He's the Philadelphia seventy Sixers postgame show. It be Swatson on the glass. Sevens damn he rozen down over to JJ three bonus good running crops at home the Sixers postgame show right now on ninety seven five the fanatic back at home. The seventy Sixers get back on tracks, surviving these Charlotte Hornets in a very physical, at times chippy and scrappy game tonight. One oh five, one h three the final score of Brian Seltzer with you from
the center here in South Philly. We're awaiting the arrival at the postgame press conference podium. Seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown. Good one for the Sixers tonight. Why because it was a win the mission for the team tonight. They talked about it yesterday at practice and before the game today. Get back to playing hard. They did it. Not a lot of style points, but win. One oh five, one oh three Reddick and Bade Covington big down the stretch,
Simmons more good numbers of the double double. Here's Brett Brown right now. You know you look at it and Kembuck ends up with thirty seven points. But what we're looking at is is the sort of stats in the second half, the fact that he's eleven for thirty one, you know, three for fifteen to get those thirty seven. I thought it was Cubbs best game of the year. Um. I thought that that he really he ended up being
out with Bell Ringer. He had ten rebounds along with that, had that big three to really sort of seal the game. He was very good tonight. You see from bays right. I think he was forcing it a little maybe around the ring. Um. You know, I think I'm always trying to get him to to be an attack mode, you know, be proactive. You know, maybe tonight a few times it
was four situations, but I still, you know, like his spirit. Um, I like his spirit, and it's it's it's putting taking that spirit and put it in the right environment, trying to help him find those drive in lanes and opportunities. You know, We're always challenged him with offensive rebounds. I think he can be incredibly elite gifted feature on other team's scout tapes as a committed sort of offensive rebound
you he had six tonight. I thought that that was the that was an excellent part of his game tonight. In general, statistically you look at it wasn't one of his better games, But I think his mindset to attack is something that we want to encourage just in the right environment. Right, you guys can struggle in the half court of time, so the team, as Bill, how much of a difference does it make for you that you can take Ben out and he still have Marquel in the game? You can you know, se tempo and get
you in the offense before defensive up. I think there's truth to what you just said. And I thought Marquel, I thought he was really good tonight, you know, pushing the ball as you say, an open court. I thought he had a few good fines on Joel. You know when when we can get him in early offense in open court and he's thinking tack the rim, get to the paint and go there to dunk, like in the world makes sense, instead of getting in there to like
trying to pass. I wanted him and I've told him this, like, go like you're gonna go get fifty, Go go like you're gonna dunk everything, and then the world will make sense. You know, the game will speak to you preconceived notions on where people are going to be. It doesn't work, like put your own thumb print on on the rim, look at the rim, get to the rim. I thought he did that tonight. And you know he helped us. And as you say, when we're struggling trying to find
ways to school, we lean on JJ a lot. And you know, Joel, to his credit, came in and played, you know played. That was that decision was up in the air until the last minute. We needed Marquel to do what he did. How's joel failure? Well, um, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I haven't I didn't ask, you know, like probably you know, he ended up playing almost thirty seven minutes. That's for me,
is too much. I don't feel comfortable with that. You know, over the long haul, if I headed again, I would have tried to find ways to clark back. We we we got, we got lucky at times. You know, I give up guys credit toward the end. But you know, JJ hit a big three, Cuve hit a big three. Kemba had that sneaky layup over Joel at the end, and we just needed a group. We really needed, like a big boys to bring it home to see this
thing through. And some of the seventy Sixers. Big boys did just that tonight, one oh five, one oh three. The final scores. The Sixers get back to five hundred, back at home, where they've won all three of their games this season. Robert Covington excellent tonight. I'll say I thought it was great, showed up when it mattered. Eighteen points, ten rebounds, two steals, four block shots plus seven That
was a game high for the seventy Sixers. Two or five three that at times makes you like espascially in the game this title would have been nice to see that line, that portion of line a little bit cleaner. But he was really great. Really the ceiling three pointer to make it one oh five, one on one with under two minutes to go, and then the defensive possession right after that he came up with a block shot. So Covington really really good all around for the Sixers.
