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Welcome everybody.

This is Derek Bodner, joined by Rich Hoffman on The Sixers Beat, a part of the Athletics Podcast Network. I guess real quick, we never actually remind people who we work for. So if you can go to Theathletic.com slash Sixers Beat, sign up. You can get 40% off. You can get access to all of our written content. You can get access to the other podcast a week. We would appreciate that. Hey, you doing, Rich. I'm good, man. Sixers aren't doing good, though. No, and this is, you know, it's funny. I feel like, I feel like the game against Houston was a tipping point for a lot of people, which, to be honest, of these four games and this four game losing streak, and of the, you know,

seven games they've lost here over the last 11 games, this was maybe the least egregious

of them all. Like, this is an expected performance, I think. Like, the way they played is sort

of how I expected that game to play out. The struggles they had defensively were what I expected.

The offensive struggles are

what you have for a team that struggles to space the floor. This is a loss that sort of goes

according to plan. If Milwaukee came in to Houston and lost this game 118 to 108, nobody cares

because Milwaukee has taken care of business in every other aspect. Milwaukee didn't just lose

to Orlando and Miami and the Pacers in completely non-competitive

fashion in that last one.

So nobody cares.

But because this is the fourth game, the seventh of the last 11, it is caused for a riot.

And I get that.

The season has not, especially here over the last couple of weeks gone according to plan.

So we will dive into exactly why that is.

Yeah.

Well, in that game, it's because James Hardin is the best offensive player ever.

We start getting into comparing different errors and rules and all.

It gets almost impossible.

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