For the Sixers, the recent West Coast swing provided a reality check. Despite strong play at times from the team’s two stars, the Sixers’ defense could not hold up against Portland, Phoenix and Utah. The bench remains a massive question mark. And despite Ben Simmons’ best basketball of the season, the Sixers come back to Philly on a three-game losing streak.
West Coast wake-up call
“We’ve learned a lot more from losses. So I think these wake-up calls were much-needed,” Danny Green said after the Phoenix loss. “Just coasting through, thinking we’re going to win the game because we’re the 76ers and have the best team record in the East, it’s not going to happen.”
While this season is particularly tough to judge because of the erratic scheduling and lack of continuity because of COVID-19, the Sixers have not been quite as good as their record indicates. Using numbers from Cleaning The Glass (which…
