In today's episode of the Sixers beat, Rich and I discuss the Sixers losses to the Warriors and the Suns.

We go over the uncertainty over James Hardin's Achilles' injury, the struggles of the bench,

Tyrus Maxi's shooting surge, and the MVP race.

Enjoy the podcast.

Music surge and the MVP race. Enjoy the podcast.

All right.

Welcome, everybody.

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

So, Embed and Harden have injured concerns.

Doc is reverting to playing a geriatric backup center.

There is no production from the bench.

They're dropping high-profile games that might threaten to have an outsized influence on Jewel and Bede's MVP bid. Some of these things starting to feel a little bit familiar. I kind of wish I

wasn't, but it does feel like we have seen this play out before. I'm curious to get your take

on how much of these are legitimate concerns and how many are just temporary

annoyances. But before we get into that, how are you doing, Rich? I'm doing fine, man.

Look, I think my overall take here is that we talked for months and months about, wow,

March is going to suck. Like, that's going to be really hard. They got to play a lot of road games. They've got to play a lot of games. They've got to play a lot of games against tough teams. Well, for most of the month, that didn't really matter. And then on this last trip, it has caught up to them. And, you know, I think that's kind of where I start with it.

Look, there are a lot of different subplots over the past couple days.

What do they mean for the playoffs?

What do they mean for Joe's MVP case?

But I guess I would say I am not like I'm going to take the Doc Rivers route in this way,

which I know a lot of people aren't fans of right now considering Dwayne Deadman played last night.

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