Tyrese Maxey on Breakout Season, Joel Embiid’s Confidence in Him | NBA GameTime

Tyrese Maxey on Breakout Season, Joel Embiid’s Confidence in Him | NBA GameTime

The reigning MVP says high level those numbers on your screen that’s Allstar level career high in points career high and assist and on this show we always say we’re taking it to the max whenever we talk to Tyree Maxi let’s welcome in the fouryear 23y old what’s up my friend

What it do how does it feel that when people introduce you now they say Allstar caliber player when you do get that nomination and are called an allar star what would that mean to you uh you know honestly for me it would mean that we’re doing something right as a team

You know it means we’re winning means that we have a chance to do something special and I feel like you don’t get those accolades or you know those recognitions unless you’re winning so think we’re doing something good right now on this show you get the assist to

Cand this next great great great I get the pass to you you already have a ball I mean I’ll just go like that okay there there we go there we go um you know obviously coming into this year uh Your Role got bigger and with that your

Leader leadership got bigger how is it to to to come out and perform the way that you have performed but then also have the confidence of a Joel embiid that has been MVP has played with amazing guards but to have that confidence from him that’s got to feel

Amazing it feels great I’m not going to lie it started early early in my career you know people don’t know this but like I tell everybody he’s like one of the um first Believers in me honestly I think uh I tell his story frequently now it

Was a game where he sat out we had the co situation going on and he asked me like can you get 40 tonight and I’m like it’s like my 10th game in the NBA I’m like 40 points that sound like so many like I barely got that in high school

But I went out there I ended up with like 39 I’m like well if Joelle believe in me I think you know I think I can do something right but uh I just really appreciate him he pushes me he pushes me and I think that uh now that I’ve kind

Of gained his respect I’m allowed to kind of push him as well so it’s been great I appreciate them everybody talks about your work ethic and they all talk about how great of a teammate you are and your attitude can you speak to the young kids kids out there how important

That part of the game is like being a good teammate how have you always been like that yeah I think it’s extremely important uh my dad was a coach growing up you know he played division one basketball so I had to be extremely coachable and he was always on me so I

You know I felt like I was that you know the coach on the court for him and for me I just always want to uplift my guys uplift my teammates uh whether that’s just positive attitude whether that’s just going at them in practice whether that’s us competing in practice or us

Hanging out off the court I feel like you can’t go to war and can’t go to battle with somebody if you don’t really know them and I try to get to know everybody on my team everybody in the organization so I really know them that

We can go out there that way we can go out there and be successful on the court all right listen so we know it’s a make or Miss league right shoot the three shoot the three well with the best of them but you also finish down here with

The best of them uh we work out with a trainer Chris Johnson got to give uh Chris Johnson some love and you know I want to talk about the levels of finishing because you’ve taken your finishing to another level this season last year you were at at 58% this year

You’re finishing amongst the best at 64% around this here Rim right seven Footers in there trying to block your shot so I’m I’mma throw in a little assist okay and let’s talk about a little bit of the level so we c c you know CJ talks about

The level one right level two is right where the square is level three is high up now we know you know Jamal kind of perfected that he was go he’s doing it different he’s doing it different so what can you say about your finishing and how you continue to improve that

Right first of all like you said shout out to Chris uh he’s somebody who taught me like the levels of the backboard but as a kid I will give a shout out to Kyrie because Kyrie does a drill where he stand the goal and he’s using his

Wrist work you know what I mean and just finding a touch on the glass so now for me I just know like if I get any type of contact I know the levels of the you know the rim that I can put the ball to

And spin it to where I can have it give it a chance to go in so honestly man it’s just a lot of work a lot a lot of work I do a lot of finishes off the right right left left just because I’m smaller um I knew I was going to be

Small at a young age you know my dad’s small my mom’s small uh and just you know God blessed me with this height so I mean this is great but I I just knew I going to use floaters use Touch shots use different bank uh Bank shots and it

Works for me can we see one or two I see you keep looking at the back boy I’m trying to see what you’re looking at see or two I was just trying to see the angle okay okay okay you ain’t got to show us too much I saw that one but no