Joel and B twenty seven points and fourteen rebounds. He's the first Sixer ever to start a season with six straight twenty point ten rebound games. And the final question that we heard Brett Brown respond to was about the condition of Joel. He was questionable at game time decision due to recovering from a rolled ankle at practice yesterday in Camden. Ben Simmons fourteen points, twelve rebounds, and three assists.
He was five of twenty. However, from the field, the Charlotte Hornets did a really nice job on him defensively, packed the paint made life a little bit more difficult. JJ Reddick with fifteen, a big three pointer that preceded Covington's in the final two minutes. No doubt those two three pointers on back to back possessions critical to getting the seventy sixers over the hump. I thought that Dario Shart started out well and I agree with Brett Brown.
What I really disagree with Brett Brown, but I did feel this way as well watching and I think kind of a lot of fans would say the same two If you watched in file tonight's game, Mark Hill Folts, it passed the eye texts. He was able to get into the lane, created things done only with some very nice scoring plays and lamps, but he was able to generate assists and dimes off his drives into the key. So Mark Hill Folts with ten, four rebounds and four assists.
We'll go over this a little bit more with Tom mcginnesse is standing by and we'll get to him next. As the postgame showing the Sixers rating at more ninety seven five, the fanatic seventy Sixers at last thee Charlotte Warning twenty five one oh three. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot Com down here at the center Timely three pointers from JJ Reddick and Robert Covington in the closing minutes helped seal the deal for a Sixers team that was looking to get back on track. Tom McGuinness,
by playing hard, they got to win. And I think you can make the case they certainly did play hard to night, Oh, no doubt about it. They compete every single night. And again, just to my point, down the stretch up four, I believe it was one one on one and they had three or four trips where they could have knocked him out of the box and were unable to do it. But as Brett Brown said, Covington
did play well overall. I mean he ended up with I believe four steals, two blocks, ten rebounds that clutched three eighteen points total. And it's not easy guarding Kimball Walker. That's not a one man proposition and again through switching, the Sixers ended up with a beat on him. They made it difficult and he really struggled from three, had a timely three down the stretch that made things interesting
those two free throws. But the other thing is he was the only Hornet player to score over like a span of ten minutes in the final quarter. So that's good overall defense by the Sixers, and you got a lot of good play at specific times by a bunch of different Sixers, including Simmons and Folds and Dario and JJ coming up with that big three down the stretch. Mascala gave me some good minutes. So a nice win.
And you could say that the Sixers have beaten the three teams that you would expect them to beat in terms of beating the Magic and the Bulls here earlier and then tonight they certainly could have won that game on the road in overtime against Detroit, Milwaukee and Boston
not so much with how well they played. And so you're at five hundred and as Robert Covington shared with this post game, the Sixers are and Coach Browns talked about post practice in recent days, they're trying to find their rhythm, but they still were able to pull it out here tonight. The fact that him be played when he was questionable and then he played so well again big numbers, points and rebounds and protecting the rim was
exemplary for the ball clip here tonight. I'll be honest, I'm surprised looked down at the final box sheet and see the only has two block shots. To me, it seemed like when you saw guys driving in at that bucket and was always there all night long. I had a sorry, but I had a laugh when somebody said, how's Joe doing well? First of all, the coach doesn't go over and going how are you doing Joe? Joe?
But I gotta think his ankle soar uh, he just played thirty seven minutes of basketball when he was a question prior to the Game's probably sore. He probably got an inflamed ankle right now. But that's what he is. As Brett Brown said pregame, you know he's one of the people. He wants to deliver for the Sixers and
for this city. And yeah, you're right, two blocks. But in football, when when a lineman gets to the quarterback, they call him a hurry he affected a lot of shots in there, and you know, you see guys veering away from the basket. Miles Bridges had some real nice moments fourteen total three threes, but he took some shots
going away from the basket. Zeller, you know, like the shot chart, we can't really get into it on the radio, but you know, you look at that restricted areas, they've already lowered the basket here, Brian Zeller did not get to the rim like he might have gotten as Joe would rotate back on him defense, but he would pull up at least the dribble or two shy of the rim. And now he's shooting, say a ten or twelve foot runner. That's a way different shot than right at the cup.
