March 11, 2025 • 24 mins
Hear Nick Nurse's postgame press conference (3:00) and the game recap, as the 76ers visited the Atlanta Hawks on Monday for their first meeting of the season. Plus stats, analysis, and audio highlights with Tom McGinnis and Matt Murphy.
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It's the Parks Casino postgame show after a one thirty
two one twenty three seventy six Ers loss to the
Hawks in Atlanta, second night of a back to back
for the team after beating Utah in Philadelphia in a
Sunday night game. It's the first of the three with
Atlanta over the next four weeks to close the regular season.
(02:18):
They'll be there again later this month and host them
towards the very end of the season in mid April.
So the Hawks get the first one. Another lengthy injury
report in this one, but Quentin Grimes led all scorers
with thirty five points, twenty four of those after halftime
earlier in the day before we get to Tom McGuinness
(02:39):
and hopefully hear from Sixers coach Nick Nurse. The Sixers
said that Paul George leftgroin's soreness, would not play tonight
or tomorrow or Wednesday in Toronto. And here is Nick
Nurse postgame, you.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Know, on the back to back and nine guys and
and you get, you know, going the wrong way a
little bit, but you know, I'm just trying to keep
them fighting you know, like and they and I did
it a great job of that of of continuing to
try to try to get back in the game, and
they almost did it. But but you know, you gotta,
you gotta, you gotta like that that they that they
(03:10):
keep fighting all the way through to the to the
final Buzzer talked about.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Still infusing that positivity on an early basis, is that
like an example of that where you guys, as the
coaching staff, them within themselves are still providing that.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I guess, well, I think that again like like you
never really know, like and I know this is like
just this is just the way it is, is you
never really know like what the energy levels are going
to be like on a back to back, and I
thought some guys weren't quite moving great and and you know,
just again like like just a half second, laid on
(03:48):
some stuff and you know, and we kind of got
some points across at the half. And you know, I thought,
like Boonena, for example, didn't play great first up, but
played really good in the second, right, so he kind
of he kind of got into the game and and
got going. Obviously Q got going, I thought, even Yabu,
I mean he didn't have a ton of offense, uh
for him tonight. But I thought he thought he played
(04:09):
a lot better in the second half. Ricky obviously had
a good second half too. So you know, you kind
of always talk about on the back to backs to
try to get the game to halftime and then and
then start, you know, start trying to figure out how
to how to come out of there and and and
you know what the adjustments are and all that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah, just a question about the first time you see
him now, but he's the biggest plug list he made
for you.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Listen. I think the biggest thing, uh, the player like
him or any any first year player, is what level
of confidence do they exude out there? And I think
he's got a lot of confidence, right. He he took
shots when they were there, He drove the ball when
he was supposed to, He vaulted up and scored, he
rebounded the ball.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And it's and he is really good composure, doesn't doesn't
really let any anything phase him. So I think that's
a great, great, two great qualities for a young player
to have.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I mentioned just maybe a step slow on some stuff
early on.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Just what what do you feel like were the biggest
factors that got you guys in the.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
In the hole that you did well.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
We were really having a hard time guarding uh Daniels
a penetration and then uh then man came in. He
was really getting to the baseline to the front of
the rim and and scoring some easy buckets. And then
they started kind of operating in the middle of the lane,
both of them, and we just couldn't we couldn't keep
them out of there. We couldn't anticipate the spin moves
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to to swarm them a little bit. And they were
they were physical, you know, kind of physically bullying us
down to the front of the rim time after time.
That that to me was probably the biggest thing. And
and we did want to kind of squeeze squeeze in
a little bit. I thought we started doing that. And
then the third they just they made a bunch of
you know, they made like all their open you know, kickouts,
which you know, they made the right reads. Give them credit,
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and they stepped into the shots. Give them credit, but
you're just hoping that some of those are you know,
that they're not going to make make you know, it
seemed like they made about five or six in row
they probably didn't, but it felt like it when you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Have so many guys out that are your starters, your leaders,
who who like on a night like tonight, sort of
stepped up in that regard, whether it's like in huddles, outs,
like on the floor, like who just noticed doing that?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
More of that today?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, I thought Jarrett did a good job again, I
thought he had He thought he had a really solid game.
I really liked the way he's spraying it around. He
does a good job of organizing at both ends, Jeff,
you know as well, both the point guards I thought
did it did a solid job of keeping us organized
and vocal in the timeouts and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, and then one for me is are you are
you starting to know or like recognize when Q does
get it going, Like is there something that you're like, Okay,
he's starting to get hot or he's he's starting to
find some things here now that you've seen him do this.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
A few times, Yeah, you know, obviously you could see
just a tremendous pop in his in his in his game,
the step backs, the vault ups. So he did a
lot of that, most of it, most of it on
his own. We did drop a couple of plays for
him where he made some threes on there too, but
mostly he just find it. I thought he did a
good job of organizing and he found some matchups to attack,
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sprinkled in just enough drives, I thought, you know, along
with the with the threes. So it's good. He's he
when he gets going, he's he can he can really
heat up.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
What is yeah, what is fitting when you see Nicholas
b still and again because he was a niceties.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, he's Nick was great for us. In fact, I
was just talking about him today with with one of
my coaches, and I also noticed that Risch kind of
has that Nick patumb quick release from the corner, you know,
when he catches it above his head, he just he
just goes right into that quick release motion, which which
is interesting. But Patom was really good for us, like
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in so many little ways that you wouldn't maybe appreciate.
