The BroadCast: 3/13/18- Rewind vs. Pacers

six positions. The Sixers now with a record of thirty six and thirty and they have now lost well, there were four and four in their last eight games, and so the Sixers lose for the first time in thirteen home games. They're twenty one and eleven at home. Indiana tops in the Central, now forty and twenty eight, their best record since the end of the thirteen fourteen NBA season. They would not won eight of their last eleven, including

three in a row. They're over five hundred at home, and they get a great game from Miles Turner and Victor Oladiep but with a huge shot despite struggling throughout much of the game. Fan stupub is your ticket out to once in a lifetime experiences from six Ers games. So amazing concerts and shows you don't want to miss. Get the stub Hub app today. Stupub is the official ticketing partner of the Sixers, and they'll in part bring you the game on Friday when the Sixers play host

of the Brooklyn Nets. Find your tickets at StubHub dot com. Up next is Sixers going back to New York. They were there Sunday against Brooklyn and Thursday night the Sixers will take on the New York Knicks. Let's go down to the locker room where Brett Brown is just outside speaking with the assembled press. Scoreps your Sixers coach, Brett Brown, I think some of them were self inflicted. I think

some too many happened in the break. I'll be curious to go back and watch the tape of the turn on turnovers in the first like three to four seconds of a shaw Hawk as we're running. Some of the decisions you know, to two to make passes in early offense, UH did not help us um and some of the

turnovers I give Indiana credit for. But we can almost sort of like all go home after you make that statement that the turnovers were the single thing that that I think influenced this game, Turner picked up that fifth foul, and you know, you guys scored a couple of times that sort of felt like you had to. Yeah, you had the momentum, therey and I guess turn the ball over and right, I mean I go back. I don't remember exactly the sequences after, you know, Miles went to

the bench and then he came back in. But I felt, you know, in general, it's hard for me to pivot away from you know that that that fact you look at, you know, Joe had, Joe had a night that we can try to get that better, improve that. Dario also had some stuff in early offense turnovers and as a group, everybody sort of contributed a little bit to that number of twenty one. Coach, even though you lost this game, it was a playoff type atmosphere Earth, is there anything

that you can take and help these guys before? Is he before towards the playoffs? I mean, I look at our defense. They shot forty percent from the field, twenty percent from the three point line. I thought we did a really good job on Oladipo. He was four for twenty one, had that months to three. At the end. I thought we did a good job on Bogdanovich, who's been playing extremely well. He was won for eleven. I think the defensively, you know, we were pretty good. We

were pretty good. It's just it's really hard to go away from that thing that you know, is a part of who we are right now. We're up and down, we're young, we make not wise decisions at times, and I feel like what we need to walk out of this game with, I believe, is the recognition that we're close to being amongst a pretty elite group. We're just

not there yet. And I think that the month that we have coming up, the remaining games, you know, we can admit the truth, try to find a way to to fix that and and move up as high as we can. In the Eastern standings. Two times that you faced the Pacers, Turner didn't cause as much problems he

did as he did tonight. What wasn't that he was doing, especially with in being in the game at the same time that what was causing kind of the breakdown we eat When you have a five men that can pick and pop, it's it's really an unusual sort of schematic game plan you go through when you have like Joel, you know, it's an unusual thing where Miles can pull you out and and make make those you know, threes

and long twos. And I think the adjustment that we made where you know, after we do whatever we're doing and pick and Roll will say, like you know, the clothes out, we're gonna make him hot. We're really gonna try to make him dribble and just get to him a hell of a lot quicker than we did at the start of the game. But I do give him credit.

