You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences, highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Well, you can party like it is January two thousand and twenty, the last time the seventy sixers won a game on the road. Tonight, they do so pretty handily in the end, one twenty five to one O eight over the Sacramento Kings. Hey you doing, I'm Brian Seltzer. Good morning on this Friday.
If you're listening back on the East Coast seventy sixers and a nine game losing streak, A lot of the great stuff they showed in games against the Clippers and the Lakers, two really good opponents on Sunday and Tuesday. We're again evident in tonight's matchup, and this time the seventy sixers had a win to show for it. Tremendous three points shooting Tobias Harris, Shake Milton and Al Horford led the way in a big victory for the Sixers.
Here's Brett Brown. You know, it's very you're aware that we had not had the success we wanted to too on the road. When you hear a day like that, you're reminded of things. Enough is enough, and I think that we we just came out of Los Angeles playing you know, a clip of team that we felt like we could have won the game the Lakers. We had that seven minute, six minute period in the second period.
Other than that, I thought we played well. They're the one and two teams in the in the West, and now we're coming into Sacramento to play against the team that had just won six out of the past seven and playing really good basketball, and so to try to find a way to win on the road. We felt a sense of urgency, you know, tonight, and I'm happy for the guys. They they the spirit and their physicality
I thought was excellent. You've talked a lot about how you've got to help Al Horford and what a night he have tonight for from all over the floor. Defensively, I mean to have any NBA game where you plus forty one UM. For those of you who you know, pay attention to a statistic sheet, it's an it's like
kind of an almost unheard of number. Like he was that dominant, not because he had like, you know, forty points, it's just defensively, he really was excellent and offensively, he was efficient and so that equals a plus forty one. And I thought that Haul came in the game and had some you know, big moments in the third period. I think he had fourteen points in the third period. I thought he played really well. Alec came in and scored. He gave us, you know, that scoring punch that we
needed when we needed it. And then you know, Tobias got his points. But al really from a holistic standpoint, he was up bell ringer. He was excellent tonight. What we saw from Burkes, like you mentioned, is that kind of what you envisioned for him, that scoring punch that he gave you on the bench. I mean, that's what you're always hoping to think, Like that's what you do every single night, is ambitious, and so we want to
get that more than we don't. And you know it's easy for me to say that I got to help him sometimes, you know, put him in situations, make sure I get him the court time, the minutes, and like it's a judgment thing. Sometimes when people aren't going you're gonna go to you know, Firk, or you're gonna go like let Matisse go fly up and down and like tap into Matissa's defense, and so there's options we have, but Bayern Lodge that's what Alec does. That's why he
was brought in. And tonight we saw why seventy Sixers over the Sacramento Kings one twenty five to one h eight. They snap a nine game road losing streak and pick up their first victory on this four game California road trip, which comes to an end tomorrow against the that's if
you're listening back in the East. Against the Golden State Warriors, Tobias Harris lad the way with twenty eight points, Shake Milton, another twenty spot eighteen for al Horford, and in thirty six minutes, as you heard Brett Brown and Tom McGinnis reference, Horford was plus forty one. Is seventy six Ers outscored Sacramento by forty one points. In the minutes that Horford played. He had eight rebounds and six assists. He was such a huge reason why the Sixers were able to get
extra possessions on key offensive rebounds. They had fourteen offensive boards in the game. That's plus ten on Sacramento. And as he's done throughout his career, facilitated ball movement and you know, the Sixers a better off team now without their you know, three of their top guys, of course not.
But I think that what we've seen over the course of this road trip is that this group of the Sixers as it currently stands, is getting a little bit of an identity, especially on the offensive end of the court. They're able to move the ball, they're able to cut the balls, finding open shooters, and the shooters are knocking down their opportunities, whether that's Shake Milton or Mike Scott. On this road trip has done pretty well from deep.