One of them was he was an incredible inbound passer
late in games. He always delivered it safely, you know,
and not always. That's that's like believe it or not,
that's like a really special uh quality to have.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But great guy.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Great pro loved having him for.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
A one thirty two to one twenty three road loss
in Atlanta. Matt Murphy and Tom McGuinness here with you,
and Tom I heard you late in the game. I
don't have anything going back historically on the four for
four coaches challenges to per side tonight, but it is impressive,
especially because we often talk about that number of when
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you're in the fourth quarter of a game. Sometimes just
use it just because situation, and the number is like
a fifty three percent success rates over both teams to
go two for two tonight. I know the Sixers used
them earlier in the game. That was impressive, But how
about the fourth quarter fight that they showed, led by
Grimes and Council.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, first, Marv Albert used to say, our crack research staff.
Where's the research staff? Where are the numbers on that No.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You had a yes call late in the game. It
kind of sounded like Mark.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now, look, those guys battled, you know what I mean,
and they're gonna keep playing. They're certainly trying to keep
up scoring wise, and Grimes was really in a groove there.
But again, like coach said, the six Ers there were
something fundamentally defensively where they couldn't get stops and Atlanta
ended up with one hundred and thirty two points. Right,
that's fifteen over their average, which is top five in
(09:37):
the league. So that was obviously problematic. But the first
quarter both teams were like, you know, on fire, but
they kept going. They shot a great percentage throughout the
course of the game, and Daniels ended up with twenty
five points for them. So, yeah, the Sixers just didn't
have enough. And I thought rebounding was a key area.
(09:57):
They they had a dominant rebounding game, and their points
in the paint were just totally outsourced the Sixers in
that area. So those are things that hurt the Sixers
in the course of this one.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Forty eight thirty one on the glass, seventy six, forty
six points in the paint. We just heard from Nick
Nurse postgame and then pregame that Nurse answer about keeping
things together. What was it that stood out to you
about that one?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Well, funny because twice he was he referenced college about
you know, Gina Mozelle was doing most of the questioning,
and like the first reference was sometimes when you're studying
for an exam, you just got to stop it. You know,
you're not really absorbing. She was asking him like, how
do you keep going with your process and your rhythm,
(10:48):
because honestly, for these coaches, players obviously they're the ones performing,
but the coaches, they owe it to the players. And
this is how the coaches feel to put forth a
game plan that that those that's like eighty two final exams,
the preparation they do, and you know, it's going through
all the information and then coming up and distilling that
(11:08):
down to an actual game plan that you can present
and teach and try to get across to your ball club.
And coach was just saying it felt like college, or
sometimes you just like he's never gonna just take three
days off in a row, like he might take a
chunk of a day off and just get away just
because sometimes you just need to step away. So that
was the one college reference. The other one was talking
(11:30):
about these seasons are precious, you know, like you don't
you know they're not. It's not assumed you're gonna get
dozens and dozens of these there. It's like college, like
you know, the first year goes and then you realize
that the moments, the memories, the years are going to
be quickly going away, right, and and that was that
that's what he just you know, you get the sense
(11:52):
having been around Nurse now and we were around him
a little bit on a peripheral basis, and that the
Sixers played Toronto a number of times on a given year,
including in the playoffs. But when you're around somebody for
six seven eight months a year, like we are with
the Sixers coaches, you get the sense that he's it's
a deep rivers. He's pretty smart. And I just like
(12:13):
the way he processed that and just talking about being
positive and being kind and you know, like even though
it's a tough, tough year, you know, you want to
make it that everybody wants to come back in and
keep growing and developing. And you know, for these guys,
you know, dealing with the injuries, you still have to
put forth the best lineup possible and the best effort
(12:34):
and like I said, a game plan. All of that
I think is maybe what I was talking about.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And he's often during his downtime he comes to Blue
Coats games. And he was there on Friday when Council
scored forty with his sons and they had the kid
zone a closed off, so he was like showing he's
pointing out on the floor showing his kids basketball pointers
during the game because they couldn't play in the kids zone.
But he obviously spends so much of his time around
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the game.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
But the support for Mike Longebardi and the players and
the organization, that's especially coming off a road trip, you
know that that's a leader right there. So that's that's
pretty impressive. And I'm sure it meant a bunch of
those guys and the Ricky.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
All these guys, Alex Reese too. He's like, I know,
Alex didn't shoot the ball great that night for the
Blue Coats when I saw him, but I liked him
as a ball mover. And then the last two games
for the Sixers, he's been getting a lot of minutes,
so he got to play in front of the NBA
coach and now play for him down the stretch of
the season, which goes to Toronto nurses former home on Wednesday.
