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Welcome, everybody. This is Derek Botner, joined by Rich Hoffman on this week's Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletic Podcast Network. A quick, quick reminder. If you're not already an athletic subscriber, head on over to Theathletic.com slash Sixers Beat. We can get 40% off. You can get all of our written content and you get a bonus subscriber only podcast each week so go check that out hey don't rich i'm good man we are

about to get in the real fun part of the schedule the sixers so far have taken care of business

you know they've won whatever they want here seven of their last eight, and then if you

go back even farther, 11 of their last 13 games.

They now sit at 18 and 7, which is good for the fourth best record in the Eastern Conference.

They're a half game behind the Jimmy Butler, Miami Heat, and then they are a game behind the Boston Celtics. The Milwaukee Bucks, of course, pacing the pack at 21 and 3, but they are playing, let's for phrase that. They are winning a lot of basketball games, and they're coming out of an easy portion of schedule that's largely been at home. They'll be tested a lot more. But at the end of the day, they're taking care of business. And I guess you sort of have to acknowledge that. And the most recent one was a 97-92 win over the Denver Nuggets, a really good team. A team has started the season 13 and 3, but has struggled here of late, losing four or the last five, as they just cap off a long road trip.

So there's a lot of good and a lot of bad takeaway from this team.

I guess let's just zoom out a little bit, not talk about any specific game.

What's sort of been your main takeaway here over the last couple of days of previous games?

I would say the press conferences after the games have been more exciting than the games, or more, more interesting

than the games, because on Saturday you have Cleveland come in here, and that was a process

level team. That team sucked. So, so whatever. And it was a lot of, I mean, it was a lot of fun.

Ben Simmons, dunking any possession he wants.

Brett draws up the pick and roll for Trey Burke and he gets the catch and shoot three and the crowd goes crazy.

He's still 100% on real threes that he's taken this season.

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