Whenever you can have a team meeting only 13 games into the season, you gotta do it. That’s what the Sixers did last night. Nick Nurse described it as a “little meeting” –

If an hour-long (presumably) meeting after the game is “little,” I’d love to know what Nick Nurse thinks a big team meeting is. They probably had to re-gas the flight for Memphis.

I think team meetings are so overrated. Especially on a team like this with a bunch of new guys. Usually it’s some guy speaking up who shouldn’t be so everyone tunes him out and the meeting loses its significance. What is Paul George going to say when he’s been here for a cup of coffee? How much can Joel Embiid say when he’s played two games with half the starting lineup? If anything, this feels like a panic move. Like Nick Nurse knows the first head to roll is going to be his. It feels more like optics than it feels beneficial for the long run. Unless it went something like this:

 

UPDATE: Shams has details from the team meeting via ESPN


In the meeting, Maxey challenged Embiid to be on time to team activities, calling out the former league MVP about being late “for everything” and how it impacts the locker room, from other players to the coaching staff, sources briefed on the meeting told ESPN.

Maxey and Embiid have a close friendship and have a history of holding each other accountable, according to those around the team.

“Tyrese loves Big Fella’, but this is the elephant in the room,” a person involved in the meeting told ESPN.

Players told 76ers coach Nick Nurse that they want to be coached harder, and coaches in turn said they want players to practice with purpose and attention to detail.

Embiid accepted the messages sent in the meeting, sources said, but he stated he is confused about what the 76ers are attempting to execute sometimes on the court.

First things first you gotta respect Klutch leaking these details in less than 12 hours to make their client look good. The devil works hard, but Rich Paul works harder. “Tyrese loves Big Fella” –

Secondly, I don’t know how big of a deal a star player being late to meetings is, but if it’s really affecting the team like Maxey says than Joel Embiid will probably never grow up and become a leader if he hasn’t already. This is just who he is at this point and it sucks.

Don’t worry at least we got a good troll from Joel. Jo now has as many trolls as wins we have this year! Hang the banner:

The Sixers stinkkkkkkkk right now. They can’t shoot, their body language sucks, the rotations are ass, and they stink. There is no reason with or without Tyrese Maxey they should be scoring 86 points against the Magic and losing by double digits to the Heat barring a Hangover-like party in Miami the night before. Joel Embiid looks like a shell of himself. He looks uninterested in going 1-on-1 with his guy. Last night he didn’t go to the free throw line once in 31 minutes. That’s unheard of. There’s no point of even litigating the first 13 games if Embiid is going to look the way he does because this team has no shot.

They need to go 4-1 over the next five games and Embiid has to play in all of them or they’re very much in danger of becoming irrelevant in this city before December. We’ve got the Eagles until hopefully February and if the Sixers still stink by then we’ll gloss right over them and start talking about pitchers and catchers. It would be the worst thing that can happen to this franchise. Especially with a stadium vote in the next couple of weeks. You’re already branded the underachiever. You’re the black sheep of the city. You can’t become irrelevant when you want to do something that drastic like build a new stadium.

Who would’ve thought heading into the season that our only hope would be a TikToker who paints his nails. We live in a simulation: