March 31, 2025 • 35 mins
Hear Nick Nurse's postgame press conference (8:15) and the game recap, as the 76ers hosted the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night. Plus stats, analysis, and audio highlights with Tom McGinnis and Matt Murphy.
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the seventy six Ers postgame show presented by Parks Casino,
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second night of a back to back in the Books,
the final back to back of the season for the Sixers,
their fifteenth overall, their fifth in the month of March.
They fall to the Raptors one twenty seven, one oh nine.
I'm Matt Murphy. I'll be rejoined in a moment by
Tom McGinnis. We hope to hear from Sixers head coach
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Nick Nurse, which is a regular part of our postgame coverage.
Leading scorer in the game was RJ. Barrett with thirty
one points. Leading rebounder was Ricky Counsel, the fourth of
the Sixers, with eleven boards. Both teams had forty six total.
Jamal shed had the most assist with nine. He had
eleven points in nine assists, only one turnover, but not
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a great shooting night for the point guard four of fourteen. Council,
with his eleven rebounds, had seventeen points. Remember his season
high end a career high as twenty not too long
ago in that San Antonio road game, so he had
seventeen and eleven. The Sixers were led in scoring by
Lonnie Walker, the fourth with twenty three points points. He
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tied a career high with seven assists. Six players in
double figures for both teams. A dem Bona tied a
career high with five blocked shots with his fourteen points
and eight rebounds in almost twenty seven minutes. Justin Edwards'
streak of seven games with at least fifteen points has
come to an end. He in twenty seven minutes and
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thirty two seconds had twelve points. Jared Butler had fifteen
points and six assists after nineteen points and ten assists
last night in the lost to Miami and Jalen Hoods.
Chafino comes up one point shy of his NBA career high,
which was nineteen in Dallas earlier this month. His eighteen
points come on six of eight shooting one for two
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from three and a perfect five for five at the
line in almost twenty seven minutes. As a reserve for
the Sixers on a two way deal with the Blue Coats,
who season is in the books. They ended with a
win yesterday over Toronto's G League team, the Raptors, nine
to zero five. Jeff Douton Junior had twenty twenty seven
in that game, but he was inactive for the Sixers tonight.
There's two more games on a two way deal that
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Dalbton can be active in the NBA this season. The
Sixers fall to twenty three and fifty two. They have
lost eight in a row. Toronto is twenty eight and
forty seven. They have won four in a row.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Tom McGinnis, Murph, I just is it, like, so he's
played thirty nine games out.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It's not just played, it's in uniform for fifty So
there's been nine games DMP where he has not gotten in. Right,
But they changed it when it started with the two
way deals, there's been changes there. First you could only
have two guys on that type of contract. Now you
can have three. And it used to be fifty days
with the NBA club. Now it's fifty games active with
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the NBA club.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Because look, I mean that is right. I remember that
because that's what coach said, But like two more would
be forty one.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You're like, when's it a half? But it's not.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's fifty games.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Now it is confusing because when people they'll search him
up on Basketball Friends ORNBA dot com, and that game's
played number is not just is not forty eight.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
You have to look a little deeper.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
In the game logs and see that he which games
he was activating.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But his coach said it has been beneficial, like because
then the players in the G League on a two
way contract, can make more money, and yet they're still
available to the G League team to be able to
develop more. So there's certainly been a lot of positive
that's I thought the way that coach was talking about
it correct.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And the addition of the third two way deal makes
the G League games more interesting. Two fans of the
NBA team more competitive, higher level of talent in the
G League. Dalton had twenty seven, yes a Jared Roaden
had forty for the Raptors nine ozho five and he
had twenty five in the NBA against the Sixers earlier
this month. Now he got hurt in that game, so
he was inactive for Toronto tonight.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I guess we could begin with turnovers.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Tom because too many and eighteen in each of these games.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
And do you think that's just a product of not
a normal rotation.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Sort of like one thing that's trouble at least to
me anyway, Like when you see the same type of
turnover that that like you'd like to see correctable errors
and that like to me, Jared Butler is he's made
some of the he like, I don't know what his
total was in turns with turnovers too, Yeah, like, so, okay,
that's not too bad. So maybe I don't I don't
go there. But that's something that that I feel like,
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you know, you because you should be able to learn
from your own mistakes, right like, not even like be
told by a coach. So that's yeah, there was just
so part of it is for sure, you would you
would think that part of it is that they haven't
played together and they're not sure where guy's going and
those types of things. But yeah, that was a problem.
It sounds like, well, no, coaches is not quite there,
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a little premature, but no, I thought like Barrett and
Barnes set a tone for them. I thought Jacobe Walter
played well and they just took over. And the three
point shooting became a big, a big difference right like
in the game, and.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Sixers only made three by halftime, and as they got
outscored in the second quarter thirty one eighteen, then they
came out in the third, they only took two and
they made both threes the Sixers in the third quarter,
they end eight of twenty nine compared to seventeen for
ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
The Raptors opened the twenty one pointly, but all of
a sudden it got shrunk down. But again, like I thought,
they were very they were very efficient. They're they're playing
pretty well the Raptors right now. They won four in a.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Row, and to be fair, their winning streak was Washington, Brooklyn, Charlotte.
But Washington did just beat the Sixers on Wednesday of
last week. So three point shooting turnovers. It was five
each for a dem Bona and Jalen Hood Chaffino in
the turnover department. And that's something that I talked about
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at halftime. Lonnie Walker mentioned earlier this week. Point five
decisions like yeah, making a decision in half a second,
and that's important. And here's coach Nurse now.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Is is one of the big things I think a
little a little bit uh turnovers as well. Obviously they
in the offensive rebounding and they did the they did
the numbers game pretty good tonight, high turnovers for US,
lots of offensive rebounds and hit the threes. But you know, again,
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I think you know, Bona had a good night off
a back to back, which was good to see. Blocks
protecting the ram. It's good to see Lonnie. I think
Lonnie's back and recovered good to see as well. And
and that was a better night in some respects for
Hoods Chaffino as well, who has you know, has been
struggling a little bit lately as well. So it's about it.
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Did you like Ricky being able to get into the
paint a little bit more tonight than than maybe in
recent game.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, he did.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
He did a decent job. I like again his rebounding.
It's one of the big things. Eleven boards, nine defensive
and then you know, I talked about this a couple
of games ago. When he gets the defensive rebound, we
want him to turn and push and get to the paint.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And create some offense.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
That we did a poor job in the second quarter
of We got into the paint, but we took way
too many shots over multiple defenders instead of making the
right raad out and that sent us on a on
a little bit of well a lot of bit of
a dry spell, which also translated to some tough transition
defensive situations.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Once he got healthy, I guess what was sort of
the steps with him to to sort of get back.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
To feeling like yeah, I mean I think that you know,
we we know kind of the way we went through
the protocol and getting him back and he just wasn't
still wasn't quite feeling right, so we kind of had
to go back through it again. But obviously he's he's,
you know, feeling a lot better. I thought he, you know,
was making good decisions tonight, you know, the eating score,
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but also the leading assist guy, right, so he was
finding the right plays out of there too. I just
thought he I just thought he did a good job
of attacking and reading, reading what was in front of him.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
All night long, played really solid.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I thought Nikodm is up to after tonight seventy percent
of the free throw line for the season. How much
have you guys changed or tweaked any of his mechanics.
