This is the Philadelphia Yes seventy Sixers postgame show. If I can look about about Broachtree Stars, is gonna turn to get it off Mattie Rolls and the Sixers postgame show right now on ninety seven five. The panetic tough spot for the seventy Sixers on the second out of a back to back on a Sunday night, tough outcome a one O nine ninety four loss on the road at Capitol One Arena to the Washington Wizards. Brian Seltzer from Sixers dot Com, welcoming you into our postgame coverage. Yeah,
there was no doubt about it. There was a palpable heightened sense of importance surrounding this one tonight, the seventy Sixers taking the floor with an opportunity to tie themselves with Washington in the standings. The Wizards began the day as the fourth place team in the Eastern Conference. End of course, top four teams in each conference get home court advantage for the playoffs. That's a goal that Joel Embiid has talked about increasingly in recent weeks. Sixers. It
was competitive through a quarter. They trailed by just two thirty to twenty eight but then a really important tone setting eleven to two run set by Washington to begin the second quarter put them in motion. Kelly oubre Outo Porter were in the mix of things at that point in the game, and also during a nineteen to five run to end the first half, and that set up
the Wizards to really take control. The Sixers a couple times midway through the fourth quarter got the deficit back down to single digits, but then after it was a one hundred ninety two game, seven straight points from the Wizards gave them control back of the scoreboard and they would not let it up for the rest of the night. One ninety four the Sixers fall in DC twenty five points, ten rebounds and four assists for Joel and bad Ben
Simmons with sixteen points, eight boards and eight assists. Got to give a lot of credit to Dario Charch thirteen points on the night, battled through not having his shot, was tenacious on the glass, particularly in terms of offensive rebounding seven of his eight boards on the offensive end.
He gave as much as he could, but much like the rest of his teammates, they fought, They battled not quite enough against a very quality hot shooting opponent in the Wizards to night, which went fifty four and a half percent from the field, twelve of twenty five from outside the arc, while the Sixers were held to just thirty six percent, shooting on nine of thirty three from beyond. Tom McGinnis had the call of this one tonight, one nine ninety four the final in favor of the Wizards.
Tim you said it second night of him back to back against a really good, focused team that had rest yesterday. A tough spot for the Sixers to be in and not a whole lot of margin for air, no, without question, and they made shots. They have shotmakers, let's be honest. Spiel is one of the great shooters in the NBA. Auto porters really been over the last couple three years. He got a big contract. As a result, he's been amongst the top three point shooters. He led that category
for part of this season. He was terrific tonight. Ubre has really come on and they moved that ball around. They have a modicum of toughness as well, in terms of the way Morris plays with an edge. Not a big fan, but that's how he plays and it certainly adds to their aura. And physicality, and Gord Todd plays a similar way. I thought Gord Todd played and beat a little differently tonight. I thought he got into him
a little bit. Joelle still had big numbers, a double double, but it was by no means easy, and that second quarter was a difference. As Brett Brown said, it was set up to be a difficult game for the Sixers. I say set up, and that the Sixers played last night and Washington played a back to back Thursday and Friday, say off yesterday, and they were the better team here tonight.
They split the season series, and even though the Sixers showed some life and as you say, with Dario just battling so hard and was so much effort, but Washington won the game. They split the season series, and they're now you know, thirty five and what it's thirty five and twenty five for them home team winning each of the four matchups in the season long series for the Sixers. Time.
