All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek, joined by Mike and Rich. We've got a full crew here at the Sixers training facility in sunny Camden, New Jersey.

How are you doing?

Doing great, man. Good to meet. Do you want to pass that over to Rich?

Yeah, yeah. Here's Rick. Just to let everybody know, we have two mics today. So the audio between me and Mike might be a little slower, but we're here to do a podcast

for you guys.

We're making it work.

We plan for a two-person podcast and we got three.

So we are back, first time back, I think, since December 20, before the Christmas break.

They've gone on a five-game road trip, three and two in that trip.

One loss to Boston, and then one loss where M.B. didn't play.

I guess we'll just start off with overall impressions of how they're playing, where they're at.

You know, I know before they left for that trip, Brett Brown said that he didn't really feel like they had an identity.

Do you feel like they have done anything to sort of build that identity they hope to carry with them

through the stretch playoff run and into the playoffs?

No.

I don't think we learned all that much about this team on the trip.

I mean, Joel is the same guy.

We know what we're going to get out of him, particularly in the first half, which is something we can touch on later in the trip. I mean, Joel is the same guy. We know what we're going to get out of him,

particularly in the first half, which is something we can touch on later in the pod. But I don't know. I mean, I just think they're really still figuring things out with Ben and

Joel and Jimmy. You know, there's always going to be discussion about, you know, who's getting

the touches and when between those three. And I don't think that we've seen kind of the ultimate balance offensively between

those three. I still think the bench has just as many question marks as it did before.

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