I mean, we see him after practices working on three specifically,
which that's not part of the game flow yet, but
getting to the seventy percent threshold is probably pretty important
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for him.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah, So so our guys have worked with him right
right from when we drafted him of getting the mechanics
a little more solid, and you can see that showing
up in the in the free throws because he does
have the time to kind of you know, I think
I think the next step for him is is again
being able to do that a little bit faster clip right,
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like actually like being able to stop in there and
shoot those you know one there's when there's some speed
and game flow, but that takes some time when you've
tweaked some mechanics. But he works pretty hard. He's also
got really good touch. He's got pretty good feel for
arc and distance and stuff like that. So again it's
just got to be wrapped like crazy till he gets
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more comfortable and he can speed it up.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Piggybacking off of that a little bit, there was one
drive he had where he made a pretty nice move
underneath Robinson just couldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Quite finish it.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
But is that kind of going into what you were
talking about before, wanting to see guys do different things.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It's kind of maybe.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Explore he can do that a little bit.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I think he can drive it a little bit against
you know, and I think that's part of what you
got to be able to do. I mean, the main
thing is are you going to be a safe ball
transfer guy? You know, when you're trailing and can you
get it side to side and can you do the
d h os and and all that kind of stuff.
But when there's extreme pressure, which which there was tonight.
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Then you're gonna have to beat your guy once in
a while and make them pay for that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So it's good.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I wish that, you know, some of those dump off
dunks that he had, there was probably another.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Half dozen to ten of those available.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I wish we would have kept finding him on those
because their big was protecting the rim and we weren't
finishing very well. I think the play was to continue
to drop off to him. I love that when he
kind of comes in from the either the corner, the
or the dunker spot and finishes.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
That's what you got. You got to make that big
pay for overhelping.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
And that's that's good too, because he's like super explosive
in those.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Like those are those are? Those are plays that again though.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
If you can make those consistently, then the then the
layups will start happening because the big will be a
little bit, you know, a little bit less aggressive to
go protect the rim.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
What take play around with shooting out.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Today shooting as well.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Yeah, I just think he finally got some clearance on
on some stuff. You know, the first few games he
was really able to kind of get to his spots
and bounce people.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
And get back and shoot again.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Pretty good touch and good shooter once he gets in
you know, you know, feeling good. It just felt like
he had a little bit more more pop and bounce tonight.
And I think that, uh, you know again, I think
he just looked like he was feeling better to me,
and and that always helps for him to be able
to get to those spots.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I think he's pretty good. He's pretty pretty strong.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
He can again take the physical contact and score some of.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Those create the space, uh, with the.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Physicality sometimes and again I think he's think he's a
good shooter with good touch once he once he does
do that.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, thank you, all right.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Thanks, all right, that's Nick Nurse.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
This is the Parks Casino postgame show after a one
twenty seven one nine Sixers loss at home through the
Toronto Raptors. I'm Matt Murphy with Tom McGinnis, Ricky Counsel
the fourth. His rebounding was mentioned, and he's had multiple
ten rebound games in his first two NBA seasons, but
eleven tonight is a new career high on the glass
for Council. With seventeen points. Lonnie Walker comes up two
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point shy of his season high with a team best
twenty three points and he had a team high seven assists,
which is tied for his NBA career high in assist
Tom you were talking about Vince Carter on the Toronto telecast.
Thirtieth season for you, thirtieth season for the Raptors, your
starts coincided.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
No, we played their first ever game. It was in
the I've already told this at the risk of repeating,
but it was a preseason game in Halifax, Nova Scotia
in October of nineteen ninety five. And then we played
another game. It was like October sixteenth in Saint John,
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New Brunswick, right on the Bay of Fundy with one
of the biggest title shifts.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
On the East Coast. Huge.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
There was a Coastguard station there. The boats were like
forty feet down and so yeah, and the first game
was reverential. The fans and Halifax were like it was
like a church. In fact, our buddy Ed Pinkney was
on the Raptor, so was John Sally, and they were
on the bench saying, man, these fans are so polite.
Isaiah Thomas was the GM of the Rappers, I think,
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Butch Carter was the coach for Toronto John Lucas was
the coach of the Sixers Stackhouse. It was his first game.
The Sixers had already played a preseason game in the
Palace of Auburn Hills. And then Halifax is in the
Atlantic time zone, which is actually an hour ahead of
the Eastern time zone. But yeah, early on they played
at SkyDome which is now the Rogers Center. So that
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was one of those huge stadiums where they like won
fifth of it was used for basketball.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
That was wild.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
They played at the end of Allen Iverson's rookie year,
so it was ninety six, well, I guess it would
have been five ninety six ninety seven. Anyway, they played
a game at Maple Leaf Gardens. I think that was
the game where Allan Dunk's a free throw and Marcus
Camby was on the Raptors. The Raptors obviously were an
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expansion franchise. It was right when Vancouver got into the
NBA as well. That was a nice trip right going
up to Vancouver. They played at GM Place, and so
I think Stu Jackson was the coach of the I
don't know if he was the first coach, but he
was one of the coaches of the Vancouver Grizzlies. Right,
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so the Raptors goes back. They dominated the series for
a stretch, but then recently the Sixers have done well.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
This is the first season sweep, yeah, since twenty fifteen
sixteen and four games sweep for the Raptors over the
Sixers this season.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, and they swept the Sixers swept the Raptors last year.
So tonight I was talking to coach about that twenty
nineteen series. And again, most coaches they have like photographic memories.
You know, you could just and I have a pretty
good recall too, but like.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, who wouldn't have wanted to hear all those Raptors stories?
Is that you just told?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, Like I said, it's probably better suited for a podcast,
just longer form. But yeah, he was. He was really good,
and they talked about the series. My point was everyone
remembers the Kawhi Leonard shot, and understandably so.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But in that game, the.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Sixers they you know, they were like over amped, and
but the Sixer is like at halftime, I'm almost positive
had thirteen turnovers in like seven or eight in the
first quarter, and those are boxed opportunities that end up
costs you so you think about the last shot. But
then at the very end, you know, the Sixers they
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played Ben Simmons in the dunker spot and he really
never came out of Jimmy Butler handled the ball but
down the stretch. And again this is just an observation.
It's so hard to score in the playoffs, particularly in
a seventh game where you've already this is like the
eleventh time you've played a team in a given a
rival because you're playing four times in the regular season,
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seven games in a playoff, there are no secrets. And
like the Sixers couldn't score. They had two shot clock violations.
Their one basket was a Jimmy Butler steel in a
court length drive. And then coach you know recalled that
Siakam missed two free throws with give or take twenty
eight seconds to Goam was really good.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That was he was. That was when he was really.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
On the rise and gets all and Abaca too, and
that's what.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
They were saying that that when they when they put
those two guys in there, that shifted the series and
at Bacca was really good. So this ties me back
into bona.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Just to bring it back to tonight with coach talking
about his shooting and his three point shooting. But and
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe it doesn't have
a place in today's game, But wouldn't you want it?
