I'm expected much better on a Friday night in South Philadelphia by the home team in an Atlantic Division showdown, but a no-show for the 76ers as they fall big to the New York Knicks on this Friday night here in South Philadelphia.

Welcome to the PHLY Sixers postgame show alongside Derek Botner. I'm Devon Givens. I'm back. So now Derek and Kyle can't yell at me and Derek can't post any graphics about me leading the team in Miss Games. I never posted them. I never posted them. I just talked about the graphic. Well, at least I showed up tonight. And the 76s did not breathe us here with us. Can't wait to talk to you all tonight.

Kyle Newbeck would join from the arena. Derek, this was billed, of course, as a big-time Atlantic

division matchup, New York, a tough team. Sixers and the Knicks play each other pretty well. They get

after it. The Knicks are a gritty team. They also make a trade for O.G. Annanobie with the Toronto

Raptors. They seemingly improved their team from a lot of aspects there with that addition.

So it was the first opportunity to see them with their new group.

They're 2 and O before tonight with Ananobe in the lineup.

This was a chance to see how they fared again on their home floor against an Atlantic

division rival. And while it started off

pretty well after that not so much yeah no I mean this started off uh the sixers had a a what I think

a 17 to 11 lead early and then you looked up midway through the second quarter and the game wasn't

even close anymore nix came out ran it down at the road actually they were up 10, 26-16. Okay, okay. Good point. Good point. Knicks came out, ran it down their throat. I thought Sixers' transition defense was especially bad. That led to some open threes in early offense. The next shot probably a better percentage than they normally did, but the fact they got up 21 threes in the first half, a lot of them were very open. They're going to shoot a better percentage than a typical night because those are easier shots than they typically have. I thought the Sixers defense was real, real bad. And they dropped themselves down into a 20-point hole at halftime, gave up a 75 spot the Sixers did to the Knicks. and you know know, they, they, I don't want to say they fought because even when they were cutting the lead, it looked clunky. They never really looked like they were in step on either end. And they held the Knicks to, I think, 18 third quarter points and only trim that lead by three in part because they had a lot of turnover problems there in a third quarter. They couldn't stop stepping on their own foot. And then in the fourth quarter, it was just a complete and utter disaster. You know, Grimes came out and hit a couple threes and eight on Nick's run, push a 13 point Nix lead to 21. And then the Sixers just kind of gave up in a way that we don't normally see them give up. No, they don't. And as Derek just said, because I was going to jump in and say, this is not like them to play

this way.

They got beat 12892.

So the score, yes, that's indicative of how things really played out for the sixes

tonight.

But it was more so the effort, as Derek lays out, the fact that the

defensive pressure that we've seen from them, how we've talked about them, second-ranked team

in the NBA in terms of defense, and that was not on display at all. Early on, it was because

they were getting out in transition. They were active. Kelly Ubre got a block on Ogen,

and Obie as he drove to the basket from behind. Yes, he got by him, but it was more of how he set up,

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