Speaker 1: You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences,
Speaker 1: highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers made a late push at preserving their undefeated record
Speaker 1: down here in South Philadelphia at the Center, but it
Speaker 1: was not to be. They followed the Miami Heat won
Speaker 1: away twenty four. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: checking out our postgame coverage. Seventy Sixers seemed to be
Speaker 1: in a great place early on tonight. In the first quarter.
Speaker 1: Their defense was swarming, disruptive, and suffocating, helping the seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers to a ten point twenty nine nineteen lead
Speaker 1: after twelve minutes of playing. You're thinking, all right, for
Speaker 1: the eleventh time in twenty nine games this season, the
Speaker 1: starting lineup is playing together, it's looking good, and this
Speaker 1: seems like an entirely different team than the one we
Speaker 1: saw Sunday in Brooklyn, with the seventy Sixers lost by
Speaker 1: twenty points. But then in the second quarter, the whole
Speaker 1: complex of this game changed. The Miami Heat sagged into
Speaker 1: a zone. The seventy Sixers no longer had the interior
Speaker 1: space maneuver. They were forced into taking some jump shots,
Speaker 1: specifically from outside the arc. The three pointers did not
Speaker 1: fall as efficiently as they have for the better part
Speaker 1: of the season. Seventy six Ers under thirty one percent
Speaker 1: from outside the arc fourth and nights and the Heats
Speaker 1: the dangerers part about them is, you know, they were
Speaker 1: able to get back in the game. Of the second quarter,
Speaker 1: they outscored the seventy six Ers thirty seven to nineteen
Speaker 1: in that period. The Heat led by as much as
Speaker 1: sixteen points in the game. But they're a really good
Speaker 1: three point shooting team when they're on. That wasn't the
Speaker 1: case last month when Miami was here the first time,
Speaker 1: But tonight, the likes of Kendrick Nunn, Duncan Robinson, Derek
Speaker 1: Jones Junior off the bench, they began hitting their shots
Speaker 1: and that really forced the seventy Sixers to battle uphill.
Speaker 1: Sixers found their spark late, but it was too little,
Speaker 1: too late. They put thirty points on the Heat in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. In the end, one key turnover made
Speaker 1: by Joel Embiide with a minute forty five to go.
Speaker 1: He did rebound and put some pressure in Miami after
Speaker 1: he scored two quick baskets in succession with a Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons steel sandwiched in between in the final minute of
Speaker 1: play that got the Sixers back within a possession. Sixers
Speaker 1: had a look at and Al Horford three late to
Speaker 1: possibly take the lead in the final seconds didn't go down.
Speaker 1: Miami survives and defeats the seventy Sixers one O eight
Speaker 1: one O four. Seventy Sixers now twenty and nine on
Speaker 1: the season. Miami leap frogs the seventy sixers in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference standings as they improved to twenty and eight,
Speaker 1: and this is of course the sixers first home loss
Speaker 1: of the season. For the seventy Sixers, Joelmby led the
Speaker 1: way on both the scoring sheet twenty two points and
Speaker 1: in the rebounding column as well. He had nineteen boards
Speaker 1: twenty points four Tobias Harris, seventeen apiece for Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: and Josh Richardson. Richardson scored fifteen of his seventeen points
Speaker 1: in the second half. I think one of the most
Speaker 1: interesting stats of the night. Al Horford was plus twenty
Speaker 1: one in thirty two minutes of play, Tobias Harris was
Speaker 1: plus sixteen. Every other seventy sixer was below plus five.
Speaker 1: Or in the minus so Horford. While statistically he didn't
Speaker 1: have the biggest impact tonight in terms of traditional numbers,
Speaker 1: he was plus twenty one and thirty two minutes, twenty
Speaker 1: six points for Kendrick None, twenty three for Bam out
Speaker 1: of Baio. He also had nine points and five assists,
Speaker 1: two block shots and two steals. He was great Derek
Speaker 1: Jones Junior with thirteen off the bench. He had that
Speaker 1: crushing three pointer that he hit late after Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: committed a turnover with one minute forty five seconds to go.