He's a young talent. And anytime you can find a big that can be that committed as sort of a roll or in a rebound and have the ability to step out and make shots at the precent that he does, he's pretty special. Brett Brown outside the six years locker room, talking lastly there about Indiana center Miles Turner, who had a twenty five point game. Pacers defeat the Sixers one

oh one to ninety eight. They've now won fifteen out of eighteen games against the Sixers fourteen out of seventeen games over the last few years, including two out of three this year. Ben Simmons had a triple double. Joellabead had twenty nine points, but Indiana wins by three. We'll hand it over to Brian Seltzer of thanks to Marty Dickerson, Tyler, Zulie Allen Yates. They helped to engineer our broadcast. We'll be back after this with more six Ers postgame coverage

live from the center the Sixers Radio Network. He's the filling, Yes, seventy Sixers postgame show. If feed I can look about of a broad free SORR, He's gonna turn and get it off. Mattie Roll the Sixers postgame Show right now on Nutty seven five. The panetic tough for for the seventy Sixers, another stinging reminder of the importance of how slim the margin for Eric can be against very good teams, and at this time of year, a difficult pill for the Sixers to swallow, and a one one ninety eight

lost the Indiana Pacers at home. Brian Seltzer with you from Sixers dot com. The headline will be twenty one turnovers committed by the Sixers, which the Pacers transformed into a twenty nine to twelve points off turnovers scoring advantage. There are certainly some other important subplots in this one tonight, but if you had the chance to hear Brett Brown in his postgame address a few moments ago. He acknowledged the reality turnovers right now a part of the seventy

sixers identity as a young, growing team. Of course, it's something that they work on and rep on on a regular basis, but against high caliber teams, it's an issue that continues to reef surface. We saw it on the road trip in the loss at Milwaukee. The Sixers also tried to deal with turnovers in the defeat at Miami and against the third ranked team in the Eastern Conference right now, the Indiana Pacers, the sixth seed as it

stands at the moment. Sixers unable to overcome ball security issues in a loss tonight, which was their first at the Center. Amazingly since December twenty first of two seventeen, Joel Embiid big down the stretch twenty nine points, twelve rebounds. He did have eight of those twenty one turnovers. Ben Simmons matching Magic Johnson with seven triple doubles, the second highest total ever for a rookie player in NBA history,

behind Oscar Robertson. In his twenty six ten points, thirteen boards, and ten dimes for Ben Simmons, only two turnovers for him on the night, that was a good thing. Miles Turner twenty nine and six for the Pacers, Stadius Young nineteen and ten. Victor l Adipo just eleven four of twenty one from the field, but his final basket was a big one, a three pointer that gave the Pacers an eight point lead with just over three minutes to go.

Tom turnovers coming into play again against a really good team, and as Brett Brown said, that's the reality. The Sixers continue to try and work off, no doubt about it. At eight is a hard number for Joe. He's got to get better at that and just slow down, I think, and be a little bit more pragmatic with the basketball, a little more thodical, and they double and the you know, Trevor Booker was very active. Look, he's given up a lot of size to Joel, but he used his quickness

and well placed reach getting into a little bit. Brett Brown used the phrase earlier tonight in addressing the assembled media prior to the game about you know, they get in and they got to get right into our chins. He's talking about how teams are defending the Sixers of late, and that's part of the issue with the turnovers, and

you've got to be strong with that basketball. But you know, just stepping back and looking at the game again, I've said this so many times just since the buzzer ring, but a hard fought game, difficult defeat for the Sixers. But and you know, we've heard the phrase playoff atmosphere certainly is accurate here tonight, as with so many of these games here for the Sixers at home with a

sellout crowd, great games against difficult opponents. And my point is, you know, there's you mentioned that Oladipo three that came with three eighteen ago. I believe there are only other points after that were two free throws by Miles Turner. But this is what's rich about an NBA game, and it's part of the reason I think the sport is so well received and so popular, not just in America but around the world. There was so many big players.

