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It’s time for training camp around the NBA and this is the time where the new acquisitions on a team get acquainted with everybody else on the roster. For the Philadelphia 76ers, they have quite a few new guys to learn about.
New big man Tony Bradley is looking for an opportunity and willing to learn from veterans like Joel Embiid and Dwight Howard. If his first workout with Embiid is any indication, he will certainly receive a good learning experience in this upcoming season.
Embiid quickly taught him that practice is going to be tougher now. He has a larger offensive arsenal than Rudy Gobert.
“The very first day, we were guarding each other,” Bradley recalled. “After we finished, he said something like ‘This isn’t Rudy. This isn’t Rudy’ and I laughed because it’s different. A lot of things, especially, defensively, from him, I was not expecting. Me on offense, getting up quick shots, quick floaters, and stuff like that. He’s a lot quicker than I thought he was and he moves a lot faster than I thought he did.”
Tony Bradley mentions that when he had the opportunity to try to score against Joel Embiid in practice, Joel repeatedly said, “This ain’t Rudy [Gobert].” Bradley chuckles as he says it.
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Bradley spent his first three seasons battling with Gobert with the Utah Jazz in practice and Gobert is a fine player himself, but Embiid is a different player entirely. Bradley learned his first lesson with Philadelphia fairly quickly.
“He’s a different type of player for sure,” he added of Embiid. “He’s one of the best bigs in this league and just that individual workout that day, I saw out a lot that I just didn’t know. It surprised me in a lot of ways of just the way he can move. How quick he is, his footwork in the post, but getting the chance to guard him every day, I’m excited because it’s just going to make me better. Him guarding me is going to make me better as well.”
Bradley figures to learn a lot in this upcoming season. Not just from Embiid, but from Howard as well and all of this will help him move forward as a player. [lawrence-related id=39884,39881,39878]