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Maxey comes out hot and puts everyone on the backfoot because there’s a whole new system with no prior film with Maxey in this situation. Now that there’s been 10 games, I think he’s going to get gameplanned against more. (Like how many times has he beaten guys off the dribble and been able to get off that high-glass scooping layup. Teams are going to be sliding over help more from the weakside off the high screen against him.) There’s going to be more pressure on him creating, sustaining and exploiting advantages by playmaking rather than scoring, which I’m not sure he’ll be able to do given how young he still is. The thing that’s scary about him, though, is the absurd AST:TO ratio so far. If he can handle the pressure that’ll get thrown at him then he might be a real problem.
Wednesday night is going to be super interesting mainly to see how the Cs defend Maxey and whether they go back to the Jrue on Embiid coverage and actually sustain it instead of going away from it in the second half