Because Bona he has had the dunks and his coach
said that he felt like there was a few more
of those at the aveil, But like, couldn't he shoot
like a short corner twelve foot face up shot or
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from the elbow. Wouldn't that be a progression instead of
going right out to the three point arc? Because as
he says, there's you know, the bigs are going to
drop because he hasn't shown the proclivity to shoot and
you know, like to have the form and if he's
good with the touch and the judging of the distance
to have that be an element of his game. Because that,
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to me, it reminded me of like former six or
Theo Ratliffe, who was very similar in that he was
extremely gifted, raw, athletically shot blocker, and his game really
started to evolve before he broke his wrist during that
two thousand and two thousand and one season he was
traded for Matumbo, but he started to develop what I
just said, like like I said, a face up, little
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fourteen footer from the short corner. Those shots for a
big like that are almost always open and they have
the foot quickness to get there.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So we'll see. But I bonus, he's he's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
So gifted athletically, like I think he can be a
a good player. And a lot of this is even
with guys like Grimes and and you know, see you're
seeing hucha fina. You kind of have to take what
they've done in these games justin Edwards would qualify it
in certain respects, and then put it in with the
full group. How does it translate against top you know,
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not you know, the third string guys, but how does
it translate in the guts of an important game. That's
but it's great experience, and it's great experience. And those kids,
you know, those young players will you know, evolve and
all that. But yeah, I know Toronto was better tonight,
and yeah they win the season series.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Matt Murphy and Tom mcguinnis with the Sixers post game
show presented by Parks Casino. The final score here in
Philadelphia was the Raptors one twenty seven, the six Ers
one oh nine. Now for the Sixers, it's the New
York Knicks Tuesday on the road. The Knicks did end
up winning the game against Portland. Earlier one ten ninety three,
they were down fifty eight to fifty at halftime. Mcal
Bridges and ogn and Obi had twenty eight points a
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piece Reno against the Sixers. This season, they're now seven
and five without Brunson during this stretch that he's missed
with the ankle injury. That's the big story right now, right,
Jalen Brunson. And if he'll return by the end of
the season, it doesn't sound like Tuesday, the end of
the regular season, or if they save him for the
what is hopefully for them a long playoff run, as
they said today in the media.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And wait, did he hurt that in the Lakers game?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yes, he had a huge game in LA thirty rights
of the game, Yeah, March sixth.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Wow, who's been out since?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Right? So they would play six plays three?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That would be Milwaukee, right, Milwaukee dropped below Detroit.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
So as of now, yes, right.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And the other part of the Brunson thing is that
he's played sixty one games. You need sixty five for
postseason awards and all NBA. And he said he would
like to return by the before the end of the
regular season. But at the end of the day, his
top priority is the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Right, He's so good you got to just wish for
him that you know that he gets healthy. And yeah,
so they've dipped a little bit, like you say, over
five hundred without.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Jalen McBride was out is out. So that's their backup
point guard.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Right, so that that'll be interesting. Like I just know
that that was like they jumped ahead of the Sixers,
no doubt. Like I mean, that playoff series was so rugged.
I'll never forget it. It's funny like going back. I
you know, person, I always wanted a playoff series with
New York just you know, the proximity, the rivalry, but
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on the Sixers terms, and then when it finally happen,
when they had the unverage and then, uh, I'll never
forget you know, Game two in their building, and I
don't know that anybody in there will ever forget it.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Certainly the Knicks fans won't. But how they came back
and you know got that game.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I was squeezed out for Game two. I was there
for Game one with you. But we don't have a
ton of space.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And then right just as the fact that coach called
time out, they didn't grant him a timeout. Maxie called
time out like Maxie got, I'll you know, Dante Hart,
they both made big threes. It literally felt like the
building like the roof was the famous MSG roof was gonna,
you know, go off to It was just yeah, it was.
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It was stunning like it was. It literally was a
gut punch like when I say I'll never it's not
in a fond way. It's a yeah, they're they're tough.
And then with Towns, I don't know they need Brunson though,
that's for sure. That's for sure. The East is you know,
we'll see, but it for all, it looks like it's
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gonna be Boston and Cleveland playing for the conference championship.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So with McBride out again today, the Knicks point guard
rotation was Delon Wright and Tyler Kohlik, the rookie from Harquette. Right,
so they're they're running thin at the guard position. But
we'll check out the injury report before Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Night, the big East player of the year, right, yes.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I forgot it, had started his college career at George Mason.
Tyler Kolek right saw a throwback photo of them. But yeah,
Sixers and Knicks. The regular season series finale will be
Tuesday in New York and we'll have it for everybody. Tom,
thank you, Okay night, Tom McGinnis. After the one twenty seven,
one to oh nine Sixers loss at home to Toronto
Sixers or twenty three and fifty two Toronto is twenty
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eight and forty seven.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
R J.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Barrett had thirty one points nineteen in the first half.
He went three for eight at the line, so it
could have been more. Sixers were led by Lonnie Walker
the fourth with twenty three, Jalen Hood Chaffino with eighteen
off the bench twelve in the second half, Ricky Council
the fourth seventeen points and a career high eleven rebounds,
a Den Bona fourteen points and a career high tying
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five blocks. We'll go through the rest of the sheet.
We'll hear the audio highlights as well, but not before
a quick break. It's the Raptors one twenty seven the
Sixers one to oh nine, the final score, and you're
listening to the post game show presented by Parks Casino.
We continue on with our seventy six Ers Parks Casino
post game sho show home back to back on these
Saturday and Sunday nights for the seventy six Ers, they
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fall to the Miami Heat last night. They fall to
the Toronto Raptors tonight by a final score of one
to twenty seven one oh nine. I'm Matt Murphy. Raptors
have won four in a row, the Sixers have lost
eight in a row, and it's a four to nothing
season series sweep for Toronto, their first sweep of the
Sixers since twenty fifteen to sixteen. As the Sixers fall
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to twenty three and fifty two and Toronto improves to
twenty eight and forty seven, they are eleventh in the
Eastern Conference. Miami has a decent enough cushion on them
for the final play in spot, and there aren't a
lot of games left to work with. It was a
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six game lead for that last spot going to Miami
with eight games to play coming in into tonight's game
for the Raptors. Brooklyn is twenty four and fifty one
idle tonight. They had beaten Washington yesterday, so now one
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more win than the Sixers and one fewer loss. For
the twenty four and fifty one nets compared to the
twenty three and fifty two.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Seventy six ers.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
We'll have a listen in a moment to the game highlights,
but the team shooting totals were the Raptors at forty
eight percent the Sixers at forty seven percent. Three point
shooting a big difference. Forty five percent overall for from
the three point line for Toronto seventeen of thirty eight,
and the Sixers were eight for twenty nine, three for
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seventeen in the first half, so eight of twenty nine
and twenty seven point six percent on the night. They
only missed two free throws seventeen of nineteen. The Raptors
were twelve of eighteen at the line, including consecutive misses
at one point for RJ. Barrett early in the second half,
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of the Raptors six missed free throws. That other number
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that Nick Nurse mentioned postgame in his press conference was
he mentioned the Raptors three point shooting they made seventeen.
He mentioned his team's turnovers it was eighteen for the
second consecutive night, and then offensive rebounds thirteen for Toronto
out of their forty six. The team's tied in rebounding
forty six forty six.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
RJ.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Barrett's thirty one points were a game high Ricky Council
the fourth letter all rebounders, as we mentioned that, with
a career high eleven to go with his seventeen points.
