Speaker 1: Anyway, Anyhow, the seventy Sixers trying to close out a
Speaker 1: somewhat uneven month in positive fashion, looking for a win.
Speaker 1: They got that in Denver tonight, one oh seven, one
Speaker 1: h two behind a powerful second half, an amazing run
Speaker 1: thirty three to eight bridging the third and fourth quarters
Speaker 1: after it seemed like they were in not a great
Speaker 1: spot with the Nuggets ripping off the first eleven points
Speaker 1: of quarter at number three. Brian Seltzer with you on
Speaker 1: the postgame show. Thanks for tuning in. We are expecting
Speaker 1: to hear from Sixers head coach Brett Brown. We'll revisit
Speaker 1: with Tom McGinnis and playback some of his highlight calls
Speaker 1: as well. Tom and I talked about this during the
Speaker 1: pregame show that one of the themes as of late
Speaker 1: that Brett Brown delivered to the Sixers figure out how
Speaker 1: to arrest runs, avoid meltdowns, especially in the second half,
Speaker 1: meltdown borrowing a word that he used in recent days.
Speaker 1: And there the bugaboo was daring the seventy Sixers right
Speaker 1: smack dab in the face, and man did they answer.
Speaker 1: Collective effort bench was tremendous. Charge Bayliss in particular, let's
Speaker 1: go to the head coach right now, didn't you have
Speaker 1: a team and you know, to have Jared come in
Speaker 1: and do what he did, and have Trevior's energy and
Speaker 1: tj doing what he did. Um, you know, our second
Speaker 1: half defense in general, and starting out and inspired by
Speaker 1: that sort of chunk of the game in the third period,
Speaker 1: just a little set the stage and let us carry
Speaker 1: it out for the for the wine. These this team
Speaker 1: is elite as a scoring team, and our offense wasn't
Speaker 1: the problem. And there were too many like easy baskets.
Speaker 1: There were too much easy stuff at the rim, and
Speaker 1: it was going to require something exceptional defensively for us
Speaker 1: to leave with a win. And it needed to start there.
Speaker 1: And let's just admit it because right now it's not happening.
Speaker 1: And I thought that that we responded. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought that that Jared, particularly, you know, I'm proud
Speaker 1: of because he has been down and trying to help
Speaker 1: him put him in an environment where he can get
Speaker 1: back some of his swagger and his mojo and feel
Speaker 1: good about himself. And uh, kind of those two things
Speaker 1: were sort of my focal point of the of the half.
Speaker 1: And you know, those guys were great. We give him
Speaker 1: a lot of credit in this position before where you
Speaker 1: get down, you go up and then it doesn't always
Speaker 1: go her way. So what was different tonight that you
Speaker 1: guys were able to hold on to it? I think
Speaker 1: a defense was was elite. I think that um, you know,
Speaker 1: we we came down and we played decent offensive basketball.
Speaker 1: But I feel like a defense ultimately was the thing
Speaker 1: that put us in the shape that we needed to
Speaker 1: be put in late. I went with JJ and Dario
Speaker 1: and different. Look, you know, we gave JB the ball
Speaker 1: when they were trying to foul Ben. And I think
Speaker 1: that the end of game sort of execution highlighted by
Speaker 1: the defense was was very very good and it needed
Speaker 1: to be. Did you guys try to foul Mason Plumbing?
Speaker 1: Or was that just thee we tried to file Mason Plumbing?
Speaker 1: And I think that it helped us. You know, we
Speaker 1: we we did a pretty good job of understanding, you know,
Speaker 1: you always stare him two minutes up because you can't
Speaker 1: do it after that unless he has the ball. And
Speaker 1: I thought we did a pretty good job of fouling
Speaker 1: him prior to the two minutes. And I thought we
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job of fouling him when he
Speaker 1: had the ball illegally, then we were able to He
Speaker 1: ended up one for seven from the free throw line
Speaker 1: and it certainly helped us. I thought it changed their
Speaker 1: offensive rhythm. What's the signific? I mean the stuff you'd
Speaker 1: expect me to say, the group is fantastic. And when
Speaker 1: you don't have wins to show and reflect that comment,
Speaker 1: then a you know, to validate the work that they
Speaker 1: put in, the fact that they are good play is
Speaker 1: in their own right. And we do have a team
Speaker 1: and they practice hardy, they they co exist in a
Speaker 1: locker room well, and we haven't had one of those
Speaker 1: since last time. I'm told what was in November in Utah.