Look at Reddick. When Ben got that triple double, it was on a pass from Simmons to Reddick, and then that was the second to last one. Because Reddick had that three where he pumped faked, he could have tied it at ninety nine. He missed that. There were several times you thought the Sixers were dead in the water. They couldn't come back. They're down five, but Oldpot goes in for a rousing slam dunk in traffic over like three guys left handed dunk attempt, no good, no foul,

and b gets the rebound. Sixers come down and score again. I mean, and on and on, and that's sometimes like it's almost like having a great meal at a terrific restaurant and you go back home and you're reliving the experience, like, oh, remember, oh, and then there's a sert was good. That's how these games are, like where you reflect back and think of all the different chapters in the entire book, the way

it played out. So difficult ball game for the Sixers, but again they've got to get over this turnover thing or big games down the stretch of the season, which like this one for the whole playoff implications or in the playoffs, and you're gonna have these you know, these games go against you because you can't maximize your possessions

and take care of the ball. They scored, like I said, plus seventeen off turnovers in a game that was decided by three points, and it's familiar refrain for the Sixers. They've got to somehow arrest that difficult situation and be and take better care of the basketball. Joel embiid master for the seventy sixers. If I don't have it wrong, Tim, I very well could. I think he scored his final eighteen points of the night between the closing minutes and

the third when he scored the last eight points. Then he had ten in the fourth quarter. He stepped up Sixers. Great job defensively really for the most part of Oladipo. But there were some other guys for India, as you mentioned, in particular Thad Young. You know, there was that one stretch when the Sixers tied it up at seventy one in the third on a charge three and then the

next six points make it seven. Actually because the final play was an a one went to Thad Young, and that's like some veterans that no one is right, and that was a tough matchup for the Sixers. This is during that spell that I think you're talking to, but I was over there by the Sixers bench. Thaddish Young had Marco Belinelli on him. Marco was playing over the top. In other words, Young then caught the ball, went baseline and had an unimpeded path to the basket left hand

player on the right baseline. He turns it back into the defense but nobody was there, and scored it with ease. And so you know he is a very active player and he slices through there. He's been a high field goal percentage shooter throughout his career. This year at forty eight percent, he had double digit rebounds. I mean, they got a lot of nice pieces. They don't have a I mean, you call all the deepole a superstar at this point, but you know, they don't have like an

Embid or a Simmons. And having said that, Turner was awful good here tonight, But they are. They have a lot of really good pieces. They're deep. I thought an unheralded player in the game. And I've said it again, Boydanovitch, I thought he guarded Ben where Simmons was not able to get all the way to the basket. If Ben did shoot, it was a difficult one hand like right or left hand jump hook from eight or nine feet.

Those are that's a high degree of difficulty, and I thought bug Donovitch at six eight two twenty five at the size and the strength to kind of keep Ben away from the basket. But rate game. You got to give indi Ena credit again. They hold the opposition the Sixers tonight under one hundred points. That's been what they've been doing of late. And again they got a difficult role. They got the Raptors twice, they got the Warriors twice,

and so they got a difficult schedule. But they've outshot everybody's expectations in terms of how they're playing after the Paul George trade, and they're not going away. That kind of segues to the final point. There was a lot of build up surrounding this one. Tonight was it arguably the seventy sixers most important regular season game in the

last however many years. You could make an argument for that, but there still is a month to go, a lot of basketball we played in as you said, short term, micro, you look at this game, and this one stings and it hurts, but macro some scheduling breaks, perhaps favoring the seventy sixers, and most importantly games against opponents like these, And we heard Brett Brown say it could have been the Milwaukee game last week, the Miami loss as well.

These are teaching the lessons about how teams might go about the Sixers in the playoffs and they still have time to address them. And I thought the point you brought up about Simmons and what Bogdanovich did on him was a perfect case in point. And then had you adjust well and to just to back up what you're saying about what coach, what Brett Brown has been preaching.

And again, you know he's so authentic, like he shares with the media what he tells the team, and he's saying, simply stated, played better longer, and that's what happened in that.

You know, you go back a week ago Sunday, they lose in Milwaukee, they lose in Miami, and that is you know, they played good in stretches, certainly against the Bucks, they had a twenty point lead and a nineteen point lead, but try to extend that great play for longer stretches of the game, and you could correlate that to tonight. You know, they played well, but the Sixers never led. The last lead they had was fourteen thirteen, and every

time they would come back and close the gap. Indiana would get a spurt and it would be a seven point game. And so you got to give Indian of credit.

