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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.

How you doing, Rich? We've got a four-end one basketball team. We were right in the thick of it. There are, what, I think four games coming up in five days now that we have crossed into the new year. And the Sixers, despite, I would say, some early season struggles, you know, when they were two and one at the time of our last podcast, it was not the most positive podcast in the world.

They've had a couple of nice wins here, one over the raptors who are struggling and one over the magic, a complete blowout, a devastation of the magic, who were not struggling. But they

are, they've picked it up at the very least. Yeah. And in different ways, those two wins felt non-sixersy in a way like you know any blowout is

not imagine them yeah and you also don't imagine them winning a slugout with uh with toronto you

know on a game where their offense looked so inept for very long

stretches and they were able to who item bead and pull that one out and then yeah I mean I've

been to Orlando I don't know four times since we started to be able to cover the games on the

road we always seem to say for some reason you always get the Florida trip, except for that one when they traded, when they traded for Jimmy Butler. Then I flew down. We were both down there. But yeah, too much time in Orlando, and they never play well. They never play well in Orlando. They never play well. And that Butler game, which they lost, that was the closest game that there was.

Usually they go down there and they get their ass kicked.

I remember it was a game right around this time last season, right after, it was the game

right after they demolished the bucks on Christmas, fly down to Orlando, score like 80 points terrible.

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