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Speaker 2: Looks like he might be baking his way toward a headset. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how about my man, Kelly, don't hey, did you just
Speaker 2: get another stealer? He just stole the headset. A did
Speaker 2: a game man career night with steals he ended up
Speaker 2: with eight. Tell me a little bit about active hands,
Speaker 2: athletic anticipation, what what was that was amazing? Tell me
Speaker 2: a little bit more about your defense.
Speaker 1: A man defense is when we wins championships. It was
Speaker 1: when it wins games tonight. You know, we know that
Speaker 1: they're a running gun team. They play fast and they're
Speaker 1: very guard heavy when it comes to the majority of
Speaker 1: their points. So me and Caleb just buckle down, and
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunate night, I was in the same position
Speaker 1: as Paul last game. Two were quick early ones, but
Speaker 1: you know, we we you know, we got it through.
Speaker 2: And a couple of those early steals, maybe even the
Speaker 2: three you were deflecting and not they were trying to
Speaker 2: enter the ball into eight, and you just would not
Speaker 2: allow that. That was tremendous defense, mostly in a health position.
Speaker 2: Is that right, Yes, sir?
Speaker 1: I mean whatever I can do, I'm here to help
Speaker 1: this team win. And then you know, we got one tonight.
Speaker 1: We were starting to get our groove together. But we
Speaker 1: have a lot of weapons, but on the defensive end,
Speaker 1: it's all energy and effort. So tonight we brought that.
Speaker 1: So let's bring that to Sack.
Speaker 2: Speaking of energy, and effort. How about y'all. But in
Speaker 2: the second quarter that was amazing, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: Hey, Man, I don't understand it, but he's with us,
Speaker 1: so we're not gonna try to understand it. We just gotta,
Speaker 1: you know, continue to rally around our brother and continue
Speaker 1: to just keep him in a good mental space to
Speaker 1: keep doing what he's doing. But he's incredible, man. I
Speaker 1: love playing with him, and he's also teasing me French.
Speaker 2: So like when you say, you don't understand in other words,
Speaker 2: how explosive he is, how is he scores? He had
Speaker 2: clinging on him, no problem, just went ready in that
Speaker 2: what you mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, just you know his versatility. Uh, you can
Speaker 1: step behind the arc, you can finish in the pain,
Speaker 1: he can post up centers. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, man, like I said, he's on our side,
Speaker 1: so let's keep him in the states man.
Speaker 2: Well, last thought, and Kelly, you were terrific and we
Speaker 2: appreciate your time. But this is one of those games
Speaker 2: where you gotta take care of but you gotta almost
Speaker 2: worry more about yourselves, and that's exactly what you guys
Speaker 2: did here. And you played a complete game against Portland.
Speaker 1: Right, absolutely I mean, that's what that's what it's gonna take.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take us off. But we're trying to achieve
Speaker 1: bigger things than just these, you know, regular season games.
Speaker 1: But finding our rhythm is the main key. I think
Speaker 1: we're doing that great.
Speaker 2: Joab, appreciate your time.
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Speaker 3: Four straight wins for the seventy six Ers, a season
Speaker 3: high for points, one hundred and twenty five, margin of
Speaker 3: victory plus twenty two and field goal percentage. They shot
Speaker 3: fifty seven percent in the one twenty five one to
Speaker 3: oh three win in Portland over the Trailblazers. I'm Matt
Speaker 3: Murphy and this is our Parks Casino postgame show. We'll
Speaker 3: check back in with Tom McGuinness as we await Nick Nurse,
Speaker 3: the Sixers coaches postgame press conference. But Tom, I think
Speaker 3: we might have ruined something with the gershan Yabusele interview
Speaker 3: streak we had going. You had Kelly Oubre but I
Speaker 3: guess he's worthy of it with the eight steel career
Speaker 3: high steel game after this one.
Speaker 2: He's a great guess, no doubt about you. Gotta love
Speaker 2: his energy on and off the court, right, he's fun
Speaker 2: like he's he's an athletic player. The Sixers got so
Speaker 2: many good pieces. It's coming together. H and Yaboo for
Speaker 2: sure was a big part of this game. But in
Speaker 2: the end, like look at Max, he had a whole
Speaker 2: hum game and he had twenty three points. I mean
Speaker 2: about that, right, Paul George didn't have a great game,
Speaker 2: and yet he still had nine points, six rebounds, four assists,
Speaker 2: and a steal. So that's what that's what's neat the
Speaker 2: seventy six ers. Hold on for one second, we just
Speaker 2: were waiting on our coach. So yeah, yeah, we had
Speaker 2: a TV guy trying to take the TV away, and
Speaker 2: we totally appreciate you know that they're they're they they're
Speaker 2: so good about giving us a TV even I'm talking
Speaker 2: about the production crew. But this will allow us to
Speaker 2: see you.
