[DiGiovanni] Nick Nurse on the decision to play Tyrese Maxey the whole 3rd quarter in the Sixers’ win over the Hawks: “You gotta coach the game that’s in front of you…[the Joel Embiid-Maxey duo] just felt like it was clicking. They had a really great rhythm going.”
Nick Nurse on the decision to play Tyrese Maxey the whole 3rd quarter in the Sixers' win over the Hawks:
“You gotta coach the game that's in front of you…[the Joel Embiid-Maxey duo] just felt like it was clicking. They had a really great rhythm going.”https://t.co/ISuxSF6nzI
— Sam DiGiovanni (@BySamDiGiovanni) November 18, 2023
by DanM142
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**Maxey and Tobias are currently 2nd and 3rd for the most minutes played per game in the NBA**
Maxey is up almost 5 minutes from last year at 38.3 minutes per game, and Harris is up almost 4 minutes at 36.8 minutes per game.
https://twitter.com/ginamizell/status/1725722618735554737
[Mizell]
>De’Anthony Melton was getting razzzzzzzed by teammates in the postgame locker room for getting crossed over by Trae Young, and he playfully told me “Can I get this on the record? They’re bad teammates.”
>In all seriousness, coach Nick Nurse said Melton and Co. did about good a job as possible in limiting Young and Murray to 10-of-30 from the floor.
>Nick Nurse on the Sixers’ defensive approach on Young and Murray tonight: “Just keep chasing and working and don’t ever die. We said, ‘They’re going to make some spectacular shots. Don’t let that stop you from just working the next possession.’”
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>Obviously both(House and Springer) played extremely hard and really impacted the game. We kind of decided pregame Jaden had a couple good moments kind of pregame begin with with a guard explosive guard back court that we were facing that we maybe would need his defensive impact in the game and same stuff with House in the last game too and just that was kind of early and I i think only told them they were coming in early and they were I think they gave me some confidence, but they just played game that played the game and let it come to obviously, they were sending people towards Joel mostly right and those guys did a good job of finding the open areas and benefited, either Jaden got the cut to the rim, or House got the kick out from three. Which is one of those two things are open when they’ are double teaming.
>A little bit like I said before the game I said we’re gonna use a bunch of guys on them and we just asked him to just work like possession just just like chase chase get over even when they’re at the other so crafty stop and change in directions across the lane and hesitating and stuff and we just just keep chasing and working and don’t ever die and and and we said they’re gonna make some spectacular shot and don’t make them stop in the nex possession, and I think the combination of all of them really Melton, Maxey, Beverly, Jaden I think even House got switched on out onto them a lot Robert got switched out them a lot.
>**They pull a couple of sets out that, we hadn’t used yet very much this year and got a couple baskets out and I thought that was that was somebody has a good idea, probably Melt, and they kind of moved the pieces even in and so it was great that they could execute and find some baskets**
I’d expect Tobias minutes to come down when Oubre and Batum are playing consistently. Right now we deff need a lot of minutes from him or have to give Morris some run, which is not happening. At least House has been playable, but gonna be hard to give Cov and House 30mpg each…
Maxey, no choice. He’s our only real ball handler and deff the only one them at can get a bucket
That’s why I believe Caruso would help more then anyone else embiids minutes aren’t high but maxey is damn near 40 a game if we get him a decent back up hopefully we can lower it by a minute or 2
Im not against adding a backup point guard to add more ballhandling but I hope people dont think that it will solve all of the issues. They need another perimeter self creation star to run either with Embiid and without Maxey or by himself. The sixers are more than just 1 ballhandler away from being a lot better. They need 2 or 3 and 1 of them has to be a star.
If we want to give Springer (instead of Pat Bev) more minutes, it means we will see even more Maxey minutes to have a ball handler on the floor.
A coach that adjusts during the game is the biggest turn on