After the initial 48-hour quarantine period in the Orlando bubble, the Sixers are back on the court and head coach Brett Brown has already made waves at Ben Simmons’ local fishing spot by unveiling a new-look starting lineup. The first 65 games of the regular season showed the offensive dysfunction inherent in any Joel Embiid-Ben Simmons-Al Horford on-court grouping, so continuing the trend started what seems like 25 years ago back in February, Horford will be moved to the bench in favor of a smaller teammate better able to provide floor spacing and gravity.
This time, however, the inclusion of Shake Milton into the starting lineup hasn’t followed the Sixers’ recent recipe of throwing another wing out there to nail catch-and-shoot 3s, in the vein of Furkan Korkmaz, Glenn Robinson III, or Matisse Thybulle.