Here's Brett Brown and you know, really just kind of changed the game with that lightning and a bottle off the bench mentality, and you know, we give them credit that. I thought the defense was pretty good after heating it from beyond in that second quarter, JJ with your first three and the second half seconds to play, what was going on there? You know, we really offensively to a man, we were down. I thought Jared Bayless had a good first half and then after that really not much from
from anybody, and those nights happened. I give credit to Indiana. I thought the defense at home was excellent. You know, it's a very different storyline when you look at the first half where we each had sixty would have a points. Then you look at the second half, you know, and it was like thirty eight thirty five. It was very different. And it heats up like that in NBA basketball and in the defensive intensity on both side. I'd set it up. They got the better of us defensively. We really had
a difficult time scoring. And uh, you know, Joel playing in his first back to back, you could see a little bit of the fatigue with the with the turnovers, and the good news is he played his first back to back, the turnovers with that being his first bank to bank, how do you think, I mean, just look at his numbers. Now, it's a little bit deceptive because if you you know, you look at the turnovers and then plus minus you get a more accurate pitch here.
I think if you asked him, he wouldn't be pleased with his performance. But you know that that's how dominant Joel can be. You know, he ends up with with with how many points, you know, twenty four and ten rebounds and you're questioning, you know, his impact on the game. That's a hell of a statement. I think for him to do that in his first back to back, full
credit to him, really, full credit to him. He's come from a very sort of you know, different plays to now be able to do that and to produce those types of stats and a back to back is impressive. But it wasn't Joel and beat Why do you think weren't falling in the second hit? I give I give Indiana credit. I think defensively, you know, they did a good job. I think you know, when you look at you know, our sort of three guys, they we were fourteen for forty with JJ Ben and Joel and you know,
it's hard to overcome that. You need a little bit of help, you know, from from some place, and tonight we just didn't have it. As I said, I give Indiana credit, but I leave feeling like a defense was good. I think that both Knights defense was pretty good. Um, we just struggled in the second half, especially scoring that Sixers coach Brett Brown, the Sixers fall by eight or twenty five and twenty five will wrap it up from
here for now. We'll throw it back to Brian Seltzer quick hit segment wise in the post game, but the Sixers fall in Indianapolis, Tom mcgunners saying, thanks for listening. We'll turn it over to Brian Seltzer. You're listening. That is seventy Sixers Radio Network. In terms of the big big picture, the big Man played a back to back set for the first time in his career, Battle gave what he could and all things considered, that, as Brett Brown pointed out to in his postgame press conference, was
a very good sign. Joel ebead with twenty four points ten rebounds in just under thirty four minutes. But in the slightly less bigger big picture, seventy Sixers lose a game to a key Eastern Conference opponent, the Indiana Pacers one hundred ninety two, and now Indiana is three games in front of the seventy Sixers in the very densely packed tight Eastern Conference standings. Brian Selter saying what up on a Saturday night's postgame coverage underway, thank you very
much for tuning in. Yeah, ebad, he did what he could. Certainly there were the turnovers seven out of the seventy six ers eighteen in the game. Brett Brown acknowledging that perhaps after playing thirty one minutes last night, going on the road for the second out of a back to back, and Bead feeling a little bit fatigued that manifesting itself in cough ups. But all things considered, he gave the Sixers solid output despite the minus twenty rating for the game.
Ben Simmons with ten points, eleven rebounds, six assists, Dario Schartz with sixteen. Robert Covington got off to a good start, but Indiana was able to clamp down on him in the end. He finished with twelve. But the real headliner from this game Victor Oladip with the All Star from the Pacers. Yes, he was very good boyon Bugdanovich was wide open and knocked down some threes throughout most of the night. He finished with nineteen. But it's got to
be Lance Stevenson through. I mean, listen, it's an unfortunate loss for the seventy sixers, but this guy is such a wild card that it's almost like in some ways hard to not be amused by watching him play fourteen points, five to eleven from the field, nine reb sounds as well, and he had a say in each one of the fifteen points that the Pacers scored to start the fourth quarter, whether he's scoring the points directly or setting up his
teammates on assists. He went for twelve of his fourteen and the fourth and final frame as the Pacers jumped out to a twenty two to nine run to begin the period, and that's certainly decisive, forcing the Sixers into seven turnovers in the fourth and route to the one hundred ninety two win. We bring up Tom Aginnis right now. He had the game call in Indianapolis. I don't know, Tom, I mean, I trying to figure out how to describe the Lance Stevenson effect. He's just a weird, wacky player.
But if he finds the rhythm and the stroke, he can hurt you, which he did for the Sixers against the Sixers tonight. Yeah, not just a stroke, but you know a lot of different things like getting the loose ball. I mean, he's an incredible athlete getting the loose balls, making passes, disrupting plays at the defensive end, as you say, making a shot here or there. I almost wanted Brian, you know, as I said last night, it's my progative.
