Rewind vs. Denver Nuggets - 11/8/19

side of the result. In the Mile High City, they lose to the Nuggets one hundred ninety seven at Nicola Yoki hitting a desperation jump shot from the elbow with two point two seconds to go, enough to get Denver over the hump. They outscored the Sixers thirty five to thirteen in the fourth and final quarter. I'm Brian Seltzer and this is Brett Brown and credit you know, we weren't able to find a way to win on the road. They were tough at home and they made some shots.

Did you think that fatigue played a factor down the stretch? Just being here at last road or game of the road now right, I know you didn't go with Mitis today. Can just say what I thought we needed? Uh? You know, I wanted to see what was going on with Tray. I really wanted to give him an opportunity. And Firkon

has been playing well, James has been playing well. You know, sometimes rookies, you know, go through a little bit of a patch, and you know, my intention was to try to get him in in the UH in the second half, and the guys were playing well, and so we rode that out. Two little point guards I thought did good and Howell and and Uh and Trey and he sort

of caught the brunt of of that. What it just seems like early on did center matchup, Like both of them got into foultro what they weren't really on the floor. I'm talking about Joel and and and joking. But then it seems like in the fourth quarter they both came alive and and did great things for the teams. I think Jill Kitchen was was was really you know, exceptional. We're we're growing Joel's fitness base and you know, trying to continually move that forward where he can beat Joel Embiid.

And you know, tonight you can see that you get some work to do. And I think that he fought his his his heart out. I think that you know, when we needed him most times he was there, and we're going to continue to just get him as healthy as we can and help him, help put him in a position where he can beat Joel Embiid. This was the first this was the first game that Trey Burke got some run tonight. What did you make of his play? I thought he was great. I thought he provided a spark.

He's a water bug. He plays with a pace, is a toughness that I think you know all teams need, and I thought he was excellent. Seventy Sixers head coach Brett Brown found him a tough loss for the seventy six Ers tonight one ninety seven, in the final game of their four game road trip that began eight days ago in Portland. Seventy Sixers man, they seem to be in a really good spot tonight, at one point, leading

by as much as twenty one points. The bench, led by his Brett Brown said, Trey Burke was terrific thirty seven points from the bench unit for the seventy sixers. Burke he was strong with five points plus ten in seventeen minutes played. Kyle O'Quinn gave a spark for Concork mos as well. Joel Embie did come on strong down the stretch. He finished with nineteen points fifteen rebounds, to

Bias Harris with thirteen points and ten boards. Will Nato, in a starting role for Ben Simons night with thirteen points and six assists. But Nicola Yokich, you know, he had a really kind of disjointed game offensively for the majority of the evening. But in the fourth quarter, the All Star First Team All NBA Big Man, he shined. He scored sixteen of his twenty six in the fourth quarter, and of course he had the desperation game winning shot with two point two seconds to go. I'm looking forward

to talking with Tom about this. In a moment, I thought the Sixers defended the play really really well. I mean, Josh Richardson was right up in Yoki's face on the block. There was extra body sent towards Paul Millsap in the corner when the ball was passed to him, if I'm recounting the play correctly, and then Yokich got the ball up by the elbow. Al Horford was in the vicinity, put up a hand and contest. Josh Richardson came over.

He put up a hand as well, but Yoki, he was falling to the floor, was able to knock down the hierarching rainbow jump shot and it was enough to make the difference as the Denver Nuggets outscored the seventy six Ers thirty five to thirteen in the fourth quarter to pull this one out one hundred ninety seven. So I don't think anyone thought this road trip was going to be an easy one, especially given the time of

year that it was occurring. In the fact that the seventy Sixers played with at Joel Embiid in two of the games and Ben Simmons and essentially the final two. The Sixers go one and three, They're gonna get two games at home before having a hit back out on

the road again. With Charlotte coming on Sunday, Sixers will look to re group, We will look to get things going and speak with Tom McGinnis in a second Denver Nuggets steal one for the seventy six Ers one hundred and ninety seven at Pepsi Center in the Mile High City. As the seventy Sixers road trip comes to an end with a third straight loss on Brian Seltzer, we go back out to Pepsi Center connect with Tom McGinnis. Tom, what do you think made the difference in that fourth quarter? Well,

you got to give Denver a lot of credit. Thirty five points. They started making shots. They took the wave of momentum and carried it to a victory. But you know, as coach Brown was saying post game, the Sixers, I believe they were what eight of seventeen for the nine The turnovers and the misfile shots really cost them in thirteen points in the fourth quarter. You know, being outscored

thirty five to thirteen down the stretch really hurt. And like I said, one of my points at halftime when the Sixers had that lead I believe fifteen points, was you know, the run is going to come, and how will you went to come and how will you respond if you were to Sixers and you know Denver they at one point early in the fourth had a ten oh run. But then it seemed like the Sixers righted themselves and we're able to you know, keep things going.

