The arrival of James Harden logically makes the Sixers very serious candidates for the Finals. Except that the former Brooklyn player has not yet played with his new teammates and it may take some time to adapt before the machine is running at full speed.
Collectively, and just in the East, teams like Milwaukee and Miami have a certain head start two months before the playoffs. What Joel Embiid suggested.
” It’s hard “declared for ESPN the pivot on Philadelphia’s title chances next June. “There are seven teams that can have a chance to play the Finals. You have to stay healthy and find a balance if you really want to have a chance at success. “
Would the Sixers have better luck next season, when the Embiid – Harden duo will be well established? This is not the opinion of Doc Rivers.
“I always think about now”assures the coach to theInquire. “I’ve been in this league too long. I always come back to Boston. With Kevin Garnett, we talked about it all the time. The first year, during training camp, we had a meeting and the players were saying that it might not be for this season, but for the next one, we could possibly win… I replied that next season, the one of the players could be injured. “
We know the rest: the Celtics won the title in 2008 but were stopped for the double in 2009 because of an injury to Kevin Garnett, who missed the entire playoffs.
“I know it’s short, that it will be hard to be together and in harmony, but you always have to think about the present,” pursues the champion coach with Boston. “Because we can’t predict anything. The season after the title, Kevin got injured and was never the same again. What would have happened if we had thought over more than a year? We might never have won this trophy. “
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Joel Embiid | 45 | 32.8 | 49.1 | 36.0 | 81.3 | 2.0 | 9.1 | 11.1 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 29.3 |
| Tobias Harris | 48 | 35.2 | 48.5 | 35.4 | 85.0 | 1.1 | 6.2 | 7.3 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 18.6 |
| Tyrese Maxey | 50 | 35.5 | 47.2 | 39.5 | 86.3 | 0.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 2.1 | 16.9 |
| Seth Curry | 45 | 34.8 | 48.5 | 40.0 | 87.7 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 15.0 |
| Shake Milton | 30 | 24.7 | 41.4 | 30.1 | 87.0 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 10.1 |
| George Niang | 53 | 23.1 | 43.1 | 39.3 | 87.8 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 9.3 |
| Paul Millsap | 1 | 8.9 | 50.0 | 100.0 | 50.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 9.0 |
| Furkan Korkmaz | 50 | 23.9 | 39.1 | 29.0 | 83.3 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 8.8 |
| Danny Green | 39 | 23.3 | 40.2 | 38.3 | 90.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 6.5 |
| Andre Drummond | 49 | 18.4 | 53.8 | 0.0 | 51.2 | 2.8 | 6.1 | 8.8 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 6.1 |
| Matisse Thybulle | 42 | 26.6 | 49.2 | 28.8 | 69.6 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 5.8 |
| isaiah joe | 41 | 12.2 | 35.2 | 33.0 | 95.2 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 3.8 |
| Tyler Johnson | 3 | 12.7 | 40.0 | 42.9 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 3.7 |
| Charles Bassey | 23 | 7.3 | 63.8 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 3.0 |
| Paul Reed, Jr. | 24 | 9.5 | 45.0 | 0.0 | 40.0 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.4 |
| Charlie Brown | 16 | 9.8 | 26.5 | 11.1 | 90.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.8 |
| Myles Powell | 11 | 4.7 | 29.4 | 16.7 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.2 |
| Jaden Springer | 2 | 2.8 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Braxton Key | 2 | 3.2 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| Aaron Henry | 6 | 2.8 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
