WEBVTT - Rewind vs. Miami Heat - 2/3/20 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.400 You're listening to rewind, they'll listen back on press conferences, 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:08.600 highlights and analysis from the seventy sixers previous game. Another 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.040 tough one for the seventy Sixers tonight, they lose at 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.880 American Airlines Arena to the Miami Heat. One thirty seven, 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.319 one oh six. I'm Brian Seltzer. Seventy Sixers done in 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.960 by Jimmy Butler. An explosive forty one point third quarter 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.639 by the Miami Heat. Butler went for a season best 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:25.720 thirty eight points. He made all but six of his 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.440 twenty shot attempts. He knocked down both of his three pointers, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:30.840 got to the line eight times, made all of his 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.040 free throws there also brought in seven rebounds and had 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.440 three steals for Miami and posting their third win of 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.000 the year against the Sixers. Bam Autobio, like Jimmy Butler, 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.160 and All Star for the Heat this season, Heat, too 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.240 was great eighteen points, eleven assists for the big Man, 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.880 a near triple double with eight rebounds of his own, 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.680 and then Gran Dragach off the bench with twenty four 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.320 huge factors for the Heat tonight. As for the seventy Sixers, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.120 they got off to a relatively encouraging start based upon 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.000 the way Joel and Bead played, and only took him 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.200 six minutes to matches eleven point total from Saturday's game, 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.440 a loss in Boston. But after that, although Joel finished 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.920 with a team high of twenty nine points and another 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.759 team high of twelve rebounds, he and the Sixers just 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.560 could not get in sinc they shot just under forty 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.800 three percent from the field, thirty four percent from outside 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:23.520 the arcading thirteen threes. The Sixers they committed fourteen turnovers 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.640 to Miami's three. That's really an amazing number for the 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:32.000 Heat to only commit three turnovers, and subsequently the Sixers 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.040 were outscored twenty two to six in terms of points 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.680 off turnovers, Miami with fifty points from the bench. As 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.120 we said, grand drag a big part of that, but 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.039 just a very solid, well rounded effort by Miami and 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.240 the seventy Sixers despite hanging relatively close and tough in 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.880 the first half, they just could not find their way 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.640 after the intermission break. And for the seventy Sixers, yes, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.200 there's certain numbers that stand out in this game that 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.640 are alarming. That's kind of like a microcosmic look at 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.320 this the Sixers just a different team on the road 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.600 and trying to find themselves as they head towards the 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.600 All Star Game break. After one thirty seven, one oh 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.520 six lost to Miami tonight, the Heat, as I said, 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.640 they win the four game season series against the seventy 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.840 Sixers three games to one. They're now four games in 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.160 front of the Sixers in the standings, Miami improving to 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.400 thirty four and fifteen while the Sixers dropped to thirty 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.960 one and twenty. But it's back to back losses against 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.119 two teams in front of you in ways that just 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.000 we're really difficult for the team, and of course the 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:37.400 Milwaukee Bucks loom. On Thursday, seventy six Ers fall one 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.960 thirty seven, one oh six against the Miami Heat in 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.560 South Florida. We'll join in progress right now. Sixers head 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.480 coach Brett Brown team in the NBA, and we weren't 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.880 even close to that tonight. We've talked a lot, I 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.639 feel like about the defensive intensity on the road. Just 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.280 what are you see in terms of the factor there 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.000 and how do you fix it. I think that you 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.480 look at sort of the three point line, especially in 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.040 the second half. Um they they got away from us. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.560 I didn't feel we responded well at all to that. Uh. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.040 You give credit to Jimmy Butler, like he had a 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.000 big game scoring wise. I thought he was, you know, 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.240 scoring in a bunch of ways really hard to guard. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:19.040 But I think just the sting to our defense, uh 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.880 was really disappointing. Right. You said the spirit of the 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.000 group is always in a plus. Um, why is that 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.959 not translating on the court. Yeah, and it really didn't 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:33.600 tonight in obvious ways. Um, I don't know. You know. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.640 What I do know is that for me, it's it's 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.800 reflective of defense. I think that that when you sort 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.120 of like with the guys of practice and shoot around 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.400 like their eyes are why they're good, they're really good 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.360 to see it not have carry over to your point 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:55.680 on the court, Uh lately, you know, it's it's obviously 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.320 a concern and um, you know, I think to look 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.880 further for me then, like you know why I go 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.320 to defense first. I think that we had some of 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.040 us daughter as you know, struggle tonight. But I thought 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.080 a defense was poor in the connection. I think to 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.360 like the spirit of the group, the the the attitude 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.200 of the group doesn't point to what ended up happening 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.200 in the game, which normally isn't the case. You sense 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.440 a level of frustration maybe with the offense seeping into 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.640 the defense or is that I don't. I think this 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.080 might be a little bit but but no, I don't. