In today's episode of the Sixers beat Rich and I go with the Sixers' overtime loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, including Ben Simmons' success, defending Janus, the team's half-court offensive struggles over the last two games without Chuelan Bid, and how this all might factor in when the Sixers reached the playoffs.

We then go over the trade, which saw the Bucks acquire P.J. Tucker,

discussing how that might impact a potential playoff matchup,

and also what that signals for next Thursday's trade deadline.

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All right.

Welcome, everybody.

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

You know, we are coming off of a, what they had had a six-game winning streak that was ended on Wednesday night with a 109 to 105 loss to the Milwaukee

Bucks after winning two straight their first two games without Jol and B during the stretch,

they did eventually fall in a game that was much more competitive than I think most of us

would have expected, maybe not better played.

We'll get into that certainly throughout this podcast.

But how you doing, Rich?

I'm great, man.

I think you summed it up pretty well.

Coming into that game, I did not think it was going to be that competitive.

No.

If you took a step back and just said the Sixers, beat the Spurs, beat the Knicks, took the

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