Guest of Vince Carter Show Podcast – we give you five bullets if you manage to find who animates it – this week, Doc Rivers was full of praise for his young nugget. It’s very simple, Tyrese Maxey would therefore be the young player who has most impressed the coach in nearly 23 years of career. Love is beautiful.
The month of August is above all the month of declas, each more improbable than the other, and which end up coming out in March to embarrass their author. Excessive Boulard, unattainable goals, total lack of lucidity… each year, a new batch of masterclasses emerges in the media. However, the one that Doc Rivers has just released to us does not seem to have come completely out of nowhere. On the microphone of Ros Gold-Onwude and Vince Carter for the… Vince Carter Show Podcastthe Sixers coach made it clear that Tyrese Maxey was “ most impressive young player he had ever seen. Well, the boss doesn’t mince his words. Because if we sometimes tease the Doc for his dubious choices, we have to recognize that the sentence is very strong when we know the career of the gentleman. With 23 seasons spent at the head of different NBA franchises, Rivers has seen a whole lot of very promising young people pass before his eyes: Tracy McGrady in Orlando, Rajon Rondo in Boston, Blake Griffin in Los Angeles etc… their debut, which the coach therefore decided to place… behind Tyrese Maxey. Damn. Obviously, the Philly boss is not saying here that he will for sure have a better career than the latter. – although we wish him – , but simply says that no one has surprised him so much with his talent and his rigor of work. the latter also took the opportunity to tell a rather funny anecdote about his protege:
“He’s the most impressive young player I’ve ever had in the NBA. His work ethic is beyond imagination. Several times this summer, already two or three times, we had to tell him to go sit somewhere to relax. He works with Sam Cassell and my son Spencer, who as coaches help him develop his skills. He called Spencer two weeks ago because he was away on vacation. The difference is that this is the first time Tyrese has gone on vacation in his entire life. That’s what he told us. I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ He said, ‘no, I’ve never been on vacation’. He asked Spencer, ‘What do you do on vacation? Like really, what do you do on vacation?’ And Spence was like, ‘You relax!’ And [Tyrese demande] : ‘For how long ? For how many days? We’re leaving for a week, I can’t relax for a week. » – Doc Rivers
To At this level, we still advise Tyrese to go for a consultation because this case can quickly turn into an unhealthy obsession. Well, in reality we can only salute the dedication of the boy, who has only made progress over the past two years. This season – his second in the NBA – Maxey has taken on a new dimension in his role as starter. Alongside James Harden on the back line, Rese shot 17.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, 4.3 assists at 48.5% to shoot including 42.7% (!) from the parking lot. X factor you said? The Dallas native took the delirium even further in the Playoffs, becoming the Sixers’ most prolific scorer with 249 points scored (20.8 per game) in the 2022 campaign., compared to 236 for Embiid due to two games missed. We repeat that we are talking about a boy who has only two NBA seasons in his paws, including one spent largely on the Philly bench. Inevitably, we immediately understand more the hype of the Doc about his nugget, who is only 21 years old. This season, Philadelphia will try again to take a step forward, with its sights set on the title of NBA champion. And in all honesty, despite the talent of this workforce, it is hard to imagine the team getting a bagouze if the pick number 21 of the 2020 Draft was not in the game.
The words are strong, but far from unfounded. Yes, Tyrese Maxey is a phenomenon that has certainly not finished surprising us and performing in the big league. We can therefore reasonably understand Doc Rivers, who also fell in love with the boy and whose opinion is relatively legitimate.
Source texte : Vince Carter Show Podcast / NBC Sports / Basketball Reference