The Sixers and the Knicks on Tuesday in New York.
But before we wrap things up from Philly, let's hear
how this game sounded, as called by Tom McGuinness, The
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Sixers and the Raptors here in Philadelphia, the Sixers in
blue uniforms, the Raptors in red with black fifty first
different starting lineup of the season in Game seventy five
for the Philadelphia seventy six Ers, who were without, among others,
Gershanyabusele right knee soreness on the second night of the
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back to back. Quinton Grimes rest on the second night
of the back to back, plus nine others, including Jeff
Doughton Junior, who was inactive as part of his two
way contract. Toronto was missing five players, including Yakub Pertl
and Emmanuel Quickly, who both were listed at out due
to rest. The Raptors did not play yesterday. They played
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Friday at home. The fifty one different starting lineups ties
the Memphis Grizzlies last season for the most lineups in
a season since at least nineteen seventy five seventy six.
It was Jared Butler, Lonnie Walker, the fourth, Ricky Council
the fourth, Justin Edwards, and Adem Bonap.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
As we get into the action, RJ.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Barrett is Toronto's leading scorer on the season at twenty
one point three points per game, and he had ten
in less than five minutes to start this one, including
eight of those in the first four minutes or so.
This is how he got to eight points from beyond the.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Arc, Barnes down the court to shit. Here's r J.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Barrett launching for three and it close up by Justin Edwards,
not close enough. Man RJ. Barrett has done the bulk
of the scoring. He's got eight of their twelve Raptors
go go up by two.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Twelve ten made four of his seven threes nineteen of
his thirty one points in the first half. Scored that
many in only twenty eight minutes and thirty one seconds. Tonight,
Barrett Sixers had a nine to two scoring run to
make it a two point game, force a Toronto time
out for Darko Raykovich, their head coach, and it was
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courtesy of Lonnie Walker, the fourth Walker down.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
At a beautiful drive, a little bit of a lapse
there by the Raptors and their coach takes time out.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Sixers cut it to two.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Twenty three to twenty one at the time, but the
Sixers had seven turnovers in the first quarter. They trailed
after one thirty two thirty one, and that was including
a Jalen Hood Schaffino three pointer in the closing seconds
of the first for Philadelphia. The second quarter was mostly
Raptors except for another jam from Rickey Council, the fourth.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Ricky Council going to the line with the free he
made the second they missed, and then Council jams it. Oh,
he landed awkwardly, but he's able to dunk the ball.
Barrett missed it at the other end, Butler with a
dish and Ricky Council kind of sticks the landing but
a little awkwardly, but he dunked it and all of
a sudden to the eight point game.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Forty six thirty eight Raptors. They That was during a
twelve three scoring run for the visitors, though for a
fifty to thirty eight lead that became sixty three forty
nine at halftime after they outscored the Sixers thirty one
to eighteen in the second. Philadelphia was just one for
ten from three in the second quarter and as mentioned,
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three for seventeen in the first half, trailing by fourteen
after two quarters. The two guys with fourth in their name,
Ricky counciled the fourth his line Tonight's seventeen points, eleven
rebounds and three assists in almost thirty six minutes. He
shot six for fifteen, one for four from three, four
for six from the line, and Lonnie Walker, the fourth
who you heard from in the first quarter, highlights twenty
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three points, two off of what he did against Utah
for a season high earlier this month twenty three points,
three rebounds, and a career high tying seven assists, which
were a team high for the Sixers. Tonight, he shot
ten for eighteen from the field and three for seven
from deep in thirty six plus minutes, so twenty three
for Lonnie, seventeen and eleven for Ricky. But the Sixers
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were down sixty three to forty nine heading into the
third quarter. Because Toronto ended the first half on a
seven nothing run, Sixers went down twenty one in the
early stages of the third. They fought back and this
was a nifty play Walker to Jalen Hoods Chaffino, a
no look Lobb and a nice finish by Hoods Schaffino.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
What a feed there by Walker and a layup by
hood Jalen Hoods Schaffino scores it. Lonnie Walker the fourth
way out at thirty feet to the left of center
and in the air, caught it and passed it and
a layer up is good. Excellent play by the Sixers
and they now have seventy five and they trailed by.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Eight eighty three.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Seventy five forced another Raptors time out. One of those
seven assists for Walker, hut Chaffino one point shive of
his NBA career high of nineteen points also earlier this
month in Dallas, twelve of his eighteen in the second
half twenty almost twenty seven minutes as a reserve, six
for eight, shooting one for two from three and a
perfect five for five at the line. Eighteen points for
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Jalen Hood Chafino five assists, but he did have five
of the Sixers eighteen turnovers. Down eighty three seventy five
at that point, end ninety five eighty two at the
end of three. They did shoot twelve for seventeen in
the third quarter. They only took two threes, they didn't
miss either of them, so the volume was just down
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in the third quarter, down ninety five eighty two on
the scoreboard. And it was a strong game for a
dem Bona, who had a strong fin in surely in
the fourth.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Here's walker into the lane, a den Bona with a jab,
a two hand slam with authority. He's fired up, energetic, excited.
Bona now five of seven. So with that dunk, it's
a sixteen point game.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
From one hundred eighty four Raptors, leading the Sixers to
a final score of one twenty seven one oh nine
in Philly. The Raptors get the win their twenty eight
and forty seven. The Sixers are twenty three and fifty two.
A den Bona had fourteen points, eight rebounds and a
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career high tying five blocks in his rookie season. He
was five for seven from the floor, four for four
from the line in almost twenty seven minutes for the Sixers,
but the Sixers do fall again eighth consecutive loss. Bona
becomes the only rookie in the NBA this season with
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multiple five block games. Players had one, including him coming
into this and including Portland's Donovan Klingen, who has an
eight block shot game. A dem historically for the Sixers,
joins a list of ten players with five block games
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as a rookie, and he's now one of seven players
with multiple five block games as a rookie. Sean Bradley
in ninety three to ninety four had thirteen such games.
New Orleans Noel with six in his rookie season, Jeremy
Grant with three, Harvey Catchings two, Jerry Stackhouse two, Joel
Embiid two, and now a dem Bona two games with
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five blocks as an NBA rookie for the seventy six Ers.
Our stat of the game relates to that it comes
from the seventy six Ers PR team. With his second
block of the night, A den Bona recorded his fiftieth
of his rookie campaign, and his average of point zero
seven blocks per minute is second among rookies and sixth
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in the NBA with a minimum of five hundred minutes
played Sixers and the Knicks on Tuesday, we will have
that coverage for you as always, But that'll do it
for tonight's seventy six Ers postgame show presented by Parks Casino.
Again the final score the Raptors one twenty seven, the
Sixers one oh nine. Thanks to our engineer Marty Dickerson,
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producers Carl Namoli and Haley Taylor Simon, and of course
Tom McGinnis on the call. That Tuesday game at MSG
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second night of a back to back in the Books,
the final back to back of the season for the Sixers,
their fifteenth overall, their fifth in the month of March.
They fall to the Raptors one twenty seven, one oh nine.
