{"id":825356,"date":"2026-08-25T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825356\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:36:16","slug":"vj-edgecombe-participates-in-another-rico-hines-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825356\/","title":{"rendered":"VJ Edgecombe participates in another Rico Hines run"},"content":{"rendered":"

What, you thought just because Ben Simmons isn\u2019t around here anymore that offseason workout footage went out the window? Our watch never ends, ladies and gentlemen. Philadelphia 76ers second-year guard VJ Edgecombe recently participated in another Rico Hines private run (games to nine points by ones and twos). We had you covered with one from a few days ago<\/a> and now we\u2019re back for more. Should we be paying this much attention to a glorified workout in a small gym? No, probably not. But it\u2019s August and we\u2019re hoops degenerates. It\u2019s what we do.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the edited video of the run via YouTube:<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t want to sit through all 25 minutes, I\u2019m going to go through chronologically and list Edgecombe\u2019s highlights here, complete with time stamps.<\/p>\n

You can see VJ start by rattling home a three-pointer [2:38 mark]. He hits another at the 3:20 mark, both of the standard catch-and-shoot variety. On the next clip, Edgecombe fakes at the three and when his man presses up, performs a little give-and-go to score on a cut to the hoop for an and-one. At the 3:55 mark, he drains a three off the dribble while bringing the ball up court. VJ then nails another outside shot from the wing [4:26 mark]. Then, in maybe the top highlight of the entire video, Edgecombe performs a nasty spin move off the dribble and draws the foul [5:42 mark]. An audible gasp from those in attention comes through the video recording.<\/p>\n

At the 12:46 mark, VJ breaks his man off the dribble and hits a contested baseline jumper. He later blows by his man off the dribble for a dunk [13:57 mark]. At 20:45, he recovers from a bit of a fumbled dribble, and drains a stepback three from the top of the key. Finally, at 21:25, Edgecombe attacks off the dribble from the wing and converts a pull-up mid-range jumper.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m no shot doctor, but Edgecombe\u2019s jumper is looking extremely smooth. With the collection of ball handlers on the Sixers roster now, he is going to need to be able to readily knock down open catch-and-shoot looks, and I\u2019m confident he\u2019s up to the challenge. Of course, the on-ball reps are going to come too, despite what the \u201cthere\u2019s only one ball\u201d fearmongers would have you believe. Edgecombe got great experience last year in that department and he looks to be continuing to improve there.<\/p>\n

Anyway, good to see the 21-year-old continuing to perfect his craft. We also know from an additional camp video this past week, if any NBA opposition tries to throw a curveball at the Sixers in the form of a young child playing defense, VJ will be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What, you thought just because Ben Simmons isn\u2019t around here anymore that offseason workout footage went out the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,89288,99],"class_list":["post-825356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sixers-analysis","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}