Speaker 1: And to get one, you know, on the road without
Speaker 1: Joe is a credit to a team effort. Indeed, it
Speaker 1: was one oh seven, one h two seventy six Ers
Speaker 1: over the Denver Nuggets on the road, a place where
Speaker 1: Denver had only lost three times at Pepsi Center, Sixers
Speaker 1: trailed by fourteen points about five minutes in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: seventh straight from Dario char Schlitt, the fused and Jared
Speaker 1: Baylis in less than four minutes of regulation scored all
Speaker 1: fourteen of his points, none bigger than the eight in
Speaker 1: a row he racked up, capped off by a three
Speaker 1: pointer to begin quarter number four the night before he
Speaker 1: heads back home to Phoenix with a seventy Sixers play tomorrow,
Speaker 1: No Joel Ebad, Sixers still find a way to get
Speaker 1: it done. Dario Charge leads all players on the Sixers
Speaker 1: with twenty points, Robert Covington a fifteen point ten rebound
Speaker 1: double double, fourteen points apiece for Jared Ballis and Rashaun
Speaker 1: Holmes off the bench. Do not overlook t J McConnell
Speaker 1: tonight ten points, eight assists. He had his fingerprints all
Speaker 1: over that big run that ended up linking the third
Speaker 1: and fourth quarters, and Brett Brown went to him in
Speaker 1: crunch time as well. One oh seven, one h two
Speaker 1: the final, JJ Reddick very steady. We're going to get
Speaker 1: into all of this with Tom McGinnis, who's standing by. Next,
Speaker 1: it's the postgame show and the Sixers Raider Network. Seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers buckle down and half number two and emerged
Speaker 1: from Pepsi Center in Denver with a one oh seven,
Speaker 1: one h two victory. Brian Seltzer with you on the
Speaker 1: postgame show. Tom McGinnis joins us now Tom there were
Speaker 1: a lot of good things in the second half, but
Speaker 1: all in all, the Sixers, the big team has been
Speaker 1: figure out ways to arrest runs. They stared in the face,
Speaker 1: they did it, defense stepped up, and we saw balance
Speaker 1: from across the shorthanded roster. Book of Dano considered the
Speaker 1: Nuggets arrested. That's right, Sixers outscoring them by eight in
Speaker 1: the second half, and it didn't look good. I mean,
Speaker 1: Denver the first start of the third quarter was choppy,
Speaker 1: but in the end Denver scored eight points, so they're
Speaker 1: adding to their lead, and eventually, like I said, it
Speaker 1: got to fourteen, and that's when the Sixers started to
Speaker 1: come alive a little bit. It was great to see
Speaker 1: Bayliss strike the fire, if you will, and then he
Speaker 1: wanted the ball. The Sixers found him and in that
Speaker 1: stretch he only hit one three that's all he had
Speaker 1: in the game. And then a little bit thereafter I'm
Speaker 1: not exactly sure timing wise chronologically when, but that's when
Speaker 1: they started filling plumbly. I thought that was interesting that
Speaker 1: the reporters said, coach, were you're trying to fill plumbly? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, and it worked. And like I said, you
Speaker 1: know Brett Brown has commented before, particularly when you know
Speaker 1: it occurred with Ben at home against Washington, said, hey,
Speaker 1: we've employed this strategy before and we will do it again.
Speaker 1: Not a fan of it, Brett Brown, but certainly in
Speaker 1: an effort to try to help his team win and
Speaker 1: to take advantage of the rules, they did it. And
Speaker 1: I was a little surprised that Mike Malone left him
Speaker 1: in there. Now it's not like plumbing miss nine in
Speaker 1: a row, but he went one for three or one
Speaker 1: for four. And you know, the sixers, it's not only
Speaker 1: important that they come away empty, but you gotta come
Speaker 1: down and take advantage of an empty possession. And I
Speaker 1: thought Daria was great overall. Robert Covington certainly had his moments.