Speaker 1: Tom McGinnis had the call of this one tonight. It
Speaker 1: looked really good, Tom. After twelve minutes to play, the
Speaker 1: defense seemed like it was locked in. But then Miami
Speaker 1: unrolls this unorthodox approach, not even that it was the zone,
Speaker 1: but how long they stuck with it. And that was
Speaker 1: something the Brett Brown put it out after the game
Speaker 1: and he said it kind of watered the Sixers down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's the comment that I made during the course
Speaker 1: of the game, that it hurt their aggressiveness. And that's
Speaker 1: what his zone does nature because you're kind of moving
Speaker 1: the ball around a little bit and shifting it becomes
Speaker 1: a little bit of a chess match as opposed to attacking.
Speaker 1: They did get it inside to bias, had some success
Speaker 1: getting into the heart of that zone and getting some
Speaker 1: shots in the lane. It led to some corner threes.
Speaker 1: Fur Con made a couple of threes, but overall it
Speaker 1: was a struggle. And again Miami, they've played it, but
Speaker 1: not like they did tonight. They played it from the
Speaker 1: second quarter on a two three zone and it was
Speaker 1: a huge part of this game. And again the sixties
Speaker 1: they led forty one to twenty nine, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I mean a little sense of complacency, like, ah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna beat Miami by double digits again. And then
Speaker 1: compare that, Okay, Miami goes on a twenty seven to
Speaker 1: seven run to close out the first half to lead
Speaker 1: by eight at intermission, led by Kendrick Nunn and at
Speaker 1: a bio and then compare that to the frenzied, hustling, energetic,
Speaker 1: you know, pushed the way they did at the end
Speaker 1: where they outscored Miami twenty one to nine. And where
Speaker 1: was that in the guts of the game when it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have come down to this? So yeah, and give
Speaker 1: Miami credit, as coach Brown said, But and again the
Speaker 1: Sixers a costly turnover down the stretch. You know, they
Speaker 1: got to play at the rim and they throw it
Speaker 1: right to Miami. And that again, when you paint yourself
Speaker 1: into a corner. You can't when you're down sixteen points
Speaker 1: with whatever it was to go four minutes or so,
Speaker 1: that you have to pitch a perfect game. And then
Speaker 1: they just weren't able to do it. Miami makes the
Speaker 1: free throws in. Again, it wasn't Jimmy Butler, it was
Speaker 1: Kendrick Nunn. Listen to this grouping of players. None a rookie,
Speaker 1: undrafted twenty six points, Duncan Robinson, undrafted big threes, Derek
Speaker 1: Jones junior, twenty two years old and at a bios
Speaker 1: in just his third year. So you know, you got
Speaker 1: to give them credit. Miami twenty wins led by Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: but not that he was the dominant player in this game.
Speaker 1: So rough knight for the Sixers. Rough two games for
Speaker 1: the Sixers, great home record, but this was a hard
Speaker 1: loss to the Heat. Now two straight losses for the Sixers,
Speaker 1: one eight, one oh four. The final score down here
Speaker 1: at the center the seventy Sixers. They'll look to get
Speaker 1: back on track there next time around. Tom though, I
Speaker 1: guess in the short term you feel this sting of defeat.
Speaker 1: In the long term, you hope that having seen so
Speaker 1: much zone in this game, the seventy sixers, it's something
Speaker 1: that they're more acclimated to. That's a positive approach, Kudos
Speaker 1: to you. But what it also does is it puts
Speaker 1: a blueprint. It does. Yeah, let's be honest, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, Miami kept using it because it was successful.
Speaker 1: It's been used against the Sixers before. And I don't
Speaker 1: if coach was saying that forty nine possessions is what
Speaker 1: the opposition has played in terms of zone, which that's
Speaker 1: what I kind of discerned towards the end of that
Speaker 1: in terms of his comments that we were able to air, Well,
Speaker 1: that's gonna that's gonna go up because you know, oftentimes
Speaker 1: it's done just as a wrinkle out of a timeout.
