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