Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind to listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game, Shake
Speaker 1: Build with a really nice game for the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: going for a career high twenty seven points, but all
Speaker 1: in all, a really frustrating night and a frustrating game
Speaker 1: to follow from the seventy six Ers standpoint at ten
Speaker 1: point loss the Atlanta Hawks one twenty seven to one
Speaker 1: seventeen on Brian Seltzer. Seventy Sixers road trip agins in
Speaker 1: tough fashion against the team with the worst record in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. And what's kind of like the continuation
Speaker 1: of a theme that we have seen recur unfortunately throughout
Speaker 1: this year, is that the seventy Sixers, well a couple
Speaker 1: of themes. One the most obvious is that they are
Speaker 1: far different team in terms of results at home versus
Speaker 1: on the road. But then this other dynamic that's been
Speaker 1: at play, and I actually think was brought up during
Speaker 1: a postgame press conference as recently as the Lakers game
Speaker 1: on Saturday, when Brett Brown was asked, you know, like
Speaker 1: this has been a team that seems like it plays
Speaker 1: up the level of top tier opponents and then suffers
Speaker 1: lapses against some teams that on paper don't look like
Speaker 1: they're quite as sharp, and that was something that returned
Speaker 1: to the forefront again tonight. That's take nothing away from
Speaker 1: Trey Young. I mean, if you didn't think the guy
Speaker 1: was an All Star let alone an All Star starter
Speaker 1: at the age of twenty one, he showed you in
Speaker 1: the first twelve minutes to play exactly why he deserves
Speaker 1: to be at that elite a level fourteen points, ten
Speaker 1: assists in the first period alone, a double double finished
Speaker 1: with thirty nine and a career high eighteen assists, the
Speaker 1: driver behind a really effective Atlanta pick and roll offensive attack.
Speaker 1: You know, the Hawks came in. Tom again has talked
Speaker 1: about this throughout the night. I mean, they are, despite
Speaker 1: the record, a potent offensive team. They won a score
Speaker 1: and run in the seventy Sixers. It was like they
Speaker 1: kind of got into a track meet with them early
Speaker 1: and then didn't have the requisite defense to try and
Speaker 1: slow them down. The Sixers gave up seventy four points
Speaker 1: in the first half, tough to battle uphill from there.
Speaker 1: Six did get back to it a little bit defensively
Speaker 1: in the second half, but just one too many lapses
Speaker 1: in the game. When you think about the end of
Speaker 1: the third quarter, a tip in that the Hawks had
Speaker 1: from Damien Jones, tough basket. Just not enough from the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers tonight, despite what I thought was a
Speaker 1: really good performance from Shake Milton. If you want to
Speaker 1: try and find a positive, the hope is that Shake
Speaker 1: for however long Josh Hrizinson is out, and then even
Speaker 1: when he returns, can just continue to be a productive
Speaker 1: presence for the seventy six ers. In his second year,
Speaker 1: Milton a career high twenty seven Ben Simmons with thirty
Speaker 1: one points. He had fifteen of those points in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, also six rebounds and five assists twenty one
Speaker 1: apiece for Jewell and Beat and Tobias Harris. Joe finished
Speaker 1: with fourteen rebounds and thirty four minutes. Harris added nine
Speaker 1: boards for the seventy six ers. And then he also
Speaker 1: got to turn to some of the guys in the
Speaker 1: front court for the Hawks. Whether it was John Collins
Speaker 1: with seventeen points and twenty rebounds or Damian Jones out
Speaker 1: of Vanderbilt with fourteen point seven boards, they were a
Speaker 1: problem for the seventy six ers. Tonight, Tom mc guinnis
Speaker 1: had the call at State Farm Arena. Why don't we
Speaker 1: start with the good Tom Shake Milton. He went on
Speaker 1: a real run at the end of the second quarter,
Speaker 1: and if not for him, who knows how this game
Speaker 1: would have ended up. Absolutely And I remember Brian, and
Speaker 1: I forget what game it was, was maybe three games ago,
Speaker 1: and you were with Devon. I was at the Lakers
Speaker 1: game maybe and Shaker was starting for the first time,
Speaker 1: and Devon said, how do you think Shake would do?