I'm Matt Murphy. I'll be rejoined in a moment by
Tom McGinnis. We hope to hear from Sixers head coach
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Nick Nurse, which is a regular part of our postgame coverage.
Leading scorer in the game was RJ. Barrett with thirty
one points. Leading rebounder was Ricky Counsel, the fourth of
the Sixers, with eleven boards. Both teams had forty six total.
Jamal shed had the most assist with nine. He had
eleven points in nine assists, only one turnover, but not
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a great shooting night for the point guard four of fourteen. Council,
with his eleven rebounds, had seventeen points. Remember his season
high end a career high as twenty not too long
ago in that San Antonio road game, so he had
seventeen and eleven. The Sixers were led in scoring by
Lonnie Walker, the fourth with twenty three points points. He
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tied a career high with seven assists. Six players in
double figures for both teams. A dem Bona tied a
career high with five blocked shots with his fourteen points
and eight rebounds in almost twenty seven minutes. Justin Edwards'
streak of seven games with at least fifteen points has
come to an end. He in twenty seven minutes and
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thirty two seconds had twelve points. Jared Butler had fifteen
points and six assists after nineteen points and ten assists
last night in the lost to Miami and Jalen Hoods.
Chafino comes up one point shy of his NBA career high,
which was nineteen in Dallas earlier this month. His eighteen
points come on six of eight shooting one for two
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from three and a perfect five for five at the
line in almost twenty seven minutes. As a reserve for
the Sixers on a two way deal with the Blue Coats,
who season is in the books. They ended with a
win yesterday over Toronto's G League team, the Raptors, nine
to zero five. Jeff Douton Junior had twenty twenty seven
in that game, but he was inactive for the Sixers tonight.
There's two more games on a two way deal that
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Dalbton can be active in the NBA this season. The
Sixers fall to twenty three and fifty two. They have
lost eight in a row. Toronto is twenty eight and
forty seven. They have won four in a row.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Tom McGinnis, Murph, I just is it, like, so he's
played thirty nine games out.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It's not just played, it's in uniform for fifty So
there's been nine games DMP where he has not gotten in. Right,
But they changed it when it started with the two
way deals, there's been changes there. First you could only
have two guys on that type of contract. Now you
can have three. And it used to be fifty days
with the NBA club. Now it's fifty games active with
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the NBA club.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Because look, I mean that is right. I remember that
because that's what coach said, But like two more would
be forty one.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You're like, when's it a half? But it's not.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
It's fifty games.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Now it is confusing because when people they'll search him
up on Basketball Friends ORNBA dot com, and that game's
played number is not just is not forty eight.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
You have to look a little deeper.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
In the game logs and see that he which games
he was activating.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But his coach said it has been beneficial, like because
then the players in the G League on a two
way contract, can make more money, and yet they're still
available to the G League team to be able to
develop more. So there's certainly been a lot of positive
that's I thought the way that coach was talking about
it correct.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I agree with that.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And the addition of the third two way deal makes
the G League games more interesting. Two fans of the
NBA team more competitive, higher level of talent in the
G League. Dalton had twenty seven, yes a Jared Roaden
had forty for the Raptors nine ozho five and he
had twenty five in the NBA against the Sixers earlier
this month. Now he got hurt in that game, so
he was inactive for Toronto tonight.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I guess we could begin with turnovers.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Tom because too many and eighteen in each of these games.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
And do you think that's just a product of not
a normal rotation.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Sort of like one thing that's trouble at least to
me anyway, Like when you see the same type of
turnover that that like you'd like to see correctable errors
and that like to me, Jared Butler is he's made
some of the he like, I don't know what his
total was in turns with turnovers too, Yeah, like, so, okay,
that's not too bad. So maybe I don't I don't
go there. But that's something that that I feel like,
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you know, you because you should be able to learn
from your own mistakes, right like, not even like be
told by a coach. So that's yeah, there was just
so part of it is for sure, you would you
would think that part of it is that they haven't
played together and they're not sure where guy's going and
those types of things. But yeah, that was a problem.
It sounds like, well, no, coaches is not quite there,
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a little premature, but no, I thought like Barrett and
Barnes set a tone for them. I thought Jacobe Walter
played well and they just took over. And the three
point shooting became a big, a big difference right like
in the game, and.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Sixers only made three by halftime, and as they got
outscored in the second quarter thirty one eighteen, then they
came out in the third, they only took two and
they made both threes the Sixers in the third quarter,
they end eight of twenty nine compared to seventeen for
ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
The Raptors opened the twenty one pointly, but all of
a sudden it got shrunk down. But again, like I thought,
they were very they were very efficient. They're they're playing
pretty well the Raptors right now. They won four in a.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Row, and to be fair, their winning streak was Washington, Brooklyn, Charlotte.
But Washington did just beat the Sixers on Wednesday of
last week. So three point shooting turnovers. It was five
each for a dem Bona and Jalen Hood Chaffino in
the turnover department. And that's something that I talked about
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at halftime. Lonnie Walker mentioned earlier this week. Point five
decisions like yeah, making a decision in half a second,
and that's important. And here's coach Nurse now.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Is is one of the big things I think a
little a little bit uh turnovers as well. Obviously they
in the offensive rebounding and they did the they did
the numbers game pretty good tonight, high turnovers for US,
lots of offensive rebounds and hit the threes. But you know, again,
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I think you know, Bona had a good night off
a back to back, which was good to see. Blocks
protecting the ram. It's good to see Lonnie. I think
Lonnie's back and recovered good to see as well. And
and that was a better night in some respects for
Hoods Chaffino as well, who has you know, has been
struggling a little bit lately as well. So it's about it.
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Did you like Ricky being able to get into the
paint a little bit more tonight than than maybe in
recent game.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, he did.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
He did a decent job. I like again his rebounding.
It's one of the big things. Eleven boards, nine defensive
and then you know, I talked about this a couple
of games ago. When he gets the defensive rebound, we
want him to turn and push and get to the paint.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And create some offense.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
That we did a poor job in the second quarter
of We got into the paint, but we took way
too many shots over multiple defenders instead of making the
right raad out and that sent us on a on
a little bit of well a lot of bit of
a dry spell, which also translated to some tough transition
defensive situations.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Once he got healthy, I guess what was sort of
the steps with him to to sort of get back.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
To feeling like yeah, I mean I think that you know,
we we know kind of the way we went through
the protocol and getting him back and he just wasn't
still wasn't quite feeling right, so we kind of had
to go back through it again. But obviously he's he's,
you know, feeling a lot better. I thought he, you know,
was making good decisions tonight, you know, the eating score,
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but also the leading assist guy, right, so he was
finding the right plays out of there too. I just
thought he I just thought he did a good job
of attacking and reading, reading what was in front of him.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
All night long, played really solid.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I thought Nikodm is up to after tonight seventy percent
of the free throw line for the season. How much
have you guys changed or tweaked any of his mechanics.
