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What's Wrong With The Sixers?

Mar 24, 2024
The Philadelphia 76ers have started this season with three and given the expectations this roster has, which in many people's eyes is to be a contender that isn't exactly ideal, then

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with the Philadelphia 76ers? What can you do about it? he's actually going to stay, let's talk about it, hey, this is the future, Rusty is here reporting at the beginning of the video because this was recorded before the Indiana Pacers game and that's important context for the rest of the commentary. All I want to say about Those are two of the main points I make in this video that were exactly demonstrated in that Pacers video.
what s wrong with the sixers
I talked about bench points and three point shots and in the Pacers game they had more bench points in that game than in the first three. games combined and they shot 44 from three as a team in that Pacers game, so it doesn't really make my points

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, but I wanted to include that so there is no confusion and since Rudy decided to use the stats from the Indiana game in the video will hopefully also avoid some confusion so yeah that's it with the video so there are a handful of notable issues about the 76ers and I'll go over them in this video and make a point to highlight which of these is something that I hope it's against an ongoing issue with the Sixers and which of these are modifiable now.
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The first and most obvious issue for me and one that is probably also the least modifiable is his depth, his depth is really contributing absolutely. nothing on the offensive side, if you look at the three games they've played so far, you get 27 points per game from Joel Embiid, 24 points per game from James Harden, 20 points per game from Tyrese Maxi, 15 points per game from Tobias Harris and 11 points per game from Jordan and nine from Anthony Melton, after that you get five from PJ Tucker, 4.7 from Daniel House and 3.1 points from Montrez. Herald admitted that he is getting fairly limited minutes, now Niang probably won't continue to average double figures. and De'Anthony Milton might take into account the minutes he gets, but in general, while your four best offensive players are very good, you can't constantly have players on the court who contribute absolutely nothing to the offensive side of the court now, in Theory, a lot of Sixers guys are at least shooters, but if they're not even taking shots to begin with,

