Week in Review: Sixers kick off 2022-23 season with inexcusable 0-3 start

The Sixers are off to an 0-3 start to a season where they had sky-high expectations coming in, and rightfully so. They came out sluggish in the opener against the Celtics, blew a game because of inexcusable mental mistakes against the Bucks, then allowed the overmatched San Antonio Spurs to come into the Wells Fargo Center on the tail end of a back-to-back and hang 114 points on the Sixers in a game where Doc Rivers' squad should have played with a sense of desperation that just wasn't there.

It's still early enough to recover from, of course, but there's absolutely no way to sugarcoat it: that was a bad, inexcusable, and infuriating week of basketball from the Philadelphia 76ers. Thank goodness for the Phillies.

This is a return of the Sixers Week in Review newsletter, where I will recap what happened last week in Sixers land, take a look at some statistical trends, both good and bad, provide links to content that you should check out and add in any stray thoughts on various topics that I hadn't written about over the previous seven days.


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Covered in this post
  • Overview of the Sixers' week.
  • A look at the week ahead.
  • Encouraging trends.
  • Concerning trends.
  • Stray thoughts.
  • Quick notes.
  • Required reading.
  • Last week at The Daily Six.

Overview of the Sixers' week

Last week's record:

Stats for the week:

  • Offensive rating: 108.0 (24th)
  • Defensive rating: 115.4 (24th)
  • Net Rating: -7.4 (24th)

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