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. Well,
Speaker 1: you can party like it is January two thousand and twenty,
Speaker 1: the last time the seventy sixers won a game on
Speaker 1: the road. Tonight, they do so pretty handily in the end,
Speaker 1: one twenty five to one O eight over the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 1: Hey you doing, I'm Brian Seltzer. Good morning on this Friday.
Speaker 1: If you're listening back on the East Coast seventy sixers
Speaker 1: and a nine game losing streak, A lot of the
Speaker 1: great stuff they showed in games against the Clippers and
Speaker 1: the Lakers, two really good opponents on Sunday and Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We're again evident in tonight's matchup, and this time the
Speaker 1: seventy sixers had a win to show for it. Tremendous
Speaker 1: three points shooting Tobias Harris, Shake Milton and Al Horford
Speaker 1: led the way in a big victory for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Here's Brett Brown. You know, it's very you're aware that
Speaker 1: we had not had the success we wanted to too
Speaker 1: on the road. When you hear a day like that,
Speaker 1: you're reminded of things. Enough is enough, and I think
Speaker 1: that we we just came out of Los Angeles playing
Speaker 1: you know, a clip of team that we felt like
Speaker 1: we could have won the game the Lakers. We had
Speaker 1: that seven minute, six minute period in the second period.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I thought we played well. They're the
Speaker 1: one and two teams in the in the West, and
Speaker 1: now we're coming into Sacramento to play against the team
Speaker 1: that had just won six out of the past seven
Speaker 1: and playing really good basketball, and so to try to
Speaker 1: find a way to win on the road. We felt
Speaker 1: a sense of urgency, you know, tonight, and I'm happy
Speaker 1: for the guys. They they the spirit and their physicality
Speaker 1: I thought was excellent. You've talked a lot about how
Speaker 1: you've got to help Al Horford and what a night
Speaker 1: he have tonight for from all over the floor. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I mean to have any NBA game where you plus
Speaker 1: forty one UM. For those of you who you know,
Speaker 1: pay attention to a statistic sheet, it's an it's like
Speaker 1: kind of an almost unheard of number. Like he was
Speaker 1: that dominant, not because he had like, you know, forty points,
Speaker 1: it's just defensively, he really was excellent and offensively, he
Speaker 1: was efficient and so that equals a plus forty one.
Speaker 1: And I thought that Haul came in the game and
Speaker 1: had some you know, big moments in the third period.
Speaker 1: I think he had fourteen points in the third period.
Speaker 1: I thought he played really well. Alec came in and scored.
Speaker 1: He gave us, you know, that scoring punch that we
Speaker 1: needed when we needed it. And then you know, Tobias
Speaker 1: got his points. But al really from a holistic standpoint,
Speaker 1: he was up bell ringer. He was excellent tonight. What
Speaker 1: we saw from Burkes, like you mentioned, is that kind
Speaker 1: of what you envisioned for him, that scoring punch that
Speaker 1: he gave you on the bench. I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: you're always hoping to think, Like that's what you do
Speaker 1: every single night, is ambitious, and so we want to
Speaker 1: get that more than we don't. And you know it's
Speaker 1: easy for me to say that I got to help
Speaker 1: him sometimes, you know, put him in situations, make sure
Speaker 1: I get him the court time, the minutes, and like
Speaker 1: it's a judgment thing. Sometimes when people aren't going you're
Speaker 1: gonna go to you know, Firk, or you're gonna go
Speaker 1: like let Matisse go fly up and down and like
Speaker 1: tap into Matissa's defense, and so there's options we have,
Speaker 1: but Bayern Lodge that's what Alec does. That's why he
Speaker 1: was brought in. And tonight we saw why seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: over the Sacramento Kings one twenty five to one h eight.
Speaker 1: They snap a nine game road losing streak and pick
Speaker 1: up their first victory on this four game California road trip,
Speaker 1: which comes to an end tomorrow against the that's if
Speaker 1: you're listening back in the East. Against the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris lad the way with twenty eight points, Shake Milton,
Speaker 1: another twenty spot eighteen for al Horford, and in thirty
Speaker 1: six minutes, as you heard Brett Brown and Tom McGinnis reference,
Speaker 1: Horford was plus forty one. Is seventy six Ers outscored
Speaker 1: Sacramento by forty one points. In the minutes that Horford played.
