In today's episode of the Sixers Beat Rich and I take a step back from the day-to-day cadence of the NBA schedule to instead take a look ahead to the playoffs,

discussing which concerns could be a legitimate roadblock to a run to the NBA finals, and which ones we think are overblown.

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Enjoy the podcast. All right.

All right. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm good, man.

I think I think I'm ready to do some, what is this word, Kaveching?

Is that how you describe it?

Yeah.

So we are recording this on Saturday before the Sixers' Wolves game. So it is not going to get out before

that game is played. And also you have you have basically two games now in a little over 24 hours.

So rather than try to be relevant in terms of timeliness, we are going to do something that

to steal a buzzword is a little bit more evergreen. So we're going to do not so much to steal a buzzword, is a little bit more evergreen.

So we're going to do not so much focus on the Sixers' last game against the Cavs as they

finally beat the worst offense in the league, which watching that game and sort of fretting

about that game and then writing about that game, you forget just how bad that Cleveland

offense is because they've had the Sixers number for the previous two meetings, but they did take care of business in that game.

Joel and B. should be back tonight against the wolves. We will not talk about almost any of that.

Instead, what we will do is take a step back. And basically, I asked on Twitter, you know,

what is your biggest point of concern about how the roster is constructed that could

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