Daily News | Sixers credit brotherhood for their season turnaround and road success: ‘It’s a we season’
“I feel like everybody in this organization, this locker room, is ready for that next-man-up mentality,” Montrezl Harrell said Wednesday after shootaround. “I mean, everybody said that at the beginning of the season, including us, the whole organization: It’s not a ‘me season.’ It’s a ‘we season.’ So literally, we just bought into the team we want to be.”
The Sixers took the Eastern Conference’s second-best record into Wednesday’s game against the Brooklyn Nets at the Wells Fargo Center. They have also won five straight games and 18 of their last 22.AdvertisementThe Sixers were 11-3 when starting Tobias Harris, P.J. Tucker, Joel Embiid, De’Anthony Melton, and James Harden. They were 3-1 with Melton, Harris, Tucker, Harden, and Tyrese Maxey starting.
The Sixers’ season-opening lineup of Harris, Tucker, Embiid, Melton, and Maxey is among the few lineups that have not been successful. The team went 3-5 with that group. However, six of those games came at the beginning of the season with the Sixers’ new-look roster trying to find a rhythm.Based on their success, it’s hard to imagine that Doc Rivers inherited a woeful road team before the start of the 2020-21 season. Now at 13-9, the Sixers have the NBA’s third-best road record.
They also have the longest active road winning streak at seven games, which began with a victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Dec. 31 and extended through Saturday’s win against the Sacramento Kings. The Kings victory enabled the Sixers to sweep a five-game road trip, the first time they have done so on a trip of five games or more since going 6-0 on the road from Dec. 25, 1984, to Jan. 5, 1985.Sixers consider their latest meeting against Ben Simmons just another game: ‘For us, that’s over’After Wednesday’s game, the Sixers will have three games at home before heading on the road to face the San Antonio Spurs on Feb. 3.
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