Speaker 1: This is seventy Sixers. Rewind time now to listen back
Speaker 1: to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. I
Speaker 1: may just have to do it right off the bat
Speaker 1: to open up to night's postgame show. Strongest performance, best
Speaker 1: win of the season for your team in your town,
Speaker 1: your Philadelphia seventy Sixers. I think you have to give
Speaker 1: it to him one twenty ninety six over the Indiana Pacers,
Speaker 1: the team in front of them in the Eastern Conference standings.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot com as the Sixers
Speaker 1: win in Indie twice in the same season for the
Speaker 1: first time since two thousand and four to two thousand
Speaker 1: and five. It came in which amazingly enough the Sixers
Speaker 1: if you retrace the steps, they were scoreless for the
Speaker 1: first three and a half minutes. They ended up handing
Speaker 1: Indie its second worst loss of the season. Brett Brown
Speaker 1: is at the mic. Excellent players and to come in
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis and be able to sort of set the
Speaker 1: table with a defense and then to your second point,
Speaker 1: you know it out and share the ball, I mean
Speaker 1: to have you know again a large number thirty eight
Speaker 1: assists with Jimmy Joel and Ben having eight each and
Speaker 1: having thirty eight out of our forty six made baskets
Speaker 1: assisted is a statement, you know that that we're proud of.
Speaker 1: So you guard, you share. It's at the table for
Speaker 1: a good night. Just had a nice bigger sign too,
Speaker 1: as you still have a lot of question marks about
Speaker 1: how people fit in on offense. At least everybody's willing
Speaker 1: to share the ball with together, right, and that's it
Speaker 1: ross you in this carry over from the last time
Speaker 1: that we played we had forty assists and then the
Speaker 1: last time we play at home, we we backed that
Speaker 1: up with thirty eight tonight. The fact that it's dispersed
Speaker 1: amongst our group with eight with Joel out of five
Speaker 1: Man and Jimmy has sort of a playmaking if you will,
Speaker 1: point God sort of two three three two whatever, and
Speaker 1: then Ben doing what he does and go aa. That's
Speaker 1: a huge statement and we made some shots behind that.
Speaker 1: But I'm proud of us sharing and caring. This is
Speaker 1: a tough place to play in and we've talked a
Speaker 1: lot about this upcoming stretch of games. This was really
Speaker 1: game one of this stretch. How how big was that
Speaker 1: h off in the right foot? I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: it's all incrementally important. UM. We get sort of we're
Speaker 1: under the microscope a lot as it relates to this
Speaker 1: portion of our season. UM. The the the additional sort
Speaker 1: of expectations in the city. UM have brought a new
Speaker 1: attention to our team and we we we appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And so here we are. Everybody gets this portion of
Speaker 1: our season. And tonight, you know, step by step we
Speaker 1: responded and it doesn't get any easier as time unfolds
Speaker 1: over the next two weeks. Talk about Joel's performance, we're
Speaker 1: playing with the back like that. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean with Joel, we listened to him first, and then
Speaker 1: you listen to the medical people second, and as a group,
Speaker 1: you know, they decide that he's able to play. And
Speaker 1: I thought that him coming out and playing with that spear,
Speaker 1: and you could tell as time unfolded he got a
Speaker 1: little bit looser and looser and there was more of
Speaker 1: a fluid flow to his game. But I thought in
Speaker 1: that third period, you know, we went on thirteen to
Speaker 1: four run at the end of the period, and I
Speaker 1: think starting even the fourth there were some good things
Speaker 1: going on with Joe hitting a really big three in
Speaker 1: Muscala back in that up vice versa, but Joe was
Speaker 1: huge tonight. Keith then his seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown,
Speaker 1: after a big win for the seventy Sixers tonight at
Speaker 1: Baker's Life Field House one twenty ninety six, I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: and I don't really like or feel comfortable giving takes
Speaker 1: very much, but I'm gonna go with this is I
Speaker 1: think pretty clearly the best performance of the season for
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers. Not the biggest margin of victory, although
Speaker 1: it was pretty hefty tonight twenty four points against the Pacers,
Speaker 1: but just everything that went on in tonight's game. As
Speaker 1: Brett Brown alluded to some of those subplots over the
Speaker 1: course of the portion of the press conference that we
Speaker 1: heard six or shy fifty three percent from the field,
Speaker 1: fifty three percent from three and that's not just a
Speaker 1: throwaway fifty three percent. They were eighteen of thirty four.