But then Yoki got hot, Murray continue to move that ball around. They scored with efficiency and Yokich had sixteen points in the fourth quarter for them, and we learned. Now this is down twenty one and the fourth the biggest comeback in the history of the Denver Nuggets. Ho about that as good of a nugget as that is, Team AC that might be left out of the old Sixers dot Com recap night, Well, we're very close to the Denver broadcast. Booths couldn't help. He wasn't sharing, but

I can't help, but hear it the guy. You know, it's it's important for contacts looking at this game because that's how big of a climb Denver had to make back and how much things had to go right, and it's amazing. I thought that really for the majority of this game, especially the first three quarters, it was like whenever Denver put the row on the seventy sixers, they

were the team that had the answer. They were getting timely three pointers, whether it was from someone like a fur Concorkmas, a Whole Nato, even Kyle O'Quinn at one point, Josh Richardson. But then Denver goes five for seven from three. In the fourth, Yokich hid an early one to make it six. There was that one from Paul Millsap to

make it a two point game. Will Barton to get the deficit to one and the Sixers, you know, Horford misses that three with thirteen seconds to go, and that was a big flip of the script statistically in this game, right, and Barton kind of made up for that turnover where he threw it in and Josh was able to pry it away from Murray, but it was really because of a bad pass by Barton on a side out of

bounds playing in the waning moments. But then he you know, he steps into a wide open three and makes it. That was clutch. And then I think, and no doubt about it, the Sixers had some real inspired play from Burke. And as you say, Kyle Quinn, James and has played well. I thought, how Will played well? And you know, you have to kind of step back and look conceptually how they played Denver. So Murray is not a classic point guard, but he is a you know, to me he would

be more of a two. But he's a great ball handler and he is he initiates middle pick and roll. What does Prett Brown always say, Brian, You've heard this a million times from coach. The most popular most run play, if you will, in the NBA is middle pick and roll and more specifically one five pick roll and they play it all the time, and Yokich is more of a pick and pop guy, and he kind of drifts over to the wing instead of rolling hard in the lane.

And yet you know he's such a depth passer. He puts your team in a very difficult spot and that that's to me, that's where they hurt the Sixers the most. And then I thought the play was I mean, it set up the game when he shot was Paul millsap. But he had a number of great plays, if I'm not mistaken. He made three threes. Defensively, he was brilliant at times. Stimy and the Sixers at the rim and he gets swarmed down low by four Sixers. He's trying to get out of the lane. He doesn't know what.

All of a sudden, he's just able to get that ball out to Yoki. And that was a bit play. You think of yoks with the shop, but millstop making the past. That set up that game winner was huge for them. Sixers fall in Denver one hundred ninety seven. Nicola Yokich the game winner with two point two seconds to go. You looded to Trey Burke Tom He finished with five points three assists, but I think his impact

went farther than those numbers would suggest. The bench had a really really strong night, combining for thirty seven points in the absence of Ben Simmons, and we talked about it before the game, and I think now even more so afterwards with the way Trey Burke played. Perhaps one of the biggest takeaways for the seventy sixers on this early season road trip was finding out more about their two backup ball handlers in Howell Natso, who scored thirteen

points and had six assists, and Trey Burke. Yeah, I thought Nato was really good in his last two games, and Trey Burke, no doubt scored it. And like I've said, I said a number of times since the Sixers signed him in the summer, and there's gonna be a night where he gets to ten points in a quarter, and tonight was kind of that night. You know, wasn't all

in one quarter. The only thing that concerns me a little bit, and you needed the scoring, and Coach Brown just stated postgame that he wanted to give him a look, and you know, for the most part, Burke and I don't want to take anything away, but he is a scorer and to me, like you have to be a distributor and a scorer like but in other words, he kind of looks for his own number every time, and that's that's good when you need points, but you also

need to distribute that ball like Tobias wasn't getting a lot of looks when he was in there, like that kind of thing where you know, you have to steal within the framework of the offense running and then if it's a breakdown under five seconds on the shot clock. But that might be quibbling. It was his first game, and look, the Sixers needed scoring, as I said, and

he did it. But you know, you also have to have and beat in the game when he's in there a lot, you know, you kind of have to get other guys touches as well, and they'll work with him on that. But they again, like I said pregame, this guy's had forty points in a game. Uh, and you need you need offense and punch off the game. And he's got that off the bench and he was able to deliver in that regard. Looking forward to coming home team Mac, Yeah, I mean it's just like everybody. Are

you excited for the season. Of course, I'm excited for the season. But when you get on the road, I don't know. Sometimes I think maybe people don't realize, but the travel, and it's not just to travel. It's like tonight, we're coming on midnight. Right, Hey, we're still in Denver, Colorado. That's where there are later rivals. And granted you're in luxurious hotels and whatnot, but it is that the sleep

patterns get totally disrupted over these last eight days. You think you'd be accustomed to the mountain time or Pacific time or whatever, but not really the case. And now we swing back into the otherware Valley. It'll be great to be home. You're right. Looking forward to talking with you on Sunday. All right, but thank you, goodnight. Big thanks to Tom mcguinnis for hanging out for a little bit more analysis and we have got his highlights coming up.

