You don’t want to overreact to one game. Hell, you don’t want to overreact to 24 games of an 82-game season, especially with the Sixers’ stars missing so much time. That won’t stop Sixers fans from going through the five stages of grief several times over the course of a season.
But Monday’s loss to the Rockets felt like a microcosm of why the fan base is mostly apathetic when it comes to their team right now.
The offense was stagnant, The defensive effort was lacking. They were outrebounded and generally outworked. They seemed mostly disinterested in a double-overtime loss to a team that’s more interested in winning the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes than winning basketball games.