And the Raptors beat the Wizards tonight one nineteen one
(13:41):
oh four, so they entered the day separated in the standings,
the Sixers one one and a half games ahead, but
now with these results, it's a half game and the
Raptors played two against Washington. They almost beat him on Saturday,
but they had a game winner waved off. And they've
beaten the Sixers two times already this season. What are
your thoughts on this year's Raptors.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, we haven't seen him in quite a while. I
know they've played extremely hard in the games that we
talked about, you know, and they just have a whole
different look. But Barnes is such a really good player
and quickly he's done good. We haven't seen our j
I'm pretty sure he did play.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
He's back now, Yeah, he almost They had good balance
in the starting lineup with Barnes and Barrett and quickly right.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So, you know, they're definitely, you know, like on the rise.
I don't know how close they are in terms of,
you know, one or two players away, but we'll know
more on Wednesday, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Their leading scorer tonight was former College Park Skyhawk aj Lawson,
a career high thirty two points off the Toronto Raptors bench.
And the Sixers will be there on Wednesday, Tom, thank
you as always.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All right, Murph koknight, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Tom mcguinnis. After the Sixers game in Atlanta, one twenty
three Hawks will have his highlight calls. We'll run through
this game from start to finish after a quick break,
and then we'll also dive into the box score with
our stat of the game as well before and check
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check on the NBA standings too. So more to come.
You're listening to the seventy six Ers Postgame Show presented
by Parks Casino. Welcome back to the seventy six Ers
Postgame Show presented by Parks Casino. Second night of a
back to back for the Sixers, a home road back
to back from Philadelphia where they beat the Jazz to
Atlanta to meet the Hawks for the first time this season.
(15:27):
Let's hear how it sounded as called by Tom McGuinness
the Sixers and the Hawks in Atlanta. Matt Murphy back
with you. There were sixteen inactives in this game, including
between both teams, Joel Embiid, Paul George Tyrese, Maxi, Kelly
Oubre Junior, and then on the Hawks side, Trey Young,
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Caris Lavert and others. Drummond didn't play either for the
Sixers after Ubre and Drummond played last night against Utah.
First quarter as the Sixers started their fortieth, different starting
lineup of Jared Butler, Quinton Grimes, Lonnie Walker, the fourth,
Justin Edwards, and gershon Yabusele. Walker played with Brooklyn last year,
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but in fifty eight games didn't have any starts. He
starts for the Sixers in Atlanta, which features the number
one overall pick this year, Zachary Reza Sche. He had
eleven points in the first quarter for the Sixers. Walker
was coming off a twenty five point eleven rebound game
against the Jazz, and his layup in the first ties
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it at eighteen Sixers.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
In battle the side, Walker with it gets a screen
by padem Bona into the lane, leans in right hand layup,
upping good Man. He goes from place to place about
as quick as any player. Lonnie Walker with his first hoop,
Sixers tied at eighteen.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Walker in the Sixers in blue just a game ago
and I had Ago Hawks in white with some red
and yellow, and because of Riza SHA's eleven first quarter points,
they led thirty three thirty one. Walker had eleven total
in this game, two point lead for the home team
going into the second, where Resa Sha kept it going
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as part of a twenty three to eight run his
dunk caps.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
It shot clock down to six stout and outside right
walker from way outside wait short no oh congo with
the rebound, great feet of Resa Shae and secondary Resa
s slams at for Atlanta holy Man and he go
running in there to dunk that ball. Hawks by fourteen.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Fifty seven to forty three. Resa sha ends with a
line of twenty two points, eight rebounds, two assists. He
shot nine for sixteen, three for eight from three made
is only foul shot thirty one minutes. Second leading scorer
on their team behind Dyson Daniels. But the shooting slowed
down in the second quarter, particular from beyond the arc,
where the teams combined for only three threes. They both
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shot from the field in the first above fifty percent
from the field, not just from three, but the Sixers
did capture a little bit of momentum heading into the
halftime locker room. It's it's Rickey Council the fourth with
the steal. Then across the pac man and Edwards beats
the buzzer.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Here comes Daniels across the Hawks logo out of center
court gets red and white, looks like a pac man.
Rickey counsel stole the ball two seconds Tad Wards layup
god Sixers with under a second to go.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Edward's a six point game. Council had a big fourth
quarter still to come, where he would do most of
his scoring. But Atlanta outscored the Sixers thirty three to
twenty six in the second even with that late basket,
for a sixty six fifty seven halftime lead, and they
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would outscore Philadelphia by a similar margin in the third.
It was thirty one twenty three in the quarter. Despite
three threes in Q three for Jeff Dalton.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Junior, Grimes cuts it a corner. Jeff goes out top
the Yabusele three on o'clock. Here's doubt junior Kenny good
second straight train. It's good. He inbounded, he hustled beyond
the man. I'm the left perimeter and put it in.
Doubton Junior now four of five. He's got three threes,
a dozen points, six to s make it an eleven point.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Game, eighty one seventy Atlanta at the time. Seventeen points
for Doubton four for six from three in the game
in twenty eight minutes off the bench, one point shy
of his season high, which is also his career high
of eighteen ninety seven eighty was the score at the
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end of three. The Hawks were up. Sixers would make
a run, though, and it was not just Counsel, it
was Quinton Grimes who had an even better fourth quarter.
