Rewind vs. Orlando Magic - 12/27/19

was that really Brett Brown? It was lasted his postgame address about one hundred twenty seconds at the most. He was not happy. You can understand why the seventy sixers came out. It just seemed like stuck in a little bit of mud. To borrow a phrase that Brett likes to use. They committed sixteen turnovers in the game. Their play was not really in any way reflective of what

we saw in Wednesday's game. You know Orlando as a team that hey, despite the fact that they were four games under five hundred coming in two Tonight's game, they were the eighth ranked team in the Eastern Conference, and if you file the seventy Sixers. You know, Orlando has given the Sixers some tough times. They have solid individual talent and certainly a good enough team that if you give them a chance, they can be pesky and feisty

and make life difficult on you. They slow the game down, they play respectable defense, and the seventy Sixers could not find their way out tonight. Where was this game lost? This evening? Seventy Sixers seemed like they had a spark in the beginning of the third quarter. They went up by the score of sixty two to fifty four on a Joel and Beat three pointer. Then after that they gave up a twenty one to six run, totally let their foot off the gas, and that gave Orlando life.

Sixers got back within three points in the fourth quarter eighty one seventy eight, but then the magic hit them with a ten to two run to get enough insurance to finally get across the finish line. Sixers did make an interesting with five to three pointers in the final ninety seconds of regulation. They got some help from markul Foltz, whom is two free throws which gave the Sixers another shot, but in the end they were not able to pull this one out tonight. They lose by a point eight

ninety seven. Tommy Ginnis had the call of this one at Amway Center tonight. Tom, Like I'm sure many of you people out there have been listening to Brett Brown as fans for seven years, and Tom, we have not heard many postgame press conferences, not to labor point quite like that. I thought it was noteworthy, no doubt about it.

Just repeat that real quick. I was talking to my buddy Dark Dennis Newman, Say, Brian, what just saying Tom that For anyone who's listened to Brett Brown over the last six plus seasons, there haven't been too many postgame press conferences quite like that. And not to belabor the point, but you could tell he wasn't happy with what he saw tonight and understandably so no question about it. I mean, again, where was the urgency in the first what thirty eight

minutes of the game? For forty something minutes and you just can't cruise in this league. These teams are too good. They're playing at home, and you know the Sixers. It just again, it was Orlando, wasn't they It's not like they were playing lights out and they weren't playing all that well either. Both teams were shooting low forties in terms of percentage, And yeah, you can't you can't blame coach for being dejected, and yet you know it's all

part of it. So no that it's really frustrating, you know because again everybody he came down here and even the people around the manage like, WHOA, what a game by you guys. I mean, you know, everybody was impressed around the league, around the country watching that game by the Sixers on Wednesday. And then they come down here

and play like this and lose. It's tough. And now you got a huge back to back with Miami, and you know they have one of the best home records also, so you got to come back with a nice rebound effort in the game tomorrow night to try to salvage this weekend. Down in Florida. Seventy six Ers lose freight. And this is just kind of a bizarre streak time the fourth straight time in Orlando, kind of like, go figure, It's not like the Magic have been world beaters the

last couple of seasons. The Sixers lost there earlier in the year on November the third sEH The final score tonight was ninety eight ninety seven, And I'm trying to think of maybe some common themes time to what's given the seventy six Ers some problems against Orlando. I mean, do you make anything of the fact that the Magic play a little bit slower than most teams. It seems like they'd prefer to times get it into a half

court game. I don't know if that goes against the Sixers style too much, but I'm just trying to tie some threads together now it's good and just you know, repeating kind of what Aaron Gordon our postgame guests said. They liked the matchup, so they put Gordon on Ben and I don't know how effective that was. I don't think that, you know, GARYL. Gordon gotten foiled difficulty. Vosovic still gets his double doubles against him Bead, so it's not like that that almost and Joel had more points,

but the rebounds were virtually even. Fortier's a difficult cover now defensively, he's got a guard. Tobias Ross has always heard the Sixers DJ Augustine was only one of seven he was in a major in but they really other than Terrence Ross their bench didn't do a whole lot. He had seventeen. He's always he's a good score against every team. He'd probably start for a lot of teams. And yeah, I mean when you say four in a row, what was the last win? Might have been that TJ.

