76ERS POSTCAST: Philadelphia 76ers get RUN OVER in the Motor City, fall to the Pistons 131-109

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If you watched that game tonight, you're a real one.

Welcome in.

This is Lockdown 76ers Postcast.

My name is Mark Farzada.

It's fantastic to have you along for this ride.

Despite how bumpy it is and how bumpy it was tonight in the motor city with the 76ers

falling, 131 to 109 to Detroit Pistons and it didn't even seem like it was that close.

Like at all.

I mean, there's a fun point there with the sixers made like a 10-0 run at the second

corner, close the lead to a four point lead there in favor of the Pistons.

Things were looking up.

You kind of knew that we're going to come crashing down at some point, but well, they did.

They came crashing down exactly at that point.

Let's start out with three big things right out of game.

Number one.

Hey, you know what's fun?

Fill it out the injury report.

That's fun.

Take a gander at this Sixers fans.

The center list Sixers more banged up than before when they got beat up by the

Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Sixers went into this game with Noah Dembona, Noah Andre Drummond, who was a later

scratch than the rest of them, obviously no Joelle and Bede.

No Tirey's back.

Actually, no Paul George, no Kelly Ubray, but here's the no center.

Dom Barlow was your center tonight for the Sixers.

So yeah, I wasn't expecting the Sixers to win by any means, but this moves me on to

number two.

Number one is injuries.

Number two is Vijay Edge, come okay?

Because Vijay Edge, come.

He goes out there.

He looks athletic.

He looks like he's not hurt.

He plays 29 minutes.

In the first 26 minutes, he plays, he's one for 11 from the floor.

And that's being generous.

The one that he had while he was also 0 for 4 from beyond the arc.

The one that he had in the first three quarters that he played tonight was a tap in.

So that's not exactly a brag by any means.

But his Vijay Edge, come okay?

Because if he is anything close to not 100%, if he's 99.9% and still just needs, maybe

just a little extra time to get over the back confusion, then maybe not play him in a

game like this.

But I'm going to go ahead and assume because he played, he's healthy.

And if that's the case, there were two guys this morning that me, Emma Man, Keith Pompey

highlighted on the Lockdown 76ers daily podcast that needed to go off tonight for the Sixers

to actually just be in the game in the fourth quarter, not even win, just be in the game

in the fourth quarter.

And neither one of them, by the way, were campaign who was the hottest 76er you could imagine

coming off an eight for eight game from three.

Although campaign came into this game, it was the Sixers best player as far as scoring

went in this one.

Him and Marja on Bo-Champ, Bo-Champ actually went out there tonight for the Sixers and

put in 17 points, had a rally there in the fourth quarter, while campaign shipped in

15 points and 5-10 shooting, two for six from beyond the arc.

The guys that we called upon were Vijay Edge, come and quit Grimes.

And it did not go that way in the least bit for the Sixers.

Grimes put in 14 points on 5-14 shooting, but again, earlier in the game, struggled for

the Sixers, was scoreless in the first quarter, came to life a little bit there in the second

quarter.

But all in all, it was going to be Grimes and Vijay that you were really banking on.

And maybe you get a couple of threes from campaign.

Hey, no complaints with campaign.

He had a very campaign-type game.

But when it came to Quentin Grimes, it came to Vijay Edge go, just disappointing.

There was one particular instance in the second quarter that just made me go, Vijay,

dude, come on.

And it was a beautiful play, it was the beginning of the run, the Sixers put together in the

second quarter, where Vijay got the block on the defensive end, on the offensive end of

things.

He's got Duncan Robinson in front of him.

Duncan Robinson's trying to DM up.

He throws a little shake at him.

Duncan Robinson's doing a pirouette or whatever, doing a triple toe loop, triple south cow

or whatever.

And Vijay just gathers at the three-point lot of them thinking knock it down, knock it

down.

And finally does he not knock it down.

He opts to not shoot the basketball, though he's wide open, kicks it to another ice-cold

player in the Quentin Grimes.

And guess what he did?

Clank.

He clanked it off the roof.

This is never going to be Quentin Grimes team.