Speaker 1: They had thirty eight assists on forty six baskets, but
Speaker 1: they started the game with thirty two dimes on their
Speaker 1: first thirty seven makes I mean, that's just a ridiculous
Speaker 1: rate for assist percentage. It's crazy and it's really stylistically
Speaker 1: the way the Sixers play passed the ball, share the ball, defend,
Speaker 1: and what they did against Indie, one of the top
Speaker 1: shooting teams in the NBA tonight, held into forty percent
Speaker 1: nine of twenty nine from outside the arc. You know,
Speaker 1: Victor Oladipo six to twenty from the floor. That's saying something.
Speaker 1: Boyon Bogdanovich, he was three for eleven, one of seven
Speaker 1: from three. But the biggest thing is the defense looked
Speaker 1: like it was together tonight, much like it was against
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves on Tuesday. So to see some carryover going
Speaker 1: on the road in a difficult building and starting the
Speaker 1: stretch of beginning tonight twelve and orrow against teams over
Speaker 1: five hundred right now, just a great and encouraging way
Speaker 1: for the seventy Sixers to get things started. Win number
Speaker 1: thirty on the year, all right, I asked us to
Speaker 1: thirty wins for the Sixers since the finals run in
Speaker 1: two thousand and two thousand and one. Jimmy Butler was
Speaker 1: very much the tone setter tonight. He was great for
Speaker 1: the Sixers, finishing with twenty seven points on ten of seventeen,
Speaker 1: shooting six of six from the line, five rebounds, eight assists.
Speaker 1: Joel embead a great finished tonight's game. He finished set
Speaker 1: five of eight from the field after starting the night
Speaker 1: four four eleven in the first half twenty two points,
Speaker 1: thirteen rebounds and eight times. Ben Simmons finished better than
Speaker 1: he started at eleven points, eight rebounds, eight assists. JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick was great six and nine from three twenty points
Speaker 1: even on the night for him, he had five times
Speaker 1: as well. He can't forget guys like Wilson Chandler and
Speaker 1: Mike Muscala who stepped up over the course of the evening.
Speaker 1: One Twitter ninety six. These Sixers beat the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 1: We will go to Tom McGinnis next. It's the postgame
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Speaker 1: to Indianapolis and roll the Pacers one twenty ninety six.
Speaker 1: I'm Brian Selzer. Tom McGinnis was there, Jimmy Butler the
Speaker 1: way with twenty seven points. We'll bring on Tom right now. Tom,
Speaker 1: I don't want to put you on the spot, but
Speaker 1: would you say best win of the year? Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know that. It came easier than I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be, you know what I mean? So, Brian,
Speaker 1: I really put me on the spot. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: It was certainly up there. You know. I would say
Speaker 1: top three for sure. You know, to me, if you
Speaker 1: beat Boston or Toronto on a road, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But no, this was a huge game, and
Speaker 1: like I said, you know, the whole way through, and
Speaker 1: again I wasn't trying to be overly hyped or dramatic,
Speaker 1: but for them too, just lead Oladipo. As soon as
Speaker 1: they beat the Suns, they said, all right, well wait,
Speaker 1: let's see how we do Thursday and how we do
Speaker 1: against some of these other teams. And again the Sixers
Speaker 1: came in two and six against the teams, and one
Speaker 1: of those was a win in Toronto against Toronto when
Speaker 1: they were less than than healthy. But they lost to
Speaker 1: Boston and the Raptors twice, and in Milwaukee and to
Speaker 1: the Pacers. So they come in here and gained a victory,
Speaker 1: and just the way they did it to me makes
Speaker 1: it when you say, is it the best win of
Speaker 1: the year, certainly, you know, the way they did it
Speaker 1: to play almost identically in terms of the numbers, with
Speaker 1: the threes and the assists and the balance like they
Speaker 1: did against Minnesota and back to the game, that's very impressive.
Speaker 1: And then they have such a cushion that it didn't
Speaker 1: really there was at no point. It got down to
Speaker 1: ten early in the fourth. But you know, lately the
Speaker 1: Sixers have been building these big leads and then it
Speaker 1: gets a little two Harry sort of down the stretch
Speaker 1: and they close it out. Sometimes they lost to Atlanta
Speaker 1: like that, but and that sense, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: certainly one of the most impressive wins of the year.