Speaker 3: And that's better than me.
Speaker 2: In La.
Speaker 3: After we parted ways at the Lakers game, they just
Speaker 3: came up and took all the power cords out and
Speaker 3: just unplugged everything.
Speaker 2: And I got Marty Dickerson back at our home back home.
Speaker 2: He does not allow those guys to touch the stuff
Speaker 2: because we've gotten unplugged, if you will so. But Nick Nurse,
Speaker 2: we're looking at the postgame press conference and he had
Speaker 2: like maybe three questions pregame, so it was amazing. It
Speaker 2: was only about a four minute press conference earlier tonight.
Speaker 2: He's great with the media. One of the questions they posed,
Speaker 2: and this is a guy you can always I listened
Speaker 2: to the Chauncey Billups segment as well, and when a
Speaker 2: guy is working on like a particular piece where he's
Speaker 2: getting answers from both coaches in the line of questionings
Speaker 2: surrounded how do you handle postgame media? Do you ever
Speaker 2: try to send a message to your team through the media,
Speaker 2: and Chauncey Billups and again, you know sometimes a coach
Speaker 2: might scoff or no, And Chauncey Billups said, no, I
Speaker 2: would never tell you guys anything that I wouldn't tell
Speaker 2: my players. But then coach Nurse had an interesting answer
Speaker 2: in this regard and he said, when he first got
Speaker 2: the Toronto job, somebody, an executive mentioned to him, always
Speaker 2: remember you're talking to the players. The players will read
Speaker 2: everything you say so and that's important too, right, And
Speaker 2: that's I said, You've got to be even when you
Speaker 2: coach today's professional players, you know, you got to be
Speaker 2: careful because you might be instructing in a demonstrative way
Speaker 2: one player and the other players take except you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like it's it's a difficult balance for
Speaker 2: a coach. And look at all level, but particularly in
Speaker 2: the NBA where you have you know, it's a players league.
Speaker 2: And I said that the coach tonight in our pregame chat,
Speaker 2: like he was talking about the give and take on
Speaker 2: what they should uncoverage this and those type of things.
Speaker 2: And that's totally positive. But yeah, look, look, Doc Rivers
Speaker 2: used to always say, even the great play, they wanted
Speaker 2: to be coached hard. And apparently reportedly that was one
Speaker 2: of the things that came out of the Sixers meeting
Speaker 2: earlier this year. The players, you know, wanted to be
Speaker 2: coach harder. You know, Nick Nurse's coach forever. You think
Speaker 2: he can't coach hard, I'm sure he can. And guess what,
Speaker 2: that's part of how the sixers turned it around. They
Speaker 2: practiced harder, longer, and those competitive sessions turned in to
Speaker 2: what has become one of the winning this months in
Speaker 2: recent years, Right, Murph, I mean would they end up
Speaker 2: winning in December nine or ten games?
Speaker 3: Well, they're ten for their last thirteen after the three
Speaker 3: and fourteen start. I'll circle back on that. I do
Speaker 3: want to try to touch on at least start on
Speaker 3: Joel before coach if we can, because I just saw
Speaker 3: courtesy of NBC Sports Philadelphia, that Joel has scored thirty
Speaker 3: plus in all nine of his games against DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 3: What did you think about MBDA?
Speaker 2: Like I said, I felt like early on you could
Speaker 2: see eight and had a hesitancy at both ends, and
Speaker 2: then he makes a couple jump hooks on offense. But
Speaker 2: I thought that it wasn't just eight, and I thought
Speaker 2: they had like a little bit of wariness with Joel.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a star player who's got a repertoire.
Speaker 2: And then I thought they started to gain a little
Speaker 2: confidence at both ends. But then Joelle tonight, I thought
Speaker 2: he drove the ball more. I thought he'd played with
Speaker 2: more force at the beginning when he first started to
Speaker 2: get back, he was picking pop and everything was kind
Speaker 2: of at the folling area. And now he's playing that
Speaker 2: he's able to shoot that ball from those areas fifteen seventeen,
Speaker 2: eighteen feet and the threes. But now he's playing from
Speaker 2: the fall line in and he's starting to put the
Speaker 2: ball on the deck. And then in that Utah game,
Speaker 2: you know, he started to use the show and go
Speaker 2: deal where he'd fake and then come running. Tonight he
Speaker 2: even did more. And now coach Nurse is in fact
Speaker 2: that you can hear them with the mike. Here's the coach.