Speaker 1: So they've a team like the six They've drawn up
Speaker 1: a play and like, oh, well, we didn't drow up
Speaker 1: that play for a zone and then and the Sixers
Speaker 1: do that. They'll they'll throw that out of a time
Speaker 1: out every now and then just to kind of throw
Speaker 1: a team off a little bit. But then when it's
Speaker 1: successful possession after possession, you're like, well, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: with it. Then the Heat they turned the whole momentum
Speaker 1: of the game around with it. So yes, to your point, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Sixers work on it, and they have good shooters,
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to beat it most of
Speaker 1: the time. But it takes way and B two because
Speaker 1: they were putting two and three guys on Joel And look,
Speaker 1: it was a problematic issue in this game. And again
Speaker 1: when other teams see that, they're like, hey, maybe we
Speaker 1: throw a little zone at the Sixers and that you know,
Speaker 1: you'd have to consider that as maybe a way forward
Speaker 1: for defenses, not maybe for three quarters in a game,
Speaker 1: but certainly as a style that they may see again
Speaker 1: down the road. Final score the Center Miami Heat one
Speaker 1: o eight, seventy six Ers one oh four, first home
Speaker 1: loss in the year for the seventy Sixers. We'd probably
Speaker 1: need much more time than we have now tom to
Speaker 1: do a real true deep dive on this subject, but
Speaker 1: in just trying to trace the origins of why the
Speaker 1: trend of playing zone defense has become more popular in
Speaker 1: the NBA. I mean, I feel we saw it played
Speaker 1: against the Sixers a handful of times last year, and
Speaker 1: the way the team is constructed, that almost seems like
Speaker 1: it's something the Sixers they picked up on last year.
Speaker 1: We heard talking the offseason, especially training camp, like Brett
Speaker 1: Brown really thought and had the hunch we're going to
Speaker 1: see more of it, And so far in the regular
Speaker 1: season that's been the case against the Sixers. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: for all the reasons we just stipulated. And then again,
Speaker 1: these guys are so long and athletic, you know, they
Speaker 1: cut down the passing lanes. It's hard to screen his own.
Speaker 1: You can't play pick and roll against it. Not that
Speaker 1: the Sixers with Simmons it to be play a lot
Speaker 1: of screen role, but there are a lot of things
Speaker 1: that it kind of takes you out of your mojob.
Speaker 1: I mean, most of the time, teams will just shoot
Speaker 1: you out of it, like you can't continue to play
Speaker 1: it because they move the ball around, they get open shots,
Speaker 1: and they make shots in that bang. You have to
Speaker 1: come out of it just because they're they're taking it
Speaker 1: to you if you're playing zone. But that wasn't the
Speaker 1: case and That's the whole point in that they eight
Speaker 1: were able to come back and take a lead and
Speaker 1: then protect the lead with the zone defense, and as
Speaker 1: coach had affected not just the offense, but he felt
Speaker 1: like it affected the entire momentum defense of and the
Speaker 1: energy that the Sixers played with at the other end
Speaker 1: of the floor. So certainly one that got away. Miami
Speaker 1: made some crazy shots that impacted the game. But you know,
Speaker 1: they're having a very successful season with twenty wins, and
Speaker 1: they came in here to Philadelphia and knocked them off.
Speaker 1: Friend and wondering how Miami has been able to get
Speaker 1: it done on the way to twenty wins this season.
Speaker 1: Tonight they showed why they are a very solid, talented team. Tom,
Speaker 1: we will talk to you on Friday. You got it. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Seventy Sixers lose in Miami Heat one o eight, one
Speaker 1: oh four. We'll have some of Tom's highlights from what
Speaker 1: ended up being a close game. Seventy Sixers made a
Speaker 1: late push, it was not to be. Seventy Sixers are
Speaker 1: gonna shake off Sunday's tough loss at Brooklyn and keep
Speaker 1: their unbeaten streak at home to start the season alive.
Speaker 1: In the early going. I was looking pretty good for
Speaker 1: the home squad. Joel bust up a players letter couldn't
Speaker 1: hold on Simmons on a drive. Hear the lake keeps
Speaker 1: it stoops and he puts on a Hey reverts layup
Speaker 1: and the Sixers are running rough shot on Miami early
Speaker 1: eight to two momentum for the s twenty sixers. At
Speaker 1: the outset of tonight's game, Tobias Harris caught the wave.
Speaker 1: Tobias Harris would at three and a half ago fakes
Speaker 1: Hunt Jones into the lane. Another runner just got in
Speaker 1: a foul. Tobias Harris lifted Derek Jones Junior off the
Speaker 1: ground with a tremendous head and shoulder fake. He went
Speaker 1: like a pogo stick into the air and then off
Speaker 1: the dribble in the lane over two other players and
Speaker 1: Harris will shoot for the three point play. Sweet moved
Speaker 1: from Tobias Harris at that point, You're not feeling just
Speaker 1: good but great. Seventy six was led by nine at
Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter. Their advantage was ten
Speaker 1: twenty nine to nineteen. In the second quarter, though, things
Speaker 1: changed because the Miami Heat started to commit to that zone.