Speaker 1: And again, and you've been around him enough and watched
Speaker 1: him and going all the way back to that Summer League,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of years ago, and he just
Speaker 1: has a presidence, presidence and a confidence and he plays
Speaker 1: at his own pace. And you know, my answer to
Speaker 1: Divon at the time of Shake'll be fine. Just watch
Speaker 1: And he was. And you know, he's a scorer, he's
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a good player for a
Speaker 1: number of years. And to your point, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: he's gonna go back into the rotation when Josh returns.
Speaker 1: But and that's like the silver linings, and you know,
Speaker 1: in this game, this is a tough game. So yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a great night, but that you know, long term,
Speaker 1: like hopefully in big games down the stretch and in
Speaker 1: the postseason, you're gonna go to this guy. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna get twenty seven points, like I said, his role
Speaker 1: will be reduced, but you know he can deliver. And
Speaker 1: that's you know, obviously, these guys are all NBA players
Speaker 1: and they're all on the roster for a reason. And
Speaker 1: he showed tonight that he can be a really productive player.
Speaker 1: But oh what a disappointing defeat for the Sixers. I mean,
Speaker 1: and you know who's to say, you know what, how
Speaker 1: to figure it out? Like did they take him lightly?
Speaker 1: I can't imagine any NBA team, particularly with the Sixers
Speaker 1: road record, doing that. But the Hawks definitely played with
Speaker 1: more fight Ben Simmons, I mean, Ben Simmons was dominant
Speaker 1: early on, but the way they picked apart the Sixers,
Speaker 1: you got to give him credit. And uh, you know, tough,
Speaker 1: tough loss for the Sixers. Final score one twenty seven,
Speaker 1: one seventeen. You know, not to blame with the point time,
Speaker 1: but I think that Brett Brown, it sounded like the
Speaker 1: other night when he talked about this following the Lakers win,
Speaker 1: like he gets it talking about the Sixers in the
Speaker 1: level of competition. Yeah, honestly, like not to look too
Speaker 1: far ahead, Like it would not shock me if they
Speaker 1: rattled off three wins in a row. It just wouldn't
Speaker 1: paste upon the way things have gone the serior times.
Speaker 1: It's a bizarre thing. Yeah, no, and you obviously don't
Speaker 1: know that and can't count on it. But to your point,
Speaker 1: they've had nice wins, but most of them have been
Speaker 1: at home, right, I mean most of those. I named
Speaker 1: the teams that the Sixers have beaten, and it includes Miami, Toronto, Milwaukee, Boston,
Speaker 1: all the Blakers. All of those happened at the Center.
Speaker 1: And you know, and we've made this point before, so
Speaker 1: at the risk of redundancy, but you can't click your
Speaker 1: heels and expect to be this very competitive, top notch
Speaker 1: road team when you haven't delivered consistently at a high
Speaker 1: level on the road, and particularly against a team like
Speaker 1: this that you know that, again, this is their thirteenth
Speaker 1: win of the year, and they've got talent, and again
Speaker 1: I think their young bouncy athletes and how they play
Speaker 1: is such a contrast to the Sixers trying to play
Speaker 1: bullyball and using their height and strength and physicality, and
Speaker 1: that the contrast his tips in the favor at least tonight,
Speaker 1: it did in favor of Atlanta, and Trey Young is incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean again, like as a basketball person and a
Speaker 1: fan of the game, you're coming to the game. Speaking
Speaker 1: to myself, I was very exciting to play, excited to
Speaker 1: see him play because he's a great young talent. And
Speaker 1: but as I said before, in other instances, not when
Speaker 1: he's shredding your team, and that's what he was doing.
