It hasn’t been a happy new year for the 76ers so far. In 2008, the Sixers have just three wins, including Saturday night’s 103-96 win over Charlotte.

Despite the paucity of wins, the Sixers say there’s no finger pointing going on, no morale problems, and their demeanor in the locker room bears this out.

After losses, they’re quiet and subdued, but by the next day they’re usually ready to go at it again.

“This is like a family team,” forward Reggie Evans said. “This isn’t a knucklehead team. Other teams go through stuff like this they just give in and get ready to go home. But we’re not. Everybody here has one goal and that’s to win so we don’t have time to be pointing fingers because we’ve got a lot of young guys and this is a learning experience and we older guys know that. We’ve got some good rookies and we’ve got some good older guys. You put that together and there’s no sense pointing fingers because we know it can get better.”

One thing that many around the league will give the Sixers is resilience. They work and work and work.

As one scout put it, the Sixers might lose some games by a lot, but you never doubt their effort.