Daily News | Inside Sixers star Tyrese Maxey’s resurgence — and season-altering talks with Joel Embiid
Joel Embiid initially approached Tyrese Maxey on the 76ers’ late-night flight following a Feb. 8 loss to the Boston Celtics. The teammates had a second candid conversation about two weeks later, after the Celtics topped the Sixers and Maxey scored only eight points.
“I was just in a weird space mentally,” Maxey said recently."… Once I got out of that, I think I’ve helped us try to win games and came back to being myself. I feel like this was the same type of pace I was on at the beginning of the year, before I got hurt.” Maxey compared that temporary hesitancy or self-doubt to his arrival at Kentucky, when coach John Calipari told Maxey he would not play in the Wildcats’ marquee opener against then-No. 1 Michigan State at Madison Square Garden. Instead, Maxey came off the bench to amass 26 points, including a late three-pointer to help lift his team to victory.
“I don’t think he likes when I shoot step-back threes,” Maxey joked. “So I’m trying to cut down on those.” “He’s really a better person, though,” Maxey said of Embiid. “A lot of people don’t know that. … Before I came here, I was like, ‘Ehhh.’ But when I got here, I was like, ‘Aw, man. He’s not a bad person. He’s a great person.”
“Even when I miss, I can’t get timid,” Maxey said. “I can’t get scared. Being out there with Jo and James, Tobias [Harris], those guys cause a lot of attention and they need space. They need people to knock down shots. They need people to shoot shots extremely fast and get them off.”He wants to improve late in the shot clock, when it’s imperative to have a variety of moves to shake free for a shot or a pass.
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