Speaker 2: He's about to address the first question from Nick Nurse responding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, listen, he was. He was very assertive,
Speaker 5: I thought, and just his decision making for me, when
Speaker 5: he is driving the ball, when he's you know, up
Speaker 5: faking and driving it into the paint, it's pretty tough
Speaker 5: to stop him, or at least you know, again, he
Speaker 5: drew a lot of fouls and stuff, but again it's
Speaker 5: it's pretty aggressive style of offense for him to go
Speaker 5: in there and take it to the rim, which you know,
Speaker 5: I think that's when he's when he's at his best.
Speaker 5: It's hard for him because he's such a good mid
Speaker 5: range shooter to not just continue to take those. But
Speaker 5: you know, I think again, it got us into the
Speaker 5: bonus early in a couple of quarters, and we also
Speaker 5: just kind of knew we had a place to go
Speaker 5: where we could create offense. And and I think that
Speaker 5: gives everybody confidence.
Speaker 1: Yep, Yabu's as in game.
Speaker 2: Pretty good. It was good.
Speaker 5: He's he's uh getting known for that, right He's He's
Speaker 5: had some good ones in his career, But I don't
Speaker 5: know was that good. His His second quarter was amazing.
Speaker 5: I mean just everything he did was was solid and
Speaker 5: and and physical and post ups and moves the ball,
Speaker 5: hit some threes, like he he really really played good.
Speaker 3: He had that stretch a.
Speaker 4: Couple of weeks ago where like he didn't play a ton.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was a little bit quiet in comparison to
Speaker 3: the rest of the season. Did anything reclick for him
Speaker 3: or what? Do you think it's just the last week.
Speaker 5: We Yeah, again, I think I think it's probably put
Speaker 5: that a little bit on me. I'm just like still
Speaker 5: trying to figure out rotations and matchups, and sometimes sometimes
Speaker 5: it seems like we'll play against a team with like
Speaker 5: four guards out there for really long stretches. And it's
Speaker 5: it's kind of hard to figure out how we're gonna
Speaker 5: rotate the bigs. The bigs in there, especially when drums
Speaker 5: there too. But I think that we're getting enough time
Speaker 5: with him at the four now along with Joel, that
Speaker 5: we're starting to figure it out, and I gotta I
Speaker 5: gotta make sure he continues to get minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, off of that, are you are you set with
Speaker 1: who you want to play with the second Union, whether
Speaker 1: it be Joel or whether it be Tyrese.
Speaker 2: I'd like to be.
Speaker 5: But I think again, each game, like tonight, the rotations
Speaker 5: got completely out of whack with Paul's early foul trouble
Speaker 5: and kind of continued foul trouble through the game, right,
Speaker 5: so uh ended up ended up like totally out of
Speaker 5: whack from the start and just kind of pie sing
Speaker 5: it together. I think, you know, we had we had
Speaker 5: some guys played some really long stretches tonight, but that
Speaker 5: was kind of because of that. I think I got
Speaker 5: a decent feel for what we're doing. But but again,
Speaker 5: we're missing a couple of guys again, like like we were,
Speaker 5: as you know, we were subbing like Reggie and Kyle
Speaker 5: together and leaving Paul and and Joelle out there. But
Speaker 5: that just like Kyle out and Paul and foul trouble,
Speaker 5: that just that that little thing that kind of we've
Speaker 5: been building a rhythm which just went completely out the window.
Speaker 5: What I what I do feel good about is there
Speaker 5: is some different combinations that look like they're pretty comfortable now,
Speaker 5: like just doesn't even like like the the three wing Caleb, Kelly,
Speaker 5: Paul looks good and when one of them's out and
Speaker 5: the two of them are in there, that still is fine.
Speaker 5: Doesn't matter if we bring in a guard or a four.
Speaker 5: So I think we're getting a little bit, We've got
Speaker 5: some flexibility a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tonight, I guess similar questions of the one premium
Speaker 3: about Paul.
Speaker 1: Just what is he doing so well and within the
Speaker 1: defense that's like allowing him to sort of have.
