Joel Embiid is having fun with the Philadelphia 76ers’ new fashion of play. New head coach Nick Nurse needs the Sixers to embrace ball motion. Embiid has beforehand been used as an isolation participant, each above the break and within the publish. Final season, the Sixers would take turns operating isolation performs for Embiid and James Harden.
Doc Rivers was fired by the 76ers after their playoff elimination. Rivers hasn’t led a crew to a championship for the reason that 2008 Boston Celtics. Rivers depends closely on his star skills, typically overlooking position gamers inside his system.
“I believe I’ve all the time needed to play that approach,” Embiid informed Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer. “I by no means appreciated simply being an iso participant. I don’t suppose that’s the appropriate strategy to play, and I don’t suppose that’s the appropriate strategy to win. So I just like the system… Isn’t all about me, like in the present day there have been a few passes. Guys weren’t anticipating it, and I’m telling them, I’m like, ‘Whenever you lower, you bought to chop exhausting. You bought to chop to imply it. And you bought to be able to obtain the ball.’”
