Down by seven, down by one, down by 15. That’s what the scoreboard showed when Markelle Fultz checked out for the first time in each of the Sixers’ first three games. The usual disclaimers apply. It’s early. If this were an NFL season, the Sixers would be early in the third quarter of their season opener. One can argue that Brett Brown is not anywhere close to having an actionable sample size on which to base significant decisions.
But that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t take a moment to look at where things stand. And, at the moment, those things are standing rather tenuously.