Speaker 1: He had eight rebounds and six assists. He was such
Speaker 1: a huge reason why the Sixers were able to get
Speaker 1: extra possessions on key offensive rebounds. They had fourteen offensive
Speaker 1: boards in the game. That's plus ten on Sacramento. And
Speaker 1: as he's done throughout his career, facilitated ball movement and
Speaker 1: you know, the Sixers a better off team now without
Speaker 1: their you know, three of their top guys, of course not.
Speaker 1: But I think that what we've seen over the course
Speaker 1: of this road trip is that this group of the
Speaker 1: Sixers as it currently stands, is getting a little bit
Speaker 1: of an identity, especially on the offensive end of the court.
Speaker 1: They're able to move the ball, they're able to cut
Speaker 1: the balls, finding open shooters, and the shooters are knocking
Speaker 1: down their opportunities, whether that's Shake Milton or Mike Scott.
Speaker 1: On this road trip has done pretty well from deep.
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris was great once again from the outside, and
Speaker 1: you can't overlook Joel Nato who had Joel Nato for
Speaker 1: scoring fourteen in the final nineteen points of tonight's third quarter.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was such a big swing in favor
Speaker 1: of the seventy Sixers. They led wire to wire in
Speaker 1: this one by as many as twenty points. It was
Speaker 1: a most needed win. I mean, you could only say
Speaker 1: that you felt good about what you saw from the
Speaker 1: Sixers in La those two games if they came out
Speaker 1: and backed it up against the Kings. They did that.
Speaker 1: They wanted one twenty five to one away. Now it's
Speaker 1: off to Golden State. Tom mc ginnis had the call,
Speaker 1: and Tom, this was a most welcomed development for the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers, no doubt about it. And I liked that
Speaker 1: they responded. You know, I was talking about with Al Horford,
Speaker 1: there's always, you know, part of the game it's never
Speaker 1: going to be easy, and it wasn't. They came back.
Speaker 1: He'll got hot and the Sixers were able to level
Speaker 1: them off, you know, and they had some great performances. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Harris and Shake were good scoring and as we've all
Speaker 1: noted that Al Horford was terrific throughout and a great
Speaker 1: road victory for the Sixers. They're never easy on the road,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Obviously the Sixers road record reflects that.
Speaker 1: But as you say, you know, it's nice to have
Speaker 1: nice segments of play, nice individual performances in those two
Speaker 1: games at Staples Center in Los Angeles, but at some
Speaker 1: point you got to pay it off with a victory,
Speaker 1: and they did that tonight here in Sacramento. Tommy, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure about you, but I feel really good for
Speaker 1: Al Horford, especially having a game like this, and he's
Speaker 1: played pretty well on the road trip so far. Sacramento
Speaker 1: cut the deficit, which at one point was twenty down
Speaker 1: to six. About five minutes to go, Tobias hit a shot.
Speaker 1: Then Al had a big dunk on an assist from Shake.
Speaker 1: Milton had a couple of key rebounds off Missus got
Speaker 1: to the free throw line, and that seemed to put
Speaker 1: the Sixers back into a very steady spot. They increased
Speaker 1: their lead in double figures. He was exactly the vintage
Speaker 1: type of Al Horford you would come to expect in
Speaker 1: this game. Absolutely, and just real quickly that basket by Horford,
Speaker 1: the dunk set up by Shake. Milton got into the
Speaker 1: lane maybe like fifteen feet away, just inside the file line,
Speaker 1: and then wrapped it around the guy Garden Shake and
Speaker 1: the guy that was trying to get in front of Al.
Speaker 1: So a nice left hand bounce pass in traffic, perfect
Speaker 1: and he might have even put a little English on it.
Speaker 1: That's set up Horford because again they were trying to
Speaker 1: front him, and when he gets a forty five degree
Speaker 1: angle and gets a bit of a seal and a
Speaker 1: feed like that, that led him right to the basket.