Tobias Harris was great once again from the outside, and you can't overlook Joel Nato who had Joel Nato for scoring fourteen in the final nineteen points of tonight's third quarter. I mean, that was such a big swing in favor of the seventy Sixers. They led wire to wire in this one by as many as twenty points. It was a most needed win. I mean, you could only say that you felt good about what you saw from the Sixers in La those two games if they came out
and backed it up against the Kings. They did that. They wanted one twenty five to one away. Now it's off to Golden State. Tom mc ginnis had the call, and Tom, this was a most welcomed development for the seventy Sixers, no doubt about it. And I liked that they responded. You know, I was talking about with Al Horford, there's always, you know, part of the game it's never going to be easy, and it wasn't. They came back. He'll got hot and the Sixers were able to level
them off, you know, and they had some great performances. Obviously, Harris and Shake were good scoring and as we've all noted that Al Horford was terrific throughout and a great road victory for the Sixers. They're never easy on the road, that's for sure. Obviously the Sixers road record reflects that.
But as you say, you know, it's nice to have nice segments of play, nice individual performances in those two games at Staples Center in Los Angeles, but at some point you got to pay it off with a victory, and they did that tonight here in Sacramento. Tommy, I'm not sure about you, but I feel really good for Al Horford, especially having a game like this, and he's played pretty well on the road trip so far. Sacramento cut the deficit, which at one point was twenty down
to six. About five minutes to go, Tobias hit a shot. Then Al had a big dunk on an assist from Shake. Milton had a couple of key rebounds off Missus got to the free throw line, and that seemed to put the Sixers back into a very steady spot. They increased their lead in double figures. He was exactly the vintage type of Al Horford you would come to expect in this game. Absolutely, and just real quickly that basket by Horford,
the dunk set up by Shake. Milton got into the lane maybe like fifteen feet away, just inside the file line, and then wrapped it around the guy Garden Shake and the guy that was trying to get in front of Al. So a nice left hand bounce pass in traffic, perfect and he might have even put a little English on it. That's set up Horford because again they were trying to front him, and when he gets a forty five degree angle and gets a bit of a seal and a feed like that, that led him right to the basket.
But he responded at both ends of the court. And you know for Horford too, it's been a little bit of a different, different season positionally in terms of how he's played, particularly with he and Joel out there, and you know, I would assume a veteran thirty three years old, thirteenth year, he blocks out the noise, but you can't help. But I would think, you know, especially following the NBA and being in the NBA here some of the chatter of what people were saying about his season, this, that
and the other. And then like I said, he knows himself that he could probably be having a better season, and he really delivered tonight. And when you hear from guys that have been around him and other coaches like Kenny Atkinson him was an assistant when Al started in Atlanta, and he says something like along the lines, He's going
to be fine. You were in there the other night when Doc Rivers said the exact same thing, And so you got to think that Al Horford is still going to have a big finish and hopefully a great postseason for the Sixers. Seventy sixers knock off the Sacramento Kings one twenty five one O eight and maybe perhaps the final thought on this segment, time shake Milton Man a twenty point game. I mean, yeah, he hits some threes.
He started perfect from outside the arc, but his baskets on the inside and some of those drives were really really impressive. And as you said, he was able to show some more things tonight with his passing, his facilitating. I mean, he really continues to as Brett Brown put it, I think before the game tonight proved to be a needed surprise for the Sixers well, and he has as
we learned. We learned some things on the jump that maybe we didn't know when he was on that show the other night on ESPN when they were down in
Los Angeles. And one is his wingspan, and you know, he himself said he had a seven foot wingspan, and point being that he's able to extend and Brett Brown was saying this this morning after shoot around, and that is he's a little bit longer and he's able to get to the rim and get by defenders and then kind of elongate with his right arm, even his left arm going in there with his offhand and stretch out
and get that ball off the glass. He bade the defender get it off the window and score on drives because they're going to be closing out, you know, after those three pointers in the Clippers game, where people realize that this guy in thirteen in a row dating back three games, that he's that capable from beyond. Now you got to get out there a little bit more and try to cut off his airspace on the perimeter. Well, that's going to set him up for the drives and
twenty points. And you know, I talked to Shake earlier today. He's looking for consistency. He knows he's not going to score thirty nine points every night, I mean, obviously, but high teens. You know, making the most of your opportunities. He was really good here tonight, and even though he had a little bit of foul difficulty, I thought he did a good job on Deer and Fox as well, no doubt about it. Tom mc ginnis, thank you very much for the insight and commentary after I needed it.
Seventy six ers win on the road last up. But we board the bus, huh, going right down to San Francisco. This is not two unlike a team from you know, playing Philadelphia and then busting up to New York, whereas this time we bust down to San Francis, will be in the city in ninety minutes once we depart here from Golden One Center, a rare bus trip out here on the West coast. We love it, enjoy it all right night And that's more of a college travel type vibe.
Why not when you're that close. Seventy Sixers and the Sacramento Kings wrapping up their two games season series at Golden One Center. Seventy Sixers had not one at that building prior to tonight. They were looking for a change of fortunes, build off of some of the good stuff they showed in two games in LA and at the outset of tonight's game, it was all seventy Sixers, shake will enough to hand scoop up and good very creative boot bite box the other way and shake knocks it away.
A steel Sixers with numbers other run out. Robinson into Harrison, then Led blocks the bias, but the bias gets it back fill plenty of time on the clock. Horford in a trail position for three and good al Horford with his second three to six for the Sixers. He ran to the top of the art and knocked out at three. That made it thirty eighteen, but the King's answered by scoring twelve straight points to tie it up. Sixers went into the second quarter leading thirty two to thirty. Shake
Milton helped widen the gap back to double figures. Here's Shake Milton for three and that's good. The Sixers whistled around the perimeter from the left side. Shake gets his first three in the game, and with that the Sixers go off by eleven. Ball movement was great for the seventy Sixers tonight. They led sixty three fifty three at intermission. In the third quarter, it was a flurry of scoring from how Old Nato off the bench. He was huge
to helping the seventy sixers. What appeared at that point to take control of the game. Al comes up the screen netto fallen extended right side, twenty footer or bucket, how Old Netto. You can't stop him. You could only hook to contain them. Truer where It's never broadcast by Tom McGinnis as Nato scored fourteen of his sixteen points in the final six minutes of tonight's third quarter. Amazing as the seventy Sixers went into the fourth quarter by
a pretty solid margin. At that point, their lead was ninety six to eighty. The Sixers led by twenty in the fourth, but then the Kings made another furious run they got to within six. Some of the veterans from the seventy six ers stepped up after that first Tobias Harris, then Al Horford nine seconds on the Shotbock eighteen seconds to go, Sixers moving the ball around to Bias for
three and that's good. With thirteen seconds to go, that makes it one, twenty five one the way to and that was the final scoring for the seventy sixers tonight in a nice win that they got over the road over the Sacramento Kings. Sixers now thirty eight and twenty five on the season. Kings dropped their record of twenty seven and thirty five, just their second loss in their last eight games. Seventy six Ers shot forty nine percent from the field, Sacramento fifty three, but the Sixers seventeen
of thirty seven from outside the arc. Sacramento managed just eleven three pointers in the game. Sixers dominated the glass, they were plus eight but plus ten in terms of offensive rebounding. Seventy six Ers also forced eighteen turnovers and outscored the Kings twenty two to sixteen, and points off turnovers. Sixers led by Tobias Harris. His twenty eight points were a game high. He was eleven of twenty two overall, four for six from outside the arc. He had fourteen rebounds,
three assists, one block shot. He was terrific. Shake Milton with twenty eight for fourteen shooting, started the night three for three from outside the arc. He also had three assists, eighteen points, eight boards, six times for al Horford plus forty one and thirty six minutes of play off the bench. Alec Burks with seventeen and huld Nato with sixteen. Darren Fox led the Kings with twenty three and Buddy Heald
had twenty two off the bench. You've been listening to rewind Calp for fresh episodes of the Day after every seventy Sixers game this season.