They've answered the bell. But again to your larger point from if you step back and you take a look at what's going on, the sixers are in good position, and let's you want to put yourself in the best position first, get into the playoffs, into the best position, but be playing your best basketball, have health going into that midweek in April, that final game of the year is here against Milwaukee, and then whatever the matchup is.

You know it's going to be a tremendous experience for this young group because it's, as Brett Brown has stated so many times, it's a whole new ball game. But it's not that much different than this type of game. Because half court scoring is so difficult, the pressure increases. You're playing a two week series potentially of seven games. There's no mysteries, and so that that's part of the reason that it becomes so difficult. But hey, look, it's

like you said, it's tremendous. You're talking about this game. They're all big. I thought tonight, you're right, I think this easily could because it was the next game and it was against a team ahead of you, but you could have gained a whole game on them against Indiana. But now you go on the road, you take on New York, you take on Brooklyn. Got an opportunity against two of these teams that are in your division that are having different occult years, and you've got to come

right back. One of the great things, one of the geniuses, if you will, about Brett Brown, is keeping the spirits alive even during the tough years where the Sixers were losses, were piling up and putting in a good day's work. And that's what he really excels in. And that's what you got to go up to the garden tomorrow and get ready for Thursday and get ready to pound the knicks. Tom McGinnis with great wisdom and insight, as always, thank

you very much. Good night, Brian. Seventy Sixers follow the Pacers one one ninety eight to twenty one turnovers committed by the home team tonight, which led to twenty nine Indian points. We'll get into some of the highlights. There were great moments in this game. Unfortunately it did not go the Sixers way. Stay with us. It's the postgame show on the Sixers Radio Network ninety seven five. The Fanatic the Sixers and the Indiana Pacers at the center.

Tonight third and final meeting of the season between these two teams, which began the day two games apart in the standings. Let's get to some of Tom McGinnis's highlight calls Tonights. Sixers got a nice run going to the tune of eight straight to put themselves in front. Off the dribble, pulls up, goes back out top. He throws it away Miror Johnson with the lead past the bend Simmons into the lake. Simmons around one man, lays it up and in Ben Simmons with a first and a

beautiful play. As a mirror Johnson picks it up and leads Simmons. Sixers would go up fourteen to nine, but then India would respond with a spurt of its own, scoring the next fourteen points to take control. Sixers would trail thirty three twenty three going into the second. The long ball help the Sixers get back in it down the stretch of quarter number two. Back to Marco, he passes to Covington over Oladipot and that's in boy that figures.

There were four guys clustered around the three point arc, and Robert Covington raises up and scores at three, and it's a four point game. Forty six forty two, Sixers benefiting again from beyond the arc, this time in the closing seconds to a half eight seconds to go. Sixers on the run. Iliosoma is out front. TJ goes to Reddick, Reddick rises for three. Shot yere J J Reddick with

two seconds ago. It's a four point game. That's the third time in the last four games Reddick has hit a three pointer in the final five seconds of a period. Fifty seven fifty three pacers in front going into quarter number three. Sixers had Victor Oladipo under wraps in the first. He got a little bit of a flurry going his way in the early moments of the third, but the Sixers are spotted right back. Dario Scharge truly a consistent Croatian.

He was at it again tonight twelve to shoot Simmons on the backdown boy On keeping him out to about ten feet up top. Dario for three, and it's in tie game. Dario charge from Ben Simmons a dynamic duo. Indeed, they were even at seventy one, but then Thaddeus Young scored seven straight points for the Pacers. That was part of a nine nothing run that sent India head eighty to seventy one. Sixers needed time out. Joel Embead got rolling after that. Down by five, the Bead made two

free throws moments ago. He has it back on the right side, backing down on Al Jefferson with a minute to go in the third, into the lane, very deliberate, and now it puts it up at the end. He got the left side of the basket and off the glass, an end that was part of a run of ten

