The BroadCast: 1/17/2019 ~ Rewind vs. Pacers

I'm Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot com as the Sixers win in Indie twice in the same season for the first time since two thousand and four to two thousand and five. It came in which amazingly enough the Sixers if you retrace the steps, they were scoreless for the first three and a half minutes. They ended up handing Indie its second worst loss of the season. Brett Brown

is at the mic. Excellent players and to come in to Indianapolis and be able to sort of set the table with a defense and then to your second point, you know it out and share the ball, I mean to have you know again a large number thirty eight assists with Jimmy Joel and Ben having eight each and having thirty eight out of our forty six made baskets assisted is a statement, you know that that we're proud of. So you guard, you share. It's at the table for

a good night. Just had a nice bigger sign too, as you still have a lot of question marks about how people fit in on offense. At least everybody's willing to share the ball with together, right, and that's it ross you in this carry over from the last time that we played we had forty assists and then the last time we play at home, we we backed that

up with thirty eight tonight. The fact that it's dispersed amongst our group with eight with Joel out of five Man and Jimmy has sort of a playmaking if you will, point God sort of two three three two whatever, and then Ben doing what he does and go aa. That's a huge statement and we made some shots behind that. But I'm proud of us sharing and caring. This is a tough place to play in and we've talked a lot about this upcoming stretch of games. This was really

game one of this stretch. How how big was that h off in the right foot? I mean it's it's it's all incrementally important. UM. We get sort of we're under the microscope a lot as it relates to this portion of our season. UM. The the the additional sort of expectations in the city. UM have brought a new attention to our team and we we we appreciate it. And so here we are. Everybody gets this portion of

our season. And tonight, you know, step by step we responded and it doesn't get any easier as time unfolds over the next two weeks. Talk about Joel's performance, we're playing with the back like that. Yeah, you know, I mean with Joel, we listened to him first, and then you listen to the medical people second, and as a group,

you know, they decide that he's able to play. And I thought that him coming out and playing with that spear, and you could tell as time unfolded he got a little bit looser and looser and there was more of a fluid flow to his game. But I thought in that third period, you know, we went on thirteen to four run at the end of the period, and I think starting even the fourth there were some good things going on with Joe hitting a really big three in Muscala back in that up vice versa, but Joe was

huge tonight. Keith then his seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown, after a big win for the seventy Sixers tonight at Baker's Life Field House one twenty ninety six, I'm gonna say, and I don't really like or feel comfortable giving takes very much, but I'm gonna go with this is I think pretty clearly the best performance of the season for the seventy Sixers. Not the biggest margin of victory, although it was pretty hefty tonight twenty four points against the Pacers,

but just everything that went on in tonight's game. As Brett Brown alluded to some of those subplots over the course of the portion of the press conference that we heard six or shy fifty three percent from the field, fifty three percent from three and that's not just a throwaway fifty three percent. They were eighteen of thirty four.

They had thirty eight assists on forty six baskets, but they started the game with thirty two dimes on their first thirty seven makes I mean, that's just a ridiculous rate for assist percentage. It's crazy and it's really stylistically the way the Sixers play passed the ball, share the ball, defend, and what they did against Indie, one of the top shooting teams in the NBA tonight, held into forty percent nine of twenty nine from outside the arc. You know,

Victor Oladipo six to twenty from the floor. That's saying something. Boyon Bogdanovich, he was three for eleven, one of seven from three. But the biggest thing is the defense looked like it was together tonight, much like it was against the Timberwolves on Tuesday. So to see some carryover going on the road in a difficult building and starting the stretch of beginning tonight twelve and orrow against teams over five hundred right now, just a great and encouraging way

for the seventy Sixers to get things started. Win number thirty on the year, all right, I asked us to thirty wins for the Sixers since the finals run in two thousand and two thousand and one. Jimmy Butler was very much the tone setter tonight. He was great for the Sixers, finishing with twenty seven points on ten of seventeen, shooting six of six from the line, five rebounds, eight assists.

