Kevin O'Connor is joined by Spike Eskin from the Rights to Ricky Sanchez podcast to react to the Philadelphia 76ers' 106-89 loss on Monday night to the Miami Heat. Thirteen games into the season, just about everything that could go wrong for Philly has. Joel Embiid has only played in three games so far this year, and when he's been on the court, he's looked sluggish. Spike explains from a 76ers fan perspective why this season feels so much worse than previous losing seasons in Philly.

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2 and 11 for the Sixers tonight, blowing a 19 point lead, losing 106 to 89 to the Miami Heat.

My goodness, could it have been any more worse with your worst nightmares this preseason?

I don't think so.

This is horrible.

No, this is far worse than I think everyone could have imagined.

If you, if you had asked me what would the worst case scenario be for 13 games.

I don't know, 5 and 8 or something.

Like I, I would have never imagined that they would have been as bad.

And not just bad, but like, you watch the games and it feels like sort of hopeless the entire time, even when they're winning, it feels like they're gonna lose, you know, at this point, I haven't felt this way in a really long time about the Sixers, like, That I'm sure they're gonna lose the entire game, you know, it felt like this way in a different way during the process because it was intentional.

You're trying to lose, but this is a team, they wait a year, they don't make moves.

They do successfully go out and get Paul George.

It feels like a success with the offseason edition.

You get Cale Martin, his shot has fallen apart.

He's also struggling from the free throw line for that matter.

Kyle Lowry looks washed and old recently.

The role players don't look like they're making the impact that they're supposed to.

Literally, the only bright spot has been Jared McCain, but that doesn't change the fact that Joel Abi comes back and Dude, he's getting roasted in his drop coverage.

He looks slow.

I know, supposedly sick tonight, and he was doubtful to play, he ended up playing, but that doesn't change the fact he looked like this last week as well.

He just doesn't look healthy.

Yeah.

See, I'm, I'm trying to, I'm trying to to like way between my emotional response to this and, and answering what you're asking because My emotional response to this is.

Like I was good with the plan for him this year, right?

Like when they I was good with the no back to backs.

I was good with the miss however many games to start the season to ramp up with the intention that Like what we're led to believe or, or what the whole thing was supposed to be is that when he started, he would be in physical condition to play, right?

So, understanding that in the first game, he hadn't played an NBA game in 6 months, and I'd expect him to be winded, his timing to be off, like all that sort of stuff.

But to look so Dead in the second halves of of the games so far in the specifically in the Orlando game and the Miami game, and to, you mentioned getting roasted and drop coverage doesn't seem to be like even attempting to get rebounds at all.

Uh, like passing up shots, he always looks bad when he first comes back from injury, but this was not supposed to be the way that it was supposed to be this year.

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