He scored seventeen in the fourth, twenty four in the
second half on a thirty five point night. Grimes on
the step.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Back Grimes is back he fires for three in that too.
Grimes now nine field goals, three of which are threes,
twenty one points, leading the Sixers six or so trail
by sixteen what twelve ninety six Hawks.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Bowl thirty five points for Grimes in thirty nine minutes,
fourteen for twenty five, shooting five for eleven from three,
two free throws on two tries, thirty five seven rebounds,
five assists, three steals the game high steals man. Quinton
Grimes continues to score very well for the Sixers. They
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would get within five late in this game because not
only did Quinton have seventeen in the fourth, Rickey Council
the fourth had fourteen of his nineteen. But the Hawks
do win it despite being outscored forty three to thirty five.
In the final quarter one, thirty two, one, twenty three.
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The team records are Philadelphia twenty two and forty two,
Atlanta thirty one and thirty four. The team totals on
the shooting front, the Hawks fifty four percent from the
floor forty point five from three, They were fifteen for
thirty seven and seventy nine just under seventy nine percent
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from the line, they only took fourteen. The Sixers were
fifty percent plus fifty and a half percent from the
floor thirty eight from three to Atlanta above forty Sixers
took five more sixteen for forty two from three, led
by Grimes five for eleven, and at the line they
were fifteen for twenty. Matt Murphy here with you. Our
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stat of the game is the points in the paint.
The Atlanta Hawks seventy six the seventy six Ers forty six,
a thirty point difference. That is not the most points
in the paint for any team this year, but it's
not far off. Been a number of seventy six point
in the paint games league wide. There only have been
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seven games where a team has scored eighty plus in
the paint, and that's all thirty teams, so seventy six
is a big number. It is our stat of the game.
Quinton Grimes led all scorers with thirty five. Clint Capella
and Zachary Reza sha tied for a game high in
rebounds with eight each. Reza Shay had twenty two. Diyson
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Daniels had the most assists seven points with his team
high twenty five points. Actually they they upped that to
nine by the end of this one. Nine assists twenty
five points, six rebounds, nine assists for Dyson Daniels. Grimes
did have more steals, though than the NBA's steals leader
Dyson Daniels, who had two. Grimes had three steals with
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the thirty five points. Two high scorers off the Hawk's
bench Terrence Man, the former Clipper they got at the
deadline in the Bogdan Bogdanovitch trade, George Niang, the former
sixer who they got from Cleveland in the DeAndre Hunter trade,
had eighteen nineteen for Man, fifteen for Okongwu. Mohammed Gay
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had fourteen as the starting power forward. Sixers bench had
three in double figures nineteen for Council, seventeen for Dalton,
twelve for a dem Bona following up the career high
fourteen points, fifteen rebounds and five blocks against Utah with
twelve points against Atlanta. Other than Grimes is thirty five
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in the starting lineup, eleven each for Jared Butler and
Lonnie Walker, the fourth seven for yabuseele in twenty eight minutes,
and six points for Justin Edwards in twenty one minutes.
Alex Reese had five points off the bench in eighteen
minutes of action. There were twelve games in the NBA tonight,
including some that have shifted the Sixers in the standings.
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Brooklyn has gone into eleventh. The Sixers have dropped to
twelfth via the tiebreaker of division record because Brooklyn and
Philadelphia split two two in the regular season. Chicago is
the tenth seed in the play in tournament. They beat
Indiana one twenty one to one to oh three, so
they put a little more distance between themselves and Brooklyn
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and Philadelphia. Toronto has closed the gap on the Sixers
as they've been having more success of late, and that'll
be the matchup on Wednesday. In Canada. It's a half
game behind Philadelphia for the Toronto Raptors, who beat the
Washington Wizards one nineteen one oh four, and it was
just a half second off their shot from beating the
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Wizards on Saturday this past Saturdays. So some teams right
near each other in the standings there and have shifted
around and they'll play Wednesday. That's the Sixers next opponent.
That'll be it for this version of the seventy six
Ers postgame Show presented by Parks Casino again the I'll
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score Atlanta one thirty two, Philadelphia one twenty three. The
G League version of this matchup is Tomorrow night and
Thursday morning in Delaware at Chase Fieldhouse the College Park
Skyhawks College Park, Georgia, the Hawks G League affiliate, will
be in town to play the Sixers G League team,
the Blue Coats, and I'll be on the call with
d Linem Those are both on ESPN Plus and thanks
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to our producers tonight for this show and the game,
Matt man Arix, Sean Rodman, Brendan Gunn and Mike Morano
and of course Tom McGuinness on the call. That game.
Wednesday is another seven to thirty pm Eastern road start
against the Raptors in Toronto, and our coverage here on
the Sixers Radio Network presented by Jackpot City Casino will
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begin at seven to twenty Eastern, with sixers and sixty
beforehand on ninety seven to five The Fanatic. Until then,
I'm Matt Murphy saying thanks so much for listening, have
a great Tuesday tomorrow, and take care
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It's the Parks Casino postgame show after a one thirty
two one twenty three seventy six Ers loss to the
Hawks in Atlanta, second night of a back to back
for the team after beating Utah in Philadelphia in a
Sunday night game. It's the first of the three with
Atlanta over the next four weeks to close the regular season.
