After Harden left the 76ers, the team’s ranking surprisingly climbed to fourth in the Eastern Conference. The collaboration between Embiid and Maxey has been exemplary. Is Harden a detriment to the team? Do you think the Lakers have a good chance of making the playoffs?
We have the number one net rating in the league after the game, and our record is tied for 2nd best in the east, 3rd best in the league. But more-so than our good wins like this one this year, we haven’t had any bad losses, which give me more hopes for our playoff hopes than even these wins do.
By this time last year, we had at least 3 ugly disgusting losses to non-playoff teams, some by double digits.
We haven’t lost to a bad team at all this year, and the only game we weren’t really competitive in was the Minnesota game where we were on a b2b and Embiid was not playing, and even then it wasn’t even a 15 point loss there were times in the game we made it close.
i think its just better coaching and maxey getting more touches. They gonna need a half court playmaker in the playoffs though
Basically someone who can create against a set defense.
They were third with him last year
they were tired with Embiid?
This gets said every year but I honestly believe this is the year where Sixers finally have a deep playoff run. I think Tyrese Maxey is going to be invaluable as the #2 option on the team and he seems like the kind of guy that would be a playoff riser
I still think they need 1 more player in the mix. In the playoffs teams are still going to double Embiid. Which puts the pressure on Maxey & Harris. Harris has a history of not showing up, and it’s hard to expect Maxey to go crazy every game.
And Boston is still a bad matchup for them. Double Embiid, Jrue on Maxey. They can’t depend on Harris & Melton to bail them out.
I think they need one more piece in there for when Harris or Maxey have an off scoring night.
Who knew players and teams play better when they aren’t watching a guy dribble the ball for 20s and play no defense