On today's pod, Rich and I take a brief break from covering specific games to instead

dive into the listener mailbag, talking about our concerns with the PJ Tucker at center

lineups, about what Joel Mbe's usage rate would look like on the best version of this team,

on whether the Sixers should consider making a change to the starting lineup.

On whether or not the new players have met or exceeded our expectations.

And a whole lot about head coach Doc Rivers.

Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bodner.

Join Barrett Hoffman on a six would beat, part of the athletics podcast network.

How you doing, Rich?

It's a tough one.

It was a tough morning to wake up to.

Even though we got the extra hour of sleep, this is a tough day.

Yeah, it was a great run for the Phil's, but it just sucks.

Like, you know, the Astros are a better team.

I get that, but the Phillies were right there in that series.

They had chances to win and they didn't do it.

No, I mean, look, you had chances to win and they didn't do it.

No, I mean, look, you had the, you had the no-hitter. That one wasn't great. But outside of that game, they were right there in, you know, the last two that they lost. It is a play here, a play

there could have gone the other way. It is the randomness of baseball. They certainly benefited

from some of that earlier

in the run, but they also, I mean, they played very good baseball for a very long time.

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