Philly traded a 10-time All-Star and they might be better? This detailed film breakdown & scouting report explores Nick Nurse’s coaching concepts that have allowed the 76ers to thrive (even without James Harden), along with Joel Embiid’s career-year as a passer, Tyrese Maxey’s breakout, and why the 76ers have one of the best offenses in the league.
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joel is now playing like jokic bahahah how ironic
Shocker Nick Nurse is way better than noted playoff chokers Harder and Doc Rivers.
I think they lack offensive power when it comes to the play-off time but they definitely made a few upgrades from the recent season – firing Doc and moving away Tucker were the most important ones. I hope Kelly will be fine after the all-star break because he was such a nice fit. I'm intrigued for whom (not LaVine please) they can trade, if they would like to make a hard push for a championship.
Rivers is just ineffective as a coach, Nurse is quite something he figured out stuff Rivers can only dream of doing
I always thought the future of basketball is 1 super talented big who can do it all and 4 guard / forwards around him.
the Big stand at the top of the 3 point line and acts like a "QB", passing it to 4 moving wings who act like WR's. no one has to dribble, just set picks and cut. eventually someone will get open just like the NFL.
Instead of having 3.5 seconds to hit a WR you have 20 second to hit a moving guard for the shot. if you put too much pressure on the big, he can just drive to the bucket himself.
embid could easily become such a big who can either create for himself or pass to 4 wings in a motion offense. and because of modern 5 out, no post up basketball, the lane is always open and basically embid is playing 1 on 1 against small, slower bigs who have no help behind them. if help comes from a sagging player then someone is open for the 3
This is what happens when you actually got a coach who can run plays and not just tell your players "Let's go guys, we can do this!". They also got rid of a retirement home player who can't do anything offensively.
The offensive game plan is reminiscent of the triangle 📐 offense (Chicago Bulls).
A taller and willing passer/screener would be at the top of the key. That player would force the defender to play further away from the basket since that offensive player can make open outside shots.
With centers able to hit the deep shot and make good to great passers that naturally opens up the offense.
✅ Denver Nuggets … Joker
Houston Rockets… Alperen Şengün
Sacramento Kings … Sabonis
Celtics … The Unicorn
Golden State … Green
Miami Heat … Bam
Nick Nurse is an amazing coach. Harden can't play on teams when he is not the main guy. He may go his entire NBA career without a ring.
It took a Nurse to solve a Doctor’s problem.
Are the 76ers better now? Yes.
If Philly manages to pull off a Zach LaVine trade, watch out. They may have to flip Tobias Harris and multiple firsts for that to happen though.
Addition by subtraction x2
Doc sucked. Harden is a playoff liability.
The answer is extremely easy… Yes, yes they are better!
Just imagine: not standing around is better that standing around.
So glad you did my sixers!!! If we can get Z Lavine or Caruso things will get interesting imo.
nurse > doc. It's that simple
You guys see a box n 1 in Philly yet? Is this a better team than the Raps when they had Kawhi and Nurse?
From one of, if not the worst, coach in the league to one of the best. Yeah I'm not surprised we're doing so well.
I'll also take an up and coming Maxey vs an over the hill Harden.
Is there a trend or at least significance to the burgeoning dominance of bigs within the modern 5-out systems? Thinking about Embiid, Jokic, Wemby, Chet, Minnesota's "2-bigs" approach, etc. If there's something there, I'd be interested in seeing your analysis of it!
Capela played scared of Embiid in these clips
Doc Rivers is the worse coach ever…
I could never play Basketball (not that I'd even want to in any case), having to rub against some man every game with a frekin beaver tale on he's face!
Greetings to the guys that called me stupid Last year when I commentet that I would Take Brunson Over Harden
9:30 you said it's not addition by subtraction, adn then explain exactly why it is.
Only about 10% of coaches are difference makers. A difference making coach is worth a lower level all star. Losing James Harden and gaining Nick Nurse should be a wash to me. Now whether they get better depends on Harden's replacement, Maxey. If he steps up big time they'll be better. If not I think the situation and firepower is there to trade for another star.
I can picture Nick Nurse opening the champagne when Harden was finally traded.
After this coaching change, having Doc on the Top 15 Coaches list the NBA put out 2 years ago looks so bad and out of place. He's a good coach, and excels at improving bad teams, but is very bad at playoff pressure and adjustments. Having an iso offense especially when Harden and Embiid had off nights drives it home, like last season against Boston. Nick Nurse has modernized them, and should win COTY if the Sixers are a top 3 seed in the East.
Nick Nurse's strat was to make Embiid to Jokic. 😂