Speaker 1: He just they set those high screens for him and
Speaker 1: every single time. Now he's ahead of the guy guarding him,
Speaker 1: and nobody can hedge and show and get out there
Speaker 1: and slow him down. And so now he's basically playing
Speaker 1: like well, you know, he's got the ball and he's
Speaker 1: looking for guys off the corners, and then he gets
Speaker 1: into the lane and Joel or whomever's guarding the middle
Speaker 1: and the five men in the middle has to come
Speaker 1: give help, and he's either floating it up there or
Speaker 1: he's dishing inside. And I'm telling you, Brian, some of
Speaker 1: the passes we saw tonight were just incredible. No look,
Speaker 1: one hand off the bounce, whistled over a Sixers player's
Speaker 1: shoulder and right by their ear and then download of
Speaker 1: somebody for a layup. It's just that that's basketball at
Speaker 1: its highest level. Alrighty Tom, while we shift our focus
Speaker 1: to what should be another fun Saturday night in the
Speaker 1: primetime slot at eight thirty. This time it's on the
Speaker 1: road seventy Sixers and the four games season finale against
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtic Sixers going for the first four game
Speaker 1: sweep of Boston in the regular season since two thousand
Speaker 1: and two thousand and one, which is really amazing. But
Speaker 1: much like the seventy Sixers, Boston has a pair of
Speaker 1: all stars in their starting lineup in Camba Walker and
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum. They won tonight versus the Golden State Warriors, right,
Speaker 1: and to be fair, they're going to be rested. And
Speaker 1: two of the Sixers wins came when Boston had played
Speaker 1: the night before, and you're like, oh, it's the NBA.
Speaker 1: Everybody has that. Well that that's part of what happened.
Speaker 1: The Sixers won in Boston when they had played the
Speaker 1: night before in Indiana and the most recent game in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be and that's it's a fair fight.
Speaker 1: If you will. And that's the NBA when they put
Speaker 1: the breathing room in the schedule, those marquee matchups on
Speaker 1: Saturday night and Pride time they put breathing room. They
Speaker 1: gave those teams, you know, the night off, and so
Speaker 1: it should be a good game. And for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: you know, they're staying here tonight, they're going to practice,
Speaker 1: and you know, you better bring your a game because
Speaker 1: that's a hard you know, when you said going up
Speaker 1: to Boston and you love the theater, it's a very
Speaker 1: intense hard place to win, but a little bit of
Speaker 1: sense of dread too because it is that and the
Speaker 1: Sixers certainly in the playoffs and had difficulty up there
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and that that's been another
Speaker 1: place like Toronto. Maybe not equally you know, record wise,
Speaker 1: but certainly you know, obviously it's been a hard place
Speaker 1: for the Sixers to win. So we'll see. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, this is a tough stretch here. Prior
Speaker 1: to the All Star break, you're hoping you get the
Speaker 1: five on the floor with your starters, but now Josh out,
Speaker 1: maybe a week, maybe longer, who's to say, But yeah,
Speaker 1: for the Sixers, you want to see a better effort
Speaker 1: on the road already. Time he will speak with you
Speaker 1: from TD Garden on Saturday. All right, good night, thank you, Bryan.
Speaker 1: Tough loss for the seventy six Ers tonight, another bizarre
Speaker 1: performance against a team that certainly is in a lesser
Speaker 1: state than the seventy six ers. But we've seen that
Speaker 1: throughout this year. One twenty seven, one seventeen at the final,
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers four game road trip begins in
Speaker 1: defeat time. Now to get to some of the highlights.
Speaker 1: Early on, it was looking encouraging. Just minutes after finding
Speaker 1: out he would be headed to the All Star Game
Speaker 1: as a reserve out of the Eastern Conference for a
Speaker 1: second straight year, Ben Simmons started on fire. Six down
Speaker 1: one sixteen fifteen miles love the Simmons and another allayook jamp.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons is five for five, He's got four slam
Speaker 1: dogs first dalaoop. Well, yeah, he was getting out in
Speaker 1: the open court, getting right past the Hawks and having
Speaker 1: his way. That made it at one point, seventy six
Speaker 1: Ers lead seventeen six teen. They would lead again at
Speaker 1: nineteen eighteen, and that would be their last lead to
Speaker 1: the night. Trey Young went off in the first quarter
Speaker 1: for fourteen points and ten assists. Atlantic at thirty nine
Speaker 1: to thirty one after one, and you're thinking yourself, this
Speaker 1: is not feeling good. They opened up a double figure
Speaker 1: lead in the second quarter, and if not by the
Speaker 1: grace of a man named Shake, the seventy six ers
Speaker 1: would have likely been staring at a pretty hefty deficit
Speaker 1: of the half. Simmons On Young crosses of over down
Speaker 1: the lane, right hand loader, ribby short, no good, well
Speaker 1: defended by Ben, rebounded by Joel Simmons, ball and beat
Speaker 1: back into the lane. Ben dropped it. Sexu's thought he
Speaker 1: fans thought he walk. You're shake for three up and good,
Speaker 1: the first title they had won there in fifty six years.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's true that he played with
Speaker 1: a broken arm. He's shake built, not a drive up
Speaker 1: and good. So Milton goes right back at Carter. Shake's
Speaker 1: got five free throws, now ten points, You're Shake throws
Speaker 1: out top to Benny, three seconds to shoot. Seventh's back
Speaker 1: to Milton, Shake from well beyond over Carter. It's good. Shake.
