In today's episode of the Sixers Beat, Rich and I talk about a wild night in South Philly,

with the Sixers beating the Nets 137 to 133.

Talk about the overall atmosphere of Ben Simmons' return and his matchup against Joel and Bede.

Talk about the run of dominant offensive basketball that the Sixers

are on and also about the concerning extended struggles they've had defensively. Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bodner here to talk about a matchup between the league's

seventh and eighth best defenses in a game where either they didn't care about their

opponent or they were overly, they let their emotions get the best of them depending on

who you ask.

Hey, doing, Rich.

Derek, I'm doing fine.

That was a wild one.

Yes.

I believe Doc Rivers compared it to a boxing crowd.

Certainly felt like that early on.

The comment about the defense thrown in there because I have no idea how these two teams

are ranked seventh and eighth defensively in the league per cleaning the glass because

they combined to put up 270 points there last night.

As you noted in your piece, as I had in my newsletter, they had, the Nets became the

third team to shoot 64.5% from the field and lose.

That happened because the Sixers shot 47.4% from three.

Well, the Nets shot 53.8%.

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