In today's episode of the Sixers Beat, Rich and I go with the Sixers 1-15 to 118 game one victory over the Washington Wizards, going over what went right, what they need to clean up for game two, and projecting what they will need to do for a long, sustained playoff run.

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Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek, joined by Rich on the Sixers Beat, part of the Athletics Podcast Network

in a post-game one edition of the podcast coming to you after the Sixers 125 to 118 game one victory over the Washington Wizards.

Hey, doing, Rich.

We're not normal post-game potters.

No.

You know what we're also not, though?

One o'clock basketball watchers.

No, that is fantastic.

Look, more one o'clock games I'm all in favor of, even during the week. I understand that doesn't work for the majority of people's work schedule while you're listening to this podcast, but I am very selfish. It would be tremendous for me. After all this, I'm still not a huge night person, so getting this out of the way in the day when I'm still awake and can concentrate. It is perfect. But it does allow

us to podcast after the game, even after you've already filed your game story. We can now do a

podcast. We will do that. We will talk about these sixers when, you know, you came out. They

had a big lead early on, a little bit of Joel and beatede foul trouble, a little bit of maybe too much bench players.

All of a sudden, Washington had a one-point lead at the half.

And the Sixers, despite Bradley Biel coming out and having a monster third quarter, the Sixers outscored the Wizards by seven in that third quarter.

And B, Curry got going from the, Rell and B got going, quarter and B. Curry got going from the,

well, and B got going Curry and Danny Green got going from the perimeter.

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