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are they really contributing as shooters?
what s wrong with the sixers
They are not getting opportunities within the offense, they are expected to hold their own completely. there and while someone like PJ Tucker or Daniel Howe wouldn't think about running plays, at least it makes your offense a lot less predictable to have them making some kind of move. A great example of this is with PJ Tucker last year. With the Miami Heat, PJ averaged the most points he had since 2015, so the most points in seven years is based on the fact that Miami not only put him in the corner, they would make him make back cuts , they would make him try to get it. offensive rebounds they would use him as a screen option that they would have to move him without the ball having some type of dynamism in the way the players' roles fit within the offense made Miami's offense more difficult to protect the fact that PJ Tucker is not just you I know, put a guy on him in the corner and you're good, he definitely makes the defense work harder and makes the offense a lot easier right now, these four guys, Tobias Maxie Harden, they beat and they're obviously mostly getting tougher.
what s wrong with the sixers
Those guys are facing a lot of the offensive role and are capable enough to do a decent job covering all the team spots, but at the end of the day you're going to need a little more or even a lot more offensively from your bench unit and they I haven't figured it out now as to who's to blame for that, well part of it is just the role players being the role players that are PJ Tucker, although I think they could run plays that get him moving, there's a lack of offensive ability. The good thing about Anthony Melton is that you can create at times and he's ideally a decent three-point shooter.
Georges Niang can shoot threes, that's all he does, but it's something, but overall there's not enough offensive creation off the bench in his offense. overall not enough creativity is Juan B post above is James Harden pick and roll or isolation is Tyrese Maxi receiving a handoff action from Joel on B to the top of the key and creating from there for the most part nothing particularly creative And who do you blame for a not very creative offensive system? The head coach. It's no secret that everyone wants Doc Rivers fired. At this point, we have moved beyond the conversation about Doc Rivers.
Okay, this roster needs better than just good to be a championship. Contender, you generally need more than good from a head coaching position, so Doc Rivers needs to go. I don't think he's saying anything controversial with that. I don't think many people are going to argue with that, damn it, I don't even know. if Doc Rivers argued that there is death, he would, huh, but that's definitely the first major change that I would say needs to happen, but even then his staff still isn't that good as a team overall, not to mention the fact that while We're not getting much offensive contribution from these guys, we're not getting much defensive contribution either because their perimeter defense game relies heavily on PJ Tucker being able to guard them, if not, well, because Tyrese Maxi is fine defensively.
James Harden. he's fine defensively Tobias Harris is fine defensively, Joel Embiid has seemed like a big step slow defensively to open his ears, but we'll assume it's him trying to get back to playing, but overall, it more or less depends on the accounts to anchor your defense. completely and while Joel Embiid is a good defender, make no mistake, he is often overrated as such and treated like he could be a one-man show on the defensive end and I think we are seeing more and more that Ben Simmons was just as good. Part of the Sixers is a good defensive team and now that he's gone, Joelen can't make up for that void and PJ Tucker sure defense has been a big concern for them, not necessarily on the interior, although yes.
They technically allow the highest two-point field goal percentage in the league, but also fewer attempts in the paint, so I don't know where you draw the line for whether that's good or bad defense in the paint. , but they're mainly getting dodges from the perimeter because their perimeter defense isn't particularly good. Talking about the perimeter, this team really, really, really, really can't shoot right now. They are shooting 31 percent from three. Wait, let me go check that the team as a whole is shooting 31 and a half percent from three James Harden shoots 31.8 percent Tyrese Maxi shoots 31.3 percent Joel and beat shoots 18 Tobias Harris shoots well and Georges niang He shoots well, but after that there really aren't many three point shots because Anthony Melton has 33, PJ Tucker has 33, now this is something that I think will just mitigate over time.
Well, James Harden is someone who could shoot 32 threes on the season just because he takes an incredibly high volume and takes a ton of contested ones, that's something that could stick around, but I don't expect Tyrese Maxi to be a 3-point shooter. 32 for the rest of the season. I shouldn't expect him B to be an 18 three point shooter and I expect guys like PJ Tucker and Anthony Milton to start hitting their threes at a more respectable rate, so that's another thing regarding the bench offense, yeah They are simply going to hit their three-pointers at a minimum, that would make the difference, but I repeat.
Going back to the point of creativity, a less simplistic offense would do wonders for everyone. I'm really tired of head coaches around the league seeming to view it as if we have the talent, so what does it matter? I think we've learned a lot in the last two. For many years, if you don't apply any kind of system to a lot of talent, sure you can still get relatively far, but you're often going to get destroyed by a team that actually plays like a basketball team and not like James Harden and Joel Embiid takes turns and occasionally lets Tyrese Maxi in on the action.
Another problem that I assume will be mitigated relatively soon is that the score would suggest that Joelen Beat is having a good season, except for those 18 three-pointers, but I promise. If you really look at these games, Joel Embiid hasn't looked very good right now. I didn't watch the Bucks game and in the Spurs game he had like 40 pieces, so I can see why that would look good and it looked good, but his defensive effort. his speed has been very slow, he's been very clumsy and it just seems like he hasn't come to play, he hasn't played in MVP fashion, he's still putting up numbers because the guy is a beast, but I think he's embiid.
He's been a slow pacer to come into this year and that's definitely mattered and again he'll probably work his way into better form as the season goes on, as players tend to do, that's not even really a knock on a gem and counts. , so it will also be helping himself, so just being better at shooting, being better, a new coach with a more complicated system could really elevate the offense and just not being Doc Rivers would elevate things and other than that, I think that the signs are relatively positive for the 76ers despite an 0-3 start because yes, 013 is a bad place to be in bars, but two of those teams were really good, the other had a very hot shooting night and Hey guys, I'm chained up in Rusty's basement right now, but before you call the cops on that or anything, be sure to watch the shoot tonight live on the YouTube channel become a member join the Discord come to the podcast with us, so be sure to watch the footage and hopefully finish this part of the video before Jacob notices, thanks even though part of that is your perimeter defense, they also just made their shots like they Devon Bissell scored 17 points in one quarter and I love Devon Michelle, but that's kind of atypical for him granted that's like my most improved player pick that said all those things the fact that they lost those two games it's understandable the fact that They lost the third good teams lose to bad ones all the time it's not a big deal, so while it sure is a difficult start and a bad note to open the year.
I also don't think the Sixers are going to be a last feeder in any way. I don't think they are going to be a bad team in any way and I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were still contenders. uh, Sixers fans tell me a lot that they're on the edge of whether or not I really believe in this team, but historically they've always been indecisive and that made it difficult to bet on them and that continues to prove effective here. I don't think we should write Doom for the Sixers. Three games are still ultimately three games, even if it's really bad that they're oh and three uh, they'll get over it and do it. be okay, James Harden looks a lot better it's great, his mid range attempts are interesting, interesting stat I found when I was researching the Spurs game because damn, James took a couple of mid range shots, uh, and he did it in the um.
In the first home game against the Celtics I also noticed that the sound of a hit from under the camera frame could look really bad, but yeah, harder than shooting 30 percent of mid-range shots on last year it was nine percent before that it was even lower so tougher and The midrange might be back but yeah I mean my general point as there are a lot of negative things to say about the Sixers . I think they will be fine. They involved Tyrese Maximo in the offense. Thank you. Shout out to Rudy for editing this video. and good bye

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