Can Sixers avoid another disastrous start? – NBC Sports Philadelphia

The Sixers will travel to Abu Dhabi for Preseason games against the Knicks on October 2nd and October 4th. They will begin their regular season In front of the Celtics on October 22nd.

Before the start of the action, we are examining the key questions for the Sixers 2025-26.

So far we have covered:

Subsequently: can Sixer avoid another disastrous start of the season?

In retrospective, Sixers’ 2024-25 season ended almost as soon as it started.

The lesions and losses intensified. When they were available, veterans behaved badly. The playing energy to the team game was irregular and the acorns clearly extends into the defensive effort of the Sixers.

“He is hitting us all year round in that way … it’s difficult,” said the head of Sixers’ coach Nick Nick Nurse after a breakdown on November 24th at the Clippers. “Just at the beginning of the game, when you see that you are actually doing some good things and some of your best players are getting those looks and simply do not enter continuously, I think it affects your defense in a couple of ways.

“One, you are playing a long rebound. And then you are playing a little for some disappointments for the fact that you have done all that job to get an excellent shot and then it didn’t go inside. But I hope, those who will start entering.”

The nurse’s team went down to 3-14 in his next game, a defeat for extraordinary against Rockets. The Sixer then put together their best month of the season-10-3 between November 30 and December 30-ma it was not sustainable and the flood for injury has never subsided.

As usual, the most important variable will be the health of the Sixers stars. The team showed Joel Embiid and Paul George on the floor in recent social media posts. EMBIID has undergone a arthroscopic intervention on the left knee in April, George in July.

Updated health is not a guarantee, but it is also a rather low bar to be deleted after the EMBIID-George duo has scored 60 games last season. The Sixers hope that their young people help to mitigate the lesions that inevitably appear throughout the year.

As for the early Sixers season program, there are pros and cons:

• The Sixers will play the Celtics without Jayson Tatum three times in their first 11 games.
• They will face the five teams of the Eastern Conference last year in four of their first nine games.
• In the first 15 games of the Sixers, they have four back-to-back.
• The Sixers do not have a trip to three games up to a five gamer between December 26 and January 3.
• Their first extended at home is a stay of six games in Philadelphia from 14 January to 24 January.

It looks like much more than two years ago, but the Sixer had a very strong start for the first season of nurse. Following a defeat for the opening night for the Bucks, they won eight games in a row and sat at the top of the Eastern Conference ranking.

While that type of turnaround would overcome expectations, it is obvious that the Sixers need a sort of start of rebound.