Speaker 5: Those individual Yeah, listen, those guys that those guys that
Speaker 5: were how many turnovers did we create tonight? And we
Speaker 5: got thirty six points off turnovers tonight? I think they
Speaker 5: got twenty six team total turnovers. That's a lot. I
Speaker 5: think everybody was was up, you know, good, just executing
Speaker 5: some of our schemes really well and physical and aggressive,
Speaker 5: and we talked about, you know, being being physical and
Speaker 5: impacting their their their you know, some of their actions
Speaker 5: tonight with with some hands and physicality and kind of
Speaker 5: knife and knifing into some of that stuff. And and
Speaker 5: Kelly was in the middle of a lot of them
Speaker 5: and knocking them away.
Speaker 2: How does it feel to have a bit of a
Speaker 2: turn return to normal?
Speaker 5: See for you guys over a stretch of time, you know,
Speaker 5: we're just everything is just about the hoop, and you
Speaker 5: know there's not a lot of outside noise. Yeah, obviously,
Speaker 5: you know, I been saying it for a while. This
Speaker 5: is probably fifteen so you know, playing a lot better, right,
Speaker 5: I mean, And and we're we're taking whatever comes. Like again,
Speaker 5: there's an injury here or there, and we just kind
Speaker 5: of keep on rolling. There's some foul trouble here there,
Speaker 5: We kind of keep on rolling. But we're we're getting
Speaker 5: some you know, probably most I'm probably most excited about
Speaker 5: is we're getting a little bit of a defensive you know,
Speaker 5: mentality to us. And that's gonna that's gonna take you
Speaker 5: long ways. Right, If you're gonna go play defense on
Speaker 5: the road, especially, you're gonna have a really good chance.
Speaker 5: And and these guys have worked worked at it. You know,
Speaker 5: we've we've had some lots of lots of long practices
Speaker 5: and stuff to try to get better at that, and
Speaker 5: it's it's paid off. But give them all the credit.
Speaker 2: Sixer's coach Nick Nurse and kind of exactly what we
Speaker 2: were talking about when we led to his post game availability,
Speaker 2: and that is that edge that came from the hard work.
Speaker 2: And that's the only way that coach knows how to
Speaker 2: do it. Go back to work, roll up your sleeves
Speaker 2: and get it done. And no one's gonna be feeling
Speaker 2: sorry for you about injuries or how you started or whatever.
Speaker 2: And Murph, as you said, three and fourteen, and now
Speaker 2: the Sixers with yet another win. So going on the
Speaker 2: road to Sacramento, they're going to go to northern California
Speaker 2: for two games. They're going to actually bust down from
Speaker 2: Sack to San Francisco. Following that game on New Year's Night,
Speaker 2: they'll play January second, Thursday against the Warriors at Chase
Speaker 2: Center and then go all the way back east to
Speaker 2: take on the Nets over the weekend at Barclay Center.
Speaker 2: But for tonight, great win. They win one twenty five
Speaker 2: one to oh three here in Portland. Back to you, Murph.
Speaker 3: It's a nine and three month of December for the
Speaker 3: Philadelphia seventy six Ers as they are now thirteen and
Speaker 3: seventeen overall after that start and Tom, they're as we
Speaker 3: continue on here with our seventy six Ers Parks Casino
Speaker 3: postgame show, Tom, they're going to Sacramento in Golden State
Speaker 3: with this defense right now that is swarming, and we
Speaker 3: heard coach talk about it, and back on media Day
Speaker 3: we heard Kelly Oubre talk about it. He had the
Speaker 3: eights the he was saying that him, Caleb Martin, Paul George,
Speaker 3: these wing defenders with their length, call them the water stoppers,
Speaker 3: he said, call us the plumbers because we're gonna turn
Speaker 3: the water off for the other team star players. They'll
Speaker 3: be tasked with doing that against the Bonus and Fox.
Speaker 3: But we're starting to see more of that with these
Speaker 3: these plumbers on the on the perimeter defensively for the Sixers.
Speaker 2: Let me put on no, it's true, but it all
Speaker 2: starts with Embiid because he's back there in the middle
Speaker 2: clogging up the paint. That rim protection is huge, uh
Speaker 2: and Embiid is awful good, you know, defensively for the Sixers.
Speaker 2: And then Paul George is a good defender, Ubre is
Speaker 2: a good defender. They added Caleb Martin who's a good defender. Max,
Speaker 2: he's much improved in that aspect. So it all adds up,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? You got That's that's what
Speaker 2: it takes. It takes good individual d Sometimes you'd be
Speaker 2: able to got to what do they say, guard your
Speaker 2: yard and keep guys in front of you, right, and
Speaker 2: then they have switchability, and then collectively they have good
Speaker 2: game plans and schemes, and and it adds up because
Speaker 2: he's right, you know there's gonna be nights where you know,
Speaker 2: the threes aren't flowing, you're not getting to the line,
Speaker 2: you're not getting calls, and you got to be able
Speaker 2: to win on your defense because the game is so long.