McConnell game where he hit the big pull up shot to beat them. Right, But you know, overall, not just this group, but you know throughout the years, Orlando, certainly of the last ten to fifteen years, they've they've ruled against the sixers. And it's confounding, you know. I mean because a lot of that stuff, a lot of these stats that were given prior to the game. Seriously, there's

stats about how teams do on days of the week. Okay, does that really matter what happens on Tuesday night versus Friday. So some of it's a bunch of hooey and a lot of time when so and so hasn't beaten so and so and well, yeah, you know Ben Simmons was five when that was a stat you know, so that

doesn't matter either. So that's what I mean, Like, you know, this group right here, all that stuff said go by the wayside, but not unless you make it go, by the way, not unless you impact it with the with your playing execution and drive and and like that, and so it continues to be a thing. And uh, you know, a frustrating night for the Sixers. And again it's one game, just like the unbelievable game against Milwaukee was one game. But you'd just like to see, you know, trending and

tracking in a more upwardly consistent method. Absolutely. Now the seventy sixers, is you alluded to earlier time, they have a major matchup with the Miami Heat, the team the seventy sixers have faced so far more frequently than any other on this young season. Miami a tight one with Indie eighty forty two. The Heat lead it after three quarters, but just got one second, I think, Frank, we get

the locker room. Here's the bias coming into tonight, you guys, I mean you knew the deal, right, Yeah, we knew the deal. Um Every opponent um no offers a different a different um aspect of a different element of the game. And we got a fine ways no matter what opponent it is, to figure out ways to go to what we'll get us a victory hand to win. And tonight we didn't. We didn't stick to the script of what we you know what, what could have got us that?

Do you see the level of opponent playing into your guys's performances. I think we play too sometimes to the level of our opponent, whether that be you know, a terrible team, a mediocre team, or the best team in the NBA. So um, I think that's something that we have to figure out as as a unit of how we can play at a high level each and every night. Um, tonight, we didn't do that, And you have to give them

credit to a day. They executed all night. They got what they wanted offensively, defensively, they got a game plan on how they wanted to play us, and I don't think we did a good job. I don't think we did a good job of adapting of how they would put a defensively. That's Tobias Harris. Go ahead, Brian, Sorry, I thought maybe that might help your post game coverage

a little bit. No, and it's Hey, some interesting insights that Tobias Harris speaking to a subject that I feel a lot of people have brought up at some point over the course of the season, seventy six ers and the level of their competition, and certainly, tom you would think that tomorrow night what I was going to segue too earlier. Six Ers have this yet another important matchup with the Miami Heat Heat leading India after three quarters

eighty four eighty two. But Miami in the seventy six Ers or the two best home teams left in the NBA, the Heat have lost just once in fourteen tries in American airlines in arena, and it was Miami that put that at least many blueprint out in the seventy six Ers with the zone defense just a week and a half ago, right in intriguing. Some plot hadn't given that any thought. But you'd be surprised if you didn't see

Coach Bolster throw that out there. Certainly, if by any chance, the six Ers jump out to the early league just to change it now, I'd be surprised if you see it for two, three, four quarters or the second, third and fourth quarter as we did in those back to back home games with Miami and Dallas, and Brett Brown was saying, that will benefit the Sixers down the road, and we'll find out, because you know it's going to

happen again. We didn't see it here tonight. But yeah, no, that's a it's a pivotal matchup because you know, all these teams, you know, forget the number one seat. I'm not saying forget it. It's not gonna happen, forget the number one, but like, just get a home seat for the Sixers. And now you're you know, you're thirty four games into the schedule, and I realize it's still you know,

it's still early. We're not even halfway through. But there's certainly you know, these teams don't appear to be going anywhere. Boston's not going anywhere. I mean they want again today they're a top the division, and so the you know, the teams in terms of the Pacers, the Raptors, Indiana's gonna get all the depot back in January February, you know, the you know, the Bucks aren't going anywhere. The Sixers

are certainly in that mix. So to buy for you know, as in years past, just to get a home seat in the top four in the playoffs is important. So you know, games, these head to head matchups with Miami could be telling down the stretch, and again more than anything of where you are ability to go on the road and proved yourself that you can win a big game.

That's important as well. Seventy Sixers drop a one point loss to the Orlando Magic at Amway Center tonight ninety eight ninety seven, Tom will hear from you tomorrow when the seventy Sixers visit the Heat. All right, good night, thank you. Twenty four points, eleven rebounds from Tobias Harris and Joel Embi. They had identical point and rebound numbers. But the seventy Sixers lose a disappointing one tonight to the Magic and a follow up to Wednesday's win big

win over the Milwaukee Bucks. I hope was that the seventy Sixers, coming into the opener of a four game road trip tonight at Amway Center would extend the good that we saw on Wednesday's game against the Milwaukee Bucks. It was not to be able. We'll give you some highlights regardless, because we strive for consistency here on the

seventy Sixers postgame show. Things did get off to a relatively solid starting to Ben Simmons six five, three minutes gone by Sixers and the half court Richards in the line back out to Joel down to Simmons. Simmons going against Bussovich skyhook banks it up and in going left the right. Fluid play by Simmons gave the seventy six Ers a seven to six lead. Thanks to some good free throw shooting in the first quarter, seventy six Ers nudged in front twenty one nineteen after twelve minutes of play.

