This is seventy Sixers rewind time now to listen back to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. No what game winning herods from Jimmy Butler tonight as the seventy Sixers lose to the Atlanta Hawks one twenty three, one twenty one. I'm Brian Seltz from Sixers dot Com. No games like this, don't do this to your voice. It's just a thing passing through the dreaded upper respiratory infection. So we'll try and keep it short and appreciate your patients.
Tough one for the Sixers tonight Atlanta. Early on, you could tell it was going to be a team that was just going to hang around and not go away, and certainly that was the case, and the number nineteen pick in this year's draft, Kevin Herder a huge hero in the game, going off for twenty six points. Jimmy Butler unfortunately miss his first free throw with two point four seconds to go. He then had to miss his second. He did Wilson Chandler an opportunity for a tippin. It
was not to be young guys for the Hawks. They stepped up John Collins with twenty three points nine rebounds. He was a live body inside. You mentioned Herd with twenty six Trey Young came on strong later eighteen points in the game for him with three three pointers, and Dwayne Deadman, a veteran member of this crew, nineteen points, eight rebounds, and seven assists. He was a key factor in tonight's game, and it's tough to not think of what could have been had Joel Embiid been out there
for the seventy Sixers. Atlanta got a lot of baskets inside to the tune of sixty two points in the paint. They out rebound of the seventy Sixers by a total of fourteen in the game. Just a very, very big shown for Atlanta inside thirty for Jimmy Butler's four thirty point game with the Sixers. Ben Simmons becomes the first six Ers since Daya Barrows in nineteen ninety five with a twenty ten and fifteen game. He was great, but not enough for the seventy Sixers as they lose one
twenty three two one twenty one. Tom I'm gonna stop talking and stop squeaking my voice if you would care to expound on what you saw being the turning point in this game. In hey, maybe he came early on well, and I hate to correct you because you're so good with all the numbers, but herder at twenty nine because if he had twenty six or six ers would have one. I was looking at the wrong box, but he so it was a two point game. But did you see
what his nickname was. It's the Red Mamba. That's fun boy. Brett Brown uses the phrase from Time for time He's got bounce and it talks about a guy you know that gets up on his toes and you know, you know what it means, and he does. Man, he was out top dribbling, crossing it over behind the back, between the legs and getting into a rhythm dribble and twenty eight footer. I think that was his last basket was a three. He had five threes, but he had a bunch of dunks too. I mean, like I said, Atlanta
needs players. So you could go and say, why did they give up on Luca don Jig? Why did they because they need they needed another They're getting another draft pick next year. They need more players, and they're they're they're crewing them. I mean John Collins, as you said with twenty five the game winning shot. Coach Pierce, you know he's gonna bring that fight and that spirit and they're not going to quit. And they didn't. And to their credit again they lost by two in Toronto Tuesday
and led throughout a lot of that game. Ser Jibaka had a game winning shot. Was seventeen seconds ago. They on Wednesday night. The following night, they were up nineteen on the nets. Brooklyn came back and won, and they won handily. But tonight they hung around, stayed with it and won the game. And for the Sixers, so Jimmy Butler was brilliant. He had thirty points and again last second shot, Like he said, no heroics tonight, but in his defense and again he made twelve free throws in
a row. And we still don't know if he did miss that second free throw on purpose. That's the closest on purpose miss I've ever seen, so he might have tried to make it. And the Sixers had a shot, not only Wilson Chandler, but Ben Simmons came flying in there for a rebound putback. There was two and a half seconds ago. Neither guy could get it, and the game ended. But my point is Jimmy Butler got an elbow.
I mean it ended up being a flagrant foul on Alex Lynn, so he took a tremendous shot to the head. And then later as he drove baseline by the Atlanta bench, Jimmy Butler was knocked out hard by John Collins. So, you know, at one point, with like fourteen minutes to go in the game, two plus minutes to go in the third, I was saying Butler and Simmons give him a little respite in the fourth, but let them play the rest of the game. And Jimmy Butler almost did.
