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Speaker 2: We are lucky. We are gonna be speaking with Kershawan Yabusele.
Speaker 2: He played thirty two minutes. He had seventeen points and
Speaker 2: four rebounds. What he needs now is a sixer stafford
Speaker 2: to hand him the headset and there he goes grabbing
Speaker 2: the headset. Gershaw Toma, get us across the way. Congratulations,
Speaker 2: what a ball game. You were four for four from
Speaker 2: three to start. Unbelievable. Your thoughts with the victory here
Speaker 2: over San Antonio, I was saying, it was really.
Speaker 1: Like a team victory to ninety four. From the beginning
Speaker 1: into the half. We have a give up, play together
Speaker 1: and to night wasn't any important to win for us.
Speaker 2: So you're the veteran. Here comes Joel back out, a
Speaker 2: conquering hero. That was wild, wasn't it That second quarter
Speaker 2: with drum and Wemby and then Joel that and that
Speaker 2: kind of fired you guys up, didn't it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah we I mean me personally, I didn't know
Speaker 1: what happened now. I was just trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: But it was that we gotta you just win for
Speaker 1: buff with them, you know, So we did the word.
Speaker 1: We got the wins. That was the most important thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's Joel with a big high five. How
Speaker 2: about you guys basically drumming out. Joel went out. You
Speaker 2: play the last twenty seven minutes with no center. I
Speaker 2: mean you were playing center against your countryman. When Ben
Speaker 2: Yama tell me a little bit more about that. I mean,
Speaker 2: that was that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a he's a tough kid. He's uh,
Speaker 1: he's getting me involving game off the game, you know,
Speaker 1: So for me to be able to guard him, first
Speaker 1: of all, I was happy and you know, glance to
Speaker 1: be able to do that. But you know, I was
Speaker 1: just trying to be physical, uh, just trying to push
Speaker 1: him and bother him as much as possible.
Speaker 2: You know, it seemed like you, because you you know,
Speaker 2: you know him and you played with him, that you
Speaker 2: had a little bit of maybe confidence or swagger that
Speaker 2: maybe somebody else wouldn't. Would that be true?
Speaker 1: I mean I flew against him for a month and
Speaker 1: a half, so for sure, I definitely know him and
Speaker 1: know what he likes to do. Uh, how you get
Speaker 1: his rhythm and everything, you know, so I would just
Speaker 1: try to stop him and you know, bothering.
Speaker 2: You showed an unbelievable You have that explosive ability that
Speaker 2: people maybe they saw in the Olympics with your jam
Speaker 2: on Lebron, but you showed it again many times tonight.
Speaker 2: That's got to be a fun part of the game
Speaker 2: for you, right, Oh, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was pretty. It was fun tonight. You know, it
Speaker 1: was a really seemed Victorian like I said, and we
Speaker 1: had to find everybody was happy, you know, the crowd
Speaker 1: was there the night.
Speaker 2: It was a made last thought and I'll let you go.
Speaker 2: And we so much appreciate your time, Gershwan. But do
Speaker 2: you feel like your team is kind of coming together?
Speaker 2: And you've won now five out of your last like
Speaker 2: ten game, you feel like you're turning the corner.
Speaker 1: I mean, for sure, we knew it was a long season.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hunt and down. That's how it is,
Speaker 1: you know, So we just got to stay together and
Speaker 1: figure it out. But I feel I will definitely play
Speaker 1: more together. We stay together, and this is the team.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Thank you.
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Speaker 4: Right Now On ninety seven five, the fanatic.
Speaker 2: Sixers hold off to beat the Spurs one eleven, one
Speaker 2: oh six. Our post game coverage is brought to you
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Speaker 2: fans on hand. Here at the center, six Ers snare
Speaker 2: a double digit win total with ten. Now they're ten
Speaker 2: and seventeen, the Spurs fifteen and fourteen. But wow, at
Speaker 2: Action Pack night, we had technicals, we had ejections. The
Speaker 2: Sixers hold off San Antonio with Maxi nearing a triple double.
Speaker 2: He had thirty two points, ten rebounds, the last of
Speaker 2: which was really key. He ended up with three steals
Speaker 2: and eight assists, five threes. Another huge play down the stretch,
Speaker 2: he had a jam and a three point field goal,
Speaker 2: missed the free throw, but on that free throw Kelly
Speaker 2: ubre put it back in and that was a cushion.
Speaker 2: The Sixers kneaded down the stretch and they get a
Speaker 2: five point win. Wembin Yama had seven blocks in the
Speaker 2: first quarter. He ended up with eight, this on the
Speaker 2: heels of a ten block game on Saturday. Twenty six points,
Speaker 2: nine rebounds, four assists, thirty six and a half points.
Speaker 2: And the thing his size, obviously, is the thing that
Speaker 2: really out. He's a seven foot three inch player, but
Speaker 2: he's only twenty years old. He's the reigning Western Conference
Speaker 2: Player of the Week All Defensive first team player last
Speaker 2: year could have won the award, and he was the
Speaker 2: initial Defensive Player of the Month award winner. I mean,
Speaker 2: just a sensational talent. And the wild thing is he
Speaker 2: shoots threes. He shot nineteen shots total, thirteen of them
Speaker 2: were threes. Now, who knows if that dynamic changes his shots?
Speaker 2: Spectrum is so prouder everyone talks about these days. They
Speaker 2: ended up with six players in double figure. Sixers got
Speaker 2: nineteen from Paul George Ubre had ten, seventeen from Ya Basile.