Speaker 2: Guys like MAXI can turn it on and end up
Speaker 2: having a good fourth quarter, or Joel will get get
Speaker 2: on a roll right and get the offense going. But
Speaker 2: that that's how you win. Right. They're not all gonna
Speaker 2: be one hundred and twenty five point wins in terms
Speaker 2: of the total, like tonight, You've got to be able
Speaker 2: to every now and then whole teams, you know, to
Speaker 2: one hundred and six or ninety nine, whatever you get
Speaker 2: the drill. But yeah, defense has been way better.
Speaker 3: Season high for Joel Embiid thirty seven points plus nine rebounds,
Speaker 3: Maxie finishes with twenty three points, Yabusele sixteen, ubre with
Speaker 3: fifteen and the career high eight steals, one off of
Speaker 3: tying the Sixers franchise record. A good way to head
Speaker 3: into twenty twenty five and the back to back against
Speaker 3: the Kings and the Warriors before rounding out the trip
Speaker 3: with a game at Brooklyn. But Tom, thank you as always.
Speaker 3: Happy New Year to you all right, Murph, you too, Bud,
Speaker 3: thank you, thanks to Tom McGuinness. After the one twenty
Speaker 3: five one oh three win for the Sixers in Portland
Speaker 3: over the trail Blazers led by and Bed, all five
Speaker 3: starters for Portland were in double figures, but they had
Speaker 3: those twenty six turnovers that led to thirty six seventy
Speaker 3: six ers points. Sixers also made forty six percent of
Speaker 3: their threes compared to twenty two for the Trailblazers, made
Speaker 3: ninety percent of their free throws twenty eight free throws,
Speaker 3: while Portland missed nine of their thirty which is seventy
Speaker 3: percent at the line, and then overall just shooting wise,
Speaker 3: Sixers just shot fifty seven percent in what is their
Speaker 3: largest margin to victory this season, twenty two points compared
Speaker 3: to the home team's forty eight percent fifty seven forty
Speaker 3: eight shooting from the field. Got a lot more to
Speaker 3: break down our stats of the game, staut of the game,
Speaker 3: the leaders throughout the box score, round things out, look
Speaker 3: at the standings where everything is with that, and of
Speaker 3: course here the highlights some of the key plays in
Speaker 3: this game with Tom mcguinness's calls. You're not going to
Speaker 3: want to miss that gershon Yabusele poster dunk that Nick
Speaker 3: Nurse was asked about postgame, and I'm not gonna want
Speaker 3: to miss Tom's call of that one. We have all
Speaker 3: of that still to get to. It is just a
Speaker 3: minute past the top of the hour, So before we
Speaker 3: break and then come back with the highlights and more,
Speaker 3: we are going to pause ten seconds for station identification
Speaker 3: here on the Sixers radio network. That the fifth full
Speaker 3: game of the season with the Sixers Big three of
Speaker 3: Maxi Embiid and Paul George. They are five and oher
Speaker 3: Chicago Charlotte, Boston, Utah, and now Portland a season high
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty five points in a one to
Speaker 3: twenty five to one to oh three win. We'll continue
Speaker 3: on when we come back. It's the seventy six Ers
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Speaker 3: Back on the seventy six Ers Postgame Show presented by
Speaker 3: Parks Casino. After a one to twenty five to one
Speaker 3: to ozho three, Sixers win in Portland for their fourth
Speaker 3: straight win, thirteenth of the season, and we just said
Speaker 3: it nine and three in the month of December. They
Speaker 3: have won ten of their last thirteen games. They are
Speaker 3: thirteen and seventeen and they've really got this thing rolling.
Speaker 3: Now we'll get to highlights with Tom McGinnis's calls shortly
Speaker 3: after just putting a bow on a few of the
Speaker 3: stats and streaks going on. Matt Murphy back with you.
