Sixers plans to lean against the guard in the 2025-26-NBC Sports Philadelphia season
Although their most important player is 7 feet high, the 2025-26 Sixers are planning to lean on the guard game.
The Sixers hope that Joel Embaid is healthy enough to play and protagonist. They also expect to present small, skilled and fast formations.
On Friday’s media day, Sixers’ head of Sixers Nick Nurs highlighted the team’s ability to play a variety of guard combinations, including three -guards units and “perhaps a four -guard rotation sometimes”.
Some aspects will be requested before the nurse can test all its guard experiments.
Jared McCain is put aside by a tear of the UCL in the right thumb and the limited free agency of Quentin Grimes is unresolved. Jake Fischer reported on Sunday that, “short of accepting a one -year” balloons “payment, Grus seems to accept the qualifying offer” from $ 8.7 million $ 8.7 million. Grimes did not join the Sixers during their journey to Abu Dhabi for two preblical games against the Knicks.
For now, Tyrese Maxey and Rookie Vj EdgeCombe are both working to gel and compete against each other in practice. After Sunday’s session, the two were part of a small group that played 1 out of 1 with a five -second limit. In the short period open to journalists, Edgecombe went well.
“For the most part, we will have them together, but there is a good 40 percent of tests in which they are going there,” said Nurse. “And they like to go after the tests … nice also to see.”
In January, Maxey spoke of her comfort in three guards with Kyle Lowry and Reggie Jackson, citing her college days together with Immanuel Quickley and Ashton Hagans. The three -guards of the Sixers guards in this season are much younger.
“I think the biggest thing that you should be altruistic,” said Maxey on Friday, “and you must have an open mind … this really helps, especially when you have dynamic shots, dynamic royalty, guys who can play with the fish, play closures, attack the paint … makes you more dangerous.”
Of course, the formations full of guards usually have vulnerability. The nurse said that the defensive rebound will have to be a “collective effort” that the Sixers intentionally exercise and the game plan. The team has fought on the defensive glass in the last two seasons.
Having said that, no team is excellent in all areas. For example, the reigning champion Thunder ranked the 21st year of last year at a defensive rebound rate, to clean the glass.
The nurse wants to identify the strengths of the Sixer and exploit them at best.
“I always try to look at the positive aspects,” he said on Sunday. “Do you always have to continue to think:” What is our advantage here? “… are we faster, are we faster?
“And then you are saying:” Oh my God, how are we about to protect the low post when we change 1-4 pick-and-roll, or the 2-3 pick-and-rock or the 2-4 pick-and-rock? “So yes, we know we have to work.
“… but I must always continue to remind myself that yes, it will be difficult to protect on the low block. And yes, it will be difficult to bounce against the dimensions. But can we remove them and get more space? Can we get more rays because they are too slow for us?