NBA Gametime reacts to Maxey, Harris, Melton combine help 76ers beat Magic 112-92 without Embiid

NBA Gametime reacts to Maxey, Harris, Melton combine help 76ers beat Magic 112-92 without Embiid

This season and now with their record it is the best start for them in Philly since the 200201 season 7 and0 with when they hold opponents to under 100 points on the year Tobias Harris though having himself T night 22 points let’s hear from it Tobias Harris is scorching hot right now

Baby third consecutive 20o performance and your squad has needed every one of those points SP what’s been what’s been working out so well the past three uh just being aggressive out there taking advantage of the opportunities and uh just flowing with the team I mean I think uh for us obviously coming off

The last game we knew how hard we played we couldn’t we didn’t get the victory but coming in here tonight we knew this is a young and a really good team um and we knew we were going to have to bring our all and U continue to just use our

Pace out there and get stops I thought um in the second quarter we did a great job of just locking in and all the way in the second half I thought we just pulled it all together Tobias we know you played here is there a certain level of comfortability playing against a

Former team in the building that you’re familiar with is that something that’s in the back of your mind when you play the magic oh yeah all the time I think uh you know even yesterday we had practice and it was in the practice facility that uh you know I really this

Is a place that I came in and um you know got an opportunity to to make my career at at one point and uh you know just being back here is comfortable and being on his court obviously there’s different faces and uh different people in the organization but at the same time

Just to be some where where I I started and um there’s definitely familiarity for sure well speaking of being familiar with this area Paul Reed your teammate bball the central Florida Player of the Year back in his high school days got his first double double of the Season

Tonight to buy us after a tough one in South Beach a couple of days ago so what’s Paul doing this year the standing out to you man I just I feel like he always plays well in Orlando you know uh um he’s always had great opportunities

Uh here and I thought tonight just came out took advantage of his minutes um you know the production we got from Paul Ree from moamba tonight was a huge for us with the big fella being out uh we need those consistent efforts throughout the season you spoke of the big fella being

Out this is a scenario we don’t want to be in but how encouraging is it after going 0 and four to finally get your first dub without the big fell in the lineup yeah you know I think obviously you know with with that people have to understand that takes patience and time

As well I mean we don’t practice without him and whatnot so it takes time for us to adapt he’s such a focal point for our offense and you know more importantly also for our defense so just takes time to to to recalibrate and figure out ways

That we can be successful and uh tonight you saw a lot of that yeah good one tonight congrats on the wayn to B we’ll see you on the plan Philly gets the win by 20 their first wi of the Season without Joel embiid in the lineup so

That’s definitely a big step for this team after going 0 and four before that and it’s their best start to the season since the 20201 year what’s so special about this Philly team G this season well listen I think when they had him beat he was playing at the level I don’t

Think anybody else in the league was playing at and that that goes a long way it’s the Improvement of Tyrese Maxi I think it’s been a bounceback GE also for toas Harris he’s playing at a really high level and I just I just think you see some growth with this group they’re

Better defensively than they were a year ago the ball does seem to move a little bit more yeah uh I like the philosophy that Nick nurse has brought in in terms of their approach offensively and they’re just winning games you know now they finally got one without the big

Fella as Tobias talked about and let’s see if they can now maybe string a few more games together cuz they’re still in the mix right now when you look at the Elites in that Eastern Conference you say there’s three teams Philly right Milwaukee and Boston and this version of

Philly I feel like has their best opportunity of healthy to compete with the top tier in that Eastern Conference yeah in some ways this is one of their more impressive wins of the Year first of all they have to win on the road without embiid and because he’s such a

Focal point all of a sudden you have to change your entire offense and you’re talking about Tobias Harris he goes in this season averaging only 12 shots a game tonight he gets 23 uh he’s had a good year this is the last year of his contract so all of a sudden that’s a

Factor Philadelphia by the way has a ton of Cs bigs to spend this summer uh do they bring him back or do they look for Replacements uh but look you had um you know Maxi in the games where uh MB didn’t play Max only shot 37% he’s

Coming off a poor game and he turns around and have a game tonight against a good group of Orlando guards so I just think that this this was a very impressive for Philadelphia uh without embiid uh again they want the big fella back of course g i they don’t they don’t

Want to test it now they don’t want to push to luck but all things considered a good one for Philadelphia yeah and the way that they were able to do it only Ted made threes but they had 58 points in the paint they really took advantage

Inside in this one they did and and really beat the magic at their game because the magic like Philly was tonight doesn’t shoot the three particularly well doesn’t take a a lot of them but they typically win the free throw battle and the points in the paint

Battle and that tonight was not the case you got to credit Philly they just came out with great energy understanding the situation too it’s a a magic team while young but still played last night up in DC and they were a little flat and Philly came out and hit him in the mouth

They were just aggressive attacking creating the matchups that they wanted offensively in the half court and they just did a good job of being able to get downhill the magic just defensively were not on par with what Philly brought and this is how good teams play you you

Don’t let teams out work you and Philly came in and they were the tone Setters in this game yeah definitely it was something very interesting to see and Reed finishing with a double double as first of the season 15 points 10 assists it’s pretty good for a guy Sten and for

Joel em be H yeah and I saw that little tricky dribble here that was something you used to do back in your days everything boom boom boom but yeah I look and you talked about all the points they had in the paint you would have thought that a team without Jo uh MB

Would not have that Advantage yeah but they had that Advantage they just kept pounding and pounding and pounding and it’s not like Orlando is a small team now you know they just went there and they put their big boy pants on they got tough and dared Orlando to do something

And Orlando wouldn’t do it and they just kept going back hey these are high percentage shots we’re not going to pass him up and somewhere Joel be was probably watching on TV I don’t know if he was at the game saying mm yeah that’s

The way I do it right there so it was looking good let’s send you back out to OKC now six games on the Slate the Knicks in town taking on and what is James Capers going to call on the Baseline he’s going to call foul

On right now OKC up six with 630 left in this one SGA Leading The Way with 29 Points Williams right behind him 25 and Julius Randall for the Knicks with 23 time for our next break here on Game Time presented by KIA the Milwaukee Bucks taking on the Brooklyn n in the

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Hope this finds you amongst loved ones as well what better way to gather than around a marquee matchup top seat in the AFC taking on a top seed in the NFC what proved to be one-sided Affair in Santa Clara see how it all went down between

The ners and the Ravens Super Bowl 47 rematch maybe a Super Bowl 58 preview Niners R NFC West Champs now fighting to keep the one seat in the NFC 17 straight regular season wins in November or later but on the AFC a streak as well Lamar

How about 19 and one against the NFC in his career early second quarter after an odd start to this game that included a Lamar tripped In The End Zone by a referee safety I mean 5-3 game pery intercepted for a second time Ravens would punch it in to go up 10 to5 d

Edwards with the touchdown two Niners Drive P scrambling trying to look for somewhere to go pass deflected up off George K and picked again Kyle Hamilton another one P’s third interception in four drives first career game with three ints trying to shake it off ners they get something going next Drive 135 game

P hands it off to Christian mcaffry he gets there take another look just dragging in Defenders ners down 1312 cmc’s 21st of the Season 1612 at half but the Ravens grabbing momentum with two hands on a halftime early third quarter Lamar escapes finds Nelson agar

Made it 2312 first play of the uing ners Dr by pie hit as he throws and that Ball’s picked as well Patrick Queen this time joining the pick parade Ravens take over in the red zone and the nightmare continues on Christmas for perie first 49ers quarterback with four

Interceptions in a game since Colin Kaepernick in 2015 next play waste no time Lamar Z flowers and the route was on Ravens up 30 to2 taking all the gifts with them Kyle shanan 0 and 37 as a head coach when trailing by eight or more points and during the fourth quarter and you

Could tack another on because we’re adding injury to insult mid fourth quarter pry sacked by jevi and Clowney seemed to re-aggravate that Stinger from a week ago so on comes Sam darnold to finish things off later in the drive darnold getting into the end zone finds Ronnie Bell touchdown San

Francisco 49ers down 3319 and there’s the head coach telling pie we’re going to stick with darnold for the remainder of this game but the result unavoidable Donald picked off a five pick effort from the Ravens defense they win this one 33-19 winners in nine of their last 10

Since week six that is by far best in the NFL five straight wins for the first time since 2021 and Lamar Jackson now your favorite to claim the MVP award 23 of 35 252 two touchdowns another 45 on the ground the Ravens scored 30 plus points point in seven of their last nine

Games yeah the defense is great but the offense is matching them they recorded five interceptions in this one for just the second time in franchise history only other one 2007 against St Louis the fact he’s played this long and never had a game like this I mean is

Pretty unusual I think that’s the reality of the NFL I’m not saying it’s bound to happen but I mean wish didn’t have as many picks today but like I said you know I think one of them was one he’d really liked to have back the other three I think were unfortunate um we

Played a good team didn’t play our best football today and that’s what happens we lost a game that we really wanted to win um we knew this was a big one our guys are real disappointed tonight um they should be um but when it comes down

To it we’re still in the same situation that we were before the game started and we got to take care of our business and that’s why it’s our right to be upset tonight we put a lot into that and didn’t get out of it what we expected to

Was the first one the one you wanted back the most yeah I mean that that starts it off you know um obviously we were rolling we had the momentum had some really big plays on that drive um and then you know I throw the ball like

That um to to end the momentum that we had so for me yeah that that that definitely hurt wish I had it back I wish I would have progressed and just checked it down and and kept the drive alive so definitely got to learn from it I thought Lamar had an MVP performance

Tonight you know uh he uh it takes a team to uh to create a performance like that but it takes a player to play at that level to to to play at an MVP level takes a player to play that way and Lamar was all over the field doing everything he

Operated a pretty complicated game plan I thought Todd and the coaches deserve a lot of credit for the game plan Lamar operated he made decisions on the field and then just keeping plays alive trusting his offensive line the offensive line was outstanding with the protection Lamar trusted those

NBA Gametime reacts to Maxey, Harris, Melton combine help 76ers beat Magic 112-92 without Joel Embiid