The Sixers have lost four of their past five games, including Tuesday’s 106-79 lopsided defeat against the New York Knicks. Next up, a key showdown at the Milwaukee Bucks.
Sixers head coach Nick Nurse, shown here with Tyrese Maxey against the Golden State Warriors on Feb. 7, is imploring his team to "fight" as they jockey for Eastern Conference playoff seeding.By Wednesday’s practice in advance of a key road showdown against the Milwaukee Bucks, Nurse stressed it was time to move on. Still, unprompted, he finished that same sentence by saying the Sixers must “get ready to fight tomorrow.
Yet, Nurse wants those to be more than cliché buzzwords to fire off during news conferences or timeouts, while motivating a Sixers team that’s still playing without reigning NBA Most Valuable Player. Using “concrete examples” to reinforce how those qualities can be practically applied to basketball, Nurse said, has been a key teaching tool.“I’m just trying to show them, ‘This is how you do it,’” Nurse said."… We just need to make it a mindset all the time. Playing hard is coachable.
And, more broadly speaking, it can be easier for teams to muster unrelenting energy for shorter bursts than for an extended stretch — such as the five-plus weeks the Sixers have navigated with Embiid sidelined and a barrage of other health issues. “Fight,” though, will not typically erase all execution miscues, which were also a focus during Wednesday’s practice.
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