He did get a little break with about eight minutes to go. But the point is that I mean that that's like boxing. You know, it's not just dancing around for twelve rounds or whatever. I mean, you're taking shots. Jimmy Butler was taking some shots out there, and he played with the heart of a champion. He just couldn't get it done tonight. JJ struggled early on but stepped up big. Muscala was big, but he ended up in
fouled difficulty. This the end of the first half, there was so many whistles in an unrhythmic like tough, tough way. A lot of turnovers didn't didn't really help there. But again a young team and in all due respect to just let them hang around a little bit and they made enough plays to win the game. Tough loss for the Sixers. You know, you look back and you're like, well, Cleveland came in here in one handily and now Atlanta come in here, comes in here and gains to win.
So you're right about and beat in the presence of Wilmaion. They don't get sixty two points of milimaion that the big fellows out there. But great win for them and a hard tough loss. Back to back losses. Now for the Sixers after four wins in a row, twenty one. The final Scorehawks over the seventy six Ers. You could hear Trey Young talking about it afterwards, like they took this game real seriously for multiple reasons. They respect the seventy Sixers is one of the best teams in the league.
Lloyd Pierce coming back, some of the young guys made really tough shots. That turn around by Collins with time winding down. I mean that for a guy his size, not an easy shot to me. He's like a young I don't want to say many, but like Blake Griffin's, he's really got a lot of potential. Here's the thing. They're in a rebuild, but they've got talent. They're gonna win games just by playing hard and trotting out there. Those young guys. They got enough veterans in the likes
of Jeremy Lynn who played well. Thought DeAndre Bembry was an unheralded star and I don't know if stars the right word, but he wasn't, like I say, an integral player for them, getting rebounds, tough defense, bringing the ball up, setting up guys. Maybe not the gaudy numbers of Hurder
and John Collins, but he really played well. And then Trey Young, I mean they replaced him down the stretch with Jeremy Lynn because they knew that limb with that veteran savvy was going to get them into something or at least get the ball to Hurder. But Trey Young had three three So yeah, this is a huge, huge win for them, and for the six years, you got a regroup and hope that Joelle is able to give it a go against the Knicks on Sunday, and you know, look,
this is a tough league. There's nothing that you can take for granted, h and tonight is a perfect example of why and how that's so. Twenty one the final score. Ben Simmons tough for the free throw line, but all in all, he made his presence felt and he had one of his signature trademark versatile games. Yeah, and you know you say versatile, like for one thing, he's the Sixers point guard and he took the center jump. I
just I get a kick out of that. And without Jewell down there on the block, the Sixers post had been early and often, and then he's so efficient at driving and getting that ball in the lane. Now a little bit you didn't see a whole lot of that down the stretch. But you know, overall the Sixers they
needed a little bit more like Landry Shammont. You know, not that you're gonna expect twenty nine points in eight threes in every game, but there's been a big drop off over the last two games for him, and Furkon was a non factor tonight. And you remember too, he started the last two games. And Jonah Bolden got in and had a bit of a tough game. So other than McConnell, off the bench, Bolden and Shammon combined for nine,
and you know, the Sixers struggled with those reserves. And again I think you know, as Brett Brown was talking about it and we touched on early in our postgame coverage, but the rebound disparity was a big factor in this game where they were plus fourteen plus ten on the offensive or defensive end of things. And just to an
overall tough night, exciting game. I mean, if you will, take away from the fact that, boy, I can't believe the Sixers lost to Atlanta, but twenty one ties a league went back and forth and it came down to the very final second. So heartbreaking loss for the Sixers. And you know, you'd like to think that you've graduated from these types of losses, but like I said, it's life in the NBA. Sixers lose the Hawks one twenty three, one twenty one. Tom talked to you on Sunday afternoon
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Seltzer back with a croakey voice. Apologies for that. We'll get to some of the highlights and let Tommy give us calls to the talking A one twenty three one twenty one loss. Early on was apparent that the Hawks had come here ready to battle. Ben Simmons in the absence of Joel Bead was trying to do his part. Now the boll thrown away by German and TJ with it three forty to go in the open the quarter, McConnell weeby goes to seven Simmons in the lane right
hand lamp good. Simmons takes two large steps for man Fine in the lane and got the layup and TJ. McConnell with the assists. Simmons a strong first quarter, but it was the Hawks leading thirty two to thirty after one period of play. In the second, the Sixers enjoyed their biggest separation of the night, this basket giving them their largest lead. Here's Ben Simmons and Mascota opened three shot Ery got it again, Mike Vascala with three threes.