I mean, we see him after practices working on three specifically,
which that's not part of the game flow yet, but
getting to the seventy percent threshold is probably pretty important
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for him.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah, So so our guys have worked with him right
right from when we drafted him of getting the mechanics
a little more solid, and you can see that showing
up in the in the free throws because he does
have the time to kind of you know, I think
I think the next step for him is is again
being able to do that a little bit faster clip right,
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like actually like being able to stop in there and
shoot those you know one there's when there's some speed
and game flow, but that takes some time when you've
tweaked some mechanics. But he works pretty hard. He's also
got really good touch. He's got pretty good feel for
arc and distance and stuff like that. So again it's
just got to be wrapped like crazy till he gets
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more comfortable and he can speed it up.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Piggybacking off of that a little bit, there was one
drive he had where he made a pretty nice move
underneath Robinson just couldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Quite finish it.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
But is that kind of going into what you were
talking about before, wanting to see guys do different things.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It's kind of maybe.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Explore he can do that a little bit.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I think he can drive it a little bit against
you know, and I think that's part of what you
got to be able to do. I mean, the main
thing is are you going to be a safe ball
transfer guy? You know, when you're trailing and can you
get it side to side and can you do the
d h os and and all that kind of stuff.
But when there's extreme pressure, which which there was tonight.
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Then you're gonna have to beat your guy once in
a while and make them pay for that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
So it's good.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I wish that, you know, some of those dump off
dunks that he had, there was probably another.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Half dozen to ten of those available.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
I wish we would have kept finding him on those
because their big was protecting the rim and we weren't
finishing very well. I think the play was to continue
to drop off to him. I love that when he
kind of comes in from the either the corner, the
or the dunker spot and finishes.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
That's what you got. You got to make that big
pay for overhelping.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
And that's that's good too, because he's like super explosive
in those.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Like those are those are? Those are plays that again though.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
If you can make those consistently, then the then the
layups will start happening because the big will be a
little bit, you know, a little bit less aggressive to
go protect the rim.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
What take play around with shooting out.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Today shooting as well.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Yeah, I just think he finally got some clearance on
on some stuff. You know, the first few games he
was really able to kind of get to his spots
and bounce people.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
And get back and shoot again.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Pretty good touch and good shooter once he gets in
you know, you know, feeling good. It just felt like
he had a little bit more more pop and bounce tonight.
And I think that, uh, you know again, I think
he just looked like he was feeling better to me,
and and that always helps for him to be able
to get to those spots.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I think he's pretty good. He's pretty pretty strong.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
He can again take the physical contact and score some of.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Those create the space, uh, with the.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Physicality sometimes and again I think he's think he's a
good shooter with good touch once he once he does
do that.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Yeah, thank you, all right.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Thanks, all right, that's Nick Nurse.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
This is the Parks Casino postgame show after a one
twenty seven one nine Sixers loss at home through the
Toronto Raptors. I'm Matt Murphy with Tom McGinnis, Ricky Counsel
the fourth. His rebounding was mentioned, and he's had multiple
ten rebound games in his first two NBA seasons, but
eleven tonight is a new career high on the glass
for Council. With seventeen points. Lonnie Walker comes up two
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point shy of his season high with a team best
twenty three points and he had a team high seven assists,
which is tied for his NBA career high in assist
Tom you were talking about Vince Carter on the Toronto telecast.
Thirtieth season for you, thirtieth season for the Raptors, your
starts coincided.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
No, we played their first ever game. It was in
the I've already told this at the risk of repeating,
but it was a preseason game in Halifax, Nova Scotia
in October of nineteen ninety five. And then we played
another game. It was like October sixteenth in Saint John,
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New Brunswick, right on the Bay of Fundy with one
of the biggest title shifts.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
On the East Coast. Huge.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
There was a Coastguard station there. The boats were like
forty feet down and so yeah, and the first game
was reverential. The fans and Halifax were like it was
like a church. In fact, our buddy Ed Pinkney was
on the Raptor, so was John Sally, and they were
on the bench saying, man, these fans are so polite.
Isaiah Thomas was the GM of the Rappers, I think,
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Butch Carter was the coach for Toronto John Lucas was
the coach of the Sixers Stackhouse. It was his first game.
The Sixers had already played a preseason game in the
Palace of Auburn Hills. And then Halifax is in the
Atlantic time zone, which is actually an hour ahead of
the Eastern time zone. But yeah, early on they played
at SkyDome which is now the Rogers Center. So that
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was one of those huge stadiums where they like won
fifth of it was used for basketball.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
That was wild.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
They played at the end of Allen Iverson's rookie year,
so it was ninety six, well, I guess it would
have been five ninety six ninety seven. Anyway, they played
a game at Maple Leaf Gardens. I think that was
the game where Allan Dunk's a free throw and Marcus
Camby was on the Raptors. The Raptors obviously were an
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expansion franchise. It was right when Vancouver got into the
NBA as well. That was a nice trip right going
up to Vancouver. They played at GM Place, and so
I think Stu Jackson was the coach of the I
don't know if he was the first coach, but he
was one of the coaches of the Vancouver Grizzlies. Right,
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so the Raptors goes back. They dominated the series for
a stretch, but then recently the Sixers have done well.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
This is the first season sweep, yeah, since twenty fifteen
sixteen and four games sweep for the Raptors over the
Sixers this season.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, and they swept the Sixers swept the Raptors last year.
So tonight I was talking to coach about that twenty
nineteen series. And again, most coaches they have like photographic memories.
You know, you could just and I have a pretty
good recall too, but like.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, who wouldn't have wanted to hear all those Raptors stories?
Is that you just told?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yeah, Like I said, it's probably better suited for a podcast,
just longer form. But yeah, he was. He was really good,
and they talked about the series. My point was everyone
remembers the Kawhi Leonard shot, and understandably so.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But in that game, the.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Sixers they you know, they were like over amped, and
but the Sixer is like at halftime, I'm almost positive
had thirteen turnovers in like seven or eight in the
first quarter, and those are boxed opportunities that end up
costs you so you think about the last shot. But
then at the very end, you know, the Sixers they
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played Ben Simmons in the dunker spot and he really
never came out of Jimmy Butler handled the ball but
down the stretch. And again this is just an observation.
It's so hard to score in the playoffs, particularly in
a seventh game where you've already this is like the
eleventh time you've played a team in a given a
rival because you're playing four times in the regular season,
(17:51):
seven games in a playoff, there are no secrets. And
like the Sixers couldn't score. They had two shot clock violations.
Their one basket was a Jimmy Butler steel in a
court length drive. And then coach you know recalled that
Siakam missed two free throws with give or take twenty
eight seconds to Goam was really good.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That was he was. That was when he was really.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
On the rise and gets all and Abaca too, and
that's what.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
They were saying that that when they when they put
those two guys in there, that shifted the series and
at Bacca was really good. So this ties me back
into bona.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Just to bring it back to tonight with coach talking
about his shooting and his three point shooting. But and
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe it doesn't have
a place in today's game, But wouldn't you want it?
