On this week's episode of the Sixers Beat, we will talk about the team's struggles on the

defensive side of the court. Also talk about the team's new switch-heavy scheme and how much

that could be contributing to those struggles. We'll talk about Markle Fultz's play, focusing

in on his defensive lapses and his offensive fit with Ben Simmons, and we'll talk about what the team

can do to get themselves back on track. As always, if you can, please do leave us a rating or review,

particularly on Apple Podcasts. That does help us, and we do appreciate it. This week's episode

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And with all that out of the way, on the show. All right, welcome everybody.

We're trying this again.

This is Derek Bodner along with Rich Hoffman and Mike O'Connor of The Athletic.

How are you guys doing?

You know, a little bit of technical difficulties.

You had that pause before you answered, and I almost lost my shit.

I almost lost my shit.

For those who don't know, we just got 15 minutes into a podcast, has some technical

difficulties on some software we are trying out that did

not go as planned. So we are re-recording this, but we will make the most of it. In all honesty,

it is a pretty bad podcast anyway, so we can't do much worse. Like the Sixers, we are, we're trying

to sacrifice some short-term pain for some long-term gain, but it was, it's been a rough half an hour here.

Great segue right there.

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