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They'll be there again later this month and host them
towards the very end of the season in mid April.
So the Hawks get the first one. Another lengthy injury
report in this one, but Quentin Grimes led all scorers
with thirty five points, twenty four of those after halftime
earlier in the day before we get to Tom McGuinness
(02:39):
and hopefully hear from Sixers coach Nick Nurse. The Sixers
said that Paul George leftgroin's soreness, would not play tonight
or tomorrow or Wednesday in Toronto. And here is Nick
Nurse postgame, you.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Know, on the back to back and nine guys and
and you get, you know, going the wrong way a
little bit, but you know, I'm just trying to keep
them fighting you know, like and they and I did
it a great job of that of of continuing to
try to try to get back in the game, and
they almost did it. But but you know, you gotta,
you gotta, you gotta like that that they that they
(03:10):
keep fighting all the way through to the to the
final Buzzer talked about.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Still infusing that positivity on an early basis, is that
like an example of that where you guys, as the
coaching staff, them within themselves are still providing that.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I guess, well, I think that again like like you
never really know, like and I know this is like
just this is just the way it is, is you
never really know like what the energy levels are going
to be like on a back to back, and I
thought some guys weren't quite moving great and and you know,
just again like like just a half second, laid on
(03:48):
some stuff and you know, and we kind of got
some points across at the half. And you know, I thought,
like Boonena, for example, didn't play great first up, but
played really good in the second, right, so he kind
of he kind of got into the game and and
got going. Obviously Q got going, I thought, even Yabu,
I mean he didn't have a ton of offense, uh
for him tonight. But I thought he thought he played
(04:09):
a lot better in the second half. Ricky obviously had
a good second half too. So you know, you kind
of always talk about on the back to backs to
try to get the game to halftime and then and
then start, you know, start trying to figure out how
to how to come out of there and and and
you know what the adjustments are and all that kind
of stuff.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah, just a question about the first time you see
him now, but he's the biggest plug list he made
for you.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Listen. I think the biggest thing, uh, the player like
him or any any first year player, is what level
of confidence do they exude out there? And I think
he's got a lot of confidence, right. He he took
shots when they were there, He drove the ball when
he was supposed to, He vaulted up and scored, he
rebounded the ball.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And it's and he is really good composure, doesn't doesn't
really let any anything phase him. So I think that's
a great, great, two great qualities for a young player
to have.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I mentioned just maybe a step slow on some stuff
early on.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Just what what do you feel like were the biggest
factors that got you guys in the.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
In the hole that you did well.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
We were really having a hard time guarding uh Daniels
a penetration and then uh then man came in. He
was really getting to the baseline to the front of
the rim and and scoring some easy buckets. And then
they started kind of operating in the middle of the lane,
both of them, and we just couldn't we couldn't keep
them out of there. We couldn't anticipate the spin moves
(05:38):
to to swarm them a little bit. And they were
they were physical, you know, kind of physically bullying us
down to the front of the rim time after time.
That that to me was probably the biggest thing. And
and we did want to kind of squeeze squeeze in
a little bit. I thought we started doing that. And
then the third they just they made a bunch of
you know, they made like all their open you know, kickouts,
which you know, they made the right reads. Give them credit,
(06:00):
and they stepped into the shots. Give them credit, but
you're just hoping that some of those are you know,
that they're not going to make make you know, it
seemed like they made about five or six in row
they probably didn't, but it felt like it when you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Have so many guys out that are your starters, your leaders,
who who like on a night like tonight, sort of
stepped up in that regard, whether it's like in huddles, outs,
like on the floor, like who just noticed doing that?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
More of that today?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well, I thought Jarrett did a good job again, I
thought he had He thought he had a really solid game.
I really liked the way he's spraying it around. He
does a good job of organizing at both ends, Jeff,
you know as well, both the point guards I thought
did it did a solid job of keeping us organized
and vocal in the timeouts and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, and then one for me is are you are
you starting to know or like recognize when Q does
get it going, Like is there something that you're like, Okay,
he's starting to get hot or he's he's starting to
find some things here now that you've seen him do this.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
A few times, Yeah, you know, obviously you could see
just a tremendous pop in his in his in his game,
the step backs, the vault ups. So he did a
lot of that, most of it, most of it on
his own. We did drop a couple of plays for
him where he made some threes on there too, but
mostly he just find it. I thought he did a
good job of organizing and he found some matchups to attack,
(07:18):
sprinkled in just enough drives, I thought, you know, along
with the with the threes. So it's good. He's he
when he gets going, he's he can he can really
heat up.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
What is yeah, what is fitting when you see Nicholas
b still and again because he was a niceties.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, he's Nick was great for us. In fact, I
was just talking about him today with with one of
my coaches, and I also noticed that Risch kind of
has that Nick patumb quick release from the corner, you know,
when he catches it above his head, he just he
just goes right into that quick release motion, which which
is interesting. But Patom was really good for us, like
(08:01):
in so many little ways that you wouldn't maybe appreciate.
