Alex Barth

And they don't seem to be going, you know, it doesn't seem like the entire organization is moving in one direction.

Cora was definitely part of that.

I think he wanted to approach things different than the front office did.

And so you want the manager in the front office to be on the same page.

So in that sense, it helps, but it's just, this is a team that it feels like has been flailing going back to the Mookie Betts trade.

And that's,

I think it's more the bigger picture of he wasn't pitching well before he got hurt.

And when you factor that into, this is a guy that they traded for relatively early in his career in Washington, sorry, in Chicago.

He had never thrown more than 60 innings in a year.

Until his final year in Chicago, he throws 146.

Then he threw 205 last year.

And he has emotion that is not easy on the arm.

They just did this with Chris Sale, where Chris Sale was brought up as a reliever, turned into a starter in Chicago kind of out of necessity, but didn't have the body to hold it up.

And that's my worry with Crochet, is they suddenly drop a ton of innings on him, and this is the flip side of it.

It's very disappointing.

The Sixers haven't been able to beat them in the playoffs.

I think the last time they won a series was in the 80s or something like that.

It's to come out flat after the way they ended the season with how Jason Tatum looked, and it's a lack of adjustments.

It's kind of the same thing that got him last year against the Knicks.

They want to play a certain way, and it involves shooting a lot of threes, and when they're on, it's great.