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Philadelphia • Trey Burke's Michigan homecoming was a disappointment. In Detroit, not far from where he was a college star, the Jazz point guard found himself scoreless and stuck to the bench for much of the Jazz's season-opener.

But the third-year pro brushed it off and bounced back on Friday night, scoring 10 points and handing out six assists to help the Jazz beat the 76ers 99-71.

"He didn't have a good game [in Detroit] obviously," said Jazz coach Quin Snyder, who played Burke just 2:40 in the second half of that one. "To see him come in with that level of focus and be able to move to the next play, as they say, and not let that bother him says a lot about who he is right now."

After subbing in for starter Raul Neto, Burke knocked down his first shot and finished 5 for 10 from the floor.

"My teammates and Coach just told me to be aggressive," he said. "Just be myself. Raul did a great job really hounding the ball and making it hard on the other guard. I wanted to pick up there defensively and offensively be aggressive."

Burke said he was "obviously" motivated by his second-half benching Wednesday.

"But I think that's how I should play every night," he said. "Coach felt like I didn't have the same energy Wendesday night and he did what he did with the lineups. But I felt like tonight … is how I have to be every night."

Neto is OK

With the image of Danté Exum's torn ACL still too fresh in their minds, everybody in Jazz land had to gasp a little when the rookie point guard Neto was holding his knee in pain Wednesday night.

Count Neto among them.

"Yeah. I thought it was something worse because of how I fell and how I feel my knee," he said after the Jazz's Friday morning shootaround. "That hurts really bad right after the moment, but when I start walking I saw it was nothing too bad."

Neto fell to the ground and landed awkwardly, badly bruising his knee in the second quarter of Wednesday's opening. The injury kept him out of practice Thursday, but he was back on the a day later, scoring seven points and nothing three assists against the 76ers.

Swallowing the whistle

Jazz shooting guard Rodney Hood thought the referees could have gone either way. When Pistons guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope contested what would have a been Hood's game-tying 3-pointer late Wednesday, the Jazz guard said he felt contact on his follow through.

But in reviewing the officials' calls over the final two minutes of that 92-87 loss for the Jazz, the NBA said the refs were correct not to call a foul and that Caldwell-Pope had blocked the shot cleanly.

D-League draft

The NBA D-League's draft is Saturday and the Jazz's affiliate, the Idaho Stampede, owns the first overall pick. Among the entrants available for selection are former BYU star Jimmer Fredette, former Oklahoma City Thunder forward Perry Jones and former Jazzman Ronnie Brewer.