Daily News | Sixers’ De’Anthony Melton feels healthy, aims to regain shooting stroke
’ locker room late Monday wearing the team’s Big Energy chain, complemented by sweat and heavy breathing from his postgame workout.
Yet Melton continues to struggle with his shot. He has connected on only 32.4% of his field-goal attempts and 30.4% of his three-pointers in the seven games since Feb. 10, and has reached double figures just once during that span. Melton also has just three total steals over those seven games, a notable dip from his season average of 1.6 per game to rank seventh in the NBA entering Wednesday.“I feel like I should be playing better,” Melton said following Monday’s loss to the Heat.
Overall, though, Rivers said Melton is “exceeding what I thought [was] the best we could get out of him” after his acquisition in a draft-night trade with the Memphis Grizzlies last summer. Melton entered Wednesday averaging 10.4 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. But Melton did not play for the Sixers down the stretch of Thursday’s comeback victory, with Rivers acknowledging “sometimes when you play against your former team, it can go one way or the other. It was going to other.” Against the Boston Celtics two nights later, Melton helped limit MVP contender Jayson Tatum to 6-of-16 from the floor before Tatum buried the game-winning three-pointer over him.
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