Atlanta takes time and the Sixers have opened up and eight point lead at ten oh start to the second quarter, Vescala letting them fly. It was forty to thirty two, but Atlanta would score eight straight points to tie it up and the race was on. After that, you just knew the Hawks would not go away. Jimmy Butler scored eight to the final ten points for the Sixers in the second quarter. It was fifty six to fifty four Sixers at the half. Early on an explosive start to
the third, down to Simmons. Simmons with a dribble and the Sixers everybody touched it but Wilson, Chandler and Simmons down low right with a power dribble in a right hand lay up. Fifty eight. Fifty four was the score of The Hawks would have charge right back. They would take a six point lead on an eleven to two runs. So it was uphill from there from the seventy sixers.
They got a spark from the bench in the closing minutes of the third, three ball by the Hawks front rubbing off Nope, Sixers Chammon with a pass Chimmin Doun then eight right hand lap Yeah, Simmons with the great two hand chest pass three quarters of length of the floor. The three minutes into the fourth, Atlanta would be leading by six. The seventy sixers had some work to do. JJ Reddick was back after a two game absence. He was looking to find his stroke. He caught it late.
Simmons back out to JJ. Three ball by Reddick's good. He's back Jay Jay Reddick ties in at one O three. He makes the defensive play and then gets open on the right perimeter and barries the outside shot. Time out Hawks seven minutes to go is when that basket happened. Over the next couple of minutes. The Sixers would get a key three pointer from TJ. McConnell took up one nineteen to one eighteen, and then that was followed by
some pivotal insurance. Butler one on one with John Collins five to shoot, Jimmy into the lane, Jimmy puts it up off the glass, and then Jimmy Butler puts it off the glass. Sixers five three, Butler with thirty one eighteen. This Kevin Hurder fellow, he was huge for the Hawks. He had another three pointer tied up at one twenty one. With twenty five and a half seconds ago, Jimmy Butler was doubled for the seventy sixers and the ball was turned over, and that set up one of the key
shots of the game. Hurder gets the ball. TJ. There Wilson Chandler now switches on Hurd. Hurder with five. Hurt Her with the dribble. Hurder bounces downlow right John Collins two step back shot by Collins is up head good nine point five to go and John Collins steps out and gets the bucket his twenty fifth point in the game, and that made it one, twenty three, one twenty one. Jimmy Butler would be fouled with two point four seconds left.
He missed his first and then had to miss a second, so Wilson Chandler unable to get the tip in the fall on. The seventy sixers end up falling one twenty three two one twenty one. Some final notes from the stat sheet. Jimmy Butler let all scores with thirty. Ben Simmons with twenty three points, ten rebounds, fifteen assists, ten of thirteen from the field, three of seven from the free throw line minus twelve for the game, twenty for JJ Reddick. He came on strong late, but seven or
twenty one from the field, four fourteen from three. T J McConnell had a really great game. Perhaps you can make the case the most impactful game of any six er plus fourteen in the box score, sixteen points, six assists, and just one turnover for the Hawks. They were led by Kevin Hurder with twenty nine twenty five for John Collins. He also had nine rebounds, eighteen for Trey Young, nineteen for Dwayne Deadman to go with eight rebounds and seven assists.
A great game from him fourteen former Atlanta Hawk and a bigger pardon former Saint Joseph's Hawk and current Atlanta Hawk DeAndre Bembrey. Seventy six Ers have dropped two in a row there now twenty seven and sixteen. Atlanta is thirteen and twenty nine on the year. I'm next for the six Ers one o'clock on Sunday at MSG versus the next big thanks to the guys back at the studio Brian McLaughlan and Tyler Zuli. Marty Dickerson here coming
up next to Vine Gibbons in the post. So stay tuned for that half of the radio voice seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis Brian Seltzer saying so long for now one final time. The final score it was the Atlanta Hawks one twenty three the seventy six Ers one twenty one. Have a great rest of your Friday night from all of us here at the Sixers. Right and now you've been listening to seventy Sixers rewind. Be sure not to miss new episodes the day after each game this season, all year long.