WEBVTT - Rewind vs. Brooklyn Nets - 12/15/19 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.400 You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:08.280 highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Tough 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.440 one for the seventy sixers tonight at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.360 where they lose to the Nets by twenty points one 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:17.560 o nine to eighty nine. The Nets led by as 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.960 much as twenty six in the game. No duel embad 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:22.639 and it was an issue for the seventy six ers. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.919 You could tell early on that Brooklyn, which with the wind, 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:26.960 improved to fourteen and twelve on the year, while the 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.880 seventy six Ers dropped to twenty and eighth. You could 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.120 tell Brooklyn was going right at the rim and attacking, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.559 led by Spencer Dinwiddie in his twenty four points, Brooklyn 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.400 was able to power its way through the lane, score 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.400 on layups opened up other parts of its offense, generally 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.800 efficient enough to knock down shots when open looks presented 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.600 themselves from outside the arc. And the other big thing 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.879 is Tom mc ginnis was just talking about in the 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.160 previous segment Brooklyn uncharacteristically when you talk about the way 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.200 the seventy six ers usually play. But again, no duel 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.160 embad tonight, Brooklyn was the team that controlled the glass. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:06.160 They were plus thirteen in rebounding overall and more specifically 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.600 on the offensive glass plus five. The seventy sixers had 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.520 some early turnover issues that led to twenty one points 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.440 that Brooklyn scored off of the seventy six or sixteen turnovers, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.400 and also an area that you can't overlook what Brooklyn 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.959 was able to do on the break. Twenty three to 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.440 eight was the edge for Brooklyn in fast break points. Tonight, 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.560 Ben Simmons led the seventy sixers with twenty points. He 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.520 had five rebounds and three assists, first time this season 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.200 that Simmons has reached the twenty point mark in back 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.760 to back games. Tobias Harris knockdown seventeen. It was good 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.160 to simply see Al Horford back on the court again 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.480 for the seventy six ers after missing the last two games. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.880 He was five from fifteen from the field, but over 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.880 six from three, so you know, you can't overlook that. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:53.000 But perhaps feeling a little bit rusted from the outside 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.080 was Horford on twos. He was five of nine, so 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.120 that's a little bit of a different story. He also 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.840 had nine rebounds and five assists for seventy six Ers, 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.320 eleven for Josh Richardson, eight four Mike Scott, who filled 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.400 the vacating spot in the seventy six ers starting lineup 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.200 left open by Joel Embiid. Tom McGinnis had the call 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.000 this one tonight, seventy six Ers losing at Brooklyn one 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.080 o nine to eighty nine toime. It seemed to really 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.959 all start from Brooklyn's ability to consistently get inside and 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.360 control that part of the game, no doubt about it. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.400 And Din what he is hard to guard. You know, again, 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.440 it seems like I say this every night, if not frequently, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.440 because it's a staple of NBA offense, and that is 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.480 the middle pick and roll. And you know it doesn't 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.160 take a technical basketball X and O genius, but that's 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.320 what they do. And they come up with an angled 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.760 screen from one of their bigs, either Jordan or Jared Allen, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.040 and they screen for dinwide and now he's got a 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:50.919 big on him, and the big is trying to back 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.760 up because there could be a guy rolling and so 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.320 now then what he's got, you're backing up. He's very 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.560 good at the floater from around the dotted circle, which 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.640 is give or take a six or eight footer. So 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.720 many players, including him, have almost perfected that shot. It's 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.400 like a running layup. It's a staple of what with 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.760 the downhill offense if you will. And then oh, by 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.800 the way, if you don't guard him, he can get 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.600 all the way to the basket. He was very adept 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.280 at underhand scoops and that when you break down a 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.320 team's defense, when you get into the guts of a 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.639 defense and you get teams scrambling in terms of trying 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.120 to help, it hurts you. So that on the ball 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.680 defense is so key. And the Sixers did not have 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:30.640 that first line of defense. And then, oh, by the way, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.639 they were missing the back end of that, which is 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.760 Joel and Bead who has the ability to come out 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.400 and show defensively and then get back. And again that 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.280 we put out that stat where you know, the Sixers 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.000 opponents shoot nearly forty four excuse me, four percent better 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.200 when he's not on the court, So around forty seven 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.360 percent for the opposition when it beat's not out there, 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.240 and around forty three percent. Brian, I'm not a huge 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.880 number numbers guy, but when you look at the differential 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.640 and the whole plethora of stats for teams like tents 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.160 or points, like rebounds. It's like forty three point two 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.320 and another team four. There's not a huge gap, it's 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.040 pretty close, you know, like I guess over the years 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.880 and again people could break this down with the analytics 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.920 and whatnot, but four percent difference is a huge difference. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:25.839 That's my point. Like, statistically, that's a huge variance. So 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.720 in bad matters, and then they shoot the three and 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.479 then they space you out so and again they didn't 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:35.240 do that that their starters had like seven threes. But 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.520 it all starts with being able to keep that guy 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.599 in front of you, and that was an issue for 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.400 the Sixers. And then what he does that to a 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:43.960 lot of teams. He's certainly done it to the Sixers before, 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.400 and he did it again to night seventy six Ers 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.840 losing Brooklyn one o nine to eighty nine. And time 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.200 during the game it was hard for me to almost 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.080 not think of, especially when it got a little bit 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.320 out of hand, like what could this matchup be like? 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.279 And we talked about this beforehand. When you have both 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.560 teams at full strength, you get Joel and beat back 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.000 there for the seventy Sixers and then you throw in 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:08.080 perhaps and this won't be likely until twenty twenty twenty one, 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.320 but Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant for the Brooklyn Nets. 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.880 So this is interesting. You had a nightmare and you 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.200 haven't gone to bed yet something like that. It's it's 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.400 a scary thought, right that me too. I mean you're 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.400 looking down there and you're like, so, let me get 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.960 this straight. That's Kevin Durant visiting with Kyrie Irving and 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.240 they're not playing. No, it's even when they get LeVert 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.479 and Kyrie back, you know, so and we're talking about Dinwood. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.680 He breaking down your defense. Kyrie. I mean, that's that's 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.760 the name of his game. I mean, he could wiggle 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.800 through ten guys if you had ten out there. So 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.799 no doubt about it. And again they've done a really 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.720 good job with style of play. Atkinson's a good coach 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.960 and the and the way they employ their personnel. But 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.320 again to your point, you know Joel would be back 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.080 out there, and this is a tough game the Sixers, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.240 you know. I guess if you were to step back 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.160 and take a general view, you know, we're sort of 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.040 due for a hit up or whatever, and maybe you know, again, 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.720 you can't take any team for granted. But like I said, 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.719 it shaped up like Brooklyn played last night, day laws, 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.560 long night, back to back. We're rested, but that's not 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.520 as a player. You can't think like that. And like 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.520 I said, it was evident and totally you watched it 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.840 an observation how Brooklyn they were the aggressor, and they 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.120 were better from the beginning, better all game long. They 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.640 swung that ball of momentum in their way, they took 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.039 it to the Sixers and it showed and they got 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.440 the dub as a result. I'm next for the seventy 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.800 sixers after a you'd have to think Tom welcomed back 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.440 to back day stretch with out games for the first time. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.360 And at least I think two and a half weeks 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.000 gonna be the Miami Heat and Jimmy Butler presumably Wednesday 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:45.880 at the Center. That was a game of the seventies 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.280 Sixers absolutely dominated the first time around. What do you 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.840 remember being the key to the seventy sixers convincing effort 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.640 in that first match between the two teams, Well, kind 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.800 of what I just said about Brooklyn, how they you know, 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.600 the Sixers in that game, that was a shocking result 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.040 because that was one of those circle games on the calendar, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.920 just because you got Butler coming back and Miami been 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.960 off to such a good start and the Sixers dominated 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:09.479 that game. I can't you know, I have to go 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.920 I have to go back and look at the tape there, Brian, No, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.320 for me, it would be the box score, but you 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.840 know that that was it total dominance. And again I 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.360 think Miami had played a game the night before. But yeah, 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.080 so the Sixers they got to get back to that 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.600 and obviously the heat not going away. And you know, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.320 like I said, you figured they would be good, but 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.920 nobody had any idea that Kendrick Nunn would be a 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.000 top player candidate in there for first team All Rookie 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.120 and that Duncan Robinson is helping out the way that 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.560 he can do it. And I love what Miami's done 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.720 with Eric Spoelstra because you know, during the pat Riley 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.800 years and even the residual carryover, they were, you know, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.360 grind and pound kind of, they were gut it out 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.080 half court and obviously with the Big three that you know, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.240 they played however they wanted to play. But Spoilster has 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.600 taken the personnel and now they're you know, a space 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.560 and pace team and Butler they led Jimmy play pick 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.720 and roll and whatnot. So they've adapted to their personnel 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.080 and they're good. And the other guy who haven't mentioned 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.800 is bam Ata Bio. You know, Josh Richardson sent out 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.440 a tweet and they're best friends, you know, all star. Well, 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.640 bam at a Bio has been very good. He suits 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.520 that style because he's an agile big In years past 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.920 they had white side, So that should be a great game. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.760 I mean, you know, the Sixers are playing three home 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.440 games in a row. It's a shame. It sounds like 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.520 Done won't play for Dallas on Friday. Then you get 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.800 the Wizards in there. It's the Davis Burton Show. So 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.520 you know, undefeated at home and hopefully the Sixers get 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.800 back going and get back on the winning track with 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.800 those home games coming up this week. Well put by 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.200 the one on only Tom against Thank you Tom. All right, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.800 good night, Brian. Seventy six Ers drop a one on 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.199 nine eighty nine decision at Brooklyn tonight. They're five game 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.360 winning street coming to an end. But we'll give you 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.000 some of the top players from the seventy Sixers side regardless, 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.199 because that is what we do here at the Sixers 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.560 Raiding Network. No Joel and b tonight he was dealing 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.040 with an upper respiratory illness. Tobias Harris has been a 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.400 fantastic ring option for the seventy six Ers as of late, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.760 and he put that on display very early in this one. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.520 Down two the Sixers racing across with Sivens the Horford downloaded. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.200 Tobias post turns into two defenders and scores in nice shot. 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.040 Kenny Atkins had taken time out. He just saw something 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.559 he didn't like. Nice play by the Sixers going in 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.240 the deposed to Harris. He turns and scores, Harris scoring 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.400 six to the seventy six Ers first eight points of 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.640 the night. Howell Nato came in off the bench and 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.199 he gave the six Ers some excellent minutes at the 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.520 end of the first quarter, back out the netto one 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.440 for did he go how Will on the baseline drives 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.960 by DeAndre Jordan oh Man double dribble? Noo, he got 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.360 away with it. Apparently Brooklyn touch at Neo now drives 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.160 it out scores and how about that Brooklyn thought he 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.320 double dribbled? They kind of Froze and Howell Netto gets 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.199 a driving lamb at Netto at five in a row, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.679 He's cut the lead down to five. It was part 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.880 of a stretch in which Nato hit a three pointer, 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.760 took a charge, and then scored that basket. Really good 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.920 stuff from the veteran point guard. Seventy Sixers trailed because 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.880 of his contributions by just five after one quarter twenty 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.480 eight twenty three in the second to seventy six Ers 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.719 saw Brooklyn seized control of Ben Simmons was trying to 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.839 step up his level of aggressiveness. Here's Batiste to Betty 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.439 lay up right side, could two man game with Thible 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.120 and Simmons. And that's the second time in the last 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.760 five possessions these Sixers have implemented that. Well done by 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.840 Batiste Simmons with a bucket. Then now in the game 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:24.079 with nine, seventy Sixers trailed by eight, forty nine to 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.640 forty one. At that juncture, they would be down at 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.920 the break fifty seven to forty three. In the third quarter. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.280 It was nice to see Al Horford doing what he 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.920 could after the fact the big man missed the last 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.400 two games. Thible Office screen Thible back to Orford left 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.520 side baseline jumper. Got it boy. Thivell has been very 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.760 effective in the two man game. Picks up his second assist, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.000 but he was really passing to Simmons with the regularity 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.520 in that first half. Orford with the field goal. He's 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.760 got ten at an eight point game, fifty eight to fifty. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.240 But Brooklyn would really continue to open things up through 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.800 its attack on the interior against the seventy six Josh 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.360 Richardson this was a nice bucket for him. Sixers needed 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.000 to fight back and this was one of their last 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.400 chances to try and keep it close. Paris with a 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.439 pull up fifteen footer good good screen by Norvelle. The 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.760 bias comes off clean. That's called the screen of says, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.360 and Josh steals the outlet. Richards It puts it up mistick, 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.400 but then puts it up in it so back to back. 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.920 Bill goals. Harris with a pull up jumper. Josh Richardson 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:25.320 steals the inbound pass misstep, but scorted seventy six Ers 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.679 have her would need more of those types of plays 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.319 and sequences than what they ultimately got. In the end, 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.760 they followed the Brooklyn nets one o nine to eighty nine. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.880 Brooklyn shot forty five and a half percent seventy six 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.640 or forty three percent six ers, just five of twenty 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.760 six from outside the arc. Brooklyn was nine for twenty 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.640 four sixers out rebanded by thirteen. They were minus five 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.320 on the offensive glass. Brooklyn with a twenty three to 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:55.520 eight advantage on fast break opportunities. Ben Simmons with twenty points, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.040 seven of ten from the field to lead the seventy sixers. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.679 He was six of eight from the free throw line, 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.960 also five rebounds and three assists seventeen four Tobias Harris 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.360 he had six rebounds and three times and two blocks 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.679 shots Al Horford in his first game back after missing 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.920 the last two ten points, nine rebounds, five assists, three blocks. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.559 Spencer Dinwoodie led all scores with twenty four, Joe Harris 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.160 with sixteen, and DeAndre Jordan came off the bench for 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.240 thirteen points and eleven boards for Brooklyn seventy six ers. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.400 Now twenty and eight on the year, Brooklyn improves to 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.200 fourteen and twelve. Seventy six ers. Next game will be 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.000 Wednesday night, back at the Center to host Jimmy Butler 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.280 and the Miami Heat for the second time in a 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.360 month you've been listening to Rewind. Look out for fresh 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.400 episodes the day after every seventy six ers game this season.