Welcome, everybody, this is Derek Bonder along with my colleague over at the Athletic Philadelphia.

Mike O'Connor.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing pretty well, man.

Better than the Sixers are.

I don't think anybody is doing pretty well.

After that performance against the Brooklyn Nets, a 25-point drubbing to the Brooklyn Nets,

which really, you know, I'm going to stop short in saying

that the Sixers were exposed because I think that was the worst version of a game that they'll play.

But I do think that they highlighted a lot of their weaknesses in terms of winning one-on-one

battles on the perimeter, both offensively and defensively, the lack of shot creation they have from the perimeter, the reliance on a three-point shot, and quite frankly, the reliance on Joelle and B to drop a 40-10 game in order for them to really look like they're playing good basketball. And there's a lot that goes into that, and we'll get into all of that. But it was not the most encouraging game they've ever

played. That is for damn sure. Yeah, I mean, that game just took all of the Sixers' flaws

and highlighted them to the biggest, the highest three possible. It was so bad. I mean, everything,

I think the biggest thing that really stood out was what

Brooklyn's back court did to the Sixers on both ends. You look at guys like DeAngelo Russell

and Caris Silvert able to create one-on-one offense easily against Sixers perimeter players.

And then on the opposite end,

their guards can't break them down in the half court,

and those are mediocre defenders.

When the Sixers are, they lead the league in body and ball movement,

and we all agree that's a great thing,

but at a certain point, that catches up to you.

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