After a resounding victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday, the Sixers had high hopes for the remainder of their first road trip of the 2025-26 season. But they suffered a stunning collapse in Chicago on Tuesday and ran out of gas in Cleveland on Wednesday.

They are 5-3, which is good – an outcome any Sixers fan would have taken after a miserable 3-14 start to the 2024-25 campaign. That it feels the Sixers have let two winnable games escape them – Tuesday's loss to the Bulls and a Halloween loss at home against the Boston Celtics – makes their 5-3 record more encouraging.

The Sixers have made some strides defensively in recent games, but their overall cohesion on that end of the floor is still far from where it needs to be. The Bulls game represented their first true growing pains

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