Speaker 1: TJ was terrific, a Mere Johnson was good. And again,
Speaker 1: like I've said dozens and dozens of times, well not
Speaker 1: as much during the ten win season, but when you
Speaker 1: have a victory and people step up, you get multiple
Speaker 1: solid performances from a number of your contributors, and that's
Speaker 1: what helps you get over the top. And as Brett
Speaker 1: Brown said, that's part of team Let's go to Baylis
Speaker 1: for quick second. He's heading back home later tonight with
Speaker 1: the squad going to be there tomorrow. He is a
Speaker 1: guy who seems to take his work so seriously, and
Speaker 1: we haven't seen it necessarily consistently translate in recent weeks,
Speaker 1: but for him to enjoy a sequence like that in
Speaker 1: a moment and then the release, it looked like he
Speaker 1: felt after hitting that three point or make a ninety
Speaker 1: one eighty, you just you feel for a guy who
Speaker 1: puts in the work, you feel good for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was visceral. I mean you could totally see his
Speaker 1: reaction and like you said, that was like a pressure release.
Speaker 1: It's almost like, you know, he almost puts too much
Speaker 1: pressure on himself because clearly he puts in as much,
Speaker 1: if not more work than any other six or you know, again,
Speaker 1: you can only say first person in last person to
Speaker 1: leave about one guy, right right, I would say he's
Speaker 1: the guy. I mean, you hear that so often you're like, well,
Speaker 1: how many guys can do that on a given team?
Speaker 1: I thought it was only one guy. But he's the guy.
Speaker 1: He puts in a lot of work. He's at the
Speaker 1: training complex. I mean, he's just he stays late after practice,
Speaker 1: and you know that's that's the name of his game.
Speaker 1: And I actually thought he did a pretty good job
Speaker 1: defensively because Brian and you would agree, like Murray was
Speaker 1: playing like he looked like he might get fifty at
Speaker 1: Devin Booker type performance where nobody could stop him. And
Speaker 1: how good he played in the first half, and there
Speaker 1: were times where Bayliss was able to curtail him a
Speaker 1: little bit, and they got good shots in the second half.
Speaker 1: They just in large parts they didn't miss him. They
Speaker 1: took eighteen threes and only made three in the second half.
Speaker 1: They shot twenty three free throws in the second half.
Speaker 1: That's an amazing total. And yogis despite good numbers. I
Speaker 1: thought he was up and down. You know, it's almost
Speaker 1: like Joel he can have a great statistical night and
Speaker 1: you're thinking could have been better. I mean, that's how
Speaker 1: talented these guys are that they're able to do this
Speaker 1: without maybe their their A game, but more than anything else,
Speaker 1: just a great, great amount of fight and to come
Speaker 1: in here and play this team that had been winning
Speaker 1: so well, they're destined to go to the playoffs. They've
Speaker 1: got a prolific scoring team right now, and for the
Speaker 1: Sixers to come in and just gut it out and
Speaker 1: gain the victory was fun to watch. You know. It's
Speaker 1: funny because last New Year's either the Sixers were at
Speaker 1: Denver grinding out a one twenty four one twenty two victory,
Speaker 1: and here they were tonight. They still have one more
Speaker 1: game to go in twenty seventeen, tomorrow, But you think,
Speaker 1: if this team can get fully healthy, the hope you
Speaker 1: would have to feel from their thinking is like, let's
Speaker 1: use this, let's jump start a coming back home. The
Speaker 1: great game in London coming up in a few weeks.
Speaker 1: But you get him beat back tomorrow night, you would
Speaker 1: think against the Phoenix Suns and a chance against a
Speaker 1: team whose record is not terrific on paper. But the
Speaker 1: Suns got him the first time, as you said, and
Speaker 1: they actually haven't playing pretty well as of late. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, you make a wide point. That's all true.
Speaker 1: The only thing about the London game it's against Boston,
Speaker 1: it's right, so well, good experience for us who don't
Speaker 1: have to play the game. No, But that aside to
Speaker 1: your point. I mean, like Brett Brown said, even as
Speaker 1: poorly as they've played record wise, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of good signs and they're improving. And as you say,
Speaker 1: if they can get healthy and then have their work
Speaker 1: and the progress that he's talking about validated with victories,
Speaker 1: well that gets your confidence going. And it's just like
Speaker 1: anything else. Is like where the Sixers have been in
Speaker 1: the tails been record wise and watching the losses pile up,
Speaker 1: you know, it ends up, that's how it goes. But
Speaker 1: if you're playing well, you want to play as much
Speaker 1: as possible, and you're gonna have a heavy dosage of
Speaker 1: home games over the last three months of the schedule.
