WEBVTT - Rewind vs. Atlanta Hawks - 1/30/20 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.360 You're listening to rewind to listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:09.160 highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game, Shake 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:11.799 Build with a really nice game for the seventy Sixers, 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.400 going for a career high twenty seven points, but all 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.400 in all, a really frustrating night and a frustrating game 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.840 to follow from the seventy six Ers standpoint at ten 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.600 point loss the Atlanta Hawks one twenty seven to one 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.440 seventeen on Brian Seltzer. Seventy Sixers road trip agins in 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.760 tough fashion against the team with the worst record in 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.440 the Eastern Conference. And what's kind of like the continuation 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.360 of a theme that we have seen recur unfortunately throughout 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.000 this year, is that the seventy Sixers, well a couple 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.879 of themes. One the most obvious is that they are 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.160 far different team in terms of results at home versus 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.800 on the road. But then this other dynamic that's been 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.680 at play, and I actually think was brought up during 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.720 a postgame press conference as recently as the Lakers game 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.279 on Saturday, when Brett Brown was asked, you know, like 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.520 this has been a team that seems like it plays 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.160 up the level of top tier opponents and then suffers 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.200 lapses against some teams that on paper don't look like 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.760 they're quite as sharp, and that was something that returned 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.959 to the forefront again tonight. That's take nothing away from 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.440 Trey Young. I mean, if you didn't think the guy 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.400 was an All Star let alone an All Star starter 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.360 at the age of twenty one, he showed you in 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.759 the first twelve minutes to play exactly why he deserves 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:26.839 to be at that elite a level fourteen points, ten 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.720 assists in the first period alone, a double double finished 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.360 with thirty nine and a career high eighteen assists, the 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:38.240 driver behind a really effective Atlanta pick and roll offensive attack. 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.320 You know, the Hawks came in. Tom again has talked 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.600 about this throughout the night. I mean, they are, despite 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.800 the record, a potent offensive team. They won a score 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.640 and run in the seventy Sixers. It was like they 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.520 kind of got into a track meet with them early 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.360 and then didn't have the requisite defense to try and 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.160 slow them down. The Sixers gave up seventy four points 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.120 in the first half, tough to battle uphill from there. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.040 Six did get back to it a little bit defensively 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.400 in the second half, but just one too many lapses 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.560 in the game. When you think about the end of 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.560 the third quarter, a tip in that the Hawks had 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.440 from Damien Jones, tough basket. Just not enough from the 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.680 seventy six ers tonight, despite what I thought was a 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.120 really good performance from Shake Milton. If you want to 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.639 try and find a positive, the hope is that Shake 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.040 for however long Josh Hrizinson is out, and then even 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.799 when he returns, can just continue to be a productive 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:29.960 presence for the seventy six ers. In his second year, 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.200 Milton a career high twenty seven Ben Simmons with thirty 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.120 one points. He had fifteen of those points in the 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:40.040 first quarter, also six rebounds and five assists twenty one 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.760 apiece for Jewell and Beat and Tobias Harris. Joe finished 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.119 with fourteen rebounds and thirty four minutes. Harris added nine 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.800 boards for the seventy six ers. And then he also 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.440 got to turn to some of the guys in the 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.800 front court for the Hawks. Whether it was John Collins 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.320 with seventeen points and twenty rebounds or Damian Jones out 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.400 of Vanderbilt with fourteen point seven boards, they were a 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.480 problem for the seventy six ers. Tonight, Tom mc guinnis 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.920 had the call at State Farm Arena. Why don't we 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.480 start with the good Tom Shake Milton. He went on 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.240 a real run at the end of the second quarter, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.000 and if not for him, who knows how this game 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.560 would have ended up. Absolutely And I remember Brian, and 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.280 I forget what game it was, was maybe three games ago, 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.200 and you were with Devon. I was at the Lakers 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.519 game maybe and Shaker was starting for the first time, 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:25.240 and Devon said, how do you think Shake would do? 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.400 And again, and you've been around him enough and watched 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.600 him and going all the way back to that Summer League, 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.600 you know, a couple of years ago, and he just 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.480 has a presidence, presidence and a confidence and he plays 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.520 at his own pace. And you know, my answer to 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.680 Divon at the time of Shake'll be fine. Just watch 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.440 And he was. And you know, he's a scorer, he's 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.480 I think he's gonna be a good player for a 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.400 number of years. And to your point, you know, obviously 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.600 he's gonna go back into the rotation when Josh returns. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.840 But and that's like the silver linings, and you know, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.440 in this game, this is a tough game. So yeah, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.320 he had a great night, but that you know, long term, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.640 like hopefully in big games down the stretch and in 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.520 the postseason, you're gonna go to this guy. He's not 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.480 gonna get twenty seven points, like I said, his role 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.000 will be reduced, but you know he can deliver. And 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.800 that's you know, obviously, these guys are all NBA players 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.200 and they're all on the roster for a reason. And 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.920 he showed tonight that he can be a really productive player. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.720 But oh what a disappointing defeat for the Sixers. I mean, 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.920 and you know who's to say, you know what, how 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:28.960 to figure it out? Like did they take him lightly? 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.479 I can't imagine any NBA team, particularly with the Sixers 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.840 road record, doing that. But the Hawks definitely played with 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.120 more fight Ben Simmons, I mean, Ben Simmons was dominant 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.560 early on, but the way they picked apart the Sixers, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.479 you got to give him credit. And uh, you know, tough, 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.880 tough loss for the Sixers. Final score one twenty seven, 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.160 one seventeen. You know, not to blame with the point time, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.279 but I think that Brett Brown, it sounded like the 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.920 other night when he talked about this following the Lakers win, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.720 like he gets it talking about the Sixers in the 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.400 level of competition. Yeah, honestly, like not to look too 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.920 far ahead, Like it would not shock me if they 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.720 rattled off three wins in a row. It just wouldn't 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.960 paste upon the way things have gone the serior times. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:13.200 It's a bizarre thing. Yeah, no, and you obviously don't 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.679 know that and can't count on it. But to your point, 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.279 they've had nice wins, but most of them have been 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.960 at home, right, I mean most of those. I named 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:25.799 the teams that the Sixers have beaten, and it includes Miami, Toronto, Milwaukee, Boston, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.000 all the Blakers. All of those happened at the Center. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.039 And you know, and we've made this point before, so 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.160 at the risk of redundancy, but you can't click your 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.400 heels and expect to be this very competitive, top notch 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.320 road team when you haven't delivered consistently at a high 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.840 level on the road, and particularly against a team like 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.760 this that you know that, again, this is their thirteenth 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.839 win of the year, and they've got talent, and again 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:55.880 I think their young bouncy athletes and how they play 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.360 is such a contrast to the Sixers trying to play 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.680 bullyball and using their height and strength and physicality, and 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.680 that the contrast his tips in the favor at least tonight, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:10.160 it did in favor of Atlanta, and Trey Young is incredible. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.440 I mean again, like as a basketball person and a 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.120 fan of the game, you're coming to the game. Speaking 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.520 to myself, I was very exciting to play, excited to 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.280 see him play because he's a great young talent. And 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.720 but as I said before, in other instances, not when 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.800 he's shredding your team, and that's what he was doing. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.719 He just they set those high screens for him and 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.200 every single time. Now he's ahead of the guy guarding him, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.720 and nobody can hedge and show and get out there 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.240 and slow him down. And so now he's basically playing 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.320 like well, you know, he's got the ball and he's 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.560 looking for guys off the corners, and then he gets 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.320 into the lane and Joel or whomever's guarding the middle 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.080 and the five men in the middle has to come 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.919 give help, and he's either floating it up there or 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.960 he's dishing inside. And I'm telling you, Brian, some of 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.080 the passes we saw tonight were just incredible. No look, 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.200 one hand off the bounce, whistled over a Sixers player's 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.840 shoulder and right by their ear and then download of 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.160 somebody for a layup. It's just that that's basketball at 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.760 its highest level. Alrighty Tom, while we shift our focus 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.000 to what should be another fun Saturday night in the 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.440 primetime slot at eight thirty. This time it's on the 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.040 road seventy Sixers and the four games season finale against 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.280 the Boston Celtic Sixers going for the first four game 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.200 sweep of Boston in the regular season since two thousand 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.920 and two thousand and one, which is really amazing. But 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.280 much like the seventy Sixers, Boston has a pair of 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.040 all stars in their starting lineup in Camba Walker and 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.640 Jason Tatum. They won tonight versus the Golden State Warriors, right, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.440 and to be fair, they're going to be rested. And 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.240 two of the Sixers wins came when Boston had played 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.320 the night before, and you're like, oh, it's the NBA. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.920 Everybody has that. Well that that's part of what happened. 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:53.880 The Sixers won in Boston when they had played the 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.640 night before in Indiana and the most recent game in Philadelphia. 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.559 So it's gonna be and that's it's a fair fight. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.480 If you will. And that's the NBA when they put 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.080 the breathing room in the schedule, those marquee matchups on 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.520 Saturday night and Pride time they put breathing room. They 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.240 gave those teams, you know, the night off, and so 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.560 it should be a good game. And for the Sixers, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.280 you know, they're staying here tonight, they're going to practice, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.160 and you know, you better bring your a game because 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.000 that's a hard you know, when you said going up 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.400 to Boston and you love the theater, it's a very 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.680 intense hard place to win, but a little bit of 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.520 sense of dread too because it is that and the 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.160 Sixers certainly in the playoffs and had difficulty up there 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.960 a couple of years ago, and that that's been another 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.280 place like Toronto. Maybe not equally you know, record wise, 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.520 but certainly you know, obviously it's been a hard place 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.400 for the Sixers to win. So we'll see. I mean, 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.760 like I said, this is a tough stretch here. Prior 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.800 to the All Star break, you're hoping you get the 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.160 five on the floor with your starters, but now Josh out, 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.360 maybe a week, maybe longer, who's to say, But yeah, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.199 for the Sixers, you want to see a better effort 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.080 on the road already. Time he will speak with you 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.640 from TD Garden on Saturday. All right, good night, thank you, Bryan. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.240 Tough loss for the seventy six Ers tonight, another bizarre 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:16.920 performance against a team that certainly is in a lesser 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.120 state than the seventy six ers. But we've seen that 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.319 throughout this year. One twenty seven, one seventeen at the final, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.640 the seventy six ers four game road trip begins in 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.440 defeat time. Now to get to some of the highlights. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.640 Early on, it was looking encouraging. Just minutes after finding 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.960 out he would be headed to the All Star Game 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:35.920 as a reserve out of the Eastern Conference for a 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:40.000 second straight year, Ben Simmons started on fire. Six down 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:45.960 one sixteen fifteen miles love the Simmons and another allayook jamp. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.520 Ben Simmons is five for five, He's got four slam 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.480 dogs first dalaoop. Well, yeah, he was getting out in 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.080 the open court, getting right past the Hawks and having 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.480 his way. That made it at one point, seventy six 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.920 Ers lead seventeen six teen. They would lead again at 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.679 nineteen eighteen, and that would be their last lead to 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.840 the night. Trey Young went off in the first quarter 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.400 for fourteen points and ten assists. Atlantic at thirty nine 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.280 to thirty one after one, and you're thinking yourself, this 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.160 is not feeling good. They opened up a double figure 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.480 lead in the second quarter, and if not by the 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.200 grace of a man named Shake, the seventy six ers 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.680 would have likely been staring at a pretty hefty deficit 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.679 of the half. Simmons On Young crosses of over down 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.040 the lane, right hand loader, ribby short, no good, well 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.680 defended by Ben, rebounded by Joel Simmons, ball and beat 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.040 back into the lane. Ben dropped it. Sexu's thought he 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.040 fans thought he walk. You're shake for three up and good, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.640 the first title they had won there in fifty six years. 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.599 And I don't think it's true that he played with 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.680 a broken arm. He's shake built, not a drive up 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.160 and good. So Milton goes right back at Carter. Shake's 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.600 got five free throws, now ten points, You're Shake throws 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.360 out top to Benny, three seconds to shoot. Seventh's back 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.640 to Milton, Shake from well beyond over Carter. It's good. Shake. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.920 Bilt puts it a just under three seconds ago, and 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.920 the seventy sixers clawed within two, but due to a 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.240 funky sequence involving technicals and this and that. At the 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.080 end of the first half, the seventy six er down 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.800 seventy four to sixty seven. Going into the break, the 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.640 Sixers in the third quarter they had a glimpse. They 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.360 cut the deficit down two single digits and once again 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.600 as Shake Milton was in the middle of it. Sixers 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.079 ball Shake does have a season high in a game. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.600 He's got it again. Three ball up and good back 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:33.360 to back threes by Milton and it's ninety two eighty six. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.800 Seventy Sixers trailed by seven ninety ninety two going into 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.920 the fourth. On their first possession, they got the margin 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.600 down to five, but then Atlanta scored eleven straight points. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.440 There's an uphill climb the rest of the way. Walks 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.360 lead one twelve ninety six sevens down low, Ben turns 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.280 around two players, goes off the glass and it and 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.280 Ben sivons in an impressive play down low. He is 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.520 now nine of thirteen from the field. But this game 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.000 belonged to Trey Young and the Lanta Hawks. They win 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.960 by ten one twenty seven to one seventeen. The Hawks 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.680 shoot forty eight and a half percent from the field 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.760 seventy six ers forty six percent, six Ers just nine 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.760 three point or shooting under thirty percent. Atlanta knockdown eleven threes. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.200 Both team hit thirty two free throws. However, these seventy 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.480 six ers were thirty two or forty five from the line, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.600 with Joel Embiid going two for seven from the stripe. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.080 Let's hope that that does not happen again. You'd think 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.480 that the odds are pretty long that it does. Sixers 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.480 outrebounded by six in the game. They also weren't able 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.160 to cash in on scoring twenty one points off the 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:38.800 Hawks turnovers. Sixers led by Ben Simmons thirty one points, 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.880 twenty seven points for Shake Milton, They new career high 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.600 Juell Embiad with twenty one points and fourteen rebounds. Twenty 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.640 one points and nine boards, plus four assists for Tobias Harris, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.360 eleven for James Nis. The third off the bench, Matissetibel 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.040 held to just three points. Tough night for him, thirty 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.440 nine points a career high eighteen assists for Trey Young, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.040 John Collins with seventeen points and twenty boards, Damien Jones 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.720 with the fourteen point seven rebounds, and a man named 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.319 Vince Carter went for fourteen and six rebounds and four 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.880 for eight shooting off the bench. Sixers lose their now 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.480 thirty one and eighteen. The Atlanta Hawks improved to thirteen 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.160 and thirty six. Next up for the seventy Sixers the 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.920 Boston Celtics. They beat the Golden State Warriors at ted 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.680 Garden tonight by the final of one nineteen to one 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.360 oh four. Marcus Smart at twenty one off the bench 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.240 as he continues to play well for the seas you've 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.160 been listening to Rewind, look out for fresh episodes the 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.559 day after every seventy Sixers game this season.