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers over the Pacers one twenty ninety six,
Speaker 1: And I think that's probably why I said that is,
Speaker 1: you know, you think of the caliber of the opponent,
Speaker 1: the fact that it was on the road, and just
Speaker 1: certain things the Sixers did in this game. The offense
Speaker 1: clicking for a second game in a row. But as
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler said after Tuesdays went over Minnesota, you know,
Speaker 1: the offense more often than not is going to figure
Speaker 1: itself out. It's been defensively that this team has really
Speaker 1: had its ups and downs, especially in the middle portion
Speaker 1: of the season so far. And I don't know what
Speaker 1: do you think it's been these last two games. It
Speaker 1: just seems like they've been more together, more focused. Maybe
Speaker 1: it took a stretch like that where you lose to
Speaker 1: Washington and Atlanta and nearly give one away against the
Speaker 1: next to grab your attention. Yeah. No, you're right about
Speaker 1: the defense, and tonight, you know, whether it was a
Speaker 1: Sixers defense, I think it was maybe a little bit unlucky.
Speaker 1: They had so many shots rattle in and out. An
Speaker 1: old depot was stone coal to begin the game. That's
Speaker 1: certainly helped that. He's shown really and Miles Turner a
Speaker 1: little bit led them early in the game. They were
Speaker 1: I think seven lead changes. Those all occurred in the
Speaker 1: first quarter and a little bit of the second quarter.
Speaker 1: But the fact that Oladipo was so cold, and he's
Speaker 1: their leader, you know, he hit three threes in the
Speaker 1: first half. They was our only baskets. But like I said,
Speaker 1: he shot thirty percent on the night and Ben had him,
Speaker 1: so that I think that certainly could be attributed. And
Speaker 1: then to help defense, you got a beat back there,
Speaker 1: and that's a game changer. So I guess maybe if
Speaker 1: you're going to point to one thing as a team defensively,
Speaker 1: having a beat back there in the paint is just
Speaker 1: so big because he just bottles everything up. He forces
Speaker 1: teams to shoot quicker and further away and then not
Speaker 1: in rhythm and whatnot. So that's a good point overall.
Speaker 1: How the defense has kind of led away in this
Speaker 1: resurgence over the last three games. Sixers top of the
Speaker 1: Pacers won twenty two ninety six. Jimmy Butler, Tim's so
Speaker 1: big in this game getting things started. Boyan Bogdanovitch was
Speaker 1: on him and he couldn't do anything gonna stop and
Speaker 1: seemed like Jimmy just went right on the attack. He
Speaker 1: really did. And again he's just got a way. You know,
Speaker 1: he's not a guy who blows by the defenders. He
Speaker 1: gets in there and the guy's usually right on his backside.
Speaker 1: But he's so adept at, as I've said ever since
Speaker 1: we've seen this guy playing now for the last three months,
Speaker 1: I guess, two months, right all through November, in the December,
Speaker 1: now January. But he's so adept at just putting a
Speaker 1: guy in his back pocket and still scoring the ball.
Speaker 1: And then just like the late steal that he had,
Speaker 1: Like he's got he's just a he's got great anticipation
Speaker 1: skills and whatnot. He just stepped in front of he
Speaker 1: knew all deep I was going to go back to
Speaker 1: the wing with it, and that he was getting back
Speaker 1: in transition, just steps in for the for the pick,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I got that. Like he's he's so
Speaker 1: athletic and talented with a great basketball IQ. It makes
Speaker 1: out to be, you know, an All Star player alrighty time.
Speaker 1: After this twenty four point victory, tonight a mid afternoon
Speaker 1: matinee on Saturday, to the biggest personalities in the league
Speaker 1: and Joel Embiad and Russell Westbrook on center stage on
Speaker 1: a nationally televised ABC game that you can hear right
Speaker 1: here on the Sixers Raider Network, and that it should
Speaker 1: be a whole lot of fun. And I'm thinking about,
Speaker 1: you know, the Sixers flying into Weather. It's it's actually
Speaker 1: I know it's Saturday, but like it's a quick turnaround.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, Oklahoma's playing right now and they all even
Speaker 1: till tomorrow. But now that that should be really exciting.
