These Sixers are Becoming Fun to Watch

Last night was a lot of fun. For the first time this season, I got to see the Sixers play live. They won, again. Suddenly the team is really not all that bad, having won three times in the course of a week. Not only did they win last night, but they did it the way every Sixers fan wants to see- with Joel Embiid and Jahlil Okafor dominating the 4th quarter.

The Sixers are not good yet, but they are far from a finished product. Embiid and Okafor don't play together on the court yet, or for more than 25 minutes in a game yet. Eventually both will play without minutes restrictions, and hopefully on the court at the same time. Dario Saric is coming off the bench as he learns how to play in the NBA, and he will improve in time. Ben Simmons hasn't stepped foot on the court yet, but he will after the New Year. I expect some more growing pains, especially when Simmons returns and has to be introduced to the offense, or when Embiid and Okafor first play on the court together. This team still doesn't have much of a back-court, as I'd feel much more comfortable if they added some more talent.

Even so, the Eastern Conference stinks, and this team has a lot of talent to introduce to the court yet. While they have just four wins so far this year, that doesn't totally rule them out of the playoff picture yet. Even so, we have to hope that this team doesn't make the playoffs too fast, as they aren't really contenders yet in 2016-2017. A first round loss to Cleveland isn't worth losing a lottery shot at another top pick.

But who cares about that for now, this is really fun to watch grow.