“In order for us to be great, we have to do things that just aren’t comfortable,” LeBron James said during his time at the podium. “We have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.”<\/p>\n
As we wrap up here, this is the single most important takeaway from the Sixers’ media day. Boiling this team’s fit down to “There’s only one ball” is beyond reductive, but the roster’s makeup will require just about everyone to reimagine their wheelhouse. <\/p>\n
Touches and scoring will be the focal point. Is everyone in the starting five prepared for their averages to dip? Will they be committed to getting out in transition even if they’re not guaranteed to get the ball? Can they defend their butt off regardless of what’s happening on offense? <\/p>\n
To their credit, the Sixers didn’t shy away from this subject. Everyone, at every turn, said the right things. But there’s a reason we the NBA plays the games. <\/p>\n
Chemistry isn’t built on paper. Or through media day-speak. It happens on the court, in both practice and games, over time. The Sixers are at the beginning of yet another process. It’s arguably their most promising one of all\u2014provided they, as LeBron says, are ready and willing to wade through the discomfort that awaits them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“In order for us to be great, we have to do things that just aren’t comfortable,” LeBron James…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-295770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}