In today's episode of the Sixers beat, Rich and I go over the Sixers two-and-one start to the regular season.

We focus in on Joelle Embed and his stretches of dominant postplay, the evolution of Ben Simmons,

how Jake Milton and the bench mob have looked, and what in the heck went wrong in Cleveland.

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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.

You know, we scheduled this podcast.

They were 2 and 0, not the world's greatest competition, but 2 and 0 nonetheless.

And then, I mean, and then Sunday night against the Cavs happened.

The 3 and 0 Cleveland Cavaliers, which I think they're pretty drastically improved. I'm not buying 3 and0. The Sixers should have had a chance last night even without Yuell and Bede, but that was that changed. Michael Carter Williams and Brett Brown went 3-0 at one point. That said, they look pretty good. I agree. That was better. They looked better. We'll go with there. I'm comfortable saying that. Anything more than that, we'll see. But that really did change the mood of the podcast, Rich. That really changed the mood. And if you want to read Rich's recap of a really shitty game, not a shitty recap, a shitty game. Head on over to theathletic.com slash Sixers Beat, you can sign up for a discount on a yearly subscription.

I will say that the quality of the recap can fluctuate with the quality of the game.

When you give me nothing, and they gave me nothing, Ben Simmons not good enough, bench, not good enough, Corkmaus Milton, Tony Bradley, not good enough. Bench, not good enough.

Corkmaws Milton.

Tony Bradley, terrible.

Danny Green, terrible.

Dwight Howard, too many fouls.

Doc Rivers, no answers in that game.

I mean, honestly, all they had to do, they didn't even have to win that game to earn the generally

positive podcast. If they played pretty well and Cleveland just shot the hell out of the

ball, second nighted back to back and Bede's not playing. But man, that was terrible. I mean,

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