All right. Welcome everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on this week's Sixers beat, a part of the CLNS Media Network.

We have a 43 and 25 Philadelphia 76ers Club that is now in the third place in the Eastern Conference, owning the tiebreaker,

over the Indiana Pacers.

I guess to get this out of the way, we are recording this before the game against the Sacramento Kings,

for context reasons.

But the Sixers, 43 and 25, third place in the Eastern Conference.

I would say probably the odds on favor to end up with the third seed when all of a sudden done, given the ease of their schedule, but anything could happen.

Boston doesn't play a brutally tough schedule either, so they are certainly still very much in the mix.

But this is a team now, you know, with 14 games left, 43 wins already on the season, you're probably

looking about another 52 win season, give or take. So the only thing that you can talk about

on Twitter right now is Sixers head coach Brett Brown. If you mention anything good or bad,

it's going to end up circling back

to Brett Brown in some way. It's a very passionate, heated topic. So we figured we'd take a step

back, evaluate the Sixers head coach, evaluate kind of like lay out our stance on the whole matter,

and go from that. But before we get into any of that, because I don't want to be rude. How you doing, Rich? I'm good, man. I'm going to make a correction on you. The Sixers are in fourth, Indiana, beat Oklahoma City a few minutes ago. I don't have, I'm looking at basketball reference. I don't have live updated standings. So six was a half game out with a, with then a game in hand, correct? Yep. Okay. Well, I made it through 30 seconds, give or take of this podcast without making a mistake. So I guess I will take that. Yeah. So back to Brett. By the way, this was your idea.

I'm just putting this out there.

You were the one who, I believe, during a game, told me, we need to do a podcast about Brett.

And I think it's good.

I mean, it's what everybody talks about all the time. So why don't we do one? It makes

sense. I think in just starting to lay out my stance, I am not here to say that he can't be

criticized. There are things that we will point out that we think he could be doing better this year.

But I think in general, my mentions after every single loss are complaints about his coaching.

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