One thing to take away from this weekend and perhaps something for Brett Brown and the coaching staff to mull over going ahead along this road trip and the rest of the way. Rashawn Holmes and to no surprise given minutes and he played really well. He gave them a nice spark, and it seemed like when he was paired with Joel Embid that did give the Sixers and needed boost. They showed some life in the closing moments. Just tough
catching up, no doubt about it. I mean, Rashawn played well last night, and tonight you went back to him because you know they needed some juice. You know, part of a coach's challenge, particularly as you tighten up the rotation, is keeping those back line players, the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh players active, engaged and getting the goat. I think that's a little bit what you saw last night where a Mirror got the night off and Rashawn played it
played well. I mean he only had four points, but again he had I believe four assists and eight rebounds. Speaking of Holmes, I thought a Mirror played well tonight, so Holmes helped out he certainly there was the one play where they loaded over toward and beat and Simmons instead of throwing into Joel, through it to Rashawn and Holmes got an open dunk. So there's definitely gonna be some openings there when it Beat is out there, but overall just not enough energy for the Sixers. And it
goes two ways. It's not just scoring where they struggle to get baskets, but you need that repetitive second effort oftentimes on defense and to be able to control the glass. And it just it wasn't there. Washington, as I said, was the better team. They've played well here at home. It's remarkable how well they've played without Wall, and you can only imagine. I think everybody reads into it, you know, like, oh, John Wall, they don't need well. I don't think that's
true at all. I think they're going to come back a better basketball team with when healthy, one of the best guards in basketball and Wall and he can only make their team better. And you know he's one of those players too. He's a finisher, a closer, and that's what you need to win these tight games, and that's what you need to win in the postseason. It's a team in Washington. They've made the playoffs, but they've never gotten out in the second round. They're trying to crack
through there. They're amongst these top four teams. They've got a difficult road, no doubt about it. For the Sixers. You want to re energize, go down to Miami and try to recoup that energy as you get ready for a big game with Miami on Tuesday, and then obviously Thursday with the road game at Cleveland. But a great run by the Sixers, seven wins in a row, five of them of course at home, and now back out here on the road with a loss, and then two
big games. As I said before coming home for Friday's game with Charlotte, you said, on the heels of this one nine ninety four defeat, that now becomes the challenge a young team showing that it could string together sustain wins over the last three weeks, an opportunity to potentially get it back. But it's going to be interesting. This Miami team has won, the Sixers have beaten twice so far.
They're going to play them on Tuesday and then about a week after that, and of course I'm sure they're not forgetting that game right before the All Star break with the Sixers erased the twenty four point deficit and roots of the win, no doubt about it. And that was a key game for the Sixers. They won for the third time without Joel Embiid, and again I hate to be repetitive, but it is important. And again, you
know you're battling with these teams. Now, Miami's right behind the Sixers in the East, and when you play them head to head and a whole game swings in the balance, win or lose, it's huge. You know, I'm saying that's that's the case here. Again, the Sixers had that opportunity tonight. Again, Milwaukee loss the Detroit Pistons. They're falling further and further
out of the playoff picture. And then you know the Sixers had a chance, but you know that that's kind of a non factor when you don't have the energy to compete. It's not like they lost of the last second on a shot here. But again, the point is that Miami game stacks up that way as well. Another, as you say, two more games with Miami in Florida and it starts Tuesday. Tom enjoyed the trip down there.
Talk to you on Tuesday. Good night, Brian. Thanks seventy Sixers knocked off by the Wizards to Night one ninety four. The seven game winning streak has come to an end. Sixers. It wasn't for lack of effort tonight, shots just did not go down health to thirty six percent from the field. The Wizards, meanwhile, quite the opposite, fifty four and a half percent from the floor shooting and twelve of twenty
five from outside the arc. The likes of Kelly Oubrey with nineteen points, out of Porter with twenty three and Bradley Beale with twenty four collectively too much for the seventy Sixers down in DC tonight. Well, here's some of Tom McGinnis's highlight calls on the other side, as our
postgame coverage continues here on the Sixers Radio Network. Seventy Sixers completing their ninth back to back set of the season, doing so against an Eastern Conference rival that sat one game in front of them in the Eastern Conference standings. Heading into tonight's key game, Brian seltzerwit you from Sixers dot Com. Let us go to the tape, the highlight tape and the game called by the one and only Tom McGinnis. Within seconds, seventy Sixers off to an encouraging start.
Joel and Beat tips it and Ben Simmons gets the ball. These Sixers with Simmons, Covington Reddick sharedge Andy b here's a lot Ben's white up and he kept it and guides it in. There was great energy from the Sixers at the outset of tonight's game is that highlight demonstrated. Sixers jumped out to a ten six advantage, but after that eight straight points from the Wizards that gave them some controls. Sixers would charge back into it quarter of
the late and Cup tips it away. Joel with it Sixers with numbers, Ben handles it, Simmons back to Joel and it be slams it in and a foul on Washington. He would hit the free throw one point game sixteen fifteen in favor of the Wizards. Very competitive throughout the finish of the first quarter, which ended with the Wizards leading by two thirty two twenty eight, but then first key run of the game for Washington. Eleven out of
the next thirteen points went to them. They went up forty one to thirty Sixers in ketchup Mo Dario Charge helping the cause. Dario steals the rebounded Oh he missed it, He goes back up and scores it. So Simmons missed both free throws, but Charge jumped around beyond Mehemi got the rebound. Missed the first put back and then scores it, trim the Sixers deficit to forty eight to forty two.
