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. A
Speaker 1: most tampy holiday indeed, as the seventy Sixers roll past
Speaker 1: the NBA's best team in terms of record one twenty
Speaker 1: one one O nine. The final score a Christmas Day
Speaker 1: victory for the seventy Sixers over the Bucks. I'm Brian Seltzer,
Speaker 1: how are you? This was a fun game today, so
Speaker 1: much build up and anticipations surrounding it. Seventy Sixers a
Speaker 1: major tests they closed out the first third of their season.
Speaker 1: Based on how Brett Brown views it and man While
Speaker 1: a isolated regular season victory over the top team in
Speaker 1: the league does not a season make, it certainly showed
Speaker 1: today that the Sixers took this challenge seriously. Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: played like the best player on the floor and arguably
Speaker 1: the best player in the league. Thirty one points, eleven rebounds,
Speaker 1: two block shots, three assists. He scored twenty three points
Speaker 1: in a dominant first half in which the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: were leading by a hefty, hefty margin at the break
Speaker 1: as they held the Milwaukee Bucks for just forty eight
Speaker 1: points in the first half. The Sixers led sixty nine
Speaker 1: to forty eight. It was the most points scored on
Speaker 1: Milwaukee in a first half the season. The Sixers also
Speaker 1: scored thirty eight points on Milwaukee in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: That was also the highest total that Milwaukee had given
Speaker 1: up this year when looking at first quarters, and Beads
Speaker 1: set the tone and the seventy Sixers were able to
Speaker 1: then playoff and around him. Josh Richardson phenomenal eighteen points,
Speaker 1: four three pointers, five rebounds, four assists. Tobias Harris another
Speaker 1: exceptional game, twenty two points, very efficient eight of sixteen
Speaker 1: would have about five of seven from three point territory
Speaker 1: four Tobias Harris. Ben Simmons fifteen points, fourteen assists, seven rebounds.
Speaker 1: He also had a couple noteworthy steals when the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers were in a portion of the game where they
Speaker 1: were seasoned control. The Sixers led by as much as
Speaker 1: one nine in this one. In the first half, they
Speaker 1: were up by twenty one. Again, that biggest lead was
Speaker 1: coming at the break. So in this one, the Sixers
Speaker 1: you could tell they had the date on the calendar circle.
Speaker 1: They came out and performed accordingly, and while yes, there's
Speaker 1: still a long way to go, two thirds of the
Speaker 1: season left and three more matchups against the Milwaukee Bucks,
Speaker 1: including one in the final week of the regular season,
Speaker 1: that could ultimately be a little bit more indicative of
Speaker 1: where these teams stack up going into the postseason, which
Speaker 1: is the time of year that both clubs have their
Speaker 1: eyes looking at. Today was great and it has to
Speaker 1: be most reassuring, especially when you consider some of the competition.
Speaker 1: The seventy Sixers have played and played well again, so
Speaker 1: you can put the win over Boston in this category. Now,
Speaker 1: the win over the Bucks went at home versus the
Speaker 1: Toronto Raptors and a great effort against the Miami Heats
Speaker 1: going back a couple of weeks ago, seventy Sixers beat
Speaker 1: the Bucks one twenty one to one on nine for
Speaker 1: as good as Dwell and beats numbers looked on the surface,
Speaker 1: his defense on Janis was awesome. I don't know. Kupo
Speaker 1: held to eighteen points on eight of twenty seven shooting.