One of them was he was an incredible inbound passer
late in games. He always delivered it safely, you know,
and not always. That's that's like believe it or not,
that's like a really special uh quality to have.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
But great guy.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Great pro loved having him for.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
A one thirty two to one twenty three road loss
in Atlanta. Matt Murphy and Tom McGuinness here with you,
and Tom I heard you late in the game. I
don't have anything going back historically on the four for
four coaches challenges to per side tonight, but it is impressive,
especially because we often talk about that number of when
(08:43):
you're in the fourth quarter of a game. Sometimes just
use it just because situation, and the number is like
a fifty three percent success rates over both teams to
go two for two tonight. I know the Sixers used
them earlier in the game. That was impressive, But how
about the fourth quarter fight that they showed, led by
Grimes and Council.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, first, Marv Albert used to say, our crack research staff.
Where's the research staff? Where are the numbers on that No.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You had a yes call late in the game. It
kind of sounded like Mark.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Now, look, those guys battled, you know what I mean,
and they're gonna keep playing. They're certainly trying to keep
up scoring wise, and Grimes was really in a groove there.
But again, like coach said, the six Ers there were
something fundamentally defensively where they couldn't get stops and Atlanta
ended up with one hundred and thirty two points. Right,
that's fifteen over their average, which is top five in
(09:37):
the league. So that was obviously problematic. But the first
quarter both teams were like, you know, on fire, but
they kept going. They shot a great percentage throughout the
course of the game, and Daniels ended up with twenty
five points for them. So, yeah, the Sixers just didn't
have enough. And I thought rebounding was a key area.
(09:57):
They they had a dominant rebounding game, and their points
in the paint were just totally outsourced the Sixers in
that area. So those are things that hurt the Sixers
in the course of this one.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Forty eight thirty one on the glass, seventy six, forty
six points in the paint. We just heard from Nick
Nurse postgame and then pregame that Nurse answer about keeping
things together. What was it that stood out to you
about that one?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Well, funny because twice he was he referenced college about
you know, Gina Mozelle was doing most of the questioning,
and like the first reference was sometimes when you're studying
for an exam, you just got to stop it. You know,
you're not really absorbing. She was asking him like, how
do you keep going with your process and your rhythm,
(10:48):
because honestly, for these coaches, players obviously they're the ones performing,
but the coaches, they owe it to the players. And
this is how the coaches feel to put forth a
game plan that that those that's like eighty two final exams,
the preparation they do, and you know, it's going through
all the information and then coming up and distilling that
(11:08):
down to an actual game plan that you can present
and teach and try to get across to your ball club.
And coach was just saying it felt like college, or
sometimes you just like he's never gonna just take three
days off in a row, like he might take a
chunk of a day off and just get away just
because sometimes you just need to step away. So that
was the one college reference. The other one was talking
(11:30):
about these seasons are precious, you know, like you don't
you know they're not. It's not assumed you're gonna get
dozens and dozens of these there. It's like college, like
you know, the first year goes and then you realize
that the moments, the memories, the years are going to
be quickly going away, right, and and that was that
that's what he just you know, you get the sense
(11:52):
having been around Nurse now and we were around him
a little bit on a peripheral basis, and that the
Sixers played Toronto a number of times on a given year,
including in the playoffs. But when you're around somebody for
six seven eight months a year, like we are with
the Sixers coaches, you get the sense that he's it's
a deep rivers. He's pretty smart. And I just like
(12:13):
the way he processed that and just talking about being
positive and being kind and you know, like even though
it's a tough, tough year, you know, you want to
make it that everybody wants to come back in and
keep growing and developing. And you know, for these guys,
you know, dealing with the injuries, you still have to
put forth the best lineup possible and the best effort
(12:34):
and like I said, a game plan. All of that
I think is maybe what I was talking about.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And he's often during his downtime he comes to Blue
Coats games. And he was there on Friday when Council
scored forty with his sons and they had the kid
zone a closed off, so he was like showing he's
pointing out on the floor showing his kids basketball pointers
during the game because they couldn't play in the kids zone.
But he obviously spends so much of his time around
(13:00):
the game.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
But the support for Mike Longebardi and the players and
the organization, that's especially coming off a road trip, you
know that that's a leader right there. So that's that's
pretty impressive. And I'm sure it meant a bunch of
those guys and the Ricky.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
All these guys, Alex Reese too. He's like, I know,
Alex didn't shoot the ball great that night for the
Blue Coats when I saw him, but I liked him
as a ball mover. And then the last two games
for the Sixers, he's been getting a lot of minutes,
so he got to play in front of the NBA
coach and now play for him down the stretch of
the season, which goes to Toronto nurses former home on Wednesday.
