In this week's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I talk about the disaster that was the fourth quarter against the Golden State Warriors, the continued play of Shake Milton and how he fits on his team, once Embed Simmons and Richardson come back, and how the playoff rotation might eventually look.

And with that out of the way, enjoyed the podcast.

All right.

Welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat,

a part of the Athletic Podcast Network.

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You can read all of us.

You can read the whole national staff, all of the local city staffs, Shilkapadiakapadia, Bo Wolf, Matt Gell, a whole bunch, Charlie O'Connor, who is really

plugging away at a really good, really great story of a Flyers team. A lot of really good stuff.

What's it like to cover a good story?

Or at least a positive story. It feels like when was the last time there's it like to cover a good story? Or at least a positive story.

It feels like when was the last time there's been like real positive vibes about this

team where there were no qualifications for it?

Like do you have to go back to like January 2017?

Yeah, I mean.

Maybe the Miami series.

Yeah, I think everybody was feeling good.

And then, you know, right before that Miami series, there was that huge winning streak.

Yeah.

So maybe the Miami series.

I feel like once the, uh, once the Boston series happened and you knew changes were coming.

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