In today's episode of the Sixers beat Rich and I go over the Sixers 106 to 96 win and season sweep over the Boston Celtics, why they would destroy the Celtics in a potential playoff matchup, and how Joelle and Beat has looked in his return to play.

We then pivot and discuss Rich's feature on B-Ball Paul, go over a lineup we would like

to see when George Hill is finally able to play, and then discuss Danny Green turning

into Clay Thompson.

Enjoy the podcast.

Hi. All right, welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm great, man.

Beautiful day outside. Sixers smoking the Celtics, which is weird. I mean, you know, we don't care if they win or lose, but hey, you know, every, all the fans are happy. So that's cool. Yeah, what else could you ask for? It is weird. Now, I will say the Sixers smoked the Celtics in the playoff in a regular season

last year. Obviously, there was some extenuating circumstances in the playoffs, i.e. No Ben Simmons.

And also, I mean, the Celtics team just looks nowhere. Like, they look way different than they

did last year. But yeah, the Sixers, a 106 to 96 win over the Boston Celtics to move back into a tie for first place in the Eastern Conference.

Quite frankly, the score wasn't nearly that close.

The Sixers smoked them pretty good and really pulled away there in the middle of the second quarter.

Pretty tight game in the first quarter pulled away with a massive run in the second and pretty much sleptwalk the

rest of the way through there.

I'm usually a fan of saying that the score isn't that close when the Sixers get their butts

kicked.

So it's it's rare to say like, oh yeah, no, they killed them last night.

It was a 10 point game, but they were way better.

And yeah, I don't know. That was...

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