Speaker 3: But a really good win. In fact, it was their
Speaker 3: biggest win by margin of the season and their most
Speaker 3: points one hundred and twenty five in the plus twenty
Speaker 3: two victory. They also shot a season high fIF fifty
Speaker 3: seven percent from the field forty three of seventy five
Speaker 3: when we gave those shooting totals a moment ago. They
Speaker 3: have a bunch of double digit steal games, six of
Speaker 3: their last seven twelve tonight after the season high fifteen
Speaker 3: steals on Saturday, led by eight from Kelly Ubray Junior,
Speaker 3: which is our stat of the game. Eight steals, six
Speaker 3: in the first half for Ubray, a career high. He
Speaker 3: tied it in the first half alone with the six,
Speaker 3: but eight is a new career best for Ubra in
Speaker 3: that department. These sixers who had nine mo cheeks, Hersey
Speaker 3: Hawkins iverson twice and Michael Carter Williams, so Ubray leading
Speaker 3: the way with more than half of their steals tonight
Speaker 3: on a night they forced twenty six turnovers, and more importantly,
Speaker 3: you don't always score this many points off of that number,
Speaker 3: So thirty six points off twenty six turnovers, they win
Speaker 3: the game by twenty two points, and now they'll have
Speaker 3: a back to back in the new year. So they
Speaker 3: go out in twenty twenty four with their fourth consecutive
Speaker 3: win in this season so far, longest winning streak of
Speaker 3: the season. Spurs Celtics Jazz and now the Trailblazers, led
Speaker 3: by a season high thirty seven points for Joel Embiid,
Speaker 3: which was the most for any player in the game.
Speaker 3: His nine rebounds fell just one short of that honor,
Speaker 3: and it was Toomanti Kamara of the Portland Trailblazers who
Speaker 3: had ten rebounds, six on the offensive glass and early
Speaker 3: in this game at that those offensive rebounds. Scoot Henderson's
Speaker 3: seven assists off the bench were the most for any
Speaker 3: player in this game was balanced assist effort for the Sixers,
Speaker 3: four each from Paul George and Reggie Jackson. George had
Speaker 3: some foul trouble in this game three in the first half,
Speaker 3: ends with nine points, five fouls, six rebounds, four assists
Speaker 3: and one of the steals in twenty three minutes on
Speaker 3: four of nine shooting. Sixers are five when George, em
Speaker 3: bead and Maxie start and finish the game, and those
Speaker 3: that have been part of this hot stretch for the Sixers.
Speaker 3: Here's how this game sounded, as called by Tom McGinnis.
Speaker 3: The Sixers Trailblazers in Portland, Rip City Sixers in white
Speaker 3: uniforms Blazers in red. Kyle Lowry was added to the
Speaker 3: injury list tonight or the inactives list with Drummond, Eric Gordon,
Speaker 3: kJ Martin and Jared McCain. Portland was without former sixer
Speaker 3: Jeremy Grant, former sixer Matisse Thibel, and not a former sixer,
Speaker 3: Delano Banton. Sixers went with the same starting lineup though
Speaker 3: Tyrese Maxie, Paul George, Kelly Oubray, Junior Caleb Martin and
Speaker 3: Joel Embiid. Early in the game, they took what was
Speaker 3: their largest lead of the game at the time in
Speaker 3: the first quarter, an eight point lead that Portland would
Speaker 3: soon erase, but it was courtesy of Maxi Outside max He.
Speaker 2: Gets a screen, goes out top fires for three. It's
Speaker 2: good again. Boy. They had trouble getting around the embead
Speaker 2: screen and Maxi it and Maxi able to get the
Speaker 2: feat set and drills another tray. He's three for four
Speaker 2: with two threes. Maxi with nine sixers by.
Speaker 3: Eight, but DeAndre eight In and Denny Avdia led the
Speaker 3: early comeback for the home team. Abdya he runs out
Speaker 3: on the break for the tying dunk late in the first.
Speaker 2: Reggie Jackson looking for cutters, He goes to Yabu Sale
Speaker 2: who fires a three that hits the corner of the
Speaker 2: back court and they are running. HiT's Aavida with a
Speaker 2: sprint and a right hand jam. Whoo are n JM
Speaker 2: drive in the game? Jenny Avida corner shot, awkward bounce,
Speaker 2: they got the rebound and they get the dunk to
Speaker 2: tie it at thirty one.
Speaker 3: Nine of Abdya's seventeen points in the game were in
Speaker 3: the first quarter. Came over in the offseason in the
Speaker 3: Malcolm Brogden trade that sent Brogden and other assets to Washington.
Speaker 3: Abdya to the Blazers seventeen point game for him eight
Speaker 3: and had eight points in the first quarter out of
Speaker 3: his twelve twelve points for Kamara, twelve for Shade and
Speaker 3: Sharp tonight and then Anthony Simons was the Trailblazer's leading
Speaker 3: scorer twenty five points. He made four threes, thought it
Speaker 3: was five at one point, but one got overturned to
Speaker 3: a two four rebounds, four assists on a twenty five
Speaker 3: point night for Blaser's point guard Anthony Simons, But it
Speaker 3: was thirty three thirty one going to the second quarter
Speaker 3: after Gershan Yabusele put the Sixers back in front after
Speaker 3: the tie, but he was just getting started. Nick Nurse
Speaker 3: said it his second quarter was phenomenal. It included the
Speaker 3: poster dunk. But before we get to that, how about
Speaker 3: him bid just going to work on DeAndre eight and
Speaker 3: for to build that lead back to eight.
