Maxey needs to improve a lot defensively (the Sixers defense is 18 points better when Maxey is off the floor thus far this season. Its a poor 116 with Maxey on the floor and an amazing 98 with Maxey off the floor) but although he was bad in the first half of today’s game you can’t put the loss on him because he woke up in the second half and was pretty good. That being said we clearly need a natural playmaker when Embiid is out as v Minnesota we scored under 100 points and today no one got a lot of assists.