Daily News | Sixers will go ‘smaller’ behind Joel Embiid, turning to Paul Reed, Montrezl Harrell and P.J. Tucker at backup center
P.J. Tucker chuckled when asked to assess the “smaller” frontcourt players that could back up All-NBA 76ers center Joel Embiid this season.Tucker is mostly correct, of course. But this is the first time during Doc Rivers’ three-year tenure as coach that the Sixers will not begin the season with a more traditional 7-footer behind Embiid.
“To be honest with you, I don’t think nothing like that,” Harrell said. “That’s not really up to me. That’s something [where] the coaches got to get in their room and kind of battle with each other [to decide] who’s going to go here, who’s going to go there. … Rivers initially was not ready to drop Reed into that role. Signing veteran DeAndre Jordan off the buyout market yielded poor results. Reed eventually moved into that spot to match up with the long and athletic Toronto Raptors during the playoffs’ first round. But when ankept Embiid out of Games 1 and 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Miami Heat, Jordan started — and struggled — while the Sixers fell into early deficits.
“You can really just play an unorthodox [style of] basketball with that,” Rivers said."… Playing Minnesota [with Rudy Gobert], making that 5 stand out at the corner is good for us.”Like the Sixers, De’Anthony Melton hasn’t had much postseason success. He’s determined to change that.
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