Speaker 1: Bilt puts it a just under three seconds ago, and
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers clawed within two, but due to a
Speaker 1: funky sequence involving technicals and this and that. At the
Speaker 1: end of the first half, the seventy six er down
Speaker 1: seventy four to sixty seven. Going into the break, the
Speaker 1: Sixers in the third quarter they had a glimpse. They
Speaker 1: cut the deficit down two single digits and once again
Speaker 1: as Shake Milton was in the middle of it. Sixers
Speaker 1: ball Shake does have a season high in a game.
Speaker 1: He's got it again. Three ball up and good back
Speaker 1: to back threes by Milton and it's ninety two eighty six.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers trailed by seven ninety ninety two going into
Speaker 1: the fourth. On their first possession, they got the margin
Speaker 1: down to five, but then Atlanta scored eleven straight points.
Speaker 1: There's an uphill climb the rest of the way. Walks
Speaker 1: lead one twelve ninety six sevens down low, Ben turns
Speaker 1: around two players, goes off the glass and it and
Speaker 1: Ben sivons in an impressive play down low. He is
Speaker 1: now nine of thirteen from the field. But this game
Speaker 1: belonged to Trey Young and the Lanta Hawks. They win
Speaker 1: by ten one twenty seven to one seventeen. The Hawks
Speaker 1: shoot forty eight and a half percent from the field
Speaker 1: seventy six ers forty six percent, six Ers just nine
Speaker 1: three point or shooting under thirty percent. Atlanta knockdown eleven threes.
Speaker 1: Both team hit thirty two free throws. However, these seventy
Speaker 1: six ers were thirty two or forty five from the line,
Speaker 1: with Joel Embiid going two for seven from the stripe.
Speaker 1: Let's hope that that does not happen again. You'd think
Speaker 1: that the odds are pretty long that it does. Sixers
Speaker 1: outrebounded by six in the game. They also weren't able
Speaker 1: to cash in on scoring twenty one points off the
Speaker 1: Hawks turnovers. Sixers led by Ben Simmons thirty one points,
Speaker 1: twenty seven points for Shake Milton, They new career high
Speaker 1: Juell Embiad with twenty one points and fourteen rebounds. Twenty
Speaker 1: one points and nine boards, plus four assists for Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: eleven for James Nis. The third off the bench, Matissetibel
Speaker 1: held to just three points. Tough night for him, thirty
Speaker 1: nine points a career high eighteen assists for Trey Young,
Speaker 1: John Collins with seventeen points and twenty boards, Damien Jones
Speaker 1: with the fourteen point seven rebounds, and a man named
Speaker 1: Vince Carter went for fourteen and six rebounds and four
Speaker 1: for eight shooting off the bench. Sixers lose their now
Speaker 1: thirty one and eighteen. The Atlanta Hawks improved to thirteen
Speaker 1: and thirty six. Next up for the seventy Sixers the
Speaker 1: Boston Celtics. They beat the Golden State Warriors at ted
Speaker 1: Garden tonight by the final of one nineteen to one
Speaker 1: oh four. Marcus Smart at twenty one off the bench
Speaker 1: as he continues to play well for the seas you've
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