Joel embead a great finished tonight's game. He finished set five of eight from the field after starting the night four four eleven in the first half twenty two points, thirteen rebounds and eight times. Ben Simmons finished better than he started at eleven points, eight rebounds, eight assists. JJ Reddick was great six and nine from three twenty points even on the night for him, he had five times

as well. He can't forget guys like Wilson Chandler and Mike Muscala who stepped up over the course of the evening. One Twitter ninety six. These Sixers beat the Indiana Pacers. We will go to Tom McGinnis next. It's the postgame show on the Sixers, a Raider Network. Club seventy six is the official season ticket waiting list of the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. Get priority access for twenty nineteen twenty twenty season tickets by signing up for either Clubs seventy

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I'm Brian Selzer. Tom McGinnis was there, Jimmy Butler the way with twenty seven points. We'll bring on Tom right now. Tom, I don't want to put you on the spot, but would you say best win of the year? Oh, I don't know that. It came easier than I thought it was gonna be, you know what I mean? So, Brian, I really put me on the spot. No, I'm kidding. It was certainly up there. You know. I would say top three for sure. You know, to me, if you beat Boston or Toronto on a road, you know what

I mean. But no, this was a huge game, and like I said, you know, the whole way through, and again I wasn't trying to be overly hyped or dramatic, but for them too, just lead Oladipo. As soon as they beat the Suns, they said, all right, well wait, let's see how we do Thursday and how we do against some of these other teams. And again the Sixers came in two and six against the teams, and one of those was a win in Toronto against Toronto when

they were less than than healthy. But they lost to Boston and the Raptors twice, and in Milwaukee and to the Pacers. So they come in here and gained a victory, and just the way they did it to me makes it when you say, is it the best win of the year, certainly, you know, the way they did it to play almost identically in terms of the numbers, with the threes and the assists and the balance like they did against Minnesota and back to the game, that's very impressive.

And then they have such a cushion that it didn't really there was at no point. It got down to ten early in the fourth. But you know, lately the Sixers have been building these big leads and then it gets a little two Harry sort of down the stretch and they close it out. Sometimes they lost to Atlanta like that, but and that sense, I think it's it's certainly one of the most impressive wins of the year.

Seventy six Ers over the Pacers one twenty ninety six, And I think that's probably why I said that is, you know, you think of the caliber of the opponent, the fact that it was on the road, and just certain things the Sixers did in this game. The offense clicking for a second game in a row. But as Jimmy Butler said after Tuesdays went over Minnesota, you know, the offense more often than not is going to figure

itself out. It's been defensively that this team has really had its ups and downs, especially in the middle portion of the season so far. And I don't know what do you think it's been these last two games. It just seems like they've been more together, more focused. Maybe it took a stretch like that where you lose to Washington and Atlanta and nearly give one away against the

next to grab your attention. Yeah. No, you're right about the defense, and tonight, you know, whether it was a Sixers defense, I think it was maybe a little bit unlucky. They had so many shots rattle in and out. An old depot was stone coal to begin the game. That's certainly helped that. He's shown really and Miles Turner a little bit led them early in the game. They were I think seven lead changes. Those all occurred in the first quarter and a little bit of the second quarter.

But the fact that Oladipo was so cold, and he's their leader, you know, he hit three threes in the first half. They was our only baskets. But like I said, he shot thirty percent on the night and Ben had him, so that I think that certainly could be attributed. And then to help defense, you got a beat back there, and that's a game changer. So I guess maybe if you're going to point to one thing as a team defensively, having a beat back there in the paint is just

so big because he just bottles everything up. He forces teams to shoot quicker and further away and then not in rhythm and whatnot. So that's a good point overall. How the defense has kind of led away in this resurgence over the last three games. Sixers top of the Pacers won twenty two ninety six. Jimmy Butler, Tim's so big in this game getting things started. Boyan Bogdanovitch was on him and he couldn't do anything gonna stop and seemed like Jimmy just went right on the attack. He

really did. And again he's just got a way. You know, he's not a guy who blows by the defenders. He gets in there and the guy's usually right on his backside. But he's so adept at, as I've said ever since we've seen this guy playing now for the last three months, I guess, two months, right all through November, in the December, now January. But he's so adept at just putting a guy in his back pocket and still scoring the ball.

