This is seventy Sixers rewind time now to listen back to postgame reaction from the team's most recent game. It was a rough end to what ended up being a rough road trip for the seventy Sixers, only two games, but two losses, first Saturday at the Buzzer at Atlanta and then tonight in Orlando, a loss that occurred much earlier before the sound of the final hornon Brian Seltzer, thanks for hanging out late with us. We'll get to
Tom McGinnis in a moment. One nineteen ninety eighth y Orlando Magic battling and scrapping and clawing for their playoff lives handed to the seventy Sixers without Ben Simmons Tonight, as the Sixers lose one nineteen to ninety eight, crazy that if you went through the box scoring, he looked at some areas. Some of them might jump out to you. Twenty three league changes, ten ties the game that, without doubt,
ended up being nowhere near that close. The seventy Sixers were outscored sixty two to thirty eight in the second half. The main culprit a scoring drought in terms of field goal shooting that lasted more than eleven minutes the seventy Sixers on a shake Hilton basket made it a seventy eight seventy seven game. They were down by just one but then and there are a bunch of different ways
you could carve up the magic. Run the Magic, scoring thirty of the next thirty five points in the game to seize control and have their way with the seventy sixers.
The team split the four game season series, each team winning at home twice, and have The seventy sixers have got a couple of days to regroup, hopefully get back to full strength, and then focus their attention on the Brooklyn Nets for a game at the Center on Thursday, which is Tom McGinnis alluded to could be a preview of the first round of the playoffs if current seatings were to hold. All right, let's go to the man himself at Amway Center, Tom, This really was competitive back
and forth. That's not to say the seventy sixers are playing all that great, but it was a close game for about three and a half quarters, a bigger parton two and a half quarters, and the Magic really rev things up. Yeah no, I can't explain it, you know, they're just flat. I mean to have a sense of urgency for a team with big time aspirations, you know, like there's just no excuse for it. I don't care what the stage of the season is, down the stretch,
nine games to go, there's just there. There isn't. You got to play with more urgency than that, more efficiency and better execution. Whereas Orlando, you know, okay, they're more desperate, but you know that coming in and you got a better record, you've had a better season, you would have to say you have better players. And it just did
not turn out that way. I mean, teams have low scoring quarters, but to not score for almost eleven minutes or whatever it turned out to be, that's just unacceptable. And so you know they played well forty eight. He really got going. He had four points at halftime. I
believe he had sixteen or so in the third. And then even their reserves, I mean there their reserves were playing with an edge kem Birch had or really he would bringing up physical I don't want to say dominance because it wasn't dominant, but he brought an ed Michael Carter Williams, you know, five of eight made all of his free throws. Again, the Sixers. The turnover total not you know, not crazy bad with fifteen, but they scored
twenty three points off the turnovers. So yeah for the Sixers, you know, and again, like coach Brown said, it happens, but to see it twice in a row, to be to be handled in the fourth quarter by a team under five hundred twice in a row not what they expected when they come down here to the Southeast in terms of losing in Atlanta and playing this way down
the stretch against the Orlando Magic. Right, just because this team focused on trying to further established chemistry and jail after that big win over Boston certainly was not meant to be interpreted as like, all right, let's go through these next two games and to a certain degree, go through the motions. And I mean, I think the other thing about the turnovers two time was that they just looked like they were errors of omission and not commission,
if that makes any sense. You know, It's like they just were unforced errors on many of these turnovers where it was this communication Joel and Beat simply losing the ball a couple of times, and the Magic just were able to feast on that and they had all the intangibles that you like to associate with the seventy six ers. It was once again, it was the opposition that seemed to happen. That's right, I mean, And it seemed as though there were times when he kind of corralled these
the turnover issue, but not lately. You have five turnovers in the game, and for your best player with a high usage rate, he's got to get a way more efficient with that ball. There's no doubt about it. And uh, like you say there were the phrase unforced errors. I don't know if that's omission or comission, but like some of them are just as you say, they just threw the ball carelessly away and you know it's just for
the like you say, they're playing together. And I'm sorry this team has not played at a high enough rate of efficiency where they can just turn it on and turn it off. They're not. They're not at that point. I don't know that you can ever do that, but certainly you know when you have the ability, like save for the Warriors, and I know they got crushed the other night by Dallas, but when you can just strike an all of a sudden bang Bang Bang, knock in a few threes and either blow a game out or
get back into the section. You don't have that capability, and so you know, again it's just it's tough, man, and you can't. I guess my point. You just can't get up for the Milwaukeees and the Boston's. You know, these are games where you're trying to get ready for the playoffs. You know, like Coach Brown talks about being in good form or rest versus playing, like you can't. You can't rest these guys after games like this, you know what I mean? You got to me, in my opinion,
you gotta get it back before you rest somebody. And oh, by the way, you only have a two suthing game lead, two and a half game lead now with this laws and you know, God forbid you let it slip away in Bang there you're playing Boston. What's everybody feared? You know? Like, so that's how serious to me? That's how serious it is. You know, Like I said, you can chalk up these games happen, but this is not exactly how you want to be getting ready for the NBA playoffs, no question
about it. Couldn't agree with you more why don't we leave it on perhaps if you if you want to try and find a silver lining. We saw some good stuff offensively out of shake Milton tonight, he was back in action an NBA game for the first time since February, had thirteen points on six of eight shooting and certainly removing ourselves from the micro and looking at the macro. Great moment for Zaire Smith got to play the final five and a half minutes and hit the three point
on his first NBA field goal attempt. Absolutely and you know, like what a feeling it must be for him to step out on the court. Like again, he's a young young man. I believe he's what Brian twenty years old, not even yet, yeah, nineteen years old, and just to have that vision and to have that dream to be a pro player, just like any of these guys, they'll never forget their first ever game and they try to go to him and the ball never got to him.
