Daily News | Joel Embiid says the Sixers need tougher players like P.J. Tucker. They also need more of it from James Harden | David Murphy
The question had been swirling for weeks, two little words bubbling beneath the red-white-and-blue crust of the Sixers’ latest strategic pivot. They did what they could to make you ignore it, to fool yourself into thinking that the best was yet to come. But it was always there, and with 1:08 left in a do-or-die Game 6, it exploded through the surface. The starters checked out, the subs checked in, and the stands began to empty.
“Since I’ve been here, I’d be lying if I said we’ve had those type of guys. Nothing against what we have. It’s just the truth. We never have P.J. Tucker. That’s really what I’m trying to say. I think physicality, especially when it gets to the playoffs or the later rounds, you need that. You need those guys that are really tough.”
“Whatever it takes to help this team to continue to grow,” said Harden, who would become a free agent if he declined his $47 million option for 2021-22. There’s enough space to drive a BookMobile between those lines if you are looking to read into them. But the fact remains that the Sixers’ best path forward is hoping for Harden to make good on his word and spend this season getting his hamstring healthy and his body in shape and his lateral and vertical quickness closer to the place where it was when he left Houston in 2019.
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