The Sixers finally got their first win of the season, with a big performance from James Harden down the stretch to pull away from the Indiana Pacers.

But a lot of the defensive problems continue to persist.

Rich and I try to make sense of what has been a confounding start to the Sixers season.

Enjoy the podcast.

All right.

Welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on Sixers Beat.

Part of the Athletics Podcast Network. Hey, doing, Rich. Derek, how long can we talk about the Phillies before we got to talk about the Sixers? Well, that's tough because we're on a little bit of a lull there, too. We don't have a game until Friday, so there's nothing new to talk about. but what we have seen up to this point has been fantastic, some of the all-time great Philadelphia

sports moments that we have seen probably almost certainly in our life lifetimes.

Yeah.

Right now, I would prefer to talk about the Phillies, but that is not what, uh, not what everyone is

tuning into.

Although you're free to go on a little bit of a riff if you want.

Sure.

I will.

At Bryce Harper at bat was the coolest thing I've seen in sports in a long time.

Now, obviously, I'm going to overrate it because I was rooting for him to hit it.

Also, it was new.

It was recent.

Yep.

It's recent. And I've been a big fan of his

for a while and I felt bad for him because he's been awesome ever since he's been here and the team

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