Daily News | P.J. Tucker can’t make Joel Embiid and James Harden man up for the Sixers
Big deal. P.J. Tucker is not your savior.
If Harden and Joel Embiid are going to toughen up, as Tobias Harris told us they must, it won’t happen because P.J. Tucker and his liniment-scented uniform drives them to plumb depths of resolve they haven’t yet reached. If the Beard and the Process finally start playing like grown men, then it will be because they’ve grown up all by themselves.
“I’d love to have Tuck back next year. He’s part of our core. We’ll see what happens. There’s not enough like him in the league …“ and there, Riley paused, considering what he’d said, then continued: “No, there are. There’s a lot of guys like him in the league.”I love P.J. Tucker’s game, and his story. In 2006, he was a second-round pick out of Texas by the Raptors, who cut him as a rookie.
You think P.J. Tucker is going to keep Harden away from nightclubs so he’s fresher come May and June? You think P.J. Tucker’s going to make Embiid do hack squats and knee raises so his legs and core will let him post up against guys like … P.J. Tucker? Because that’s the toughness that’s missing.be better — they’ll be better independent of P.J. Tucker.
They won’t be better because Tucker magically makes them tougher. They’ve been soft ever since Embiid started playing in 2016, out of shape and distracted by his pursuit of fame over functionality. What’s more, they’ve tried to address this problem in the past.In the 2018-19 season, the Sixers traded for Jimmy Butler, who eats steel and spits out nails.
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