But from there the Wizards, behind Kelly ubre Otto Porter and Bradley Beale, sprinkled in, scoring up a nineteen to five run to end the first half, and they took a sixty seven forty eight lead into the breaks, second most totals allowed in the first half this season by the Sixers. Sixers battling uphill throughout most of the third quarter,
but some signs of life late in the period. Eight seconds ago would beat with the rebounded, beat advances at the Simmons, Simmons back to Joel three ball by a beat is up and in one second to go at Joel and beat cuts at the fourteen, and that'll do it for three eighty seven seventy three the tally going into the fourth. The Sixers were able to build on that,
and they kept coming. They got closer and closer and closer, and Dario Charch with some timely outside shooting, got the margin back down to single digits, back out top coming at four to shoot Ben to Joel, No Simmons off the drive, He's got a shoot it over to Dario shot in effort three Oh, let's go, but my Tony Brown was waving it off. The Shark just put it in. The Sixers get back to back threes, both from Sharks
that made it ninety seven to eighty nine. Morris would score to make it one hundred to eighty nine, but Joellenbad got three the old fashioned way bead with four turnovers in the game, don lolep Power move on where Top puts it up in d a foul Joel and
Bad driving it from the upside. One hundred ninety two was the score after the free throw with just under four minutes left in regulation, but Washington would score the next seven points and that would prove to be the difference, as the Wizards end up taking this one by the final of one o nine to one oh four. Final notes from the final statue. We talked about this with
Tom McGuinness. He referenced it throughout the game. Washington really with the hot hand tonight fifty four and a half percent from the field of seventy six ers just thirty six percent Wizards twelve of twenty five from outside the arc. The Sixers hit nine of their thirty three three point attempts what kept the Sixers hanging around. They were pretty prolific from the free throw line, where they outscored the Wizards by a dozen. Washington with the upper hand on
the glass plus five. Sixers also converting nineteen Washington turnovers into thirty one points, one of their better numbers in that category of the season. But still, the Wizards could not be slowed down enough as they went on to take the four game series finale. Beale had twenty four to lead the Wizards, twenty three from Otto Porter and nineteen from Kelly Ubrey off the bench. From the Sixers side of things, Joel and B twenty five points, ten rebounds.
This is his twenty third twenty and ten game of the season. He's played forty seven games and all, so that's pretty amazing that nearly half the games he's played this season he's had at least twenty and ten. Awesome stuff from the All Star Ben Simmons sixteen points, eight rebounds and eight assists Ago with one block shot and a steel thirteen for Dario scharch Yeah, he was one of several Sixers who was trying to get his shot
to go down. Five of seventeen from the field two three pointers, eight rebounds, three assists, But really thought Dario acquit himself nicely with his hustle and fight tonight when he was out there for the Sixers, ten for Marco Bellinelli off the bench, and Rashaun Holmes played all of his eleven minutes forty seconds in the second half. He
was paired at times with Joel Embiid. By far had the best plus minus rating of any six or plus twelve in the game seven points, two to four from the field, two rebounds, but bringing, most importantly as he did on Saturday against the Atlanto Magic, some welcomed intangibles. With the loss, the seventy sixers season long seven game winning streak ends. They're now thirty two and twenty six.
The Wizards improved to thirty five and twenty five. So the Eastern Conference standings we're gonna do some quick math now looks as follows. Wizards a half game in front of the Pacers, which did not play today, for fourth place at thirty five and twenty five, the Indiana in fifth at thirty four and twenty five. On the season, these seventy Sixers are a half game behind the Milwaukee Bucks. Now the Bucks in sixth place with the record of
thirty three and twenty six. The Sixers are thirty two and twenty six, and they are now two games in front of the Miami Heat. The Heat are an eighth and the Sixers and the Heats, what do you know? Face off seven thirty on Tuesday night from American Airlines Arena down on South Beach. We will begin our pregame coverage that night at seven twenty as the seventy Sixers look to win their four game season series, playing game
number three against the Heat on the year. Big thanks to Jay Gray and Carl Namoli back here at the studio now for the radio voice the seventy six Ers, Tom McGinnis Brian Seltzer saying so long for now one final time. The final score was the Wizards one or nine and the seventy Sixers ninety four. Have a great rest of what is left of your Sunday night from all of us here at the Sixers Radio Network.