{"id":697254,"date":"2026-04-04T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697254\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:00:46","slug":"heres-how-we-talk-ourselves-into-the-sixers-beating-the-easts-top-four-in-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697254\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s How We Talk Ourselves Into the Sixers Beating the East’s Top Four in the Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, God willing, these assholes are going to be in the playoffs again, so us assholes have to do our part.<\/p>\n

Our part, is as always, convincing ourselves that the Sixers will have a chance to beat any of the teams they play in the first round. I, one of the head assholes, am here to help you do that.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to skip over all of the convincing you\u2019ll have to do about the Sixers themselves. We know what those steps are (fresh legs, nobody there to guard Embiid, etc\u2026). What I\u2019m going to present to you here is how to convince yourself that the Sixers can beat any of the top four seeds in the Eastern Conference that they may play.<\/p>\n

This one\u2019s pretty easy! First of all, we have the \u201cthey might not have Cade Cunningham\u201d to lean on until proven otherwise. I will chose to believe that he\u2019s not going to play.<\/p>\n

From there it gets pretty easy. There is simply no way you\u2019ll convince me that the Sixers are going to lose to a team who is starting Tobias Harris against us. The world is often times cruel, but not cruel enough to let us lose to a guy who scored zero points in his playoff finale against us. If it were a \u201ccarrying books into the locker room\u201d contest, we may lose, but not basketball.<\/p>\n

Are you kidding me? The Celtics are a tinderbox just waiting for someone to throw a match.<\/p>\n

They were cruising along as the feel good story of the season as they looked great without Jayson Tatum, thanks to greatest coach of all time Joe Mazzulla. Tatum came back, and they\u2019ve admittedly been very good since then. However, we all know they\u2019re one playoff loss away from some Jaylen Brown subtweet or postgame comment that suggests they were better before Tatum came back. From there, it\u2019s smooth sailing for our Sixers.<\/p>\n

Since I used to work in New York, with a lot of Knicks fans, I do get to see a lot of their chatter online. Let me tell you this loud and clear \u2014 if there\u2019s any fanbase who thinks their team sucks more than we do, it\u2019s Knicks fans.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve benched KAT a few times down the stretch and it doesn\u2019t seem like the other players respect him very much. Josh Hart has some comment once a month about what\u2019s wrong with the team. And let\u2019s be honest, Jalen Brunson is a guy but he\u2019s not THAT guy. Does he hit clutch shots? Yes. Is he tough and not afraid of the moment? Also yes. But he\u2019s just not good enough to dribble the air out of the ball as much as he does.<\/p>\n

Going against James Harden in a playoff series? In this economy? Say no more.<\/p>\n

Beckett took a look <\/a>at which Sixers players will benefit most from the return of Joel Embiid and Paul George.<\/p>\n

Although I did a pretty good job of talking myself into things at the start of this post, nobody talks themselves into stuff like AU does.<\/a><\/p>\n

We had Sixers Adam on the Ricky<\/a> this week and just tortured him the entire time.<\/p>\n

\"HeyHey This Is a Fun Way to End a Season<\/a><\/p>\n

Truly, what is Evan Turner\u2019s problem<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Finally \u2013 has anyone been on the injury report for an illness more than Joel Embiid over the last five or six years? Could someone do that research for me?<\/p>\n

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