And probably in the time that Vijay Edge comes here, it most will be Tyrese Maxi's team.

It won't be Vijay Edge come steam.

Be aggressive, man.

You got Duncan Robinson turn around.

At least take that through.

Don't give a damn if your ice-cold.

I want you shooting that shot.

And if you got him turned around while he's got his back to you, blow past him and go

to the red.

There's no reason you shouldn't be able to do that.

And again, you want to talk to me about the effect that he's not healthy.

If you want to speculate, oh, he's not 100% coming off the back injury.

Well, then why is he even out there?

Then shame on the Sixers.

I'm in no way campaigning for more minutes of Tyrese Martin by any means, but good.

Lord, man.

I rather have, I rather have Lowry out there than a banged up Vijay Edge come because

you ain't winning this game anyway.

There's no reason you should be playing in this game as if he's anything less than 100%.

So we've got Duncan Robinson turned around.

Go to the rim hard, attack, maybe you get fouled, maybe you go to the rim, or just do what

you probably should have done.

Vovol else would just rise up and knock down that three.

I don't know what was going on with Vijay Edge come tonight.

But man, if he is anything close to, on the injured side of things, he should have

been playing in this game.

I know how short-handed you are, but that's no excuse.

29 minutes for this guy, 26 going into the fourth quarter, and it was a wrap anyway.

Yeah, God, give me more Kyle Lowry.

God, give me more Tyrese Martin.

Give me more Dailym Terry.

Just fill out the roster.

If you got a roster going into tonight's game as a starting five of Edge come, of Grimes,

of Trented Watford, of Dom Barlow, and Justin Edwards, and then you lose just Edwards

early in the first quarter, because he gets poked in the eye.

Then man, yeah, guess what, I don't care about Vijay just getting some run in a game,

especially if he's dealing with a back contusion.

It's absolutely awful, absolutely awful, watching the 76ers right now.

Number one was injuries, number two is Vijay's overall play, number three.

I'm just getting ready for the excuse train.

I don't think it's going to be an excuse train that is going to lead to Nick Nurse being

here another year.

I don't think it's going to be an excuse train that arrives with Darryl Mori staying

another year as the president of basketball operations for your Philadelphia 76ers.

It's not going to be an excuse like that.

It's going to be an excuse from ownership, from players saying, well, you know, you have

enough time.

So Joelle was dealing with injury issues, PG was dealing with injury issues and the suspension.

Maxie then had to miss three weeks, Ubrei had to miss two weeks at least by way.

Let's not forget that at least two weeks for Kelly Ubrei, at least three weeks for Tirey's

Maxie.

And to go back to this well, at least three games for Joelle and Bied, who has now missed

his, I believe tonight was his seventh game that he missed.

It just flat out sucks, sucks for the sixers right now.

And the excuses at the end of the season are going to be, you know, we just didn't have

the guys together enough because they're going to get the last seed in the play in tournament,

most likely, depending on whatever Joelle and Bied comes back.

He's still in enigma as we all know.

Paul George, you're supposed to get him back March 25th.

He should be available for the last 10 games of the season.

Okay, at this point, any warm body will do.

If that warm body happens to be what?

I got nine time all star.

Okay.

I got to play defense.

I got to hit a three.

Okay.

I'll take it.

I got to be your point forward other than Trenton Watford.

Okay.

I'll take it.

But I'm not going to be doing cartwheels over it.

And then you got to get Maxie back and you got to get him Bied back and you got to get

him right back.

But the time you get all these back, get all these guys back, that's going to be, that's

when the excuses happen.

Oh, we know.

We went outside of the play in tournament or first round of the playoffs.

But you know, we just didn't have enough time to get on the same page as everybody else.

We just didn't have enough time to learn that cohesion because because these guys are

in some cases, old and banged up and overpaid.

And in some cases, just not good enough to carry a team through a first round of the playoffs

on their own.

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Let's jump right ahead before we get into some comments here for your player of the game.

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I got nobody for you.

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Marjon Bochant.

I don't want to go with a member of the Pistons.

Them guys are just going through the motions tonight.