Speaker 1: And you know, especially because you know they have Paul
Speaker 1: George and Stephen Adams plays Joel better than any other
Speaker 1: center in the NBA. I was just reading this article
Speaker 1: about how strong he is. In fact, Jimmy Butler was
Speaker 1: quoted in there having to run into Adams in a
Speaker 1: previous game, so on, oh man, it was like a
Speaker 1: brick wall. So and he's fast and he's, like I said,
Speaker 1: he's strong, and so that that's a big thing there.
Speaker 1: And then you know, like to me, the Sixers, Paul George,
Speaker 1: there you go, there's Jimmy Butler's match up and hopefully
Speaker 1: benk and guard Russell Westbrook. But they're very talented and
Speaker 1: this is the time again you the Sixers have re
Speaker 1: versed a lot of these trends against teams with the
Speaker 1: losses that they've had consecutive defeats against certain franchises, but
Speaker 1: not this one. So Saturday's a day. It's been eighteen
Speaker 1: straight defeats to the Thunder, and Saturday is a good
Speaker 1: opportunity to crack the code and get back into the
Speaker 1: win column against the Thunder. Anytime, we will see you then,
Speaker 1: all right, good night, Bran seventy Sixers beat the Pacers
Speaker 1: convincingly one twenty ninety six. We had one more segment
Speaker 1: of the postgame show coming up. Then Divine Gibbons will
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Speaker 1: the Revolution today a big stretch coming up for the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers starting tonight. A lot of talk about this,
Speaker 1: a lot of focus how the Sixers due twelve in
Speaker 1: a row against over five hundred teams heading towards the
Speaker 1: All Star Game break. The Indiana Pacers the team a
Speaker 1: game in front of the seventy Sixers going into tonight,
Speaker 1: the first task on the road at Baker's Life Fieldhouse.
Speaker 1: Here is how portions of the game sounded, as called
Speaker 1: by the one and only Tom McGinnis. Sixers and Pacers.
Speaker 1: They went back and forth in the early going, but
Speaker 1: a rookie put the seventy Sixers in the league for
Speaker 1: the first time. You're Simmons over the landry to catch
Speaker 1: the shot and the rough delivers of the three. Good
Speaker 1: kickoff by Ben Simmons, and the Sixers now beginning to
Speaker 1: heat up from beyond the Yark four made threes and
Speaker 1: for the first time in the game, the Sixers will
Speaker 1: be It really was an uphill battle for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: They went scoreless for the first three and a half
Speaker 1: minutes of the game. Starting over seven, things would end
Speaker 1: up vastly different. At the end of the first quarter
Speaker 1: of seventy six Ers like twenty eight to twenty five.
Speaker 1: We're gonna fast forward to the end of the second
Speaker 1: quarter when the Sixers were trying to add some insurance
Speaker 1: in JJ Reddick, who had been good throughout the first half,
Speaker 1: cap things off and now would be with it against
Speaker 1: Turner shot clocket five seven seconds to go and a half.
Speaker 1: It's JJ Reddick for three and it's good count. It's
Speaker 1: swish Reddick with it. Four seconds ago. Fifty four to
Speaker 1: forty eight was what the score became after that JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick three pointer. That is what would be going into
Speaker 1: the break. Seventy sixers in a good spot. Oladipo hits
Speaker 1: a three right out of the halftime break and you're
Speaker 1: thinking foods. Maybe this guy could get started. He went
Speaker 1: one for seven to the first half. The seventy sixers
Speaker 1: quickly quieted things down for the Pacers as JJ Reddick,
Speaker 1: using his signature skill help widen the gap. Reddick is
Speaker 1: on the wing. JJ cuts off with Joel's screen. Juel
Speaker 1: Pops gets outside of the yard three to shoot over
Speaker 1: to Reddick. Reddick's open three foot in the air for
Speaker 1: the Sixers is good. J J Reddick put timely head
Speaker 1: clutch tray time out Indiana they needed at seventy sixers
Speaker 1: opening up a double figure lead for the first time
Speaker 1: on the night at sixty six two fifty five for
Speaker 1: the Sixers. They would lead at eighty six seventy one
Speaker 1: going into the fourth. Because of this, Sixers up thirteen
Speaker 1: TJ drives that shoots it off the glass. Add in
Speaker 1: TJ McConnell gives us Sixers a fifteen point lead and
Speaker 1: that would grow to ninety one seventy three early on
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. With Joe Ellenbiad moving things along,
Speaker 1: Reddick back down to Joe. Joe go by two minute
Speaker 1: slams it the Sixers wheeling around the arc, had Reddick
Speaker 1: feeds a Fad in a two hand slam and the
Speaker 1: big bella hangs on the iron sways with a slab.
