The Philadephia 76ers brought on coach Doc Rivers to be the new headman of the team due to a large amount of success he has had in his coaching career. He has a title on his resume with the Boston Celtics, and he has coached a few different collections of talents.
With the Sixers, he is taking on a team led by the unique star duo of Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons. Philadelphia added a lot of different pieces to their supporting cast around them as they have been looking to help their stars succeed.
The shooters they have added have helped Embiid greatly with his post passing. He now has outlets to pass to when he has waves of defenders coming at him and that is something he has not had in the past.
“I’ve always thought the job of us as a staff, a coaching staff is to make sure that we give the players the answers,” said coach Doc Rivers. “As far as when they do get trapped and where the ball should go. I think that’s something that we have to work on every day, but we almost invite traps because it usually leads to 3s or easy 2s for us so it’s been all good thus far. We still have a lot of work to do.”
Philadelphia has been a bit up and down when it comes to their offense, but it has been making progress. This has been a pretty brand new group when it comes to the supporting cast around Embiid and Simmons as well as a new coach in Rivers.
All of that takes time to get guys to buy into a system and to know their roles within the system. The Sixers have been working through all of that and they have shown an ability to never quit when the chips are down. They continue to put up a fight.
“I am very happy and very comfortable with where we’re at right now,” Rivers added. “We have won a ton of games this year in the fourth quarter down the stretch through our execution. We have shown all of them, how well we can space the floor and Joel has really improved his post passing.”
The Sixers sit at the No. 1 seed in the East and they will be looking to keep it going when the season gets back underway on Thursday against the Chicago Bulls.
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