I'm I'm What's going on, y'all? Welcome to the P.H.L.Y. Sixers podcast alongside Kyle Newbeck. Derek

Biden. I'm Devon. I'm Devon. Givens with you as we discussed the Philadelphia 76ers after a five-point win on the road against the Washington Wizards.

The Mighty Wizards. The Mighty Wizards. Defense, optional, as they give up 125 points. And 64, I believe it was, we said last night during our post game in the paint. They need to clean this up, and we're going to dive into it a little bit more. We got the stock reporter a little bit later. It's my first stock report, folks. Hey, I got them on a goofy hat. Let's go. I guess I get the goofy. Actually, I'm not opposed to the goofy hat. We like to have fun, so we can do that. I'm not mad at that. I'm not mad at that. So we'll get into that a little bit later, tons of other things that we'll discuss, but we definitely have to get into the defense because it has not been very good. It's almost like me

right now with my Achilles. They're doing just as bad as I would do out there since I can't move and it would be a problem. We're hunting Devon on all switches right now. Exactly. I got to say, when you started that, I thought you meant like you weren't doing well as like a podcaster and a show host host. I'm like, no, no, no, Devon, you are doing fantastic. Oh, well, thank you. Now, if we were to pour our little mini court out here and we had to do some slide drills, they would go right by me. So that's pretty much what we see. I don't know, man. You haven't seen me try to run much recently. I used to be a runner. I haven't gotten to that

stage yet at my recovery, But, hey, I'm pretty sure you'll do that. But look, defense optional. Again, 131, 125 victory for 126 victory last night for the 6th is a 5. Close enough. And look, the defense just simply was not good and uh Kyle you looked at

some of the numbers Derek you also took a peek at some of the numbers and we discussed it in a big

way last night despite mb's 50 which was part of why he needed that 50 because the defense was

optional things have not been good for quite some time now. Yeah. So we were going

over things in our pre-show meeting saying, look, I know last night you want to, you hope that

it's an aberration, but it's been now about a month straight of either poor, disinterested

defense or miscommunications. Shorthanded games, sure, there have been a few

where they've been missing guys and that certainly plays a part. But dating back to, we use the

Indiana Pacers game, the first game, but they did play a set against them. Since the first game

against Indiana on November 12th, here's where the Sixers

rank and some key defensive categories.

They are 25th in defense.

And to give you some perspective, the Pistons who are on, what, at 17, 18 game losing streak

are 26th.

That's not good.

You don't want to be in that company.

You don't want to have the Pistons as company.

A key difference is the Pistons also suck on offense.

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