Philadelphia 76ers News: 3 Players That NEED To Step Up For The Sixers To Make An NBA Finals Run

Philadelphia 76ers News: 3 Players That NEED To Step Up For The Sixers To Make An NBA Finals Run

Before we get everything underway on today’s Philadelphia 76ers now I need you to name one player that needs to step up for the Sixers to make an NBA Finals run do that right now and let’s talk some Sixers Hoops now I asked you that question to start off today’s show because coming up

On today’s 76ers now three players that need to step up in order for this 76ers to make a deep playoff run I’m Chase senior so glad that all of you are hanging out with us I know there are so many content options out there so anytime you decide to watch us we’re

Certainly appreciative of that this list coming up is not going to include Joel MBI or tyres Maxi Maxi and All-Star for the first time Joel embiid has been injured and he’s doing everything in his power to get back before the end of the regular season so that the Sixers can

Climb up the Eastern Conference playoff standings and hopefully do something once the postseason comes around and what do you know the first player that we’re going to talk about who needs to step up is Tobias Harris shout out to the commenter the other day who called him the Cookie Monster because he’s just

Stealing cash right now Harris’s numbers so far in the 2023 2024 season 17 and a half points per game six rebounds three assists almost 50% from the floor and 35% from three those numbers would be okay if Joel embiid was playing and Tyrese Maxi was also on the floor

Sharing the floor with themid as well as himself so that would be your three-headed combination right there but Maxi has missed some time and beid has been out for a while the Sixers have desperately needed Tobias Harris to do more for a man who’s making nearly $40

Million yet he he continues to Wayne in and out of the production type of conversation and he continues to be an absolutely maddening player and it’s unfortunate because when Tobias Harris plays well Sixers win games when he just scores 20 or more points in a basketball

Game the Sixers are 13 and seven when Tobias s scores under 20 points Philadelphia Falls to 14 and 177 it’s great when he has a game like he did last weekend on Sunday against the Dallas Mavericks awesome right but where is that from a consistent basis and I’m

Tired of hearing he might just be pressing me it’s a contract issue my man’s making nearly $40 million to me that’s unacceptable if I was getting paid a lot here and I was getting nervous and I was having awful shows here on 76ers now you know what my

Bosses would say I know you’re pressing a little bit will take care of you you’re going to get your money no they’d say Chase what the hell is wrong with you get back on track start hosting your shows you’ve been dreaming of doing this since you were 5 years old no more

Excuses and the 76 or seven wins in the 2023 playoffs look at the numbers for Harris as compared to their four losses and this is a big part of the conversation that we’re having because of the Sixers win loss record when he’s scores 20 or more or 20 or less 17.7

Points per game in those wins eight rebounds 54% from the floor 44% from deep in their four losses and obviously that La last loss ended up being a killer the points per game goes down to 11 rebounds go down by three assists per game goes down by one

Shooting percentage goes down by 7 percentage points and the three-point numbers go down by more than 50% to 21.4 Tobias Harris in the fourth quarter of game six against Boston not a single shot attempt you know what that tells me you’re scared and you know what Boston

Did they smelled blood and they went after that prey like a shark in the open water and Harris as we know on that aforementioned expiring contract this really is his last chance and I thought it was pretty funny after the Sixers lost to the Memphis Grizzlies Kyle newbeck was asking and other reporters

Were asking Nick nurse about Tobias Harris and you could just tell Nick nurse was like H we’re doing this again I get it I’m frustrated too that was his body language he didn’t actually say that but you could tell he was just so done with talking about Harris and

There’s just no way the Sixers are going to bring him back he’s going to go down as one of the most overpaid and overrated players that the Sixers have had maybe in franchise history so your confidence level in Tobias Harris to step up in the postseason yeah we’re actually asking

You that question because I need you to scale it from 1 to 10 I’m not confident at all and I’m with a lot of people out there producer chip I know you’re not confident the jeckeln HDE nature of Tobias Harris’s game it really just want

To make it makes you want to pull your hair out it really does it’s it’s unbelievable after all this time after all these years we’re still talking about the same thing when it comes to Tobias and if I had to write mine my confidence that he’s going to step up in

The postseason I’m giving it a three and that might be being generous like it’s a contract year I know he wants to get paid again and look some bad team is probably going to Fork up 25 plus million dollars for him regardless but man you have a chance and a contract

Year with no embiid to step up and show you can be consistent we haven’t seen that this year he’ll have games here and there whatever I don’t see how you can say based on what you’ve seen from Tobias this year that he can be consistent enough in a seven game series

To give you the production you need to win games and make it to the Conference Finals much less the NBA finals and thanks to Bill Simmons for this reference which we’ve used here on the show and a lot of people use it Tobias Harris is a classic example of a good

Stats bad team player where he’s going to go to a mediocre team he’s going to average 20 points per he’s going to shoot 4544 his splits but for a good team he’s going to come up small in some of those big moments player to step up number two thanks to

The Zing God chip for being on the show here that’s DeAnthony Melton now this isn’t because DeAnthony Melton has played bad basketball or he has cost this team or shot this team in the foot really it just comes down to him staying healthy and I know that the shooting numbers that we’ve

Talked about here on the show and we’ll do further analysis on the Anthony M here in just a moment certainly aren’t great but at least he’s not scared of the moment at least he’s not get paid nearly 40 million and for him it comes down to injuries here so suffered a

