In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I dive into the Sixers four-game losing streak,

discussing whether or not you should have any long-term concern at all as a result of it.

We then preview the rest of the Sixers' long road trip and discuss the excellent play of second-year guard, Tyrese Maxie.

Also, we want to send our best wishes out to Dave Yeager and his family,

as Yeager will be stepping away from the team for the time being to undergo treatment,

as he was recently diagnosed with a treatable form of head and neck cancer.

Here's to a speedy and full recovery for Coach Yeager and fuck cancer.

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

Sixers have lost four in a row, all four without their big guy.

Those two things might be tied together.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm fine, man.

It's, uh, yeah, it's been a, uh, it's been a tough week for the

Sixers, but look, they have had losing streaks before where we have probably given more

negative reviews than we are going to this time. It's just, it's very explainable. Yeah, yeah,

it is. And I think the first two losses, you know, you had the Knicks loss.

Knicks are a pretty good team. They're certainly a playoff team. Played them pretty hard for most of the night. You had the Bucks loss, which quite frankly, I thought they were going to get destroyed in. Bucks obviously were missing Chris Middleton, but they did have Drew Holiday and Janus, whereas the Sixers were missing pretty much, what four out of five starters i think in that they didn't even have curry for that game yeah and they

held it close for most of the time so those whereas the Sixers were missing pretty much, what, four out of five starters? I think in that game. They didn't even have Curry for that game.

Yeah.

And they held it close for most of the time.

So those two were fine.

I think the Raptors and the Pacers were a little more frustrating, in part just because of how they lost them. but overall if you're going to tell me that they're going to miss the amount of talent that they have

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