And he's a six foot eleven player as well. And that really speaks to Joel's defense, and that's what the Sixers, that's what their defense is built on. You start from the rim out and he is one of the best rim protectors in the game. Sixers over the Hornets one oh five, one three back at five hundred with a
record of three and three on the season. Nice to see Robert Covington come through with a quality game for the seventy Sixers and you alluded to him, Tom, But for a team that has really gotten by or not gotten by with consistent output from Joel Embid, Ben Simmons and JJ Reddick in the first five games of the season, good to see Dario starts have the type of game that he did, especially in the early going. Absolutely and made some big shots early Sixers ended up getting double
figures for the game. And you know, particularly the question was posed to coach, sometimes you struggle in the half court, but those are also times then when this Sixers go to Dario, and Dario goes in there and kind of gets a you know, a lunch pale type of opportunity where he bangs into a Marvin Williams or whatever, and he just does so many different things, and you know, soon I think, you know, these guys are going to start to play well together, find their stride and take off.
Now here we go with Atlanta coming in here there. I think they lost tonight as they fell to the Bulls by a dozen at home, but they you know, they were two and two coming in. So Trey Young it's going to be exciting to watch him play. And then you go to Toronto and the Sixers have fared a little bit better in reason the last couple of years, but overall the Raptors had a mastery. They're off to
the best start in franchise history. So interesting back to back for the Sixers Monday here against the Hawks and Tuesday on the road in Canada. Looking forward to seeing whether or not the seventy Sixers can maintain the momentum they built up tonight at the start of next week. Tom talk to you that you gotta Brian, thank you Sixers knock off the Charlotte Hornets. One oh five hundred three will playbacks Tom's highlight calls. On the other side,
it's the postgame show on the Sixers radio network. Seventy Sixers back at home and it was a nice sight to see hosting these Charlotte Hornets even better sites. A positive outcome tonight and a needed one at that for the Sixers. Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com, let's run
through some of Tom McGinnis's highlight calls from tonight. After losing at Detroit and Milwaukee on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Sixers looking to get back to some of their ethos, their identity of competing with an edge toughness, playing hard and from the outset that was clear embodied by one of their most rugged players, Ben in the lane and Michael kid Gilchris who just got in mister Tario with the reboundies pushed by seller, no call, but Shark puts
it in, got pushed right in the chest in front of Mark Davis a two hands show in a thoracic kevity, but he did not get the call, but charge still scorted. Very impressive anatomical breakdown by our radio man Tom McGinnis, keeping the Sixers within two of sharp early on. The Sixers then got over the hump with JJ Reddick doing this thing under four minutes to go. Reddick for three around one minute and he puts it in on Miles Bridges. So JJ Reddick with his second three, the Sixers remained
perfect four for four. From beyond they go up by five, their largest lead twenty four to nineteen. It would be a four point lead in favor of the Sixers after a quarter thirty two to twenty eight. Early on in the second, Joel and Beat imposing as will to keep the Sixers up by two possessions. Charlotte wouldn't go away. Robert Covington was present three out the evening and especially
at this point midway through quarter number two. Savante Graham Boy he throws it away, turnover and a slam coming up by coming to the right hand a throw down breakout after the Steel Sixers by five. Covington and Gario each with seven the master deflector transitioning defense into offense. He made sure not to miss on that gym. Forty six. Forty one was the score after the dunk, and the Sixer would have a very slender one point halftime lead of sixty three to sixty two. Other Hornets, they were
the aggressors at the outset of the third quarter. They jumped in front seventy one to sixty five. Jowell and Bead helped bring the Sixers back. Ben with it down to Joel. Joel gets to seal Walkers there he missed it and then beat gets it back and he scores it. The big man on the low post goes up against Cody Zeller. Walker ran underneath good feed and on the second chance and be puts it in sixth straight by the Sixers. Game is tied at seventy went our second tie.