Speaker 1: After the Sixers went up by eighteen points, the Pacers
Speaker 1: would charge back. They scored ten in a row and
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers we're looking to halt momentum. They did.
Speaker 1: Joe ellenbead a basket, Mike Muscalo with consecutive three pointers.
Speaker 1: That was huge. Ben Simmons got in the act and
Speaker 1: then appropriately one of the guys who was so huge
Speaker 1: and getting tonight's games started on a good note. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler was there to put the Pacers away. Father loses
Speaker 1: the mom momentarily gains a back, spins fire shot sixty
Speaker 1: god a shot park buzzer. Jimmy Butler get it done
Speaker 1: and made it one O four eighty seven to seventy.
Speaker 1: Sixers would cruise to the eventual final score of one
Speaker 1: hundred twenty to ninety six. We'll go through some of
Speaker 1: the impressive notes from the final stat sheet. The Sixers
Speaker 1: shoot fifty three percent from the field and also fifty
Speaker 1: three percent from outside the arc. Eighteen of thirty four
Speaker 1: against Indiana, which enter tonight the number one rated defense
Speaker 1: in terms of points per game allow but if you
Speaker 1: look at a moral level statistical metric of defensive rating,
Speaker 1: Pacers were number three. So either way you slice it,
Speaker 1: Indiana excellent defensively, but the Sixers carved him up. They
Speaker 1: had thirty eight assists on forty six made field goals
Speaker 1: after their forty assist game just forty eight hours ago
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Center. As for the Pacers,
Speaker 1: the Sixers held them to forty percent from the field,
Speaker 1: their second best in the league in field goals shooting
Speaker 1: and just nine of twenty nine from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: Good stuff from the seventy sixers. Defensively, six Ers scored
Speaker 1: fifty points the paint, great balance. Jimmy Butler led the
Speaker 1: way with twenty seven points ten to seventeen from the field,
Speaker 1: one three point or five rebounds, eight assists, no turnovers
Speaker 1: and three steals. Awesome stuff from Jimmy Butler twenty two
Speaker 1: and thirteen to go with eight assists and three block
Speaker 1: shots for Joel Embiid JJ Reddick with twenty points on
Speaker 1: six of nine shooting from outside the arc. Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: with eleven eight and eighty to have six turnovers, but
Speaker 1: he finished the game strong five of ten from the field.
Speaker 1: Thought Wilson Chandler was really helpful, especially in a first
Speaker 1: half that was mostly competitive. He kept the Sixers in it.
Speaker 1: He finished with ten points plus fourteen rating. Mike Muscala
Speaker 1: off the bench with eleven points and seven rebounds. He
Speaker 1: was great. So is t J McConnell with seven points
Speaker 1: and five assists. All around good stuff for the seventy sixers,
Speaker 1: which improved to thirty and sixteen on the year, and
Speaker 1: our resident seventy six Ers postgame show statistician Tyler Zoli
Speaker 1: confirming that the Sixers are the fourth team officially in
Speaker 1: the NBA right now to reach the thirty win mark,
Speaker 1: joining the likes of the Toronto Raptors, Milwaukee Bucks, and
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. Denver playing right now might get there
Speaker 1: by the end of tonight, but for this moment, it's
Speaker 1: the seventy six Ers, the fourth team to thirty wins,
Speaker 1: the fastest they've gotten to thirty wins since two thousand
Speaker 1: and two thousand and one. Devon Gibbons is up next.
Speaker 1: Should be a good edition of In the Pot. They're
Speaker 1: all good editions, but I should say this one will
Speaker 1: have a more positive tone to a tonight. So in
Speaker 1: the Post with Divine Gibbons is coming up next. Big
Speaker 1: thanks to the guys back at the studio. That would
Speaker 1: be Tyler Zuli and Brian McLaughlin. And now for the
Speaker 1: radiovoice to seventy six Ers. Tom againis Brian Seltzer saying
Speaker 1: so long for now one final time. The final score
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers all over, the Pacers one twenty to
Speaker 1: ninety six in Indie. Have a great rest of Thursday night.
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