Speaker 1: He was oh for seven from three point territory. Chris
Speaker 1: Middleton did score thirty one, but with Joel leading the
Speaker 1: way on Jannis do Acupo for the bulk of the game,
Speaker 1: especially when Joel was on the court, he was terrific,
Speaker 1: kept Jannis in front of him, locked down in front
Speaker 1: of the rim, protected that thing with all of his
Speaker 1: strength and muscle and might just a great effort from
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid rising through the occasion, as we have seen
Speaker 1: him do against some of the top competition in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers win their third in a row. They're now
Speaker 1: twenty three and ten on the season. Milwaukee loses for
Speaker 1: just the fifth time. Their record stands at twenty seven
Speaker 1: and five. Seventy Sixers roll passed in Milwaukee Bucks one
Speaker 1: twenty one to one O nine. I'm Brian Seltzer. Tom
Speaker 1: mc ginnis called this one today a great matinee win
Speaker 1: for the seventy sixers, hosting their first Christmas Day game
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty eight. Tom, I think this is a
Speaker 1: game where the final score perhaps not quite as reflective
Speaker 1: of the way the majority of this game went. Milwaukee
Speaker 1: out scored the seventy six Ers by fifteen and the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, but by the end of the third it
Speaker 1: was one hundred and seventy three. The building was rock
Speaker 1: and Joel Embiid was playing like he was arguably the
Speaker 1: best player in the league. This was just a great
Speaker 1: win for the seventy six ers, where across the board
Speaker 1: they out did the Milwaukee Bucks in just about every way, right,
Speaker 1: they shot lights out Holiday hoops. Boy, that was an
Speaker 1: electric atmosphere. And you know, Tobias Harris shared with his
Speaker 1: post game that they had this game circled and how
Speaker 1: couldn't they in that it's their first matchup with Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: The Bucks have been the cream of the crop in
Speaker 1: the NBA. You come in with the MVP and just
Speaker 1: the way they've torn through their first thirty plus games
Speaker 1: with that record, And it was Joel with the shooting.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think I'm giving away State secrets here,
Speaker 1: but after the team shot around, Joel stayed out there
Speaker 1: and he works with Chris Bap and Joel there's actually
Speaker 1: like even a Milwaukee coach, and Joel's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go eight for twelve from three tonight, and
Speaker 1: he came close, and he really did. And when he's
Speaker 1: not shooting the three, he's able to lift the defender
Speaker 1: in many cases, Robin Lopez off the floor and able
Speaker 1: to get into the lane with the dribble, and then
Speaker 1: he's so he's got such a great touch and around
Speaker 1: that eighteen footmark or just outside the elbows, he's nearly
Speaker 1: flawless with those face up shots. And he was really good.
Speaker 1: But then I thought Josh Richardson and the point was
Speaker 1: made during the press conference with Coach Brown about their
Speaker 1: two man game and pick and roll, and you know,
Speaker 1: Brett Brown said the phrase, and I've never really heard
Speaker 1: it adapted to describing a player, but he said, he's
Speaker 1: got wiggle and that's so he is. He kind of
Speaker 1: snakes around the defense. And then to me, he's got
Speaker 1: a little Oklahoma soon or toughness too, and that he'll
Speaker 1: make a field goal with the defender being aggressive. And
Speaker 1: you know, he told us early in the year it's
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not pretty, but he can score. And he
Speaker 1: was as good offensively as he's been, including maybe even
Speaker 1: that Miami game. You'd throw in there for Josh to
Speaker 1: buy us again filling it up, and then timely three
Speaker 1: point shooting in the second half by Burkon. I thought
Speaker 1: Ben was dominant at times. That one move, that eurostep
Speaker 1: move that he made, he was phenomenal. He made some
Speaker 1: difficult running hook shots against that tall defense with Lopez
Speaker 1: and Jannis, and then the Sixers defense against the data
Speaker 1: Kompo o for seven from three. The combination of Horford
Speaker 1: and and Bid did a tremendous job on him, and
Speaker 1: the Sixers were the better team today. And again, there's
Speaker 1: two more matchups in this series. They'll be out in
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and but this was just terrific. I mean a markim.
Speaker 1: Everybody sensed how special it was to be playing here
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia on Christmas Day and then to perform like
Speaker 1: that for the ball club was really neat. Seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: over the Bucks. They'd take around one of four one
Speaker 1: twenty one, two, one oh nine. Let's get into the
Speaker 1: defense on Jannis on a Kompo, you could say he
Speaker 1: was very normal today, Tom offensively perhaps less than normal
Speaker 1: eight for twenty seven from the floor, over seven from three,
Speaker 1: eighteen points. Dwell Embiid had him from the start of
Speaker 1: the game. We saw this in the big win the
Speaker 1: Sixers had last year at Milwaukee for the first time.