straight points scored for the Sixers by Ebead. The Sixers trailed eighty three seventy nine going into the fourth and Bead open things in the fourth with a basket of his own, and the Sixers kept hanging and hanging around Indy until about four minutes to go in regulation. Victor Oladipo, he had missed fifteen of his first eighteen shots in the night, banged a big three pointer with three eighteen left. Joel Ebead answered Ben with a right hand dribble turns

the corner. Two guys go at him and goes into a beat and Beat throws it down a monster right hand jam by Joel and Bead. Ben Simmons drew double coverage. He flips it back to Joe with a right hand and it Beat crashes in with a slam. So that made it ninety seven ninety one just under three minutes ago. The Sixers, though committing two turn overs on two of their next trips down the court within the next two minutes. That did not help the cause, but in Bead kept

on fighting, this time right out. Fifty five seconds ago, Sixers down by five. Dario shars to Joel and beat on the right wing, making a move on Bugdano. The late steps around and puts it up an in off the glass. It's ninety nine ninety six. Sixers on A and B driving dunk would stay within three one one ninety eight with thirteen seconds to go. Then a crazy sequence, the Sixers doubled Victor Oladipo off an inbounds play was McConnell and Simmons and Oldipo thrown elbow up offensive foul.

Sixers got the ball back Joel and beat a three pointer straight away six seconds to go that fell short. A jump ball tied for the rebound with less than a second left to play. The tap was won by the Pacers, went out of bounds off Simmons. Indiana got the ball back and the final point three seconds would run out as the Pacers would hang on to win by the final of one. One. Final stats before we

get you two divine givens. Pacers shot forty percent from the field, the seventy six or forty six and a half percent just five three pointers for Indie seventy six Ers, ten of thirty from outside the arc. The Pacers were plus two from the free throw line on plus three opportunities Sixers plus three on the glass. Turnovers though, that the big stories we talked about, twenty one for the Sixers, ten for the Pacers. Pacers outscoring the Sixers on turnovers

twenty nine to twelve. The Pacers entered tonight's game the first ranked team in the Eastern Conference and steals, and they had thirteen of them in this evening's game. That's a big, big number. Individual notes will start with some from Indie. Miles Turner had a team best twenty five points. He was a real presence on the inside. Thirty s young great two way play nineteen and ten came up

big in that sequence. In the third quarter, we talked about Oladipo the All Star just four of twenty one one of four Sixers used Covington and McConnell's the primary defenders. They switched a lot, but Oladipo with a big crossover three in the closing minutes that gave the Pacers some needed insurance. Now for the Sixers, Joel and b twenty

nine points, twelve rebounds is thirty fourth double double. Ben Simmons tying Magic Johnson for the second highest rookie triple double total with ten thirteen and ten only two turnovers for Simmons in the game. That was a good thing. Eighteen for charge ten apiece as I mentioned for Simmons and Covington. Covington with a double double as well ten points, ten rebounds and JJ Reddick with sixteen six of ten from the field, four to five from outside the arc.

Tonight's game a long one, two hours, twenty five minutes, another sellout crowd, but the seventy sixers they lose. They dropped to thirty six and thirty Indiana improves to forty and twenty eight, winning on the road at Boston and

the Sixers in consecutive games. Very impressive. Indiana now two and a half games in front of the seventy sixers in the Eastern Conference standings, and will do one quick check of the scoreboard around the NBA tonight as far as teams that are in action of note Toronto beating Brooklyn, they maintained their perch atop the conference in first place. Washington, the other relevant game tonight, they lost at home to Minnesota.

So the Sixers and Washington both losing tonight, they'll remain separated by eight game in the standings, but Indiana does gain ground. All right. Divine Gibbons is awaiting your calls. Six one zero sixty three, two zero nine seventy five, Looking forward to listening on the drive home, and a big thanks to everyone involved tonight's production. That would be back to the studio, Alan Yates and Tyler Zuli here

on site. Our engineer extraordinary Marty Dickerson. Now for the radio voice in the seventy six ers, Tom mcguinnis Brian Seltzer saying so long for that one final time the final score. Pacers one on one, seventy six ers ninety eight have a great resture Tuesday Night from all of us here at the Sixers of Raider Network