That level right there that third one no it’s oh you got that to you got yeah it’s little spin that’s the finisher right there that’s the finisher right there no so we see it here but how about some of the moves we’ve seen you do in

Games we got Jamal who is a master of the best moves on the floor last week we were watching your game and it was like oh the move against the Bulls you go Baseline crossover and reverse Jamal tell us what you think of some of these moves yeah the killer crossover he hit

The step back on Dame everybody knows Dame likes the step back right here the change of pace he put him in jail right there got the floater and then it’s the way he’s dancing The Defenders reacting to him that’s the one right there that’s the one

So so so like a move like that one can we demonstrate that I’ll be the defender cuz I a’t play no defense they going to help tell us tell us what tell us tell us what you’re looking at well I’ll say I’ll say this first and

Foremost I’m trying to get low I play with the MVP he has a lot of gravity right so they don’t want me coming off his screen because if I get to come off pocket passes all those type of things so they’re trying extremely hard to get

Over so for me I could use speed so what I’m saying just one little jab I’m jumping you’re gone I’m crossing now we get down here like we talked about finish and stuff honestly I just I just use my instincts you know what I mean the guy comes over I’m already trying to

See Demar coming low man I know dear is very athletic I’m trying to go around him I don’t want to go through him he’s going vertical they’re not going to call foul I’m going all the way around to the other side using my love was in my touch

I love it big game moments show me show me your go-to move let’s go what’s your area where you like to be tell show me what’s going on well for me if I get a ISO situation I like to find my way into this slot this this slot why this slot

Because I can I got to tell you all my street my my listen but serious though I like cuz for me I talked to James Harden a lot when he was on our team right and he had a lot of different go-to moves and a lot

Of his setup start with between legs so for me because I can go between and I can use my quickness that little hesitation helps me a lot to get downhill so now if I have a big on me and they’re sagging off I can use that

For the hey stack come back and I get back to my little pullback My Little James Harden step back shout out to J cuz he perfected that and I kind of stole that from him so let me ask you this because I mean we all are very prideful of our you know universities

Jamal was celebrating yesterday because of Michigan I was like all right Tennessee you know what I’m saying you got Tobi Tobias Harris on your team we rock you know Rocky Top y’all yall close but but Kentucky guards have put the NBA on complete notice and my my my

Brother’s GM so always tell me if you’re if you’re going to bet on something you should bet on a Kentucky guard can’t go wrong what can you say about that development I mean you guys seem like you guys have great development going into college but then you explode when

You get to the NBA honestly I just think Coach Cal does a really good job of pushing us um I was telling somebody the other day for me uh he just did a really good job of making basketball different for me uh I think basketball growing up

I was blessed to have a lot of opportunities and a lot of love and a lot of different things where I work my way up to the top and basketball came easy to me uh when I got to college he was able to challenge me he did different things in practice where he

Challenged me then in the game he challenged me to be better and I think that is why guys like myself guys like Jamal guys like de guys like sh I mean I can go to you know the list goes on and on uh when they get to the league they

Sucel because one he pushed you in practice and then you have somebody else there pushing you shout out to Quick he was the one pushing me so it’s like you see us when we get out here we’re not afraid of anything and we know know

We’re going to try to go take the moment I’m mad I just helped Cal recruit your game winner you got to take a shot on the court where’s your game winner you’re I get a shot you get a shot forend a real shot a real shot Ain no pressure no

Pressure I’m going go I’m going go I’m going shoot a three you going to shoot a three I’m going shoot a three okay College three oh you’re getting back there okay okay there’s two step oh that’s all right that’s all right he we still believe in you break he got fou he got

Fou for tomorrow I can’t afford to break nothing right now I can’t afford to break nothing right now all right we appreciate you my friend no I appreciate Allstar Tyrese Max that’s what we’re saying putting it on it

Tyrese Maxey joins NBA TV crew Candace Parker, Jamal Crawford, and Chris Miles to talk his breakout season with the 76ers, playing with Joel Embiid, Kentucky guards success in the league, and he breaks down his finishing at the rim.

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