I almost wanted to give him player the game because his impetus in the fourth quarter was was a huge factor in the game. And then like to your point about him being helter skelter and up and down in the roller coaster kind of way highs and lows. You know, he hit the one play where he leapt in the air, dropped the ball down like toward his feet and then underhead. I guess it was a pass. It went nowhere near the basket, sailed wide to the frame like by fifteen
feet and went into the third row. One of the weirdest plays I've ever seen. And then comes right back with another positive play for them, and then with that file on Reddick. You know, like I said, he's out of right, to the fence line of out of control, and that was a that was a bad file for them. And he does some things that might ignite some fireworks with the opponent. By that I mean fisticuffs. I mean he's that kind of player. And he fouled JJ hard
on the wrist and spun Reddick around. That led to three free throws, and then JJ shortly thereafter had a three. So it was wise of Nate mcmilly. You got a lot of good out of him, and I thought it was smart to bring him out of the game. They brought Collison back in a little more steady of a player, but hard fought game. And then you know, like the question was posed to Brett, Brett, why do you think that was with the shooting, And you know, again, I don't know that a coach can say it, but I
just said this the other night in Milwaukee. It's fatigue. And I'm not blaming anybody that these players are tired. You could see this. Derek Dario, he's been a good year shooting threes, and two of his shots in the second half that were so bad they were one was an airball and one hit the left quadrant of the glass. And you know he helped win the game last night with his outside shots. So those those are those threes. You know, when you don't have your legs, that's a
very difficult shot. Again, the six was a high number of attempts twenty seven tries, nine made threes, but just didn't have the offense. They had a fourteen point third quarter. Six Ers struggle for offense early in the fourth and then when you fall behind eight ten with four or five minutes to go, difficult spot from which to play from behind and win the game. And it's been a hard place a Sixers lost eight games in a row
here one hundred and ninety two. The final score Pacers over the seventy Sixers, now three games in front of the Sixers, towards the bottom half of the top eight in the Eastern Conference. Joel ebid Tom twenty four points, nine of ten from the field, ten rebounds, three assists, two steals, the seven turnovers thirty three minutes thirty seven seconds, game two of his first back to back ha do you think overall he did what perspective would you put
it in again? Like Brett Brown said his numbers are great unless you look at his plus minus which was minus twenty and his turnovers that were seven. So again, he played and he's a tremendous player. But again I think the fatigue was a factor. Some of those turnovers were careless. And sometimes it's you know, the mind and the focus unders because you know the body is tired.
I'm just speaking in general in sports, you know, it's it's like a boxer getting drilled several times and then just not having the wherewithal to cover up and do what he needs to do to stop getting punched, or somebody in football that runs and gets tackled two or three times. It takes a physical toll that it wanes on the mind as well. So just in part like I think some of that happened with Joelle, he had
a careless turnover in the game. Layton Brooklyn had a couple here in the last segment of this game for the Sixers, And I just think the more and more he does this, the better. Again, to your point earlier, seventy first game in his career, he doesn't even have a full year of NBA basketball under his belt. He's young in the game. He's extremely gifted. The more and more he plays in back to back games, I believe he'll start to clean this up. It'll be good for
him and great for the team the long term. Last thing to touch upon for tonight tom Ben Simmons double double number twenty on the year, but the last two games zero turnovers, and if I'm not mistaken, I think he's only committed one turnover now going on, let's see, I think it might be fifteen consecutive quarters or two
turnovers in the last fifteen quarters. That's certainly. I know there was an issue for the team tonight with the eighteen, but for Simmons, being the guy with the ball in his hands at all times, pretty much that has to be, I guess considered a somewhat encouraging trend. Absolutely no question about it. And again, the more shots you get up, I mean, the fewer turnovers, the more attempts you have on the basket, and that can only benefit your team.
And that obviously a concerted effort there, and that's really good because you know, it's one thing to talk about something, but then to be able to go out there and execute and change the way the course of the way things are going is a huge positive. And Ben was trying to start this game offensively, getting away from the turnovers a little bit with those aggressive pursuits on the basket, and then they got help and he wasn't able to
get completely to the basket. And then sometimes when you're four and six feet away, those one hand twisting shots he makes, particularly where he doesn't have the glass to his advantage, like from the short those are hard, high degree of difficulty types of shots. He didn't make a lot of those early in the end. He did have nice numbers across the board. Simmons played thirty five minutes.
He had ten and eleven plus six assists, but four or thirteen from the field, and just overall, Indiana had a better game, more strong performances up and down the line, they got the crowd behind them. Tough night shooting for the Sixers in general, just thirty eight percent for the game, and hard to do on the road with late turnovers
and not a lot of production in the fourth quarter. Offensively, hard fought victory for Indiana shapes up to be another good matchup in Philadelphia, with a meet for the third and final time, and again halfway or fifty games and the Sixers are five hundred so far in the year. Not bad. Two games and two nights. Now time again us go enjoy two days that a game, all right, Probably it'll be good for the Sixers to go home and play five consecutive games at the Center that have
to do good with that home court record. That build that up a little bit. Thanks and good night. All righty Tom again, it's the great call of tonight's game one hundred ninety two, the final Pacers over the seventy Sixers. We'll get to hear some of Tom's calls coming up.
