The Sixers President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey spoke recently about the upcoming season and what he expects after a busy offseason. The Sixers added many new pieces and now they want to reach their goal of winning a championship.
Morey admitted Joel Embiid and James Harden will remain the stars of the team. However, he believes Tyrese Maxey will be the key if the Sixers wish to win the championship. Maxey came into the spotlight last season amid Ben Simmons trade saga.
“He’s key to our season. Obviously the new players on the team I think are two-way players and are going to set the stage, but winning the title really comes down to your best players,” Morey noted during his interview with John Clark on the Takeoff podcast.
“And probably the key things are we need Joel to yet again give us an MVP-level performance; we need James to be just himself — we don’t even need five years ago James, we need the guy we saw last year for most of the games.
But the biggest inflection point is probably we need Maxey to take another step forward.” the Philadelphia 76ers president concluded.
Daryl Morey is more than confident that Tyrese Maxey could be making another huge step forward this season after averaging 17.5 points, 4.3 assists and 3.2 rebounds in 75 games the previous year.
“He’s putting the work in. Look, it’s really hard. His rookie year was way ahead of schedule. His second year was way, way ahead of schedule. And to ask him to do another leap forward is asking a lot, but we do need it.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if he does it given how much time he puts in,” Morey claimed.
The Sixers are entering the 2022-23 season with high hopes and Maxey will be definetely instrumental in the team’s potential success next season.
