NBA Ekings News latest basketball news, Joel Embiid, said James Harden and the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers. need to be more aggressive and become stronger in order to get through difficult times

After acquiring James Harden during the trading deadline, the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers had hoped to be able to qualify for the Conference finals this year. They hope to go even beyond in the NBA playoffs.  Now it turns out they have now come to the end of the road. Only the second round was the fourth in the last five years, losing 99-90 to the Miami Heat, and Harden was not involved in the game at all. By taking only nine shots, scoring 11 points

That led Joel Embiid to say that the Philadelphia 76ers’ version of James Harden. It wasn’t the version that earned him the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award and finished in the top three in three more voting for the award, with Harden and the rest of the team. Seventy Sixers Not showing enough aggressive form throughout the series

Not the best Harden

“Since we got him, everyone was expecting a Houston Rockets version of James Harden,” said Joel Embiid, “but that’s not him anymore. He used to be a playmaker more. I think sometimes he should be. like all of us. We have to be more aggressive. We’re all either Tyrese (Maxey) or Tobias (Harris) or the ones that got off the bench.”

“And I’m not just talking about attacking. I’m talking about you both offensively and defensively. I don’t think we can defend well as a team. They took advantage of a lot of things we tried defensively, actually, everyone was in line. Of course, we only had three or four months to work together. and try to figure it out Maybe we don’t have much time… I don’t think we’re playing basketball at our best.”

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