Speaker 1: They want to do better at home, and they still
Speaker 1: have a chance. I mean, now they're two games out
Speaker 1: of a playoff picture, and so even though they had
Speaker 1: a brutal month of December up until now, as you said,
Speaker 1: that month of January, you can't bank on that. You
Speaker 1: have to go out there and execute and make it happen.
Speaker 1: But it's still, you know, like it's like falling down
Speaker 1: big as we've seen in games. And yet it's a
Speaker 1: long game and you got a chance to come back. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean you can't really, you can't endure another bad
Speaker 1: spell like this, okay, but you still have a chance
Speaker 1: to get back into the mix. Knock off some of
Speaker 1: these teams and head to head competition and play you know,
Speaker 1: consistently well, start to trend higher and like I said,
Speaker 1: wind finish out games close about better control the basketball,
Speaker 1: get stops and do all the things that they did
Speaker 1: here tonight to be able to punch through and get
Speaker 1: a victory. Tom and Guinnis had a great call tonight.
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear some of those highlights next. Tom. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the rest of the evening and talk to you tomorrow. Okay,
Speaker 1: good night, Brian, Thank you. One oh seven, one h two,
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers victorious over the Denver Nuggets at Pepsi Center.
Speaker 1: This was a needed win on night when the Sixers
Speaker 1: did not have Joel Embiid. Everybody stepped up. Team victory.
Speaker 1: They got it done. We'll get into the details a
Speaker 1: little bit furthermore final segments. On the other side. It
Speaker 1: is the postgame show on the Sixers Rated Network. Second
Speaker 1: to last game of the two thousand and seventeen calendar
Speaker 1: year for the seventy Sixers are going to bounce back
Speaker 1: after one got away on Thursday in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1: Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot Com. Tonight the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers in the Mile High City and they were
Speaker 1: looking to begin their final back to back of the
Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen calendar year. Pretty competitive pace. At
Speaker 1: the outset of the first quarter, Sixers and the Nuggets
Speaker 1: went back and forth. Ben Simmons with an opportunity to
Speaker 1: put the Sixers in front. Light Sibbons on the back
Speaker 1: down gets by. Craig Now steps by one man lays
Speaker 1: it up. It is fans wanted to travel ball, but
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons with the underhand, right hand scoop from just
Speaker 1: inside the elbow, and his first basket of the game
Speaker 1: put the Sixers in front by a single point. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the Sixers did not have Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: who was already in Phoenix resting for the back end
Speaker 1: of the back to back tomorrow, or Shaun Holmes. The
Speaker 1: final four points of the first quarter, Sixers in front
Speaker 1: thirty one to twenty nine, butts. Things would turn around
Speaker 1: in the second quarter as the Nuggets would snap off
Speaker 1: the first eight points of the period and that would
Speaker 1: put them in control. Sixers got some very steady contributions
Speaker 1: from JJ Reddick throughout the night. They had fallen behind
Speaker 1: by seven, and we're trying to get some momentum back.
Speaker 1: Here's Reddick little all down court. The Sixers strike quickly.
Speaker 1: They feed it all the way down the court to
Speaker 1: Ruddick points beyond the yard and a three came at
Speaker 1: a timely moment. Sixers cut the deposit two fifty five
Speaker 1: fifty one. They were down by three after another JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick triple at the break sixty one, two fifty eight
Speaker 1: start of the third quarter. It felt familiar. Opposing team
Speaker 1: goes on a big run for the challenge. Brett Brown
Speaker 1: post the Sixers in recent days, how do you figure
Speaker 1: out overcoming these runs? How do you arrest them? Sixers
Speaker 1: trailed seventy two fifty eight. Dario Charch big, t J
Speaker 1: spins cut off. He goes to Dario Charch with a
Speaker 1: layup boy a tight quarters. T J McConnell able to
Speaker 1: get that pass off at Dario was seven in a
Speaker 1: row and that got the Sixers run going. They scored
Speaker 1: eleven straight to make it a three point game. Seventy
Speaker 1: two sixty nine. The Nuggets got two free throws, and
Speaker 1: that's when guys like t J McConnell, Trevor Booker kept
Speaker 1: the buckets coming. Sixers maintained pressure, stayed within a point.
Speaker 1: Jared Bayless step ont him enough time to catch fire
Speaker 1: outside right McConnell, who's had a big hand in his comeback.
