When a team makes the offseason moves like the Philadelphia 76ers made in the 2022 offseason, that comes with a lot of pressure and a lot of scrutinies. The Sixers are all-in on the 2022-23 season as they brought in guys who will help the supporting cast around Joel Embiid and James Harden.
Four games into the season, the Sixers are 1-3 and familiar issues have popped up. They are still bad on the glass and their transition defense is poor as they are also trying to work things out on the offensive end of the floor with PJ Tucker as the power forward.
Therefore, there is a ton of pressure on coach Doc Rivers to produce results in the 2022-23 season. The Sixers have given terrific regular season results, but they have yet to get past Round 2 and this slow start has triggered rumors in the coaching circles in the league.
Per ESPN’s Zach Lowe on “The Lowe Post” podcast, there are chatters around the league concerning Rivers’ future in Philadelphia:
Doc Rivers, Bill Simmons has been saying for weeks on his podcast Doc could be the first coach fired. Certainly people are chattering about that in the league ecosystem, but I don’t know how much that chatter is actually reality and this is Daryl Morey’s team. This is this is the Rockets reunion tour. This is ‘I waited on my long lost love James Harden. I waited and waited and got him back’ this is it. Like this is the team and they’ve just got to be better than this. To me, offense is fine. We’ll see that’s that’s where I give them time, right it takes time to get that snap. Start trying in transition defense because what’s on the floor right now is embarrassing.
The Sixers will turn this around. There is too much talent on the roster not to have success and there are still 78 games to go in the season. Rivers and this team will right the ship and they will have a lot of success.
However, if they don’t win and go deep in the playoffs, then that is where the potential for a move at the coaching spot will come to the forefront.
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