Speaker 2: How about Caleb Martin back with almost twenty seven minutes
Speaker 2: of action twelve points. He made three threes and they
Speaker 2: were forced to play Caleb Martin yabsal as kJ Martin
Speaker 2: left with a left foot injury, Sorena's there didn't return,
Speaker 2: and Andre Drummond had his left great toe, which is
Speaker 2: his big toe. He left, and like I said earlier,
Speaker 2: the Sixers played the last twenty seven within bead ejected
Speaker 2: the last twenty seven minutes of the game with nobody
Speaker 2: taller than six to eight against the tallest player in
Speaker 2: the league. So an exciting win is a Sixers game,
Speaker 2: their fifth victory at home, five point win. It's on
Speaker 2: to Boston before they take on the Utah Jazz on
Speaker 2: the twenty eighth. Matt Murphy joins this post game. Who'd
Speaker 2: you talk to, pg Murph? What'd he say?
Speaker 3: Kayleb Martin?
Speaker 2: Caleb Martin? What did he say?
Speaker 3: One of the many important players this game had at
Speaker 3: all it? I mean, it had a couple unfortunate sixers,
Speaker 3: injuries even pop up in the midst of an injection
Speaker 3: and unejection, then the double lots of technicals as you
Speaker 3: touched on. But Kayleb Martin, he looked at a loss
Speaker 3: for words, almost talking about Maxi's second half, the twenty
Speaker 3: one out of his thirty two points after halftime, just
Speaker 3: dominant down the stretch, the game winning basket, left and
Speaker 3: right defensive plays, and he described it as a takeover. Heyl,
Speaker 3: what a crazy game. Joelle gets ejected in the second quarter.
Speaker 3: Andre Drummond got uninjected before that. Tyree's just had a
Speaker 3: huge second half with twenty one, thirty two, ten and
Speaker 3: eight for him in the game. What did you just
Speaker 3: see from Tyrese Maxi down the stretch.
Speaker 5: Takeover, just taking over. He just doing doing what he does,
Speaker 5: doing what you know he's what he's capable of doing.
Speaker 5: You who shout out to t right there, just being
Speaker 5: able to take over the game right there. The game
Speaker 5: was messed up in a very very beginning, but we
Speaker 5: credit to all the guys who just stayed in there.
Speaker 3: You had three important threes in this game. I know
Speaker 3: you've been through a lot so far this early season.
Speaker 3: How have you been able to stay ready?
Speaker 5: Just mentality, Just trying to ship my mentality, Just knowing
Speaker 5: that you can't hide from the games, You can't hide
Speaker 5: from from that poach and you just know that that
Speaker 5: the game and in the days don't stop just because
Speaker 5: something is wrong with you. So just trying to stay
Speaker 5: at mittally, just approach every day and just find progress
Speaker 5: and just be ready.
Speaker 3: Wednesday, the NBA on Christmas Day in Boston, five o'clock eastern.
Speaker 3: What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 5: I'm just looking just to compete. I'm looking I'm looking
Speaker 5: forward to a crave the environment on a special date
Speaker 5: for everybody, and hopefully we give everybody look him game
Speaker 5: and just go in there and just do what we
Speaker 5: did tonight and just just.
Speaker 3: Carry them home out and you're pretty good against the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Thanks kaln appreciated, thank you.
Speaker 2: So we're waiting Nick Nurse. But the phrase unejected, we
Speaker 2: don't we don't hear that very often. Explain that further, Well, that.
Speaker 3: Was Drummond, So the headlines will be that Embiid was
Speaker 3: ejected with two fifty nine left in the second quarter.
Speaker 3: But at the eight thirteen mark, Drummond was ejected after
Speaker 3: he they said he tripped Victor Wembanyama, and then he
Speaker 3: was unejected because they said he didn't trip Victor Wembanyama,
Speaker 3: and there was a flop on Victor Wembanyama. But then
Speaker 3: when they took the second tea away. Follow me here, everyone,
Speaker 3: they took the flop away from Wembanyama. So the Sixers
Speaker 3: had a maxi point taking off the board. He should
Speaker 3: have had thirty three points.
Speaker 2: That was right. Once say what's the replay, they realized
Speaker 2: that Victor was not pushed, and it turns out I
Speaker 2: think I think coach maybe in the press press conference,
Speaker 2: let's listen.
Speaker 6: It, and said there was basically nothing happened. Is that
Speaker 6: how it was explained to you?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, you said, I knew. I mean, obviously we
Speaker 7: shot the text, so I knew they I mean then
Speaker 7: they got brought drum back, right, so they obviously rescind it,
Speaker 7: and they flipped it, flipped the text. Obviously, That's about
Speaker 7: all I I.
Speaker 2: Was just curious.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know it.
Speaker 7: It's hard. I think it's hard to throw somebody out
Speaker 7: of a game for kind of that. But that's what
Speaker 7: I was kind of wondering, how we're throwing people out
Speaker 7: for that. But again, I didn't watch the tape yet
Speaker 7: on it, so I think I better leave my comments
Speaker 7: to just that right there. Video around the scene though,
Speaker 7: and it looks like she came up to you and
Speaker 7: said I messed up.
Speaker 4: She did?
Speaker 3: She did.
Speaker 7: I wasn't really, I was kind of doing something else
Speaker 7: when she she I think she was saying that to
Speaker 7: somebody else. But I did hear say that. Yep, yep,
Speaker 7: that's obviously you know, they flipped the call, so they
Speaker 7: said that and she admit it.
Speaker 2: Yet in terms.
Speaker 6: Of the rest of the game, obviously Tyrese had a
Speaker 6: big second half, but felt like started the fourth quarter,
Speaker 6: you guys probably had some of your best offensive possessions
Speaker 6: at the season in terms.
Speaker 2: Of ball movement.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, like, what do you think helped create that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean, I just think again we got in I
Speaker 7: think I think late in the first half we started
Speaker 7: getting a little little more rhythm of moving and our
Speaker 7: guys were doing a good job of setting kind of
Speaker 7: multiple screens and slipping out of some setting when they
Speaker 7: thought they needed to just again it and it was
Speaker 7: creating enough enough separation to move it to the next
Speaker 7: action and then somebody else would come into it. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's good to see it's something.
Speaker 5: There's something we.
Speaker 7: Work on quite a bit, you know, versus switching, and
Speaker 7: we don't get to it a lot of times, but
Speaker 7: we did and kind of kept it going in the
Speaker 7: second half. But I do I will say, I think
Speaker 7: we sprinkled in just enough transition here and there, you know,
Speaker 7: a layup and transition of three in transition, and and
Speaker 7: again we finally you know, it was nice that that
Speaker 7: our guys realized that Wemby was blocking a lot of shots.
Speaker 7: He probably noticed in the second half too, that they
Speaker 7: were slamming on the brakes and the paint and just
Speaker 7: seeing where Yabu was right and kicking it out. You know,
Speaker 7: he's going to try to block everything. There's going to
Speaker 7: be somewhere to kick it back. Out and I thought
Speaker 7: we did a decent job of that too.
Speaker 3: Everything that happened tonight, just all the adversity you guys
Speaker 3: kind of had to battle through. Does this kind of
Speaker 3: feel like a way that can maybe galvanize the group
Speaker 3: a little bit and you.
Speaker 5: Know, continue to put you guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, listen, I think that again, it seems
Speaker 7: like the strangeness of the season seems to work its way,
Speaker 7: keep keep working its way into things and and uh again,
Speaker 7: over the last you know, ten or twelve games, we've
Speaker 7: played pretty well in most of them, right, So again
Speaker 7: we just whatever happens, we just kind of keep on going.
Speaker 7: I think we lost end up losing three guys in
Speaker 7: the end. Joel and Drum and kJ both are getting
Speaker 7: both were out of the game late. So obviously we're
Speaker 7: really small playing there. But they went kind of small too,
Speaker 7: other than Wemby when he was out. They were really small.
Speaker 7: But we we matched Yabu with Wemby's minutes in the
Speaker 7: second half, just just to have some That was the
Speaker 7: only kind of only big we had left. We were
Speaker 7: almost went to Bona a couple of times too, but
Speaker 7: they kind of went so small we decided to say
Speaker 7: small you think.
Speaker 3: Would led the girsh on success defensively against.
Speaker 7: Well, he's he's obviously played against him and knows him.
Speaker 7: But he just was.
Speaker 4: He just was.
Speaker 7: First, first of all, he was he was working really hard, right,
Speaker 7: he was putting his body on him. He was making
Speaker 7: all this catch us tough. I mean, I mean, I
Speaker 7: think you know he really heard us from the perimeter
Speaker 7: or not really anywhere else.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 7: Just again, it was it was a stretch where they
Speaker 7: just started putting their head down and driving, and you know,
Speaker 7: we were we were trying to decide are we going
Speaker 7: to adjust our defense, our play, our kind of our
Speaker 7: base package. And we played our base package for a
Speaker 7: lot of it, which means you know, we're we're helping
Speaker 7: and we're rotating and stuff like that. And it kept
Speaker 7: kind of finding when when beyond the back and then
Speaker 7: it was like we needed we need to stick with
Speaker 7: him and try to just guard the ball better one
Speaker 7: on one. So, uh, you know, but again, I just
Speaker 7: think he just worked. He just worked and was physical
Speaker 7: with him.
Speaker 5: Games.
Speaker 3: Paul's had a little bit of an up and down
Speaker 3: season shooting the ball on the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Do you like the quality of shots he's getting in
Speaker 2: crunched on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I think I would say this. I thought
Speaker 7: we missed him about three times in a row when
Speaker 7: he was open for threes. We had a chance to
Speaker 7: make the next pass or hit him on a on
Speaker 7: a little flare screen thing we were running a couple
Speaker 7: of times. But but and then we tried to run
Speaker 7: it again and they actually covered it better than they
Speaker 7: did the two times before that. But then he drove,
Speaker 7: he turned around, drove and got that and one, which
Speaker 7: was huge, right uh. And that that's what excites me too,
Speaker 7: because you know, if he's going to be able to
Speaker 7: drive it and get to the rim and finish, then
Speaker 7: he's gonna be able to, you know, have a lot
Speaker 7: more to add to his his options of what he
Speaker 7: can do. He's been shooting a lot of pressed up jumpers,
Speaker 7: but you know he's pretty good at those. He's pretty
Speaker 7: good at sitting down and shaking people for threes, even
Speaker 7: though he's covered a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially season yea mechanically that everything look proved to you, Yes,
Speaker 2: yes he did.
Speaker 7: I mean again, he hasn't been feeling great, so this
Speaker 7: rest rest has him I think a little bounce here.