Because Bona he has had the dunks and his coach
said that he felt like there was a few more
of those at the aveil, But like, couldn't he shoot
like a short corner twelve foot face up shot or
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from the elbow. Wouldn't that be a progression instead of
going right out to the three point arc? Because as
he says, there's you know, the bigs are going to
drop because he hasn't shown the proclivity to shoot and
you know, like to have the form and if he's
good with the touch and the judging of the distance
to have that be an element of his game. Because that,
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to me, it reminded me of like former six or
Theo Ratliffe, who was very similar in that he was
extremely gifted, raw, athletically shot blocker, and his game really
started to evolve before he broke his wrist during that
two thousand and two thousand and one season he was
traded for Matumbo, but he started to develop what I
just said, like like I said, a face up, little
(19:34):
fourteen footer from the short corner. Those shots for a
big like that are almost always open and they have
the foot quickness to get there.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
So we'll see. But I bonus, he's he's.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
So gifted athletically, like I think he can be a
a good player. And a lot of this is even
with guys like Grimes and and you know, see you're
seeing hucha fina. You kind of have to take what
they've done in these games justin Edwards would qualify it
in certain respects, and then put it in with the
full group. How does it translate against top you know,
(20:08):
not you know, the third string guys, but how does
it translate in the guts of an important game. That's
but it's great experience, and it's great experience. And those kids,
you know, those young players will you know, evolve and
all that. But yeah, I know Toronto was better tonight,
and yeah they win the season series.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Matt Murphy and Tom mcguinnis with the Sixers post game
show presented by Parks Casino. The final score here in
Philadelphia was the Raptors one twenty seven, the six Ers
one oh nine. Now for the Sixers, it's the New
York Knicks Tuesday on the road. The Knicks did end
up winning the game against Portland. Earlier one ten ninety three,
they were down fifty eight to fifty at halftime. Mcal
Bridges and ogn and Obi had twenty eight points a
(20:48):
piece Reno against the Sixers. This season, they're now seven
and five without Brunson during this stretch that he's missed
with the ankle injury. That's the big story right now, right,
Jalen Brunson. And if he'll return by the end of
the season, it doesn't sound like Tuesday, the end of
the regular season, or if they save him for the
what is hopefully for them a long playoff run, as
they said today in the media.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And wait, did he hurt that in the Lakers game?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yes, he had a huge game in LA thirty rights
of the game, Yeah, March sixth.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Wow, who's been out since?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Right? So they would play six plays three?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That would be Milwaukee, right, Milwaukee dropped below Detroit.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
So as of now, yes, right.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
And the other part of the Brunson thing is that
he's played sixty one games. You need sixty five for
postseason awards and all NBA. And he said he would
like to return by the before the end of the
regular season. But at the end of the day, his
top priority is the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Right, He's so good you got to just wish for
him that you know that he gets healthy. And yeah,
so they've dipped a little bit, like you say, over
five hundred without.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Jalen McBride was out is out. So that's their backup
point guard.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Right, so that that'll be interesting. Like I just know
that that was like they jumped ahead of the Sixers,
no doubt. Like I mean, that playoff series was so rugged.
I'll never forget it. It's funny like going back. I
you know, person, I always wanted a playoff series with
New York just you know, the proximity, the rivalry, but
(22:20):
on the Sixers terms, and then when it finally happen,
when they had the unverage and then, uh, I'll never
forget you know, Game two in their building, and I
don't know that anybody in there will ever forget it.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Certainly the Knicks fans won't. But how they came back
and you know got that game.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I was squeezed out for Game two. I was there
for Game one with you. But we don't have a
ton of space.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And then right just as the fact that coach called
time out, they didn't grant him a timeout. Maxie called
time out like Maxie got, I'll you know, Dante Hart,
they both made big threes. It literally felt like the
building like the roof was the famous MSG roof was gonna,
you know, go off to It was just yeah, it was.
(23:01):
It was stunning like it was. It literally was a
gut punch like when I say I'll never it's not
in a fond way. It's a yeah, they're they're tough.
And then with Towns, I don't know they need Brunson though,
that's for sure. That's for sure. The East is you know,
we'll see, but it for all, it looks like it's
(23:23):
gonna be Boston and Cleveland playing for the conference championship.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
So with McBride out again today, the Knicks point guard
rotation was Delon Wright and Tyler Kohlik, the rookie from Harquette. Right,
so they're they're running thin at the guard position. But
we'll check out the injury report before Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Night, the big East player of the year, right, yes.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I forgot it, had started his college career at George Mason.
Tyler Kolek right saw a throwback photo of them. But yeah,
Sixers and Knicks. The regular season series finale will be
Tuesday in New York and we'll have it for everybody. Tom,
thank you, Okay night, Tom McGinnis. After the one twenty seven,
one to oh nine Sixers loss at home to Toronto
Sixers or twenty three and fifty two Toronto is twenty
(24:08):
eight and forty seven.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
R J.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Barrett had thirty one points nineteen in the first half.
He went three for eight at the line, so it
could have been more. Sixers were led by Lonnie Walker
the fourth with twenty three, Jalen Hood Chaffino with eighteen
off the bench twelve in the second half, Ricky Council
the fourth seventeen points and a career high eleven rebounds,
a Den Bona fourteen points and a career high tying
(24:31):
five blocks. We'll go through the rest of the sheet.
We'll hear the audio highlights as well, but not before
a quick break. It's the Raptors one twenty seven the
Sixers one to oh nine, the final score, and you're
listening to the post game show presented by Parks Casino.
We continue on with our seventy six Ers Parks Casino
post game sho show home back to back on these
Saturday and Sunday nights for the seventy six Ers, they
(24:55):
fall to the Miami Heat last night. They fall to
the Toronto Raptors tonight by a final score of one
to twenty seven one oh nine. I'm Matt Murphy. Raptors
have won four in a row, the Sixers have lost
eight in a row, and it's a four to nothing
season series sweep for Toronto, their first sweep of the
Sixers since twenty fifteen to sixteen. As the Sixers fall
(25:20):
to twenty three and fifty two and Toronto improves to
twenty eight and forty seven, they are eleventh in the
Eastern Conference. Miami has a decent enough cushion on them
for the final play in spot, and there aren't a
lot of games left to work with. It was a
(25:41):
six game lead for that last spot going to Miami
with eight games to play coming in into tonight's game
for the Raptors. Brooklyn is twenty four and fifty one
idle tonight. They had beaten Washington yesterday, so now one
(26:04):
more win than the Sixers and one fewer loss. For
the twenty four and fifty one nets compared to the
twenty three and fifty two.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Seventy six ers.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
We'll have a listen in a moment to the game highlights,
but the team shooting totals were the Raptors at forty
eight percent the Sixers at forty seven percent. Three point
shooting a big difference. Forty five percent overall for from
the three point line for Toronto seventeen of thirty eight,
and the Sixers were eight for twenty nine, three for
(26:40):
seventeen in the first half, so eight of twenty nine
and twenty seven point six percent on the night. They
only missed two free throws seventeen of nineteen. The Raptors
were twelve of eighteen at the line, including consecutive misses
at one point for RJ. Barrett early in the second half,
which means as a reminder that it's Bricken for Chicken time.
(27:01):
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of the Raptors six missed free throws. That other number
(27:23):
that Nick Nurse mentioned postgame in his press conference was
he mentioned the Raptors three point shooting they made seventeen.
He mentioned his team's turnovers it was eighteen for the
second consecutive night, and then offensive rebounds thirteen for Toronto
out of their forty six. The team's tied in rebounding
forty six forty six.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
RJ.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Barrett's thirty one points were a game high Ricky Council
the fourth letter all rebounders, as we mentioned that, with
a career high eleven to go with his seventeen points.
The Sixers and the Knicks on Tuesday in New York.
