In today's episode of The Sixers Beat Rich and I talk about the Sixers recent play.

From the frustrating losses to the Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks, the downright infuriating loss to the Detroit Pistons,

and the bounce-back domination of the Charlotte Hornets, going over everything from the bench to DeAndre Jordan to Doc Rivers to whether or not James Hardin is physically capable of being the superstar the Sixers Need.

Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek Podner.

Joined by Rich Hoffman on The Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich?

I'm okay, Derek. The, I'm a little confused about this, uh, this basketball team right now. Yeah. So I guess real quick, get out of the way. First of all, I want to apologize. I'm a little confused about this basketball team right now.

Yeah. So I guess real quick, get out of the way. First of all, I want to apologize. I'm a little under the weather, a little bit of no shit. So if I'm real annoying to listen to, I'm fine. Like, I feel fine. But like, if I'm knowing to listen to, I want to apologize. I know I'm annoying anyway, but I will be extra annoying today. You know, this past week or so of games, you had the losses against contenders in the

Sons and the Bucks, which were frustrating.

And I think maybe showed why the Sixers, you know, some of the weaknesses of why the Sixers

might be fringe contenders, or maybe someone you don't completely believe in, but have some

upside.

Bench, Doc Rivers, all the... or maybe someone you don't completely believe in but have some upside bench doc rivers all kinds of stuff d'andre ties into the bench but he gets his own extra mention and then you

sort of watched him against pistons and you thought well shit do i have to reevaluate the foundation

like there was a little bit of like whoa whoa, what the hell did I just watch?

And then they came out and demolished the Hornets and proved to you that against the right team,

who's probably playing with the wrong scheme.

And when the Sixers make all of their shots, they can look unbeatable.

So I guess we'll just take a step back.

What was sort of like your biggest takeaway over the games over last week or so?

I think my biggest difference from the consensus was that I was more encouraged by that

Bucks game than most people I would say.

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