Spine injury January 12th returned more than a month later February 23rd played just three games unfortunately he then re-aggravated the injury and he’s beginning the offloading period he’s going to be re-evaluated in 2 weeks sixs have missed his defensive tenacity who is starting games for this team for him

Contract year as well he’s missing out on a really good opportunity to maybe prove that he can be a starter on a playoff Club chip and I have kind of talked about him being this team’s Derek white to a certain degree again the shooting numbers not great 39% from the

Deck 36% from three that’ll play 11 and a half points but he makes up for it with some really solid defense and him like Harris when he played well in the playoffs Sixers were winning seven wins for Philadelphia there’s nine points per game 45% shooting 45% from three and

Then in the four losses you could just tell struggling to find a rhythm six points per game 27% from the floor about 28% from three-point range and that pivotal game six against Boston you had Joel MB not getting the ball down the stretch you had James Harden kind of

Shying away from the moment as often times he does in some of those big moments he just craters and clenches up 24 minutes for DeAnthony Melton in that game zero points 0 of five from the field 04 from three that was so unfortunate I thought the Sixers had it

Three minutes left we’re doing a watch party here on the show and I’m like wow 76ers are finally going to do it they’re going to make it to the Eastern Conference Finals and then Jason tanum went nuclear hitting a couple of Threes in the ey hole of Tobias Harris now

Melton has to step up defensively too he does have a lot of potential and ability on that end of the floor because he can guard point guards he can guard two guards he can guard some wings from time to time because of the length but the defense and the offense combo if

He’s playing to his caliber that’s the type of player that the Sixers have missed here as they’ve struggled of late Kelly UB Jr number three he’s had a couple of monster games of late 30 piece and that’s kind of the nature of what Kelly UB Jr will give you at this point

He’ll go off one night and then he can’t hit the broadside of a barn on the next night and that’s why he’s a bench player that’s why a lot of teams didn’t sign him up until late in the free agency period I know he got off to that awesome

Start early in the year and then had that weird car bike incident or whatever the hell happened that night in Philadelphia Center City 14 points per game this year 45% from the floor and unfortunately for him he just continues to be mightily inconsistent from three-point range the numbers actually

Down from what they’ve been over the the last couple of years 305% he needs to hit threes to be his most effective self and I think that his game has struggled a little bit and it’s gone downhill without Joel embiid in the lineup because embiid just offered so many open opportunities for other

Players on the deck when he was playing alongside them in October 31% from three so he started off good and then tailed off November though 43% December 36% then a beid starts to get hurt and injured January February March and the numbers are struggling to get past 27%

It’s somewhat concerning that he also hasn’t played in the playoffs since 2017 2018 and he was not particularly good although he was young that year 18 playoff games for him on his resume seven points per 40% from the floor and then 31% from three so pretty much as

Far as the shooting numbers there go around his career averages ship your thoughts on UB and just what he has to bring to the table and just what you think about him yeah look to me UB is probably going to be that one of those first guys off the bench right imagine

They’re starting to buyas some Batum on the wings he is going to be very important he’s gon to have to be able as we said to be efficient and hit threes and he’s shown flashes defensively he’s very athletic course we’ve seen a few monster the past few games against the

Mavs the thing with him he’s sometimes you know as we said another one of those players he has his highs he has his lows we need these type of players like Tobias like UB to find that middle ground be solid Be steady don’t shoot them out of games we can’t I can’t I

Can’t have UB shooting 25% from three in a series you know I don’t need him scoring 15 20 a game give me 12 points some decent defense make even 36% of your threes and we’ll be fine we’ll be fine yeah and that’s the thing with Philadelphia here you look at the

Eastern Conference and Boston’s been awesome it seems like it’s their year although I’m hoping that they choke once again bucks in that two spot and then after that it’s free game it’s wide open but the heat are surging Cavaliers B hot you need a DeAnthony Melton a Tobias SAS

A Kelly UB Jr to all step up in a addition to Tyrese Maxi and Joel embiid playing really good basketball as well who has to have the biggest impact talked about those three players here Harris Melton UB let us know in the chat hope all of you out there are having a fantastic Weekend

The Philadelphia 76ers 2023-24 NBA season has been up and down, from a hot start to the season up to the struggles after the Joel Embiid injury. Currently sitting at 7th in the NBA Eastern Conference Standings, the Sixers have a hard road to the NBA Finals. If the 76ers have any chance of making a run in the NBA Playoffs, they need Tobias Harris, De’Anthony Melton, and Kelly Oubre Jr. to step up and perform for this Sixers roster. Chase Senior discusses the importance of these three players in today’s Sixers Now!

SIXERS FANS! Get in the comments and answer these questions:
– Name one player that NEEDS to step up for the Sixers to make an NBA Finals run
– Confidence level in Tobias to step up this postseason? Scale it: 1-10
– Who will have the biggest impact this postseason? Type ‘TH’ for Tobias Harris, ‘DM’ for De’Anthony Melton or ‘KO’ for Kelly Oubre

Tobias Harris Stats:
– 17.5 PPG, 6.1 RPG, 3.2 APG, 49.6 FG%, 35.4 3P%

De’Anthony Melton Stats:
– 11.5 PPG, 3.1 APG, 39.1 FG%, 36.2 3P%

Kelly Oubre Jr. Stats:
– 14.4 PPG, 4.5 RPG, 1.2 APG, 45.1 FG%, 30.5 3P%

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