Daily News | Joel Embiid and the Sixers have the talent, but they need championship toughness
a fundamentally different team than the one that finished last season with their tails between their legs? Can they deliver a punch? More important than that, can they take one?“There’s going to be some adversity somewhere,” Rivers said. “There always is if you plan on going where we hope to go. And that’s when you know what team you’ve got.”
You see it secondly in the way that he has embraced life as a facilitator. During his nine seasons with the Rockets, Harden averaged 2.5 shot attempts for every assist. In 58 games this season, that ratio stood at 1.4. He is playing the smartest, most team-oriented basketball of his career, averaging nearly 1.5 fewer turnovers per 100 possessions than he did in Houston or Brooklyn.
Part of it is due to the level of talent of the two teams in front of them. In the Celtics and the Bucks, they will need to get through a couple of teams that have combined to win eight of the last 16 NBA Finals games and 70% of this year’s regular-season slate.
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