And the Raptors beat the Wizards tonight one nineteen one
(13:41):
oh four, so they entered the day separated in the standings,
the Sixers one one and a half games ahead, but
now with these results, it's a half game and the
Raptors played two against Washington. They almost beat him on Saturday,
but they had a game winner waved off. And they've
beaten the Sixers two times already this season. What are
your thoughts on this year's Raptors.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, we haven't seen him in quite a while. I
know they've played extremely hard in the games that we
talked about, you know, and they just have a whole
different look. But Barnes is such a really good player
and quickly he's done good. We haven't seen our j
I'm pretty sure he did play.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
He's back now, Yeah, he almost They had good balance
in the starting lineup with Barnes and Barrett and quickly right.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
So, you know, they're definitely, you know, like on the rise.
I don't know how close they are in terms of,
you know, one or two players away, but we'll know
more on Wednesday, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Their leading scorer tonight was former College Park Skyhawk aj Lawson,
a career high thirty two points off the Toronto Raptors bench.
And the Sixers will be there on Wednesday, Tom, thank
you as always.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
All right, Murph koknight, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Tom mcguinnis. After the Sixers game in Atlanta, one twenty
three Hawks will have his highlight calls. We'll run through
this game from start to finish after a quick break,
and then we'll also dive into the box score with
our stat of the game as well before and check
(15:05):
check on the NBA standings too. So more to come.
You're listening to the seventy six Ers Postgame Show presented
by Parks Casino. Welcome back to the seventy six Ers
Postgame Show presented by Parks Casino. Second night of a
back to back for the Sixers, a home road back
to back from Philadelphia where they beat the Jazz to
Atlanta to meet the Hawks for the first time this season.
(15:27):
Let's hear how it sounded as called by Tom McGuinness
the Sixers and the Hawks in Atlanta. Matt Murphy back
with you. There were sixteen inactives in this game, including
between both teams, Joel Embiid, Paul George Tyrese, Maxi, Kelly
Oubre Junior, and then on the Hawks side, Trey Young,
(15:48):
Caris Lavert and others. Drummond didn't play either for the
Sixers after Ubre and Drummond played last night against Utah.
First quarter as the Sixers started their fortieth, different starting
lineup of Jared Butler, Quinton Grimes, Lonnie Walker, the fourth,
Justin Edwards, and gershon Yabusele. Walker played with Brooklyn last year,
(16:10):
but in fifty eight games didn't have any starts. He
starts for the Sixers in Atlanta, which features the number
one overall pick this year, Zachary Reza Sche. He had
eleven points in the first quarter for the Sixers. Walker
was coming off a twenty five point eleven rebound game
against the Jazz, and his layup in the first ties
(16:30):
it at eighteen Sixers.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
In battle the side, Walker with it gets a screen
by padem Bona into the lane, leans in right hand layup,
upping good Man. He goes from place to place about
as quick as any player. Lonnie Walker with his first hoop,
Sixers tied at eighteen.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Walker in the Sixers in blue just a game ago
and I had Ago Hawks in white with some red
and yellow, and because of Riza SHA's eleven first quarter points,
they led thirty three thirty one. Walker had eleven total
in this game, two point lead for the home team
going into the second, where Resa Sha kept it going
(17:09):
as part of a twenty three to eight run his
dunk caps.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
It shot clock down to six stout and outside right
walker from way outside wait short no oh congo with
the rebound, great feet of Resa Shae and secondary Resa
s slams at for Atlanta holy Man and he go
running in there to dunk that ball. Hawks by fourteen.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Fifty seven to forty three. Resa sha ends with a
line of twenty two points, eight rebounds, two assists. He
shot nine for sixteen, three for eight from three made
is only foul shot thirty one minutes. Second leading scorer
on their team behind Dyson Daniels. But the shooting slowed
down in the second quarter, particular from beyond the arc,
where the teams combined for only three threes. They both
(17:53):
shot from the field in the first above fifty percent
from the field, not just from three, but the Sixers
did capture a little bit of momentum heading into the
halftime locker room. It's it's Rickey Council the fourth with
the steal. Then across the pac man and Edwards beats
the buzzer.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Here comes Daniels across the Hawks logo out of center
court gets red and white, looks like a pac man.
Rickey counsel stole the ball two seconds Tad Wards layup
god Sixers with under a second to go.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Edward's a six point game. Council had a big fourth
quarter still to come, where he would do most of
his scoring. But Atlanta outscored the Sixers thirty three to
twenty six in the second even with that late basket,
for a sixty six fifty seven halftime lead, and they
(18:45):
would outscore Philadelphia by a similar margin in the third.
It was thirty one twenty three in the quarter. Despite
three threes in Q three for Jeff Dalton.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Junior, Grimes cuts it a corner. Jeff goes out top
the Yabusele three on o'clock. Here's doubt junior Kenny good
second straight train. It's good. He inbounded, he hustled beyond
the man. I'm the left perimeter and put it in.
Doubton Junior now four of five. He's got three threes,
a dozen points, six to s make it an eleven point.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Game, eighty one seventy Atlanta at the time. Seventeen points
for Doubton four for six from three in the game
in twenty eight minutes off the bench, one point shy
of his season high, which is also his career high
of eighteen ninety seven eighty was the score at the
(19:37):
end of three. The Hawks were up. Sixers would make
a run, though, and it was not just Counsel, it
was Quinton Grimes who had an even better fourth quarter.
