Had no expectations and was pleasantly surprised by the effort. A lot of little things to clean up, which is the doom of Sixers perpetual roster churn and Nurse getting his footing with the roster. Can’t leave Oubre on Dame late with Melton sitting on the bench, despite how much Oubre was giving offensively. Should fouled Giannis on that last play.

Calls were weird, but every game will have them. Marginal Contact will come for all of you, just wait.

Just aesthetically, I had so much more fun watching the team without Harden. Not that Harden isn’t super talented, but he sets the pace so much. The two man game with he and Joel ground things down so much even when it was working. Nice to get some pace and chaos that gave so many more guys opportunities.