James Harden doesn’t look like James Harden, Joel Embiid‘s consistency is being wasted by the horrendous effort by the other players in the lineup, and head coach Doc Rivers looks a bit befuddled by it all.
The primary reason why the Sixers failed last post-season was due to not having a skilled playmaker who didn’t need the system to generate offense.
Georges Niang and Furkan Korkmaz are capable 3-point shooters, but they have been shooting under their career averages of 35.7 percent and 40.1 percent respectively.
With that element partially gone, the Sixers need Harden to make up for it, and they were expecting him to do so exponentially.
That would put them in the lower half of defensive ranked teams with the same Detroit team that beat them, the Brooklyn Nets, Atlanta Hawks, and Minnesota Timberwolves.
These are not the type of issues to have with a week left in the season before the playoffs start.
If that happens, Ben Simmons might not be the only one Philly fans are calling sports radio to petition to get out of Philadelphia.
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