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<\/div>Brett Brown said the Philadelphia 76ers have been preparing NBA All-Star center Joel Embiid for double-team defence in the playoffs as the team eye a deep postseason run.<\/p>\n
The 76ers will renew their season and championship bid against Eastern Conference rivals the Indiana Pacers on August 1 following the coronavirus-enforced break, which suspended the NBA in March.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia have failed to progress beyond the second round of the playoffs in back-to-back seasons – heartbreakingly eliminated by eventual champions the Toronto Raptors in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semi-finals last year following Kawhi Leonard’s stunning buzzer-beater.<\/p>\n
The 76ers have struggled offensively in the postseason with all eyes on Embiid, but head coach Brown said the franchise have been working on the three-time All-Star’s ability to deal with the extra attention.<\/p>\n
“He’s going to be double-teamed more than he isn’t,” Brown told reporters following Thursday’s practice. “You can book it – he spins baseline, the whole gym is coming, I don’t care who we are playing.<\/p>\n
“What is happening [on his post-ups] in the playoffs, it’s because they go at him more repetitively in a seven-game series. It’s that heightened awareness for an NBA First Team All-Star.<\/p>\n
“And, so I think this camp one of the things I have been doing is damn near every time he catches it, we’re coming [with a double team] … He’s done a really good job passing out of it.<\/p>\n
“So whether they come at him, whether he’s going to be able to architect a quarterback mentality out of that post up or whether he’s just going to play bully ball and go dunk and score, I think that we’re moving toward the reads that are coming.”<\/p>\n
Embiid was averaging 23.4 points, 11.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game this season prior to the postponement.<\/p>\n
The 76ers (39-26) are sixth in the Eastern Conference, sharing the same record as the fifth-placed Pacers ahead of the league’s resumption.<\/p>\n
The NBA will restart via a 22-team format at Walt Disney Resort in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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