Speaker 1: Brett Brown went back to it again today and jannest
Speaker 1: he seemed flummixed and frustrated, like he tried multiple times
Speaker 1: to load up like a battering ram to try and
Speaker 1: break down the wall of him. Bead just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: And the loading up is him taking that dribble from
Speaker 1: you know, darn Year a half court or certainly well
Speaker 1: beyond the three point arc and three large dribbles for
Speaker 1: mankind those strides into the lane and he missed. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Sixers defended him well, but he did miss some
Speaker 1: close range shots that he's been making throughout the last
Speaker 1: two or three years of his career. But I thought
Speaker 1: Joel matched him, and they switched it up on him
Speaker 1: a little bit. There was that one play Joe got
Speaker 1: called for a foul on it, which I kind of
Speaker 1: disagree with, and that is, you know, as you said,
Speaker 1: he was loaded for bear Jannis coming into the lane
Speaker 1: and a beat instead of matching the physicality backed off.
Speaker 1: The big guys in our league called that pull in
Speaker 1: the chair and so Juell did not meet him with
Speaker 1: the force and Jannis just kind of fumbled out of
Speaker 1: bounce and that just kind of indicative of kind of
Speaker 1: changing things up on him. And then again al Horford
Speaker 1: has done over the last three four or five years
Speaker 1: when Atlanta or Boston whichever team he's been, he's been
Speaker 1: guarding Janna, so he's not totally unaccustomed, and Jannis is
Speaker 1: having a great year. He did not have a good
Speaker 1: day here today, certainly from the outside, where he's been
Speaker 1: much improved in that three point shooting. One thing we
Speaker 1: didn't mention, as Kyle has been working with him about that.
Speaker 1: Looks like a coach in waiting there in Kyle Korver,
Speaker 1: who made only one three. But I thought another two
Speaker 1: guys for them that were great and they're having good years.
Speaker 1: George Hill was perfect five for five, including three threes
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the game, and then Chris Middleton
Speaker 1: can fill it up. And the one question I would
Speaker 1: have postgame here and maybe Milwaukee the reporters asking coach
Speaker 1: Bud but why not zone? Earlier I kind of teased
Speaker 1: it jokingly but somewhat serious, and that is, would coach
Speaker 1: Bud go zone after a thirty eight point first quarter?
Speaker 1: Will see kind of throwed out there as a tease,
Speaker 1: and he didn't until the end, and it made an
Speaker 1: impact late in the game, as you mentioned, the outschool
Speaker 1: the sections by fifteen in the fourth seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: knock off the Bucks one, twenty one, one on nine,
Speaker 1: All right time. Your assessment of the seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: a third of the way into the season on this
Speaker 1: Christmas Day twenty three and ten, with some noteworthy victories, Well,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And you know, let's go back
Speaker 1: to what coach said, and and that is, you know,
Speaker 1: part of his press conference here tonight or today was
Speaker 1: you know, this team is built for the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: that's true, and there's no doubt about it. You got
Speaker 1: veteran players that have been in big games before and
Speaker 1: could perform at a high level. Uh. And today the
Speaker 1: Sixers this this was like a playoff atmosphere, and no
Speaker 1: doubt there's been some uposite end downs. They started out
Speaker 1: struggling on the road. Uh. And then you know they
Speaker 1: should have won some of those games that the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: game comes to mind, that game in Denver comes to mind,
Speaker 1: the tough loss here in some of those three the
Speaker 1: three losses last week, and how about that, what this
Speaker 1: is kind of a over the last two weeks indicative
Speaker 1: and that's a three and three record, so not totally,
Speaker 1: but in other words, the Sixers lost three game in
Speaker 1: a row, and look out, now the sky has following
Speaker 1: you can't solve his zone. And now you've won three
Speaker 1: in a row, including an exciting, emphatic victory over Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: and so you just want to keep improving. Get that
Speaker 1: group that in terms of the starters to continue to
Speaker 1: play together, get that consistency to continuity with that group,
Speaker 1: and then keep developing young players. You get motised back,
Speaker 1: you get furkon who's really going to be confident and
Speaker 1: the ability to hit the threes. And this has been good.