He scored seventeen in the fourth, twenty four in the
second half on a thirty five point night. Grimes on
the step.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Back Grimes is back he fires for three in that too.
Grimes now nine field goals, three of which are threes,
twenty one points, leading the Sixers six or so trail
by sixteen what twelve ninety six Hawks.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Bowl thirty five points for Grimes in thirty nine minutes,
fourteen for twenty five, shooting five for eleven from three,
two free throws on two tries, thirty five seven rebounds,
five assists, three steals the game high steals man. Quinton
Grimes continues to score very well for the Sixers. They
(20:29):
would get within five late in this game because not
only did Quinton have seventeen in the fourth, Rickey Council
the fourth had fourteen of his nineteen. But the Hawks
do win it despite being outscored forty three to thirty five.
In the final quarter one, thirty two, one, twenty three.
(20:52):
The team records are Philadelphia twenty two and forty two,
Atlanta thirty one and thirty four. The team totals on
the shooting front, the Hawks fifty four percent from the
floor forty point five from three, They were fifteen for
thirty seven and seventy nine just under seventy nine percent
(21:14):
from the line, they only took fourteen. The Sixers were
fifty percent plus fifty and a half percent from the
floor thirty eight from three to Atlanta above forty Sixers
took five more sixteen for forty two from three, led
by Grimes five for eleven, and at the line they
were fifteen for twenty. Matt Murphy here with you. Our
(21:34):
stat of the game is the points in the paint.
The Atlanta Hawks seventy six the seventy six Ers forty six,
a thirty point difference. That is not the most points
in the paint for any team this year, but it's
not far off. Been a number of seventy six point
in the paint games league wide. There only have been
(21:55):
seven games where a team has scored eighty plus in
the paint, and that's all thirty teams, so seventy six
is a big number. It is our stat of the game.
Quinton Grimes led all scorers with thirty five. Clint Capella
and Zachary Reza sha tied for a game high in
rebounds with eight each. Reza Shay had twenty two. Diyson
(22:15):
Daniels had the most assists seven points with his team
high twenty five points. Actually they they upped that to
nine by the end of this one. Nine assists twenty
five points, six rebounds, nine assists for Dyson Daniels. Grimes
did have more steals, though than the NBA's steals leader
Dyson Daniels, who had two. Grimes had three steals with
(22:38):
the thirty five points. Two high scorers off the Hawk's
bench Terrence Man, the former Clipper they got at the
deadline in the Bogdan Bogdanovitch trade, George Niang, the former
sixer who they got from Cleveland in the DeAndre Hunter trade,
had eighteen nineteen for Man, fifteen for Okongwu. Mohammed Gay
(23:01):
had fourteen as the starting power forward. Sixers bench had
three in double figures nineteen for Council, seventeen for Dalton,
twelve for a dem Bona following up the career high
fourteen points, fifteen rebounds and five blocks against Utah with
twelve points against Atlanta. Other than Grimes is thirty five
(23:22):
in the starting lineup, eleven each for Jared Butler and
Lonnie Walker, the fourth seven for yabuseele in twenty eight minutes,
and six points for Justin Edwards in twenty one minutes.
Alex Reese had five points off the bench in eighteen
minutes of action. There were twelve games in the NBA tonight,
including some that have shifted the Sixers in the standings.
(23:43):
Brooklyn has gone into eleventh. The Sixers have dropped to
twelfth via the tiebreaker of division record because Brooklyn and
Philadelphia split two two in the regular season. Chicago is
the tenth seed in the play in tournament. They beat
Indiana one twenty one to one to oh three, so
they put a little more distance between themselves and Brooklyn
(24:07):
and Philadelphia. Toronto has closed the gap on the Sixers
as they've been having more success of late, and that'll
be the matchup on Wednesday. In Canada. It's a half
game behind Philadelphia for the Toronto Raptors, who beat the
Washington Wizards one nineteen one oh four, and it was
just a half second off their shot from beating the
(24:28):
Wizards on Saturday this past Saturdays. So some teams right
near each other in the standings there and have shifted
around and they'll play Wednesday. That's the Sixers next opponent.
That'll be it for this version of the seventy six
Ers postgame Show presented by Parks Casino again the I'll
(24:49):
score Atlanta one thirty two, Philadelphia one twenty three. The
G League version of this matchup is Tomorrow night and
Thursday morning in Delaware at Chase Fieldhouse the College Park
Skyhawks College Park, Georgia, the Hawks G League affiliate, will
be in town to play the Sixers G League team,
the Blue Coats, and I'll be on the call with
d Linem Those are both on ESPN Plus and thanks
(25:12):
to our producers tonight for this show and the game,
Matt man Arix, Sean Rodman, Brendan Gunn and Mike Morano
and of course Tom McGuinness on the call. That game.
Wednesday is another seven to thirty pm Eastern road start
against the Raptors in Toronto, and our coverage here on
the Sixers Radio Network presented by Jackpot City Casino will
(25:33):
begin at seven to twenty Eastern, with sixers and sixty
beforehand on ninety seven to five The Fanatic. Until then,
I'm Matt Murphy saying thanks so much for listening, have
a great Tuesday tomorrow, and take care
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