Speaker 1: The seventy sixers didn't find quite as many interior opportunities
Speaker 1: available as they did in the first quarter, and the
Speaker 1: three point looks that were there they didn't fall. Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid was doing his part to help the seventy sixers
Speaker 1: play catch up. Richardson for three that's still good at
Speaker 1: beat with a rebound, goes back up and stuffs it
Speaker 1: a little bit of a frustration air coming out and
Speaker 1: had dunk Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month by Kendrick
Speaker 1: Nunn forty eight point for the Sixers. Miami up six,
Speaker 1: and Miami would lead by eight at the break fifty
Speaker 1: six to forty eight. And the third quarter seventy sixers
Speaker 1: came out pretty strong, got some early buckets from Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson and this sequence that featured two of their all stars.
Speaker 1: Now down a little light, the Bam had a bio
Speaker 1: games a step, but a beat Bloxer try, he goes
Speaker 1: out the Robinson, he shoots it for three, No, and
Speaker 1: simventh of the rebound. Now the sections looked like they
Speaker 1: got some intensity. Simmons On a driven had a bio
Speaker 1: all the way to the cup and end Ben seventh
Speaker 1: right down road three. Oh yeah, I mean at a
Speaker 1: six point game, sixty six to sixty but still after
Speaker 1: playing the Heat even Miami led by eight after three
Speaker 1: eighty two to seventy four in the fourth to seventy sixers.
Speaker 1: They were hanging around. They were hanging around. They were
Speaker 1: trying to make some inroads into a Miami lead that
Speaker 1: was as big as sixteen in this game. Down the stretch,
Speaker 1: Josh richins In, the former member of the Heat, giving
Speaker 1: some hope, put back Harris no good taped by Miami
Speaker 1: out there. Richardson down low, Harris twelve to shoot three,
Speaker 1: forty to go. Fourth, crack at it for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson three ball from the top, got it long
Speaker 1: time to wait, but good, three point possession, three and
Speaker 1: a half to go, an eight point game, ninety nine
Speaker 1: and ninety one. It got really interesting in the final
Speaker 1: fifty seconds. Joel Embiads scored in to put back. Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons got a steal. Joe scored on an ensuing layup
Speaker 1: after that to make it a three point game, one
Speaker 1: oh four, one on one. Jimmy Butler hit a couple
Speaker 1: of free throws to bias. Harris knocked down a three
Speaker 1: with twenty five seconds to go. Two point game. A
Speaker 1: couple of free throw misses by Kendrick Nunn. With twelve
Speaker 1: seconds left, Sixers got this look would it go Ben's
Speaker 1: and Knees shoots the three throw, he missed it. Simmons
Speaker 1: of the rebound ten seconds ago. Simmons across big court,
Speaker 1: Sixers down by two. Simmons of the ball five seconds ago.
Speaker 1: Outside the left, Horford catches shoots three ball, no good,
Speaker 1: and Miami with a rebound, and the Miami Heat are
Speaker 1: fouled with one point five to go. Bam Outubaio, one
Speaker 1: of their stars tonight, got the board. He went to
Speaker 1: the free throw line, knockdown both and the final score
Speaker 1: would be cemented there one O eight, one out of four,
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat win. The seventy Sixers shot forty two
Speaker 1: percent for the game, just twelve of thirty nine from
Speaker 1: outside the arc. Sixers uncharacteristically outrebounded by six on the night.
Speaker 1: They had thirteen turnovers, but the Heat outscored the Sixers
Speaker 1: by eight points on turnovers, despite Miami having sixteen turnovers.
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid with twenty two points and nineteen rebounds. He
Speaker 1: was eight of nineteen from the field, one of five
Speaker 1: from three to five to five from the line. He
Speaker 1: also had two block shots. Tobias Harris with twenty points,
Speaker 1: four boards, two assists, seventeen apiece for Ben Simmons and
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson twenty six for Kendrick Nunn. The starting one
Speaker 1: guard for the Miami Heat bam out of Baio with
Speaker 1: twenty three nine five four Miami in their win tonight
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers and Heat now even in their four game
Speaker 1: season series. The Sixers followed twenty and nine with Tonight's
Speaker 1: lost their second in a row, the first at home,
Speaker 1: Miami improves to twenty and eight one final time. The
Speaker 1: final score Heat one o eight seventy six Ers one
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