Speaker 1: Mike Scott's been good off the bench. He got Trey
Speaker 1: and Howl and so you know it's shaping up to
Speaker 1: be a memorable year, and you just you know, you
Speaker 1: want to keep it going. And in the end you're
Speaker 1: going to be battling Miami and just everybody that's up
Speaker 1: there right now, the Heat, the Celtics. How about the
Speaker 1: Celtics going into Toronto when winning convincingly, and you're going
Speaker 1: back to Milwaukee twice, Like this is chapter one, but
Speaker 1: there'll be two more chapters in this story, and then
Speaker 1: who knows, these two teams could meet down the road
Speaker 1: in April May in the playoffs. An accurate, measured look
Speaker 1: at the state of the seventy six Ers and how
Speaker 1: they stack up with the best team in the league
Speaker 1: right now via record, the Milwaukee Bucks. But nonetheless, as
Speaker 1: Tom said, great afternoon in South Philadelphia as the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers prevail. Tom, enjoy the rest of your holiday. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Brian Gooday. This was a game that when the schedule
Speaker 1: came out back in August. As a fan, anyone who
Speaker 1: files the team, a media member, you had to have
Speaker 1: circles in your calendar right, not only a Christmas Day game,
Speaker 1: but a Christmas Day game at home against a team
Speaker 1: you figured would be a top contender for the Eastern
Speaker 1: Conference title. Well. As it turned out, going into this
Speaker 1: particular showdown, the Bucks had the best record in the
Speaker 1: league at twenty seven and four, the seventy Sixers trying
Speaker 1: to climb up the rungs a little bit higher in
Speaker 1: the East Great Theater as the Sixers hosted their first
Speaker 1: Christmas Day game since nineteen eighty eight. Early going at
Speaker 1: the first time out, it was all tied up at fourteen.
Speaker 1: From there it was all seventy Sixers as they began
Speaker 1: to flex their muscle and its squares. It for three
Speaker 1: right side back iron off noe week side rebound earth
Speaker 1: side and horpor owner and how Horpork claims like for
Speaker 1: the sixers to Benny domin Night sevens with a lamp
Speaker 1: up and good like a freak train right up broad straight.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons puts it up an end. You could tell
Speaker 1: the intensity was starting to rub off on the rest
Speaker 1: of the team and the crowd as well. Joel Ebad
Speaker 1: putting a finish on what was a high scoring first quarter.
Speaker 1: Richardson with the ball five on the clock, Josh around screen,
Speaker 1: Contaton flocks up up five it, Bead picks it up,
Speaker 1: fires from deep ed in. Joel and being with the
Speaker 1: clock twindling, knocks out another grade Sixers by eight, and
Speaker 1: Bead made it thirty eight to thirty to thirty eight points,
Speaker 1: the most allowed by Milwaukee in a first quarter this season,
Speaker 1: and Bead continued to do damage in the second Sixers
Speaker 1: by eleven nine forty. In the first half, Richardson turns
Speaker 1: into the lane left hand scoop, it's a path to it,
Speaker 1: beat in an lu calf What a play by Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson edit beat up harded down with a slam, and
Speaker 1: Bead would scored twenty three points, a season high in
Speaker 1: the first half. To Bias Harris helped make sure the
Speaker 1: Sixers had a comfortable cushion going into the break. Sixers
Speaker 1: have eight threes and the ball here's Harris for an
Speaker 1: they're try and it's good to Bias Harris five in
Speaker 1: a row, his second three, and the Sixers by fourteen
Speaker 1: time out. Milwaukee ben a standing ovation in Philadelphia, and
Speaker 1: that's when you really started to feel like this would
Speaker 1: be the seventy Sixers day. Fifty three, thirty nine was
Speaker 1: the score, then sixty nine to forty eight to score
Speaker 1: at the half. The sixty nine points the most surrendered
Speaker 1: by Milwaukee in the first half this season, so you
Speaker 1: can tell the Sixers doing a great job scoring the
Speaker 1: ball obviously, but then defensively forty eight points scored by
Speaker 1: Milwaukee that tied for the lowest first half mark of
Speaker 1: the season. So across the board, the seventy Sixers had
Speaker 1: things going their way. Ben Simmons adding the seventy Sixers total,
Speaker 1: opening it up to a twenty three point lead. In
Speaker 1: the third, Ben milonet tan dribble takes him up, the
Speaker 1: bounce into the lane, fence it up and then that's
Speaker 1: what happens if you give Simmons too much space. You've
Speaker 1: allowed him to get the momentum off the bounds to
Speaker 1: get in there, and he goes right five Middleton and
Speaker 1: scores it. Ben Simmons with the field goal. He's got
Speaker 1: eight and one of the great moments of the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Furd con quirk Bis going up against Yannis. Sound of
Speaker 1: the kumpo. In the third, here's furk On again one
Speaker 1: more time. Oh yeah, he's knocked out by Jannis furk On.
