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. Another
Speaker 1: tough one for the seventy Sixers tonight, they lose at
Speaker 1: American Airlines Arena to the Miami Heat. One thirty seven,
Speaker 1: one oh six. I'm Brian Seltzer. Seventy Sixers done in
Speaker 1: by Jimmy Butler. An explosive forty one point third quarter
Speaker 1: by the Miami Heat. Butler went for a season best
Speaker 1: thirty eight points. He made all but six of his
Speaker 1: twenty shot attempts. He knocked down both of his three pointers,
Speaker 1: got to the line eight times, made all of his
Speaker 1: free throws there also brought in seven rebounds and had
Speaker 1: three steals for Miami and posting their third win of
Speaker 1: the year against the Sixers. Bam Autobio, like Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: and All Star for the Heat this season, Heat, too
Speaker 1: was great eighteen points, eleven assists for the big Man,
Speaker 1: a near triple double with eight rebounds of his own,
Speaker 1: and then Gran Dragach off the bench with twenty four
Speaker 1: huge factors for the Heat tonight. As for the seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: they got off to a relatively encouraging start based upon
Speaker 1: the way Joel and Bead played, and only took him
Speaker 1: six minutes to matches eleven point total from Saturday's game,
Speaker 1: a loss in Boston. But after that, although Joel finished
Speaker 1: with a team high of twenty nine points and another
Speaker 1: team high of twelve rebounds, he and the Sixers just
Speaker 1: could not get in sinc they shot just under forty
Speaker 1: three percent from the field, thirty four percent from outside
Speaker 1: the arcading thirteen threes. The Sixers they committed fourteen turnovers
Speaker 1: to Miami's three. That's really an amazing number for the
Speaker 1: Heat to only commit three turnovers, and subsequently the Sixers
Speaker 1: were outscored twenty two to six in terms of points
Speaker 1: off turnovers, Miami with fifty points from the bench. As
Speaker 1: we said, grand drag a big part of that, but
Speaker 1: just a very solid, well rounded effort by Miami and
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers despite hanging relatively close and tough in
Speaker 1: the first half, they just could not find their way
Speaker 1: after the intermission break. And for the seventy Sixers, yes,
Speaker 1: there's certain numbers that stand out in this game that
Speaker 1: are alarming. That's kind of like a microcosmic look at
Speaker 1: this the Sixers just a different team on the road
Speaker 1: and trying to find themselves as they head towards the
Speaker 1: All Star Game break. After one thirty seven, one oh
Speaker 1: six lost to Miami tonight, the Heat, as I said,
Speaker 1: they win the four game season series against the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers three games to one. They're now four games in
Speaker 1: front of the Sixers in the standings, Miami improving to
Speaker 1: thirty four and fifteen while the Sixers dropped to thirty
Speaker 1: one and twenty. But it's back to back losses against
Speaker 1: two teams in front of you in ways that just
Speaker 1: we're really difficult for the team, and of course the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks loom. On Thursday, seventy six Ers fall one
Speaker 1: thirty seven, one oh six against the Miami Heat in
Speaker 1: South Florida. We'll join in progress right now. Sixers head
Speaker 1: coach Brett Brown team in the NBA, and we weren't
Speaker 1: even close to that tonight. We've talked a lot, I
Speaker 1: feel like about the defensive intensity on the road. Just
Speaker 1: what are you see in terms of the factor there
Speaker 1: and how do you fix it. I think that you
Speaker 1: look at sort of the three point line, especially in
Speaker 1: the second half. Um they they got away from us.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel we responded well at all to that. Uh.
Speaker 1: You give credit to Jimmy Butler, like he had a
Speaker 1: big game scoring wise. I thought he was, you know,
Speaker 1: scoring in a bunch of ways really hard to guard.
Speaker 1: But I think just the sting to our defense, uh
Speaker 1: was really disappointing. Right. You said the spirit of the
Speaker 1: group is always in a plus. Um, why is that
Speaker 1: not translating on the court. Yeah, and it really didn't
Speaker 1: tonight in obvious ways. Um, I don't know. You know.
Speaker 1: What I do know is that for me, it's it's
Speaker 1: reflective of defense. I think that that when you sort
Speaker 1: of like with the guys of practice and shoot around
Speaker 1: like their eyes are why they're good, they're really good
Speaker 1: to see it not have carry over to your point
Speaker 1: on the court, Uh lately, you know, it's it's obviously
Speaker 1: a concern and um, you know, I think to look
Speaker 1: further for me then, like you know why I go
Speaker 1: to defense first. I think that we had some of
Speaker 1: us daughter as you know, struggle tonight. But I thought
Speaker 1: a defense was poor in the connection. I think to
Speaker 1: like the spirit of the group, the the the attitude
Speaker 1: of the group doesn't point to what ended up happening
Speaker 1: in the game, which normally isn't the case. You sense
Speaker 1: a level of frustration maybe with the offense seeping into
Speaker 1: the defense or is that I don't. I think this
Speaker 1: might be a little bit but but no, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't circle back to that. I don't. I think
Speaker 1: that's a weak excuse. You know, I really, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think that you know, the defense the way that
Speaker 1: we play it, you know, we judge deflections, we judge
Speaker 1: you know, sort of activity. We didn't have it tonight.
