According to all the testimonies, the vibrations are good this season with the 76ers of Philadelphia. Of course, there are questions – Joel Embiid and Paul George remain with uncertain deadlines After off -season surgeries, and Jered McCain is absent for a few more weeks with a torn thumb ligament – but the feeling around a team without high external expectations is good.
It’s very different from last season.
In a story discussing how vibrations went south so quickly to Philly last season, Yaron Weitzman of The Ringer Said there have been frustrations with Joel Embiid and his waving time hours – players and coaches were not sure if the star would play night at night, and he only played 19 games – but things got worse after the details of the only meeting of a player in November have become public.
“The organization was built around a guy who does not trust anyone and who remains mainly for him,” said a former member of the Sixers staff. When Embiid appeared in only 19 games last season, this isolation created organizational chaos …
The tensions degenerated after the disclosure of a meeting reserved for November players at the Shams Charania d’Espn, with grievances focused on Embiid in the future. The violation damaged the confidence of the locker room and seemed to affect the most significantly Embiid.
“People left that night by feeling like having turned a corner. Everyone has promised to keep details internally. And then they wake up and all the details have come out,” said a person close to a player.
“Everything has created a dysfunction environment,” said a partner of a Sixers player.
Maybe a player spoke in Charania. Perhaps a player detailed the meeting to his agent, who spoke in Charania. However, that happened, no one seems to challenge the details of the report, but rather that it came out. This led even more mistrust to Embiid and his camp.
Philadelphia seeks to put this behind them, to obtain the correct vibrations and their stars on the ground with a long and promising area – Tyrese Maxey, VJ Edgecombe, McCain and Quentin Grimes – and make a push in eliminatory series in an oriental conference. It is a training camp, but so far, the vibrations are always good.
We will see how these vibrations hold up when the inevitable struggles that will come to each team have hit the Sixers this season. Hopefully it goes better than last season.