Speaker 2: Embiid gets the ball out of mid air and now
Speaker 2: brings it across against eight in motion to the right
Speaker 2: of the lane. It bead one on one left hand dribble,
Speaker 2: spins to the glass, up and in and that's the
Speaker 2: part that a lot of people say, not a lot
Speaker 2: of guys can do that. It bead, brought it down
Speaker 2: the court, turned it into a one on one and
Speaker 2: was able to spin before the help could come. And
Speaker 2: he makes a pure wet down load and he laid it.
Speaker 3: In twenty first half points for Joel Tonight in Portland.
Speaker 3: He ends with thirty seven on twelve of twenty one shooting,
Speaker 3: made his only three and made all but one of
Speaker 3: his thirteen free throws. Right after, though huge highlight. Another
Speaker 3: poster dunk for Gershan Yabusele, and it was in and
Speaker 3: one fashion.
Speaker 2: Caleb Martin has it ahead of Yabusele. Girkshunt jams it.
Speaker 2: Oh Baby a right hand prone out and he was foul.
Speaker 2: He posterizes Hobbia and Yabasele is flexing at the Sixers bench.
Speaker 2: Joel comes over. Oh, the Sixer's got a delay a game.
Speaker 2: I believe Trey Maddox taking a little air out of
Speaker 2: the balloon. What a play. He did it to Lebron
Speaker 2: and he's now done it to getting.
Speaker 3: The Olympics stun herd round the world on Lebron James, James,
Speaker 3: he's done it a couple times in a Sixers uniform.
Speaker 3: Kelly Oubre Junior couldn't even really come up with the
Speaker 3: words to describe these types of plays from Yabusele when
Speaker 3: he was talking with Tom in our postgame walkoff. That
Speaker 3: for the Sixers gave them a ten point lead, then
Speaker 3: eleven at the line, and in between was a technical
Speaker 3: free throw. It was a technical on Kyle Lowry, who
Speaker 3: was inactive tonight from the Sixers bench. But I'd say
Speaker 3: it's worth it. They actually missed the free throw. They
Speaker 3: were just they were really happy about the play. So
Speaker 3: Yabusele and the Sixers would take a sixty four to
Speaker 3: fifty four lead into the halftime locker room after outscoring
Speaker 3: them thirty one twenty three in the second quarter alone,
Speaker 3: and in that second quarter when coach Nurse was talking
Speaker 3: about Yabusele. He went for eleven in the second quarter alone,
Speaker 3: and in the first half he did most of his
Speaker 3: damage with fifteen of what would be sixteen points tonight,
Speaker 3: Gershan Yabusele and the Sixers up ten at the half.
Speaker 3: They would pretty much cruise in this one. They started
Speaker 3: the third quarter on a six to zero run. More
Speaker 3: MAXI off the personal record steal from Kelly Ubray Junior
Speaker 3: of his seventh He would get up to eight steals
Speaker 3: seventy to fifty four game later in the third quarter.
Speaker 3: It's Ubray finishing the play. He had a double digit
Speaker 3: third quarter with ten of his fifteen points, this one
Speaker 3: in alley oop from Reggie Jackson.
Speaker 2: Six Ers with a beat back in here's Reggie Jackson
Speaker 2: and he loves it to Kelly Ubra and he jams it.
Speaker 2: What a play boy the red lane? What I split
Speaker 2: wide open and Reggie Jackson drives it in there in
Speaker 2: Kelly Ubray with the alaup.
Speaker 3: Cham ten of his fifteen and a third. Ubra shot
Speaker 3: six of ten, didn't make a three on three attempts,
Speaker 3: three for three at the line, eight steals, fifteen points,
Speaker 3: five rebounds, to assist in thirty seven minutes for Ubre
Speaker 3: Jackson played eighteen minutes off the bench, had three points,
Speaker 3: two rebounds, and four assists in only eighteen minutes eighty
Speaker 3: eight seventy two. After that, alley oopen ninety one seventy
Speaker 3: two six Ers heading to the fourth quarter. They held
Speaker 3: Portland to eighteen and the third twenty seven eighteen the
Speaker 3: third quarter margin, and then in the fourth the regulars
Speaker 3: wouldn't have to play too long. In the fourth quarter,
Speaker 3: Paul George, Steel and Dunk put them up seventeen and
Speaker 3: Beide had a layup for to reach the century mark
Speaker 3: as a team one hundred and eighty two and Maxi
Speaker 3: beyond the arc three plus threes in a franchise record,
Speaker 3: franchise record nine straight games for Tyrese Maxi.
