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.

How are you doing, Rich?

I'm good, man.

The preseason's winding down.

We're, uh, what do we?

We're recording this on Wednesday night next week as we're watching as we're talking.

There will be a real game, a real NBA game that both teams give a shit're talking there will be a real game a real NBA game that

both teams give a shit about which will be a refreshing change yeah and again I mean the

after the first game the the takes fly you know that you're either winning a championship

or all is lost.

And especially since it's going to come against Boston,

which this team has not fared too well against,

although it is obviously a very different Boston team.

But we have time for that.

Before then, we have a 106-86 dismantling of the,

I use that term, very jokingly, of the Detroit Pistons.

Half of that difference came in the fourth quarter when the Sixers were running out an all-bench lineup along with, what was it, with Howl leading the Deep Bench.

And Moses Malone in the middle.

Yep, yep, yep, we'll get to him in the middle. Yep, yep, yep.

We'll get to him in a second.

So, takeaways from the game, from the actual portions of the game that people will care about.

We have Josh Richardson running the offense.

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