Your Philadelphia 76ers are on their best five-game stretch of their lowly 2024-2025 NBA campaign. They’re 3-2, with wins over the Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Hornets and Orlando Magic, and close losses to the Houston Rockets and Orlando. In this stretch, their net rating is plus-3.7. On the season, it’s minus-5.7.
This team was supposed to be a title contender, so we are kind of applauding the postman for dropping off the mail in the general vicinity of the mailbox here, but it’s good to be positive.
There are always multiple reasons for such drastic improvement, but one aspect of Philly’s game has stood out this past week: pull-up three-point shooting.