six of thirty three for the game.
Speaker 1: In the second half, they were three for seventeen. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons got off to a terrific start, and he was
Speaker 1: able to crank out twenty points in Tonight's opening half.
Speaker 1: He finished with a game high twenty four, but you
Speaker 1: do the math. He was kept in check in the
Speaker 1: second half. Josh Richardson, who earlier in the day earned
Speaker 1: his first ever Conference Player of the Week award, had
Speaker 1: an awesome fourth quarter. He scored seventeen of his twenty
Speaker 1: three points, including the seventy sixers final thirteen points of
Speaker 1: the game. But it was not enough tonight, as the
Speaker 1: Pacers kept the seventy Sixers scoreless for the final two
Speaker 1: minutes of play, and they got the decisive six points
Speaker 1: from the free throw line. And that's one area where
Speaker 1: you look at that final fourth quarter. Seventy Sixers turned
Speaker 1: the ball over way too much, seven turnovers in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and Indiana got to the line twice as
Speaker 1: many times, albeit in the final minutes from the seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: and that was a pretty key disparity. Two areas that
Speaker 1: were key disparities in the fourth quarter. Much like what
Speaker 1: we saw Saturday at Dallas. The Sixers enjoyed a really
Speaker 1: promising start of the game. They played great defense, I thought,
Speaker 1: more consistent defense tonight probably good enough defense to win
Speaker 1: the game, but Indie just clamped down too much for
Speaker 1: the Sixers late. But again, the second half the decisive
Speaker 1: turning point against the seventy Sixers. They gave up sixty
Speaker 1: eight second half points to the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and tonight they surrendered sixty one points to the Indiana
Speaker 1: Pacers in the second half at Baker's Life Field House.
Speaker 1: So a tough one for the seventy Sixers. They drop
Speaker 1: into sixth place in the East. The Pacers move a
Speaker 1: half a game in front of the seventy Sixers. They've
Speaker 1: now won two out of the three matchups on the year.
Speaker 1: The Sixers will have an opportunity to try and hold
Speaker 1: Serve on their home floor again in March, but for now,
Speaker 1: the Sixers will head back home for two games against
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and Chicago later in the week. Looking to get
Speaker 1: back on track. Tom McGinnis called this one in Indianapolis tonight, Tom,
Speaker 1: what aer did you see things go against the Sixers
Speaker 1: in the second half? Well, honestly that you did a
Speaker 1: great job of summarizing the game, and then plus the
Speaker 1: breakdown from from coach Brown, and you know there's just
Speaker 1: the driving in the in traffic, and the way that
Speaker 1: Indiana covered the Sixers down the stretch was just really impressive,
Speaker 1: and that spelled the differences. The Sixers could not get
Speaker 1: open and get any good looks, and you know, again
Speaker 1: it's part of that is compounded by, you know, the
Speaker 1: difficulty in making open or not even open, but just
Speaker 1: making threes and making outside shots, and then it's it's
Speaker 1: glaring like the Sixers without Joel that really is just
Speaker 1: an obvious, you know, difference because even if he's not
Speaker 1: scoring down low, at least he's somebody they had a
Speaker 1: guard or the ball goes in there initially, but part
Speaker 1: of the storyline coming into the game is now, this
Speaker 1: is the third game without Embeed with this hand injury
Speaker 1: after the surgery, and you're trying to define how this
Speaker 1: group will play without him, and Brett Brown looked at
Speaker 1: it as an opportunity, and you know, you saw something
Speaker 1: in terms of how you described and what I called
Speaker 1: with Ben Simmons getting in there and being so aggressive
Speaker 1: and attacking in the first half, but that wasn't there
Speaker 1: in the second half. He had only one field goal.
Speaker 1: You mentioned four points. Two of those were free throws
Speaker 1: and so it's tough. I mean, they kind of bottled
Speaker 1: up Horford a little bit. As you mentioned that the
Speaker 1: Harris three was blocked by t. J. Warren, So you
Speaker 1: got to give them credit with their defense. And again
Speaker 1: they held the Sixers to ninety six points. That's thirteen
Speaker 1: fewer than their average. But certainly, as I said, these
Speaker 1: games define things, and you got if you're gonna say that,
Speaker 1: then okay, then this defines. And the Sixers are still searching.
Speaker 1: They're they're in a tailspin right now, and they could
Speaker 1: have gotten out of it had they extuecuted down the stretch.
Speaker 1: They couldn't stop Rockden and they couldn't score themselves, and
Speaker 1: it spells defeat here in Indianapolis by the score of
Speaker 1: one on one to ninety five Packers Life Field half time.
