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Music All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bonner, joined by Rich Hoffman on this week's Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How are you doing, Rich? I'm good, man. How is, I don't know, the mountain time zone? The road is roadie. It is actually pretty nice here. You know, about a week and a half ago or so, they got some snow in Salt Lake City. I'm currently in Salt Lake City. We're recording this before Wednesday's game against the Jazz, and I'm heading to Denver. In both places it should be in the 60s during the middle of the day, which is not too bad at all. The nights get a little chilly. Like at night, it'll go from like 60 to 40 in like two hours, and it'll be real quick and real sudden. But during the day, it's pretty nice. Yeah, I was out... The scenery is gorgeous. Yeah, I was out in Denver last year, and I thought that that was the main takeaway, was that the scenery was gorgeous. And I actually have family from that area of the country, and they kind of say, you know, one day it could be snowing, and then the next day you might be going in a pool. You know, it changes like that. But have not been to Utah, would like to make that stop sometime in the next couple years. You know, there's not, we were at the University of Utah gym yesterday for their practice. And they're like, wow, this is a really, really nice facility. You sort of have to do that in order to attract high-level players here. And I'm not sure a facility is enough to make up for it because it really is, it doesn't seem like there is anything really to do here. Like what they consider a major city is not what I consider a major city. But it is scenery-wise. It is gorgeous. It's a livable city, I guess I would say. It seems like traffic is real, real easy to put up with, which I think we on the East Coast. We don't get that benefit, but it is, you know, it's a nice place to visit. I'm not sure I'd ever call it home, but it is, it is certainly gorgeous, and I love, I love the mountains, I love hiking. I wish I was here for longer. I wish it was a touch warmer warmer. I assume you get a little bit up there and I'll get freezing.

But anyway, enough with the travel plans.

The Sixers' undefeated season is over.

They fell 114 to 109 to the Phoenix Suns.

On Monday night, a game where they had to lead at halftime, had to lead for the early

portion of the third quarter, and then the game sort of slipped away. And the highlight of that, or low light, if you're a Sixers fan, is Devin Booker going off for 40. And it sort of highlights, you know, these two games without Joel and Bede, where he's serving his two-game suspension, their defense has not been what we have grown accustomed to over the short season. And I guess we'll start off there with that game,

specifically against the Sons, but also just a little bit more into the defensive lapses that we've

seen, how much we attribute that to Joel and Bede and how much we think they are a long-term

concern. I don't think the defense is a long-term concern.

I do think it's stunked the last couple of nights, though.

They just made very basic mistakes.

You know, it was, you know, Brett calls it K-Y-P, know your personnel.

Josh Richardson, he goes over on Ricky Rubio, and that turns into a layup.

Ben Simmons, he goes under on Devin Booker.

That turns into a three.

Those two botch a switch and transition, that turns into a three.

Matisse Taible is just, he's just too, you saw the negative of his activity.

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