We are two games deep into the James Hardin era in Philadelphia, and so far it has been spectacular.

Rich and I dive deep on our first impressions of James Hardin with the Sixers, how he fits with Embed,

the job Doc Rivers is doing staggering the rotations, and how to get Tobias Harris out of his funk.

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

Before we start off, I just want to apologize to everyone. We took a little bit of a pause here in the podcast, as I had some personal matters to deal with in my own life.

I don't really want to get into the details of them on the podcast.

I'm happy to have basketball back and something to concentrate on and a good team to talk about.

But I didn't want to apologize for lack of podcasting.

That out of the way here.

How you doing, Rich? I'm doing

pretty good, man. It's, uh, yeah, it's been a whirlwind couple of weeks and, uh, man,

this past weekend, you know, I said, I put the tweet out there after Friday night's game,

but I guess we can move it up for the whole weekend and just say, you know, as far as like a Philadelphia sports debut and one that really had a lot of expectation coming in to it, the two that I thought lived up to James Hardin's first weekend in Philadelphia where Terrell Owens, I think he had three

touchdowns in his first game in Philadelphia. And Cliff Lee, I forget if he gave up a run or not,

but he just absolutely schooled the San Francisco Giants on a Friday night game through a complete

game, I believe. And obviously that was the precursor. Those didn't win championships but those teams both made

the finals uh in their respective seasons and those players were were both awesome yeah there were

high expectations for james hardin and i you know i i obviously thought it was going to be pretty good

i'm not sure i expected it to be that good right away. No. That was, um, that was some shit,

man. That was some shit. So the six was a 133 to 102 win over the Timberwolves who sported

about, I think the 17th-ish rank defense in the league. It's been trending downwards a lot

of late. They started off real strong. Then they beat the Knicks 125 to 109.

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