Speaker 1: The three point shooting thing is kind of a tricky
Speaker 1: thing to look at right now, because I want to
Speaker 1: say it was maybe before the game against OKAC last
Speaker 1: week when the seventy six Ers came off the road
Speaker 1: they were winless in four games, and Brett Brown before
Speaker 1: the game talked a lot about prioritizing trying to manufacture
Speaker 1: simply more three point opportunities let's just forget and makes
Speaker 1: for a moment, but more three point opportunities, and they
Speaker 1: didn't quite seem to do that against Okase and Boston.
Speaker 1: They took thirty seven attempts against Dallas the other night,
Speaker 1: thirty three tonight, which is more than what they had
Speaker 1: averaged per game before Bretton made those comments. But it's
Speaker 1: there are different three point shooting team on the road
Speaker 1: than they are at home. Like just some of the
Speaker 1: shots aren't going down. It's it's bizarre, Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: and like, and I made a comment and I stand
Speaker 1: by it. So at one point to six or they
Speaker 1: shot eighteen percent from three and four threes, really you
Speaker 1: want more? I just I have to digress and disagree.
Speaker 1: Like I thought during the game, they're not They clearly
Speaker 1: didn't have the legs. I mean they weren't. The ball
Speaker 1: that was short. Almost all the attempts were short. Same
Speaker 1: thing for Indiana, that's not hard to figure out you're
Speaker 1: not getting the ball there. And for me, at least
Speaker 1: in a phase of the game, you know, like and
Speaker 1: these were a lot of them were open looks. You know,
Speaker 1: drive the ball more, and they did. Right after that,
Speaker 1: they started getting some mid range shots, you know, so
Speaker 1: I know what the analytics say, but boy, just watching
Speaker 1: basketball and looking at the threes weren't going. And so
Speaker 1: I think you got to go to something else at
Speaker 1: that and try to work on something else and try
Speaker 1: to get something else going to the basket or you know,
Speaker 1: pick and pop where they're eighteen footers and it's just
Speaker 1: you know, when they're not going. And certainly on the road,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the difference is. You know how
Speaker 1: the crowd plays into it in that area, but it's
Speaker 1: an area where the Sixers have struggled at times, and
Speaker 1: clearly this was one of those games. Well, and it
Speaker 1: goes back to the big picture point that you made.
Speaker 1: It should certainly clarify that Prett Brown made those comments
Speaker 1: about wanting to see more three pointers before Joel Ebad
Speaker 1: got hurt. While Joel Ebiad is now hurt, we're not
Speaker 1: sure how long he's going to be out for. And
Speaker 1: while the Sixers were able to get some of their
Speaker 1: looks and converted late in the game against the Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics on Thursday, I think I don't know how you
Speaker 1: feel this is going to be an ongoing thing for
Speaker 1: the immediate future. With that and beat is just seeing
Speaker 1: like how they're going to figure this out with the
Speaker 1: options they have currently on the floor when games tighten
Speaker 1: up late against good teams. Yeah right, no, that's not
Speaker 1: going away. And let me be clear, And this sounds
Speaker 1: like I'm talking about both sides of my mouth. So
Speaker 1: the sixes made six and like the three, you know
Speaker 1: what I've noticed over the years, and the sixes have
Speaker 1: not been traditionally over the last you know, well really,
Speaker 1: I don't know eight ten years, they've not been one
Speaker 1: of the top three point shooting teams. Certainly last year,
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years with Reddick, it changed
Speaker 1: the dynamic a little bit. And when you're making them,
Speaker 1: it gets you back into games, and when you have
Speaker 1: a slight lead, it obviously pushes the leads where sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a two, three possession ball game. But I stand
Speaker 1: by what I said regarding you know, when you're not
Speaker 1: making them and then continuing to take them, I don't know,
Speaker 1: sometimes that seems a little foolhardy or just it seems
Speaker 1: like they're not it's not going to swing the balance
Speaker 1: when you're not making them, when you're missing them time
Speaker 1: after time. But again, you have to find some type
Speaker 1: of recipe or way to attack without embed You're right,
Speaker 1: it's a wholly different thing. And Horford's a different type
Speaker 1: of player than Joel. The idea is to play faster,
Speaker 1: and I thought Simmons just he completely dominated with how
Speaker 1: he attacked. I believe he was eight of ten in
Speaker 1: the first half from the field, and yet he had
Speaker 1: a couple of close range shots down the stretch that
Speaker 1: he shot kind of as layups from five feet or so,
Speaker 1: and those are difficult. Those are hard shots to me.
Speaker 1: You got to square the shoulders and shoot that like
Speaker 1: a jump shot, like a you know, right in there
Speaker 1: in close range. And there was just a whole number
Speaker 1: of things that went Indiana's ways. And you know, like
Speaker 1: I said to I, change your identity on the road.