Speaker 1: But he responded at both ends of the court. And
Speaker 1: you know for Horford too, it's been a little bit
Speaker 1: of a different, different season positionally in terms of how
Speaker 1: he's played, particularly with he and Joel out there, and
Speaker 1: you know, I would assume a veteran thirty three years old,
Speaker 1: thirteenth year, he blocks out the noise, but you can't help.
Speaker 1: But I would think, you know, especially following the NBA
Speaker 1: and being in the NBA here some of the chatter
Speaker 1: of what people were saying about his season, this, that
Speaker 1: and the other. And then like I said, he knows
Speaker 1: himself that he could probably be having a better season,
Speaker 1: and he really delivered tonight. And when you hear from
Speaker 1: guys that have been around him and other coaches like
Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson him was an assistant when Al started in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and he says something like along the lines, He's going
Speaker 1: to be fine. You were in there the other night
Speaker 1: when Doc Rivers said the exact same thing, And so
Speaker 1: you got to think that Al Horford is still going
Speaker 1: to have a big finish and hopefully a great postseason
Speaker 1: for the Sixers. Seventy sixers knock off the Sacramento Kings
Speaker 1: one twenty five one O eight and maybe perhaps the
Speaker 1: final thought on this segment, time shake Milton Man a
Speaker 1: twenty point game. I mean, yeah, he hits some threes.
Speaker 1: He started perfect from outside the arc, but his baskets
Speaker 1: on the inside and some of those drives were really
Speaker 1: really impressive. And as you said, he was able to
Speaker 1: show some more things tonight with his passing, his facilitating.
Speaker 1: I mean, he really continues to as Brett Brown put it,
Speaker 1: I think before the game tonight proved to be a
Speaker 1: needed surprise for the Sixers well, and he has as
Speaker 1: we learned. We learned some things on the jump that
Speaker 1: maybe we didn't know when he was on that show
Speaker 1: the other night on ESPN when they were down in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And one is his wingspan, and you know,
Speaker 1: he himself said he had a seven foot wingspan, and
Speaker 1: point being that he's able to extend and Brett Brown
Speaker 1: was saying this this morning after shoot around, and that
Speaker 1: is he's a little bit longer and he's able to
Speaker 1: get to the rim and get by defenders and then
Speaker 1: kind of elongate with his right arm, even his left
Speaker 1: arm going in there with his offhand and stretch out
Speaker 1: and get that ball off the glass. He bade the
Speaker 1: defender get it off the window and score on drives
Speaker 1: because they're going to be closing out, you know, after
Speaker 1: those three pointers in the Clippers game, where people realize
Speaker 1: that this guy in thirteen in a row dating back
Speaker 1: three games, that he's that capable from beyond. Now you
Speaker 1: got to get out there a little bit more and
Speaker 1: try to cut off his airspace on the perimeter. Well,
Speaker 1: that's going to set him up for the drives and
Speaker 1: twenty points. And you know, I talked to Shake earlier today.
Speaker 1: He's looking for consistency. He knows he's not going to
Speaker 1: score thirty nine points every night, I mean, obviously, but
Speaker 1: high teens. You know, making the most of your opportunities.
Speaker 1: He was really good here tonight, and even though he
Speaker 1: had a little bit of foul difficulty, I thought he
Speaker 1: did a good job on Deer and Fox as well,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Tom mc ginnis, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for the insight and commentary after I needed it.
Speaker 1: Seventy six ers win on the road last up. But
Speaker 1: we board the bus, huh, going right down to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: This is not two unlike a team from you know,
Speaker 1: playing Philadelphia and then busting up to New York, whereas
Speaker 1: this time we bust down to San Francis, will be
Speaker 1: in the city in ninety minutes once we depart here
Speaker 1: from Golden One Center, a rare bus trip out here
Speaker 1: on the West coast. We love it, enjoy it all
Speaker 1: right night And that's more of a college travel type vibe.