Speaker 7: He also had a dunk and transition. I mean he
Speaker 7: was fighting like heck two, that was really good to see.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think that was probably his best game
Speaker 7: of the year, you know, where he just you know,
Speaker 7: really looked good at both ends and and uh I
Speaker 7: kind of figure out how to fit in and where
Speaker 7: to you know, where to go again. So yeah, it's
Speaker 7: excellent to see. Is he's been working really hard on
Speaker 7: his shooting just mechanics that you mentioned, so it's good
Speaker 7: to see it pay off.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody six years coach Nick Nurse. Interesting comments
Speaker 2: there about both George and Caleb Martin. Yaboo sle gritty
Speaker 2: win right, just a tough, hard nosed victory. Murph.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And speaking of Caleb Martin, that's who I was
Speaker 3: down there talking to after the game. And credit to
Speaker 3: Tarren Hatcher in the NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast. She shared
Speaker 3: a story late in this game tonight that we have
Speaker 3: to remember Caleb Martin missed three games recently with the
Speaker 3: shoulder impingement, and he was here putting up shots on
Speaker 3: Friday at after shoot around even though he didn't play
Speaker 3: that night. He wanted to make some shots see it
Speaker 3: going through in this building, and it paid off. Tonight,
Speaker 3: him and Yabuu Slee were huge three for five, both
Speaker 3: of them from three off the bench. Obviously Maxi the
Speaker 3: standout stat line, but Yabu offensively defensively. You could have
Speaker 3: done this without his seventeen points and Caleb Martin's twelve
Speaker 3: points either against the Wimbin Yama led Spurs. This one
Speaker 3: really delivered. I mean, the only thing that was missing
Speaker 3: was a full game from the Sixers Big three, which
Speaker 3: has now in five outings failed to happen three times
Speaker 3: because of injury, and then the ejection for Embiid in
Speaker 3: the first half tonight, Right, So.
Speaker 2: Hopefully Joel will be able to go against Boston. And
Speaker 2: I don't mean this, you know, in any other way,
Speaker 2: but then he should be rested. He barely played right,
Speaker 2: and so that was a questionable call. But I think
Speaker 2: in the end it was probably a charge. And you know,
Speaker 2: whatever his reaction was, it was too much. He got
Speaker 2: the technical but then the back to back teas that
Speaker 2: that you know, it's hard to say, but that that's tough, right,
Speaker 2: Like whatever he said must have been, you know, enough
Speaker 2: to warrant according to the referee, that an ejection. But
Speaker 2: that was a shocker, right, like you're you saw the
Speaker 2: heave ho and sometimes refs do that like when they
Speaker 2: give it, but this was you're out. So that was
Speaker 2: that was a shocker. And I don't think I've ever
Speaker 2: seen him be that upset afterwards, right, I think when
Speaker 2: it really when he realized he was done.
Speaker 3: And it did look like he the ejection signal happened
Speaker 3: before he really let loose out there, So I mean
Speaker 3: some of it was after the fact, maybe in some
Speaker 3: sort of disbelief about the original call and then about
Speaker 3: the ejection call and all that. I do want your
Speaker 3: final thoughts heading into Boston on the NBA on Christmas
Speaker 3: Day slate. But quick thing on Wembin Yama. Because he
Speaker 3: took thirteen threes and made six of them. How about
Speaker 3: this stat? Sixty three percent of his shots are jump shots,
Speaker 3: thirteenth in the NBA. It's a list of mostly guards
Speaker 3: and wing players. His average shot distance is seventeen point
Speaker 3: seven feet, which is the same as Donovan Mitchell and
Speaker 3: Luka Doncic. And he's seven to three plus shoes, so
Speaker 3: he he has ranged.
Speaker 2: Now I gotta ask shit, you know, Arn had a
Speaker 2: scoop on Caleb? We did she had that stat right,
Speaker 2: And that's the inside stuff right there. That's a wild stand.
Speaker 3: Oh you know what, I do know who had that.
Speaker 3: That's from ESPN's Michael C. Wright, So thank you, Mike.
Speaker 2: I don't have a little attribution now, but that on
Speaker 2: the back end, right, that's wild because typically, you know,
Speaker 2: back in the day David Robinson Duncan any big of
Speaker 2: an era, you know, ag would be back to the basket,
Speaker 2: shooting closer from the block. Think about how beat started.
Speaker 2: He played down on the block, and yet you know
Speaker 2: at some point he's going to be able to do that,
Speaker 2: whether you know he develops a hook or whatever, but
Speaker 2: an amazing talent to be sure. And then he quickly
Speaker 2: drew the ire of the Philadelphia fans with that whole
Speaker 2: drummon scenario and the flopping and whatnot. But the bigger
Speaker 2: thing too for the Sixers is I go back to
Speaker 2: what coach said pregame, and that is, you know, try
Speaker 2: to claw back. And this was a type of victory
Speaker 2: in other words, for the Sixers, you know, inch by inch,
Speaker 2: quarterby court, game by game, get back to where you know,
Speaker 2: well five hundred into where they're playing consistent basketball, giving
Speaker 2: themselves a chance in every game and big performances from
Speaker 2: all kinds of different players tonight, none bigger than Maxi.
Speaker 2: You know, the dunk. I think having missed that three
Speaker 2: before kind of inspired the dunk. H He ends up
Speaker 2: stealing the ball at mid court from Champenny. Champenney then
Speaker 2: the only guy back and Maxie with a left handed dunk.
Speaker 2: I mean, with the game on the line, that was,
Speaker 2: you know, just enormous. And then a step back three
Speaker 2: on Jeremy so on, so really impressive. Maxie delivers again.
Speaker 3: Twelve and the fourth out of his twenty one in
Speaker 3: the second half, game high thirty two. Matt Murphy, Tom
Speaker 3: McGinnis our seventy six Ers Parks Casino post game show
Speaker 3: after a one to eleven, one to ZHO six win
Speaker 3: in Philly over the Spurs. Five games on the NBA
Speaker 3: on Christmas Day Slate. Spurs will actually play the Knicks
Speaker 3: to tip it off at noon. The middle game is
Speaker 3: the Sixers and the Celtics in Boston at five Eastern.
