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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Making Sense of the Sixers w/ Rich Hofmann, News

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Rich Hofmann, Sixers reporter for the Athletic, joins to discuss how Sixers have differed from preseason expectations, Ben Simmons’ progression, whether Joel Embiid is taking the next step this year, and how the Sixers match up with the Bucks. Then Nate catches up on the latest news around the league. Please subscribe by searching “Dunc’d On” on your favorite podcast player.  And if you like this pod and want additional bonus content, please subscribe to support Nate and Danny at Patreon.com/DuncanLeroux.  Merchandise available at NateDuncanNBA.com, sponsors list also available at NateDuncanNBA.com. With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA and Danny Leroux @DannyLeroux).

Transcript

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0:00.0

I really fun episode today with a new guest, someone who's kind enough to come on despite the fact rich that

0:07.4

Unite have never met in person as we were talking about but

0:11.3

Your reputation and precedes you from the awesome Sixers beat podcast and of course you work with the athletic Philly

0:17.3

How you doing? I'm good. I'm happy to be on. Yeah, likewise. So

0:22.0

This Philly season I've done a bunch of their games for the NBA cast recently shameless plug

0:27.1

I'm going to be doing a bunch of them Philly Milwaukee coming up. I'm Christmas

0:32.3

You've been covering these guys forever, but I wanted to get your just overall impression of this Sixers season

0:40.6

Covering it. What has really come to mind for you as you just think about this season in totality right now?

0:48.2

It kind of feels like we don't know a lot yet about this team where you know, I think they've only played

0:55.1

I forget the exact number. I think it's 113 minutes together with their starting lineup

1:00.4

It's been it's been like a lot of six-year seasons where the highs are pretty good where you know

1:06.7

You have games where they just completely stifled a good team like Boston

1:11.3

They got a win there the other night and then there are nights where they turn the ball over like crazy and losing Washington

1:16.9

So I don't think it's it's been out of the ordinary in that regard

1:22.0

But yeah, I feel like I don't have a perfect grasp of this team yet despite the fact that we're already a third of the season in

1:29.5

Yes, some of those games that they've had defensively at the Wells Fargo Center

1:35.0

You start to see what the vision was where they I mean that game where they completely destroyed Miami for instance

1:41.3

I mean there have been very few teams that have been able to come in there and get a bucket

1:46.7

They have always been an emotional team. That's the way people in their front office would describe them

1:52.1

And I think that stems from their best player being Joel and Bid I think part of that is that they play so much better at home

1:58.6

too and you see that they play these good teams whether it's Denver or Toronto

2:04.2

Or whoever comes in I know they have not played a particularly tough schedule yet

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