Daily News | Sixers vs. Nets takeaways: Joel Embiid trusts his teammates; De’Anthony Melton struggles; Ben Simmons’ regression
De’Anthony Melton needs to take advantage of his open looks. And Ben Simmons isn’t the player he was a 76er.Embiid will be praised for his game highs of 37 points and 13 rebounds, and rightfully so.
Several seasons ago, Embiid tried to win games all by himself. But he learned you can’t win “one on five.” That’s why he kept feeding him teammates the ball against Brooklyn The fifth-year veteran is averaging a career-best 28.8 minutes and has more responsibility after being acquired in a“The wall, if it is, we got All-Star break coming up,” Rivers said. “We got rest coming up, and we’re going to need it, because our March is awful.One has to wonder if his recent ineffectiveness will lead to the Sixers reinserting Maxey into the starting lineup.The 6-foot-10 point guard/forward looks nothing like a guy who was a three-time All-Star as Sixers.
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