If you’re a pessimist, the Sixers season is over. If you’re an optimist, the Sixers season just started.
The pessimist views a 7-15 record thru 22 games as proof the team is not deep enough to withstand what appears to be a season of load managing both Joel Embiid and Paul George. The pessimist probably doesn’t care about the fact that the Sixers are tied in the loss column with Chicago and Indiana, the final two teams currently occupying play-in tournament spots in the Eastern Conference standings. The pessimist would argue that a spot in the play-in tournament would only end the way last year’s season did in the first round and therefore is already confident that a deep playoff run is not going to happen in 2025.