In the second quarter, Sixers actually got a little bit of breathing. Then with a rebound, they're back with four defenders Simmons that have followed out the Furk hunt for three, and it's good court bars against tight defense on the near perimeter. And in DJ August team was right there, but Courtmas shot over the top and inn that gave the Sixers a thirty nine thirty four advantage. Their lead

was one forty seven forty six at halftime. In the third quarter, you kind of thought the Sixers might have been in a good spot to take control of the game. Joel spins, thanks, now there, he might have walked to Bias with it five is shoot back to Ebid and

it's good for three. Wow, that was like a think possession and it ends with a beautiful three point shot by Ebad It was a really impressive make by the All Star to give the Sixers a sixty two fifty four edge eight point lead, the biggest of the night, and it would be the biggest the game for the seventy Sixers. From there, everything changed. The Magic hit the seventy Sixers with a twenty one to six run that bridge the third and fourth quarters. Orlando led seventy to

sixty eight after the third. Early in the fourth, Tobias Harrison the Sixers playing catchup, Sixers with Horford down at Tobias. Tobias with a size advantage on the backdown in the nine on forty eight turns at the dotted circle. Rema ain't good and he had done that a number of

times in the first half. Sixers trying to exploit that matchup Harris on the backdown Pomp Pomp pound both the Sixers within one seventy seven, seventy six, but then the Magic answered moments later with a ten to two spurt that gave them a double figure lead again. Seventy Sixers did benefit from a late flurry from beyond the arc, Joel Embiid knocking down a three lane Horford J. Simmons, Ben Lets it bound four times, that rolls toward mid court.

He picks it up, now dribbles along, goes to Harris, back over to Joel. Three palled by a bead is good. That makes it ninety seven ninety four. It was the last of five three pointers the seventy Sixers would hit in the final ninety seconds of regulation. And in saying that, I realized it just gave the spoiler alert because here's how the final play went down. Earn Gordon will play in Busovich looks like he's gonna screen for forty a Harris. They did bring in DJ Augustine, and they did bring

in Terence Ross. Or Orlando by a point ninety eight ninety seven, five point one to go, and now the magic will off of one time about the Sixers have none. Gordon searching, searching, He plays it, Betty steals it. He throws into a bead and be with three seconds to be across mid court, fires for three and it's off and short. No good. Orlando wins the game. Seventy Sixers might have been in a position to steal one tonight. But if you really took the truth serumon asked yourself

to the sixers deserve to win this game. Probably not. They shot just forty percent from the field, the Magic forty two percent. Both Orlando and the seventy Sixers hit ten three pointers. The Sixers went seventeen of twenty one from the free throw line. But the Magic were plus three on the glass, they were plus three and offensive rebounding. They controlled the Sixers in the paint, outscoring the Sixers there forty four to thirty two. Don't often see something

like that. Sixteen turnovers a piece for either team. Orlando with just a little bit more punch than the seventy Sixers. Tonight, Embade and Tobias Harris, each with identical points and rebounding lines twenty four and eleven, respectively. Fifteen points for Josh Richardson. He also had six assists. Ben Simmons with thirteen points, nine rebounds and seven times seven points for fir Con Quirkmas off the bench. He was a nice spark in the first half, but he went scoreless in the second.

Seven points for Al Horford. He had four rebounds and five assists. Rest of the bench didn't really do a whole heck of a lot. Two for James Ennis. The third nothing in terms of points from Mike Scott and just a basket and three free throws from Trey Burke. Seventy six Ers see their three game winning street come to an and they're now twenty three and eleven, and you know what, I We'll just say, Hey, keep an eye on the scoreboard to see what happens in that

indie Miami game. The Heat have opened up a five point lead one O two ninety seven midway through the fourth quarter. If Miami were to win, they would be a full game in front of the seventy six Ers for third place in the East going into tomorrow's game. It would also be the Heat's fourth win, and they would improve to an NBA best fourteen and one at home. You've been listening to rewind. Look out for fresh episodes the day after every seventy six Ers game this season.