Speaker 1: You've got to win these games. You got to play
Speaker 1: better down the stretch. It is more difficult, no doubt,
Speaker 1: away from Philadelphia. And it's like the Sixers are two
Speaker 1: different teams. Six straight losses here, only seven wins on
Speaker 1: the road period, you know, and they've been dominant at
Speaker 1: home with what eighteen victories, and you know, no matter
Speaker 1: what happens, and right now, the Sixers are outside the
Speaker 1: top four, and who's to say how it ends up
Speaker 1: in the next half of the season. Hopefully they'll get
Speaker 1: a home court advantage in the first round. But at
Speaker 1: some point you have to win on the road in
Speaker 1: the playoffs anyway, I mean more than likely. And so
Speaker 1: you've got and you can't just click your heels, snap
Speaker 1: your fingers and say, wala will be a playoff, will
Speaker 1: be a tough road team on the You have to
Speaker 1: form the habits, know with confidence that you can close
Speaker 1: out games on the road. Execute down the stretch. That's
Speaker 1: what playoffs. Just how tight we saw it here down
Speaker 1: the stretch, that's what the playoffs are like. Every single
Speaker 1: you have to squeeze every little drop out of the
Speaker 1: wet tile, if you will, and milk it and try
Speaker 1: to get the offense. It's not free flown, it's not
Speaker 1: running racehorse, dunk the basketball ninety four feet. That's not
Speaker 1: how it goes in the guts of a hard, tough
Speaker 1: road playoff game, or any game on the road where
Speaker 1: it's this close, that's just not how it works. Seventy
Speaker 1: six ers falling in the one ninety five even at
Speaker 1: this time, I'm talking about, where does some of the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers late games. Options come from you know,
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson has been putting up his hand as of late.
Speaker 1: He reached the twenty point mark for the fourth time
Speaker 1: in his last six games, and he was great in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarters, certainly put the seventy Sixers in a
Speaker 1: position to steal this one tonight. He was terrific that
Speaker 1: one three he made with the shot clock winding down.
Speaker 1: And you know, like again, that was the question coming
Speaker 1: into the season, who is the six years closer? And
Speaker 1: certainly you would think and beat and again it can
Speaker 1: be multi if you swing the ball now, the play
Speaker 1: can typically you know, if not this, then this, and
Speaker 1: it can go to different players. But Horford and Harris
Speaker 1: and all these guys can score the ball. And again
Speaker 1: I believe, you know, you obviously have to construct a
Speaker 1: play for a guy. But like by way of example,
Speaker 1: you know that ball, Horford kicked it out to Harris. If,
Speaker 1: as coach said to Bias, Fakes gets worn to fly by,
Speaker 1: maybe he dribbles in and slides it back to Horford
Speaker 1: for a layup. So I mean, any given play can
Speaker 1: have multiple options and things. You have to be able
Speaker 1: to be flexible and play and take what the defense
Speaker 1: gives you. But Richardson is certainly a guy that all
Speaker 1: of a sudden has become that kind of player and
Speaker 1: as you say, standing up and taking the challenge and delivering.
Speaker 1: But it can be multiple guys, and but they have
Speaker 1: to be able to prove it and deliver with the
Speaker 1: game alm of mind. They've all done it in previous times,
Speaker 1: but they got to be able to do it on
Speaker 1: a consistent basis to be able to be a ball
Speaker 1: club that has these multiple options that can deliver down
Speaker 1: the stretch. Good points by Tom mc ginnis. After a
Speaker 1: tough night for the seventy six ers, Tom will speak
Speaker 1: again on Wednesday. Good Night. Seventy Sixers loose to the
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers, go winless on this two game road trip.
Speaker 1: They've now dropped six straight away from South Philadelphia one
Speaker 1: one ninety five. They were looking to bounce back after
Speaker 1: a second half got away from them Saturday in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons was simply put a beast in the first
Speaker 1: seven to the ball to Harris out Tom and again
Speaker 1: Ben goes down low Horford trying to find him. He
Speaker 1: gets good position this time and he lays up going
Speaker 1: backward and he puts it up and in. Simmons with
Speaker 1: Roddon and Turner there scores it four love Sixers and
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons would double that total before he took his
Speaker 1: first break on the bench in the first quarter. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers led by a point after twelve minutes twenty three,
Speaker 1: twenty two. When Simmons returned to the court in the
Speaker 1: second quarter, he was in full fledge attack mode once again.
Speaker 1: Here's Ben on a drive. You're the lane, muscles threw
Speaker 1: everybody in a two hand stop. Ben Simmons throws it down,
Speaker 1: time out Indianna. That put the seventy six Ers up
Speaker 1: thirty three, two thirty one. Ben Simmons with one of
Speaker 1: his best plays of the season to end the first half,
Speaker 1: rock and dribbles, stop starts, goes in on al him's
Speaker 1: the base light throws it away. Simmons with a breakout.