But before we wrap things up from Philly, let's hear
how this game sounded, as called by Tom McGuinness, The
(28:08):
Sixers and the Raptors here in Philadelphia, the Sixers in
blue uniforms, the Raptors in red with black fifty first
different starting lineup of the season in Game seventy five
for the Philadelphia seventy six Ers, who were without, among others,
Gershanyabusele right knee soreness on the second night of the
(28:29):
back to back. Quinton Grimes rest on the second night
of the back to back, plus nine others, including Jeff
Doughton Junior, who was inactive as part of his two
way contract. Toronto was missing five players, including Yakub Pertl
and Emmanuel Quickly, who both were listed at out due
to rest. The Raptors did not play yesterday. They played
(28:52):
Friday at home. The fifty one different starting lineups ties
the Memphis Grizzlies last season for the most lineups in
a season since at least nineteen seventy five seventy six.
It was Jared Butler, Lonnie Walker, the fourth, Ricky Council
the fourth, Justin Edwards, and Adem Bonap.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
As we get into the action, RJ.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Barrett is Toronto's leading scorer on the season at twenty
one point three points per game, and he had ten
in less than five minutes to start this one, including
eight of those in the first four minutes or so.
This is how he got to eight points from beyond the.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Arc, Barnes down the court to shit. Here's r J.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Barrett launching for three and it close up by Justin Edwards,
not close enough. Man RJ. Barrett has done the bulk
of the scoring. He's got eight of their twelve Raptors
go go up by two.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Twelve ten made four of his seven threes nineteen of
his thirty one points in the first half. Scored that
many in only twenty eight minutes and thirty one seconds. Tonight,
Barrett Sixers had a nine to two scoring run to
make it a two point game, force a Toronto time
out for Darko Raykovich, their head coach, and it was
(30:12):
courtesy of Lonnie Walker, the fourth Walker down.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
At a beautiful drive, a little bit of a lapse
there by the Raptors and their coach takes time out.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Sixers cut it to two.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Twenty three to twenty one at the time, but the
Sixers had seven turnovers in the first quarter. They trailed
after one thirty two thirty one, and that was including
a Jalen Hood Schaffino three pointer in the closing seconds
of the first for Philadelphia. The second quarter was mostly
Raptors except for another jam from Rickey Council, the fourth.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Ricky Council going to the line with the free he
made the second they missed, and then Council jams it. Oh,
he landed awkwardly, but he's able to dunk the ball.
Barrett missed it at the other end, Butler with a
dish and Ricky Council kind of sticks the landing but
a little awkwardly, but he dunked it and all of
a sudden to the eight point game.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Forty six thirty eight Raptors. They That was during a
twelve three scoring run for the visitors, though for a
fifty to thirty eight lead that became sixty three forty
nine at halftime after they outscored the Sixers thirty one
to eighteen in the second. Philadelphia was just one for
ten from three in the second quarter and as mentioned,
(31:27):
three for seventeen in the first half, trailing by fourteen
after two quarters. The two guys with fourth in their name,
Ricky counciled the fourth his line Tonight's seventeen points, eleven
rebounds and three assists in almost thirty six minutes. He
shot six for fifteen, one for four from three, four
for six from the line, and Lonnie Walker, the fourth
who you heard from in the first quarter, highlights twenty
(31:50):
three points, two off of what he did against Utah
for a season high earlier this month twenty three points,
three rebounds, and a career high tying seven assists, which
were a team high for the Sixers. Tonight, he shot
ten for eighteen from the field and three for seven
from deep in thirty six plus minutes, so twenty three
for Lonnie, seventeen and eleven for Ricky. But the Sixers
(32:13):
were down sixty three to forty nine heading into the
third quarter. Because Toronto ended the first half on a
seven nothing run, Sixers went down twenty one in the
early stages of the third. They fought back and this
was a nifty play Walker to Jalen Hoods Chaffino, a
no look Lobb and a nice finish by Hoods Schaffino.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
What a feed there by Walker and a layup by
hood Jalen Hoods Schaffino scores it. Lonnie Walker the fourth
way out at thirty feet to the left of center
and in the air, caught it and passed it and
a layer up is good. Excellent play by the Sixers
and they now have seventy five and they trailed by.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Eight eighty three.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Seventy five forced another Raptors time out. One of those
seven assists for Walker, hut Chaffino one point shive of
his NBA career high of nineteen points also earlier this
month in Dallas, twelve of his eighteen in the second
half twenty almost twenty seven minutes as a reserve, six
for eight, shooting one for two from three and a
perfect five for five at the line. Eighteen points for
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Jalen Hood Chafino five assists, but he did have five
of the Sixers eighteen turnovers. Down eighty three seventy five
at that point, end ninety five eighty two at the
end of three. They did shoot twelve for seventeen in
the third quarter. They only took two threes, they didn't
miss either of them, so the volume was just down
(33:41):
in the third quarter, down ninety five eighty two on
the scoreboard. And it was a strong game for a
dem Bona, who had a strong fin in surely in
the fourth.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Here's walker into the lane, a den Bona with a jab,
a two hand slam with authority. He's fired up, energetic, excited.
Bona now five of seven. So with that dunk, it's
a sixteen point game.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
From one hundred eighty four Raptors, leading the Sixers to
a final score of one twenty seven one oh nine
in Philly. The Raptors get the win their twenty eight
and forty seven. The Sixers are twenty three and fifty two.
A den Bona had fourteen points, eight rebounds and a
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career high tying five blocks in his rookie season. He
was five for seven from the floor, four for four
from the line in almost twenty seven minutes for the Sixers,
but the Sixers do fall again eighth consecutive loss. Bona
becomes the only rookie in the NBA this season with
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multiple five block games. Players had one, including him coming
into this and including Portland's Donovan Klingen, who has an
eight block shot game. A dem historically for the Sixers,
joins a list of ten players with five block games
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as a rookie, and he's now one of seven players
with multiple five block games as a rookie. Sean Bradley
in ninety three to ninety four had thirteen such games.
New Orleans Noel with six in his rookie season, Jeremy
Grant with three, Harvey Catchings two, Jerry Stackhouse two, Joel
Embiid two, and now a dem Bona two games with
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five blocks as an NBA rookie for the seventy six Ers.
Our stat of the game relates to that it comes
from the seventy six Ers PR team. With his second
block of the night, A den Bona recorded his fiftieth
of his rookie campaign, and his average of point zero
seven blocks per minute is second among rookies and sixth
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in the NBA with a minimum of five hundred minutes
played Sixers and the Knicks on Tuesday, we will have
that coverage for you as always, But that'll do it
for tonight's seventy six Ers postgame show presented by Parks Casino.
Again the final score the Raptors one twenty seven, the
Sixers one oh nine. Thanks to our engineer Marty Dickerson,
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producers Carl Namoli and Haley Taylor Simon, and of course
Tom McGinnis on the call. That Tuesday game at MSG
is another seven thirty pm Eastern start, this one on
the road against the New York Knicks. Our coverage here
on the Sixers Radio Network presented by Jackpot City Casino,
will again begin at seven twenty Eastern. Until then, I'm
(36:34):
Matt Murphy saying so long from the center, Thanks so
much for listening, have a great start to your week
and take care
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