Speaker 3: We look forward to that. What are you expecting in
Speaker 3: the first meeting? What do you think Boston will be like?
Speaker 3: First meeting of the season between these two defending champs?
Speaker 3: How do you think that's gonna be well.
Speaker 2: Again, Tatum didn't play tonight in Orlando out with illness.
Speaker 2: But Boston obviously just an incredible season, not just last year,
Speaker 2: this year as well. It's a really difficult team. And
Speaker 2: for the Sixers at some point they have to be
Speaker 2: able to knock off Boston, and not just in the
Speaker 2: regular season, but in the postseason, right, And so it's, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, you gotta to me show to yourself, to
Speaker 2: the Sixers that you can beat them, right. It's this
Speaker 2: is a new group. Obviously, some of the guys have played,
Speaker 2: you know, against the Seas time and again, but to
Speaker 2: show and prove to your own self. You might know
Speaker 2: in your heart you can bet them, but you've got
Speaker 2: to be able to prove it. And you know conclusively no.
Speaker 2: So they're tough, there's no doubt about it. And again,
Speaker 2: hopefully the Sixers having been Maxie and Paul George ready
Speaker 2: to go. You've got some really good performances. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be a great game. It's a tremendous atmosphere. It's unbelievable
Speaker 2: in their soul many times with the crowd roaring. And again,
Speaker 2: every team that plays on Christmas it's like a it's
Speaker 2: like a stamp the league. As we've talked about in
Speaker 2: years past, the league gets dozens of calls or a dozen,
Speaker 2: let's say, but with other teams like wait, we warn
Speaker 2: a Christmas Day game and this rivalry and you know,
Speaker 2: certainly record wise not what maybe the league or anybody
Speaker 2: expected with the Sixers coming in there. But it should
Speaker 2: be a battle royale. And again it's a national television game,
Speaker 2: so we'll have the local call and it ought to
Speaker 2: be fun Christmas Day in Boston.
Speaker 3: One last thing, Caleb Martin. I just wanted to squeeze
Speaker 3: his stats in here against the Boston Celtics. Thirteen point
Speaker 3: six points per game on fifty percent shooting forty four
Speaker 3: from three over the past two seasons against the Celtics, Caleb.
Speaker 2: And he's gonna goud Brown and Tait alone on one besession.
Speaker 3: Tom, thank you so much. We'll talk on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Thank you holiday.
Speaker 3: Happy Holidays to you as well. And this was just
Speaker 3: a fun. When we have more stats to break down
Speaker 3: from this win over the Spurs one eleven, one oh six,
Speaker 3: we'll do that. We'll hear the highlights when we come back.
Speaker 3: We'll continue on next with our seventy six Ers postgame
Speaker 3: show presented by Parks Casino. All right, welcome back to
Speaker 3: the Center in Philadelphia, where the Sixers just picked up
Speaker 3: a one to eleven one oh six win over the Spurs.
Speaker 3: Thirty two for Maxi, twenty six points, eight blocks for
Speaker 3: Victor Wembinyama. The Spurs are fifteen and fourteen, the Sixers
Speaker 3: are ten and seventeen. We did not get a full
Speaker 3: Embiid Wembinyama matchup because Embiid was ejected from the game
Speaker 3: after two technicals when he was whistled for a charge
Speaker 3: late in the first half. Two technicals and he was tossed,
Speaker 3: so he only saw first half action tonight. Nine points
Speaker 3: in the first quarter, fourteen minutes and twenty two seconds
Speaker 3: for him against the Spurs in the tenth win of
Speaker 3: the season. The Sixers failed to complete it with their
Speaker 3: full big three, so that had been the story coming
Speaker 3: in with Nick Nurse two and zero in games that
Speaker 3: Paul George Tyrese, Maxi, and Joel Embiid start and finish
Speaker 3: Tonight technically the fifth game they've played together, but Embiid
Speaker 3: did not finish the game. Either way, they get the
Speaker 3: win ten and seventeen. They'll go to Boston next on
Speaker 3: Wednesday for the NBA on Christmas Day Showdown. We continue
Speaker 3: on with our postgame show presented by Parks Casino. I'm
Speaker 3: Matt Murphy. One eleven one to oh six. The Sixers
Speaker 3: had two players leave the game with injury after having
Speaker 3: two sit coming in. Eric Gordon was out to begin with,
Speaker 3: as is Jared McCain as you likely know, but then
Speaker 3: Andre Drummond, who was also briefly ejected from this game.
Speaker 3: He ended up only playing six minutes and thirty nine
Speaker 3: seconds a injury forced him out of this game, and
Speaker 3: then kJ Martin later on in the game foot soreness.
Speaker 3: He didn't play down the stretch, so they didn't get
Speaker 3: out of it unscathed, but they did behind Maxi's late heroics,
Speaker 3: including a clutch three and and one dunk. He didn't
Speaker 3: make the free throw, but a left handed hammer dunk
Speaker 3: against Julian Champenny, who made five of the spurs eight
Speaker 3: threes in the fourth quarter to keep them around. The
Speaker 3: largest lead in the second half was fifteen for the Sixers,
Speaker 3: who looked like they might run away with this, but
Speaker 3: in the end things got closely contested and the Sixers
Speaker 3: hold on. We will hear in a moment the audio
Speaker 3: highlights with Tom mcguinness's calls. But before we do that,
Speaker 3: we'll hand out our stat of the game. We'll also
Speaker 3: go through the game high totals real quick, but first
Speaker 3: the team total six Ers forty two percent from the
Speaker 3: floor in the win, Spurs forty just under forty six percent.