But you know with the Hornets, they kept coming through that third quarter, they were really playing physical, aggressive, they locked down on defense. They led eighty five eighty three going into the fourth, and the fourth started off fortunately for the Sixers. The Bangleique Monk on the move and the lane is Zeller, but Fols comes over and steals it. Sixers with numbers, false leads a break, Foals keeps it, jams in right hand slap markl faults do really great play,
really great high energy play. At a moment when the seventy sixers needed one that made it eighty seven eighty five, Sixers back in front. It was niptuck into the final minutes of the fourth quarter, JJ Reddick trying to I'm not a ninety nine all time, Joel, will it outside the arc? He goes to Reddick. Threefall in the year by JJ Reddick is good. JJ Reddick knocked it down.
There's that combo again. It be the Reddick. It's the Sixers one oh two and Charlotte ninety nine sixers down to the three ball one more time to try and put this game out of reach, and the Sixers lead with a shot by coming to this up head good Robert coming to delivers a triple along the near side, a quick strike three after the Walker lay up, and the Sixers increased their lead to four, and the Sixers would end up holding on by two one oh five to one oh three the final score, and it was
nice a good one tonight, as the Sixers got their record back up to five hundred after suffering two losses earlier this week. Looking at some of the final numbers, the Hornets shot just under thirty nine percent from the field, the Sixers at thirty eight and a half percent, six or ten of twenty eight from outside the arc. The Hornets were nine of thirty five sixers plus five from the free throw line. They owned the glass. They were plus eight and plus five in particular in terms of
offensive rebounding. Turnovers were kept down by both teams, nine for the Hornets and eleven for the seventy sixers. Individual notes, Kemba Walker was a tough, tough cover tonight, thirty seven points. Not the most efficient shooting line eleven of thirty one, three of fifteen from outside the arc, but in the guts of the game, he certainly helped the Hornets jump in front, and he was very very pesky getting the free throw line, where he was twelve of fourteen for
the game. For the Sixers, all five starters and double figures plus JJ Reddick and double digits off the bench. Reddick had fifteen. Ben Simmons with fourteen points and twelve rebounds for another double double. Mark El Folts with ten points, four boards, four assists, just one turnover plus two. He was four of nine from the field, also two of two from the free throw line. He was good. He was able to get in the lane penetrate and not
only score, but up his teammates as well. Joel Embiid was questionable coming into tonight's game, no question about it. A great box line twenty seven points, fourteen rebounds, two block shots and two assists. Just the first Sixer ever to record six straight twenty point ten rebound games to begin a season. Scharge was great, especially in the first
half eleven points and seven rebounds. Robert Covington, as Brett Brown said, if he missed the postgame press conference, the Sixers have this tradition inside of the the locker room where a player rings the bell. Robert Covington a deserved bell, ringing eighteen points, ten rebounds. He had two steals, four block shots, a ton of deflections, plus seven six of eleven from the field, four of seven from outside the arc Robert Covington a very fine performance for the Sixers.
Sixers will now wait until Monday. Their next game was against the Atlanta Hawks. Atlanta has led this season by former Sixer assistant and defensive guru Lloyd Pierce. Lloyd was an original member of Brett Brown's coaching staffs. Will be really nice to see him bring Atlanta into South Philadelphia on Monday. Atlanta did lose tonight, The now three and
four in the season. Betray Young, who they acquired in the first round this past June in the draft, is putting up some really big numbers over twenty one and a half points per game and seven and a half assists seven o'clock game time from the Center on Monday. Pregame coverage beginning just before then on some of our
Sixers Rating Network affiliates. Thanks to everyone involved tonight's broadcast, Dylan McKinnon and Carl Nivoli Back at the studio, Marti Dickerson here and now for the ready voice of the seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis Brian Seltzer saying so long for now one final time. The final score from South Philadelphia seventy six Ers one oh five and the Charlotte Hornets one oh three. Have a great wrest a Saturday Night from all of us here at the Sixers Rating Network