Today's episode of the Sixers Beat is a mailbag episode where Rich and I go over questions submitted by you to listeners.

Questions range from optimal spacing around in bead postups, what improvements he would attribute to Doc Rivers, his coaching staff, and their schemes, what kind of contract Seth Curry would get in the open free agent market,

and which of the Sixers Young Players has the most upside.

Today's episode was originally scheduled to release on Wednesday, but when news of what was going on to the nation's capital came out, we decided to push it back.

Because it is a mailbag episode, it focuses more on early season trends

than it does about a specific game or games that were played,

so it is all still relevant.

Enjoy the podcast. All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bonner, joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How are you doing, Rich?

I'm doing great, man.

But you know what I'm not doing better then?

The best team in the NBA, the Philadelphia 76ers.

We know that the first seven games of the season means it's just smooth sailing from here to the title.

It's over.

Yeah.

Look, well, like we joke, but this is that, like, that is legitimately a tenth of the season.

That is a significant portion of the season that is a significant

portion of the season and they are sitting here with a six and one record there there is nothing

that says championship like beating the crap out of Orlando and Charlotte in game six and seven

of the season they are the positive is they are on a four gamegame winning streak. Competition, I mean, look, Toronto, we thought was a, they didn't play well, but we thought it was a good win. We thought that was a good team they beat. They're struggling. Orlando was playing real well, but I don't think anybody really buys that. And then two against the Hornets, who really expects to be a a very legitimate team so

there's a whole bunch of unknown and i'm sure we'll get into that over the course of the

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