Rights To Ricky Sanchez: The Sixers Podcast

Trade season has opened in the NBA, and there are some former Sixers who are available that could help the current club. What will it take to get them? The Sixers look half-asleep against the Heat and unable to bust their college-style loser zone, and lose their second in a row after a disappointing loss to the Nets. Finally, Mike is sick, so some old Liberty Ballers jokes and references make him feel better. We also discuss the Top 100 Sixers of the 2010s.

Tobias Harris has become the Sixers most reliable scorer and an above average defender, what has caused it, and does he have a better All-Star case than Ben Simmons. The net result of the Joel Embiid, his fun factor, and the Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal back and forth. We diagnose the team’s fourth quarter struggles, Spike names his favorite non-Embiid Sixers player, and we asses Elton Brand’s performance as general manager.

To think that we, The Ricky, would welcome Anna Horford, Al Horford’s sister on the podcast shows just how far we’ve come. Anna, younger sister of Al, and host of The Horford Happy Hour podcast, joins us to talk about growing up as Al’s sister, going from Boston to Philadelphia, what it would take to hate the Celtics, and many other Horford related topics. Anna is also brave enough to enter the Jigsaw. We also talk about Joel Embiid’s fun quotient, a Ricky engagement at the game, and a denied Hinkie t-shirt.

The Wizards game never happened. The Sixers obliterated the Cavs in what may have been Ben Simmons’ most dominant offensive performance, and then turned around and beat the Raptors, even with Joel Embiid struggling once again. We talk about Brett Brown’s demand of one three pointer and eight free throws, the malaise that has surrounded Embiid and the difference between him physically in 2016 to today, the consistency of Tobias Harris, Thybulle settling in, and whether or not Spike and Mike are actually friends.

We give grades to every Sixers player at the quarter-season (!!) mark of the NBA season. We grade them based on our expectations for this season, which does seem to favor Furkan Korkmaz in a lot of ways. We also discuss the newest enemy of the Process, who we will see in Indiana, and whether Joel Embiid “gets away with” a lot of stuff. Donate to our Polar Plunge team to benefit the Special Olympics or JOIN IT here.

Ways that the Sixers can get Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons opportunities on offense that aren’t post-ups or transition baskets, every single game is a nail-biter that comes down to the wire no matter who the Sixers play, where they play or how they play, Embiid playing in two back to backs, TJ McConnell’s value to the Process and return to Philadelphia, the Norvel Pelle experience, and Tobias Harris settling in to his midrange comfort zone.

Joel Embiid had the worst game of his career and then followed it up with one of his best games of the season. Matisse Thybulle took advantage of some playing time given to him because of a Josh Richardson injury and a Furkan Korkmaz roasting to play his best minutes of the season. We talk about the ups and downs of the Simmons and Embiid experience, the fact that Jimmy Butler won’t shut up, and Mike gets mad at an emailer. All t-shirts are 30% off on Friday in our t-shirt store. On Friday, The Shirt will be back (in blue), Process or Die (in red), a restock of Al Horford Appreciator and our winter beanie. 

Jimmy Butler, who just wants to win, and works harder than anyone, chose to play with a bunch of sixth men in Miami instead of the Sixers. In his return to to Philadelphia, he was booed lustily, and got his ass kicked by the guy he was traded for, Josh Richardson. Joel Embiid looked like himself, and the Sixers were at their best on both sides of the ball. We talk about Butler’s return, Horford’s good few games, and the first time Brett Brown ever wasn’t nice about someone. We rule on whether to once again ban Kevin O’Connor, talk about the Sixers City Edition jerseys, and the most disturbing Jigsaw of all time. Fly The Process V to Indianapolis for New Year's Eve is now cheaper for everyone thanks to Draft Kings Sportsbook! Each package is discounted, even if you already purchased it. Check out all the new prices. 

We all knew that Ben Simmons was going to shoot and make a three this year, and he did, from the corner, like a boss. It was Simmons whose defensive frenzy later led the Sixers, who once again made things more difficult than they should, past the Knicks. We discuss Korkmaz vs. Thybulle, Joel Embiid’s Chernobyl syndrome, why Mike doesn’t believe in clutch (even though he believes Mike Scott is), whether Mike Muscala is now a different guy, and one of the funniest Jigsaws of all time.

After five straight road losses, the Sixers sit at 7-5, with an offense that is often times excruciating, and a defense that isn’t living up to the hype. We talk about how much is personnel, effort, execution or scheme? Will time and adjustments turn them into the championship contender we’d hoped, or will it take a change in personnel? The jigsaw makes its triumphant return, and the Lorenzo Brown mailbag is a comical blend of panic and sadness.