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.400 I don't circle back to that. I don't. I think 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.600 that's a weak excuse. You know, I really, I really do. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.680 I think that you know, the defense the way that 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.919 we play it, you know, we judge deflections, we judge 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.800 you know, sort of activity. We didn't have it tonight. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.840 It was similar to what they experienced in Game one. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.000 You know, sometimes you go through a game like that. 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.599 The thing that I don't like is we just, you know, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.479 left a Boston game that you you felt like you 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.919 needed a little bit more bite and we just didn't 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.719 have it tonight. Seventy six Ers drop a one thirty seven, 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.360 one h six decision on the road in Miami heat. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.000 The team is now owned three on this trip. They'll 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.159 have two days without a game and then had two 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:18.800 Milwaukee for a primetime showdown on Thursday. Tom McGinnis had 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.200 the call in South Florida tonight. He joins us now 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.520 to Jimmy Butler, certainly had it going on for the heat. 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.640 Oh he did, you know, And again some of the 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.760 times they played off him because he's mostly a driver, 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.599 and he hit open shots. I think he hit a 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.000 couple threes, and he certainly had some open twos. And 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.920 then again, you know what you've always noticed and liked 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:43.239 about Butler's game. As he drives, and he drives, he's probing, 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.359 he's probing, and next thing you know, he's three feet 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.520 from the goal and he's laying it up and over 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.480 your defender and in and oh, by the way, if 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.000 you start to guard him a little closer, he's able 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.960 to move that ball and get somebody else a good look. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.160 So he was really good, maybe one of the best 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.520 Timand this guy had fifty six points against the Sixers 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.720 in the gamer fifty four at the Center a few 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:02.159 years ago with the Bulls. So I don't know that 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.120 it was the best ever game I've seen him play, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.800 but this was certainly a really solid performance overall from Butler. 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.640 Very efficient. He's at the peak of his game, there's 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.960 no doubt about it. And you know, he played well 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.840 for the Sixers last year. But I believe this is 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.200 the best we've seen him play. It's it's just one 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.920 of those veteran players that he's taken this the know 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.640 how and the basketball IQ and you know, obviously he's 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.760 a hard worker, and you know, so he's in peak 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.760 physical condition and he's playing with a young group here. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.279 That's that's really on a roll right now for Miami, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.440 and he was without question the best player in the 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.239 game out there tonight. Butler with the season best thirty 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.880 eight points, seven rebounds, fourteen of twenty from the field, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.479 two of two from outside the arc, ground Drockets with 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.159 twenty four points for the Miami Heat. The seventy sixers 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.000 were led by Joel Embiid, who had twenty nine and twelve. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.160 Ben Simmons Tom's sixteen points, eight rebounds, seven assists. But 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.880 you know, we should certainly highlight that he went eight 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.279 for nine from the free throw line. But Miami defensively 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.640 really played him tough. He was even at times able 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.240 to get in the lane, but once he got close 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.839 to the rim, it was like Miami had enough bodies 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.360 there to force to pass back out to somewhere else. Absolutely, 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.760 and then a couple of times Ben took layups that 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.960 weren't all the way to the rim, and those are 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.000 so difficult, especially with speed, and they just did a 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.120 great job. And then they got Robinson into the game offensively. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.720 And you know, Druggage is so good. I mean, he'd 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.440 probably be a starter on half the teams in this league. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.240 And one of the things he does, he's so shifty 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.000 with the dribble. Not the fastest player, but really good 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.800 at that middle pick and roll where you know, for 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.280 the slightest moment, And this happened a bunch of times. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.720 If Brett Brown's talking about the sting of his defense, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.840 part of it was they weren't staying connected. In other words, 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.000 the guy who was guarding the ball hand there and 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.160 I'm talking about Droggage, they weren't getting back to him, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.679 and he was that slight opening. He's nailing a three 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.120 and I thought I had a bio had a huge 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.480 impact in the team. I mean a double double with assists, 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.920 and again he's bringing the ball up and it's almost 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.200 a little bit like sim Is where teams play so 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.840 far off of Ben and they think that you know, 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.960 obviously they don't think he's a threat from the perimeter, 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.080 and same from at a bio. But then he's got 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.160 all this open space and he's able to create off that. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.040 I mean at a Bio brought the ball up any 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.080 number of times and that wasn't an accident because Joel's 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.600 running back into the lane and so at a bio 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.160 he's just got moved and you know, freedom to pass 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.800 that ball and get them into some actions. And they 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.640 just dominated this game. This is a shocker to me, 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.000 is that how poorly the Sixers played here in Miami 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.800 and now you have only the Milwaukee Bucksloman on Thursday, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.079 right right, And then you got to think too, how 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.520 Milwaukee is going to react after the way the Sixers 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.880 dominated them in the game on Christmas at the Center. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.679 You know they're going to be loaded for bear A, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.400 you know, with wanting to come back with a statement 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.319 of their own. And then after the All Star break, 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.920 I believe that's the first road trip again for the Sixers. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.280 So you got two games in the next two and 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.560 a half weeks or so against Milwaukee, and clearly the 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.920 road has been a real tough thing for the Sixers. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.880 And again to give up forty one points in a 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.439 quarter when it was a four point game, that is 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.000 that is that is not a defensive team that you 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.600 know you're not gonna win like that on the road. 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.120 It's just that was a really tough phase of the 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.720 game for the Sixers already. Time we will speak next 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.440 on Thursday night. Seventy Sixers and the Bucks. All right, 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.000 thank you, Brian, good night. Sixers lose in Miami by 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:31.120 the final score of one thirty seven to one zero six. 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.920 Jimmy Butler with thirty eight points for the Miami Heat, 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.920 twenty nine and twelve for Joellen beat tough, tough road trip. 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.480 The team is obviously owned three and you would have 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.480 to presume that the Sixers got the best team in 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.480 the league's attention on Christmas Day and that Thursday's game 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.760 at Fiser Forum in Milwaukee will be no walk in 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.520 the park. But Sixers will have two days idol. They're 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.319 actually coming back to Philadelphia after the game in Miami tonight. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.520 They'll get in the gym for at least one practice 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:05.240 on Wednesday before heading to Milwaukee. So the team looking 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.240 to get back on track. Of course, reviewing some of 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:12.120 the final numbers from tonight, Miami could not miss fifty 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.080 six and a half percent. They were driving the basket, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.520 they were knocking down threes, They were sixteen to thirty 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.040 two from outside the arc. They were connecting on mid 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.840 range elbow jumpers, and they got to the free throw 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.360 line regularly, where they were twenty five of thirty from 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.560 the stripe seventy sixers held just under forty three percent, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.360 and they went thirteen of thirty eight for thirty four 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.400 percent from outside the arc. They were twenty one to 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.520 twenty five from the free throw line, which on balance 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.720 isn't terrible, but again Miami getting the line a little 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.760 bit more. Sixers were plus ten on the glass, but 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.559 they also certainly missed at a higher rate, which explains 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.200 that the defense amazingly. For as good as the defense 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.520 has been this year, there were obviously the issues in 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.439 terms of how efficient Miami was tonight, but only fours 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.040 three turnovers, amazing Miami outscoring the seventy six or twenty 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.640 two to six in points off turnovers, as we've mentioned 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.880 a couple of times, thirty eight points for Jimmy Butler, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.960 twenty four for drag off the bench, nineteen for Duncan Robinson, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.600 who was four for eight from outside the arc. Bam 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.040 out of Bio was awesome, eighteen points, eight rebounds, would 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.080 get this eleven assists, no turnovers. I just saw the 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:22.000 stat on line somewhere the Miami Heat. Since nineteen eighty two, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.080 the number of games the franchise has had with a 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.680 player playing center with ten assists or more two from 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.560 all other centers combined not named Bam out of Baio 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.160 and out of Bio has had four now. This season, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.040 Crazy Sixers were led by dwell Embiid both in points 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.640 and rebounds with twenty nine and twelve. Ben Simmons was 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.720 defended well and effectively tonight, just sixteen points on four 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:50.160 for seven shooting, eight rebounds and seven assists, four turnovers, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.240 seventeen from Mike Scott five for seven. Unfortunate that the 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.360 seventy six ers weren't able to capitalize on a night 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.520 that Mike Scott was in his groove from outside the arc. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.200 All right, so you know the scoop. Three straight losses 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.520 for the seventy sixers. They remain in sixth place in 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.680 the East. They're thirty one and twenty. They are currently 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.400 still a half game behind Indiana for fifth. Indiana loss 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.240 tonight to the Dallas Mavericks in Texas, but the seventy 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.160 Sixers with the losses on Saturday and tonight to Boston 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.040 in Miami are now four games behind the Celtics and 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.280 the Heat. The Heat hold the tiebreaker with the seventy 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.080 Sixers based upon tonight's win, and it's forty two and 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.240 seven Milwaukee waiting on Thursday nights you've been listening to Rewind, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.960 look out for fresh episodes the day after every seventy 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.200 Sixers game this season.