Speaker 1: Why not when you're that close. Seventy Sixers and the
Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings wrapping up their two games season series at
Speaker 1: Golden One Center. Seventy Sixers had not one at that
Speaker 1: building prior to tonight. They were looking for a change
Speaker 1: of fortunes, build off of some of the good stuff
Speaker 1: they showed in two games in LA and at the
Speaker 1: outset of tonight's game, it was all seventy Sixers, shake
Speaker 1: will enough to hand scoop up and good very creative
Speaker 1: boot bite box the other way and shake knocks it away.
Speaker 1: A steel Sixers with numbers other run out. Robinson into Harrison,
Speaker 1: then Led blocks the bias, but the bias gets it
Speaker 1: back fill plenty of time on the clock. Horford in
Speaker 1: a trail position for three and good al Horford with
Speaker 1: his second three to six for the Sixers. He ran
Speaker 1: to the top of the art and knocked out at three.
Speaker 1: That made it thirty eighteen, but the King's answered by
Speaker 1: scoring twelve straight points to tie it up. Sixers went
Speaker 1: into the second quarter leading thirty two to thirty. Shake
Speaker 1: Milton helped widen the gap back to double figures. Here's
Speaker 1: Shake Milton for three and that's good. The Sixers whistled
Speaker 1: around the perimeter from the left side. Shake gets his
Speaker 1: first three in the game, and with that the Sixers
Speaker 1: go off by eleven. Ball movement was great for the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers tonight. They led sixty three fifty three at intermission.
Speaker 1: In the third quarter, it was a flurry of scoring
Speaker 1: from how Old Nato off the bench. He was huge
Speaker 1: to helping the seventy sixers. What appeared at that point
Speaker 1: to take control of the game. Al comes up the
Speaker 1: screen netto fallen extended right side, twenty footer or bucket,
Speaker 1: how Old Netto. You can't stop him. You could only
Speaker 1: hook to contain them. Truer where It's never broadcast by
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis as Nato scored fourteen of his sixteen points
Speaker 1: in the final six minutes of tonight's third quarter. Amazing
Speaker 1: as the seventy Sixers went into the fourth quarter by
Speaker 1: a pretty solid margin. At that point, their lead was
Speaker 1: ninety six to eighty. The Sixers led by twenty in
Speaker 1: the fourth, but then the Kings made another furious run
Speaker 1: they got to within six. Some of the veterans from
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers stepped up after that first Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: then Al Horford nine seconds on the Shotbock eighteen seconds
Speaker 1: to go, Sixers moving the ball around to Bias for
Speaker 1: three and that's good. With thirteen seconds to go, that
Speaker 1: makes it one, twenty five one the way to and
Speaker 1: that was the final scoring for the seventy sixers tonight
Speaker 1: in a nice win that they got over the road
Speaker 1: over the Sacramento Kings. Sixers now thirty eight and twenty
Speaker 1: five on the season. Kings dropped their record of twenty
Speaker 1: seven and thirty five, just their second loss in their
Speaker 1: last eight games. Seventy six Ers shot forty nine percent
Speaker 1: from the field, Sacramento fifty three, but the Sixers seventeen
Speaker 1: of thirty seven from outside the arc. Sacramento managed just
Speaker 1: eleven three pointers in the game. Sixers dominated the glass,
Speaker 1: they were plus eight but plus ten in terms of
Speaker 1: offensive rebounding. Seventy six Ers also forced eighteen turnovers and
Speaker 1: outscored the Kings twenty two to sixteen, and points off turnovers.
Speaker 1: Sixers led by Tobias Harris. His twenty eight points were
Speaker 1: a game high. He was eleven of twenty two overall,
Speaker 1: four for six from outside the arc. He had fourteen rebounds,
Speaker 1: three assists, one block shot. He was terrific. Shake Milton
Speaker 1: with twenty eight for fourteen shooting, started the night three
Speaker 1: for three from outside the arc. He also had three assists,
Speaker 1: eighteen points, eight boards, six times for al Horford plus
Speaker 1: forty one and thirty six minutes of play off the bench.
Speaker 1: Alec Burks with seventeen and huld Nato with sixteen. Darren
Speaker 1: Fox led the Kings with twenty three and Buddy Heald
Speaker 1: had twenty two off the bench. You've been listening to
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