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I'm Brian Seltzer. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.120 Sixers lost Joel Embiid early on, midway through the first quarter, 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.240 and man, it seemed like things were headed from a 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.920 not great direction to an even worse direction based on 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.680 how this game began to track. But the Sixers, to 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:00.560 their credit, were resilient. They were persist instant. They had 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.800 a great third quarter and put themselves in position with 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.200 their fight to win this game tonight. They found themselves 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.479 ahead one fourteen one o eight in the closing minutes, 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:14.040 but then some of the main stays for the Portland 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.520 Trailblazers began to take over in terms of bringing them back. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.800 Whether it was a guy like Damian Lillard with one 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.240 three pointer another that resulted in a four point play, 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.840 a driving finger roll layup. It was a run of 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.120 twelve nothing by the Trailblazers to overcome that six point 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.160 deficit with four minutes twenty three seconds to go, and 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.160 Damian Lillard was right in the middle of it. It 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:39.000 was a heroic performance for the Trailblazers. All star fifty 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.080 one points, the tenth fifty point game of his career, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.959 sixteen to twenty eight from the floor, four of twelve 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.160 from outside the arc. He got to the line a 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:52.400 ridiculous amount, fifteen for sixteen from the stripe, seven assists. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.480 He was fantastic and the Trailblazers, fighting for their lives 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.440 to get into a playoff spot in the Western Conference, 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.240 need every bit of him. One twenty one the final 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.520 score the seventy sixers. They got a herculean effort from 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.240 Josh Richardson. He played an amazing hero role tonight thirty 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.000 four points, a season high six for ten from outside 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.920 the arc, twenty for Alec Burke's off the bench, but 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.960 not enough for the seventy sixers will join now in progress. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.720 Brett brandhamsh will be asked about the status of Joel Embiid, 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.040 who left the game early with a left ankle injury. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.520 Do you think you guys, have you guys think you 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.960 need to be able to do that happen? And do 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.480 you think you have the players who can do it 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:40.000 insistently enough? I think when you when you study the 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:45.400 most dangerous offensive players in our sport, and if you 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:51.279 especially study the emergence of about what I'm going to say, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.440 there is zero doubt that the most difficult people to 0:02:54.560 --> 0:03:00.399 defend the live ball guards. And tonight as an example, 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.640 you know, let's go to Damian Lillard. Though they can dance, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.520 they can shoot like you go out and play them. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.080 They can go buy you and draw fouls. They're so 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.880 used to the attention that they receive as they can 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.240 go one hundred miles an hour and stop. And you 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.480 know Matisse collides in with what Jay Rich collides in 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:23.040 with Damian, and you know it exposes a foul and 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.680 so you point about live ball guys that can score. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.480 It is the most dangerous, the most difficult person to 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.360 defend those people that you referenced. It's true as it 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:38.000 relates to my particular team. I think that we, you know, 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.240 will score in different ways, and like when you look 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.400 at the box score, scoring wasn't the problem. We did 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.760 it in different ways without Joel. But going back just 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.240 to you, I think your basic question of are those 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.200 guys the most difficult, yes, they are. And I think 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.560 that scoring, although you'd like to have a lot of 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:03.560 those types of players scoring tonight wasn't the problem. It's 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:09.440 got a Keith next he Brett. You talked about Joel. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.560 How how is Joel doing? He looked like he was 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.479 in great spirits in the second hand, I'm gonna learn more, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.920 you know, physically, I don't know enough to comment on it, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.800 but I do, Keith agree with you, Like when every 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.840 time I look behind the bench like he's into it. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.640 I thought, guys, I thought, I guys fought. I really 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.120 thought the spirit of the group was fantastic. I think 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.360 that we called upon you know, many different players um 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.599 that I think played with a spirit of passion that 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.280 you're proud of Joel was fully engaged, you know, as 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.680 a teammate. As it relates to what his injury is 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.480 or what it actually means, I can't comment. I don't know, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.600 but it was it was great just to see him 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.040 being a part of the group. Now, Brett, what this 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.200 um with the injury and every thing like that? Is 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.159 it one of these things these last three games? Are 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.520 you going to limit his minute, shut them down? Whatever? 