Speaker 1: Clark Bas, he's out of his mind. The six Ers
Speaker 1: lead ninety three to sixty seven. Clark Bas with a
Speaker 1: holiday present for I Donna Kumpo. It would be one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three heading into the fourth. A couple
Speaker 1: more highlights for you, Ben Simmons one last time on
Speaker 1: this Christmas Day. Five minutes to go, though, Simmons of
Speaker 1: the ball. Simmons on a drive, Jamal Name puts it
Speaker 1: up with the right hand and in damn, that is
Speaker 1: hard man. He's going right and left. He ships into
Speaker 1: his right hand and scores it. Simmons now thirteen one,
Speaker 1: thirteen ninety one was the score. Then Bucks made a
Speaker 1: late charge. They knockdown eight of their sixteen three pointers
Speaker 1: that he could probably. They knocked down five of their
Speaker 1: thirteen three pointers in the fourth quarter that helped him
Speaker 1: gain some ground. They got it to within nine at
Speaker 1: one point late, but Al Horford made sure there would
Speaker 1: be no doubt left about this one. Josh Richardson downlow,
Speaker 1: left three to shoot, cross court, skip al, catch shot,
Speaker 1: free fall ball game yeah, hell. Hartford puts Milwaukee to bed.
Speaker 1: One twenty one one O nine had the Sixers with
Speaker 1: a rebound after a wild shot by Middleton, it's over
Speaker 1: and that would be the final score. One twenty one
Speaker 1: one O nine. Seventy Sixers shoot forty three and a
Speaker 1: half percent from the field. They set a season high
Speaker 1: with twenty one three pointers on forty four attempts. That
Speaker 1: equates to forty seven and a half percent. They were
Speaker 1: twelve or fifteen from the line, plus two on the
Speaker 1: glass against Milwaukee, with plus six in terms of offensive rebounding,
Speaker 1: and that gave them a little bit of an edge.
Speaker 1: In terms of second chance points. They were plus three
Speaker 1: only eight turnovers committed by the seventy Sixers. That's a
Speaker 1: great number. Thirty one and eleven for Joel Embiid twenty
Speaker 1: two points behind five of seven three points shooting for
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris, eighteen for Josh Richardson fifteen points, fourteen assists
Speaker 1: for Ben Simmons, sixteen for fur Con Corkmas off the bench,
Speaker 1: he knocked down his first four three pointers of the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee was led by Chris Midlton with thirty one. Jannis
Speaker 1: out of Acupo, a very pedestrian eighteen points on a
Speaker 1: very unsightly eight of twenty seven, shooting over seven from
Speaker 1: outside the arc. He did have fourteen rebounds and seven assists.
Speaker 1: George Hill came off the bench for fifteen. Seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers have won three straight. After three losses in Rome,
Speaker 1: Milwaukee drops to twenty seven and five. There three game
Speaker 1: winning streak is over, while the seventy six ers improved
Speaker 1: to twenty three and ten. As we take a look
Speaker 1: at the updated Eastern Conference standings, the seventy Sixers now
Speaker 1: move into fourth place thanks to a loss by Toronto
Speaker 1: to the Boston Celtics earlier today. Up next with the
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers, they start a four game road trip,
Speaker 1: a really just weird road trip in terms of geography.
Speaker 1: They're at Orlando in two days on Friday, then they
Speaker 1: finish it back to back at Miami. They're off for
Speaker 1: a couple days, go to Indeed to play at three
Speaker 1: o'clock on New Year's eve Day. Come back home for
Speaker 1: two days before heading out to visit Houston a week
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