And then just like the late steal that he had, Like he's got he's just a he's got great anticipation skills and whatnot. He just stepped in front of he knew all deep I was going to go back to the wing with it, and that he was getting back in transition, just steps in for the for the pick, and he's like, I got that. Like he's he's so athletic and talented with a great basketball IQ. It makes out to be, you know, an All Star player alrighty time.

After this twenty four point victory, tonight a mid afternoon matinee on Saturday, to the biggest personalities in the league and Joel Embiad and Russell Westbrook on center stage on a nationally televised ABC game that you can hear right here on the Sixers Raider Network, and that it should be a whole lot of fun. And I'm thinking about, you know, the Sixers flying into Weather. It's it's actually I know it's Saturday, but like it's a quick turnaround.

And meanwhile, Oklahoma's playing right now and they all even till tomorrow. But now that that should be really exciting. And you know, especially because you know they have Paul George and Stephen Adams plays Joel better than any other center in the NBA. I was just reading this article about how strong he is. In fact, Jimmy Butler was quoted in there having to run into Adams in a previous game, so on, oh man, it was like a

brick wall. So and he's fast and he's, like I said, he's strong, and so that that's a big thing there. And then you know, like to me, the Sixers, Paul George, there you go, there's Jimmy Butler's match up and hopefully benk and guard Russell Westbrook. But they're very talented and this is the time again you the Sixers have re versed a lot of these trends against teams with the losses that they've had consecutive defeats against certain franchises, but

not this one. So Saturday's a day. It's been eighteen straight defeats to the Thunder, and Saturday is a good opportunity to crack the code and get back into the win column against the Thunder. Anytime, we will see you then, all right, good night, Bran seventy Sixers beat the Pacers convincingly one twenty ninety six. We had one more segment of the postgame show coming up. Then Divine Gibbons will have you in the post and the flagship of the

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just ten bucks. That's Sixers dot com slash Bluecoats Join the Revolution today a big stretch coming up for the seventy Sixers starting tonight. A lot of talk about this, a lot of focus how the Sixers due twelve in a row against over five hundred teams heading towards the All Star Game break. The Indiana Pacers the team a game in front of the seventy Sixers going into tonight, the first task on the road at Baker's Life Fieldhouse. Here is how portions of the game sounded, as called

by the one and only Tom McGinnis. Sixers and Pacers. They went back and forth in the early going, but a rookie put the seventy Sixers in the league for the first time. You're Simmons over the landry to catch the shot and the rough delivers of the three. Good kickoff by Ben Simmons, and the Sixers now beginning to heat up from beyond the Yark four made threes and for the first time in the game, the Sixers will be It really was an uphill battle for the Sixers.

They went scoreless for the first three and a half minutes of the game. Starting over seven, things would end up vastly different. At the end of the first quarter of seventy six Ers like twenty eight to twenty five. We're gonna fast forward to the end of the second quarter when the Sixers were trying to add some insurance in JJ Reddick, who had been good throughout the first half, cap things off and now would be with it against Turner shot clocket five seven seconds to go and a half.