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.320 I know you need to get a rhythm out there, 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.480 but you also want to make sure that you know, 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.040 you guys aren't limping into the playoffs like worst than 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:18.400 you are. Yeah, I think Keith, it's true kind of 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.440 for everybody where you want to an honest sort of 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:27.400 medical assessment of anything that equals a potential problem. You 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:32.400 just want to avoid and landing the plane and entering 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.120 the playoffs from this sort of vision line of a 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.599 bubble and time off and you know, tiptoeing on pins 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.800 and needles where you don't want people to get injured 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.400 and still find a rhythm like that's a slippery slope. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.159 And so you know, you mentioned Joe, I think it 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.600 extends the question for sure extends to people like alt Off. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.840 It as an example, you know, making sure Tobias is 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.159 in a place that we can manage his minutes going 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:03.040 forward and still find that balance of trying to compete 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:07.120 and find a rhythm. Seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.760 saying he expects to learn more moving forward about the 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.919 status of Joel Embiid, who played just five minutes forty 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.000 two seconds in tonight's game before leaving in the first 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.320 quarter with a left ankle injury. He finished with two 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.320 points four rebounds on the day. Seventy Sixers got a 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.800 terrific showing from Josh Richardson, who finished with thirty four points, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.400 twenty for Alec Burks, who goes back to back twenty 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.520 point games for the first time in his career since 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:36.080 November two thousand and seventeen. Tobias Harris a little bit 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.200 off night in terms of shooting the basketball, seven of 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.160 nineteen from the field, sixteen points for him, Al Horford 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.839 ending the evening with fifteen points, six rebounds, five assists. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.320 But the Sixers they like, Brett Brown said, they did 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.039 show some quality spirit and that's not gonna necessarily buy 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.359 you a win. It did not tonight, but under the circumstances, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.960 already without an all star in Ben Simmons, and then 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.560 early on in the game having to cycle agually deal 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.400 with the potential loss for who knows how long of 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.000 another championship pillar to your title hopes in Joel Embiid. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.560 The Sixers managed to recover. They for as much as 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.520 they could, tried to withstand the bridge of points from 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.680 such a dangerous guard like Damian Lillard. In the end, 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.840 they end up three points short, one twenty four to 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.760 one twenty one. The Sixers led by six with about 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.360 four minutes twenty seconds to go, Then Lillard lit the 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.440 fuse for a twelve nothing Portland Trailblazers run that turned 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.360 the game around. The seventy Sixers fall behind a little 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.560 bit farther in a tight race for the fourth spot 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.160 in the East. The Sixers now full game behind the 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.600 Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat, which are both ahead 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.920 of them, respectively in the four and five slots. Tom 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:45.960 mcguinnis had the call of this one from the center. 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.200 Tom a really competitive game. It was entertaining down the stretch. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.640 We saw one of the top scorers in the world 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.120 at his most brilliant in Damian Lillard. Brett Brown was 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.320 talking about this. Live ball guards are difficult, and I 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.920 think you probably had another later that when you've got 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.360 an effective pick and roll threat, especially with that live guard, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.360 as the Portland Trailblazers do, it's a really difficult thing 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.240 to stop. In the seventy six ers in the end 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:14.800 could not absolutely. And so you're speaking of Nurkics, and 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.520 that's you know, Coach Brown's talked about this many times 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.960 over the years, and that is that one five their 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.440 point guard, the one and Nurkics their center of the 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.480 five middle pick and roll, and they were coming way 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:31.000 out out setting that screen like at the three point line. 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.600 So when Lillard wood coming was coming off, even if 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.000 he decides to pull up, he's still outside the arc 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.760 shooting of three. But he was brilliant down the stretch, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.719 including the four point play. And let's be honest, the 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.600 guy shot sixteen free throws. He got a lot of calls, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.000 including on that four point play that was questionable. I 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.959 don't know that Richardson even got anywhere near him. If anything, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:56.240 Lillard initiated the contact. But besides that, Lillard was attacking 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.760 and brilliant from the opening tap in the opening quarter 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.200 of play, and I likened it to a quarterback, you know, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.280 looking over the defense, surmising what's there and where he's 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.559 going to go. But in this case, and I think 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.680 what coaches talking about with a live ball and a 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.840 live guard or whatever. He's looking and probing as he's dribbling, 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.880 and so he's processing all this and then he's getting 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.520 to the rim, so he's you know, he's calculating, and 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.080 you know, getting back to the pick and roll aspect. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.480 And Nurkis is certainly, you know, a great roller, but 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.840 he's also a guy who can pop and get it 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.920 for a shot. But then, oh, by the way, Lillard's 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.920 got CJ. McCollum hanging out on the wing, and one 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.000 pass away from that is Carmelo Anthony. So it's very 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.360 difficult to stop. And at times early on, the Sixers 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.760 would leave Nurkis ready to load toward Lillard, and Nurkis 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.800 was getting too much space and getting the limp. Now 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.640 part of it was becausin Bead wasn't in the game, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.959 but the Sixers had to take a time out and 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.559 work on that. So he puts so much pressure on 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.320 your defense, and again fifty one points. He's had five 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.480 of those games this year, ten on his career. He's brilliant, 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.000 he's a fun player to watch and in totality again 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.240 a great and an entertaining game. But it hurt for 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.000 the Sixers to borrow Coach Brown's phrase a gut punch, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.040 because they battled and they were in it. Great game 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.560 by Richardson. You had a lot of individual performances that 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.320 put the Sixers in position, as you say, up six late, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.319 but couldn't hold on and could not stop that brilliant 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:30.840 duo and particularly the tremendous, incredible play of Lillard. Seventy 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.959 Sixers followed the Trailblazers one twenty four to one twenty one. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.959 We will ultimately get back to talking about Josh Richardson, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.440 But what do you think, Tom, with what the Sixers 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.600 were able to find with Mike Scott playing at the five, 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.000 as you alluded to, dwell Embiid went out early in 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:44.959 this one with the ankle in during the first quarter. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.640 They tried in the first half some looks with norvl Pal. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.680 They also brought in Kylo Quinn, but in the second 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.120 half it was a lot of Mike Scott of the 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.440 five and we saw earlier in the season before the 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.880 suspension that at times, situationally, that was something where the 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.120 Sixers they were able to have some success with. Well, yeah, 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.880 success might be a reach, it's it's doable. He holds 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:06.880 off Nurkics, but in the end if he gets it 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.400 on the block, there's no stop at him. Like I said, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.840 in those scenarios, So Mike's playing behind him, he's giving 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.640 up so much height. He's what he did. He did 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.199 this a couple of times. He got called for it. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.200 He reaches, he gambles, and that's not you know, that's 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.520 not a winning formula. But look Mike Scott and to 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.680 your point, Glenn Robinson the third got in there, and 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:29.080 forget post defense for a split second. Those guys are hungry. 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.920 They haven't been able to play in this bubble. They 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.640 played a little bit in the scrimmages, not Robinson really, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.640 and Mike had the sore knee, so they were really 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.520 anxious to get out there. Think about it, They've been 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.000 working out for a month in Florida and for the 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:46.080 entire pandemic, the portion where the season had been on hiatus, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.920 and they showed and even Alec Burke stepped up and 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.400 had another big quarter and really delivered for the Sixers 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.240 with twenty points as he did in the Orlando game. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.480 So I thought those guys and Matisse was trying to 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.320 hold his own and again difficult, cute, difficult assignment in 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.040 guarding Lillard and for Thible when he wasn't guarding Lillard, 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.959 he had a guard McCollum. And he's still a rookie 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.800 and he's still getting these calls against him. And I 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.160 thought he was really good Horford in and out of file. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.880 Difficult difficulty didn't help. The only thing I'll say about Matisse, 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.839 and again sometimes he's too unselfish. In other words, he 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:22.840 had that steel late. You got to take that ball 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.520 all the way until they cut you off and then 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.960 maybe play it off to Horford because it was two 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:29.880 bunched together. It ended up in a jump ball that 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.439 they won. And he had an earlier sequence where he 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.280 got to shoot that ball and you know, like just 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.679 let it fly. And I think he's gonna be a 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.839 really good outside shooter. He's just you know, he's maybe 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.679 not playing with the confidence. When he has attacked. He's 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.000 dunked at Fible, So I mean he had he had 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.480 a decent game, but as you say, Richardson was really good. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.040 We talked earlier, Brian, you know, give or take about 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.199 six twenty tonight, about how the Sixers totally needed somebody 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.640 to step up in the absence of Simmons. Well, who 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.360 knew in the end it would be in the absence 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.320 of both Simmons and it'd be right, and it was 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.120 Josh Richardson. And who knows if he's going to score 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.000 thirty four points, which was the season high with the 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.680 Sixers tonight, you know, on a game in game at basis, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.600 probably not, But just that the overall balance that Richardson 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.199 scored with tonight. He did an inside, he did an outside, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.840 he distributed the ball when he attracted more defensive attention. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.600 I just thought he'd a really balanced offensive game. Absolutely, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.280 and if I'm not mistaken, he made six threes on 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.960 ten tries. Here's the deal the Sixers with Harris, you know, 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.040 being a top score getting twenty game and be being 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:38.600 basically unstoppable at times for the Sixers. Ben Simmons is incredible. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.280 I mean, I know he's not in there right now, 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.800 Josh Richard and Brett Brown has said this, and you 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.040 gotta get Horford his touches, and he's a good ball. 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:49.240 He's ball friendly or a ball movery Horford Josh Richardson, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.720 he very rarely gets plays called him. Tonight was different. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.240 He had the hot hand. They were doing dho's with him. 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.240 He was being aggressive and you know, he knew that 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.400 he had to kind of take on the score load 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.720 and he hot had to have hot hand. But as 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.040 you say, like some nights four points, some nights six, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.120 some nights thirty four. But I think it's also a 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.439 product of he's not a focal point of the offense, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.800 and understandably so. But I think there are times now 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.480 where you got to carve out a little niche for him, 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.680 a little opportunity, give him the ball, because clearly he's 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.360 shown that he's you know, he's capable, and he almost 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.960 propelled the Sixers to a victory tonight in a hard 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.880 fought game with Portland. Already time, Thank you very much 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.720 for the thoughts. We will speak again on Tuesday. All right, 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.240 good night. Seventy Sixers drop a close one to the 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.440 Portland Trailblazers one twenty four to one twenty one. The 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.400 headline from this one that will not be the close 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.960 competitive nature of the game is. It's going to be 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.800 what is the status of Joel and Bead moving forward, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.120 and that is something that we'll likely find out in 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:53.880 the day's ahead and Bead left the game in the 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.880 first quarter with a left ankle injury. Josh Richardson went 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.320 for thirty four. Dame Lillard he went for fifty one. 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.800 A huge performance in the closing minutes of the fourth 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.320 quarter was enough to get the Trailblazers past the seventy 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:11.080 Sixers by three sixers and the Trailblazers Trailblazers a lot 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.280 to play for trying to sneak into the eighth seed. 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.080 The seventy Sixers end of the evening trying to maintain 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.240 and build upon their momentum having won three in a row. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.400 For the Sixers, the news was not great at the outset. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.440 They lost Joel Embiid about five and a half minutes 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.480 into the game to a left ankle injury. He would 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:32.400 not return, and from there the Trailblazers seized control and 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.800 Hazonia with a ball Hazonia rights and a three is good. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.120 Well beyond the yard, he realized Cortboss wasn't coming out 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.040 and so he nails a thirty two footer Lillard with 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.240 the dime. He's got three assists at Portland back in 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.000 front by fourteen thirty one seventeen. At that juncture, it 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.280 felt like Portland could do no wrong. They laid thirty 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.640 three nineteen after a first quarter in which Damian Lillard 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.120 and CJ. McCollum combined for twenty one of those thirty 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.120 three points. The Sixers rolling down by six when Joel 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.240 Embiid went out, and Portland really sees the reins from there, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.400 the seventy sixers credit. They did not back down throughout 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.840 the night. And the person who really helped spark the 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.440 comeback charge was this guy, Josh Richardson. Milton office screen. 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.120 Milton into the lane on Nurkics throws it all the 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.120 way back out into the corner. Now, Josh Richardson three, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.800 ball is good. Mike Scott caught that long pass by shake. 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.360 They moved into the corner. Jay rich for three. He 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.400 had to bias of a goodbye for twenty one of 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.880 the sixers forty two. That's half. Sixers are down forty 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.400 nine forty two. At that point they trailed at the 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.480 break sixty seven to fifty eight, Richardson scoring fourteen points 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.400 in the second quarter. He was great from there on out. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.840 In the third quarter more from Josh Richardson, especially in 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.680 the closing seconds, this punctuating a real big comeback surge 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.880 by the seventy Sixers. Only fitting that it was Richardson 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.920 in the hero role. Sixers would tend to shoot Josh 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.880 Richardson a way out right near the sideline, dribbling with 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.960 Lillard guarding him. The office switch. Collins has a four 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.040 to shoot Josh behind the back step back, fifteen quarter 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.240 higher archer. It's up and good. He's got twenty eight 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.560 points and the Sixers have their first lead of the 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.120 night four seconds ago. It was amazing because it felt 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.080 like when the Sixers trailed by seventeen, they were down 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.120 by thirty four. But there they were through three quarters, 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:21.520 leading the Trailblazers ninety two to ninety one. Fast forwarding 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.440 to the home stretch of the fourth quarter, Josh Richardson 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.800 appeared to put the seventy Sixers in prime position to 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.000 take this one in bolt ball with the four and 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.919 the o' clock goes out the richards for three and 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.560 it's good. Are you kidding me, Josh Richardson will be 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.560 on the arc over the outstretched garment. C. J. McCollum 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.760 and Richardson now with six threes at thirty four points, 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.360 and that would be it for the scoring for Richardson, 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.480 giving the Sixers on one fourteen, one o eight lead. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.560 It would not be it for the scoring of Damian Lillard. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.560 He was fantastic in the final moments and this was 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.480 the play that really turned things around. Nurkid screens leader 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.160 comes off, he goes to the mind, tried to draw 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.560 the follow and he does and he makes it. Josh 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.119 Richardson was doing his level best everything possible to avert 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.320 any contact, and he still got called for the foul 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.280 and Lillard made it. And Lillard also made the ensuing 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.760 the free throw of four point play that vaulted the 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.160 Trailblazers had one seventeen to one fourteen. It was part 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.840 of a string of seven straight points from Damian Lillard, 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:22.240 and even bigger was the Trailblazers run of twelve nothing 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.320 that turned to six point deficit into a lead that 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.040 they would not relinquish the rest of the way. Seventy 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.560 Sixers did get within a point at one twenty two 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.000 one twenty one with twelve point two seconds to go 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.240 on an al hore for three, but they could not 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.800 get over the top as the Trailblazers were able to 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.520 get themselves across the finish line safely. Six or shot 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.159 forty eight and a half percent for the game, the 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.959 Blazers forty seven and a half percent. Six Ers fourteen 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.920 to thirty from the three point line, while the Trailblazers 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.800 were eleven of thirty five from the stripe the Sixers 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:57.879 thirteen for seventeen. Trailblazers behind Damian Lillard won twenty seven 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.600 for twenty nine from the free throw line. That was 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.080 a huge reason why they were able to clear the 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.280 hurdle that the seventy sixers presented. Sixers were plus seven 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.480 on the glass. They were great on the offensive boards, 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.880 as they were able to outscore the Trailblazers twenty four 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.520 to seven on second chance points. Fifteen turnovers a bit 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.879 too much for the Sixers only ten for the Trailblazers. 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.879 Damian Lillard was a virtuoso tonight, scoring the basketball fifty 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.320 one points sixteen to twenty eight from the field, four 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.920 of twelve from three fifteen of sixteen from the line. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.879 He also had seven assists. C J McCollum held relatively 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.960 in check. He was seven of seventeen from the field 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:41.840 for sixteen points. Carmelo Anthony twenty points, seven rebounds, big 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.000 night four the veteran The Sixers got thirty four That 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.680 was a season high from Josh Richardson, thirteen of twenty 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.720 from the field, six of ten from three point territory, 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.960 five boards, and six assists, twenty points for Alec Burks 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:57.960 off the bench, he was eight of fourteen from the field. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.720 He had a big fourth quarter, first time since November 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.280 of twenty seventeen. He scored twenty points in back to 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.840 back game sixteen for Tobias Harris to go with seven 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:10.400 rebounds and three assists. Al Horford with fifteen points, six 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:14.120 boards and five dimes. Seventy six Ers three game winning 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:15.879 streak comes to an end. They're now forty two and 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:19.280 twenty eight overall on the season, three and two in Orlando, 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:23.160 while the Trailblazers improved to thirty three and thirty nine 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.359 on the year. Trying to cling to an outside chance 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.560 of getting in to the eighth seed in the Western Conference, 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.520 You've been listening to Rewind. Look out for fresh episodes 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.119 of the Day after every seventy six Ers game this season.