The new and improved Philadelphia 76ers starting lineup of Ben Simmons, JJ Redick, Jimmy Butler, Tobias Harris and Joel Embiid has only played 10 games together. The Sixers have gone 8-2 in those games, with the two losses coming to the Boston Celtics and Atlanta Hawks.
Embiid has been dealing with soreness in his knee, so the Sixers have been keeping him out of games here and there.
Head coach Brett Brown understands his starting unit hasn't played enough together to develop chemistry with the playoffs right around the corner, but the 58-year-old says the talent he has at his disposal is exciting:
“Time is not on our side,” Brown told Michael Lee of The Athletic. “The abundance of minutes with our starting group, we all get, isn’t going to happen relative to the teams we’re going to play. That’s just a fact. That’s the bad news. The good news is we’ve got talent. We’ve got good people.
“Although that starting group hasn’t played that much basketball together, especially relative to the other teams, the excitement is to take the talent we have and quickly try to maximize that.”
Butler, Simmons and Embiid are all All-Stars. Harris plays like an All-Star. He didn't make it this season because he began the season in the Western Conference. Redick, meanwhile, is one of the best shooters in the game.
Whenever this Sixers starting lineup develops chemistry, they are going to be a problem for the rest of the NBA, especially considering they are already dominating opponents with their talent alone.
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