It's JJ Reddick for three and it's good count. It's swish Reddick with it. Four seconds ago. Fifty four to forty eight was what the score became after that JJ Reddick three pointer. That is what would be going into the break. Seventy sixers in a good spot. Oladipo hits a three right out of the halftime break and you're thinking foods. Maybe this guy could get started. He went one for seven to the first half. The seventy sixers quickly quieted things down for the Pacers as JJ Reddick,

using his signature skill help widen the gap. Reddick is on the wing. JJ cuts off with Joel's screen. Juel Pops gets outside of the yard three to shoot over to Reddick. Reddick's open three foot in the air for the Sixers is good. J J Reddick put timely head clutch tray time out Indiana they needed at seventy sixers opening up a double figure lead for the first time on the night at sixty six two fifty five for the Sixers. They would lead at eighty six seventy one

going into the fourth. Because of this, Sixers up thirteen TJ drives that shoots it off the glass. Add in TJ McConnell gives us Sixers a fifteen point lead and that would grow to ninety one seventy three early on in the fourth quarter. With Joe Ellenbiad moving things along, Reddick back down to Joe. Joe go by two minute slams it the Sixers wheeling around the arc, had Reddick feeds a Fad in a two hand slam and the big bella hangs on the iron sways with a slab.

After the Sixers went up by eighteen points, the Pacers would charge back. They scored ten in a row and the seventy sixers we're looking to halt momentum. They did. Joe ellenbead a basket, Mike Muscalo with consecutive three pointers. That was huge. Ben Simmons got in the act and then appropriately one of the guys who was so huge and getting tonight's games started on a good note. Jimmy Butler was there to put the Pacers away. Father loses the mom momentarily gains a back, spins fire shot sixty

god a shot park buzzer. Jimmy Butler get it done and made it one O four eighty seven to seventy. Sixers would cruise to the eventual final score of one hundred twenty to ninety six. We'll go through some of the impressive notes from the final stat sheet. The Sixers shoot fifty three percent from the field and also fifty

three percent from outside the arc. Eighteen of thirty four against Indiana, which enter tonight the number one rated defense in terms of points per game allow but if you look at a moral level statistical metric of defensive rating, Pacers were number three. So either way you slice it, Indiana excellent defensively, but the Sixers carved him up. They had thirty eight assists on forty six made field goals after their forty assist game just forty eight hours ago

against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Center. As for the Pacers, the Sixers held them to forty percent from the field, their second best in the league in field goals shooting and just nine of twenty nine from outside the arc. Good stuff from the seventy sixers. Defensively, six Ers scored fifty points the paint, great balance. Jimmy Butler led the way with twenty seven points ten to seventeen from the field, one three point or five rebounds, eight assists, no turnovers

and three steals. Awesome stuff from Jimmy Butler twenty two and thirteen to go with eight assists and three block shots for Joel Embiid JJ Reddick with twenty points on six of nine shooting from outside the arc. Ben Simmons with eleven eight and eighty to have six turnovers, but he finished the game strong five of ten from the field. Thought Wilson Chandler was really helpful, especially in a first half that was mostly competitive. He kept the Sixers in it.

He finished with ten points plus fourteen rating. Mike Muscala off the bench with eleven points and seven rebounds. He was great. So is t J McConnell with seven points

and five assists. All around good stuff for the seventy sixers, which improved to thirty and sixteen on the year, and our resident seventy six Ers postgame show statistician Tyler Zoli confirming that the Sixers are the fourth team officially in the NBA right now to reach the thirty win mark, joining the likes of the Toronto Raptors, Milwaukee Bucks, and

Golden State Warriors. Denver playing right now might get there by the end of tonight, but for this moment, it's the seventy six Ers, the fourth team to thirty wins, the fastest they've gotten to thirty wins since two thousand and two thousand and one. Devon Gibbons is up next. Should be a good edition of In the Pot. They're all good editions, but I should say this one will have a more positive tone to a tonight. So in the Post with Divine Gibbons is coming up next. Big

thanks to the guys back at the studio. That would be Tyler Zuli and Brian McLaughlin. And now for the radiovoice to seventy six Ers. Tom againis Brian Seltzer saying so long for now one final time. The final score seventy six Ers all over, the Pacers one twenty to ninety six in Indie. Have a great rest of Thursday night. From all this here the Sixers Rader Network. 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,