I'm I'm A rainy, dreary night in Philadelphia on Saturday, and much of the same inside the arena and watching it back

here at the PHLY Studios as the Sixers Fall to the Visiting Jazz 120109. Hello, welcome to the

PHLY Sixers postgame show alongside Derek Bodner. I'm Devon Givins, Bree producing. As always,

Kyle Neubeck will join from the

arena. We thank you for checking in with this. Derek's second consecutive loss in the back-to-back

nights, New York Knicks on Friday, Utah Jazz. Tonight, you were at the arena.

As you can see. And back here in the studio watching, and I think we both felt the same as as as as we

watched the second half together as we watched this one continue to play out three

starters out melton harris and imbid and this one pretty much surprising that they were in it

close early uh but the jazz put their foot on the gas a little bit late and took the game yeah Yeah, and look, the only reason the Sixers were in this game for as long as they were, and they were down what one at halftime, I think. The only reason for that was because the Jazz were turning the ball over pretty much every chance they got. A lot of them seemed like they were unforced or at least marginally forced, and that really gave the Sixers life. Sixers didn't necessarily capitalize on that all that much. They missed a lot of shots. Those long shots led to long rebounds. And then the Jazz pushed it down in the Sixers throat. But the Sixers transition defense was bad. I thought their interior defense was bad. They obviously couldn't shoot. They were missing 60% of their starting lineup. The one starter they did have available, and the one primary score they did have available, I thought struggled for most of the night. It was a tough one. And on the one hand, yes, the Sixers played on a back-to-back. On the other hand, so did the Utah Jazz, who were in Boston last night. Obviously, the equation changes significantly

when you find out that Joel NB is going to be a late scratch. The Sixers didn't look,

and with Tobias out as well. The Sixers just didn't have very many offensive engines to get

them through the finish line. They needed a monster, monster night from Tyrese Maxie. And for him to go one of eight from three-point range, a couple of uncharacteristic turnovers. They just didn't get anywhere near a good Maxi night. And on night when they needed him to be basically perfect, he was far from it. Yeah, 25, which led the team in scoring tonight, a lot of that late against the Jazz where some of their defense was a little bit. They backed off a bit, had double-digit lead. Yes, the Sixers, made it interesting there down the stretch, but the Sixers really couldn't capitalize with a few opportunities that they did have to cut the lead from double digits back into single-digits, maxi picking up some of those points. For the most part, Kelly Ubrey led the team in scoring and finished with 24, Maxi 25 again to pace them tonight, but he just wasn't good. Time to panic? No, not for me. And I know we're going to have a lot because before we got started, you could see some of the people waiting in the chat discussing how Maxi needed to step up. And I be perfectly honest with you I wanted to see a much

better Maxi game also in this one with him beat out against the team that was also on a travel

night second night of a back to back coming in here after getting rocked by a big number in

Boston and also a team that quite frankly is just not. Not, not very good. But they put together

a pretty good defensive scheme. He didn't necessarily react to it all that well. And they took

advantage of that by taking their one really good score, as Derek mentioned, Kelly Ubre, the other.

He did have it going, got some help from some others in the starting role.

Paul Reed, Pat Beverly, off the bench played pretty well in terms of offense there tonight.

But it just wasn't enough.

And I, too, did want to see Maxie score a little bit more than he did tonight,

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