Daily News | Doc Rivers wants James Harden to shoot more, ‘fit in’ less for Sixers
DETROIT — A positive of the 76ers’ down-to-the-wire loss to the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday was that newly acquired All-Star James Harden played with the aggressiveness coach Doc Rivers prefers.
“He’s trying to fit in and get guys going,” Rivers said, “and I told him, ‘No, thank you. … We just need you to be you. Don’t worry about everyone else. As long as you and Joel [Embiid] are in the right spots, we’ll figure out everyone else. But we need you to think of yourself as a scorer, not the way you played in Brooklyn, the way you were a point guard and trying to run the team.
“He rarely shoots them, so he’ll get used to that,” Rivers said."… He said, ‘I haven’t had a spot-up swing … ever.’ So now he’s getting them, and that’s good, because he’s a great shooter.”Rivers said before Thursday’s shootaround that the Sixers do not plan to rest any players against the Pistons, but suggested that could happen for one or both of the Sixers’ two remaining back-to-backs over the regular season’s final 11 days.
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