Speaker 1: It was similar to what they experienced in Game one.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you go through a game like that.
Speaker 1: The thing that I don't like is we just, you know,
Speaker 1: left a Boston game that you you felt like you
Speaker 1: needed a little bit more bite and we just didn't
Speaker 1: have it tonight. Seventy six Ers drop a one thirty seven,
Speaker 1: one h six decision on the road in Miami heat.
Speaker 1: The team is now owned three on this trip. They'll
Speaker 1: have two days without a game and then had two
Speaker 1: Milwaukee for a primetime showdown on Thursday. Tom McGinnis had
Speaker 1: the call in South Florida tonight. He joins us now
Speaker 1: to Jimmy Butler, certainly had it going on for the heat.
Speaker 1: Oh he did, you know, And again some of the
Speaker 1: times they played off him because he's mostly a driver,
Speaker 1: and he hit open shots. I think he hit a
Speaker 1: couple threes, and he certainly had some open twos. And
Speaker 1: then again, you know what you've always noticed and liked
Speaker 1: about Butler's game. As he drives, and he drives, he's probing,
Speaker 1: he's probing, and next thing you know, he's three feet
Speaker 1: from the goal and he's laying it up and over
Speaker 1: your defender and in and oh, by the way, if
Speaker 1: you start to guard him a little closer, he's able
Speaker 1: to move that ball and get somebody else a good look.
Speaker 1: So he was really good, maybe one of the best
Speaker 1: Timand this guy had fifty six points against the Sixers
Speaker 1: in the gamer fifty four at the Center a few
Speaker 1: years ago with the Bulls. So I don't know that
Speaker 1: it was the best ever game I've seen him play,
Speaker 1: but this was certainly a really solid performance overall from Butler.
Speaker 1: Very efficient. He's at the peak of his game, there's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And you know, he played well
Speaker 1: for the Sixers last year. But I believe this is
Speaker 1: the best we've seen him play. It's it's just one
Speaker 1: of those veteran players that he's taken this the know
Speaker 1: how and the basketball IQ and you know, obviously he's
Speaker 1: a hard worker, and you know, so he's in peak
Speaker 1: physical condition and he's playing with a young group here.
Speaker 1: That's that's really on a roll right now for Miami,
Speaker 1: and he was without question the best player in the
Speaker 1: game out there tonight. Butler with the season best thirty
Speaker 1: eight points, seven rebounds, fourteen of twenty from the field,
Speaker 1: two of two from outside the arc, ground Drockets with
Speaker 1: twenty four points for the Miami Heat. The seventy sixers
Speaker 1: were led by Joel Embiid, who had twenty nine and twelve.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons Tom's sixteen points, eight rebounds, seven assists. But
Speaker 1: you know, we should certainly highlight that he went eight
Speaker 1: for nine from the free throw line. But Miami defensively
Speaker 1: really played him tough. He was even at times able
Speaker 1: to get in the lane, but once he got close
Speaker 1: to the rim, it was like Miami had enough bodies
Speaker 1: there to force to pass back out to somewhere else. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and then a couple of times Ben took layups that
Speaker 1: weren't all the way to the rim, and those are
Speaker 1: so difficult, especially with speed, and they just did a
Speaker 1: great job. And then they got Robinson into the game offensively.
Speaker 1: And you know, Druggage is so good. I mean, he'd
Speaker 1: probably be a starter on half the teams in this league.
Speaker 1: And one of the things he does, he's so shifty
Speaker 1: with the dribble. Not the fastest player, but really good
Speaker 1: at that middle pick and roll where you know, for
Speaker 1: the slightest moment, And this happened a bunch of times.
Speaker 1: If Brett Brown's talking about the sting of his defense,
Speaker 1: part of it was they weren't staying connected. In other words,
Speaker 1: the guy who was guarding the ball hand there and
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Droggage, they weren't getting back to him,
Speaker 1: and he was that slight opening. He's nailing a three
Speaker 1: and I thought I had a bio had a huge
Speaker 1: impact in the team. I mean a double double with assists,
Speaker 1: and again he's bringing the ball up and it's almost
Speaker 1: a little bit like sim Is where teams play so
Speaker 1: far off of Ben and they think that you know,
Speaker 1: obviously they don't think he's a threat from the perimeter,
Speaker 1: and same from at a bio. But then he's got
Speaker 1: all this open space and he's able to create off that.
