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Well it has been a fairly forgettable fall thus far for me as a sports fan. BOTH my teams stink. Although I expected the Sixers to not stink this season, whereas the Titans were a bit more predictable. Funny enough, on Sunday the Titans won and the Sixers lost. Kind of crazy.

The Sixers did not just lose on Sunday though, they got whooped by twenty-six!! While it's nice to see Jared McCain come a bit out of nowhere, the wins are just not coming and the clock is ticking. I think people assume the NBA season is super long, but we are practically twenty percent through the season already and the Sixers are TEN games below .500 and are pretty much LAST in the Eastern Conference. I am not a math wiz but the math ain't mathing as of now.

The Sixers seem to lack depth, I think. I say I think, because well I am unsure we are seeing an accurate representation of how good or not good the bench is simply because Paul George and Joel Embiid are barely on the dang court! If they were playing, perhaps the bench would not look so rough. The domino effect is real.

The Sixers just aren't able to divvy up the minutes in an efficient fashion with two key players out. On Sunday, the Clippers didn't have a SNIGLE player play thirty minutes! The highest minute total on the Clippers was from James Harden who only played twenty-seven minutes! EIGHT different players played twenty plus minutes for the Clippers while the Sixers just had five players play at least twenty, two of which played thirty.

Without Embiid and George, I fear that the Sixers size is a problem. At least at this point in time. Neither Maxey or McCain reached twenty points on Sunday. Not great. Not a single Sixer reached twenty actually.

Embiid doesn't feel committed to the team or the game for that matter. People are saying whether the team should tank or not. I am in the middle of waiting it out or tanking. Let's see where the team is at by the New Year and I think I'll be ready to take a harder stance on that topic.

The competition stays stiff. The Sixers are facing the surging Houston Rockets on Wednesday. The Rockets are having their best season in awhile, sitting at 12-6 and third in the Western Conference. The Sixers will have had two full days off so maybe that will benefit them. Will be an intriguing challenge for sure. I have no clue if Embiid is playing.

The Sixers are kind of in no man's land right about now. Let's see if they can just focus on the task at hand and get some wins. It's looking a bit spooky in the City of Brotherly Love....

Still.

#GOSIXERS