Speaker 3: Sixers made sixteen threes, the Spurs made fifteen most of
Speaker 3: those late. As I mentioned, it was thirty six percent
Speaker 3: from deep for Philadelphia, thirty three for San Antonio. Six
Speaker 3: missed free throws for the Sixers seventeen of twenty three,
Speaker 3: only one for the Spurs, seventeen for eighteen. Six Ers
Speaker 3: won the rebounding battle forty seven to forty two and
Speaker 3: the turnover battle, forcing eighteen and only turning the ball
Speaker 3: over eleven times before the game high leaders. The stat
Speaker 3: of the game is the steals total for gershon Yabusele
Speaker 3: four steals, leading everyone with his seventeen points. He was
Speaker 3: huge on both ends of the floor, especially because of
Speaker 3: the way that this game went with players going in
Speaker 3: and out of the rotation. Yabuselee played almost thirty two
Speaker 3: minutes off the bench, seventeen points, four rebounds to assist,
Speaker 3: four steals in a block, he was a plus seven,
Speaker 3: went three for five from three. Like Caleb Martin off
Speaker 3: the bench, Paul George was a team high and game
Speaker 3: high plus fifteen in the plus minus column. We'll tell
Speaker 3: you the leading scorer and more, but in a moment,
Speaker 3: we are just past the top of the hour, so
Speaker 3: before we continue on with our Sixers post game, let's
Speaker 3: pause ten seconds for station identification here on the Sixers
Speaker 3: radio network. Busy night around the NBA with fourteen games,
Speaker 3: everybody in action except for the Pelicans and the Kings
Speaker 3: on this Monday night, including the Sixers hosting the Spurs.
Speaker 3: Maxi's thirty two were the most for any player. Thirty
Speaker 3: two points after an eleven point first half, he goes
Speaker 3: for twenty one after the break.
Speaker 2: He was on.
Speaker 3: Triple double watch his first career triple double not too
Speaker 3: long ago in Chicago, but tonight he falls just short.
Speaker 3: Thirty two points, ten rebounds, eight to six and those
Speaker 3: were game high totals as well, the rebounds more than
Speaker 3: anyone else. The assist number was tied with Chris Paul,
Speaker 3: who is the Spurs point guard after signing with them
Speaker 3: in the off season. So what a game for Maxi.
Speaker 3: His five threes matched Champagni of the Spurs, but the
Speaker 3: most for any player was Victor Wembinyama with six threes,
Speaker 3: and he took the most six for thirteen. Wembinyama from
Speaker 3: three and he had a clutch one late to regain
Speaker 3: the lead in the closing minutes. We'll hear that in
Speaker 3: our audio highlights coming up right now. Let's hear how
Speaker 3: this one sounded, as called by Tom mcguinnis the Sixers
Speaker 3: and Spurs in Philadelphia, the Sixers in white, the Spectrum
Speaker 3: inspired City Edition uniforms presented by Crypto dot Com, the
Speaker 3: Spurs in black uniforms, and the Victor Wembinyama and the Spurs.
Speaker 3: He he's coming off Western Conference Player of the Week
Speaker 3: that was announced this afternoon. Embiide returned to the lineup
Speaker 3: after not playing in Cleveland with the black plastic face mask,
Speaker 3: and he had a strong first quarter as noted here.
Speaker 3: A three ball part of a nine point first quarter
Speaker 3: for Joel.
Speaker 2: Joel with an of the right wing against Wemby, get
Speaker 2: to screen, pass it down to Martin and now Paul
Speaker 2: deflex it back out to a b three pointer near
Speaker 2: side got it Joel and Bid with five of the
Speaker 2: seven for the sixers and they lead seven to two.
Speaker 3: Seven to two start to the game. We fast forward
Speaker 3: in the first quarter. That was closely played and it
Speaker 3: was closed out better by the Spurs, led by wembin
Speaker 3: Yama and his defense. But on the offensive end, the
Speaker 3: connection with number four overall picks Stefan Cassel, the point
Speaker 3: guard from Yukon this in a one point game, it
Speaker 3: looked it's too easy. The alley from Castle to Wembanyama.
Speaker 2: When Benyama brings it to length to the court, he
Speaker 2: goes to Castle, Castle throws it back to wemb and
Speaker 2: he throws it down a right hand tongk by Wembnyama.
Speaker 2: Excellent play by Victor and both ends of the floor
Speaker 2: thereby the Spurs and they've crept it within one.
Speaker 3: Making it look easy. The raining unanimous Rookie of the
Speaker 3: Year seven to three and a half without shoes. That's
Speaker 3: what they listen him at in the program. Some oohs
Speaker 3: and ahs in the crowd on that one. Then just
Speaker 3: throw it anywhere near the rim and he just put
Speaker 3: it over the rim with his right hand, and he
Speaker 3: had a four block first quarter. How so that was
Speaker 3: a nineteen eighteen game, and with the game at twenty
Speaker 3: nineteen Spurs and of the first six point five seconds
Speaker 3: on the clock for the Sixers side out of bounds
Speaker 3: when Binyama got half of that first quarter block total
Speaker 3: on one sequence, blocking Kyle Au and then Caleb Martin
Speaker 3: to keep the score twenty nineteen in favor of the
Speaker 3: visiting Spurs. Heading to the second quarter. Early second quarter,
Speaker 3: Andre Drummond, he got a technical for pushing Wembanyama to
Speaker 3: the ground, and then after the technical free throw from
Speaker 3: Chris Paul, he got called for tripping him, a second technical.