Speaker 1: I mean at a Bio brought the ball up any
Speaker 1: number of times and that wasn't an accident because Joel's
Speaker 1: running back into the lane and so at a bio
Speaker 1: he's just got moved and you know, freedom to pass
Speaker 1: that ball and get them into some actions. And they
Speaker 1: just dominated this game. This is a shocker to me,
Speaker 1: is that how poorly the Sixers played here in Miami
Speaker 1: and now you have only the Milwaukee Bucksloman on Thursday,
Speaker 1: right right, And then you got to think too, how
Speaker 1: Milwaukee is going to react after the way the Sixers
Speaker 1: dominated them in the game on Christmas at the Center.
Speaker 1: You know they're going to be loaded for bear A,
Speaker 1: you know, with wanting to come back with a statement
Speaker 1: of their own. And then after the All Star break,
Speaker 1: I believe that's the first road trip again for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: So you got two games in the next two and
Speaker 1: a half weeks or so against Milwaukee, and clearly the
Speaker 1: road has been a real tough thing for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: And again to give up forty one points in a
Speaker 1: quarter when it was a four point game, that is
Speaker 1: that is that is not a defensive team that you
Speaker 1: know you're not gonna win like that on the road.
Speaker 1: It's just that was a really tough phase of the
Speaker 1: game for the Sixers already. Time we will speak next
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. Seventy Sixers and the Bucks. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you, Brian, good night. Sixers lose in Miami by
Speaker 1: the final score of one thirty seven to one zero six.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler with thirty eight points for the Miami Heat,
Speaker 1: twenty nine and twelve for Joellen beat tough, tough road trip.
Speaker 1: The team is obviously owned three and you would have
Speaker 1: to presume that the Sixers got the best team in
Speaker 1: the league's attention on Christmas Day and that Thursday's game
Speaker 1: at Fiser Forum in Milwaukee will be no walk in
Speaker 1: the park. But Sixers will have two days idol. They're
Speaker 1: actually coming back to Philadelphia after the game in Miami tonight.
Speaker 1: They'll get in the gym for at least one practice
Speaker 1: on Wednesday before heading to Milwaukee. So the team looking
Speaker 1: to get back on track. Of course, reviewing some of
Speaker 1: the final numbers from tonight, Miami could not miss fifty
Speaker 1: six and a half percent. They were driving the basket,
Speaker 1: they were knocking down threes, They were sixteen to thirty
Speaker 1: two from outside the arc. They were connecting on mid
Speaker 1: range elbow jumpers, and they got to the free throw
Speaker 1: line regularly, where they were twenty five of thirty from
Speaker 1: the stripe seventy sixers held just under forty three percent,
Speaker 1: and they went thirteen of thirty eight for thirty four
Speaker 1: percent from outside the arc. They were twenty one to
Speaker 1: twenty five from the free throw line, which on balance
Speaker 1: isn't terrible, but again Miami getting the line a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Sixers were plus ten on the glass, but
Speaker 1: they also certainly missed at a higher rate, which explains
Speaker 1: that the defense amazingly. For as good as the defense
Speaker 1: has been this year, there were obviously the issues in
Speaker 1: terms of how efficient Miami was tonight, but only fours
Speaker 1: three turnovers, amazing Miami outscoring the seventy six or twenty
Speaker 1: two to six in points off turnovers, as we've mentioned
Speaker 1: a couple of times, thirty eight points for Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: twenty four for drag off the bench, nineteen for Duncan Robinson,
Speaker 1: who was four for eight from outside the arc. Bam
Speaker 1: out of Bio was awesome, eighteen points, eight rebounds, would
Speaker 1: get this eleven assists, no turnovers. I just saw the
Speaker 1: stat on line somewhere the Miami Heat. Since nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 1: the number of games the franchise has had with a
Speaker 1: player playing center with ten assists or more two from
Speaker 1: all other centers combined not named Bam out of Baio
Speaker 1: and out of Bio has had four now. This season,
Speaker 1: Crazy Sixers were led by dwell Embiid both in points
Speaker 1: and rebounds with twenty nine and twelve. Ben Simmons was
Speaker 1: defended well and effectively tonight, just sixteen points on four
Speaker 1: for seven shooting, eight rebounds and seven assists, four turnovers,
Speaker 1: seventeen from Mike Scott five for seven. Unfortunate that the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers weren't able to capitalize on a night
Speaker 1: that Mike Scott was in his groove from outside the arc.
Speaker 1: All right, so you know the scoop. Three straight losses
Speaker 1: for the seventy sixers. They remain in sixth place in
Speaker 1: the East. They're thirty one and twenty. They are currently
Speaker 1: still a half game behind Indiana for fifth. Indiana loss
Speaker 1: tonight to the Dallas Mavericks in Texas, but the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers with the losses on Saturday and tonight to Boston
Speaker 1: in Miami are now four games behind the Celtics and
Speaker 1: the Heat. The Heat hold the tiebreaker with the seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers based upon tonight's win, and it's forty two and
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