Speaker 1: He gets into the lane on Jeremy lab pass, slams
Speaker 1: and look out Lab Ben Simmons like a freight train. Indeed,
Speaker 1: he was Ben Simmons Holly by himself taking care of
Speaker 1: that first half highlight real. He scored twenty points in
Speaker 1: the first half, his second highest total ever in his
Speaker 1: career in a first half seventy six ers like forty
Speaker 1: nine forty at the break. In the third quarter, things
Speaker 1: as they did Saturday at Dallas, started to tighten up
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Indiana again making their shots. Their
Speaker 1: defense clamped down, but another strong play by Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: at the rack put the seventy sixers back in the lead.
Speaker 1: In the latter stages of the third shot clock at three,
Speaker 1: Simmons drives a jams it off man. He went for
Speaker 1: the right perimeter, bright down the lad and wraps it
Speaker 1: up and dunks the ball. I mean at sixty nine
Speaker 1: sixty seven. It was tied at sixty nine going into
Speaker 1: the fourth. For as good as Ben Simmons was up
Speaker 1: to that point in the game, Josh Richardson began taking
Speaker 1: over in the fourth. He had his first two shots
Speaker 1: of the final period to give the seventy sixers a boost.
Speaker 1: They were going back and forth, back and forth with
Speaker 1: Indie until Richardson didn't nudged them in front. I'll top
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson with Biles Turner on him, there should be
Speaker 1: a misspack Brocktons got out. Here's Jock backing up fifteen
Speaker 1: footer shot here bucket. It's good Eastern copp require the
Speaker 1: weak and Richardson able to get the bull up shot
Speaker 1: turner that made it eighty eight eighty seven seventy sixers Now.
Speaker 1: As hot as Richardson got, so two did Malcolm Brockden
Speaker 1: for the Indiana Pacers. He locked it up on a
Speaker 1: three pointer at ninety two ninety two. Josh Richardson with
Speaker 1: his final bucket and the seventy sixers final bucket of
Speaker 1: the ninety sixers really with three Now they got a
Speaker 1: fire shot by Josh Bits God, are you Jenny bad?
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson with o'clock about the buzzer, a play most
Speaker 1: worthy of the are you kidding Me? Signature call from
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis. Seventy Sixers back in front ninety four, but
Speaker 1: they would not score again the rest of the game,
Speaker 1: whereas the Pacers would walk to the line a couple
Speaker 1: more times, their final seven points coming from the free
Speaker 1: throw line, and they're one on one, ninety five win.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that three pointer from Richardson was spectacular line
Speaker 1: drive straightaway, heavily contested about thirty feet out. He scored
Speaker 1: the final thirteen points of the game for the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: but it would not be enough in a six point loss.
Speaker 1: But the seventy Sixers they a shot forty one and
Speaker 1: a half percent for the game, the Pacers only thirty
Speaker 1: eight and a half percent. But here's where some of
Speaker 1: the big disparities and decisive disparities were. Seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: just six of thirty three from outside the arc and
Speaker 1: fifteen of nineteen from the line. Pacers with ten three pointers,
Speaker 1: and they outscored the seventy sixers by ten from the
Speaker 1: free throw line. Also, the Pacers, they were really good
Speaker 1: in the second half at grabbing their offensive rebounds. They
Speaker 1: were plus one overall on the offensive boards. That helped
Speaker 1: their cause as well. Seventy six Ers with seven of
Speaker 1: their thirteen turnovers in the fourth quarter just nine turnovers
Speaker 1: for the Pacers. Sixers led by Ben Simmons, he scored
Speaker 1: twenty of his twenty four in the first half. He
Speaker 1: had fourteen rebounds along with three assists twenty three for
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson, seventeen of those coming in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: fifteen four Tobias Harris, ten points, eight rebounds, five assists
Speaker 1: in two blocks for Al Horford for the Pacers twenty
Speaker 1: one apiece for Malcolm Brogden and TJ. Warren. Warren with
Speaker 1: the big block on a Tobias Harris potential go ahead
Speaker 1: three with thirty seconds to go, Miles Turner with fourteen
Speaker 1: and ten and Demontes Sabonis with ten and sixteen for
Speaker 1: Indie and Justin Holliday with fourteen off the bench. TJ McConnell.
Speaker 1: He had four points, three assists in fourteen minutes with
Speaker 1: a loss to seventy six Ers and now twenty five
Speaker 1: and sixteen, they're a half game behind Indie for sixth
Speaker 1: place in the East. The Pacers now twenty five and fifteen.
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