In today's episode of the Sixers beat Rich and I dive in to the listener mailbag,

talking about a whole host of topics from how the Sixers' offense will succeed against

playoff caliber defenses, which playoff seed is most optimal for the Sixers, what is the

biggest area the Sixers can clean up to improve their playoff chances and what Jake Milton needs to do in order to make an impact?

Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome everybody. This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on Sixers Beat, part of the Athletics Podcast Network. Hey, doing, Rich.

Derek, I'm doing great. Four days in L.A. I don't think I would want to live here full time, but there are worse places on the NBA road trip for sure. You know, I mostly consider myself an East Coast person. I mean, I've lived here my whole life. But I do like good weather. And every time I visit there, I wonder a little bit whether or not I could take that lifestyle. I could certainly take the weather. I don't know if I could take the lifestyle. And right now, because over here in the East Coast, we're about to hit a couple of days in the 40s again. So I am certainly jealous of you. It's just everything's a little too spread out out here. Like I don't know exactly where to stay. I stay by the airport because it's like it's kind of close to the beaches which I like but that's

pretty far from Staples Center that was a trip the first time I covered a game out here I was like

oh my God Staples Center is really far away from all the other places I've heard of out here

so yeah that's uh I mean look it's it's a nice little road trip, finish up in Phoenix.

It's a good way for the Sixers to end their West Coast swing.

They have already done the hard mountain time zone part of this.

And you know what?

They got a couple wins too.

And they got a couple more tough games coming up here against the Sons in Phoenix and then come back home against the bucks.

After that, the final, what, eight or so games, I can't do math.

The final stretch is easy.

Seven games.

It's easy after that, but they do still have two more tough ones here to get out.

We are recording this on Saturday before they play the Sons on Sunday, obviously.

We're going to take a little bit of a step back, in part because the schedule is so

hectic, talking too much about a game is problematic, and also in part because I feel

like lately we have just been talking a lot about games.

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