On the other side. It's the postgame showing the sixersread Network, two teams vying for better positioning in the Eastern Conference, both playing on the second nights of a back to back, one of them with one very large man making his first career appearance in said back to back. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot Com. Final segment of our
postgame coverage. Joel Embid and the Sixers at the Pacers second time and as many nights in the first time that Ibid playing career game number seventy one cleared for back to back action. Sixers and Pacers competitive early Ben Simmons with a high impact play. Simmons on the backdown against Boydanovat you're comes the bonus to give help if did you help? All faked dribble, move back to bed, bend in the lead hand, a right head jam with authority,
a throwdown in Indy. We saw and I could say heard that last night as well in the win over Miami. The inverted action high low between and Beat and Simmons. It paid dividends last night and again in the first quarter this evening, Sixers trailed thirty three twenty seven. After one. You could tell the Pacers came out with purpose after a tough loss last night in Charlotte in which they gave up forty nine first quarter points and one hundred
thirty three overall. There was some intensity about them. They opened up the lead to thirteen early on in the second. Then the Sixers started dial up a great string and wave of three point possessions. Indiana biss bed between the legs, bed back out top, the coming to three ball in the air, Robert coming to us, burned another Simmons of the fancy tribble, and Robert coming to three for three from beyond fifty fifty that capped a twenty two to
eight stretch in favor of the Sixers. On seven consecutive possessions, they produced three points. Six of those possessions in three pointers, the one exception a traditional three point play from Dario charch Sixers and the Pacers. They would go down the stretch of the second quarter, as the Pacers had scored the Sixers ten to two, and they took a sixty
two fifty seven lead into the break. Early on in the third quarter, some action involving the seven footer playing for the second time and as many nights for the first time. Dario's gonna shoot at three is up ribby now No Joel with a rebound, It beat, puts it back, a figure rolls no Good gets it again, It gets jung and Turner puts it up with a left hand, fights his way through two defenders and it beat scores it.
Emblematic of his effort throughout the night, hard fighting, very physical and active over the course of the game, Sixers keeping it close late in the third courtesy of Mbat eight seconds ago, Joel gets a screen for TJ now mcconnough with three to a beat, He takes a look at the clock, he fires for two and a ten
joel and beat. With two tenths of a second to go in the third seventy six seventy five Pacer is going into the four the whisper of what only he perhaps knows, But Lance Stevenson then started dialing things up. He would have a say in fifteen straight points for the Pacers, and this sequence was towards the end of a fourth quarter opening twenty two to nine tear that
decided the game pretty much for the Pacers. High screen rolls, aboon us a little deep ball equal to the left side Stevenson three ball shot, air ball game, let's Stevenson put today in their ninth three He's got fourteenth. They go up thirteen with three h nine to go, twelve of Stevenson's fourteen points in the game coming in the fourth quarter, in which the Sixers gave them all away seven times. Major storyline in tonight's loss. Final notes from
the final stat sheets. Pacers bounce back defensively, hold the Sixers to just under thirty eight from the field seventy Sixers give up forty four and a half percent shooting to the Pacers six or ten of thirty two from outside the arc. The Pacers were nine of twenty seven Indiana with a little bit of an advantage from the free throw line plus five. In terms of foul shots made six or sixteen to twenty four Pacers twenty one to twenty five Sixers plus six on the glass butt.
They commit eighteen turnovers and as we mentioned, seven in the key, fourth and final quarter. Individual notes will start with the Pacers. Fourteen for Stevenson, who was plus fifteen in the game, nineteen apiece for Victor Oladipo, and Boyon Bogdanovitch. Bogdanovitch with four three pointers and he was a steady presence for the Pacers throughout the night. For the Sixers, they were led by Joel Embi, game high points and rebounds for him in terms of twenty four and ten.
Ben Simmons a double double with ten points your pardon. Simmons had the game high in rebounds with eleven. Simmons is twentieth double double of the season to go with six assists. He was four of thirteen from the field, and he won a second consecutive game without committing a turnover. Pretty good, but the rest of his teammates had some
issues with ball security. Sixteen points for Dario Schartz. He also finished with five rebounds and two assists for Robert Covington, who at three three pointers and also had eight rebounds, three steals and a plus seven rating for these seventy sixers. Tonight, Sixers, with the loss dropped back to five hundred, twenty five and twenty five Pacers, improved to thirty and twenty four. Seventy Sixers now three games behind the Pacers in the
Eastern Conference standings, as Indiana should move into sixth place. Tonight, Sixers holding Tights at eighth, but the Detroit Pistons winning again tonight beating Miami close on their heels, now to within a half game of the seventy Sixers. Since adding Blake Griffin, Sixers will get two days off. They're back at it on Tuesday nationally televised eight o'clock game against
the Washington Wizards. Wizards, by the way, fourth in the Eastern Conference, that starts a five game homestand going into the All Star Break for the Sixers. Game time again is at eight o'clock on Tuesday. Pregame coverage at seven fifty on some of our Sixers Right Network affiliates