Speaker 1: He goes to Bayless, three guys around of brakes, free,
Speaker 1: flips it up and in shared Bayless with a six
Speaker 1: oh streak for the Sixers and the run now from Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: twenty one of the last twenty five points in the game,
Speaker 1: and they're up Briddy. They would score four more points
Speaker 1: after that to make it a twenty five to four
Speaker 1: run before the Nuggets scored the final four points of
Speaker 1: the third eighty three eighty Sixers going into the fourth.
Speaker 1: Jared Bayliss not done and as good as he was
Speaker 1: for that stretch in the third quarter, he was that
Speaker 1: much better to be in the fourth. Dario with a
Speaker 1: dary over to Bayliss. Another three by Bayliss shot here
Speaker 1: he's done it again. Bayliss with his hottest stretch as
Speaker 1: a sixer, and he is bellowing out with joy. The
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers up by eleven time out Denver. One oh
Speaker 1: six is transpired in the fourth and Jared Bayless is
Speaker 1: on fire here in Colorado, so all set in done.
Speaker 1: The run was thirty three to eight for the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: turning a fourteen point deficit into a ninety one to
Speaker 1: eighty lead. Things would tighten up midway through the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and into the final minutes. JJ Reddick a big
Speaker 1: two pointer to make it one h three ninety seven
Speaker 1: with about four minutes to go. The Sixers would then
Speaker 1: go without a field goal until the guts of the game.
Speaker 1: Things were on the line and Robert Covington was in
Speaker 1: position to put this one away. Sibbeth steps out about
Speaker 1: Sixers leading by three into Bayliss. He's trapped in the corner.
Speaker 1: Bayliss throws it across the Dario. Dario was seven second coming.
Speaker 1: Coubbyton is gonna duck the ball four seconds to go
Speaker 1: five point lead. Robert Commington punctuates the Sixers advantage here
Speaker 1: in Denver, and that would be the lasting moment from
Speaker 1: the Sixers five point win in Denver one oh seven
Speaker 1: two one o two. Final notes from the final stat sheet,
Speaker 1: Sixers shot forty eight and a half percent from the
Speaker 1: field Denver just forty percent. Sixers held him to under
Speaker 1: twenty seven percent shooting in the second half, six Ers
Speaker 1: eight of twenty four outside the arc, the Nuggets seven
Speaker 1: of thirty two. Sixers only ten trips the line, they
Speaker 1: made nine overcoming Denver, going twenty five of thirty five
Speaker 1: from the stripe. Sixers outrebounded by seven. They were ultra
Speaker 1: efficient thirty three dimes on forty five made baskets. They
Speaker 1: also kept the turnovers down relatively speaking, only thirteen point
Speaker 1: of them tonight. That led to just twelve Nuggets points
Speaker 1: off the turnovers. Individually speaking, game high went to Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray thirty one points. Did a lot of his damage
Speaker 1: in the first half. Sixers such a balanced effort tonight
Speaker 1: without Joel Embiid, six players in double figures, Dario charch
Speaker 1: with twenty nine rebounds and six assists. Following him was
Speaker 1: JJ Reddick with eighteen fourteen apiece for Jared Baillis and
Speaker 1: Rashaun Holmes off the bench again, Baalis with all fourteen
Speaker 1: of his points in a span of four minutes between
Speaker 1: the end of the third quarter and start of the fourth.
Speaker 1: Robert Covington with a fifteen point, ten rebound double double.
Speaker 1: He was six of eleven from the field, one of
Speaker 1: six outside the Arcs so that meant five of five
Speaker 1: from the interior, a pretty solid night for Covington, fighting
Speaker 1: through the finger injury he suffered in Thursday's loss against
Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazers. In tonight's game, which lasted two hours
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, there were a total of six league changes
Speaker 1: in four ties. With the win, the seventy Sixers are
Speaker 1: now sixteen and nineteen, while the Nuggets dropped to nineteen
Speaker 1: and seventeen on the season. Up next for the seventy
Speaker 1: six ers final game in two seventeen. It'll be well
Speaker 1: technically if you're listening on the East coast later on
Speaker 1: today at Talking Stick Resort Arena against the Phoenix Suns,
Speaker 1: Sixers will look to avenge the fourteen point loss from
Speaker 1: earlier this month. Game time is eight o'clock Eastern. That
Speaker 1: means pregame coverage starts just before then at seven to
Speaker 1: fifty on some of our Sixers Raider Network affiliates