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There is only so much that Joel Embiid can do physically as
he rehabs his right foot following surgery to repair a broken navicular bone.
He can’t put pressure on the foot, he can’t run, and he of course can’t yet
participate in any sort of contact activities.
In other words, the young center from the University of
Kansas has a lot of time to fill while he is unable to play the game he has
grown to love. Luckily, his head coach, Brett Brown, has no shortage of ideas
of worthwhile things for his prized pick to do in his down time to help him
prepare for professional play.
“We’ve been showing him tape of Al Jefferson, Tim Duncan,
some of the great post players, getting him familiar with the rules, and
working on his shot,” Brown replied excitedly to TrueHoop’s Henry Abbott when
asked what they had been doing with Embiid short of on-court activity.
If you remember, Nerlens Noel spent a huge chunk of his
sidelined time last season working on his shooting touch; before games, during
practice, after practice. Noel was constantly trying to improve upon his touch,
and the work has been evident in his shooting stroke this season. Embiid, who already
has a more polished shooting stroke and offensive arsenal than Noel, will benefit
from similar work.
Brown then emphasized another area with which the team had
been working with Embiid.
“We’re really going overboard with his diet,” Brown
confessed, without providing exact details of the diet. “I think his diet and
weight will dramatically influence his speed of recovery and return to play.”
While Embiid’s speed of recovery is not necessarily a priority
for the patient Sixers, the quality of his play upon his return is, of course.
When asked for similarities he sees between Embiid and other
established NBA players, Brown paused for a moment.
“You feel reckless throwing out the names I would throw out
because it’s such early days,” he eventually replied.
“When I scouted him in college I saw hints of Olajuwon in
him,” he continued, touching on a common comparison for Embiid.
“I saw discipline in the post like Tim Duncan. There was a
skill, like Al Jefferson, where he had a post move. All wrapped up into this
19-year old young man that just burst onto the college scene and then the NBA
scene.”
Image taken by Michael Kaskey-Blomain |
Brown realizes that his comparisons are high praise for
someone yet to compete professionally, but he sees signs.
“Those names that I just said are quite flattering, and I
have to use them responsibly, but there are hints of that. “
Despite the high praise from his head coach and others
across the league’s landscape, the 20-year old Embiid is far from a polished product,
and if he hopes to ever reach the ranks of those he has been compared to a lot
of work will be in store. The workload is to be expected however, especially
for a kid who only started playing basketball five years ago. Embiid’s skills
have improved at such a rapid rate that he hasn’t yet had the time to dedicate
to developing his craft.
Brown acknowledged the difference in learning curve between
Embiid and another NBA big man he is extremely familiar with.
“I think the difference with Joel say from Timmy [Duncan],
is that Timmy had four years at Wake Forest. So Joel’s one year of experience
[at Kansas] is far shy from that four-year period that Timmy enjoyed to better
prepare himself for the NBA.”
Duncan’s talent is universally respected, but that talent
alone hasn’t kept San Antonio successful for 17 seasons. In addition to
basketball ability, intangibles, like leadership and communication, are often
central to the sustained success of a superstar and his respective franchise.
It is in this area that Brown is trying to craft Embiid into a true cornerstone
of the franchise’s future.
“We’re really trying
to go overboard and help him understand what leadership is,” Brown explained.
“I’m desperately trying to build something that’s not
top-driven. I don’t want it to be top-driven down. It needs to be the team
dictating some rules and habits. And what is culture? What’s the behavior we
want amongst our players? And I think the most powerful way to do that is
something that’s player-driven.”
In other words, Brown wants the crux of culture and
leadership to fall not just squarely on his shoulders, but also on the
shoulders of the prominent players on his team. In this way he feels that a
franchise can find balance, and success.
“So, apart from his shot, and his diet, and his health, and
his post moves, and studying Tim Duncan-type,” Brown continued, almost
chuckling at the laundry list of items of Embiid’s injury-time ‘to-do’ list, “there’s
a whole other side of it.”
Playing a part in Embiid’s recovery, growth, and development
is Luc Mbah a Moute, who the SIxers signed this offseason, largely to help
mollify Embiid’s move to professional play. Moute discovered Embiid at a camp
in Cameroon, and began serving as a mentor for the quickly-blossoming baller.
In light of the Sixers’ struggles this season, many have
been calling for less minutes for Moute in favor of some more on-court
development time for some of the team’s younger players.
Brett Brown however remains committed to Moute, and the role
that he serves on the young Sixers squad.
“That is the adult in the room,’ Brown told Abbott,
referring to Moute. “That is the senior voice in the room. J-Rich could be
that, but he’s not part of it through injuries, so I look at Moute as a real
voice of reason and wisdom, and he is especially that with [Joel].”
The Sixers patient plan for Embiid sounds promising, and
Brown certainly has ample experience in player development. It is now just a
matter of Embiid getting completely healthy, getting back out onto the
hardwood, and beginning to realize some of his potential.
Don’t expect to see the center anytime soon, however. When
asked when we may finally see Embiid in action, Brown replied:
“It’s still up in the
air.”
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