Speaker 3: He got ejected. Then they looked at it and said
Speaker 3: he didn't trip him, no technical foul and that it
Speaker 3: would be a flop on Wembinyama, which is a T
Speaker 3: and a Maxi freethrow. And then they said, because we're
Speaker 3: rescinding the second technical on Drummond. The flop never happened,
Speaker 3: the maxi free throw never happened. Take that point off
Speaker 3: the board. And Drummond was still available until he would
Speaker 3: leave due to injury. So that happened. And you think
Speaker 3: it couldn't get any crazier than that, But about five
Speaker 3: minutes later, Joel Embiid charged into Wembinyama with the ball,
Speaker 3: so wehm Benyama is involved in all of this in
Speaker 3: the first half drew the ire of the Sixers fans
Speaker 3: because the block charge bang bang call doesn't go Joel's way,
Speaker 3: and then it got worse from there.
Speaker 2: Down goes with bin Yama and be colliding with him
Speaker 2: in an offensive foul on Joelle and it'd be jogging
Speaker 2: back to argue the call. I think Joelle making his
Speaker 2: point to the official having to be separated by Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 2: Bobby Jackson runs out and Joel's give a tee. Jenna
Speaker 2: Schroder just throwing out. Beat is really hot to Sixers
Speaker 2: swarm him, Anthony Bubb Jackson and the security team comes over,
Speaker 2: Bobby Jackson and Doug West. Jenna Schroeder teed up and Beat.
Speaker 2: She gave the premature tee to Andre Drummond and Beat
Speaker 2: is furious. I don't know that we've ever seen him
Speaker 2: at an official this angry.
Speaker 3: In a two point game. So the first half, it
Speaker 3: wasn't the best shooting half for either team, but there
Speaker 3: were theatrics that it was a wild second quarter, and
Speaker 3: you know from one side of the court to the other.
Speaker 3: After the charge on MBD, a technical was issued and
Speaker 3: then another one and then he wasn't done arguing with
Speaker 3: the officiating staff. But he would not be let back
Speaker 3: into this game. He thought maybe after the drum and stuff,
Speaker 3: but no, he was ejected and he would not return.
Speaker 3: So the Sixers went into the locker room with a
Speaker 3: forty eight forty five lead courtesy of a gershan Yabusele
Speaker 3: hot streak from beyond the arc, knocking down a couple
Speaker 3: of triples, including to break the time backs.
Speaker 2: He drives women yab alerks back out to gershant Yabuseley
Speaker 2: with another three, Gershot hits a triple. It's one of
Speaker 2: those instances where he knows he needs the high release
Speaker 2: point and the high arc with Victor looming, and I
Speaker 2: think it helped him at Yah Bouseli with another three.
Speaker 3: He had ten points in the second quarter, puts the
Speaker 3: Sixers up by three at halftime of this game forty
Speaker 3: eight forty five, and he came out of the locker
Speaker 3: room keeping it going with a three to go up
Speaker 3: sixty one fifty six. Then Caleb Martin hit one of
Speaker 3: his three threes. He played a big role with the
Speaker 3: twelve points they combined for twenty nine off the bench
Speaker 3: and both three for five from beyond the arc, and
Speaker 3: then Tyrese Maxey joins the three point party, forcing a
Speaker 3: time out for the Spurs, who they're acting head coaches
Speaker 3: Mitch Johnson with Greg Popovich not currently coaching the team
Speaker 3: due to health reasons, and Maxi's three forced Mitch Johnson
Speaker 3: to take a time out. It put the Sixers up
Speaker 3: by nine, and who knew he was only getting started.
Speaker 2: Weak side rebound ty Reece Maxi his six boards. Maxi
Speaker 2: had to move transition tray bang, it's.
Speaker 3: Good time out.
Speaker 2: Spurs six Ers sixty seven, the Spurs fifty eight. Maxy
Speaker 2: kick it up against the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: His six hundredth three in his career, because I mean
Speaker 3: the fourth sixer to do that iverson eight eighty five,
Speaker 3: Covington seven to twenty four, Korver six sixty one, and
Speaker 3: on that three in a sixty nine sixty seven to
Speaker 3: fifty eight game, Tyrese Maxi hits career three number six
Speaker 3: hundred the rookie Castle from the champion Yukon Huskies. Though
Speaker 3: he had a double digit third quarter, including a three
Speaker 3: of his own off a steal that cut the deficit
Speaker 3: to six for the Spurs.
Speaker 2: Seventy seven sixty eight. The Sixers lead is nine, and
Speaker 2: here's Japasile with an interception budd He throws it right
Speaker 2: back to the Spurs and Castle shoots it three and
Speaker 2: in what is going on? Castle with a trays so
Speaker 2: a flip flop of turnover. Japaceele thought of the outlet
Speaker 2: was gonna get the Sixers going, and Castle picked it off.
Speaker 3: Castle with thirteen of his seventeen points total, thirteen came
Speaker 3: in the third quarter, seventy seven seventy one Sixers at
Speaker 3: that juncture, and they would take an eighty four seventy
Speaker 3: five nine point lead into the fourth quarter. And it's
Speaker 3: the late sequences that mattered most because the Spurs started
Speaker 3: raining in threes. Julian Champenny for his fourth three of
Speaker 3: the game at the time to tie this thing at
Speaker 3: ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Webbin Yama Watson on the post against Soubre Paul to
Speaker 2: Champegne three ball in the air, got it. Julian Champenny
Speaker 2: has popped the cork. He nails another one ninety eight,
Speaker 2: ninety eight Paul with another Dish's eighth assists of the
Speaker 2: game three and a half to go, Timeout Sixers.