Speaker 2: Khushan Yabuselei to Joel around the horn, they go to
Speaker 2: Maxie baseline, right wide open, good to great three, book
Speaker 2: out and it's good. Maxi forcing the timeout. The Sixers
Speaker 2: get another three and they lead by twenty one. The
Speaker 2: Blazers call for time.
Speaker 3: Tyrese Maxi one of his seven attempts. It was his
Speaker 3: third make of the game, one oh three eighty two,
Speaker 3: he had twenty three points and the Sixers win one
Speaker 3: twenty five one oh three. The previous record holder for
Speaker 3: consecutive games with at least three threes at eight games
Speaker 3: was none other than Jared McCain in his rookie season
Speaker 3: as a seventy six er. That now belongs to Maxi.
Speaker 3: Maybe they can trade that back and forth when McCain
Speaker 3: gets back after the meniscus surgery. Everyone wishing him well
Speaker 3: in his recovery. Sixers have won four straight. They have
Speaker 3: won ten of their past thirteen games after this one
Speaker 3: twenty five one to oh three victory led by Embiid
Speaker 3: and Maxi, and they stay out on the road some
Speaker 3: winnable games on paper. As we've talked about, they are
Speaker 3: going to travel to Sacramento. They're going to play Golden
Speaker 3: State after that Wednesday Thursday, those two games, and then
Speaker 3: they're going to play Brooklyn to round out a six
Speaker 3: game trip overall. But they're taking care of business. And
Speaker 3: when you look around the NBA tonight, Sacramento, their next opponent,
Speaker 3: had a ten point win over Dallas, their first win
Speaker 3: with Doug Christy as their interim head coach. The interim
Speaker 3: head coach of the Kings. Mike Brown was let go
Speaker 3: in recent days. They it's a ten point win for
Speaker 3: Christy and the Kings. But Dallas not only was without Luca,
Speaker 3: who's going to miss about a month apparently with the
Speaker 3: calf strain, but Kyrie didn't play, Claike Thompson didn't play.
Speaker 3: Derek Lively, Dante Exem and Naji Marshall were also out.
Speaker 3: Marshalls serving that suspension for the fight with Nurkic of Phoenix,
Speaker 3: So that's the next opponent. They're coming off a win.
Speaker 3: Golden State won thirteen ninety five loss against Cleveland, who
Speaker 3: is now a league best twenty eight and four. The
Speaker 3: Cleveland Cavaliers Warrior shot twenty four percent from three. Steph
Speaker 3: was three for a les and the Cavs are on
Speaker 3: a seven game winning streak. Quick peak. At the standings, eleventh,
Speaker 3: Detroit is fourteen and eighteen. The Sixers are thirteen and seventeen.
Speaker 3: Detroit is in the ten spot. The Bulls moved up
Speaker 3: to fifteen and eighteen in the nine spot, but that's
Speaker 3: the play in tournament picture right now. As the Sixers
Speaker 3: keep gaining ground, they are only three games back as
Speaker 3: we speak of the Milwaukee Bucks for the sixth spot,
Speaker 3: which is the last guaranteed playoff spot. The Bucks are
Speaker 3: sixteen and fourteen and the Sixers are thirteen and seventeen.
Speaker 3: After this win over the Trailblazers, this has been the
Speaker 3: seventy six Ers postgame Show presented by Parks Casino. Again
Speaker 3: the final score the Sixers one twenty five the Trailblazers
Speaker 3: one to OZH three. Thanks so much to our producers
Speaker 3: Matt Manrik and Sean Rodman, and of course Tom McGinnis
Speaker 3: on the call. That next Sixers game Wednesday night in Sacramento,
Speaker 3: the first of two more consecutive ten pm Eastern roads
Speaker 3: starts against the Kings and Warriors on a back to back,
Speaker 3: and our postgame, our pregame coverage here on the Sixers
Speaker 3: Radio Network presented by Jackpot City Casino, will begin at
Speaker 3: nine fifty Eastern. Until then, Matt Murphy saying thanks so
Speaker 3: much for listening. The Sixers have wins in ten of
Speaker 3: their last thirteen. Happy New Year, Take care everyone,