Sixers got smoked by the Nets on Thursday night, a blemish on what has otherwise been a near-perfect start, to the James Harden era.

Today's episode, Rich and I dive into the question of how much Thursday night's loss was just an off night from the Sixers, how much was related to matchup problems with the Nets, and how much were larger issues that can be exploited in the playoffs.

Enjoy the podcast.

All right. Welcome welcome everybody.

This is Derek Fodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on The Sixers Beat, part of the Athletics

Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich?

Derek, I'm doing fine.

The Sixers not doing fine after, uh, man, that like, that sucked that sucked that really really sucked so we we were

originally going to do a podcast earlier in the week had some technical difficulties then we

didn't want to do the podcast right before the next game so we let that one play out and oh boy did that

change the tone of the podcast we were just waiting for a disaster

to strike no my internet stopped working but they got elthians just wanted a loss before we podcast

no the sixers are five and one in games that james hardin is suited up for them does it feel that way

no that well that one is a going to be a pretty big topic of today's podcast.

They got waxed by the Brooklyn Nets, 129 to 100.

I actually had to look up that score because, quite frankly, I stopped paying attention

early in the third quarter because the game was never in doubt.

The Sixers were a train wreck on both sides of the court.

And after, you know, I wrote two gushing articles on likes and dislikes.

And I really had, the way I phrased it, I had like likes and mild imperfections.

Because in the start of the James Hardin era, that's the way it was.

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