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OT: The Philadelphia Seventy Sixers: Maxeymum Effort (22/23 Regular Season)

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Of course effort exists. What a straw man. The difference is the Sixers are contending for an actual title, have (much of) the talent, and look like a slop fest. It's definitely not only effort -- there are serious coaching concerns. And sometimes it's not about "effort" but focus, a unit at large and not just an individual. Confusion breeds lack of focus. This is the nadir.

The Flyers are a talentless dumpster fire, efforting their way to getting smacked other than purely opportunistic 1 goal wins. This is the peak. If the Sixers could have Carter Hart defending the rim......well, they'd probably still be 1-4 because he's 6'2, but that's not my point.
 
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Maxey:

Highest scoring game last year was vs Raps
Highest scoring this year is vs Raps
Highest scoring playoff game is vs Raps

Not hard to see they can't guard him.
 
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Looked like a different team tonight. More energy, more active defense, and Maxey with a career game (but it's still a young career).
 
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I assume no one was paying attention to the Sixers last night but I had both games on (TrueFan) and a couple takeaways from the Sixers game. Aside from scoring a career high 44 pts, Maxey looked really good as a distributor, especially when attacking the paint and then kicking out to a shooter.

Also, given the Sixers problems in the previous game against the Raps, giving Thybulle more run was the obvious move and it payed off. He passed up an open three, which led to a messed up possession, but then hit 2 of 5 threes. Finished with 6 pts, a couple blocks and a steal. He’s the team’s only elite defender and he has to play more. You live with whatever offense you get from him.
 
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Let me coach of the Sixers.

Put Melton into the starting 5 and then set up a 2nd unit around Maxey and Matisse with like House, Niang, and Trez/Paul.

It gives one less person to share the ball with in the first unit. Harden and Joel can play duo hero ball with Melton and Tucker doing the dirty work getting them open while Tobias does what he loves doing best, not really being noticed.

It frees Maxey up to run away with the 6th man of the year award. Give give him two people set up from three (House, Niang, or Kork if he gets hot) and Matisse and Trez/Paul as rim runners. Every time down I'm letting Maxey drive. He can either go to the basket himself, throw lobs up to Matisse/Trez/Paul when the help comes, or if they clog the lane he can kick out to one of the two three point shots. He'll start getting a ton of space coming up the floor as people layoff him because he is going to blow by them, so then he'll be able to start getting open threes, which in then makes it easier to blow by the defender when they try to close space.

By playing that second unit more than normal, you let them cook while Harden and Joel don't have to play 70% or more minutes during the regular season. which Tucker's geriatric knees could also benefit from. I think this allows the Sixers to roll out one group of 5 that would theoretically be better than most starting 5s considering they have Harden and Joel and then they can roll out Maxey who should be better than anyone off the bench across the league so he should be able to roast other 2nd units.
 
Glad I taped that one. Not just for Maxey transcending. I really really have liked the 3 guard look with Melton Maxey Harden. They even did it last night with mostly Tucker at the 5 (smol bol). Melton can finish better than he has, but he’s such a disruptive presence defensively and smart offensively with decisive attacks. He does a lot of versatile stuff: screens, paint passes, drives. Straight up, I’d love to see this as a possible starting lineup, with Harris shifted back to the 4. But you gotta give those 3 guards time together.

Good on Thybulle for knocking down some 3s and besides one egregious example, not passing them up. Playoffs is a long ways away, and frankly, they just need his perimeter defense and zone capabilities. It was night and day structurally and energetically. House does absolutely nothing for me anyway. I’m fine with him losing his minutes.
 
I think this game showed a primary flaw in Rivers' coaching, he's a real dinosaur.

The game is moving toward a fast paced athletic game, but he wants to run an offense around Embiid with a lot of iso plays, and not even Embiid in the low post, but out on the perimeter. It both kills the offense flow and makes them vulnerable to the transition game.

They were forced to play "small ball" against the Raptors and they dominated - who would have thought combinations with Melton, Matisse and Maxey could out "athlete" an athletic team? Even then, they played too much "spread the court" sets with no movement, which makes it easier to defend (by telegraphing passes back to the perimeter, and makes it easier to double or threaten a double team b/c the defender doesn't have to look for his man coming off the double).

They need to limit Tucker's minutes, he's useful with fresh legs, but can't play at high intensity more than 20 minutes, and really isn't a small center. Would like to see them give Reed more minutes, he's still raw, but his height and athleticism are a good fit for a small unit, and he can play with Harrell as well.

Melton looks like a keeper, needs to get better at picking his spots and not forcing shots, but he can defend and shoot.
House, I'm not sure about. Tucker was a gross overpay, but Harrell is a bargain
 
Sixers will keep getting ousted in the 2nd round if Morey keeps gaslighting fans by not firing Rivers. I don't care if they win 50 games in the regular season...Rivers is not the coach for the Sixers to have a championship run.
 
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That was an "'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness" type of halves. Per usual, you definitely want to see Embiid miss 2 FTAs, then drain a sloppy possession 3 to win the game. Just like they drew it up.

Flyer lurker said:
Could the sixers use a bench player who could get 15 points in 9 minutes?

Guess not since they waived Joe.
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I just don't understand waiving Joe. He always looked on the cusp. I'll say it again: House does very little for me. He's not mechanical enough to be a deadeye 3 point shooter, he's not a dribbler, he's always kind of out of control. The bench feels like it desperately needs another catch and shoot guy. Niang is dragging them along there (Melton is awesome and sometimes fills that role, but his skill-set is a bit more varied). But the spacing gets bogged down -- sometimes that's ball movement, sometimes that's not being ready to let loose. Volume numbers in general are below average -- their pace is even worse in general tbf -- and that's mostly Harden isos, Maxey from the logo, Niang, and Tobias rewiring his brain. Embiid and Harden NEED money shooters who can go on heaters.
 
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Magua said:
That was an "'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness" type of halves. Per usual, you definitely want to see Embiid miss 2 FTAs, then drain a sloppy possession 3 to win the game. Just like they drew it up.
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Dickens and the Sixers. Love it.
 
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