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Fred VanVleet Gives Sixers Hire of Nick Nurse His Seal of Approval
The Sixers have a new head coach. Doc Rivers is out. Nick Nurse is in. Sixers fans have had two up-close looks at Nick Nurse in the playoffs during his time with the Raptors. In 2019 we saw his schemes confound Joel Embiid. He threw all types of double teams that had Joel Embiid struggling badly to find his rhythm. It was Kawhi Leanord’s bouncing shot that put the nail in the coffin for the Sixers that year. But it was also Nick Nurse whose scheme had the Sixers so out of sorts. We later saw him in the 2022 playoffs. Although that time his team had a lot less talent. Still, we saw his team force a game 6 after the Sixers took a 3-0 lead. So his coaching style was still fairly annoying for us.
Now we are going to see a lot more of him. He becomes the 3rd coach of the Process era. Neither Brett Brown nor Doc Rivers could get them out of the 2nd round, let alone to the Finals. Nick Nurse gets the 3rd try at it. He joins a team that has the reigning MVP in Joel Embiid but has had many issues beyond that. And even with Embiid, we saw him struggle in the final game vs the Celtics, so there is work to be done there too.
So what should we expect from him? Who better to ask than one of his former players? His PG for much of his time in Toronto spoke about Nick Nurse on Our Inside the Association Finals Preview starts RIGHT NOW!
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"That bond that we have, that's a lifelong thing."@FredVanVleet gave his thoughts on the 76ers hiring his former coach Nick Nurse. pic.twitter.com/KbCoVNDT0l