Yeah, it was a rough one.

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Congratulations, Parjon Bochant.

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Time to reveal where the game was once or lost.

It's the turning point.

Second quarter, six years gone, a nice big old run.

And then there was an N1 situation there.

And it was, who was it that came up with that?

I was Jalen Durin.

Came up with the N1.

And that was pretty much a wrap.

They killed all momentum the Sixers had going into half time.

The next thing you knew, you blinked.

And it was a big old Detroit Pistons run to make it from a four point game to a nine point game.

Then, shockingly, the third quarter started.

And the Sixers, again, don't understand what happens in the third quarter.

The other team plays really well.

They forget how to play basketball.

They get blown up by 14 in the quarter alone.

So that was the turning point of the game.

Let's get into some of your comments as far as all this goes.

Anthony, what's going on?

I can't watch without Embed, Maxi, Ubrae, and George.

Really?

You're not enjoying any of this?

Another 30 point blowout.

This must be a record.

Yeah, it's not great.

It's not great.

It wasn't 30 points for the record.

So 22, the hell that works?

I don't know.

What's math?

But yeah, it was certainly a rough one to say the absolute least.

Hey, Keith Pompeii and I will be breaking it down tomorrow morning.

A lock down 76ers daily podcast.

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In the meantime, we'll wait with Bated Breath to see how the sixers come out of this one,

at least hopefully healthy.

So there's that.

Thanks for listening.

Thanks for watching.

Oh, that was nothing.

I don't really pay much attention to announcers, usually, and I have to find an announcer

particularly obnoxious.

Now, I'm trying to grade this fairly because the team was terrible.

I'm already frustrated going into it because again, the injury report just before the game

finding out that not even Andre Drummond's going to be available.

We knew what Dambona was questionable.

But seeing these guys just light up the injury report, I knew, hmm, not going to be great.

Not going to be ideal.

So then I'm listening to this game and I don't I don't know if I've ever heard a game called

by Eric Collins the way he was used tonight for prime.

I looked him up.

He's the I thought he was the Piston's home announcer because sometimes on national broadcast

like at baseball, they use the home announcer as the like Apple TV guy, right?

Tom McCarthy, I believe, has done it for fill it for the Phillies.

So I'm listening to this guy and I'm like, he is really excited for the Pistons.

Is this guy the Pistons announcer that they're just using on prime?

And he's not.

Eric Collins is the announcer for the Charlotte Hornets, another team that's absolutely spanked

to the Sixers.

But he's like overly excited for what the Pistons are doing.

I'm like, dude, this is this is the varsity squad of a high school team taking on an eighth

grade team.

That's what I mean, like easy on spike in the football there, pal.

And then he did something that Mark zoom off for first two and Mark zoom off has said

this as fact dumping like you did all this research and you just feel like you have to

get it.

You did all the homework.

So you have to use it.

You don't have to use it.

And his call of Justin Edwards getting poked in the eye is like, he just stopped playing.

He got poked in the eye, dude.

You know what?

You know why there was a falcon because there was even though there was a foul mist initially,

the referee got it right.

He just stopped playing.

He got poked in the eye.

I don't know.

I was trying to be fair and not just pissy in a pissy mood because the Sixers were going

to get their asses kicked tonight.

But throughout the entire game, I just found it a terrible broadcast and even Brett Berry

at some point was like, hey, could you let me guess at the trivia question at least

there did?

Thanks.

Anyway, that's besides the point, right?

That's just me being angry, right?

Yeah.

He's the Hornets.

He is the Hornets.

Thank you.

Yeah.

All right.

Keith and I will be back with you guys tomorrow morning to break this game down further and

look ahead to the 76ers schedule.

The rest of the way.

Now, here's what the Sixers got at 35 and 31.

They got the Brooklyn Nets coming up this weekend.

That's going to be a Saturday tip off, one o'clock tip off.

And then they're right back at it on Sunday as well as they have the back to back.

Their second back to back of the week.

They got Saturday against Brooklyn Nets at one.

And then six o'clock, they host the Portland Trailblazers in South Philly on the Ives of

March.

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