After a one hundred ninety seven lost by the seventy six ers to the Denver Nuggets, Hey, real quick, this reminder that if you miss any of the game, we remind you the morning after every game on the seventy six Ers podcast network. You can hear our rewind edition of the pod, which is essentially this program played again. Just searched seventy six Ers podcast network, wherever you get your pods. Seventy six Ers one last time on the road for now visiting the Denver Nuggets for the only

time this season to five and two teams. I'm Brian Selzer. Here is how it sounded, courtesy of the one and only Tom McGinnis. Seventy Sixers got off to an encouraging start tonight. They also to go a little bit deeper into the bench because Ben Simmons was not available. This

was Trey Burke's Sixers debut. Five seconds ago, Burke drives it at Burke still dribbling, gets the screen lifts shoot stars with point two to go, it'd be running interferrets to run the fill life and Trey Burke gets the field goal, his first basket of the year that made a twenty four eighteen seventy Sixers. The first quarter was a little bit ragged, but then things opened up with the bench doing more good. In quarter number two, Burt to delay, Preez top and a quibble laup Trey Burke

with an instant offense. He's wheeling stealing had another field goal by Kyle oh quinn. He's four for four. Time out Denver. The Sixers forty one and the Nuggets twenty eight. More from the bench before the first half was through Josh Richardson of the ball. Gary Harris guards him. They jumped theld upside perk On. He's gonna shoot for three. It's in the year, it's gone. Cark Boss hits again. What a surprise. Cork Boss having a tremendous season for

the Sixers. He's made three threes and as many tries he's got eleven and the seventy Sixers back in front by seventeen. Sixers could do no wrong in the first half. From three, they were nine of twelve, led by fifteen points at the break fifty seven to forty two. And the third quarter the seventy sixers continued to expand the margin and play really really good basketball. The three points

shot was falling. Joel Embiid was great in the third quarters, scoring ten points, going four to five from the field and you know one. At one point the seventy sixers they looked up at the scoreboard and they were ahead by twenty one and feet of the ball when it's back to the basket to the run of the lane, leads back, turn his faces holding the ball, jaff step by Plumber. It makes a baseline move, gets a round him goes in for a lamp up and god he got a reverse and Porter came over and want to

play by Joel and Bead. That made it eighty four to sixty five to seventy Sixers were in a great spot early on in the third quarter, but down the stretch of the fourth things began to tighten up a little bit as the Denver Nuggets were able to string a tenant nothing run together then carried over into the fourth, so you got the feeling that the tenor of the

game was gonna change. Even though the Sixers led by nineteen going into the fourth and twenty one early on in the period, they had to fend off the Denver Nuggets and the Sixers Denver going on a twenty seven to nine run. Joel and Bead in crunch time, trying to see these seventy sixers through to the finish line. Howel Netta with a dribble, he goes off int the Bead screen keeps the rouble knabouts it's the duel domin

Nat and people the yappe. It's gone and beat off a pick and roll with Netto and the Sixers lead ninety seven ninety four fifty seconds to go. That's the benefit of having Netto in the game. He could play pick and roll middle, pick and roll with him, beat into work for lamp, but Jamal Murray would drive inside to cut the deficit to one. Ninety seven ninety six. Al Horford missed a three pointer with thirteen seconds to go. Denver called time out down by one and this was

the game winner. No step with four, no step to the upside. Yoki shot high here. It's good but fun seconds to go he could I Yokis made a hahi archy wing shot. Denver has taken the league. Ninety eight ninety seven Denver great defense by the seventy sixers. I thought heck of a shot by Yokich to get the Ver Nuggets over the hump in a three point one hundred ninety seven victory. Yokich with sixteen of his twenty six in the fourth quarter, Denver outscored the six Ers

thirty five thirteen in the period. Yokich also with ten rebounds and six assists, Jamal Murray with twenty two points and eleven dimes, twenty points for Will Barton. He had two three pointers, seventy Sixers getting a team high totals from dwell embad and points and rebounding with nineteen and fifteen respectively, thirteen apiece for how Will Nato and Tobias Harris Nato also with six assists twelve points for con Corkms.

He was a perfect three of three from outside the ark and Trey Burke was able to come off the bench with five points and three assists and eleven points for Kylo Quinn in a reserve role. So the seventy sixers will come back home in a little bit of a different spot than when they left. Last we saw the seventy sixers in South Philadelphia. They were undefeated. They

began the season five and oh. They have now lost three straight and we look to get back on track against the foreign for Charlotte Hornets, six o'clock start time, Military Appreciation Night at the Center on Sunday. Hope to see you there. You've been listening to rewind, look out for fresh episodes the day after every seventy Sixers game this season.