But then the next time down he did get it and he knocked down a three, which is an area he spent a lot of time working on with, among others, John Towns and the Sixers shooting coach and Tyler Lashbrook has really worked with here, So credit to those guys
and credit to him for putting in the work. And like I said, this is not exactly how he anticipated his career starting all the way here at the end of March with that broken foot and then you know the medical situation he went through with that allergic reaction, and then regarding Shank, certain guys are scores and he obviously is that. I mean, that was his game at SMU. He can basically play the one or the two and to just step right back into the fold and go
six for eight, play twenty two minutes. And I was in the locker room right before I spoke with coach and he had a moment with Shake like and I'm assuming it was somewhere along like, oh, I'm going to you and I'm gonna go to you early with not just Ben Simmons out, with Ennis out, And to me, yeah,
I think that's a positive sign for the Sixers. We just talked about the fact that they need more outside shooting, and particularly on a night like this where Reddick goes one for seven from three and I think Shake Milton's going to give you that, and you know, maybe down the stretch here and then obviously, but bigger picture going forward, I think you got a guy that's going to be a rotation player and somebody that can score the ball, which is always needed. So two bright positives with these
two young players. And you're always looking for talent, and the Sixers bring these guys in the defold and it'll be nice to see how they develop over the next few months and years. All right, Tom, we'll speak with you next on Thursday when the seventy Sixers host the Brooklyn Nets at the Center. Talk to you then, all right, good night, Brian. Thanks. Seventy Sixers drop another tough one, this time to the Orlando Magic. Final score from Amway
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six seven six. Seventy Sixers concluding a two game road trip after Orlando Magic tonight, looking to bounce back after that stinging loss the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday, It was not to be. Here are a couple of highlights for a few isolated moments in this game. First half, it was pretty competitive in Shake Milton getting some early run Freshaw finishing his first G season. There's Jimmy in the lane, then Milton and Shake able to get it to go floating ten foot field goal. Shake Milton puts it in.
That made an eighteen eighteen game. One of the reasons why Milton was getting some early runs a Ben Simmons was not available to night with a stomach bug, and also James and it's the third he was out of the lineup as well, so Shake Milton checked in tied up to score at eighteen. Who was even at thirty one? After one in the second quarter, some more back and forth scoreboard swaying pace between the seventy sixers and the Magic And this was one of the more high energy
plays of the night. Zat it would be to beat to the left side, TJ back to Joel lab play two hands, slam by and be good job, well done by McConnell. That evolving out of a dribble move in the lane, Joella be puts it in. He's got twelve. One of the few high energy plays where he seven sixers. We should say that made it fifty six fifty five sixers. They led sixty to fifty seven at the break, but I thought they were pretty fortunate be in front given
some of the turnover issues. Another looseness with their play on the defensive end of the floor shape Milton helping the Sixers keep pace in a head of a third corner. Here's shake with a shot hand good like he's a born score. He comes into the NBA and he doesn't look back, he just continues the score. He was a hot scorer for the Bluecoats, gets the field goal, makes it a one point game, so that brought these seventy
Sixers back within a point seventy eight seventy seven. From there, the Magic would rattle off the next thirteen points, all part of a thirty to five run during which the seventy Sixers did not score a single field goal. And that right there is the game. This end of the Sixers field goal drag and the Sixers with a drive by Bolden top top heres was a year per three
and it's in. How about that nice jobs. Here's Smith his first catch and he makes a three from the top of the yard, first field goal, tap, first career basket, Prezier Smith a straightaway three point in the seventy six Ers one nineteen ninety eight loss. The Magic six Ers shot under fifty percent from the field of Magic just over fifty one and a half percent Orlando with five more three pointers in the seventy six Ers eleven to six. The Magic outrebound in the seventy Sixers by five overall,
but seven on the offensive glass. Sixers with fifteen turnovers that resulted in twenty three Magic points. Nick Vusovic twenty eight and eleven even forty eight big in the second half, he finished with twenty four twenty and ten for Joel Embi, who had five turnovers in the game, thirteen for Jimmy Butler to Bias Harris with fifteen, Shake Milton a new NBA career high with thirteen. Zayer Smith played the final five and a half minutes. He had the three pointer,
plus a rebound and a steal for the Sixers. Sixers, with their second straight loss, are now forty seven and twenty seven on the year. The Magic improved to thirty six and thirty eight with their fifth straight win. Seventy six Ers back at home on Thursday, and they currently in the third spot in the East, will host the six seed Brooklyn Nets Brooklyn at thirty eight and thirty six. They are playing the Portland Trailblazers tonight. That game starts in about fifteen minutes on NBA TV if you want
to do some advanced scouting. The Nets will be back on the East Coast. However, they'll be playing their seventh straight That's almost unheard of in the NBA. There's seventh straight road game against the seventy Sixers on Thursday. The Sixers gotta get back in sync, get back to full strength and whatever it's been the last two games against lesser opponents, snap out of it. It has not been a good look the last two nights the seventy Sixers have played. Devon Gibbons is up next within the post.
Big thanks to Tyler Zuli and Brian McLaughlin Back at the studio now for the radio voice of the seventy six Tom mcguinnis, I'm Brian Seltzer, saying so long for now one final time. The final score, the Magic one nineteen, the seventy Sixers ninety eight have a great rest your Monday night from all of us here at 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.