Speaker 3: Ninety eight, all eight threes in the fourth out of
Speaker 3: their fifteen San Antonio. Five of those contributed by the
Speaker 3: former Sixer and blue Coat Champenny, who then had to
Speaker 3: defend Paul George on the side of bounds, who goes
Speaker 3: baseline and he was fouled by Chris Paul.
Speaker 2: Sixers with Maxie and bounding to Paul George in the quarter, Sixers,
Speaker 2: with George on a drive into the lane, goes up,
Speaker 2: They swipe bet and he gets a left the right reverse.
Speaker 2: The Sixers kept Yabusele lifted up beyond the followane and
Speaker 2: thus webbin Yama could not get back to defend Paul
Speaker 2: George and Paul George drives it.
Speaker 3: One hundred and ninety eight free throw didn't go. Would
Speaker 3: Lawler's law hold the first to one hundred wins? We
Speaker 3: are not going to hear the wembin Yama three from
Speaker 3: the wing, but it was pure one oh one, one hundred.
Speaker 3: The Spurs back in front. A running layup for Maxi
Speaker 3: followed that, and then Chris Paul an improbable make to
Speaker 3: put the Spurs back ahead on a fade away mid range.
Speaker 3: I mean that is where he's made his living in
Speaker 3: the NBA. But one o three, one oh two and
Speaker 3: Champenni has the balls stolen by Maxie, and he doesn't
Speaker 3: just simply lay it up and in down one.
Speaker 2: He steals the ball, He drives it. He champed and
Speaker 2: hunt you serious, It's the play of the year. He
Speaker 2: dunks it. Tyreee Faxi of the pitted slam pod Champenny
Speaker 2: game on the line. He steals it at midcourt after
Speaker 2: just missing the three. He goes in, he rares back
Speaker 2: and dunks it with his left hand. Sixers take the lead.
Speaker 3: This place was absolutely electric on that steal and slam.
Speaker 3: He was found, but it was one o four to
Speaker 3: one oh three because he could not convert the three
Speaker 3: point play either. The dagger shot was the fifth three
Speaker 3: of the game from Tyrese.
Speaker 2: Eight to shoot Maxie against so hunged how top off
Speaker 2: the dribble prizes for three. It's up. It's god Maxi
Speaker 2: with five in a row head his first take time
Speaker 2: hits his house, kits max. He celebrating with nineteen thousand
Speaker 2: of his closest friends. One oh seven what oh three
Speaker 2: thirty seconds to go? Time out spurs.
Speaker 3: Champenny had another one, but the Sixers hold on to win.
Speaker 3: Won eleven one ZHO six for their first win over
Speaker 3: a Western Conference opponent in the twenty twenty four twenty
Speaker 3: five season. A five point victory for Maxi and the Sixers,
Speaker 3: who will play Boston on Christmas at five Eastern. Just
Speaker 3: a tremendous end to this game. Again, just two assists,
Speaker 3: shy of a triple double, thirty two points, ten rebounds,
Speaker 3: eight assists for Tyrese Maxey. Paul George with that plus
Speaker 3: fifteen plus minus, had nineteen points, nine rebounds, four assists.
Speaker 3: He took sixteen shots. Nick Nurse told us before the
Speaker 3: game that couple after a couple twelve shot games, fifteen
Speaker 3: to sixteen is the range that they'd like to see,
Speaker 3: and that he's had games like that this year where
Speaker 3: some of those are extremely or most of those are
Speaker 3: extremely good looks tonight six of sixteen, two for seven
Speaker 3: from three to five for seven at the line. The
Speaker 3: reverse layup was clutching this one. Nineteen nine and four
Speaker 3: for Paul George, Yabusele, and Martin in double digits off
Speaker 3: the bench, as noted. Outside of Wembin Yama's twenty six points,
Speaker 3: nine rebounds, and eight blocks, seven of which were in
Speaker 3: the first half. Four you heard me say in the
Speaker 3: first quarter after him on the stat sheet. They had
Speaker 3: five other players in double figures, three with fifteen points
Speaker 3: and it was Castle with seventeen, Champagnie with fifteen, Sohan
Speaker 3: with fifteen, Devin Vassel had fifteen, and Chris Paul had
Speaker 3: twelve points and a game high tying eight assists along
Speaker 3: with Maxi. It had everything. Tonight kind of started with
Speaker 3: the Drummond and emb ejections and ended with Maxi taking over.
Speaker 3: But that will do it for our seventy six Ers
Speaker 3: postgame show tonight, which is presented by Parks Casino. The
Speaker 3: final score the Sixers one eleven the Spurs one oh six.
Speaker 3: Thanks to our engineer Marty Dickerson, producers Matt Manarik and
Speaker 3: Sean Rodman, and of course Tom McGinness on the call.
Speaker 3: That next Sixers game, Wednesday, is a five pm Eastern
Speaker 3: start in Boston against the defending champion Celtics the NBA
Speaker 3: on Christmas Day. Our coverage here on the Sixers Radio Network,
Speaker 3: presented by Jackpot City Casino, will begin at four p
Speaker 3: fifty Eastern. Until then I'm Matt Murphy saying so long
Speaker 3: from the center. Thanks so much for listening. Happy holidays
Speaker 3: to everyone. The Sixers win by five.
Speaker 2: Take care,